Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 6015 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which indoor game is also called ping-pong?
Answer: A: Table Tennis
Categories: Sports (2) Names (2)

Pub quiz question 6014 by pjh2

Question: Q: Before David Coulthard's 2000 victory, who was the last British driver to win the Monaco Grand Prix?
Answer: A: Jackie Stewart
Notes: *: 1966, 1971, 1973
Categories: 2000s (7) 1970s (7) Sports (7)

Pub quiz question 6013 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Irish dramatist wrote Waiting for Godot?
Answer: A: Samuel Beckett
Notes: *: Published 1953
Categories: 1950s (6) Literature (6)

Pub quiz question 6012 by pjh2

Question: Q: By what first name was US trumpet player John Birks Gillespie known?
Answer: A: Dizzy
Categories: Entertainment (7) Music (7)

Pub quiz question 6011 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which character in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice demands a pound of flesh?
Answer: A: Shylock
Categories: Literature (5)

Pub quiz question 6010 by pjh2

Question: Q: What links Alphage, Thomas Becket, Simon Sudbury, Thomas Cranmer and William Laud?
Answer: A: Archbishops of Canterbury who suffered violent deaths
Categories: Connections (8) Religion (7)

Pub quiz question 6009 by pjh2

Question: Q: What links Cal Trask, Jim Start, Jett Rink (and no-one else?)
Answer: A: Film roles of James Dean
Notes: *: East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Giant
Categories: Entertainment (8) Film/Movies (8) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 6008 by pjh2

Question: Q: What links Kuwait, Luxembourg, Panama, Guatemala and Mexico?
Answer: A: Capital cities that share the name of the country they're in.
Categories: Connections (8) Geography (8)

Pub quiz question 6007 by pjh2

Question: Q: What links spearing, slashing, butt-ending and cross-checking?
Answer: A: Ice Hockey (infringements)
Categories: Connections (8) Sports (8)

Pub quiz question 6006 by pjh2

Question: Q: What links Overton Hill, Wiltshire and Ivinghoe Beacon, Buckinhamshire?
Answer: A: Ridgeway National Trail
Categories: Connections (9) Geography (9)

Pub quiz question 6005 by pjh2

Question: Q: What links Betty Draper, the Home Secretary (May 2010-), Dot Cotton and Kid Creole?
Answer: A: Months
Notes: *: January (Jones), (Theresa May), June (Brown), August (Darnell)
Categories: Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 6004 by pjh2

Question: Q: What links the Holy Roman Empire, Germany in 1871-1918 and the Nazi regime?
Answer: A: Three 'Reichs'
Categories: Connections (7)

Pub quiz question 6003 by pjh2

Question: Q: The 'Matchroom Mob' featured on which hit?
Answer: A: Snooker Loopy
Notes: *: With Chas and Dave. 1986
Categories: Entertainment (6) Music (6) Television (6) 1980s (6)

Pub quiz question 6002 by pjh2

Question: Q: A Jersey Lily by Millais, was a portrait of whom?
Answer: A: Lillie Langtry
Categories: Art (7)

Pub quiz question 6001 by pjh2

Question: Q: What two words appear on the George Cross?
Answer: A: For Gallantry
Categories: Military (6)

Pub quiz question 6000 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Pennsylvania town styles itself the 'sweetest place on Earth?'
Answer: A: Hershey
Categories: Names (7) Geography (7)

Pub quiz question 5999 by pjh2

Question: Q: What wartime food was named after Frederick Marquis?
Answer: A: Woolton Pie
Categories: Names (7) Military (7)

Pub quiz question 5998 by pjh2

Question: Q: The Shrine of the Three Kings in Germany is in which Cathedral?
Answer: A: Cologne
Categories: Geography (5) Religion (5)

Pub quiz question 5997 by pjh2

Question: Q: The Walker and Blackett children sailed which boats?
Answer: A: Swallow and Amazon
Notes: *: 1930
Categories: 1930s (5) Literature (5)

Pub quiz question 5996 by pjh2

Question: Q: What did Gerald Kaufman call the 'longest suicide note in history?'
Answer: A: Labour's 1983 election manifesto
Categories: 1980s (8) Politics (7)

Pub quiz question 5995 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which company brews Harp lager?
Answer: A: Guinness (now Diageo)
Categories: Business (7) Drink (5)

Pub quiz question 5994 by pjh2

Question: Q: In which religion is Vishnu worshipped as the God of creation?
Answer: A: Hinduism
Categories: Religion (3)

Pub quiz question 5993 by pjh2

Question: Q: Where did Charles Darwin succeed Charles Dickens?
Answer: A: On the back of a £10 note
Notes: *: 2003
Categories: General Knowledge (6) Science (6) Literature (6) 2000s (6)

Pub quiz question 5992 by pjh2

Question: Q: Before Robin van Persie, who wore the number 10 shirt for Arsenal?
Answer: A: William Gallis
Notes: *: 2006–2010
Categories: 2000s (7) Sports (7) Football (7)

Pub quiz question 5991 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which author's first works were published under the name Currer Bell?
Answer: A: Charlotte Brontë
Categories: Literature (6) Names (8)