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March 09, 2024Episode 1132 - Books for the young - "pipe" dreams - Scrambled kegs - Genesis basics - Country confusion
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1132, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Books For The Young
1: This Mark Twain character is "hated" by moms because he is "vulgar and bad" but "all their children admired him".
Huckleberry Finn.
2: This Margaret Wise Brown children's classic about bedtime begins "In the great green room...".
Goodnight Moon.
3: He illustrated "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?".
Eric Carle.
4: Discovered in 1993 an asteroid was named Besixdouze, an homage to this title character who lives on Asteroid B-612.
the Little Prince.
5: Russell Hoban wrote 6 picture book stories about this little badger and her family.
Frances.
Round 2. Category: Pipe Dreams. With Pipe in quotes
1: It stretches from the larynx to the bronchi.
the windpipe.
2: This head covering is named for its shape.
a stovepipe hat.
3: In 2006 and again in 2010 it was all golden for Shaun White in this Olympic event.
the halfpipe.
4: The yagua of the Peruvian Amazon are skilled in using these weapons to bring down game.
a blowpipe.
5: Also known as a syrinx, this variety of flute is popular in the Pyrenees.
a panpipe.
Round 3. Category: Scrambled Kegs
1: Cheers, mate:FORESTS.
Fosters.
2: It's been known to shed a little light:A/C OR NO.
Corona.
3: Not just for the stoutest:INN GUESS.
Guinness.
4: Weekends were made for it:CLIMB HOE.
Michelob.
5: Perfect for award season:PROBABLE BIB NUTS.
Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Round 4. Category: Genesis Basics
1: In Genesis 40 he takes a job as a dream interpreter.
Joseph.
2: It sets sail in Genesis 7.
Noah's Ark.
3: He is slain in Genesis 4.
Abel.
4: These metropolises are destroyed in Genesis 19.
Sodom and Gomorrah.
5: Thestartofthis structureis found inGenesis 11.
the Tower of Babel.
Round 5. Category: Country Confusion
1: Togo is in Africa; Tobago is just off the coast of this continent.
South America.
2: Slovakia was once part of Czechoslovakia; Slovenia was part of this country until 1991.
Yugoslavia.
3: Mauritania is in northwest Africa; this island nation lies 500 miles east of Madagascar.
Mauritius.
4: In Africa, there is Guinea and Guinea-this, a neighbor of Guinea.
Bissau.
5: The Dominican Republic is part of Hispaniola; Dominica is part of these "Lesser" islands.
the Antilles.
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March 09, 2024Episode 1124 - Dr. alex' old-time feel-good medicine show - "v"acation spots - 5 guys named moe - Cable dramas - The lost "world"
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1124, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Dr. Alex' Old-Time Feel-Good Medicine Show
1: Muscles inflamed?Joints in pain?Dr. Alex' Youth Elixir clears away the ol' rheumatiz, or osteo- this (and it ain't "porosis"!).
arthritis.
2: Make your mucous membranes merry and mirthful! Enjoy Dr. Alex' Cure-All to fight these, be they duodenal or gastric.
ulcers.
3: Ate too much MSG or feelin' a megrim, or one of these, comin' on? Beta-blocker, shmeta-blocker! Try Dr. Alex' Head Cream!.
migraine.
4: For this inherited trait in men, sure, you can use Propecia--or my amazing new "Trebektophan".
baldness.
5: Step right up!I got me an "L" of an ointment for the chronic lower back pain known as this 7-letter malady.
lumbago.
Round 2. Category: VAcation Spots. With V in quotes
1: A town 14 miles southwest of Paris developed around this 17th century palace that tourists flock to.
Versailles.
2: Covering only 44 hectares, this country is found on the west bank of the Tiber River.
Vatican City.
3: Ferdinand III made this city his royal residence in 1248, maybe to be near his barber.
Seville.
4: The Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe in this state welcome skiers as well as superfans of "The Sound of Music".
Vermont.
5: Brothers of the Sword merged with the Teutonic Knights and conquered this Baltic nation in the 13th century.
Latvia.
Round 3. Category: 5 Guys Named Moe
1: Last name of Moe of the Three Stooges.
Howard (real name Moses Horvitz).
2: Moe Strauss founded this auto parts chain along with Manny Rosenfield and Jack Jackson.
Pep Boys.
3: Major league catcher Moe Berg was also a WWII spy for this agency, precursor of the CIA.
OSS (Office of Strategic Services).
4: Term for the type of country music Moe Bandy plays, the clubs where he began, or the "Queen" he sang of in 1981.
Honky Tonk.
5: This "Kool" rapper's album "How Ya Like Me Now" began a rivalry with LL Cool J.
Kool Moe Dee.
Round 4. Category: Cable Dramas
1: Please refer to this actor as "Boss", his title role on a Chicago-set drama.
Kelsey Grammer.
2: Denis Leary has to deal with fires and ghosts as Tommy Gavin on this show.
Rescue Me.
3: CIA officer Claire Danes suspects that a U.S. marine sergeant is working for al Qaeda on this Showtime drama.
Homeland.
4: Starz entered the arena with an ultra-bloody take on this character once played by Kirk Douglas.
Spartacus.
5: The Starz series about this title swordsman has subtitles like "Blood and Sand" and "Gods of the Arena".
Spartacus.
Round 5. Category: The Lost World. With World in quotation marks
1: The American League's Boston Pilgrims won the first of these in 1903.
World Series.
2: This NYC complex is noted for its huge twin towers of 110 stories each.
World Trade Center.
3: Peter Jennings hosts this show on ABC.
World News Tonight.
4: Abbreviated the WTO, it promotes and enforces international commerce laws.
World Trade Organization.
5: A giant panda is the symbol of this international organization.
the World Wildlife Fund.
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March 08, 2024Episode 1123 - Colors of the rainbow - She blinded me with science - Guardians - Unfinished operas - Songs
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1123, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Colors Of The Rainbow
1: This genre of country music is fittingly Kentucky's state music.
bluegrass.
2: Sad or gloomy.
blue.
3: In the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections, Ralph Nader ran as a member of this party.
the Green Party.
4: In a sad mood.
blue.
5: IBM is known informally as Big this.
Blue.
Round 2. Category: She Blinded Me With Science
1: Dorothy Hodgkin's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was for her work on this vitamin, whose deficiency causes pernicious anemia.
B12.
2: Alice Ball was 23 and a college instructor in Hawaii in 1915 when she developed the first successful treatment for this, also known as Hansen's disease.
leprosy.
3: Pioneering computer programmer Grace Murray Hopper coined this term for a mysterious computer problem.
bug.
4: Nobel laureate Gertrude Elion helped develop drugs to treat herpes, gout and this, cancer of the bone marrow.
leukemia.
5: In 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer received a Nobel Prize in Physics for her "shell model" of this part of an atom.
Nucleus.
Round 3. Category: Guardians
1: U.S. Coast Guard units based in Cleveland, Ohio are known as the "Guardians of" these bodies of water.
the Great Lakes.
2: 4-letter term for a person, usually a minor, legally placed in the charge of a guardian.
a ward.
3: "Keeping it safe" is the motto of this red-bereted group founded by Curtis Sliwa.
the Guardian Angels.
4: The scarlet and gold dress uniforms of these guardians of the Tower of London date back to 1552.
the Beefeaters (or Yeoman Warders).
5: In Arthurian legend this wounded monarch is the guardian of the Holy Grail.
the Fisher King.
Round 4. Category: Unfinished Operas
1: This composer finished just 3 scenes of "Olav Trygvason"; they're sometimes performed as a cantata.
Edvard Grieg.
2: Make an exodus from the theatre after seeing Schoenberg's incomplete opera about this man and his brother Aaron.
Moses.
3: Biondello hides inside a mechanical goose in Mozart's unfinished opera "The Goose of" this Egyptian city.
Cairo.
4: Let's wax philosophical and wonder why Rousseau left only fragments of his opera about Daphnis and her.
Chloe.
5: Smetana's "Viola", with just 365 bars of music, is based on this play.
Twelfth Night.
Round 5. Category: Songs
1: Having this title problem, Barry Manilow sings, "I can't laugh and I can't sing, I'm finding it hard to do anything".
"Can't Smile Without You".
2: 1930s song to which the Marcels added the following over 25 years later:"Bom ba ba bom ba bom ba bom bom ba ba bom ba ba bom ba ba dang a dang dang / Ba ba ding a dong ding".
"Blue Moon".
3: 2 of the 3 Top 10 Fats Domino songs with "Walk" in the title.
"I'm Walkin'", "I Want to Walk You Home", and/or "Walking to New Orleans".
4: "Under the Sea" from this Disney animated feature won the 1989 Oscar for Best Song.
The Little Mermaid.
5: He's told to "mind the music and the step, and with the girls be handy".
Yankee Doodle Dandy.
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March 07, 2024Episode 1122 - 3rd graders know this stuff - Churches - Castle life - Literary title characters - Small jobs
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1122, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: 3Rd Graders Know This Stuff
1: Zero divided by 6 yields this quotient.
zero.
2: Of I'm, they've, you're or won't, the contraction that lost the most letters.
won't.
3: The predicate of a sentence tells what this part is or does.
the subject.
4: The size of this body part changes, depending on the light.
the pupil.
5: The 15th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 24th and 26th ones of these are specifically concerned with voting.
constitutional amendments.
Round 2. Category: Churches
1: Famous signal lanterns were once hung there, and the oldest colonial peal of bells is still there.
the Old North Church.
2: St. Etheldreda's, built in 1251, survived Henry VIII and is London's oldest church of this faith.
Roman Catholic.
3: From the Latin for "raised place", originally it was where offerings were placed or sacrificed.
an altar.
4: Milan's Santa Maria Delle Grazie features what's left of this mural masterpiece by Leonardo.
"The Last Supper".
5: They're small churches often used for weddings, funerals or private worship.
chapels.
Round 3. Category: Castle Life
1: It's usually a body of protective water spanned by the drawbridge.
Moat.
2: Under feudal law this 4-letter word was the general title for the owner of a manor or castle.
Lord.
3: Term for the trainer of a predatory bird used for hunting.
Falconer.
4: 2-word term for the big chamber that was the main meeting and dining area.
Great hall.
5: Crossbows were stored in the balistraria and these were stored in the chandlery.
Candles.
Round 4. Category: Literary Title Characters
1: In this novel inspired by a painting, Griet is the title 17th century portrait sitter.
the Girl with a Pearl Earring.
2: The name of this Sinclair Lewis Minister is a byword for hypocrisy.
Elmer Gantry.
3: 1851:A white whale.
Moby-Dick.
4: A whale of legendary size and ferocity, tormentor of Ahab.
"Moby Dick".
5: Devil-dealing doctor-turned-necromancer.
"Dr. Faustus".
Round 5. Category: Small Jobs
1: This little Roman love god performs his matchmaking job with a bow and arrow.
Cupid.
2: The Munchkins toiled as slaves for this woman until a house fell on her.
The Wicked Witch of the East.
3: To find a leprechaun, follow the tapping of his hammer as he busies himself making these.
Shoes.
4: In the "Dilbert" comic strip, he's the evil director of human resources.
Catbert.
5: Describing his job, this Shakespearean sprite says, "I jest to Oberon and make him smile".
Puck.
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March 06, 2024Episode 1121 - U.s. colleges and universities - The iberian peninsula - Don't lose your train of thought - The 10 plagues of egypt - You got nerve
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1121, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: U.S. Colleges And Universities
1: Recovering from Katrina, it scheduled a makeup "lagniappe semester" starting in May 2006.
Tulane.
2: The 2 founders of Yahoo! and the 2 founders of Google all attended this California school.
Stanford.
3: Texas Lutheran University is in Seguin; this school founded in 1873 is in Fort Worth.
Texas Christian University.
4: The North Carolina university founded in this town in 1834 is now in Winston-Salem.
Wake Forest.
5: It's the northernmost Ivy League School.
Dartmouth.
Round 2. Category: The Iberian Peninsula
1: The Spanish called the Muslims Moors, meaning from this country.
Morocco.
2: This expensive spice from La Mancha gives paella its golden hue.
saffron.
3: This 2.25-square-mile area on the Iberian Peninsula belongs to the United Kingdom.
Gibraltar.
4: To make port in Porto, Portugal, add this to wine and age.
brandy.
5: Eastern region that's the center of Spain's citrus industry; its oranges are harvested in December.
Valencia.
Round 3. Category: Don'T Lose Your Train Of Thought
1: Platfprm 9 3/4 at King's Cross Station in this city is the place where Harry Potter boards the train to Hogwarts.
London.
2: The Grand Traverse Dinner Train specializes in tours of this duration, so let's invite Gilligan.
3 hours.
3: The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway, one of the world's steepest, starts in this "Choo Choo" city.
Chattanooga.
4: In 1912 Henry Flagler rode the first train that linked the U.S. mainland to this, the southernmost city in Florida.
Key West.
5: After touring the Coors Brewing Company, you may want to visit the Colorado Railroad Museum in this city.
Golden.
Round 4. Category: The 10 Plagues Of Egypt
1: The first plague was the turning of the waters of Egypt into this.
blood.
2: The third plague was these parasitic arthropods that also plague kids in the classroom.
lice.
3: In the seventh plague, this rained "upon the land of Egypt", breaking "every tree of the field".
hail.
4: In the eighth plague, swarms of these covered the face of the Earth, darkening the land.
locusts.
5: Passover gets its name from when God passes over the Israelites' homes, sparing them from this final plague.
death of the firstborn.
Round 5. Category: You Got Nerve
1: When you "hit" this "bone", the ulnar nerve creates the "unamusing" sensation in your elbow.
humerus.
2: Term for a group of nerves; among the most famous is the "solar" one.
plexus.
3: As part of his "drill", this doctor often anesthetizes the mandibular and lingual nerves.
dentist.
4: The olfactory nerve is the nerve of this sense.
smell.
5: Running from the lower back down the leg, the sciatic nerve holds this distinction among the body's nerves.
the longest nerve.
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March 05, 2024Episode 1120 - Bruce willis movie quotes - Female world leaders - Midway - Politics talk - Where ya been?
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1120, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Bruce Willis Movie Quotes
1: "Sorry, Hans. Wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy!, where the scores can really change?".
Die Hard.
2: "Dead people, like, in graves... in coffins?".
The Sixth Sense.
3: "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead".
Pulp Fiction.
4: "If you pull that trigger, that bullet is just gonna bounce off me and I'm not going to be hurt".
Unbreakable.
5: "Scientists. I'm supposed to report in to them. They'll want to know they sent me to the wrong time".
12 Monkeys.
Round 2. Category: Female World Leaders
1: Her husband's assassination and a People Power Revolution made her president in 1986.
(Corazon) Aquino.
2: PM Johanna Sigurdardottir of this Atlantic island country is the world's first openly gay head of govt..
Iceland.
3: The daughter of a president who was assassinated, Park Geun-Hye is the president of this country.
South Korea.
4: Dame Louise Lake-Tack is governor general of Antigua and this geographic partner.
Barbuda.
5: Vigdis Finnbogadottir was president of this country for almost the entire 1980s.
Iceland.
Round 3. Category: Midway
1: The nearly extinct Hawaiian species of this mammal uses Midway's beaches to breed.
a seal.
2: An order signed on Oct. 31, 1996 transferred Midway from the Navy to this cabinet dept..
Interior.
3: In 1935 this airline built a prefab hotel on Midway as a rest stop for passengers flying on its China Clippers.
Pan Am.
4: Midway is home to the world's largest colony of the Laysan species of this "wandering" sea bird.
the albatross.
5: In the 1950's and '60s Midway was home to crews who flew radar aircraft in this Cold War detection line.
the DEW line.
Round 4. Category: Politics Talk
1: Sen. Robert Byrd said the survival of our constitutional system is based on "the delicate mechanism of" this pair.
checks and balances.
2: It's the group from one state at a convention; at the 2020 DNC, California's was 494 strong.
a delegation.
3: Type of post-election election that involved the two men here in December 2022.
a runoff.
4: The first time Congress did this to a president was to lame duck John Tyler on March 3, 1845.
the first time a veto was overridden.
5: From the name of a D.C. location where many lobbying firms are concentrated, this "Street" is shorthand for lobbyists.
K Street.
Round 5. Category: Where Ya Been?
1: Strolling through the National Gallery of Australia in this capital.
Canberra.
2: Climbing Mount Aconcagua in this Western Hemisphere mountain range.
the Andes.
3: Tracking my stocks on the Hang Seng index of this former Crown colony's stock exchange.
Hong Kong.
4: Chopping down trees in Moose Jaw and Saskatoon in this province.
Saskatchewan.
5: Carefully paddling down this Congolese river that lends its name to a deadly virus.
Ebola.
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March 04, 2024Episode 1119 - National narratives - "rebel"s - Foreign words and phrases - Silent-letter vocabulary - Directed but didn't star in
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1119, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: National Narratives
1: "And Quiet Flows The Don" and "The Gulag Archipelago".
Russia.
2: "The Man Who Planted Trees" and "The Man In The Iron Mask".
France.
3: "The Tale Of Genji" and "The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion".
Japan.
4: "The Settlers" and "Exodus".
Israel.
5: "Snow Flower And The Secret Fan" and "The Sand Pebbles".
China.
Round 2. Category: RebelS. With Rebel in quotation marks
1: Called rock and roll's No. 1 instrumentalist, Duane Eddy had his 1st big hit with this:.
"Rebel-'Rouser".
2: James Dean was considered the embodiment of the title of this film in which he starred.
Rebel Without a Cause.
3: A prolonged high-pitched scream associated with Confederate soldiers.
rebel yell.
4: Tho The Crystals were a real group, this, their biggest hit, was actually sung by Darlene Love and The Blossoms.
"He's a Rebel".
5: This 1970 ABC series set in 1777 showed exploits of Pennsylvania's Yankee Doodle Society.
The Young Rebels.
Round 3. Category: Foreign Words And Phrases
1: It's the Italian word for "You're welcome", not "You're with child".
prego.
2: A criminal who is caught red-handed is caught this way, "while the crime is blazing".
in flagrante delicto.
3: It's the name the Greeks gave to the primordial disorganization of the universe.
chaos.
4: "Negus, from the Amharic for "king", was once used as a title for the emperors of this African nation.
Ethiopia.
5: Meaning "10,000 years", this Japanese cry of triumph was often used in battle.
"Banzai!".
Round 4. Category: Silent-Letter Vocabulary
1: The song entitled "Great Is Thy Faithfulness", for example.
a hymn.
2: The Latin "Agnus Dei" means this baby animal "of God".
lamb.
3: To twist violently, like a neck.
wrench (or wring).
4: O. kisutch, or these, return upstream to deposit their eggs.
salmon.
5: A silent "K" begins this British slang word meaning very tired.
knackered.
Round 5. Category: Directed But Didn'T Star In
1: "Ordinary People"(1980).
Robert Redford.
2: "Apollo 13"(1995).
Ron Howard.
3: 2014's "Lost River", featuring girlfriend Eva Mendes.
Ryan Gosling.
4: "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"(1997).
Clint Eastwood.
5: "Unbroken".
Angelina Jolie.
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March 03, 2024Episode 1118 - Action figures - The vietnam era - All-american food - Puerto rican holidays - North american languages
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1118, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Action Figures
1: Fact: This "Office" star sees plenty of action as the title character on Amazon's "Jack Ryan".
John Krasinski.
2: Paddy Doyle's fitness records include throwing 470 of these in 1 minute--that should win the round.
punches.
3: In 2003 Paul Crake ran up the 1,576 steps of this NYC building in 9 minutes 33 seconds.
the Empire State Building.
4: In a tune by the Flaming Lips, Yoshimi battles some pink these; "she's a black belt in karate".
robots.
5: In 2006 Leyan Lo, a student at this Pasadena school, solved a Rubik's Cube puzzle in 11.13 seconds.
Caltech.
Round 2. Category: The Vietnam Era
1: Senator J. William Fulbright said his sponsorship of this resolution was one of his biggest political mistakes.
the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
2: This "Where Are You Now, My Son" singer was noted for her anti-income tax and anti-war protests.
(Joan) Baez.
3: David Dellinger and other activists figured this event in Chicago in 1968 would make a good site for a protest.
the Democratic National Convention.
4: This former New York Times journalist's Vietnam books include "The Best and the Brightest" and "Ho".
David Halberstam.
5: This man who often faced Kissinger across the bargaining table died in Hanoi in October 1990.
Lê Đức Thọ.
Round 3. Category: All-American Food
1: On Fridays many people like to chow down on this thick, creamy style of clam chowder.
New England clam chowder.
2: This spicy poultry appetizer is popularly served with blue-cheese dressing and celery sticks.
Buffalo wings.
3: You'll cover several food groups dining on this city's lettuce, baked beans and cream pie.
Boston.
4: Some credit a Delmonico's chef with cooking up this dessert of ice cream covered in meringue and browned.
Baked Alaska.
5: The Anchor Bar says it's the home of the original this deep-fried chicken dish with hot sauce and bleu-cheese dressing.
buffalo wings.
Round 4. Category: Puerto Rican Holidays
1: Jose Barbosa, who is honored on July 27, founded Puerto Rico's Republican Party on this patriotic American holiday.
the 4th of July (Independence Day).
2: As elsewhere, it works out that this is the first Monday in September.
Labor Day.
3: January 11 is the birthday of Eugenio Maria de Hostos, founder of the 1st "Normal" one of these in Santo Domingo.
school.
4: A royal-sounding January 6 holiday, or a 1999 George Clooney film.
Three Kings Day.
5: Luis Munoz Rivera, who fought for Puerto Rico's autonomy from these 2 countries, has his own holiday.
Spain and the United States.
Round 5. Category: North American Languages
1: When traveling to a certain part of the U.S., you might be called a "malihini", meaning tourist in this language.
Hawaiian.
2: About 4 million Canadians are unilingual speakers of this language.
French.
3: As you might expect, Yucatec is a Mayan language spoken in Belize and Mexico on this peninsula.
the Yucatan.
4: Nunavut means "our land" in the language of these people.
the Inuit.
5: Nahuatl, Mexico's second-most widely spoken language, is also known by the name of this pre-Columbian people.
Aztecs.
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March 03, 2024Episode 1117 - Forget u - Country - Other christmas songs - Write foot - The age of the robber barons
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1117, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Forget U
1: Forget the "U" in this synonym for "abode" and you get this stocking.
house and hose.
2: Drop the "U" from this float used to mark a navigational channel to get this male word.
buoy and boy.
3: Dropping the "U" from this synonym for "leap" gives you this uniting force.
bound and bond.
4: This verb meaning "to recommend" becomes this word for a small child when it loses its "U".
tout and tot.
5: This, the worth or merit of something, loses its "U" to become this mortal life, like the one "of tears".
value and vale.
Round 2. Category: Country
1: This country's coat of arms has 3 stars for its 3 main island groups, an eagle for the U.S. and and a lion representing Spain.
the Philippines.
2: In October 2002 this late rocker's "30 #1 Hits" CD debuted at the top of the country charts.
Elvis Presley.
3: It's where you'll find Kerry's lovely lakes of Killarney.
Ireland.
4: He won a 1967 Grammy for "Gentle on My Mind", which later became the theme song to his TV series.
Glen Campbell.
5: In 2005 Lech Kaczynski became the president of this country.
Poland.
Round 3. Category: Other Christmas Songs
1: In 1942 this crooner had a No. 1 hit with "White Christmas".
Bing Crosby.
2: This title line is followed by "underneath the mistletoe last night".
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus".
3: His "Christmas Album" of 1957 includes the now classic "Blue Christmas".
Elvis Presley.
4: It's the alternate title and first line of "The Christmas Song", definitively sung by Nat King Cole.
"Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire".
5: In 2014 Bob Geldof re-recorded this 30-year-old song as a fundraiser to fight Ebola.
"Do They Know It's Christmas?".
Round 4. Category: Write Foot
1: Beginning readers may learn about trick feet and sick feet in "The Foot Book" by this author whose real name was Theodor Geisel.
Dr. Seuss.
2: In this Grimm tale, one sister cuts off a toe to fit into a golden shoe; the other, part of her heel; the title girl, a perfect fit!.
Cinderella.
3: After landing in Oz, Dorothy is dismayed to see this woman's lifeless feet "shod in silver shoes with pointed toes".
the Wicked Witch of the East.
4: In Fulgentius' "Mythologies", the goddess Thetis douses this babe in the River Styx, "his heel alone she did not dip".
Achilles.
5: Artist Christy Brown wrote in this autobiography that he was "living in chains" battling cerebral palsy.
My Left Foot.
Round 5. Category: The Age Of The Robber Barons
1: In 1890 he became president of the American Tobacco Company in Durham, North Carolina.
(James Buchanan) Duke.
2: Henry Frick made a fortune supplying the Pittsburgh steel industry with this product made from heating pulverized coal.
coke.
3: The "P." in the name of this preeminent banker of the Gilded Age stood for Pierpont, his mother's family.
(J.P.) Morgan.
4: 5 years after this act was passed, the Supreme Court gutted it in 1895's United States v. E.C. Knight.
the Sherman Antitrust Act.
5: Montana's Marcus Daly owned this, the USA's richest copper mine, as well as the town named for it.
Anaconda.
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March 02, 2024Episode 1116 - Taking the driving test - Phi beta kappa - Water sports - Medal of honor winners - Mr. mike
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1116, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Taking The Driving Test
1: This state agency, the DMV for short, administers the test.
the Department of Motor Vehicles.
2: This alliterative method to get your car alongside the curb just might be on the test.
parallel parking.
3: To take the test in most states, you'll need this proof of financial responsibility in case anything goes wrong.
insurance.
4: Mirrors aren't enough--look over your shoulder to check these areas before changing lanes.
blind spots.
5: Failing to give this 3-word clearance to pedestrians can be an automatic failure.
right of way.
Round 2. Category: Phi Beta Kappa
1: 1904: deaf, blind and a Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa.
Helen Keller.
2: 1997: Tennessee it to believe it! a Colts and now Broncos quarterback.
Peyton Manning.
3: 1941: what a Betty, 22 years before "The Feminine Mystique".
(Betty) Friedan.
4: 1916: at Bowdoin, a 1948 researcher on sex (but not drugs and rock and roll).
Kinsey.
5: 1842: at Bowdoin, a novelist from Salem, Massachusetts.
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Round 3. Category: Water Sports
1: Cypress Gardens show done on water, not on snow.
water skiing.
2: Fishing from a moving boat.
trolling.
3: What an unlucky surfer has just experienced in this song.
wipeout.
4: Competitor in this sport was the model for nude male torso atop L.A.'s Olympic gate.
water polo.
5: Synchronized swimming used to be called "water" this, though it's hard to be "en pointe" in the pool.
ballet.
Round 4. Category: Medal Of Honor Winners
1: Francis Flaherty saved shipmates and lost his own life aboard the Oklahoma during this infamous 1941 attack.
Pearl Harbor.
2: During WWI Eddie Rickenbacker shot down 22 planes and 4 of these used for observation.
balloons.
3: Back in 1932 Donald Truesdale earned his medal during the Marines' campaign against Sandinistas in this country.
Nicaragua.
4: Veteran James Stockdale was the running mate of this wealthy third-party presidential candidate in 1992.
H. Ross Perot.
5: Jacob Parrott, the first winner, was among the men who stole this "high-ranking" Confederate locomotive.
the General.
Round 5. Category: Mr. Mike
1: On November 22, 1986 at age 20, he became the youngest world heavyweight boxing champion ever.
Mike Tyson.
2: He's been Lothar, Dieter, Wayne and Austin Powers.
Mike Myers.
3: He became the lead vocalist of the Beach Boys in 1961.
Mike Love.
4: One of the senior journalists on U.S. television, he's been the leading host of "60 Minutes" since 1968.
Mike Wallace.
5: A 3 time league MVP, this former Phillie hit a career total 548 home runs.
Mike Schmidt.
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