Questions by pjh2

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)

Pub quiz question 4881 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which bodily organ produces urine?
Answer: A: Kidney. (The bladder merely stores it.)
Categories: Biology (1) Science (1)

Pub quiz question 4880 by pjh2

Question: Q: What bodily fluid surrounds a foetus?
Answer: A: Amniotic fluid
Categories: Biology (3) Nature (3)

Pub quiz question 4879 by pjh2

Question: Q: What fluid (four letter word) is stored in the gallbladder?
Answer: A: Bile
Categories: Biology (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4878 by pjh2

Question: Q: Where in the body would you find your aqueous humour?
Answer: A: Eye
Categories: Biology (5) Nature (5)

Pub quiz question 4877 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for the fluid expelled from the body by the process of lacrimation?
Answer: A: Tears
Categories: Language (7) Nature (6) Biology (6)

Pub quiz question 4876 by pjh2

Question: Q: What collective term describes 2-methylphenol and 4-methylphenol, smelly chemicals found in sweat?
Answer: A: Odourants
Categories: Language (7) Chemistry (7) Science (7) Nature (7) Biology (7)

Pub quiz question 4875 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the name of the Earth's first artificial satellite?
Answer: A: Sputnik I
Categories: Science (2) Space (2) Technology (2)

Pub quiz question 4874 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the first active communications satellite which gave its name to the first single by a British group to top the US BIllboard chart?
Answer: A: Telstar
Notes: *: Both in 1962
Categories: Science (2) Space (2) Music (2) Entertainment (2) Technology (2)

Pub quiz question 4873 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the next country to launch a satellite after the Soviet Union and USA?
Answer: A: France
Categories: Geography (4) Science (4) Space (4) Technology (4)

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 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 4870 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name was give to the magnetic radiation belts around the Earth discovered by the first US satellite?
Answer: A: Van Allen Belts
Categories: Space (7) Physics (7) Technology (7) Science (7)

Pub quiz question 4869 by pjh2

Question: Q: What four letter name was given to 'Hormel Spiced Ham' in the 1930s?
Answer: A: Spam
Categories: 1930s (5) Language (5)

Pub quiz question 4868 by pjh2

Question: Q: What essential did Ezra Warner patent 45 years after the invention of canned food?
Answer: A: Can opener
Notes: *: 1855
Categories: Science (3) Food (3)

Pub quiz question 4867 by pjh2

Question: Q: What method of food preservation was invented for the British Navy in 1813?
Answer: A: Canning
Categories: Food (4) Science (4)

Pub quiz question 4866 by pjh2

Question: Q: What number of varieties is associated with Heinz's products?
Answer: A: 57
Categories: Language (2) Food (2)