June 10, 2021

Episode 119 - True Crime - The Dating Game - Watch This Space - Israel - Debt

7 minutes

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 119, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: True Crime

1: The threat to use physical harm, it becomes "aggravated" when combined with the use of a deadly weapon.

assault.

2: On April 13, 2005 he pleaded guilty to 2 clinic bombings and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Park attack.

(Eric) Rudolph.

3: In July 1894 Butch Cassidy was convicted of this crime, which branded him a crook.

cattle rustling.

4: As leader of this urban terrorist "army", Donald de Freeze called himself Cinque.

the SLA (the Symbionese Liberation Army).

5: These Chinese secret societies that met in tongs in North America started as groups of kung fu fighters.

triads.

Round 2. Category: The Dating Game

1: Bachelor No. 2, say hello to Madonna:"Hello, Madonna".

Tom Selleck.

2: U.S. runners give black power salute at Olympics; Kubrick's "2001" released.

1968.

3: Bachelor No. 1, say hi to Donna:"Hey Donna, how ya' doing--oh, wait, I got all this money in the way!".

Cuba Gooding, Jr..

4: Federal building bombed in Oklahoma City; Kobe, Japan struck by 7.2 earthquake.

1995.

5: John Paul II shot; Iran releases U.S. embassy hostages.

1981.

Round 3. Category: Watch This Space

1: There are 5 of these scheduled for 2001: 2 solar and 3 lunar.

Eclipses.

2: On Sept. 29, 2004 Toutatis, one of these, will be close enough to the Earth to be seen with binoculars.

Asteroid.

3: The large Zenith telescope being built near Vancouver will use a pan of this liquid metal as a reflector.

Mercury.

4: Using data from the Chandra X-ray telescope, 3 teens in North Carolina discovered one of these spinning neutron stars.

Pulsar.

5: (Hi, I'm Kevin Sorbo of Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda".) Using an earthbound telescope, he determined the Andromeda galaxy is 900,000 light years from Earth.

Edwin Hubble.

Round 4. Category: Israel

1: To promote saving water during 1986 drought, Israel advised citizens to do this "with a friend".

take a shower.

2: If you're getting engaged, consider a visit to Netanya, a world center for cutting and polishing these.

diamonds.

3: Sde Boker, one of these cooperative communities, was the retirement home of first prime minister David Ben-Gurion.

kibbutz.

4: City in which March 26,1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed.

Washington, D.C..

5: This port city on and around Mount Carmel has been compared to San Francisco, its sister city.

Haifa.

Round 5. Category: Debt

1: A time during which late payments aren't penalized, or the years 1956-1982 in Monaco.

Grace period.

2: Repo, as in "They can't repo my car because I owe ten lousy payments!", is short for this.

Repossess/repossession.

3: Insert 1 letter in "debt" to get this, a bookkeeping entry for money you owe.

Debit.

4: These popular student loans are named for a Vermont senator.

Stafford loans.

5: This partner of "forget" is what Bono wants Western nations to do with Third World debt.

Forgive.

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

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