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(07/07/21)

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. What is the name of the half-sunken, ancient stone city on the Micronesian island of Pohnpei?

  2. The active volcano Popocatepetl is located about 40 miles from which capital city?

  3. Which island drink, invented in Puerto Rico in the 1950s, has a Spanish name that translates into English as ‘strained pineapple’?

  4. Which country’s current European monarchy traces its direct roots back a thousand years to the Viking era?

  5. Almeria, in Spain, is known for its 64,000 acres of what - beaches, greenhouses, or soccer fields?

💗Entertainment

  1. How many characters named Heather are there in the movie Heathers?

  2. Bamm-Bamm is the son of which Stone Age couple?

  3. Which artist had the fastest-selling album of 2015, moving 3.38 million copies in its first week of release?

  4. At which fictional high school would you find Zack, Jessie, Slater and Kelly?

  5. In which professional sprot did Jason Lee make a name for himself, before starting in the TV show My Name is Earl?

💛 History

  1. Which civic service did Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro provide before entering into politics?

  2. Which country ended production of its 1 cent coin in 2012 - Canada, Australia or New Zealand?

  3. What startling discovery did Stonehenge experts make when they didn’t have a hose long enough to water the grass beside the monument?

  4. What act did Pope Benedict XVI undertake, making him the first pope to do so in nearly 600 years?

  5. Which Powhatan Native American woman changed her name to Rebecca Rolfe and married a Jamestown colonist?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. In literary criticism, which colour is used to describe prose that is particularly over the top, flowery, or melodramatic?

  2. What language is spoken by someone who is a lusophone?

  3. What is the artistic term for the radiant light or halo that surrounds sacred or mythological figures in classical art?

  4. In music, ritardando means to speed up. True or false?

  5. Which American author and poet penned the defiant line: “But still, like dust, I’ll rise”?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What fraction of 18-carat gold is pure?

  2. What celestial body is the centre of the Jovian system?

  3. What is the common name for the fruit Citrus grandis?

  4. What does a polyorchid person have at least three of?

  5. What are sheep if cats are feline?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. What’s the Australian snacktime favourite that’s made with white bread, butter or margarine, and rainbow-coloured sprinkles?

  2. Which social networking website closed down in 2016 after 16 years of helping to reconnect old school friends?

  3. A ‘jump shot’ is a move in billiards. True or false?

  4. On which day of the week is Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot?

  5. Which fashion designer was not only design director at Ralph Lauren but also an accomplished figure skater?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@MsSubExperimenter 20 3 4 3 2 4 4
@SexInTheCity 17½ 3 1½ 2 4 3 4
@Peitho 17 3 3 2 2 4 3
@WillC 17 4 3 1 2 4 3
@Ian_Chimp 15 3 3 1 3 2 3
The Answers

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

  1. Nan Madol
    (It inspired author H.P. Lovecraft’s fabled city of R’lyeh, home of Cthulhu) | 1. Three
  2. Mexico City | 2. Barney and Betty Rubble
  3. Piña Colada | 3. Adele
    (The album is 25)
  4. Denmark
    (Historians consider Denmark to have the world’s oldest existing monarchy) | 4. Bayside High
    (In Saved by the Bell)
  5. Greenhouses | 5. Skateboarding
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Driving buses | 1. Purple
  7. Canada | 2. Portuguese
  8. It was once a complete circle
    (Patch marks showed up as patches where missing stones once stood) | 3. Nimbus
  9. Resign
    (The previous pope to do so was Pope Gregory XII in 1415) | 4. False
    (It means to slow down; accelerando means to speed up)
  10. Pocahontas | 5. Maya Angelou
    (In one of her most memorable poems, “Still I Rise”)
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Three-quarters | 1. Fairy Bread
  12. Jupiter | 2. Friends Reunited
  13. Grapefruit Pomelo | 3. True
    (As well as being a shot in basketball)
  14. Testicles | 4. Thursday
  15. Ovine | 5. Vera Wang
    16.