Instant Trivia

Episode 120 - Beauty Queens - Driving Don'ts - British Authors - The Category Of Daniel - "C"Omedians

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 120, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Beauty Queens

  • 1: The Miss America Pageant stopped giving this award for friendliness in 1974.
  • Miss Congeniality Award.
  • 2: Ex-Miss New Orleans who went down the "Road" with Bing and Bob.
  • Dorothy Lamourr.
  • 3: She was 1st runner-up in the 1940 Miss Venice Beach Contest -- she didn't look like Lily Munster yet.
  • Yvonne De Carlo.
  • 4: She won Miss World-USA in '73 --but the headband, bracelets and red, white and blue costume came later.
  • Lynda Carter.
  • 5: This Miss Sweden of 1951 was Fellini's femme fatale in 1959's "La dolce vita".
  • Anita Ekberg.

    • Round 2. Category: Driving Don'ts

    • 1: "Piggish" term for an aggressive driver who invades the lanes of other drivers.
    • "Road Hog".
    • 2: This phrase describes an accident in which the driver flees the scene.
    • Hit-and-run.
    • 3: Don't gun the engine and pop this pedal.
    • Clutch.
    • 4: To make your tires squeak and leave blackmarks is called "burning" this.
    • Rubber.
    • 5: It's the term for what you're doing if you can read an "If you can read this you're too close" bumper sticker.
    • Tailgating.

      • Round 3. Category: British Authors

      • 1: Princess Di's step-grandmother, this "Queen of Romance" passed away in 2000 at the age of 98.
      • Barbara Cartland.
      • 2: Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny are just a few of this British author's hare-brained protagonists.
      • Beatrix Potter.
      • 3: His professor, Dr. Joseph Bell, a master of diagnostic deduction, was his model for Sherlock Holmes.
      • Conan Doyle.
      • 4: In a Robert Browning title, "The Book" is paired with this object -- but not the one Robert gave Elizabeth.
      • Ring (but not the ring he gave her).
      • 5: From the early 1900s, his "The First Men in the Moon" and "The War in the Air" proved eerily prophetic.
      • H.G. Wells.

        • Round 4. Category: The Category Of Daniel

        • 1: In 1775 this pioneering American blazed the Wilderness Road.
        • Daniel Boone.
        • 2: One of his literary works gave us the term "Man Friday".
        • Daniel Defoe.
        • 3: On the big screen he's been Gerry Conlon, Hawkeye and Christy Brown.
        • Daniel Day-Lewis.
        • 4: One of his best-known orations is the Bunker Hill speech of 1825.
        • Daniel Webster.
        • 5: The Pentagon Papers he gave to the N.Y. Times in 1971 revealed deceptions about Vietnam dating back to the 1940s.
        • Daniel Ellsberg.

          • Round 5. Category: "C"Omedians

          • 1: He teamed with Cheech on numerous comedy albums.
          • Tommy Chong.
          • 2: Some of his "Seven Words You Can't Say on TV" are now said on TV, especially cable.
          • George Carlin.
          • 3: "The Best Second Banana in the Business", he gained undying fame as sewer worker Ed Norton.
          • Art Carney.
          • 4: She was the first original member of "Saturday Night Live" to score a success with a second TV series.
          • Jane Curtin.
          • 5: This understated comedian played Mr. Peepers and was the voice of Underdog.
          • Wally Cox.

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

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