Episode 33 - Take A Shot - Rodent, Marsupial Or Reptile - Unitas Against All Enemies - Radcliffe Grads - Eyes On The Prize

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 33, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Take A Shot

• 1: Sport covered in the film "Slap Shot"
• hockey.
• 2: In volleyball, it's a hard smash close to the net almost straight down into the opponent's court
• spike.
• 3: A piece of random criticism that's easily made, or firing at game for food, not for sport
• potshot.
• 4: Animal term for the shot seen here: [photo of dart in middle of board]
• bullseye.
• 5: In pool this type of shot involves the cushions on the table
• bank.

Round 2. Category: Rodent, Marsupial Or Reptile

• 1: The gecko
• reptile.
• 2: The wallaby
• marsupial.
• 3: The hamster
• rodent.
• 4: The beaver
• rodent.
• 5: The caiman
• reptile.

Round 3. Category: Unitas Against All Enemies

• 1: Though originally drafted by the Steelers, Johnny Unitas was a real "horse" for 17 years on this team
• the (Baltimore) Colts.
• 2: Johnny's 47 straight games with one of these has been compared to DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak
• a touchdown pass.
• 3: Johnny U won the 1958 NFL Championship game against Frank Gifford and this "mammoth" team
• the (New York) Giants.
• 4: Johnny ended his Hall-of-Fame career with this Calif. team in '73, the rookie year of future Hall of Famer Dan Fouts
• the San Diego Chargers.
• 5: Johnny was considered "the Man with" this valuable type of appendage, like Frank Sinatra in a 1955 movie
• "the Golden Arm".

Round 4. Category: Radcliffe Grads

• 1: This poet and author of "The Handmaid's Tale" received a Master's from Radcliffe
• (Margaret) Atwood.
• 2: Before moving to Paris and meeting Alice, she studied psychology at Radcliffe under William James
• Gertrude Stein.
• 3: A 1973 degree in political science was just the beginning for this first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Benazir Bhutto.
• 4: Anne Sullivan spelled out lectures in this woman's hand, helping her to graduate with honors in 1904
• Helen Keller.
• 5: Graduating cum laude with a degree in American history, she'd later become First Lady--on "The West Wing"
• Stockard Channing.

Round 5. Category: Eyes On The Prize

• 1: (Lech Walesa delivers the clue, speaking in Polish: I'm Lech Walesa,) In 1983 I was picking mushrooms near Gdansk when it was announced I had won this prize
• the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 2: Winners of the Templeton Prize for Understanding of this include Baba Amte, Rabbi Jakobovits and the Rev. Peacocke
• Religion.
• 3: This famous British gallery that has lots of J.M.W. Turner works gives the Turner Prize for Contemporary Art
• the Tate Gallery.
• 4: In April 2002 at the age of 88, Henry Brant won this prize, also given to journalists, for music
• the Pulitzer Prize.
• 5: The $100,000 Potamkin Prize is for research in this aging disease that afflicted Mrs. Potamkin
• Alzheimer's disease.

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