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Episode 1094 - You just made that stuff up - You've got yellow fever - Small words - "but" of course - Knowledge

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1094, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: You Just Made That Stuff Up

  • 1: It's the very hard-to-get substance that causes humans to set up shop on Pandora.
  • unobtanium.
  • 2: Fraudulin was the miracle ingredient in Crelm toothpaste in a 1970 episode by this comedy troupe.
  • Monty Python.
  • 3: Kyber crystals, which are attuned to the Force, glow either blue or green and power these weapons.
  • lightsabers.
  • 4: First mentioned in a 1943 "Adventures of Superman" radio show, when it debuted in the comics in 1949, it was red, not green.
  • kryptonite.
  • 5: This super-bouncy stuff from Disney's much-loved 1961 "The Absent-Minded Professor" was the title of a 1997 remake.
  • flubber.

    • Round 2. Category: You'Ve Got Yellow Fever

    • 1: Control of yellow fever greatly aided the completion of this large-scale Central American project in 1914.
    • the Panama Canal.
    • 2: After Dolley Payne's first husband died of yellow fever in 1793, she married this man.
    • Madison.
    • 3: Yellow fever is caused by one of these microorganisms that get transmitted by mosquito bites.
    • a virus.
    • 4: From the old French for "yellowness", this skin condition puts the yellow in yellow fever.
    • jaundice.
    • 5: A Washington, D.C. hospital bears the name of this man who fought yellow fever in Cuba and discovered its cause.
    • Walter Reed.

      • Round 3. Category: Small Words

      • 1: Derived from a 1726 novel, this adjective can describe someone very small or petty in outlook.
      • lilliputian.
      • 2: French for "small", this word can refer to a garment size or to the gal who wears one.
      • petite.
      • 3: This 3-letter word can refer to something really small or the early hours of the morning.
      • wee.
      • 4: This word that's used to describe the weight class of a boxer first meant a small chicken.
      • bantam.
      • 5: The "let" at the end of "booklet" is this type of suffix that indicates a smaller form.
      • diminutive.

        • Round 4. Category: But Of Course. With But in quotation marks

        • 1: In a Gershwin tune, this phrase qualifies "They're writing songs of love" and "A lucky star's above".
        • "But not for me".
        • 2: Saying based on a quote by John Bradford on seeing criminals led to their execution.
        • "There, but for the grace of God, go I".
        • 3: This current pop duo took its name from a store that would sell almost any item.
        • Everything but the Girl.
        • 4: Romeo quiets himself with this interjection when Juliet appears at her window.
        • "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?".
        • 5: It completes Bette Davis' line to a suitor in "Cabin in the Cotton", "I'd love to kiss you....".
        • "but I just washed my hair".

          • Round 5. Category: Knowledge

          • 1: A coherent series of propositions that serves as an explanation; the "Big Bang" is called one.
          • a theory.
          • 2: This curve is a representation of progress in gaining knowledge measured vs. the time required to achieve mastery.
          • the learning curve.
          • 3: It's the ability to form logical conclusions and its "age" began in England and France in the 18th century.
          • reason.
          • 4: The King James Bible says, "of the tree of the knowledge of" these two opposites, "thou shalt not eat".
          • good and evil.
          • 5: Found in the name of a human species, this Latin word can be translated as "knowing".
          • sapiens.

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

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