Instant Trivia

Episode 296 - "W"Ords - When You're "Hot" - 4 Years - The European Past - The Jep-Tones World Tour 2006

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 296, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "W"Ords

  • 1: Walk like a duck.
  • Waddle.
  • 2: It can mean to exercise power, or to handle and use a weapon.
  • Wield.
  • 3: To hone or stimulate, like an appetite or one's curiosity.
  • to whet.
  • 4: Ah-one and ah-two, it's the marine snail in the photo looking at you.
  • Whelk.
  • 5: An intense desire to travel, or a best seller by Danielle Steel.
  • Wanderlust.

    • Round 2. Category: When You're "Hot"

    • 1: It's slang for the electric chair.
    • the hot seat.
    • 2: Empty, exaggerated talk is just a lot of this.
    • hot air.
    • 3: A little horse sense will tell you it means eager to race.
    • hot to trot.
    • 4: Hotheads know this phrase for "angry" comes from the blush of red they get around the neck.
    • hot under the collar.
    • 5: Their hit "Give It Away" won this alternative rock band a 1993 Grammy.
    • Red Hot Chili Peppers.

      • Round 3. Category: 4 Years

      • 1: In Julius Caesar's time this month had 30 days once every 4 years.
      • February.
      • 2: In 1960 Abebe Bikila won this Olympic event barefoot; 4 years later he won it again, this time wearing shoes.
      • Marathon.
      • 3: He was the first U.S. president to serve just 4 years.
      • John Adams.
      • 4: His book "Daisy-Head Maysie" was published in 1995, 4 years after his death.
      • Dr. Seuss.
      • 5: Every 4 years the Boy Scouts hold international rallies known as these.
      • Jamborees.

        • Round 4. Category: The European Past

        • 1: July 14, 1789 was the Marquis de Launay's last day as governor of this edifice.
        • the Bastille.
        • 2: While N. European sailors navigated by stars, Mediterraneans like Columbus relied mainly on this instrument.
        • the compass.
        • 3: This 5th emperor built baths with running sea- and sulphur water; he should have used them to put out the fire.
        • Nero.
        • 4: After World War II signs marking the entrance to East Berlin were usually in German and these 3 other languages.
        • English, French and Russian.
        • 5: In 1323 this current part of the Netherlands gained control of Zeeland.
        • Holland.

          • Round 5. Category: The Jep-Tones World Tour 2006

          • 1: More popular than Regis, the Jeps play their last stadium gig in San Francisco, like this band did on Aug. 29, 1966.
          • The Beatles.
          • 2: After a stint with the Maharishi, the group tries Kaballah with this singer whose hits include "Beautiful Stranger".
          • Madonna.
          • 3: The Jeps cover this group's 1988 Top 10 hit "Welcome To The Jungle", until the inevitable cease- and -desist order.
          • Guns N' Roses.
          • 4: No way! The Jeps' "Potpourri" video isn't the 2005 VMA Viewer's Choice; this band's "American Idiot" is.
          • Green Day.
          • 5: Oops... the 'Tones hire Mensa's Angels as security at this speedway in California, site of a 1969 free concert by the Stones.
          • Altamont.

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

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