Instant Trivia

Episode 248 - Sports 2000 - Sitcom Central - Good Conductors - Mything Persons - Fads

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 248, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Sports 2000

  • 1: By winning the British Open, this 24-year-old became the youngest to win golf's career Grand Slam.
  • Tiger Woods.
  • 2: With pride Satan says they're the 2000 Stanley Cup champs.
  • New Jersey Devils.
  • 3: On July 23, he became only the second American to win the Tour de France in consecutive years.
  • Lance Armstrong.
  • 4: She dispatched sister Serena at Wimbledon and went on to defeat Lindsay Davenport for the title.
  • Venus Williams.
  • 5: This manager who won World Series in both leagues entered baseball's Hall of Fame.
  • George "Sparky" Anderson.

    • Round 2. Category: Sitcom Central

    • 1: Roz Doyle was his producer and call screener at Seattle's KACL Radio.
    • Frasier.
    • 2: Viewers finally got to see Wilson's face when the cast took their bows on this sitcom's last episode.
    • Home Improvement.
    • 3: In 1997 Carol Burnett won an Emmy for playing Teresa Stemple, Jamie Buchman's mother on this series.
    • Mad About You.
    • 4: Julia Louis-Dreyfus competes with her ex's new girlfriend on this sitcom.
    • The New Adventures of Old Christine.
    • 5: She plays the amnesiac title character of "Samantha Who?".
    • Christina Applegate.

      • Round 3. Category: Good Conductors

      • 1: This form of carbon used in fishing rods is a good conductor--so cast with care around power lines.
      • graphite.
      • 2: Copper's conductivity and cost make it the most common metal for the rod that guides this to the ground.
      • lightning.
      • 3: Not as good a conductor as copper but a lot cheaper, it's the default metal for U.S. high-voltage power lines.
      • aluminum.
      • 4: This metal is the gold standard of electrical conductivity among metals.
      • silver.
      • 5: Water's conductivity comes from these particles, like positive sodium ones and negative chlorine ones.
      • ions.

        • Round 4. Category: Mything Persons

        • 1: As a child, she was abducted by Theseus and his friend; later she was carried off by Paris.
        • Helen of Troy.
        • 2: Good heavens! This mighty hunter was slain by Artemis in a fit of jealousy.
        • Orion.
        • 3: His uncle Pelias promised him the throne of Thessaly if he could retrieve the Golden Fleece.
        • Jason.
        • 4: Triton, a gigantic sea god, was the son of this supreme sea god of Greek myth.
        • Poseidon.
        • 5: After murdering his father Odysseus, Telegonus married this woman, his stepmother.
        • Penelope (wife of Odysseus).

          • Round 5. Category: Fads

          • 1: Today Jennifer Aniston's is popular; in 1977 it was Farrah Fawcett's.
          • Hairstyle.
          • 2: It calls itself "the blanket with sleeves".
          • a Snuggie.
          • 3: In the mid-'30s there were hats, shoes, glasses, books and dolls of this 6-year-old movie star.
          • Shirley Temple.
          • 4: This fruit-scented doll and her friends Lemon Meringue and Huckleberry Pie were big in the early '80s.
          • Strawberry Shortcake.
          • 5: This Bandai "digital pet" was hot in the '90s.
          • Tamagotchi.

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

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