Instant Trivia

Episode 1006 - Obvious answers - All you need is "ove" - Dancing stars - In trouble with the fcc - The carolinas

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1006, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Obvious Answers

  • 1: This machine that produces printed letters on paper can be spelled using just letters on a typewriter's top row.

  • Typewriter.

  • 2: William Tyler Page, who wrote "The American's Creed" that the House adopted in 1918, had this job there in 1881.

  • Page.

  • 3: In an April 17, 1965 speech in Johnson City, Texas, this president rejected appeals to halt the bombing in Vietnam.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson.

  • 4: Millenios, a new cereal for the year 2000, contained 2 types of bits, little zeros and little these.

  • Twos.

  • 5: Milestones in this director's career include "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "A Walk in the Sun".

  • Lewis Milestone.


    • Round 2. Category: All You Need Is Ove. With Ove in quotation marks

  • 1: Bird of the Columbidae family.

  • a dove.

  • 2: A hitter wears them on his hands.

  • batting glove.

  • 3: To desire something that belongs to someone else.

  • covet.

  • 4: To linger around a particular place.

  • hover.

  • 5: To aim a gun directly at someone.

  • cover.


    • Round 3. Category: Dancing Stars

  • 1: He cut a rug with Cameron Diaz in "The Mask".

  • Jim Carrey.

  • 2: Tina Fey said acting with Alec Baldwin is like this man dancing with a hatrack--he makes the hatrack look good.

  • Fred Astaire.

  • 3: He danced with cartoon mouse Jerry (as in Tom and) in "Anchors Aweigh", the film that established him as a superstar.

  • Gene Kelly.

  • 4: She danced with the animated MC Skat Kat in the video to her 1990 no. 1 hit "Opposites Attract".

  • Paula Abdul.

  • 5: A lowlight of this Brat Packer's career: singing and dancing with Snow White at the Academy Awards in 1989.

  • Rob Lowe.


    • Round 4. Category: In Trouble With The Fcc

  • 1: A $550,000 fine on CBS for her revealing 2004 Super Bowl halftime show was later overturned.

  • Janet Jackson.

  • 2: A $500,000 hit for a discussion about Richard Gere was one of many fines for this shock jock; no wonder he went to satellite!.

  • Howard Stern.

  • 3: The FCC rebuked NBC for a 1937 radio skit about Adam and Eve by this suggestive "I'm No Angel" blonde.

  • Mae West.

  • 4: On May 17, 1972 this comedian recorded his "7 Dirty Words" bit and the FCC started dealing with that a year later.

  • George Carlin.

  • 5: In 1989 a station was fined $2,000 for playing "Erotic City" by this funky musician.

  • Prince.


    • Round 5. Category: The Carolinas

  • 1: North Carolina supplied 1/4 of the casualties to the losing side in this war.

  • Civil War.

  • 2: A 1971 Supreme Court case brought this mobile method of racial integration to Charlotte, N,C..

  • Busing.

  • 3: In 1902 "In The Good Old Summertime" was a hit and this current senator was born in Edgefield, S.C..

  • Strom Thurmond.

  • 4: During WWII the Army trained its first 2 airborne divisions at this N.C. fort.

  • Fort Bragg.

  • 5: It's about 200 miles between these 2 capital cities of the Carolinas.

  • Columbia and Raleigh.


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