Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 521, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: In A Musical Mood * 1: What have you been doing all day? This song. * "I've Been Working On The Railroad". * 2: Written for the movie "Chasing Rainbows", this hit became a campaign song in 1932. * "Happy Days Are Here Again". * 3: 1970 unearthed this no. 1 hit song for Kentucky native Loretta Lynn. * Coal Miner's Daughter. * 4: La. gov. Jimmie Davis bought the copyright to this song, then claimed authorship--it made him happy when skies were gray. * "You Are My Sunshine". * 5: This British band gave us "Creep", "High and Dry" and "Lotus Flower", one of Rolling Stone's Top 10 2011 singles. * Radiohead.
Round 2. Category: Tea Party * 1: Type of tea named for the titled Englishman who became prime minister in 1830. * Earl Grey. * 2: It's a silly, out-dated affectation to crook this when picking up a teacup. * Pinky finger. * 3: It's a "comfy" term for a teapot cover. * Cozy. * 4: From middle English for "curled-up" cake, it's a tea bread that resembles an English muffin. * Crumpet. * 5: N.Y. merchant Thomas Sullivan gets the credit for originating these in 1904; his were made of silk. * Tea bags.
Round 3. Category: December 1969 * 1: The Nobel prize in this category was awarded for the first time and was won by a Norwegian and a Dutchman. * economics. * 2: On December 15, 1969, this Israeli prime minister presented her new cabinet to the Knesset. * Golda Meir. * 3: Gen. Torrijos was removed as this country's strongman on Dec. 15th and was restored on the 16th. * Panama. * 4: On December 1, 1969 the U.S. held the first one of these since 1942; September 14 was drawn first. * a selective service lottery (or draft lottery). * 5: This rich Texan took 2 planes to N. Vietnam loaded with gifts for U.S. P.O.W.s but wasn't let in. * Ross Perot.
Round 4. Category: Story Problems * 1: If string licorice is 20 cents a foot, a yard costs this much. * 60 cents. * 2: The problem in this 1902 story is for Sherlock to find the beast (or man) that's been killing folks on the Devonshire moors. * The Hound of the Baskervilles. * 3: If 25% of the total U. S. Senate voted yea on a law, this many Senators voted nay. * 75. * 4: Number of kids you need to form 16 3-legged race teams. * 32. * 5: Porfiry's problem in this story is to get Raskolnikov to confess. * Crime and Punishment.
Round 5. Category: Tribes * 1: The Havasupai have been living in a branch of this canyon for over 600 years. * Grand Canyon. * 2: The Blackfeet lived in these structures and decorated them with paintings of real and mythical creatures. * Tepees. * 3: The Chinook religion was based around this fish's annual run. * Salmon. * 4: Their name, from a Sioux term for "People of Alien Speech", is shared by the largest city in Wyoming. * Cheyenne. * 5: As the Cherokee history includes the "Trail of Tears", this Southwest tribe has the "Long Walk". * Navajo.
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