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(02/03/22)

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 natural wonder above the village of Zermatt was first climbed by Englishman Edward Whymper in 1865?

  2. What is the main ingredient of the Indian delicacy Bombay Duck?

  3. What shape is a red STOP road sign?

  4. In which city can you find a model of an iron atom magnified 165 billion times, called the Atomium?

  5. In which country would you find the world’s busiest railway station, in terms of passenger numbers?

💗Entertainment

  1. What kind of car did Bullitt drive?

  2. Which Canadian rapper was born Aubrey Graham?

  3. What did The Wicked Witch of the West write in the sky over Emerald City?

  4. What are the bear-hunters going to catch in the book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt - a big one, a brown one, or a grizzly one?

  5. Which comedy duo were famous for the catchphrase “Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!”?

💛 History

  1. What is the Welsh name for the Party of Wales?

  2. Who was England’s longest-reigning king?

  3. Who was Siddhãrtha Gautama more commonly known as?

  4. What was the capital of West Germany from 1949 until reunification?

  5. Where on the body would a knight wear gauntlets?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. What kind of dancer wears pointe shoes?

  2. Whose biography, first published in 1994, is entitled Long Walk to Freedom?

  3. In which British seaside town is the Turner Contemporary art gallery?

  4. In Rossini’s most celebrated opera, what does the character Figaro do for a living?

  5. What Aesop animal assumed the grapes he couldn’t reach were sour anyway?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. If a boat is moving at 5 knots per hour, approximately how many miles per hour is it going - 6, 12, or 24 mph?

  2. Which of these animals has the most teeth - a giraffe, a rabbit, or a rat?

  3. What was the last Apollo mission to land men on the moon?

  4. What is the smallest of the big cats?

  5. In computing, what does the abbreviation USB stand for?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. Since August 2016, which English football team’s home ground has been the London stadium?

  2. What do the dimples on a golf ball do - reduce drag, help it stay on the tee, or stop it from floating in the water?

  3. Which condiment did Heinz produce before ketchup - mustard, mayonnaise, or horseradish?

  4. In 2017, which snooker player defended his World Championship title to secure his third crown in four years?

  5. What are the Queen’s racing colours?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@Peitho 20 4 2 3 4 4 3
@Knottydevil 19 4 4 3 3 3 2
@MrsLovett77 19 2 3 4 4 4 2
@WillC 18½ 4 3 5 3 ½ 3
@SexInTheCity 17 4 3 3 3 1 3
@Craig1234 15½ 3 3 3 2 2 2½
@Ian_Chimp 13 1 3 2 4 2 1
@Forever_his 9 ½ 2½ 1 2 ½ 2½
@littlespoons 5½ 1 0 1 2 1 ½
The Answers

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

  1. Matterhorn | 1. A Ford Mustang
  2. Fish | 2. Drake[1]
  3. Octagonal | 3. Surrender Dorothy
  4. Brussels | 4. A big one
  5. Japan[2] | 5. Laurel and Hardy
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Plaid Cymru | 1. A ballet dancer
  7. George III | 2. Nelson Mandela
  8. The Buddha | 3. Margate
  9. Bonn | 4. Barber[3]
  10. Their hands and arms | 5. The fox
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. 6mph | 1. West Ham
  12. A giraffe[4] | 2. Reduce drag
  13. Apollo 17[5] | 3. Horseradish[6]
  14. Leopard[7] | 4. Mark Selby
  15. Universal Serial Bus | 5. Red and Blue
    Purple, gold braid, scarlet sleeves, black velvet cap, gold fringe (red and purple)

  1. That’s his middle name ↩︎

  2. Shinjuku station in Tokyo ↩︎

  3. In The Barber of Seville ↩︎

  4. It has 32 teeth, a rabbit has 28, and a rat has 16 ↩︎

  5. Nobody has been back since 14 December 1972 ↩︎

  6. It was the company’s first product ↩︎

  7. Apparently the ‘big cats’ are tigers, lions, jaguars, leopards, and snow leopards ↩︎

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