Instant Trivia

Episode 178 - Body Parts By Prefix - Tree-Letter Words - Rock "E" - Novel Vocabulary - Time To Get A "Head"

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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!

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