Instant Trivia

Episode 171 - I "Like" This Song - Ports - A "Little" Lit - And Go To "Bed" - Gates

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 171, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I "Like" This Song

  • 1: This Bob Seger song was used in ads for Chevy trucks.
  • "Like A Rock".
  • 2: Duran Duran made its Top 40 debut with this song.
  • "Hungry Like The Wolf".
  • 3: This 1965 song begins, "Once upon a time you dressed so fine".
  • "Like A Rolling Stone".
  • 4: The 2 Madonna No. 1 hits that fit the category.
  • "Like A Virgin" and "Like A Prayer".
  • 5: This entertainment industry anthem was written for the Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun".
  • "There's No Business Like Show Business".

    • Round 2. Category: Ports

    • 1: It's the only one of South Africa's 3 capitals that is also a seaport.
    • Cape Town.
    • 2: Much of Australia's foreign trade is handled by this city's Port Jackson or neighboring Botany Bay.
    • Sydney.
    • 3: This state has 5 of the top 15 U.S. ports, including Plaquemines and Lake Charles.
    • Louisiana.
    • 4: Until Haiti became independent, this "Port" served as the capital of the colony of Saint-Domingue from 1770 to 1804.
    • Port-au-Prince.
    • 5: This Egyptian port on the Mediterranean was founded in 1859 when the building of the Suez Canal began.
    • Port Said.

      • Round 3. Category: A "Little" Lit

      • 1: Chapter 9 of this novel is entitled "Meg Goes to Vanity Fair".
      • Little Women.
      • 2: The Charles Ingalls family moves to the Great Plains area in this 1935 novel.
      • Little House on the Prairie.
      • 3: This pal of Robin Hood stood out in a crowd: he was at least 7 feet tall.
      • Little John.
      • 4: The mousy hero of this E.B. White book leaves home to search for the bird who's his dearest friend.
      • Stuart Little.
      • 5: Regina Giddens is the vixenish lead character of this 1939 Lillian Hellman play.
      • The Little Foxes.

        • Round 4. Category: And Go To "Bed"

        • 1: In math, it means raised to the third power.
        • cubed.
        • 2: Native Americans called this fence material the "Devil's rope".
        • barbed wire.
        • 3: Kidded and teased (like Adam did to Eve, perhaps?).
        • ribbed.
        • 4: If you've been clubbed, you've been made unconscious; if you've been this, you've been made a knight.
        • dubbed.
        • 5: In the Bible she was mom to Moses and Aaron.
        • Jochebed.

          • Round 5. Category: Gates

          • 1: The Nucerian Gate was one of several surrounding this city before it was buried by Vesuvius.
          • Pompeii.
          • 2: For centuries the Saviour's Gate has been the official entrance to this Moscow citadel.
          • the Kremlin.
          • 3: This 3-mile-long strait separates San Francisco from Marin county; perhaps you're familiar with the bridge?.
          • the Golden Gate.
          • 4: Traitors' Gate was a River Thames entrance to this through which criminals passed to be imprisoned.
          • the Tower of London.
          • 5: This capital's Puerta de Alcala was commissioned by King Carlos III to replace an earlier gate he thought inferior.
          • Madrid.

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

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