Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 8401 by pjh

Question: Q: What is the symbol for potassium?
Answer: A: K
Categories: Science (1) Chemistry (2)

Pub quiz question 8400 by pjh

Question: Q: What part of the atom has no electric charge?
Answer: A: Neutron
Categories: Science (2) Physics (2)

Pub quiz question 8399 by pjh

Question: Q: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (in 1903)?
Answer: A: Marie Curie
Categories: Science (3) 1900s (3) People (3)

Pub quiz question 8398 by pjh

Question: Q: Who discovered penicillin?
Answer: A: Alexander Fleming
Categories: Science (3) Biology (3) People (3)

Pub quiz question 8397 by pjh

Question: Q: What was Twitter’s original name?
Answer: A: twttr
Notes: *: Without the “E”
Categories: Technology (4) Business (4)

Pub quiz question 8396 by pjh

Question: Q: Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Explorer are different types of what?
Answer: A: Web browsers
Categories: Technology (2) Computing (2)

Pub quiz question 8395 by pjh

Question: Q: Which email service, beginning with H, is owned by Microsoft?
Answer: A: Hotmail
Categories: Technology (6) Computing (6)

Pub quiz question 8394 by pjh

Question: Q: What is the name of the man who launched eBay back in 1995?
Answer: A: Pierre Omidyar
Categories: Technology (7) People (7)

Pub quiz question 8393 by pjh

Question: Q: What does “HTTP” stand for?
Answer: A: HyperText Transfer Protocol
Categories: Technology (5) Acronyms/Abbreviations (5)

Pub quiz question 8392 by pjh

Question: Q: Who is often called the father of the computer?
Answer: A: Charles Babbage
Categories: Technology (4) People (4)

Pub quiz question 8391 by pjh

Question: Q: Is Java a type of OS?
Answer: A: No
Categories: Technology (1) Computing (2)

Pub quiz question 8390 by pjh

Question: Q: What is often seen as the smallest unit of memory?
Answer: A: byte
Categories: Technology (1) Computing (1)

Pub quiz question 8389 by pjh

Question: Q: What’s the shortcut for the “copy” function on most computers?
Answer: A: ctrl c
Categories: Technology (2) Computing (2)

Pub quiz question 8388 by pjh

Question: Q: What year was the very first model of the iPhone released?
Answer: A: 2007
Categories: Technology (6) 2000s (5)

Pub quiz question 8387 by pjh

Question: Q: Apache, Chinook and Black Hawk are types of what military vehicle?
Answer: A: Helicopter
Categories: War (2) General Knowledge (4)

Pub quiz question 8386 by pjh

Question: Q: Which US agency has the motto “Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity”?
Answer: A: FBI
Categories: Acronyms/Abbreviations (4)

Pub quiz question 8385 by pjh

Question: Q: In which sport is the Stanley Cup contested?
Answer: A: Ice hockey
Categories: Sports (4)

Pub quiz question 8384 by pjh

Question: Q: How many chambers does the human heart have?
Answer: A: 4
Categories: Biology (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 8383 by pjh

Question: Q: Digbeth and Edgbaston are suburbs of which British city?
Answer: A: Birmingham
Categories: Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 8382 by pjh

Question: Q: Who voices Bowser in ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’?
Answer: A: Jack Black
Categories: Entertainment (4) Computing (4)

Pub quiz question 8381 by pjh

Question: Q: Which sea borders the north of Turkey?
Answer: A: Black Sea
Categories: Geography (3)

Pub quiz question 8380 by pjh

Question: Q: In what year was The Gunpowder Plot?
Answer: A: 1605
Categories: 1600s (2) History (4) Politics (4)

Pub quiz question 8379 by pjh

Question: Q: What animal features in the logo for the World Wildlife Fund?
Answer: A: Panda
Categories: Biology (1) Business (1)

Pub quiz question 8378 by pjh

Question: Q: Whose assassination led to the beginning of World War One?
Answer: A: Franz Ferdinand
Categories: War (4) Politics (4) 1910s (4)

Pub quiz question 8377 by pjh

Question: Q: What is the tiger called in Yann Martel’s ‘Life of Pi’?
Answer: A: Richard Parker
Categories: Literature (7)