Instant Trivia

Episode 194 - Groovy Times - "Tower"S - Chop-A-Holics - April May... - Descartes

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 194, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Groovy Times

  • 1: To accessorize granny dresses chicks wore these necklaces of little balls for peace and goodwill.
  • Love beads.
  • 2: In a famous '60s slogan it came between "turn on" and "drop out".
  • "Tune In".
  • 3: Bought a black light for my posters, man, and one of these ooze lights for my mantle.
  • Lava lamp.
  • 4: In '67 we did a psychedelic paint job on our "bus" from this German company and headed off to Frisco.
  • Volkswagen.
  • 5: The fact that Leslie Hornby modeled under this name "sticks" in our minds.
  • Twiggy.

    • Round 2. Category: "Tower"S

    • 1: [Audio Daily Double] 1974 film that gave us the following Oscar-winning song: We may never love like this again Don't stop the flow We can't let go.
    • The Towering Inferno.
    • 2: Guinness says it took 2 years, 2 months and 2 days to build at a cost of 7,799,401 francs and 31 centimes.
    • Eiffel Tower.
    • 3: It's described in Genesis 11:1-9.
    • Tower of Babel.
    • 4: Former Texas senator who chaired the review board investigating the Iran-Contra Affair.
    • John Tower.
    • 5: The enclosed observation post of a submarine.
    • conning tower.

      • Round 3. Category: Chop-A-Holics

      • 1: Around 1800 Parson Weems wrote of this man's unauthorized juvenile lumberjacking.
      • George Washington.
      • 2: The name of this light axe is from the Algonquian for "cutting utensil".
      • tomahawk.
      • 3: This legendary timber toppler was said to have dug Puget Sound to float huge logs to the mill.
      • Paul Bunyan.
      • 4: In 1893 this Massachusetts woman was acquitted of giving her parents the axe.
      • Lizzie Borden.
      • 5: The short-bladed type of this 7-letter South American item is used to cut sugar cane.
      • machete.

        • Round 4. Category: April May...

        • 1: Â…take the Orange Line to get from Midway to the downtown loop "L" station in this city.
        • Chicago.
        • 2: Â…like to try one of these Italian potato dumplings.
        • gnocchi.
        • 3: Â…want to compete in dressage, so she'll have to take these lessons.
        • riding lessons.
        • 4: Â…like to take a spin in this automaker's 8 cilindri 360 Spider.
        • a Ferrari.
        • 5: Â…buy some sea shells in the Seychelles, an archipelago in this ocean.
        • the Indian Ocean.

          • Round 5. Category: Descartes

          • 1: It's the English translation on Descartes' most famous axiom, "Cogito, ergo sum".
          • I think, therefore I am.
          • 2: In 1618 Descartes was in the army of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the ruler of what's now this Low Country.
          • the Netherlands.
          • 3: After the arrest and trial of this "sun-loving" Italian, Descartes suppressed his own work on similar ideas.
          • Galileo.
          • 4: Descartes invented the analytic or coordinate type of this, from the Greek for "earth measure".
          • geometry.
          • 5: Though born in France, Descartes died in this country where he had gone to teach Queen Christina.
          • Sweden.

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