Instant Trivia

Episode 861 - colonial america - fun with colors - tv goes to work - by 2000 - last name's the same

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 861, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: colonial america

  • 1: A 1561 hurricane destroyed the Spanish settlement at what is now Pensacola in this state.
  • Florida.
  • 2: David Rittenhouse invented a device in 1767 showing the positions of several of these in the solar system.
  • planets.
  • 3: This style of architecture named for England's first 4 Hanoverian kings was quite popular.
  • Georgian.
  • 4: In May 1732 he founded the Philadelphische Zeitung, the first foreign-language newspaper in the English colonies.
  • Benjamin Franklin.
  • 5: In 1765 the Colonists burned Cadwallader Colden in effigy because he tried to administer and enforce this "act".
  • the Stamp Act.

    • Round 2. Category: fun with colors

    • 1: Possibly from the Latin for "sky", cerulean is a shade of this color.
    • blue.
    • 2: It can also mean a place that's extremely putt upon.
    • a green.
    • 3: The Cincinnati Bengals have used black, white and this as their team colors since 1968.
    • orange.
    • 4: A great horned owl has large eyes with irises of this color, which helps amplify incoming light.
    • yellow.
    • 5: Now illegal, this "contract" stipulates that a worker will not join a union during his course of employment.
    • "yellow dog" contract.

      • Round 3. Category: tv goes to work

      • 1: He's the assistant director of personnel at Cleveland's Winfred-Louder Department Store.
      • Drew Carey.
      • 2: Bill McNeal and Catherine Duke are behind the mikes at WNYX on this sitcom.
      • NewsRadio.
      • 3: Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson played editor and reporter for the New York Sun on this CBS sitcom.
      • Ink.
      • 4: It's the literary cafe where Joe Farrell, Audrey Penney and Ellen Morgan worked.
      • Buy the Book.
      • 5: Captain John Sheridan and ambassadors from all over the galaxy work at this space station.
      • Babylon 5.

        • Round 4. Category: by 2000

        • 1: Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Nu are 2 of these that are trying to ban alcohol by 2000.
        • Fraternities.
        • 2: Computers that recognize 00 as this date have to be fixed by the year 2000.
        • 1900.
        • 3: British musicologist Jonathan Del Mar hopes to have fully restored this composer's 9 symphonies.
        • Ludwig van Beethoven.
        • 4: Ukraine has promised to close this nuclear plant by 2000.
        • Chernobyl.
        • 5: A 500-foot-tall one of these fair attractions is planned to be built across the Thames from Parliament.
        • Ferris wheel.

          • Round 5. Category: last name's the same

          • 1: Kurt,Rosalind,Nipsey.
          • Russell.
          • 2: Brenda,Michele,Spike.
          • Lee.
          • 3: Rapper Kanye and "Miss Lonelyhearts" writer Nathanael.
          • West.
          • 4: Vanessa,Treat,Anson.
          • Williams.
          • 5: Roy, Dick, Petula.
          • Clark.

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

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