The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

Ian_Chimp · November 11, 2020, 7:22am

The Great Hump Day Quiz!
(11/11/20)

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 continent is Barbados considered part of?
What are natives of Sardinia called?
What’s the only country in the world that starts with the letter O in English?
Which island nation boasts 40 species of Lemur?
What country is home to the TAP airline?

💗Entertainment

What film had The Entertainer as its theme tune?
Which co-manager of Westlife has had several chart-topping singles of his own?
Who made a hit of He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother?
Which purse carrier was denounced by American Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell as ‘A gay role model’?
What English comedian is famed for playing the piano badly?

💛 History

Who wears The Fisherman’s Ring?
What age had been passed by 25 people still living in the world, according to a 2000 report by the University of California?
What head of state was born at 17 Bruton Street, London?
What is William Hague lacking that Neil Kinnock claimed precludes him from ever being Prime Minister?
Who called religion “the opium of the people”?

💩 Art & Literature

What Irish-born playwright was sentenced to two years of hard labour for homosexuality?
What was the best-selling book by Douglas Adams who guested on guitar with Pink Floyd?
What country claimed Rubens, Van Dyck and Breugel as citizens?
Which sharp phrase for bearing a grudge was first used in the a USA in 1804?
What name to Vincent Van Gogh sign to his paintings?

💚 Science & Nature

What does the typical person do 295 times during their dinner hour?
What does CJD stand for?
Which is bigger, the American or English billion?
What is the collective name for sea horses?
What’s the world’s most popular non-alcoholic organic beverage?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

Where would you see a horse jump over The Chair?
What event’s world record had stood since 1968 when Mike Powell went just a little further in 1991?
What country does tennis player Mark Edmondson hail from?
Which country has collected more than half of the Olympic medals for the men’s 400 metres?
What year did football’s Munich air disaster happen?

Scoreboard

	Total
@WillC	22½	5	4½	4	3	3	3
@Ace12345	22	5	2	5	4	3	3
@Peitho	21	4	3	4	3	3	4
@Onlyones	20	4	2	4	3	3	4
@MsSubExperimenter	17	5	1	3	3	2	4
@Serpentwand	17	4	3	3	3	2	2
@SexInTheCity	17	4½	2	3	4	1	2½
@VanillaWithSprinkles	15	4	2	1	3	3	2
@Ian_Chimp	13½	3	2	2	5	1½	0
@KottanKitten	3½	1½	0	0	0	1	1

The Answers