Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1182, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Known By One Name
- 1: He's often called the "Father of Geometry".
- Euclid.
- 2: Before he could exact his revenge, he was taken prisoner by Cortes and died after an attack.
- Montezuma.
- 3: He recently announced that he plans to step down as Japan's emperor in April 2019.
- Akihito.
- 4: After her baptism and marriage, she went by the name Lady Rebecca Rolfe.
- Pocahontas.
- 5: The Venus in his "Venus of Urbino" painting has hair of the red-gold color for which his art was known.
- Titian.
Round 2. Category: That Movie'S Genius
- 1: Doc Brown created the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible, in this film.
- Back to the Future.
- 2: Dr. Ryan Stone is a medical engineer on her first shuttle mission in this 2013 film.
- Gravity.
- 3: An un-Gandhi-like Ben Kingsley takes a child chess prodigy under his wing in this 1993 film.
- Searching for Bobby Fischer.
- 4: Hugh Jackman is super-hacker Stanley Jobson in this 2001 film; give us the password.
- Swordfish.
- 5: Coal miner's son Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal) takes up rocketry in this film.
- October Sky.
Round 3. Category: A Word In Your Ear
- 1: It's a 4-letter word for the soft part of the external ear.
- lobe.
- 2: Let's hear you nail this other word for the malleus.
- a hammer.
- 3: It precedes "membrane" to designate the eardrum.
- the tympanic.
- 4: The curved fold of the external ear is called this spiral shape--just single, not double.
- a helix.
- 5: I predict you will know this 7-letter word for the visible part of the outer ear.
- the auricle.
Round 4. Category: World City Walk
- 1: It's the city (also a country) that's home to St. Peter's Basilica.
- Vatican City.
- 2: In the 17th century the Corsairs controlled this current capital of Morocco.
- Rabat.
- 3: The first Japanese city to host the Winter Olympics, it's also famous for its beer and its Snow Festival.
- Sapporo.
- 4: In 1942 Field Marshal Erich Von Manstein led a failed effort to assist surrounded German forces in this Soviet city.
- Stalingrad.
- 5: Found in the Dong Cheng district, this capital city's main railway station connects to Harbin and Qingdao.
- Beijing.
Round 5. Category: 1951
- 1: In 1951 it celebrated its 175th anniversary and was sealed in a helium-filled case.
- the Declaration of Independence.
- 2: On February 26 a constitutional amendment became law, limiting the holder of this office to 2 terms.
- President of the United States.
- 3: In May, this utility co. became the 1st corporation in the world to have over 1,000,000 stockholders.
- ATandT.
- 4: 90 cadets at this academy were ousted in a cheating scandal.
- West Point.
- 5: On Oct. 24,1951, Truman declared our state of war with this country had finally ended.
- Germany.
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