Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 89, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Home Ballparks
- 1: Pacific Bell Park.
- San Francisco Giants.
- 2: Comiskey Park.
- Chicago White Sox.
- 3: Veterans Stadium.
- Philadelphia Phillies.
- 4: Three Rivers Stadium.
- Pittsburgh Pirates.
- 5: Coors Field.
- Colorado Rockies.
Round 2. Category: Fads
- 1: Jade, Yasmin, Cloe and Sasha are these dollz.
- Bratz.
- 2: In the mid-'30s there were hats, shoes, glasses, books and dolls of this 6-year-old movie star.
- Shirley Temple.
- 3: It calls itself "the blanket with sleeves".
- a Snuggie.
- 4: This Bandai "digital pet" was hot in the '90s.
- Tamagotchi.
- 5: Long before the View-Master, these handheld 3-D stereoscopes were popular from 1850 to 1910.
- Stereopticons.
Round 3. Category: 4-Letter Words
- 1: [CLUE MISSING BECAUSE OF GAP IN TAPE].
- seek[?].
- 2: A repast, or the ground-up seeds of a grain.
- Meal.
- 3: A B.B., a Billie Jean or a Boleslaw I.
- King.
- 4: It describes a string stretched out fully and is a homophone for instructed.
- taut.
- 5: Ad lib and you speak "off" this part of your shirt.
- Cuff.
Round 4. Category: Computers
- 1: The "app" in "killer app" stands for this.
- Application.
- 2: Hewlett-Packard, Epson and Canon all make the ink-jet variety of these peripherals.
- Printers.
- 3: Mattel Media has created a program that lets the user design fashions for this doll.
- Barbie.
- 4: This company describes its pentium chip as "The Computer Inside".
- Intel.
- 5: This North Sioux City, S.D. mail order computer maker issues a MasterCard with a cowhide print on it.
- Gateway 2000.
Round 5. Category: Pottery
- 1: To a potter, throw means to form, say, a vase on one of these.
- a wheel.
- 2: In 1710 the first European hard-paste porcelain factory was set up in this city near Dresden.
- Meissen.
- 3: The word ceramics comes from “keramos”, the Greek word for this substance.
- clay.
- 4: The company he founded in Lambeth in 1815 was appointed a supplier to the British court in 1901.
- John Doulton.
- 5: These ovens used to fire pots operate at temperatures up to 2200°F.
- a kiln.
Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
