Episode 1059 - Eels - Rulers - Colorful cities - Texting in class - Movie endings

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1059, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Eels

• 1: There are more than 800 species of eels, including this large nocturnal hunter.
• the moray.
• 2: These charged-up creatures are technically not eels at all, but knifefish.
• electric eels.
• 3: This term is used for a young eel, especially when on migration upriver from the ocean.
• an elver.
• 4: These long, slender sharklike fish of the Sphyraenidae family are among an eel's natural enemies.
• barracuda.
• 5: There are about 100 species of this 6-letter variety of eel that can be 6 feet long.
• the conger eel.

Round 2. Category: Rulers

• 1: Fredericksburg, Va. was founded in the 1720s and named after this king's father, Prince Frederick Louis.
• George III.
• 2: This cousin of Julius Caesar committed suicide in August, 20 B.C. at Alexandria, Egypt.
• Marc Antony.
• 3: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I was called Barbarossa, which means this.
• red beard.
• 4: Philip V was the first Bourbon king of this country.
• Spain.
• 5: When Solon ruled this city, he diminished the power of the aristocracy and freed those enslaved by debt.
• Athens.

Round 3. Category: Colorful Cities

• 1: This former mining town was Colorado's territorial capital.
• Golden.
• 2: Football fans know it sits at the mouth of Wisconsin's Fox River.
• Green Bay.
• 3: A Southern California city and a Northern New Jersey township share this citrusy name.
• Orange.
• 4: Parlez-vous Francais? Then name this Louisiana port at the head of the Mississippi's deepwater navigation.
• Baton Rouge.
• 5: This "ville" is across the Rio Grande from Matamoros.
• Brownsville.

Round 4. Category: Texting In Class

• 1: IANAL, but if I were one I'd be part of this class, the opposite of amateur.
• a professional.
• 2: Dad makes big $? Yr family is in this class w/name of a pie layer.
• the upper crust.
• 3: This head servant OTD? BOL finding a new one.
• the butler.
• 4: NK, this bureau sez 46m Americans now in poverty.
• the Census.
• 5: Per treasury sec, L/T prosperity "depends on an expanding, vibrant" this class.
• the middle class.

Round 5. Category: Movie Endings

• 1: "Independence","The Longest","Training".
• Day.
• 2: "Police","Toy","Love".
• Story.
• 3: "Safe","Road","Animal".
• House.
• 4: "After","Battlefield","The Good".
• Earth.
• 5: "Hollow","Rain","Inside".
• Man.

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