Instant Trivia

Episode 1234 - Margaret me - Science vocabulary - We're a north american band! - Current governors - Trinidad

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1234, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Margaret Me

  • 1: She led Britain through the 1980s.
  • Margaret Thatcher.
  • 2: I'll get you to name this "Wizard of Oz" actress, my pretty.
  • Margaret Hamilton.
  • 3: Princess Margaret was born in 1930, 4 years after this sister.
  • Elizabeth II.
  • 4: Margaret Burbidge was the first woman to head up this royal observatory.
  • Greenwich.
  • 5: She coined the term "birth control".
  • Margaret Sanger.

    • Round 2. Category: Science Vocabulary

    • 1: "Specific" this is the ratio of a substance's density to that of a standard substance, often water.
    • gravity.
    • 2: It's the resistance that opposes the motion of one surface across another.
    • friction.
    • 3: From a word meaning "insect", it's the study of bugs.
    • entomology.
    • 4: Acone-shapeddeposit ofcalcium saltsthat builds upfrom a cave floor.
    • stalagmite.
    • 5: This adjective from the Greek for "moving" describes the mechanical energy of an object due to motion.
    • kinetic.

      • Round 3. Category: We'Re A North American Band!

      • 1: In 1973 Mammoth thought it cheaper to hire David Lee Roth as a singer than rent his P.A. system; Mammoth became this in '74.
      • Van Halen.
      • 2: This trio sang, "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets high on you, and the space he invades, he gets by on you".
      • Rush.
      • 3: B-b-b-baby, name this band that topped the charts in 1974"You ain't seen nothin' yet /B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet /Here's something, here's...".
      • Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
      • 4: This Canadian band was "watchin' 'X-Files' with no lights on, we're dans la maison, I hope the Smoking Man's in this one".
      • Barenaked Ladies.
      • 5: Gordon Gano sang, "I like American music" as the lead singer of this Milwaukee group.
      • the Violent Femmes.

        • Round 4. Category: Current Governors

        • 1: George Pataki.
        • New York.
        • 2: Christine Todd Whitman.
        • New Jersey.
        • 3: Gray Davis.
        • California.
        • 4: Frank Keating.
        • Oklahoma.
        • 5: Tommy Thompson.
        • Wisconsin.

          • Round 5. Category: Trinidad

          • 1: Trinidad's Pitch Lake is a natural lake of this black substance used to surface roads.
          • Tar/asphalt.
          • 2: In 1889 this Caribbean island was joined politically to Trinidad.
          • Tobago.
          • 3: This form of folk music popularized by Belafonte originated in Trinidad.
          • Calypso.
          • 4: U.S.O.C. president Leroy Walker, not Runner, once coached this Trinidadian Olympic team.
          • track and field.
          • 5: What the Trinidadians call Shango, the Haitians call this.
          • Voodoo.

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