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(17/11/21)

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:

:exclamation:We also have an answer template you can copy and paste now too. :+1:

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’s country left the Commonwealth in 1961?

  2. Which South American country lays claim to the invention of the Panama hat?

  3. What sea laps at the Great Barrier Reef?

  4. Which African country is home to Gombe National Park, where Jane Goodall did her revolutionary study on chimpanzees?

  5. What did the Romans call Scotland?

💗Entertainment

  1. What city was the setting for Gunsmoke?

  2. Which Irish actor wears a certain pair of boxers when starting a new film, because they’re covered in lucky shamrocks?

  3. What band did Boy George spring to fame with?

  4. Which big-top performance group has produced shows O, Mystère and Alegria?

  5. Who gained stardom as The Ringo Kid in the 1939 film Stagecoach?

💛 History

  1. What did Americans celebrate the end of in 1933?

  2. Who abdicated as king of Spain in 2014, after nearly 40 years on the throne?

  3. What university presented its first degree in 1973?

  4. Which activist organisation’s slogan was ‘We are the 99 percent’?

  5. Who was the last British monarch killed in battle?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. What Russian novel embracing more than 500 characters is set in the Napoleonic Wars?

  2. What type of poem has fourteen lines and follows a formal rhyming scheme?

  3. Who penned The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

  4. Which young criminal mastermind, star of a series of novels by Eoin Colfer, shares his first name with the Greek goddess of the hunt?

  5. What nursery rhyme character was rich on Monday and buried on Sunday?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. Who invented the mercury thermometer?

  2. Name four of the eight main taxonomic ranks used in biological classification.

  3. What type of product was Red Vet Pet, a crimson-coloured gel that G.I.s in the South Pacific used during World War II?

  4. What’s the term for any four-sided figure?

  5. The poison cyanide is often said to have the aroma of what - almonds, oranges or liquorice?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. How many double-word score spaces are there on a Scrabble board?

  2. If you are showing off your spank step, Maxie Ford or jump click, what style of dance have you masteted - tap, Tango or waltz?

  3. In which martial art do the competitors display their skill with a bamboo sword called a shinai?

  4. How many yards wide is a soccer goal?

  5. What sprot begins in front of the south stake?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@Peitho 22½ 4 3 3 4½ 4 4
@WillC 22 4 4 4 5 3 2
@MsSubExperimenter 18 1 3 4 5 2 3
@Ian_Chimp 17 1 4 3 5 2 2
@SexInTheCity 14 3 2 3 2 3 1
@Craig1234 13 3 2 2 1 3 2
The Answers

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

  1. South Africa | 1. Dodge City
  2. Ecuador
    Residents of Montecristi started making Panama hats as early as the 17th century | 2. Colin Farrell
  3. The Coral Sea | 3. Culture Club
  4. Tanzania | 4. Cirque de Soleil
  5. Caledonia | 5. John Wayne
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Prohibition | 1. War and Peace
  7. Juan Carlos I
    He was succeeded by his son, Felipe VI | 2. Sonnet
  8. The Open University | 3. Victor Hugo
  9. Occupy Wallstreet | 4. Artemis Fowl
  10. Richard III | 5. Solomon Grundy
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Gabriel Fahrenheit | 1. Seventeen
  12. Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species | 2. Tap
  13. Sunblock
    A Miami pharmacist created the red petroleum too that evolved into Coppertone | 3. Kendo
  14. Quadrilateral | 4. Eight
  15. Almonds | 5. Croquet
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