Instant Trivia

Episode 782 - to serve - gridiron greats - the bad old days - international potpourri - social studies

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 782, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: to serve

  • 1: You can serve your leftovers directly from this brand of tight-sealing food containers introduced in 1945.
  • Tupperware.
  • 2: According to their Buffalo, NY inventors, Buffalo wings should be served with celery and this dressing.
  • Blue cheese.
  • 3: According to Guinness, this sport's fastest serve was 142 MPH, in 1997.
  • Tennis.
  • 4: He served in the Dodger organization for 47 years, retired, and returned as GM in 1998.
  • Tommy Lasorda.
  • 5: The "To Serve Man" episode of this classic TV series involved aliens with a "taste" for humans.
  • "The Twilight Zone".

    • Round 2. Category: gridiron greats

    • 1: AKA "Tom Terrific", he's won 4 Super Bowl MVP awards.
    • Tom Brady.
    • 2: Scandinavians Jan Stenerud and Morten Andersen have excelled in the NFL at this position.
    • placekicker.
    • 3: Alan Page of this team's Purple People Eaters defense is now a state supreme court justice.
    • the Minnesota Vikings.
    • 4: It was the feline nickname of Dallas Cowboy defensive lineman Bob Lilly, who was no Peter Pan.
    • Tiger Lilly.
    • 5: At his Hall of Fame induction in 2017, this Chargers RB known as LT compared America to a football team working together.
    • LaDainian Tomlinson.

      • Round 3. Category: the bad old days

      • 1: It wasn't a college football game, it was the Great Plains area racked by drought in the 1930s.
      • the Dust Bowl.
      • 2: 1950s college basketball was hit by scandal when players were "razor"-sharp at this activity.
      • shaving points.
      • 3: The scandals of his 1920s presidency included skimming by Veterans Bureau head Charles Forbes.
      • Warren G. Harding.
      • 4: The founding of this organization in 1909 was spurred by a Springfield, Ill. race riot the previous year.
      • NAACP.
      • 5: This Japanese term refers to second-generation Japanese-Americans, many of whom were interned during WWII.
      • Nisei.

        • Round 4. Category: international potpourri

        • 1: Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, lies on this "Beautiful Blue" river.
        • Danube.
        • 2: The railroads in Honduras were built mainly to transport this fruit that has a lot of ap"peel".
        • bananas.
        • 3: It's no sham: Aer Lingus is this country's national airline.
        • Ireland.
        • 4: It's the seductive ballroom dance most associated with Buenos Aires.
        • tango.
        • 5: Kiunguja, which is spoken in Zanzibar, is a dialect of this African Bantu language.
        • Swahili.

          • Round 5. Category: social studies

          • 1: It's South America's most populous country.
          • Brazil.
          • 2: This group is composed of those of your same age or social position; in a courtroom, you might face a jury of them.
          • peers.
          • 3: As opposed to latitude, these meridian lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole.
          • Longitude.
          • 4: The "Great Migration" from the south brought 120,000 African Americans to this "Windy City" in the 1920s.
          • Chicago.
          • 5: This social science focuses on the characteristics of human populations such as size, growth and distribution.
          • demography.

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

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