Questions by pjh2

Pub quiz question 7182 by pjh2

Question: Q: What priceless object is Cleopatra said to have dissolved in a cup of vinegar before drinking it?
Answer: A: A pearl
Categories: Royalty (4)

Pub quiz question 7181 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was already the husband of Octavia Minor when he married Cleopatra?
Answer: A: Mark Antony
Categories: Royalty (4) People (4)

Pub quiz question 7180 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who was the father of Cleopatra's twins?
Answer: A: Mark Antony
Categories: Royalty (5) People (5)

Pub quiz question 7179 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which city's Bastille was stormed in 1789?
Answer: A: Paris
Categories: Buildings (1) Military (1) Politics (1) Geography (1)

Pub quiz question 7178 by pjh2

Question: Q: What European capital was dubbed the City of Light in the 19th century?
Answer: A: Paris
Categories: Geography (2)

Pub quiz question 7177 by pjh2

Question: Q: What city did Yasser Arafat die in?
Answer: A: Paris
Categories: People (5) Geography (5)

Pub quiz question 7176 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which historic area of Paris must be visited to enter the 'Sacré-Cœur'?
Answer: A: Montmartre
Categories: Geography (7) Religion (7)

Pub quiz question 7175 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which fashionable street in Paris boasts the site where the guillotine stood?
Answer: A: Place de la Concorde
Categories: Crime (6) Geography (6)

Pub quiz question 7174 by pjh2

Question: Q: What disease killed 20,000 Parisians in 1832?
Answer: A: Cholera
Categories: Nature (8) History (8)

Pub quiz question 7173 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which member of the royal family went to America to complain that the British media 'hate anyone who succeeds'?
Answer: A: Prince Edward
Categories: Quotations (8) Royalty (8)

Pub quiz question 7172 by pjh2

Question: Q: What had an Australian called the Earl of Wessex when he snapped 'I won't recognise that name'?
Answer: A: Eddie
Categories: Names (6) Quotations (6) Royalty (6)

Pub quiz question 7171 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Russian President failed to make it off his aircraft when he flew to Ireland to meet Albert Reynolds in 1994?
Answer: A: Boris Yeltsin
Notes: *: It was alleged he was too drunk, though the official version was he was unwell/overslept
Categories: Politics (4) 1990s (4) People (4)

Pub quiz question 7170 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who, in 1999, became the second President of the Russian Federation?
Answer: A: Vladimir Putin
Categories: 1990s (6) Politics (6) People (6)

Pub quiz question 7169 by pjh2

Question: Q: Whose 1939 nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize was retracted in February of that same year?
Answer: A: Adolf Hitler's
Categories: People (2) Politics (2) 1930s (2)

Pub quiz question 7168 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which organisation shared the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize with Kofi Annan?
Answer: A: United Nations
Categories: 2000s (3) Politics (3) People (3)

Pub quiz question 7167 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which US President's assassination put an end to his negotiations for a joint USA/USSR space programme with Nikita Khrushchev?
Answer: A: John F Kennedy's
Notes: *: Assassinated 1963
Categories: People (1) 1960s (1) Politics (1) Space (1) Science (1)

Pub quiz question 7166 by pjh2

Question: Q: What musical instrument did Boris Yeltsin present to Bill Clinton during the US President's 1994 visit to Russia?
Answer: A: Saxophone
Categories: Entertainment (2) Music (2) Politics (2) 1990s (2)

Pub quiz question 7165 by pjh2

Question: Q: What did UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ask for when Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on the desk at the United Nations?
Answer: A: A translation
Notes: *: 1960
Categories: 1960s (7) Politics (7) People (7)

Pub quiz question 7164 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which leader of the Soviet Union was depicted on 'Spitting Image' with a hammer and sickle birthmark on his head?
Answer: A: Mikhail Gorbachev
Categories: Politics (6) Entertainment (6) Television (6) Comedy (6) People (6)

Pub quiz question 7163 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which civil rights campaigner was awarded the 1965 Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: A: Martin Luther King Jr.
Categories: People (3) 1960s (3) Politics (3)

Pub quiz question 7162 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which 2006 Nobel Peace Price nominee has sold the most records?
Answer: A: Bono
Categories: 2000s (2) Entertainment (2) Music (1) People (2) Politics (1)

Pub quiz question 7161 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is by far the best known invention of Peace Prize founder Alfred Nobel?
Answer: A: Dynamite
Categories: Science (1) People (1)

Pub quiz question 7160 by pjh2

Question: Q: Who shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with David Trimble?
Answer: A: John Hume
Notes: *: Northern Island peace
Categories: 1990s (8) Politics (8)

Pub quiz question 7159 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which sensitive creature complained that the milk float outside the Legoland model of nearby Windsor Castle was delivering to the wrong door?
Answer: A: Prince Phillip
Categories: Royalty (3) Leisure (3) People (4) Buildings (3)

Pub quiz question 7158 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which Prince spent £325,000 of public money in one year hiring planes and helicopters including flights to St Andrews golf course?
Answer: A: Prince Andrew
Categories: Royalty (1) Sports (1) Golf (1) People (1)