H

Question 1

What H’ was the woman over whose abduction the Trojan war was fought?

Answer 1

Helen

Question 2

What ‘H’ is a Japanese method of committing suicide?

Answer 2

Harakiri

Question 3

What ‘H’ is a twenty fourth part of a mean solar day?

Answer 3

Hour

Question 4

What ‘H’ are both parents of a leveret?

Answer 4

Hares

Question 5

What ‘H’ is a point at which the fire brigade can connect to water?

Answer 5

Hydrant

Question 6

What ‘H’ is the official report of proceedings in Parliament?

Answer 6

Hansard

Question 7

What ‘H’ is the great port on the Humber Estuary which is really called Kingston?

Answer 7

Hull

Question 8

What ‘H’ is the epithet applied to a parliament that lacks an effective majority?

Answer 8

Hung

Question 9

What ‘H’ can be a horse’s joint, a white wine or a pawnshop?

Answer 9

Hock

Question 10

What ‘H’ is the red pigment of the blood?

Answer 10

Haemoglobin

Question 11

What ‘H’ is food for horses in the form of dried grass?

Answer 11

Hay

Question 12

What ‘H’ is grated to make a hot sauce for roast beef?

Answer 12

Horseradish

Question 13

What ‘H’ was called Hans and was Court painter to Henry VIII?

Answer 13

Holbein

Question 14

What ‘H’ fell in love with a beautiful Esmeralda at Notre Dame cathedral?

Answer 14

Hunchback

Question 15

What ‘H’ is the part of Scotland known as the Western Isles?

Answer 15

Hebrides

Question 16

What ‘H’ is a musical instrument also known as a clavecin?

Answer 16

Harpsichord

Question 17

What ‘H’ was the pirate captain in Peter Pan?

Answer 17

Hook

Question 18

What ‘H’ is the branch of medicine whose motto is ‘Like cures Like’?

Answer 18

Homeopathy

Question 19

What ‘H’ contains most of the Serpentine and is a park?

Answer 19

Hyde

Question 20

What ‘H’ were French Calvinists persecuted from the 16th century onwards?

Answer 20

Huguenots