Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 159, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Prefixes
- 1: "Anti-" means "against; "ante-" means this.
- before.
- 2: This thoroughly modern prefix means "one thousandth".
- milli-.
- 3: A prefix meaning "after" is found in this word meaning an after-death examination.
- postmortem.
- 4: This prefix that means "first" or "primitive" is found before "plasm" and "zoa".
- proto-.
- 5: When this prefix precedes "active", it means "backwards"; by itself it refers to the style of an earlier time.
- retro-.
Round 2. Category: Near Disasters
- 1: On Sept. 8, 2001 Erin became the Atlantic season's first of these, but stayed mostly out at sea.
- hurricane.
- 2: In 1919 the lonely keeper of one of these helped save all 21 crewmen from fire on the steamer Frank O'Connor.
- a lighthouse.
- 3: A possible nuclear war was averted (for the moment) in June 2002 talks between India and this country.
- Pakistan.
- 4: In July 2002 9 men were dramatically rescued from a flooded mine in this state.
- Pennsylvania.
- 5: In 1907 this financier kept the stock market afloat by locking bankers in his library until they raised $25 million.
- J.P. Morgan.
Round 3. Category: "Moo"
- 1: The song "That's Amore" is on the soundtrack to this 1987 Cher film.
- Moonstruck.
- 2: This adjective means "purely academic" or "irrelevant".
- Moot.
- 3: This stir-fried Chinese dish that contains shredded pork, scallions and egg is rolled in a thin pancake.
- Moo shu pork.
- 4: It's another name for a person born under the sign of Cancer.
- Moonchild/moonchildren.
- 5: This Cab Calloway song includes the lines "Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi!" and "Ho-De-Ho-De-Ho-De-Ho!".
- "Minnie The Moocher".
Round 4. Category: Español
- 1: The Spanish "calabozo" and the cowboy variation calaboose both mean thse.
- jail.
- 2: Any Spanish pier or wharf, or a certain waterfront area in San Francisco.
- embarcadero.
- 3: This day of the week is domingo.
- Sunday.
- 4: This pet is un perro.
- a dog.
- 5: You'll find these, los escritorios, in the classroom.
- a desk.
Round 5. Category: Historic Occasions
- 1: Name shared by an American film made in 1903 and a British crime committed in 1963.
- The Great Train Robbery.
- 2: James Marshall found this Jan. 24, 1848, days before California was handed over to the U.S..
- Gold.
- 3: The 1851 Lopez Expedition, a disasterous attempt to free this island, was an early version of the Bay of Pigs.
- Cuba.
- 4: In 1798, in this African country, Napoleon said, "Soldiers...forty centuries look down upon you".
- Egypt.
- 5: This man died April 5, 1975, after a quarter of a century leading Nationalist China on Taiwan.
- Chiang Kai-shek.
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