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(24/03/21)

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. :+1::slightly_smiling_face:

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. :slightly_smiling_face: Perfect fodder for a Hump Day special. :+1:

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. :slightly_smiling_face:

Categories:

💙 Geography

  1. What is Palermo the capital of?

  2. What South American country took its name from the Inca for “cold winter”?

  3. What colour are Venetian gondolas, except those of high public officials?

  4. What body of water does the Rhone River empty into?

  5. What Russian city boasts the Hermitage Museum?

💗Entertainment

  1. What record label first captured The Beatles?

  2. What two travellers were featured in The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy?

  3. Who played the butcher in Dad’s Army?

  4. Who wrote the music for West Side Story?

  5. What was Roger Moore’s first Bond film?

💛 History

  1. What Italian explorer is buried in the Dominican Republic?

  2. What did Hermann Goering do three hours before he was to be executed?

  3. What nationality was the team that beat the British to the South Pole by four days?

  4. What were Allen and Evans the last to go to in Britain?

  5. What kind of bones once stiffened corsets?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Who wrote the 1937 novelette Of Mice and Men?

  2. What Shakespeare play features a character named Puck?

  3. What European country witnessed Lord Byron’s death?

  4. Who was Becky Thatcher’s boyfriend?

  5. Who left The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished at his death?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What, for a bicephalous person, are better than one?

  2. What flower was named after a Roman gladiator sword?

  3. What two months are named after men?

  4. How many pounds are there in a kilogram?

  5. What is a.m. an abbreviation for, as in 10a.m.?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. What American ball sprot do they shag flies in?

  2. What was a “Johnny Hicks” to a dice player in the Old West?

  3. What gooey substance that bounced and stretched was sold in a plastic egg?

  4. How many fingers are used to draw a bow?

  5. What do huntsmen traditionally call out upon sighting a fox?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@WillC 21½ 4 3 5 4 2½ 3
@SexInTheCity 21 5 2 4 3 3 4
@Peitho 20½ 4 4 3 3 3 3½
@FL45H 17 4 2 3 0 5 3
@Ian_Chimp 17 3 2 3 3 4 2
@LuciousLegs
(:banana: bonus)		 15
The Answers

| :blue_heart: Geography | :heartpulse: Entertainment
— | — | —
| 1. Sicily | 1. Polydor
| 2. Chile | 2. Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent
| 3. Black | 3. Clive Dunn
| 4. The Mediterranean Sea | 4. Leonard Bernstein
| 5. St. Petersburg | 5. Live and Let Die
|
:yellow_heart: History |
:poop: Arts & Literature |
| 1. Christopher Columbus | 1. John Steinbeck
| 2. He committed suicide | 2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
| 3. Norwegian | 3. Greece
| 4. The gallows | 4. Tom Sawyer
| 5. Whale bones | 5. Charles Dickens
|
:green_heart: Science & Nature |
:orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
| 1. Two heads | 1. Baseball
| 2. The gladiolus | 2. A six
| 3. July and August | 3. silly putty
| 4. 2.2 | 4. Three
| 5. Ante Meridiem | 5. Tallyho!

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