Instant Trivia

Episode 780 - serving suggestions - secret service code names - 4-letter birds - let's take a little trip - lights

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 780, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: serving suggestions

  • 1: Baked oysters are sometimes served on a bed of the "rock" type of this seasoning.
  • salt.
  • 2: Spring-operated tongs are often used to hold the shells of these garden gastropods.
  • snails.
  • 3: Cocktail sausages wrapped in dough and baked are called "pigs in" these.
  • blankets.
  • 4: Chimichangas are often topped with this avocado mixture.
  • guacamole.
  • 5: Some people serve the Liptauer type of this with beer, other prefer it with white wine.
  • cheese.

    • Round 2. Category: secret service code names

    • 1: A rock and roll president:Eagle (not Elvis, as rumored).
    • Bill Clinton.
    • 2: Fittingly, Fraction is the Secret Service code name for this cabinet post.
    • Secretary of Education.
    • 3: A Baptist president:Deacon.
    • Carter.
    • 4: Eisenhower was Providence; oddly, this president was General.
    • President Harry Truman.
    • 5: A religious visitor:Halo.
    • Pope John Paul II.

      • Round 3. Category: 4-letter birds

      • 1: An elated person is sometimes said to be "as happy as" this songbird.
      • lark.
      • 2: This bird isn't biologically distinct from the pigeon, it's just smaller.
      • dove.
      • 3: The rook is the most common member of this bird family found in Europe.
      • crow.
      • 4: Ancient Egyptians believed this bird to be a representative of the god Thoth.
      • ibis.
      • 5: Species of this bird include the Caspian, South and Arctic.
      • tern.

        • Round 4. Category: let's take a little trip

        • 1: In 1995 one of these craft that began passenger service in 1976 flew around the world in less than 32 hours.
        • Concorde.
        • 2: In May 1932 she made a little flight from Newfoundland across the north Atlantic.
        • Amelia Earhart.
        • 3: On May 9, 1926 Byrd and Bennett left Norway with a plan to fly over this and they claimed they did.
        • North Pole.
        • 4: In 1889 she left New York and went around the world in less than 80 days.
        • Nellie Bly.
        • 5: In 1938 this rich aviator took 4 assistants on a little round-the-world flight.
        • Howard Hughes.

          • Round 5. Category: lights

          • 1: The hollowed, carved fruit of the "Cucurbita pepo" plant with a light inside.
          • jack-o'-lantern.
          • 2: It's a very slender candle or the wax-coated wick used to light it.
          • a taper.
          • 3: Color of the bulb in all theatrical spotlights.
          • white.
          • 4: Fairy tale that includes the line "Who will change old lamps for new?".
          • "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp".
          • 5: Originally an explosion of gunpowder in a flintlock rifle that failed to set off the charge.
          • a flash in the pan.

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

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