Instant Trivia

Episode 549 - All Fall Down - Also A Candy - "B" Plus - Pox, Plague And Pestilence - Sports Superstitions

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 549, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: All Fall Down

  • 1: "Saturday Night Live" comic known for pratfalls he took imitating Gerald Ford.
  • Chevy Chase.
  • 2: The World Book calls them "generally more clumsy" than frogs.
  • toads.
  • 3: Popular comic strip with a character known as Clumsy Carp.
  • B.C..
  • 4: Familiar nursery rhyme from which this category's title is taken.
  • "Ring Around the Roses (Rosies)".
  • 5: Kim Zimmer fell down on her way to pick up one of these awards in 1986, Kathleen Noone in 1987.
  • Daytime Emmy.

    • Round 2. Category: Also A Candy

    • 1: A buoyant jacket used to keep a person afloat.
    • a life saver.
    • 2: "Cabaret" club.
    • Kit Kat.
    • 3: Giant lies.
    • whoppers.
    • 4: A tract of land covered in scrubby evergreen plants.
    • a heath bar.
    • 5: Ninepins.
    • skittles.

      • Round 3. Category: "B" Plus

      • 1: The alpha factor measures a stock's own volatility; this Greek letter compares it to the entire market.
      • beta.
      • 2: In this sport, the ball has 3 holes in which you put your fingers.
      • bowling.
      • 3: It speaks to Moses in Exodus 3.
      • the burning bush.
      • 4: Beginning in the 1970s, more than 1 million of these Indochinese refugees fled the Communist regmes where they lived.
      • boat people.
      • 5: This national variety of python can grow to 30 feet long.
      • the Burmese python.

        • Round 4. Category: Pox, Plague And Pestilence

        • 1: This man who found Livingstone also helped spread Congolese sleeping sickness while establishing trading stations.
        • Stanley.
        • 2: The first recorded epidemic of this salivary gland-swelling disease was described around 410 B.C. in Greece.
        • mumps.
        • 3: Causing thousands of deaths, abnormally high temperatures in 1803 led to Spanish outbreaks of this colorful fever.
        • yellow fever.
        • 4: Deadly outbreaks of cholera and typhus struck British, French and Russian soldiers equally in this 1853-56 war.
        • the Crimean War.
        • 5: A devastating 17th c. plague epidemic on this island 58 miles south of Sicily killed 1 in 7 people.
        • Malta.

          • Round 5. Category: Sports Superstitions

          • 1: For boxers, it's unlucky to be the first to enter this area.
          • The ring.
          • 2: It's bad luck in this sport for a dog to cross the diamond before the first pitch.
          • Baseball.
          • 3: Avoid faults by never holding more than 2 balls when serving in this sport.
          • Tennis.
          • 4: Hey hockey puck! Don't stack this piece of equipment crossing another player's; it's bad luck.
          • Hockey.
          • 5: Gone fishing? Don't reveal this until you are done for the day.
          • Your catch/number of fish you caught.

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

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