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(26/01/22)

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. What country are you in if you’re sitting on a sofa in Sofia?

  2. Which country has internet addresses ending in .il?

  3. Which North Atlantic island group is known as the “sheep islands”?

  4. In which country is Sharm el-Sheikh?

  5. Which city is served by Keflavik Airport?

💗Entertainment

  1. What TV sci-fi duo gave Catatonia their highest placing in the singles chart?

  2. Which hard rock band’s 2016-2017 world concert tour was called “Not in this Lifetime…”?

  3. What’s the surname of Michelin-starred celebrity chef Tom, who owns Tom’s Kitchen restaurant?

  4. What creatures attack Troll Village in the Trolls film?

  5. What food did E.T. cause Elliot to drop in fright in his backyard?

💛 History

  1. Who married American actress Nancy Davis?

  2. In a Roman villa, what was a hypocaust used for - to sleep on, to provide central heating, or for growing plants?

  3. What was the operative name of Dutch-born World War I spy Geertruida Zelle?

  4. What began August 15, 1969, on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm?

  5. What two mountain ranges did Hannibal and his elephants march through in 218 B.C.?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Which paining by Johannes Vermeer is at the heart of movie starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth?

  2. Why would a phobatrivaphobe fear this question?

  3. In which book did Caractacus Potts own an extraordinary car?

  4. How many attended the March Hare’s tea party?

  5. What does P.S. stand for at the end of a letter?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What are the names of the acids that are found in your small intestine - carbolic, amino, or acetic?

  2. What type of people have an appetite for anthropophagy?

  3. What did Wilhelm Roentgen discover in 1895?

  4. When does slack water occur?

  5. What m-word describes the change from a chrysalis to a butterfly?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. Which Asian country hosted the first ever night-time Formula 1 Grand Prix?

  2. Where can castor oil be found on a golf course?

  3. What animal is pictured on malted milk biscuits?

  4. What are the highest-paying odds on a roulette table?

  5. How many points was each dot swallowed by Pac-man worth?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@Peitho 17½ 3 1 3 4 4 2½
@MsSubExperimenter 17½ 5 1 4 3½ 2 2
@Ian_Chimp 17½ 2 2 3 4½ 4 2
@SexInTheCity 14½ 4 0 1 4½ 3 2
@WillC 14 2 2 4½ 3 2½ 1
@Craig1234 7½ 3½ 0 0 1½ 1½ 1
The Answers

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

  1. Bulgaria | 1. Mulder and Scully
  2. Israel | 2. Guns N’ Roses
  3. Faroes | 3. Aikens
  4. Egypt | 4. Bergens
  5. Reykjavik | 5. Pizza
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Ronald Reagan | 1. Girl With a Pearl Earring
  7. To provide central heating | 2. It’s a fear of trivia about phobias
  8. Mata Hari | 3. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  9. Woodstock | 4. Four
  10. The Pyrenees and Alps | 5. Postscript
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Amino | 1. Singapore
  12. Cannibals | 2. Inside golf balls
  13. X-Rays | 3. Cow
  14. Between the tides | 4. Thirty-five to one
  15. Metamorphosis | 5. Ten
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