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Pub quiz question 292 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which drug is named after the Greek God of Dreams?
Answer: A: Morphine (from Morpheus)
Categories: Science (3) Chemistry (2) Nature (2) Language (2) Mythology (2)

Pub quiz question 291 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name of a whale's breathing organ?
Answer: A: Lungs. They're mammals.
Categories: Science (2) General Knowledge (2) Biology (2) Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 290 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the process known as whereby plants make food using light?
Answer: A: Photosynthesis
Categories: Biology (1) Science (1) Nature (1)

Pub quiz question 289 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many humps does a Bactrian camel have?
Answer: A: Two
Categories: Science (3) Nature (3)

Pub quiz question 288 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which animal’s milk is used to make authentic Italian mozzarella cheese?
Answer: A: Water Buffalo (Domestic buffalo)
Notes: *: Not just "buffalo"
Categories: Food (2) General Knowledge (2)

Pub quiz question 287 by pjh2

Question: Q: "Brock," is an Old English, Middle English, and slang name for what?
Answer: A: Badger
Categories: Language (7) General Knowledge (9)

Pub quiz question 286 by pjh2

Question: Q: "Haptic "relates to which of the five senses?
Answer: A: Touch
Categories: Language (6) General Knowledge (7) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 285 by pjh2

Question: Q: Pershore, Victoria and Washington are types of which fruit?
Answer: A: Plum
Categories: General Knowledge (2) Science (2) Food (2) Nature (2)

Pub quiz question 284 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who discovered the rabies vaccination?
Answer: A: Louis Pasteur (1885)
Categories: Biology (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 283 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name of the process used for clarifying or improving the taste of beer or wine?
Answer: A: Fining
Categories: General Knowledge (7) Drink (5) Language (6)

Pub quiz question 282 by pjh2

Question: Q: The Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratory is better known by which name?
Answer: A: Jodrell Bank
Categories: Science (3) Physics (3) General Knowledge (4)

Pub quiz question 281 by pjh2

Question: Q: The neutered male of which animal is called 'a Barrow'?
Answer: A: Pig
Categories: Language (6) Nature (6)

Pub quiz question 280 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does a philatelist collect?
Answer: A: Stamps
Categories: Leisure (1) Language (1) General Knowledge (1)

Pub quiz question 279 by pjh2

Question: Q: List the signs of the zodiac
Answer: A: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces
Categories: MultiAnswer12 (3) General Knowledge (3)

Pub quiz question 278 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does a tegestologist collect?
Answer: A: Beermats/coasters
Categories: General Knowledge (10) Language (8) Leisure (10)

Pub quiz question 277 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does a Lepidopterist do?
Answer: A: Collect moths and butterflies.
Categories: Science (7) General Knowledge (8) Language (7)

Pub quiz question 276 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who discovered penicillin?
Answer: A: Alexander Fleming (1928)
Categories: Science (3) History (3)

Pub quiz question 275 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the collective noun for a group of baboons?
Answer: A: Flange, congress or tribe
Categories: MultiAnswer3 (9) Language (6)

Pub quiz question 274 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the collective noun for a group of apes?
Answer: A: A shrewdness
Categories: Nature (8) Language (7)

Pub quiz question 273 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to the positive electrode of an electrolytic cell?
Answer: A: Anode
Categories: Physics (1) Science (1)

Pub quiz question 272 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name is given to the negative electrode of an electrolytic cell?
Answer: A: Cathode
Categories: Science (1) Physics (1)

Pub quiz question 271 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which chemical element has the shortest English name?
Answer: A: Tin
Categories: Science (1) Chemistry (1)

Pub quiz question 270 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which metal do you get from bauxite?
Answer: A: Aluminium
Categories: Science (2) Chemistry (2)

Pub quiz question 269 by pjh2

Question: Q: What colour do alkalis turn Litmus paper?
Answer: A: Blue
Categories: Science (1) Chemistry (1)

Pub quiz question 268 by pjh2

Question: Q: What colour does acid turn Litmus paper?
Answer: A: Red
Categories: Science (1) Chemistry (1)