Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 7426 by pjh

Question: Q: Which off-Broadway musical ran from 1960 to 2002?
Answer: A: The Fantasticks
Notes: *: World's longest running musical
Categories: Entertainment (7) 1990s (7) 1980s (7) 1970s (7) 1960s (7) Music (7)

Pub quiz question 7425 by pjh

Question: Q: Which artist said that his masterpiece was the Rosaire Chapel in Vence?
Answer: A: Henri Matisse
Categories: Buildings (6) Art (6) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7424 by pjh

Question: Q: What does something "pavonine" resemble?
Answer: A: A peacock
Categories: Language (7)

Pub quiz question 7423 by pjh

Question: Q: What gift scheme was launched by publisher Harold Raymond?
Answer: A: National Book Tokens
Notes: *: 1932
Categories: Literature (6) General Knowledge (7)

Pub quiz question 7422 by pjh

Question: Q: The Talmud was written in Hebrew and which other language?
Answer: A: Aramaic
Categories: Language (7) Religion (6)

Pub quiz question 7421 by pjh

Question: Q: Who (maybe) said, "If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker?"
Answer: A: Albert Einstein
Notes: *: On realising the consequences of his contribution to making atomic bombs possible.
Categories: Science (6) People (7) Physics (5)

Pub quiz question 7420 by pjh

Question: Q: Whose pet was a black labrador called Connie Paulgrave?
Answer: A: Vladimir Putin
Categories: Politics (6) People (8)

Pub quiz question 7419 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Angela Berners-Wilson (1994) and Libby Lane (2014)?
Answer: A: First female priest and bishop of the Church Of England
Categories: Connections (7) Religion (5)

Pub quiz question 7418 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Sidney Nolan; Peter Carey; Mick Jagger and Heath Ledger?
Answer: A: Ned Kelly
Notes: *: Painted him; wrote True History Of The Kelly Gang; portrayed him on film
Categories: Connections (8) Art (8) Entertainment (9)

Pub quiz question 7417 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Edier; Môhne; Sorpe?
Answer: A: Rivers/dams attacked in the Dam Busters' Operation Chastise
Categories: Connections (7) Politics (7)

Pub quiz question 7416 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Fanya Kaplan; Violet Gibson; Lynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore?
Answer: A: Unsuccessful female assassins
Notes: *: Of Lennin, Mussolini, Gerald Ford
Categories: Connections (8) Politics (8) History (8)

Pub quiz question 7415 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Sidereal; Atomic; Ephemeris; Universal; Dynamical?
Answer: A: Time/Timekeeping systems
Categories: Connections (6) Science (4)

Pub quiz question 7414 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: VS Naipaul; Trevor McDonald; Brian Lara; Nicki Minaj?
Answer: A: Born in Trinidad
Categories: Connections (8) Geography (8) Music (8) Entertainment (8)

Pub quiz question 7413 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Willow; marsh; great; blue; coal; crested; bearded?
Answer: A: Tits seen in the UK
Categories: Connections (8) Biology (7)

Pub quiz question 7412 by pjh

Question: Q: What did Orson Welles describe as "the biggest electric train set any boy ever had"?
Answer: A: RKO Studios
Categories: Entertainment (7)

Pub quiz question 7411 by pjh

Question: Q: Who moved from Fort Baxter to Camp Fremont?
Answer: A: Sergeant Bilko and Co (The Phil Silvers Show)
Categories: Entertainment (7) Television (7)

Pub quiz question 7410 by pjh

Question: Q: What became the 19th member of the Eurozone in January 2015?
Answer: A: Lithuania
Categories: Politics (6) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 7409 by pjh

Question: Q: What was known to Arabs as "Chinese Snow?"
Answer: A: Saltpetre (in gunpowder.)
Categories: Science (6) Language (7)

Pub quiz question 7408 by pjh

Question: Q: Whose first book was 1989's The Story Of The Malakand Field Force?
Answer: A: Winston Churchill
Categories: Literature (7) Politics (7) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7407 by pjh

Question: Q: Which economist has declined the Légion d'honneur?
Answer: A: Thomas Piketty
Categories: People (8) Royalty (9)

Pub quiz question 7406 by pjh

Question: Q: In printing, which colors make up the CMYK model?
Answer: A: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key/Black
Categories: Science (7) Computing (5)

Pub quiz question 7405 by pjh

Question: Q: What was Rudyard Kiplink's first language?
Answer: A: Hindi
Categories: Language (7) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7404 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Frederick, 1751; Henry, 1612; Arthur, 1502; Edward, 1376; William, 1120?
Answer: A: British heirs apparent who never succeeded
Notes: *: George II; James I; Henry VII; Edward III; Henry I
Categories: Connections (7) Royalty (5) History (4)

Pub quiz question 7403 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Macabeo, Parellada and Xarel-lo (in Catalonia)?
Answer: A: Grapes used to make Cava
Categories: Connections (7) Drink (4) Food (6)

Pub quiz question 7402 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: The Protester; Barack Obama; Pope Francis; the Ebola fighters, Angela Merkel, Donald Trump, The Silence Breakers, The Guardians, Greta Thunberg?
Answer: A: Time Magazine's person of the year
Notes: *: 2011-19
Categories: Media (6) Connections (7) 2010s (6)