Episode 1249 - Places of sport and amusement - "nea" - Get your facts straight - The rockefellers - Museums by city

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1249, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Places Of Sport And Amusement

• 1: With 10 million gallons of water, the USA's largest one of these opened in Atlanta in 2005.
• an aquarium.
• 2: 4-letter place for "roller" fun.
• a rink.
• 3: Footwear is key at this indoor location where a turkey is cause for congratulations.
• a bowling alley.
• 4: California's official state theater is the Pasadena one; on TV, Pee-Wee Herman had a more informal one.
• a playhouse.
• 5: This word is from French and Latin words meaning "bicycle" and "course".
• velodrome.

Round 2. Category: Nea. With Nea in quotation marks

• 1: This layer of the eye has no blood vessels.
• the cornea.
• 2: Mary Ann Esposito's book on 3 yeast doughs is "What You" this.
• Knead.
• 3: This pet critter is part of the cavy family.
• guinea pig.
• 4: This state capital is on the Gastineau Channel.
• Juneau (Alaska).
• 5: This Trojan hero is Aphrodite's son.
• Aeneas.

Round 3. Category: Get Your Facts Straight

• 1: Carlsberg is a Danish brewery; this Swiss-style cheese from Norway has a similar name.
• Jarlsberg.
• 2: The minneola is the best-known variety of the tangelo; Minnehaha is his best gal in a Longfellow poem.
• Hiawatha.
• 3: Borax is a cleaning agent; this movie title guy journeys to "the U.S. and A." with his producer Azamat Bagatov.
• Borat.
• 4: Van Heflin was in "Shane" and "3:10 to Yuma"; this group gave us songs like "Hot For Teacher".
• Van Halen.
• 5: Ramen is a noodle; the Ramayana is an epic poem of India composed in this ancient language.
• Sanskrit.

Round 4. Category: The Rockefellers

• 1: One of the world's wealthiest men, John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in this business.
• oil.
• 2: In the 1970s this member of the Rockefeller family served briefly as vice president.
• Nelson.
• 3: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller was a founder of this NYC museum in 1929 and her son David was a longtime donor and trustee.
• the MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art).
• 4: From 1985 to 2015 Jay Rockefeller, also known as John D. Rockefeller IV, was a senator from this state.
• West Virginia.
• 5: Living to the age of 97, John D. was born when this man of Dutch descent was president, and died during FDR's second term.
• Van Buren.

Round 5. Category: Museums By City

• 1: Byzantine Museum,Acropolis Museum.
• Athens.
• 2: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• Washington, D.C..
• 3: Anne Frank House,Rijksmuseum.
• Amsterdam.
• 4: The Henry Ford Museum(don't say Detroit).
• Dearborn.
• 5: Uffizi Gallery,Bardini Museum.
• Florence.

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