Instant Trivia

Episode 845 - the bee - forestry - theatre history - cuba - entertaining canadians

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 845, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the bee

  • 1: Bees gather this flower secretion to make honey.
  • Nectar.
  • 2: Bees are found on every continent but this one.
  • Antarctica.
  • 3: Young bees are fed beebread, made from honey and this plant product.
  • Pollen.
  • 4: On their heads bees have 5 of these -- 2 compound and 3 simple.
  • Eyes.
  • 5: Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for deciphering the circling and wagging types of this form of bee communication.
  • Dancing.

    • Round 2. Category: forestry

    • 1: It's the term for baby trees used to reforest areas.
    • seedlings.
    • 2: This president established the U.S. Forest Service.
    • Teddy Roosevelt.
    • 3: In forest management, it's a group of trees of the same age and type; Custer's last one is famous.
    • a stand.
    • 4: Fire, mostly man-made, diseases and these destroy as many trees each year as are cut down.
    • insects.
    • 5: Brazil is second to this country in total forest area.
    • the Soviet Union.

      • Round 3. Category: theatre history

      • 1: In 1904 Daphne du Maurier's father, Gerald, became the first actor to play this villain in "Peter Pan".
      • Captain Hook.
      • 2: Pisistratus established a tragedy contest as part of this city's Great Dionysia Festival around 534 B.C..
      • Athens.
      • 3: Victorien Sardou wrote the 1882 play "Fedora" for this great French actress who triumphed in it.
      • Bernhardt.
      • 4: In the 1640s these supporters of Oliver Cromwell closed all the theatres in London.
      • the Roundheads (Puritans).
      • 5: London's Royal Coburg Theatre was renamed the Royal Victoria and affectionately nicknamed this.
      • the Old Vic.

        • Round 4. Category: cuba

        • 1: In the news in 1961, this bay in the Cuban province of Las Villas is also called Bahia de los Cochinos.
        • Bay of Pigs.
        • 2: This Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning novelist's home in pre-Castro Cuba was called "Finca Vigia".
        • Ernest Hemingway.
        • 3: Cuba's first big screen role was in this 1988 film starring Eddie Murphy as a transplanted African prince.
        • Coming to America.
        • 4: In 1997 this magazine chose Cuba as one of its "50 Most Beautiful".
        • People.
        • 5: In a 1995 TV movie Cuba soared with this first squadron of black combat pilots.
        • the Tuskegee Airmen.

          • Round 5. Category: entertaining canadians

          • 1: Last name of Canadian-born actress Meg, Jennifer's sister.
          • Tilly.
          • 2: Most know William Shatner is Canadian, but so is James Doohan, who played this "Star Trek" engineer.
          • Scotty.
          • 3: Joshua Jackson, a star of this Massachusetts-set WB series, is a Vancouver native.
          • Dawson's Creek.
          • 4: On screen he's been Studio 54 founder Steve Rubell and would-be world dominator Dr. Evil.
          • Mike Myers.
          • 5: It's no longer news that this current "60 Minutes" correspondent hails from north of the border.
          • Morley Safer.

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

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