Instant Trivia

Episode 89 - Home Ballparks - Fads - 4-Letter Words - Computers - Pottery

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 89, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Home Ballparks

  • 1: Pacific Bell Park.
  • San Francisco Giants.
  • 2: Comiskey Park.
  • Chicago White Sox.
  • 3: Veterans Stadium.
  • Philadelphia Phillies.
  • 4: Three Rivers Stadium.
  • Pittsburgh Pirates.
  • 5: Coors Field.
  • Colorado Rockies.

    • Round 2. Category: Fads

    • 1: Jade, Yasmin, Cloe and Sasha are these dollz.
    • Bratz.
    • 2: In the mid-'30s there were hats, shoes, glasses, books and dolls of this 6-year-old movie star.
    • Shirley Temple.
    • 3: It calls itself "the blanket with sleeves".
    • a Snuggie.
    • 4: This Bandai "digital pet" was hot in the '90s.
    • Tamagotchi.
    • 5: Long before the View-Master, these handheld 3-D stereoscopes were popular from 1850 to 1910.
    • Stereopticons.

      • Round 3. Category: 4-Letter Words

      • 1: [CLUE MISSING BECAUSE OF GAP IN TAPE].
      • seek[?].
      • 2: A repast, or the ground-up seeds of a grain.
      • Meal.
      • 3: A B.B., a Billie Jean or a Boleslaw I.
      • King.
      • 4: It describes a string stretched out fully and is a homophone for instructed.
      • taut.
      • 5: Ad lib and you speak "off" this part of your shirt.
      • Cuff.

        • Round 4. Category: Computers

        • 1: The "app" in "killer app" stands for this.
        • Application.
        • 2: Hewlett-Packard, Epson and Canon all make the ink-jet variety of these peripherals.
        • Printers.
        • 3: Mattel Media has created a program that lets the user design fashions for this doll.
        • Barbie.
        • 4: This company describes its pentium chip as "The Computer Inside".
        • Intel.
        • 5: This North Sioux City, S.D. mail order computer maker issues a MasterCard with a cowhide print on it.
        • Gateway 2000.

          • Round 5. Category: Pottery

          • 1: To a potter, throw means to form, say, a vase on one of these.
          • a wheel.
          • 2: In 1710 the first European hard-paste porcelain factory was set up in this city near Dresden.
          • Meissen.
          • 3: The word ceramics comes from “keramos”, the Greek word for this substance.
          • clay.
          • 4: The company he founded in Lambeth in 1815 was appointed a supplier to the British court in 1901.
          • John Doulton.
          • 5: These ovens used to fire pots operate at temperatures up to 2200°F.
          • a kiln.

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

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