Instant Trivia

Episode 643 - Made In Japan - Watch Out For Alligators! - Can't Smile Without You - Golf Talk - "Baby" Songs

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 643, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Made In Japan

  • 1: This sport whose name means "the way of softness" was added to the Olympics at the 1964 games in Tokyo.
  • judo.
  • 2: A rin is 1/10 of a sen, which is 1/100 of one of these.
  • Yen.
  • 3: On the Shizuoka-Yamanashi border, it's still classified as active, though dormant since 1707.
  • Mount Fuji.
  • 4: In the early 20th century, Arthur Groom introduced this sport to Japan and boy, were they teed off.
  • golf.
  • 5: A tanka is a short one of 31 syllables.
  • a poem.

    • Round 2. Category: Watch Out For Alligators!

    • 1: While an alligator has about 80 of these at any one time, they wear down and are eventually replaced.
    • teeth.
    • 2: On this largest Louisiana city's seal, the alligator represents the city's marshes and swamps.
    • New Orleans.
    • 3: The Alligator River of Australia actually contains these related reptiles, not alligators.
    • crocodiles.
    • 4: This "Alligator State" made the alligator its official state reptile in 1987.
    • Florida.
    • 5: The alligator snapper isn't an alligator but one of these reptiles.
    • turtle.

      • Round 3. Category: Can't Smile Without You

      • 1: An adjunct to a toothbrush, it can be nylon or silk thread, waxed or unwaxed.
      • floss.
      • 2: It's the hard outer layer of a tooth.
      • enamel.
      • 3: Bacteria, saliva and food debris make up this rough, sticky coating on teeth which can harden into tartar.
      • plaque.
      • 4: These teeth usually erupt between the ages of 17 and 25, hence their popular name.
      • wisdom teeth.
      • 5: This branch of dentistry treats the diseases that affect the structures that surround and support the teeth.
      • periodontics.

        • Round 4. Category: Golf Talk

        • 1: This traditional warning that a shot is about to be taken is an Old English word for "in front".
        • "Fore!".
        • 2: An ace is another term for this prodigious feat.
        • a hole-in-one.
        • 3: "Stretcher Bearer" is a slang expression for one of these golf helpers.
        • a caddy.
        • 4: Hey Verne! An around the world is a round of golf played in this many strokes.
        • 80.
        • 5: An undertaker is one who is "lethal" at this part of the game; he can really "bury" the ball.
        • putting.

          • Round 5. Category: "Baby" Songs

          • 1: A former lead singer with the Limelighters, Glenn Yarborough had this solo Top 20 hit:.
          • "Baby, The Rain Must Fall".
          • 2: A 1920s standard proclaims, "You've got the cutest little" one of these.
          • Baby Face.
          • 3: In a 1965 hit by Herman's Hermits, it's the line that follows "Every time I see you lookin' my way".
          • "Ooh, baby, baby can't you hear my heart beat".
          • 4: After Mac Davis wrote a few Top 10 hits for Elvis, he wrote this song for himself that reached No. 1.
          • "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me".
          • 5: It precedes, "I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely St. at Heartbreak Hotel".
          • "Since my baby left me".

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

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