Instant Trivia

Episode 1078 - Tom, dick or harry - Finn fun - Honorary oscars - Friends 'til the ends - Head "turner"s

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1078, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tom, Dick Or Harry

  • 1: Slang for a private detective.
  • a dick.
  • 2: To raid or ravage.
  • to harry.
  • 3: "Long" swiveling navy cannon.
  • a tom.
  • 4: A deep-sided drum.
  • a tom (tom-tom accepted).
  • 5: A British "spotted" pudding.
  • spotted dick.

    • Round 2. Category: Finn Fun

    • 1: Yeow! The heat in this traditional Finnish room may reach the boiling point of water.
    • Sauna.
    • 2: This ethnic minority in Finland consists of about 4,000 former nomads living north of the Arctic Circle.
    • Lapps/Laplanders.
    • 3: A famous Finnish tone poem, or a famous Finnish vodka.
    • Finlandia.
    • 4: This "Flying Finn" flies no more, but he has a statue near Helsinki's Olympic Stadium.
    • Paavo Nurmi.
    • 5: This architect, Eero's father, gained fame for designing Helsinki's railroad station.
    • Eliel Saarinen.

      • Round 3. Category: Honorary Oscars

      • 1: He didn't get nominated for Best Actor for "Gigi" but did get an honorary Oscar for that year.
      • Maurice Chevalier.
      • 2: Chuck Jones received one for his over 50 years of work in this field.
      • animation.
      • 3: This 1973 honoree joined the Oscar club even though it would have him as a member.
      • Groucho Marx.
      • 4: They should have made this director's 1992 honorary Oscar "8 1/2" inches tall.
      • Federico Fellini.
      • 5: Our gang on the board of governors voted this little rascal of a producer a 1983 honorary award.
      • Hal Roach.

        • Round 4. Category: Friends 'Til The Ends

        • 1: "C" is for this word, once one of the divisions of a Roman legion; it now can mean a colleague or a person born in the same year.
        • a cohort.
        • 2: It's paired with "Axis" in the name of a digital Hasbro game set in 1942.
        • Allies.
        • 3: As the song says, "Life is a cabaret, old" this synonym for friend.
        • chum.
        • 4: French for "good friend", this 2-word phrase can refer to a buddy or to a girlfriend.
        • bon ami(e).
        • 5: This type of friend comes after "Food Lover's" and "Pokemon Visual", 2 books that offer guidance.
        • Companion.

          • Round 5. Category: Head TurnerS. With Turner in quotation marks

          • 1: He recorded "A Fool In Love" with Tina in 1960; it was their first Top 40 hit.
          • Ike Turner.
          • 2: The Goodwill Games were his idea.
          • Ted Turner.
          • 3: After her father was murdered she moved to L.A. with her mother and became a "Sweater Girl".
          • Lana Turner.
          • 4: Movie comedy in which fastidious Tom Hanks got stuck with a big, slobbering pooch.
          • Turner and Hooch.
          • 5: According to the title of a play by August Wilson, he's "Come and Gone".
          • Joe Turner.

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

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