Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 8051 by pjh

Question: Q: Bangui is the capital of which aptly named country?
Answer: A: Central African Republic.
Categories: Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 8050 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: New York (2); Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts (1 each)?
Answer: A: Ivy League universities
Notes: *: Columbia and Cornell; Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Harvard.
Categories: Connections (7)

Pub quiz question 8049 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Hope; Millennium Star; Tiffany; Cullinan; Koh-i-Noor?
Answer: A: Celebrated diamonds.
Categories: Connections (5)

Pub quiz question 8048 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Broad (in 2011); Sidebottom; Hoggard; Gough; Cork; Loader?
Answer: A: Taken Test hat-tricks for England since 1945.
Categories: Connections (8) Cricket (5)

Pub quiz question 8047 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Mrs Robinson actor; Hard Times author; Jazz's First Lady of Song; youngest Beatle?
Answer: A: Consecutive initials
Notes: *: Anne Bancroft; Charles Dickens; Ella Fitzgerald; George Harrison.
Categories: Connections (8) Language (8)

Pub quiz question 8046 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Native Australian nut; 19th-century road surface innovation?
Answer: A: Named after Johns
Notes: *: Macadam/McAdam: macadamia; macadam.
Categories: Connections (9)

Pub quiz question 8045 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Himself (blood); John Sulston (bacteria); Alison Lapper (marble); Kate Moss (gold)?
Answer: A: Sculptures by Marc Quinn: models and materials.
Categories: Connections (8) Art (7)

Pub quiz question 8044 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: 11 (5th); 29 (10th); 229 (50th); 541 (100th)?
Answer: A: Prime numbers.
Categories: Connections (4) Mathematics (3) Science (4)

Pub quiz question 8043 by pjh

Question: Q: Which publican is William Thackeray's great-great-great-grandson?
Answer: A: Pub Landlord (Al Murray).
Categories: Entertainment (7) Comedy (6) People (6)

Pub quiz question 8042 by pjh

Question: Q: What became the largest country in Africa in 2011?
Answer: A: Algeria (after split of Sudan).
Categories: Geography (7) 2010s (7)

Pub quiz question 8041 by pjh

Question: Q: "Honi soit qui mal y pense" is whose motto?
Answer: A: Order of the Garter.
Notes: *: founded by Edward III of England in 1348
Categories: Royalty (8) Politics (7) 1300s (7)

Pub quiz question 8040 by pjh

Question: Q: The Minoan civilisation was based on which island?
Answer: A: Crete.
Categories: Geography (8)

Pub quiz question 8039 by pjh

Question: Q: What was the house band of Stax Records?
Answer: A: Booker T & the MGs.
Categories: Entertainment (8) Music (8)

Pub quiz question 8038 by pjh

Question: Q: What afflicted London from 5-9 December 1952?
Answer: A: Great Smog.
Categories: Science (6) 1950s (6)

Pub quiz question 8037 by pjh

Question: Q: Other than humans, which animals can carry leprosy?
Answer: A: Armadillos.
Categories: Science (7) Biology (7)

Pub quiz question 8036 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Ely; Thanet; Purbeck; Portland; Dogs?
Answer: A: UK "isles" that are not really islands.
Categories: Connections (7) Geography (5)

Pub quiz question 8035 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Beatles 1967 opus; Stanley in The Pirates Of Penzance; 1933 film score by Prokofiev?
Answer: A: Musical army ranks: Sgt Pepper; (the very model of a modern) major-general; Lieutenant Kijé.
Categories: Connections (7) Politics (6) Music (6)

Pub quiz question 8034 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Theravada; Mahayana; Vajrayana?
Answer: A: Movement or schools of Buddhism.
Categories: Connections (9) Religion (5)

Pub quiz question 8033 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Canada; US; Hong Kong; Fiji; Australia; New Zealand; East Caribbean; Liberia?
Answer: A: Dollar currencies.
Categories: Connections (6) Geography (5) Politics (5) Finance (3)

Pub quiz question 8032 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Pirates; Penguins; Steelers?
Answer: A: Pittsburgh sports teams
Notes: *: Baseball; ice hockey; American football.
Categories: Connections (6) Sports (4)

Pub quiz question 8031 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Michelle Collins (in 2011); Brian Capron; June Brown; Jill Halfpenny?
Answer: A: Actors who've appeared in both Coronation Street and Eastenders.
Categories: Connections (7) Entertainment (5) Soaps (4)

Pub quiz question 8030 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Duodenum; jejunum; ileum?
Answer: A: Segments of the small intestine.
Categories: Connections (8) Science (7) Biology (6)

Pub quiz question 8029 by pjh

Question: Q: The earliest surviving English private correspondence is by which Norfolk family?
Answer: A: The Pastons.
Notes: *: 1422 -1509
Categories: Literature (9) 1400s (8) 1500s (8)

Pub quiz question 8028 by pjh

Question: Q: Who published his uncertainty principle in 1927?
Answer: A: Werner Heisenberg.
Categories: Science (4) People (6) 1920s (6)

Pub quiz question 8027 by pjh

Question: Q: "No hugging, no learning" was the motto of which comedy series?
Answer: A: Seinfeld.
Categories: Entertainment (7) Television (7)