Instant Trivia

Episode 510 - Acts Of Congress - Animal Noises - The 12 Days Of Christmas - Tv Puppets - Education

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 510, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Acts Of Congress

  • 1: 1930's Smoot-Hawley Act raised these to protect American farmers.
  • tariffs.
  • 2: (I'm Geoffrey Canada, President of the Harlem Children's Zone.) Setting standards and establishing measurable goals to improve individual outcomes in education was the objective of this 2001 congressional act that left many educators dismayed.
  • No Child Left Behind.
  • 3: This act of 1964 established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
  • the Civil Rights Act.
  • 4: This act of 1964 established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
  • the Civil Rights Act.
  • 5: An act passed March 3, 1863 established this, the subject of riots in New York that July.
  • drafts.

    • Round 2. Category: Animal Noises

    • 1: Mexican peninsula, or the sound of a sheep laughing.
    • Baja.
    • 2: To ingest your Thanksgiving turkey quickly.
    • gobble it up.
    • 3: Audio components whose job sound like they could be done by dogs and birds.
    • woofer and tweeters.
    • 4: The Pacific equivalent of Atlantis.
    • Mu.
    • 5: In "A Day at the Races", Hugo Hackenbush is one.
    • quack.

      • Round 3. Category: The 12 Days Of Christmas

      • 1: These 3 birds are the gifts for the first 3 days.
      • French hens, turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.
      • 2: Of the song's 12 gifts, it's the only one you could melt down and not be charged with murder or animal cruelty.
      • five golden rings.
      • 3: We found this eighth day's gift quite moo-ving.
      • maids a-milking.
      • 4: On the 10th day, nobility abounded as my true love somehow thought I needed this gift.
      • lords a-leapin'.
      • 5: On the 12th day, my true love gave me this gift, something Charlie Watts could enjoy.
      • twelve drummers drumming.

        • Round 4. Category: Tv Puppets

        • 1: Mallory Tarcher has had a hand in continuing Lamb Chop, created by this woman, her mother.
        • Shari Lewis.
        • 2: Known as the Foster Imposters, a puppet pair of these animals want to be Foster Farms products.
        • chickens.
        • 3: In 1989 NBC had this alien help host the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
        • ALF.
        • 4: Humans on this 2002 Fox puppet series include Sarah Silverman and Seth Green.
        • Greg the Bunny.
        • 5: On "Unhappily Ever After", he supplied the voice of Mr. Floppy.
        • Bobcat Goldthwait.

          • Round 5. Category: Education

          • 1: In 1955 Rudolph Flesch wrote "Why Johnny Can't" do this, attacking current teaching practices.
          • read.
          • 2: At the urging of this president, the Department of Education became a cabinet department in 1979.
          • (Jimmy) Carter.
          • 3: Back in 1987 Aspen College began offering an MBA degree online, MBA standing for this.
          • master's of business administration.
          • 4: Common term for the system that emerged in the '60s to teach more mathematical concepts and fewer times tables.
          • the New Math.
          • 5: In 1980 the Department of Education was created out of this now-defunct Cabinet department.
          • HEW.

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

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