Instant Trivia

Episode 685 - Random Facts - Chicken Dishes - Classical Music Adjectives - On Facebook And Twitter - It's A Big World

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 685, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Random Facts

  • 1: (Hi, I'm Penn Jillette.) When a magician dies, a wand is sometimes broken at his funeral to symbolize his loss of magical power; the first broken wand ceremony was performed by the Society of American Magicians in 1926 at the memorial service for this famous escapologist.
  • (Harry) Houdini.
  • 2: Like tobacco, eggplants and potatoes belong to the nightshade family and contain small amounts of this addictive drug.
  • nicotine.
  • 3: Of the traditional birthstones, this June one is the only organic one.
  • a pearl.
  • 4: The only Nobel Prize whose name includes 2 fields is named this or Medicine.
  • Physiology.
  • 5: The name of Libreville, capital of Gabon, means the same in French as this Sierra Leone capital does in English.
  • Freetown.

    • Round 2. Category: Chicken Dishes

    • 1: The Anchor Bar in New York State says it created this appetizer, deep-fried chicken wings in a spicy sauce.
    • Buffalo wings.
    • 2: Named for the oven it's baked in, this dish gets its unique coloring from a special paste that's applied before cooking.
    • tandoori.
    • 3: The exciting part of chicken Kiev: a jet of this is supposed to spurt out when you cut into the dish.
    • butter.
    • 4: Tomatoes, onions and mushrooms go into this chicken dish whose name means "hunter's style" in Italian.
    • cacciatore.
    • 5: Doro wat, a spicy chicken stew, is considered a national dish of this African country.
    • Ethiopia.

      • Round 3. Category: Classical Music Adjectives

      • 1: An 1804 symphony is "heroic" or this in Italian.
      • Eroica.
      • 2: There's this much "Night Music" in a 1787 work.
      • a little.
      • 3: Schubert's 8th Sympho.
      • Unfinished Symphony.
      • 4: Aaron Copland wrote a "Fanfare for" this "Man".
      • the Common Man.
      • 5: Handel wrote "Music for" these "Fireworks".
      • Royal.

        • Round 4. Category: On Facebook And Twitter

        • 1: In 2012 she surpassed Eminem, her "Love The Way You Lie" duet partner, as the celeb with the most likes on Facebook.
        • Rihanna.
        • 2: On Facebook, Cristiano Ronaldo, a star in this sport, likes Real Madrid (his team) and Pepe (his teammate).
        • soccer.
        • 3: She tweeted, "Can't sleep again tonight! Maybe it's because my baby" Kanye West "isn't here to cuddle".
        • Kim Kardashian.
        • 4: George Takei, who played Sulu on this '60s TV show, often posts about marriage equality and his book "Oh Myyy!".
        • Star Trek.
        • 5: In 2012 she posted on Facebook in English and in Spanish that she was becoming a mom and a coach on "The Voice".
        • Shakira.

          • Round 5. Category: It's A Big World

          • 1: The saguaro is an often 5-story-tall type of this plant.
          • a cactus.
          • 2: In 2010 Guinness said a Turkish man sported the longest this body part, 3.46 inches from bridge to tip.
          • the nose.
          • 3: This "tyrant lizard" could take his 5-foot skull and rear up to a height of 18 feet.
          • Tyrannosaurus rex.
          • 4: 23,000 people in its 6.6 million square feet keep Americans safe.
          • the Pentagon.
          • 5: East to west, the greatest distance across this country is 6,000 miles; north to south, 2,800.
          • Russia.

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

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