Instant Trivia

Episode 261 - Gray Matters - "King" Of The World! - The "Meth"Od - Who's Afraid Of - On The "War"Path

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 261, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Gray Matters

  • 1: "She ain't what she used to be".
  • the Old Gray Mare.
  • 2: Gore Vidal adapted this military-school novel for TV, 1st screenplay he's taken credit for since 1964.
  • Dress Gray.
  • 3: His career "Bud"ded as Princess and Kitten's brother "Father Knows Best".
  • Bill Gray.
  • 4: Though still alive at the time, Confederate raider John S. Mosby earned this nickname.
  • the "Gray Ghost".
  • 5: "Elegy..." poet who said he would no more accept the title of poet laureate than royal rat-catcher.
  • Thomas Gray.

    • Round 2. Category: "King" Of The World!

    • 1: Perhaps based on a real monarch, this nursery rhyme figure called for his bowl, his pipe and his fiddlers three.
    • Old King Cole.
    • 2: This long poisonous snake is also known as a hamadryad.
    • king cobra.
    • 3: If and when Prince Charles succeeds Elizabeth II, this will be Great Britain's national anthem.
    • "God Save the King".
    • 4: Before being imploded in 2000, it was home to the Seattle Mariners and the Seattle Seahawks.
    • the Kingdome.
    • 5: Found east of Bullhead City, this city of northwest Arizona has a population of only 20,000.
    • Kingman.

      • Round 3. Category: The "Meth"Od

      • 1: This word begins a rhyme about what a bride needs on her wedding day.
      • something.
      • 2: Rice paddies release this greenhouse gas.
      • methane.
      • 3: Term originally applied to a mid-18th century religious society founded at Oxford.
      • the Methodists.
      • 4: His group won a Grammy in 1998 for "Imaginary Day".
      • Pat Metheny.
      • 5: In mythology, the husband of Pandora and brother of Prometheus; in astronomy, a moon of Saturn.
      • Epimetheus.

        • Round 4. Category: Who's Afraid Of

        • 1: "Autophobia" could be the alternative title for Reba McEntire's hit "The Fear of Being" this.
        • Alone.
        • 2: Whether it passes too slowly or too quickly, chronophobia is a fear of this.
        • time.
        • 3: It's the opposite of agoraphobia.
        • claustrophobia.
        • 4: Erica Jong might know that aviophobia is this.
        • fear of flying.
        • 5: For someone with eosophobia, "it is always darkest" at this point of the day.
        • dawn.

          • Round 5. Category: On The "War"Path

          • 1: In response to NATO, Eastern European nations including Poland and the USSR signed this 1955 treaty.
          • the Warsaw Pact.
          • 2: Pop art poster boy who was famous much longer than 15 minutes.
          • Andy Warhol.
          • 3: Homeothermic, like mammals.
          • warm-blooded.
          • 4: In Super Bowl XXXIV, this Rams QB passed for a record 414 yards, beating Joe Montana's record by 57 yards.
          • Kurt Warner.
          • 5: The 14th Chief Justice of the United States.
          • Earl Warren.

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

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