The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

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My attempt

:blue_heart: Geography

  1. What are the only two landlocked countries in South America? Paraguay? Colombia?
  2. What did Britain’s roads acquire for the first time in 1914? Traffic lights?
  3. What sea lies between Riga and Stockholm? Baltic?
  4. What range of hills runs through Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire? Chilterns?
  5. In which country might you eat fried grasshoppers called chapulines? Mexico?

:heartpulse:Entertainment

  1. When McDonald’s first opened in the UK in 1974, how much did a cheeseburger cost - 21p, 50p, or 72p? 50p?
  2. Which member of The Rolling Stones drowned in a swimming pool? No idea so will say Keith Richards and he was brought back to life! Or is a vampire.
  3. What actor signed Hollywood’s first million-dollar contract? Cary Grant?
  4. Who was the first Beatle to have a No. 1 solo hit? George Harrison?
  5. What film saw Burt Reynolds ride in a canoe with a broken leg? Smokey and the Bandit 20? :joy::woman_shrugging:t2:

:yellow_heart: History

  1. Where is Sir Winston Churchill buried? Westminster?
  2. What was the infamous pseudonym of William Bonney? Billy the Kid?
  3. Which English king is famous for burning the cakes? Alfred?
  4. Who flew in Vostok I? Yuri Gagarin?
  5. What did Roald Amundsen reach first? South Pole?

:poop: Art & Literature

  1. What novel has the ghost of Catherine appearing to Mr. Lockwood? Wuthering Heights?
  2. What day of the week was Solomon Grundy married on? Thursday?
  3. What was H.G. Wells first novel? The Time Traveller?
  4. What note is equivalent to eight quavers? Semibreve?
  5. What Boris Pasternak book sold 500,000 copies to become the fiction best-seller in 1958? No clue!

:green_heart: Science & Nature

  1. What animals does a hippophobe fear? Horses?
  2. What’s a group of kittens called? Litter?
  3. Who invented the automobile in 1885? Henry Ford?
  4. What type of wool is obtained from angora goats? Cashmere?
  5. What is both a type of bed and a layer of the rainforest? Canopy?

:orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure

  1. How many points is a cannon worth in billiards? 2?
  2. What were first used by John L. Sullivan and James J. Corbett in 1892? Boxing gloves?
  3. What is the centre division of a backgammon board called? Green?
  4. What sprot uses a ball called a slitter? Hurling?
  5. What emblem appears on an England rugby union badge? Rose?

Thank you very much @Ian_Chimp :purple_heart::purple_heart:

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Just want to say, “Yay! And thank you Mr. Chimp for doing this :partying_face:”

…Been out all day and waiting on a takeaway now but I will absolutely give it my best shot before heading to bed later :blush:

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Okay… didn’t get time last night but I’m still in time!

💙 Geography
  1. Paraguay and Bolivia
  2. Speed limits? Pretty certain this was earlier though.
  3. Baltic Sea?
  4. I think this is the Chilterns rather than the Cotswolds, definitely one of the two, will go with the Chilterns.
  5. Vietnam?
💗 Entertainment"
  1. 21p?
  2. Neither of the two I can name!
  3. James Stewart?
  4. Paul McCartney?
  5. Not a clue :woman_shrugging:t2:
💛 History
  1. The Church in Bladon - Dad digitally created a map of the graveyard for Oxfordshire Family History Society (along with many other church graveyards).
  2. The only historical pseudonym I can think of is the Scarlet Pimpernel (and I’m pretty sure he’s both Peter Blakely and fictional!)
  3. Alfred burnt the cakes
  4. Yugi Gargarin
  5. South Pole (ahead of Scott)
💩 Art and Literature
  1. Wuthering Heights
  2. Wednesday - Born on Monday, Christened, Married, Ill, Worse, Died, Buried on Sunday
  3. The Time Machine?
  4. Not a clue, not done music since primary school, try a minim?
  5. Doctor Zhivago? (Sp?) - I can’t name anything else by him!
💚 Science and Nature
  1. Horses :horse::rofl:
  2. Litter
  3. I’m sure I should know this but the answer is not coming
  4. I feel a trap… Angorra wool?
  5. Canopy? Def a layer of the rainforest and a bed can have one, not sure it’s a type of bed though.
🧡 Sprot and Leisure
  1. 2
  2. :woman_shrugging:t2: Multiple tennis rackets in a match?
  3. :thinking: Is it just called the bar?
  4. Not a clue, maybe it’s a lesser known substitute ball in Quidditch?
  5. England has a rose… presumably other countries have something else… or I’m totally misunderstanding the question!

Thank you @Ian_Chimp :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Answers to Hump Day Quiz

Geography :blue_heart:

  1. Bolivia & praguay
  2. Traffic light
  3. Baltic?
  4. Chiltern??
  5. Mexico

Entertainment :heartpulse:

  1. 21p
  3. Steve mcqueen

History :yellow_heart:

  1. Norwich
  2. Billy the kid
  4. Amiela earhart
  5. South pole

Arts and Literature :poop:

  3. Invisible man

Science and Nature :green_heart:

  1. Hippopotamus
  3. Rolls Royce
  4. Mohair

Sprot and Leisure :orange_heart:

  1. 5
  3. Bar
  5. Flur de leaf
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Potatoes on route to me :joy::potato::joy: Well out of practice :joy:

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I had forgotten how to hide my text, but i soon worked it out! :joy:

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I have added the answers to the quiz post :+1:

And the winner of the Easter Special Great Hump Day Quiz this week is… :drum::drum::drum:

@VanillaWithSprinkles and @WillC :trophy::balloon:

Congratulations! :slightly_smiling_face:

And this week’s Great Hump Clean-Sweepers are… :bouquet:

No one… :slight_smile:

The kid’s questions were…

:blue_heart:1 | :heartpulse:2 | :yellow_heart:3 | :poop:4 | :green_heart:5 | :orange_heart:5

And the glorious and one true Great Hump prize of the magnificent King Edward Crown goes to…

@Craig1234 :potato: :crown: :slightly_smiling_face:

And, of course, for everyone who wants one, a hedgehog-

:hedgehog::hedgehog::hedgehog::hedgehog::hedgehog::hedgehog::hedgehog::hedgehog::hedgehog::hedgehog::hedgehog::hedgehog::hedgehog:

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Well done everyone, sterling effort. Thanks so much again @Ian_Chimp that was mighty fun.

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I thought I had that potato in the bag this time round. :slight_smile: Everyone else was pretty closely grouped at the top of the board, leaving just us to duke it out at the bottom. :boxing_glove:

I had forgotten how to do pretty much all of the things for setting that up. I was definitely out of practice. :slight_smile:

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Thank goodness I’m good at geography, helps a total wipe out :joy:
We’ll done @VanillaWithSprinkles @WillC… I’m off to open a chippy with all my spuds :joy::joy::joy:

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Thank you @Ian_Chimp - Lots of fun!!!

Congratulations @VanillaWithSprinkles and @WillC on your win and congratulations @Craig1234 on your raw chips - enjoy once cooked!

If only I’d teamed up with any of you on History, we’d have had a clean-sweep. Apparently everyone else knew Billy the Kid! :woman_facepalming:t2:

I’m calling my new hedgehog, Minnie. She and Bartholomew are already great friends.

:hedgehog::hedgehog:

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Thanks, and congratulations to @VanillaWithSprinkles ! :slight_smile:

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Rebus Quiz XII :jigsaw:

As always (though it’s been a while) what do the following say??? :thinking:

I think these are new… but don’t guarentee there might not be a repeat from a previous quiz and the formatting took some remembering.

  1. M1Y L1I1F1E

  2. SOU| )

  3. T   M
    A   U
    H   S
    W     T

  4. HOUSE CO2 H2 HCl

  5. WINEEE

  6. R + R 6:42 & ITHELIVES EZ

  7. TAME TEAM
    MEAT MATE

  8. SMOKE
       G

  9. JOBINJOB

  10. MARWEALLLIVEINE

Please pop hidden answers below… tagging a few people who’ve played before, (though some aren’t around much anymore) but I’d love everyone on the forum to join in!

@VanillaWithSprinkles @Ian_Chimp @MsSubExperimenter @SexInTheCity @Cassii @FL45H @Silkyhat @WillC @Bella_1 @MrsLovett77 @Craig1234 everyone else??

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Arrrrgh… Thanks @Peitho my worst nightmare but I’ll have a crack at it when I get time :blush::heart:

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1, For Once In My Life
2, Split P Soup
3,What goes up must come down
4, Greenhouse Gasses
5, Win with Ease
6, Summer (6:42 & ITHELIVES EZ)
7, Mixed Teams
8,Go up in smoke
9, In between Jobs
10, We all live in a yellow submarine

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our go

1 The ones in my life
2 Split pea soup
3 what goes up Must come down
4 Greenhouse gases
5 win with ease
6 ?
7 ?
8 ?
9 in between jobs
10 we All live in a yellow submarine

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I hate these, they hurt my head😂

1 - For once in my life?
2 - Split pea soup
3 - What goes up must come down?
4 - Greenhouse gas?
5 -
6 -
7 - Mixed teams
8 -
9 - Inbetween jobs
10 - We all live in a yellow submarine

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So can anyone make a quiz? @Peitho piqued my interest in quizzes and would like to do a song lyric one

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Absolutely! This was a very popular thread back in lockdown but it has rather dropped off with everyone back in work and normal routine now. I’ll probably pop the answers to this one in at the weekend and award prizes (:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:) then… I’m hoping a few more people might have a go first though.

I would suggest maybe popping a link to your quiz, when you set it, in another thread, maybe the What music are you listening to right now? one or The Lounge just because unless people have participated in this thread before it won’t appear in their topics list as any in the Games category, by default, do not so it’s worth promoting it elsewhere for people who didn’t have accounts during lockdown.

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Great, thanks for that. I’ll wait until you’ve posted the answers from yours

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