(24/02/21)
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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What trench is the world’s deepest, at 36,198 feet?
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What South American city has the world’s highest commercial landing field?
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Which office complex in Washington DC took its name from a channel leading to the Potomac River?
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What’s the geographic term for the submerged fringe of a continent?
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What island is the Canadian city of Victoria found on?
💗Entertainment
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Who was Roger Moore’s singing wife?
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Which 1997 Tommy Lee Jones movie had a soundtrack featuring Snoop Doggy Dog?
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What was Vera Brittain’s serialised autobiography called?
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Which Quentin Tarantino movie has all the clocks stopped at 4.20?
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Who directed Raiders of the Lost Ark?
💛 History
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Who did Nathuran Godse shoot and kill on January 30, 1948?
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Who fought the battle of fashions at Brighton in the 1960s?
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Who became Britain’s first woman Member of Parliament in 1919?
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Who did General de Gaulle tell Winston Churchill the French viewed him as a reincarnation of?
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Who, in an act of bravery, walked out of Scott’s tent?
💩 Art & Literature
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What Robert Louis Stevenson adventure features the ship the Covenant?
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What Dickens character was always expecting something to turn up?
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Who wrote I, Claudius?
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Who plays shortstop for Charlie Brown’s baseball team?
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What can be at the side of the road as well as between columns on a printed page?
💚 Science & Nature
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What symbol do the French call un petit escargot?
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What creatures live in a formicary?
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What’s 40 percent of 40?
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Who is the first person known to have died of radiation poisoning?
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What’s does a basophobic fear?
🧡 Sprot & Leisure
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What race was increased by 385 yards so Edward VII could see the finish line better?
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What were Gillingham FC fans told not to take into the ground during 1996 because it could be used as an offensive weapon?
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What objects does the hand imitate in the children’s game ick-ack-ock?
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Which country is LIE on a European soccer scoreboard?
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How many cards are dealt to each player in Gin Rummy?
Scoreboard
| Total |  |
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| @Peitho | 18 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| @WillC | 17 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| @FL45H | 15 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| @SexInTheCity | 15 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| @Ian_Chimp | 15 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
The Answers
| Geography | Entertainment
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| 1. The Marianas Trench | 1. Dorothy Squires
| 2. La Paz | 2. Men in Black
| 3. Water Gate | 3. Testament of Youth
| 4. Continental shelf | 4. Pulp Fiction
| 5. Vancouver Island | 5. Steven Spielberg
| History | Arts & Literature |
| 1. Mohandas Mahatma Ghandi | 1. Kidnapped
| 2. The Mods and Rockers | 2. Mr. Micawber
| 3. Lady Astor | 3. Robert Graves
| 4. Joan of Arc | 4. Snoopy
| 5. Captain Oats | 5. Gutter
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Science & Nature | Sprot & Leisure |
| 1. @ | 1. London Marathon
| 2. Ants | 2. Celery
| 3. Sixteen | 3. Rock, Paper, Scissors
| 4. Marie Curie | 4. Liechtenstein
| 5. Standing up/Falling down | 5. Ten