Instant Trivia

Episode 180 - Past Tense - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow - The 7 Wonders - U.s. Place Names - Antarctic Explorers

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 180, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Past Tense

  • 1: Before the fall, Humpty Dumpty did it "on a wall".
  • sat.
  • 2: Meaning "manufactured", it was in a famous telegraph message after "What hath God...".
  • wrought.
  • 3: If you missed the big day, go online; Blue Mountain has a whole section of this kind of birthday e-card.
  • belated.
  • 4: On pepper boxes, it means "milled".
  • cracked.
  • 5: This synonym for "haggard" is also past tense for having pulled out your weapon.
  • drawn.

    • Round 2. Category: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

    • 1: Flat snow crystals generally have this many sides or arms.
    • six.
    • 2: The National Weather Service defines this as snowy winds of 35 mph with 1/4 mile visibility lasting for 3 hours.
    • a blizzard.
    • 3: Buffalo, New York is familiar with the snowstorm-causing effect named for this type of body of water.
    • a lake effect.
    • 4: When air becomes "super" this adjective, relative humidity is above 100% and snow can form.
    • supersaturated.
    • 5: Poli'ahu, the goddess of snow, lives on this highest Hawaiian mountain.
    • Mauna Kea.

      • Round 3. Category: The 7 Wonders

      • 1: We sort of know what the Statue of Zeus looked like because it was reproduced on these of the realm.
      • coins.
      • 2: They were located on terraces that possibly rose some 300 feet.
      • The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
      • 3: Made of bronze, it was destroyed by an earthquake in 224 B.C..
      • Colossus of Rhodes.
      • 4: An earthquake in the 13th century signaled the loss of this -- signal.
      • Lighthouse at Alexandria.
      • 5: As always, invading Goths got the blame for destroying her temple at Ephesus.
      • Artemis/Diana.

        • Round 4. Category: U.s. Place Names

        • 1: Warm Springs, Georgia's airport is named for him.
        • Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
        • 2: Mark Twain's brother Orion owned this Missouri city's Journal, for which Twain set type and wrote.
        • Hannibal.
        • 3: The U.S. has 110 hospitals named for this helpful New Testament fella from Luke 10.
        • the Good Samaritan.
        • 4: See this town, see it run along the only road in Hickman County, Tennessee.
        • Spot.
        • 5: Grant County, Kansas is named for President Grant, as is this county seat.
        • Ulysses.

          • Round 5. Category: Antarctic Explorers

          • 1: The last entry in this Briton's diary, dated March 29, 1912, ended, "For God's sake look after our people".
          • Robert Scott.
          • 2: His 1930 book "Little America" is an account of his flight to the South Pole.
          • Richard Byrd.
          • 3: On Dec. 17, 1911 he left the South Pole, leaving behind a tent and the Norwegian flag.
          • Roald Amundsen.
          • 4: An Antarctic sea and ice shelf are named for this man who discovered the North Magnetic Pole.
          • James Ross.
          • 5: In the 1950s this New Zealand mountaineer blazed a trail for Sir Vivian Fuchs, the first to cross Antarctica.
          • Sir Edmund Hillary.

            • Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

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