Episode 255: Slort

Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast

Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet with Captain Nick for a trivia quiz on topics including 90’s Movies, Inventions, Aviation History, Medical Terms, Botany and more!

Round One

• VEGETABLES - Daikon and mooli are types of which vegetable?
• 90’s MOVIES - After the Blue Brothers, what 1992 comedy became the second movie to be based on a series of sketches from Saturday Night Live?
• INVENTIONS - What cross-country vehicle invented by Alexander Graham Bell is still used today for rescue, military applications and recreational use as well around the world?
• U.S. HISTORY - In what decade did women in America gain the right to vote?
• DOG BREEDS - The Australian Shepherd breed (as we know it today) was developed in the 19th century by farmers and ranchers from which country?
• AVIATION HISTORY - In 1928, traveling between Berlin and Paris on Luftswana's 15-seat plane, passengers enjoyed what for the first time during a flight?

Round Two

• BREWING - In brewing, what is the term for the liquid extracted during the mashing process that contains the sugars to be fermented?
• MEDICAL TERMS - Hypokalemia is the deficiency of what element in the bloodstream?
• MEDICAL TERMS - Polydactylism is the medical term for what growth on your body?
• BOTANY - What kind of palm tree gets its name from a Portuguese and Spanish word for “head” or “skull”?
• FEARS - Erythrophobia is the excessive fear of doing what (which is normally involuntary and triggered by emotional stress)?
• MEDICAL PRACTICES - What was originally used as a prophylactic against Malaria but nowadays is used as a mixer with many popular cocktails?

Final Questions

• SEA CREATURES - What life-saving sea creature is more closely related to arachnids than they are crabs or lobsters?
• AFRICAN HISTORY - Held in turn by the ancient Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans, Cyrenaica is a region of which North African country?
• BUBBLE GUM BRANDS - Known for its unique packaging, what red, white and blue brand of bubble gum was introduced by trading card company Topps in 1947?

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