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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 – Who advised consumers to “Let your fingers do the walking”?

A. AT&T B. Bell Telephone C. Yellow Pages D. KFC E. Hallmark Cards

2 – “The Case of the ____” is the title of Batman’s first comic book adventure in 1939.

A. Chemical Syndicate B. Velvet Claws C. Howling Dog D. Lucky Legs E. Lost Ghost

3 – It is a teardrop diamond cut into triangular facets:

4 – Which poem was not published until two days after its author’s death in 1849?

A. The Drunken Boat B. Porphiria’s Lover C. Annabel Lee D. My Last Duchess E. The Bronze Horseman

5 – “Flagitious” is a fancy word that means the same thing as:

A. Confused B. Arrogant C. Peaceful D. Wicked E. Defeated

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 Here are five outdated questions guaranteed to activate your brain cells: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 – What odd nickname belongs to Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas?

7 – What is the name of Francesca’s husband in “The Bridges of Madison County”?

8 – Mirabell Palace and Gardens is a tourist attraction in this Austrian city:

9 – Who wrote “The Curse of Lono,” a book set in Hawaii?

10 – This British band’s albums include “Cosi Fan Tutte” and “Babylon and On”:

Answers: 1-C 2-A 3-B 4-C 5-D 6 – Ichabods 7 – Richard 8 – Salzburg 9 – Hunter S. Thompson 10 – Squeeze

How did you do?

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