Instant Trivia

Episode 1025 - Salt - When you were young - Sexy stuff - Antropology - Clocks

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1025, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Salt

  • 1: In 1930 this Indian pacifist marched 200 miles to the sea to protest Britain's salt tax.
  • Gandhi.
  • 2: In 1914 the little girl with the umbrella began appearing on this company's salt packages.
  • Morton's.
  • 3: Throwing salt into the center of the ring to purify it is part of the ritual of this sport.
  • sumo wrestling.
  • 4: Opened in 1825, it was known as the "ditch that salt built" because its main cargo was salt from Syracuse, N.Y..
  • the Erie Canal.
  • 5: In Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper", an overturned salt cellar lies in front of him.
  • Judas.

    • Round 2. Category: When You Were Young

    • 1: Floods ravaged the Midwest in 1993 as the confluence of the Missouri and this river moved 19 miles upstream.
    • the Mississippi.
    • 2: Chechnya, a breakaway republic, was overrun by the army of this country in 1994.
    • Russia.
    • 3: In 1995 an ultranationalist assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of this country.
    • Israel.
    • 4: In 1996 British scientists successfully cloned this type of animal and named her Dolly.
    • a sheep.
    • 5: In 2000 Clinton became the first sitting president to visit this country since Nixon visited the troops in 1969.
    • Vietnam.

      • Round 3. Category: Sexy Stuff

      • 1: A queen ant of one species coats these with a pheromone that stops other ants from destroying them.
      • the eggs.
      • 2: "Warm" 4-letter word for a period of sexual receptiveness.
      • heat.
      • 3: In 1873 this U.S. president signed a bill banning anything obscene, lewd or lascivious from the mails.
      • Grant.
      • 4: Muskrat love includes the formation of these monogamous "bonds" for the duration of breeding season.
      • pair bonds.
      • 5: Vajrayana is another name for this type of Buddhism that's associated with sexuality.
      • Tantric.

        • Round 4. Category: Antropology

        • 1: The Spinifex people of Australia are among the few remaining societies of foragers, also called "hunter"- these.
        • gatherers.
        • 2: The light skin of northern peoples prevents rickets by turning limited sunlight into the maximum amount of this vitamin.
        • vitamin D.
        • 3: Rotund Venus figures made of this substance are common artworks of the age named for this substance.
        • stone.
        • 4: In some societies this type of "feud" is settled by paying this type of "money".
        • blood.
        • 5: This study of one society, from the Greek for "people", began with Bronislaw Malinowski's work in Melanesia.
        • ethnography.

          • Round 5. Category: Clocks

          • 1: The face of a watch or the soap you might use if you had time for a shower.
          • dial.
          • 2: Around 1400 B.C., Egyptians used this kind of clock that was supposed to leak.
          • a water clock.
          • 3: Oregon won the first NCAA men's basketball title by the anemic score of 46-33 in 1939, long before this 1985 innovation.
          • shot clock.
          • 4: It's a clock ⅔ the size of a grandfather clock.
          • a grandmother's clock.
          • 5: 1 of the 2 components powering a clock that can be replaced by electricity.
          • springs or weights.

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