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(01/12/21)

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. Whats the largest Japanese island?

  2. In what language does obrigado mean “thank you”?

  3. What city’s harbour does The Little Mermaid grace?

  4. Which mountain range can be described as ‘the backbone of Italy’, stretching the entire length of the mainland?

  5. What prison is found in Ossining, New York?

💗Entertainment

  1. How long is Camptown Racetrack?

  2. Which breakfast TV programme did The One Show hosts Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley move to in 2010?

  3. What Broadway musical introduced the song Some Enchanted Evening?

  4. Who played President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove?

  5. Who was Noggin the Nog’s arch-enemy?

💛 History

  1. What was the name of the Protestant revolt against the supremacy of the Pope?

  2. For how long did Louis XIX rule France - 20 minutes, 20 days or 20 weeks?

  3. What was the chuckwagon used for on cattle drives?

  4. In 2014, Parisian politician Ann Hidalgo became Paris’s first female what?

  5. Who led the All-Indian Congress Party in seeking independence from Britain?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. What Count did Alexandre Dumas write about?

  2. Which Impressionist French artist dedicated more than half of his life’s work to the subject of ballet?

  3. Who was Don Quixote’s imaginary lover?

  4. Which of Stephen King’s books, about reanimated animals, was so horrifying to him that he felt it was too dark to publish?

  5. What artist’s surname was van Rijn?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. How many feet are there in a fathom?

  2. In Argentina in the 1890s, what type of evidence was first used to accurately solve a crime?

  3. What science deals with the motion of projectiles?

  4. What was the name of the Soviet astro-pup on board Sputnik 2, which was launched on 3 November 1957?

  5. What is the fruit of the hawthorn called?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. What’s the tallest piece on a chessboard?

  2. Who became the face of the London 2012 Olympics when a painting of her the size of 15 tennis courts was placed under Heathrow’s flight path?

  3. What famous race did Snow Knight win in 1974?

  4. Which two events made up Mo Farah’s ‘double-double’ at the Rio and London Olympics?

  5. What non-mechanical sprot achieves the highest speeds?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@Peitho 22 3 3 4 4 4 4
@MrsLovett77 20 5 3 2 5 3 2
@MsSubExperimenter 18 4 2 2 4 4 2
@VanillaWithSprinkles 18 4 2 3 4 2 3
@WillC 16½ 5 2 3 3 2½ 1
@Ian_Chimp 15 2 1 3 3 4 2
@SexInTheCity 13 2 0 3 3 2 3
@Craig1234 10 2 0 4 0 2 2
The Answers

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

  1. Honshu | 1. Five miles
  2. Portuguese | 2. Daybreak
  3. Copenhagen’s | 3. South Pacific
  4. The Apennines | 4. Peter Sellers
  5. Sing Sing | 5. Nogbad the Bad
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. The Reformation | 1. The Count of Monte Cristo
  7. 20 minutes
    He abdicated almost immediately after being declared king | 2. Edgar Degas
  8. Cooking | 3. Dulcinea
  9. Mayor | 4. Pet Sematary
  10. Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi | 5. Rembrant’s
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Six | 1. The King
  12. Fingerprints | 2. Jessica Ennis-Hill
  13. Ballistics | 3. The Derby
  14. Laika | 4. 5000 metres and 10,000 metres
  15. The haw | 5. Sky-diving