Instant Trivia

Episode 1211 - Movie menagerie - Monologues - From page to stage - Geek love - U.s. airport codes

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1211, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Movie Menagerie

  • 1: Bogie's 1941 "bird".
  • The Maltese Falcon.
  • 2: One of the top five films of 1986 was this little wonder from Down Under.
  • Crocodile Dundee.
  • 3: 2 of the 3 Marx brothers movies with a specific animal in the title.
  • (2 of) Duck Soup, Horse Feathers and Monkey Business.
  • 4: In 1944 Mickey Rooney trained the horse in "National Velvet"; in 1979, this title steed.
  • The Black Stallion.
  • 5: This 1975 Jack Nicholson film could use a cage, a bird cage, to hold its Oscars.
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

    • Round 2. Category: Monologues

    • 1: In a courtroom:"Darwin moved us forward to a hilltop... we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis".
    • Inherit the Wind.
    • 2: A modern tragedy:"Hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral. Things were sad on a lotta trains".
    • Death of a Salesman.
    • 3: A 1913 classic:"I'll have to learn to speak middle class language from you, instead of speaking proper English".
    • Pygmalion.
    • 4: A Shakespeare tragic hero:"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day".
    • Macbeth.
    • 5: From Tennessee:"I wore it on Sundays for my gentlemen callers! I had it on the day I met your father".
    • The Glass Menagerie.

      • Round 3. Category: From Page To Stage

      • 1: Gosh darn it! Douglass Wallop's "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant" hit a home run as this musical.
      • Damn Yankees.
      • 2: Based on "The Berlin Stories", this musical is set at a nightclub where Sally Bowles sings.
      • Cabaret.
      • 3: Seeing the Artful Dodger sing on stage made lyricist Alain Boublil think of turning this Victor Hugo novel into a musical.
      • Les Misérables.
      • 4: Ron Chernow's biography of this man was adapted into a 2015 Broadway musical.
      • Alexander Hamilton.
      • 5: Bizet based this opera about a tempestuous gypsy girl on a novella by Prosper Merimee.
      • Carmen.

        • Round 4. Category: Geek Love

        • 1: The Woz, Steve Wozniak, built the first computer for this company.
        • Apple.
        • 2: Harmonix created Guitar Hero and, in 2007, released this other music-playing megahit.
        • Rock Band.
        • 3: Steve Ballmer has big geek shoes to fill for this Washington State software company.
        • Microsoft.
        • 4: This director's geek cred was sealed when he sold his film co.'s computer division and it later became Pixar.
        • George Lucas.
        • 5: Sexy Linus Torvalds made us melt when he created this freely distributed UNIX clone in 1991.
        • Linux.

          • Round 5. Category: U.S. Airport Codes

          • 1: SLC serves this state capital.
          • Salt Lake City.
          • 2: The codes for the 2 airports in Queens, NYC are LGA and this.
          • JFK.
          • 3: Thurgood Marshall Airport has the code BWI, for these 2 cities "International".
          • Baltimore and Washington.
          • 4: American Airlines' largest hub is the Texas airport with this code.
          • DFW.
          • 5: DTW serves this city; the airport's full name includes Wayne County.
          • Detroit.

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

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