The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

Ian_Chimp · February 24, 2021, 7:14am

(24/02/21)

The Great Hump Day Quiz! 🐪

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

What trench is the world’s deepest, at 36,198 feet?
What South American city has the world’s highest commercial landing field?
Which office complex in Washington DC took its name from a channel leading to the Potomac River?
What’s the geographic term for the submerged fringe of a continent?
What island is the Canadian city of Victoria found on?

💗Entertainment

Who was Roger Moore’s singing wife?
Which 1997 Tommy Lee Jones movie had a soundtrack featuring Snoop Doggy Dog?
What was Vera Brittain’s serialised autobiography called?
Which Quentin Tarantino movie has all the clocks stopped at 4.20?
Who directed Raiders of the Lost Ark?

💛 History

Who did Nathuran Godse shoot and kill on January 30, 1948?
Who fought the battle of fashions at Brighton in the 1960s?
Who became Britain’s first woman Member of Parliament in 1919?
Who did General de Gaulle tell Winston Churchill the French viewed him as a reincarnation of?
Who, in an act of bravery, walked out of Scott’s tent?

💩 Art & Literature

What Robert Louis Stevenson adventure features the ship the Covenant?
What Dickens character was always expecting something to turn up?
Who wrote I, Claudius?
Who plays shortstop for Charlie Brown’s baseball team?
What can be at the side of the road as well as between columns on a printed page?

💚 Science & Nature

What symbol do the French call un petit escargot?
What creatures live in a formicary?
What’s 40 percent of 40?
Who is the first person known to have died of radiation poisoning?
What’s does a basophobic fear?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

What race was increased by 385 yards so Edward VII could see the finish line better?
What were Gillingham FC fans told not to take into the ground during 1996 because it could be used as an offensive weapon?
What objects does the hand imitate in the children’s game ick-ack-ock?
Which country is LIE on a European soccer scoreboard?
How many cards are dealt to each player in Gin Rummy?

Scoreboard

	Total
@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

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