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Episode 497 - Journalism 101 - Sounds Like An Army Unit - Dead Language - Giant - What Century Are You Living In?

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 497, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Journalism 101

  • 1: Types of these with specific names include op-ed and front.
  • pages.
  • 2: Teasers and screamers are types of these.
  • headlines.
  • 3: The author's name printed with the story.
  • a byline.
  • 4: The top news item of the day, or the first sentence in the story about it.
  • the lead.
  • 5: It's at this "desk" that the local news is put together.
  • the city desk.

    • Round 2. Category: Sounds Like An Army Unit

    • 1: Best Picture Oscar winner for 1986.
    • Platoon.
    • 2: Proverbially 2 is this and 3's a crowd.
    • a company.
    • 3: One of the 4 fundamental operations in arithmetic.
    • division.
    • 4: An infamous group of Italian urban terrorists called themselves "the Red" these.
    • Brigade.
    • 5: Homonym for the center of a Granny Smith or a Jonathan.
    • corps.

      • Round 3. Category: Dead Language

      • 1: A person or thing about to fail is said to be one of these terminal water birds.
      • Dead duck.
      • 2: This colorful 2-word term is synonymous with morbid comedy often relating to death.
      • Black comedy/humor.
      • 3: It's the combustible heap for burning a dead body as part of a funeral rite.
      • Pyre.
      • 4: Using cryogenics, this shorter word is the freezing of recently deceased bodies in hopes of future resuscitation.
      • Cryonics.
      • 5: From the Latin for "to fall", it's a dead body, especially one prepared for dissection.
      • Cadaver.

        • Round 4. Category: Giant

        • 1: The giant ones of these mammals live in the bamboo forests of China.
        • pandas.
        • 2: Completes Neil Armstrong's July 20,1969 statement "That's one small step for man...".
        • one giant leap for mankind.
        • 3: Giant tortoises and marine iguanas were featured in an IMAX film about these islands that Darwin visited in 1835.
        • the Galapagos Islands.
        • 4: The giant type of this seaweed, a form of leafy brown algae, can be 200 feet long.
        • kelp.
        • 5: In Greek mythology, this group of primeval gigantic beings includes Cronus and Rhea.
        • the Titans.

          • Round 5. Category: What Century Are You Living In?

          • 1: Generals George Meade and P.G.T. Beauregard.
          • 19th century.
          • 2: Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg.
          • 20th century.
          • 3: Christopher Marlowe (assuming he didn't fake his own death, move to France and write Shakespeare's plays).
          • 16th century.
          • 4: Rembrandt.
          • 17th century.
          • 5: Frederick the Great of Prussia.
          • 18th century.

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

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