Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 2879 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which country provided most of the settings for Peter Jackson's version of Lord of the Rings?
Answer: A: New Zealand
Categories: Entertainment (3) Film/Movies (3)

Pub quiz question 2878 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many movies did director Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' sprawl across?Film
Answer: A: Three
Categories: Literature (2) Entertainment (2) Film/Movies (2)

Pub quiz question 2877 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which blues giant wrote the song that gave the Rolling Stones their name?
Answer: A: Muddy Waters
Notes: *: AKA McKinley Morganfield
Categories: Music (7) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 2876 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who designed the Rolling Stones 'lips and tongue' logo?
Answer: A: Andy Warhol
Categories: Art (5) Entertainment (6) Music (6)

Pub quiz question 2875 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the name of the tour which brought the Rolling Stones to Britain in 2006?
Answer: A: A Bigger Bang
Categories: Entertainment (6) Music (6)

Pub quiz question 2874 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which member of the Rolling Stones was expelled for truancy from Dartford Technical College?
Answer: A: Keith Richards
Categories: Entertainment (5) Music (5)

Pub quiz question 2873 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which former member of the Rolling Stones was 47 when he first started dating 13-year-old Mandy Smith, his future wife?
Answer: A: Bill Wyman
Categories: Entertainment (3) Music (3)

Pub quiz question 2872 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who rocked on into his 60s after once claiming he didn't want to be "still singing 'Satisfaction' at the age of 40?"
Answer: A: Mick Jagger
Categories: Entertainment (2) Music (2)

Pub quiz question 2871 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which is England's largest /natural/ lake (by surface area)?
Answer: A: Windermere
Notes: *: There are larger (natural and man-made) lakes in Scotland by surface area, and larger by volume in England. Wast Water is the deepest in England.
Categories: Geography (2)

Pub quiz question 2870 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which ocean's name means peaceful?
Answer: A: Pacific
Categories: Geography (2) Language (2)

Pub quiz question 2869 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which cathedral's library contains the best surviving copy of the four remaining copies of the Magna Carta?
Answer: A: Salisbury Cathedral's
Categories: History (8) Geography (8)

Pub quiz question 2868 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the county town of Wiltshire?
Answer: A: Trowbridge
Categories: Geography (7)

Pub quiz question 2867 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which modern city's ancient remains are called Old Sarum?
Answer: A: Salisbury's
Categories: Geography (6) History (7)

Pub quiz question 2866 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Wiltshire town's Cradle Hill is a place of pilgrimage for UFO spotters?
Answer: A: Warminster's
Categories: Geography (5) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 2865 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which summer and autumn phenomenon that attracts tourists to Wiltshire fields have been blamed on artists, pranksters and UFOs?
Answer: A: Crop Circles
Categories: Science (1) Geography (1)

Pub quiz question 2864 by pjh2

Question: Q: What plain must you be on to see Stonehenge?
Answer: A: Salisbury Plain
Categories: Geography (2) Landmarks (2)

Pub quiz question 2863 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does a circled H indicate on an Ordnance Survey Map?
Answer: A: Heliport
Categories: Acronyms/Abbreviations (6) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 2862 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does MS stand for on an Ordnance Survey map?
Answer: A: Milestone
Categories: Acronyms/Abbreviations (7) Geography (7)

Pub quiz question 2861 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does CG stand for on an Ordnance Survey map?
Answer: A: Coastguard
Categories: Acronyms/Abbreviations (6) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 2860 by pjh2

Question: Q: What colour broken line indicates a cycle route on an Ordnance Survey map?
Answer: A: Green
Categories: Geography (3)

Pub quiz question 2859 by pjh2

Question: Q: What do crossed swords indicate on an Ordnance Survey Map?
Answer: A: Battlefield
Categories: History (2) Geography (2)

Pub quiz question 2858 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does "PH" indicate on an Ordnance Survey map?
Answer: A: Public House
Categories: Geography (3) Science (3) Acronyms/Abbreviations (3)

Pub quiz question 2857 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which capital city was once known as Byzantium?
Answer: A: Istanbul
Notes: *: Via "Constantinople "
Categories: Language (6) History (6) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 2856 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is "lokum" to a sweet-toothed Turk?
Answer: A: Turkish Delight
Categories: Geography (3) Language (3) Food (3)

Pub quiz question 2855 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does a dirty Turk know as a "bamam"?
Answer: A: Turkish Bath
Categories: Language (5) Geography (5)