Instant Trivia

Episode 82 - Party Time! - You Get A "D" - Themes Like Old Times - Criminal's Dictionary - Mariners

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 82, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Party Time!

  • 1: A noisy mock serenade given for newlyweds, its name is an alteration of the French word charivari.
  • Shivaree.
  • 2: On a party invitation, the letters RSVP stand for the French phrase "Repondez" this.
  • S'il vous plait.
  • 3: Sir John Soane had a 3-day party after buying Seti I's sarcophagus for his home in this British capital.
  • London.
  • 4: A synonym for slumber party, it's also the title of a 1964 Annette Funicello film.
  • Pajama Party.
  • 5: Heloise suggests putting fortunes inside these inflatable items instead of in cookies; then let guests pop them.
  • Balloons.

    • Round 2. Category: You Get A "D"

    • 1: In Greek mythology, the mother of Persephone.
    • Demeter.
    • 2: 6-letter word meaning to expose as being false or ridiculous, like certain wacky theories.
    • debunk.
    • 3: A succession of monarchs from the same family.
    • dynasty.
    • 4: If you think someone's wrong, you may "beg to" do this.
    • differ.
    • 5: In the comics, she's Dagwood and Blondie's dog.
    • Daisy.

      • Round 3. Category: Themes Like Old Times

      • 1: "Please, won't you be my neighbor?".
      • Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.
      • 2: "And then one day he was shootin' at some food and up through the round come a bubblin' crude".
      • The Beverly Hillbillies.
      • 3: "And you knew who you were then, girls were girls and men were men".
      • All in the Family.
      • 4: "Thank you for being a friend".
      • The Golden Girls.
      • 5: "Here we come, walking down the street".
      • The Monkees.

        • Round 4. Category: Criminal's Dictionary

        • 1: It's the 2-word slang term for the photograph taken of a suspect in custody.
        • Mug shot.
        • 2: From Latin for "elsewhere", it's the claim to have been somewhere else when a crime was committed.
        • Alibi.
        • 3: This term for a gangster's girlfriend sounds like where she might spend all his money.
        • Moll.
        • 4: A person confessing info to police is known as one of these yellow songbirds.
        • Canary.
        • 5: It's not a novel builder, it's a person accepting bets.
        • Bookmaker/bookie.

          • Round 5. Category: Mariners

          • 1: 8 years after his circumnavigation of the globe, 1577 to 1580, he helped England defeat the Spanish Armada.
          • Sir Francis Drake.
          • 2: The largest island on North America's Pacific coast was named for this British naval officer.
          • George Vancouver (Vancouver Island).
          • 3: Knowledge of this colonizer of Greenland comes from 2 accounts: "Eric's Saga" and "The Greenlanders' Saga".
          • Eric the Red.
          • 4: William Bligh was the master of the Resolution during this captain's third Pacific expedition.
          • Captain James Cook.
          • 5: In July 1741 this Dane sighted the North American continent near Mount St. Elias, Alaska.
          • Vitus Bering.

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

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