Instant Trivia

Episode 830 - see-attle - palindroming - life of the party - flex your "ab"s - new to the inventors hall of fame

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 830, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: see-attle

  • 1: Uh-oh! This 14,410-foot mountain that looms over Seattle is actually an active volcano.
  • Mount Rainier.
  • 2: A real high point of Seattle is this 1962 landmark where you can enjoy a meal along with a 360-degree view of the city.
  • the Space Needle.
  • 3: A museum on Main Street is named for this Klondike event that turned 1890s Seattle into a boom town.
  • Gold Rush.
  • 4: Grab some Joe at the original one of these, open since 1971 in the Pike Place market.
  • Starbucks.
  • 5: Appropriately, the building housing the EMP, short for this, looks like a smashed guitar.
  • Experience Music Project.

    • Round 2. Category: palindroming

    • 1: The palindromic ABBA had a 1975 hit with this palindromic song of distress.
    • "SOS".
    • 2: She and her siblings title a Woody Allen movie.
    • Hannah.
    • 3: This tranquilizer and anxiety suppressor is a brand name for Alprazolam.
    • Xanax.
    • 4: Epic Norse narratives.
    • Sagas.
    • 5: It means "Having been made a god".
    • Deified.

      • Round 3. Category: life of the party

      • 1: This party was named at a Michigan convention, 1854; still going strong.
      • the GOP (or Republican Party).
      • 2: In 2000 its 97,000 Florida votes left it at a Nader of popularity with Al Gore fans.
      • the Green Party.
      • 3: In 2006 this party, no longer "progressive", came back into power in Canada.
      • the Conservatives.
      • 4: Led by Begin and Sharon, among others.
      • the Likud Party.
      • 5: Formed to oppose "King Andrew" Jackson; named after the British party for limits on royal power.
      • the Whigs.

        • Round 4. Category: flex your "ab"s

        • 1: Standing side by side and facing the front.
        • abreast.
        • 2: Half of a legendary comedy duo, he was born in New Jersey in 1895.
        • Bud Abbott.
        • 3: Burning strongly.
        • ablaze.
        • 4: Sin is in, sweetie, on this hilarious Brit-com starring Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley.
        • Ab Fab (Absolutely Fabulous).
        • 5: Self-denial.
        • abstinence.

          • Round 5. Category: new to the inventors hall of fame

          • 1: Patsy Sherman and Sam Smith don't have any spots on the fabric of their record; they invented this 3M product.
          • Scotchgard.
          • 2: You can hunt and peck around the hall for the invention of Christopher Sholes known as this.
          • typewriter.
          • 3: Thomas Fogarty's embolectomy catheter has one of these on the tip and no, he can't make a giraffe out of it.
          • balloon.
          • 4: Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer combined their talents to splice fragments of this together from different species.
          • DNA.
          • 5: Elijah McCoy improved the productivity and life span of machines by automating this maintenance function.
          • lubrication.

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

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