Instant Trivia

Episode 219 - Hammurabi's Code - Are You Addressing Me? - "Andy" - The Sweet Spot - Air

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 219, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hammurabi's Code

  • 1: Rule 200 says if a man knocketh these out of an equal, his shall be knocked out, too.
  • Teeth.
  • 2: This number is missing from the code's 282 rules; Babylonians thought it was evil and unlucky.
  • 13.
  • 3: Rules 104-106 warn you to be sure to get one of these when dealing with a merchant.
  • Receipt.
  • 4: If a man hires a substitute to serve for him as one of these and doesn't pay, he's killed and the sub gets his house.
  • Soldier.
  • 5: If you hired one of these and broke a horn off or cut off its tail, you owe 1/4 of its value in money.
  • Cow, bull, ox.....

    • Round 2. Category: Are You Addressing Me?

    • 1: The personal pronoun of the second person in the nominative case; people often act holier than it.
    • thou.
    • 2: A surgeon in England is simply addressed as this, not Dr..
    • Mr..
    • 3: Miss came from the first syllable of this word and mrs. is a shortened form of it.
    • mistress.
    • 4: From the Arabic for "old man", it's the head of a family, tribe or village.
    • sheik.
    • 5: As tovarishch means this, we guess you could be a tovarishch-in-arms.
    • comrade.

      • Round 3. Category: "Andy"

      • 1: The black and white bear of Walter Lantz cartoons.
      • Andy Panda.
      • 2: "A Family Affair" was the 1st of 15 films in this Mickey Rooney series.
      • the Andy Hardy series.
      • 3: Reg Smythe's pub-crawling comic strip husband of Flo.
      • Andy Capp.
      • 4: Donny Osmond made his debut at the age of 4 on his show.
      • The Andy Williams Show.
      • 5: An 8-hour static film of the Empire State Building was done by this pop artist.
      • Andy Warhol.

        • Round 4. Category: The Sweet Spot

        • 1: 2-word term for benzosulfamide or aspartame, for example.
        • artificial sweetener.
        • 2: You'd be wrong, but not alone in calling these yams.
        • sweet potatoes.
        • 3: In "Peanuts" it's Sally's term of endearment for Linus.
        • "My Sweet Baboo".
        • 4: It's the title of the 1970 album on which you can hear the song "Fire and Rain".
        • "Sweet Baby James".
        • 5: In 1959 Elia Kazan directed this Tennessee Williams play.
        • Sweet Bird of Youth.

          • Round 5. Category: Air

          • 1: Nitrogen makes up about 78% of the air to this gas' 21%, so no one has ever needed a nitrogen tent.
          • Oxygen.
          • 2: About 14.5 pounds per square inch at sea level, it decreases with altitude and has to be increased in airplanes.
          • Air pressure.
          • 3: It's what is done to air so it can power a jackhammer.
          • Compressed.
          • 4: This process that originally formed the oceans also forms dew.
          • Condensation.
          • 5: A sudden change of windspeed or direction, it also means "cut".
          • Shear.

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

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