Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 4906 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is Miss Piggy's surname?
Answer: A: Lee
Categories: Names (8) Television (8) Entertainment (8)

Pub quiz question 4905 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which member of Queen married Anita Dobson of Eastenders fame?
Answer: A: Brian May
Notes: *: married 2000
Categories: Entertainment (3) Music (3) 2000s (3)

Pub quiz question 4904 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which British band came second only to the Beatles in Channel 4's 1999 'Music of the Millennium' poll?
Answer: A: Queen
Categories: Music (5) Entertainment (5) 1990s (5) Television (5)

Pub quiz question 4903 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which member of Queen's enjoyment of the 'manic roar of the crowd' is mentioned in Kurt Cobain's suicide note?
Answer: A: Freddie Mercury's
Notes: *: For example when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowd begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddie Mercury, who seem to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.
Categories: Music (7) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 4902 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was the last person to join the classic Queen lineup and the first to retire?
Answer: A: John Deacon
Notes: *: 1971-1997
Categories: Entertainment (8) Music (8) 1970s (8) 1990s (8)

Pub quiz question 4901 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was the only member of the classic Queen lineup never to sing lead on one of the band's album tracks?
Answer: A: John Deacon
Notes: *: By his own admittance, he can't sing a note.
Categories: Music (8) Entertainment (8)

Pub quiz question 4900 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Queen epic topped the charts at Christmas 1975 and again at Christmas 1991?
Answer: A: Bohemian Rhapsody
Categories: 1970s (1) 1990s (1) Music (1) Entertainment (1) Christmas (1)

Pub quiz question 4899 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which movie director went on a multi-million dollar deep sea dive to the deepest place on earth?
Answer: A: James Cameron
Categories: Current Affairs (6)

Pub quiz question 4898 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which celebrity Big Brother contestant, famously seen acting as a submissive cat, won the by-election in Bradford (March 2012)?
Answer: A: George Galloway
Categories: Politics (7) Current Affairs (5) Television (8) Entertainment (8)

Pub quiz question 4897 by pjh2

Question: Q: The 30th anniversary of which war happened this week (Monday 2nd April 2012)?
Answer: A: Argentina/Falkland Islands
Categories: Current Affairs (5)

Pub quiz question 4896 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which country saw a general strike last week, with more than 1 million protestors against austerity?
Answer: A: Spain
Categories: Current Affairs (5)

Pub quiz question 4895 by pjh2

Question: Q: Fidel Castro met which religious figure in Cuba last week?
Answer: A: Pope Benedict XVI
Categories: Current Affairs (7)

Pub quiz question 4894 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which youth organisation has just released a new uniform especially for muslim girls?
Answer: A: The Scouts
Categories: Current Affairs (6)

Pub quiz question 4893 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which conservative politician first got the blame for encouraging panic buying of petrol last week (March 2012)?
Answer: A: Francis Maude
Categories: Politics (5) Current Affairs (5)

Pub quiz question 4892 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was especially unusual about the sending off, of three players from Bradford and two from Crawley last week/27th March 2012?
Answer: A: They were in the dressing room at the time after the match had finished, brawling.
Categories: Current Affairs (4) Football (6) Sports (7)

Pub quiz question 4891 by pjh2

Question: Q: Sam Neill portrayed Sidney Reilly in which 1983 TV series?
Answer: A: Reilly: Ace of Spies
Categories: Entertainment (6) 1980s (6)

Pub quiz question 4890 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to a sandwich with two layers of filling between three slices of toasted bread?
Answer: A: Club sandwich
Categories: Food (3)

Pub quiz question 4889 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name of the main protagonist in Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel "The Maltese Falcon" adapted into film in 1931, 1936 and 1941?
Answer: A: Sam Spade
Categories: 1930s (4) 1940s (4) Literature (4) Entertainment (4) Film/Movies (4)

Pub quiz question 4888 by pjh2

Question: Q: Elton John and Kiki Dee got to number one in 1976 for six weeks with which song?
Answer: A: Don't go breaking my heart
Categories: 1970s (2) Entertainment (2) Music (2)

Pub quiz question 4887 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which US state sees the launch of Space Shuttles?
Answer: A: Florida
Categories: Space (2) Technology (2) Geography (2)

Pub quiz question 4886 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the name of the first completed US Space Shuttle, Constitution, changed following pressure from Star Trek fans?
Answer: A: Enterprise
Categories: Television (2) Entertainment (2) Space (2) Technology (2)

Pub quiz question 4885 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the popular name for what NASA refers to as its Space Transportation System?
Answer: A: Space Shuttle
Categories: Language (2) Space (2) Technology (2)

Pub quiz question 4884 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Space Shuttle comes first alphabetically?
Answer: A: Atlantis
Categories: Language (4) Space (3) Science (3)

Pub quiz question 4883 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which was the first Space Shuttle to be launched?
Answer: A: Columbia
Notes: *: April 12, 1981 – April 14, 1981
Categories: 1980s (5) Space (5) Technology (5)

Pub quiz question 4882 by pjh2

Question: Q: What parts of a Space Shuttle's power system are referred to as SRBs?
Answer: A: Solid Rocket Boosters
Categories: Acronyms/Abbreviations (6) Space (6) Technology (6)