The Great Pub Quiz Game Thread

Games
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I have been licked on the hand by a giraffe’s big blue tongue! Very strange sensation!

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It really is! I’ve had one pop it’s head into the car window when going round a safari park, was very surreal having a giraffe’s head inches in front of your face haha!

Amazing animals :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :giraffe:

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Yes, love animals! :slight_smile:

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(19/05/21)

The Great Hump Day Quiz! 🐪

Welcome to this Wednesday’s 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. :+1::slightly_smiling_face:

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.

(Edit: Now with an added sprinkling of more recent questions too :+1::slightly_smiling_face:)

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

Categories:

💙 Geography

  1. How many landlocked countries are there in South America?

  2. What US state has the longest border with Canada?

  3. Which French explorer claimed what is now known as Canada for France in 1534?

  4. Which ancient city’s El Azhar university is said to be the oldest in the world?

  5. Where will you find Wanlockhead, the highest village in Scotland - Lowther Hills, Cairngorms or Grampians?

💗Entertainment

  1. What fashion garment can be cropped, waterfall or oversized?

  2. What Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera was turned into a film by Norman Jewison?

  3. Which television series revolves around the lives of the Cohen, Cooper and Nichol families?

  4. Who was the first UK TV soap character with a transsexual partner?

  5. What type of “Thrills” does Sia love in her 2016 hit single featuring Sean Paul?

💛 History

  1. Which European capital city was known as Titograd between 1946 and 1992, before reverting to a name it first used in 1326?

  2. What botanical marvel did Nebuchadnezzar build?

  3. Before Google, what name did Larry Page and Sergey Brin give to their first attempt at a search engine?

  4. What F-word did Tony Blair have removed from the European constitution?

  5. Which English city was known in Anglo-Saxon as Monkchester?

💩 Art & Literature

  1. Which US man of letters has the phrase ‘I had a lover’s quarrel with the world’ engraved on his tombstone?

  2. How many people appear in da Vinci’s The Last Supper?

  3. Which Mexican painter was known mostly for her self-portraits, including Self-Potrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird?

  4. Which book opens: “At a certain village in La Mancha, which I shall not name…”?

  5. Which novel, first published in 1922, relates the events of a single day - 16 June - in the city of Dublin, in the life of Leopold Bloom?

💚 Science & Nature

  1. About how many silkworms does it take to make a kimono - 20, 200 or 2,000?

  2. What oil is obtained from flax?

  3. What is the name of the hard case that protects a butterfly while it matures into an adult?

  4. What do gasoline and napthenic and palmatic acids combine to form?

  5. What is the name of the larger of the two bones that make up the lower leg?

🧡 Sprot & Leisure

  1. Which football manager led Leicester City to its first Premier League title in 2015/16?

  2. What does S.L.R stand for among photographers?

  3. What two numbers sandwich the number two on a dartboard?

  4. What are you playing if you cross-wire your opponent’s balls?

  5. What’s the diameter of a basketball hoop?

Scoreboard

Total :blue_heart: :heartpulse: :yellow_heart: :poop: :green_heart: :orange_heart:
@WillC 17½ 2½ 4 2 4 4 1
@FL45H 16 3 1 3 1 3 5
@Peitho 15½ 3 1 1 3 5 2½
@SexInTheCity 15½ 3½ 4 2 1 3 2
@Ian_Chimp 15 2 3 2 4 3 1
@LuciousLegs 10½ 2½ 2 0 1½ 2 2½
The Answers

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

  1. Two - Bolivia and Paraguay | 1. Cardigan
  2. Alaska | 2. Jesus Christ Superstar
  3. Jacques Cartier | 3. The O.C.
  4. Cairo’s | 4. Roy Cropper
  5. Lowther Hills | 5. “Cheap”
    |
    :yellow_heart: History |
    :poop: Arts & Literature |
  6. Podgorica (Montenegro) | 1. Robert Frost
  7. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon | 2. Thirteen
  8. BackRub | 3. Frida Kahlo
  9. Federal | 4. Don Quixote
  10. Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 5. Ulysses
    |
    :green_heart: Science & Nature |
    :orange_heart: Sprot & Leisure |
  11. 2,000 | 1. Claudio Ranieri
  12. Linseed oil | 2. Single Lens Reflex
  13. Chrysalis | 3. Fifteen and seventeen
  14. Napalm | 4. Croquet
  15. Tibia | 5. Eighteen inches
    16.
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WillC Answers

Geography

1, 2?
2, Alaska?
3, No idea!
4, Egypt
5, No idea!

Entertainment

1, Coats?
2, Jesus Christ Superstar
3, The O.C.
4, Roy Cropper?
5, Cheap

History

1, No idea!
2, Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
3, No idea!
4, Freedom?
5, Newcastle i think?

Art and Literature

1, Mark Twain?
2, 13?
3, Frida Kahlo
4, Don Quixote
5, Ulysses

Science and Nature

1, 2,000?
2, Linseed oil
3, Chrysalis
4, Napalm?
5, Femur

Sprot And Leisure

1, No idea!
2, Single Lens Reflex!
3, No idea
4, Pocket Billiards?
5, 20 inches?

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My go… harder this week! History, not a clue :rofl:

💙 Geography
  1. I think only Paraguay and Bolivia so 2
  2. Alaska
  3. :woman_shrugging:t2: Can’t even think of a French explorer let alone specifically 16th century
  4. Ancient so probably Egypt, Italy or Greece… more Middle east sounding than Greek or Roman so maybe Cairo?
  5. :woman_shrugging:t2: Grampians?
💗 Entertainment
  1. Jacket - certainly cropped (big fan), and waterfall… guess you can have an oversized jacket too?
  2. :thinking: Jesus Christ Superstar?
  3. :woman_shrugging:t2:
  4. Neighbours is the only soap I ever watched and not UK so not the foggiest… Did Phil Mitchell have a transexual partner at some point? Probably not.
  5. Sexual?
💛 History
  1. Sounds Eastern European… let’s try Prague?
  2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
  3. Yahoo! ? Pretty sure that’s someone else though and overlapped with Google.
  4. The French! :rofl: No idea
  5. I feel a trap but don’t have a better answer so… Manchester
💩 Art and Literature
  1. Presumably poet rather than demon hunter? Robert Frost?
  2. 12 disciples plus Jesus so 13?
  3. I know the painting… also has a monkey and a black cat and she has a monobrow and a definite moustache… can’t remember her name though!
  4. Don Quixote
  5. :woman_shrugging:t2:
💚 Science and Nature
  1. Probably lots… 50:50 between higher two… 2 000?
  2. Linseed oil - I sprayed a small perimeter around two fields of it today along with five fields of Winter Barley and three of Timothy :+1:
  3. Chrysalis
  4. Napalm?
  5. Well it’s either tibia or fibula… let’s go tibia :crossed_fingers:
🧡 Sprot and Leisure
  1. :woman_shrugging:t2: Not a clue
  2. Single-lens reflex
  3. I should definitely know this, I had a dartboard growing up!!! Going to be biggish numbers, not 20 as that’s sandwiched by 1 and 5. Bit of a stab… 15 and 18?
  4. :face_with_hand_over_mouth: Presumably something BDSM related… this maybe?
  5. American game so going to be whole number of inches… more than a foot… foot and a half :woman_shrugging:t2: 18 inches?

Thanks @Ian_Chimp :blush:

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Answers to Hump Day Quiz 19.05.21

Geography:

  1. 2
  2. No idea
  3. Jacques Cartier
  4. Egypt?
  5. If its the highest then let’s go Lowther Hills

Entertainment:

  1. Cardigan
  2. No idea
  3. The OC
  4. Roy Cropper
  5. Cheap (me too Sia)

History:

  1. Feel like I should know this but I haven’t got a clue!
  2. No idea
  3. Back Rub :joy:
  4. Federal
  5. No idea but gotta be Manchester surely?

Arts & Lit:

  1. No idea
  2. 12
  3. Frida Khalo
  4. No idea
  5. No idea

Science & Nature:

  1. 2000?
  2. Flaxseed oil :joy: also known as Linseed
  3. Cocoon?
  4. No idea. Maybe diesel?
  5. Tibia

Sprot & Leisure:

  1. No idea
  2. Single lens reflex
  3. Gosh I have no idea. Let’s go 9 and 16
  4. No idea
  5. 18 inches
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A beast of a quiz this week. Not expecting to be pulling up any trees 🌲🌳🌴

1 - Two
2 - Montana
3 - Jack Cartier
4 -
5 - Lowther Hill

1 -
2 -
3 -
4 -
5 - Cheap Thrills

1 - This would depend on the size of the Kimono. Guessing 2,000
2 - Hanging Gardens of Babylon
3 -
4 - France
5 - Newcastle upon Tyne

1 -
2 - 13
3 -
4 -
5 -

1 -
2 - Linseed Oil
3 - Chrysalis
4 -Napalm
5 - Femur

1 - Claudio Ranieri
2 - Single Lens Reflex
3 - 15 and 17
4 - Croquet
5 - 18 inches

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Yesterday’s Flax and no SLR here :rofl:

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1823

@Kitty-Cat01, @LuciousLegs, @MsSubExperimenter, @everyone_else

Anybody else fancy a go before I put the answers up?

1824

Hi @Ian_Chimp, too busy today but thanks for thinking of me :blush:

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1825

Don’t think I’ll get a chance again but thank you!

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here's my attempt not very good and had to wake up the memory for certain ones which hurt a little
Cat 1 2 3 4 5
:blue_heart: 10 :man_shrugging: alaska Christopher Egypt? lowther hills
:heartpulse: scarf jesus christ superstar cheap
:yellow_heart: Berlin :man_shrugging: yahoo foreign manchester
:poop: 13 unlucky for some frida
:green_heart: 2000 cocoon tibia
:orange_heart: Claudio Ranieri 18 and 17 Croquet 15 inches
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I have added the answers to the quiz post :slightly_smiling_face:

And I can declare this week’s Great Hump Day winner to be… :drum::drum::drum:

@WillC :trophy::confetti_ball:

Congratulations!


And this week’s Clean-Sweepers are:

@Peitho :green_heart:
@FL45H :orange_heart:

Thanks to everybody who took part, and I’ll be back with another next Wednesday. :slightly_smiling_face::+1:

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Thanks! Congratulations to @Peitho @FL45H!
I thought it was very difficult again this week, quite a few lucky guesses! :slightly_smiling_face:

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Congratulations @WillC ! :clap::clap::clap:

I thought they were really tricky, should have guessed Ulysses but otherwise nope :rofl:.

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Thanks! Just glad i got a Sprot question right! Even if it was about cameras!

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(22/05/21)

Another Cheeky Weekender!? 📽️

Seems a good time for another cheeky Weekender. :slightly_smiling_face: It is movies again, so brace yourselves…

All newcomers are most welcome Check out the rules, pop your answers in a post, and I’ll add you to the Scoreboard. :+1:

These questions are once again from the movie quiz I found in the Boxing Day bargain bin. :slightly_smiling_face:

Categories:

😂 Comedy

  1. Who wrote and directed Clerks?

  2. Who starred as McLovin’ in Superbad?

  3. Which comedy actor directed The Cable Guy?

  4. Name Hugh Grant’s character in Bridget Jones’s Diary.

  5. In The Princess Diaries, Mia Thermopolis discovers she is the heir to the throne of which kingdom?

🎞️ Classic

  1. Which actor sang “Singin’ in the Rain” in the 1952 movie of the same name?

  2. Who played Blanche Dubois alongside Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire?

  3. An assassination attempt is made on which statesman in The Day of the Jackal?

  4. In which Marilyn Monroe movie do Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon disguise themselves as women?

  5. What was Elvis Presley’s first film, in 1956?

💥 Action

  1. Sigourney Weaver plays Ellen Ripley in which 1986 James Cameron sci-fi film?

  2. Who directed the 2019 remake of Charlie’s Angels?

  3. Name the third movie in the Die Hard series.

  4. In what 2011 movie does Saoirse Ronan play a 16-year-old assassin?

  5. Which superhero movie features the characters Big Daddy and Red Mist?

🐻 Kids (but basically Disney)

  1. Which actor voiced the character of Walter Beckett in Spies in Disguise?

  2. What is the name of the kingdom over which Elsa reigns in Frozen?

  3. What are the small orange men in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory known as?

  4. Which film, based on the book by Roald Dahl, featured the story of a girl with telekinetic powers?

  5. In which country is Mulan set?

Scoreboard

Total :joy: :film_strip: :boom: :bear:
@Luciouslegs 13 2½ 2½ 4 4
@WillC 12½ 3 3 2½ 4
@Peitho 10½ 2 3 2½ 3
@SexInTheCity 8 2 2 0 4
The Answers

| :joy: Comedy | :film_strip: Classic
— | — | —

  1. Kevin Smith | 1. Vivien Leigh
  2. Christopher Mintz-Plasse | 2. Some Like It Hot
  3. Ben Stiller | 3. President Charles de Gaulle
  4. Daniel Cleaver | 4. Gene Kelly
  5. Genovia | 5. Love Me Tender
    |
    :boom: Action |
    :bear: Kids |
  6. Aliens | 1. Tom Holland
  7. Elizabeth Banks | 2. Arendelle
  8. Die Hard with a Vengeance | 3. Oompa Loompas
  9. Hanna | 4. Matilda
  10. Kick-Ass | 5. China
    11.
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WillC Answers

Comedy

1, Kevin Smith
2, No idea!
3, Ben Stiller
4, Daniel Cleaver
5, No idea!

Classic

1, Gene Kelly
2, Elizabeth Taylor
3, Charles DeGaulle
4, Some Like It Hot
5, Jailhouse Rock?

Action

1, Aliens
2, McG
3, Die Hard With A Vengeance
4, Can’t remember!
5, Kick Ass 2

Kids

1, No idea!
2, Arendelle
3, Oompa Loompa’s
4, Matilda
5, China

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My attempt :see_no_evil:

😂 Comedy
  1. :woman_shrugging:t2:
  2. :woman_shrugging:t2: Never even heard of it
  3. Ben Stiller?
  4. One I know, hooray - Daniel Cleaver!
  5. Have seen it… something-via
🎞 Classic
  1. Gene Kelly
  2. Feel I should know… but don’t.
  3. Charles de Gaulle
  4. Some Like It Hot - brilliant, brilliant film! “Well, nobody’s perfect!”
  5. Should be able to come up with something but can’t think of the names of any of his films… isn’t one but, Hound Dog?
💥 Action
  1. Alien
  2. :woman_shrugging:t2:
  3. Die Hard with a Vengeance
  4. Hannah - we actually saw this at the cinema, it was terrible.
  5. :thinking: Should know. Can’t engage brain.
🐻 Kids
  1. Never heard of him or the film.
  2. :woman_shrugging:t2: I could sing a bit of the song though.
  3. Oompa Loompas
  4. Matilda
  5. China - more my Disney era!

Roald Dahl Literature knowledge helped with two… otherwise my usual dire film performance :rofl:

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