The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

[Ian_Chimp]

The Great Hump Day Quiz!
(21/10/20)

Welcome to this week’s Great Hump Day Quiz. All newcomers are most welcome , so check out the rules, pop your answers in a post, and I’ll add you to the Scoreboard.

Where do the questions come from?

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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.

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Categories:

💙 Geography

1. Which army famously guards the tomb of Shi huang-ti?

2. What country covers an entire continent?

3. Which area of London would you visit to walk along Bob Marley Way?

4. Which Spanish word for ‘tomorrow’ means it could take months for something to happen?

5. What church is home to the Bow Bell?

💗Entertainment

1. Whose three-year marriage to Jim Threapleton ended in 2001?

2. What TV series featured The Riddler, The Penguin and the Joker?

3. Who is Montgomery Burns’ toadying lackey?

4. Which dolls were rationed at Christmas 1997?

5. What group did Mark Bolan lead?

💛 History

1. Who claimed his common bond with Tony Blair was that they both used Colgate toothpaste?

2. What were there 368,000 of in 1961 and 2,295,000 in 1981?

3. Which country did Tony Blair declare war on 1 October 2001?

4. Which Chicago law-upholder had the registration plate EN-1 during the prohibition era?

5. What ancient Greeks are remembered for their austere lifestyle?

💩 Art & Literature

1. Which comic character varied his usual cow pie-only diet in 1996 in the light of the mad cow disease beef crisis?

2. What river did John baptise Christ in?

3. Which Anthony Hopkins movie was based on Thomas Harris’ biggest-selling novel?

4. How many ages of man does Shakespeare refer to in As You Like It?

5. What are Henry Miller’s two tropical books?

💚 Science & Nature

1. What was Hyman Lipman the first person to stick on the end of a pencil that a 1999 report claimed can be deadly?

2. Who discovered penicillin?

3. What were specially packed in a gold, silver and bronze combination and in assorted flavours for athletes at the 2000 Olympics?

4. What occasion were women’s birthdays counted from in ancient Greece?

5. What organ contains the smallest bones?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

1. Who beat Arsenal in the 2003 Community Shield after a penalty decider?

2. What are the three colours on a roulette wheel?

3. Which titled explorer ran seven marathons on seven continents in seven days?

4. Who returned to manage Melchester Rovers in 1997 after losing a foot in a helicopter accident in 1993?

5. What sprot confronts participants with hairpins?

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Scoreboard

	Total
@Ian_Chimp	20	3	3	3	3	5	3
@WillC	19	4	3½	2	3	3	3½
@Serpentwand	18½	4	2	3	4	3	2½
@MsSubExperimenter	18	2½	3½	1	4	3	4
@Ace12345	18	2½	2	2½	4	3	4
@VanillaWithSprinkles	17	4	2	1	4	4	2
@Peitho	16½	2½	3½	2	3	3	2½
@SexInTheCity	15½	4	1	1½	4	3	2

The Answers

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Geography	Entertainment
1. The Terracotta Army	1. Kate Winslet’s
2. Australia	2. Batman
3. Brixton	3. Waylon Smithers
4. Manaña	4. Teletubbies
5. St. Mary-Le-Bow	5. T. Rex
History	Arts & Literature
1. George W. Bush	1. Desperate Dan
2. Unemployed	2. The Jordan
3. Afghanistan	3. The Silence of the Lambs
4. Eliot Ness	4. Seven
5. The Spartans	5. Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
Science & Nature	Sprot & Leisure
1. A rubber	1. Manchester United
2. Alexander Feming	2. Black, green, red
3. Condoms	3. Sir Ranulph Fiennes
4. Their wedding day	4. Roy of the Rovers
5. The ear	5. Motor racing