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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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.

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 – What Billy Joel song provided the theme for the 1990s TV series, “Dave’s World”?

A. Born to Run B. The Longest Time C. Pressure D. You May Be Right E. Piano Man

2 – Englishman Luke Howard coined this term in 1802:

A. Electromagnetism B. Cirrus Cloud C. Bounding Main D. Halogen Gas E. Auld Lang Syne

3 – Disney opened a new mega-resort called ____ Disney in 2016.

A. Copenhagen B. Mumbai C. Sydney D. Honolulu E. Shanghai

4 – The Japanese company Nintendo made ____ when it first started out in 1889.

A. Puzzles B. Road Maps C. Baseballs D. Playing Cards E. Cookware

5 – What product was pitched by 1950s spokestoon Bucky Beaver?

A. Orange Juice B. Sneakers C. Floor Wax D. Toothpaste E. Tomato Soup

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 Here are five outdated questions guaranteed to activate your brain cells:

6 – A baby ____ named Hua Wei was born at the San Diego Zoo on August 21, 1999.

7 – In which war did David Farragut make the famous exclamation, “Damn the torpedoes”?

8 – What cartoon series featured Tear-a-long the Dotted Lion and Dishonest John?

9 – John Backus and an IBM team invented this computer language in the 1950s:

10 – From 1841 to 1844, what city served as the capital of the Province of Canada?

Answers: 1-E 2-B 3-E 4-D 5-D 6-Panda 7-War of 1812 8-Beany and Cecil 9-Fortran

10-Kingston

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