Instant Trivia

Episode 869 - apples - nursery rhyme time - strike! - comic strippers - what brought that on?

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 869, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: apples

  • 1: The Tree Top Company's website has recipes for the Sour Cream and Dutch Kitchen types of this.
  • pie.
  • 2: Most apples come from trees grown not from seeds but by this process.
  • Grafting.
  • 3: Being packed with pectin makes apples an excellent source of this in the diet.
  • fiber.
  • 4: Unlike the tech version, there's no "A" in the name of this apple named for the finder of the1st seedling in 1811.
  • McIntosh.
  • 5: This preparation is a favorite accompaniment of foods from pork to latkes.
  • applesauce.

    • Round 2. Category: nursery rhyme time

    • 1: Quite contrary gardener's yellow birds.
    • Mary's canaries.
    • 2: Nonfat eating Jack's pet animals.
    • Sprat's cats.
    • 3: Little Bo's mighty jumps.
    • Peep's leaps.
    • 4: Little Jack's funeralgoers.
    • Horner's mourners.
    • 5: Fat-free Jack's pieces of neckwear.
    • Sprat's cravats.

      • Round 3. Category: strike!

      • 1: In bowling, a turkey is this many strikes.
      • 3.
      • 2: When you "strike" this fuel, natural gas mixed in with it can expand and propel it upward through the drill bore.
      • Oil.
      • 3: It strikes when electric potential in the atmosphere tops 10,000 volts per centimeter.
      • Lightning.
      • 4: Something that sounds familiar strikes one of these musical combinations.
      • Chord.
      • 5: For striking in 1981 in defiance of his orders, this man fired 11,345 members of the air traffic controllers' union.
      • Ronald Reagan.

        • Round 4. Category: comic strippers

        • 1: Ruff,Mr. Wilson,Dennis Mitchell.
        • Dennis the Menace.
        • 2: Mammy Yokum,Daisy Mae,Sadie Hawkins.
        • Li'l Abner.
        • 3: The King,Sir Rodney,The Spirit.
        • The Wizard of Id.
        • 4: Aunt May,Dr. Doom,J. Jonah Jameson.
        • Spider-Man.
        • 5: Elly, John, Michael, Elizabeth and April Patterson.
        • For Better or for Worse.

          • Round 5. Category: what brought that on?

          • 1: A 1990 Commons debate on closer ties with Europe brought on her famous shout of "No! No! No!".
          • Margaret Thatcher.
          • 2: In 1987 this anchor walked off, leaving CBS black for 6 minutes, because a tennis match cut into the news.
          • Dan Rather.
          • 3: Anita Hill's accusations led Clarence Thomas to call his confirmation process "a high-tech" this.
          • a lynching.
          • 4: Khrushchev's U.N. shoe-banging outburst came as Lorenzo Sumulong of this Asian country attacked Soviet policy.
          • the Philippines.
          • 5: The claim "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" was in response to an election loss to this man.
          • (Pat) Brown.

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

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