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Episode 405 - The "Del"S - Yesterday - Born In The '60s - "B" Movies - Savants

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 405, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The "Del"S

  • 1: Erase, erase, erase, perhaps with the touch of a button.
  • delete.
  • 2: Major party nominees for president are decided by these representatives.
  • delegates.
  • 3: These false beliefs might be of grandeur or of persecution.
  • delusions.
  • 4: It's another term for a flood, especially the biblical one.
  • a deluge.
  • 5: This Ancient Greek town on Mount Parnassus was the site of a famous oracle.
  • Delphi.

    • Round 2. Category: Yesterday

    • 1: An April 1971 visit by a team of players of this game was part of a thaw in U.S.-China relations.
    • Ping-pong (table tennis).
    • 2: In 1915 this Michigan industrialist chartered a "peace ship" and sailed off to stop WWI.
    • Henry Ford.
    • 3: This British naval hero lost an eye during the capture of Corsica in 1794.
    • Lord Nelson.
    • 4: Zulu Prince Shaka conquered much of southern Africa when he adapted this throwing weapon for stabbing.
    • Spear.
    • 5: He first led his red-shirted Italian legion in the 1840s, fighting for Uruguay against Argentina.
    • Giuseppe Garibaldi.

      • Round 3. Category: Born In The '60s

      • 1: NYC minister Joseph Simmons is better known as "Run" of this rap group.
      • Run-D.M.C..
      • 2: After the 1996 election, this 35-year-old Clinton adviser moved to ABC News.
      • George Stephanopoulos.
      • 3: In 1996, he beat a chess-playing IBM computer called Deep Blue; in 1997 the tables were turned.
      • Garry Kasparov.
      • 4: 1 of the 2 30-something female leads of "The English Patient".
      • Juliette Binoche and Kristen Scott-Thomas.
      • 5: 29-year-old Melinda French, a manager at this company, married its chairman January 1, 1994.
      • Microsoft.

        • Round 4. Category: "B" Movies

        • 1: 1968:Steve McQueen fires on all cylinders as a San Francisco cop in search of a killer mobster.
        • Bullitt.
        • 2: Burt Lancaster film in which his only friends were feathered.
        • Birdman of Alcatraz.
        • 3: A dimwitted shut-in becomes the toast of Washington, D.C. society in this comedy starring Peter Sellers.
        • Being There.
        • 4: As Josef Mengele, Gregory Peck sets out to breed a new race of Hitlers in this thriller.
        • The Boys from Brazil.
        • 5: Stanley Kubrick's directorial style in this 1975 movie mimicked the detached manner of 18th century English painters.
        • Barry Lyndon.

          • Round 5. Category: Savants

          • 1: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere", he wrote in his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail".
          • Martin Luther King (Jr.).
          • 2: In January 1904 these 2 inventors issued a statement about their success at Kitty Hawk, but it got little attention.
          • the Wright Brothers.
          • 3: "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject", said this wartime British P.M..
          • Churchill.
          • 4: This Austrian learned to play harpsichord at age 4, was composing at 5 and played for his Empress at 6.
          • Mozart.
          • 5: One of you will look like a savant when you I.D. this ancient Greek who used Socrates as a spokesman in his "Republic".
          • Plato.

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