(12/05/21)
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.
(Edit: Now with an added sprinkling of more recent questions too )
So, there you go. It’s a bit random, but it should add to the fun.
Categories:
💙 Geography
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Which mountain range in Russia separates Europe and Asia?
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What country’s flag was reversed to yield the Red Cross flag?
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What’s been the London residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury since the 13th century?
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Which European island has a coastal ring road almost a thousand miles long?
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What is the name of the ninth month of the Islamic calendar?
💗Entertainment
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Which re-formed group released the album Red Flag in 2016?
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Who was Lauren Bacall’s first husband?
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Which American singer-songwriter co-wrote Grammy-winning song “Dance With My Father” with Luther Vandross?
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In 2002, who celebrated their £80 million EMI deal with the words: I’m rich beyond my wildest dreams?
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How did My Darling Clementine die?
💛 History
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Who sang “The Star Spangled Banner” at Barack Obama’s second inauguration ceremony in 2013?
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What was the name of the last king of Egypt?
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Which British-born comedian died in 2003 at the age of 100?
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What country was the scene of the Boxer rebellion of 1900?
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From which larger country did Eritrea become independent in 1993?
💩 Art & Literature
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Which architect has designed buildings that have been inspired by a smashed guitar, a pair of dancers and a fleet of sail boats?
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Who wrote Women in Love?
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Which constellation appears on Vincent van Gogh’s painting Starry Night Over the Rhone?
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Which emoji was chosen as the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year in 2015 - Face With Tears of Joy, Face Throwing a Kiss or Smirking Face?
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What Shakespeare character has the most lines, with 1,422?
💚 Science & Nature
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Tempeh is made from which fermented bean?
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What does a nihilist believe in?
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Macaroni, rockhopper and emperor are types of what animal?
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Which galaxy is closest to the Milky Way?
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Which was the third country to blast one of its own men into space?
🧡 Sprot & Leisure
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How many shots does a golfer take if they score an albatross on a par-five hole?
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How many players does a netball team have?
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What’s a Tweak of the Thumb in bingo lingo?
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In which hobby might a dude look out for a crippler?
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What are the targets in skeet and trap shooting made of?
Scoreboard
| Total |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @Peitho | 20 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| @SexInTheCity | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| @WillC | 15 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| @Ian_Chimp | 15 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| @Kitty-Cat01 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| @LuciousLegs | 12 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
The Answers
| Geography | Entertainment
— | — | —
- Urals | 1. All Saints
- Switzerland | 2. Humphrey Bogart
- Lambeth Palace | 3. Richard Marx
- Iceland | 4. Robbie Williams
- Ramadan | 5. By drowning
| History | Arts & Literature |
- Beyoncé | 1. Frank Gehry
- Farouk | 2. D.H. Lawrence
- Bob Hope | 3. The Plough*
- China | 4. Face With Tears of Joy
- Ethiopia | 5. Hamlet
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Science & Nature | Sprot & Leisure |
- Soybeans | 1. Two (3 under the par)
- Nothing | 2. Seven
- Penguin | 3. 51
- Andromeda | 4. Twitching
- China | 5. Clay
*Or the Big Dipper, Great Bear, or Ursa Major