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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 – A plectrum is used to play a ____ instrument.

A. Brass B. Wind C. Stringed D. Percussion E. Vocal

2 – Sir Wilfrid Laurier was Canada’s first ____ prime minister.

A. Inuit B. British Columbian C. French-Canadian D. Native-born E. Separatist

3 – A small bottle with a stopper that’s used for perfume is called a:

A. Flacon B. Pilaster C. Botulin D. Clangor E. Sutricle

4 – What type of vegetable is chayote?

A. Tomato B. Squash C. Tuber D. Corn E. Pepper

5 – This slang term refers to an ungenerous, petty person:

A. Piker B. Sockdolager C. Roscoe D. Portsider E. Rip Van Winkle

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 co-wrote the film “Good Will Hunting” with Matt Damon?

7 – What was the original name of New York’s JFK Airport?

8 – What company unveiled its 1-2-3 spreadsheet program in 1983?

9 – Cube is to square as ____ is to circle.

10 – NHL player Matthew Barzal was the proud winner of the 2018 ____ Trophy.

Answers: 1-C 2-C 3-A 4-B 5-A 6 – Ben Affleck 7 – Idlewild 8 – Lotus 9 – Sphere 10 – Calder

How did you do?

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