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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 – Lambert Strether is the central character in this Henry James novel:

A. The Wings of the Dove B. The Crucible C. The Ambassadors D. The Bostonians E. The Golden Bowl

2 – Telescope, Bubble Eye and Lionhead are breeds of:

A. Moths B. Goldfish C. Lobsters D. Songbirds E. Butterflies

3 – `A Haute Voix’ is a French term that means:

A. Shy B. Confused C. Snobby D. Quiet E. Aloud

4 – Elizabeth Shue plays a New York City waitress and heiress to millions in this 1988 movie:

A. Cocktail B. The Marrying Man C. Soapdish D. Ishtar E. The Karate Kid

5 – He postulated the existence of energy packets called quanta:

A. Max Planck B. Alexander Fleming C. John McGraw D. Humphry Davy E. Sigmund Freud

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 – How many minutes long are the periods in a National Hockey League game?

7 – The sand monitor is a large lizard that is native to what country?

8 – Who plays the romance novelist tortured by a fan in the 1990 movie “Misery”?

9 – The Orinoco River forms part of the boundary between Colombia and:

10 – Fraudulently adding valuable ore to a mine to increase its value is called ____ the mine.

Answers: 1-C 2-B 3-E 4-A 5-A 6 – Twenty 7 – Australia 8 – James Caan 9 – Venezuela

10 – Salting

How did you do?

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