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Episode 328 - "Pow"! - Cereals - Algonquin Round Table Quotes - Scandals - By Halves

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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.

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