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Episode 32 - Warner Bros. Animation - Ink - The Political Life - Don't Listen To Them! - Fabrics

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 32, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Warner Bros. Animation

  • 1: Gaining his powers from exposure to mutagenetic gas, he's the African-American teen superhero seen here
  • Static Shock.
  • 2: These title crime fighters all live together in a tower that might be even messier than your room
  • the Teen Titans.
  • 3: This classic Warner Bros. animated duo helps Granny solve mysteries
  • Sylvester and Tweety.
  • 4: Mechanikat is one of the evil adversaries of this new breed of superhero seen here
  • Krypto the Superdog.
  • 5: Monks in training battle villains for sacred, ancient objects on this action-packed program
  • Xiaolin Showdown.

    • Round 2. Category: Ink

    • 1: If your business is losing money, you're awash in this color ink
    • Red.
    • 2: His test, developed in 1921, includes 5 multicolored inkblots
    • Herman Rohrshach.
    • 3: 1988 film that featured a will written in Acme disappearing and re-appearing ink
    • "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
    • 4: From Latin roots meaning "cannot be obliterated", it describes ink that's permanent
    • Indelible.
    • 5: Company that makes the Eraser Mate, a pen that has erasable ink
    • Paper Mate.

      • Round 3. Category: The Political Life

      • 1: From the Latin for "to be away", this type of ballot is a vote cast by mail, not at a polling place
      • Absentee.
      • 2: An officeholder during the interval before a successor takes over is known as one of these limping birds
      • Lame duck.
      • 3: From the Latin for "grow together", it's an alliance of different groups for a specific cause
      • Coalition.
      • 4: Proverbially, to indicate one's candidacy is to throw one's hat here
      • In the ring.
      • 5: Term for the speech at a convention that sets the tone and outlines the main issues
      • Keynote speech.

        • Round 4. Category: Don't Listen To Them!

        • 1: "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" asked one of these Hollywood "Brothers" in 1927
        • Warner Brothers.
        • 2: In 1929 a Yale economics professor said these "have reached...a permanently high plateau"
        • Stocks.
        • 3: Rejecting this band in 1962, Decca Records said, "We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out"
        • The Beatles.
        • 4: An 1876 Western Union internal memo said this device has "many shortcomings" and "is inherently of no value to us"
        • Telephone.
        • 5: In 1899 Charles Duell, the head of this U.S. "Office" said, "Everything that can be invented has been invented"
        • U.S. Patent Office.

          • Round 5. Category: Fabrics

          • 1: The name of this fabric often used for shirts worn by lumberjacks may be from the Welsh for "wool"
          • flannel.
          • 2: This fabric is called plush when the pile is more than 1/8" in height
          • velvet.
          • 3: From the Persian for "rag", this bed sheet fabric is finer than muslin
          • percale.
          • 4: From the Persian for "rag", this bed sheet fabric is finer than muslin
          • percale.
          • 5: It sounds like hammerheads provide the material for this, but it's really a worsted fabric for men's suits
          • sharkskin.

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

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