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(19/01/22)

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. The Petronas Twin Towers, a pair of 88-storey skyscrapers, dominate the skyline in which capital city in south-east Asia?

  2. Which is taller - the Eiffel Tower, or the Great Pyramid of Giza?

  3. What is the name of the main river running through Paris, France?

  4. Rumba, a form of music and dance fusing African and Spanish influences, originated in which Caribbean country?

  5. Name two of the three African countries whose names contain only four letters?

💗Entertainment

  1. What actresses’s real name was Frances Gumm?

  2. Which TV series saw Peter Sallis playing Cleggy?

  3. In Charlie and Lola, what is the name of Charlie’s best friend?

  4. Which first name is shared by the solo artists whose first albums are Justified and My World 2.0?

  5. Which Spice Girl launched a solo career with the album Schizophonic?

💛 History

  1. Who were the only husband and wife team to rule England and Scotland as joint sovereigns?

  2. What plan to rebuild Europe was unveiled on June 5, 1947?

  3. What Mexican leader was shot dead in 1923?

  4. Which was the first NASA spacecraft to take humans onto the surface of the moon?

  5. Which famous map were North Weald and Ongar dropped from in the 1990s?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. In Patrick O’Brian’s naval series, what is the name of the first ship under Jack Aubrey’s command?

  2. Who said: “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life”?

  3. Which ten-year-old orphan is living at their childhood home, called Gateshead, at the start of a Charlotte Brontë novel?

  4. What colour feather was a bestselling book title for Maeve Binchy?

  5. In a typical symphony orchestra, which musical instrument appears in the greatest number?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What geological period saw most of the main coal deposits laid down?

  2. Which ‘leggy’ cluster of space dust in the Taurus constellation is the remains of a star that exploded in 1054?

  3. Which of the following does not refer to a group of ravens - congress, conspiracy, senate, or unkindness?

  4. What family of trees is the sycamore a member of?

  5. What was the Casio PhoneMate one of the most popular early models of?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. What are the two main colours of a Caramac wrapper?

  2. What’s the maximum number of coins that can be turned up with four players of spoof?

  3. Which British Olympic champion has held the national women’s record for both high jump and 100m hurdles?

  4. Which country hosted the 1994 soccer World Cup?

  5. What did Ugandan athletes protest were too small at the Sydney Olympics?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@SexInTheCity 18 5 3 2 3 3 2
@MrsLovett77 14½ 4 3 2 3 1 1½
@Peitho 13 4 2 2 2 1 2
@Ian_Chimp 13 3 2 3 1 1 3
@WillC 12½ 4 4 2 2 0 ½
@MsSubExperimenter 12 5 2 2 1 0 2
@Craig1234 7 3 1 0 1 1 1
The Answers

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

  1. Kuala Lumpur[1] | 1. Judy Garland
  2. Eiffel Tower[2] | 2. The Last of the Summer Wine
  3. Seine | 3. Marv
  4. Cuba | 4. Justin[3]
  5. Chad, Mali, Togo | 5. Geri Halliwell
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. William and Mary | 1. HMS Sophie
  7. The Marshall Plan | 2. Samuel Johnson
  8. Pancho Villa | 3. Jane Eyre
  9. Apollo 11 | 4. Scarlet
  10. The London Underground map | 5. Violin
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Carboniferous | 1. Red and yellow
  12. Crab Nebula | 2. Twelve
  13. Senate | 3. Jessica Ennis-Hill
  14. The maple family | 4. USA
  15. Telephone answering machine | 5. Condoms

  1. A bridge connects the two towers between the 41st and 42nd storeys ↩︎

  2. The Great Pyramid was originally 147m tall, while the Eiffel Tower is much taller at 324m ↩︎

  3. Timberlake and Bieber, respectively ↩︎

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