Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 7551 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Writer’s cramp; water on the knee; spare ribs’ butterflies in stomach; broken heart?
Answer: A: Operation Game ailments
Categories: Connections (3) Games (3) Entertainment (3)

Pub quiz question 7550 by pjh

Question: Q: Liv Ullmann appeared in 10 films by which director?
Answer: A: Ingmar Bergman
Categories: Film/Movies (6) People (6) 1970s (7)

Pub quiz question 7549 by pjh

Question: Q: What “era” began on 21 August 1935 at LA’s Palomar Ballroom?
Answer: A: Swing/big band
Notes: *: Benny Goodman concert
Categories: Music (5) 1930s (5)

Pub quiz question 7548 by pjh

Question: Q: Which football club has the highest average attendance in Europe?
Answer: A: Borussia Dortmund
Notes: *: Germany
Categories: Sports (6) Football (5)

Pub quiz question 7547 by pjh

Question: Q: In what game did Jumpman try to rescue the Lady?
Answer: A: Donkey Kong
Notes: *: First came out in 1981. Jumpman was renamed to Mario, and Lady to Pauline
Categories: Computing (4) Games (4) 1980s (4)

Pub quiz question 7546 by pjh

Question: Q: Kutschera was renamed Rainer in which musical?
Answer: A: The Sound Of Music
Notes: *: Maria’s maiden name before she married Von Trapp
Categories: People (6) Entertainment (6) Music (6)

Pub quiz question 7545 by pjh

Question: Q: Satire died/became obsolete the day what happened, according to Tom Lehrer?
Answer: A: Henry Kissinger won the Nobel peace prize
Notes: *: 1973
Categories: Politics (4) 1970s (4) People (6)

Pub quiz question 7544 by pjh

Question: Q: Which city is served by the Luas tram system?
Answer: A: Dublin
Categories: Geography (5) Transport (5) Travel (5)

Pub quiz question 7543 by pjh

Question: Q: Sir Hudson Lowe was whose “jailer”?
Answer: A: Napoleon
Notes: *: On St Helena
Categories: People (6) War (6) 1800s (6)

Pub quiz question 7542 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Eddie; Skeleton Uncle Sam; Dropout Bear Buffalo Man?
Answer: A: Music mascots
Notes: *: Iron Maiden; Grateful Dead; Kanye West; Jamiroquai
Categories: Connections (6) Music (6)

Pub quiz question 7541 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Arthur of Brittany; Edward V and Richard of Shewsbury?
Answer: A: (Probably) Murdered by royal uncles
Notes: *: King John; Richard III
Categories: Connections (8) Royalty (8)

Pub quiz question 7540 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Methane(1); ethane(2); propane(3); butane(4); penane(5)?
Answer: A: Alkanes
Notes: *: Number of carbon atoms
Categories: Connections (3) Chemistry (2) Science (2)

Pub quiz question 7539 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Aristide Bruant; May Belfort; Jane Avris; Cha-U-Kao; Louse Weber?
Answer: A: Entertainers painted by Toulouse-Lautrec
Categories: Connections (8) Entertainment (8)

Pub quiz question 7538 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Fess; pale; bend sinister; saltire; pall; chevron?
Answer: A: Partitions of the shield in heraldry
Categories: Connections (8) Language (8)

Pub quiz question 7537 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Desperate Remedies; HMS Victory; South Australian wine; Bane?
Answer: A: Thomas/Tom Hardy
Notes: *: Wrote novel; captained at Trafalgar; founded company; played in The Dark Knight Rises
Categories: Connections (8) People (8) Entertainment (8) Business (8) War (8)

Pub quiz question 7536 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Leopold; Albertina; Belvedere; Essl; Mumok?
Answer: A: Museums in Vienna
Categories: Connections (7)

Pub quiz question 7535 by pjh

Question: Q: The French territory Saint Pierre and Miquelon lies off which country?
Answer: A: Canada (Newfoundland)
Categories: Geography (6) France (5)

Pub quiz question 7534 by pjh

Question: Q: Which visual aid was developed in 1887 by Adolf Fick?
Answer: A: Contact lenses
Categories: Science (7) 1800s (8)

Pub quiz question 7533 by pjh

Question: Q: What, originally, had feet of clay?
Answer: A: Statue in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream
Categories: Religion (3) Literature (5)

Pub quiz question 7532 by pjh

Question: Q: Which dystopia could be 232.8°C?
Answer: A: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
Categories: Politics (7) Literature (6)

Pub quiz question 7531 by pjh

Question: Q: Who’s the only player to have scored 20,000-plus runs and taken 400-plus wickets in international Cricket?
Answer: A: South Africa’s Jacques Kallis
Categories: Cricket (5) Sports (6) People (6)

Pub quiz question 7530 by pjh

Question: Q: Which biologist coined the term “agnostic”?
Answer: A: TH Huxley
Categories: Religion (6) People (6) Biology (6)

Pub quiz question 7529 by pjh

Question: Q: In 1960, who made a speech lasting four hours 29 minutes at the UN?
Answer: A: Fidel Castro
Categories: Politics (6) 1960s (6)

Pub quiz question 7528 by pjh

Question: Q: Which English composer died at the Battle of the Somme?
Answer: A: George Butterworth
Categories: War (7) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7527 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Bermuda mystery; Trafalgar; Us Department of Defence; Reading theatre?
Answer: A: Shapes in ascending number of sides.
Notes: *: Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon
Categories: Connections (3) Mathematics (2) Geography (4)