Episode 722 - Communications - How Poetic - Our Avian Friends - Superstitions - American Rivers

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 722, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Communications

• 1: KLAX, the top-rated radio station in Los Angeles for the 4th quarter of 1993, broadcasts in this language.
• Spanish.
• 2: The Sunset Strip Awards go to these big signs found all along the strip.
• billboards.
• 3: This former Tennessee senator is the administration's main promoter of the "Information Superhighway".
• (Albert) Gore (Jr.).
• 4: After an earlier one was severed by a fisherman, a cable to transmit these was laid under the English Channel in 1851.
• telegrams.
• 5: The C band for communication via these uplinks to them at 6 gigahertz and downlinks from them at 4.
• satellites.

Round 2. Category: How Poetic

• 1: The poet who penned the line, "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars".
• Walt Whitman.
• 2: Wordsworth wrote, "My" this "leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky".
• Heart.
• 3: "Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair!" wrote this poet in his "Ode on a Grecian Urn".
• John Keats.
• 4: American poet who wrote the following:("The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.").
• Carl Sandburg.
• 5: Her Poem No. 1333 tells us: "A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for the king".
• Emily Dickinson.

Round 3. Category: Our Avian Friends

• 1: Only the extinct 10-foot-tall moas of New Zealand were taller than this 8-foot African bird.
• Ostrich.
• 2: The deepest diver among birds is the emperor species of this bird which may reach depths of 900 feet.
• Penguin.
• 3: This tiny bird drinks nectar at the rate of about 13 licks per second.
• Hummingbird.
• 4: The sapsucker, a group of birds in this family, drills holes in trees to stimulate the flow of sap.
• Woodpeckers.
• 5: The name of this black bird of Asia, a superb mimic of human speech, is from the Sanskrit for "passion".
• Mynah bird.

Round 4. Category: Superstitions

• 1: From the theory that "like produces like", it was thought you could get these by touching a toad.
• warts.
• 2: In pagan Ireland this plant was a symbol of the 3 aspects of this goddess.
• the shamrock.
• 3: Buy a car on this unlucky day and it'll spend most of its time with the mechanic.
• Friday the 13th.
• 4: The Carpenters sang about one of these "for luck and we're on our way".
• a kiss.
• 5: When birthday cake is served, it's what the birthday girl can do to make her wish come true.
• blow out the candles.

Round 5. Category: American Rivers

• 1: The entire northern boundary of this southern state is formed by the Ohio River.
• Kentucky.
• 2: It's California's "capital" waterway.
• Sacramento River.
• 3: Lake Powell was created by damming the waters of this river.
• Colorado.
• 4: Hells Canyon, deepest canyon in U.S. has been carved by the Snake River in this state.
• Idaho.
• 5: The research corridor along the upper Rio Grande gives this state one of our country's highest % of Ph.D.s.
• New Mexico.

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