The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

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Knowing I get to do this quiz tonight is what is getting me through the day! :partying_face:

All hail the hump day quiz! :raised_hands:t2:

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WillC Answers

Geography
1, No idea
2, USA/Mexico?
3, A Hood
4, Ben Nevis?
5, Volga

Entertainment
1, Only Fools and Horses
2, Naomi Cambell?
3, Clint Eastwood
4, Harry Enfield
5, Road To Rio?
History
1, Brother Creepers
2, No Idea
3, White smoke from a chimney
4, No idea
5, No idea

Art and Literature
1, Suicide by gun.
2, Mom?
3, The Weekend (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning)
4, Romeo and Juliet?
5, 7
Science and Nature
1, Orang Utan
2, Opium?
3, Shark
4, Nike
5, No idea

Sprot and Leisure
1, Football
2, Mark Spitz
3, No idea
4, Surfing?
5, St Andrews

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Poor attempt

:blue_heart: Geography

  1. What region of China is the Dalai Lama’s palace in? An old part, Xian?
  2. Which two countries are separated by the so-called Tortilla Curtain? Spain and Portugal?
  3. What would an American call a car bonnet? Hood
  4. What is the highest mountain in the Grampians? Ben Nevis?
  5. What’s Europe’s longest river? Rhône?

:heartpulse:Entertainment

  1. What TV series featured Grandad Trotter? Only Fools and Horses
  2. Which model said she didn’t get out if bed for less than $10,000 a day? Linda Evangelista
  3. Who starred in the film The Eiger Sanction? Christopher Walken?
  4. Whose alter egos included Loadsamoney? Harry Hill?
  5. What was the first Crosby-Hope Roadmovie? Smokey and the Bandit :joy:

:yellow_heart: History

  1. What do Teddy Boys call their heavy, crepe-soled shoes? I know this and can’t remember! Creepers?
  2. Why did Foula Island, some 24 miles away from Shetland, wait until January the 13th to celebrate the new millennium? To avoid the Millennium bug?
  3. How is the election of the new Pope announced to the world? White smoke from a chimney in the Vatican following conclave
  4. What sobriquet was attached to the quartet wrongly convicted of a 1975 pub bombing and finally released in 1989? Bomber Boys?
  5. Who did Franco designate as his successor in 1969? Castro? :woman_shrugging:t2:

:poop: Art & Literature

  1. How did Van Gogh end his life? Poison?
  2. What is the most commonly used English word beginning with the letter M? My or Me… My?
  3. What part of the Week was a success for Alan Sillitoe? Saturday?
  4. What Shakespeare adaptation were Hackney school kids prevented from seeing because it is entirely about heterosexual love? Romeo and Juliet?
  5. What’s the magic number that helped to bring down the walls of Jericho? 666 :smiling_imp:?

:green_heart: Science & Nature

  1. What large primate is unique to Borneo and Sumatra? Orangutan :orangutan:
  2. What was the active ingredient in paregoric, an ointment used on the gums of Victorian babies? Brandy?
  3. What fish’s skin was once used commercially as sandpaper? Shark?
  4. Which company launched the y3 trainer? Adidas?
  5. What’s the world’s most common compound? Salt?

:orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure

  1. What sproting event was the subject of a Dennis Waterman film? Boxing?
  2. Which Olympic swimmer auditioned for a role in Jaws? Mark Spitz?
  3. What two Scrabble letters have eight-point values? J and X?
  4. What are the grommets, who can be seen in Newquay each weekend, novices at? Surfing?
  5. What golf club has an 800-year-old bridge leading to one of its 18th holes? St Andrew’s?
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I did but it didn’t work so fiddled about with it and then it decided to accept it! (Though anyone that copied must be desperate :joy:)

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I think we have a fair few answers the same, especially my guesses! :slight_smile:

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Answers

Geography

  1. Tibet
  2. Usa/Mexico
    3.The Hood
    4.No Idea
    5.Volga

Entertainment

  1. Only Fools and Horses
    2.No Ides
    3.Clint Eastwood (A great film by the way)
    4.Harry Enfield
    5.No Idea

History
1.Brothel Creepers
2.No Idea
3.White Smoke
4. Guildford 4
5.Juan Carlos (I remember him being on my Spanish coins when i used to be a coin collector)

Art & Literature
1.No Idea
2.Me
3.Saturday night and Sunday Morning
4.At a guess I would say Romeo and Juliet
5.No Idea

Science and Nature
1.Orangutan
2.Probably something toxic Lead
3.Shark
4.No Idea
5.No Idea

Sprot and Leisure
1.No Idea
2.Given the age of Jaws i would say Mark Spitz
3.j and x
4.Having worked with someone who regularly went to Newquay for this activity i will say. Surfing
5.St Andrews.

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Okay my attempt at this weeks Hump Quiz…

My Geography 💙 Answers
  1. I think it’s in Tibet… is that South West Region?
  2. Mexico and the US?
  3. Hood
  4. Ben Nevis
  5. Volga (which I learnt in another quiz and wouldn’t have had a clue of before!)
My Entertainment 💗 Answers
  1. Only Fools and Horses
  2. Naomi Campbell?
  3. Clint Eastwood
  4. Harry Enfield
  5. Road to Rio?
My History 💛 Answers
  1. Feel I should know it but all I can think of is winkle pickers and I’m sure they’re something else.
  2. They still use the Julian Calendar for some reason.
  3. White smoke from chimney
  4. Bombly Convicted Boys?
  5. ?
My Art and Literature 💩 Answers
  1. He shot himself in the chest!!! Why the chest?! Died two days later!
  2. Make?
  3. Wednesday :woman_shrugging:t2:
  4. Romeo and Juliet?
  5. 7?
My Science and Nature 💚 Answers
  1. Orangutan
  2. Clove oil?
  3. Shark?
  4. Adidas?
  5. Water H2O hijklmno
My Sprot and Leisure 🧡 Answers
  1. The London Marathon?
  2. Duncan Goodhew? Cant think of any other older swimmers though I suspect the answer is American.
  3. J and X
  4. Not a clue, cant even come up with anything… it’s coastal, try Sailing?
  5. St. Andrew’s?
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Answers to Hump Day Quiz 28.10.20

:blue_heart: Geography

  1. Oh gosh I haven’t a clue
  2. I’ve never heard of this but it’s got to be Mexico and US?
  3. “Hood”
  4. :grimacing:No idea
  5. Danube?

:heartpulse: Entertainment

  1. Only Fools and Horses
  2. Linda Evangelista
  3. No idea
  4. No idea
  5. Again, no idea (I am so rubbish at entertainment)

:yellow_heart: History

  1. Creepers?
  2. Its something to do with following a different calendar I think (I’m not sure of the name though)
  3. White smoke from the sistene chapel
  4. Guildford 4! I watched something about them recently.
  5. Manco? (haha no idea)

:poop: Art and Literature

  1. He shot himself
  2. I’m gonna go for a wildcard and say Mum/variations of Mum. Second option would’ve been me/my!
  3. No idea… Monday?
  4. Romeo and Juliet
  5. No idea

:green_heart: Science and Nature

  1. Orangutan
  2. Opium
  3. A fish… As sandpaper :grimacing::grimacing: I’m just gonna say haddock as I can’t think of any other fish!
  4. Adidas
  5. Water? That is a compound right…

:orange_heart: Sprot and Leisure

  1. No idea… Let’s go football
  2. No idea
  3. X and J
  4. Wallace and gromit tribute? :joy:
  5. No idea

Pheeeeew that one felt hard - lots of guesses and “no ideas” :joy: I’m sure I say this every week…
Some really interesting questions though… Look forward to the answers!

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I have added the answers to the quiz post. :slightly_smiling_face:

And it’s very close at the top of the board this week, but I believe the winner is…

@Serpentwand :trophy::tada::balloon:

And not forgetting a special :cherries: for @Onlyones as it was their first time. :slightly_smiling_face::+1:

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Woohoo - My first 5 in any category with one very lucky guess. I am taking that victory though! :rofl:

Also, had been waiting for the Art and Literature answers as I couldn’t work out which of the guesses were right, only one I knew was Van Gogh. Anyone want to enlighten me as to how the number 7 bought down the walls of Jericho?

Thsnks for setting it @Ian_Chimp

Congratulations on your victory @Serpentwand ! Have a celebratory tea :coffee:

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Apparently this: :man_shrugging:

The Israelites marched around the walls once every day for six days with the priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant. On the seventh day they marched seven times around the walls, then the priests blew their ram’s horns, the Israelites raised a great shout, and the walls of the city fell.

Though they probably should have just opened the Ark of the Covenant. I saw it in a documentary with Harrison Ford once, and it melted everyone’s faces in that.

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Congratulations @Serpentwand! :slight_smile:

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Congratulations @Serpentwand!!! :clap:t2::clap:t2::clap:t2: Very well deserved :crown:

Thank you as always for the quiz @Ian_Chimp - it was exactly what I needed to end my day yesterday :blush:

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This deserves a :crown: in itself!! PARTICULARLY as it was geography :joy:

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@SexInTheCity Thank you - I thought so! :rofl:

@Ian_Chimp thank you for the information, good documentary and would clearly have saved them a week. Maybe they were worried their side would want to peak plus the walls would still be there so unnecessary climbing would need to be involved.

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I am honestly amazed at being second,reading the answers a couple of those I should have known and a lot of the questions just seemed to relate to family or things we have watched recently or people I have known and there interests or silly things like the Guildford 4 I used to be a Stranglers fan who were from Guildford and there were 4 members of the band so that always stuck.
Congratulations @Serpentwand :clap:

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I just went for 7 because i saw it somewhere as the antithesis of 666! (Not sure if it was on an album cover!)

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Religious texts tend to have a bit of a thing with 7s, 7 deadly sins, 7 heavenly virtues, 7 days, 7 sons etc

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May be Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album, will have to check!

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The Great Hump Day Quiz! :tada::dromedary_camel:
(04/11/20)

Welcome to this Wednesday’s Great Hump Day Quiz! All newcomers are most welcome :slightly_smiling_face: Check out the rules, pop your answers in a post, and I’ll add you to the Scoreboard. :+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.

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

Categories:

💙 Geography

  1. What is the claim to fame of Agra, India?

  2. Which Duke is based in Arundel?

  3. Where is Gorki Park?

  4. Which is the closest major city to the centre of the Iberian Peninsula?

  5. What ocean is only a 12th of the size of the Pacific?

💗Entertainment

  1. Who starred in both Singing in the Rain and The Singing Nun?

  2. Which TV chef is fully clothed when he plays with a band called Scarlet Division?

  3. What’s the name of Popeye’s adopted son?

  4. Who made his mask from his dead brother’s waistcoat?

  5. Who co-starred with Charlotte Rampling in The Night Porter?

💛 History

  1. What two houses fought the War of the Roses?

  2. Which consort, who died in 2003, famously ordered: A gin and tonic, no ice and go easy on the tonic?

  3. What was Horatio Nelson’s most famous ship?

  4. What word completes billionaire Jacob Astor’s quip: ‘A man with a million dollars is as well off as if he were…’?

  5. What southern US town was the site of the last battle between Britain and the US?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Who was captain of the Hispaniola?

  2. Which writer’s home are 21st century tourists seeking when they visit London’s Doughty Street?

  3. What James Leo Herlihy novel recounts the story of Joe Buck and Rico Rizzo?

  4. How many sisters were a bestseller for Chekhov?

  5. What’s the nationality of Agatha Christine’s detective Hercule Poirot?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. What do the Masai bleed for food?

  2. What part of trendy trousers is most likely to carry the Yoshida Kogyo Kabushililaisha company’s YKK logo?

  3. What constellation represents a hunter with a club and a shield?

  4. Which 70s starter is the most requested dish with US astronauts?

  5. How many eyes does a bat have?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. What team on the FA Cup final in 1981 and 1982?

  2. Who based his win in the 1994 Italian elections on a network of local clubs, similar to the AC Milan supporter’s clubs?

  3. How many dots are there on a pair of dice?

  4. Which country produced the world cross-country champion in eight of the ten years from 1987 to 1996?

  5. What does ‘scuba’ stand for?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@VanillaWithSprinkles 20½ 3 1 4 4 5 3½
@WillC 19 2 4 2 4 5 2
@Serpentwand 17½ 3 1 3 2½ 5 3
@SexInTheCity 17 4 1½ 2 3½ 3 3
@MsSubExperimenter 16 3 1 2 2 4 4
@Peitho 15½ 3 1 2 3½ 3 3
@Ian_Chimp 10 2 1 1 2 3 3
@KottanKitten 7 1 1 0 2 1½ 1½
The Answers

| :blue_heart: Geography | :heartpulse: Entertainment
— | — | —
| 1. The Taj Mahal | 1. Debbie Reynolds
| 2. The Duke of Norfolk | 2. Jamie Oliver
| 3. Moscow | 3. Swee’pea
| 4. Madrid | 4. The Lone Ranger
| 5. The Arctic | 5. Dirk Bogarde
|
:yellow_heart: History |
:poop: Arts & Literature |
| 1. York and Lancaster | 1. Long John Silver
| 2. Denis Thatcher | 2. Charles Dicken’s
| 3. The Victory | 3. Midnight Cowboy
| 4. Rich | 4. Three
| 5. New Orleans | 5. Belgian
|
:green_heart: Science & Nature |
:orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
| 1. Their cattle | 1. Tottenham Hotspur
| 2. The zip fastener | 2. Silvio Berlusconi
| 3. Orion | 3. Forty-two
| 4. Prawn cocktail | 4. Kenya
| 5. Two | 5. Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

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