Episode 686 - Mountain / Man - Lifescript.com - Those Are My Initials, Too - Up In The Attic - Cartoons

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 686, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Mountain / Man

• 1: Why ask about this mountain named for a British surveyor in 1865? Because it's there.
• Everest.
• 2: A 16,000-foot Venezuelan mountain is known as Pico this last name, honoring a noted liberator.
• Bolívar.
• 3: In 1792 George Vancouver named this mountain, the tallest in Wash., after a British navy man who never even saw it.
• Rainier.
• 4: In 1792 William Broughton named this mountain, the tallest in Oregon, after a British navy man who never even saw it.
• Mount Hood.
• 5: Around 1890 I.C. Russell named this mountain, the tallest in Canada, for a geologist.
• Logan.

Round 2. Category: Lifescript.com

• 1: Devin Alexander, a chef for this NBC weight-trimming show, offers low-cal dessert recipes.
• The Biggest Loser.
• 2: Online you can "choose your condition"; maybe osteoarthritis, which inflames the lining of these, such as the knee.
• joints.
• 3: Cynthia Nixon told lifescript readers how she beat rosacea, which causes these under the skin to swell.
• capillaries.
• 4: Lifescript has an online test to gauge your BMR, which measures this fat-burning rate.
• metabolism (base metabolic rate).
• 5: It's important for women to have a healthy ratio of waist to this area of the body; pear-shaped is better than apple.
• the hips.

Round 3. Category: Those Are My Initials, Too

• 1: Skinner,Goodrich.
• B.F..
• 2: Milne,TV's Ron Balakay.
• A.A..
• 3: Griffin,Du Bois.
• W.E.B..
• 4: Woolworth,De Klerk.
• F.W..
• 5: Hunley,Mencken.
• H.L..

Round 4. Category: Up In The Attic

• 1: Grandpa never played this sport, but we found a bat used for it.
• cricket.
• 2: From a bygone vacation comes this hat; its name is from Spanish for "shade".
• sombrero.
• 3: We found this medal, awarded to all U.S. service personnel who suffer a wound requiring a medical officer.
• a Purple Heart.
• 4: Joseph is missing an ear, but otherwise this nativity scene, a word from the French, is in pretty good shape.
• a crèche.
• 5: Way out of tune, there's this stringed instrument for which John Dowland mainly composed.
• the lute.

Round 5. Category: Cartoons

• 1: He was the original voice of Mickey Mouse.
• Walt Disney.
• 2: Bullwinkle's "arch" enemy with a name derived from Russian czar, Boris Godunov.
• Boris Badenov.
• 3: Tweetie Pie "t'awt" he "taw" this "puddy tat".
• Sylvester.
• 4: In "Mouse Musketeers" this cat and mouse speak with French accents.
• Tom and Jerry.
• 5: Though he never married, Paramount's Popeye had this many "nephews" who all looked just like him.
• 4.

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