Instant Trivia

Episode 141 - Let's Rock! - Denmark - Kisses - We Help With Your College Application - Coins

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 141, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Rock!

  • 1: Keith, Brian, Mick, Bill and Charlie on drums.
  • the Rolling Stones.
  • 2: From 760 feet up on this crater, you get a great view of Honolulu.
  • Diamond Head.
  • 3: In 1990 the Red Hot Chili Peppers were part of the first campaign by this org. to interest youth in politics.
  • Rock the Vote.
  • 4: This 2001 movie was inspired by a singer in a Judas Priest cover band who ended up joining that band.
  • Rock Star.
  • 5: Cannons fire during AC/DC's song "For" these people "We Salute You".
  • "Those About To Rock".

    • Round 2. Category: Denmark

    • 1: An 1805 Danish forestry law required that every time a tree is cut down, this must be done.
    • a tree must be planted.
    • 2: It's what English speakers call the northeastern city of Helsingor.
    • Elsinore.
    • 3: Main farming activity of Danish-owned Greenland is not growing plants but raising these animals.
    • sheep.
    • 4: This most important naval battle of World War I took place off Denmark's coast.
    • the Battle of Jutland.
    • 5: While Great Dane dogs originated in Germany, this pianist called "The Great Dane" is from Copenhagen.
    • Victor Borge.

      • Round 3. Category: Kisses

      • 1: He kissed Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.
      • Judas Iscariot.
      • 2: In a speech on how to do this, Davy Crockett said that to appeal to the mothers, kiss and slabber their children.
      • how to get elected.
      • 3: During a service in a synagogue, a man touches this with the fringe of his prayer shawl, then kisses the fringe.
      • the Torah.
      • 4: He took the famous photo of a sailor kissing a girl in Times Square on VJ Day.
      • Alfred Eisenstaedt.
      • 5: This song's second line is "Como si fuera esta la noche la ultima vez", "As if tonight was the last time".
      • "Besame Mucho".

        • Round 4. Category: We Help With Your College Application

        • 1: I revel in the history of this Ivy League school, founded 16 years after the arrival of the Pilgrims.
        • Harvard.
        • 2: Every year since 1965, at least one grad of this private L.A. school has been up for an Oscar; I aim to join that list.
        • University of Southern Cal (USC).
        • 3: I love New Haven. I will name my firstborn Elihu. I wish to be 1 of the roughly 11,250 students at this school, please.
        • Yale.
        • 4: My visit to Lincoln convinced me: I was meant to be a Cornhusker at this school.
        • the University of Nebraska.
        • 5: Later, I plan to give a huge endowment to my alma mater, this university founded by Ben Franklin.
        • the University of Pennsylvania.

          • Round 5. Category: Coins

          • 1: The value of this Greek coin was originally equivalent to that of a handful of arrows.
          • Drachma.
          • 2: This 1969 event was featured on the reverse of the Eisenhower dollar coin.
          • Moon Landing.
          • 3: In 1959 the Vatican's 20-lire coin featured this pontiff.
          • Pope John XXIII.
          • 4: The West Indies island of Guadeloupe uses this as its basic unit of currency.
          • French Franc.
          • 5: In 1961, this bronze coin, the lowest value in British currency at 1/4 of a penny, was withdrawn from circulation.
          • Farthing.

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

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