Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 538, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Quick Moby-Dick * 1: The biblical prophet who's the subject of chapter 83. * Jonah. * 2: Of the Monica, the Rachel or the Phoebe, the rescue ship at the tale's end. * the Rachel. * 3: Melville's subtitle for the first American edition. * The Whale. * 4: The harpooner from Kokovoko with the rad tats. * Queequeg. * 5: Salem, Massachusetts author to whom the 1851 novel is dedicated. * Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Round 2. Category: It's A Disaster! * 1: In 1917 an ammunition ship explosion in this Nova Scotia capital leveled 2 square miles and killed 1,600 people. * Halifax. * 2: This Pennsylvania city had more than $200 million in damage when it was flooded yet again in 1977. * Johnstown. * 3: In 1992 "He" hit the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana, causing about $22 billion in damage. * Hurricane Andrew. * 4: Egyptair flight 990 went down in the waters of Nantucket not far from where this Italian liner sank in 1956. * Andrea Doria. * 5: In the worst aviation disaster, nearly 600 people were killed when 2 jets collided on Tenerife in this island group. * Canary Islands.

Round 3. Category: Indy 500 Flags * 1: It means one lap left, not truce. * White flag. * 2: A red flag is a sure sign to do this. * Stop. * 3: A flag of this color doesn't tell the drivers to play chicken, it's just a caution flag. * Yellow. * 4: Get this flag and you have finished the race. * Checkered flag. * 5: When waved, a flag of this color lets you begin mile 1. * Green flag.

Round 4. Category: Only Small Actors * 1: As the coroner in this 1939 film, Meinhardt Raabe said, "She's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead". * The Wizard of Oz. * 2: In between "Austin Powers" movies, this actor played Griphook the Goblin in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". * Verne Troyer. * 3: This Parisian-born actor was once nominated for a Golden Globe for his work on "Fantasy Island". * Hervé Villechaize. * 4: Zelda Rubinstein appeared as clairvoyant Tangina Barrons in this spooky 1982 Tobe Hooper film. * Poltergeist. * 5: Peter Dinklage didn't play the title character in this holiday film; he did come to blows with Will Ferrell, though. * Elf.

Round 5. Category: Cowboys And Indians * 1: Bailey and Stetson are popular makers of this essential piece of a cowboy's outfit. * hats. * 2: A Nebraska brick was a square of prairie turf used to build this type of house. * a sod house. * 3: More than 80% of India's population practices this religion. * Hinduism. * 4: This leader of India's independence movement was known as "the Great Soul". * Gandhi. * 5: Cowboys collect roaming cattle for sorting and branding at these "circular" events. * a roundup.

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