Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 845, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: the bee
- 1: Bees gather this flower secretion to make honey.
- Nectar.
- 2: Bees are found on every continent but this one.
- Antarctica.
- 3: Young bees are fed beebread, made from honey and this plant product.
- Pollen.
- 4: On their heads bees have 5 of these -- 2 compound and 3 simple.
- Eyes.
- 5: Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for deciphering the circling and wagging types of this form of bee communication.
- Dancing.
Round 2. Category: forestry
- 1: It's the term for baby trees used to reforest areas.
- seedlings.
- 2: This president established the U.S. Forest Service.
- Teddy Roosevelt.
- 3: In forest management, it's a group of trees of the same age and type; Custer's last one is famous.
- a stand.
- 4: Fire, mostly man-made, diseases and these destroy as many trees each year as are cut down.
- insects.
- 5: Brazil is second to this country in total forest area.
- the Soviet Union.
Round 3. Category: theatre history
- 1: In 1904 Daphne du Maurier's father, Gerald, became the first actor to play this villain in "Peter Pan".
- Captain Hook.
- 2: Pisistratus established a tragedy contest as part of this city's Great Dionysia Festival around 534 B.C..
- Athens.
- 3: Victorien Sardou wrote the 1882 play "Fedora" for this great French actress who triumphed in it.
- Bernhardt.
- 4: In the 1640s these supporters of Oliver Cromwell closed all the theatres in London.
- the Roundheads (Puritans).
- 5: London's Royal Coburg Theatre was renamed the Royal Victoria and affectionately nicknamed this.
- the Old Vic.
Round 4. Category: cuba
- 1: In the news in 1961, this bay in the Cuban province of Las Villas is also called Bahia de los Cochinos.
- Bay of Pigs.
- 2: This Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning novelist's home in pre-Castro Cuba was called "Finca Vigia".
- Ernest Hemingway.
- 3: Cuba's first big screen role was in this 1988 film starring Eddie Murphy as a transplanted African prince.
- Coming to America.
- 4: In 1997 this magazine chose Cuba as one of its "50 Most Beautiful".
- People.
- 5: In a 1995 TV movie Cuba soared with this first squadron of black combat pilots.
- the Tuskegee Airmen.
Round 5. Category: entertaining canadians
- 1: Last name of Canadian-born actress Meg, Jennifer's sister.
- Tilly.
- 2: Most know William Shatner is Canadian, but so is James Doohan, who played this "Star Trek" engineer.
- Scotty.
- 3: Joshua Jackson, a star of this Massachusetts-set WB series, is a Vancouver native.
- Dawson's Creek.
- 4: On screen he's been Studio 54 founder Steve Rubell and would-be world dominator Dr. Evil.
- Mike Myers.
- 5: It's no longer news that this current "60 Minutes" correspondent hails from north of the border.
- Morley Safer.
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