Instant Trivia

Episode 207 - Leaves - Minnesotans - Engineering - Oh, "Ic" - British Vs. American Auto Terminology

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 207, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Leaves

  • 1: "Life is so beautiful", says this fictional Italian-American before dying in his garden.
  • Don Vito Corleone ("The Godfather").
  • 2: The leaves of this large family of tropical trees are folded in a distinct fanlike shape called plicate.
  • palm trees.
  • 3: Koalas eat mistletoe too, but mainly these leaves.
  • eucalyptus.
  • 4: Wrigley's could tell you that the strong-smelling oil of this plant, mentha spicata, comes from hairs on its leaves.
  • spearmint.
  • 5: "Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you", she says and then smiles and dies.
  • Eponine.

    • Round 2. Category: Minnesotans

    • 1: in 1977 he was voted deputy president pro tem of the U.S. Senate, a position created for him.
    • (Hubert H.) Humphrey.
    • 2: This creator of "Peanuts" was once a free-lance cartoonist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
    • Charles Schulz.
    • 3: This "Great Gatsby" author was related to a woman hanged in connection with Lincoln's assassination.
    • (F. Scott) Fitzgerald.
    • 4: This man, Chief Justice of the U.S. 1969-1986, graduated magna cum laude from St. Paul College of Law in 1931.
    • (Warren) Burger.
    • 5: This oilman who founded a Malibu, California museum was born in Minneapolis in 1892.
    • (John Paul) Getty.

      • Round 3. Category: Engineering

      • 1: Used as early as 230 B.C., the 1st successful electric one was developed by the Otis Bros. in 1889.
      • an elevator.
      • 2: Tajikistan has the highest one of these in the world; the U.S. doesn't even make the Top 10 with Hoover.
      • Dam.
      • 3: Type of well named for the French region of Artois where 1 was 1st drilled in 1126.
      • an artesian well.
      • 4: Able to carry over 2 million barrels of crude a day, it runs from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez.
      • the Alaska Pipeline.
      • 5: The motto of this 1904-1914 engineering project was "The land divided, the world united".
      • the Panama Canal.

        • Round 4. Category: Oh, "Ic"

        • 1: There once was a clue from Nantucket, this kind of humorous 5-line Irish verse (sorry, that's it).
        • limerick.
        • 2: Kill a plant with a deadly substance and you could be accused of this, also describing the substance itself.
        • herbicide.
        • 3: Hey, baby, what's your zodiac sign? It's this, isn't it, the only that fits the category... Hey, where are you going?.
        • Capricorn.
        • 4: To renounce a throne, as Norodom Sihanouk did in 2004.
        • abdicate.
        • 5: From 1940 to 1942, this was the capital of unoccupied France.
        • Vichy.

          • Round 5. Category: British Vs. American Auto Terminology

          • 1: What the British call an estate car, we call this type of "wagon".
          • a station wagon.
          • 2: It's a windscreen to the limeys, but it's one of these to us Yanks.
          • a windshield.
          • 3: What we call gasoline, the Brits call this.
          • petrol.
          • 4: This car part is the bonnet to the Brits, but to us it's one of these.
          • the hood.
          • 5: It's a transmission in America and one of these "box"es across the Atlantic.
          • a gearbox.

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

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