Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 458, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: A Driving Tour
1: Drive by the cops when you put the pedal to the metal on most of these high-speed German highways.autobahns.2: Krasnaya Ploshchad is the local name for this square you can drive by, but not across.Red Square.3: High degree Freemasons know it can be hard to drive by this L.A. auditorium on Jefferson Blvd. on Oscar night.the Shrine Auditorium.4: You'll reach the president's office in this country driving to the union buildings on Government Ave. in Pretoria.South Africa.5: Drive down Obala Vojvode Stepe in this city and relive the street's most famous moment of June 28, 1914.Sarajevo.Round 2. Category: Art School
1: The most common one used by artists is probably the X-acto.a knife.2: Turning tools are used to shape the clay on one of these.a potter's wheel.3: A halftone screen breaks up a sold image into a pattern of these.dots.4: Traditionally in drypoint, you use a steel needle to scratch your drawing into a plate of this metal.copper.5: When a sculptor is doing this he isn't fishing, but using the lost wax method to make a mold.casting.Round 3. Category: Clues Past Their Freshness Date
1: Time's 1980 Man of the Year cover showed him in a western shirt, jeans and a tooled belt with silver buckle.Ronald Reagan.2: To get into this event at the White House March 31, 1997 you had to have a 3-to-6-year-old kid with you.the Easter Egg Hunt.3: In 1992 United began flying the Latin American routes purchased from this airline that folded in 1991.Pan American.4: This brand's jingle called it "That Heavenly Coffee".Chock full o'Nuts.5: In 1996 Chevy reintroduced this model first seen in 1964, also the name of a version of Barbie.Malibu.Round 4. Category: Workplaces
1: Usual workplace of a saucier, a poissonier and a garde-manger.restaurant.2: The traditional entry-level area of a talent agency; Michael Ovitz started there at William Morris.mailroom.3: A triage nurse is the first person who will tend to you if you go to this part of a hospital.emergency room.4: In the U.S. the FBI has about 60 of the local offices usually called these.field offices.5: 3-letter word paired with 'tool" in a type of manufacturer of precision products.die.Round 5. Category: Toys And Games
1: The name of this game that uses 144 small tiles comes from a word meaning “sparrows”.Mah Jongg.2: Term for the hoops that croquet balls are driven through.wickets.3: Bionicle is one of the lines from this brand of building blocks.Lego.4: These cute, cuddly plush toys were introduced in 2005 along with a code allowing kids access to an online community.Webkinz.5: Betty James named a classic toy this, a word meaning "stealthy, sleek and sinuous".Slinky.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!