Episode 454 - Instant Messaging Shorthand - Science Fair - We're Not In Kansas Anymore - Getting Hungary? - Sax And The City

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 454, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Instant Messaging Shorthand

• 1: TTFN:This way of saying I'll chat with you at a later time.
• ta ta for now.
• 2: RUMORF:"Are you" this "or" this.
• are you male or female.
• 3: POS:This person "over my shoulder".
• a parent.
• 4: RTBS:"Reason to be" this.
• single.
• 5: SSEWBA:"Someday soon, everything will be" these.
• acronyms.

Round 2. Category: Science Fair

• 1: Janice's project on the layers of this included the mesosphere and the thermosphere.
• Atmosphere.
• 2: Dennis recreated a 1995 test and confirmed this product is 68% air.
• Twinkies.
• 3: Viki's samples from the locker room floor showed how the trichophyton fungi caused this "sporty" condition.
• Athlete's foot.
• 4: Darlene's exhibit on minerals in the human body included iron nails, copper tubing and a 1943 penny for this.
• Zinc.
• 5: Arvid's diorama on the history of these included the following symbols(V, for example).
• Numbers.

Round 3. Category: We're Not In Kansas Anymore

• 1: We're attending the Strings in the Mountains chamber music festival in Steamboat Springs in this state.
• Colorado.
• 2: We left Abilene and drove straight north on Highway 15 to Fairbury in this state.
• Nebraska.
• 3: We're in the Ozarks seeing a show at Andy Williams' Moon River Theatre in this bordering state.
• Missouri.
• 4: We're visiting the Will Rogers Memorial in this state where the humorist is buried.
• Oklahoma.
• 5: We've left Lawrence, Kansas for Lawrence in this state, Leonard Bernstein's birthplace.
• Massachusetts.

Round 4. Category: Getting Hungary?

• 1: Called the "Queen of the Danube", this city is home to about one-fifth of the country's population.
• Budapest.
• 2: More than two-thirds of Hungarians are of this Christian denomination.
• Roman Catholic.
• 3: When it was known as Pannonia, Hungary was incorporated into this empire around 14 A.D..
• the Roman Empire.
• 4: In March of 1867, Hungary was joined with this country in a dual monarchy.
• Austria.
• 5: A devastating invasion by these Asian warriors in 1241 killed half of Hungary's population.
• the Mongols.

Round 5. Category: Sax And The City

• 1: As one of these Jim Henson creations, Zoot played the sax in Dr. Teeth's band.
• a Muppet.
• 2: This president went to band camp in the Ozarks.
• Clinton.
• 3: This animated kid is voiced by Yeardley Smith, but when she plays sax, you're hearing Terry Harrington.
• Lisa Simpson.
• 4: Wynton's older brother, he knows how to blow his own tenor horn.
• Branford Marsalis.
• 5: Born David Jones, this rock legend worked as a saxophonist and a mime before battling Martian spiders.
• David Bowie.

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