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Episode 361 - Let's Go Bowling - The One I Love - The Romanovs - Quips - Cliffsnotes

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 361, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Go Bowling

  • 1: If you knock down all 10 pins on your first throw in a frame, you've scored one of these.
  • Strike.
  • 2: A perfect game is this score.
  • 300.
  • 3: When throwing your ball, don't cross this "line" that's 60 feet from the pins.
  • Foul line.
  • 4: The headpin is also known by this "royal" name.
  • Kingpin.
  • 5: This organization that sanctions tournaments is abbreviated the PBA.
  • Professional Bowlers Association.

    • Round 2. Category: The One I Love

    • 1: Shah Jahan built this complex in Agra, India to immortalize Mumtaz, his favorite wife.
    • the Taj Mahal.
    • 2: How modern--Queen Victoria proposed to him on Oct. 15, 1839.
    • Prince Albert.
    • 3: The first time Vivien Leigh saw him onstage, she said, "That's the man I'm going to marry" (she was right).
    • Laurence Olivier.
    • 4: Even after 29 years of marriage, he still thought of wife Linda as "my girlfriend".
    • Paul McCartney.
    • 5: In 1925 this 3-named British economist married Lydia Lopakova, one of Diaghilev's ballerinas.
    • John Maynard Keynes.

      • Round 3. Category: The Romanovs

      • 1: Alexander II added $7,200,000 to Russia's coffers by selling off what's now known as this.
      • Alaska.
      • 2: In 1695 he declared war on the Ottoman Empire, a great move.
      • Peter the Great.
      • 3: In 1956 Ingrid Bergman played this possible Romanov.
      • Anastasia.
      • 4: She and her lover, Count Orlov, overthrew her husband in a July 1762 palace coup.
      • Catherine the Great.
      • 5: In 1807 Alexander I allied himself with this country; in 1812 the alliance broke and the ex-ally invaded Russia.
      • France.

        • Round 4. Category: Quips

        • 1: After being named host of the 2001 Oscar broadcast, this "Roxanne" star cracked, "If you can't win 'em, join 'em".
        • Steve Martin.
        • 2: This oft-married Hungarian opined, "You never really know a man until you have divorced him".
        • Zsa Zsa Gabor.
        • 3: This N.Y. film director said he wasn't afraid of dying but "I don't want to be here when it happens".
        • Woody Allen.
        • 4: "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle", said this Ms. founder who married David Bale in 2000.
        • Gloria Steinem.
        • 5: Truman Capote reviewed this man's book "On the Road" by saying, "That's not writing. It's just typing".
        • Jack Kerouac.

          • Round 5. Category: Cliffsnotes

          • 1: Livestock successfully stage rebellion, pigs end up blowing it for everyone.
          • "Animal Farm".
          • 2: Title guy shipwrecks, ends up on 28-year island getaway, makes a friend, goes home.
          • "Robinson Crusoe".
          • 3: 2 guys dream of owning a farm, one kills the boss' daughter-in-law, then his pal kills him.
          • "Of Mice and Men".
          • 4: Frenchman swipes some bread, gets 19 years, gets out, gets pursued by a cop who dies.
          • "Les Miserables".
          • 5: Con man checks into mental hospital to avoid prison farm, meets nasty nurse, doesn't check out.
          • "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

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

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