Instant Trivia

Episode 800 - the u.n. - cleveland - the four seasons - veterinary medicine - let them eat cake

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 800, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the u.n.

  • 1: In May 1994 the Security Council ended the arms embargo against this country due to the end of apartheid.
  • South Africa.
  • 2: In 1971 the General Assembly voted to oust this nation; the Beijing government replaced it.
  • Taiwan.
  • 3: One of the very 1st acts of the U.N. was establishing a commission to control this energy.
  • nuclear (atomic).
  • 4: To date he's the only Asian to have served as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
  • U Thant.
  • 5: U.S. president who was present at the signing of the U.N. Charter.
  • Harry Truman.

    • Round 2. Category: cleveland

    • 1: Cleveland is situated where the Cuyahoga River meets this Great Lake.
    • Erie.
    • 2: Abbreviated WCTU, this group that promoted abstinence from alcohol was founded in Cleveland in 1874.
    • Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
    • 3: The opening of this international waterway in 1959 allowed oceangoing ships to reach Cleveland.
    • St. Lawrence Seaway.
    • 4: The world's largest collection of manuscripts of this celibate religious sect is in Cleveland.
    • Shakers.
    • 5: In 1967 he became mayor, the first African American to hold that office in a major U.S. city.
    • Carl Stokes.

      • Round 3. Category: the four seasons

      • 1: The fall guy in the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert Fall, was born November 26, 1861 in this season.
      • the fall.
      • 2: According to "You've Got A Friend", it's when you can call your "friend" James Taylor.
      • winter, spring, summer, or fall.
      • 3: According to the old song, it's when "she's your tootsey wootsey".
      • the good old summertime.
      • 4: The University of Cambridge's Michaelmas term takes place in this season.
      • the fall.
      • 5: In this 1973 film Joanne Woodward obsesses on her childhood.
      • Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams.

        • Round 4. Category: veterinary medicine

        • 1: Most wounds to captive snakes are caused by these feed animals attacking the snake first.
        • mice or rats.
        • 2: Large dogs are especially vulnerable to dysplasia, dislocation of this.
        • the hips.
        • 3: Psittacosis, better known as fever of this bird, has been all but eliminated from caged birds.
        • parrots.
        • 4: Zoonosis is the term for a disease transmitted from these to these.
        • animals to people.
        • 5: Many early veterinarians were "farriers", those who dealt with this aspect of horse care.
        • the men who shoed horses.

          • Round 5. Category: let them eat cake

          • 1: For Christmas, you can make this 2-word chocolate roll cake while watching the same-named item burn on TV.
          • a yule log.
          • 2: Despite its name this state dessert of Massachusetts is really a custard-filled cake.
          • Boston cream pie.
          • 3: Pineapple is the main attraction in this kind of cake, inverted before serving so the glazed fruit goes from bottom to top.
          • a pineapple upside-down cake.
          • 4: Ricotta can be used to make this type of cake, part of a "factory" restaurant chain's name.
          • cheesecake.
          • 5: This 3-layered "feminine" white cake filled with fruit and nuts was created in South Carolina, not Maryland.
          • Lady Baltimore cake.

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

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