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Episode 987 - Tough-pourri - Nonmetals - Vice - Addresses - Eat like a horse

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 987, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tough-Pourri

  • 1: Students are allowed to bring a toad, a cat or an owl to this fictional boarding school.
  • Hogwarts.
  • 2: This last Ivy-League school to win this college football bowl game was Columbia University in 1934.
  • the Rose Bowl.
  • 3: When "Face The Nation" premiered in 1954, this first guest was grilled over comments he had been making about the Army.
  • Senator Joe McCarthy.
  • 4: In 1907, the first 4 groups in this org. started in England were the Bulls, the Wolves, the Curlews and the Ravens.
  • Boy Scouts.
  • 5: On this date in 1999, England's Guardian newspaper announced a coup in the nation of San Seriffe.
  • April 1st.

    • Round 2. Category: Nonmetals

    • 1: General Foods first introduced this nondairy dessert topping in 1966.
    • Cool Whip.
    • 2: Fake flowers Marie Osmond sang about in 1973.
    • "Paper Roses".
    • 3: Little Boy Blue slept under one.
    • haystack.
    • 4: The Hebrew name for this taboo meat is basar chazir.
    • pork.
    • 5: Encarta says clothes with a high content of this plastic fiber "became popular in the 1970s".
    • polyester.

      • Round 3. Category: Vice

      • 1: If you don't care if it's Godiva or a Clark Bar, you've got to have it, you're this, a word dating back at least to the 1960s.
      • a chocoholic.
      • 2: Ulysses S. Grant smoked these, including Cheroots, to the tune of 20 a day.
      • cigars.
      • 3: In this movie Paul Giamatti plays Miles, whose vice is wine, especially his prized 1961 Chateau Cheval Blanc.
      • Sideways.
      • 4: A 1998 study showed release of dopamine, a pleasure-bringing neurotransmitter, in subjects during a tank-driving one of these.
      • a video game.
      • 5: The book "Aristocratic Vice" examines the vices of the 18th century English nobility, including these "affairs of honor".
      • a duel.

        • Round 4. Category: Addresses

        • 1: This animated family lived at 201 Cobblestone Way in Bedrock.
        • the Flintstones.
        • 2: At night you'll have no trouble spotting this stadium at 1060 W. Addison St., Chicago--it's now lighted.
        • Wrigley Field.
        • 3: Whether travelling by land or sea, don't miss this attraction at 193 Salem St. in Boston.
        • the Old North Church.
        • 4: President Hoover was among those dedicating this NYC building at 350 Fifth Ave. on May 1, 1931.
        • the Empire State Building.
        • 5: You'd find this at 1313 S. Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim, CA.
        • Disneyland.

          • Round 5. Category: Eat Like A Horse

          • 1: Horses love this fruit of the genus Malus; does one a day keep the vet away?.
          • an apple.
          • 2: Though they're vegetarians, many male horses have 4 of these long "doglike" teeth used for tearing food.
          • canines.
          • 3: Whether crushed, rolled or cooked, these are a high-energy horse food; too much can cause horsie overexuberance.
          • oats.
          • 4: For joint health, some experts recommend giving horses this oil from fish of the genus Gadus--blecch!.
          • cod liver oil.
          • 5: This protein-rich plant of the pea family is like steak for horses; don't give the little rascals too much of it.
          • alfalfa.

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

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