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(28/04/21)

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.

(Edit: Now with an added sprinkling of more recent questions too :+1::slightly_smiling_face:)

So, there you go. It’s a bit random, but it should add to the fun. :slightly_smiling_face:

Categories:

💙 Geography

  1. Which country was the first in the Middle East to be chosen to host the FIFA World Cup?

  2. Who discovered the Zambezi River?

  3. What is the main ingredient in traditional Japanese yakitori skewers?

  4. Which is farthest east - Montreal, Quebec City or Toronto?

  5. What is the modern name of the capital city in Asia served by an airport with the IATA code PEK?

💗Entertainment

  1. Which band member created waves in the music world when he quit One Direction to go, well, in his own direction?

  2. Who was the first non-human to win an Oscar?

  3. Which Broadway musical features a drag queen named Lola and songs by Cyndi Lauper?

  4. Who was Radio One’s first female DJ?

  5. In 1973, Elton John topped the UK and US album charts with an LP called Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the… what?

💛 History

  1. Which religious figure, always seen clad in red and yellow, is the spiritual leader of Tibet?

  2. What jackets protect you from flieger abwehr kanonen?

  3. In which decade was Queen Elizabeth II crowned?

  4. What was the name of the fashionable coats worn by Mods on their scooters in the 1960s?

  5. During his inaugural speech in 1961, which US president said: ‘Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country’?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Which Ridley Scott sci-fi classic is based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  2. What was the prime success of Muriel Spark?

  3. Whose first name was finally revealed in Colin Dexter’s novel Death is Now My Neighbour?

  4. What was the first book of the trilogy that ended with Pitcairn’s Island?

  5. Which John Irving novel spawned a movie nominated for Oscars in 2000?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What code was used in the mid-19th century to send messages the length of France in just four hours?

  2. What Polish astronomer demonstrated in 1512 that the Sun is the centre of the solar system?

  3. Which family of bird can be coal, crested or willow?

  4. Where’s the pituitary gland?

  5. What’s another name for a may tree?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. In snooker, once all the reds are potted, which ball do you have to pot after the brown?

  2. What sprot commences to the cry of “Game on”?

  3. Abseil, belay and gaston are moves in which sprot?

  4. Which of the following is not a method of preparing coffee - cold brew, drip, venti or French press?

  5. Which sprot is divided into two leagues, the NL and the AL, within the North American League?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@WillC 23½ 5 5 5 4½ 3 1
@FL45H 19½ 3 5 3 0 3½ 5
@MsSubExperimenter 18½ 3 4 3½ 1 3 4
@Peitho 18½ 3 1 3½ 4 4 3
@SexInTheCity 18 4 3 4 2 2 3
@Ian_Chimp 16 2 1 5 3 2 3
@Kitty-Cat01 12½ 2 2 3½ 0 3 2
@LuciousLegs 10½ 2 1½ 1 1 1 4
The Answers

| :blue_heart: Geography | :heartpulse: Entertainment
— | — | —

  1. Qatar | 1. Zayn Malik
  2. David Livingstone | 2. Mickey Mouse
  3. Chicken | 3. Kinky Boots
  4. Quebec City | 4. Anne Nightingale
  5. Beijing | 5. Piano Player
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Dalai Lama | 1. Blade Runner
  7. Flak Jackets | 2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  8. 1950s | 3. Inspector Morse’s
  9. Parkas | 4. Mutiny on the Bounty
  10. John F. Kennedy | 5. The Cider House Rules
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Semaphore | 1. Blue
  12. Nicolas Copernicus | 2. Darts
  13. Tit | 3. Climbing or mountaineering
  14. The base of the brain | 4. Venti
  15. A hawthorn | 5. Baseball
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