Instant Trivia

Episode 159 - Prefixes - Near Disasters - "Moo" - Español - Historic Occasions

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 159, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Prefixes

  • 1: "Anti-" means "against; "ante-" means this.
  • before.
  • 2: This thoroughly modern prefix means "one thousandth".
  • milli-.
  • 3: A prefix meaning "after" is found in this word meaning an after-death examination.
  • postmortem.
  • 4: This prefix that means "first" or "primitive" is found before "plasm" and "zoa".
  • proto-.
  • 5: When this prefix precedes "active", it means "backwards"; by itself it refers to the style of an earlier time.
  • retro-.

    • Round 2. Category: Near Disasters

    • 1: On Sept. 8, 2001 Erin became the Atlantic season's first of these, but stayed mostly out at sea.
    • hurricane.
    • 2: In 1919 the lonely keeper of one of these helped save all 21 crewmen from fire on the steamer Frank O'Connor.
    • a lighthouse.
    • 3: A possible nuclear war was averted (for the moment) in June 2002 talks between India and this country.
    • Pakistan.
    • 4: In July 2002 9 men were dramatically rescued from a flooded mine in this state.
    • Pennsylvania.
    • 5: In 1907 this financier kept the stock market afloat by locking bankers in his library until they raised $25 million.
    • J.P. Morgan.

      • Round 3. Category: "Moo"

      • 1: The song "That's Amore" is on the soundtrack to this 1987 Cher film.
      • Moonstruck.
      • 2: This adjective means "purely academic" or "irrelevant".
      • Moot.
      • 3: This stir-fried Chinese dish that contains shredded pork, scallions and egg is rolled in a thin pancake.
      • Moo shu pork.
      • 4: It's another name for a person born under the sign of Cancer.
      • Moonchild/moonchildren.
      • 5: This Cab Calloway song includes the lines "Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi!" and "Ho-De-Ho-De-Ho-De-Ho!".
      • "Minnie The Moocher".

        • Round 4. Category: Español

        • 1: The Spanish "calabozo" and the cowboy variation calaboose both mean thse.
        • jail.
        • 2: Any Spanish pier or wharf, or a certain waterfront area in San Francisco.
        • embarcadero.
        • 3: This day of the week is domingo.
        • Sunday.
        • 4: This pet is un perro.
        • a dog.
        • 5: You'll find these, los escritorios, in the classroom.
        • a desk.

          • Round 5. Category: Historic Occasions

          • 1: Name shared by an American film made in 1903 and a British crime committed in 1963.
          • The Great Train Robbery.
          • 2: James Marshall found this Jan. 24, 1848, days before California was handed over to the U.S..
          • Gold.
          • 3: The 1851 Lopez Expedition, a disasterous attempt to free this island, was an early version of the Bay of Pigs.
          • Cuba.
          • 4: In 1798, in this African country, Napoleon said, "Soldiers...forty centuries look down upon you".
          • Egypt.
          • 5: This man died April 5, 1975, after a quarter of a century leading Nationalist China on Taiwan.
          • Chiang Kai-shek.

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