Episode 292 - Of Montezuma - In The Air Up There - Ellen - The Bill Of Rights - Take A Hike

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 292, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Of Montezuma

• 1: From 1502 to 1520 Montezuma II ruled these people.
• Aztecs.
• 2: One of these works entitled "Montezuma" was composed by Roger Sessions in 1964.
• an opera.
• 3: This defeater of Montezuma reached Mexico in 1519 and some historians believe he was mistaken for a god.
• Hernando Cortez.
• 4: Reputedly, Montezuma drank as many as 50 cups a day of this drink which the Spanish made sweeter.
• chocolate.
• 5: With some of the USA's best-preserved cliff dwellings, Montezuma Castle National Monument is in this state.
• Arizona.

Round 2. Category: In The Air Up There

• 1: Most of these are in the troposphere and there are over 100 different types, such as cumulonimbus.
• clouds.
• 2: Term for the moisture of the air, it's given in relative terms in forecasts.
• humidity.
• 3: In the 1970s it was discovered that CFCs may be affecting this layer of atmosphere.
• the ozone layer.
• 4: It's about .03% of the air; you breathe a little in and a lot out.
• carbon dioxide.
• 5: About 80% of this gas in the air comes from decomposition in rice paddies, swamps, and animal intestines.
• methane.

Round 3. Category: Ellen

• 1: She hosted the Emmys in 2001 and 2005 and was named to host the Oscars in 2007.
• Ellen DeGeneres.
• 2: On Thursday nights, she plays doctor; the title doctor of "Grey's Anatomy".
• Ellen Pompeo.
• 3: In 2005 British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur set a new record by doing this solo in 71 days, 14 hours.
• sailing around the world.
• 4: This First Lady's efforts resulted in a 1914 law improving housing for African Americans in Washington, D.C..
• Ellen Wilson.
• 5: Ellen of this publishing family co-founded a California institution of oceanography.
• Scripps.

Round 4. Category: The Bill Of Rights

• 1: Congress can pick a national dance or flower, but can't by the 1st Amendment, pick a national one of these.
• Religion.
• 2: This fourth president was largely responsible for drafting the Bill of Rights.
• James Madison.
• 3: 3 of the 13 original states did not ratify the Bill of Rights until 1939: Mass., Conn. and this "Peach State".
• Georgia.
• 4: The 4th Amendment guarantees the right of the people "against unreasonable searches and" these.
• seizures.
• 5: In 1787 Jefferson wrote to this "Father of the Bill of Rights", "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to".
• Madison.

Round 5. Category: Take A Hike

• 1: There's good hiking at several stops on this country's mountainous Chihuahua al Pacifico train.
• Mexico.
• 2: The Otter Trail on the coast of this country's Western Cape Province may be booked up a year ahead.
• South Africa.
• 3: In 1923 the first path designated part of this trail opened in New York's Bear Mountain State Park.
• the Appalachian Trail.
• 4: If this European country's mountains are forbidding, try hiking in its famed valley the Engadine.
• Switzerland.
• 5: Germany's 104-mile Rennsteig meanders through the Thuringer Wald, or Thuringian this.
• Forest.

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