(13/01/21)
Welcome to this Wednesday’s Great Hump Day Quiz! All newcomers are most welcome 
Check out the rules, pop your answers in a post, and I’ll add you to the Scoreboard. 
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. Perfect fodder for a Hump Day special.
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.
Categories:
💙 Geography
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What country does a true Bohemian live in?
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What drop in the Zambezi is known as ‘smoke that thunders’?
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Which is the only Great Lake entirely in the USA?
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What three European countries begin with the letter A?
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What kind of creatures are the Canary Islands named after?
💗Entertainment
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Which TV series’ theme song is ‘Wake Up This Morning’ by the Alabama 3?
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What would a Klingon require if he asked Captain Kirk, ‘Nuqdaq oh pachpae’?
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What was Henry Fonda’s last film?
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What two actresses starred in TV’s The Good Life?
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Which movie starred Parminder Nagra as a female footballer?
💛 History
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What did Simon Wiesenthal hunt?
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What taxation system was first inflicted in 1944?
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Which river saw the launch of its first lifeboat service on New Year’s Day 2002?
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What bronze age civilization emerged on the Greek Island of Crete about 2500BC?
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What is Llywelyn ap Gruffydd’s main claim to fame?
💩 Art & Literature
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Who was H. G. Wells’s least obvious title character?
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What detective debuted in A Study in Scarlet?
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What natural substance decorated Chris Ofili’s Turner Prize-winning paintings?
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What language was Babar written in?
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Who dies in 1989 not far away from the Jamaica Inn she made famous?
💚 Science & Nature
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What is Spanish fly most hopefully used for?
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What has caused every human death?
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Which prime number will wholly divide 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888 and 999?
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What bird in Greek legend was given the 100 eyes of Argus?
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What is the number below the line called in a fraction?
🧡 Sprot & Leisure
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What is Surrey Cricket Club’s home ground?
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What site staged the original Olympics?
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Which golfer with the first name Eldrick likes to be classed as cablinasian?
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How many pins form the back row in tenpin bowling?
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What did the runner who came in 32,875th in the 2002 London Marathon wear?
Scoreboard
| Total |  |
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| @Peitho | 20½ | 4½ | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| @Sea | 18 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| @WillC | 16 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4½ | ½ | 2 |
| @SexInTheCity | 15 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| @Ian_Chimp | 14⅓ | 1⅓ | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| @MsSubExperimenter | 12⅙ | 3⅔ | 1½ | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| @KottanKitten | 5⅔ | ⅔ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
The Answers
| Geography | Entertainment
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| 1. The Czech Republic | 1. The Sopranos
| 2. Victoria Falls | 2. The bathroom
| 3. Lake Michigan | 3. On Golden Pond
| 4. Albania, Andorra, Austria | 4. Penelipe Keith and Felicity Kendall
| 5. Dogs | 5. Bend it Like Beckham
| History | Arts & Literature |
| 1. Fugitive Nazis | 1. The Invisible Man
| 2. P.A.Y.E | 2. Sherlock Holmes
| 3. The Thames | 3. Elephant dung
| 4. The Minoan | 4. French
| 5. Last Welsh Prince of Wales | 5. Daphne du Maurier
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Science & Nature | Sprot & Leisure |
| 1. An aphrodisiac | 1. The Oval
| 2. Hypoxemia, or lack of blood to the brain | 2. Mount Olympia
| 3. 37 | 3. Eldrick (Tiger) Woods
| 4. Peacock | 4. Four
| 5. Denominator | 5. A diving suit