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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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 Some questions are just plain difficult, outdated or not.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 bottle of Krug is a bottle of:

2 – Cotard delusion is a type of mental illness in which a person thinks they are:

A. From outer space B. Obese C. Shemp Howard D. Dead E. Superior to all

3 – What the heck is a “dodder”?

A. Venomous snake B. Gemstone C. Flightless bird D. Parasitic plant E. Clown’s big shoe

4 – Which decade gave rise to fingerless lace gloves as a fashion statement?

A. 1900s B. 1920s C. 1940s D. 1960s E. 1980s

5 – In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” Ophelia is the sister of:

A. Yorick B. Laertes C. Abel Magwitch D. Othello E. Puck

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 – Dies Cinerum is another name for what religious occasion?

7 – Epistaxis is the scientific term for what common affliction?

8 – In what city is the Bank of Canada headquartered?

9 – The tayra, a relative of the weasel, is native to what continent?

10 – If you watch someone doing a Biellmann spin, what sport are you watching?

Answers: 1-A 2-D 3-D 4-E 5-B 6 – Ash Wednesday 7 – Nosebleed 8 – Ottawa 9 – South America 10 – Figure skating

How did you do?

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