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The Great Hump Day Quiz! :tada::dromedary_camel:
(02/12/20)

Welcome to this Wednesday’s Great Hump Day Quiz! All newcomers are most welcome :slightly_smiling_face: Check out the rules, pop your answers in a post, and I’ll add you to the Scoreboard. :+1:

Where do the questions come from?

I found a mysterious old box of trivial pursuit, with even more trivial pursuits stuffed inside. It is a treasure trove of quiz questions, and all of them really old. :slightly_smiling_face: Perfect fodder for a Hump Day special. :+1:

Piecing together a few bits and bobs, there were three sets, and a couple of the instructions. One is a Genus Edition, dated 2001, and the other the 20th Anniversary one, 2004. There’s also another old style board and questions in there that looks/smells quite a bit older. That’s the box they’re all stuffed in, and that has ©1983 printed on it. No instructions, so not sure if that’s accurate. That one says it’s a Master Game Genus Edition.

So, there you go. It’s a bit random, but it should add to the fun. :slightly_smiling_face:

Categories:

💙 Geography

  1. What two countries border the Dead Sea?

  2. What’s the world’s highest mountain that isn’t part of a range?

  3. What fabled area touches the coasts of Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico?

  4. Which city boasts the tomb of Mohammed?

  5. What county’s port of Dunwich fell into the sea?

💗Entertainment

  1. Who were The Everly Brothers trying to wake up?

  2. Which Dead Ringers impressionist was put through to Tony Blair when he dialled Downing Street pretending to be William Hague?

  3. Who was the first American actress to appear on a postage stamp?

  4. How many times did Marilyn Monroe marry?

  5. Who was Arthur Sullivan’s collaborator?

💛 History

  1. What’s the claim to fame of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum?

  2. Which exiled spiritual leader was awarded the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize?

  3. What country did the houses of Rurik and Romanov rule?

  4. Which US anti-communist claimed he’d been wounded in action but had actually fallen off a ladder?

  5. What country did King Gustav V reign over from 1907 to 1950?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. What plant did St. Patrick use to explain the Trinity?

  2. Which Belgian creator of Maigret died in 1989?

  3. What was Captain Ahab’s peg leg made of?

  4. Whose Mazurkas were described by a German critic as ‘repugnant’ and ‘tortuous’?

  5. What country was the setting of You Only Live Twice?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What molecule did James Watson and Francis Crick unravel in 1944?

  2. What celestial body has a diameter of 864,000 miles?

  3. What’s the minimum number of bars on an abacus?

  4. What is a dik-dik?

  5. What is the Wood Anniversary?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. What runner was Sprots Illustrated’s 1954 Sprotsman of the Year?

  2. Which defending champions staged the 2003 Rugby World Cup?

  3. What was Brian Phelps’s Olympic sprot?

  4. What’s bottled in Jeroboams?

  5. What racecourse features Tattenham Corner?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@Onlyones 20½ 3 3½ 4 3 3 4
@MsSubExperimenter 20 2 3½ 3½ 4 4 3
@WillC 18½ 3 4½ 3 4 2 2
@Peitho 16½ 2 2½ 2 2 4 4
@Ian_Chimp 16 2½ 3½ 3 3 3 1
@SexInTheCity 14 4 3 2 1 3 1
@KottanKitten 7½ 1 0 2 1 2½ 1
The Answers

| :blue_heart: Geography | :heartpulse: Entertainment
— | — | —
| 1. Israel and Jordan | 1. Little Susie
| 2. Mount Kilimanjaro | 2. Jon Culshaw
| 3. The Bermuda Triangle | 3. Grace Kelly
| 4. Medina | 4. Three
| 5. Suffolk’s | 5. William Gilbert
|
:yellow_heart: History |
:poop: Arts & Literature |
| 1. It’s the world’s oldest | 1. The shamrock
| 2. The Dalai Lama | 2. George Simenon
| 3. Russia | 3. Whalebone Ivory
| 4. Joseph Mccarthy | 4. Chopin’s
| 5. Sweden | 5. Japan
|
:green_heart: Science & Nature |
:orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
| 1. Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA | 1. Roger Bannister
| 2. The Sun | 2. Australia
| 3. Nine | 3. Diving
| 4. A type of antelope | 4. Champagne
| 5. The fifth | 5. Epsom

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