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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 – St. George’s Chapel is a historic place on the grounds of: 

A. Buckingham Palace   B.   Windsor Castle   C.   Westminster Abbey   D.   Kensington Palace   E.   Camelot 

 2 – Mont-de-Piete is an old term for a 

       A.  Pawn shop   B.   Confusing situation   C.   Large dinner   D.   Scheming woman   E.  Back alley 

 3 – The dhole, a wild Asian carnivore, is a member of the ____ family. 

       A.    Dog   B.   Rodent    C.   Cat   D.   Carp   E.  Marsupial 

 4 – In French cuisine, “Pain au Levain” is what English speakers call ____ bread. 

       A.   Beer   B.   Toasted    C.   Rice   D.  Sourdough    E.  Fruit  

 5 – What is the name for the raw fish served without rice at a sushi bar? 

      A.   Sosumi   B.  Mahi Mahi    C.   Sriracha     D.   Rumaki    E.   Sashimi    

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 – What Batman villain’s real name is Edward Nygma? 

7 – Who did Tom Brokaw replace as the NBC nightly news anchor in 1982? 

8 – What children’s book character has triplets named Alexandra, Flora and Pom? 

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

10 – On the TV series, what was the name of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s best friend? 

Answers: 1-B   2-A   3-A   4-D   5-E   6 – The Riddler   7 – John Chancellor   8 – Babar   9 – Eugene Delacroix   10 – Willow 

How did you do?

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