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Episode 648 - Next Stop, Venus - Hitchcock's Cattle - Coffee Break - Up In The Sky! - Puzzles And Games

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 648, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Next Stop, Venus

  • 1: Contributing to its high temperature, Venus' atmosphere is predominantly made up of this gas.
  • carbon dioxide.
  • 2: It's the planet that's closest to Venus.
  • Earth.
  • 3: In 1610 this Italian discovered that Venus has phases like the moon.
  • Galileo.
  • 4: With few exceptions all specified surface features of Venus are appropriately named after these.
  • women.
  • 5: Similar to an eclipse, it's the term for the rare passing in front of the sun that Venus did on June 8, 2004.
  • a transit.

    • Round 2. Category: Hitchcock's Cattle

    • 1: A good guy as Perry Mason, he played the bad guy Jimmy Stewart spied on in "Rear Window".
    • Raymond Burr.
    • 2: In a "monumental" death scene in "North By Northwest", Martin Landau fell off this famous landmark.
    • Mount Rushmore.
    • 3: Before he played Ted Baxter, Ted Knight had a bit role as a cop guarding Norman Bates in this 1960 film.
    • Psycho.
    • 4: Suzanne Pleshette is found pecked to death in this 1963 classic.
    • The Birds.
    • 5: Diane Ladd knows this actor, her ex-husband, appeared as a sailor in "Marnie".
    • Bruce Dern.

      • Round 3. Category: Coffee Break

      • 1: The Swiss water process is a popular way to remove this bitter stimulant from coffee.
      • Caffeine.
      • 2: The Kona district of this U.S. island produces a prized variety of coffee.
      • Hawaii.
      • 3: There are more than 600 coffee farms on the Kona coast of this U.S. island.
      • Hawaii.
      • 4: Sumatra Mandehling, one of the world's finest full-bodied coffees, comes from this country.
      • Indonesia.
      • 5: Type of instant made by turning brewed coffee to ice and drawing off the crystals.
      • freeze-dried.

        • Round 4. Category: Up In The Sky!

        • 1: In a poem by Ann and Jane Taylor, it's "Like a diamond in the sky".
        • "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".
        • 2: Soaring object in the title of the following:.
        • a kite.
        • 3: The name of these electric lines doesn't mean they're tight, but have great voltage.
        • High-tension lines.
        • 4: This troubled space station, built 12 years ago, was only supposed to be in use for 5 years.
        • Mir.
        • 5: Usually reaching its peak on August 12, it's been called the "Old Faithful" of meteor showers.
        • a perseid.

          • Round 5. Category: Puzzles And Games

          • 1: The largest of these was over 50,000 square feet; a much smaller one had the most pieces, 204,484.
          • a jigsaw puzzle (*picture puzzle).
          • 2: An example of one of these is "flit on cheering angel" for Florence Nightingale.
          • an anagram.
          • 3: These are the foundation cards in regular or Klondike solitaire.
          • aces.
          • 4: This game has 108 suit tiles, 28 honor tiles and 8 flower tiles.
          • mahjong.
          • 5: It's Elizabeth Kingsley's puzzle creation in which the letters of defined words form a quote in a grid.
          • a double-crostic.

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

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