Episode 861 - colonial america - fun with colors - tv goes to work - by 2000 - last name's the same

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 861, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: colonial america

• 1: A 1561 hurricane destroyed the Spanish settlement at what is now Pensacola in this state.
• Florida.
• 2: David Rittenhouse invented a device in 1767 showing the positions of several of these in the solar system.
• planets.
• 3: This style of architecture named for England's first 4 Hanoverian kings was quite popular.
• Georgian.
• 4: In May 1732 he founded the Philadelphische Zeitung, the first foreign-language newspaper in the English colonies.
• Benjamin Franklin.
• 5: In 1765 the Colonists burned Cadwallader Colden in effigy because he tried to administer and enforce this "act".
• the Stamp Act.

Round 2. Category: fun with colors

• 1: Possibly from the Latin for "sky", cerulean is a shade of this color.
• blue.
• 2: It can also mean a place that's extremely putt upon.
• a green.
• 3: The Cincinnati Bengals have used black, white and this as their team colors since 1968.
• orange.
• 4: A great horned owl has large eyes with irises of this color, which helps amplify incoming light.
• yellow.
• 5: Now illegal, this "contract" stipulates that a worker will not join a union during his course of employment.
• "yellow dog" contract.

Round 3. Category: tv goes to work

• 1: He's the assistant director of personnel at Cleveland's Winfred-Louder Department Store.
• Drew Carey.
• 2: Bill McNeal and Catherine Duke are behind the mikes at WNYX on this sitcom.
• NewsRadio.
• 3: Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson played editor and reporter for the New York Sun on this CBS sitcom.
• Ink.
• 4: It's the literary cafe where Joe Farrell, Audrey Penney and Ellen Morgan worked.
• Buy the Book.
• 5: Captain John Sheridan and ambassadors from all over the galaxy work at this space station.
• Babylon 5.

Round 4. Category: by 2000

• 1: Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Nu are 2 of these that are trying to ban alcohol by 2000.
• Fraternities.
• 2: Computers that recognize 00 as this date have to be fixed by the year 2000.
• 1900.
• 3: British musicologist Jonathan Del Mar hopes to have fully restored this composer's 9 symphonies.
• Ludwig van Beethoven.
• 4: Ukraine has promised to close this nuclear plant by 2000.
• Chernobyl.
• 5: A 500-foot-tall one of these fair attractions is planned to be built across the Thames from Parliament.
• Ferris wheel.

Round 5. Category: last name's the same

• 1: Kurt,Rosalind,Nipsey.
• Russell.
• 2: Brenda,Michele,Spike.
• Lee.
• 3: Rapper Kanye and "Miss Lonelyhearts" writer Nathanael.
• West.
• 4: Vanessa,Treat,Anson.
• Williams.
• 5: Roy, Dick, Petula.
• Clark.

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