(27/10/21)
Welcome to the 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
-
What country’s people stand up for the anthem The Reign of Our Emperor?
-
What is the world’s largest landlocked country?
-
How many counties are in Northern Ireland?
-
El Retiro is a park in the centre of which European capital?
-
What countries’ shores meet the Sargasso Sea?
💗Entertainment
-
Who portrayed Eliza Dolittle in Broadway’s original My Fair Lady?
-
Which British supermodel is accidentally pushed off a balcony into the the river Thames in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie?
-
Who formed Cream with Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton?
-
Which classic 1950s Marlon Brando movie asks the question: “What are you rebelling against?”
-
What village is featured in The Archers?
💛 History
-
What emperor was known as The Lion of Judah?
-
The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 was the shortest war on record, but how long did it last - 38 minutes, 38 hours, or 38 days?
-
What African country was founded by freed American slaves in 1847?
-
Which computer company introduced the mouse to the mass market?
-
What Jewish holiday is the Day of Atonement?
💩 Art & Literature
-
Whose daughter was Cordelia?
-
Which Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren was made into a 2006 film with Sean Penn as the corrupt governer?
-
What does A.F. stand for after the date in Brave New World?
-
Which Spanish painter had a famous Blue Period that lasted from 1901 to 1904?
-
Who painted the Sistine Chapel?
💚 Science & Nature
-
What is a group of bears called?
-
The first text message, sent in 1992, contained which two words?
-
What’s the process of splitting atoms called?
-
How is the number five written as a binary number?
-
How many claws does a housecat have?
🧡 Sprot & Leisure
-
What is the English term used to describe German Rhine wines?
-
Which sprot uses a ball covered in Surlyn plastic resin?
-
What’s the back boundary line in tennis called?
-
In which ball game, subdivided into four quarters, can you score a goal, worth six points, and a behind, worth one point?
-
What is the classic fillies’ race run over the Derby course?
Scoreboard
| Total |  |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @MsSubExperimenter | 16½ | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2½ | 1 | 4 |
| @SexInTheCity | 16 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| @Ian_Chimp | 15 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| @Peitho | 14½ | 2½ | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| @WillC | 10 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
The Answers
| Geography | Entertainment
— | — | —
- Japan’s | 1. Julie Andrews
- Kazakhstan | 2. Kate Moss
3 Six | 3. Jack Bruce - Madrid | 4. The Wild One
‘Whaddya got?’ is the response - None | 5. Ambridge
| History | Arts & Literature |
- Haile Selassie | 1. King Lear
- 38 minutes | 2. All the King’s Men
- Liberia | 3. After Ford
- Apple | 4. Pablo Picasso
- Yom Kippur | 5. Michelangelo
|
Science & Nature | Sprot & Leisure |
- A sleuth (or sloth) | 1. Hock
- Merry Christmas | 2. Golf
- Fission | 3. Baseline
- 101 | 4. Australian Rules Football
- 18 | 5. The Oaks