Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1021, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Music CLass. With C in quotation marks
1: It has 4 strings, 5 letters and 6 Bach solo suites written just for it.cello.2: The Benedictine monks of Santo Domingo de Silos had a surprise 1994 international hit with an album of Gregorian these.chants.3: Italian for "tail", this 4-letter word is a concluding part of a piece of music.coda.4: A male alto voice is also known as this 12-letter word.a countertenor.5: Joan Sutherland was one of these sopranos who decorated her arias with a "rainbow" of musical hues.a coloratura.Round 2. Category: The Roman God Or Goddess Of...
1: The sea, earthquakes and horses, 3 things that obviously go together.Neptune.2: Wine (women and song apparently went to other departments).Bacchus.3: Wisdom, spinning and weaving; this goddess could do it all.Minerva.4: Roads and travel, for that nifty messenger service of his.Mercury.5: Fire and metalworking, but not logic.Vulcan.Round 3. Category: Facts And Numbers
1: 3 is a common number for par in mini-this.golf.2: There are 31,536,000 seconds in one of these time periods; and 52 weeks too.a year.3: A typical adult has about 22 square feet and 8 pounds of this, the body's largest organ.skin.4: In the open ocean, one of these catastrophic waves can sometimes travel as fast as a jet plane.a tsunami.5: Sometimes called the world's driest place, the Atacama Desert on this continent gets less than 1 inch of rain a year.South America.Round 4. Category: You Make My Heart Sing
1: Billy Ray Cyrus found disfavor with country purists for this song, a No. 4 crossover pop hit."Achy Breaky Heart".2: Celine Dion had to be convinced by her husband/manager to do a demo for this 1997 movie song; it worked out okay."My Heart Will Go On".3: In 2020 Dua Lipa sang "Break My Heart"; in 1996 she gave the impossible demand "Un-Break My Heart".Toni Braxton.4: A 2015 song by her begins, "This is my heartbeat song and I'm gonna play it".Kelly Clarkson.5: Heart, a group formed by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, had a hit in 1977 with this song named for a predatory fish."Barracuda".Round 5. Category: A Little Food And Drink
1: Though it triggered an E. coli scare in 2006, this leafy vegetable is generally safe to eat; ask Popeye.spinach.2: This "city" sandwich consists of thin slices of beef, slices of American, and often sauteed onions on a roll.a Philadelphia cheesesteak.3: Though often referred to as a wine, this Japanese alcohol is actually brewed more like a beer.sake.4: This candy bar of chocolate, nougat, peanuts and caramel was named for a horse.Snickers.5: This cereal once had a longer name; "oats" became "os".Cheerios.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
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