The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

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Geography

1, Kuala Lumpur
2, Pyramid?
3, Seine
4, Cuba?
5, Chad, Togo?

Entertainment

1, Judy Garland
2, Last of the Summer Wine
3, No idea!
4, Justin?
5, Gerry Halliwell

History

1, No idea
2, Marshall Plan?
3, Che Guevara?
4, Apollo 11
5, Ordnance Survey?

Art and Literature

1, No idea
2, Dr Samuel Johnson
3, Heathcliffe?
4, Whire?
5, Violin?

Science and Nature

1, Jurassic?
2, No idea
3, Congress?
4, Elm?
5, Keyboard?

Sprot and Leisure

1, Red and Black?
2, No idea
3, No idea
4, No idea
5, Beds?

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King Edward potato this week…

Good luck folks

Answers to Hump Day Quiz

Geography :blue_heart:

  1. Kuala lumpur
  2. Giza
  3. Saine
  4. Jamaica?
  5. Chad, Mali, togo

Entertainment :heartpulse:

  2. Last of the summer wine

History :yellow_heart:

  4. Appolo 9

Arts and Literature :poop:

  5. Violin

Science and Nature :green_heart:

  1. Gearsic (spelling…)
  2. Milky way
  3. Senate
  5. Condoms

Sprot and Leisure :orange_heart:

  1. Red yellow(gold)
  2. 3??
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Oh my God - these are hard!!!

My attempt:

💙 Geography
  1. Kuala Lumpur
  2. Ooh, interesting question… not been to either. Area covered the Great Pyramid is obviously larger but higher? :thinking: I’m going to say the Eiffel Tower
  3. The Seine
  4. I associate it with West Side Story so I’ll guess Costa Rica? Does that count as Caribbean though :thinking:
  5. Chad, Mali and for a bonus?.. Togo :joy:
💗 Entertainment
  1. Not a clue
  2. Last of the Summer Wine
  3. Um… Lola?
  4. I think Justified is Justin Timberlake so Justin?
  5. :woman_shrugging:t2: Mel B?
💛 History
  1. William and Mary? Can’t think of any others who ruled together
  2. :woman_shrugging:t2:
  3. I feel this is one I should have known when you tell me but no name is coming to me.
  4. Apollo. 11 to be specific.
  5. A not especially famous one!
💩 Art and Literature
  1. Sorry not read them
  2. Such a famous quote - how do I not know this?! :see_no_evil:
  3. Jane Eyre
  4. :woman_shrugging:t2: White?
  5. Violin?
💚 Science and Nature
  1. Hmm :thinking: - peat was mainly created well pre dinos wasn’t it when there swamps and tar pits and waaay more CO2. I think it would be then. Don’t know what that period was called though! I will say Cretaceous but I think it was actually significantly earlier.
  2. I studied Astrophysics - how do I not know this?!!!
  3. I know conspiracy and unkindness definitely do, of the other two… Senate?
  4. Um… another one I should know!
  5. Hmmm, I associate Casio with my early calculators and ones Dad has so presumably pre mobiles so something old school phone related. Fax Machine?
🧡 Sprot and Leisure
  1. I have no idea what a Caramac is… yellow and red?
  2. What the hell is spoof?! 24? :woman_shrugging:t2:
  3. Definitely a heptathlete, possibly Jessica Ennis?
  4. :woman_shrugging:t2: Not the foggiest - Brazil?
  5. Beach volleyball costumes? …though that’s still protested now so maybe not.

Science is usually my good saviour round - not today! :woman_facepalming:t2:. Much written out thinking and few correct answers I fear.

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Well 1 more Sprot than I thought - not a clue which though!

@Ian_Chimp am I allowed a golden edit, not to change any answers but to change “feeling correct snswers” to “few correct answers”? :rofl:

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Go for it. :+1::slightly_smiling_face:

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MrsLovett's answers

:blue_heart:
1-Jakarta
2-Eiffel Tower?
3-La Seine
4-Cuba
5-Mali and Togo

:heartpulse:
1-Judy Garland
2-Last of the Summer Wine
3-No idea
4-Justin?
5-Mel C?
:yellow_heart:
1-Victoria and Albert?
2-Marshall?
3-Emiliano Zapata?
4-Apollo XI
5-Don’t know… A toZ?

:poop:
1-No idea
2-Samuel Johnson
3-Jane Eye
4-White?
5-Violins?

:green_heart:
1-Jurassic?
2-Crab Nebulae
3-Congress?
4-Poplar?
5- Watch?

:orange_heart:
1- Yellow and orange?
2-No idea
3-Don’t know
4-United States?
5-Their shorts? Only thing I can think of :rofl:

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Oooh well done

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Answers to Hump Day Quiz

Geography :blue_heart:

  1. Kuala Lumpur
  2. Eiffel Tower
  3. Siene River
  4. Cuba
  5. Chad and Togo?

Entertainment :heartpulse:

  1. No idea
  2. No idea
  3. Marv
  4. Justin
  5. Geri Halliwel

History :yellow_heart:

  1. No idea
  2. No idea
  3. No idea
  4. Apollo 11?
  5. Tube map

Arts and Literature :poop:

  1. No idea
  2. No idea
  3. Jane Ayre
  4. Scarlet
  5. Violin

Science and Nature :green_heart:

  1. No idea
  2. No idea
  3. Senate?
  4. Maple
  5. Voicemail?

Sprot and Leisure :orange_heart:

  1. Red and Yellow
  2. No idea
  3. Jessica Ennis-Hill
  4. No idea
  5. No idea - medals?
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Last orders!

@MsSubExperimenter @VanillaWithSprinkles (and anyone else, of course :slightly_smiling_face:)

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Will have a quick look now - thank you for the poke @Ian_Chimp! Life’s just been mental lately

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Oh dear
  1. The Petronas Twin Towers, a pair of 88-storey skyscrapers, dominate the skyline in which capital city in south-east Asia? Kuala Lumpur
  2. Which is taller - the Eiffel Tower, or the Great Pyramid of Giza? Eiffel Tower?
  3. What is the name of the main river running through Paris, France? Seine
  4. Rumba, a form of music and dance fusing African and Spanish influences, originated in which Caribbean country? Cuba?
  5. Name two of the three African countries whose names contain only four letters? Mali, Chad, Togo?

:heartpulse:Entertainment

  1. What actresses’s real name was Frances Gumm? No idea
  2. Which TV series saw Peter Sallis playing Cleggy? Auf Wiedersen Pet?
  3. In Charlie and Lola, what is the name of Charlie’s best friend? Lola?
  4. Which first name is shared by the solo artists whose first albums are Justified and My World 2.0? Justin
  5. Which Spice Girl launched a solo career with the album Schizophonic? Geri?

:yellow_heart: History

  1. Who were the only husband and wife team to rule England and Scotland as joint sovereigns? James and Mary?
  2. What plan to rebuild Europe was unveiled on June 5, 1947? Don’t know
  3. What Mexican leader was shot dead in 1923? No idea, Speedy Gonzales!
  4. Which was the first NASA spacecraft to take humans onto the surface of the moon? Apollo?
  5. Which famous map were North Weald and Ongar dropped from in the 1990s? Tube/London Underground?

:poop: Art & Literature

  1. In Patrick O’Brian’s naval series, what is the name of the first ship under Jack Aubrey’s command? No clue, Flying Dutchman!
  2. Who said: “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life”? Someone
  3. Which ten-year-old orphan is living at their childhood home, called Gateshead, at the start of a Charlotte Brontë novel? Emma?
  4. What colour feather was a bestselling book title for Maeve Binchy? White?
  5. In a typical symphony orchestra, which musical instrument appears in the greatest number? Strings? (Violin)?

:green_heart: Science & Nature

  1. What geological period saw most of the main coal deposits laid down? Jurassic?
  2. Which ‘leggy’ cluster of space dust in the Taurus constellation is the remains of a star that exploded in 1054? Centipede?
  3. Which of the following does not refer to a group of ravens - congress, conspiracy, senate, or unkindness? Congress?
  4. What family of trees is the sycamore a member of? Oak?
  5. What was the Casio PhoneMate one of the most popular early models of? Phone case?

:orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure

  1. What are the two main colours of a Caramac wrapper? Red and yellow?
  2. What’s the maximum number of coins that can be turned up with four players of spoof? 3?
  3. Which British Olympic champion has held the national women’s record for both high jump and 100m hurdles? Katarina Johnson-Thompson?
  4. Which country hosted the 1994 soccer World Cup? USA?
  5. What did Ugandan athletes protest were too small at the Sydney Olympics? Medals?
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I have added the answers to the quiz post :+1:

I can duly declare this week’s winner of the Great Hump Day Quiz to be… :drum::drum::drum:

@SexInTheCity :trophy::balloon:

Congratulations! :slightly_smiling_face: And a pretty solid outing on a very tough board. :clap:

And the Great Hump Clean-Sweepers are… :bouquet::confetti_ball:

@MsSubExperimenter :blue_heart:
@SexInTheCity :blue_heart:

The kid’s questions this week were:

:blue_heart:2 | :heartpulse:3 | :yellow_heart:4 | :poop:3 | :green_heart:3 | :orange_heart:1

And the glorious Potato this week goes to @craig1234 :potato::slightly_smiling_face::confetti_ball:

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Well done @SexInTheCity!

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Congratulations @SexInTheCity :slightly_smiling_face:

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Congratulations @SexInTheCity - very impressing answering on a really tricky set of questions!

I particularly enjoyed learning :orange_heart:5… I think I did hear about it at the time but had forgotten! :rofl:

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Thank you all!!! It feels like it’s been a long time since a win so feels good. :partying_face:

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Congratulations @SexInTheCity . That was a tricky set of questions. Very well done! :tada::tada:

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(26/01/22)

The Great Hump Day Quiz! 🐪

Welcome to the 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. :+1::slightly_smiling_face:

:exclamation:We also have an answer template you can copy and paste now too. :+1:

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. :slightly_smiling_face: Perfect fodder for a Hump Day special. :+1:

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 :+1::slightly_smiling_face:)

So, there you go. It’s a bit random, but it should add to the fun. :slightly_smiling_face:

Categories:

💙 Geography

  1. What country are you in if you’re sitting on a sofa in Sofia?

  2. Which country has internet addresses ending in .il?

  3. Which North Atlantic island group is known as the “sheep islands”?

  4. In which country is Sharm el-Sheikh?

  5. Which city is served by Keflavik Airport?

💗Entertainment

  1. What TV sci-fi duo gave Catatonia their highest placing in the singles chart?

  2. Which hard rock band’s 2016-2017 world concert tour was called “Not in this Lifetime…”?

  3. What’s the surname of Michelin-starred celebrity chef Tom, who owns Tom’s Kitchen restaurant?

  4. What creatures attack Troll Village in the Trolls film?

  5. What food did E.T. cause Elliot to drop in fright in his backyard?

💛 History

  1. Who married American actress Nancy Davis?

  2. In a Roman villa, what was a hypocaust used for - to sleep on, to provide central heating, or for growing plants?

  3. What was the operative name of Dutch-born World War I spy Geertruida Zelle?

  4. What began August 15, 1969, on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm?

  5. What two mountain ranges did Hannibal and his elephants march through in 218 B.C.?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Which paining by Johannes Vermeer is at the heart of movie starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth?

  2. Why would a phobatrivaphobe fear this question?

  3. In which book did Caractacus Potts own an extraordinary car?

  4. How many attended the March Hare’s tea party?

  5. What does P.S. stand for at the end of a letter?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What are the names of the acids that are found in your small intestine - carbolic, amino, or acetic?

  2. What type of people have an appetite for anthropophagy?

  3. What did Wilhelm Roentgen discover in 1895?

  4. When does slack water occur?

  5. What m-word describes the change from a chrysalis to a butterfly?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. Which Asian country hosted the first ever night-time Formula 1 Grand Prix?

  2. Where can castor oil be found on a golf course?

  3. What animal is pictured on malted milk biscuits?

  4. What are the highest-paying odds on a roulette table?

  5. How many points was each dot swallowed by Pac-man worth?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@Peitho 17½ 3 1 3 4 4 2½
@MsSubExperimenter 17½ 5 1 4 3½ 2 2
@Ian_Chimp 17½ 2 2 3 4½ 4 2
@SexInTheCity 14½ 4 0 1 4½ 3 2
@WillC 14 2 2 4½ 3 2½ 1
@Craig1234 7½ 3½ 0 0 1½ 1½ 1
The Answers

| :blue_heart: Geography | :heartpulse: Entertainment
— | — | —

  1. Bulgaria | 1. Mulder and Scully
  2. Israel | 2. Guns N’ Roses
  3. Faroes | 3. Aikens
  4. Egypt | 4. Bergens
  5. Reykjavik | 5. Pizza
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Ronald Reagan | 1. Girl With a Pearl Earring
  7. To provide central heating | 2. It’s a fear of trivia about phobias
  8. Mata Hari | 3. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  9. Woodstock | 4. Four
  10. The Pyrenees and Alps | 5. Postscript
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. Amino | 1. Singapore
  12. Cannibals | 2. Inside golf balls
  13. X-Rays | 3. Cow
  14. Between the tides | 4. Thirty-five to one
  15. Metamorphosis | 5. Ten
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WillC Answers

Geography

1, Bulgaria?
2, Iceland?
3, Shetlands?
4, Egypt
5, No idea

Entertainment

1, Mulder and Scully
2, Guns N Roses!
3, Kerridge (Not sure of spelling)
4, No idea
5, Reece’s Pieces?

History

1, Ronald Reagan
2, Central Heating?
3, Mata Hari?
4, Woodstock
5, Only know The Alps

Art and Literature

1, The Girl With The Pearl Earring
2, No idea
3, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
4, No idea
5, Post Script

Science and Nature

1, Acetic?
2, Human Beings?
3, X Rays
4, No idea
5, Metamorphosis

Sprot and Leisure

1, Japan?
2, No idea
3, A Cow
4, No idea!
5, No idea!

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Chips are in the oven…

Answers to Hump Day Quiz

Geography :blue_heart:

  1. Bulgaria
    2.?
  2. Faero islands
  3. Egypt
  4. Iceland

Entertainment :heartpulse:

History :yellow_heart:

  1. Edward viii
  2. Grow plants
  5. Himalayas

Arts and Literature :poop:

  3. Chitty Chitty bang bang
  4. 13
  5. Post subscript

Science and Nature :green_heart:

  1. Amino
  2. Archaeologists
  4. Eddy
  5. Morphication

Sprot and Leisure :orange_heart:

  1. China
  3. Cow
  5. 1
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