Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 6940 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the traditional colour of the seats in the House of Commons?
Answer: A: green
Categories: Politics (1)

Pub quiz question 6939 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was launched in 1910 as the sister organisation to the Boy Scouts?
Answer: A: Girl Guides
Categories: 1910s (2) Leisure (2)

Pub quiz question 6938 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which political leader held the British 100m record from 1967 to 1974?
Answer: A: Menzies (Ming) Campbell
Categories: Politics (7) Sports (7) Athletics (7) 1960s (7) 1970s (7)

Pub quiz question 6937 by pjh2

Question: Q: What beer carries the red triangle, Britain's oldest trademark?
Answer: A: Bass
Categories: Drink (2)

Pub quiz question 6936 by pjh2

Question: Q: What's the five-letter abbreviation for the organisation set up in 1971 to promote real ale?
Answer: A: CAMRA
Categories: Drink (2) Acronyms/Abbreviations (2) 1970s (2)

Pub quiz question 6935 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the abbreviation IPA coined to represent on a beer label?
Answer: A: Indian Pale Ale
Categories: Acronyms/Abbreviations (4) Drink (4)

Pub quiz question 6934 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was added to ale in the Middle Ages to turn it into the more bitter-flavoured beer?
Answer: A: Hops
Categories: Drink (4)

Pub quiz question 6933 by pjh2

Question: Q: What were sociable drinkers banned from buying in pubs in September 1916 at the risk of a £100 fine?
Answer: A: A round
Notes: *: Equiv to £7,300 in 2012
Categories: Drink (6) Politics (6) 1910s (6)

Pub quiz question 6932 by pjh2

Question: Q: What were ancient Egyptian pyramid builders given three times a day as part of their wages?
Answer: A: Beer
Categories: Drink (3) History (6)

Pub quiz question 6931 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name did Baden-Powell give to the junior Scouts movement based on a book by Rudyard Kipling?
Answer: A: Wolf Cubs
Categories: Leisure (3)

Pub quiz question 6930 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which hero of Mafeking's "Aid to Scouting," book for soldiers spawned the world wide Scout movement?
Answer: A: Robert Beden-Powells
Categories: Leisure (5) Literature (5)

Pub quiz question 6929 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name was given to the international meetings of Scuts, first held at Olympia in 1920?
Answer: A: Jamborees
Categories: 1920s (5) Leisure (5)

Pub quiz question 6928 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which island in Poole Harbour was used by Baden-Powell to try out his ideas for Scouting with boys?
Answer: A: Brownsea Island
Categories: Leisure (8) Geography (8)

Pub quiz question 6927 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which country's Scouting movement was spawned in 1909 when visitor William Boyce was helped through the London fog by a Scout doing his good turn?
Answer: A: USA's
Categories: Leisure (8)

Pub quiz question 6926 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Liberal leader was asked by Jeremy Paxman if he drank privately; "by yourself, a bottle of whisky late at night?"
Answer: A: Charles Kennedy
Notes: *: 2002 interview
Categories: Politics (3) 2000s (3) Drink (3)

Pub quiz question 6925 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was by far the heaviest MP to have represented Rochdale?
Answer: A: Cyril Smith
Categories: Politics (3)

Pub quiz question 6924 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Liberal Party leader is said to have written to his gay lover: "Bunnies can and will go to France?"
Answer: A: Jeremy Thorpe
Notes: *: Exposed in court in 1979
Categories: Politics (5) 1970s (5)

Pub quiz question 6923 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Liberal Party leader's alleged involvement in the shooting of a Great Dane resulted in Auberon Waugh forming his Dog Lover Party?
Answer: A: Jeremy Thorpe's
Notes: *: 1979
Categories: Politics (7) 1970s (7)

Pub quiz question 6922 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who married Sarah Gurling, his best friend's sister in 2002?
Answer: A: Charles Kennedy
Categories: Politics (7) 2000s (7)

Pub quiz question 6921 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which UK Prime Minister was nicknamed Sunny Jim?
Answer: A: James Callaghan
Categories: Names (2) Politics (2)

Pub quiz question 6920 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which UK Prime Minister launched his Back to Basics campaign before his four year affair with Edwina Currie became public knowledge?
Answer: A: John Major
Notes: *: 1993
Categories: 1990s (4) Politics (4) Sleaze (4)

Pub quiz question 6919 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was the only UK Prime Minister to win four 20th century general elections?
Answer: A: Harold Wilson
Notes: *: 1964, 1966, Feb 1974, Oct 1974
Categories: Politics (5) 1960s (5) 1970s (5)

Pub quiz question 6918 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which UK Prime Minister won the 1969 Sydney to Hobart yacht race on "Morning Cloud?"
Answer: A: Edward Heath
Notes: *: 1969
Categories: Sports (6) 1960s (6) Politics (6)

Pub quiz question 6917 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which UK Prime Minister claimed "A soundbite never buttered any parsnips?"
Answer: A: John Major
Notes: *: 1998
Categories: 1990s (4) Quotations (6) Politics (6)

Pub quiz question 6916 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which former UK Prime Minister was Britain's longest serving MP when he retired from the House in 2001?
Answer: A: Edward Heath
Categories: 2000s (6) Politics (7)