The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

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(03/11/21)

The Great Hump Day Quiz! 🐪

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. :+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 river flows past the Temple of Karnak?

  2. The Irish islands Inishmaan, Inisheer and Inishmore are collectively known by what name?

  3. What’s the capital of Canada?

  4. The Victoria Falls are located on the border between Zimbabwe and which other southern African country?

  5. What country brews Peroni beer?

💗Entertainment

  1. Who created the Dr. Who TV series?

  2. What character is portrayed by Jon Hamm in the television series Mad Men?

  3. What singer won the 1943 Alabama-Mississippi State Fair talent contest?

  4. Which film star began his entertainment career as frontman for Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch?

  5. Whose first single was Move It, in 1959?

💛 History

  1. What was the famous prison of 18th-century London?

  2. Which artisan was hired for the gruesome task of making wax death masks of the nobles guillotined during the French Revolution?

  3. What was the dance of 1926?

  4. Which photo-sharing platform did Facebook buy in 2012 for approximately $1 billion?

  5. What three leaders met at the Yalta Conference?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. What film is based in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Sentinel?

  2. Which Shakespeare character was the anti-hero of Verdi’s final opera?

  3. Who first said: “You have hissed my mistory lessons, tasted the whole werm, and shall leave on the next town drain”?

  4. In the books by Kate DiCamillo, what type of animal is Mercy Watson?

  5. What Ray Bradbury novel takes its name from the temperature at which book paper catches fire?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What does a conchologist study?

  2. What is Irish moss - seaweed, moss or lichen?

  3. What unit of heat will raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius?

  4. Haricot vert, flageolet and scarlet runner are all types of what?

  5. What insect lends its name and gives its body to a food colouring?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. What do you get if you add fresh fruit to red wine?

  2. Hazard, a tavern game popular in the 18th century, is the predecessor to which modern casino game?

  3. What year was the first open Wimbledon championship held?

  4. Who helped break the Enigma Code in World War II, and was a British marathon runner who almost grabbed a spot on the 1948 Olympic team?

  5. What football team was Jasper Carrot a director of?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@MrsLovett77 25 5 5 5 3 4 3
@Peitho 21 4 2 4 3 5 3
@WillC 21 4 4 4 2 4 3
@Ian_Chimp 17 2 2 4 3 3 3
The Answers

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

  1. The Nile | 1. Terry Nation
  2. Aran Islands | 2. Don Draper
  3. Ottawa | 3. Elvis Presley
  4. Zambia | 4. Mark Wahlberg
  5. Italy | 5. Cliff Richard
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Newgate | 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  7. Madam Tussaud | 2. Falstaff
    It was one of the very few comic operas Verdi wrote
  8. The Charleston | 3. The Reverend W.A. Spooner
  9. Instagram | 4. Pig
  10. Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill | 5. Fahrenheit 451
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Shells and mollusks | 1. Sangria
  12. Seaweed | 2. Craps
  13. The calorie | 3. 1968
  14. Bean | 4. Alan Turing
  15. The cochineal | 5. Birmingham City
    16.
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