Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1042, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: HayEs. With Hay in quotes
1: A type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes.
hay fever.
2: A huge punch that usually results in a knockout.
a haymaker.
3: Out of control, disordered, crazy.
haywire.
4: To glide or move nonchalantly across the floor.
sashay.
5: This revolt, chiefly by farmers, took place in Massachusetts in 1786.
Shays'...
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1042, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: HayEs. With Hay in quotes
- 1: A type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes.
- hay fever.
- 2: A huge punch that usually results in a knockout.
- a haymaker.
- 3: Out of control, disordered, crazy.
- haywire.
- 4: To glide or move nonchalantly across the floor.
- sashay.
- 5: This revolt, chiefly by farmers, took place in Massachusetts in 1786.
- Shays' Rebellion.
Round 2. Category: Slogans And Mottoes
- 1: The FBI's motto is "fidelity, bravery," this.
- integrity.
- 2: "With a name like" this one, "it has to be good!".
- Smuckers.
- 3: A flag of the American Revolution featured a coiled rattlesnake above this 4-word motto.
- dont tread on me.
- 4: A Republican slogan of 1856 mentioned, among other things, free soil, free press and him.
- Fremont.
- 5: "Because I'm worth it".
- L'Oréal.
Round 3. Category: Beloved Poems
- 1: "If I should die" wrote WWI poet Rupert Brooke, "... some corner of a foreign field ... is forever" this jolly old place.
- England.
- 2: Completes the final lines of a Longfellow poem: "Thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life some ...".
- rain must fall.
- 3: Auden's "Funeral Blues" became a favorite of mourners after it was featured in this Hugh Grant film.
- Four Weddings and a Funeral.
- 4: "Breathes there the man, with" this "so dead, who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!".
- soul.
- 5: 19th century bard George Pope Morris wrote the poem urging, "Woodman", do this.
- spare that tree.
Round 4. Category: Weapons
- 1: An AA gun is a weapon designed as anti- this.
- aircraft.
- 2: These machines work like giant slingshots; medieval men used them to hurl stones at and over walls.
- catapults.
- 3: In the Marine Corps the next rank up from PFC has this weapon in its name.
- lance.
- 4: According to legend, you can destroy a vampire by driving one of these thru his heart.
- stake.
- 5: In the 1600s, Phineas Fletcher called it "the coward's weapon".
- poison.
Round 5. Category: Adjectival Country Names
- 1: It's the island of Great Britain plus a bit more.
- the United Kingdom.
- 2: In 1961 this nation withdrew from the British Commonwealth over member criticism of its apartheid policies.
- South Africa.
- 3: Caribbean country bearing the name of an order of Catholic priests.
- Dominican Republic.
- 4: The Cook Strait separates the 2 main parts of this Southern Hemisphere country.
- New Zealand.
- 5: The adjective in its 2-word name comes from the nation's position near 0 degrees latitude.
- Equatorial Guinea.
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