Instant Trivia

Episode 1056 - The food chain - Rock 'n' roll history - Aim! - Fold it 5 ways - The magic word

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1056, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Food Chain

  • 1: Black bears sometimes prey on the young of this big deer, Alces alces.
  • a moose.
  • 2: The $6 Footlong Sub of the Day.
  • Subway.
  • 3: This green stuff that encompasses diatoms and seaweed is the base of the food chain for almost all aquatic life.
  • algae.
  • 4: This convenience store was born when the Southland Ice Co. sold milk and eggs after grocery stores closed.
  • 7-Eleven.
  • 5: Cottageblanksteak.
  • cheese.

    • Round 2. Category: Rock 'N' Roll History

    • 1: It premiered on August 1, 1981 at 12:01 A.M. with John Lack saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll".
    • MTV.
    • 2: In August 1994 about 30,000 gathered in Bethel, New York to celebrate the 25th anniversary of this festival.
    • Woodstock.
    • 3: In 1967 this TV group became the only band other than The Beatles to have consecutive No. 1 albums.
    • The Monkees.
    • 4: In January 1995 he became probably the only singer with a No. 1 record to serve in Congress.
    • Sonny Bono.
    • 5: Kurt Cobain's suicide note quoted from this man's "My My, Hey Hey": "It's better to burn out than to fade away".
    • Neil Young.

      • Round 3. Category: Aim!

      • 1: Shaq holds the NBA record for most attempts of these in a game without making one, going 0-for-11 on a rough night in 2000.
      • free throws.
      • 2: Guinness reported the youngest male golfer to achieve this singular feat was 4 years and 195 days old.
      • a hole-in-one.
      • 3: Bull's-eye! On "Sport Science", QB Drew Brees of this team hit the center of a target 20 yards away 10 out of 10 times.
      • the New Orleans Saints.
      • 4: Bull's-eye! You ski cross-country to return to a 50-meter shooting range in this competition.
      • the biathlon.
      • 5: Bull's-eye! Cricket, baseball and 51 by 5s are varieties of this game.
      • darts.

        • Round 4. Category: Fold It 5 Ways

        • 1: Kids make these from 1 sheet of typing paper; they use a lot less fuel than a Cessna.
        • Paper airplane.
        • 2: The word origami means "paper folding" in this language.
        • Japanese.
        • 3: It's black and white and read all over; it's also the perfect size to make a hat.
        • Newspaper.
        • 4: Complex snout folds are needed to make this animal, whose next Chinese year is 2007.
        • Pig/boar.
        • 5: A square sheet of paper can become a star to put on a Christmas tree, a triangle becomes this Jewish star.
        • Star of David.

          • Round 5. Category: The Magic Word

          • 1: This 2-word rhyming phrase, a magical incantation, is also the name of a movie about 3 sister witches.
          • hocus pocus.
          • 2: In 1923 Horace Goldin was awarded a patent for this illusion; he later incorporated a buzz saw.
          • sawing a person in half.
          • 3: Ironically, this magician says he's never been able to finish the Dickens novel that gave him his stage name.
          • David Copperfield.
          • 4: Bullwinkle tried this cliched magic trick, but his results were feline and ursine, not leporine.
          • pulling a rabbit out of his hat.
          • 5: Author Peter Lamont traveled to India to write "The Rise of" this, called "the world's most famous illusion.
          • the Indian rope trick.

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

            Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

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