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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 – Campanulas are also known as:

A. Bellflowers B. Gladioli C. Violets D. Pansies E. Cacti

2 – What device did Humphry Davy invent in 1815?

A. Paper Clip B. Safety Lamp C. Microscope D. Fountain Pen E. Carburetor

3 – Kumbh Mela is a pilgrimage undergone every third year in:

A. Tibet B. India C. South Africa D. China E. Tahiti

4 – What anti-war novel is one of the earliest works by John Dos Passos?

A. One Admiral B. Two Privates C. Three Soldiers D. Four Marines E. Five Captains

5 – Architects Whitney Warren and Charles Wetmore are known for their work on:

A. The Gateway Arch B. The Space Needle C. Faneuil Hall D. 333 Wacker Drive E. Grand Central Station

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 – “Liberty Leading the People” is a famous painting completed in 1830 by:

7 – This country legend’s backup was called “The Strangers”:

8 – The Strait of ____ connects the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Ionian Sea.

9 – The dromedary is a camel with one hump. What is a two-humped camel called?

10 – Floyd’s Barber Shop and Wally’s Filling Station were places featured on this classic TV show:

Answers: 1-A 2-B 3-B 4-C 5-E 6 – Eugene Delacroix 7 – Merle Haggard 8 – Messina 9 – Bactrian 10 – The Andy Griffith Show

How did you do?

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