Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 566, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Also An Auto * 1: This Kate Mulgrew "Star Trek" show would've been very different if the crew traveled around space in the Chrysler van. * Star Trek: Voyager. * 2: It won't tax you much to take a gamble and name this Riviera city 9 miles from Nice, France. * Monte Carlo. * 3: One might think that this make of Ford runs best from April 20 to May 20. * Taurus. * 4: Once living near the Great Lakes but defeated by the Iroquois, this tribe moved to the Southeast (but not in Jeeps). * Cherokee. * 5: It orbits the sun at a mean distance of about 888 million miles, though we're not sure what kind of MPG it gets. * Saturn.
Round 2. Category: Bones * 1: This framework of bones supporting the lower abdomen includes the Ilium and pubis bones. * the pelvis. * 2: Also called the kneecap, it's an example of a sesamoid bone because it's encased in tendons. * the patella. * 3: Ligaments link bone to bone while these link bone to muscle. * tendons. * 4: Infection-fighting white blood cells called neutrophils are produced in this part of the bone. * the marrow. * 5: Though its name is shorter, this forearm bone is slightly longer than the radius. * the ulna.
Round 3. Category: I Dunno * 1: Alicia Silverstone's 1995 breakthrough film. * "Clueless". * 2: "To draw" this is said to have originally referred to a non-winning lottery ticket. * A blank. * 3: This phrase for a mind with no empirical knowledge is Latin for "scraped tablet". * Tabula rasa. * 4: Shakespeare wrote, "There is no darkness but" this; having it "of the law is no excuse". * Ignorance. * 5: In the Iran-Contra affair, George Bush was "out of" this, like a Chicago suburbanite. * The Loop.
Round 4. Category: The Sandbox * 1: This American won 2 Pulitzer Prizes: one for his poetry and one for his 4-volume biography of Lincoln. * Carl Sandburg. * 2: In folklore, he makes children sleepy. * the Sandman. * 3: It completes the intro to a popular TV soap opera, "Like sands through the hourglass, so are" these. * the Days of our Lives. * 4: In 1945 the first atomic bomb explosion occurred at this "colorful" New Mexico missile range. * White Sands. * 5: Related to the sea urchin, this flat, disklike invertebrate lives in shallow coastal waters. * sand dollar.
Round 5. Category: I Feel Like Such An Idiom * 1: It means to be daring or risky. * throw caution to the wind. * 2: When you're fully prepared for action, you're like a hunter with a heavy charge of ammo who's "loaded for" this. * bear. * 3: This idiom, meaning to show extreme modesty, has its origin in the Bible's book of Matthew. * hiding your light under a bushel (keeping your light underneath a bushel accepted). * 4: To not spend more than absolutely necessary. * to pinch pennies. * 5: You can do this "through the ranks", "to the bait" or "to the occasion". * rise.
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