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Pub quiz question 4401 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which US city lost 3,000 people in a 1906 earthquake?
  2. Answer: A: San Francisco
  3. Categories: Geography (4) History (4)
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Pub quiz question 4981 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What was the former name of Bangladesh?
  2. Answer: A: East Pakistan
  3. Notes: *: Formed in 1971
  4. Categories: Geography (6) 1970s (6) History (6)
Pub quiz question 4977 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which is the only remaining example of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
  2. Answer: A: The Great Pyramid
  3. Categories: Geography (3) History (3)
Pub quiz question 7398 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What links: Cantiaci; Atrebates; Dumnonii; Iceni; Brigantes; Silures?
  2. Answer: A: Ancient British tribes
  3. Categories: Connections (8) History (8)
Pub quiz question 4961 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
  2. Answer: A: Great Pyramid of Giza (aka Pyramid of Khufu or Pyramid of Cheops), Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis (or Temple of Diana), Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (or Tomb of Mausolus), Colossus of Rhodes, Lighthouse(or Pharos) of Alexandria
  3. Categories: History (7) MultiAnswer7 (7)
Pub quiz question 2645 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War I and held its first council meeting in Paris on 16 January 1920?
  2. Answer: A: The League of Nations
  3. Notes: *: It was the precursor to the United Nations that was formed in 1945
  4. Categories: History (4) 1920s (4) Politics (5)
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Pub quiz question 1145 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who ruled England between June 1040 – June 1042
  2. Answer: A: Harthacnut (Hardeknud)
  3. Categories: History (8) Royalty (8)
Pub quiz question 3130 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who were the first people to separate copper from its ore?
  2. Answer: A: The Egyptians
  3. Categories: History (6) Science (6)
Pub quiz question 7081 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What great catastrophe is commemorated by The Monument?
  2. Answer: A: The Great Fire of London
  3. Categories: London, UK (3) History (3)
Pub quiz question 3160 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which game, played with a prolate spheroid, is said to have been invented when William Webb Ellis 'took the ball in his arms and ran?'
  2. Answer: A: Rugby
  3. Categories: History (5) Sports (5)