Episode 1161 - What a month! - The name on the airport - Ebony and ivory - 4th and goal - 6-letter birds

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1161, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What A Month!

• 1: It shares its name with a type of musical piece: Forward--Move It!.
• March.
• 2: The United States celebrates its birthday during this month.
• July.
• 3: Timewise, it's the shortest month.
• February.
• 4: It's National Dental Hygiene Month, and with all that candy at month's end, it's a good thing!.
• October.
• 5: The U.S. presidential election takes place in this month.
• November.

Round 2. Category: The Name On The Airport

• 1: What a wonderful world! In 2001 the New Orleans airport was renamed to honor this jazz great's 100th birthday.
• Louis Armstrong.
• 2: The airport code for Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport is SPI, which stands for this state capital.
• Springfield.
• 3: The airport serving Grand Rapids, Michigan is named for this 38th president.
• Gerald Ford.
• 4: The smallest of the 3 major airports serving NYC, it's named for the mayor who oversaw its construction.
• LaGuardia.
• 5: A 9-foot statue of this actor graces the terminal building of the Orange County, California airport named for him.
• John Wayne.

Round 3. Category: Ebony And Ivory

• 1: The white tops of its keys were once made of ivory, hence the phrase "tickle the ivories".
• a piano.
• 2: Ancient kings of India used ebony for drinking vessels because it supposedly neutralized this.
• poison.
• 3: Most commercial ivory still comes from this continent.
• Africa.
• 4: Some of the best ebony is grown in the flat country west of Trincomalee on this "teardrop island".
• Sri Lanka.
• 5: Ivory comes not only from elephants but also from hippos, walruses and these small tusked whales.
• narwhals.

Round 4. Category: 4Th And Goal

• 1: Launched to recapture this city from the Muslims, the Fourth Crusade ended up sacking Constantinople instead.
• Jerusalem.
• 2: Denis Diderot suggested that actors imagine a fourth this to help them behave more realistically.
• a wall.
• 3: Greek scholars celebrate the fourth of this month as Exelauno Day because exelauno means to do this "forth".
• March.
• 4: University of Arizona students know that "The Ave" is Fourth Avenue in this city, fun by day and night.
• Tucson.
• 5: The goal of this was to capture the ferocious Erymanthian boar.
• Hercules' fourth labor.

Round 5. Category: 6-Letter Birds

• 1: This "clock" bird's scientific name is Cuculus canorus.
• cuckoo.
• 2: The flightless New Zealand kakapo is the heaviest type of this bird; the macaw is the largest.
• parrot.
• 3: Eagles and hawks can also be used in the sport named for this bird.
• falcon.
• 4: In New England it's often called a partridge while southerners call it a pheasant.
• grouse.
• 5: This diving bird of the auk family is distinguished by its colorful, triangular beak.
• puffin.

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