Episode 1162 - Anagrammed birds - Are you eating right? - I'm on the money - The four seasons - 1950s people

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1162, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Anagrammed Birds

• 1: Illinois' state bird:CLAN RAID.
• cardinal.
• 2: A real show-off:COP CAKE.
• peacock.
• 3: A holiday standard:KEY RUT.
• turkey.
• 4: Seen at the seashore:DARN PIPES.
• sandpiper.
• 5: It's game if you are:HATE NAPS.
• pheasant.

Round 2. Category: Are You Eating Right?

• 1: You can eat ice cream from a dull, ordinary cone, or from one named for this breakfast food.
• waffle cone.
• 2: It's cooking food by immersing it in hot oil; it's a Scottish practice to do it to Mars bars.
• deep-fat frying.
• 3: Sweet and sour sauce is a popular dip for these fried Chinese dumplings for which a soup is also named.
• won tons.
• 4: It can be an apparatus to make a popular movie snack, or a jalapeno and cheese concoction.
• popper.
• 5: Popular in Cajun cooking, this sausage with a French name is full of tripey goodness.
• Andouille.

Round 3. Category: I'M On The Money

• 1: His smiling face beams on a 5-rand coin released in 2008 to honor his 90th birthday.
• Nelson Mandela.
• 2: Maybe if you climb Mt. Everest you can get your face on a New Zealand $5 bill, like him.
• Hillary.
• 3: Starting in 1975, you could nurse a beer or two with a British 10-pound note featuring her.
• Florence Nightingale.
• 4: It's a scientific fact--this physicist, who died in 1962, was on a Danish note.
• Niels Bohr.
• 5: Indonesia's 100,000-rupiah note features Prime Minister Hatta and the first president, him--an airport is named for them, too.
• Sukarno.

Round 4. Category: The Four Seasons

• 1: It's the 7-word first line of "Richard III".
• "Now is the winter of our discontent".
• 2: The fall guy in the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert Fall, was born November 26, 1861 in this season.
• the fall.
• 3: In the northern hemisphere, the first day of fall falls in this month.
• September.
• 4: "The Four Seasons" consists of 4 concertos for this instrument and orchestra.
• Violin.
• 5: According to "You've Got A Friend", it's when you can call your "friend" James Taylor.
• winter, spring, summer, or fall.

Round 5. Category: 1950s People

• 1: In 1954 he ran unoppposed for president of Cuba.
• (Fulgencio) Batista.
• 2: Israel offered this physicist the presidency in 1952; feeling he didn't have the personality for the job, he declined.
• Einstein.
• 3: In 1950 this sen. said there were 205 Communists in the State Dept. but in Sen. testimony gave no proof of a single card carrier.
• Joe McCarthy.
• 4: William M. Gaines wasn't worried when he launched this irreverent humor magazine in 1952.
• Mad.
• 5: Born in New York, she moved with her family to Greece and was back for her Metropolitan Opera debut as Norma in 1956.
• Maria Callas.

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