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Pub quiz question 41 by pjh2

Question: Q: On which date did Brookside air the final ever episode?
Answer: A: 4th November 2003
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Pub quiz question 40 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the most abundant element _on_ Earth?
Answer: A: Oxygen
Notes: *: If you include "in the earth" it's Iron, if only the atmosphere, it's Nitrogen.
Categories: Science (5) Chemistry (5)

Pub quiz question 39 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which English cricketing county plays their home games at Sophia Gardens?
Answer: A: Glamorgan CC
Categories: Sports (5) Cricket (4)

Pub quiz question 38 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which UK girl band burst onto the scene in 2008 with top ten hits "If This is Love" and "Up?"
Answer: A: The Saturdays
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Pub quiz question 37 by pjh2

Question: Q: How many hearts does an octopus have?
Answer: A: Three
Notes: *: Two for the gills and one for its body
Categories: Nature (4) Biology (4) Science (7)

Pub quiz question 36 by pjh2

Question: Q: In golf, who was the first European to win the US Masters?
Answer: A: Seve Ballasteros
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Pub quiz question 35 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who co-wrote Fawlty Towers with John Cleese?
Answer: A: Connie Booth
Notes: *: She was his wife at the time
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Pub quiz question 34 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was managing Manchester United when they were last relegated before 2010?
Answer: A: Tommy Docherty
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Pub quiz question 33 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which element, discovered around 1737, is named after the German word for Goblin
Answer: A: Cobolt
Categories: Science (6) Chemistry (4)

Pub quiz question 32 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who won Celebrity Big Brother in January 2009?
Answer: A: Ulrika Jonsson
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Pub quiz question 31 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which musical contains the song "America?"
Answer: A: West Side Story
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Pub quiz question 30 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who won the 2008 men's Wimbledon final, dubbed "the greatest Wimbledon final ever?"
Answer: A: Rafael Nadal
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Pub quiz question 29 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which popular TV programme includes Richard Farleigh,. Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis?
Answer: A: Dragon's Den
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Pub quiz question 28 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who is the editor of the spoof magazine Private Eye?
Answer: A: Ian Hislop
Categories: Literature (4) Media (3)

Pub quiz question 27 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which 14th century poet wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Answer: A: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Pub quiz question 26 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which armless statue was discovered by a peasant in 1829 on the Aegean island of Melos?
Answer: A: The Venus de Milo
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Pub quiz question 25 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who wrote the novel Dracula?
Answer: A: Bram Stoker
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Pub quiz question 24 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Answer: A: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Pub quiz question 23 by pjh2

Question: Q: The Blue Boy is a work by which artist?
Answer: A: Thomas Gainsborough
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Pub quiz question 22 by pjh2

Question: Q: JRR Tolkien wrote the Hobbit in 1937 for his children and Lord of the rings in 1954/55. What do the initials JRR stand for?
Answer: A: John Ronald Reuel
Categories: Literature (7)

Pub quiz question 21 by pjh2

Question: Q: In the Hans Christian Andersen story, which little girl was found inside the petals of a flower?
Answer: A: Thumbelina
Categories: Literature (3) Children (3)

Pub quiz question 20 by pjh2

Question: Q: In mythology what was Minerva the Goddess of?
Answer: A: Wisdom
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Pub quiz question 19 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Spaniard is known for his hallucinatory paintings?
Answer: A: Salvadore Dali
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Pub quiz question 18 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which land did Puff The Magic Dragon live in?
Answer: A: Honalee
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Pub quiz question 17 by pjh2

Question: Q: The three key combination Ctrl-Alt-Delete can be used to reboot your personal computer or to summon its task manager. Computer geeks sometimes use which expression from the Star Trek TV series to describe this?
Answer: A: Vulcan Nerve Pinch
Notes: *: While this may also be called the "three finger salute," the answer would be wrong here.
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