Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 2979 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which town in Northern Italy is the home of Valentine and Proteus, Shakespeare's 'Two Gentlemen?'
Answer: A: Verona
Categories: Geography (2) Literature (1)

Pub quiz question 2978 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Jane Austen novel's main character is Fanny Price?
Answer: A: Mansfield Park
Categories: Literature (8)

Pub quiz question 2977 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which of the Bennet sisters is 15-yr-old at the start of Pride and Prejudice?
Answer: A: Lydia
Categories: Literature (8)

Pub quiz question 2976 by pjh2

Question: Q: What do sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood represent in the title of a Jane Austen Novel?
Answer: A: Sense and Sensibility
Categories: Literature (6)

Pub quiz question 2975 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Jane Austen novel includes the famous line "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife?"
Answer: A: Pride and Prejudice
Categories: Literature (4)

Pub quiz question 2974 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which four-letter girl's name gave Jane Austen the title for a comic novel?
Answer: A: Emma
Categories: Literature (1)

Pub quiz question 2973 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which English spa city, the setting for many of her novels, boasts the Jane Austen Centre?
Answer: A: Bath
Categories: Literature (1) Geography (1)

Pub quiz question 2972 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who are the last remaining human survivors from Earth when it is destroyed by the Vogons in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
Answer: A: Arthur Dent and Tricia McMillan(Trillian Astra)
Categories: Entertainment (8) Television (8) Radio (8) Film/Movies (8) Literature (8)

Pub quiz question 2971 by pjh2

Question: Q: In which format (/media) was The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy first produced in?
Answer: A: Radio play
Notes: *: 1978. The books were written starting in 1979
Categories: Television (7) Literature (7) Film/Movies (7) Entertainment (7) Radio (7)

Pub quiz question 2970 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Douglas Adams' best seller became a computer game in 1984?
Answer: A: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Categories: Radio (3) Literature (3) Entertainment (4) Television (4)

Pub quiz question 2969 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the stolen "Heart of Gold" in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
Answer: A: Space ship
Categories: Entertainment (4) Literature (4) Television (4) Film/Movies (4) Radio (4)

Pub quiz question 2968 by pjh2

Question: Q: What car model gave its name to an alien in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
Answer: A: Ford (Prefect)
Categories: Entertainment (1) Literature (1) Television (1) Film/Movies (1) Radio (1)

Pub quiz question 2967 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name of the paranoid android in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?
Answer: A: Marvin
Categories: Entertainment (1) Literature (1) Television (1) Film/Movies (1) Radio (1)

Pub quiz question 2966 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which character was nicknamed the "Chesapeake Ripper?"
Answer: A: Hannibal Lecter
Notes: *: Pronunciation: `Chess-a-peek`
Categories: Literature (8)

Pub quiz question 2965 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which author created the character of Dr Hannibal Lecter?
Answer: A: Thomas Harris
Categories: Literature (7) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 2964 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which was the first movie adaptation of a Hannibal Lecter novel to feature Anthony Hopkins?
Answer: A: Silence of the Lambs
Categories: Literature (5) Film/Movies (5) Entertainment (5)

Pub quiz question 2963 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which famous fictional cannibal made his first appearance in the 1981 novel Red Dragon?
Answer: A: Hannibal Lecter
Categories: Literature (3) 1980s (3)

Pub quiz question 2962 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which novel-inspired cannibalistic role did Anthony Hopkins say he based partly on HAL 9000, the Space Odyssey computer?
Answer: A: Hannibal Lecter
Categories: Literature (1) Film/Movies (1) Entertainment (1)

Pub quiz question 2961 by pjh2

Question: Q: According to internet lore, what did Hannibal Lecter say French people taste like?
Answer: A: Chicken
Notes: *: There's no evidence that he actually said this in any of the books (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs or Hannibal
Categories: Literature (1) Entertainment (1)

Pub quiz question 2960 by pjh2

Question: Q: Character
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Answer: A: Geppetto
Notes: *: Pinocchio, 1940, voiced by Christian Rub
Categories: Children (5) Cartoons (5) Disney (5) 1940s (5)

Pub quiz question 2959 by pjh2

Question: Q: Character
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Answer: A: Figaro
Notes: *: Pinocchio, 1940, voiced by Mel Blanc (first appearance), Clarence Nash, Frank Welker
Categories: Children (6) Cartoons (6) Disney (6) 1940s (6)

Pub quiz question 2958 by pjh2

Question: Q: Character
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Answer: A: Wendy Darling
Notes: *: Peter Pan, 1953, voiced by Kathryn Beaumont
Categories: Cartoons (5) Children (5) Disney (5) 1950s (5)

Pub quiz question 2957 by pjh2

Question: Q: Character
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Answer: A: Tinkerbell
Notes: *: Peter Pan, 1953, unvoiced/uncredited
Categories: Children (2) Cartoons (2) Disney (2) 1950s (2)

Pub quiz question 2956 by pjh2

Question: Q: Character
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Answer: A: (Tick Tock) The Crocodile
Notes: *: Peter Pan, 1953, unvoiced
Categories: Children (2) Cartoons (2) Disney (2) 1950s (2)

Pub quiz question 2955 by pjh2

Question: Q: Character
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Answer: A: Mr Smee
Notes: *: Peter Pan, 1953, voiced by Bill Thompson
Categories: Children (7) Cartoons (7) Disney (7) 1950s (7)