The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

Ian_Chimp · December 15, 2021, 2:38pm

(15/12/21)

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.

We also have an answer template you can copy and paste now too.

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

Which English city was known by the Romans as Aquae Sulis?
What must all postage stamps in the world have on them, except for UK stamps?
Which popular salad dressing is said to be named after the capital of Menorca?
In what city is the Spanish Riding School?
To which country do the Galápagos Islands belong?

💗Entertainment

Who portrayed Sherlock Holmes in 14 films between 1939 and 1946?
Which boy band’s name is short for “Jack the Lad Swing”?
Which Blackadder character shares a name with an item of medieval clothing?
In the musical and film, what does Billy Elliot pretend he is doing when he secretly goes to ballet classes?
Name one of the four people who were in the top ten Google searches for 2016?

💛 History

Who was the last Viceroy of India?
2013 was the first year to be written with four different numbers since when?
Who was the first member of the Royal Family to be interviewed on TV?
What ship did Captain Scott sail to the Antarctic in 1901?
In what kind of shop is the Great Fire of London believed to have started - a butcher’s, a baker’s, or a candlestick-maker’s?

💩 Art & Literature

What’s the alternative title of the masterpiece painting La Giaconda?
Who is Othello’s wife?
Who has “terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws”?
Which 1955 novel by Patricia Highsmith was the first in series of books collectively known as the Ripliad?
What is the name given to the famous triptych by Hieronymus Bosch housed at Madrid’s Museo del Prado?

💚 Science & Nature

The Electrobat, patented in 1894, was America’s first what?
What did Clarence Birdseye perfect in 1924?
What Chinese tea’s name translates to “black dragon”?
Which metal has the highest melting point of all metals?
Who wrote Elementary Seismology in 1958?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

Which annually contested rugby trophy is adorned with three king cobras and an elephant?
What rhyming nickname did F1 champion James Hunt acquire?
How many eyes are there in a deck of 52 cards?
In 2016, who became Wimbledon champion for the second time after defeating Milos Raonic in the men’s singles final?
Which of these is not a Minecraft mode - Survival, Flying or Adventure ?

Scoreboard

	Total
@MsSubExperimenter	19½	3	5	1	3	3½	4
@Peitho	18	4	4	2	3	2	3
@Ian_Chimp	16	2	2	3	4	3	2
@WillC	14	2	4	2	4	1	1
@Craig1234	5½	0	2	1	1	½	1

The Answers

| Geography | Entertainment
— | — | —

Bath | 1. Basil Rathbone
The name of the country | 2. JLS
Mayonnaise
It takes its name from the town of Mahón | 3. Baldrick
A baldrick is a kind of belt worn across the chest that holds a sword

Vienna | 4. Boxing

Ecuador | 5. David Bowie, Donald Trump, Prince, Alan Rickman
|
History |
Arts & Literature |