Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 696, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln
1: (Alex walks the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) Illustrating the difference in memories, some people said that Booth shouted this Latin phrase right from here, center stage; others said, "No, it was from the box"; Booth himself wrote that he spoke the words before shooting Lincoln; perhaps he said these words more than once.Sic semper tyrannis.2: (Alex walks the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) President Lincoln arrived late at Ford's Theatre; the show was already under way, but when he was spotted walking down the stairs toward the presidential box, everything here stopped; then the orchestra struck up "Hail To The Chief", the audience gave him a thunderous round of applause, the president waved and bowed, and then the performance of this play continued.Our American Cousin.3: (Alex stands on the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) Police work in those days could be a little bit shoddy: hours after the murder, a man named William Kent came back to the presidential box looking for his keys; what he found was the murder weapon, the small .44-caliber single-shot pistol bearing the name of this Philadelphia gunsmith who invented it.Henry Deringer.4: (Alex reports from the Petersen House in Washington, D.C.) While Mrs. Lincoln and her friends sat vigil here in the front parlor, in the back parlor, this energetic Secretary of War took charge of the investigation and worked tirelessly through the night, coordinating the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices.Edwin Stanton.5: (Alex reports from the Petersen House in Washington, D.C.) At 7:22 on the morning of April 15, 1865, President Lincoln died in this small bedroom; a prayer was said, and then, according to tradition, Edwin Stanton uttered these six famous words."Now he belongs to the ages".Round 2. Category: Science Timeline
1: Around 480 B.C.:Anaxagoras explains the cause of these events, one of which darkened Greece in 478 B.C..eclipses.2: 1600:William Gilbert concludes that the Earth is a huge lodestone that acts as a bar one of these.a magnet.3: 1608:Hans Lippershey applies for a patent for this, which he calls a "looker"; Galileo is all eyes.a telescope.4: Around 450 B.C.:Empedocles posits that all matter is made of these 4 classical elements.earth, fire, air and water.5: 1842:This Austrian physicist relates the observed frequency of a wave to the motion of its source.Doppler.Round 3. Category: Metal
1: Psalm 135 describes the idols of the heathen as not of God and merely made from these 2 metals.silver and gold.2: The so-called tinfoil you buy at the supermarket is probably made from this metal.aluminum.3: Legend says that the metal used to make these highest British military awards came from cannons captured in the Crimean War.the Victoria Cross.4: Noted for its natural magnetism, magnetite is an important ore of this metal.iron.5: In 1252 in Kamakura, Japan, all 93 tons of the Daibutsu, or Great Buddha, was cast in this alloy.bronze.Round 4. Category: The Steaks
1: This steak sauce was created in the 1820s by the chef to England's King George IV.A.1..2: Sometimes wrapped in bacon, this choice cut of boneless steak with a French name is from the end of the loin.filet mignon.3: Found in the bottom sirloin and on the Sizzler's menu is this cut whose name comes from its geometry.tri-tip.<
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