Instant Trivia

Episode 309 - Lightning - "G"Eography - Brands - The Other Side Of The Hyphen - 1960s Sitcoms

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 309, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lightning

  • 1: Lightning causes over 10,000 of these a year and Smokey the Bear is getting mad!.
  • forest fires.
  • 2: In the 1931 film, he used lightning to bring his monster to life.
  • Dr. Frankenstein.
  • 3: Of 25, 50, or 100 miles, the longest length lightning strokes can reach.
  • 100 miles.
  • 4: Aided by lightning each year, 100 million tons of this gas washes into the soil and becomes fertilizer.
  • Nitrogen.
  • 5: Unpunished in the Maxwell Anderson play, Rhoda is roasted by lightning in this movie's finale.
  • The Bad Seed.

    • Round 2. Category: "G"Eography

    • 1: This sacred river flows through Bangladesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
    • Ganges.
    • 2: Syros, Skyros and Skiathos are just 3 of this Balkan country's many islands.
    • Greece.
    • 3: It left the Union--of Soviet Socialist Republics--April 9, 1991.
    • Georgia.
    • 4: Most of the Indians in this Central American country speak one of the Maya languages.
    • Guatemala.
    • 5: There's a British colony on this southern Spanish peninsula.
    • Gibraltar.

      • Round 3. Category: Brands

      • 1: The No. 1 breakfast cereal in the U.S. is the "honey nut" variety of these.
      • Cheerios.
      • 2: This city precedes "Fog" in the name of a brand of raincoats.
      • London.
      • 3: Ironically, commercials using a toy bunny to advertise this brand weren't meant to "keep going".
      • Energizer.
      • 4: Entrepreneur Herman, not Enron's Kenneth, launched this potato chip brand in 1938.
      • Lay's.
      • 5: This company's first washing machines were "So simple, a child could do it".
      • Maytag.

        • Round 4. Category: The Other Side Of The Hyphen

        • 1: To betray:double-.
        • Cross.
        • 2: To throw overboard:deep-.
        • Six.
        • 3: Short-circuit the ignition:hot-.
        • Wire.
        • 4: A 4-dimensional continuum:space-.
        • Time.
        • 5: Rustic or homespun:cracker-.
        • Barrel.

          • Round 5. Category: 1960s Sitcoms

          • 1: Its theme song tells us it's "the place to be, farm livin' is the life for me".
          • Green Acres.
          • 2: Paul Lynde played Samantha's Uncle Arthur for 7 seasons on this ABC sitcom.
          • "Bewitched".
          • 3: In "Get Smart" the spies at CONTROL were dedicated to defeating this evil organization.
          • KAOS.
          • 4: On "The Beverly Hillbillies", her real name was Daisy Moses.
          • Granny.
          • 5: It was the occupation of Jerry Helper, Rob and Laura Petrie's next door neighbor.
          • Dentist.

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

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