Episode 1232 - Flying maneuvers - "for" a song - Arabic - British inventions - Classic lit

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1232, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Flying Maneuvers

• 1: To do it to a fire, you cover it, to do it to a plane, you lower one wing.
• Bank it.
• 2: Noisy term for flying low over a person or area.
• Buzzing.
• 3: Also a Coney Island ride, it's a 360-degree maneuver that starts by pointing the nose upward.
• Loop-the-loop.
• 4: In this roll named for a container, the plane revolves once on its longitudinal axis.
• Barrel roll.
• 5: Pitch is when the plane's nose moves up or down, and this 3-letter word refers to a left or right motion.
• Yaw.

Round 2. Category: For A Song. With For in quotes

• 1: We know you remember this 1991 duet between Natalie Cole and her dad, because it's....
• "Unforgettable".
• 2: According to Katy Perry, these title gals will "melt your Popsicle".
• California girls.
• 3: Zayn Malik and Taylor Swift teamed up on this song from "Fifty Shades Darker".
• "I Don't Wanna Live Forever".
• 4: A Creedence classic says, "It ain't me, I ain't no" this title.
• "Fortunate Son".
• 5: "I would give the stars above" in exchange in this '60s classic by the Yardbirds.
• "For Your Love".

Round 3. Category: Arabic

• 1: A shamal is a wind that whips up this blinding phenomenon.
• a sandstorm.
• 2: The number 3 is talaata, and this day of the week is El Talaat.
• Tuesday.
• 3: The name of this headdress for men may be related to the word "coif".
• kaffiyeh.
• 4: Change 1 letter in "wade" to get this, a gully that's dry except during periods of rain.
• a wadi.
• 5: In Arabic, follow a hope about the future, like the train arriving shortly, with this, meaning "Allah willing".
• inshallah.

Round 4. Category: British Inventions

• 1: A perambulator or pram to the Brits, it was invented in 1733 by William Kent for the Duke of Devonshire's kids.
• a baby carriage.
• 2: In 1676 Robert Hooke came up with a universal one of these to manipulate the mirrors of his helioscope.
• a universal joint.
• 3: The name of this Scot who invented the steam hammer sounds just like the American who invented basketball.
• (James) Nasmyth.
• 4: For the military, zoologist John Kerr developed the "dazzle paint" type of this, something animals also use.
• camouflage.
• 5: The miner's safety lamp was also called by the name of this British chemist who invented it in 1815.
• Sir Humphry Davy.

Round 5. Category: Classic Lit

• 1: This story begins, "All children, except one, grow up".
• Peter Pan.
• 2: Edmund Dantes is unjustly accused of aiding the exiled Napoleon and imprisoned for life in this novel.
• The Count of Monte Cristo.
• 3: "The Jungle Book" contains a story about Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, one of these animals who protects his human family.
• a mongoose.
• 4: In a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 7-year-old Cedric Errol inherits a title and is known as "Little Lord" this.
• Fauntleroy.
• 5: In "Gulliver's Travels", the sizes in this land are reduced to 1/12.
• Lilliput.

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