Instant Trivia

Episode 212 - Starting Here - "Fe", "Fi", "Fo" Or "Fum" - Classic Sitcoms - Decode The Postal Codes - Who's Had More No. 1 Hits?

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 212, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Starting Here

  • 1: For Cathy Guisewite to do her "Cathy" comic strip, every day it's "back to" this.
  • The drawing board.
  • 2: To come up with Lanacane, the chemists "started from" this.
  • Scratch.
  • 3: To get a project in gear, or what you do after stepping up to the line in bowling.
  • Start the ball rolling.
  • 4: The way to start a play; it sounds like what the parents of "3rd Rock"'s Jane did during her formative years.
  • Raise the curtain (Curtin).
  • 5: In New York City on October 1, 1999 I rang the opening bell to start this.
  • New York Stock Exchange.

    • Round 2. Category: "Fe", "Fi", "Fo" Or "Fum"

    • 1: Iron.
    • Fe.
    • 2: It's a homophone for an antagonist.
    • fo.
    • 3: Possibly echoing the strum of an instrument, it's sing 3 times as part of a traditional Christmas carol.
    • fum.
    • 4: "Always Faithful", the U.S.Marine Corps motto is sometimes shortened to "Semper" this.
    • Fi.
    • 5: Part of a Southwestern capital city name, it means "faith" in Spanish.
    • Fe.

      • Round 3. Category: Classic Sitcoms

      • 1: Early episodes of this Barbara Eden-Larry Hagman series were filmed in black and white, the rest were in color.
      • I Dream of Jeannie.
      • 2: Its premise: a broomstick rider tackles suburbia with her adman husband.
      • Bewitched.
      • 3: On "Leave it to Beaver", it was Beaver's real first name.
      • Theodore.
      • 4: It was the occupation of Jerry Robinson on "The Bob Newhart Show".
      • dentist.
      • 5: (I'm Rob Reiner.) Thanks to "All in the Family" and Archie Bunker, I think I'll be forever associated with this beefy nickname.
      • "Meathead".

        • Round 4. Category: Decode The Postal Codes

        • 1: Scar.
        • South Carolina and Arkansas.
        • 2: Vain.
        • Virginia and Indiana.
        • 3: Lame.
        • Louisiana and Maine.
        • 4: Hide.
        • Hawaii and Delaware.
        • 5: Wine.
        • Wisconsin and Nebraska.

          • Round 5. Category: Who's Had More No. 1 Hits?

          • 1: Janet Jackson,Joe Jackson,Michael Jackson.
          • Michael Jackson.
          • 2: George Michael,Phil Collins,Elton John.
          • Elton John.
          • 3: Rick Springfield,Bruce Springsteen,Buffalo Springfield.
          • Rick Springfield.
          • 4: Whitney Houston,Mariah Carey,Barbra Streisand.
          • Mariah Carey.
          • 5: Heart,Little Feat,Murray Head.
          • Heart.

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