Episode 339 - Historical Quotes - Fitness - The Dakotas - Choreographers - Prison Life

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 339, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Historical Quotes

• 1: Mass. town where patriot John Parker supposedly said, "If they mean to have a war let it begin here".
• Lexington.
• 2: At the 1968 Dem. Convention, this mayor stumbled and said, "The police are here to preserve disorder".
• Richard (J.) Daley.
• 3: As reported by Hernan Cortes in a 1522 dispatch, these people said that "by no means would they give themselves up".
• the Aztecs.
• 4: In a 1959 American kitchen exhibit in Moscow, he told Khrushchev, "In America, we like to make life easier for women".
• Nixon.
• 5: In 1888 this Chancellor told the Reichstag, "we Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world".
• (Otto von) Bismarck.

Round 2. Category: Fitness

• 1: A runner's fatigue caused by glycogen depletion is called "hitting" this.
• "The wall".
• 2: For boys to win the top Presidential Physical Fitness award, they have to run this distance in 6:06.
• a mile.
• 3: These machines mimic the action of running up stadium bleachers, with much more convenience.
• Stair machines.
• 4: The West Point candidate fitness assessment is a basketball throw, 2 runs and these 3 exercises with "up" in their names.
• push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups.
• 5: The West Point candidate fitness assessment is a basketball throw, 2 runs and these 3 exercises with "up" in their names.
• push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups.

Round 3. Category: The Dakotas

• 1: In 1997 the Dakotas were declared disaster areas as the cold hit -80 degrees including this factor.
• Wind chill factor.
• 2: Hot Springs, South Dakota has one of North America's largest graveyards of these prehistoric elephants.
• mammoths.
• 3: A "Little" river and a "Big Muddy" river with this name flow through both states.
• Missouri.
• 4: Much of the Dakotas was once dominated by the Lakota and Nakota branches of this Indian tribe.
• Sioux.
• 5: Now a North Dakota city, this junction of 2 rivers was called "Les Grandes Fourches" by French traders.
• Grand Forks.

Round 4. Category: Choreographers

• 1: He conceived, directed and choreographed the musical which included the following:"Tonight, tonight, the world is wild and bright...".
• Jerome Robbins.
• 2: When Balanchine staged "Orpheus and Eurydice" at this U.S. opera house, he kept the singers in the pit.
• the Met(ropolitan Opera House).
• 3: This modern dancer created over 170 works; her career spanned the century.
• Martha Graham.
• 4: In a single year he choreographed "42nd Street", "Footlight Parade", and "Gold Diggers of 1933".
• Busby Berkeley.
• 5: In the original 1942 production of "Rodeo", she danced the role of the cowgirl.
• Agnes de Mille.

Round 5. Category: Prison Life

• 1: Federal prison camps, also called this level of security, may have no perimieter fencing.
• minimum security.
• 2: Convict priest John Geoghan was kept in this, abbreviated PC, but was killed by another inmate in PC.
• protective custody.
• 3: In 1995 Arizona banned this recreation, fearing that it produced stronger criminals.
• weightlifting.
• 4: Nazi imagery and ideas inspire this vicious "Brotherhood" that began in California prisons in the 1960s.
• the Aryan Brotherhood.
• 5: It can mean a single charge of which you were convicted, or a procedure conducted several times a day.
• a count.

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