Instant Trivia

Episode 881 - texas - british spelling bee - famous pairs - the "un"category - joe-pourri

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 881, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: texas

  • 1: About 60% of Texas' foreign-born residents are from this country.
  • Mexico.
  • 2: In 1901 this was discovered at Spindletop.
  • oil.
  • 3: Big Bend National Park lies within the big bend of this river.
  • the Rio Grande.
  • 4: This city's Chronicle is the state's largest daily newspaper.
  • Houston.
  • 5: This university in College Station is the oldest public institution of higher education in Texas.
  • Texas AandM.

    • Round 2. Category: british spelling bee

    • 1: A book-like listing of a business' goods for sale; Sears and Roebuck used to put out a famous one.
    • C-A-T-A-L-O-G-U-E.
    • 2: Use this farm implement that breaks up soil to plant your leeks.
    • P-L-O-U-G-H.
    • 3: The equivalent of our own Donald Rumsfeld, the UK's Geoffrey Hoon is the minister of this.
    • D-E-F-E-N-C-E.
    • 4: In England Walt Disney would have had a "Wonderful World of" this.
    • C-O-L-O-U-R.
    • 5: Good Britons recycle this metal in their soft-drink cans.
    • A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M.

      • Round 3. Category: famous pairs

      • 1: This company has cleaned up with such products as Bold, Comet and Camay soap.
      • Procter and Gamble.
      • 2: First names of Babilonia and Gardner who recently re-formed their partnership on ice.
      • Tai and Randy.
      • 3: First names of childhood friends and ice cream makers Cohen and Greenfield.
      • Ben and Jerry.
      • 4: Their first map appeared in an 1872 issue of the "Railway Guide".
      • (William) Rand (Andrew) McNally.
      • 5: Congressional pair that sponsored the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947.
      • Sen. Robert Taft and Rep. Fred Hartley.

        • Round 4. Category: the "un"category

        • 1: A 1937 ransom note for Charles Ross demanded $50,000 in 20s, 10s and 5s, bank-run, non-consecutive and this.
        • unmarked.
        • 2: "Barbara: An Actress Who Sings" calls itself this type of book.
        • unauthorized.
        • 3: Zombies are an example of this group of beings that shouldn't be walking around but are.
        • undead.
        • 4: This company's No. 5 model was one of the most successful manual typewriters in history.
        • Underwood.
        • 5: In 1905 Freud cracked everyone up with "Jokes and Their Relation to" this.
        • the unconscious.

          • Round 5. Category: joe-pourri

          • 1: In '38 Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel created this guy who could fly but was somehow unrecognizable wearing glasses.
          • Superman.
          • 2: Though Grolier's Encyclopedia refers to him as "intellectually unimpressive", he ruled the USSR from 1929 to 1953.
          • Joseph Stalin.
          • 3: The middle name of this Hall of Fame Celtics player and ex-Pacers coach is not Joseph, just Joe.
          • Larry Bird.
          • 4: A song asks, "Where have you gone," this N.Y. Yankee, "a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo, woo, woo".
          • Joe DiMaggio.
          • 5: "Closing Time" was his 1994 sequel to "Catch-22".
          • Joseph Heller.

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

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