Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 3190 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What playing surface is used for Bandy, a form of football introduced as a demonstration sport at the 1952 Winter Olympics?
  2. Answer: A: Ice
  3. Categories: Sports (4) Football (4) Olympics (4) 1950s (5)
Pub quiz question 3187 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which game does Shakespeare mention in King Lear and in A Comedy of Errors?
  2. Answer: A: Football
  3. Categories: Sports (8) Literature (8)
Pub quiz question 3186 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What name for a goal scored with an unorthodox, but legitimate, body part comes from a former England football star?
  2. Answer: A: Lineker
  3. Categories: Football (7) Sports (7) Language (7)
Pub quiz question 3185 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What term is given to the skill of using body parts to keep a football in the air for as long as possible?
  2. Answer: A: Keepie uppie
  3. Notes: *: sports
  4. Categories: Language (6) Football (5)
Pub quiz question 3184 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What name is now given to former football touch judges?
  2. Answer: A: Assistant referees
  3. Categories: Sports (6) Football (4)
Pub quiz question 3183 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What four letter word describes an illegal bribe offered on the football transfer market?
  2. Answer: A: Bung
  3. Categories: Language (3) Football (3) Sports (3)
Pub quiz question 3182 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which spice shares its name with the action of putting the ball between an opponents legs in a game of football?
  2. Answer: A: Nutmeg
  3. Categories: Language (3) Football (2) Sports (3)
Pub quiz question 3181 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What is the four letter name of the computer game credited with sparking the whole genre of first-person adventure-puzzle games?
  2. Answer: A: MYST
  3. Categories: Computing (6) Leisure (7) Games (6)
Pub quiz question 3180 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What was the first home games console to sell more than 100 million units?
  2. Answer: A: Playstation (One and Two)
  3. Categories: Leisure (2) Computing (2)
Pub quiz question 3179 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which decade saw the launch of the PlayStation?
  2. Answer: A: 1990s
  3. Categories: Leisure (3) Computing (3) Games (3)
Pub quiz question 3178 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What did a Sony advertisement claim is owned by one in three houses in the USA?
  2. Answer: A: Playstation
  3. Categories: Leisure (4) Computing (4) Games (4)
Pub quiz question 3177 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who is the star of the Tomb Raider video game?
  2. Answer: A: Lara Croft
  3. Categories: Leisure (4) Computing (4) Games (4)
Pub quiz question 3176 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What is the name of the computer game chicken who must find his way through levels of balloons, telephones, cheese and other elements?
  2. Answer: A: Alfred
  3. Categories: Leisure (8) Computing (8) Games (8)
Pub quiz question 3175 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Olympic field event's two main styles are the glide and the spin?
  2. Answer: A: Shot Put
  3. Categories: Olympics (8) Sports (8)
Pub quiz question 3174 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who was the only British athlete to have achieved one of the top ten longest javelin throws of all time at the start of 2006?
  2. Answer: A: Steve Backley
  3. Categories: Sports (8) Olympics (8) 2000s (8)
Pub quiz question 3173 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What must a discus competitor wait for before stepping out of the throwing circle if his attempt is to count?
  2. Answer: A: The discus to land
  3. Categories: Sports (7)
Pub quiz question 3172 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Olympic throwing object weighs 16lbs for men and 8.8lbs for women?
  2. Answer: A: Shot (putt)
  3. Categories: Olympics (5) Sports (5)
Pub quiz question 3171 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What name is given to a ball on a wire which is thrown in an Olympic event?
  2. Answer: A: Hammer
  3. Categories: Sports (3)
Pub quiz question 3170 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Olympic field sport was almost banished to the outside of arena on safety grounds until the projectile was redesigned in 1986 so it couldn't be thrown so far?
  2. Answer: A: Javelin
  3. Categories: Sports (3) 1980s (4)
Pub quiz question 3169 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which London football club was punk band the Cockney Rejects' 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles' a tribute to?
  2. Answer: A: West Ham
  3. Categories: Football (2) Sports (2) Music (2)
Pub quiz question 3168 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which football club had a hit with 'Blue is the Colour?'
  2. Answer: A: Chelsea
  3. Categories: Football (3) Sports (3) Music (3)
Pub quiz question 3167 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which John Denver song was adapted into 'United Road' by Manchester United fans?
  2. Answer: A: Take me Home, Country Road
  3. Categories: Sports (4) Music (4) Football (3)
Pub quiz question 3166 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which song, often aimed at fat footballers, can be sung to the tune of 'Knees up Mother Brown?'
  2. Answer: A: Who Ate All the Pies?
  3. Categories: Football (3) Sports (3) Music (4)
Pub quiz question 3165 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which John Denver tune do football fans use for 'The Greasy Chip Butty Song?'
  2. Answer: A: Annie's Song
  3. Categories: Music (5) Football (5) Sports (5)
Pub quiz question 3164 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Welsh hymn tune is used for the traditional football song 'Who's the Bastard in the Black?'
  2. Answer: A: Bread of Heaven (Cwm Rhondda)
  3. Categories: Music (8) Football (8) Sports (8)
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