Welcome aboard.
Thanks @Ian_Chimp here goes
Answers to Hump Day Quiz
Geography
- United Arab Emirates
2.? - Barcelona
- Japan
- Vanilla
Entertainment
- True
- Big bang theory
- Oleg
History
- 22
- 1/4
- Battle of white heart Lane?
- Tesco
Arts and Literature
- Slap stick
- Carmen
- Buttons
- Cello
Science and Nature
- 1000g
- True
- 38
- White
- Off shore Wind farm
Sprot and Leisure
- 147
- Luge
- Baseball
- False
- Driver
Blinking Nora @Ian_Chimp… What’s going on another week without chips are you sure I got all them right
Answers to quiz
Answers to Hump Day Quiz
Geography
- Unites Arab emirates
- Japan
Entertainment
- False
- The Big Bang theory
- Olive
- Olivia Colman
History
- 14
- 1/4
- Battle of anfield
- BHS
Arts and Literature
- Symbol
- Carmen
- Baron
- Cello
Science and Nature
- 1kg
- False
- 38c
- White
Sprot and Leisure
- 8
- Skeleton
- True
I think your section got a little muddled. Do you want a +1 golden edit to go back in and sort out
4 and
5?
Oops didn’t realise I have edited it now. Thanks.
Phew for lunch time, squeezing in…
💙 Geography
- The United Arab Emirates… though I would have called them a Country rather than a Federation
- I feel this will be something obvious but I have drawn a complete blank on all Berlin buildings!
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Rio de Janeiro?
- Japan
- No idea - Oranges? (Seems unlikely)
💗 Entertainment
- True?
- The Big Bang Theory
- Angry Birds?
- Oleg rings a bell
- I can picture her… I can’t think of her name.
💛 History
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Never pick the middle one so… 22?
- I know a shilling was 5p… okay, basing this just on the penny farthing bicycle… much smaller back wheel so… ⅙?
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Not even a guess, sorry.
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Stamford Bridge in 1066
- Tesco’s?
💩 Art and Literature
- Must be Slap Stick, didn’t know that though.
- Carmen is by Bizet
- Oh I should definitely know this!!! The last panto I saw (albeit many years ago) was Cinderella… can’t think what her Dad’s name was though… John?
- Cello
- The Phantom of the Opera
💚 Science and Nature
- 1000g
- Sounds plausible, and I think I have heard before that it is true.
- 38°C… actually 37.something - body temperature.
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White?
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Windfarm?
🧡 Sprot and Leisure
- 147
- Skeleton Bob
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American Football?
- I hope not, False
- I can only think of about 4 clubs and I don’t think any of them are games… take a stab at Putter?
Thanks @Ian_Chimp
I’m afraid I will have to give a miss this week! Good luck all
MrsLovett's answers
1- United Arab Emirates
2-Reichstag
3-Barcelona
4-Japan
5-Cotton? ( it’s not…)
1- True
2-The Big Bang Theory
3-Instagram
4-Oleg?
5- Brenda Blethyn
1- 22?
2- A quarter?
3-Bodh
4- Stamford Bridge
5- Harrod’s?
1-Slapstick
2- Carmen
3- I can’t remember
4-Cello
5-The Phantom of the Opera
1- 1000
2-False?
3- 38
4-Yellow?
5- Offshore windfarm
1-45?
2-Bobsleigh
3-Rugby?
4- Sounds like it could be true!
5- Don’t know
Think I’ll have to give it a miss too this week, was out yesterday afternoon/evening and shattered today.
I have added the answers to the quiz post
And I can declare the winners of the Great Hump Day Quiz to be…
@MrsLovett77 and @WillC
Congratulations!
And the Great Hump Clean-Sweepers are…
@Peitho
@Craig1234
@WillC
@MrsLovett77
The kid’s questions were:
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And @littlespoons takes the King Edward Crown
And @KnottyDevil gets some for their first time
Yay - honours for all!
@Ian_Chimp you get a for Quiz Mastery Wizardry!
Congratulations @WillC and @MrsLovett77
And welcome aboard @Knottydevil
I had a few definite lucky guesses but the two I thought would definitely be familiar to me once revealed aren’t at all (Baron Hardup and The Reichstag) so I dont feel bad. Actual knowledge puts me 5 points lower. Finally, although I’m hoping the Snails have moved out (…or been eaten?) previously I’m still feeling bad for their homes.
Thanks everyone and congratulations @MrsLovett77
Thank you! And congratulations @WillC .
(23/02/22)
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.
We also have an answer template you can copy and paste now too.
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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Which country was the primary stand-in for Mars in the 2015 Matt Damon movie The Martian?
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Big Ben is the official name of the clock tower at the House of Parliament. True or false?
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What connects the capital cities of the countries Mexico, Kuwait, and Luxembourg?
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What capital city do Scandinavians call the Venice of the North?
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Europe’s second-longest river, the Danube, empties into which sea?
💗Entertainment
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Which American president was portrayed in a 2012 film by Daniel Day-Lewis, who earned a record third Best Actor Oscar for the role?
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What drink topped the charts for All Saints?
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Which Strictly Come Dancing judge stepped down at the end of 2016, after 12 years on the panel?
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Complete the lyric: “Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but here’s my number…”
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What was the name of the police station in the long-running police drama The Bill?
💛 History
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What was the name of Henry VIII’s flagship, which sank in the Solent in 1545, and was raised again in 1982?
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What was Edith Haisman one of the last eight survivors of prior to her death in 1997?
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In Greek mythology, where did the River Styx flow to?
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Arthur Wellesley, the British army officer and prime minister who was nicknamed the Iron Duke, is best-known by what aristocratic title?
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How old do you have to be to become a Brownie - 5, 7, or 9?
💩 Art & Literature
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Who stole Christmas in the book by Dr Seuss?
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Which is true - the Mona Lisa has eyebrows but no jewellery, she has jewellery but no eyebrows, or she has neither?
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Which gift was given on the ninth day in “The Twelve Days of Christmas”?
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What was the name of Elrond’s house in Lord of the Rings?
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Who added ‘galumph’ and ‘chortle’ to the English language?
💚 Science & Nature
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What colour is the face of an adult goldfinch - red, green, or yellow?
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Which contagious disease was also commonly known as consumption or Koch’s disease?
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How many pairs of ribs are there in the average human skeleton?
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What’s known as The Bishop’s Stone?
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What colour is yak’s milk?
🧡 Sprot & Leisure
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Which board game was invented by A. Pratt?
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Which English football team is represented by the mascot Stamford the Lion?
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What boy’s name is used for the skateboard trick where the tail is pushed into the ground causing board and rider to leap into the air?
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What’s the sequence for sinking the coloured balls in snooker?
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Who would be interested in definitives, overprints and tete-beches?
Scoreboard
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@MsSubExperimenter | 20½ | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3½ |
@Peitho | 20 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
@WillC | 20 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
@Ian_Chimp | 16 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
@Knottydevil | 15 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
@littlespoons | 14 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
@Craig1234 | 13½ | 2 | 2½ | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
@Forever_his | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2½ | 3 | 1 | 2½ |
The Answers
| Geography |
Entertainment
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- Jordan[1] | 1. Abraham Lincoln
- False[2] | 2. Black Coffee
- The name of the city includes the name of the country | 3. Len Goodman
- Stockholm | 4. “Call me maybe”[3]
- Black Sea | 5. Sun Hill
|History |
Arts & Literature |
- Mary Rose | 1. The Grinch
- The Titanic disaster | 2. She has neither
- Hades | 3. Nine Ladies Dancing[4]
- Duke of Wellington | 4. Rivendell
- 7 years old | 5. Lewis Carroll
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Science & Nature |
Sprot & Leisure |
- Red[5] | 1. Cluedo
- Tuberculosis | 2. Chelsea FC
- 12 | 3. Ollie[6]
- Amethyst | 4. Yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, black
- Pink initially, but then creamy white[7] | 5. A stamp collector
The lookalike landscape at Wadi Rum has featured in several space thrillers ↩︎
Big Ben is the name of the bell in the tower. The tower itself is called the Elizabeth Tower ↩︎
By Carly Rae Jepson ↩︎
Plus the eight gifts up to that point too ↩︎
The gold refers to the patch of yellow on its wings ↩︎
Invented in the 1970s, it takes its name from its inventor Alan “Ollie” Gelfand ↩︎
Amended answer. Ref: How do other animal milks taste? Here's an overview of how they compare. | Heifer International. ↩︎
Sorry about the lateness, it’s half-term and the other one has chicken pox. It’s feeling a lot like Lockdown all over again.
WillC Answers
Geography
1, No idea
2, False
3, No idea
4, Stockholm?
5, The Black Sea
Entertainment
1, Lincoln?
2, Black Coffee
3, Craig Revel Horwood?
4, No idea
5, Sun Hill
History
1, Mary Rose
2, The Titanic?
3, Hades
4, Duke of Wellington
5, 5?
Art and Literature
1, The Grinch
2, Jewellery but no eyebrows?
3, Nine ladies dancing?
4, Rivendell?
5, Lewis Carroll?
Science and Nature
1, Red?
2, T.B. (Tuberculosis)
3, 8?
4, No idea
5, Pink!
Sprot and Leisure
1, Cluedo?
2, Fulham
3, No idea
4, Red,Yellow, Green, Brown, Blue, Pink, Black?
5, Philatelists
Answers
Geography
- True
- Black Sea
Entertainment
- Lincoln
- Len Goodman
- So call me maybe
History
- The Mary rose
- Titanic
- The underworld
- 7
Arts and Literature
- Grinch
- She has neither
- Nine ladies dancing
Science and Nature
- Red
- Tuberculosis
- 1 pair
Sprot and Leisure
- Cluedo
- Manchester
Good luck folks, I need my spuds back
Answers to Hump Day Quiz
Geography
- False
- Same name as their country
- Med
Entertainment
- Len… “SEVEN…”
- CALL ME
- Sunhill
History
- Mary rose
- Titanic?
- Hell?
- Duke of Wellington
- 7
Arts and Literature
- Grinch
- Neither
- 9 drummers?
Science and Nature
- Yellow with red cap?
- Yellow
Sprot and Leisure
- Monoply
- Chelsea? Hate football
- Huge?
- Red, yellow, green, brown, blue, pink, black
Here we go
I hope I’ve done these right I only actually knew the answer to three of the questions so I’ll be impressed for anything over that
Answers to Hump Day Quiz
Geography
- America
- False its the name of the bell!
- Pass
- Oslo
- Atlantic
Entertainment
- Jfk
- Sex on the beach
- Len Goodman
- Call me maybe
- Pass (very begrudgingly too as I used to love this!)
History
- Mary
- First world War
- The underworld
- Lord
- 7
Arts and Literature
- The Grinch
- She has neither
- 9 ladys dancing
- Pass
- Rachel Riley
Science and Nature
- Yellow
- TB
- 6
- Church rock
- Yellow
Sprot and Leisure
- Monopoly
- Chelsea
- Ollie
- Brown, yellow, green, blue, pink, black
- Someone cleverer than me!