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Pub quiz question 6544 by pjh2

Pub quiz question 5039 by pjh2

Question: Q: What crime-based boardgame was invented by Anthony Earnest Pratt?
Answer: A: Cluedo
Notes: *: Patent filed 1944, at Waddingtons 1945, patent granted 1947, first produced 1949
Categories: Games (3) Leisure (3) 1940s (3)

Pub quiz question 2960 by pjh2

Pub quiz question 3240 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Disney musical movie was the first to be shown to large public audiences with stereophonic sound?
Answer: A: Fantasia
Notes: *: 1940
Categories: 1940s (5) Entertainment (5) Music (5) Film/Movies (4)

Pub quiz question 3110 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which was the first city to be devastated by the dropping of an atomic bomb?
Answer: A: Hiroshima
Categories: Geography (2) Military (2) History (2) 1940s (2)
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Pub quiz question 5737 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name was given to a Japanese pilot who flew suicide missions in World War II?
Answer: A: Kamakazi
Notes: *: 1939-1946
Categories: Military (2) 1930s (2) 1940s (2)

Pub quiz question 7309 by pjh2

Question: Q: What currency was worth 400 quintillion (1×10^20) pengö in 1946?
Answer: A: 1 Hungarian forint
Notes: *: Due to hyperinflation between 1945 and 1946. The forint was introduced on 1 August 1946.
Categories: Politics (6) History (7) 1940s (7)

Pub quiz question 3008 by pjh2

Pub quiz question 3115 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which United States navel base did Japan attack in 1941 to declare was on the Allies?
Answer: A: Pearl Harbour
Categories: 1940s (3) History (3) Military (3)
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Pub quiz question 633 by pjh2