Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 7476 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Michael Stipe; Martin Fry; Michael Hutchence; Andy Partridge?
Answer: A: Singers in lettered groups: REM, ABC, INXS, XTC.
Categories: Connections (6) Music (4) Entertainment (4)

Pub quiz question 7475 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Spider Monkey, German; dog, Russian; snail, Italian; rollmop herrings, Czech?
Answer: A: Translation of the names used for the @ sign in those languages
Categories: Connections (8) Computing (3) Language (6)

Pub quiz question 7474 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: John Lennon; Denis Healey; Gary Lineker?
Answer: A: Middle name of "Winston"
Categories: Connections (8) People (8)

Pub quiz question 7473 by pjh

Question: Q: What English word ends "-mt"?
Answer: A: Dreamt
Notes: *: Derivatives such as undreamt, daydreamt, and redreamt are just that - derivatives of the same word
Categories: Language (7) General Knowledge (8)

Pub quiz question 7472 by pjh

Question: Q: Which record label was founded by Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons?
Answer: A: Def Jam
Categories: Music (6) Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 7471 by pjh

Question: Q: Which 1661 work was subtitled Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes?
Answer: A: Robert Boyle's Sceptical Chymist
Categories: 1600s (8) Art (8)

Pub quiz question 7470 by pjh

Question: Q: The crew of the yacht Granma launched which revolution?
Answer: A: The Cuban Revolution
Categories: Politics (8) General Knowledge (8)

Pub quiz question 7469 by pjh

Question: Q: What does the direction "colegno" mean for string players?
Answer: A: To strike the string with the wooden part of the bow
Categories: Music (7) Language (8)

Pub quiz question 7468 by pjh

Question: Q: What sporting event held in 2016 was be number 50, not L?
Answer: A: The Super Bowl (dropping the usual Roman numerals)
Categories: 2010s (7) Sports (6) American Football (3)

Pub quiz question 7467 by pjh

Question: Q: The "Local Group" is made up of what?
Answer: A: Galaxies, including the Milky Way
Categories: Science (6) Physics (5) Astronomy (3) General Knowledge (7)

Pub quiz question 7466 by pjh

Question: Q: Which silent-era film star was known in Japan as Professor Alcohol?
Answer: A: Charlie Chaplin
Categories: Entertainment (7) People (7) Film/Movies (7)

Pub quiz question 7465 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Stillwater; Venus In Furs; the Wonders; Marvin Berry and The Starlighters?
Answer: A: Fictional film bands
Notes: *: Almost Famous; Velvet Goldmind; That Thing You Do; Back To The Future
Categories: Connections (6) Entertainment (6) Film/Movies (5)

Pub quiz question 7464 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Ross, Skye and Lochaber (12,000km²); Islington North (735 hectares)
Answer: A: UK largest and smallest parliamentary constituencies.
Categories: Connections (8) Politics (6) Geography (9)

Pub quiz question 7463 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: William II; Edward V; Edward VI; Elizabeth I?
Answer: A: Monarchs who never married
Categories: Connections (7) Royalty (6) History (6)

Pub quiz question 7462 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Anne Catherick and Jennet Humfrye, in opposition?
Answer: A: "The Woman In..."
Notes: *: White; Black.
Categories: Connections (7) Entertainment (6) Film/Movies (7) Literature (7)

Pub quiz question 7461 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Mediolanum; Mondadori; AC Milan; Mediaset?
Answer: A: Companies in Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest group
Categories: Connections (7) Business (7) Finance (6)

Pub quiz question 7460 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Thermodynamics; Newton's Motion; Kepler's planetary motion?
Answer: A: Three Laws
Categories: Connections (5) Physics (5) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 7459 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Marin Rees; Arnold Wolfendale; Francis Graham-Smith; Martin Ryle?
Answer: A: Astronomers Royal
Categories: Connections (8) People (8) Science (6) Physics (5)

Pub quiz question 7458 by pjh

Question: Q: What 2016 sporting event was "50", not "L"?
Answer: A: Superbowl 50
Notes: *: Previously they used Roman numerals
Categories: Sports (7) American Football (3)

Pub quiz question 7457 by pjh

Question: Q: What upheaval rocked China from 1850 to1864?
Answer: A: Taiping Rebellion
Categories: Politics (6) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 7456 by pjh

Question: Q: Where did a flash in the pan originally take place?
Answer: A: A Flintlock musket
Categories: History (6) Language (6)

Pub quiz question 7455 by pjh

Question: Q: Which bay drains 40% of California's land?
Answer: A: San Francisco bay
Categories: Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 7454 by pjh

Question: Q: How does a siffleur entertain an audience?
Answer: A: Whistling
Categories: Entertainment (6) Language (6)

Pub quiz question 7453 by pjh

Question: Q: What is ruled by the House of Thani?
Answer: A: Qatar
Categories: Royalty (7) Politics (8)

Pub quiz question 7452 by pjh

Question: Q: Alen Coren Close in which area of London?
Answer: A: Cricklewood
Categories: Geography (8) London, UK (8)