Instant Trivia

Episode 1028 - The highest-scoring scrabble word - Countries by region - Would you like flies with that? - Nutmeggers - Millers outpost

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1028, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Highest-Scoring Scrabble Word

  • 1: Hell,heavenor limbo.
  • heaven.
  • 2: Vow,knightor grail.
  • knight.
  • 3: Pickle,lettuce,onion.
  • pickle.
  • 4: Cozy,waxor quilt.
  • cozy.
  • 5: Butter, milk or cheese.
  • cheese.

    • Round 2. Category: Countries By Region

    • 1: Thessaly,Epirus,Peloponnesus.
    • Greece.
    • 2: Western Plateau,Great Victoria Desert,Great Artesian Basin.
    • Australia.
    • 3: Roraima,Maranhao,Amazonas.
    • Brazil.
    • 4: Namaqualand,Bushmanland,Zululand.
    • South Africa.
    • 5: Chaco Central,Pampa de las Salinas,Chaco Austral.
    • Argentina.

      • Round 3. Category: Would You Like Flies With That?

      • 1: The Hotlix company makes a green lollipop flavored like this fruit--appropriately, with a worm inside.
      • an apple.
      • 2: Crick-ettes (yep, they're made from crickets) come in several tangy flavors, including these breakfast strips and cheese.
      • bacon.
      • 3: These winged wood-eaters, aka white ants, are fried as a snack in Africa.
      • termites.
      • 4: edible.com sells ground beans for this hot beverage that have been regurgitated by weasels, cleaned and roasted.
      • coffee.
      • 5: The snack called Amber Insectnside features these stinging arachnids in amber-colored candy.
      • scorpions.

        • Round 4. Category: Nutmeggers

        • 1: This Connecticut Yankee invented the revolver in 1836, not ".45".
        • (Samuel) Colt.
        • 2: This showman, famed for saying "There's a sucker born every minute, was elected mayor of Bridgeport.
        • (P.T.) Barnum.
        • 3: In a film, Spencer Tracy said of this actress, "Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice".
        • Katharine Hepburn.
        • 4: After he died, the part of Plymouth Hollow where he had his clock factory was renamed Thomaston.
        • Seth Thomas.
        • 5: To safeguard his "Blue-Backed Speller" in the 1780s, he was a staunch advocate of copyright laws.
        • (Noah) Webster.

          • Round 5. Category: Millers Outpost

          • 1: For pioneering work in finance theory, Merton Miller won this prize in Economic Science for 1990.
          • Nobel Prize.
          • 2: 18th C. English comedian Josias Miller won lasting comic fame as first gravedigger in this play by Shakespeare.
          • "Hamlet".
          • 3: Born in Cromarty in this U.K. country in 1802, Hugh Miller did much to arouse public interest in geology.
          • Scotland.
          • 4: One of the most popular musical comedy actresses of the 1920s, Marilyn Miller appeared in these "follies" in 1918.
          • Ziegfeld Follies.
          • 5: In 1919 American lawyer David Hunter Miller helped compose the charter of this international organization.
          • League of Nations.

            • Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

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