Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 493, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: "M"Enagerie
- 1: As adults, these lepidoptera are harmless, but the caterpillars love to feast on your clothes.
- moths.
- 2: Though its voice is shrill, this small monkey's name is derived from Old French "marmouser", to murmur.
- a marmoset.
- 3: It's said ancient Romans not only ate these eels but fed their disobedient slaves to them.
- a moray eel.
- 4: The tiny eyes of this insectivore are hidden in its fur.
- a mole.
- 5: These crow relatives got their name from a girl's name, Margaret.
- magpie.
Round 2. Category: In A Pickle
- 1: To make your standard pickle, pickle this veggie.
- cucumber.
- 2: This pickle maker introduced its spokesstork in 1974.
- Vlasic.
- 3: Common name of Anethum graveolens, a plant in the parsley family used in a popular pickle.
- dill.
- 4: In 1900 this company built the first electric advertising sign in New York City, a 40-foot-long pickle.
- H.J. Heinz.
- 5: This noted pickle dealer of 15th century Seville has 2 continents named for him.
- Amerigo Vespucci.
Round 3. Category: Four
- 1: Naismith sport played by the men on the "Road to the Final Four".
- Basketball.
- 2: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse appear in the book of Revelation, written by this "divine" saint.
- Saint John the Divine.
- 3: His third wife was a member of the Gang of Four.
- Mao Tse-tung.
- 4: Suffering is the substance of all of the Four Noble Truths of this religion.
- Buddhism.
- 5: In a 1939 article for National Geographic, Lincoln Ellsworth described his 4 expeditions to this continent.
- Antarctica.
Round 4. Category: Triangles
- 1: Body part in the triangle atop the pyramid in the Great Seal of the United States.
- Eye.
- 2: In the "Steel City" of Pittsburgh, the downtown area is known as this triangle.
- the Golden Triangle.
- 3: To get into this city's Golden Triangle you can use the Fort Pitt Bridge.
- Pittsburgh.
- 4: The east side of this large, triangular citadel faces Red Square.
- the Kremlin.
- 5: In 1911 a devastating fire at this company's factory in New York City killed 146 garment workers.
- the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
Round 5. Category: Summertime
- 1: This object is the "S" in SPF, which should be at least 30 in the stuff mom slathers onto you.
- the sun.
- 2: On warm days the mind turns to this rhyming word that precedes "basket" and "table".
- picnic.
- 3: In the northern hemisphere, Vega, Altair and Deneb, 3 of these, make up the "summer triangle".
- stars.
- 4: Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Not a fifth grader who's at SIG, summer institute for them.
- the gifted.
- 5: In Houston in the summer, this averages over 90% for the morning.
- humidity.
Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
