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.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!