Episode 186 - "Boo"! - Cosmetics And Perfume - I Think I Love You - Computing 101 - The Unexplained

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 186, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Boo"!

• 1: This song was written in 1947 in the U.S., not Ireland:.
• Clancy Lowered the Boom.
• 2: Word that can precede hatch, prize or trap.
• booby.
• 3: A hiding game played with very small children, or a see-through blouse worn by grown-up women.
• peek-a-boo.
• 4: From the Tagalog word for mountain, it's our word for the backwoods or "the sticks".
• boondocks.
• 5: R. Duvall played this character who saves Scout Finch from an attacker in "To Kill a Mockingbird".
• Boo Radley.

Round 2. Category: Cosmetics And Perfume

• 1: Attention, Earl Scheib: Paint Job is a brand of this kind of cosmetic, with colors resembling automobile paint.
• Nail polish.
• 2: Diamonds and Emeralds is a gem of a fragrance from this beauty known for her "Passion".
• Elizabeth Taylor.
• 3: Brooke Shields suggests using a cream type of this cheek cosmetic if your skin is extremely dry.
• Blush/Blusher.
• 4: A skin care product by La Prairie is named for and made to resemble this fish roe delicacy.
• Caviar.
• 5: Elle described the scent of this spice as "The new lavender" -- it's a "snap" you'll know it.
• Ginger.

Round 3. Category: I Think I Love You

• 1: In mythology, she pined away for Narcissus until nothing was left but her voice.
• Echo.
• 2: This title character of a Voltaire work falls in love with Cunegonde, a baron's daughter.
• Candide.
• 3: In "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, she's the young woman the poet will see "nevermore".
• Lenore.
• 4: This Tolstoy character is one Aleksei's lover and another Aleksei's wife.
• Anna Karenina.
• 5: Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title lover in this man's "Lady Chatterley's Lover".
• D.H. Lawrence.

Round 4. Category: Computing 101

• 1: In computerese, it's the "app" in "killer app".
• application.
• 2: A flatbed one of these optical devices is used to get images into your computer to use on your website.
• a scanner.
• 3: In order to get online, you'll need one of these, an ISP.
• an Internet service provider.
• 4: Sometimes your computer is fine, but this, your LAN, is down.
• local area network.
• 5: "Broadcast yourself" is the slogan of this website that was recently bought for $1.6 billion.
• YouTube.

Round 5. Category: The Unexplained

• 1: In 1964 Vincent Gaddis coined this term for the area in which Flight 19 disappeared in 1945.
• "The Bermuda Triangle".
• 2: A 1961 book by Ivan T. Sanderson linked these 2 creatures of the Pacific Northwest and the Himalayas.
• Sasquatch/Bigfoot and The Abominable Snowman/Yeti.
• 3: An explanation for these areas of flattened grain is that they're saucer-shaped UFO landing sites.
• Crop Circles.
• 4: It's alleged a 1943 experiment transported a destroyer from this PA. city to Virginia and back within minutes.
• Philadelphia.
• 5: If you came home and found your maid had suffered from this, SHC, she'd be a real char woman.
• Spontaneous Human Combustion.

Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!