Are you hungry for more trivia? Is one night of bar trivia per week not enough to satiate your senses? Buzztime has tens of thousands of questions in its database. Pub trivia hosts and players could spend a lifetime with them! However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure. Events that are important one year become irrelevant many years later. Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.

Here’s a challenge for you. Let’s go into the Musty Dusty Trivia Bin and break out some moldy oldies to test the trivia prowess of even the greatest bar trivia and pub trivia players. Quench your thirst for a new trivia challenge by trying to answer these ten tough questions. The answers are at the bottom of this blog. Resist the temptation to peek!

Let’s start with five challenging multiple-choice questions:

1 – What alkali metal was discovered by Humphry Davy in 1807?

A. Boron B. Rubidium C. Aluminum D. Strontium E. Potassium

2 – Sushruta, who lived in India in the 6th century BC, is called the father of:

A. Pediatrics B. Oncology C. Pathology D. Surgery E. Psychiatry

3 – A recreant person is one who is:

A. Comfortable B. Crestfallen C. Capricious D. Cowardly E. Curious

4 – The blue ____ crab has a fifth pair of legs that rotate like propellers.

A. Gliding B. Swimmer C. Danube D. Boat E. Submarine

5 – In which holiday song’s second verse is there a mention of Miss Fanny Bright?

A. Silver Bells B. Away in a Manger C. Jingle Bells D. Adeste Fidelis E. Auld Lang Syne

How did you do? Things will now get a bit tougher. Most bar trivia and pub trivia games don’t give you multiple choices. Trivia players need to figure out the answer on their own. Here are five questions guaranteed to activate your brain cells:

6 – Advocaat is a type of Dutch:

7 – Who provides the voice of a young King Arthur in “Shrek the Third”?

8 – An astronomy buff should know that Bellatrix and Saiph are names of:

9 – What Englishman is noted for the diary he kept between 1660 and 1669?

10 – What is a group of jellyfish called?

Answers: 1-E 2-D 3-D 4-B 5-C 6 – Liqueur 7 – Justin Timberlake 8 – Stars 9 – Samuel Pepys

10 – Smack

How did you do?

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