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Episode 796 - harrys and garys - compound words - mathematics - national symbols - oceania

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 796, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: harrys and garys

  • 1: Getting the role of Colonel Potter on "mash" was a bit of a demotion; he'd previosuly played a general on the show.
  • Harry Morgan.
  • 2: Gary "Big Hands" Johnson played defense for 10 seasons with this NFL team, the southernmost in California.
  • the San Diego Chargers.
  • 3: Bigfoot went domestic in this 1987 comedy with John Lithgow.
  • Harry and the Hendersons.
  • 4: Here's a Harry and a Gary: in 1995 this "Forrest Gump" actor played Harry Truman.
  • Gary Sinise.
  • 5: Harry Shearer has voiced at least 36 different characters, including Jebediah Springfield, on this show.
  • The Simpsons.

    • Round 2. Category: compound words

    • 1: It provides the familiar flavor in a traditional candy cane.
    • peppermint.
    • 2: It's the term for the municipality where you were born and raised.
    • hometown.
    • 3: The monarch and the viceroy are both species of this arthropod.
    • butterfly.
    • 4: The 2012 London Paralympic Games included this type of basketball and fencing.
    • wheelchair.
    • 5: A buildup, as of munitions or weapons, amassed for future use, or to accumulate those weapons for future use.
    • a stockpile.

      • Round 3. Category: mathematics

      • 1: =.
      • =.
      • 2: In trigonometry sine is abbreviated sin and this is abbreviated cos.
      • cosine.
      • 3: This can be the third power of a number or, in geometry, a solid figure with 6 square faces.
      • cube.
      • 4: To divide one fraction by another you do this to the divisor, then multiply.
      • invert it.
      • 5: Number of zeros you need to write three hundred fifty thousand in numerals.
      • 4.

        • Round 4. Category: national symbols

        • 1: Congress "wants you" to know in 1961 it resolved that this symbol's origin was a Mr. Wilson of Troy, N.Y..
        • Uncle Sam.
        • 2: The flag of each of the countries in this group contains the Dannebrog cross.
        • the Scandinavian countries.
        • 3: All day, all night, she's the personification of the French Republic and is now modeled on C. Deneuve.
        • Marianne.
        • 4: In 1712 Scottish scientist John Arbuthnot popularized him to satirize British politics.
        • John Bull.
        • 5: This, not the Star of David, is featured in the center of Israel's coat of arms.
        • the menorah.

          • Round 5. Category: oceania

          • 1: While the U.S. has many territories in Oceania, it has only one state there: this one.
          • Hawaii.
          • 2: When Gauguin arrived on this island in 1891, he was shocked at how modern it was.
          • Tahiti.
          • 3: Adamstown on Pitcairn Island sits on a bay named for this ship.
          • H.M.S. Bounty.
          • 4: In the Solomons, you can tour Olasana Island, where this future U.S. president was rescued in August 1943.
          • JFK.
          • 5: There's a museum on Tahiti devoted to this artist who spent 12 years there.
          • (Paul) Gauguin.

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

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