Instant Trivia

Episode 1050 - Starts and ends with the same letter - 4-letter anatomy - Machinery - A world of pirates - Texans

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1050, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Starts And Ends With The Same Letter

  • 1: A Utah senator or boat's passageway.
  • Hatch.
  • 2: A cutting remark or a sharp point, perhaps on a fishhook.
  • a barb.
  • 3: A generally nonmalignant growth on the surface of a mucous membrane.
  • a polyp.
  • 4: It's the noble gas on the periodic table that fits the category.
  • neon.
  • 5: An estate given by a lord to a vassal in return for service.
  • a fief.

    • Round 2. Category: 4-Letter Anatomy

    • 1: Cyrano's was really long, but Rudolph's was famous in a Christmas song.
    • nose.
    • 2: The covering that's all about, to keep your innards from falling out.
    • skin.
    • 3: Cooked most certainly is your goose, when this is surrounded by a noose.
    • neck.
    • 4: Be careful when you do a flip, that one of these back parts doesn't slip.
    • a disc.
    • 5: Ballerinas and night watchmen, are both alert when they stay on them.
    • toes.

      • Round 3. Category: Machinery

      • 1: In 2002 China unveiled its first homegrown "super" one of these, with 272 gigabytes of RAM.
      • computer.
      • 2: In 1738 Lewis Paul patented a machine for this--processing fibers into yarn, not doing aerobics on a bike.
      • spinning.
      • 3: Named for a typographical mark, it copied written material using an ink-transfer process.
      • ditto machine.
      • 4: In 1895 Dr. Shields invented one of these machines that simulated the action of a calf.
      • a milker.
      • 5: The Jack LaLanne power one of these has surgical blades and a super-sized pulp catcher.
      • juicer.

        • Round 4. Category: A World Of Pirates

        • 1: Later dictator, this Roman was kidnapped by pirates while on a journey to Rhodes around 75 B.C..
        • Julius Caesar.
        • 2: In 1815 Washington Irving planned to join Stephen Decatur on an expedition against these North African pirates.
        • Barbary pirates.
        • 3: Born around 1645, this pirate captain was sent to England for trial and hanged in 1701.
        • Captain Kidd.
        • 4: Kevin Kline won a Tony Award for his role in this swashbuckling Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
        • The Pirates of Penzance.
        • 5: The costumes for this 1991 Steven Spielberg film included 350 pirate outfits for the extras alone.
        • Hook.

          • Round 5. Category: Texans

          • 1: The younger sister of Phylicia Rashad, this dancer won 2 Emmys for her choreography on "Fame".
          • Debbie Allen.
          • 2: Anchorman who wrote a memoir titled "The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures in TV Journalism".
          • Dan Rather.
          • 3: When orphaned at age 17, he took control of his father's Houston-based tool company.
          • (Howard) Hughes.
          • 4: This first black heavyweight boxing champ claimed he lost deliberately to Jess Willard in 1915.
          • Jack Johnson.
          • 5: This "outlaw" singer topped the country charts in 1977 with "Luckenbach, Texas".
          • Waylon Jennings.

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