Instant Trivia

Episode 602 - "California" Songs - "Little" - Battles - Movie Crossword Clues "G" - Native Americana

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 602, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "California" Songs

  • 1: "Though East Coast girls are hip," the Beach Boys wished "'they all could be" these.
  • "California Girls".
  • 2: The Eagles' top-selling single that begins "on a dark desert highway".
  • "Hotel California".
  • 3: "All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray," it is 1966, and the Mamas and the Papas are doing this.
  • "California Dreamin'".
  • 4: Albert Hammond's sadly inaccurate weather presumption: 'cause "it pours, man. It pours".
  • "It Never Rains In Southern California".
  • 5: In this 1924 song, Al Jolson, born in Russia, claimed the West Coast was "right back where I started from".
  • "California, Here I Come".

    • Round 2. Category: "Little"

    • 1: We're never told what this "good boy" did with his thumb or the plum once he pulled them from the pie.
    • Little Jack Horner.
    • 2: Ursa Minor.
    • little bear.
    • 3: If your wife is a member of N.O.W., you'd probably never introduce her as this.
    • the little woman.
    • 4: Now a Los Angeles newscaster, she was Miss America in 1976.
    • Tawny Little.
    • 5: A young quahog suitable for eating raw.
    • littleneck clam.

      • Round 3. Category: Battles

      • 1: The American Revolution began in April 1775 with the battles of these 2 Massachusetts towns.
      • Lexington and Concord.
      • 2: This battle fought in Maryland in 1862 was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.
      • Antietam.
      • 3: England's King Harold II lost the all-important Battle of Hastings in this year.
      • 1066.
      • 4: The Battles of Missolonghi and Navarino helped win this country its independence from Turkey.
      • Greece.
      • 5: "2 ships, 2 brigs, 1 schooner and 1 sloop" were the fleet defeated in this battle in the War of 1812.
      • the Battle of Lake Erie.

        • Round 4. Category: Movie Crossword Clues "G"

        • 1: Steve and Ali made one, before Kim and Alec(7).
        • Getaway.
        • 2: They "Prefer Blondes"(9).
        • Gentlemen.
        • 3: It precedes "Canyon", "Hotel" and "Theft Auto"(5).
        • Grand.
        • 4: "Luminous" Boyer and Bergman classic(8).
        • Gaslight.
        • 5: Oddjob's master (10).
        • Goldfinger.

          • Round 5. Category: Native Americana

          • 1: The well-meant Dawes Act of 1887 divided these Indian areas into individual parcels of land.
          • Reservations.
          • 2: Mahicans lived along the Hudson; Mohegans lived in Connecticut; Mohicans were created by this author.
          • James Fenimore Cooper.
          • 3: The name of this soft leather Native American shoe comes from an Algonquin word.
          • a moccasin.
          • 4: This English word comes from a Delaware name for a turtle.
          • Terrapin.
          • 5: The Crow are known for their ceremonial costumes with unique beadwork and dyed quills from these.
          • porcupines.

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

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