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(21/07/21)

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. In which city would you find the main square Piazza San Marco?

  2. What country didn’t grant its first divorce until 1997, becoming the last country in Europe to allow it?

  3. Name the largest island in Hong Kong.

  4. Which stewed vegetable dish originated in Nice, France?

  5. It is over 828 metres high and has more than 160 storeys, but in which Middle Eastern city is the Burj Khalifa?

💗Entertainment

  1. What craft did Shirley Temple sing about in the 1934 film Bright Eyes?

  2. Which of these series was not set in a women’s prison - Wentworth, Bad Girls, or In the Club?

  3. Which rodent crime fighter lives in a postbox outside 221B Baker Street, London?

  4. Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey are the leads in which twisty love story that won an Oscar for best screenplay in 2005?

  5. Which of these medical television shows aired first - Peak Practice, Where the Heart Is or Holby City?

💛 History

  1. In 2016, after almost 55 years of Cold War, which two countries restored full diplomatic relations?

  2. Who was South Africa’s first democratically elected president?

  3. Which populist British political party was founded by Alan Sked in 1993?

  4. Who was the German leader of the Protestant Reformation?

  5. What was a Mae West on a World War II battleship?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Which of Truman Capote’s works shares a name with a 1995 hit song by Deep Blue Something?

  2. In the 1960s, citizens of West Point, Virginia, were spooked by which mythical creature with red eyes and wings?

  3. In which Post-Impressionistic style are paintings made up of small dots that form an image?

  4. What time does Wee Willie Winkie run through the town?

  5. Which author wrote Rip Van Winkle?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What acidic kitchen staple can dissolve a pearl?

  2. What behaviours do cats engage in that may promote healing, even while resting?

  3. What plant is revered by the Lovers of the Stinky Rose?

  4. How many pixels are in a megapixel?

  5. What are the only two places dogs have sweat glands?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. Water polo was once played riding on barrels in the water. True or false?

  2. The stadiums of which two English professional football clubs are located on opposites sides of the River Trent, less than 300 metres apart?

  3. How long is the rest between rounds in boxing?

  4. Which large bird shares its name with the word for three consecutive strikes in bowling?

  5. What is the world championship of Contract Bridge known as?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@MrsLovett77 19 4 3 4 3 3 2
@WillC 19 4 5 3 4 3 0
@Peitho 17 2 4 3 2½ 4 1½
@MsSubExperimenter 16 4 4 1½ 1 1½ 4
@LuciousLegs 15½ 1 4 3 1 2½ 4
@Ian_Chimp 15 2 4 2 3 2 2
The Answers

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

  1. Venice | 1. The Good Ship Lollipop
  2. Republic of Ireland | 2. In the Club
  3. Lantau | 3. Danger Mouse
  4. Ratatouille | 4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  5. Dubai | 5. Peak Practice
    In 1993, followed by Where the Heart is in 1997, and Holby City in 1999)
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. United States and Cuba | 1. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  7. Nelson Mandela
    (He was inaugurated in 1994) | 2. Mothman
    (The sightings are the subject of The Mothman Prophecies book and film)
  8. UKIP | 3. Pointillism
  9. Martin Luther | 4. Eight o’clock
  10. A life jacket | 5. Washington Irving
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Vinegar | 1. True
    (As in equestrian polo, players also swung at the ball using sticks)
  12. Purring
    (The frequency of the rhythmic sounds encourages bone growth and tissue regeneration in cats, and possibly human beings) | 2. Notts County and Nottingham Forest
  13. Garlic | 3. One minute
  14. 1 million | 4. The turkey
  15. The nose and paws | 5. The Bermuda Bowl
    16.