Instant Trivia

Episode 268 - That's Write! - Symptoms Of Affluenza - "B" Plus - 1992 Films - To Grandmother's House We Go

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 268, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: That's Write!

  • 1: "Garabatos" in Spanish; Polly Wolly and a certain "Yankee" are dandy at these idle scribbles.
  • doodles.
  • 2: A preliminary version; the Brits spell it with a "ugh", we use an "f".
  • a draft.
  • 3: From the Latin for "to write across", it's making a written copy of dictated material.
  • transcribe.
  • 4: This type of will is written in your own hand; it sounds like it's in 3-D.
  • holographic.
  • 5: Pun alert! Oscar's illegibly written text of "Lady Windermere's Fan" would be this "of the Wilde".
  • Scrawl.

    • Round 2. Category: Symptoms Of Affluenza

    • 1: You get the sweats thinking about this car company's Silver Shadow, Silver Cloud or Phantom model.
    • Rolls-Royce.
    • 2: Shortness of breath ordering 2 boxes of Cohiba cigars, first made in this country.
    • Cuba.
    • 3: You get weak-kneed fondling a tournament mallet used during chukkers in this sport.
    • polo.
    • 4: Heart palpitations when mentioning the Carnegie Abbey Members Only Club at Narragansett Bay in this state.
    • Rhode Island.
    • 5: Shivers walking through 718 Fifth Ave., the jewelry house of this "King of Diamonds".
    • Harry Winston.

      • Round 3. Category: "B" Plus

      • 1: The alpha factor measures a stock's own volatility; this Greek letter compares it to the entire market.
      • beta.
      • 2: In this sport, the ball has 3 holes in which you put your fingers.
      • bowling.
      • 3: It's what Papa had in a 1965 James Brown hit.
      • "A Brand New Bag".
      • 4: Beginning in the 1970s, more than 1 million of these Indochinese refugees fled the Communist regmes where they lived.
      • boat people.
      • 5: This national variety of python can grow to 30 feet long.
      • the Burmese python.

        • Round 4. Category: 1992 Films

        • 1: [audio -- music playing in background]Film that features the following love song:.
        • The Bodyguard.
        • 2: The 1992 sequel to this hit comedy is subtitled "Lost in New York".
        • Home Alone.
        • 3: Daniel Day-Lewis trained to fight with a tomahawk for this epic film based on a James Fenimore Cooper novel.
        • The Last of the Mohicans.
        • 4: Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt play brothers with a passion for fly-fishing in this Robert Redford drama.
        • A River Runs Through It.
        • 5: Whoopi Goldberg plays a rebellious teacher in South Africa in this musical drama.
        • Sarafina!.

          • Round 5. Category: To Grandmother's House We Go

          • 1: Just because Grandma collects these shakers doesn't mean there's too much sodium in her diet.
          • Salt shakers.
          • 2: Grandma collects this man's albums and has read his memoir "The Kingdom Of Swing" 25 times.
          • Benny Goodman.
          • 3: On Grandma's wall there's a picture of this president from his Navy days on a PT boat.
          • John F. Kennedy.
          • 4: Grandma still has the diaries she wrote at this Poughkeepsie school before it went co-ed.
          • Vassar.
          • 5: Grandma loves the puppy pictures on the plates she collects from this "exchange".
          • The Bradford Exchange.

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

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