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(16/03/22)

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. In Tokyo, what tiny piece of land must you own before you are permitted to buy a car?

  2. Name one of the two former names of St. Petersburg.

  3. The North Pole is in the middle of which ocean?

  4. The Sultan Ahmet Mosque in Istanbul is known as - the Red Mosque, the White Mosque, or the Blue Mosque?

  5. Which British city is nicknamed “The Granite City”?

💗Entertainment

  1. What was the registration number of Lady Penelope’s car?

  2. In which children’s television programme do stories always end with the words, “Isn’t that a pip”?

  3. Which US film comedian and musician won a Grammy award for best bluegrass album in 2009?

  4. Set on a spaceship, which 2016 film features actor Chris Pratt waking up from his hibernation pod 90 years early?

  5. What M*A*S*H character’s favourite drink is a Grape Knee-High?

💛 History

  1. Which of these Apple products was released first - iPad, iPod, or iPhone?

  2. What ancient site near Dorchester is Europe’s largest and most complex Iron Age hillfort?

  3. Which Essex town was the capital of Roman Britain before London became the capital in the 1st century AD?

  4. Which Anglo-Saxon king was born at Wantage in around 849, and ruled the kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899?

  5. What year did the UK join the EEC?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Which city in Yorkshire was the UK’s City of Culture in 2017?

  2. Ikebana is the Japanese art of what - folding paper, meditating, or flower arranging?

  3. Who wrote Bitter Sweet?

  4. Which American artist created a series of paintings referred to as ‘black pourings’?

  5. What E. B. White story became a popular film featuring the voice of Michael J. Fox?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. Roughly what percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in water - 51, 61, or 71 per cent?

  2. Which plant that looks like a daisy is drunk as a relaxing herbal tea?

  3. What’s the medical term for cancer of the blood?

  4. In a maths class, what item would you use to measure angles?

  5. A gross is equivalent to how many dozen?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. Which of the following is not a yoga pose - kite, torch, plough, or chair?

  2. In diving, what does the thumbs up gesture mean?

  3. In cricket, what bird is the term used when a batsman is out without scoring a run?

  4. Which of the following is not part of a fish hook - barb, eye, tooth, or shank?

  5. What does MDF stand for?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@MrsLovett77 24 5 3 5 2 5 4
@WillC 23 5 3 3 4 4 4
@Peitho 20 5 1 2 2 5 5
@Craig1234 18½ 4 2 1½ 1 5 5
@MsSubExperimenter 18 5 1 2 3 3 4
@Knottydevil 17½ 4 2 3½ 0 4 4
@Ian_Chimp 17 3 3 2 2 4 3
@Forever_his 10 2 0 1 1 3 3
@littlespoons 7 1 1 1 0 1 2
The Answers

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

  1. Parking space | 1. FAB 1
  2. Petrograd or Leningrad | 2. In the Night Garden
  3. Arctic Ocean | 3. Steve Martin[1]
  4. The Blue Mosque[2] | 4. Passengers
  5. Aberdeen | 5. Radar O’Reilly’s
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. iPod[3] | 1. Hull
  7. Maiden Castle | 2. Flower arranging[4]
  8. Colchester[5] | 3. Noel Coward
  9. Alfred the Great | 4. Jackson Pollack[6]
  10. 1973 | 5. Stuart Little
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. 71 per cent | 1. Torch
  12. Camomile | 2. Stop the dive and ascend
  13. Leukemia | 3. Duck
  14. A protractor | 4. Tooth
  15. 12 | 5. Medium-density fibreboard

  1. He has long been a keen banjo player ↩︎

  2. Intricate blue tiles decorate the inside walls ↩︎

  3. In 2001. The iPhone came in 2007, and the iPad followed in 2010 ↩︎

  4. The form developed as an expression of Buddhist ideas of beauty ↩︎

  5. They called it Camulodunum ↩︎

  6. This dark period followed his colourful drip paintings ↩︎

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