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(05/07/22)

The Great Hump Day Quiz! 🐪

Welcome to the Great Hump Day Quiz! Dusted off and revived for an extra-special @Knottydevil Leaving-Do edition. :slight_smile: :partying_face:

I might be a bit late to the leaving-do with this one as I seem to have completely forgotten how to do them :slight_smile:, but nevertheless, if you’re still in the building @Knottydevil… here is a slightly premature Great Hump Day Quiz for old time’s sake. :clinking_glasses: :balloon:

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 is Scotland’s busiest airport in terms of passenger numbers?

  2. Which Yorkshire town gives its name to a circular, liquorice-flavoured sweet?

  3. Java and Sumatra are two of the thousands of islands that make up which Asian country?

  4. Which statue is found on a rock overlooking Copenhagen harbour?

  5. Which canal-filled Russian city is called the Venice of the North?

💗Entertainment

  1. Which singer and Academy Award winner joined The Voice UK as a coach in 2017?

  2. Which performer gave a series of concerts in 2014 called Before the Dawn, her first live shows since 1979?

  3. As of 2017, roughly how many English-language articles are on Wikipedia - 5 million, 20 million, or 50 million?

  4. What is both the home to SpongeBob SquarePants and a part of a bathing suit?

  5. Which film studio is represented by a roaring lion?

💛 History

  1. What was George VI’s nickname among members of his family - Georgie, Bertie, or Squidgy?

  2. Name the folkloric ghost ship that can never make it to port.

  3. How many different letters are used in Roman numerals?

  4. Richard Gere’s son shares his name with which ancient Greek poet and modern-day cartoon character?

  5. In 1847 Parliament passed a law that said children under the age of 18 were allowed to work in textiles factories for how many hours a day - 6, 10, or 18?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Which Jacqueline Wilson character lives in a children’s home that she calls The Dumping Ground, until she is fostered by Cam?

  2. Which of these is not a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber - Cats, Miss Saigon, or Starlight Express?

  3. The English nursery rhyme “Oranges and Lemons” was used in which dystopian novel published in 1949?

  4. If C is Charlie, which five other names are used in the NATO phonetic alphabet?

  5. Which London gallery opened a multi-storey extension, called the Blavatnik Building in 2016?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. Which was the final planet on the space probe Cassini’s journey?

  2. What insect spreads royal jelly over eggs?

  3. Who was the first official UK astronaut to visit the International Space Station?

  4. Which type of tea leaves have the highest amount of antioxidants - green, white, or black?

  5. What is the name for the white part of the eye?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. How many balls are used in the game of snooker, on a full-size table?

  2. Which of these has completed the London Marathon in the fastest time - Jenson Button, Amanda Holden, or Gordon Ramsey?

  3. In rounders, what score does the batting team get if the batter reaches the third post in one hit?

  4. Which fruit is found in Eve’s pudding?

  5. Shotokan is a form of which martial art - judo, karate, or taekwondo?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@Peitho 23 3 3 5 5 3 4
@MsSubExperimenter 20½ 4 3 5 4 ½ 4
@WillC 20½ 5 3 2 5 2½ 3
@MrsLovett77 19½ 5 3 4 3½ 2 2
@Knottydevil 19 4 2 3 4 3 3
@Craig1234 16½ 4 2 2 5 1½ 2
@Ian_Chimp 16 3 3 3 3 2 2
The Answers
:blue_heart: Geography :heartpulse: Entertainment
1. Edinburgh Airport 1. Jennifer Hudson
2. Pontefract[1] 2. Kate Bush
3. Indonesia 3. 5 million
4. The Little Mermaid 4. Bikini Bottom
5. St Petersburg 5. MGM[2]

:yellow_heart: History
:poop: Arts & Literature
1. Bertie 1. Tracy Beaker
2. Flying Dutchman 2. Miss Saigon[3]
3. Seven[4] 3. Nineteen Eighty-Four
4. Homer 4. Juliet, Mike, Oscar, Romeo, Victor[5]
5. 10 [6] 5. Tate Modern

:green_heart: Science & Nature
:orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure
1. Saturn 1. 22
2. Honey bee[7] 2. Jenson Button[8]
3. Tim Peake[9] 3. Half a Rounder
4. White 4. Apples
5. Sclera 5. Karate

  1. Though definitely a sweet, the product is called Pontefract cake ↩︎

  2. Leo the lion was created in 1916 when the studio was called Goldwyn Pictures ↩︎

  3. It’s by Boublil and Schonberg, who also created Les Misérables ↩︎

  4. I, V, X, L, C, D, M ↩︎

  5. India, Papa, and Sierra could also be names ↩︎

  6. Children could work for 10 hours a day on Mondays to Fridays and 8 hours on Saturdays, but had Sundays off ↩︎

  7. Large amounts of royal jelly turn an ordinary egg into a queen ↩︎

  8. He crossed the line in 2015 in an impressive 2 hours 52 minutes ↩︎

  9. Helen Sharman was the first Brit to go into space, but Tim Peake was the first to visit the ISS ↩︎

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