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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 – The tambura is a stringed instrument native to what part of the world?

1. Middle East   B. Balkans   C. North Africa   D. Southeast Asia    E. Spain

 2 – Maracatu, afoxe and repente are genres of ____ music.

      A.    Greek   B.   Laotian   C.   Brazilian   D.   Inuit   E.  Mexican

 3 – In math, it is always below the line: 

      A.    Decimal    B.   Factorial    C.  Integer    D.   Denominator    E.   Exponent 

 4 – Anders Celsius was a ____ astronomer who gained fame in the 18th century.

      A.   Mexican    B.   Swedish    C.   Polish    D.   Scottish    E.  German  

 5 – Embalming fluid typically contains a mixture of formaldehyde and:

1. Polyester   B.   Silicone   C.  Methanol    D.   Furan   E. Styrene

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 – The Queen of ____ asked King Solomon hard questions to test his wisdom. 

7 – “The Persistence of ____” is a famous painting by Salvador Dali.

8 – The Buddhist Temple of the Tooth can be found in Kandy, a city in:

9 – “Kind of Blue” is an acclaimed jazz album released in 1959 by:

10 – Pan troglodytes is the scientific name for what animal? 

Answers:  1-B   2-C   3-D   4-B   5-C     6 – Sheba    7 – Memory    8 – Sri Lanka     9 – Mile Davis     10 – Chimpanzee

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