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Episode 411 - The Living Earth - Critters - Epitaphs - Warren G. Harding - Easter

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 411, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Living Earth

  • 1: Earth's tides are affected primarily by these 2 heavenly bodies.
  • Sun and moon.
  • 2: On some trees and shrubs, this protective covering slowly peels off and is replaced.
  • Bark.
  • 3: From "calm" to "hurricane", the Beaufort scale measures the strength of this.
  • Wind.
  • 4: The only poisonous snake in Great Britain, the common adder belongs to this snake family.
  • Viper.
  • 5: These "laughing" scavengers will eat almost anything and will steal food even from lions.
  • Hyenas.

    • Round 2. Category: Critters

    • 1: It's the world's tallest animal whose young is known as a calf.
    • a giraffe.
    • 2: Like kangaroo, the young of the koala are referred to by this term.
    • Joeys.
    • 3: Ants detect odors with sensors on these.
    • Antennae.
    • 4: From their name it sounds like these ray relatives should travel "inline".
    • Skates.
    • 5: Unlike a human, a shark's skeleton is made of this elastic tissue, not bone.
    • cartilage.

      • Round 3. Category: Epitaphs

      • 1: "Quoth the raven nevermore".
      • Edgar Allan Poe.
      • 2: "Everybody loves somebody sometime".
      • Dean Martin.
      • 3: "Quoth the raven nevermore".
      • Edgar Allan Poe.
      • 4: "Man of 1000 Voices".
      • Mel Blanc.
      • 5: Died 1789:"His spirit is in Vermont now".
      • Ethan Allen.

        • Round 4. Category: Warren G. Harding

        • 1: Some claim that Harding coined this alliterative phrase for the leaders of the American Revolution.
        • Founding Fathers.
        • 2: Harding's veep, he succeeded Harding as president.
        • Calvin Coolidge.
        • 3: In 1903 Warren was elected lieutenant governor of this state; later he was one of its U.S. senators.
        • Ohio.
        • 4: It's what Warren Harding's middle initial G. stood for.
        • Gamaliel.
        • 5: Albert Fall, Harding's secretary of this cabinet dept., took the fall for the Teapot Dome scandal.
        • Interior.

          • Round 5. Category: Easter

          • 1: 1916's "Easter Rebellion" against British rule was centered in this capital city.
          • Dublin.
          • 2: The Sunday before Easter is commonly called this.
          • Palm Sunday.
          • 3: Animals associated with Easter are the egg-hiding rabbit and this one representing Jesus.
          • Lamb.
          • 4: The 40-day period before Easter is Lent; the 40th day after Easter is the feast of this.
          • Ascension.
          • 5: This location's first Easter Egg Roll was on April 22, 1878.
          • the White House.

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