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January 19, 2022Episode 342 - U.s. Presidential Election Winners - Just For The "Hall" Of It - Don We Now Our Guy Apparel - Official Languages - Owned By Aol Time Warner
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 342, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: U.s. Presidential Election Winners
1: 1968.

Richard Nixon.

2: 1960.

John F. Kennedy.

3: 1944.

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

4: 1976.

Jimmy Carter.

5: 1808.

James Madison.
Round 2. Category: Just For The "Hall" Of It
1: It's a feature that distinguishes something from other things.

Hallmark.

2: Ex-wife of Mick.

Jerry Hall.

3: Literally it means "Praise ye the Lord" in Hebrew.

Hallelujah.

4: This actor first gained attention as a likable geek in "Sixteen Candles".

Anthony Michael Hall.

5: It's a false perception when no external stimulus exists.

Hallucination.
Round 3. Category: Don We Now Our Guy Apparel
1: The 2 numbers on a man's dress shirt, 16/34 for example, are usually measurments of these 2 things.

neck size and sleeve length.

2: Bunny Austin shocked the tennis world when he wore these competing at Forest Hills in 1932.

shorts.

3: The name of this wide sash popular in men's formal wear comes from the Urdu for "waistband".

cummerbund.

4: Popular as a fabric for men's pants, this ribbed fabric's name may derive from the French for "cloth of the king".

corduroy.

5: (Hi, I'm Tucker Carlsen of CNN's Crossfire.) Among the many influential men to wear bow ties is this great Spanish poet and author of "The House of Bernarda Alba" .

(Frederic Garcia) Lorca.
Round 4. Category: Official Languages
1: In Iceland:This.

Icelandic.

2: Austria.

German.

3: In New Zealand:English, New Zealand Sign Language and this native tongue.

Maori.

4: In Chad:Arabic and this.

French.

5: Haiti.

French.
Round 5. Category: Owned By Aol Time Warner
1: In the U.S. People magazine is published in English and this.

Spanish.

2: Seen in over 890,000 U.S. hotel rooms, it's the No. 1-distributed news network.

CNN (Cable News Network).

3: HBO's sister channel, it shows over 1,600 films a year.

Cinemax.

4: This company with its Navigator Internet browser was bought by AOL in 1999.

Netscape.

5: Dikembe Mutombo no longer works for AOL Time Warner since this NBA team traded him in 2001.

Atlanta Hawks.
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January 18, 2022Episode 341 - He Did It! - Grains And Staples - Horsemen - Termite Trivia - The Little Things In Life
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 341, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: He Did It!
1: Brewed up a 1954 marriage to Marilyn Monroe and several TV coffee ads.

Joe DiMaggio.

2: Went solo in 1985 and had a hit with the following["Just A Gigolo"].

David Lee Roth.

3: Graduated 21st of 39 from West Point in 1843, came out No. 1 at Appomattox in 1865.

Ulysses S. Grant.

4: Born Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashivili in 1879, died suddenly under a different name in 1953.

Joseph Stalin.

5: Mockingly suggested that poor children should be fed to rich people in his pamphlet "A Modest Proposal".

Jonathan Swift.
Round 2. Category: Grains And Staples
1: The name of this food, not a true grain, comes from the Dutch meaning "beech wheat".

buckwheat.

2: The rolled form of this grain cooks in about 5 minutes; the steel-cut takes much longer.

oats.

3: Basmati, an aromatic type of this grain, is grown in India.

rice.

4: Millet seed, an important food for North Africans, is most often fed to these pets in the U.S..

birds.

5: The pot type of this grain retains more of the bran than the pearl type.

barley.
Round 3. Category: Horsemen
1: A baseball team is named for this noted group of riders that dates back to the 1830s.

Texas Rangers.

2: Napoleon divided these troops into light and heavy forces.

Cavalry.

3: It's the federal police force of Canada.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

4: Argentine literature has a whole category of tales of these horsemen of the Pampas.

Gauchos.

5: From a word meaning "adventurer" or "vagabond", they were the Russian army's elite horsemen.

Cossacks.
Round 4. Category: Termite Trivia
1: Termites are found in every state except this one.

Alaska.

2: The closest relative to the termite is this household pest.

Cockroach.

3: Of 15 days, 15 months or 15 years, it's the approximate lifespan of a termite queen.

15 years.

4: The primary food of termites is this carbohydrate found in plants.

Cellulose.

5: One form of termite communication is the production of trails of these chemicals.

Pheromones.
Round 5. Category: The Little Things In Life
1: Maybe these smallest birds got their name because they just don't know the words.

Hummingbirds.

2: As P.T. could tell you, this man's real name was Charles Sherwood Stratton.

Tom Thumb.

3: Look out! These can fly around the nucleus at over 4 million MPH!.

Electrons.

4: By carrying plague, this tiny insect killed 1/3 of the population of Europe in the 14th century.

Flea.

5: This little girl hatches out of a flower in a Hans Christian Andersen tale.

Thumbelina.
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January 17, 2022Episode 340 - Begins And Ends In "N" - Scandals - Ends In "Ough" - Brand "O" - Where Things Happened
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 340, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Begins And Ends In "N"
1: This word for a bedtime garment worn by women dates back to the 14th century.

nightgown.

2: From the Middle English for name, it's a part of speech that can be a name, place or thing.

noun.

3: Last name of "Boy Genius" Jimmy who starred in his own animated feature film in 2001.

Neutron.

4: In the early 20th century, this kind of theatre charged 5 cents admission.

nickelodeon.

5: This legal process by which one becomes a citizen of his adopted nation grants him the rights of a native-born citizen.

naturalization.
Round 2. Category: Scandals
1: The office of Baseball Commisioner was established in 1920 due to this 1919 event.

Black Sox Scandal.

2: This fugitive financier said, "I want my own !#^%* country!".

Robert Vesco.

3: In 1859 a sensational trial followed when a jealous husband killed Philip Barton Key, son of this man.

Francis Scott Key.

4: Though the financial scheme known as the "Mississippi Bubble"burst in 1720, it led tothe settlement of this city.

New Orleans.

5: In 1976 this country's Prince Bernhard quit several posts due to his unseemly relationship with the Lockheed Co..

The Netherlands/Holland.
Round 3. Category: Ends In "Ough"
1: When it breaks, the cradle will fall.

the bough.

2: A goon, a bruiser, a heavy, or a thug.

a tough.

3: It's similar to batter, but it's too stiff to pour.

dough.

4: To truly eat like a pig, put your food in one of these.

a trough.

5: It's a political division of New York City; Queens is one.

a borough.
Round 4. Category: Brand "O"
1: You can read "Story O's" about this cookie on its website.

Oreos.

2: A line of beauty products once was called "Oil of" this; now it's just this.

Olay.

3: The dad of TV's Matthew Perry was the sailor in commercials for this men's scent.

Old Spice.

4: Boston lawyer Marcus Urann marketed cranberry sauce under this brand name way back in 1912.

Ocean Spray.

5: This brand's catchy "Wiener Jingle", still used today, was written in 1963.

Oscar Mayer.
Round 5. Category: Where Things Happened
1: This British prime minister gave a famous speech in Fulton, Missouri March 5, 1946.

Winston Churchill.

2: This site of the Great Mosque and the Kaaba was the capital of the kingdom of Hejaz.

Mecca.

3: California city where Father Junipero Serra is buried and Clint Eastwood once served as mayor.

Carmel.

4: When Marco Polo reached this city in 1275 it was called Cambaluc.

Peking/Beijing.

5: Edmund Halley had an observatory on this island 145 years before Napoleon was observed there.

Saint Helena.
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January 16, 2022Episode 339 - Historical Quotes - Fitness - The Dakotas - Choreographers - Prison Life
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 339, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Historical Quotes
1: Mass. town where patriot John Parker supposedly said, "If they mean to have a war let it begin here".

Lexington.

2: At the 1968 Dem. Convention, this mayor stumbled and said, "The police are here to preserve disorder".

Richard (J.) Daley.

3: As reported by Hernan Cortes in a 1522 dispatch, these people said that "by no means would they give themselves up".

the Aztecs.

4: In a 1959 American kitchen exhibit in Moscow, he told Khrushchev, "In America, we like to make life easier for women".

Nixon.

5: In 1888 this Chancellor told the Reichstag, "we Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world".

(Otto von) Bismarck.
Round 2. Category: Fitness
1: A runner's fatigue caused by glycogen depletion is called "hitting" this.

"The wall".

2: For boys to win the top Presidential Physical Fitness award, they have to run this distance in 6:06.

a mile.

3: These machines mimic the action of running up stadium bleachers, with much more convenience.

Stair machines.

4: The West Point candidate fitness assessment is a basketball throw, 2 runs and these 3 exercises with "up" in their names.

push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups.

5: The West Point candidate fitness assessment is a basketball throw, 2 runs and these 3 exercises with "up" in their names.

push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups.
Round 3. Category: The Dakotas
1: In 1997 the Dakotas were declared disaster areas as the cold hit -80 degrees including this factor.

Wind chill factor.

2: Hot Springs, South Dakota has one of North America's largest graveyards of these prehistoric elephants.

mammoths.

3: A "Little" river and a "Big Muddy" river with this name flow through both states.

Missouri.

4: Much of the Dakotas was once dominated by the Lakota and Nakota branches of this Indian tribe.

Sioux.

5: Now a North Dakota city, this junction of 2 rivers was called "Les Grandes Fourches" by French traders.

Grand Forks.
Round 4. Category: Choreographers
1: He conceived, directed and choreographed the musical which included the following:"Tonight, tonight, the world is wild and bright...".

Jerome Robbins.

2: When Balanchine staged "Orpheus and Eurydice" at this U.S. opera house, he kept the singers in the pit.

the Met(ropolitan Opera House).

3: This modern dancer created over 170 works; her career spanned the century.

Martha Graham.

4: In a single year he choreographed "42nd Street", "Footlight Parade", and "Gold Diggers of 1933".

Busby Berkeley.

5: In the original 1942 production of "Rodeo", she danced the role of the cowgirl.

Agnes de Mille.
Round 5. Category: Prison Life
1: Federal prison camps, also called this level of security, may have no perimieter fencing.

minimum security.

2: Convict priest John Geoghan was kept in this, abbreviated PC, but was killed by another inmate in PC.

protective custody.

3: In 1995 Arizona banned this recreation, fearing that it produced stronger criminals.

weightlifting.

4: Nazi imagery and ideas inspire this vicious "Brotherhood" that began in California prisons in the 1960s.

the Aryan Brotherhood.

5: It can mean a single charge of which you were convicted, or a procedure conducted several times a day.

a count.
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January 15, 2022Episode 338 - Personal Products - The Old College Try - A Billion Reasons - Quakes - Rough Alternate Literary Endings
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 338, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Personal Products
1: The Ace bandage got its name in a contest: the winning entry used it as an acronym for "All Cotton" this.

Elastic.

2: This company introduced its baby powder in 1893, its baby oil in 1935 and its baby shampoo in 1954.

Johnson and Johnson.

3: Though its logo originally said "Since 1850", this brand of casual wear was introduced by Levi's in 1986.

Dockers.

4: This clothes line introduced by Garan Inc. in 1972 had kids matching hippos and other creatures to make outfits.

Garanimals.

5: In 1989 this underwear maker put Michael Jordan under contract.

Hanes.
Round 2. Category: The Old College Try
1: Merton College was one of the first entities that become this famous British university.

Oxford.

2: This Jesuit Washington, D.C. university is home to the Woodstock Theological Center.

Georgetown.

3: Seen here is the sports team logo of this university, whose stars have included Sidney Moncrief and Lance Alworth.

Arkansas (Razorbacks).

4: John Wayne attended this L.A. university in the 1920s and also played on its football team.

USC.

5: Glass artist Dale Chihuly is a graduate of this design college abbreviated RISD.

Rhode Island School of Design.
Round 3. Category: A Billion Reasons
1: Since 1909 his head has appeared on billions and billions of pennies.

Lincoln.

2: According to its website, this chain serves more than a billion "finger lickin' good" chicken dinners annually.

Kentucky Fried Chicken.

3: Forbes magazine has estimated that this comic book boy is "worth" $24.7 billion.

Richie Rich.

4: The only event the Time Almanac has listed under 4.5 billion B.C. is this "formed".

Earth.

5: This eccentric billionaire formed an aircraft company in 1934 to design racers.

Howard Hughes.
Round 4. Category: Quakes
1: The Jan. 26, 2001 quake centered in this country was felt in Bangladesh, 1,200 miles across the Bay of Bengal.

India.

2: In early 2001 L.A. got 14" of rain; this city got 5" of rain and a 6.8 jolt that trapped people in its Space Needle.

Seattle.

3: In December 2000 this country felt several small quakes around Popocatepetl.

Mexico.

4: A 1964 quake in this state caused tsunamis as far away as Siberia, and Hawaii and California.

Alaska.

5: On Jan. 13, 2001 a 7.6 temblor rocked this tiny Central American nation; a 6.6 quake hit exactly one month later.

El Salvador.
Round 5. Category: Rough Alternate Literary Endings
1: Kitty and Levin's marriage is great, she thought. My guy stinks. With that, she pushed Hubby under the train. Whoomp!.

Anna Karenina.

2: Farmer Arable dabbed the napkin at his mouth. Mmm! That Wilbur... "Some pig", indeed!.

Charlotte's Web.

3: Jenny told me "Love means never having to say you're sorry". But now she was gone, and that nurse was giving me the eye..

Love Story.

4: Enraged, Lemuel tore the ropes from his body. His captors were "not six inches high"! His boot rose ominously..

Gulliver's Travels.

5: "Hey, it's Dantes! He must've escaped in Abbe Faria's burial shroud!" shouted Villefort. So they hanged him. Fin..

The Count of Monte Cristo.
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January 14, 2022Episode 337 - I'm Not A Doctor, But I Play One On Tv - Oscar, Grammy Or Both - Tv From The Next Room - Teens At Work - Common Bonds
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 337, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: I'm Not A Doctor, But I Play One On Tv
1: Dr. Benjamin Franklin Pierce.

Alan Alda.

2: Dr. Michaela Quinn.

Jane Seymour.

3: Dr. Doogie Howser.

Neil Patrick Harris.

4: Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy.

DeForest Kelley.

5: Dr. Joe Gannon.

Chad Everett.
Round 2. Category: Oscar, Grammy Or Both
1: Cher.

Both.

2: Meryl Streep.

Oscar.

3: Shirley Jones.

Oscar (for "Elmer Gantry").

4: Bette Midler.

Grammy.

5: Julie Andrews.

both.
Round 3. Category: Tv From The Next Room
1: "The plane... the plane!".

Fantasy Island.

2: [audio clue].

Gilligan's Island.

3: "Michael, all right, then promise me something: for today, for this 22nd anniversary, no fighting with Daddy, please!".

All in the Family.

4: "Sweetie, can I say something: I grew up in this city, let me tell ya, here's what you do: from the time you're eight, you run, you just run... any way you look, there's someone who wants to hurt you...".

Mad About You.

5: [audio clue].

Good Times.
Round 4. Category: Teens At Work
1: At 14, this fairy tale author worked for a director of the Royal Theater in Copenhagen.

Hans Christian Andersen.

2: At 16, Tracy Austin beat Chris Evert to win this tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows.

U.S. Open.

3: In the 1720s at age 16, this statesman and inventor wrote popular articles for the New England Courant newspaper.

Benjamin Franklin.

4: At 13, this march composer became an apprentice with the U.S. Marine Band.

John Philip Sousa.

5: At 16, Cornelius Vanderbilt started a ferry service between Staten Island and this famous 31-square-mile-island.

Manhattan.
Round 5. Category: Common Bonds
1: Fife,Rubble,Miller.

Barney.

2: Corn,cowards,business phone directory pages.

Things that are yellow.

3: Love,hot,rumble.

Seats.

4: Place,Floor,Door.

Mats.

5: Book,inch,glow.

worms.
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January 13, 2022Episode 336 - The Prisoner - Death And Texas - Tv Crossovers - Mary, Queen Of Scots, Playmate Of The Month - The New York Times Magazine
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 336, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: The Prisoner
1: Ahmed Ben Bella, first president of this country, was imprisoned in France from 1956-1962.

Algeria.

2: On Dec. 8, 1992 a U.S. federal judge in Miami ruled this Panamanian a prisoner of war.

Manuel Noriega.

3: His father, John, like his creation Mr. Pickwick, served time in debtor's prison.

Charles Dickens.

4: In 1519 this leader of the Aztecs was taken prisoner without resistance.

Montezuma.

5: He wrote what would become "Soul on Ice" while incarcerated in Folsom Prison.

Eldridge Cleaver.
Round 2. Category: Death And Texas
1: Susanna Dickinson and her child were among the few Texan survivors of the 1836 battle at this site in San Antonio.

the Alamo.

2: On January 22, 1973 this politician suffered a fatal heart attack near Johnson City, a town founded by an ancestor.

Lyndon B. Johnson.

3: His death on Nov. 22, 1963 after riding through Dallas' Dealey Plaza shocked the world.

John F. Kennedy.

4: Born in El Paso in 1921, this "Star Trek" creator crossed "the final frontier" in 1991.

Gene Roddenberry.

5: J. Frank Dalton was buried in Granbury in 1951, after years of claiming to be this outlaw, who died in 1882.

Jesse James.
Round 3. Category: Tv Crossovers
1: On April 1, 1997 this "Wheel of Fortune" host guest hosted "Jeopardy!".

Pat Sajak.

2: Lara Flynn Boyle of "The Practice" guested on this show and suggested Calista Flockhart eat a cookie.

Ally McBeal.

3: On May 3, 1999 Bill Cosby played Hilton Lucas on 4 consecutive sitcoms on this network.

CBS.

4: (Hi, I'm Julie Pinson) On "Port Charles", Lynn Herring plays my nemesis Lucy Coe, a role she plays on this other soap.

General Hospital.

5: A 1999 episode of "Early Edition" featured Sammo Hung, star of this kung fu cop show.

Martial Law.
Round 4. Category: Mary, Queen Of Scots, Playmate Of The Month
1: Birth date: Dec. 8, 1542Birthplace: Linlithgow Palace, built by this royal house.

Stuart.

2: Height: 5'11".Weight: None of your business, commoner!Hair: This color.

red.

3: Ambition: To replace this second cousin on her throne.

Elizabeth I.

4: Turn-ons: Poetry, needlework, this branch of Christianity.

Catholicism.

5: Turn-offs: Rude subjects, labor pains, climbing this structure (one time only) Feb. 8, 1587.

the scaffold.
Round 5. Category: The New York Times Magazine
1: Robin Marantz Henig's recent masterful essay on evolutionary biology was titled this 19th century scientist's "God".

Charles Darwin.

2: Feb. 2007's "From 0 to 60 to World Domination" explored this Japanese auto company's rise to prominence.

Toyota.

3: In March 2007's "Choosing a Sect", Noah Feldman studied the USA's feelings with these 2 main Iraqi Muslim sects.

Shi'ite and Sunni.

4: Dec. 2006's "The Lives They Lived" covered the 2006 passings of such notables as this founder and namer of Pink Floyd.

Syd Barrett.

5: A new one of these "super" nuclear physics accelerators was the subject of Jim Holt's "Where Protons Will Play".

supercollider.
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January 12, 2022Episode 335 - "S"Tuff - Sports Stadiums - "Foo" Finders - Fruit - Ask The Audience
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 335, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: "S"Tuff
1: This term for the illegal selling of concert tickets sounds like a bad way to lose your hair.

scalping.

2: Alphabetically, he's the last of Snow White's 7 dwarfs.

Sneezy.

3: From the Latin for "salted", it's spicy, seasoned meat chopped and stuffed into a tube of intestine.

sausage.

4: Attributed to Druids, Greeks and even Romans, this Neolithic site on Salisbury Plain was erected by unknown builders.

Stonehenge.

5: In the Bible's Book of Judges, he carried the Gates of Gaza about 40 miles to a hilltop near Hebron.

Samson.
Round 2. Category: Sports Stadiums
1: Artificial grass named for the site of its 1st installation.

AstroTurf.

2: In 1976, the name of this university's stadium was changed from Denny to Bryant-Denny.

Alabama.

3: N.Y. stadium that now seats 13000 fewer people than it did 15 years ago.

Yankee Stadium.

4: Major League Baseball's oldest stadium is this one in Chicago.

Comiskey Park.

5: While Huskie Stadium(-skie) belongs to Northern Illinois University, Husky Stadium (-sky) is this school's home field.

Washington.
Round 3. Category: "Foo" Finders
1: It's a Chinese-American chopped goodies omelet with gravy.

egg foo young.

2: Iron pyrite.

fool's gold.

3: "Speedy" term for McDonald's, etc..

fast food.

4: From the Italian for "clowning", it's a 7-letter word for a person given to clowning and joking.

buffoon.

5: "Essence of Emeril" is a favorite show on this cable TV channel.

the Food Network.
Round 4. Category: Fruit
1: The name of this fruit contains the name of the drink of the gods.

nectarine.

2: The Medjool type of this is the fruit of a certain palm tree.

a date.

3: Raisins are rich in this, symbolized Fe.

iron.

4: The Royal Ann type of this fruit is often canned or used to make maraschinos.

cherries.

5: It's the most important fruit export of Costa Rica and Honduras.

bananas.
Round 5. Category: Ask The Audience
1: Audiences were transfixed by an episode of her TV show in which she revealed she had lost 67 lbs. on a liquid diet.

Oprah Winfrey.

2: Practice, practice, practice and you too can get to this 2,804-seat NYC venue at 57th and 7th.

Carnegie Hall.

3: On Easter Sunday 1939, she sang before an audience of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial.

Marian Anderson.

4: When this Stravinsky work premiered in Paris in 1913, the audience went nuts and began a riot.

The Rite of Spring.

5: The Audience Research Institute was founded by this famous pollster in 1939 in Princeton, N.J..

(George) Gallup.
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January 11, 2022Episode 334 - Let's Play Chicken - People Of The Month - Food For Thought - "Mid" Terms - Chemistry Experiments
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 334, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Let's Play Chicken
1: This canned tuna company has been using a mermaid on its logo since 1952.

Chicken of the Sea.

2: This fast food chain told us to "Save the Chickens...Eat a Whopper".

Burger King.

3: The unofficial theme song of this Warner Brothers blabberbeak is "Camptown Races"...doo dah.

Foghorn Leghorn.

4: It's often performed at wedding receptions.

Funky chicken.

5: Created by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, his secret identity was Henry Cabot Henhaus III.

Super Chicken.
Round 2. Category: People Of The Month
1: She was the "She-Wolf of London" on film before starring in TV's "Lassie" and "Lost in Space".

June Lockhart.

2: This Spaniard's 1984 duet with Willie Nelson, "To All The Girls I've Loved Before", was a Top 10 hit.

Julio Iglesias.

3: Mike Nichols' former comedy partner, she co-wrote the "Tootsie" screenplay but was uncredited.

Elaine May.

4: In the 1980s this golfer was the leading money winner 3 times on the Senior PGA circuit.

Don January.

5: This Swedish playwright represented himself as "The Stranger" in his trilogy "To Damascus".

August Strindberg.
Round 3. Category: Food For Thought
1: These snack "nuts" bear the name of a vegetable that also grows in a pod.

peanuts.

2: Too much of this, whether saturated or polyunsaturated, can permanently damage brain tissue.

fat.

3: These seeds are crushed to a paste and mixed with sugar, verjuice and white wine by the people of Dijon.

mustard seeds.

4: Whether laksa or soba, to use this is to think.

your noodle.

5: This corn oil brand was first sold in 1911 in a can with a drawing of a corn cob forming the body of an Indian girl.

Mazola.
Round 4. Category: "Mid" Terms
1: Cinderella's deadline.

midnight.

2: A crop top is designed to leave this part of the body bare.

the midriff.

3: This word completes the proverb Â“DonÂ’t change horses in...Â”.

midstream.

4: Even Rachel in the Bible had one of these women to help her deliver her baby.

a midwife.

5: ItÂ’s where your tympanic membrane is located.

the middle ear.
Round 5. Category: Chemistry Experiments
1: You can use these, made by blowing soap film through a wand, to detect carbon dioxide.

bubbles.

2: To learn about different types of molecules, note that salt will do this in water but flour won't.

dissolve.

3: Wet steel wool in a jar helps demonstrate the formation of this; so does an old car.

rust.

4: Use the dye from boiled red cabbage to tell alkalis apart from these, like lemon juice.

acids.

5: By putting silver and aluminum together in a solution, you can remove tarnish, caused by this element with the symbol S.

sulfur.
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January 10, 2022Episode 333 - You Say Tomato - Going Wireless - European History - Quotable Recent Movies - Sound Technology
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 333, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: You Say Tomato
1: Varieties of tomato include beefsteak and these small ones that bear the name of a fruit of the genus Prunus.

cherry tomatoes (a plum tomato accepted).

2: The first tomatoes Europeans saw were yellow, hence the nickname of golden these.

apples.

3: It's believed tomatoes were first eaten and cultivated on this continent before being introduced to Europe.

South America.

4: The Italians call the tomato "pomodoro", meaning "golden" one of these fruits.

apple.

5: Though nonpoisonous itself, the tomato is a member of this "deadly" plant family.

nightshade.
Round 2. Category: Going Wireless
1: Thanks to firms like Pegaso and Telemex, this country now has more cellular users than fixed line customers.

Mexico.

2: The Kyocera QCP 6035 Smartphone combines a cell phone with one of these multifunction organizers.

PDA (personal digital assistant).

3: In 1946 this detective's 2-way wrist radio made its debut in the funnies.

Dick Tracy.

4: 44 GM models offer this wireless service that now has over 2,000,000 members.

OnStar.

5: Buying one of this company's DynaTAC models in 1984 could have set you back about $4,000.

Motorola.
Round 3. Category: European History
1: In 1867 this dual monarchy was created under the rule of Francis Joseph I; it lasted until the end of World War I.

Austria-Hungary.

2: The tribunal for war crimes in areas formerly part of this country held its first trial in 1996.

Yugoslavia.

3: Except for a brief time, this birthplace of Christopher Columbus was ruled by a doge from 1339-1797.

Genoa.

4: The demise of this monarch is depicted here.

Louis XVI.

5: His courageous union leadership during the 1980s helped bring freedom to millions.

Lech Wa and #322; and #281;sa.
Round 4. Category: Quotable Recent Movies
1: 2002:"Nice Greek girls who don't find a husband work in the family restaurant".

My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

2: 2003:"I shall take you to the Black Pearl and your bonny lass".

Pirates of the Caribbean.

3: 2001:"Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change".

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

4: 2003:"God doesn't take vacations... does He?... Do Ye?".

Bruce Almighty.

5: 2002:"There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?".

Signs.
Round 5. Category: Sound Technology
1: This computer device slowly takes you online.

a modem.

2: In 1859 Robert Fouls invented a steam-powered one of these to singal imperiled ships.

a foghorn.

3: I'll bet Christmas 1996 was the last time you thought you'd hear this toy's sound.

Tickle Me Elmo.

4: This phone company's walkie talkie service sounds promising.

Nextel.

5: You'll hear it when making a season pass on this company's genius TV device.

TiVo.
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