Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 844, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: ecology
- 1: CFCs, believed to damage the ozone layer, are commonly used in this kitchen appliance.
- Refrigerator.
- 2: Of insectivores, herbivores or carnivores, the group whose food source is most likely to live to be fed on again.
- herbivores.
- 3: The Environmental Defense Fund has proposed new forests be planted to absorb this gas.
- Carbon dioxide.
- 4: In a parasitic relationship, this organism doesn't put out chips and soda; it provides nourishment unwillingly.
- a host.
- 5: Fallen branches from these trees are key to nourishing marine ecosystems.
- mangroves.
Round 2. Category: "down"
- 1: This narrow London street runs from Whitehall to St. James Park.
- Downing Street.
- 2: A sensible, practical person is said to be this.
- down-to-earth.
- 3: According to the title of a 1986 film, Nick Nolte was this "in Beverly Hills".
- Down and Out.
- 4: A transmission path for data from a communications satellite to an Earth station.
- a downlink.
- 5: This Chicago-based music magazine was founded in 1934.
- Downbeat.
Round 3. Category: wales
- 1: Caernarvon Castle was the site of his 1969 investiture as Prince of Wales.
- Prince Charles.
- 2: The Welsh flag features this red beast with a forked tongue and tail.
- a dragon.
- 3: Despite a decline in production, it remains Wales' most important mineral resource.
- coal.
- 4: In Laugharne you can visit the grave of this famous poet, as well as his home, the "Boathouse".
- Dylan Thomas.
- 5: This largest city of Wales grew up around a Norman fortress.
- Cardiff.
Round 4. Category: toys and games
- 1: How you pay for your "stamps" in the game of post office.
- kisses.
- 2: Ruth Handler named this doll, introduced in 1959 as a teenage fashion model, for her daughter.
- Barbie.
- 3: This letter has the most tiles in Scrabble—12.
- E.
- 4: Liquid plastic used to make "Creepy Crawlers" in the 1960s.
- Plasti-Goop.
- 5: Alfred M. Butts called his game "Criss Cross", but it was redesigned in 1948 and sold under this name.
- Scrabble.
Round 5. Category: salad days
- 1: Salad nicoise contains the ripe, black Nice type of these.
- olives.
- 2: The German type of this salad is served hot and has bacon in its dressing.
- potato salad.
- 3: A traditional Waldorf salad contains cubes of this fruit.
- apples.
- 4: A Waldorf salad usually contains this type of nut.
- walnut.
- 5: This "Belgian" salad ingredient is also called witloof, meaning "white leaf".
- endive.
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