Questions by pjh

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)

Pub quiz question 7526 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: The 120 Days of Sodom and Venus in Furs?
Answer: A: Sadism and masochism - the origins of the words
Categories: Connections (7) Literature (7) Language (6)

Pub quiz question 7525 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Falkirk; Tewkesbury; Salisbury; Bristol?
Answer: A: They all stand on (different) River Avons
Categories: Connections (7) Geography (7)

Pub quiz question 7524 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Richard II; Richard III; Henry VIII, twice; James I?
Answer: A: Married Annes
Notes: *: Anne of Bohemia; Anne Neville; Anne Boleyn and Anne of Cleves; Anne of Denmark
Categories: Connections (5) Royalty (5)

Pub quiz question 7523 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Freddy's Revenge; Dream Warriors; The Dream Master; The Dream Child?
Answer: A: A Nightmare On Elm Street instalments
Categories: Connections (4) Film/Movies (4) Entertainment (4)

Pub quiz question 7522 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Pinot noir; pinot meunier; chardonnay?
Answer: A: Grape blend of (most) champagnes
Categories: Connections (7) Drink (5)

Pub quiz question 7521 by pjh

Question: Q: Eamon Dunphy and Roddy Doyle have been whose "ghosts?"
Answer: A: Roy Keane
Notes: *: They were ghostwriters
Categories: People (7) Literature (6)

Pub quiz question 7520 by pjh

Question: Q: Which ill-fated aircraft was designated LZ129?
Answer: A: Hindenburg airship
Categories: Transport (6) Germany (4) Science (7)

Pub quiz question 7519 by pjh

Question: Q: Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill demonstrated which connection?
Answer: A: The link between smoking and lung cancer
Categories: Connections (6) Science (6) Leisure (6)

Pub quiz question 7518 by pjh

Question: Q: Where were the first Olympics in the southern hemisphere?
Answer: A: Melbourne, 1956
Categories: 1950s (6) Sports (6) Australia (2) Olympics (5)

Pub quiz question 7517 by pjh

Question: Q: Which Hollywood star was born Natalia Zacharenko?
Answer: A: Natalie Wood
Categories: Entertainment (7) Names (7) Film/Movies (7) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7516 by pjh

Question: Q: Which British fabric has an orb trademark?
Answer: A: Harris Tweed
Categories: Business (7) Logos (7)

Pub quiz question 7515 by pjh

Question: Q: Odysseus and Ajax quarrelled over whose armour?
Answer: A: Achilles
Categories: Mythology (5) Religion (5)

Pub quiz question 7514 by pjh

Question: Q: What book takes place "the summer the electrocuted the Rosenbergs"?
Answer: A: The Bell Jar
Notes: *: Sylvia Plath
Categories: Literature (8) People (8)

Pub quiz question 7513 by pjh

Question: Q: Which winner of three Wimbledon singles titles was born in Wiesbaden, West Germany in 1959?
Answer: A: John McEnroe
Categories: Sports (5) Tennis (5) People (5) 1950s (5)

Pub quiz question 7512 by pjh

Question: Q: In golf, what is known as the "19th Hole?'
Answer: A: The clubhouse bar
Categories: Language (2) Golf (1) Sports (2)

Pub quiz question 7511 by pjh

Question: Q: The sculpture 'Anyanwu' (1954-55) has been called the magnum opus of which Nigerian modernist?
Answer: A: Ben Enwonwu
Categories: 1950s (8) Art (8) People (8)

Pub quiz question 7510 by pjh

Question: Q: Which lingerie firm lost its royal warrant after June Kenton published her 2017 autobiography 'Storm in a D-Cup?'
Answer: A: Rigby & Peller
Categories: Royalty (7) Business (7) 2010s (7)

Pub quiz question 7509 by pjh

Question: Q: The Event Horizon Telescope has produced an image of which supermasssive black hole at the Milky Way's centre?
Answer: A: Sagittarius A*
Categories: Science (6) Physics (5) Astronomy (3)

Pub quiz question 7508 by pjh

Question: Q: Greece's first female minister of culture and sports, which singer married the film director Jules Dassin in 1966?
Answer: A: Melina Mercouri
Categories: Film/Movies (8) People (8) Politics (8)

Pub quiz question 7507 by pjh

Question: Q: Which two-word term describes the process of baking a pastry case without the filling?
Answer: A: Blind-baking
Categories: Food (3) Language (3)