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Episode 193 - A Fly Category - Engagements - Seaquest - Going To The Doctor - Now Cut That Out!

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 193, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: A Fly Category

  • 1: To WWI British aviators, the Red Baron's group with its colorful planes was one of these, like Monty Python's.
  • a Flying Circus.
  • 2: These BF Goodrich sneakers were said to make you "run faster and jump higher".
  • PF Flyers.
  • 3: During World War II, a famous American volunteeer air corps in Asia was nicknamed this.
  • the Flying Tigers.
  • 4: This rotating device attached to a shaft keeps an engine's speed steady.
  • a flywheel.
  • 5: Airborne nickname of 1920s Olympic gold medalist Paavo Nurmi.
  • the Flying Finn.

    • Round 2. Category: Engagements

    • 1: The battle of this city was the last military engagement of the War of 1812.
    • New Orleans.
    • 2: In 1898 the first land engagement of this war took place at Las Guasimas, Cuba.
    • Spanish-American War.
    • 3: In a military engagement at the Pyramids in 1798, his forces defeated an Egyptian Mameluke force.
    • Napoleon.
    • 4: The Battle of Belleau Wood was one of the first major engagements for U.S. troops during this war.
    • World War I.
    • 5: This bloody battle was fought in June 1775, over a year before we declared independence.
    • Bunker (Breed's) Hill.

      • Round 3. Category: Seaquest

      • 1: WWI's important naval Battle of Jutland took place in this sea.
      • North Sea.
      • 2: This sea stretches from Beirut to Gibraltar.
      • Mediterranean Sea.
      • 3: One of the traditional 7 seas, it shares its name with a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
      • South Pacific.
      • 4: Moses "Stretched his hand over" it and it was sundered.
      • Red Sea.
      • 5: Despite this name, it's really the world's largest lake.
      • Caspian Sea.

        • Round 4. Category: Going To The Doctor

        • 1: If eggs give you hives, doc will do a skin test to see if you have one of these, an abnormal reaction to something.
        • an allergy.
        • 2: You'll wear a lead apron when the doctor uses this imaging technique developed in the 1890s to check for a broken foot.
        • an X-ray.
        • 3: Your optometrist may use drops to dilate this circular opening in the center of the iris.
        • the pupil.
        • 4: It might feel like your arm is going to explode when that rubber cuff is inflated, but the doc is just measuring this.
        • blood pressure.
        • 5: Otitis media and otitis externa are common infections of this body part; doc may prescribe drops or antibiotics for it.
        • your ears.

          • Round 5. Category: Now Cut That Out!

          • 1: In the 1700s Jacques Daviel performed the first modern surgery on this clouding of the eye's lens.
          • cataract.
          • 2: This "imperial" surgical procedure can be used to deliver babies in distress at the time of birth.
          • Caesarean section.
          • 3: In a controversial procedure in 1984, Baby Fae received a heart from one of these monkeys.
          • baboon.
          • 4: In the 1950s it became the first internal organ successfully transplanted in humans.
          • kidney.
          • 5: From the Latin for "to look at a joint", this type of surgery removes and repairs torn knee cartilage.
          • arthroscopic surgery.

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

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