Episode 1205 - Ad verbs and taglines - 7 wonders of the ancient world - Rite - All you need is "l-o-v-e" - Differs by a vowel

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1205, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ad Verbs And Taglines

• 1: MandM's: "The milk chocolate blank in your mouth, not in your hand".
• melts.
• 2: Apple, beginning in the 1990s:"blank different".
• Think.
• 3: Target:"blank more.Pay less.".
• Expect.
• 4: Instagram: "blank and share the world's moments".
• Capture.
• 5: Jantzen swimwear:"blank into life".
• dive.

Round 2. Category: 7 Wonders Of The Ancient World

• 1: Made of bronze and honoring the sun god Helios, it stood about 100 feet high in the harbor of a Greek island.
• the Colossus of Rhodes.
• 2: To irrigate this ancient wonder, water from the Euphrates was pumped to the top of the hill.
• the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
• 3: It was the earliest built of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World.
• the Great Pyramid.
• 4: Some sculptures from this marble tomb at Halicarnassus are in the British Museum in London.
• the Mausoleum.
• 5: A fire burned day and night at the top of this ancient wonder.
• the lighthouse at Alexandria.

Round 3. Category: Rite

• 1: In Judaism, this rite of passage is celebrated around the time of a boy's 13th birthday.
• a bar mitzvah.
• 2: The Catholic rite for this sacrament begins with asking the parents what they name their child.
• baptism.
• 3: In this religion, a book of the dead called the "Bardo Thodol" is read to the dying to help them prepare for a favorable rebirth.
• Buddhism.
• 4: Casting 7 stones at each of the 3 pillars of Mina is a rite enacted during the pilgrimage with this name.
• hajj.
• 5: This rite is a solo vigil by a Plains Indian boy to seek spiritual power and knowledge through an apparition.
• a vision quest (or spirit quest).

Round 4. Category: All You Need Is L-O-V-E. With L-O-V-E in quotation marks

• 1: A company called "London" this "tours" provides "a whirlwind tour of the history of the British public toilet".
• loo.
• 2: Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz", was fittingly born under this zodiac sign symbolized by a lion.
• a Leo.
• 3: Led Zeppelin warned that this type of wall is "going to break", while Don McLean lamented that it was dry.
• a levee.
• 4: This Swedish automaker's museum features a full-sized XC90 SUV made from Legos.
• Volvo.
• 5: As Charles Darwin could tell you, to do this is to gradually change or develop over time.
• evolve.

Round 5. Category: Differs By A Vowel

• 1: The pair found in the name of a large Scottish estuary that connects with the North Sea.
• the Firth of Forth.
• 2: A large, graceful tree and what a pig does in the mud to cool itself.
• wallow and willow.
• 3: A place to sit anda group of grapes.
• bench and bunch.
• 4: A mixture for making good old-fashioned pancakes and one of the ingredients.
• batter and butter.
• 5: A large British home in the country and a college student's secondary declared discipline.
• minor and manor.

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