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Episode 644 - Fabrics And Textiles - Mountains - October Fest - I Did It! - The Computer Age

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 644, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fabrics And Textiles

  • 1: Gauze is named for this Palestinian city where it's thought to have originated.
  • Gaza.
  • 2: In 552 Emperor Justinian sent 2 monks to China to discover the secret of this fabric.
  • Silk.
  • 3: The chief hair fiber used in textiles today comes from this kind of animal.
  • Sheep.
  • 4: A true Donegal type of this fabric will have flecks of many colors in the weave.
  • Tweed.
  • 5: Count Hilaire de Chardonnet is considered the father of this regenerated cellulose fiber.
  • Rayon.

    • Round 2. Category: Mountains

    • 1: Air Force photos from 1949 show what some believe are the ruins of Noah's Ark on this Turkish mountain.
    • Mount Ararat.
    • 2: Though only 3 degrees south of the equator, this African mt.'s Kibu Peak is permanently covered in snow.
    • Mount Kilamanjaro.
    • 3: This Sicilian volcano has over 200 subsidiary cones.
    • Etna.
    • 4: This country's highest peak, Mount Elbrus, lies in the Caucasus Mountains on the Georgian border.
    • Russia.
    • 5: An Austrian and Italian portion of this system is called the Tyrol.
    • the Alps.

      • Round 3. Category: October Fest

      • 1: This U.S. university was founded October 28, 1636.
      • Harvard.
      • 2: In late October 1922, he became premier of Italy.
      • Benito Mussolini.
      • 3: Martin Sheen played Bobby Kennedy in this 1974 TV movie about a crisis in Cuba.
      • The Missiles of October.
      • 4: This Middle Eastern president was assassinated while reviewing a military parade October 6, 1981.
      • Anwar Sadat.
      • 5: On October 21, 1520 this sailor entered the Chilean strait that today bears his name.
      • Ferdinand Magellan.

        • Round 4. Category: I Did It!

        • 1: Florence Chadwick was the first woman to swim this in both directions; Gertrude Ederle swam it one way.
        • the English Channel.
        • 2: 13-year-old Rebecca Sealfon won it in 1997 by knowing euonym,E-U-O-N-Y-M.
        • the National Spelling Bee.
        • 3: Check it out! In 1972 he became the first American chess player to win the world championship.
        • Bobby Fischer.
        • 4: In 1957 this future astronaut set a speed record flying from L.A. to NYC in 3 hrs., 23 min., 8.4 sec..
        • John Glenn.
        • 5: In 1884, the year of his death, he published the memoir "30 Years a Detective".
        • (Allan) Pinkerton.

          • Round 5. Category: The Computer Age

          • 1: According to Moore's Law, named for a founder of Intel, these double in power roughly every 18 months.
          • computer chips.
          • 2: Dan Bricklin developed VISICALC, the first of these programs, similar to an accounting ledger.
          • spreadsheet.
          • 3: Coherent and Xenix are 2 of these, part of the abbreviation in the better-known MS-DOS.
          • operating systems.
          • 4: This programming language was named for calculating-machine inventor Blaise.
          • PASCAL.
          • 5: Among Internet users, the World Wide Web has surpassed the system named for this burrowing rodent.
          • gopher.

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