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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 – Count Rodolphe is a literary character who has an affair with:

A. Emma Bovary B. Elizabeth Bennet C. Anna Karenina D. Holly Golightly E. Hester Prynne

2 – Spaetzle is a type of ____ found in the cuisine of Switzerland and Austria.

A. Sandwich B. Pickle C. Meat loaf D. Dumpling E. Salad

3 – The mara is an animal that is a large relative of the:

A. Guinea pig B. Badger C. Gila monster D. Python E. Seagull

4 – Exactly what does the “mag” stand for regarding mag wheels on a car?

A. Magnetic B. Magnesium C. Magenta D. Magellan E. Magnified

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

A. Hormuz B. Gibraltar C. Dover D. Messina E. Juan de Fuca

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 – Who is the title character’s best friend in the 2004 film “Napoleon Dynamite”?

7 – What Russian playwright wrote “The Seagull”?

8 – In 1948, Syngman Rhee became the first president of the Republic of:

9 – Who said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”?

10 – By definition, an abranchiate animal has no:

Answers: 1-A 2-D 3-A 4-B 5-D 6 – Pedro 7 – Anton Chekhov 8 – South Korea 9 – Franklin D. Roosevelt

10 – Gills

How did you do?

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