Episode 675 - 2 Kinds Of "Esque" - Dad Tv - Fitness And Exercise - U.s News And World Report Best Of 2014 - Science Update

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 675, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 2 Kinds Of "Esque"

• 1: A variety of bawdy stage show, or reminding one of Mr. Ives.
• burlesque.
• 2: Pertaining to an Italian Renaissance painter, or in a very different mood, to TV's Sally Jessy.
• Raphaelesque.
• 3: "Goddess" term meaning stately, or something a lot like that Ellen Page film.
• Junoesque.
• 4: Solid term suggesting massive, majestic beauty, or referring to Christ the Redemer.
• statuesque.
• 5: It refers specifically to an author who died in 1924, or broadly to senseless, menacing complexity.
• Kafkaesque.

Round 2. Category: Dad Tv

• 1: Ricky Ricardo.
• I Love Lucy.
• 2: Howard Cunningham.
• Happy Days.
• 3: Charles Ingalls.
• Little House on the Prairie.
• 4: Ponderosa rancher Ben Cartwright.
• Bonanza.
• 5: Tim Taylor.
• Home Improvement.

Round 3. Category: Fitness And Exercise

• 1: Drop and give me 2,220 of these, like world record holder Carlton Williams did in one hour in 2015.
• push-ups.
• 2: Keep your knees bent and your lower back on the floor while doing this exercise that isolates your abs, cap'n.
• a crunch.
• 3: NFL prospects run this dash, roughly the distance they'd have to run to cover an average punt.
• 40 yards.
• 4: This workout regimen that has trademarked "sport of fitness" calls its gyms "boxes".
• CrossFit.
• 5: Wood you like to hold this abdominal exercise position for 4 hours and 26 mins. like Mao Weidong did in 2014?.
• the plank.

Round 4. Category: U.s News And World Report Best Of 2014

• 1: The best "elementary particles/fields/string theory" grad school? This New Jersey Ivy League school.
• Princeton.
• 2: For part-time law programs, think D.C.; George Washington U. was No. 2 and this university topped the list.
• Georgetown.
• 3: On 2014's hospital "Honor Roll", the Mayo Clinic was No. 3, Mass. General No. 2 and this Baltimore facility the leader.
• Johns Hopkins.
• 4: Let's get down to business--for undergrads, this City of Brotherly Love university was tops.
• the University of Pennsylvania.
• 5: When it comes to a computer science Ph.D. program, this university in Pittsburgh leads the field.
• Carnegie Mellon.

Round 5. Category: Science Update

• 1: A single "leap" of this time unit was added to June 30, 2015; we hope you used it well.
• second.
• 2: A 2016 report says the world's food supply is in trouble with the decline of bees and others who do this important job.
• pollinators.
• 3: Boo! The 2012 Chem. Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of how cells respond to this "emergency hormone" and others.
• adrenalin.
• 4: in 2015 a team of Harvard scientists announced a breakthrough using anti-malarial drugs to treat this neuron disease.
• Parkinson's.
• 5: In 2015 the earliest known case of this blood cancer was identified in a 7,000-year-old skeleton from Germany.
• leukemia.

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