Instant Trivia

Episode 351 - Full Service - U. S. A. - Elizabeth Taylor's Husbands - Bridges To The Future - 1971

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 351, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Full Service

  • 1: Performed to make you part of the Mormon Church, it needs a body of water large enough for total immersion.
  • baptism.
  • 2: They're the first 2 words in the Book of Common Prayer (1549 ed.) wedding service.
  • Dearly beloved.
  • 3: As used during the Last Supper they're the food and drink blessed during the eucharist.
  • bread and wine.
  • 4: Kol Nidre, which negates vows made between humans and God, is recited on the eve of this Jewish holiday.
  • Yom Kippur.
  • 5: This kind of mass has included a "Dies Irae"; Mozart wrote one late in his life.
  • requiem mass.

    • Round 2. Category: U. S. A.

    • 1: The 50 states touch these 3 oceans.
    • the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Arctic Ocean.
    • 2: There's a macadamia nut festival in this state every year.
    • Hawaii.
    • 3: In the 1870s there were "rushes into the South Dakota area for land and for this.
    • gold.
    • 4: Though it's widely cultivated, the Monterey cypress is native only to this state.
    • California.
    • 5: This "Tar Heel State" is also nicknamed "The Old North State".
    • North Carolina.

      • Round 3. Category: Elizabeth Taylor's Husbands

      • 1: He divorced Debbie Reynolds to marry Liz.
      • Eddie Fisher.
      • 2: He was born in south Wales in 1925.
      • Richard Burton.
      • 3: Liz married him when she was 18.
      • Nicky Hilton.
      • 4: He played "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" in 1965.
      • Richard Burton.
      • 5: For a while he was the world's most famous construction worker.
      • Larry Fortensky.

        • Round 4. Category: Bridges To The Future

        • 1: A bridge over this river will connect Vidin, Bulgaria with Calafat, Romania.
        • the Danube.
        • 2: The new Woodrow Wilson Bridge project will connect Maryland and Virginia across this river.
        • the Potomac.
        • 3: This 22 ½ mile Hangzhou bridge will cut 2 hours off the travel time from Ningbo to this city, China's largest.
        • Shanghai.
        • 4: The new Colorado River bridge downstream of Hoover Dam will connect these 2 adjacent states.
        • Nevada and Arizona.
        • 5: The Binh Bridge is being constructed for this Northern Vietnamese port city.
        • Hai Phong.

          • Round 5. Category: 1971

          • 1: In 1971 this type of auto insurance became popular in the U.S..
          • no-fault.
          • 2: Team that won U.S.-Chinese ping-pong match in Peking.
          • Chinese.
          • 3: While on the moon in February, astronaut Alan Shepard took a shot at this sport.
          • golf.
          • 4: Postage stamps from this country weren't accepted by some others who still considered it East Pakistan.
          • Bangladesh.
          • 5: He was the only officer found guilty at the court martial of those involved in the My Lai incident.
          • William Calley, Jr..

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