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Pub quiz question 4881 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which bodily organ produces urine?
Answer: A: Kidney. (The bladder merely stores it.)
Categories: Biology (1) Science (1)

Pub quiz question 4880 by pjh2

Question: Q: What bodily fluid surrounds a foetus?
Answer: A: Amniotic fluid
Categories: Biology (3) Nature (3)

Pub quiz question 4879 by pjh2

Question: Q: What fluid (four letter word) is stored in the gallbladder?
Answer: A: Bile
Categories: Biology (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 4878 by pjh2

Question: Q: Where in the body would you find your aqueous humour?
Answer: A: Eye
Categories: Biology (5) Nature (5)

Pub quiz question 4877 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for the fluid expelled from the body by the process of lacrimation?
Answer: A: Tears
Categories: Language (7) Nature (6) Biology (6)

Pub quiz question 4876 by pjh2

Question: Q: What collective term describes 2-methylphenol and 4-methylphenol, smelly chemicals found in sweat?
Answer: A: Odourants
Categories: Language (7) Chemistry (7) Science (7) Nature (7) Biology (7)

Pub quiz question 4875 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the name of the Earth's first artificial satellite?
Answer: A: Sputnik I
Categories: Science (2) Space (2) Technology (2)

Pub quiz question 4874 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the first active communications satellite which gave its name to the first single by a British group to top the US BIllboard chart?
Answer: A: Telstar
Notes: *: Both in 1962
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Pub quiz question 4873 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the next country to launch a satellite after the Soviet Union and USA?
Answer: A: France
Categories: Geography (4) Science (4) Space (4) Technology (4)

Pub quiz question 4872 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which English Sci-Fi writer first conceived the idea of artificial communication satellites in 1945?
Answer: A: Arthur C Clarke
Categories: Space (4) SciFi (4) Science (4) Technology (4)

Pub quiz question 4871 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the name of the USA's first Earth-orbiting satellite?
Answer: A: Explorer I
Categories: Science (6) Technology (6) Space (6)

Pub quiz question 4870 by pjh2

Question: Q: What name was give to the magnetic radiation belts around the Earth discovered by the first US satellite?
Answer: A: Van Allen Belts
Categories: Space (7) Physics (7) Technology (7) Science (7)

Pub quiz question 4869 by pjh2

Question: Q: What four letter name was given to 'Hormel Spiced Ham' in the 1930s?
Answer: A: Spam
Categories: 1930s (5) Language (5)

Pub quiz question 4868 by pjh2

Question: Q: What essential did Ezra Warner patent 45 years after the invention of canned food?
Answer: A: Can opener
Notes: *: 1855
Categories: Science (3) Food (3)

Pub quiz question 4867 by pjh2

Question: Q: What method of food preservation was invented for the British Navy in 1813?
Answer: A: Canning
Categories: Food (4) Science (4)

Pub quiz question 4866 by pjh2

Question: Q: What number of varieties is associated with Heinz's products?
Answer: A: 57
Categories: Language (2) Food (2)

Pub quiz question 4865 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the main use for the legume 'phaseolus vulgaris' in the canned food industry?
Answer: A: Baked beans
Categories: Language (6) Nature (6) Science (6) Food (6)

Pub quiz question 4864 by pjh2

Question: Q: What 1941 invention by Heinz and ICI kept the troops warm during the D Day landings?
Answer: A: Self heating can
Categories: Science (7) 1940s (7) Food (7)

Pub quiz question 4863 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which part of a cooked breakfast is an above-ground spore-producing structure?
Answer: A: Mushroom
Categories: Nature (1) Food (1)

Pub quiz question 4862 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the usual British name for the breakfast disk referred to as 'blood sausage' on an American menu?
Answer: A: Black pudding
Categories: Language (2) Food (2)

Pub quiz question 4861 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the main ingredient used for dry-curing bacon?
Answer: A: Salt
Categories: Food (3) Science (3)

Pub quiz question 4860 by pjh2

Question: Q: What dish did an episode of 'Yes Minister' suggest in an EU directive had renamed 'Emulsified High-Fat Offal Tube?'
Answer: A: Sausage
Categories: Television (3) Entertainment (3) Food (3)

Pub quiz question 4859 by pjh2

Question: Q: What do British breakfast menus call what American's know as Canadian Bacon?
Answer: A: Back bacon (or smoked ham)
Categories: Language (6) Food (6)

Pub quiz question 4858 by pjh2

Question: Q: What English sausage is traditionally sold rolled in a coil?
Answer: A: Cumberland sausage
Categories: Food (4)

Pub quiz question 4857 by pjh2

Question: Q: What branch of alternative medicine tries to treat like with like?
Answer: A: Homeopathy
Categories: Nature (5) Biology (5)