Instant Trivia

Episode 817 - ranks and measures - variety pack - legends - perils - well, duh!

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 817, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: ranks and measures

  • 1: In the U.S. this document is the highest law in the land.
  • the Constitution.
  • 2: Amplified rock music and a very close thunderclap hit 120 on this noise scale.
  • decibel scale.
  • 3: A low grade of copier paper, it's also the weight for a standard bowling ball.
  • 16 pounds.
  • 4: What the British call a billion, a 1 followed by 12 zeros, we call this.
  • trillion.
  • 5: In the old Hindu caste system the twice-born castes were the Vaisyas, the Kshatriyas and this, which included priests.
  • Brahmins.

    • Round 2. Category: variety pack

    • 1: In 1956 this Brynner played King Mongkut on screen.
    • Yul Brynner.
    • 2: This log traditionally goes into the fireplace at Christmas.
    • yule log.
    • 3: In the '70s this Gibbons became the spokesman for the health benefits of Grape-Nuts cereals.
    • Euell Gibbons.
    • 4: It's the first word in the title of the original name of the show on which Phil Silvers played Sgt. Bilko.
    • You'll (Never Get Rich).
    • 5: Off Detroit, you'll find Belle this.
    • Isle.

      • Round 3. Category: legends

      • 1: The man whom Miles Standish asked to have a chat with Priscilla.
      • John Alden.
      • 2: This legendary outlaw was said to be an early name Robert Fitz-ooth, born in Nottinghamshire.
      • Robin Hood.
      • 3: Scottish water spirits called Kelpies take the shape of these animals and drown their riders.
      • horses.
      • 4: Calamity Jane boasted that she rode for this short-lived delivery service.
      • Pony Express.
      • 5: Container Mary Hays used to bring water to the troops at the Battle of Monmouth.
      • pitcher (hence the name "Molly Pitcher").

        • Round 4. Category: perils

        • 1: Jean Lussier and William Fitzgerald are among those who've gone over this landmark in a barrel and survived.
        • Niagara Falls.
        • 2: On April 13, 1970, this space mission turned perilous as Haise, Lovell and Swigert had to abandon the main ship.
        • Apollo 13.
        • 3: In the highest helicopter rescue ever, American Seaborne Weathers was plucked from this mountain in 1996.
        • Everest.
        • 4: In 1974 his chute released early, causing him to plunge into a river canyon, not rocket across it.
        • Evel Knievel.
        • 5: Aleksandr Pushkin, Stephen Decatur and Button Gwinnett all died from wounds received in one of these.
        • duel.

          • Round 5. Category: well, duh!

          • 1: The English word for this animal comes from the Greek "kamelos".
          • camel.
          • 2: Joan Embery reports that all birds have these, "A characteristic shared by no other type of animal".
          • Feathers.
          • 3: Waswahili are people who speak this language as their sole mother tongue.
          • Swahili.
          • 4: This brand of oats uses a man in Quaker garb in its logo.
          • Quaker Oats.
          • 5: The name of this fruit comes from its clusters' resemblance to a bunch of grapes.
          • grapefruit.

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

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