Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1021, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Music CLass. With C in quotation marks
- 1: It has 4 strings, 5 letters and 6 Bach solo suites written just for it.
- cello.
- 2: The Benedictine monks of Santo Domingo de Silos had a surprise 1994 international hit with an album of Gregorian these.
- chants.
- 3: Italian for "tail", this 4-letter word is a concluding part of a piece of music.
- coda.
- 4: A male alto voice is also known as this 12-letter word.
- a countertenor.
- 5: Joan Sutherland was one of these sopranos who decorated her arias with a "rainbow" of musical hues.
- a coloratura.
Round 2. Category: The Roman God Or Goddess Of...
- 1: The sea, earthquakes and horses, 3 things that obviously go together.
- Neptune.
- 2: Wine (women and song apparently went to other departments).
- Bacchus.
- 3: Wisdom, spinning and weaving; this goddess could do it all.
- Minerva.
- 4: Roads and travel, for that nifty messenger service of his.
- Mercury.
- 5: Fire and metalworking, but not logic.
- Vulcan.
Round 3. Category: Facts And Numbers
- 1: 3 is a common number for par in mini-this.
- golf.
- 2: There are 31,536,000 seconds in one of these time periods; and 52 weeks too.
- a year.
- 3: A typical adult has about 22 square feet and 8 pounds of this, the body's largest organ.
- skin.
- 4: In the open ocean, one of these catastrophic waves can sometimes travel as fast as a jet plane.
- a tsunami.
- 5: Sometimes called the world's driest place, the Atacama Desert on this continent gets less than 1 inch of rain a year.
- South America.
Round 4. Category: You Make My Heart Sing
- 1: Billy Ray Cyrus found disfavor with country purists for this song, a No. 4 crossover pop hit.
- "Achy Breaky Heart".
- 2: Celine Dion had to be convinced by her husband/manager to do a demo for this 1997 movie song; it worked out okay.
- "My Heart Will Go On".
- 3: In 2020 Dua Lipa sang "Break My Heart"; in 1996 she gave the impossible demand "Un-Break My Heart".
- Toni Braxton.
- 4: A 2015 song by her begins, "This is my heartbeat song and I'm gonna play it".
- Kelly Clarkson.
- 5: Heart, a group formed by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, had a hit in 1977 with this song named for a predatory fish.
- "Barracuda".
Round 5. Category: A Little Food And Drink
- 1: Though it triggered an E. coli scare in 2006, this leafy vegetable is generally safe to eat; ask Popeye.
- spinach.
- 2: This "city" sandwich consists of thin slices of beef, slices of American, and often sauteed onions on a roll.
- a Philadelphia cheesesteak.
- 3: Though often referred to as a wine, this Japanese alcohol is actually brewed more like a beer.
- sake.
- 4: This candy bar of chocolate, nougat, peanuts and caramel was named for a horse.
- Snickers.
- 5: This cereal once had a longer name; "oats" became "os".
- Cheerios.
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