Episode 651 - Peru - The Grateful Dead - They Were Expelled - Olympic Boxers - Starts With "A"

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 651, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Peru

• 1: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Iquitos was a major shipping port on this river during the rubber boom.
• the Amazon.
• 2: Lima's Palacio de Gobierno was built in 1938 on the site of this Spanish conquistador's palace.
• Pizarro.
• 3: He served as Peru's first ambassador to the Soviet Union before moving his diplomatic skills to the U.N..
• (Javier) Perez de Cuellar.
• 4: Several Indian languages are spoken in Peru, including this one that's now an official language.
• Quechua.
• 5: This lake that's 12,500 feet above sea level is on the border of Peru and Bolivia.
• Lake Titicaca.

Round 2. Category: The Grateful Dead

• 1: A childhood woodchopping mishap claimed half of this lead guitarist's right middle finger.
• (Jerry) Garcia.
• 2: Slotted between The Who and Hendrix, The Dead was No. 6 to play at this city's 1967 Pop Festival.
• Monterey.
• 3: The Dead was scheduled to play at this group's ill-fated 1969 show at Altamont Speedway but refused to go on.
• The Rolling Stones.
• 4: In 1978 the last of 3 Dead shows near this Wonder of the Ancient World was timed to coincide with a lunar eclipse.
• the Pyramids.
• 5: In 1991 The Dead played a memorial concert in Golden Gate Park for this promoter before an estimated 300,000 people.
• Bill Graham.

Round 3. Category: They Were Expelled

• 1: This star of "Casablanca" was booted out of Phillips Academy for uncontrollably high spirits.
• Humphrey Bogart.
• 2: Perhaps responding "nevermore", this poet was expelled from West Point in 1831 for refusing to attend drills.
• Edgar Allan Poe.
• 3: Once publisher of the USA's largest newspaper chain, he was expelled from Harvard in 1885 for insulting his professors.
• William Randolph Hearst.
• 4: Assassinated in August 1940, this Russian Communist leader was expelled in his youth for howling at his teacher.
• Trotsky.
• 5: The leading actress of her time, in 1860 she was expelled from a Paris convent school for making fun of a bishop.
• (Sarah) Bernhardt.

Round 4. Category: Olympic Boxers

• 1: With this name, Muhammad Ali won 1960 light-heavyweight gold.
• Cassius Clay.
• 2: You'd be chillin' and grillin' if you knew that he won the heavyweight gold medal in 1968.
• (George) Foreman.
• 3: Teofilo Stevenson of this country impressively won heavyweight gold in 1972, 1976 and 1980.
• Cuba.
• 4: Both the 1972 and 1976 Olympic light-welterwight gold medalists had this "sweet" nickname.
• Sugar Ray.
• 5: Last name of the brotherly pair who both won gold medals in Montreal.
• Spinks.

Round 5. Category: Starts With "A"

• 1: Excuse you should have if Kojak asks where you were at 11 last night.
• an alibi.
• 2: In names of holidays, this word precedes Saints' Day and Souls' Day.
• All.
• 3: Formerly the sixth month, it was originally called Sextilis.
• August.
• 4: Founded in NYC, this sporting goods chain is noted for its exotic assortment of equipment.
• Abercrombie and Fitch.
• 5: From the Latin word for "tree", it's a place where many kinds of trees and plants are exhibited.
• arboretum.

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