The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

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(09/03/22)

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. What’s the claim to fame of Lhasa, Tibet?

  2. Which Cornish resort is widely known as the “surf capital” of the United Kingdom?

  3. In which country might you climb the medieval tower where Rapunzel is said to have let down her hair?

  4. Name two of the six official states of Australia.

  5. What religion would someone be if they worshipped in a gurdwara - Hindu, Sikh, or Muslim?

💗Entertainment

  1. Which American comedy-drama in the 2000s followed the lives of the residents of Wisteria Lane?

  2. In 1988, French-Canadian singer Céline Dion won the Eurovision Song Contest representing which country?

  3. What’s the highest male singing voice?

  4. Which member of Union J left the boy band in 2016, and was runner-up in I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! the year before?

  5. What’s the secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega?

💛 History

  1. What ocean liner was retired in 1967, and became a hotel in Long Beach, California?

  2. Which English monarch died from food poisoning after eating too many lampreys?

  3. Which people built the Parthenon - the Romans, the Greeks, or the Egyptians?

  4. In which year did BBC One begin broadcasting in colour - 1961, 1965, or 1969?

  5. Which Asian island did the British surrender on February 15, 1942?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Who wrote The Godfather?

  2. What is the name of the golden spaniel in Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven books?

  3. Who won a Pulitzer Prize for their play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?

  4. Who set up a very famous pottery company in 1759, which merged with Waterford Crystal in 1986?

  5. Which West End musical is centred around the story of mother Donna and daughter Sophie?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. After elephants, what are the next heaviest land animals in the world?

  2. Which of these is not the name of a tiny particle inside an atom - a lepton, a snark, or a boson?

  3. Which ocean to most hurricanes form over?

  4. What are the 4Cs of diamond grading?

  5. Turophobia is a fear of which of the following - holidays, cheese, or bulls?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. What space precedes Park Lane on a Monopoly board?

  2. In which sproting event would you do a “Fosbury Flop” - high jump, show jumping, or diving?

  3. How do you say the letters LHR in the NATO phonetic alphabet?

  4. What is the scout motto?

  5. Which golf club hits the ball further - a 4 iron, or an 8 iron?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@MsSubExperimenter 22 4 3 4 3 3 5
@Peitho 21½ 3 4 2½ 3 5 4
@WillC 20 4 2 2 5 3 4
@Knottydevil 17 3 2 2 2 4 4
@MrsLovett77 17 4 3 2 4 1 3
@SexInTheCity 16 4 1 3 2 2 4
@Ian_Chimp 15 3 2 2 3 2 3
@Craig1234 13½ 3 2 1½ 0 2 5
@Forever_his 12½ 3 1 2 1 2 3½
@littlespoons 12 0 2 3 1 4 2
The Answers

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

  1. It’s the world’s highest city | 1. Desperate Housewives
  2. Newquay | 2. Switzerland[1]
  3. Germany | 3. Alto
  4. New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia | 4. George Shelley
  5. Sikh | 5. Zorro
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. The Queen Mary | 1. Mario Puzo
  7. Henry I | 2. Scamper
  8. Greeks[2] | 3. Tennessee Williams
  9. 1969 | 4. Josiah Wedgwood
  10. Singapore | 5. Mama Mia
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Rhinos[3] | 1. Chance
  12. A snark[4] | 2. High jump[5]
  13. Atlantic | 3. Lima, Hotel, Romeo
  14. Cut, Clarity, Colour and Carat | 4. Be Prepared
  15. Cheese | 5. A 4 iron

  1. She won by one point ↩︎

  2. The Parthenon is a temple to the goddess Athena in Athens, Greece ↩︎

  3. A white rhino can weigh as much as 3,850kg ↩︎

  4. A snark is a type of animal in a poem by Lewis Caroll, but there is a type of particle called a quark ↩︎

  5. It’s the standard jumping technique ↩︎

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