Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 7360 by pjh

Question: Q: What links (2022): Ken McCallum; Richard Moore; Sir Jeremy Fleming
Answer: A: Secret services
Notes: *: Heads of MI5, MI6, GCHQ
Categories: Politics (5) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7359 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Eh bien, on prince; All happy families are alike?
Answer: A: Tolstoy
Notes: *: Opening of the novels War and Peace; Anna Karenina
Categories: Literature (6) Connections (7)

Pub quiz question 7358 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Los Santos; San Fierro; Las Venturas; Vice City; Liberty City?
Answer: A: Settings in Grand Theft Auto games
Categories: Computing (3) Entertainment (6) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7357 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Michael Caine; Billy Connolly; Chadwick Boseman; Hugh Bonneville?
Answer: A: Played "Brown"s
Notes: *: Harry Brown, John Brown, James Brown, Mr. Brown
Categories: Entertainment (6) Connections (6) Film/Movies (6)

Pub quiz question 7356 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: The Arnolfini Portrait; Las Meninas; The Bar At The Folies-Bergère?
Answer: A: Paintings featuring predominant mirrors
Categories: Art (3) General Knowledge (5) Connections (6)

Pub quiz question 7355 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: The name of the Grampian Mountains; the name Imogen?
Answer: A: Arose from misprints
Notes: *: Should have been Graupian and Innogen.
Categories: Literature (7) General Knowledge (8) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7354 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Lexington and Concord; Bunker Hill; Trenton; Saratoga; Yorktown?
Answer: A: Battles of the American War of Independence
Categories: Politics (5) General Knowledge (5) America (3) Connections (6)

Pub quiz question 7353 by pjh

Question: Q: Whose gravestone reads "Never a loser be, only a winner be"?
Answer: A: Michael Winner
Categories: People (4)

Pub quiz question 7352 by pjh

Question: Q: A 1954 expedition funded by the Daily Mail set out to find What?
Answer: A: Yeti
Categories: Media (5) 1950s (5) Mythology (5) Superstitions (5)

Pub quiz question 7351 by pjh

Question: Q: Which clothing company is based in Simonside in South Shields?
Answer: A: Barbour
Categories: Business (4) Newcastle, UK (3)

Pub quiz question 7350 by pjh

Question: Q: Which sitcom was filmed at Crick House, Somerset?
Answer: A: To The Manor Born
Categories: Entertainment (4) Television (3)

Pub quiz question 7349 by pjh

Question: Q: WE Barclay was the first manager of which football rivals?
Answer: A: Liverpool and Everton
Categories: Sports (5) Football (4)

Pub quiz question 7348 by pjh

Question: Q: What medical procedure is known as Lasik?
Answer: A: Laser vision correction/eye surgery
Notes: *: Laser ASsisted In situ Keratomileusis
Categories: Science (3) Biology (3) General Knowledge (3)

Pub quiz question 7347 by pjh

Question: Q: William Crimsworth is the tile character of which Victorian novel?
Answer: A: Charlotte Brontë's The Professor
Categories: Literature (7) General Knowledge (7)

Pub quiz question 7346 by pjh

Question: Q: What 1890s work is the longest symphony in the standard Repertoire?
Answer: A: Mahler's 3rd
Categories: Music (8) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 7345 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: King Lear; Colonel Prozorov; Mr. Dashwood?
Answer: A: Three daughters
Notes: *: Shakespeare play, Chekhov's Three Sisters; Austen's Sense and Sensibility
Categories: Literature (7) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7344 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Ed Sheeran; Kylie Minogue; INXS; Beloved; Def Leppard?
Answer: A: Released albums entitled X
Notes: *: 2014, 2017, 1990, 1996, 2002
Categories: Connections (7) Music (7) Entertainment (8) 2010s (8) 1990s (8) 2000s (9)

Pub quiz question 7343 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Bern; Munich; Rome; Rio de Janeiro?
Answer: A: German World Cup wins
Notes: *: 1954, 1974, 1990, 2014
Categories: Sports (6) Football (4) Connections (7) 2010s (9) 1990s (9) 1970s (9) 1950s (9)

Pub quiz question 7342 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: George Lawson and Wayne Sleep; Celia Birtwell and Ossie Clark; Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood?
Answer: A: David Hockney double portraits
Categories: People (9) Connections (8) Art (6)

Pub quiz question 7341 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Marton in Cleveland, 1728; Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii; 1779?
Answer: A: Captain Cook
Notes: *: Born/dies
Categories: People (6) 1700s (7) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7340 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Dwayne Johnson; Kellan Lutz; Lou Ferrigno; Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: A: Have played Hercules on screen
Notes: *: 2014 (Hercules), 2014 (The Legend of Hercules), 1983 (Hercules), 1970 (Hercules in New York)
Categories: Film/Movies (6) Entertainment (7) 2010s (8) 1980s (8) 1970s (8) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7339 by pjh

Question: Q: Charles Hamilton, Frank Kennedy - matrimonially, who came next?
Answer: A: Rhett Butler
Notes: *: Scarlett O'Hara's husbands in Gone With The Wind (Novel 1936, Film 1939)
Categories: Literature (6) General Knowledge (8) Film/Movies (6) Entertainment (7) 1930s (7)

Pub quiz question 7338 by pjh

Question: Q: What is the longest muscle in the human body?
Answer: A: Sartorius muscle, in the thigh
Categories: Biology (7) Science (8) General Knowledge (8)

Pub quiz question 7337 by pjh

Question: Q: What 1975 film did Mark Kermode describe as the "Citizen Kane of British pop movies"?
Answer: A: Slade In Flame (or simply 'Flame.')
Categories: Music (7) Film/Movies (6) Entertainment (8)

Pub quiz question 7336 by pjh

Question: Q: Which plot turns on a strawberry-patterned handkerchief?
Answer: A: Othello
Categories: Literature (6) General Knowledge (7)