Instant Trivia

Episode 162 - "Bell"S And "Whistle"S - Parents Are People Too - Music Trivia - Tiny Things - Urban Myths

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 162, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Bell"S And "Whistle"S

  • 1: To enter a pool of water....tummy first.
  • Bellyflop.
  • 2: Sailors wore these pants long before they became fashionable in the 1960s.
  • Bell-bottoms.
  • 3: They supply the weight in Olympic weightlifting.
  • Barbells.
  • 4: They're employees who go public with stories of their employers' wrongdoing.
  • Whistleblowers.
  • 5: Common name for deadly nighshade, a plant that's poisonous in all its parts.
  • Belladonna.

    • Round 2. Category: Parents Are People Too

    • 1: Also a home for hummingbirds, it becomes "empty" when the last child leaves home.
    • Nest.
    • 2: It's what a lonely dad may want to be to you, or the name of the one on the left(President Clinton's dog).
    • Buddy.
    • 3: At least this restriction dad put on you isn't a dusk-to-dawn one, as in Warri, Nigeria.
    • Curfew.
    • 4: If you get one of these in your nose or navel, parents may let out the same kind of "shriek".
    • Piercing.
    • 5: This term for a right that divorcing parents may fight over comes from Latin for "guardian".
    • Custody.

      • Round 3. Category: Music Trivia

      • 1: After the death of Keith Moon in 1978, Kenney Jones became this British group's drummer.
      • The Who.
      • 2: "The Camptown Racetrack" was this many "miles long".
      • five.
      • 3: It follows "Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above".
      • "don't fence me in".
      • 4: This onetime drummer with Benny Goodman was portrayed by Sal Mineo in a 1959 film biography.
      • Gene Krupa.
      • 5: In 1929 this crooner began using "My Time Is Your Time" as his theme song.
      • Rudy Vallee.

        • Round 4. Category: Tiny Things

        • 1: These minute grains link the flowers and the bees.
        • pollen.
        • 2: Mayonnaise is an example of an emulsion that is a suspension of tiny globules of this in water.
        • oil.
        • 3: Access time on hard drives isn't measured in minutes, but in these units abbreviated ms.
        • milliseconds.
        • 4: Present in minute amounts in soil and water, these "elements", such as copper and zinc, are essential for your good health.
        • trace elements.
        • 5: Those minute red blood cells are erythrocytes, white ones are leukocytes and these are thrombocytes.
        • platelets.

          • Round 5. Category: Urban Myths

          • 1: It's not a croc, I heard it from a friend: these croc relatives are living in the New York City sewers.
          • Alligators.
          • 2: Because he's barefoot on the cover of "Abbey Road", I'm convinced this member of the Beatles is dead.
          • Paul McCartney.
          • 3: My cousin just told me that a man in a hotel room had this renal organ removed while he slept.
          • Kidney.
          • 4: Wow! A couple found this pirate prosthesis on their car door handle when they got home from a date.
          • Hook.
          • 5: Did you hear? This man had a congressional page fired for making a "Love Boat" joke.
          • Fred Grandy.

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