Instant Trivia

Episode 968 - On ice - Classic monopoly tokens - Althing - Capitals at statehood - Mayor garcetti's los angeles

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 968, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: On Ice

  • 1: Put this letter on "ice" and you get what Mickey and Minnie are.
  • M (mice).
  • 2: Put this letter on "ice" and you get gaming material that may be loaded.
  • D (dice).
  • 3: Put this letter on "ice" and you get the kind of "guys" who "finish last".
  • N (nice).
  • 4: Put this letter on "ice" and you get the type of crime Crockett and Tubbs fought.
  • V (vice).
  • 5: Put this letter on "ice" and you get a grain grown in paddies.
  • R (rice).

    • Round 2. Category: Classic Monopoly Tokens

    • 1: You wear one of these to protect your fingers when sewing.
    • a thimble.
    • 2: The one Lincoln wore to Ford's Theatre is in the Smithsonian.
    • a top hat.
    • 3: Awaiting the inevitable is like "waiting for the other" this "to drop".
    • the shoe.
    • 4: On May 30, 2010 Dario Franchitti claimed a big victory in one.
    • a racecar.
    • 5: It's also a classic combat game from Milton Bradley.
    • the battleship.

      • Round 3. Category: Althing

      • 1: Formed in 930 A.D., the Althing of this country is one of the oldest legislative assemblies in the world.
      • Iceland.
      • 2: There are this many members of the Althing--they'll always fall one short of filling an entire checkerboard.
      • sixty-three.
      • 3: This position that has the country's real power (and the cabinet) is appointed by the president with the Althing's approval.
      • the prime minister.
      • 4: In 1874 the king of this nearby Scandinavian country vested the Althing with legislative power in internal affairs.
      • Denmark.
      • 5: The Althing had an upper and lower house until 1991; now it's this type of legislature, meaning "one chamber".
      • unicameral.

        • Round 4. Category: Capitals At Statehood

        • 1: Augusta.
        • Georgia.
        • 2: San Jose.
        • California.
        • 3: Huntsville.
        • Alabama.
        • 4: Guthrie.
        • Oklahoma.
        • 5: Wheeling.
        • West Virginia.

          • Round 5. Category: Mayor Garcetti'S Los Angeles

          • 1: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) Just north of Hollywood and Vine, the studios at Capitol Records have been used by Frank Sinatra, Green Day, Sam Smith and this band, who recorded their "Surfin' Safari" album in the tower.
          • the Beach Boys.
          • 2: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) The Hollywood Sign was originally the Hollywoodland Sign, a $21,000 billboard in 1923, for this 2-word type of development owned by the publisher of the L.A. Times.
          • real estate.
          • 3: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) Using the term "California romanza" to mean "freedom to make one's own form", this 3-named architect's first L.A. project, Hollyhock House, was completed in 1921.
          • Frank Lloyd Wright.
          • 4: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) At L.A.'s Griffith Observatory, the Astronomers Monument features 6 giants of the field: Hipparchus, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Herschel and this Italian genius.
          • Galileo.
          • 5: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) Between 1921 and 1955 Italian immigrant Simon Rodia constructed a collection of 17 structures he called Nuestro Pueblo or "Our Town"; today, it's a National Historic Landmark known as this.
          • the Watts Towers.

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