The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

Ian_Chimp · October 28, 2020, 6:48am

The Great Hump Day Quiz!
(28/10/20)

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

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

What region of China is the Dalai Lama’s palace in?
Which two countries are separated by the so-called Tortilla Curtain?
What would an American call a car bonnet?
What is the highest mountain in the Grampians?
What’s Europe’s longest river?

💗Entertainment

What TV series featured Grandad Trotter?
Which model said she didn’t get out if bed for less than $10,000 a day?
Who starred in the film The Eiger Sanction?
Whose alter egos included Loadsamoney?
What was the first Crosby-Hope Road movie?

💛 History

What do Teddy Boys call their heavy, crepe-soled shoes?
Why did Foula Island, some 24 miles away from Shetland, wait until January the 13th to celebrate the new millennium?
How is the election of the new Pope announced to the world?
What sobriquet was attached to the quartet wrongly convicted of a 1975 pub bombing and finally released in 1989?
Who did Franco designate as his successor in 1969?

💩 Art & Literature

How did Van Gogh end his life?
What is the most commonly used English word beginning with the letter M?
What part of the Week was a success for Alan Sillitoe?
What Shakespeare adaptation were Hackney school kids prevented from seeing because it is entirely about heterosexual love?
What’s the magic number that helped to bring down the walls of Jericho?

💚 Science & Nature

What large primate is unique to Borneo and Sumatra?
What was the active ingredient in paregoric, an ointment used on the gums of Victorian babies?
What fish’s skin was once used commercially as sandpaper?
Which company launched the y3 trainer?
What’s the world’s most common compound?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

What sproting event was the subject of a Dennis Waterman film?
Which Olympic swimmer auditioned for a role in Jaws?
What two Scrabble letters have eight-point values?
What are the grommets, who can be seen in Newquay each weekend, novices at?
What golf club has an 800-year-old bridge leading to one of its 18th holes?

Scoreboard

	Total
@Serpentwand	20½	4	3	3½	3	4	3
@Onlyones	20	4	3	4	3	2	4
@WillC	19½	4	3	2	4	3	3½
@Peitho	19	5	3	2	3	4	2
@Ian_Chimp	17	4	2	2	4	3	2
@MsSubExperimenter	15½	2	3	1½	2	3	4
@SexInTheCity	14½	2	2	3	2	4	1½

The Answers