Instant Trivia

Episode 387 - What's On The Tube? - Go On A Diet - Venus - Magical History Tour - Fictional Detectives

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 387, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What's On The Tube?

  • 1: Keith Carradine's role as Wild Bill Hickok on this series ended when Jack McCall killed Hickok.
  • Deadwood.
  • 2: This veteran Pulitzer-winning film critic trades reviews with Richard Roeper.
  • (Roger) Ebert.
  • 3: In one episode of this comedienne's Bravo Channel show "My Life on the D-List", she auctioned off a stay in her home.
  • Kathy Griffin.
  • 4: This cable channel's "Meerkat Manor" has been billed as "'All My Children' meets 'Wild Kingdom'".
  • Animal Planet.
  • 5: In June 2006 this movie channel premiered its first made-for-TV movie, "Broken Trail", starring Robert Duvall.
  • American Movie Classics (AMC).

    • Round 2. Category: Go On A Diet

    • 1: The company named for this woman, co-founder with her husband Sid, urges a balanced food, body and mind approach.
    • Jenny Craig.
    • 2: All foods have a point value and you're given an assigned daily point total at a meeting in this Heinz-owned plan.
    • Weight Watchers.
    • 3: Whoopi Goldberg's a big loser on this "shake"y product and diet.
    • Slim·Fast.
    • 4: Eating the proper balance of low-fat proteins, carbs and good fat is the key to this Dr. Sears diet.
    • The Zone.
    • 5: This geographic diet's name comes from the Greek and Southern Italian consumption of grain, fruit, veggies and fish.
    • the Mediterranean Diet.

      • Round 3. Category: Venus

      • 1: This lovely letter-turner got her turn at playing Venus in the 1988 TV movie "Goddess of Love".
      • Vanna White.
      • 2: In 1999 she and her sister Serena aced the women's doubles final at the French Open.
      • Venus Williams.
      • 3: In 1986 this female trio put "Venus" on top of the music charts.
      • Bananarama.
      • 4: Before residing at the Louvre, this famous Greek statue belonged to Louis XVIII.
      • Venus de Milo.
      • 5: It's John Gray's 1992 megaseller on relationships and the differences between the sexes.
      • Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

        • Round 4. Category: Magical History Tour

        • 1: This legendary magician was imprisoned in a thorn bush by a "watery" woman using magic he had taught her.
        • Merlin.
        • 2: He disappeared after just 3 weeks at Fordham; years later, he'd make the Statue of Liberty follow suit.
        • David Copperfield.
        • 3: This magician does the ultimate disappearing act and ends up on an enchanted island with Ariel and the brutish Caliban.
        • Prospero.
        • 4: Don't feel ripped off if you pay to see these 2 magicians at the Rio in Vegas and only one of them ever speaks.
        • Penn and Teller.
        • 5: Martin Luther believed this German magician and astrologer, a Goethe subject, had devilish powers.
        • Faust.

          • Round 5. Category: Fictional Detectives

          • 1: A Bret Harte tale parodied this detective as Hemlock Jones.
          • Sherlock Holmes.
          • 2: Big city that's home to Philip Marlowe.
          • Los Angeles.
          • 3: This stout Rex Stout detective was first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post.
          • Nero Wolfe.
          • 4: Desperate for money, he churned out "The Thin Man" in 1934, creating Nick and Nora Charles.
          • Dashiell Hammett.
          • 5: The first detective created by Agatha Christie.
          • Hercule Poirot.

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

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