Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 741, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Sports Nicknames
- 1: "Shaq".
- Shaquille O'Neal.
- 2: "The Brown Bomber" of boxing.
- Louis.
- 3: "Papa Bear".
- George Halas.
- 4: It's not really important, but the last player to be picked in the NFL draft is given this nickname.
- Mr. Irrelevant.
- 5: The Ice Manof 1970s tennis.
- (Bjorn) Borg.
Round 2. Category: Mythellaneous
- 1: The mythical Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big vessel at God's urging and thereby survived this catastrophe.
- a flood.
- 2: 2 offspring that Poseidon and Medusa may have produced are the giant Chrysaor and this winged horse.
- Pegasus.
- 3: The first 3 ports of call of this ship were Lemnos, Samothrace and Cyzicus.
- Argo.
- 4: In Zuni myth, a kachina named Paiyatemu attracted these colorfully winged insects when she played the flute.
- butterflies.
- 5: Riding this winged horse made it possible for Bellerophon to approach and kill the chimera.
- Pegasus.
Round 3. Category: Games Of Chance
- 1: In craps, it's a hardway roll of six.
- double threes.
- 2: Play Honeymoon In Vegas or anywhere and you're playing a variation of this card game.
- Bridge.
- 3: In blackjack you can only make an insurance bet if the dealer's up card is one of these.
- Ace.
- 4: Jimmy the Greek defined it as a place "where the windows clean you".
- Racetrack.
- 5: In bingo the "B" numbers run 1-15; the "O" numbers run from 61 to this.
- 75.
Round 4. Category: Masks
- 1: This hero first donned his mask in the 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano".
- Zorro (Don Diego de la Vega).
- 2: The Medico de la Peste mask was originally worn in the 17th century by a doctor treating victims of this bubonic contagion.
- the Black Plague.
- 3: Among the men who wore their own distinct styles of these were Rogatien Vachon and Tony Esposito.
- hockey goalie masks.
- 4: These 2 antonymic forms of theater are symbolically represented by masks.
- comedy and tragedy.
- 5: This Dumas novel suggests that the prisoner is actually the twin brother of Louis XIV.
- The Man in the Iron Mask.
Round 5. Category: Innovations
- 1: This handheld lens is one of Mr. Wizard's 10 most significant inventions of the last millennium.
- Magnifying glass.
- 2: 1893:Fashion fastener.
- a zipper.
- 3: Rubber sink plugs and drainboard mats were innovations by this company with "Rubber" in its name.
- Rubbermaid.
- 4: Big construction projects often include Francois Hennebique's reinforced type of this building material.
- Concrete.
- 5: 1852: Otis' okay origination.
- an elevator.
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