Episode 652 - Fun With Country Names - Meat And Potatoes - Be Afraid... - The Solar System - Denmark

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 652, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fun With Country Names

• 1: It's the only country in the world with the name of its ruling family in the name of the country.
• Saudi Arabia (the House of Saud).
• 2: Besides East Timor, 2 of the 3 independent countries with compass directions in their English names.
• South Africa and/or North Korea and South Korea.
• 3: They're the 2 western European island countries whose names differ by only one letter.
• Iceland and Ireland.
• 4: Of the countries named for saints, the one that's completely surrounded by Italy.
• San Marino.
• 5: It's the only nation in the world with "name" in its English name.
• Suriname.

Round 2. Category: Meat And Potatoes

• 1: The original version of this toy included facial pieces to attach to a real spud.
• Mr. Potato Head.
• 2: The fungus phytophthora infestans caused this historic Irish tragedy.
• Irish potato famine.
• 3: In Genesis, God told this man "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you".
• Noah.
• 4: A 23-inch by 14 1/2-inch one of these was produced in 1990 by a Pringle's plant in Tennessee.
• potato chip.
• 5: At 19, this future potato breeder read Darwin's "Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication".
• Luther Burbank.

Round 3. Category: Be Afraid...

• 1: These items terrify pternophobics, so give them a pillow with artificial filling.
• feathers.
• 2: It's not a fear of actress Rene (unless she's from Moscow).
• russophobia.
• 3: Lucrezia Borgia may not be a good choice as a dinner guest if you're toxiphobic, afraid of this.
• poison.
• 4: Anthophobia is a fear of these, but don't let it vase you.
• flowers.
• 5: You won't feel the need for this, if you're tachophobic.
• speed.

Round 4. Category: The Solar System

• 1: Using Newton's laws of motion, astronomer Edmund Halley determined that these travel in elliptical orbits.
• comets.
• 2: In the 1600s his findings like the phases of Venus made this Italian think maybe the sun is what stuff revolves around.
• Galileo.
• 3: In December 2006 NASA announced that water may have flowed on this planet's surface within the past decade.
• Mars.
• 4: Its moon Triton was first seen in 1846; a second satellite around this planet wasn't found until 1949.
• Neptune.
• 5: These solar discharges consisting of light, heat and cosmic rays may last up to an hour.
• solar flares.

Round 5. Category: Denmark

• 1: As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark lost this country to Sweden in 1814.
• Norway.
• 2: Main farming activity of Danish-owned Greenland is not growing plants but raising these animals.
• sheep.
• 3: While Great Dane dogs originated in Germany, this pianist called "The Great Dane" is from Copenhagen.
• Victor Borge.
• 4: Between 1513 and 1972, all Danish kings were alternately name Frederik and this pious name.
• Christian.
• 5: Helle Thorning-Schmidt holds this post in Denmark; her father-in-law, Kinnock, once hoped to hold it in the United Kingdom.
• prime minister.

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