Instant Trivia

Episode 463 - Money Talk - Multiple Meanings - Poet-Tree - California Cities - Owls

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 463, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Money Talk

  • 1: It's the regular payment made to support an ex-spouse.
  • Alimony.
  • 2: It's the money paid for the return of a kidnap victim.
  • Ransom.
  • 3: Of the 7 deadly sins, it's the one concerned with money.
  • Greed (Avarice).
  • 4: It's a formal gift of funds given by, for example, a government to a scientist to "cary" on with research.
  • Grant.
  • 5: From a Latin word for "booty", it's the payment you make to keep your booty insured.
  • Premium.

    • Round 2. Category: Multiple Meanings

    • 1: A long-billed game bird, or to shoot at something from a hidden position.
    • snipe.
    • 2: A spinning toy, or the location of this clue in the category.
    • Top.
    • 3: It can mean fixed, rapid or to abstain from food.
    • fast.
    • 4: To strike violently, or a song's drumming rhythm.
    • beat.
    • 5: A burial place, or fraught with danger or harm.
    • grave.

      • Round 3. Category: Poet-Tree

      • 1: This bird- and -feline pair "sailed away, for a year and a day, to the land where the bong-tree grows".
      • The Owl and the Pussycat.
      • 2: "The dead tree gives no shelter", he observed in "The Waste Land".
      • T.S. Eliot.
      • 3: "So was I once myself a swinger of birches; and so I dream of going back to be", wrote this New England poet.
      • Robert Frost.
      • 4: "Ah, droop not, my oak!" wrote this lord in "To an Oak at Newstead".
      • Lord Byron.
      • 5: Ogden Nash spoofed this poet by writing, "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree".
      • Joyce Kilmer (who wrote "Trees").

        • Round 4. Category: California Cities

        • 1: At 465 square miles, it's California's largest city in area.
        • Los Angeles.
        • 2: The oldest city in California that was founded by the Spanish; it's named for St. Joseph.
        • San Jose.
        • 3: This city's zoo, located in Balboa Park, is one of the largest in the world.
        • San Diego.
        • 4: This upscale community was founded in 1906 by the Rodeo Land and Water Company.
        • Beverly Hills.
        • 5: This Silicon Valley city served as California's first capital from 1849 to 1851.
        • San Jose.

          • Round 5. Category: Owls

          • 1: An owl stood for the phonogram "M" in this ancient Egyptian writing system.
          • Hieroglyphics.
          • 2: In 1973 this environmentalist got his own comic book.
          • Woodsy Owl.
          • 3: In this TV town (population 51,201), the owls are not what they seem.
          • "Twin Peaks".
          • 4: Venezuela's Caligo memnon species of this insect has owl-like eyes on its wings to scare enemies.
          • butterfly.
          • 5: The title of this 1973 novel by Margaret Craven concerns an Indian myth about death.
          • "I Heard the Owl Call My Name".

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

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