The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

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A bit later than normal, but I got there in the end… :slightly_smiling_face:

(24/11/21)

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 the capital of Saudi Arabia?

  2. Which fruit, called ‘anana’ by Carib Indians, symbolises hospitality?

  3. What country is Angel Falls in?

  4. What did the letters USSR stand for?

  5. Which country is run according to the principles of Juche, or self-reliance?

💗Entertainment

  1. What actress was the top box-office draw during World War II?

  2. By what group name are singers Urs Bühler, Carlos Marin, David Miller and Sébastien Izambard better known?

  3. Who played the sheriff in Jaws?

  4. Which two actresses starred as the movie outlaws Thelma and Louise?

  5. What part did Ray Bolger play in The Wizard of Oz?

💛 History

  1. What fighting machine was originally codenamed a “cistern” or “reservoir”?

  2. On which historic building in Brighton can you see a fine example of an onion dome?

  3. What American city did Cadillac found?

  4. What was the name of the peaceful revolution that took place in Ukraine in 2004 - Orange, Tulip or Rose?

  5. What country was the target of Germany’s planned but canned Operation Sea Lion?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. What John Bunyan story opens in the City of Destruction?

  2. What is the name of the mongoose in Kipling’s The Jungle Book?

  3. What novel features the character Leiutenant Milo Minderbinder?

  4. What type of musical instrument is the hurdy-gurdy - brass, keyboard, string or woodwind?

  5. Which James Bond novel introduced the villainous Mr Big and the voluptuous Solitaire?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. How many times a year does a penguin have sex?

  2. Which pungent flower, said to smell like rotting flesh, blooms only once every seven to ten years?

  3. In 1952, English scientist Rosalind Franklin was the first person to create clear images of which important molecule?

  4. What form of pollution means that more than 75 per cent of Americans cannot see the Milky Way?

  5. How many tentacles does a squid have?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. Silovitz is a type of brandy, popular in Eastern Europe, that is made from which fruit?

  2. Name one of the two sprots in which you would be interested in your equipment’s camber and sidecut.

  3. What’s a racetrack’s betting board called?

  4. A footrace that is longer than 26.2 miles is called a what?

  5. What was the biggest-selling toy of 1957?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@WillC 21 4 4 4 4 4 1
@FL45H 18 5 3 1 3 4 2
@MrsLovett77 17 4 3 5 2 3 0
@Ian_Chimp 16 2 2 3 3 5 1
@Peitho 15½ 2½ 2 3 3 4 1
@SexInTheCity 15 5 1 3 0 5 1
@Craig1234 14 4 1 2 1 4 2
@MsSubExperimenter 14 3 2 2 3 2 2
The Answers

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

  1. Riyadh | 1. Betty Grable
  2. Pineapple | 2. Il Divo
  3. Venezuela | 3. Roy Scheider
  4. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | 4. Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis
  5. North Korea | 5. The Scarecrow
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. The tank | 1. Pilgrim’s Progress
  7. The Royal Pavilion | 2. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
  8. Detroit | 3. Catch-22
  9. Orange
    The Rose and Tulip Revolutions were in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan respectively | 4. String
    You make sounds by turning a wheel that runs against the strings
  10. Britain | 5. Live and Let Die
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. One | 1. Plums
  12. Corpse flower | 2. Skiing, snowboarding
    The sidecut is the board or skis’ turning radius, and the camber how springy it is
  13. DNA | 3. The totalizer, or tote board
  14. Light pollution | 4. Ultramarathon
    Typical race lengths are between 31 and 100 miles, but can extend much further
  15. Ten
    (Though the internet is saying 8 arms + 2 tentacles) | 5. The hula hoop
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