Episode 1234 - Margaret me - Science vocabulary - We're a north american band! - Current governors - Trinidad

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1234, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Margaret Me

• 1: She led Britain through the 1980s.
• Margaret Thatcher.
• 2: I'll get you to name this "Wizard of Oz" actress, my pretty.
• Margaret Hamilton.
• 3: Princess Margaret was born in 1930, 4 years after this sister.
• Elizabeth II.
• 4: Margaret Burbidge was the first woman to head up this royal observatory.
• Greenwich.
• 5: She coined the term "birth control".
• Margaret Sanger.

Round 2. Category: Science Vocabulary

• 1: "Specific" this is the ratio of a substance's density to that of a standard substance, often water.
• gravity.
• 2: It's the resistance that opposes the motion of one surface across another.
• friction.
• 3: From a word meaning "insect", it's the study of bugs.
• entomology.
• 4: Acone-shapeddeposit ofcalcium saltsthat builds upfrom a cave floor.
• stalagmite.
• 5: This adjective from the Greek for "moving" describes the mechanical energy of an object due to motion.
• kinetic.

Round 3. Category: We'Re A North American Band!

• 1: In 1973 Mammoth thought it cheaper to hire David Lee Roth as a singer than rent his P.A. system; Mammoth became this in '74.
• Van Halen.
• 2: This trio sang, "Today's Tom Sawyer, he gets high on you, and the space he invades, he gets by on you".
• Rush.
• 3: B-b-b-baby, name this band that topped the charts in 1974"You ain't seen nothin' yet /B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet /Here's something, here's...".
• Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
• 4: This Canadian band was "watchin' 'X-Files' with no lights on, we're dans la maison, I hope the Smoking Man's in this one".
• Barenaked Ladies.
• 5: Gordon Gano sang, "I like American music" as the lead singer of this Milwaukee group.
• the Violent Femmes.

Round 4. Category: Current Governors

• 1: George Pataki.
• New York.
• 2: Christine Todd Whitman.
• New Jersey.
• 3: Gray Davis.
• California.
• 4: Frank Keating.
• Oklahoma.
• 5: Tommy Thompson.
• Wisconsin.

Round 5. Category: Trinidad

• 1: Trinidad's Pitch Lake is a natural lake of this black substance used to surface roads.
• Tar/asphalt.
• 2: In 1889 this Caribbean island was joined politically to Trinidad.
• Tobago.
• 3: This form of folk music popularized by Belafonte originated in Trinidad.
• Calypso.
• 4: U.S.O.C. president Leroy Walker, not Runner, once coached this Trinidadian Olympic team.
• track and field.
• 5: What the Trinidadians call Shango, the Haitians call this.
• Voodoo.

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