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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 – Which word has a face value of 11 in a standard Scrabble game?

A. Ruby B. Pearl C. Coral D. Garnet E. Diamond

2 – Chermoula is a marinade widely used in ____ cooking.

A. Southeast Asian B. Inuit C. North African D. Australian E. Japanese

3 – This nation’s neighbors include Israel and Iraq:

A. Yemen B. Morocco C. Turkey D. Egypt E. Syria

4 – Maasdam cheese is a Dutch creation designed to rival ____ Emmental cheese.

A. Swiss B. Norwegian C. Greek D. Chinese E. Danish

5 – Which writer was pressured by his government to refuse the Nobel Prize?

A. Ernest Hemingway B. John Grisham C. John Keats D. Boris Pasternak E. Hermann Hesse

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 – A famous Buddhist temple named Wat Traimit can be viewed in what Asian city?

7 – “The American ____” is a noted 1837 speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

8 – “Man in Motion” is the subtitle of this 1985 hit song by John Paar:

9 – Hirundo Rustica is the scientific name for the:

10 – “One, Two, Buckle my Shoe” is a 1940 mystery novel featuring this sleuth:

Answers: 1-E 2-C 3-E 4-A 5-D 6 – Bangkok 7 – Scholar 8 – St. Elmo’s Fire 9 – Barn swallow

10 – Hercule Poirot

How did you do?

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