Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 400, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Islands
- 1: Material for the giant statues on this Chilean island was quarried from a crater called Rano Raraku.
- Easter Island.
- 2: It's home to Europe's highest active volcano.
- Sicily (Mt. Etna).
- 3: West Indian island that's the home of the limbo dance and calypso music.
- Trinidad.
- 4: You'll find this island nation about 95 miles due south of Cuba, mon.
- Jamaica.
- 5: Largest of the Mariana Islands, we acquired it in 1898.
- Guam.
Round 2. Category: Nicknames
- 1: This nickname of Mrs. Gore comes from a song recorded by Jan August and The Harmonicats.
- Tipper.
- 2: "The Peanut President".
- Jimmy Carter.
- 3: Baseball player Jay Hanna Dean was known by this giddy moniker.
- Dizzy Dean.
- 4: "Dark" nickname shared by Jackie Onassis' father, John Bouvier, and General Pershing.
- "Black Jack".
- 5: Superstar Wilt Chamberlain was "The Big" one.
- "Dipper".
Round 3. Category: Did You Notice?
- 1: On a piano, the high-pitched keys are at this end of the keyboard.
- right.
- 2: The 1st names of your 2 opponents.
- Meg and Sue.
- 3: This album's cover was the 1st on which all 4 Beatles sported mustaches.
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
- 4: 6 of these animals are found on the Cadillac crest.
- birds.
- 5: Only current U.S. coin to have a "likeness" of the same man on both the face and back.
- penny.
Round 4. Category: Nature
- 1: Safes, a type of these desert formations, are often many miles long and several hundred feet high.
- sand dunes.
- 2: Some of the fanciest of these reptiles are beaded, horned, or frilled.
- lizards.
- 3: Although these smallest birds are known for drinking nectar, they eat insects as well.
- hummingbirds.
- 4: This cotton pest 1st reached the U.S. at Brownsville, TX around 1892.
- boll weevil.
- 5: Mor and mull are 2 types of this black decayed organic matter in soil.
- humus.
Round 5. Category: "Teen" Scene
- 1: Numerically speaking, read up on "Fun Stuff", "Fashion", "Health" and "Stars" at this magazine.com.
- seventeen.com.
- 2: If you're triskaidekaphobic, you're afraid of this number, and not just on a Friday.
- thirteen.
- 3: A holder for liquid, or a military base's general store.
- a canteen.
- 4: Golfing "hole" with a bar (where you can't go), or the amendment granting women's suffrage.
- 19th.
- 5: Number of lines in Shakespeare's poem that starts "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?".
- 14.
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