The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

Ian_Chimp · May 19, 2021, 8:35am

(19/05/21)

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.

(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

How many landlocked countries are there in South America?
What US state has the longest border with Canada?
Which French explorer claimed what is now known as Canada for France in 1534?
Which ancient city’s El Azhar university is said to be the oldest in the world?
Where will you find Wanlockhead, the highest village in Scotland - Lowther Hills, Cairngorms or Grampians?

💗Entertainment

What fashion garment can be cropped, waterfall or oversized?
What Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera was turned into a film by Norman Jewison?
Which television series revolves around the lives of the Cohen, Cooper and Nichol families?
Who was the first UK TV soap character with a transsexual partner?
What type of “Thrills” does Sia love in her 2016 hit single featuring Sean Paul?

💛 History

Which European capital city was known as Titograd between 1946 and 1992, before reverting to a name it first used in 1326?
What botanical marvel did Nebuchadnezzar build?
Before Google, what name did Larry Page and Sergey Brin give to their first attempt at a search engine?
What F-word did Tony Blair have removed from the European constitution?
Which English city was known in Anglo-Saxon as Monkchester?

💩 Art & Literature

Which US man of letters has the phrase ‘I had a lover’s quarrel with the world’ engraved on his tombstone?
How many people appear in da Vinci’s The Last Supper?
Which Mexican painter was known mostly for her self-portraits, including Self-Potrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird?
Which book opens: “At a certain village in La Mancha, which I shall not name…”?
Which novel, first published in 1922, relates the events of a single day - 16 June - in the city of Dublin, in the life of Leopold Bloom?

💚 Science & Nature

About how many silkworms does it take to make a kimono - 20, 200 or 2,000?
What oil is obtained from flax?
What is the name of the hard case that protects a butterfly while it matures into an adult?
What do gasoline and napthenic and palmatic acids combine to form?
What is the name of the larger of the two bones that make up the lower leg?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

Which football manager led Leicester City to its first Premier League title in 2015/16?
What does S.L.R stand for among photographers?
What two numbers sandwich the number two on a dartboard?
What are you playing if you cross-wire your opponent’s balls?
What’s the diameter of a basketball hoop?

Scoreboard

	Total
@WillC	17½	2½	4	2	4	4	1
@FL45H	16	3	1	3	1	3	5
@Peitho	15½	3	1	1	3	5	2½
@SexInTheCity	15½	3½	4	2	1	3	2
@Ian_Chimp	15	2	3	2	4	3	1
@LuciousLegs	10½	2½	2	0	1½	2	2½

The Answers

| Geography | Entertainment
— | — | —

Two - Bolivia and Paraguay | 1. Cardigan
Alaska | 2. Jesus Christ Superstar
Jacques Cartier | 3. The O.C.
Cairo’s | 4. Roy Cropper
Lowther Hills | 5. “Cheap”
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History |
Arts & Literature |