The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

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(02/02/22)

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. With distinctive orange covers, what is the name of Ordnance Survey’s range of 1:25,000-scale maps?

  2. Which renowned opera house in Milan is known by a name that translates into English as “The Staircase”?

  3. What is described in gazetteers as: Archipelago, north west Europe, comprising two large islands and 5,000 small islands?

  4. Which town in Dordogne gave its name to a TV detective series?

  5. What is a hongi - an Incan drink, a Maori greeting, or a Native American home?

💗Entertainment

  1. Which Clean Bandit single takes its name from a nursery rhyme about a baby in a cradle?

  2. Which long-running detective drama, set in Hastings during World War II, starred Michael Kitchen and Honeysuckle Weeks?

  3. Who was the hottest-selling Cuban singer of the 80s and 90s?

  4. At the first Glastonbury Festival in 1970, the admission price of £1 included what free produce?

  5. In the TV drama Poldark, based on the novels by Winston Graham, what is the first name of Ross Poldark’s wife?

💛 History

  1. Name at least two of the five founding countries of OPEC in 1960.

  2. Which British monarch was on the throne at the time of the American Civil War?

  3. The world’s first webcam was set up so scientists at Cambridge University could keep an eye on what - a car park, a cat, or a coffee pot?

  4. Who was the first popularly elected president of Russia?

  5. According to the International Shark Attack File, which country has experienced the most reported attacks since records began?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Name the composer of the opera Don Giovanni.

  2. On a piano keyboard, how many keys are there in one octave?

  3. Name the play by Peter Morgan about the weekly meetings held between Queen Elizabeth II and her prime ministers.

  4. What is the maximum age for an author to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize?

  5. From whom did Shakespeare steal the phrase Love is blind?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What is the term for a natural depression in a land surface formed by the dissolution and collapse of a cavern roof?

  2. What type of animal has breeds including Jersey Giant, Leghorn, and Hamburg?

  3. What syndrome was first identified in the USA in 1981?

  4. How many months are there in seven years?

  5. What did a Commodore 64 home computer have 64 of?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. Which flavouring takes its name from its aroma, which smells like a combination of cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg?

  2. Which sprot was known as “murder ball” when it was first played in the 1970s - wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, or beach volleyball?

  3. In 2016, who became only the fourth female British tennis player ever to reach the top ten in the world?

  4. How many points are scored for a try in a game of rugby union - 2, 3, or 5?

  5. Which signature piece of clothing by Diane Von Furstenburg celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2014?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@WillC 18½ 2½ 5 4 2 3 2
@Peitho 16 3 2 3 2 4 2
@Ian_Chimp 15 4 1 3 2 3 2
@SexInTheCity 12 2 1 3 0 2 4
@Craig1234 11½ 2½ 1 4 0 2½ 1½
The Answers

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

  1. Explorer | 1. “Rockabye”
  2. La Scala | 2. Foyle’s War
  3. The British Isles | 3. Gloria Estefan
  4. Bergerac | 4. Milk[1]
  5. A Maori greeting[2] | 5. Demelza
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela | 1. Mozart
  7. Queen Victoria | 2. 13[3]
  8. A coffee pot[4] | 3. The Audience
  9. Boris Yeltsin[5] | 4. 35
  10. United States | 5. Chaucer
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Sinkhole | 1. Allspice
  12. Chicken | 2. Wheelchair rugby
  13. AIDS | 3. Johanna Konta
  14. 84 | 4. 5[6]
  15. Kilobytes of memory | 5. Wrap dress

  1. From founder Michael Eavis’s farm ↩︎

  2. It involves two people pressing their noses together. ↩︎

  3. There are five black notes, and eight white notes ↩︎

  4. In 1993, the camera allowed the scientists, and the world, to see if someone needed to make more coffee. ↩︎

  5. In 1991 ↩︎

  6. 3 points are scored for a penalty or drop goal, and 2 for a conversion kick after a try (this makes no sense…) ↩︎

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