Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 7376 by pjh

Question: Q: Which country lost its coastline in the war of the Pacific?
Answer: A: Bolivia
Categories: Politics (6) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 7375 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Great; Choral; From the New World?
Answer: A: Names for ninth symponies
Notes: *: Schubert; Beethoven; Dvořák
Categories: Music (4) Connections (7)

Pub quiz question 7374 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Staghorn; pillar; lettuce; brain; birdsnest; mushroom?
Answer: A: Types of coral reef
Categories: Connections (7) Nature (5) Biology (6)

Pub quiz question 7373 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Beefeater Gin; Aberdeen Asset Management; Xchanging; BNY Mellon?
Answer: A: Sponsors of the Boat Race
Categories: Connections (6) Advertising (4) Sports (4)

Pub quiz question 7372 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: The Enchanted Island; Forbidden Planet; Prospero's Books?
Answer: A: The Tempest
Notes: *: Dryden play; sci-fi film; Peter Greenaway film
Categories: Literature (5) Film/Movies (5) Connections (3)

Pub quiz question 7371 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Christopher Marlow 1952; Duke of Buckingham, 1628; George Cornell, 1966?
Answer: A: Killed in pubs: Deptford; Greyhound, Portsmouth; Blind Beggar, Whitechapel
Categories: Connections (7) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7370 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: bribes; cave; chair; coin?
Answer: A: "False friends" in French
Categories: Language (5) Connections (7)

Pub quiz question 7369 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Shark; cows' heads; cow and calf; sheep; fish; butterflies; zebra?
Answer: A: Damien Hurst's artworks
Categories: Art (3) Connections (6) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7368 by pjh

Question: Q: Where is the Royal Agricultural University?
Answer: A: Cirencester
Categories: Buildings (7) Geography (7)

Pub quiz question 7367 by pjh

Question: Q: Who are coached by a répétiteur?
Answer: A: Opera singers (and ballet dancers)
Categories: Art (5) Entertainment (6) General Knowledge (6)

Pub quiz question 7366 by pjh

Question: Q: Artist François Boucher said that what was "too green and badly lit"?
Answer: A: Nature
Categories: Art (6) Quotes (4)

Pub quiz question 7365 by pjh

Question: Q: In what field are Syd Field and Robert McKee "gurus"?
Answer: A: Screenwriting/scriptwriting
Categories: Entertainment (6)

Pub quiz question 7364 by pjh

Question: Q: What spice comes from the unripe berries of the pimento tree?
Answer: A: Allspice
Categories: Nature (6) Food (4)

Pub quiz question 7363 by pjh

Question: Q: The penguin Tux is the mascot of which operating system?
Answer: A: Linux
Categories: Computing (3) General Knowledge (5)

Pub quiz question 7362 by pjh

Question: Q: What fantasy land's name was inspired by an Umbrian hilltown?
Answer: A: Narnia (Narni)
Categories: Literature (5)

Pub quiz question 7361 by pjh

Question: Q: What links (2014): Andrew Parker; Alex Younger; Robert Hannigan?
Answer: A: Secret services
Notes: *: Heads of MI5, MI6, GCHQ
Categories: Politics (5) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7360 by pjh

Question: Q: What links (2022): Ken McCallum; Richard Moore; Sir Jeremy Fleming
Answer: A: Secret services
Notes: *: Heads of MI5, MI6, GCHQ
Categories: Politics (5) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7359 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Eh bien, on prince; All happy families are alike?
Answer: A: Tolstoy
Notes: *: Opening of the novels War and Peace; Anna Karenina
Categories: Literature (6) Connections (7)

Pub quiz question 7358 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Los Santos; San Fierro; Las Venturas; Vice City; Liberty City?
Answer: A: Settings in Grand Theft Auto games
Categories: Computing (3) Entertainment (6) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7357 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Michael Caine; Billy Connolly; Chadwick Boseman; Hugh Bonneville?
Answer: A: Played "Brown"s
Notes: *: Harry Brown, John Brown, James Brown, Mr. Brown
Categories: Entertainment (6) Connections (6) Film/Movies (6)

Pub quiz question 7356 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: The Arnolfini Portrait; Las Meninas; The Bar At The Folies-Bergère?
Answer: A: Paintings featuring predominant mirrors
Categories: Art (3) General Knowledge (5) Connections (6)

Pub quiz question 7355 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: The name of the Grampian Mountains; the name Imogen?
Answer: A: Arose from misprints
Notes: *: Should have been Graupian and Innogen.
Categories: Literature (7) General Knowledge (8) Connections (8)

Pub quiz question 7354 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Lexington and Concord; Bunker Hill; Trenton; Saratoga; Yorktown?
Answer: A: Battles of the American War of Independence
Categories: Politics (5) General Knowledge (5) America (3) Connections (6)

Pub quiz question 7353 by pjh

Question: Q: Whose gravestone reads "Never a loser be, only a winner be"?
Answer: A: Michael Winner
Categories: People (4)

Pub quiz question 7352 by pjh

Question: Q: A 1954 expedition funded by the Daily Mail set out to find What?
Answer: A: Yeti
Categories: Media (5) 1950s (5) Mythology (5) Superstitions (5)