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(12/01/22)

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. In which English cathedral was Archbishop Thomas Becket assassinated?

  2. On which island was the mythical labyrinth that served as a prison for the Minotaur?

  3. The capital city of which island country was the starting point of Diana Nyad’s epic 103-mile swim to Key West, Florida, in 2013?

  4. What country is home to the Blue Grotto?

  5. What body of water lies to the south of Carmarthen and Swansea bays?

💗Entertainment

  1. Which adventurer tracks down dangerous animals on Deadly 60?

  2. The pop star born Robyn Fenty in Barbados 1988 uses what stage name, which is also her middle name?

  3. What did Frank Sinatra call “my kind of town”?

  4. What compliment was Babybird’s biggest hit?

  5. Which TV comedy series was set in the newsroom of Globelink News?

💛 History

  1. For how many years were Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales married?

  2. Which German state, of which Berlin was the historic capital, was formally abolished in 1947?

  3. Windsor Castle was first built in the reign of who - Queen Victoria, Henry VIII, or William the Conqueror?

  4. Who, on hearing Liverpool was to be 2008’s European City of Culture, said: I feel ecstatic, tattyphilarious and discumknockerated?

  5. What did the Rhodes Island legislature try to bang a $2 tax on in the early 1970s?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. In 1938, George Bernard Shaw became the first person ever to add which award to his Nobel Prize for Literature?

  2. Who was Anastasia and Drizella’s stepsister?

  3. Who observed: “Mad dogs and English men go out in the mid-day sun”?

  4. What is the English name for the detergent that means “parsley” in France?

  5. What Greek artist painted View to Toledo?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What invention of Ferdinand II, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, received a warm reception in 1654?

  2. What animal provided the hair for hair spring watches?

  3. What is the world’s largest predatory fish?

  4. What is the more common name for the buccal cavity?

  5. How many pecks are there in a bushel?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. What was the first soccer team to win the European Cup for Britain?

  2. An annual tournament in which sprot is played at Roland-Garros in France?

  3. Who was the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France?

  4. What name was given to those plastic balls everyone was banging together in 1971?

  5. A twizzle is a move in which sprot - snowboarding, ice dancing, or skateboarding?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@MrsLovett77 18½ 5 2½ 2 3 2 4
@WillC 17 4 5 2 3 2 1
@Peitho 14 3 3 1 3 1 3
@Ian_Chimp 14 3 3 2 3 1 2
@Craig1234 11 4 2½ 2 1 0 1½
@SexInTheCity 11 2 2 2 2 1½ 1½
The Answers

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

  1. Canterbury Cathedral | 1. Steve Brackshall
  2. Crete | 2. Rihanna
  3. Cuba [1] | 3. Chicago
  4. Italy | 4. You’re Gorgeous
  5. The Bristol Channel | 5. Drop the Dead Donkey
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. 15 | 1. An Oscar
  7. Prussia | 2. Cinderella
  8. William the Conqueror | 3. Noel Coward
  9. Ken Dodd | 4. Persil
  10. Sex | 5. El Greco
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. The sealed thermometer | 1. Celtic
  12. The pig | 2. Tennis
  13. Great White Shark | 3. Bradley Wiggens
  14. The mouth | 4. Klackers or Klik Klaks
  15. Four | 5. Ice dancing[2]

  1. Her first attempt was when she was 28 years old; she finally did it age 64 ↩︎

  2. It’s a one-footed turn ↩︎

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