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(30/06/21)

The Great Hump Day Quiz! 🐪

Welcome to another 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. In which US state is Fort Knox located?

  2. Which city and state capital in Australia was named after the wife of British King William IV?

  3. Which park in central London is home to the Serpertine Lake and Speakers’ Corner?

  4. Name one of the two countries whose flags comprise just a red stripe on top of a white stripe on the botttom?

  5. The most southerly country in Africa is the island nation of Madagascar - true or false?

💗Entertainment

  1. Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt portrayed Bruce Willis’ younger self in which time-tripping film?

  2. In which fictional town in Rhode Island does the cartoon Family Guy take place?

  3. Which English actress won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility?

  4. The title character in which children’s TV series is a magical cloth cat, with pink-and-cream stripes, whose owner is called Emily?

  5. In the movie Pulp Fiction, all the clocks are set to 4:20. True or false?

💛 History

  1. The heart of which King of Scotland, who died in 1329, is buried at Melrose Abbey?

  2. Which of Henry VIII’s wives is buried alongside him in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle?

  3. Which British monarch was depicted in profile on the Penny Black, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, which was issued in the UK in 1840?

  4. Who was the last significant Habsburg monarch, who was also emperor of Austria and the longest-reigning Hungarian king?

  5. Following his abdication in 1936, the former king Edward VIII was created Duke of… where?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. In which Canadian province does Anne of Green Gables live?

  2. According to the title, how old was Adrian Mole when his Secret Diary was published in 1982?

  3. Mr Smee is the bumbling sidekick of which literary villain?

  4. In The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe the White Witch lures Edmund with which sweet treat?

  5. What is the style of painting that uses opaque watercolours?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What distance above sea level is the scientific definition of the edge of space, called the Kármán Line - 100km, 153km, 240km?

  2. In 1973, the Oldsmobile Toronado was the first car to include which pioneering safety feature?

  3. Which flowering plant shares its name with the Ancient Greek goddess of the rainbow?

  4. What’s the common name for the third molars inside a human mouth?

  5. Which ‘living fossil’ is harvested by the millions each year so that its blood can be used to test new medicine?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. In poker, what is it called when your hand includes an ace, king, queen, jack and ten, all in the same suit?

  2. Which Leicester-born footballer was top goal-scorer at the 1986 FIFA World Cup, becoming the only England player in history to win the Golden Boot?

  3. Which racetrack is home to the Kentucky Derby?

  4. Jib, spinnaker and lateen are all types of what?

  5. What does the abbreviation TL;DR stand for?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@WillC 20 4 3 3 4 3 3
@Peitho 19 3 3 4 2 4 3
@Ian_Chimp 17 2 4 2 3 2 4
@MsSubExperimenter 16½ 5 3 1 2 2 3½
The Answers

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

  1. Kentucky | 1. Looper (His transformation took three hours in the make-up chair)
  2. Adelaide | 2. Quahog (Which is also a type of clam, on of the state’s symbols)
  3. Hyde Park | 3. Emma Thompson (Thompson also played Elinor Dashwood in the film)
  4. Indonesia :indonesia:, Monaco :monaco: | 4. Bagpuss
  5. False (South Africa is the most southerly African nation) | 5. False (Common myth busted! Although many of the clocks show the time 4:20, others do not)
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Robert the Bruce (Robert I) (His body was buried separately, in Dunfermline Abbey) | 1. Prince Edward Island
  7. Jane Seymour (She was his third wife, and the mother of his only legitimate male heir) | 2. Thirteen-and-three-quarters
  8. Queen Victoria | 3. Captain Hook
  9. Franz Joseph | 4. Turkish delight
  10. Windsor | 5. Gouache
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. 100km (Above this line there isn’t enough air to support aeronautical flight) | 1. Royal Flush
  12. Airbag (The safety cushion had been in development since 1953) | 2. Gary Linekar
  13. Iris | 3. Churchill Downs (In Louisville, Kentucky)
  14. Wisdom teeth | 4. Sails
  15. Horseshoe Crab (It’s baby-blue blood binds with any bacterial contamination) | 5. Too long; didn’t read
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