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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 – This gem is a transparent red variety of corundum:

A. Agate B. Garnet C. Ruby D. Bloodstone E. Zircon

2 – The ____ bullfrog is a large amphibian known to eat birds and rodents.

A. Albanian B. Arctic C. African D. Afghan E. Argentine

3 – Which type of triangle is described as one with three unequal sides?

A. Trapezoid B. Scalene C. Acute D. Obtuse E. Isosceles

4 – Mr. Bumble is the mean director of the workhouse in:

A. The Harry Potter novels B. Little Orphan Annie C. The Prince and the Pauper D. Oliver

Twist E. Pride and Prejudice

5 – “The Hamlet,” “The Town” and “The Mansion” make up a literary trilogy by:

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Mark Twain C. F. Scott Fitzgerald D. William Faulkner E.

Henry James

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 – Snails are spineless animals that are members of what phylum?

7 – Midnight Oil is a music group from what country?

8 – Andrew Carnegie endowed the 1913 Peace Palace, an imposing building located in what city?

9 – The Earth’s atmosphere is made up mostly of what gas?

10 – The Cotswold is a breed of:

Answers: 1-C 2-C 3-B 4-D 5-D 6 – Mollusk 7 – Australia 8 – The Hague 9 – Nitrogen 10 –

Sheep

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