Episode 792 - global numbers - man in space - measure for measure - the emmy awards - file under "b"

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 792, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: global numbers

• 1: The longitude in degrees of Greenwich, England.
• 0.
• 2: The latitude in degrees of the North Pole.
• 90.
• 3: Countries of the world that begin with X.
• 0.
• 4: Number of mountains over 29,000 feet above sea level.
• 1 (Mount Everest).
• 5: Number of continents completely south of the Equator.
• 2 (Antarctica and Australia).

Round 2. Category: man in space

• 1: This country called the 1st satellite it launched on its own the "Rising Sun I".
• Japan.
• 2: Type of animal that went up with Sputnik 2.
• a dog.
• 3: On 6/3/65, Ed White became 1st from U.S. to duplicate this feat Alexei Leonov performed in March.
• walking in space.
• 4: The space centers in Cape Canaveral and Houston are named after these 2 people.
• Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
• 5: Apollo 11 astronaut who tells the history of U.S. manned spaceflight in the 1988 book "Liftoff".
• Michael Collins.

Round 3. Category: measure for measure

• 1: It's considered 1/60 of a teaspoon, so now you can figure out how much one "in a bucket" is.
• a drop.
• 2: Hey, half-pint, you're equal to this many quarts.
• 1/4.
• 3: I'll have the 64 oz. steak, please; what? 64 oz. is this many pounds? Better make my soda a diet one.
• 4 pounds.
• 4: A gallon is equal to 3.785 of these liquid metric units.
• a liter.
• 5: I fathom you can fathom that 50 fathoms is this many feet.
• 300.

Round 4. Category: the emmy awards

• 1: This "Evening Shade" star joked that he was going to mount his Emmy on the hood of his Mercedes.
• Burt Reynolds.
• 2: In 1982 and 1983 the TV Academy "hailed" Carol Kane and Christopher Lloyd for their roles on this sitcom.
• Taxi.
• 3: Of Marion Lorne, Agnes Moorehead or Elizabeth Montgomery, the one who won an Emmy for "Bewitched".
• Marion Lorne.
• 4: Bebe Neuwirth, a 1986 Tony winner for "Sweet Charity", won 2 Emmys for playing Lilith on this sitcom.
• Cheers.
• 5: This TV "Golden Girl" was nominated for the first "Best Actress" Emmy in 1950 but lost to Gertrude Berg.
• Betty White.

Round 5. Category: file under "b"

• 1: A chance spectator; one may be innocent.
• Bystander.
• 2: The Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans has a webcam aimed at this famous street.
• Bourbon Street.
• 3: This 1958 treaty created an economic union among the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium.
• Benelux.
• 4: Bujumbura, on Lake Tanganyika, is the capital of this country.
• Burundi.
• 5: From the Latin for "projecting", it's a rich silk cloth with a raised pattern in gold or silver.
• Brocade.

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