(10/11/21)
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
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What’s the closest county to the Isle of Wight?
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What is the common nickname for the belt of volcanic and seismic activity that borders most of the Pacific Rim?
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What’s the capital of Morocco?
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Trastevere is a district of which European city?
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What London station is the Old Vic found behind?
💗Entertainment
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Where does Yogi Bear live?
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“Le Freak” and “Good Times” were hit singles for which band, co-founded by Nile Rogers?
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Which film did the author Ken Kesey refuse to watch?
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What theatre opened in Sheffield in 1972?
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Who asked the musical question: “Where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio?” ?
💛 History
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What constituency did Margaret Thatcher represent in Parliament?
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In 1932, the Australian army declared war on which creatures, believed to have become a nuisance - camels, kangaroos or emus?
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What building are British monarchs crowned in?
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The 1973 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel ended which war?
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Who betrayed Norway to the Nazis?
💩 Art & Literature
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Who wrote The Night of the Iguana?
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Who had a parrot named Polynesia?
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Which mid-19th-century art movement focused on American landscapes, and is named after a major American river?
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Who wrote 187 Men to Avoid: A Survival Guide for the Romantically Frustrated Woman in 1995, using the pen name Danielle Brown?
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What is the third letter of the Greek alphabet?
💚 Science & Nature
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Where is the human skin the thickest?
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What’s a woofer?
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What is the lifespan of a termite queen - five hours, five months or five decades?
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What’s the term for space devoid of matter?
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What is a shark’s skeleton made of?
🧡 Sprot & Leisure
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What distinguishes a sculler in rowing?
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How high is the centre of a tennis net?
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What cities were the start and finish of the first intercontinental auto race, in 1908?
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Which craft uses moss, purl and stocking techniques?
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What number is 6 o’clock on a dartboard?
Scoreboard
| Total |  |
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| @MrsLovett77 | 18 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| @Peitho | 16½ | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3½ |
| @WillC | 16 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| @Ian_Chimp | 15 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| @SexInTheCity | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| @MsSubExperimenter | 10½ | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1½ |
| @Craig1234 | 7½ | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1½ |
The Answers
| Geography | Entertainment
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- Hampshire | 1. Jellystone National Park
- Ring of Fire | 2. Chic
- Rabat | 3. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
- Rome | 4. The Crucible
- Waterloo Station | 5. Simon and Garfunkel
| History | Arts & Literature |
- Finchley | 1. Tennesse Williams
- Emus | 2. Dr Dolittle
- Westminster Abbey | 3. Hudson River School
- Yom Kippur War | 4. Dan Brown
- Vidkun Quisling | 5. Gamma
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Science & Nature | Sprot & Leisure |
- On the back | 1. Two oars
- A low-frequency speaker | 2. Three feet
- Five decades | 3. New York and Paris
- Vacuum | 4. Knitting
- Cartilage | 5. Three