Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 180, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Past Tense
1: Before the fall, Humpty Dumpty did it "on a wall".
sat.
2: Meaning "manufactured", it was in a famous telegraph message after "What hath God...".
wrought.
3: If you missed the big day, go online; Blue Mountain has a whole section of this kind of birthday e-card.
belated.
4: On pepper boxes, it means "milled".
cracked.
5: This synonym for "haggard" is also past tense for having pulled out your weapon.
drawn.Round 2. Category: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
1: Flat snow crystals generally have this many sides or arms.
six.
2: The National Weather Service defines this as snowy winds of 35 mph with 1/4 mile visibility lasting for 3 hours.
a blizzard.
3: Buffalo, New York is familiar with the snowstorm-causing effect named for this type of body of water.
a lake effect.
4: When air becomes "super" this adjective, relative humidity is above 100% and snow can form.
supersaturated.
5: Poli'ahu, the goddess of snow, lives on this highest Hawaiian mountain.
Mauna Kea.Round 3. Category: The 7 Wonders
1: We sort of know what the Statue of Zeus looked like because it was reproduced on these of the realm.
coins.
2: They were located on terraces that possibly rose some 300 feet.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
3: Made of bronze, it was destroyed by an earthquake in 224 B.C..
Colossus of Rhodes.
4: An earthquake in the 13th century signaled the loss of this -- signal.
Lighthouse at Alexandria.
5: As always, invading Goths got the blame for destroying her temple at Ephesus.
Artemis/Diana.Round 4. Category: U.s. Place Names
1: Warm Springs, Georgia's airport is named for him.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
2: Mark Twain's brother Orion owned this Missouri city's Journal, for which Twain set type and wrote.
Hannibal.
3: The U.S. has 110 hospitals named for this helpful New Testament fella from Luke 10.
the Good Samaritan.
4: See this town, see it run along the only road in Hickman County, Tennessee.
Spot.
5: Grant County, Kansas is named for President Grant, as is this county seat.
Ulysses.Round 5. Category: Antarctic Explorers
1: The last entry in this Briton's diary, dated March 29, 1912, ended, "For God's sake look after our people".
Robert Scott.
2: His 1930 book "Little America" is an account of his flight to the South Pole.
Richard Byrd.
3: On Dec. 17, 1911 he left the South Pole, leaving behind a tent and the Norwegian flag.
Roald Amundsen.
4: An Antarctic sea and ice shelf are named for this man who discovered the North Magnetic Pole.
James Ross.
5: In the 1950s this New Zealand mountaineer blazed a trail for Sir Vivian Fuchs, the first to cross Antarctica.
Sir Edmund Hillary.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!