Instant Trivia

Episode 78 - Good For A Day Off - Colonial Colleges - Sheer Genius! - Wheat - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 78, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Good For A Day Off

  • 1: On the Friday before this holiday, soldiers in the 3rd U.S. Infantry place flags on graves at Arlington.
  • Memorial Day.
  • 2: It's happy 27th of February as the Dominican Republic marks its independence from this neighbor.
  • Haiti.
  • 3: You don't need to have an epiphany to know the Feast of the Epiphany falls in this month.
  • January.
  • 4: It began in America in 1621 as an adaptation of the British Lammas, or "Loaf Mass" Day.
  • Thanksgiving.
  • 5: Pilgrimage participants plan to arrive in this city before the sixth day of Dhul-Hijjah.
  • Mecca.

    • Round 2. Category: Colonial Colleges

    • 1: You can get your sheepskin at this Cambridge university whose "yahd" once held grazing sheep.
    • Harvard.
    • 2: The College of New Jersey was 150 years old in 1896 when it got this new name for the city it was in.
    • Princeton.
    • 3: Founded in 1693, its name used to end with "in Virginia".
    • the College of William and Mary.
    • 4: For a while, Fred Rogers' neighborhood was this New Hampshire college, his alma mater.
    • Dartmouth.
    • 5: This Providence university that dates back to 1764 is home to a NASA research center.
    • Brown.

      • Round 3. Category: Sheer Genius!

      • 1: The difference engine, a computing device he designed in the 1820s, was built in 1991 from his plans and it worked!.
      • (Charles) Babbage.
      • 2: Named for its American inventor, this electrostatic generator is used to accelerate particles.
      • a Van de Graaff generator.
      • 3: Among his 355 patents is an 1887 one for ballistite, or smokeless powder.
      • (Alfred) Nobel.
      • 4: In 1884 Ottmar Mergenthaler invented this machine that eliminated setting type by hand.
      • the linotype machine.
      • 5: In 1837 Brits Cooke and Wheatstone designed an electric one; later that year, an American painter perfected it.
      • the telegraph.

        • Round 4. Category: Wheat

        • 1: Pasta is made from this coarsely-ground grain of durum wheat.
        • Semolina.
        • 2: Glutamic acid from wheat is used to produce this flavor enhancer.
        • MSG (Monosodium Glutamate).
        • 3: Nabisco makes these crispy crackers; red oval farms makes them "stoned".
        • Wheat Thins.
        • 4: Dunkelweizen and Kristall Weizen are refreshing wheat types of these.
        • beer.
        • 5: This embryo of the wheat seed is a rich source of vitamin E.
        • Germ.

          • Round 5. Category: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

          • 1: Fort Dix is in this state's 4th District, repped by Chris Smith, who was elected to Congress at age 27.
          • New Jersey.
          • 2: In 1996 Gordon Smith lost to Ron Wyden to replace Bob Packwood as a Sen. from this state; now they serve together.
          • Oregon.
          • 3: Parts of Comal, Hays and Travis Counties make up the 21st District of this state's Rep. Lamar Smith.
          • Texas.
          • 4: Washington's 9th District is represented by this man, who has the same name as a certain economist.
          • Adam Smith.
          • 5: William French Smith, who held this post, 1981-1985, had a key role in putting the 1st woman on the Supreme Court.
          • Attorney General.

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