Instant Trivia

Episode 68 - Geek Tragedy - Teachers - The World In 1901 - That's So Random! - Getting Biblical

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 68, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Geek Tragedy

  • 1: Your hacker friends sneer at you, calling you by this rhyming word that sounds like something to eat.
  • cracker.
  • 2: Nodding off at 9 P.M., you missed the 10:00 CNN interview with this Microsoft chairman.
  • Bill Gates.
  • 3: The rain leaked in and damaged your complete video collection of this sci-fi show that aired from Sept. 1966 to Sept. 1969.
  • Star Trek.
  • 4: You're called the office "Beta Geek" instead of this higher position indicating the most tech-smart person there.
  • "Alpha Geek".
  • 5: You wanted to eat while in the Xena chat room but your packet of these "Top" noodles from Nissin is gone!.
  • Top Ramen.

    • Round 2. Category: Teachers

    • 1: Mary McLeod Bethune was a friend of this WWII first lady and advised her husband on minority affairs.
    • Eleanor Roosevelt.
    • 2: Micki and David Colfax sent 3 sons to Harvard after teaching them exclusively in this place.
    • At Home.
    • 3: Like Plato, Corla Hawkins started a small, innovative school called this; hers is in Chicago's inner city.
    • The Academy.
    • 4: In Sikhism Nanak was the first teacher called this, now a term for any spiritual guide.
    • Guru.
    • 5: In the 1820s Josiah Holbrook pioneered this, also called continuing education.
    • Adult Education.

      • Round 3. Category: The World In 1901

      • 1: These "wild" South Africans carried on their war with guerrilla actions against the British.
      • Boers.
      • 2: The world's most productive oil field was in the area of this city, now the capital of Azerbaijan.
      • Baku.
      • 3: On Jan. 22, 1901 the Prince of Wales succeeded to the English throne as this king.
      • Edward VII.
      • 4: Emil von Behring won the first Nobel Prize for Medicine with a serum against this "d"isease, a common killer.
      • Diphtheria.
      • 5: In 2000 the state of Alabama voted to end a 1901 ban on this type of marriage.
      • Interracial marriage.

        • Round 4. Category: That's So Random!

        • 1: From the AP: a man from Natchez in this state stole $100 from a teller but left his parole I.D. on the counter.
        • Mississippi.
        • 2: His 1978 run for congress was a bust; his first public service would have to wait until 1994, as Texas' governor.
        • George W. Bush.
        • 3: "Han then, Freddy: look wh' y' gowin', deah" is the flower girl's first line in this Shaw play.
        • Pygmalion.
        • 4: (I'm Ashleigh Banfield.) "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses", said this Algonquin Round Table member.
        • Dorothy Parker.
        • 5: It's prohibited by the 5th Amendment, but you'll be facing it in the next round.
        • double jeopardy.

          • Round 5. Category: Getting Biblical

          • 1: In Matthew 26:72 he denies his friendship with Jesus and claims, "I do not know the man".
          • Peter.
          • 2: The prophet Jeremiah rhetorically queries, can this animal change his spots?.
          • leopard.
          • 3: In Genesis he has an all-night wrestling match and ends up getting blessed.
          • Jacob.
          • 4: Ebenezer is a stone Samuel put between Mizpeh and Shen after the Israelites smote these people.
          • Philistines.
          • 5: In the 1953 film version of this Biblical dancer's life, Rita Hayworth tries to save John the Baptist's life, not take it.
          • Salome.

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

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