Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 366, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Sports
- 1: Because of WWII, these 2 NFL teams combined squads in '43 to become the "Stegles".
- the Steelers and Eagles.
- 2: Regret, Genuine Risk and Winning Colors are the only fillies to win this Triple Crown race.
- Kentucky Derby.
- 3: On September 19, 1992 Sergei Bubka broke the world record in this event for the 32nd time.
- the pole vault.
- 4: Sport in which you might leave a bucket, Christmas tree or picket fence.
- bowling.
- 5: Australian Rules, American and Association describe sports that are all named this.
- Football.
Round 2. Category: Duncan
- 1: "Funny Face" star who can certainly separate the wheat from the chaff.
- Sandy Duncan.
- 2: Cawder Castle, which claims to be the site of this man's killing of Duncan I, was built 400 years after the event.
- Macbeth.
- 3: Procter and Gamble really took the cake when it acquired this brand in 1956.
- Duncan Hines.
- 4: This No. 1 NBA draft pick signed with the San Antonio Spurs July 24, 1997.
- Tim Duncan.
- 5: Duncan Regehr played Zorro and Duncan Renaldo was famous for playing this Old West hero.
- The Cisco Kid.
Round 3. Category: All Ears
- 1: Nickname of the V-shaped indoor TV antenna.
- rabbit ears.
- 2: In the '70s she ended her TV variety show by tugging on her ear as a signal to grandma.
- Carol Burnett.
- 3: Made up of fat, it's the loosely hanging lower part of the auricle.
- earlobe.
- 4: According to folklore, if your ears are doing this, someone is talking about you.
- burning.
- 5: Of the five standard U.S. coins, the one on which you can see the right ear of a president.
- (Lincoln) Penny.
Round 4. Category: Rock
- 1: The Colonial Dames donated an elegant portico that was erected around this rock in 1920.
- Plymouth Rock.
- 2: For hundreds of years, the Barbary apes have rocked atop the world-famous Rock of this.
- Gibraltar.
- 3: In 2007 she won an Oscar for "I Need To Wake Up", a song she wrote for "An Inconvenient Truth".
- Melissa Etheridge.
- 4: Brownstone is a variety of this rock, formed when grains of quartz and other minerals are bound together.
- sandstone.
- 5: You'll find this geological attraction about 280 miles from Alice Springs.
- Ayers Rock.
Round 5. Category: In Your Hearts
- 1: AKA a myocardial infarction, it occurs when blood flow to the heart is blocked or stopped.
- heart attack.
- 2: A surgeon may implant one of these to steady an irregular heartbeat.
- pacemaker.
- 3: The number of chambers in the human heart.
- 4.
- 4: The main artery leaving the heart, its diameter can be as big as a garden hose.
- aorta.
- 5: While systole refers to the tightening of the heart, this is the period between contractions.
- diastole.
Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
