(28/07/21)
Welcome to another Great Hump Day Quiz!
We’re always trying to add more people to our quiz gang, so check out how to hide your answers, pop them 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.
(Edit: Now with an added sprinkling of more recent questions too )
So, there you go. It’s a bit random, but it should add to the fun.
Categories:
💙 Geography
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The Ebola virus takes its name from what type of geographic feature in the Democratic Republic of Congo - lake, river or waterfall?
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What island is home to statues called Mauis?
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In which European city would you find the Charles Bridge, the Clementinum and St Vitus Catherdral?
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By what nickname is the Gravelly Hill interchange of the M6 motorway also known?
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Which two commercial airlines operated Concorde, the first supersonic airliner to shuttle passengers around the world?
💗Entertainment
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What corporation was founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith in 1919?
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Which comedy character bounced back onto our screens, big and small, with Alpha Papa and Mid Morning Matters?
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What ship bears the identification number NCC 1701?
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What was the name of the Scottish prison officer in Porridge?
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What was the Oscar-winning theme song of Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
💛 History
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What does NATO stand for?
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The ancient Egyptian god Kehpri had the body of a man and the head of which insect?
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Which NASA probe entered the orbit of Jupiter on 4 July 2016, after a five year trek?
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How many funnels did the Titanic have?
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What country did Morocco and Tunisia fight to run their independence from?
💩 Art & Literature
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Which East London street provided Monica Ali with the title of her Booker-nominated debut novel?
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Which Dutch artist, known as the Devil’s Painter, shares his name with a detective in Michael Connelly’s crime series?
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What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans?
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The name for which popular fruit comes from the Arabic word for ‘finger’?
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Who wrote Vile Bodies and Brideshead Revisited?
💚 Science & Nature
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Where in the body can you find the cochlea - eye, ear or ankle?
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What is the syrup drained from raw sugar?
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What does the LED in ‘LED lights’ stand for?
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What’s a dactylogram?
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What’s the name of the neon glow emitted by an organism beneath the ocean’s surface, similar to that of a firefly?
🧡 Sprot & Leisure
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What video game marked the first appearence of Mario?
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How many fences does a Grand National winner jump?
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In orienteering, which of these coloured courses is considered the most difficult - brown, yellow or white?
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What game could have a player rolling his bonce at an alley?
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What yellow Italian liqueur goes into a Harvey Wallbanger?
Scoreboard
| Total |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @Peitho | 21 | 3½ | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4½ | 3 |
| @WillC | 20 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| @MsSubExperimenter | 18½ | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | ½ |
| @MrsLovett77 | 16⅚ | 4 | 3 | 2½ | 3 | 2⅓ | 2 |
| @SexInTheCity | 16 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| @Ian_Chimp | 16 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| @Bella_1 | 13½ | 2½ | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
The Answers
| Geography | Entertainment
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- River | 1. United Artists
- Easter Island | 2. Alan Partridge
- Prague | 3. The Starship Enterprise
- Spaghetti Junction | 4. Mr. Mackay
- British Airways and France | 5. Moon River
| History | Arts & Literature |
- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation | 1. Brick Lane
- Scarab beetle
(He was associated with creation, the movement of the Sun and rebirth) | 2. Hieronymus Bosch - Juno | 3. George Eliot
- Four | 4. Banana
- France | 5. Evelyn Waugh
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Science & Nature | Sprot & Leisure |
- Ear | 1. Donkey Kong
- Molasses | 2. Thirty
- Light-emitting Diode | 3. Brown
(White and yellow are for beginners, while brown are only for the most exerienced orienteers) - A fingerprint | 4. Marbles
- Bioluminescence | 5. Galliano
Trying to think back to the film… its either 4 or 5 I think… let’s try 4?
? Vaguely pointy and thinking of you Mr. Chimp
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