Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 328, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: "Pow"!
1: A synonym for a woman's restroom.powder room.2: This multi-state lottery has risen to an almost $315 million winning total.Powerball.3: 3-word term for the legal authority to act for another person in legal or business matters.power of attorney.4: As the result of a 1614 wedding, he became John Rolfe's father-in-law.Powhatan.5: He was Harlem's congressman from 1945 to 1971.Adam Clayton Powell, Jr..Round 2. Category: Cereals
1: This cereal isn't named after the Flintstones' daughter but for the little bitty stones it resembles.Pebbles.2: Hooray! This toasted oat cereal is made from the grain highest in protein.Cheerios.3: Since 1984 this animal's been depicted on the front of the Kellogg's Corn Flakes box.Cornelius the Rooster.4: After you've finished all of this doll's cereal, she can use the box as a coffee table.Barbie.5: In addition to being teenage, mutant and ninja-trained, these animals have a cereal.Turtles.Round 3. Category: Algonquin Round Table Quotes
1: Franklin P. Adams:"Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble: 'Tinker to Evers to'" him.Chance.2: Dorothy Parker:"Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well" do this.Live.3: George S. Kaufman:"I saw the play under bad conditions." This "was up".The curtain.4: Harold Ross, upon founding this magazine:"(It) will not be edited for the old lady from Dubuque".The New Yorker.5: Robert Benchley:"In America, there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with" these people.Children.Round 4. Category: Scandals
1: She's doing commercials for No Excuses sportswear following her fling with Gary Hart.Donna Rice.2: The office of Baseball Commisioner was established in 1920 due to this 1919 event.Black Sox Scandal.3: His private secretary was linked to the Whiskey Ring, one of many scandals during his administration.Ulysses S. Grant.4: In "The Affair of the Necklace", a film about a real pre-revolution scandal, Joely Richardson plays this French queen.Marie Antoinette.5: This 19th century fighter for Irish home rule was scandalously involved with a married woman named Kitty O'Shea.Charles Parnell.Round 5. Category: By Halves
1: After being made with a new metal in 1883, the U.S. coin known as the half dime became known as this.nickel.2: Nickname of Melissa Gilbert's character on "Little House on the Prairie".Half Pint.3: According to Tennyson, the Light Brigade moved into the Valley of Death by these increments.half-leagues.4: A "half" this is a dive that includes a half backward somersault and ends facing the board.kick.5: For thorium-234 it's about 25 days; for thorium-232, about 14 billion years.half-life.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!