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Pub quiz question 4315 by pjh2

Question: Q: What word (starting with I) has come to replace photograph in digital photography?
Answer: A: Image
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Pub quiz question 4314 by pjh2

Question: Q: What colour is the recycling symbol?
Answer: A: Green
Categories: Technology (1) Logos (1)

Pub quiz question 4313 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was US patent 1867377 designed to slice?
Answer: A: Bread
Categories: Food (4) Business (7) Science (7)

Pub quiz question 4312 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does B stand for when referring to a camera's shutter speed?
Answer: A: Bulb
Notes: *: From the old pneumatic bulbs that used to activate the shutter, not flash bulbs
Categories: Technology (7) Leisure (7)

Pub quiz question 4311 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for the disease tetanus, which can cause facial muscle spasms?
Answer: A: Lockjaw
Categories: Language (1) Biology (1)

Pub quiz question 4310 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for the disease rubella?
Answer: A: German Measles
Categories: Biology (1)

Pub quiz question 4309 by pjh2

Question: Q: What skin complaint was once commonly called school sores?
Answer: A: Impetigo
Categories: Biology (4)

Pub quiz question 4308 by pjh2

Question: Q: What organ is inflamed by hepatitis?
Answer: A: Liver
Categories: Biology (3)

Pub quiz question 4307 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the common name for pertussis which causes its, usually young, victims to make strange noises?
Answer: A: Whooping cough
Categories: Biology (6)

Pub quiz question 4306 by pjh2

Question: Q: What disease takes its name from medieval Italian words for 'bad air'?
Answer: A: Malaria
Categories: Biology (5) Language (5)

Pub quiz question 4305 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the three-letter name for a young cheetah?
Answer: A: Cub
Categories: Language (3) Nature (3)

Pub quiz question 4304 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name for a young deer?
Answer: A: Fawn
Categories: Biology (4) Nature (4)

Pub quiz question 4303 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name for a baby turkey?
Answer: A: Poult
Categories: Nature (6) Biology (6)

Pub quiz question 4302 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the five-letter name for a young dog? (Not puppy)
Answer: A: Whelp
Categories: Nature (6) Biology (6)

Pub quiz question 4301 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name for a baby crocodile?
Answer: A: Crocklet
Categories: Biology (8) Nature (8)

Pub quiz question 4300 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the name for a baby alligator?
Answer: A: Hatchling
Categories: Biology (7) Nature (7)

Pub quiz question 4299 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does MW stand for on a radio?
Answer: A: Medium Wave
Categories: Acronyms/Abbreviations (2) Science (2) Technology (2) Radio (2)

Pub quiz question 4298 by pjh2

Question: Q: Which R-word did advertising man Waldo Warren coin to describe what was formerly known as a wireless?
Answer: A: Radio
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Pub quiz question 4297 by pjh2

Question: Q: What word used in connection with radio and television originally came from an agricultural term referring to the scattering of seeds?
Answer: A: Broadcast(ing)
Categories: Language (3) Technology (3) Science (3) Radio (3) Television (3)

Pub quiz question 4296 by pjh2

Question: Q: What old type of radio had a cat's whisker?
Answer: A: Crystal set
Categories: Radio (5) Technology (5) Science (5)

Pub quiz question 4295 by pjh2

Question: Q: What light, but flammable, gas contributed to many deaths in airship disasters?
Answer: A: Hydrogen
Categories: History (2) Chemistry (1) Science (2) Technology (2)

Pub quiz question 4294 by pjh2

Question: Q: What was the Regency TR-1 the world's first commercially available example of?
Answer: A: *Transistor* radio
Categories: Radio (2) Technology (7) Science (7)

Pub quiz question 4293 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does LTA stand for when describing balloons and airships?
Answer: A: Lighter than air
Categories: Technology (3) Acronyms/Abbreviations (3) Science (3)

Pub quiz question 4292 by pjh2

Question: Q: What does an airship have that a balloon doesn't?
Answer: A: Power/engines/propellers
Categories: Technology (3)

Pub quiz question 4291 by pjh2

Question: Q: What is the five-letter alternative name for a non-rigid airship?
Answer: A: Blimp
Categories: Technology (5) Language (5)