Instant Trivia

Episode 126 - The "Sit"Uation Room - Playing To Type - Plumbing - To A "Tee" - Spingarn Medal Winners

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 126, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The "Sit"Uation Room

  • 1: This Sioux chief led warriors in the Battle of the Rosebud.
  • Sitting Bull.
  • 2: It was famously torpedoed and sunk in May 1915 with a loss of nearly 1,200 lives.
  • the Lusitania.
  • 3: Ravi Shankar is a virtuoso on it.
  • the sitar.
  • 4: 12-letter term for a college course needed to be taken and passed before you can take another one.
  • prerequisite.
  • 5: This Alaskan city shares it name with a type of spruce.
  • Sitka.

    • Round 2. Category: Playing To Type

    • 1: Let's go and fly one of these; maybe a flat, box or delta type.
    • kite.
    • 2: Strike slip and oblique slip are types of these cracks along which earthquakes occur.
    • fault lines.
    • 3: Heart attacks are often associated with this letter type of personality.
    • type A.
    • 4: ER techs need to know if this is type B or O.
    • blood.
    • 5: The Golden Gate Bridge is classified as this type of bridge.
    • suspension bridge.

      • Round 3. Category: Plumbing

      • 1: Of 20, 200 or 2000 gallons, the amount of water used by the average American household each day.
      • 200.
      • 2: Mueller Streamline is a brand of pipe made from this durable metal that many prefer to iron and steel.
      • copper.
      • 3: In the ion-exchange type of this device, hard water is filtered through a material called zeolite.
      • water softener.
      • 4: Found beneath a sink, this U- or P-shaped pipe maintains a water seal to keep sewer gas out of your house.
      • trap.
      • 5: 1.6 is today's standard maximum gpf, gallons per this event.
      • a flush.

        • Round 4. Category: To A "Tee"

        • 1: Type of ballot to file when you're not there to vote on election day.
        • an absentee.
        • 2: Ring in, miss the clue -- tough. We don't offer a "money back" one.
        • guarantee.
        • 3: It's been said that "A camel is a horse designed by" this.
        • committee.
        • 4: Conversation marked by quick, witty banter.
        • repartee.
        • 5: The order Sirena includes the dugong, the extinct Steller's sea cow and this.
        • the manatee.

          • Round 5. Category: Spingarn Medal Winners

          • 1: 2000:A TV host and media personality.
          • Oprah Winfrey.
          • 2: 1956:A baseball player.
          • Jackie Robinson.
          • 3: 1991:A U.S. Army general and government official.
          • Colin Powell.
          • 4: 1989:A minister, politician and civil rights leader.
          • Jesse Jackson.
          • 5: 1945:An actor, singer, activist and football All-American.
          • Paul Robeson.

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

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