Instant Trivia

Episode 1059 - Eels - Rulers - Colorful cities - Texting in class - Movie endings

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1059, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Eels

  • 1: There are more than 800 species of eels, including this large nocturnal hunter.
  • the moray.
  • 2: These charged-up creatures are technically not eels at all, but knifefish.
  • electric eels.
  • 3: This term is used for a young eel, especially when on migration upriver from the ocean.
  • an elver.
  • 4: These long, slender sharklike fish of the Sphyraenidae family are among an eel's natural enemies.
  • barracuda.
  • 5: There are about 100 species of this 6-letter variety of eel that can be 6 feet long.
  • the conger eel.

    • Round 2. Category: Rulers

    • 1: Fredericksburg, Va. was founded in the 1720s and named after this king's father, Prince Frederick Louis.
    • George III.
    • 2: This cousin of Julius Caesar committed suicide in August, 20 B.C. at Alexandria, Egypt.
    • Marc Antony.
    • 3: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I was called Barbarossa, which means this.
    • red beard.
    • 4: Philip V was the first Bourbon king of this country.
    • Spain.
    • 5: When Solon ruled this city, he diminished the power of the aristocracy and freed those enslaved by debt.
    • Athens.

      • Round 3. Category: Colorful Cities

      • 1: This former mining town was Colorado's territorial capital.
      • Golden.
      • 2: Football fans know it sits at the mouth of Wisconsin's Fox River.
      • Green Bay.
      • 3: A Southern California city and a Northern New Jersey township share this citrusy name.
      • Orange.
      • 4: Parlez-vous Francais? Then name this Louisiana port at the head of the Mississippi's deepwater navigation.
      • Baton Rouge.
      • 5: This "ville" is across the Rio Grande from Matamoros.
      • Brownsville.

        • Round 4. Category: Texting In Class

        • 1: IANAL, but if I were one I'd be part of this class, the opposite of amateur.
        • a professional.
        • 2: Dad makes big $? Yr family is in this class w/name of a pie layer.
        • the upper crust.
        • 3: This head servant OTD? BOL finding a new one.
        • the butler.
        • 4: NK, this bureau sez 46m Americans now in poverty.
        • the Census.
        • 5: Per treasury sec, L/T prosperity "depends on an expanding, vibrant" this class.
        • the middle class.

          • Round 5. Category: Movie Endings

          • 1: "Independence","The Longest","Training".
          • Day.
          • 2: "Police","Toy","Love".
          • Story.
          • 3: "Safe","Road","Animal".
          • House.
          • 4: "After","Battlefield","The Good".
          • Earth.
          • 5: "Hollow","Rain","Inside".
          • Man.

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