Instant Trivia

Episode 224 - Getting Married - By The Seashore - Snakes - It's A Mystery! - You Say Potato

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 224, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Getting Married

  • 1: The extended cathedral length of one of these is over 9 feet long and doesnÂ’t include a dining car.
  • train.
  • 2: In a double ring ceremony, she gives the ring to the bride to place on the groomÂ’s finger.
  • maid of honor.
  • 3: When writing, offer the bride “best wishes” and the groom this.
  • congratulations.
  • 4: Exactly 9 sips of this are the essence of a Shinto wedding ceremony in Japan.
  • sake.
  • 5: According to tradition, the man who catches the brideÂ’s garter gets to place it on this personÂ’s leg.
  • the woman who catches the bouquet.

    • Round 2. Category: By The Seashore

    • 1: The northern fur seal breeds each summer in the Pribilof Islands in this sea.
    • Bering Sea.
    • 2: Yielding 20 pounds of edible flesh, the giant type of this is the largest bivalve mollusk.
    • Clam.
    • 3: These animals of the class Asteroidea can regenerate body parts and produce new bodies from a fragment.
    • Starfish.
    • 4: The dried skeleton of this invertebrate resembles a large white coin.
    • Sand Dollar.
    • 5: In California this fish spawns on the beach the first few nights after the highest tides of the month.
    • Grunion.

      • Round 3. Category: Snakes

      • 1: 3-letter term for naja haje, an Egyptian snake which was sometimes used to commit suicide.
      • an asp.
      • 2: The Eastern species of this is encircled with broad red and black bands, separated by narrow yellow ones.
      • a coral snake.
      • 3: In 2014 a deadly albino type of this snake native to India and neighbors was captured roaming a S. Calif. neighborhood.
      • a cobra.
      • 4: A rattlesnake's rattle is made of interlocking rings of this protein, just like our fingernails.
      • keratin.
      • 5: With a top speed of about 12 mph, this deadly African snake is said to be the world's fastest serpent.
      • the black mamba.

        • Round 4. Category: It's A Mystery!

        • 1: The title of this 1939 mystery by Raymond Chandler is a slang term for death.
        • The Big Sleep.
        • 2: This detecting couple whom Dashiell Hammett introduced in "The Thin Man" had a dog named Asta.
        • Nick and Nora Charles.
        • 3: The V.I. in this hard-boiled detective's name stands for Victoria Iphigenia.
        • V.I. Warshawski.
        • 4: Some editions of this Dickens novel begin, "An ancient English cathedral town..."; others say "tower"--it's a "Mystery"!.
        • The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
        • 5: "The Mystery of" her is Poe's sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".
        • Marie Roget.

          • Round 5. Category: You Say Potato

          • 1: In Gaelic it's known as "An Gorta Mor" (The Great Hunger).
          • The Irish Potato Famine.
          • 2: The Russet Burbank potato is also known by this "state"ly name.
          • Idaho potato.
          • 3: At a New Jersey spelling bee in 1992, he insisted that "potato" was spelled with an "E" at the end.
          • Dan Quayle.
          • 4: Don Rickles voiced Mr. Potato Head in this 1995 film.
          • Toy Story.
          • 5: This snack company uses over 5 billion pounds of potatoes annually to make Ruffles and other chips.
          • Frito-Lay.

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

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