Episode 1087 - Wise guys - Alliterative geography - Mathematics - Tv numbers - Super bowl mvp qbs

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1087, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Wise Guys

• 1: Leibniz was a noted philosopher of optimism; Schopenhauer, of this opposite view.
• pessimism.
• 2: Reb, the Yiddish for Mr., comes from this Hebrew word for "my master".
• rabbi.
• 3: This ancient Chinese thinker said, "The superior man does not, even for... a single meal, act contrary to virtue".
• Confucius.
• 4: Logician Willard Van Orman Quine is from Akron in this state--we wanted an excuse to say Willard Van Orman Quine.
• Ohio.
• 5: A manuscript by this wise guy explaining his E=mc squared was sold recently for over $1 million.
• Albert Einstein.

Round 2. Category: Alliterative Geography

• 1: This city was once the capital of the United Provinces of Central America.
• San Salvador.
• 2: Called Stingray Harbour by James Cook in 1770, it was renamed for the abundance of new plants found there.
• Botany Bay.
• 3: Sail through this strait to get from Oakland to the Pacific.
• the Golden Gate.
• 4: Provincetown and Barnstable are on this Bay State peninsula.
• Cape Cod.
• 5: In 1434 it supplanted Angkor Thom as the Khmer capital.
• Phnom Penh.

Round 3. Category: Mathematics

• 1: The square root of 9 times the square root of 16 equals the square root of this number.
• 144.
• 2: On the left is the decimal equivalent of three-fifths; on the right is the decimal equivalent of this fraction.
• two-thirds.
• 3: This angle is larger than an acute angle and smaller than an obtuse one.
• a right angle.
• 4: The 1st number that is the sum of all its divisors except itself.
• 6.
• 5: Like 4, this number is also the square root of 16.
• -4.

Round 4. Category: Tv Numbers

• 1: Edd "Kookie" Byrnes' "working address".
• 77 Sunset Strip.
• 2: Poor Jack Bauer--he always seems to be having a really bad day on this Fox drama.
• 24.
• 3: In '60s sitcom, officers Toody and Muldoon patrolled the Bronx in this vehicle.
• Car 54.
• 4: On ABC with Elizabeth Vargas and David Muir:"blank/blank".
• 20/20.
• 5: "Adam blank".
• 12.

Round 5. Category: Super Bowl Mvp Qbs

• 1: In 2015 this QB gave the truck he won as MVP to Malcolm Butler, the rookie who made the game-saving interception.
• (Tom) Brady.
• 2: Coach Weeb Ewbank, furious after this Jet guaranteed a win, was probably not as mad after his MVP performance.
• Joe Namath.
• 3: (I'm Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers.) I'm one of the first 2 Packer QBs to be Super Bowl MVP; this 2-time winner who later coached the team is the other.
• Bart Starr.
• 4: In 2010 this MVP QB said, "We played for our city... for the entire Gulf Coast region... for all the entire Who Dat Nation".
• (Drew) Brees.
• 5: Quoth the raven, "MVP!" after this man was deemed most valuable in 2013 at Super Bowl XLVII.
• (Joe) Flacco.

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