(17/02/21)
Welcome to this Wednesday’s Great Hump Day Quiz!
We’re always trying to add more people to our quiz gang, so check out how to hide your answers, pop them 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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Which of London’s underground lines was the world’s first?
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What metal gave Argentina its name?
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What Australian state boasts Mount Isa, the world’s largest town by area?
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Which nation’s throne has been occupied by a member of the same family since the sixteenth century?
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Where is Britain’s largest bell?
💗Entertainment
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What was Walt Disney’s first full-length feature cartoon?
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Whose comedy alter egos included DJ Delbert Wilkins?
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What Japanese film was The Magnificent Seven adapted from?
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Which family’s pet dog is called Santa’s Little Helper?
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What was the nickname of blues pianist Ferdinand Morton?
💛 History
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Who was Israel’s first prime minister?
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Who was the first monarch to boast a franked face?
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Who was known as The Serpent of the Nile?
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Who said: “England expects every man will do his duty”?
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What Russian cosmonaut was killed in an air crash in 1968 while commanding a training unit?
💩 Art & Literature
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Who is James Bond’s CIA contact?
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Whose biography is titled Lady Sings the Blues?
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What kinds of animals were Pinocchio’s pets Cleo and Figaro?
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What three words did Stalin find scrawled on a loo wall during the Potsdam Conference?
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Who was cloned in The Boys from Brazil?
💚 Science & Nature
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What worm prefers the mulberry?
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Which metal becomes solid at -40 degrees F?
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What are Saddlebacks, Middle Whites and Berkshires?
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What is the gluteus maximus the largest example of in the human body?
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What’s the main ingredient of glass?
🧡 Sprot & Leisure
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What did Bindaree do to make news in 2002 that Red Marauder did the previous year?
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What tennis term is said to come from the French word for “egg”?
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What’s the lowest hand that beats ace-high in straight Poker?
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Who beat Manchester United in the 2000 Charity Shield?
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How many points are there on a backgammon board?
Scoreboard
| Total |  |
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| @Peitho | 19 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| @MsSubExperimenter | 18½ | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2½ | 5 | 4 |
| @WillC | 18½ | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3½ | 5 | 2 |
| @SexInTheCity | 15 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| @Ian_Chimp | 13 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| @LuciousLegs | 10½ | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1½ | 3 | 1 |
The Answers
| Geography | Entertainment
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| 1. The Metropolitan | 1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
| 2. Silver | 2. Lenny Henry’s
| 3. Queensland | 3. The Seven Samurai
| 4. Japan’s | 4. The Simpsons’
| 5. St. Paul’s Cathedral | 5. Jelly Roll
| History | Arts & Literature |
| 1. David Ben-Gurion | 1. Felix Leiter
| 2. Queen Victoria | 2. Billie Holliday’s
| 3. Cleopatra | 3. A cat and a goldfish
| 4. Horatio Nelson | 4. Kilroy Was Here
| 5. Yuri Gagarin | 5. Adolf Hitler
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Science & Nature | Sprot & Leisure |
| 1. Silkworm | 1. Win the Grand National
| 2. Mercury | 2. Love
| 3. Pigs | 3. Pair of twos
| 4. Muscle | 4. Chelsea
| 5. Sand | 5. Twenty-four