The Great Hump Day Quiz! 
(07/10/20)
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.
So, there you go. It’s a bit random, but it should add to the fun.
Categories:
💙 Geography
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What is the capital of Majorca?
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What American state is Memphis in?
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Which was the world’s tallest building immediately prior to the completion of the Empire State Building?
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What country’s flag flies over Spitsbergen?
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Which country joined the European Union in 1995 along with Sweden and Austria?
💗Entertainment
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Who played King Rat in the 1965 movie of the same name?
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Where did Rocky Raccoon live?
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What four-word question did Dave Stewart propose to Annie Lennox when he first met her?
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What’s the only colour Johnny Cash wears on stage?
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Which dance act is led by the oddly-hatted Jay Kay?
💛 History
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Who were the enemy at the Battle of Rorke’s Drift?
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What cargo was the Bounty carrying when the mutiny occurred?
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Which English sailor’s body was slipped into the sea off Panama in a lead coffin?
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What did Lloyd’s first admit on January 1, 1970?
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Which US five-star general and future president had pacifist parents?
💩 Art & Literature
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What is Nicholas Monsarrat’s most famous World War II novel?
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What mystery writer’s disappearance in 1926 prompted a nationwide search?
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Which composer was the first person to win three Oscars in one night for his work on The Sting and The Way We Were?
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What monthly is subtitled Entertainment for Men?
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Which artist was shot the day before Robert Kennedy’s assassination?
💚 Science & Nature
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What process forms drumlins, eskers and cirque?
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What’s the common name for hydrogen hydroxide?
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What did Christopher Cockerell patent in 1955?
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Where are the convolutions of Broca?
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What, in 1735, became the first metal to be identified that had been totally unknown to ancient man?
🧡 Sprot & Leisure
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Which is the higher poker hand, two pairs or three of a kind?
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What beer was promoted: “How grand to be a toucan - Just think what toucan do”?
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Which war-torn country was banned from the 1992 Olympics but allowed to enter individual athletes as independent participants?
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What must remain on the floor in snooker?
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At what sproting occasion did former brothel-keeper Cynthia Payne say she expected to see lots of old acquaintances?
Scoreboard
| Total |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @WillC | 20 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| @Peitho | 17½ | 2 | 2 | 2½ | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| @VanillaWithSprinkles | 15 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| @Ace12345 | 14½ | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4½ | 4 |
| @SexInTheCity | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| @MsSubExperimenter | 13½ | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2½ | 3 |
| @Ian_Chimp | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| @Cassii | 9½ | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1½ |
The Answers
| Geography | Entertainment
— | — | —
| 1. Palma | 1. George Segal
| 2. Tennessee | 1. The Black Hills of South Dakota
| 3. The Chrysler Building | 3. 'Will you marry me?
| 4. Norway’s | 4. Black
| 5. Finland | 5. Jamiroquai
| History | Arts & Literature |
| 1. The Zulus | 1. The Cruel Sea
| 2. Breadfruit trees | 2. Agatha Christie’s
| 3. Sir Francis Drake’s | 3. Marvin Hamlisch
| 4. Women | 4. Playboy
| 5. Dwight D Eisenhower | 5. Andy Warhol
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Science & Nature | Sprot & Leisure |
| 1. Glaciation | 1. Three of a kind
| 2. Water | 2. Guiness
| 3. The hovercraft | 3. Yugoslavia
| 4. The brain | 4. One foot
(also accepted: table )
| 5. Cobalt | 5. Royal Ascot