Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 150, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Non-Potent Potables
1: A daiquiri made without liquor is this type, like a chaste young woman.a virgin.2: A daiquiri made without liquor is this type, like a chaste young woman.a virgin.3: Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Hires invented this beverage in the mid-1800s.root beer.4: As a byproduct of his investigations into oxygen, Joseph Priestly invented this modern beverage.carbonated water (or club soda).5: O'Douls is a brand of this with only 0.4% alcohol.beer.Round 2. Category: Crossword Clues "S"
1: 1 of 7 womb mates(9).septuplet.2: Puny shellfish(6).Shrimp.3: Irish water or English springer(7).spaniel.4: "Snakelike" Hyde Park lake (10).Serpentine.5: To consecrate or make holy (8).sanctify.Round 3. Category: Let's Split!
1: In 2000 Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that this computer company should be split in two.Microsoft.2: Grammar alert: there's a split one of these in the phrase "He chose to wisely decline the invitation".an infinitive.3: Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman got together long enough to split this in 1938.the atom.4: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda share ownership of this body of water.Lake Victoria.5: Name given to the period between 1378 and 1417 when the Catholic Church had 2 or 3 popes serving simultaneously.the Great Schism.Round 4. Category: "Roll" Call
1: This kitchen item with a short handle at each end could easily be the seventh clue murder weapon.a rolling pin.2: You'll flip for this heavy steel transverse item in the form of an inverted U on a vehicle.a roll bar.3: Random House defines it as "a small gravity railroad".a roller coaster.4: A return to a lower level in prices.a rollback.5: Appropriate 7-letter term for the first public showing of an aircraft.rollout.Round 5. Category: Horsing Around
1: It's the proper term for getting on a horse; most riders do it from the horse's left.Mounting.2: Eerie type of horseman who pursues Ichabod Crane.a headless horseman.3: It makes a blacksmith's job much easier that this part of the horse has no nerves.hoof.4: Some cowboys wear these seatless leather trousers to protect their legs when they ride horses.chaps.5: This term for riding without a saddle sounds like you have to be partially nude to do it.Bareback.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!