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Episode 967 - The hudson - Trade names - If you can't beat 'em... - Double double letters - Lost in yonkers

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 967, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Hudson

  • 1: A bridge named for this fictional snoozer crosses the Hudson at Catskill.
  • Rip Van Winkle.
  • 2: In 1802 a military academy was established at this site.
  • West Point.
  • 3: In 1807 the first practical steamboat, commonly known by this name, was launched on the Hudson.
  • Clermont.
  • 4: This interstate park on the Hudson features 300-500 foot high cliffs.
  • Palisades.
  • 5: It was on this ship that Henry Hudson was first sent up the river.
  • Half Moon.

    • Round 2. Category: Trade Names

    • 1: As Roosevelt was called Teddy, and motion pictures called movies, the new wheat flakes were named this.
    • Wheaties.
    • 2: Originally introduced as "Celluwipes", it's now a common brand of tissues.
    • Kleenex.
    • 3: White soap which got its name when Harvey Procter heard this word from a Psalm quoted in a sermon.
    • Ivory.
    • 4: This trade name for a fluorescent paint has come to be used for any bright, shocking color.
    • Day-Glo.
    • 5: Japanese for "three-diamond", this company's name can be seen in its symbol.
    • Mitsubishi.

      • Round 3. Category: If You Can'T Beat 'Em...

      • 1: At the Buick Invitational from 2005 to 2008, many were invited but no one was beating this golfer.
      • Tiger Woods.
      • 2: Many on our staff were sad to see the Astros invade Chavez Ravine and beat this team in Game 7 of the 2017 World Series.
      • the Dodgers.
      • 3: From 2005 to 2008 and again from 2010 to 2014, no man was beating this Spaniard for the French Open men's singles title.
      • (Rafael) Nadal.
      • 4: This storied franchise was the last north-of-the-border team to win the Stanley Cup, back in 1993.
      • the (Montreal) Canadiens.
      • 5: Over 4 straight Super Bowls, it was the rest of the NFL 139, this team 73.
      • the Buffalo Bills.

        • Round 4. Category: Double Double Letters

        • 1: He raises and tends the honey kind.
        • beekeeper.
        • 2: A gathering at which Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, or an owl and a goat might sing.
        • hootenanny.
        • 3: Quality of ice, eels, and banana peels.
        • slipperiness.
        • 4: Locusts are actually short-horned ones of these insects.
        • grasshoppers.
        • 5: It's another word for pirate, arrgh.
        • buccaneer.

          • Round 5. Category: Lost In Yonkers

          • 1: Ms. Levi, the matchmaker, has her eye on Mr. Vandergelder of Yonkers in this 1964 musical.
          • Hello, Dolly!.
          • 2: The city's website claims the USA's first game of this took place at Yonkers' St. Andrew's Club.
          • golf.
          • 3: You can get to Yonkers from NYC by taking the parkway named for this man, like the nearby river.
          • the Henry Hudson Parkway.
          • 4: The 85-mile-long Delaware one of these structures runs from a reservoir in the Catskills to one in Yonkers.
          • aqueduct.
          • 5: Like the adjacent Bronx, Yonkers was settled by people from this European nation in 1639.
          • Holland (the Netherlands).

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

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