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Episode 292 - Of Montezuma - In The Air Up There - Ellen - The Bill Of Rights - Take A Hike

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 292, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Of Montezuma

  • 1: From 1502 to 1520 Montezuma II ruled these people.
  • Aztecs.
  • 2: One of these works entitled "Montezuma" was composed by Roger Sessions in 1964.
  • an opera.
  • 3: This defeater of Montezuma reached Mexico in 1519 and some historians believe he was mistaken for a god.
  • Hernando Cortez.
  • 4: Reputedly, Montezuma drank as many as 50 cups a day of this drink which the Spanish made sweeter.
  • chocolate.
  • 5: With some of the USA's best-preserved cliff dwellings, Montezuma Castle National Monument is in this state.
  • Arizona.

    • Round 2. Category: In The Air Up There

    • 1: Most of these are in the troposphere and there are over 100 different types, such as cumulonimbus.
    • clouds.
    • 2: Term for the moisture of the air, it's given in relative terms in forecasts.
    • humidity.
    • 3: In the 1970s it was discovered that CFCs may be affecting this layer of atmosphere.
    • the ozone layer.
    • 4: It's about .03% of the air; you breathe a little in and a lot out.
    • carbon dioxide.
    • 5: About 80% of this gas in the air comes from decomposition in rice paddies, swamps, and animal intestines.
    • methane.

      • Round 3. Category: Ellen

      • 1: She hosted the Emmys in 2001 and 2005 and was named to host the Oscars in 2007.
      • Ellen DeGeneres.
      • 2: On Thursday nights, she plays doctor; the title doctor of "Grey's Anatomy".
      • Ellen Pompeo.
      • 3: In 2005 British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur set a new record by doing this solo in 71 days, 14 hours.
      • sailing around the world.
      • 4: This First Lady's efforts resulted in a 1914 law improving housing for African Americans in Washington, D.C..
      • Ellen Wilson.
      • 5: Ellen of this publishing family co-founded a California institution of oceanography.
      • Scripps.

        • Round 4. Category: The Bill Of Rights

        • 1: Congress can pick a national dance or flower, but can't by the 1st Amendment, pick a national one of these.
        • Religion.
        • 2: This fourth president was largely responsible for drafting the Bill of Rights.
        • James Madison.
        • 3: 3 of the 13 original states did not ratify the Bill of Rights until 1939: Mass., Conn. and this "Peach State".
        • Georgia.
        • 4: The 4th Amendment guarantees the right of the people "against unreasonable searches and" these.
        • seizures.
        • 5: In 1787 Jefferson wrote to this "Father of the Bill of Rights", "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to".
        • Madison.

          • Round 5. Category: Take A Hike

          • 1: There's good hiking at several stops on this country's mountainous Chihuahua al Pacifico train.
          • Mexico.
          • 2: The Otter Trail on the coast of this country's Western Cape Province may be booked up a year ahead.
          • South Africa.
          • 3: In 1923 the first path designated part of this trail opened in New York's Bear Mountain State Park.
          • the Appalachian Trail.
          • 4: If this European country's mountains are forbidding, try hiking in its famed valley the Engadine.
          • Switzerland.
          • 5: Germany's 104-mile Rennsteig meanders through the Thuringer Wald, or Thuringian this.
          • Forest.

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