Instant Trivia

Episode 186 - "Boo"! - Cosmetics And Perfume - I Think I Love You - Computing 101 - The Unexplained

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 186, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Boo"!

  • 1: This song was written in 1947 in the U.S., not Ireland:.
  • Clancy Lowered the Boom.
  • 2: Word that can precede hatch, prize or trap.
  • booby.
  • 3: A hiding game played with very small children, or a see-through blouse worn by grown-up women.
  • peek-a-boo.
  • 4: From the Tagalog word for mountain, it's our word for the backwoods or "the sticks".
  • boondocks.
  • 5: R. Duvall played this character who saves Scout Finch from an attacker in "To Kill a Mockingbird".
  • Boo Radley.

    • Round 2. Category: Cosmetics And Perfume

    • 1: Attention, Earl Scheib: Paint Job is a brand of this kind of cosmetic, with colors resembling automobile paint.
    • Nail polish.
    • 2: Diamonds and Emeralds is a gem of a fragrance from this beauty known for her "Passion".
    • Elizabeth Taylor.
    • 3: Brooke Shields suggests using a cream type of this cheek cosmetic if your skin is extremely dry.
    • Blush/Blusher.
    • 4: A skin care product by La Prairie is named for and made to resemble this fish roe delicacy.
    • Caviar.
    • 5: Elle described the scent of this spice as "The new lavender" -- it's a "snap" you'll know it.
    • Ginger.

      • Round 3. Category: I Think I Love You

      • 1: In mythology, she pined away for Narcissus until nothing was left but her voice.
      • Echo.
      • 2: This title character of a Voltaire work falls in love with Cunegonde, a baron's daughter.
      • Candide.
      • 3: In "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, she's the young woman the poet will see "nevermore".
      • Lenore.
      • 4: This Tolstoy character is one Aleksei's lover and another Aleksei's wife.
      • Anna Karenina.
      • 5: Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title lover in this man's "Lady Chatterley's Lover".
      • D.H. Lawrence.

        • Round 4. Category: Computing 101

        • 1: In computerese, it's the "app" in "killer app".
        • application.
        • 2: A flatbed one of these optical devices is used to get images into your computer to use on your website.
        • a scanner.
        • 3: In order to get online, you'll need one of these, an ISP.
        • an Internet service provider.
        • 4: Sometimes your computer is fine, but this, your LAN, is down.
        • local area network.
        • 5: "Broadcast yourself" is the slogan of this website that was recently bought for $1.6 billion.
        • YouTube.

          • Round 5. Category: The Unexplained

          • 1: In 1964 Vincent Gaddis coined this term for the area in which Flight 19 disappeared in 1945.
          • "The Bermuda Triangle".
          • 2: A 1961 book by Ivan T. Sanderson linked these 2 creatures of the Pacific Northwest and the Himalayas.
          • Sasquatch/Bigfoot and The Abominable Snowman/Yeti.
          • 3: An explanation for these areas of flattened grain is that they're saucer-shaped UFO landing sites.
          • Crop Circles.
          • 4: It's alleged a 1943 experiment transported a destroyer from this PA. city to Virginia and back within minutes.
          • Philadelphia.
          • 5: If you came home and found your maid had suffered from this, SHC, she'd be a real char woman.
          • Spontaneous Human Combustion.

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

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