Instant Trivia

Episode 181 - Car Talk - The Veep - Science And Tech Digest: 1885 - Films Of The '90s - Diamonds Are Forever

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 181, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Car Talk

  • 1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Jay Leno) Car buffs like me know in starting some classic cars you pull out the choke to constrict airflow to this part".
  • Carburetor.
  • 2: It's the "A" in ABS, which is designed to keep you from hitting the skids.
  • Anti(-lock Brake System).
  • 3: When fixing cars, "R and R" means remove and do this to an auto part.
  • restore (or replace or repair).
  • 4: When a car has been "chopped", this part of it has been lowered.
  • the top.
  • 5: Since 1927 Prestone has been making this for temperature-challenged engine parts.
  • anti-freeze.

    • Round 2. Category: The Veep

    • 1: This vice president studied law at the University of Baltimore; in 1974, he was disbarred.
    • Spiro Agnew.
    • 2: He was Vice President under Dwight Eisenhower.
    • Nixon.
    • 3: Thomas Jefferson's first vice president, he was the grandson of famed theologian Jonathan Edwards.
    • Aaron Burr.
    • 4: In 1864 he was dropped from the Republican ticket and then served briefly as collector of the port of Boston.
    • Hannibal Hamlin.
    • 5: He was the eighth U.S. vice president and the eighth U.S. president.
    • Van Buren.

      • Round 3. Category: Science And Tech Digest: 1885

      • 1: Developed by British inventor John Starley, the safety bicycle features these of equal size.
      • wheels.
      • 2: Anthropologist Francis Galton notes the uniqueness of these for every individual, a help to police.
      • fingerprints.
      • 3: Designed by William L. Jenney, the first of these buildings, the 10-story Home Insurance Co., goes up in Chicago.
      • skyscrapers.
      • 4: German engineer Carl Friedrich Benz develops the first working one of these powered by a gasoline engine.
      • automobile.
      • 5: American electrical engineer William Stanley invents this device for changing energy from AC to DC.
      • transformer.

        • Round 4. Category: Films Of The '90s

        • 1: Meryl Streep as an Iowa farm wife finds a once-in-a-lifetime love with Clint Eastwood in this 1995 film.
        • The Bridges of Madison County.
        • 2: He starred as Quigley in "Quigley Down Under".
        • Tom Selleck.
        • 3: In this 1991 satire, Sally Field played the star of a daytime serial, "The Sun Also Sets".
        • Soapdish.
        • 4: Title Kansas City couple played by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in a 1990 film.
        • "Mr. And Mrs. Bridge".
        • 5: In 1992 she starred in "Singles" and "Single White Female".
        • Bridget Fonda.

          • Round 5. Category: Diamonds Are Forever

          • 1: Under intense heat and in the presence of oxygen, a diamond will burn and form this gas.
          • carbon dioxide.
          • 2: If you were born in this month, the diamond is your traditional birthstone -- no foolin'.
          • April.
          • 3: Stolen in 1792 but later recovered, the Regent Diamond is on display in this French museum.
          • The Louvre.
          • 4: Bo Derek probably knows diamonds rate this on the Mohs scale, which measures hardness.
          • 10.
          • 5: Carol Channing introduced the song "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" in this Broadway musical in 1949.
          • "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".

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

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