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Pub quiz question 342 by pjh2

Question: Q: In Doctors, character Faith Walker left the Practice with partner Paul to do what and why?
Answer: A: To travel the world before her eyesight failed
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Pub quiz question 341 by pjh2

Question: Q: In scrabble, how many additional points are awarded if all 7 letters are played in one turn?
Answer: A: 50
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Pub quiz question 340 by pjh2

Question: Q: In which English county would you find Stonehenge?
Answer: A: Wiltshire
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Pub quiz question 339 by pjh2

Question: Q: What measurement was originally defined as "1⁄10,000,000 of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole measured on the circumference through Paris,"in 1791 but was subsequently, and eventually, redefined using the speed of light in 1983?
Answer: A: The metre.
Categories: Physics (1) General Knowledge (2) Science (1)

Pub quiz question 338 by pjh2

Question: Q: List the names given to the base units for the International System of Units (SI) from which all other units are derived?
Answer: A: metre for length, kilogram for mass, second for time, ampere for electric current, kelvin for temperature, candela for luminous intensity, and mole for the amount of substance
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Pub quiz question 337 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many laws (or principles) of thermodynamics are there?
Answer: A: 4
Notes: *: They start at 0.
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Pub quiz question 336 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many laws of motion did Newton come up with?
Answer: A: 3
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Pub quiz question 335 by pjh2

Question: Q: Name the Nobel gasses (group 18) in the periodic table up to element 86
Answer: A: Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, Radon
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Pub quiz question 334 by pjh2

Question: Q: Name the halogen group elements (group 17) in the periodic table up to element 85.
Answer: A: Fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine
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Pub quiz question 333 by pjh2

Question: Q: Name the calcogen group elements (group 16) in the periodic table up to element 84.
Answer: A: Oxygen, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, polonium
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Pub quiz question 332 by pjh2

Question: Q: Name the elements in the nitrogen group (group 15) in the periodic table up to element 83.
Answer: A: Nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, bismuth
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Pub quiz question 331 by pjh2

Question: Q: Name the elements in the Carbon group (group 14) in the periodic table up to element 82.
Answer: A: Carbon, silicon, germanium, tin, lead
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Pub quiz question 330 by pjh2

Question: Q: Name the elements of the boron group in the periodic table up to element 81.
Answer: A: Boron, Aluminium, Gallium, Indium, Thallium
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Pub quiz question 329 by pjh2

Question: Q: Name the elements in the second group (column) of the periodic table - the alkaline earth metals,
Answer: A: Beryllium, Magnesium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Radium
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Pub quiz question 328 by pjh2

Question: Q: Name the elements in the first group (column) of the periodic table; the alkali metals.
Answer: A: Hydrogen, Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Cæsium, Francium
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Pub quiz question 327 by pjh2

Question: Q: In 1988 Siobhan Fahey left which band to join Marcella Detroit in Shakespears Sister?
Answer: A: Bananarama
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Pub quiz question 326 by pjh2

Question: Q: List the members of Bananarama since 1992
Answer: A: Keren Woodward (1979–present), Sara Dallin (1979–present)
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Pub quiz question 325 by pjh2

Question: Q: List the members of Bananarama from 1988 to 1991
Answer: A: Keren Woodward (1979–present), Sara Dallin (1979–present), Jacquie O'Sullivan (1988–1991)
Categories: MultiAnswer3 (6) Music (7) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 324 by pjh2

Question: Q: In 1988 Siobhan Fahey left Bananarama to join Marcella Detroit in which band?
Answer: A: Shakespears Sister
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Pub quiz question 323 by pjh2

Question: Q: List the original 1979 members of Bananarama
Answer: A: Keren Woodward (1979–present), Sara Dallin (1979–present), Siobhan Fahey (1979–1988)
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Pub quiz question 322 by pjh2

Question: Q: List the full names of the members of the "Spice Girls"
Answer: A: Melanie Chisholm, Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton
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Pub quiz question 321 by pjh2

Question: Q: List the original members of "Queen"
Answer: A: Brian May, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, John Deacon
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Pub quiz question 320 by pjh2

Question: Q: List the original members of "Take That."
Answer: A: Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen, Robbie Williams
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Pub quiz question 319 by pjh2

Question: Q: List the Australian States and Territories with populations greater than 100,000 people.
Answer: A: Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Australian Capital Territory
Notes: *: Basically the whole of mainland Australia + Tasmania
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Pub quiz question 318 by pjh2

Question: Q: List the leaders (presidents) of the USSR
Answer: A: Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko and Mikhail Gorbachev
Notes: *: The USSR was dissolved the day after Gorbachev's resignation.
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