Episode 1042 - "hay"es - Slogans and mottoes - Beloved poems - Weapons - Adjectival country names

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1042, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: HayEs. With Hay in quotes

• 1: A type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes.
• hay fever.
• 2: A huge punch that usually results in a knockout.
• a haymaker.
• 3: Out of control, disordered, crazy.
• haywire.
• 4: To glide or move nonchalantly across the floor.
• sashay.
• 5: This revolt, chiefly by farmers, took place in Massachusetts in 1786.
• Shays' Rebellion.

Round 2. Category: Slogans And Mottoes

• 1: The FBI's motto is "fidelity, bravery," this.
• integrity.
• 2: "With a name like" this one, "it has to be good!".
• Smuckers.
• 3: A flag of the American Revolution featured a coiled rattlesnake above this 4-word motto.
• dont tread on me.
• 4: A Republican slogan of 1856 mentioned, among other things, free soil, free press and him.
• Fremont.
• 5: "Because I'm worth it".
• L'Oréal.

Round 3. Category: Beloved Poems

• 1: "If I should die" wrote WWI poet Rupert Brooke, "... some corner of a foreign field ... is forever" this jolly old place.
• England.
• 2: Completes the final lines of a Longfellow poem: "Thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life some ...".
• rain must fall.
• 3: Auden's "Funeral Blues" became a favorite of mourners after it was featured in this Hugh Grant film.
• Four Weddings and a Funeral.
• 4: "Breathes there the man, with" this "so dead, who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!".
• soul.
• 5: 19th century bard George Pope Morris wrote the poem urging, "Woodman", do this.
• spare that tree.

Round 4. Category: Weapons

• 1: An AA gun is a weapon designed as anti- this.
• aircraft.
• 2: These machines work like giant slingshots; medieval men used them to hurl stones at and over walls.
• catapults.
• 3: In the Marine Corps the next rank up from PFC has this weapon in its name.
• lance.
• 4: According to legend, you can destroy a vampire by driving one of these thru his heart.
• stake.
• 5: In the 1600s, Phineas Fletcher called it "the coward's weapon".
• poison.

Round 5. Category: Adjectival Country Names

• 1: It's the island of Great Britain plus a bit more.
• the United Kingdom.
• 2: In 1961 this nation withdrew from the British Commonwealth over member criticism of its apartheid policies.
• South Africa.
• 3: Caribbean country bearing the name of an order of Catholic priests.
• Dominican Republic.
• 4: The Cook Strait separates the 2 main parts of this Southern Hemisphere country.
• New Zealand.
• 5: The adjective in its 2-word name comes from the nation's position near 0 degrees latitude.
• Equatorial Guinea.

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