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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 – Cyanocitta Cristata is the scientific name of the:

A. Barracuda B. Bear C. Bobcat D. Blue jay E. Baboon

2 – The city of Sydney, Australia, was originally founded as a:

A. Gold rush town B. Smuggling port C. Missionary school D. Penal colony E. Military fort

3 – Hygeia is the Greek goddess of:

A. Farming B. Health C. Social media D. Water E. Storms

4 – If you’re in a restaurant and order barramundi, you’ll soon be dining on:

A. Roast duck B. Mushrooms C. Fish D. Apple pastry E. String beans

5 – William Sydney Porter published short stories under this pen name:

A. Ambrose Bierce B. O. Henry C. James Thurber D. George Eliot E. Damon Runyon

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 – Thermosets are things students learn about in ____ class.

7 – What city lays claim to being Spain’s largest port?

8 – To get the area of a ____, you multiply its base times height times one half.

9 – Poland’s longest river, the Vistula, rises in the ____ mountain range.

10 – Exactly how many Friday the 13ths are there in the year 2024?

Answers: 1-D 2-D 3-B 4-C 5-B 6 – Chemistry 7 – Barcelona 8 – Triangle 9 – Carpathian 10 – Two

How did you do?

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