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Episode 776 - "bea"s - congressional districts - mysteries - 1982 - 1902

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 776, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "bea"s

  • 1: Paul's group before Wings.
  • The Beatles.
  • 2: A lighthouse, or a radio transmitter that guides aircraft.
  • Beacon.
  • 3: Interesting things are often found off this "path".
  • The Beaten Path.
  • 4: This ship's 5-year mission: to boldly take Darwin where he hadn't been before.
  • the Beagle.
  • 5: Among the Muppets, he's Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's assistant.
  • Beaker.

    • Round 2. Category: congressional districts

    • 1: Of Colorado's 7 congressional districts, 3 are partly within this metropolis and its suburbs.
    • Denver.
    • 2: Limiting immigration is one of the main causes of Rep. Lamar Smith, from this state's 21st district.
    • Texas.
    • 3: Represented by John Mica, the 7th district in this state is home to St. Augustine, the USA's oldest city.
    • Florida.
    • 4: Charlie Melancon represents Houma, New Iberia and Chalmette for this state's 3rd, y'all.
    • Louisiana.
    • 5: It's the main city in Ohio's 14th district, once a rubber center and now called "Polymer Valley".
    • Akron.

      • Round 3. Category: mysteries

      • 1: As you might expect, this continent is the setting for Elspeth Huxley's "Murder on Safari".
      • Africa.
      • 2: 1st cousins Dannay and Lee wrote the Ellery Queen stories under this pen name.
      • Ellery Queen.
      • 3: This agency's symbol of an unblinking eye gave birth to the phrase "private eye".
      • the Pinkerton agency.
      • 4: No one knows how "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" ends since this author died while writing the book.
      • Charles Dickens.
      • 5: Tony Hillerman writes novels about Jim Chee, a detective on this Indian tribe's police force.
      • the Navajo.

        • Round 4. Category: 1982

        • 1: Yasir Arafat met with this Jordanian king to discuss the possibility of a Palestinian confederation.
        • King Hussein.
        • 2: For this north African country's support of terrorism, the U.S. barred imports of its oil.
        • Libya.
        • 3: Newsweek said this '82 strike forced husbands to talk to their wives for 8 consecutive Sundays.
        • pro football strike.
        • 4: After Alexander Haig resigned, he was named secretary of state.
        • George P. Shultz.
        • 5: On May 1, 1982, President Reagan officially opened the World's Fair in this Southern city.
        • Knoxville, Tennessee.

          • Round 5. Category: 1902

          • 1: In 1902 he published his newest Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
          • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
          • 2: He and Matthew Henson made their first serious attempt to reach the North Pole, but it would take 7 more years.
          • Robert Peary.
          • 3: After 3 years of fighting, this South African war came to an end.
          • the Boer War.
          • 4: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet and essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court.
          • Oliver Wendell Holmes.
          • 5: When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school.
          • Oxford University.

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