(09/04/23)
Back for a one-off Easter Revival by special request… Welcome to the Great Hump Day Quiz! 
If you’d like to join, check out how to hide your answers, pop them in a post, and I’ll add you to the Scoreboard. 
We also have an answer template you can copy and paste now too.
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. Perfect fodder for a Hump Day special.
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 )
So, there you go. It’s a bit random, but it should add to the fun.
Categories:
💙 Geography
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What are the only two landlocked countries in South America?
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What did Britain’s roads acquire for the first time in 1914?
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What sea lies between Riga and Stockholm?
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What range of hills runs through Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire?
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In which country might you eat fried grasshoppers called chapulines?
💗Entertainment
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When McDonald’s first opened in the UK in 1974, how much did a cheeseburger cost - 21p, 50p, or 72p?
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Which member of The Rolling Stones drowned in a swimming pool?
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What actor signed Hollywood’s first million-dollar contract?
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Who was the first Beatle to have a No. 1 solo hit?
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What film saw Burt Reynolds ride in a canoe with a broken leg?
💛 History
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Where is Sir Winston Churchill buried?
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What was the infamous pseudonym of William Bonney?
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Which English king is famous for burning the cakes?
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Who flew in Vostok I?
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What did Roald Amundsen reach first?
💩 Art & Literature
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What novel has the ghost of Catherine appearing to Mr. Lockwood?
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What day of the week was Solomon Grundy married on?
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What was H.G. Wells first novel?
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What note is equivalent to eight quavers?
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What Boris Pasternak book sold 500,000 copies to become the fiction best-seller in 1958?
💚 Science & Nature
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What animals does a hippophobe fear?
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What’s a group of kittens called?
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Who invented the automobile in 1885?
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What type of wool is obtained from angora goats?
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What is both a type of bed and a layer of the rainforest?
🧡 Sprot & Leisure
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How many points is a cannon worth in billiards?
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What were first used by John L. Sullivan and James J. Corbett in 1892?
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What is the centre division of a backgammon board called?
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What sprot uses a ball called a slitter?
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What emblem appears on an England rugby union badge?
Scoreboard
| Total |  |
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| @VanillaWithSprinkles | 18 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| @WillC | 18 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| @MsSubExperimenter | 17½ | 3½ | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| @Peitho | 17 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| @Ian_Chimp | 11 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| @Craig1234 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
The Answers
| Geography |
Entertainment |
|---|---|
| 1. Bolivia and Paraguay | 1. 21p |
| 2. White lines | 2. Brian Jones |
| 3. The Baltic | 3. Charlie Chaplin |
| 4. The Chilterns | 4. George Harrison[1] |
| 5. Mexico | 5. Deliverance |
| History |
Arts & Literature |
| 1. Bladon | 1. Wuthering Heights |
| 2. Billy the Kid | 2. Wednesday |
| 3. Alfred | 3. The Time Machine |
| 4. Yuri Gagarin | 4. Semibreve |
| 5. The South Pole | 5. Doctor Zhivago |
| Science & Nature |
Sprot & Leisure |
| 1. Horses | 1. Two |
| 2. A kindle | 2. Boxing gloves |
| 3. Karl Benz | 3. The bar |
| 4. Mohair | 4. Hurling |
| 5. Canopy | 5. Red rose |
My Sweet Lord Dec 26th 1970 ↩︎