Episode 929 - the northernmost capital city - american indians - geology - party time! - norse mythology

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 929, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the northernmost capital city

• 1: Rome,Copenhagen,Lisbon.
• Copenhagen.
• 2: Brasilia,Santiago,Caracas.
• Caracas.
• 3: New Delhi,Ottawa,Wellington.
• Ottawa.
• 4: Pyongyang,Tokyo,Taipei.
• Pyongyang.
• 5: Brasilia,Buenos Aires,Bogota,Belmopan.
• Belmopan.

Round 2. Category: american indians

• 1: Florida tribe which was famous for sheltering runaway slaves.
• Seminoles.
• 2: Only East Coast Indians originally used this word for money made of shells.
• wampum.
• 3: During the Revolutionary War, the Cherokee fought for this side.
• the British.
• 4: Spooky craze that swept the Plains and led to the death of Sitting Bull.
• the Ghost Dance.
• 5: A city near Detroit is named for this Ottawa chief who united the Great Lakes tribes in 1763.
• Pontiac.

Round 3. Category: geology

• 1: The movement of these rivers of ice carved the fjords.
• glaciers.
• 2: This earthquake measurement scale is open-ended though none has been recorded above 8.9.
• a Richter scale.
• 3: The meltwater from these is often grayish-white because of the powdered rock they contain.
• glaciers.
• 4: This "powdery" mineral is number 1 on the Mohs scale of hardness.
• talc.
• 5: Following the Mesozoic, it's the era of geological time in which we are now living.
• Cenozoic.

Round 4. Category: party time!

• 1: Sir John Soane had a 3-day party after buying Seti I's sarcophagus for his home in this British capital.
• London.
• 2: Active from the 1790s to the 1810s:This party of the second U.S. president.
• the Federalists.
• 3: A noisy mock serenade given for newlyweds, its name is an alteration of the French word charivari.
• Shivaree.
• 4: Active 1834-1854:This U.S. party that borrowed its name from a British party.
• the Whigs.
• 5: Dissolved in 1991:At its height, this party had about 19 million members.
• the Communist Party.

Round 5. Category: norse mythology

• 1: This god's hall is called Bilskirnir, which means "lightning".
• Thor.
• 2: Nidhogg, one of these mythical fire-breathers, gnaws at the roots of the cosmic tree.
• a dragon.
• 3: He could see everything in the 9 worlds from his high throne, Lidskjalf.
• Odin.
• 4: Odin rode an eight-legged one of these named Sleipnir.
• a horse.
• 5: A hideous giantess named Angerboda was the wife of this Norse trickster.
• Loki.

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