Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 178, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Body Parts By Prefix
1: Entero-.the intestine.2: Dermato-.skin.3: Opto-.the eye.4: Gastro-.the stomach.5: Chiro-.the hand.Round 2. Category: Tree-Letter Words
1: A sudden burst of light; some can be "in the pan".a flash.2: On "Sesame Street" he's tickled to have his own "World".Elmo.3: Dagger's partner in espionage.cloak.4: Show us some backbone by giving us this synonym of the backbone.spine.5: You gotta hand it to a fortune teller who uses this art to read your hands.palmistry.Round 3. Category: Rock "E"
1: Earth joined Wind and Fire and he joined Lake and Palmer.Keith Emerson.2: In titles it preceded Eddie Money's "Nights" and Richard Marx's "Summer Nights".Endless.3: This botanical tune grew up to No. 1 in 1988."Every Rose Has Its Thorn" (by Poison).4: Though this Art Alexakis band was formed in Portland, its first hit was about Santa Monica.Everclear.5: The Eurythmics were on the bill in 2000 at the grand opening celebration of this Seattle rock museum.Experience Music Project.Round 4. Category: Novel Vocabulary
1: This Daniel Defoe hero is "thrown into a violent calenture"--a fever once said to affect sailors in the Tropics.Robinson Crusoe.2: He may have coined the term daggeroso, meaning "inclined to use a dagger"; it's in his novel "Sons and Lovers".D.H. Lawrence.3: In "The Age of Innocence", society women must be "properly coiffees"--meaning this must look just right.hair.4: This author wasn't charitable to readers when he used "eleemosynary" in the first line of "Tom Jones".(Henry) Fielding.5: "What a mommet of a maid!" (mommet meaning scarecrow) is said of this Thomas Hardy title character.Tess.Round 5. Category: Time To Get A "Head"
1: It blows against the direction of travel.a head wind.2: The leading performer in a show.the headliner.3: For U.S. Central Command, it's at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.headquarters.4: A man in charge of a school, usually a private one.a headmaster.5: Porcine term for obstinancy.pigheaded.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!