Instant Trivia

Episode 308 - At Last Count - They Hate L.a. - Barbs From The Bard - Health And Medicine - Albums

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 308, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: At Last Count

  • 1: Americans eat about 11 billion slices of pizza a year, with this as the favorite topping.
  • Pepperoni.
  • 2: It's the all-time top-grossing film.
  • Titanic.
  • 3: Undergrad tuition at this Cambridge "institute" is over $26,000; room, board and books add another $10,000.
  • MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
  • 4: The 3 largest U.S. national parks, totaling about 20 million acres, are in this state.
  • Alaska.
  • 5: The life expectancy in the U.S. is 76 years; this country between Spain and France is tops with over 83 years.
  • Andorra.

    • Round 2. Category: They Hate L.a.

    • 1: S.J. Perelman had a lot to say about this "cinematic" boulevard, like "it's tawdriness is unspeakable".
    • Hollywood Boulevard.
    • 2: This comedian who moved here in 1913 called L.A. ugly, hot and oppressive; we'd rather he'd stayed silent.
    • Charlie Chaplin.
    • 3: This "Schindler's List" star called L.A. a fascist place where people think they're moral because they jog.
    • Liam Neeson.
    • 4: In this 1977 movie Woody Allen says L.A.'s "only cultural advantage" is a right turn on a red light.
    • Annie Hall.
    • 5: An Oscar-nominated screenwriter in the 1930s, this witty woman called L.A. "a horror to me".
    • Dorothy Parker.

      • Round 3. Category: Barbs From The Bard

      • 1: The queen calls him "That bottled spider, that foul bunch-backed toad!".
      • Richard III.
      • 2: Othello calls her a "lewd minx".
      • Desdemona.
      • 3: He calls Claudius "Treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!" -- but not to his face.
      • Hamlet.
      • 4: Called a wasp by her wooer she says, "If I be waspish, best beware my sting".
      • Kate.
      • 5: Beatrice calls him "A very dull fool", then agrees to marry him.
      • Benedick.

        • Round 4. Category: Health And Medicine

        • 1: In some instances, the treatment of leukemia may call for a transplant of this bone tissue.
        • marrow.
        • 2: New studies have found artemether as effective as quinine in treating this disease.
        • Malaria.
        • 3: Sadly, about one in 100 adolescent girls suffers from either bulimia or this related eating disorder.
        • anorexia.
        • 4: Alexia is word blindness; this is a reading disability in which letters are reversed and /or transposed.
        • Dyslexia.
        • 5: This medical specialist also takes care of your hair and nails.
        • dermatologist.

          • Round 5. Category: Albums

          • 1: This Who album's title refers to the double schizophrenia of Jimmy, its protagonist.
          • Quadrophenia.
          • 2: His 1973 album "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite" was from a televised concert said to have reached 1 billion people.
          • Elvis Presley.
          • 3: His 1989 album "The End of the Innocence" won him a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal.
          • Don Henley.
          • 4: The soundtrack of this 1988 U2 film included "Angel of Harlem", recorded at Memphis' famed Sun Studios.
          • Rattle and Hum.
          • 5: In 2001 their "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" CD was certified 9 times platinum.
          • Smashing Pumpkins.

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

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