October 21, 2021

Episode 252 - Dances - Pitches From The Crypt - Prime Time Tv - A Woman Of The World - Pilots

7 minutes

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 252, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Dances

1: The monkey and the frug were examples of this kind of dancing, sometimes done by girls in cages.

go-go dancing.

2: Back-bending dance that's neither heaven nor hell.

the limbo.

3: A Carioca is a resident of Rio and also a ballroom version of this dance.

the samba.

4: Dance you'd do to "Ah-one, ah-two, ah-doodle-dee-doodle-dee-do".

the old soft shoe.

5: Composers like Haydn and Mozart established this French court dance as the third movement of the symphony.

minuet.

Round 2. Category: Pitches From The Crypt

1: 10 years after his death, he can be seen on TV dancing with Dirt Devil vacuum cleaners.

Fred Astaire.

2: The National Cattlemen's Beef Assn. continued to use this actor's voice in ads after his July 1997 death.

Robert Mitchum.

3: Known for introducing acts on his '50s variety show, he introduced the new Mercedes S.U.V. in 1997.

Ed Sullivan.

4: The footage of Humphrey Bogart in this soda's commercial was shot decades before the soda's 1982 debut.

Diet Coke.

5: This brewery runs commercials featuring John Wayne and the cast of "Bonanza".

Coors.

Round 3. Category: Prime Time Tv

1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Victoria Rowell) During the daytime, I play D.B. Winters on "Y and R". At night, A.B. Livingston on this Dick Van Dyke series".

Diagnosis Murder.

2: This former TV Conehead plays a human romancing an alien in "3rd Rock From The Sun".

Jane Curtin.

3: Ray Wise played Reese and Peyton's dad on "Savannah" and Laura Palmer's father on this series.

Twin Peaks.

4: Cicely Tyson guest-starred on the first episode of this Chad Everett hospital series in 1969.

Medical Center.

5: This Melanie Griffith film about a spunky secretary spawned a 1990 sitcom starring Sandra Bullock.

Working Girl.

Round 4. Category: A Woman Of The World

1: She was in Kenya when she learned she had become queen on February 6, 1952.

Elizabeth II.

2: An Asian prime minister for 15 years, she was called "Indu" for short.

Indira Gandhi.

3: In 1767 this "Great" empress called a commission on legal reform.

Catherine the Great.

4: In 1993 True Path Party leader Tansu Ciller became the first female PM of this large Muslim country.

Turkey.

5: An entirely female unit, the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon, helped win this country's 1956-58 socialist revolution.

Cuba.

Round 5. Category: Pilots

1: Pilot somewhere over the Atlantic, May 20, 1927.

Lindbergh.

2: Pilot up above his brother and others, December 17, 1903 at 10:35 AM.

Orville Wright.

3: "Operation Overflight" is his account of his famous Cold War flight over the USSR.

Francis Gary Powers.

4: Pilot who made an "unplanned" trip to Ireland and got a parade for his trouble on August 5, 1938.

"Wrong Way" Corrigan.

5: American pilot on the ground and "Behind Enemy Lines" in Bosnia for 6 days in 1995.

Scott O'Grady.

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

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