Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 6506 by pjh2

Question: Q: Wrote about Opus Dei
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Answer: A: Dan Brown
Categories: Literature (3)

Pub quiz question 6505 by pjh2

Question: Q: Wrote about Peter, who was sent to bed with a dose of camomile tea.
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Answer: A: Beatrix Potter
Categories: Literature (4)

Pub quiz question 6504 by pjh2

Question: Q: Holds the Guinness World Record for the most novels written in a single year.
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Answer: A: Barbara Cartland
Categories: Literature (2)

Pub quiz question 6503 by pjh2

Question: Q: Went missing for 11 days
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Answer: A: Agatha Christie
Categories: Literature (2)

Pub quiz question 6502 by pjh2

Question: Q: Politician
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Answer: A: Adolf Hitler
Categories: Literature (1) Politics (1)

Pub quiz question 6501 by pjh2

Question: Q: What term is used for a type of horse racing, a type of accommodation, a lower pitch note and a type of shie?
Answer: A: Flat
Categories: Language (2)

Pub quiz question 6500 by pjh2

Question: Q: In literature, what are knights typically recruited to rescue?
Answer: A: Damsels in distress
Categories: Literature (3)

Pub quiz question 6499 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which breed of cat can be seal pointed, blue pointed, chocolate pointed, or lilac pointed?
Answer: A: Siamese
Categories: Biology (7) Nature (7)

Pub quiz question 6498 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which singer was born in London with the name Steven Georgiou and is now called Yusuf Islam?
Answer: A: Cat Stevens
Categories: Entertainment (7) Music (7) Names (7)

Pub quiz question 6497 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name of the legendary ghost ship that can never make port, doomed to sail the oceans forever, which also appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean, and is also the name of the ghost pirate in Spongebob Squarepants?
Answer: A: Flying Dutchman
Categories: Entertainment (5) Television (5) Film/Movies (5) Superstitions (5)

Pub quiz question 6496 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which children's TV program was presented by Geoffrey Hayes?
Answer: A: Rainbow
Notes: *: 1972-1992
Categories: Entertainment (5) Television (5) Children (5) 1970s (5) 1980s (5) 1990s (5)

Pub quiz question 6495 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Disney animation saw a young King Arthur enjoying his encounter with Merlin?
Answer: A: Sword in the Stone
Notes: *: 1963
Categories: Entertainment (5) Film/Movies (5) Cartoons (5) 1960s (5)

Pub quiz question 6494 by pjh2

Question: Q: Of the 66 seats available in Gateshead at the 2012 election, how many did Labour end up with?
Answer: A: 55
Categories: Gateshead, UK (8) Current Affairs (5) Politics (9) 2010s (8)

Pub quiz question 6493 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who won the 2012 French Presidential Election?
Answer: A: François Hollande
Categories: Current Affairs (3) Politics (3) 2010s (3)

Pub quiz question 6492 by pjh2

Question: Q: There were calls for what sort of business to be rated according to hygiene like restaurants and takeaways?
Answer: A: Tattoo parlors
Notes: *: 2012
Categories: Current Affairs (7) Business (8)

Pub quiz question 6491 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which household brand was bought by a Chinese company called Bright Food?
Answer: A: Weetabix
Notes: *: 2010
Categories: Food (4) Current Affairs (4) 2010s (7)

Pub quiz question 6490 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which ex-husband of Princess Anne is getting divorced a second time for a woman 4 months younger than his son?
Answer: A: Mark Phillips
Notes: *: 2012
Categories: Royalty (3) Current Affairs (3)

Pub quiz question 6489 by pjh2

Question: Q: Argentina released an Olympic advert showing one of their hopefuls training, ending with the slogan "To compete on English soil we train on Argentine soil." Where was the whole advert filmed?
Answer: A: The Falklands
Notes: *: 2012 Olympics
Categories: Current Affairs (3) Olympics (5) Politics (5) Sports (6) 2010s (7)

Pub quiz question 6488 by pjh2

Question: Q: Adam Yauch, who used Nathanial Hörnblowér as a pseudonum, died at age 47 from cancer. Which well-known hip-hop group did he found in 1979?
Answer: A: Beastie Boys
Categories: Current Affairs (7) Entertainment (8) Music (7) 1970s (7) 2010s (7)

Pub quiz question 6487 by pjh2

Question: Q: Selling at $120 million, which painting became the most expensive ever sold at auction in 2012?
Answer: A: The Scream
Notes: *: Edvard Munch
Categories: Art (5) Current Affairs (5) 2010s (5)

Pub quiz question 6486 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which airline is offering, to their upper class passengers, ice cubes in the shape of the head of the President of the company?
Answer: A: Virgin Atlantic
Notes: *: Richard Branson
Categories: Current Affairs (7)

Pub quiz question 6485 by pjh2

Question: Q: What links cleave, to bolt, oversight, model, to lease, impregnable, to scan?
Answer: A: They're Autoantonyms - words that have two opposite meanings
Notes: *: cleave: 'to cling' 'to split', bolt: 'leave quickly' 'fixed, oversight: 'supervision' 'to miss something', model: 'archetype' 'copy', to lease: 'to loan (for money)' 'to borrow (for money)' impregnable: 'not pregnable' 'capable of being impregnated', scan: 'examine closely' 'look over hastily'
Categories: Connections (9) Language (8)

Pub quiz question 6484 by pjh2

Question: Q: What links Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard 1960, James Cameron 2012?
Answer: A: Reched the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific
Categories: Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 6483 by pjh2

Question: Q: What links The Voice, Deal Or No Deal, Big Brother?
Answer: A: TV formats originating in the Netherlands
Categories: Connections (9) Entertainment (9) Television (9)

Pub quiz question 6482 by pjh2

Question: Q: What links The West, America, Mexico, The Midlands, Anatolia?
Answer: A: 'Once Upon a Time in ...' films
Categories: Connections (8) Entertainment (9) Film/Movies (9)