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Episode 773 - parents are people too - studying abroad - sam i am - communism - winters

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 773, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: parents are people too

  • 1: Also a home for hummingbirds, it becomes "empty" when the last child leaves home.
  • Nest.
  • 2: It's what a lonely dad may want to be to you, or the name of the one on the left(President Clinton's dog).
  • Buddy.
  • 3: At least this restriction dad put on you isn't a dusk-to-dawn one, as in Warri, Nigeria.
  • Curfew.
  • 4: If you get one of these in your nose or navel, parents may let out the same kind of "shriek".
  • Piercing.
  • 5: This term for a right that divorcing parents may fight over comes from Latin for "guardian".
  • Custody.

    • Round 2. Category: studying abroad

    • 1: Congratulations! You're a Rhodes Scholar! Now pack your bags because you'll be studying at this university.
    • Oxford.
    • 2: Soak up the Bohemian culture in Prague when you study at Charles University in this country.
    • the Czech Republic.
    • 3: LSE doesn't mean "Let's See Europe"; it's this city's school of economics & political science.
    • London.
    • 4: Your time in Greece would of course include a visit to this ancient temple.
    • the Parthenon.
    • 5: Students can work with leading physicists at this center near Geneva that studies subatomic particles.
    • CERN.

      • Round 3. Category: sam i am

      • 1: A cousin of this telegraph & code inventor set up the famous Pebble Beach golf course.
      • Samuel Morse.
      • 2: Samuel Chase, Samuel Nelson, Samuel Miller & Samuel Blatchford all served on this august body.
      • the Supreme Court.
      • 3: This man who had just a cameo in 1990’s “The Return of Superfly” became “Shaft” in 2000.
      • Samuel L. Jackson.
      • 4: During this 1846-48 war, the U.S. Army bought 1,000 of Samuel Colt’s revolvers.
      • Mexican War.
      • 5: In 1865 this man set John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg.
      • Samuel Mudd.

        • Round 4. Category: communism

        • 1: The policies of a group of Communists, or the phone connection of a group of households.
        • party line.
        • 2: "The Communist Manifesto" declares that the history of all society is the history of these struggles.
        • class struggles.
        • 3: 2-word name for the Communist army that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s.
        • Khmer Rouge.
        • 4: Elected with both Communist & Socialist support, he was Chile's president from 1970-1973.
        • Salvador Allende.
        • 5: Shortened from 2 Russian words, it was the supreme policy-making body in the USSR.
        • Politburo.

          • Round 5. Category: winters

          • 1: The aptly named Jonathan Winters narrated the cartoon special this snowman "Returns".
          • Frosty.
          • 2: In a 1985 TV version of this classic tale, Jonathan played Humpty Dumpty.
          • Alice in Wonderland.
          • 3: In 1999 the Kennedy Center awarded Jonathan Winters the prize named after this humorist.
          • Mark Twain.
          • 4: Last name of Winters' character known as Maude or Maudie.
          • Frickert.
          • 5: This comic who claims Winters as his mentor had Jonathan play his son on TV in 1981.
          • Robin Williams.

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