April 13, 2024

Episode 1159 - Requiem for a skyline - Can you digit? - Interviewing the interviewer - James k. polk - Storm

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1159, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Requiem For A Skyline

1: In November of 1972, the Kingdome was dedicated in this West Coast city. In March 2000, the Kingdome was demolished in this West Coast city.

Seattle.

2: In 1978, New Jersey's Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel got checked out to make way for a casino in this city.

Atlantic City.

3: Northwestern University's old Prentice Women's Hospital, an example of Brutalist architecture, was demoed in 2013-2014 in this big city.

Chicago.

4: Sunset Boulevard isn't the same since the bulldozer came for the home and playground of many movie stars called the Garden of this.

the Garden of Allah.

5: Demolished in 1999, the Jorba Labs near Madrid was often called this general 6-letter term for a sacred building in China.

a pagoda.

Round 2. Category: Can You Digit?

1: John Stossel, a co-anchor of this ABC News show, overcame stuttering and has won 19 Emmys.

20/20.

2: Number of stories on each of the 1,483-foot-high Petronas towers, or of keys on a standard piano keyboard.

88.

3: For the records, translate these 2 Roman numerals, XLV and LXXVIII.

45 and 78.

4: Tennyson's "Valley of Death" chargers minus the total number of U.S. senators.

500.

5: In print journalism this number is traditionally used to mark the end of a piece of copy.

30.

Round 3. Category: Interviewing The Interviewer

1: About his famous interviews with Richard Nixon, he said he felt empathy, not sympathy, for Nixon.

David Frost.

2: In February 2011 he sat down for a somewhat grumpy interview with his replacement, Piers Morgan.

Larry King.

3: (Hi. I'm Anderson Cooper.) Hosting a 2009 special on the Time 100, I got to interview Barbara Walters and her co-hosts on this show about their influence.

The View.

4: This late "Meet the Press" host told the N.Y. Times he sometimes felt like shaking his guests and saying, "Answer the question".

(Tim) Russert.

5: In 2005 Mike Wallace got the treatment he'd often dished out--from this "Fox News Sunday" interviewer.

Chris Wallace (his son).

Round 4. Category: James K. Polk

1: Mrs. Polk banned this in the White House so you couldn't have waltzed into James' office.

dancing.

2: Polk's was the first inauguration reported via this communications device; Morse was at the key.

the telegraph.

3: While Speaker of the House Polk was called this president's lackey and nicknamed "Young Hickory".

Andrew Jackson.

4: During Polk's term of office the border of the United States was extended west to this natural boundary.

the Pacific Ocean.

5: In 1845 Polk reaffirmed this president's "Doctrine" against European colonization of America.

the Monroe Doctrine.

Round 5. Category: Storm

1: Hurricane Camille leaves only one operational shrimping boat in Bayou La Batre in this 1994 Oscar winner.

Forrest Gump.

2: This 2000 film was based on Sebastian Junger's bestseller about a hurricane that meets a cold front.

The Perfect Storm.

3: Bogey and Bacall's final film together was this one that saw them waiting out a storm in Florida.

Key Largo.

4: The probe used to investigate tornados in this film is aptly named Dorothy.

Twister.

5: In this cool 2004 film, climatologist Dennis Quaid is right and much of the U.S. evacuates to Mexico.

The Day After Tomorrow.

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

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