Episode 872 - college football 2000 - let's mess with texas - pitches - japanese geography - russian rulers

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 872, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: college football 2000

• 1: In 2000 this conference had 3 teams win 10 or more games: Washington, Oregon and Oregon state.
• the Pac-10.
• 2: This school's Huskers set a college bowl record by scoring 66 points against Northwestern in the Alamo Bowl.
• the University of Nebraska.
• 3: The USA's only major undefeated team, it won the national title by beating Florida State in the Orange Bowl.
• Oklahoma.
• 4: Lou Holtz coached this school's Gamecocks to an 8-4 record after a winless season in 1999.
• South Carolina.
• 5: A sprained ankle forced this Virginia Tech QB (and Heisman hopeful) to miss 1 game and parts of 2 others during 2000.
• Michael Vick.

Round 2. Category: let's mess with texas

• 1: Educated at Phillips Academy, Yale and Harvard, this part-time Crawford resident was born in Connecticut in 1946.
• George W. Bush.
• 2: Since 1935 this agency that originated in the 1820s has operated as a branch of the Texas Dept. of Public Safety.
• the Texas Rangers.
• 3: This state bird of Texas belongs to the family Mimidae.
• the mockingbird.
• 4: From 1846 to 1859 this ex-Tennessee governor was a U.S. senator from Texas.
• Sam Houston.
• 5: Born in 1921, this Mission, Tex.-born senator served with Jack Kennedy, knew Jack Kennedy and hey! you're not Jack Kennedy!.
• Lloyd Bentsen.

Round 3. Category: pitches

• 1: In 1959 physicist Lyman Briggs determined that this pitch really does what its name says.
• Curveball.
• 2: It's the basic off-speed pitch, thrown at a slow speed to disrupt the batter's timing.
• Changeup.
• 3: This basic pitch is also the name of the group with the 1998 hit "The Way".
• Fastball.
• 4: The name of this ground-ball-inducing pitch is also slang for a doughnut.
• Sinker.
• 5: This pitch, which Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson called the fadeaway, is a type of '30s movie comedy.
• Screwball.

Round 4. Category: japanese geography

• 1: Many of Japan's highest peaks lie in this range which shares its name with a Swiss mountain range.
• Alps.
• 2: Japan's Disneyland theme park sits right on this bay.
• Tokyo.
• 3: Japan's Tsushima Island lies just about 60 miles from Pusan, a city in this country.
• South Korea.
• 4: The city originally called Koromo was renamed this, for a local auto manufacturer.
• Toyota.
• 5: This island where the U.S. maintains military bases is part of Japan's Ryukyu Islands.
• Okinawa.

Round 5. Category: russian rulers

• 1: This first leader of the Soviet Union was the son of a provincial director of elementary education.
• Lenin.
• 2: In the 1690s he recruited about 900 technicians on his tour of western Europe.
• Peter the Great.
• 3: Empress Elizabeth, who reigned 1741-1762, was an implacable enemy of this Prussian emperor.
• Frederick the Great.
• 4: In 1881 Alexander II was assassinated in this capital by bomb-throwing members of "People's Will".
• St. Petersburg.
• 5: This royal house began with the reign of Michael in 1613 and ended with Nicholas II in the revolution of 1917.
• the Romanov.

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