Instant Trivia

Episode 343 - In Memoriam 2006 - 2001 Cars - The 5Th Beatle - Redundancy And Repetition - I Don't Give A Dam

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 343, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: In Memoriam 2006

  • 1: A host of "Hee Haw" for 17 years, he pioneered the Bakersfield sound of country music.
  • Buck Owens.
  • 2: Grandpa on "The Munsters", he once ran for governor of New York as a Green Party candidate.
  • Al Lewis.
  • 3: "The Midnight Hour" came calling for this R and B legend in January 2006.
  • Wilson Pickett.
  • 4: Long before "The X-Files", he stalked the night as Carl Kolchak, a savvy reporter of the weird and the horrific.
  • Darren McGavin.
  • 5: The winner of 13 Emmy Awards, this low-key TV sportscaster was a true "American Sportsman".
  • Curt Gowdy.

    • Round 2. Category: 2001 Cars

    • 1: The top-selling SUV in America, Ford didn't change it much for 2001.
    • Explorer.
    • 2: With its 2.8-liter engine upgraded to a 3.0, this company's 328i became the 330i.
    • BMW.
    • 3: Demand way exceeded production of this company's PT Cruiser, which premiered in March 2000.
    • Chrysler.
    • 4: This Japanese automaker's Prius has a hybrid gas-electric engine.
    • Toyota.
    • 5: Honda changed the Civic's double-wishbone front suspension to this strut system.
    • MacPherson front suspension system.

      • Round 3. Category: The 5Th Beatle

      • 1: This Beatles producer started out making comedy records with Peter Sellers.
      • George Martin.
      • 2: After being replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962, this man got a job in a bakery and then became a civil servant.
      • Pete Best.
      • 3: In "Backbeat" Stephen Dorff played this alliterative bassist who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1962.
      • (Stuart) Sutcliffe.
      • 4: This manager who died in 1967 was referred to as the "Fifth Beatle".
      • Brian Epstein.
      • 5: This keyboardist, who died in 2006, sat in with the Beatles often and also wrote Joe Cocker's hit "You Are So Beautiful".
      • Billy Preston.

        • Round 4. Category: Redundancy And Repetition

        • 1: The name of this, the world's largest desert, means "desert".
        • Sahara.
        • 2: The phrase "ATM machine" is redundant because ATM stands for this.
        • Automated/Automatic Teller Machine.
        • 3: We admit there's some redundancy in the "Jeopardy!" category title "U.S." these.
        • States.
        • 4: The name of this site includes the Spanish word for tar, so L.A. tourists are visiting the the tar tar pits.
        • La Brea Tar Pits.
        • 5: It's an opinion reached by a group as a whole; adding the word "general" is superfluous.
        • Consensus.

          • Round 5. Category: I Don't Give A Dam

          • 1: Located on the borders of Arizona and Nevada, this dam was finished in 1936 and got "presidential" in 1947.
          • Hoover Dam.
          • 2: The Grand Coulee Dam's reservoir, Roosevelt Lake in this state stretches 150 mi. toward Canada's border.
          • Washington.
          • 3: Construction of the Aswan High Dam, which holds back Lake Nasser in this country, cost $1 billion.
          • Egypt.
          • 4: First proposed by Sun Yat-sen, the Three Gorges Dam in this nation will be the world's largest when finished.
          • the People's Republic of China.
          • 5: Norris Dam on the Clinch River was the first major dam built by this New Deal agency.
          • TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority).

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

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