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(23/02/22)

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. Which country was the primary stand-in for Mars in the 2015 Matt Damon movie The Martian?

  2. Big Ben is the official name of the clock tower at the House of Parliament. True or false?

  3. What connects the capital cities of the countries Mexico, Kuwait, and Luxembourg?

  4. What capital city do Scandinavians call the Venice of the North?

  5. Europe’s second-longest river, the Danube, empties into which sea?

💗Entertainment

  1. Which American president was portrayed in a 2012 film by Daniel Day-Lewis, who earned a record third Best Actor Oscar for the role?

  2. What drink topped the charts for All Saints?

  3. Which Strictly Come Dancing judge stepped down at the end of 2016, after 12 years on the panel?

  4. Complete the lyric: “Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but here’s my number…”

  5. What was the name of the police station in the long-running police drama The Bill?

💛 History

  1. What was the name of Henry VIII’s flagship, which sank in the Solent in 1545, and was raised again in 1982?

  2. What was Edith Haisman one of the last eight survivors of prior to her death in 1997?

  3. In Greek mythology, where did the River Styx flow to?

  4. Arthur Wellesley, the British army officer and prime minister who was nicknamed the Iron Duke, is best-known by what aristocratic title?

  5. How old do you have to be to become a Brownie - 5, 7, or 9?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Who stole Christmas in the book by Dr Seuss?

  2. Which is true - the Mona Lisa has eyebrows but no jewellery, she has jewellery but no eyebrows, or she has neither?

  3. Which gift was given on the ninth day in “The Twelve Days of Christmas”?

  4. What was the name of Elrond’s house in Lord of the Rings?

  5. Who added ‘galumph’ and ‘chortle’ to the English language?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What colour is the face of an adult goldfinch - red, green, or yellow?

  2. Which contagious disease was also commonly known as consumption or Koch’s disease?

  3. How many pairs of ribs are there in the average human skeleton?

  4. What’s known as The Bishop’s Stone?

  5. What colour is yak’s milk?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. Which board game was invented by A. Pratt?

  2. Which English football team is represented by the mascot Stamford the Lion?

  3. What boy’s name is used for the skateboard trick where the tail is pushed into the ground causing board and rider to leap into the air?

  4. What’s the sequence for sinking the coloured balls in snooker?

  5. Who would be interested in definitives, overprints and tete-beches?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@MsSubExperimenter 20½ 2 5 4 4 2 3½
@Peitho 20 3 4 4 4 2 3
@WillC 20 3 3 4 4 3 3
@Ian_Chimp 16 3 4 2 3 1 3
@Knottydevil 15 3 3 4 1 2 2
@littlespoons 14 1 3 4 3 2 1
@Craig1234 13½ 2 2½ 5 2 0 2
@Forever_his 12 1 2 2½ 3 1 2½
The Answers

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

  1. Jordan[1] | 1. Abraham Lincoln
  2. False[2] | 2. Black Coffee
  3. The name of the city includes the name of the country | 3. Len Goodman
  4. Stockholm | 4. “Call me maybe”[3]
  5. Black Sea | 5. Sun Hill
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Mary Rose | 1. The Grinch
  7. The Titanic disaster | 2. She has neither
  8. Hades | 3. Nine Ladies Dancing[4]
  9. Duke of Wellington | 4. Rivendell
  10. 7 years old | 5. Lewis Carroll
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Red[5] | 1. Cluedo
  12. Tuberculosis | 2. Chelsea FC
  13. 12 | 3. Ollie[6]
  14. Amethyst | 4. Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, black
  15. Pink initially, but then creamy white[7] | 5. A stamp collector

  1. The lookalike landscape at Wadi Rum has featured in several space thrillers ↩︎

  2. Big Ben is the name of the bell in the tower. The tower itself is called the Elizabeth Tower ↩︎

  3. By Carly Rae Jepson ↩︎

  4. Plus the eight gifts up to that point too ↩︎

  5. The gold refers to the patch of yellow on its wings ↩︎

  6. Invented in the 1970s, it takes its name from its inventor Alan “Ollie” Gelfand ↩︎

  7. Amended answer. Ref: How do other animal milks taste? Here's an overview of how they compare. | Heifer International. ↩︎

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