Instant Trivia

Episode 314 - Creation Stories - It's A Mystery! - Cooking Equipment - We Predict The Future! - Let's Play A Game!

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 314, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Creation Stories

  • 1: According to the gospel of St. John, in the beginning was this and it was God.
  • The word.
  • 2: This scientific theory suggests everything goes back to a single primeval event.
  • Big Bang Theory.
  • 3: In Eskimo lore, this black bird is a trickster-creator.
  • Raven.
  • 4: The oldest Greek myths feature Gaia, as Mother this.
  • Earth.
  • 5: The creation myth of these people involves Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl tearing Coatlicue apart.
  • Aztecs.

    • Round 2. Category: It's A Mystery!

    • 1: The title of this 1939 mystery by Raymond Chandler is a slang term for death.
    • The Big Sleep.
    • 2: This detecting couple whom Dashiell Hammett introduced in "The Thin Man" had a dog named Asta.
    • Nick and Nora Charles.
    • 3: The V.I. in this hard-boiled detective's name stands for Victoria Iphigenia.
    • V.I. Warshawski.
    • 4: Some editions of this Dickens novel begin, "An ancient English cathedral town..."; others say "tower"--it's a "Mystery"!.
    • The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
    • 5: "The Mystery of" her is Poe's sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".
    • Marie Roget.

      • Round 3. Category: Cooking Equipment

      • 1: Waffles are made in an iron and muffins are made in an implement named for this metal.
      • tin.
      • 2: Used to keep food warm, this "dish" is a container with a pan of hot water beneath it.
      • a chafing dish.
      • 3: Special round cutters are made to slice these Italian pies.
      • pizzas.
      • 4: A double one of these is often used to melt chocolate.
      • boiler.
      • 5: The mandoline, resembling a washboard, eases this process of cutting potatoes into matchlike strips.
      • julienning.

        • Round 4. Category: We Predict The Future!

        • 1: On Jan. 20, 2009 this man will lose his $400,000-a-year (plus 50 grand in expenses) federal government job.
        • George W. Bush.
        • 2: On March 1, 2022 we'll be celebrating "Fat Tuesday", this celebration, y'all.
        • Mardi Gras.
        • 3: By Dec. 31, 2010 this Bureau will have submitted state population totals to the president (well, it better have).
        • the Census.
        • 4: On July 20, 2010 this S. American country will kick back with some good coffee to celebrate 200 years of indep..
        • Colombia.
        • 5: On July 27, 2012 the Summer Olympics will open in this world capital.
        • London.

          • Round 5. Category: Let's Play A Game!

          • 1: You can apologize (as the name says) when you send someone back to the start in this Parker Brothers board game.
          • Sorry!.
          • 2: Boggle is a word search game; you make words using wood tiles in this classic board game.
          • Scrabble.
          • 3: Collect pieces of cheese and build a zany contraption to try to catch your opponents in this board game.
          • Mouse Trap.
          • 4: The name of this game in which you stack hardwood blocks into a tower comes from a Swahili word for "to build".
          • Jenga.
          • 5: Find out which of Mr. Boddy's guests murdered him in his own mansion and with what weapon in this classic mystery game.
          • Clue.

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

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