Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 7460 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Thermodynamics; Newton's Motion; Kepler's planetary motion?
Answer: A: Three Laws
Categories: Connections (5) Physics (5) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 7459 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Marin Rees; Arnold Wolfendale; Francis Graham-Smith; Martin Ryle?
Answer: A: Astronomers Royal
Categories: Connections (8) People (8) Science (6) Physics (5)

Pub quiz question 7458 by pjh

Question: Q: What 2016 sporting event was "50", not "L"?
Answer: A: Superbowl 50
Notes: *: Previously they used Roman numerals
Categories: Sports (7) American Football (3)

Pub quiz question 7457 by pjh

Question: Q: What upheaval rocked China from 1850 to1864?
Answer: A: Taiping Rebellion
Categories: Politics (6) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 7456 by pjh

Question: Q: Where did a flash in the pan originally take place?
Answer: A: A Flintlock musket
Categories: History (6) Language (6)

Pub quiz question 7455 by pjh

Question: Q: Which bay drains 40% of California's land?
Answer: A: San Francisco bay
Categories: Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 7454 by pjh

Question: Q: How does a siffleur entertain an audience?
Answer: A: Whistling
Categories: Entertainment (6) Language (6)

Pub quiz question 7453 by pjh

Question: Q: What is ruled by the House of Thani?
Answer: A: Qatar
Categories: Royalty (7) Politics (8)

Pub quiz question 7452 by pjh

Question: Q: Alen Coren Close in which area of London?
Answer: A: Cricklewood
Categories: Geography (8) London, UK (8)

Pub quiz question 7451 by pjh

Question: Q: "Where shall I go? What shall I do?" - what was the response?
Answer: A: "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."
Notes: *: Gone With The Wind.
Categories: Entertainment (6) Film/Movies (6) Quotes (7)

Pub quiz question 7450 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: The Fall Guy; Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air; A Fine Romance; Frasier; Minder and New Tricks?
Answer: A: Star sang the TV theme tune
Notes: *: Lee Majors; Will Smith; Judi Dench; Kelsey Grammer; Dennis Waterman
Categories: Entertainment (3) Television (3)

Pub quiz question 7449 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Baltimore: Seattle; Philadelphia; Atlanta; Arizona (hint: In US sport)
Answer: A: NFL teams named after birds
Notes: *: Raves' Seahawks; Eagles; Falcons; Cardinals
Categories: Connections (8) Sports (6) American Football (4)

Pub quiz question 7448 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Spinner; Allotter; Inflexable?
Answer: A: Fates in Greek Myth
Notes: *: Cloth; Lachesis; Atropos
Categories: Connections (9) Mythology (7)

Pub quiz question 7447 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Leo McKern; Kenneth Williams; Donald Pleasence; James Frain; Mark Rylance?
Answer: A: Played Thomas Cromwell on screen
Categories: Connections (8) Entertainment (8) People (8)

Pub quiz question 7446 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Jamestown; Georgetown; Edinburgh of the Seven Seas?
Answer: A: Main settlements in Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Categories: Connections (8) Geography (8)

Pub quiz question 7445 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Malala Yousafzai(17); Lawrence Bragg(25)?
Answer: A: Youngest Nobel laureates
Notes: *: Peace; Physics
Categories: Connections (8) People (8)

Pub quiz question 7444 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: White Lodge, Richmond in 1894; 4 Rue du Champ d'Entraînement, Paris,in 1972?
Answer: A: Duke of Windor
Notes: *: Birth/death dates
Categories: Connections (8) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7443 by pjh

Question: Q: Who took the name Sebastian Melmoth while living in exile?
Answer: A: Oscar Wilde
Categories: People (7) Crime (7)

Pub quiz question 7442 by pjh

Question: Q: Which two rivals agree that they can't bake a pie?
Answer: A: Annie Oakley and Frank Butler
Notes: *: "Anything you can do" song
Categories: Music (4) Entertainment (4)

Pub quiz question 7441 by pjh

Question: Q: Edmund Burke called which city the "great toyshop of Europe?"
Answer: A: Birmingham
Categories: Geography (6) Quotes (6)

Pub quiz question 7440 by pjh

Question: Q: Who shot the villainous bailiff Gessler?
Answer: A: William Tell
Categories: History (6) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7439 by pjh

Question: Q: What is a blue straggler?
Answer: A: A star
Categories: Science (6) Astronomy (4) Physics (6)

Pub quiz question 7438 by pjh

Question: Q: Tsar Alexander I is a silent role in which opera?
Answer: A: Prokoviev's War and Peace
Categories: Entertainment (7) Music (7)

Pub quiz question 7437 by pjh

Question: Q: In the first world war, what was a "Blighty one"?
Answer: A: Minor wound, allowing repatriation from
Notes: *: From the fact that the hospital one would be sent to was in England
Categories: General Knowledge (7) Language (7)

Pub quiz question 7436 by pjh

Question: Q: Which river flows through more countries than any other?
Answer: A: The Danube
Notes: *: 10: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine.
Categories: Geography (5) General Knowledge (5)