Episode 937 - lousy scrabble words - states' men - to the nines - wealthy - bodies in water

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 937, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: lousy scrabble words

• 1: The story says little George couldn't tell one of these; 3 letters, 3 points.
• lie.
• 2: This conjuction usually works with neither; 3 letters, 3 points.
• nor.
• 3: While it may be 2,000 pounds, it's only 3 letters, 3 points.
• ton.
• 4: Fall into one of these furrows made by wagon wheels and it's 3 letters, 3 points.
• rut.
• 5: Overexert your muscles or pour through a filter and it's 6 letters, 6 points.
• strain.

Round 2. Category: states' men

• 1: Jerry Seinfeld andJerry Stiller.
• New York.
• 2: Count Basie andBruce Springsteen.
• New Jersey.
• 3: Mark Twain andJesse James.
• Missouri.
• 4: Abraham Lincoln andJefferson Davis.
• Kentucky.
• 5: Andy Warhol andAndrew Wyeth.
• Pennsylvania.

Round 3. Category: to the nines

• 1: He's starred in "12 Monkeys", "Four Rooms", "The Fifth Element" and "The Whole Nine Yards".
• Bruce Willis.
• 2: In the U.S., it's a one followed by nine zeroes.
• a billion.
• 3: This popular poem begins, "It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville Nine that day".
• "Casey at the Bat".
• 4: Paintings in Herculaneum portray this group of 9 mythic female inspirers showing off their attributes.
• the muses.
• 5: This peninsula opposite Hong Kong island gets its name from the Chinese for "Nine Dragons".
• Kowloon peninsula.

Round 4. Category: wealthy

• 1: One of the world's wealthiest women, her great income is from the Privy Purse, the Civil List and her personal holdings.
• Queen Elizabeth II.
• 2: The Wonowidjojos and former president Suharto are among this country's wealthiest citizens.
• Indonesia.
• 3: Considered the world's wealthiest man when he died in 1976, this oil man's family is now buying Irish passports.
• Jean Paul Getty.
• 4: This flat pack furniture store chain has made Swede Ingvar Kamprad a very wealthy man.
• IKEA.
• 5: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal is the biggest individual shareholder in Apple Computer and this amusement park near Paris.
• Euro Disney.

Round 5. Category: bodies in water

• 1: Oceanographer James Snodgrass invented a gnathodynamometer to measure the force of this creature's bite.
• Great white shark.
• 2: The fin type, the second-largest species of this, can be 80 feet long and travel at ocean liner speed.
• Whale.
• 3: Free-floating algae that form a foul film are called the pond type of this.
• Scum.
• 4: These organisms cemented to ships and rocks are also called cirripedes, for their food-gathering cirri.
• Barnacles.
• 5: A creature that expels water through a siphon is called a "sea" one of these, like a pipsqueak kid.
• Squirt.

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