Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1005, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Brazilian Geography
1: 2 of this Brazilian city's most popular beaches are Flamengo and Ipanema.
Rio de Janeiro.
2: The selva is this vast, ecologically important area where it sounds like you'll need your umbrella.
the rainforest.
3: Brazil's tourism industry depends in part on these spectacular falls on the border with Argentina.
Iguazu Falls.
4: Add two letters to the name of a river to get this state,...
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1005, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Brazilian Geography
- 1: 2 of this Brazilian city's most popular beaches are Flamengo and Ipanema.
- Rio de Janeiro.
- 2: The selva is this vast, ecologically important area where it sounds like you'll need your umbrella.
- the rainforest.
- 3: Brazil's tourism industry depends in part on these spectacular falls on the border with Argentina.
- Iguazu Falls.
- 4: Add two letters to the name of a river to get this state, so big it borders three countries.
- Amazonas.
- 5: This planned city in Brazil's vast interior has grown from being a construction project in 1956 to 2.6 million people today.
- Brasilia.
Round 2. Category: They Still Make That?
- 1: KTS Productions still makes these tapes perfect for your custom van--What? No Frampton?.
- an 8-track.
- 2: Put your hands together for this gizmo seen on TV since 1985--but don't turn me off while you're at it.
- The Clapper.
- 3: American Safety Razor /Still makes this stuff, dear /Give us your response /It goes here.
- Burma-Shave.
- 4: You can still get these CO2 candies introduced in 1975 (don't worry, that kid from the Life ad didn't really O.D. on 'em).
- Pop Rocks.
- 5: This "exclusive" fashion brand for which Anthony Geary did ads relaunched in 2008.
- Members Only.
Round 3. Category: Geo, Dude
- 1: We're gonna par-tay at this beach, 60 miles northeast of Orlando, and watch 500 miles of left turns at its intl. speedway!.
- Daytona.
- 2: Yo Broseph! We'll show respect in this capital as we visit the Peace Tower's Memorial Chamber honoring Canada's war dead.
- Ottawa.
- 3: Your period drama won Grand Prix at the film festival in this resort city in Alpes-Maritimes Département?! Way to go, bruh!.
- Cannes.
- 4: Lafitte's blacksmith shop...isn't one? It says it is "the oldest structure used as a bar in the U.S.", on this N.O. St.? We're so there!.
- Bourbon Street.
- 5: Come for some bro time and catch walleye on this Great Lake; my buddy in Sandusky, Ohio says we can crash at his place.
- Lake Erie.
Round 4. Category: Give Us Z Answer!!!. With Z in quotation marks
- 1: Castor and Pollux are the twin sons of this god.
- Zeus.
- 2: This Hungarian enjoyed a single day of wedded bliss with Felipe de Alba in 1982.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor.
- 3: Leader of the musical Mothers of Invention.
- Frank Zappa.
- 4: A compound of this element, atomic number 30, is used in lotions as a sunscreen.
- zinc.
- 5: It's home to the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Zagreb.
Round 5. Category: Beatles Songs
- 1: "Father McKenzie, writing the words/Of a sermon that no one will hear".
- "Eleanor Rigby".
- 2: "Well she was just seventeen/You know what I mean".
- "I Saw Her Standing There".
- 3: For Paul McCartney, this Beatles song title will become true on June 18, 2006.
- "When I'm Sixty-Four".
- 4: "Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out, come and keep your comrade warm" here, the title of a '68 song.
- "Back in the U.S.S.R.".
- 5: He's "as blind as he can be, just sees what he wants to see".
- "Nowhere Man".
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