Episode 578 - Hello, Newton! - Sounds All Around - American Sign Language - Ding Dong - Sinners

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 578, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hello, Newton!

• 1: Newton designed one of these that used mirrors in addition to lenses.
• telescope.
• 2: A student of this university's Trinity College, Newton graduated in 1665 without honors or distinction.
• Cambridge.
• 3: A falling apple gave Newton some ideas about what type of force could hold this heavenly body in its path.
• moon.
• 4: In the 1690s Newton was the bane of counterfeiters, introducing newly milled edges while working here.
• mint.
• 5: This English astronomer paid for the publication of Newton's masterwork, the "Principia".
• Edmond Halley.

Round 2. Category: Sounds All Around

• 1: It can be a continuous low humming sound or a male bee.
• drone.
• 2: If you listen to your heart using a stethoscope, you'll hear the sound of these flaps opening and closing.
• valves.
• 3: In part of the Capitol dome, you can clearly hear distant sounds, making it this kind of "gallery".
• a whispering gallery.
• 4: The name of this instrument comes from the Italian for "little goose".
• an ocarina.
• 5: This rude noise is the last name of Toby, a character in "Twelfth Night".
• Belch.

Round 3. Category: American Sign Language

• 1: It's the phenomenon being signed here.
• a rainbow.
• 2: This bulb is related to the lily.
• an onion.
• 3: The Beatles' Rocky knows the sign for this animal.
• a raccoon.
• 4: This area of land with a specific use is of grave importance.
• graveyard (cemetery).
• 5: Here is the sign for this geometry term.
• a perpendicular.

Round 4. Category: Ding Dong

• 1: In 1967 this company introduced its chocolate-covered Ding Dong snack cakes.
• Hostess.
• 2: Continuing the alliteration, it follows "ding-dong" in a kid's prank that involves ringing a doorbell and running away.
• dash (ditch).
• 3: "Ding dong", it's this company "calling"; how about some lipstick or other cosmetic?.
• Avon.
• 4: 4-word title of the Barry Mann song that asks, "Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?".
• "Who Put The Bomp".
• 5: Judy Garland's "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" surged on U.K. iTunes after this former prime minister passed away.
• Margaret Thatcher.

Round 5. Category: Sinners

• 1: In 1988 this popular evangelist tearfully admitted on his national TV show that "I have sinned against you".
• Jimmy Swaggart.
• 2: Holiday in 1929 on which Chicago gangster Bugs Moran lost several members of his gang.
• St. Valentine's Day.
• 3: "I sin every single day", said this 2008 presidential candidate whose indiscretions keep coming to light.
• (John) Edwards.
• 4: Despite the nickname, this man said to have coined the term "G-men" reportedly never fired a shot during a crime.
• "Machine Gun" Kelly.
• 5: In a 1741 Jonathan Edwards sermon title, sinners were "in the hands of" this.
• an angry god.

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