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Episode 318 - Days Of Birth - Crossword Clues "C" - Historic Historians - 1997 - "Ph" Delights

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 318, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Days Of Birth

  • 1: If born on a Monday, you're fair of this, so you won't stop clocks.
  • Face.
  • 2: Have a Tuesday-born person say this before meals; they're full of it.
  • Grace.
  • 3: Saturday's child does it "for a living"; Donna Summer sang she did it "For The Money".
  • Work hard.
  • 4: Garrison Keillor might say be gone to Wednesday's child, who's full of this.
  • Woe.
  • 5: Among other qualities, Sunday's child is this, like the fair banks of Loch Lomond.
  • Bonnie.

    • Round 2. Category: Crossword Clues "C"

    • 1: "See ya," in Rome(4).
    • Ciao.
    • 2: Have a bawl(3).
    • cry.
    • 3: Number cruncher(10).
    • calculator.
    • 4: "Googly" sport(7).
    • cricket.
    • 5: A "Swiss" beet (5).
    • chard.

      • Round 3. Category: Historic Historians

      • 1: 6th century Roman historian Flavius Cassiodorus did a history of this group that split into Visi- and Ostro- halves.
      • the Goths.
      • 2: 2nd century B.C. historian Ssu-Ma Ch'ien put together the first comprehensive history of this country.
      • China.
      • 3: Christian Lange edited "Diplomatarium Norvegicum", a valuable source on this, his native land.
      • Norway.
      • 4: William Prescott's 2 big tales of the Conquistadors were about "The Conquest of Peru" and "The Conquest of" this country.
      • Mexico.
      • 5: This venerable saint's eccesiastical history of England goes up to 731; he died in 735.
      • the Venerable Bede.

        • Round 4. Category: 1997

        • 1: Hosting the Oscars, he was pursued by pilot David Letterman in an "English Patient" parody.
        • Billy Crystal.
        • 2: The FDA approved a laser that could be used by dentists as long as the dentist and adult patient wear these.
        • Protective glasses.
        • 3: When this Chinese leader died February 19, 1997 it was noted he hadn't been seen in public since early 1994.
        • Deng Hsiao-Ping.
        • 4: 39 members of this doomsday cult in California committed suicide in March.
        • Heaven's Gate.
        • 5: Pioneer 10, which was launched in 1972 to study this planet, was retired in 1997.
        • Jupiter.

          • Round 5. Category: "Ph" Delights

          • 1: Traditional title of the kings who built the pyramids.
          • pharaoh.
          • 2: To see Van Gogh's "Vase with 12 Sunflowers", head out to this American city's Museum of Art.
          • Philadelphia.
          • 3: Light energy becomes organic energy through this plant process.
          • photosynthesis.
          • 4: From the Greek for "to appear", it's an unreal, ghostly being.
          • a phantom.
          • 5: Appropriately, Paul Nurse shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in this category.
          • Physiology.

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

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