Instant Trivia

Episode 710 - Gravesites - Warren G. Harding - Our Avian Friends - The Dreaded Oprah Category - "My" Songs

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 710, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Gravesites

  • 1: This "Believe It or Not" creator is buried in an Odd Fellows cemetery in Santa Rosa, Calif..
  • (Robert) Ripley.
  • 2: It's true; Sojourner Truth is buried in this Michigan cereal city.
  • Battle Creek.
  • 3: The grave of the creator of Poor RIchard's Almanack is at this city's Christ Church.
  • Philadelphia.
  • 4: This American Indian woman's gravesite is in Gravesend, England; she died there in 1617.
  • Pocohontas.
  • 5: This 1930s criminal pair is buried in Dallas, but he's in one cemetery, she's in another.
  • Bonnie and Clyde.

    • Round 2. Category: Warren G. Harding

    • 1: Some claim that Harding coined this alliterative phrase for the leaders of the American Revolution.
    • Founding Fathers.
    • 2: Harding's veep, he succeeded Harding as president.
    • Calvin Coolidge.
    • 3: In 1903 Warren was elected lieutenant governor of this state; later he was one of its U.S. senators.
    • Ohio.
    • 4: It's what Warren Harding's middle initial G. stood for.
    • Gamaliel.
    • 5: Albert Fall, Harding's secretary of this cabinet dept., took the fall for the Teapot Dome scandal.
    • Interior.

      • Round 3. Category: Our Avian Friends

      • 1: Only the extinct 10-foot-tall moas of New Zealand were taller than this 8-foot African bird.
      • Ostrich.
      • 2: The deepest diver among birds is the emperor species of this bird which may reach depths of 900 feet.
      • Penguin.
      • 3: This tiny bird drinks nectar at the rate of about 13 licks per second.
      • Hummingbird.
      • 4: The sapsucker, a group of birds in this family, drills holes in trees to stimulate the flow of sap.
      • Woodpeckers.
      • 5: The name of this black bird of Asia, a superb mimic of human speech, is from the Sanskrit for "passion".
      • Mynah bird.

        • Round 4. Category: The Dreaded Oprah Category

        • 1: Saleswoman Oprah has tote bags specially for the items you saw on this popular segment of her show.
        • Oprah's Book Club.
        • 2: Healthy Oprah lost 33 lbs. in one of these military-sounding programs with Sgt.--er, trainer Bob Greene.
        • a boot camp.
        • 3: Career woman Oprah has said marriage wouldn't work with this beau she calls "a traditional black man".
        • Stedman Graham.
        • 4: Educator Oprah taught a graduate course on leadership at this university based in Evanston.
        • Northwestern University.
        • 5: Mogul Oprah co-founded this media company, a breath of fresh air with its women's cable network.
        • Oxygen.

          • Round 5. Category: "My" Songs

          • 1: This theme from "Titanic" anchored itself to the top of the adult contemporary chart for 10 weeks.
          • "My Heart Will Go On".
          • 2: According to songwriters Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen, it's what Chicago is.
          • "My Kind Of Town".
          • 3: (Weird Al delivers the clue.) This parody of a Knack song, which I recorded in a bathroom, was introduced on the Dr. Demento Radio Show.
          • "My Bologna".
          • 4: Mary Martin became closely identified with this tune after singing it in Cole Porter's "Leave it to Me".
          • "My Heart Belongs To Daddy".
          • 5: 1991 hit that contains the lines, "I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing...".
          • "Losing My Religion".

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

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