Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1134, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Ways To Play. With Play in quotation marks
- 1: To cut class or skip school.
- To play hooky.
- 2: It's a 3-word synonym for a pun.
- Play on words.
- 3: A person who doesn't date anyone exclusively does this; so do some baseball players.
- Play the field.
- 4: A detailed verbal account of an event, not necessarily a sporting event.
- Play-by-play.
- 5: New ideas that please the regular folk in Illinois are said to do this.
- To play in Peoria.
Round 2. Category: Their First Billboard No. 1 Hit
- 1: "Rock Around The Clock".
- Bill Haley and His Comets (Bill Haley and The Comets accepted).
- 2: "I Get Around".
- The Beach Boys.
- 3: "Heart Of Glass".
- Blondie.
- 4: "Dancing Queen".
- ABBA.
- 5: "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter".
- Herman's Hermits.
Round 3. Category: Lewis And Clark
- 1: =.
- =.
- 2: A week after his election, this president offered Lewis a post as his private secretary.
- Jefferson.
- 3: Named for a structural section, it's the type of boat the boys set off in; it ran aground on day 2.
- a keelboat.
- 4: As a member of the militia, Lewis went to Pennsylvania in 1794 to suppress this rebellion.
- the Whiskey Rebellion.
- 5: This man, one of William Clark's brothers, captured Vincennes during the Revolution.
- George Rogers Clark.
Round 4. Category: Double That Double S!
- 1: Murderer of a politically prominent person.
- assassin.
- 2: 14-letter way to describe a facial look without emotion.
- expressionless.
- 3: A society with no social demarcations (and no sessions of school).
- classless.
- 4: To oust someone from owning a piece of property.
- dispossess.
- 5: To evaluate, or to impose a tax.
- assess.
Round 5. Category: WindY Talk. With Wind in quotation marks
- 1: A bassoon or oboe, for example.
- woodwind.
- 2: This jacket often has elastic cuffs and waistband.
- windbreaker.
- 3: 3 principal types of these devices are the multivane, the propeller and the S rotor.
- windmills.
- 4: The Maui Makani Classic is a competition in this sport.
- windsurfing.
- 5: A proper British bug would get squished on this.
- windscreen.
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