The Great Hump Day Quiz
(30/09/20)
Scoreboard
| Total | Pink | Green | Blue | Brown | Yellow | Orange | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| @VanillaWithSprinkles | 32½ | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2½ | 4 | 8 |
| @Ace12345 | 32 | 8 | 5 | 5½ | 2½ | 5½ | 5½ |
| @WillC | 31 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5½ | 3½ | 4 |
| @SexInTheCity | 29½ | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 2½ | 4 |
| @MsSubExperimenter | 27 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4½ | 3½ | 5 |
| @Peitho | 24 | 4½ | 6 | 3½ | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| @Ian_Chimp | 23½ | 6 | 6 | 3 | 4½ | 2 | 2 |
Blue please @Ian_Chimp? 
Geography 
Which continent boasts the lowest highest mountain?
Which Memphis mansion became a tourist ‘must’ when it opened to the public in 1992?
Which necessary band of men are honoured in the name of New York’s Avenue of the Strongest?
What country’s national folk hero is called Holgar Danske?
Which rock ‘n’ rolling Tennessee Town is known as the buckle in the Bible Belt?
Which country came top in a 2003 Euro survey, with 66 per cent of those questioned admitting to having sex in a public place?
Which Australian coast is Perth on?
Which was the world’s most expensive city at the start of 2001?
What are the residents of the island if Lesbos called?
Which lofty tourist attraction is topped by the Jules Verne Restaurant?
I’m a fan of green!
I think it’s money…This is really going to bring out my competitive side - love a score board 
Thank you Mr Chimp 
Which country was described as backward in its refusal to legislate against pornographic SPAM in 2003?
No idea. Not the best start. Guess Germany.
Which is the closest railway station to the London Eye?
Waterloo.
What is the fruit of the Annas cosmosus ?
Pineapple.
What was Britain’s top-selling toy at Christmas 2000? (probably not a sex toy, but you never know with Trivial Pursuit)
That flippy dog thing, name escapes me.
What toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head?
Big toe.
What special long-term deal was dropped by the Voluntary Euthanasia Society in 1997?
To hazard a guess, physician assisted suicides.
What is a poor chrematophobe afraid of?
Money 
Which family saw mum and dad win joint Nobel prize, mum win one on her own, and then their daughter pick one up in 1935?
Curie
How many times more than the brain does the human body typically weigh?
I’m sorry TP but what does a human typically weigh? Brain is about 3lbs so what the average human approx 12 stone? 55?
What word means the ability to move something using only the power of the mind?
Telekinesis
Arts & Literature 
Which national newspaper sponsors the Hay Literary Festival?
What slang term for a man who likes looking at fat ladies was taken from an old twister?
Who wrote The Good Companions and Angel Pavement?
Which holiday company caused controversy with its Beaver Espana and Summer 69 advertisements?
What creature is Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom, associated with?
In which decade did Gustav Holst start to decompose?
What was Erich Segal’s sequal to Love Story?
Who wrote the book which became the movie The Grinch?
What was Voltaire so intolerant about that he was imprisoned in the Bastille on two occasions?
For whose wedding did Stan Kenton compose Homage to a Princess?
History 
Who was the first female prime minister of a Muslim country?
Just outside which major English station were 30 people killed in a 1998 train crash?
What year was the Great Train Robbery?
Which US politician was taught the value of money by being forced to do a newspaper round in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce?
What was Airey Neave leaving when he was killed?
What did Royal Navy waves campaign against allowing on warships?
By what name did protestor David Daniel Hooper become better known?
Which former member of the royal family married Sandy Pflueger in her native Hawaii?
Who was the first prime minister of India?
Who, in 2003, did a Tory politician describe as being: As bad as Neil Kinnock?
Sprot & Leisure 
Which athletic event covers a distance of 1,640 yards, 1 foot, and 3 inches?
Where do All Blacks come from?
Which sporty brand-name is the Greek goddess of victory?
Which TV sports show fronted by Ron Pickering always ended with the kids jumping into a swimming pool?
For what did the football authorities have a £120 million lottery grant which they then paid back?
Which female team’s 2000 Olympic brief beach volleyball tops were appropriately labelled BRA?
Who was New Zealand’s first Wimbledon men’s singles finalist in 69 years?
Which sport’s problems were the subject of the Popplewell Report?
What nickname was attached to Britain’s quartet of Olympic 2000 male rowers?
What is the Gary in Sir Gary Sobers’ name short for?
Top of the Scoreboard. 
And you’re definitely not in last place, which is nice to know early.
I really should be sleeping but love a quiz
Yeah, I think I got a bit carried away.
It’s been fabulous - a star as always Mr Chimp! 
now to try and get some sleep before my alarm goes off in 6 hrs
Night! 
These are very hard and not very Science!!! I’m usually good at Science… I am sure 8 and 10 are correct 
Tock and Roll in Tennessee… Memphis
These are soooooo hard… I think when I was a kid I must have played a child’s version. Can we do that next? I’ve given up on question marks as I’m not sure of any!
Going to work, please don’t post answers until this evening I will continue… poorly.