Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 776, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: "bea"s
- 1: Paul's group before Wings.
- The Beatles.
- 2: A lighthouse, or a radio transmitter that guides aircraft.
- Beacon.
- 3: Interesting things are often found off this "path".
- The Beaten Path.
- 4: This ship's 5-year mission: to boldly take Darwin where he hadn't been before.
- the Beagle.
- 5: Among the Muppets, he's Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's assistant.
- Beaker.
Round 2. Category: congressional districts
- 1: Of Colorado's 7 congressional districts, 3 are partly within this metropolis and its suburbs.
- Denver.
- 2: Limiting immigration is one of the main causes of Rep. Lamar Smith, from this state's 21st district.
- Texas.
- 3: Represented by John Mica, the 7th district in this state is home to St. Augustine, the USA's oldest city.
- Florida.
- 4: Charlie Melancon represents Houma, New Iberia and Chalmette for this state's 3rd, y'all.
- Louisiana.
- 5: It's the main city in Ohio's 14th district, once a rubber center and now called "Polymer Valley".
- Akron.
Round 3. Category: mysteries
- 1: As you might expect, this continent is the setting for Elspeth Huxley's "Murder on Safari".
- Africa.
- 2: 1st cousins Dannay and Lee wrote the Ellery Queen stories under this pen name.
- Ellery Queen.
- 3: This agency's symbol of an unblinking eye gave birth to the phrase "private eye".
- the Pinkerton agency.
- 4: No one knows how "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" ends since this author died while writing the book.
- Charles Dickens.
- 5: Tony Hillerman writes novels about Jim Chee, a detective on this Indian tribe's police force.
- the Navajo.
Round 4. Category: 1982
- 1: Yasir Arafat met with this Jordanian king to discuss the possibility of a Palestinian confederation.
- King Hussein.
- 2: For this north African country's support of terrorism, the U.S. barred imports of its oil.
- Libya.
- 3: Newsweek said this '82 strike forced husbands to talk to their wives for 8 consecutive Sundays.
- pro football strike.
- 4: After Alexander Haig resigned, he was named secretary of state.
- George P. Shultz.
- 5: On May 1, 1982, President Reagan officially opened the World's Fair in this Southern city.
- Knoxville, Tennessee.
Round 5. Category: 1902
- 1: In 1902 he published his newest Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
- 2: He and Matthew Henson made their first serious attempt to reach the North Pole, but it would take 7 more years.
- Robert Peary.
- 3: After 3 years of fighting, this South African war came to an end.
- the Boer War.
- 4: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet and essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes.
- 5: When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school.
- Oxford University.
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