Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1050, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Starts And Ends With The Same Letter
- 1: A Utah senator or boat's passageway.
- Hatch.
- 2: A cutting remark or a sharp point, perhaps on a fishhook.
- a barb.
- 3: A generally nonmalignant growth on the surface of a mucous membrane.
- a polyp.
- 4: It's the noble gas on the periodic table that fits the category.
- neon.
- 5: An estate given by a lord to a vassal in return for service.
- a fief.
Round 2. Category: 4-Letter Anatomy
- 1: Cyrano's was really long, but Rudolph's was famous in a Christmas song.
- nose.
- 2: The covering that's all about, to keep your innards from falling out.
- skin.
- 3: Cooked most certainly is your goose, when this is surrounded by a noose.
- neck.
- 4: Be careful when you do a flip, that one of these back parts doesn't slip.
- a disc.
- 5: Ballerinas and night watchmen, are both alert when they stay on them.
- toes.
Round 3. Category: Machinery
- 1: In 2002 China unveiled its first homegrown "super" one of these, with 272 gigabytes of RAM.
- computer.
- 2: In 1738 Lewis Paul patented a machine for this--processing fibers into yarn, not doing aerobics on a bike.
- spinning.
- 3: Named for a typographical mark, it copied written material using an ink-transfer process.
- ditto machine.
- 4: In 1895 Dr. Shields invented one of these machines that simulated the action of a calf.
- a milker.
- 5: The Jack LaLanne power one of these has surgical blades and a super-sized pulp catcher.
- juicer.
Round 4. Category: A World Of Pirates
- 1: Later dictator, this Roman was kidnapped by pirates while on a journey to Rhodes around 75 B.C..
- Julius Caesar.
- 2: In 1815 Washington Irving planned to join Stephen Decatur on an expedition against these North African pirates.
- Barbary pirates.
- 3: Born around 1645, this pirate captain was sent to England for trial and hanged in 1701.
- Captain Kidd.
- 4: Kevin Kline won a Tony Award for his role in this swashbuckling Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
- The Pirates of Penzance.
- 5: The costumes for this 1991 Steven Spielberg film included 350 pirate outfits for the extras alone.
- Hook.
Round 5. Category: Texans
- 1: The younger sister of Phylicia Rashad, this dancer won 2 Emmys for her choreography on "Fame".
- Debbie Allen.
- 2: Anchorman who wrote a memoir titled "The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures in TV Journalism".
- Dan Rather.
- 3: When orphaned at age 17, he took control of his father's Houston-based tool company.
- (Howard) Hughes.
- 4: This first black heavyweight boxing champ claimed he lost deliberately to Jess Willard in 1915.
- Jack Johnson.
- 5: This "outlaw" singer topped the country charts in 1977 with "Luckenbach, Texas".
- Waylon Jennings.
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