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Episode 266 - Musical Architecture - Remember The Titans - Around The Doghouse With Spot - "Eel" Of Fortune - German Science

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 266, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Musical Architecture

  • 1: In "Royal Wedding" Fred Astaire gives a textbook demonstration of this, the title of a 1986 Lionel Richie hit.
  • Dancing On The Ceiling.
  • 2: The B-52's headed up the charts when they headed on down to this place.
  • Love Shack.
  • 3: The Dixie Cups sang, "Gee I really love you and we're gonna get married, goin' to" this place.
  • Chapel Of Love.
  • 4: Carole King co-wrote this song that was a No. 5 hit for the Drifters in 1962.
  • Up On The Roof.
  • 5: Melissa Etheridge's first Top 40 song, it says, "Crawl inside, wait by the light of the moon".
  • Come To My Window.

    • Round 2. Category: Remember The Titans

    • 1: Aeschylus wrote of this "bound" Titan who was a hero to humankind.
    • Prometheus.
    • 2: Mnemosyne, the Titan goddess of memory, was also the mother of these inspirational goddesses.
    • the Muses.
    • 3: Goddess of the Earth, was was the mother of the Titans.
    • Gaia.
    • 4: The youngest of the Titans, he found time to father the Olympians.
    • Cronos.
    • 5: A South American birdie told me this Titan was Zeus' mother and mother-in-law.
    • Rhea.

      • Round 3. Category: Around The Doghouse With Spot

      • 1: Spot has never managed to lie on top of his doghouse like this Peanuts character.
      • Snoopy.
      • 2: Spot's owner puts a special collar on Spot to keep these insects from jumping onto him.
      • Fleas.
      • 3: Always the picky eater, Spot will only eat this brand's "Dog Chow" and an occasional bird.
      • Purina.
      • 4: Spot's owner made up the word "Schnottish" for Spot, a mix of schnauzer and this type of terrier.
      • Scottish.
      • 5: The Post-Dispatch can be found in Spot's doghouse because he lives in this Midwestern city.
      • St. Louis.

        • Round 4. Category: "Eel" Of Fortune

        • 1: Fruit skin.
        • peel.
        • 2: Bread end.
        • heel.
        • 3: Boat bottom.
        • keel.
        • 4: Iron alloy.
        • steel.
        • 5: A fisherman's wicker basket.
        • creel.

          • Round 5. Category: German Science

          • 1: Around 1850 Helmholtz clocked impulses moving along these body parts at about 90 feet per second.
          • nerves.
          • 2: University prof Michael Mastlin sold young Johannes Kepler on this Copernican theory.
          • heliocentrism.
          • 3: Max Born taught this subject at the University of Gottingen and won a Nobel Prize in it.
          • physics.
          • 4: "Psychopathia Sexualis" author Krafft-Ebing found the link between this disease and the mental decay called paresis.
          • syphilis.
          • 5: Nicolaier produced this disease in animals by injecting then with soil, and maybe watching their little jaws lock.
          • tetanus.

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