Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 493, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: "M"Enagerie
1: As adults, these lepidoptera are harmless, but the caterpillars love to feast on your clothes.moths.2: Though its voice is shrill, this small monkey's name is derived from Old French "marmouser", to murmur.a marmoset.3: It's said ancient Romans not only ate these eels but fed their disobedient slaves to them.a moray eel.4: The tiny eyes of this insectivore are hidden in its fur.a mole.5: These crow relatives got their name from a girl's name, Margaret.magpie.Round 2. Category: In A Pickle
1: To make your standard pickle, pickle this veggie.cucumber.2: This pickle maker introduced its spokesstork in 1974.Vlasic.3: Common name of Anethum graveolens, a plant in the parsley family used in a popular pickle.dill.4: In 1900 this company built the first electric advertising sign in New York City, a 40-foot-long pickle.H.J. Heinz.5: This noted pickle dealer of 15th century Seville has 2 continents named for him.Amerigo Vespucci.Round 3. Category: Four
1: Naismith sport played by the men on the "Road to the Final Four".Basketball.2: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse appear in the book of Revelation, written by this "divine" saint.Saint John the Divine.3: His third wife was a member of the Gang of Four.Mao Tse-tung.4: Suffering is the substance of all of the Four Noble Truths of this religion.Buddhism.5: In a 1939 article for National Geographic, Lincoln Ellsworth described his 4 expeditions to this continent.Antarctica.Round 4. Category: Triangles
1: Body part in the triangle atop the pyramid in the Great Seal of the United States.Eye.2: In the "Steel City" of Pittsburgh, the downtown area is known as this triangle.the Golden Triangle.3: To get into this city's Golden Triangle you can use the Fort Pitt Bridge.Pittsburgh.4: The east side of this large, triangular citadel faces Red Square.the Kremlin.5: In 1911 a devastating fire at this company's factory in New York City killed 146 garment workers.the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.Round 5. Category: Summertime
1: This object is the "S" in SPF, which should be at least 30 in the stuff mom slathers onto you.the sun.2: On warm days the mind turns to this rhyming word that precedes "basket" and "table".picnic.3: In the northern hemisphere, Vega, Altair and Deneb, 3 of these, make up the "summer triangle".stars.4: Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Not a fifth grader who's at SIG, summer institute for them.the gifted.5: In Houston in the summer, this averages over 90% for the morning.humidity.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!