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Episode 675 - 2 Kinds Of "Esque" - Dad Tv - Fitness And Exercise - U.s News And World Report Best Of 2014 - Science Update

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 675, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 2 Kinds Of "Esque"

  • 1: A variety of bawdy stage show, or reminding one of Mr. Ives.
  • burlesque.
  • 2: Pertaining to an Italian Renaissance painter, or in a very different mood, to TV's Sally Jessy.
  • Raphaelesque.
  • 3: "Goddess" term meaning stately, or something a lot like that Ellen Page film.
  • Junoesque.
  • 4: Solid term suggesting massive, majestic beauty, or referring to Christ the Redemer.
  • statuesque.
  • 5: It refers specifically to an author who died in 1924, or broadly to senseless, menacing complexity.
  • Kafkaesque.

    • Round 2. Category: Dad Tv

    • 1: Ricky Ricardo.
    • I Love Lucy.
    • 2: Howard Cunningham.
    • Happy Days.
    • 3: Charles Ingalls.
    • Little House on the Prairie.
    • 4: Ponderosa rancher Ben Cartwright.
    • Bonanza.
    • 5: Tim Taylor.
    • Home Improvement.

      • Round 3. Category: Fitness And Exercise

      • 1: Drop and give me 2,220 of these, like world record holder Carlton Williams did in one hour in 2015.
      • push-ups.
      • 2: Keep your knees bent and your lower back on the floor while doing this exercise that isolates your abs, cap'n.
      • a crunch.
      • 3: NFL prospects run this dash, roughly the distance they'd have to run to cover an average punt.
      • 40 yards.
      • 4: This workout regimen that has trademarked "sport of fitness" calls its gyms "boxes".
      • CrossFit.
      • 5: Wood you like to hold this abdominal exercise position for 4 hours and 26 mins. like Mao Weidong did in 2014?.
      • the plank.

        • Round 4. Category: U.s News And World Report Best Of 2014

        • 1: The best "elementary particles/fields/string theory" grad school? This New Jersey Ivy League school.
        • Princeton.
        • 2: For part-time law programs, think D.C.; George Washington U. was No. 2 and this university topped the list.
        • Georgetown.
        • 3: On 2014's hospital "Honor Roll", the Mayo Clinic was No. 3, Mass. General No. 2 and this Baltimore facility the leader.
        • Johns Hopkins.
        • 4: Let's get down to business--for undergrads, this City of Brotherly Love university was tops.
        • the University of Pennsylvania.
        • 5: When it comes to a computer science Ph.D. program, this university in Pittsburgh leads the field.
        • Carnegie Mellon.

          • Round 5. Category: Science Update

          • 1: A single "leap" of this time unit was added to June 30, 2015; we hope you used it well.
          • second.
          • 2: A 2016 report says the world's food supply is in trouble with the decline of bees and others who do this important job.
          • pollinators.
          • 3: Boo! The 2012 Chem. Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of how cells respond to this "emergency hormone" and others.
          • adrenalin.
          • 4: in 2015 a team of Harvard scientists announced a breakthrough using anti-malarial drugs to treat this neuron disease.
          • Parkinson's.
          • 5: In 2015 the earliest known case of this blood cancer was identified in a 7,000-year-old skeleton from Germany.
          • leukemia.

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

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