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Pub quiz question 3065 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who was flying the U2 spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960?
  2. Answer: A: Francis Gary Powers
  3. Categories: 1960s (8) History (8) Politics (8) Military (8)
Pub quiz question 210 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which geological fault caused the San Francisco earthquake in 1906?
  2. Answer: A: The San Andreas fault
  3. Categories: History (4) Geography (3)
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Pub quiz question 7068 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What empire arose in the Peruvian highlands around AD1200?
  2. Answer: A: The Inca Empire
  3. Categories: History (4) Geography (4)
Pub quiz question 7273 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What arrived in Britain at Weymouth in 1348?
  2. Answer: A: The Black Death/bubonic plague
  3. Categories: Biology (5) Science (7) History (5) 1300s (6)
Pub quiz question 3088 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which Indian Prime Minister was awarded the 1983/4 Lenin Peace Prize?
  2. Answer: A: Indira Gandhi
  3. Categories: Politics (4) History (4) 1980s (5)
Pub quiz question 1159 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who ruled England between November 1272 – July 1307
  2. Answer: A: Edward I/Longshanks
  3. Categories: History (8) Royalty (8)
Pub quiz question 4390 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which US Vice-President couldn't spell potato and is wrongly attributed the quote 'It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it?'
  2. Answer: A: Dan Quayle
  3. Categories: Politics (3) History (3)
Pub quiz question 6792 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What building first appeared on the back of a US $20 bill in 1928?
  2. Answer: A: The White House
  3. Categories: History (6) 1920s (6) Buildings (6)
Pub quiz question 3063 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which university was attended by Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Harold Philby, Anthony Blunt, and the unknown fifth person in the 1930s?
  2. Answer: A: Cambridge (Trinity)
  3. Notes: *: The 'Cambridge Five'
  4. Categories: 1930s (4) History (5) Military (5)
Pub quiz question 3118 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which country carried out more than 3,400 executions in 2004?
  2. Answer: A: China
  3. Categories: Geography (4) Crime (5) History (5) 2000s (5)
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