The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

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(23/03/22)

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. As at 2016, which two countries, both in North Africa, boast the only two underground railway systems on the whole continent?

  2. In which historic county is the fictional Downton Abbey located - Yorkshire, Hampshire, Cornwall, or Cheshire?

  3. Which is the oldest remaining British overseas territory, administered by the Crown since 1684?

  4. Spanish children leave a lost tooth under their pillow for the tooth mouse, not the tooth fairy. True or false?

  5. Which North African stew is also the name of the dish its cooked in?

💗Entertainment

  1. Who is Gru’s mad scientist partner-in-crime in Despicable Me?

  2. Which model of robot was sent back in time to kill John Conner in Terminator 2: Judgement Day?

  3. On which animated 1960s TV series were the household appliances powered by animals?

  4. Which of the Seven Dwarfs comes first (alphabetically)?

  5. What two people’s pictures were hanging on Alf Garnett’s living room wall?

💛 History

  1. From which root vegetable were jack-o’-lanterns originally made?

  2. What has been the most common name given to baby boys over the last 500 years - George, John, or David?

  3. Which period of prehistory has a name that roughly translates from Greek as ‘New Stone Age’ ?

  4. Who inherited the throne of Scotland at the age of six days?

  5. In 2017, the Queen celebrating 65 years on the throne was referred to as her what - Golden Jubilee, Diamond Jubilee, or Sapphire Jubilee?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Whose Another Place sculpture can be seen on Crosby Beach near Liverpool?

  2. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which child blew up into a giant-sized blueberry?

  3. Who was the first major author to read his own work in public for profit?

  4. Which prolific artist, famous for his ‘paintings of light’, hid the number 5282 in his work to honour his wedding day, 2 May 1982?

  5. What was the African Queen in C. S. Forester’s novel?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. The Greek mathematician Euclid is popularly known as “The Father of…” which branch of maths?

  2. What type of engine uses the same basic technology as a pressure cooker?

  3. After oxygen, what is the most abundant element in the human body by weight - calcium, carbon, nitrogen, or hydrogen?

  4. Which animal makes the longest land migration?

  5. What is the modern name for the Draisienne which Baron Karl Dreiss von Sauerbronn invented in 1817 to travel around the parks of Paris?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. What colour light is displayed on the port side of a boat?

  2. In French cooking, what do you add to a croque monsieur to make it a croque madame?

  3. Which Czech-born tennis player won an unprecedented nine women’s singles championships at Wimbledon between 1978 and 1990?

  4. What distance is covered by runners on a junior parkrun event?

  5. What is the name of the international multi-sprot event for wounded armed forces personnel, created by Prince Harry?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@Peitho 18½ 2½ 3½ 3 2½ 4 3
@Knottydevil 16 2½ 3 2 2½ 4 2
@Ian_Chimp 15½ 3 3 3 2½ 2 2
@MsSubExperimenter 15 3 2½ 3 2½ 1 3
@Craig1234 14 1½ 3½ 3 2 1 3
@Forever_his 9 1 1½ 2 ½ 3 1
The Answers

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

  1. Egypt and Algeria[1] | 1. De Nefario
  2. Yorkshire | 2. T-1000
  3. Bermuda | 3. The Flintstones
  4. True[2] | 4. Bashful
  5. Tagine | 5. Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Turnips[3] | 1. Anthony Gormley
  7. John | 2. Violet Beauregarde
  8. Neolithic | 3. Charles Dickens
  9. Mary, Queen of Scots | 4. Thomas Kinkade
  10. Sapphire Jubilee[4] | 5. A steam launch
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Geometry | 1. Red
  12. Steam engine | 2. An egg
  13. Carbon | 3. Martina Navratilova[5]
  14. Caribou | 4. 2km
  15. Bicycle | 5. Invictus Games

  1. The Cairo Metro opened in 1987, and the Algiers Metro in 2011 ↩︎

  2. He’s called Ratón Perez and often leaves a small gift rather than money for the tooth ↩︎

  3. People also carved beetroots and potatoes in order to ward off those who might bear them ill will ↩︎

  4. The Golden Jubilee marked her 50 years, and the Diamond 60 years ↩︎

  5. Six of those nine titles were won in consecutive years from 1982 to 1987 ↩︎

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