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Pub quiz question 4871 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the name of the USA's first Earth-orbiting satellite?
Answer: A: Explorer I
Categories: Science (6) Technology (6) Space (6)

Pub quiz question 6153 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for the Boeing 747?
Answer: A: Jumbo Jet
Categories: Technology (4) Travel (4) Names (4)

Pub quiz question 8397 by pjh

Question: Q: What was Twitter’s original name?
Answer: A: twttr
Notes: *: Without the “E”
Categories: Technology (4) Business (4)

Pub quiz question 4291 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the five-letter alternative name for a non-rigid airship?
Answer: A: Blimp
Categories: Technology (5) Language (5)

Pub quiz question 4872 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which English Sci-Fi writer first conceived the idea of artificial communication satellites in 1945?
Answer: A: Arthur C Clarke
Categories: Space (4) SciFi (4) Science (4) Technology (4)

Pub quiz question 6149 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Westcountry city did Concorde make its final flight from Heathrow to?
Answer: A: Bristol
Notes: *: 2003
Categories: Geography (5) Technology (5) Travel (5)

Pub quiz question 4294 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the Regency TR-1 the world's first commercially available example of?
Answer: A: *Transistor* radio
Categories: Radio (2) Technology (7) Science (7)

Pub quiz question 8456 by pjh

Question: Q: In what year was the Corvette introduced?
Answer: A: 1953
Categories: Technology (6) 1950s (5)

Pub quiz question 4847 by pjh2

Question: Q: What were Welsh drivers illegally using as car fuel in 2004?
Answer: A: Cooking oil
Categories: 2000s (7) Technology (7) Science (7)

Pub quiz question 4287 by pjh2

Question: Q: What company produced the Brownie camera?
Answer: A: Kodak
Categories: Technology (2) History (2) Business (2) Leisure (2)
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