Episode 253: Trivia Inferno

Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast

Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Cooking, Anatomy, Science, Classic TV, History, Music and more!

Round One

• COOKING - What is the main ingredient of the Italian dish frittata?
• ANATOMY - What is a common term for the intergluteal cleft?
• MEASUREMENTS - Rounding up or down to the nearest number, if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many gallons did Peter Piper pick?
• CLASSIC TV - A big band jazz arrangement of which English nursery rhyme served as the theme song during the opening credits for The Three Stooges?
• HISTORY - In 1994 the U.S. lifted a 19-year trade ban with which country?
• CYCLING - What cycling term, that shares a name with a popular fitness company, is used to describe a large group of riders clustered together on a race route?

Round Two

• AEROSPACE - First operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia, what was the name of the space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001?
• HISTORY - Over which desert did France test its first atom bomb in 1960?
• MAGIC: THE GATHERING - In Magic: The Gathering, a goblin deck would be made primarily of cards of which mana source or color?
• BASKETBALL - In 2016, which basketball player gained the title Mr. Triple Double in the NBA?
• 70’s MUSIC - Which rock opera, released by The Who in 1973, is the only Who record composed entirely by Pete Townsend and tells the story of a young model named Jimmy?
• U.S. PRESIDENTS - Occuring in the 1840's, who was the first president to be photographed?

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• MUSIC - Who was the oldest musician to have a #1 song in the billboard top 100 at 62 years old, ending the Beatles run of three consecutive number one songs at the time?

Final Questions

• PRO WRESTLING - In 1905, George Hackenschmidt was the first professional wrestler to wear what?
• GEOGRAPHY - Which country in Europe is only one of two in the world that has no legally defined capital city?

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