Episode 776 - "bea"s - congressional districts - mysteries - 1982 - 1902

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 776, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "bea"s

• 1: Paul's group before Wings.
• The Beatles.
• 2: A lighthouse, or a radio transmitter that guides aircraft.
• Beacon.
• 3: Interesting things are often found off this "path".
• The Beaten Path.
• 4: This ship's 5-year mission: to boldly take Darwin where he hadn't been before.
• the Beagle.
• 5: Among the Muppets, he's Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's assistant.
• Beaker.

Round 2. Category: congressional districts

• 1: Of Colorado's 7 congressional districts, 3 are partly within this metropolis and its suburbs.
• Denver.
• 2: Limiting immigration is one of the main causes of Rep. Lamar Smith, from this state's 21st district.
• Texas.
• 3: Represented by John Mica, the 7th district in this state is home to St. Augustine, the USA's oldest city.
• Florida.
• 4: Charlie Melancon represents Houma, New Iberia and Chalmette for this state's 3rd, y'all.
• Louisiana.
• 5: It's the main city in Ohio's 14th district, once a rubber center and now called "Polymer Valley".
• Akron.

Round 3. Category: mysteries

• 1: As you might expect, this continent is the setting for Elspeth Huxley's "Murder on Safari".
• Africa.
• 2: 1st cousins Dannay and Lee wrote the Ellery Queen stories under this pen name.
• Ellery Queen.
• 3: This agency's symbol of an unblinking eye gave birth to the phrase "private eye".
• the Pinkerton agency.
• 4: No one knows how "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" ends since this author died while writing the book.
• Charles Dickens.
• 5: Tony Hillerman writes novels about Jim Chee, a detective on this Indian tribe's police force.
• the Navajo.

Round 4. Category: 1982

• 1: Yasir Arafat met with this Jordanian king to discuss the possibility of a Palestinian confederation.
• King Hussein.
• 2: For this north African country's support of terrorism, the U.S. barred imports of its oil.
• Libya.
• 3: Newsweek said this '82 strike forced husbands to talk to their wives for 8 consecutive Sundays.
• pro football strike.
• 4: After Alexander Haig resigned, he was named secretary of state.
• George P. Shultz.
• 5: On May 1, 1982, President Reagan officially opened the World's Fair in this Southern city.
• Knoxville, Tennessee.

Round 5. Category: 1902

• 1: In 1902 he published his newest Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• 2: He and Matthew Henson made their first serious attempt to reach the North Pole, but it would take 7 more years.
• Robert Peary.
• 3: After 3 years of fighting, this South African war came to an end.
• the Boer War.
• 4: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet and essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court.
• Oliver Wendell Holmes.
• 5: When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school.
• Oxford University.

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