Episode 219 - Hammurabi's Code - Are You Addressing Me? - "Andy" - The Sweet Spot - Air

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 219, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hammurabi's Code

• 1: Rule 200 says if a man knocketh these out of an equal, his shall be knocked out, too.
• Teeth.
• 2: This number is missing from the code's 282 rules; Babylonians thought it was evil and unlucky.
• 13.
• 3: Rules 104-106 warn you to be sure to get one of these when dealing with a merchant.
• Receipt.
• 4: If a man hires a substitute to serve for him as one of these and doesn't pay, he's killed and the sub gets his house.
• Soldier.
• 5: If you hired one of these and broke a horn off or cut off its tail, you owe 1/4 of its value in money.
• Cow, bull, ox.....

Round 2. Category: Are You Addressing Me?

• 1: The personal pronoun of the second person in the nominative case; people often act holier than it.
• thou.
• 2: A surgeon in England is simply addressed as this, not Dr..
• Mr..
• 3: Miss came from the first syllable of this word and mrs. is a shortened form of it.
• mistress.
• 4: From the Arabic for "old man", it's the head of a family, tribe or village.
• sheik.
• 5: As tovarishch means this, we guess you could be a tovarishch-in-arms.
• comrade.

Round 3. Category: "Andy"

• 1: The black and white bear of Walter Lantz cartoons.
• Andy Panda.
• 2: "A Family Affair" was the 1st of 15 films in this Mickey Rooney series.
• the Andy Hardy series.
• 3: Reg Smythe's pub-crawling comic strip husband of Flo.
• Andy Capp.
• 4: Donny Osmond made his debut at the age of 4 on his show.
• The Andy Williams Show.
• 5: An 8-hour static film of the Empire State Building was done by this pop artist.
• Andy Warhol.

Round 4. Category: The Sweet Spot

• 1: 2-word term for benzosulfamide or aspartame, for example.
• artificial sweetener.
• 2: You'd be wrong, but not alone in calling these yams.
• sweet potatoes.
• 3: In "Peanuts" it's Sally's term of endearment for Linus.
• "My Sweet Baboo".
• 4: It's the title of the 1970 album on which you can hear the song "Fire and Rain".
• "Sweet Baby James".
• 5: In 1959 Elia Kazan directed this Tennessee Williams play.
• Sweet Bird of Youth.

Round 5. Category: Air

• 1: Nitrogen makes up about 78% of the air to this gas' 21%, so no one has ever needed a nitrogen tent.
• Oxygen.
• 2: About 14.5 pounds per square inch at sea level, it decreases with altitude and has to be increased in airplanes.
• Air pressure.
• 3: It's what is done to air so it can power a jackhammer.
• Compressed.
• 4: This process that originally formed the oceans also forms dew.
• Condensation.
• 5: A sudden change of windspeed or direction, it also means "cut".
• Shear.

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