Episode 1228 - The very old east - All saints days - ”log” jam - That’s show biz - Bring your ”a” game

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1228, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Very Old East

• 1: Some 15 million years ago, what's now this country moved away from east Asia, and the same-named sea opened in its wake.
• Japan.
• 2: This subcontinent collided with Eurasia some 40 to 50 million years ago.
• India.
• 3: A long, long time ago, protoceratops roamed what's now this desert of China and Mongolia.
• the Gobi.
• 4: The Himalayas became Earth's tallest mountains during this geologic epoch just before our current one.
• the Pleistocene.
• 5: This first known Homo erectus specimen was discovered in the 1890s in what's now Indonesia.
• Java Man.

Round 2. Category: All Saints Days

• 1: October 18: This third evangelist.
• Luke.
• 2: October 4: This birdman of Assisi.
• Francis.
• 3: December 29: This man for whom it was a bad day in the cathedral.
• (Thomas à) Becket.
• 4: June 24: This man who had a good head on his shoulders before he met Salome.
• John the Baptist.
• 5: June 22: This all-seasonable Sir.
• (Thomas) More.

Round 3. Category: Log Jam. With Log in quotes

• 1: What's that noise? Oh, it's this wooden shoe dance; go, Grandma, go.
• a clog dance.
• 2: To terminate communication with a computer system; please do it every night before you leave the office.
• log out.
• 3: An accumulation of work or customer orders that should have been dealt with already.
• backlog.
• 4: In mathematics, it's the exponent to which a base is raised.
• logarithm.
• 5: Someone who completely buys into a belief of set of doctrines and follows it to the letter.
• an ideologue.

Round 4. Category: That'S Show Biz

• 1: The 1966 film "Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo" is better known as this in the U.S..
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
• 2: In 2021 Jason Sudeikis let his daughter shave the mustache he wears as this title soccer coach.
• Ted Lasso.
• 3: Ironically, Mel Blanc, who voiced Bugs Bunny, was allergic to these and would spit them out after recording a take.
• carrots.
• 4: He wrote the first draft of his musical "In the Heights" when he was still in college.
• (Lin-Manuel) Miranda.
• 5: Maybe he won an Oscar for "Syriana" in 2006 because he was in bed with host Jon Stewart (in the opening).
• George Clooney.

Round 5. Category: Bring Your A Game. With A in quotes

• 1: This artery branches off into the coronary arteries, which supply the heart with blood.
• the aorta.
• 2: The city of Hopewell in eastern Virginia is bounded by the James and this "Court House" river.
• the Appomattox.
• 3: There are 441 red cards and 63 green cards in this Mattel game of comparisons.
• Apples to Apples.
• 4: Give him a beer! This patriot became tax collector of Boston in 1756.
• Samuel Adams.
• 5: "Valhalla" is a recent entry in this video game series with a killer title.
• Assassin's Creed.

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