Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 796, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: harrys and garys 1: Getting the role of Colonel Potter on "mash" was a bit of a demotion; he'd previosuly played a general on the show. * Harry Morgan. * 2: Gary "Big Hands" Johnson played defense for 10 seasons with this NFL team, the southernmost in California. * the San Diego Chargers. * 3: Bigfoot went domestic in this 1987 comedy with John Lithgow. * Harry and the Hendersons. * 4: Here's a Harry and a Gary: in 1995 this "Forrest Gump" actor played Harry Truman. * Gary Sinise. * 5: Harry Shearer has voiced at least 36 different characters, including Jebediah Springfield, on this show. * The Simpsons*.
Round 2. Category: compound words* 1: It provides the familiar flavor in a traditional candy cane. * peppermint. * 2: It's the term for the municipality where you were born and raised. * hometown. * 3: The monarch and the viceroy are both species of this arthropod. * butterfly. * 4: The 2012 London Paralympic Games included this type of basketball and fencing. * wheelchair. * 5: A buildup, as of munitions or weapons, amassed for future use, or to accumulate those weapons for future use. * a stockpile.
Round 3. Category: mathematics* 1: =. * =. * 2: In trigonometry sine is abbreviated sin and this is abbreviated cos. * cosine. * 3: This can be the third power of a number or, in geometry, a solid figure with 6 square faces. * cube. * 4: To divide one fraction by another you do this to the divisor, then multiply. * invert it. * 5: Number of zeros you need to write three hundred fifty thousand in numerals. * 4.
Round 4. Category: national symbols* 1: Congress "wants you" to know in 1961 it resolved that this symbol's origin was a Mr. Wilson of Troy, N.Y.. * Uncle Sam. * 2: The flag of each of the countries in this group contains the Dannebrog cross. * the Scandinavian countries. * 3: All day, all night, she's the personification of the French Republic and is now modeled on C. Deneuve. * Marianne. * 4: In 1712 Scottish scientist John Arbuthnot popularized him to satirize British politics. * John Bull. * 5: This, not the Star of David, is featured in the center of Israel's coat of arms. * the menorah.
Round 5. Category: oceania* 1: While the U.S. has many territories in Oceania, it has only one state there: this one. * Hawaii. * 2: When Gauguin arrived on this island in 1891, he was shocked at how modern it was. * Tahiti. * 3: Adamstown on Pitcairn Island sits on a bay named for this ship. * H.M.S. Bounty. * 4: In the Solomons, you can tour Olasana Island, where this future U.S. president was rescued in August 1943. * JFK. * 5: There's a museum on Tahiti devoted to this artist who spent 12 years there. * (Paul) Gauguin.
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