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Episode 1064 - Airborne - Owed on a grecian urn - One-letter geography - Acting families - Water carriers

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1064, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Airborne

  • 1: It figures that Otto was the name of the autopilot in this 1980 movie comedy in the clouds.
  • Airplane!.
  • 2: Tom Hanks and several FedEx packages survive a particularly bumpy flight in this film.
  • Cast Away.
  • 3: Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a prisoner with a heart of gold, in this flighty film.
  • Con Air.
  • 4: One of the President's own men is a terrorist when the title plane gets hijacked in this 1997 actioner.
  • Air Force One.
  • 5: Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick were both nominated for Oscars for this 2009 film.
  • Up in the Air.

    • Round 2. Category: Owed On A Grecian Urn

    • 1: For building the Parthenon as leader of Athens, I say to the citizens: you owe me! and please take better care of it.
    • Pericles.
    • 2: Though blind, I see that you're still reading my "Iliad" and "Odyssey"; you owe me! Or at least the overdue library fees.
    • Homer.
    • 3: "Slow and steady wins the race" is one of the morals I have taught you; you owe me!.
    • Aesop.
    • 4: I left behind treatises on how to treat diseases and my oath is still taken today; you owe me! Do you have Blue Cross?.
    • Hippocrates.
    • 5: Without my "Parallel Lives", you'd know a lot less about our history.
    • Plutarch.

      • Round 3. Category: One-Letter Geography

      • 1: Due west of its capital Salem, this state's D River is billed as the world's shortest at 120 feet.
      • Oregon.
      • 2: You'll find the region called "U" in Pohnpei, one of the Federated States of this multi-island Pacific nation.
      • Micronesia.
      • 3: Sweden, Denmark and Norway all have villages with the "ring" type of this vowel for a name.
      • A.
      • 4: This French village exists at the junction of 3 roads, hence its one-letter name.
      • Y.
      • 5: Mount E on this island is at the entrance to the Tsugaru Strait, across which lies Honshu.
      • Hokkaido.

        • Round 4. Category: Acting Families

        • 1: Ryan andTatum.
        • O'Neal.
        • 2: BrothersBen and Casey.
        • Affleck.
        • 3: Dad and sonFreddie.
        • Prinze.
        • 4: Efrem andStephanie.
        • Zimbalist.
        • 5: Junius and his boys Edwin and John.
        • Booth.

          • Round 5. Category: Water Carriers

          • 1: The 62-mile Kings River flume in California wasn't built for a theme park but to float these.
          • logs.
          • 2: One of these channels, built to bring goods by water to Madras, India, took 76 years to finish.
          • an canal.
          • 3: Martin Luther King hoped for righteousness to roll down "like a mighty" this, not quite a river.
          • a mighty stream.
          • 4: In 1590 Sir Francis Drake built the 17-mile River Leat, one of these channels, bringing water to Plymouth, England.
          • an aqueduct.
          • 5: In the 1950s this project opened up a 2,300-mile system of waterways.
          • the Saint Lawrence Seaway project.

            • Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

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