Episode 1146 - Cousin "it" - Poetic feet - The evolutionary war - All around the world - The johnny gilbert "blue"s

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1146, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cousin It. With It in quotation marks

• 1: A person serving in place of another, perhaps as a teacher.
• a substitute.
• 2: A group of 3, with or without a Holy Ghost.
• a trinity.
• 3: The state of living alone, even for 100 years... in a fortress.
• solitude.
• 4: A coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz and feldspar.
• granite.
• 5: Reparation made by giving compensation for loss or damage.
• restitution.

Round 2. Category: Poetic Feet

• 1: This word for an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one actually has the reverse pattern.
• Iamb.
• 2: This word for a type of spoken stress pattern is from Greek for "finger"; it's also found after "ptero".
• Dactyl.
• 3: A foot of 2 unstressed syllables or a costly type of "victory".
• pyrrhic.
• 4: This word for the poetic movement including Keats and Byron is an example of an amphibrach.
• Romantic poets.
• 5: A fine example of verse written in anapests is this first line of "That's Amore".
• "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie".

Round 3. Category: The Evolutionary War

• 1: Orderly people are bothered by the idea of thse random changes in genetic material helping evolution along.
• mutations.
• 2: In 1995 Alabama Gov. James Mocked evolution theory by imitating this type of animal whose name means "to imitate".
• an ape.
• 3: "Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object... the production of the higher animals, directly follows."That was the final paragraph of a famous work by this man.
• (Charles) Darwin.
• 4: He surprised many in 1996 when he told the Pontifical Academy of Science that evolution was no mere hypothesis.
• Pope John Paul II.
• 5: A 1981 Arkansas law called for balanced teaching of evolution and this opposite type of "science".
• creationism.

Round 4. Category: All Around The World

• 1: A gigantic 3/4 dome, Montreal's biosphere was designed by this American for the city's 1967 Expo.
• (Buckminster) Fuller.
• 2: When visiting this Vatican basilica, you might want to spring for a ticket to the dome, which includes a guided tour.
• St. Peter's.
• 3: A national park in Australia gets its name from basalt columns called these, components of a musical instrument.
• organ pipes.
• 4: You'll catch the Baseball Hall of Fame in this village that was settled by the dad of the author of "The Deerslayer".
• Cooperstown.
• 5: Be wary around Mont St. Michel of this substance, sables mouvants in French, which is perhaps not as deadly as films portray.
• quicksand.

Round 5. Category: The Johnny Gilbert BlueS. With Blue in quotes

• 1: Johnny has left the building wearing these"You can knock me down /Step on my face /Slander my name all over the place...".
• "Blue Suede Shoes".
• 2: Linda Ronstadt, brace yourself for this tune"I feel so bad / I got a worried mind / I'm so lonesome all the time / Since I left my baby behind on...".
• "Blue Bayou".
• 3: Witness the birth of "Captain Fantastic 2" with this song"Laughing like children /Living like lovers /Rolling like thunder /Under the covers...".
• "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues".
• 4: Completes this "Crystal"ine line"I'll be fine when you’re gone / I'll just cry all night long / Say it isn't true and don't it...".
• "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue".
• 5: This 1968 classic features the Man in Black, Johnny... Gilbert"My mama always told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns / But I shot a man in Reno just to