Instant Trivia

Episode 578 - Hello, Newton! - Sounds All Around - American Sign Language - Ding Dong - Sinners

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 578, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hello, Newton!

  • 1: Newton designed one of these that used mirrors in addition to lenses.
  • telescope.
  • 2: A student of this university's Trinity College, Newton graduated in 1665 without honors or distinction.
  • Cambridge.
  • 3: A falling apple gave Newton some ideas about what type of force could hold this heavenly body in its path.
  • moon.
  • 4: In the 1690s Newton was the bane of counterfeiters, introducing newly milled edges while working here.
  • mint.
  • 5: This English astronomer paid for the publication of Newton's masterwork, the "Principia".
  • Edmond Halley.

    • Round 2. Category: Sounds All Around

    • 1: It can be a continuous low humming sound or a male bee.
    • drone.
    • 2: If you listen to your heart using a stethoscope, you'll hear the sound of these flaps opening and closing.
    • valves.
    • 3: In part of the Capitol dome, you can clearly hear distant sounds, making it this kind of "gallery".
    • a whispering gallery.
    • 4: The name of this instrument comes from the Italian for "little goose".
    • an ocarina.
    • 5: This rude noise is the last name of Toby, a character in "Twelfth Night".
    • Belch.

      • Round 3. Category: American Sign Language

      • 1: It's the phenomenon being signed here.
      • a rainbow.
      • 2: This bulb is related to the lily.
      • an onion.
      • 3: The Beatles' Rocky knows the sign for this animal.
      • a raccoon.
      • 4: This area of land with a specific use is of grave importance.
      • graveyard (cemetery).
      • 5: Here is the sign for this geometry term.
      • a perpendicular.

        • Round 4. Category: Ding Dong

        • 1: In 1967 this company introduced its chocolate-covered Ding Dong snack cakes.
        • Hostess.
        • 2: Continuing the alliteration, it follows "ding-dong" in a kid's prank that involves ringing a doorbell and running away.
        • dash (ditch).
        • 3: "Ding dong", it's this company "calling"; how about some lipstick or other cosmetic?.
        • Avon.
        • 4: 4-word title of the Barry Mann song that asks, "Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?".
        • "Who Put The Bomp".
        • 5: Judy Garland's "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" surged on U.K. iTunes after this former prime minister passed away.
        • Margaret Thatcher.

          • Round 5. Category: Sinners

          • 1: In 1988 this popular evangelist tearfully admitted on his national TV show that "I have sinned against you".
          • Jimmy Swaggart.
          • 2: Holiday in 1929 on which Chicago gangster Bugs Moran lost several members of his gang.
          • St. Valentine's Day.
          • 3: "I sin every single day", said this 2008 presidential candidate whose indiscretions keep coming to light.
          • (John) Edwards.
          • 4: Despite the nickname, this man said to have coined the term "G-men" reportedly never fired a shot during a crime.
          • "Machine Gun" Kelly.
          • 5: In a 1741 Jonathan Edwards sermon title, sinners were "in the hands of" this.
          • an angry god.

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