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Episode 566 - Also An Auto - Bones - I Dunno - The Sandbox - I Feel Like Such An Idiom

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 566, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Also An Auto

  • 1: This Kate Mulgrew "Star Trek" show would've been very different if the crew traveled around space in the Chrysler van.
  • Star Trek: Voyager.
  • 2: It won't tax you much to take a gamble and name this Riviera city 9 miles from Nice, France.
  • Monte Carlo.
  • 3: One might think that this make of Ford runs best from April 20 to May 20.
  • Taurus.
  • 4: Once living near the Great Lakes but defeated by the Iroquois, this tribe moved to the Southeast (but not in Jeeps).
  • Cherokee.
  • 5: It orbits the sun at a mean distance of about 888 million miles, though we're not sure what kind of MPG it gets.
  • Saturn.

    • Round 2. Category: Bones

    • 1: This framework of bones supporting the lower abdomen includes the Ilium and pubis bones.
    • the pelvis.
    • 2: Also called the kneecap, it's an example of a sesamoid bone because it's encased in tendons.
    • the patella.
    • 3: Ligaments link bone to bone while these link bone to muscle.
    • tendons.
    • 4: Infection-fighting white blood cells called neutrophils are produced in this part of the bone.
    • the marrow.
    • 5: Though its name is shorter, this forearm bone is slightly longer than the radius.
    • the ulna.

      • Round 3. Category: I Dunno

      • 1: Alicia Silverstone's 1995 breakthrough film.
      • "Clueless".
      • 2: "To draw" this is said to have originally referred to a non-winning lottery ticket.
      • A blank.
      • 3: This phrase for a mind with no empirical knowledge is Latin for "scraped tablet".
      • Tabula rasa.
      • 4: Shakespeare wrote, "There is no darkness but" this; having it "of the law is no excuse".
      • Ignorance.
      • 5: In the Iran-Contra affair, George Bush was "out of" this, like a Chicago suburbanite.
      • The Loop.

        • Round 4. Category: The Sandbox

        • 1: This American won 2 Pulitzer Prizes: one for his poetry and one for his 4-volume biography of Lincoln.
        • Carl Sandburg.
        • 2: In folklore, he makes children sleepy.
        • the Sandman.
        • 3: It completes the intro to a popular TV soap opera, "Like sands through the hourglass, so are" these.
        • the Days of our Lives.
        • 4: In 1945 the first atomic bomb explosion occurred at this "colorful" New Mexico missile range.
        • White Sands.
        • 5: Related to the sea urchin, this flat, disklike invertebrate lives in shallow coastal waters.
        • sand dollar.

          • Round 5. Category: I Feel Like Such An Idiom

          • 1: It means to be daring or risky.
          • throw caution to the wind.
          • 2: When you're fully prepared for action, you're like a hunter with a heavy charge of ammo who's "loaded for" this.
          • bear.
          • 3: This idiom, meaning to show extreme modesty, has its origin in the Bible's book of Matthew.
          • hiding your light under a bushel (keeping your light underneath a bushel accepted).
          • 4: To not spend more than absolutely necessary.
          • to pinch pennies.
          • 5: You can do this "through the ranks", "to the bait" or "to the occasion".
          • rise.

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

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