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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 exactly is a zootropic?

A. Atomic particle B. Biblical Scholar C. Drug D. Worm E. Mental error

2 – Native to the U.S. Southwest, the palo verde is a type of:

A. Desert rodent B. Tree C. Lizard D. Bug E. Wild cat

3 – A collier is constructed to carry:

A. Chenille B. Cucumbers C. Carbon D. Champagne E. Coal

4 – “A chacun son gout” is a French term that means:

A. Staircase wit B. After me, the deluge C. Shared delusion D. I regret nothing E. To each his own

5 – In investing, this measure indicates the volatility of a particular stock:

A. Alpha B. Beta C. Gamma D. Omega E. Zeta

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 – In what ancient city was the “Lex Oppia” law adopted in 215 B.C.?

7 – What Dominican designer sketched his first clothes while studying to become a painter?

8 – Rinderpest was a virulent disease, now eradicated, that mainly attacked:

9 – The Mabaan people, known for their highly developed hearing, live on what continent?

10 – A shadow roll is a piece of sports equipment placed on:

Answers: 1-C 2-B 3-E 4-E 5-B 6 – Rome 7 – Oscar de la Renta 8 – Herds of cattle 9 – Africa 10 – Racehorses

How did you do?

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