Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 8026 by pjh

Question: Q: Who was nicknamed Muttnik in 1957?
Answer: A: Laika (Soviet space dog).
Categories: Science (9) Astronomy (8) Russia (7) 1950s (6)

Pub quiz question 8025 by pjh

Question: Q: Which conductor has won a record 31 Grammy awards?
Answer: A: Sir Georg Solti.
Categories: Music (9) People (9)

Pub quiz question 8024 by pjh

Question: Q: The last heir to which empire died in July 2012 aged 98?
Answer: A: Austro-Hungarian (Otto von Habsburg).
Categories: Politics (9) Royalty (9) 2010s (9)

Pub quiz question 8023 by pjh

Question: Q: Which film was based on Ted Lewis's novel Jack's Return Home?
Answer: A: Get Carter (and its remakes).
Categories: Entertainment (7) Film/Movies (7) Literature (7)

Pub quiz question 8022 by pjh

Question: Q: What did Peter Minuit buy in 1626 for around 60 guilders?
Answer: A: Manhattan island.
Categories: 1600s (8) Geography (9)

Pub quiz question 8021 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Lake Manzala; Lake Timsah; Great Bitter Lake; Little Bitter Lake?
Answer: A: Connected by the Suez Canal.
Categories: Connections (7) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 8020 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Secret and Rocky; Tufty; Ratatoskr; Nutkin?
Answer: A: Fictional squirrels: in cartoons
Notes: *: Road safety campaign; in Norse myth; in B Potter story.
Categories: Connections (5) Children (4)

Pub quiz question 8019 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I; Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Pasha; German invasion of the USSR?
Answer: A: Barbarossa
Notes: *: byname; nickname in Europe; codename of 1941 attack.
Categories: Connections (9) Names (8)

Pub quiz question 8018 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: David Bowie; Rod Steiger; Telly Savalas; Michael Palin?
Answer: A: All played Pontius Pilate on screen.
Categories: Connections (8) Entertainment (6)

Pub quiz question 8017 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Sochi in Russia; Pyeongchang in South Korea, Beijing in China, Milan–Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy?
Answer: A: Host cities of Winter Olympics
Notes: *: 2014; 2018, 2022, 2026
Categories: Connections (9) Sports (5) Olympics (1)

Pub quiz question 8016 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Rose Tavern brothel (3rd); Fleet prison (7th); Bedlam hospital (8th)?
Answer: A: Scenes from William Hogarth's Rake's Progress.
Categories: Connections (8) Art (4)

Pub quiz question 8015 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Larynx; flight data recorder; St Stephen's Day?
Answer: A: Boxes
Notes: *: Voice box; black box; Boxing Day.
Categories: Connections (3)

Pub quiz question 8014 by pjh

Question: Q: Which astronomical event is depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry?
Answer: A: Appearance of Halley's Comet.
Categories: Science (4) Astronomy (3)

Pub quiz question 8013 by pjh

Question: Q: What does a boucherie chevaline specialise in?
Answer: A: Horsemeat.
Categories: Food (6) Language (7)

Pub quiz question 8012 by pjh

Question: Q: Which psychological condition was defined after a 1973 Swedish bank robbery?
Answer: A: Stockholm syndrome.
Categories: 1970s (6) Science (6) Crime (8)

Pub quiz question 8011 by pjh

Question: Q: Which barefoot preacher cried, "Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield"?
Answer: A: George Fox
Notes: *: 1650s
Categories: 1600s (8) Religion (8) People (9)

Pub quiz question 8010 by pjh

Question: Q: The Watsons is an unfinished novel by which author?
Answer: A: Jane Austen.
Categories: Literature (7)

Pub quiz question 8009 by pjh

Question: Q: The Laban system analyses what?
Answer: A: Human movement/dance.
Categories: Entertainment (9)

Pub quiz question 8008 by pjh

Question: Q: Which charity was founded by Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton?
Answer: A: Save the Children.
Categories: Business (8)

Pub quiz question 8007 by pjh

Question: Q: What did George Holliday videotape on 3 March 1991 in LA?
Answer: A: Rodney King police beating.
Categories: People (7) 1990s (7)

Pub quiz question 8006 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Matt Damon; Bill Gates; Robert Frost; Mark Zuckerberg; Pete Seeger?
Answer: A: Left Harvard without graduating.
Categories: Connections (8) People (8)

Pub quiz question 8005 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Odysseus's dog; Greek goddess of victory; fearsome female warrior?
Answer: A: Mythology-inspired companies
Notes: *: Argos; Nike; Amazon
Categories: Connections (5) Mythology (3) Business (3)

Pub quiz question 8004 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Dora; Little Hans; Wolf Man; Rat Man; the Judge?
Answer: A: Pseudonyms of patients in case histories of Sigmund Freud.
Categories: Connections (7)

Pub quiz question 8003 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: The Manchurian Candidate; M*A*S*H; Pork Chop Hill; The Steel Helmet?
Answer: A: Korean War-themed films.
Categories: Connections (6) Film/Movies (5)

Pub quiz question 8002 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Ancient capital of the Old Kingdom; home of Elvis Presley?
Answer: A: Memphis
Notes: *: Memphis in ancient Egypt; Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee.
Categories: Connections (4)