The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

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I may have been more/less liberal with my half points depending on when I scored each set of answers. :slightly_smiling_face: I’ll cast my eye over them all again when @VanillaWithSprinkles has finished. :+1:

Scoreboard

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@Ian_Chimp right done yellow for ya, will have some dinner and do the rest

Summary
  1. Who was the first female prime minister of a Muslim country?
    Benazir Bhutto (sp) of Pakistan
  2. Just outside which major English station were 30 people killed in a 1998 train crash?
    Don’t know, maybe Liverpool Lime Street
  3. What year was the Great Train Robbery?
    1963
  4. Which US politician was taught the value of money by being forced to do a newspaper round in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce ?
    John F Kennedy?
  5. What was Airey Neave leaving when he was killed?
    A plane?
  6. What did Royal Navy waves campaign against allowing on warships?
    Women?
  7. By what name did protestor David Daniel Hooper become better known?
    ?
  8. Which former member of the royal family married Sandy Pflueger in her native Hawaii?
    ?
  9. Who was the first prime minister of India?
    Nehru
  10. Who, in 2003, did a Tory politician describe as being: As bad as Neil Kinnock ?
    Tony Blair?

And lastly Sprot & Leisure thanks for waiting all!

Summary
  1. Which athletic event covers a distance of 1,640 yards, 1 foot, and 3 inches?
    1500m swim
  2. Where do All Blacks come from?
    New Zealand rugby
  3. Which sporty brand-name is the Greek goddess of victory?
    Nike
  4. Which TV sports show fronted by Ron Pickering always ended with the kids jumping into a swimming pool?
    ?
  5. For what did the football authorities have a £120 million lottery grant which they then paid back?
    Wembley
  6. Which female team’s 2000 Olympic brief beach volleyball tops were appropriately labelled BRA?
    Brazil
  7. Who was New Zealand’s first Wimbledon men’s singles finalist in 69 years?
    ?
  8. Which sport’s problems were the subject of the Popplewell Report?
    Football
  9. What nickname was attached to Britain’s quartet of Olympic 2000 male rowers?
    :expressionless: oarsome foursome (dated a rower earlier this year, puns galore)
  10. What is the Gary in Sir Gary Sobers’ name short for?
    Probably not Gareth then… Garfield?
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Done! :smile:

594

I already know I haven’t won but the suspense is killing me! Who will take the top spot…

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The answers to:
The Great Hump Day Quiz
(30/09/20)

| Pink | Green |
— | — | —
| 1. Stevie Wonder | 1. USA
| 2. Pugsley & Wednesday | 2. Waterloo
| 3. On the Waterfront | 3. Pineapple
| 4. The Nashville Teens | 4. Mini-scooter
| 5. John Thaw | 5. Big toe
| 6. Keanu Reeves’ | 6. Life Membership
| 7. Barbie | 7. Money
| 8. Bette Midler | 8. The Curies
| 9. A diamond | 9. Forty
| 10. La Dolce Vita | Telekinesis
|
Blue |
Brown |

  1. Australia | 1. The Guardian
  2. Graceland | 2. Chubby Checker
  3. Garbage Collectors | 3. JB Priestly
  4. Denmark’s | 4. Club 18-30
  5. Nashville | 5. Owl
  6. Norway | 6. 1930s
  7. West | 7. Oliver’s Story
  8. Tokyo | 8. Dr Seuss
  9. Lesbosians | 9. Intolerance
  10. Eiffel Tower | 10. Princess Grace (Kelly)
    |
    Yellow |
    Orange |
  11. Benazir Bhutto | 1. 1,500 metres
  12. Paddington | 2. New Zealand
  13. 1963 | 3. Nike
  14. Robert Kennedy | 4. We Are the Champions
  15. The House of Commons car park | 5. A new Wembley Stadium
  16. The Wrens | 6. Brazil
  17. Swampy | 7. Chris Lewis
  18. Mark Phillips | 8. Football
  19. Jawaharlal Nehru | 9. The Oarsome Foursome
  20. Iain Duncan Smith | 10. Garfield
    21.

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I haven’t declared an official winner yet as I’ll wait for everyone to check their scores/answers. :slightly_smiling_face:

Half marks for partial answers. :+1:

597

I think I got 4 on blue :blush: @Ian_Chimp 2, 5, 7 and 10.

Thank you for doing this, it was lots of fun!

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I’m glad you liked it. :slightly_smiling_face: And I have amended your score. :+1:

599

Thank you kindly :blush:

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Haha knocking myself off top spot you’ve overscored my yellow, I got 3 not 4!

601

You got two ½ points for no. 4 and 9. :+1:

602

Haha I wouldn’t have given myself a half for 4, also that still should only add to 3…?

603

You can thank @peitho for the ½ point for No. 4. :slightly_smiling_face:

I make it No. 1, 3, 6 and ½ marks for 4 and 9

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Oh does The Wrens mean women?

605

They were/are the female sailors. :+1::slightly_smiling_face:

606

Ah well then that’s explained it! My scores are fine :slightly_smiling_face: and yeah @Peitho popping in an uncovered answer saved my bacon a bit.

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@Ian_Chimp Mine are all good although I feel I need to argue my point for psychokinesis… :nerd_face:

Edit: So interesting looking through the actual answers too! Definitely learning lots!

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The Great Hump Day Quiz! :tada::dromedary_camel:
Bumper Edition (30/09/20)

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.

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

Categories:

💙 Geography

  1. Which continent boasts the lowest highest mountain?

  2. Which Memphis mansion became a tourist ‘must’ when it opened to the public in 1992?

  3. Which necessary band of men are honoured in the name of New York’s Avenue of the Strongest?

  4. What country’s national folk hero is called Holgar Danske?

  5. Which rock ‘n’ rolling Tennessee Town is known as the buckle in the Bible Belt?

  6. Which country came top in a 2003 Euro survey, with 66 per cent of those questioned admitting to having sex in a public place?

  7. Which Australian coast is Perth on?

  8. Which was the world’s most expensive city at the start of 2001?

  9. What are the residents of the island if Lesbos called?

  10. Which lofty tourist attraction is topped by the Jules Verne Restaurant?

💗Entertainment

  1. Which Motown star appeared on an anti-drink-drive poster with the slogan: ‘Before I ride with a drunk, I’ll drive myself’?

  2. What were the names of Morticia and Gomez Addams’ two children?

  3. What 1954 film featured the line: ‘I coulda been a contenda’?

  4. Who had a 1960s hit with Tobacco Road?

  5. Who won a BAFTA for his portrayal of Inspector Morse?

  6. Which male movie star’s first name is Hawaiin for cool breeze over the mountains?

  7. Who was launched as a cleaned up version of Lilli, a sexy German doll aimed at adult males?

  8. Which divine singing actress once worked as chief chunker in a pineapple cannery?

  9. What was The Pink Panther in The Pink Panther?

  10. Which movie gave us the word paparazzo?

💛 History

  1. Who was the first female prime minister of a Muslim country?

  2. Just outside which major English station were 30 people killed in a 1998 train crash?

  3. What year was the Great Train Robbery?

  4. Which US politician was taught the value of money by being forced to do a newspaper round in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce?

  5. What was Airey Neave leaving when he was killed?

  6. What did Royal Navy waves campaign against allowing on warships?

  7. By what name did protestor David Daniel Hooper become better known?

  8. Which former member of the royal family married Sandy Pflueger in her native Hawaii?

  9. Who was the first prime minister of India?

  10. Who, in 2003, did a Tory politician describe as being: As bad as Neil Kinnock?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Which national newspaper sponsors the Hay Literary Festival?

  2. What slang term for a man who likes looking at fat ladies was taken from an old twister?

  3. Who wrote The Good Companions and Angel Pavement?

  4. Which holiday company caused controversy with its Beaver Espana and Summer 69 advertisements?

  5. What creature is Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom, associated with?

  6. In which decade did Gustav Holst start to decompose?

  7. What was Erich Segal’s sequal to Love Story?

  8. Who wrote the book which became the movie The Grinch?

  9. What was Voltaire so intolerant about that he was imprisoned in the Bastille on two occasions?

  10. For whose wedding did Stan Kenton compose Homage to a Princess?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. Which country was described as backward in its refusal to legislate against pornographic SPAM in 2003?

  2. Which is the closest railway station to the London Eye?

  3. What is the fruit of the Annas cosmosus?

  4. What was Britain’s top-selling toy at Christmas 2000? (probably not a sex toy, but you never know with Trivial Pursuit)

  5. What toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head?

  6. What special long-term deal was dropped by the Voluntary Euthanasia Society in 1997?

  7. What is a poor chrematophobe afraid of?

  8. 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?

  9. How many times more than the brain does the human body typically weigh?

  10. What word means the ability to move something using only the power of the mind?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. Which athletic event covers a distance of 1,640 yards, 1 foot, and 3 inches?

  2. Where do All Blacks come from?

  3. Which sporty brand-name is the Greek goddess of victory?

  4. Which TV sports show fronted by Ron Pickering always ended with the kinds jumping into a swimming pool?

  5. For what did the football authorities have a £120 million lottery grant which they then paid back?

  6. Which female team’s 2000 Olympic brief beach volleyball tops were appropriately labelled BRA?

  7. Who was New Zealand’s first Wimbledon men’s singles finalist in 69 years?

  8. Which sport’s problems were the subject of the Popplewell Report?

  9. What nickname was attached to Britain’s quartet of Olympic 2000 male rowers?

  10. What is the Gary in Sir Gary Sobers’ name short for?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@VanillaWithSprinkles 32½ 6 6 4 2½ 6 8
@Ace12345 32 5½ 8 5½ 2½ 5 5½
@WillC 31 5 8 3½ 5½ 5 4
@SexInTheCity 29½ 6 5 2½ 7 5 4
@MsSubExperimenter 27 4 5 3½ 4½ 5 5
@Peitho 24 3½ 4½ 2 3 6 5
@Ian_Chimp 23½ 3 6 2 4½ 6 2
The Answers

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

  1. Australia | 1. Stevie Wonder
  2. Graceland | 2. Pugsley & Wednesday
  3. Garbage Collectors | 3. On the Waterfront
  4. Denmark’s | 4. The Nashville Teens
  5. Nashville | 5. John Thaw
  6. Norway | 6. Keanu Reeves’
  7. West | 7. Barbie
  8. Tokyo | 8. Bette Midler
  9. Lesbosians | 9. A diamond
  10. Eiffel Tower | 10. La Dolce Vita

    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  11. Benazir Bhutto | 1. The Guardian
  12. Paddington | 2. Chubby Checker
  13. 1963 | 3. JB Priestly
  14. Robert Kennedy | 4. Club 18-30
  15. The House of Commons car park | 5. Owl
  16. The Wrens | 6. 1930s
  17. Swampy | 7. Oliver’s Story
  18. Mark Phillips | 8. Dr Seuss
  19. Jawaharlal Nehru | 9. Intolerance
  20. Iain Duncan Smith | 10. Princess Grace (Kelly)
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  21. USA | 1. 1,500 metres
  22. Waterloo | 2. New Zealand
  23. Pineapple | 3. Nike
  24. Mini-scooter | 4. We Are the Champions
  25. Big toe | 5. A new Wembley Stadium
  26. Life Membership | 6. Brazil
  27. Money | 7. Chris Lewis
  28. The Curies | 8. Football
  29. Forty | 9. The Oarsome Foursome
  30. Telekinesis | 10. Garfield
    31.
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I put it in what will be the new format. :+1::slightly_smiling_face:

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:rofl: Thanks for giving me my half for Kennedy even though I was thinking of the wrong one… what was the other half in History for? History is hard!

Apologies :see_no_evil:, hid it as soon as I realised!

I hope to do better on Science next time but expect worse on Sport. I think my score is about where I’ll stay as long as the scoring stays generous! :joy:

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