The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

Ian_Chimp · November 25, 2020, 7:21am

The Great Hump Day Quiz!
(25/11/20)

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 American state capital is Indianapolis?
Which island advertises itself as the Jewel of the Mediterranean?
What do Italians call Florence?
Which African country is the home of the Kikuyu?
What’s the official language of India?

💗Entertainment

What singer has been married to Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens?
Which Angelina Jolie movie saw Snowdonia doubling for China?
What 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz film cost $28 million?
Who escaped a prison sentence following drug charges in 1997 after a blind girl said he got her safely home after a Rolling Stones concert?
Whose radio show was Ray’s a Laugh?

💛 History

What was Marco Polo’s home town?
Who announced in 2001: My last wish is to walk into a Margate pub as an Englishman and buy a pint of bitter?
Who said: “Soldiers win the battles and generals get the credit”?
What tasteless form of murder horrified Henry VIII so much that he insisted the perpetrators should be boiled alive?
What American president’s interpreter said on his behalf: “I desire the Poles carnally”?

💩 Art & Literature

What French stockbroker fled his homeland to paint in the Pacific?
What were dark blue until the Government announced in 1988 that they were to become dark red?
Who’s the clown in Shakespeare’s Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor?
Which poet wrote: Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn’t fit for humans now?
Where does the Venus de Milo stand?

💚 Science & Nature

Who did Henry Ford name his ill-received Edsel motor car after?
Which company that developed the Walkman has a name derived from a word meaning sound?
What Tibetan mammal lives at a higher altitude than any other in the world?
Which country’s total car output in 1947 was just 110 vehicles?
What appear when the Sun activates your melanocytes?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

What country was the birth place of tennis spoilsprot Ilie Nastase?
Which British soccer team did Estonia fail to turn up to face in a World Cup qualifier?
What sprot’s ball was originally stuffed with boiled feathers?
Which heavy metal band stars Bruce Dickinson who is a top-ranked fencer?
What does the referee count to when a professional wrestler is pinned?

6. Did you find me?

Scoreboard

	Total
@Ace12345	21	5	1	5	3	3	4
@VanillaWithSprinkles	18	4	½	1½	4	5	3
@WillC	17½	4	2½	3	4	3	1
@SexInTheCity	14½	5	½	3	2	2	2
@Peitho	14	3	1½	2½	3	1	3
@Ian_Chimp	13½	4	½	1	3	3	2
@MsSubExperimenter	12	3	0	1	2	2	4
@KottanKitten	8½	4	½	1	0	2	1

The Answers