Instant Trivia

Episode 277 - People In Entertainment - Kelly Girls - Trails - The Atlantic Ocean - Acts Of Congress

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 277, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: People In Entertainment

  • 1: Educated at L.A.'s Lycee Francais and on film sets, this star of "Taxi Driver" graduated from Yale in 1985.
  • Jodie Foster.
  • 2: TV's Ally McBeal, she had viewers concerned about her weight in '98.
  • Calista Flockhart.
  • 3: This country singer of "Shut Up And Kiss Me" and "Passionate Kisses" has kissed off the hyphen in her 1st name.
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter.
  • 4: In 1995 Edgar Bronfman Jr., president of this Canadian distiller, took over Universal Studios.
  • Seagrams.
  • 5: This director left a party at the American embassy in Paris in 1998 after being reminded that he could be arrested.
  • Roman Polanski.

    • Round 2. Category: Kelly Girls

    • 1: She could title her autobiography "I Married a Sweathog" as she is Mrs. John Travolta.
    • Kelly Preston.
    • 2: As runner-up in the first edition of this show, Kelly Wiglesworth won $100,000.
    • Survivor.
    • 3: Former "Baywatch" lifeguard Kelly Packard joined Dean Cain on this TBS series.
    • Ripley's Believe It or Not!.
    • 4: Hayley Vaughan Cortlandt McIntyre Santos Santos on "All My Children", she now has a talk show gig.
    • Kelly Ripa.
    • 5: She's best known for her role as Matt Dillon's wife in "Drugstore Cowboy".
    • Kelly Lynch.

      • Round 3. Category: Trails

      • 1: It's an assortment of nuts, seeds and dried fruits eaten by hikers.
      • Trail mix.
      • 2: You'd have to walk over 2,000 miles to go end to end on this east coast national scenic trail.
      • Appalachian Trail.
      • 3: The trail of Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road took it through this famous gap.
      • Cumberland Gap.
      • 4: From the Dutch for a "track", it's a trail left by an animal.
      • Spoor.
      • 5: The Wonderland Trail circles this Washington peak.
      • Mount Rainier.

        • Round 4. Category: The Atlantic Ocean

        • 1: This expensive treat may be the eggs of the north Atlantic lumpfish; read the label!.
        • Caviar.
        • 2: Of the Earth's oceans, the Atlantic ranks here in size.
        • Second.
        • 3: In 1932 she crossed the Atlantic alone in 13 hours, 30 minutes.
        • Amelia Earhart.
        • 4: In July 1866 one of these was laid across the Atlantic by the Great Eastern Steamer.
        • Cable.
        • 5: This "sea" that lies between the Azores and the West Indies is named for the brown gulfweed floating in it.
        • Sargasso Sea.

          • Round 5. Category: Acts Of Congress

          • 1: Britain couldn't afford to pay cash for war materials much longer, so FDR proposed this alliterative act in December 1940.
          • the Lend-Lease Act.
          • 2: Britain couldn't afford to pay cash for war materials much longer, so FDR proposed this alliterative act in December 1940.
          • the Lend-Lease Act.
          • 3: 1930's Smoot-Hawley Act raised these to protect American farmers.
          • tariffs.
          • 4: (I'm Geoffrey Canada, President of the Harlem Children's Zone.) Setting standards and establishing measurable goals to improve individual outcomes in education was the objective of this 2001 congressional act that left many educators dismayed.
          • No Child Left Behind.
          • 5: In 1893 the anti-mangling activism of Lorenzo Coffin got Congress to mandate the air type of these on railroad cars.
          • brakes.

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