Instant Trivia

Episode 722 - Communications - How Poetic - Our Avian Friends - Superstitions - American Rivers

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 722, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Communications

  • 1: KLAX, the top-rated radio station in Los Angeles for the 4th quarter of 1993, broadcasts in this language.
  • Spanish.
  • 2: The Sunset Strip Awards go to these big signs found all along the strip.
  • billboards.
  • 3: This former Tennessee senator is the administration's main promoter of the "Information Superhighway".
  • (Albert) Gore (Jr.).
  • 4: After an earlier one was severed by a fisherman, a cable to transmit these was laid under the English Channel in 1851.
  • telegrams.
  • 5: The C band for communication via these uplinks to them at 6 gigahertz and downlinks from them at 4.
  • satellites.

    • Round 2. Category: How Poetic

    • 1: The poet who penned the line, "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars".
    • Walt Whitman.
    • 2: Wordsworth wrote, "My" this "leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky".
    • Heart.
    • 3: "Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair!" wrote this poet in his "Ode on a Grecian Urn".
    • John Keats.
    • 4: American poet who wrote the following:("The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.").
    • Carl Sandburg.
    • 5: Her Poem No. 1333 tells us: "A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for the king".
    • Emily Dickinson.

      • 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: Superstitions

        • 1: From the theory that "like produces like", it was thought you could get these by touching a toad.
        • warts.
        • 2: In pagan Ireland this plant was a symbol of the 3 aspects of this goddess.
        • the shamrock.
        • 3: Buy a car on this unlucky day and it'll spend most of its time with the mechanic.
        • Friday the 13th.
        • 4: The Carpenters sang about one of these "for luck and we're on our way".
        • a kiss.
        • 5: When birthday cake is served, it's what the birthday girl can do to make her wish come true.
        • blow out the candles.

          • Round 5. Category: American Rivers

          • 1: The entire northern boundary of this southern state is formed by the Ohio River.
          • Kentucky.
          • 2: It's California's "capital" waterway.
          • Sacramento River.
          • 3: Lake Powell was created by damming the waters of this river.
          • Colorado.
          • 4: Hells Canyon, deepest canyon in U.S. has been carved by the Snake River in this state.
          • Idaho.
          • 5: The research corridor along the upper Rio Grande gives this state one of our country's highest % of Ph.D.s.
          • New Mexico.

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

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