Instant Trivia

Episode 253 - Pop Music Pairings - Body Facts And Figures - 4-Syllable Words - Tennis, Anyone? - The Olympics

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 253, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pop Music Pairings

  • 1: blank and the Papas.
  • The Mamas.
  • 2: ... and the Gang.
  • Kool.
  • 3: blank and Wings.
  • Paul McCartney.
  • 4: ... and the Funky Bunch.
  • Marky Mark.
  • 5: blank and the Dominos.
  • Derek.

    • Round 2. Category: Body Facts And Figures

    • 1: These 2 of your 5 senses are connected; lose one and you lose most of the other.
    • taste and smell.
    • 2: The average person has some 18 square feet of this, making it the body's largest organ.
    • skin.
    • 3: If you want to count all the hairs on your head, hope you have this natural color; it has the fewest.
    • red.
    • 4: You have about 1 quart of this for every 30 pounds you weigh.
    • blood.
    • 5: You'll need 3 Trent Reznors to collect enough of this metal, Fe, from their bodies to make a nine-inch nail.
    • iron.

      • Round 3. Category: 4-Syllable Words

      • 1: Mission: this 10-letter word meaning hopelessly difficult; the clue will self-destruct in one second.
      • impossible.
      • 2: Bridgeport is the largest city in this northeastern state.
      • Connecticut.
      • 3: For Colorado Springs, it's 6,000 feet.
      • elevation.
      • 4: Also a physiological term, it's the distribution of copies of a periodical among readers.
      • circulation.
      • 5: Type of book, like Martin Gardner's edition of "Alice", that includes explanatory information as well as the text.
      • annotated.

        • Round 4. Category: Tennis, Anyone?

        • 1: The 2 Martinas to have been ranked as the year's No. 1 women's tennis player.
        • Martina Hingis and Martina Navratilova.
        • 2: Held in Melbourne in January, it's the first of the 4 tennis Grand Slam events every year.
        • the Australian Open.
        • 3: In 1993 he was ranked the world's No. 1 tennis player; he "re-peted" as No. 1 5 more years.
        • Pete Sampras.
        • 4: These 2 sisters have faced each other in the Wimbledon singles finals 4 times.
        • Venus and Serena Williams.
        • 5: In 2004 this Russian-born woman won the Wimbledon singles title.
        • (Maria) Sharapova.

          • Round 5. Category: The Olympics

          • 1: One difference between this hyphenated sport and freestyle is that opponents can't grasp or use the legs in a fall.
          • Greco-Roman wrestling.
          • 2: In 2000 marathon winner Naoko Takahashi became the first woman from this country to win a gold in track and field.
          • Japan.
          • 3: It's the only California site to host a Winter Olympics.
          • Squaw Valley.
          • 4: A special event at the 1928 and 1948 Winter Games, this bare-bones sled slid back to the Games in 2002.
          • the skeleton.
          • 5: At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Shaun White took gold in this snowboarding competition.
          • half-pipe.

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

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