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April 03, 2023Episode 782 - to serve - gridiron greats - the bad old days - international potpourri - social studies
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 782, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: to serve
1: You can serve your leftovers directly from this brand of tight-sealing food containers introduced in 1945.

Tupperware.

2: According to their Buffalo, NY inventors, Buffalo wings should be served with celery and this dressing.

Blue cheese.

3: According to Guinness, this sport's fastest serve was 142 MPH, in 1997.

Tennis.

4: He served in the Dodger organization for 47 years, retired, and returned as GM in 1998.

Tommy Lasorda.

5: The "To Serve Man" episode of this classic TV series involved aliens with a "taste" for humans.

"The Twilight Zone".
Round 2. Category: gridiron greats
1: AKA "Tom Terrific", he's won 4 Super Bowl MVP awards.

Tom Brady.

2: Scandinavians Jan Stenerud and Morten Andersen have excelled in the NFL at this position.

placekicker.

3: Alan Page of this team's Purple People Eaters defense is now a state supreme court justice.

the Minnesota Vikings.

4: It was the feline nickname of Dallas Cowboy defensive lineman Bob Lilly, who was no Peter Pan.

Tiger Lilly.

5: At his Hall of Fame induction in 2017, this Chargers RB known as LT compared America to a football team working together.

LaDainian Tomlinson.
Round 3. Category: the bad old days
1: It wasn't a college football game, it was the Great Plains area racked by drought in the 1930s.

the Dust Bowl.

2: 1950s college basketball was hit by scandal when players were "razor"-sharp at this activity.

shaving points.

3: The scandals of his 1920s presidency included skimming by Veterans Bureau head Charles Forbes.

Warren G. Harding.

4: The founding of this organization in 1909 was spurred by a Springfield, Ill. race riot the previous year.

NAACP.

5: This Japanese term refers to second-generation Japanese-Americans, many of whom were interned during WWII.

Nisei.
Round 4. Category: international potpourri
1: Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, lies on this "Beautiful Blue" river.

Danube.

2: The railroads in Honduras were built mainly to transport this fruit that has a lot of ap"peel".

bananas.

3: It's no sham: Aer Lingus is this country's national airline.

Ireland.

4: It's the seductive ballroom dance most associated with Buenos Aires.

tango.

5: Kiunguja, which is spoken in Zanzibar, is a dialect of this African Bantu language.

Swahili.
Round 5. Category: social studies
1: It's South America's most populous country.

Brazil.

2: This group is composed of those of your same age or social position; in a courtroom, you might face a jury of them.

peers.

3: As opposed to latitude, these meridian lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole.

Longitude.

4: The "Great Migration" from the south brought 120,000 African Americans to this "Windy City" in the 1920s.

Chicago.

5: This social science focuses on the characteristics of human populations such as size, growth and distribution.

demography.
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April 02, 2023Episode 781 - bedtime - foreign animal noises - shoot the moon - claudias - crustaceans
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 781, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: bedtime
1: According to a cliche, an irritable person has "gotten up" this way.

on the wrong side of the bed.

2: "Driving pigs to market" is British slang for this noisy nocturnal behavior.

snoring.

3: "Floral" phrase for a situation of luxury and ease.

a bed of roses.

4: This baby bed with a 4-letter name often has high barred sides to keep the baby from falling out.

a crib.

5: If you're spending the night in the famous Lincoln bedroom, you're sleeping in this mansion.

the White House.
Round 2. Category: foreign animal noises
1: To the Germans and Vietnamese, these say wau wau when chasing a postman or a cat.

a dog.

2: It will wake you up with kokekokko in Japan and kykeliky in Norway.

a rooster.

3: Albanian ones say hunk hunk; maybe it's the smell that makes French ones say groin groin while truffle hunting.

pigs.

4: In Argentina they berp; Swedish ones kvack while hopping.

frogs.

5: They say piv while stealing havarti and squitt squitt if they get into the provolone.

mice.
Round 3. Category: shoot the moon
1: This lunar "sea" was the landing site of Apollo 11's Eagle module.

Sea of Tranquility.

2: This term used for an Apollo mission's return to Earth tells you it landed in water.

Splashdown.

3: On the Apollo 14 mission, Alan Shepard introduced this sport to the moon.

Golf.

4: A NASA doctor declined this president's dinner invitation to the Apollo 11 crew because of risk of infections.

Richard M. Nixon.

5: Apollo 15, 16 and 17 used these 4-wheeled vehicles to fetch rock samples.

Lunar rovers.
Round 4. Category: claudias
1: This man's wife, the former Claudia Alta Taylor, was the mother of Lynda Bird and Luci Baines.

Lyndon B. Johnson.

2: The People Almanac reports this supermodel from Dusseldorf tripped during her runway debut in 1990.

Claudia Schiffer.

3: Lacey Chabert plays Claudia Salinger on this FOX series.

"Party of Five".

4: It's reporter Claudia Cohen's specialty.

Gossip columnist.

5: In 1993's "Son of the Pink Panther", she played the mother of Clouseau's son.

Claudia Cardinale.
Round 5. Category: crustaceans
1: Prawn and this word are used interchangeably to refer to the same creature.

a shrimp.

2: The habit of eating these freshwater crustaceans came to Louisiana from France.

crawfish.

3: Popular in the South, over 100 mil. lbs. of these freshwater cousins of lobsters are raised in the U.S..

crayfish.

4: If you had a fiddler on your roof, one of these would be clomping around.

a crab.

5: These crustaceans, the main food of many baleen whales, can reach 2 inches in length.

krill.
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April 01, 2023Episode 780 - serving suggestions - secret service code names - 4-letter birds - let's take a little trip - lights
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 780, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: serving suggestions
1: Baked oysters are sometimes served on a bed of the "rock" type of this seasoning.

salt.

2: Spring-operated tongs are often used to hold the shells of these garden gastropods.

snails.

3: Cocktail sausages wrapped in dough and baked are called "pigs in" these.

blankets.

4: Chimichangas are often topped with this avocado mixture.

guacamole.

5: Some people serve the Liptauer type of this with beer, other prefer it with white wine.

cheese.
Round 2. Category: secret service code names
1: A rock and roll president:Eagle (not Elvis, as rumored).

Bill Clinton.

2: Fittingly, Fraction is the Secret Service code name for this cabinet post.

Secretary of Education.

3: A Baptist president:Deacon.

Carter.

4: Eisenhower was Providence; oddly, this president was General.

President Harry Truman.

5: A religious visitor:Halo.

Pope John Paul II.
Round 3. Category: 4-letter birds
1: An elated person is sometimes said to be "as happy as" this songbird.

lark.

2: This bird isn't biologically distinct from the pigeon, it's just smaller.

dove.

3: The rook is the most common member of this bird family found in Europe.

crow.

4: Ancient Egyptians believed this bird to be a representative of the god Thoth.

ibis.

5: Species of this bird include the Caspian, South and Arctic.

tern.
Round 4. Category: let's take a little trip
1: In 1995 one of these craft that began passenger service in 1976 flew around the world in less than 32 hours.

Concorde.

2: In May 1932 she made a little flight from Newfoundland across the north Atlantic.

Amelia Earhart.

3: On May 9, 1926 Byrd and Bennett left Norway with a plan to fly over this and they claimed they did.

North Pole.

4: In 1889 she left New York and went around the world in less than 80 days.

Nellie Bly.

5: In 1938 this rich aviator took 4 assistants on a little round-the-world flight.

Howard Hughes.
Round 5. Category: lights
1: The hollowed, carved fruit of the "Cucurbita pepo" plant with a light inside.

jack-o'-lantern.

2: It's a very slender candle or the wax-coated wick used to light it.

a taper.

3: Color of the bulb in all theatrical spotlights.

white.

4: Fairy tale that includes the line "Who will change old lamps for new?".

"Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp".

5: Originally an explosion of gunpowder in a flintlock rifle that failed to set off the charge.

a flash in the pan.
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March 31, 2023Episode 779 - cruisin' the caribbean - readings from homer simpson - ultra-lounge - 19th century business leaders - classic literature
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 779, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: cruisin' the caribbean
1: Princess Cruises shipped in tons of this to keep its private Caribbean island beach looking pristine.

sand.

2: As you'd expect, it was the first company to launch a fleet exclusively in the Caribbean.

Royal Caribbean.

3: Destiny and Liberty are 2 of this line's "Fun Ships".

Carnival.

4: If you're cruising on the Royal Clipper, it will most likely be under this power.

wind.

5: When you pull into Guadeloupe, you may have to change your dollars into this official currency.

euros.
Round 2. Category: readings from homer simpson
1: Hero speaking here:"Nine days I drifted on the teeming sea... upon the tenth we came to the coastline of the lotus eaters... mmmm, lotus!".

Odysseus.

2: He's the god hitting the hay here:"Going up to the bed he slept and Hera of the gold throne beside him".

Zeus.

3: She's the subject of the following:"Surely there is no blame on Trojans... if for long time they suffer hardship for a woman like this one--va va va voom!".

Helen.

4: Sorceress working her magic here:"Scarce had they drunk when she flew after them with her long stick, and shut them in a pigsty.".

Circe.

5: Monster speaking here:"Can you be grieving over your master's eye? That carrion rogue and his accurst companions burnt it out.".

Cyclops.
Round 3. Category: ultra-lounge
1: The CD "On The Rocks Part One" includes Peggy Lee singing this title song of the first Beatles movie.

"A Hard Day's Night".

2: The "Cha-Cha de Amor" album features Yma Sumac singing the "Gopher Mambo" and this Rat Pack hunk crooning "Sway".

Dean Martin.

3: I'd return my "TV Town" CD if it didn't include the tune from this Mike Connors TV series.

Mannix.

4: This late, great singer's classic rendition of "Jump, Jive An' Wail" is on the "Fuzzy Sampler" CD.

Louis Prima.

5: Sip a cocktail and listen to this co-star of TV's "Emergency!" on the "Bottoms Up!" CD.

Julie London.
Round 4. Category: 19th century business leaders
1: On June 4, 1896 he completed assembly of his first auto, the quadricycle, in Detroit.

Henry Ford.

2: In 1863 he, Maurice Clark and Samuel Andrews founded a Cleveland oil company: in 1870 it changed its named to Standard Oil.

John D. Rockefeller.

3: In 1895 he introduced the first camera that would fit into a pocket.

George Eastman.

4: In 1872 this 25-year-old Prussian bought a Denver bottling company and founded a brewery.

(Adolph) Coors.

5: This man's name is on the can, but it was John Dorrance who developed condensed soup for his company.

(Joseph) Campbell.
Round 5. Category: classic literature
1: "The horror! The horror!" are Mr. Kurtz' dying words in this novella.

Heart of Darkness.

2: He wrote such classics as "The Bostonians", "The Portrait of a Lady" and "The Wings of the Dove".

Henry James.

3: Some early reviewers objected to the realistic depiction of Archdeacon Frollo's death in this classic.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

4: This character's squire was Sancho Panza.

Don Quixote.

5: Part one of "Les Miserables" is "Fantine"; part two is named for this daughter of hers.

Cosette.
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9min
March 30, 2023Episode 778 - starts with "q" - flyboys - look out! - william and mary - texas
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 778, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: starts with "q"
1: Klugman's coroner.

Quincy.

2: Annette Dionne, Emilie Dionne, Yvonne Dionne, Marie Dionne and Cecile Dionne, for example.

quintuplets.

3: Hugo's hunchback.

Quasimodo.

4: In the Bible it is said that "many waters cannot" do this to "love".

quench.

5: Popular name of the Religious Society of Friends.

the Quakers.
Round 2. Category: flyboys
1: In 1922 this "Lone Eagle" learned to fly at a Lincoln, Nebraska flying school.

Charles Lindbergh.

2: During World War I, this German ace painted his plane red to make sure he'd be noticed.

Manfred Von Richthofen ("The Red Baron").

3: Charleston, West Virginia's booming airport is named for this pilot who first broke the sound barrier.

Chuck Yeager.

4: In 1926 Floyd Bennett piloted the plane in which this admiral flew over the North Pole.

Richard Byrd.

5: In 1935 Will Rogers and this pilot were killed in a plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska.

Wiley Post.
Round 3. Category: look out!
1: In one of these dangerous events, the dry, powdery snow is traveling at 100 mph straight downhill toward you.

an avalanche.

2: Your sortie's getting dangerous--here comes some antiaircraft fire, better known by this 4-letter name.

flak.

3: The 16-ton weight featured in this '70s comedy series is poised above somebody and ready to....

Monty Python's Flying Circus.

4: Pilot error! Your flight path has you too close to a caravan turboprop from this Kansas company.

Cessna.

5: A herd of these animals, loxodonta africana, is stampeding your way in a wall of gray.

elephants.
Round 4. Category: william and mary
1: A century before the French one, William and Mary came to power in the "Glorious" or "Bloodless" one.

Revolution.

2: The Glencoe Massacre in this country, of those supposedly late in swearing loyalty, was a stain on William's reign.

Scotland.

3: Soon after ascending to the throne, William and Mary commissioned him to rebuild Hampton Court in a Baroque style.

Sir Christopher Wren.

4: William took a fatal spill when his horse tripped over one of these hills created by a mammal.

a molehill.

5: This revolution of 1688 that ousted James II and brought William and Mary to the throne is aka the Bloodless Revolution.

the Glorious Revolution.
Round 5. Category: texas
1: About 60% of Texas' foreign-born residents are from this country.

Mexico.

2: In addition to the city, a national forest and a fort in Texas are named for him.

Sam Houston.

3: In 1901 this was discovered at Spindletop.

oil.

4: It was said they "can ride like a Mexican, trail like an Indian... and fight like a very devil".

the Texas Rangers.

5: The third largest city in Texas is named after this saint of Padua, Italy.

San Antonio.
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9min
March 29, 2023Episode 777 - mixed drinks - the hollywood stock exchange - official documents - are you game? - business and industry
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 777, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: mixed drinks
1: DEMON ALE.

lemonade.

2: A DECEIT.

iced tea.

3: ERE TO ROB.

root beer.

4: I CAN COP CUP.

cappuccino.

5: WARN ME RETAIL.

mineral water.
Round 2. Category: the hollywood stock exchange
1: One of the hottest stocks of summer 2000 was for this nautical action film starring George Clooney.

The Perfect Storm.

2: With the release of "Me, Myself, and Irene", this actor's HSX stock shot up $125.

Jim Carrey.

3: Millions of HSX shares of this scary movie "project" were traded a full year before it was released.

The Blair Witch Project.

4: "RBRIDE" was the HSX designation for this hot-performing stock and movie.

Runaway Bride.

5: At $4,147 a share, this star of "Firestarter" is one of the highest-valued actresses listed on HSX.

Drew Barrymore.
Round 3. Category: official documents
1: It grants a title of real estate; a villain might want the one to the ranch.

the deed.

2: For most states the minimum age to get one of these without parental consent is 18, male or female.

a marriage license.

3: An agreement between persons; the men on the Mayflower made a famous one.

a compact.

4: It's a command to come to court and testify.

a subpoena.

5: A decree, commandment or public act from the pope; it's marked with a lead seal.

a bull.
Round 4. Category: are you game?
1: This popular playground hopping game may have begun in the Roman Empire as a military training exercise.

hopscotch.

2: One of the 2 utilities you can purchase in Monopoly.

Water Works (or Electric Company).

3: There are 43 quintillion possible wrong solutions and 1 correct one for this cube.

a Rubik's Cube.

4: If you want to be a Guardian of the last city on Earth, you have "a date with" this game from the creators of Halo.

Destiny.

5: An early version of this game in India was called Chaturanga and used elephants, horses, chariots and foot soldiers.

chess.
Round 5. Category: business and industry
1: Give a toast to this Kellogg's frozen breakfast brand originally called "Froffles".

Eggo.

2: It precedes "XM" in the name of an entertainment company--ooh, I love this song! Turn it up!.

Sirius.

3: The 2018 spokesbaby of this baby food brand is the first with Down Syndrome.

Gerber.

4: The face on the torch lady who represents this film company is that of muralist Jennifer Joseph.

Columbia Pictures.

5: Until 2010 the New York Knicks and Rangers were directly owned by this company that brings them to TV viewers on MSG.

Cablevision.
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9min
March 28, 2023Episode 776 - "bea"s - congressional districts - mysteries - 1982 - 1902
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 776, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: "bea"s
1: Paul's group before Wings.

The Beatles.

2: A lighthouse, or a radio transmitter that guides aircraft.

Beacon.

3: Interesting things are often found off this "path".

The Beaten Path.

4: This ship's 5-year mission: to boldly take Darwin where he hadn't been before.

the Beagle.

5: Among the Muppets, he's Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's assistant.

Beaker.
Round 2. Category: congressional districts
1: Of Colorado's 7 congressional districts, 3 are partly within this metropolis and its suburbs.

Denver.

2: Limiting immigration is one of the main causes of Rep. Lamar Smith, from this state's 21st district.

Texas.

3: Represented by John Mica, the 7th district in this state is home to St. Augustine, the USA's oldest city.

Florida.

4: Charlie Melancon represents Houma, New Iberia and Chalmette for this state's 3rd, y'all.

Louisiana.

5: It's the main city in Ohio's 14th district, once a rubber center and now called "Polymer Valley".

Akron.
Round 3. Category: mysteries
1: As you might expect, this continent is the setting for Elspeth Huxley's "Murder on Safari".

Africa.

2: 1st cousins Dannay and Lee wrote the Ellery Queen stories under this pen name.

Ellery Queen.

3: This agency's symbol of an unblinking eye gave birth to the phrase "private eye".

the Pinkerton agency.

4: No one knows how "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" ends since this author died while writing the book.

Charles Dickens.

5: Tony Hillerman writes novels about Jim Chee, a detective on this Indian tribe's police force.

the Navajo.
Round 4. Category: 1982
1: Yasir Arafat met with this Jordanian king to discuss the possibility of a Palestinian confederation.

King Hussein.

2: For this north African country's support of terrorism, the U.S. barred imports of its oil.

Libya.

3: Newsweek said this '82 strike forced husbands to talk to their wives for 8 consecutive Sundays.

pro football strike.

4: After Alexander Haig resigned, he was named secretary of state.

George P. Shultz.

5: On May 1, 1982, President Reagan officially opened the World's Fair in this Southern city.

Knoxville, Tennessee.
Round 5. Category: 1902
1: In 1902 he published his newest Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

2: He and Matthew Henson made their first serious attempt to reach the North Pole, but it would take 7 more years.

Robert Peary.

3: After 3 years of fighting, this South African war came to an end.

the Boer War.

4: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet and essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court.

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

5: When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school.

Oxford University.
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9min
March 27, 2023Episode 775 - in the "pink" - game shows - clowning around - americans in paris - meat and potatoes
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 775, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: in the "pink"
1: The little finger.

pinky.

2: One who is dismissed from a job is said to have received this.

pink slip.

3: Since 1980 Owens-Corning Fiberglass has used this cartoon character in its advertising.

the Pink Panther.

4: In sewing this tool is used to give a zigzag edge to cloth.

pinking shears.

5: "Another Brick in the Wall" in 1980 was this group's only No. 1 single.

Pink Floyd.
Round 2. Category: game shows
1: 1 of the 2 games you could watch in 1965 whose name began with "Let's".

Let's Make a Deal (or Let's Play Post Office).

2: The theme to this game that premiered on TV October 5, 1950 was "Hooray for Captain Spaulding".

You Bet Your Life.

3: Rounds on this show included "Melody Roulette" and "Bid-A-Note".

Name That Tune.

4: Last names of the Burt and Bert who created "Win, Lose or Draw".

Burt Reynolds and Bert Convy.

5: The pop group Kabah sang the theme for the Mexican version of this 106-day long game that put 12 people in a house.

Big Brother.
Round 3. Category: clowning around
1: Weatherman Willard Scott was the first actor to don the clown makeup of this fast food funnyman.

Ronald McDonald.

2: Tonio, a misshapen clown, delivers the prologue in this Leoncavallo opera.

"I Pagliacci".

3: In "It", he wrote about a monster disguised as a demonic clown named Pennywise.

Stephen King.

4: Judy Collins hit the pop charts with this song in 1975 and again in 1977.

"Send In The Clowns".

5: On TV Damon Wayans played this irascible clown who "don't play that".

Homey.
Round 4. Category: americans in paris
1: While in Paris, poet and critic Ezra Pound helped little-known talent T.S. Eliot edit this 1922 poem.

"The Waste Land".

2: Familiar with France from experimenting there, in 1779 he became our first ambassador to France.

Benjamin Franklin.

3: Sadly, this dancer's 2 children drowned in the Seine years before that scarf cut her own life short.

Isadora Duncan.

4: During his self-exile, he voiced the strife of black Americans in books like 1961's "Nobody Knows My Name".

James Baldwin.

5: Alexander Calder made one of his first wire sculptures in the image of this expatriate singer/dancer.

Josephine Baker.
Round 5. Category: meat and potatoes
1: The original version of this toy included facial pieces to attach to a real spud.

Mr. Potato Head.

2: Your standard potato is 80 percent this common compound.

water.

3: The fungus phytophthora infesting caused this historic Irish tragedy.

Irish potato famine.

4: In 1853 chef George Crum invented this snack as a joke when a customer said his fries were too thick.

potato chips.

5: This traditional cured meat is often served with cabbage on St. Patrick's Day.

corned beef.
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9min
March 26, 2023Episode 774 - a bunch of "great" leaders - north america - charles darwin - city food - spring
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 774, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: a bunch of "great" leaders
1: His forces defeated the Persian Army under Darius III in 333 B.C..

Alexander the Great.

2: In the 18th century she founded a medical college and the first Russian school for girls.

Catherine the Great.

3: From 1682 to 1689 he shared the throne with his half-brother Ivan V.

Peter the Great.

4: During the Seven Years' War, this king gained great military prestige and land for Prussia.

Frederick the Great.

5: This 9th century king of Wessex repeatedly repelled the Danes with great success.

Alfred the Great.
Round 2. Category: north america
1: The smallest carnivore on the continent is a member of this family, Pop.

the weasel.

2: Popocatepetl and Ixtacihutatl peaks, both more than 17,000 feet high, tower above this capital city.

Mexico City.

3: The Field Museum of Natural History in this city is one of the largest of its kind.

Chicago.

4: The highest motor-traffic tunnel in the world is just west of this city.

Denver, Colorado.

5: These mountains extend from Alaska into Mexico where they're called the Sierra Madre Oriental.

the Rocky Mountains.
Round 3. Category: charles darwin
1: Charles and this American president were born on the same day, February 12, 1809; Charles lived much longer.

Abraham Lincoln.

2: Darwin used "descent with modification" before warming to this 9-letter word for biological changes over time.

evolution.

3: It was Darwin's favorite professor who recommended him for the naturalist post aboard this ship.

the HMS Beagle.

4: Darwin is known for finches, but his passion at home were these urban birds--he amassed more than 90 of them.

pigeons.

5: The Royal Society awarded its medal to Charles in 1853 for his writings on these crustaceans found on rocks and ships' hulls.

barnacles.
Round 4. Category: city food
1: Buffalo wings don't come from a bison, but from this bird (and from the city in New York).

chicken.

2: You don't have to live in Philly to spread your bagel with Philly, which is this.

cream cheese.

3: It's traditional to serve this city's steamed brown bread with its world-famous baked beans.

Boston.

4: A typical Denver sandwich contains egg cooked with bits of ham, onion and this chopped green veggie.

green peppers.

5: (Richard Simmons reads the clue.) Bananas Foster and Oysters Rockefeller are 2 yummy dishes created in this Southern city, my birthplace.

New Orleans.
Round 5. Category: spring
1: In spring, 1848, ice in Lake Erie blocked the river feeding these famous falls, shutting them off for a day.

Niagara Falls.

2: In the U.S., it's the only legal federal holiday that's observed in spring.

Memorial Day.

3: This organization held its final session in Geneva in the spring of 1946.

the League of Nations.

4: Completes the Shelley line, "If Winter comes...".

can Spring be far behind?.

5: On April 3, 1860 the Pony Express began with riders leaving these 2 cities.

St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California.
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March 25, 2023Episode 773 - parents are people too - studying abroad - sam i am - communism - winters
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 773, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: parents are people too
1: Also a home for hummingbirds, it becomes "empty" when the last child leaves home.

Nest.

2: It's what a lonely dad may want to be to you, or the name of the one on the left(President Clinton's dog).

Buddy.

3: At least this restriction dad put on you isn't a dusk-to-dawn one, as in Warri, Nigeria.

Curfew.

4: If you get one of these in your nose or navel, parents may let out the same kind of "shriek".

Piercing.

5: This term for a right that divorcing parents may fight over comes from Latin for "guardian".

Custody.
Round 2. Category: studying abroad
1: Congratulations! You're a Rhodes Scholar! Now pack your bags because you'll be studying at this university.

Oxford.

2: Soak up the Bohemian culture in Prague when you study at Charles University in this country.

the Czech Republic.

3: LSE doesn't mean "Let's See Europe"; it's this city's school of economics & political science.

London.

4: Your time in Greece would of course include a visit to this ancient temple.

the Parthenon.

5: Students can work with leading physicists at this center near Geneva that studies subatomic particles.

CERN.
Round 3. Category: sam i am
1: A cousin of this telegraph & code inventor set up the famous Pebble Beach golf course.

Samuel Morse.

2: Samuel Chase, Samuel Nelson, Samuel Miller & Samuel Blatchford all served on this august body.

the Supreme Court.

3: This man who had just a cameo in 1990Ã¢Â€Â™s Ã¢Â€ÂœThe Return of SuperflyÃ¢Â€Â became Ã¢Â€ÂœShaftÃ¢Â€Â in 2000.

Samuel L. Jackson.

4: During this 1846-48 war, the U.S. Army bought 1,000 of Samuel ColtÃ¢Â€Â™s revolvers.

Mexican War.

5: In 1865 this man set John Wilkes BoothÃ¢Â€Â™s broken leg.

Samuel Mudd.
Round 4. Category: communism
1: The policies of a group of Communists, or the phone connection of a group of households.

party line.

2: "The Communist Manifesto" declares that the history of all society is the history of these struggles.

class struggles.

3: 2-word name for the Communist army that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s.

Khmer Rouge.

4: Elected with both Communist & Socialist support, he was Chile's president from 1970-1973.

Salvador Allende.

5: Shortened from 2 Russian words, it was the supreme policy-making body in the USSR.

Politburo.
Round 5. Category: winters
1: The aptly named Jonathan Winters narrated the cartoon special this snowman "Returns".

Frosty.

2: In a 1985 TV version of this classic tale, Jonathan played Humpty Dumpty.

Alice in Wonderland.

3: In 1999 the Kennedy Center awarded Jonathan Winters the prize named after this humorist.

Mark Twain.

4: Last name of Winters' character known as Maude or Maudie.

Frickert.

5: This comic who claims Winters as his mentor had Jonathan play his son on TV in 1981.

Robin Williams.
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