Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 4215 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which plant is often called marijuana when dried and hashish as resin?
Answer: A: Cannabis
Categories: Science (3) Nature (3)

Pub quiz question 4214 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which drug was downgraded from a Class B to a Class C drug in Britain in 2004?
Answer: A: Cannabis
Categories: Nature (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4213 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the commonest number of points, or leaflets, in a cannabis leaf?
Answer: A: Seven
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Pub quiz question 4212 by pjh2

Question: Q: What ingredient in beer is from the same plant family as cannabis?
Answer: A: Hops
Categories: Drink (3) Nature (4) Science (4)

Pub quiz question 4211 by pjh2

Question: Q: What pachyderm comes in three living species: Asian, African Savannah and African Forest?
Answer: A: Elephant
Categories: Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4210 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the most noticeable physical difference between African and Asian elephants apart from their size?
Answer: A: Ears
Categories: Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4209 by pjh2

Question: Q: What four letter H word is used to describe cannabis grown for non-drug use?
Answer: A: Hemp
Categories: Science (4) Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4208 by pjh2

Question: Q: What vitamin's principle form is ascorbic acid?
Answer: A: Vitamin C's
Categories: Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4207 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to an elephant's second upper incisors?
Answer: A: Tusks
Categories: Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 4206 by pjh2

Question: Q: What drug takes its name from the Mexican Spanish name for the dried leaves and flowering tops of the hemp plant cannabis sativa?
Answer: A: Marajuana
Categories: Language (5) Nature (5) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 4205 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which land animal has the longest gestation period?
Answer: A: Elephant
Notes: *: 22 months
Categories: Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4204 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many finger-like projections has an African elephant at the end of its trunk?
Answer: A: Two
Categories: Nature (3)

Pub quiz question 4203 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which island off the coast of India boasts the largest subspecies of Asian Elephan?
Answer: A: Sri Lanka
Categories: Nature (6) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 4202 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the first vitamin to be discovered and named?
Answer: A: Vitamin A
Categories: Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4201 by pjh2

Question: Q: What vitamin do sufferers of scurvy lack?
Answer: A: Vitamin C
Categories: Science (3) Biology (3)

Pub quiz question 4200 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which vitamin is mostly required for blood coagulation?
Answer: A: Vitamin K
Categories: Science (6) Biology (6)

Pub quiz question 4199 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which vitamin was isolated from fish liver oil in 1917?
Answer: A: Vitamin D
Categories: Food (7) Science (7) Biology (7)

Pub quiz question 4198 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which vitamin is milk fortified with in the USA to combat rickets?
Answer: A: Vitamin D
Categories: Drink (4) Science (4)

Pub quiz question 4197 by pjh2

Question: Q: A chameleon changes colour to match what?
Answer: A: Mood/temperature/emotion
Notes: *: 1x04. Klaxon answer: Environment/background.
Categories: QI (3) GI (3) Nature (4) Biology (4)

Pub quiz question 4196 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which film actor was described by the film critic John Simon as resembling a half-melted rubber bulldog?
Answer: A: Walter Matthau
Notes: *: 1x04
Categories: QI (4) Entertainment (8) Quotations (8) Film/Movies (8)

Pub quiz question 4195 by pjh2

Question: Q: What's 15 miles away from everybody, and smells of geraniums?
Answer: A: The ozone layer.
Notes: *: 1x04
Categories: Science (6) QI (5)

Pub quiz question 4194 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who's face reminded Clive James of two crows that had crash-landed into the White Cliffs of Dover.
Answer: A: Barbara Cartland
Notes: *: 1x04
Categories: QI (4) Quotations (7) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 4193 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which town did Charles Dickens describe as "the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the earth?"
Answer: A: Chelmsford
Notes: *: 1x04
Categories: Literature (7) Geography (7) GI (4) QI (4) Quotations (7)

Pub quiz question 4192 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the main ingredient of air?
Answer: A: nitrogen
Notes: *: 1x04. Klaxon answers: Oxygen, carbon dioxide
Categories: QI (3) Science (3) GI (3)

Pub quiz question 4191 by pjh2

Question: Q: Where is the driest place on Earth?
Answer: A: Dry Valleys region, Antartica
Notes: *: 1x03. Klaxon answer: Sahara Desert. The average annual rainfall is less than two inches, about the same as the Sahara, but the Dry Valleys, are free from ice and snow, and which haven't seen rain for two million years.
Categories: GI (4) QI (4) Geography (6)