Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 335, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: "S"Tuff
1: This term for the illegal selling of concert tickets sounds like a bad way to lose your hair.scalping.2: Alphabetically, he's the last of Snow White's 7 dwarfs.Sneezy.3: From the Latin for "salted", it's spicy, seasoned meat chopped and stuffed into a tube of intestine.sausage.4: Attributed to Druids, Greeks and even Romans, this Neolithic site on Salisbury Plain was erected by unknown builders.Stonehenge.5: In the Bible's Book of Judges, he carried the Gates of Gaza about 40 miles to a hilltop near Hebron.Samson.Round 2. Category: Sports Stadiums
1: Artificial grass named for the site of its 1st installation.AstroTurf.2: In 1976, the name of this university's stadium was changed from Denny to Bryant-Denny.Alabama.3: N.Y. stadium that now seats 13000 fewer people than it did 15 years ago.Yankee Stadium.4: Major League Baseball's oldest stadium is this one in Chicago.Comiskey Park.5: While Huskie Stadium(-skie) belongs to Northern Illinois University, Husky Stadium (-sky) is this school's home field.Washington.Round 3. Category: "Foo" Finders
1: It's a Chinese-American chopped goodies omelet with gravy.egg foo young.2: Iron pyrite.fool's gold.3: "Speedy" term for McDonald's, etc..fast food.4: From the Italian for "clowning", it's a 7-letter word for a person given to clowning and joking.buffoon.5: "Essence of Emeril" is a favorite show on this cable TV channel.the Food Network.Round 4. Category: Fruit
1: The name of this fruit contains the name of the drink of the gods.nectarine.2: The Medjool type of this is the fruit of a certain palm tree.a date.3: Raisins are rich in this, symbolized Fe.iron.4: The Royal Ann type of this fruit is often canned or used to make maraschinos.cherries.5: It's the most important fruit export of Costa Rica and Honduras.bananas.Round 5. Category: Ask The Audience
1: Audiences were transfixed by an episode of her TV show in which she revealed she had lost 67 lbs. on a liquid diet.Oprah Winfrey.2: Practice, practice, practice and you too can get to this 2,804-seat NYC venue at 57th and 7th.Carnegie Hall.3: On Easter Sunday 1939, she sang before an audience of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial.Marian Anderson.4: When this Stravinsky work premiered in Paris in 1913, the audience went nuts and began a riot.The Rite of Spring.5: The Audience Research Institute was founded by this famous pollster in 1939 in Princeton, N.J..(George) Gallup.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!