Instant Trivia

Episode 844 - ecology - "down" - wales - toys and games - salad days

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 844, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: ecology

  • 1: CFCs, believed to damage the ozone layer, are commonly used in this kitchen appliance.
  • Refrigerator.
  • 2: Of insectivores, herbivores or carnivores, the group whose food source is most likely to live to be fed on again.
  • herbivores.
  • 3: The Environmental Defense Fund has proposed new forests be planted to absorb this gas.
  • Carbon dioxide.
  • 4: In a parasitic relationship, this organism doesn't put out chips and soda; it provides nourishment unwillingly.
  • a host.
  • 5: Fallen branches from these trees are key to nourishing marine ecosystems.
  • mangroves.

    • Round 2. Category: "down"

    • 1: This narrow London street runs from Whitehall to St. James Park.
    • Downing Street.
    • 2: A sensible, practical person is said to be this.
    • down-to-earth.
    • 3: According to the title of a 1986 film, Nick Nolte was this "in Beverly Hills".
    • Down and Out.
    • 4: A transmission path for data from a communications satellite to an Earth station.
    • a downlink.
    • 5: This Chicago-based music magazine was founded in 1934.
    • Downbeat.

      • Round 3. Category: wales

      • 1: Caernarvon Castle was the site of his 1969 investiture as Prince of Wales.
      • Prince Charles.
      • 2: The Welsh flag features this red beast with a forked tongue and tail.
      • a dragon.
      • 3: Despite a decline in production, it remains Wales' most important mineral resource.
      • coal.
      • 4: In Laugharne you can visit the grave of this famous poet, as well as his home, the "Boathouse".
      • Dylan Thomas.
      • 5: This largest city of Wales grew up around a Norman fortress.
      • Cardiff.

        • Round 4. Category: toys and games

        • 1: How you pay for your "stamps" in the game of post office.
        • kisses.
        • 2: Ruth Handler named this doll, introduced in 1959 as a teenage fashion model, for her daughter.
        • Barbie.
        • 3: This letter has the most tiles in Scrabble—12.
        • E.
        • 4: Liquid plastic used to make "Creepy Crawlers" in the 1960s.
        • Plasti-Goop.
        • 5: Alfred M. Butts called his game "Criss Cross", but it was redesigned in 1948 and sold under this name.
        • Scrabble.

          • Round 5. Category: salad days

          • 1: Salad nicoise contains the ripe, black Nice type of these.
          • olives.
          • 2: The German type of this salad is served hot and has bacon in its dressing.
          • potato salad.
          • 3: A traditional Waldorf salad contains cubes of this fruit.
          • apples.
          • 4: A Waldorf salad usually contains this type of nut.
          • walnut.
          • 5: This "Belgian" salad ingredient is also called witloof, meaning "white leaf".
          • endive.

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

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