The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

[Ian_Chimp]

(03/03/21)

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?

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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.

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Categories:

💙 Geography

1. What’s the only Scandinavian country the Artic Circle doesn’t cut through?

2. What are the ‘huddled masses’ ‘yearning’ to do according to the Statue of Liberty’s inscription?

3. What falls are near where Jimmy Angel crashed his plane in 1937?

4. Of where did The Rough Guide to Wales say: ‘There is almost no reason to stay in this decaying Edwardian Resort’?

5. What city is home to almost half of Michelangelo’s statues?

💗Entertainment

1. What actor came to dinner in the 1967 film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

2. Which movie sees Jim Carrey as a TV host who is granted divine powers for 24 hours?

3. What was Del Trotter’s favourite pub?

4. What breezy movie was by far the most highly-rated ever produced by David Selznick?

5. What film starred Sir Laurence Olivier as the brooding Max de Winter?

💛 History

1. How many years are there in four score and seven?

2. What supermarkets were founded by Sir John Cohen with the slogan: “Pile it high, sell it cheap”?

3. How many King Stephens have ruled England?

4. What Canadian described Fidel Castro as “the sexiest man I have ever met”?

5. What were Swiss women given in 1971?

💩 Art & Literature

1. What Italian artist painted Birth of Venus?

2. What Somerset Maugham novel has been filmed three times?

3. Which opera singer gave her name to a style of toast?

4. What was the most popular hardback book with American shoplifters during the latter half of the 20th century?

5. Who kills Macbeth?

💚 Science & Nature

1. What’s another term for a wildebeest?

2. Which planet has the shortest day?

3. What’s the difference between two square miles and two miles square?

4. What does barley become when prepared for brewing?

5. What nut is used in the manufacture of dynamite?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

1. What’s the captain of a curling foursome called?

2. What colour jersey does the Tour de France best sprinter get to wear?

3. What is a golfer’s double bogey?

4. What line is twenty-one feet from the net on a tennis court?

5. Of whose 1997 resignation did a Newcastle official say: “People say it’s like the Queen dying. I think it’s much worse”?

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Scoreboard

	Total
@MsSubExperimenter	17½	4½	2	4	3	2	2
@Peitho	17½	3	4	2	4	4	½
@Ian_Chimp	17	2	3	4	3	4	1
@FL45H	16	1	2	3	1	5	4
@SexInTheCity	15	2	2	3	2	4	2
@Jacob0098	14	0	2	3	1	5	3
@Sea	14	2	3	4	3	2	0
@WillC	13½	3	3½	2	2	3	0
@LuciousLegs	12½	½	5	1	1	2	3

The Answers

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| Geography | Entertainment
— | — | —
| 1. Denmark | 1. Sidney Poitier
| 2. ‘Breathe free’ | 2. Bruce Almighty
| 3. Angel Falls | 3. The Nag’s Head
| 4. Rhyl | 4. Gone With the Wind
| 5. Florence | 5. Rebecca
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History |
Arts & Literature |
| 1. Eighty-seven | 1. Botticelli
| 2. Tesco | 2. Of Human Bondage
| 3. One | 3. Dame Nellie Melba
| 4. Margaret Trudeau | 4. The Bible
| 5. The vote | 5. Macduff
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Science & Nature |
Sprot & Leisure |
| 1. Gnu | 1. The skip
| 2. Jupiter | 2. Green
| 3. Two square miles | 3. Two over par on a hole
| 4. Malt | 4. The service line
| 5. Peanut | 5. Kevin Keegan’s