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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 – Eric Berne wrote this bestseller of the 1960s:

A. Nowhere Man B. Summer of Love C. Death of a President D. Jaws E. Games People Play

2 – Zhoukoudian is the name of a famous ____ in China.

A. Shopping mall B. Theater C. Cave D. Artificial reef E. Bridge

3 – The hang and swing are two separate maneuvers in this gymnastics event:

A. Beam B. Vault C. Floor exercise D. Parallel bars E. Pommel horse

4 – For her Oscar-winning role in “Monster’s Ball,” Halle Berry played this character:

A. Dorothy Dandridge B. Leticia Musgrove C. Ginger Knowles D. Patience Phillips E. Ororo Munroe

5 – There are about 473 milliliters in one:

A. Carat B. Pint C. Bushel D. Furlong E. Teaspoon

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 – Writer Zane Grey was born in Zanesville in what state?

7 – Pat Day and Gary Stevens are members of the ____ Hall of Fame.

8 – In a work of literature, pathos gives rise to what emotion?

9 – The traditional pattern of argyle is composed of this shape:

10 – Who directed the sci-fi classic, “Scanners’?

Answers: 1-E 2-C 3-D 4-B 5-A 6 – Ohio 7 – Horse racing 8 – Sorrow 9 – Diamond 10 – David Cronenberg

How did you do?

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