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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 serious math student should know that a mantissa is part of a common:

1. Sphere   B.   Logarithm   C.   Exponent   D.   Derivative   E.   Vector 

 2 – Which bird has the longest wingspan? 

    A.    Albatross   B.   Bald eagle   C.   Sparrow   D.   Chickadee   E.  White egret 

 3 – In the 1985 comedy movie “Fletch,” Chevy Chase plays a bumbling: 

    A.   Private detective    B.   High school principal    C.  Health inspector    D.   Lawyer    E.   Reporter 

 4 – Jonah was commanded by God to go to this wicked city: 

    A.   Babylon   B.   Fresno    C.   Ninevah   D.   Palermo    E. Sodom  

 5 – Which song is about a streetwalker in New Orleans? 

           A.   Maggie May   B.   Oh, Pretty Woman     C.   Good Golly Miss Molly     D.   Lady Marmalade    E.   Big Bad John 

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 – “To Live to Tell the Tale” is the memoir of what Colombian author? 

7 – In measurements, what unit of length is equal to 66 feet? 

8 – What company began in 1886 as the California Perfume Company? 

9 – What infamous musical group was composed of Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan? 

10 – In baseball, exactly how many sides does home plate have? 

Answers:  1-B   2-A   3-E   4-C   5-D     6 – Gabriel Garcia Marquez   7 – Chain   8 – Avon Products   9 – Milli Vanilli    10 – Five 

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