Instant Trivia

Episode 229 - Nfl Nicknames - The Jep-Tones World Tour 2006 - 1961 - The Marrier - Yes, I've Eton

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 229, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Nfl Nicknames

  • 1: "Broadway Joe".
  • Joe Namath.
  • 2: "Mean Joe".
  • Joe Greene.
  • 3: "The Refrigerator".
  • William Perry.
  • 4: "Too Tall".
  • (Ed) Jones.
  • 5: "Sweetness".
  • Walter Payton.

    • Round 2. Category: The Jep-Tones World Tour 2006

    • 1: More popular than Regis, the Jeps play their last stadium gig in San Francisco, like this band did on Aug. 29, 1966.
    • The Beatles.
    • 2: After a stint with the Maharishi, the group tries Kaballah with this singer whose hits include "Beautiful Stranger".
    • Madonna.
    • 3: The Jeps cover this group's 1988 Top 10 hit "Welcome To The Jungle", until the inevitable cease- and -desist order.
    • Guns N' Roses.
    • 4: No way! The Jeps' "Potpourri" video isn't the 2005 VMA Viewer's Choice; this band's "American Idiot" is.
    • Green Day.
    • 5: Oops... the 'Tones hire Mensa's Angels as security at this speedway in California, site of a 1969 free concert by the Stones.
    • Altamont.

      • Round 3. Category: 1961

      • 1: Ratified on March 29, the 23rd Amendment granted this U.S. district the right to vote in pres. elections.
      • Washington, D.C..
      • 2: She releases the hit songs "Crazy" and "I Fall to Pieces".
      • Patsy Cline.
      • 3: A bunch of Cuban exiles showed up unannounced here on April 17.
      • the Bay of Pigs.
      • 4: In his January 17 farewell address, he warned about the dangers of the "military-industrial complex".
      • Eisenhower.
      • 5: On May 5 he rocketed into space from Cape Canaveral.
      • Alan Shepard.

        • Round 4. Category: The Marrier

        • 1: Tom Hayden, Roger Vadim, Ted Turner.
        • Jane Fonda.
        • 2: Sean Penn, Guy Ritchie.
        • Madonna.
        • 3: Andre Previn, Frank Sinatra.
        • Mia Farrow.
        • 4: Jeremy Thomas, Tom Green.
        • Drew Barrymore.
        • 5: Robert Evans, Steve McQueen.
        • Ali McGraw.

          • Round 5. Category: Yes, I've Eton

          • 1: He hopefully had a ball at Eton before going on to write "Thunderball".
          • (Ian) Fleming.
          • 2: We know he revisited his "Brave New World" in 1958, but we don't know if he attended any Eton reunions.
          • (Aldous) Huxley.
          • 3: Marshall Field III, who had fun times at Eton, merged his Sun and Times papers in this city in 1948.
          • Chicago.
          • 4: James Oglethorpe went to Eton, did other stuff, then founded this colony in America.
          • Georgia.
          • 5: In power in the 1720s and 1730s, this Etonian is considered England's first prime minister.
          • Robert Walpole.

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

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