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Episode 1228 - The very old east - All saints days - "log" jam - That's show biz - Bring your "a" game
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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1228, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: The Very Old East
- 1: Some 15 million years ago, what's now this country moved away from east Asia, and the same-named sea opened in its wake.
- Japan.
- 2: This subcontinent collided with Eurasia some 40 to 50 million years ago.
- India.
- 3: A long, long time ago, protoceratops roamed what's now this desert of China and Mongolia.
- the Gobi.
- 4: The Himalayas became Earth's tallest mountains during this geologic epoch just before our current one.
- the Pleistocene.
- 5: This first known Homo erectus specimen was discovered in the 1890s in what's now Indonesia.
- Java Man.
Round 2. Category: All Saints Days
- 1: October 18: This third evangelist.
- Luke.
- 2: October 4: This birdman of Assisi.
- Francis.
- 3: December 29: This man for whom it was a bad day in the cathedral.
- (Thomas à) Becket.
- 4: June 24: This man who had a good head on his shoulders before he met Salome.
- John the Baptist.
- 5: June 22: This all-seasonable Sir.
- (Thomas) More.
Round 3. Category: Log Jam. With Log in quotes
- 1: What's that noise? Oh, it's this wooden shoe dance; go, Grandma, go.
- a clog dance.
- 2: To terminate communication with a computer system; please do it every night before you leave the office.
- log out.
- 3: An accumulation of work or customer orders that should have been dealt with already.
- backlog.
- 4: In mathematics, it's the exponent to which a base is raised.
- logarithm.
- 5: Someone who completely buys into a belief of set of doctrines and follows it to the letter.
- an ideologue.
Round 4. Category: That'S Show Biz
- 1: The 1966 film "Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo" is better known as this in the U.S..
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
- 2: In 2021 Jason Sudeikis let his daughter shave the mustache he wears as this title soccer coach.
- Ted Lasso.
- 3: Ironically, Mel Blanc, who voiced Bugs Bunny, was allergic to these and would spit them out after recording a take.
- carrots.
- 4: He wrote the first draft of his musical "In the Heights" when he was still in college.
- (Lin-Manuel) Miranda.
- 5: Maybe he won an Oscar for "Syriana" in 2006 because he was in bed with host Jon Stewart (in the opening).
- George Clooney.
Round 5. Category: Bring Your A Game. With A in quotes
- 1: This artery branches off into the coronary arteries, which supply the heart with blood.
- the aorta.
- 2: The city of Hopewell in eastern Virginia is bounded by the James and this "Court House" river.
- the Appomattox.
- 3: There are 441 red cards and 63 green cards in this Mattel game of comparisons.
- Apples to Apples.
- 4: Give him a beer! This patriot became tax collector of Boston in 1756.
- Samuel Adams.
- 5: "Valhalla" is a recent entry in this video game series with a killer title.
- Assassin's Creed.
Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/
AI Voices used
1273 episodes
Manage episode 424845349 series 3394361
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1228, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: The Very Old East
- 1: Some 15 million years ago, what's now this country moved away from east Asia, and the same-named sea opened in its wake.
- Japan.
- 2: This subcontinent collided with Eurasia some 40 to 50 million years ago.
- India.
- 3: A long, long time ago, protoceratops roamed what's now this desert of China and Mongolia.
- the Gobi.
- 4: The Himalayas became Earth's tallest mountains during this geologic epoch just before our current one.
- the Pleistocene.
- 5: This first known Homo erectus specimen was discovered in the 1890s in what's now Indonesia.
- Java Man.
Round 2. Category: All Saints Days
- 1: October 18: This third evangelist.
- Luke.
- 2: October 4: This birdman of Assisi.
- Francis.
- 3: December 29: This man for whom it was a bad day in the cathedral.
- (Thomas à) Becket.
- 4: June 24: This man who had a good head on his shoulders before he met Salome.
- John the Baptist.
- 5: June 22: This all-seasonable Sir.
- (Thomas) More.
Round 3. Category: Log Jam. With Log in quotes
- 1: What's that noise? Oh, it's this wooden shoe dance; go, Grandma, go.
- a clog dance.
- 2: To terminate communication with a computer system; please do it every night before you leave the office.
- log out.
- 3: An accumulation of work or customer orders that should have been dealt with already.
- backlog.
- 4: In mathematics, it's the exponent to which a base is raised.
- logarithm.
- 5: Someone who completely buys into a belief of set of doctrines and follows it to the letter.
- an ideologue.
Round 4. Category: That'S Show Biz
- 1: The 1966 film "Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo" is better known as this in the U.S..
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
- 2: In 2021 Jason Sudeikis let his daughter shave the mustache he wears as this title soccer coach.
- Ted Lasso.
- 3: Ironically, Mel Blanc, who voiced Bugs Bunny, was allergic to these and would spit them out after recording a take.
- carrots.
- 4: He wrote the first draft of his musical "In the Heights" when he was still in college.
- (Lin-Manuel) Miranda.
- 5: Maybe he won an Oscar for "Syriana" in 2006 because he was in bed with host Jon Stewart (in the opening).
- George Clooney.
Round 5. Category: Bring Your A Game. With A in quotes
- 1: This artery branches off into the coronary arteries, which supply the heart with blood.
- the aorta.
- 2: The city of Hopewell in eastern Virginia is bounded by the James and this "Court House" river.
- the Appomattox.
- 3: There are 441 red cards and 63 green cards in this Mattel game of comparisons.
- Apples to Apples.
- 4: Give him a beer! This patriot became tax collector of Boston in 1756.
- Samuel Adams.
- 5: "Valhalla" is a recent entry in this video game series with a killer title.
- Assassin's Creed.
Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/
AI Voices used
1273 episodes
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