Instant Trivia

Episode 251 - We're "Through" - A John Denver Songbook - Pizza Toppings - "C.c." Senor - A Perfect Letter


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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 251, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: We're "Through"

  • 1: Transparent, as a blouse.
  • See-through.
  • 2: It completes a tennis or a golf stroke.
  • Follow-through.
  • 3: A significant advance in science, like the polio vaccine.
  • Breakthrough.
  • 4: A triple alliterative expression for when someone sticks with you in difficult times.
  • "Through thick and thin".
  • 5: Having undergone a difficult experience, like a wet sock in an old washing machine.
  • "Going through the wringer".
  • Round 2. Category: A John Denver Songbook

    • 1: "Almost heaven,West Virginia,Blue Ridge Mountains,Shenandoah River".
    • "Take Me Home, Country Roads".
    • 2: "Well, I got me a fine wife,I got me old fiddle".
    • "Thank God I'm A Country Boy".
    • 3: "If I had a day that I could give you, I'd give to you a day just like today".
    • "Sunshine On My Shoulders".
    • 4: "To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean, to ride on the crest of a wild raging storm".
    • "Calypso".
    • 5: "You fill up my senses like a night in a forest...".
    • "Annie's Song".
    • Round 3. Category: Pizza Toppings

      • 1: This type of hard sausage is America's favorite pizza topping.
      • pepperoni.
      • 2: How about a nice traditional Hawaiian pizza topped with ham or Canadian bacon and this fruit.
      • pineapple.
      • 3: These on your pizza may be fire-roasted, sun-dried, or just fresh sliced Romas.
      • tomatoes.
      • 4: On November 12 celebrate National Pizza with the Works Except these fish Day.
      • Anchovies.
      • 5: Wild ones of these found on pizza include shiitakes, morels and chanterelles.
      • mushrooms.
      • Round 4. Category: "C.c." Senor

        • 1: At this Florida site, the scientists are all out to launch.
        • Cape Canaveral.
        • 2: His name, pre-Muhammad Ali.
        • Cassius Clay.
        • 3: Research facilitator that includes the following:.
        • a card catalogue.
        • 4: Ernie Banks played all his Major League games with this team.
        • the Chicago Cubs.
        • 5: In 1968 this labor leader had a grape, er... gripe.
        • Caesar Chavez.
        • Round 5. Category: A Perfect Letter

          • 1: World Book recommends that when you open with "Dear Sir", you close this way, whether you mean it or not.
          • Sincerely.
          • 2: In a business lettet, this punctuation mark often replaces a comma after the salutation.
          • Colon.
          • 3: 4-letter term for the part of a letter highlighted here:(in the middle).
          • Body.
          • 4: A "letter to" this person, like Ben Bradlee, should rattle on about the world going to hell because of ignorant kids.
          • The editor.
          • 5: Letters of recommendation get you into college; ones from ex-employers are often called "letters of" this.
          • Reference.
          • Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

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