(10/02/21)
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’s people call their language Magyar?
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What did Barry Humphries call: ‘A country of thirty thousand million sheep - three million of which think they’re human’?
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What’s the main boulevard of Paris?
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What capital city lies at the junction of the Sava and Danube rivers?
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What does a French road sign reading “Sens unique” mean?
💗Entertainment
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Who turned down the lead in Gunsmoke for fear of being stereotyped as a cowboy?
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Who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers?
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Which city is the setting for Women Talking Dirty?
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Who played the president of the U.S. in Fail Safe?
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Who appeared in the 1970 film Performance with Anita Pellenberg and James Fox?
💛 History
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What French leader wondered: “How can you govern a nation that has 350 kinds of cheese?”?
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What were the Liberals formerly known as?
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Who was banned from the streets of Mexico in December 2000 after claims he was conning hard-worked citizens out of their cash?
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Who was The Lady of the Lamp?
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What ocean was Amelia Earhart flying over when she disappeared?
💩 Art & Literature
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Who wrote Under the Greenwood Tree?
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What chillingly, spotty problem gave RL Stine the title for his best-selling children’s horror series?
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What does the abbreviation “e.g.” stand for?
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Who wrote the series of books collectively known as Children of Violence?
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What did Dorlcote Mill stand on?
💚 Science & Nature
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What fruit’s stone does Laetrile come from?
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What’s the largest aquatic bird?
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What’s the average gestation period of the average ass?
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What two-word term means unstable oxygen molecules in blood that hasten ageing and damage proteins, fats and genes?
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What type of radio was invented by Trevor Baylis?
🧡 Sprot & Leisure
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Who buy cornerblocks?
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What non-alcoholic syrup is made from pomegranate juice?
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Which sprots star filed for bankruptcy in 2003 after once having a $300 million fortune?
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What ironic nickname did Spitting Image give to snooker star Steve Davis?
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How many golf balls are on the moon?
Scoreboard
| Total |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @WillC | 20 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| @Ian_Chimp | 17 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| @Peitho | 16 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| @Sea | 15 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| @SexInTheCity | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
The Answers
| Geography | Entertainment
— | — | —
| 1. Hungary’s | 1. John Wayne
| 2. New Zealand | 2. Andrew Sachs
| 3. The Champs Elysee | 3. Edinburgh
| 4. Belgrade | 4. Henry Fonda
| 5. One Way | 5. Mick Jagger
| History | Arts & Literature |
| 1. Charles De Gaulle | 1. Thomas Hardy
| 2. Whigs | 2. Goosebumps
| 3. Santa Claus | 3. Exempli gratia
| 4. Florence Nightingale | 4. Doris Lessing
| 5. The Pacific | 5. The Floss
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Science & Nature | Sprot & Leisure |
| 1. The apricot’s | 1. Stamp collectors
| 2. The albatross | 2. Grenadine
| 3. Twelve months | 3. Mike Tyson
| 4. Free radicals | 4. Interesting
| 5. Clockwork | 5. Two or Three