Instant Trivia

Episode 198 - What's New? - Royal Houses - Old Commercials - Can We Talk? - Going "Soft" On Us, Eh?

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 198, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What's New?

  • 1: A malihini is a newcomer to this state.
  • Hawaii.
  • 2: In 2003 Edith Grossman served up a new translation of this Cervantes work.
  • Don Quixote.
  • 3: Experts say the smell in a new one of these is from the phthalate plasticizers used in PVC, not leather.
  • car.
  • 4: Developed in Australia, the Sugarbaby and the Crimson Glow are new breeds of this shortcake fruit.
  • strawberry.
  • 5: This Smithsonian museum has new digs at Dulles International Airport.
  • the Air and Space Museum.

    • Round 2. Category: Royal Houses

    • 1: George IÂ’s father was elector of this, hence its turnover into a house name.
    • Hanover.
    • 2: This dynastyÂ’s last 3 monarchs, including Mary I, died childless.
    • Tudor.
    • 3: As a member of this house, it sounds like James I could have starred in “Harvey”.
    • Stuart.
    • 4: It could be called the house of Citrus sinensis.
    • Orange.
    • 5: This Shakespeare play sounds like itÂ’s about the better halves of George V and George VI.
    • The Merry Wives of Windsor.

      • Round 3. Category: Old Commercials

      • 1: It hunts bugs like radar and kills them dead.
      • Raid.
      • 2: Gemini astronauts drank this orange drink, just like you.
      • Tang.
      • 3: A woman in a '60s Clairol ad intoned, "If I had but one life to live, let me live it as" one of these.
      • Blonde.
      • 4: Bucky, one of these animals, pushed Ipana toothpaste.
      • Beaver.
      • 5: "I Want My Maypo", this type of cereal flavored with maple.
      • Oatmeal.

        • Round 4. Category: Can We Talk?

        • 1: When having a casual conversation, you do this to "the rag" or "the fat".
        • chew.
        • 2: Speak slowly with -- pauses; -- "He who" -- does it "is -- lost".
        • hesitates.
        • 3: Change one letter in yabber, Australian for "to talk foolishly", and you get this, "to talk rapidly".
        • jabber.
        • 4: Add this letter to "utter" to get a word meaning "to utter in low, unclear tones".
        • m (for "mutter").
        • 5: It means "to speak pompously and dogmatically" or, a little better, "to speak like a pope".
        • pontificate.

          • Round 5. Category: Going "Soft" On Us, Eh?

          • 1: A 3-minute egg.
          • a soft-boiled egg.
          • 2: Its 2 main types are slow pitch and fast pitch.
          • softball.
          • 3: Applications and programs for computers.
          • software.
          • 4: It was pioneered around 1910 by dancer George Primrose when he kicked off his clogs.
          • soft shoe.
          • 5: Your uvula hangs down from this upper back part of the mouth.
          • the soft palate.

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

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