Instant Trivia

Episode 1089 - "o", how entertaining - Tv moms and dads - Negative thoughts - College vocabulary - Y is the only vowel

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1089, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: O, How Entertaining. With O in quotation marks

  • 1: Called the "most influential work in the American musical theatre", it opens with "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin"'.
  • Oklahoma!.
  • 2: In 2011 Elizabeth, kid sister in this celebrated family, gave a breakout performance in "Martha Marcy May Marlene".
  • the Olsen family.
  • 3: This actor's familiar TV face can now be seen on "Modern Family".
  • (Ed) O'Neill.
  • 4: This film about guy and girl musicians making a connection in Dublin has become a stage musical.
  • Once.
  • 5: Young Walt Disney felt constricted by live-action film, and created this lucky rabbit, his first major animated character.
  • Oswald.

    • Round 2. Category: Tv Moms And Dads

    • 1: In 2010 Entertainment Weekly named this dad the greatest character of the last 20 years--D'oh!.
    • Homer Simpson.
    • 2: This dad had a rather large extended family but only 2 kids, Meadow and A.J..
    • Tony Soprano.
    • 3: Minnie Driver plays Fiona, mom to young Marcus on this series based on a novel and movie.
    • About a Boy.
    • 4: On Showtime this Oscar winner plays Ray Donovan's charismatic ex-con father, Mickey.
    • Jon Voight.
    • 5: In the '80s Vicki Lawrence was the matriarch on "Mama's Family", based on a skit from this variety show.
    • The Carol Burnett Show.

      • Round 3. Category: Negative Thoughts

      • 1: 9-letter optimist opposite.
      • pessimist.
      • 2: To void or close out, like a network does to a failing TV show.
      • cancel.
      • 3: John Donne tells Death this because "One short sleep past, we wake eternally".
      • be not proud.
      • 4: This presidential option is Latin for "I forbid".
      • veto.
      • 5: The phrase "Ask no" this "and give none" refers to mercy, not a coin.
      • quarter.

        • Round 4. Category: College Vocabulary

        • 1: Russet and tan are shades of this Ivy Leaguer.
        • Brown.
        • 2: A botanist might call this Houston school Oryza sativa.
        • Rice.
        • 3: In Britain this Southern school would have a peerage and rank just below prince.
        • Duke.
        • 4: In Wisconsin, it's a yellow cheese; in Maine, it's a 2,000-student college.
        • Colby.
        • 5: A Portland liberal arts college, or part of an oboe's mouthpiece.
        • a reed.

          • Round 5. Category: Y Is The Only Vowel

          • 1: It's a place to find dumbbells.
          • a gym.
          • 2: Until the 1500s these songs were mostly sung in Latin--everybody! "Sancti, venite".
          • hymns.
          • 3: It's another word for a pigpen.
          • sty.
          • 4: A traditional story in a culture.
          • a myth.
          • 5: It replaces "your" in the Lord's Prayer.
          • thy.

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

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