Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 4265 by pjh2

Question: Q: What word starting with B means a French Stick?
Answer: A: Baguette
Categories: Language (2) Food (2)

Pub quiz question 4264 by pjh2

Question: Q: What brand name for malted white or brown flour with wheatgerm and wholegrains was produced for Hovis?
Answer: A: Granary
Categories: Business (4) Food (4)

Pub quiz question 4263 by pjh2

Question: Q: What style of British loaf has one third of the dough baked in a round on top of the other two thirds?
Answer: A: Cottage loaf
Categories: Food (5)

Pub quiz question 4262 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the supermarket term for bread made with endosperm and 10% bran?
Answer: A: Brown bread
Categories: Food (6)

Pub quiz question 4261 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many arroheads are there on the recycling symbol?
Answer: A: Three
Categories: Logos (1) Technology (1)

Pub quiz question 4260 by pjh2

Question: Q: What term means to reprocess materials that would otherwise become waste to turn them into new products?
Answer: A: Recycle
Categories: Technology (2)

Pub quiz question 4259 by pjh2

Question: Q: What metal is the world's most recycled material?
Answer: A: Steel
Categories: Technology (3)

Pub quiz question 4258 by pjh2

Question: Q: What decade saw the start of paper recycling in the UK with the formation of the British Waste Paper Association?
Answer: A: 1920s
Notes: *: 1921
Categories: Technology (7) History (7)

Pub quiz question 4257 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does an entomologist study?
Answer: A: Insects
Categories: Language (5) Nature (5) Biology (5)

Pub quiz question 4256 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does an ornithologist study?
Answer: A: Birds
Categories: Language (3) Science (3) Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4255 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does a botanist study?
Answer: A: Plants
Categories: Language (2) Nature (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4254 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does an ichthyologist study?
Answer: A: Fish
Categories: Language (3) Science (3) Nature (3)

Pub quiz question 4253 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does a coleopterist study?
Answer: A: Beetles
Categories: Language (7) Science (7) Biology (7)

Pub quiz question 4252 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does an agaricologist study?
Answer: A: Mushrooms/fungi
Categories: Biology (8) Nature (8) Language (8)

Pub quiz question 4251 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the heaviest breed of bear?
Answer: A: Polar bears
Categories: Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4250 by pjh2

Question: Q: What word describes the habit of some bears to sleep through the winter?
Answer: A: Hibernation
Categories: Nature (2) Language (2)

Pub quiz question 4249 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many non-retractable claws does a bear have on each paw?
Answer: A: Five
Categories: Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4248 by pjh2

Question: Q: What word describes 'bear-like' in the way feline describes 'cat-like'?
Answer: A: Ursine
Categories: Nature (6) Language (6)

Pub quiz question 4247 by pjh2

Question: Q: What colour is a polar bear's skin?
Answer: A: Black
Categories: Nature (5)

Pub quiz question 4246 by pjh2

Question: Q: What happened to polar bears in Chicago's Brookfield Zoo when algæ appeared in their drinking water during the hot summer of 2005?
Answer: A: The bears turned green
Notes: *: Algae was growing in their hollow hairs
Categories: Nature (6) 2000s (6)

Pub quiz question 4245 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the fruit of the rose?
Answer: A: Rose hip
Categories: Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4244 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for a flower's colourful corolla?
Answer: A: Petals
Categories: Nature (3) Language (3)

Pub quiz question 4243 by pjh2

Question: Q: What flowers do florists often refer to as 'mums?'
Answer: A: Chrysanthemums
Categories: Nature (4) Language (4)

Pub quiz question 4242 by pjh2

Question: Q: What direction will a field full of sunflowers face at the start of each day at sunrise?
Answer: A: East
Notes: *: The flowers actually turn back to face east during the night.
Categories: Nature (5) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 4241 by pjh2

Question: Q: What smelly garden flower has a name which literally means 'nose twister?'
Answer: A: Nasturtium
Categories: Nature (6) Language (6)