Instant Trivia

Episode 900 - monday night football - bill shakespeare, p.i. - first names - science briefs - in the thesaurus

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 900, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: monday night football

  • 1: He started as a play-by-play man in 1971 and became an analyst in 1986.
  • Frank Gifford.
  • 2: This Dallas quarterback was quite "Dandy".
  • Don Meredith.
  • 3: The current play-by-play commentator, he's remembered for calling the Olympic hockey games in the '80s.
  • Al Michaels.
  • 4: He played himself in the films "Bananas" and "The 500-Pound Jerk" and was a lawyer before becoming a sportscaster.
  • Howard Cosell.
  • 5: This quarterback's real first name is Norman and he was stormin' as an analyst during the 1998-99 season.
  • Boomer Esiason.

    • Round 2. Category: bill shakespeare, p.i.

    • 1: Tailed this title kid to a balcony, heard his chippie say, "Deny thy father and refuse thy name".
    • Romeo.
    • 2: This title guy thinks his wife's cheatin'; says "She with Cassio hath the act of shame a thousand times committed".
    • Othello.
    • 3: Investigating a possible regicide by this fella; got his address, Dunsinane, but his wacked-out wife worries me.
    • Macbeth.
    • 4: Something's rottin' in Denmark and it's the 2 corpses of these courtiers; an ambassador tells of their deaths in 5.2.
    • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
    • 5: Impressive trail of corpses in this title guy's wake: the Dukes of Clarence and York and the Prince of Wales.
    • Richard III.

      • Round 3. Category: first names

      • 1: This Irish name became popular for women after it was used as the name of Scarlett O'Hara's home.
      • Tara.
      • 2: Barack, related to the Hebrew Baruch, means this.
      • blessed.
      • 3: The name of this one of the 4 gospel writers means "gift of God".
      • Matthew.
      • 4: This first name, like that of the guy who married Medea, is from a Greek word for "healer".
      • Jason.
      • 5: This French name means "reborn", a reference to Christian baptism.
      • Renee.

        • Round 4. Category: science briefs

        • 1: "K" can stand for kelvin or for this type of energy, from the Greek for "to move".
        • kinetic.
        • 2: It's the international name for the Centigrade scale.
        • Celsius.
        • 3: In 1909 Soren Sorensen came up with this scale to measure acidity.
        • pH scale.
        • 4: The unit of magnetic flux density, abbreviated "T", is named for this scientist.
        • (Nikola) Tesla.
        • 5: This element's name is from the Latin for "charcoal".
        • carbon.

          • Round 5. Category: in the thesaurus

          • 1: If Jefferson had a thesaurus, he could have written of "The Pursuit of Oblectation" instead of this.
          • Happiness.
          • 2: This word or a "flight of" it is a common synonym for "imagination".
          • Fancy.
          • 3: On the road, it's on triangular signs; in the thesaurus, it's listed with "submit" and "kowtow".
          • Yield.
          • 4: "Cretaceous" and "lactescent" are fancy ways of describing this color.
          • White.
          • 5: 5-letter synonym for "maledict" or "swear".
          • Curse.

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

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