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Episode 408 - To Riches - Remember The '80s? - Next Stop, Venus - Julius - "Eek" City

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 408, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: To Riches

  • 1: Like his father before him, he's the longtime mayor of Chicago.
  • (Richard) Daley.
  • 2: In 1969 he began Virgin, a mail-order business for discount records.
  • (Richard) Branson.
  • 3: In the 1984 film version of "1984", this acclaimed British actor played the inquisitor O'Brien.
  • Richard Burton.
  • 4: The German stamp issued on the 50th anniversary of this composer's death depicted his opera "Salome".
  • Richard Strauss.
  • 5: This journalist's "diary" from Richard Tregaskis was a firsthand account of WWII in the Pacific.
  • Guadalcanal Diary.

    • Round 2. Category: Remember The '80s?

    • 1: On May 13, 1981 a Turkish assailant made an assassination attempt on this man in the Vatican.
    • Pope John Paul II.
    • 2: In this 1985 movie Michael J. Fox time-traveled from the 1980s to the 1950s to the 1980s.
    • Back to the Future.
    • 3: Many books offered step-by-step solutions to this 6-sided plastic puzzle.
    • Rubik's Cube.
    • 4: This 1997 movie starring Jodie Foster was based on Carl Sagan's bestselling 1985 book.
    • Contact.
    • 5: In 1986 Chris Van Allsburg won the Caldecott Medal with his book about this "Express".
    • "The Polar Express".

      • Round 3. Category: Next Stop, Venus

      • 1: Contributing to its high temperature, Venus' atmosphere is predominantly made up of this gas.
      • carbon dioxide.
      • 2: It's the planet that's closest to Venus.
      • Earth.
      • 3: In 1610 this Italian discovered that Venus has phases like the moon.
      • Galileo.
      • 4: With few exceptions all specified surface features of Venus are appropriately named after these.
      • women.
      • 5: Similar to an eclipse, it's the term for the rare passing in front of the sun that Venus did on June 8, 2004.
      • a transit.

        • Round 4. Category: Julius

        • 1: Sears president Julius Rosenwald donated millions to found this city's Museum of Science and Industry.
        • Chicago.
        • 2: You bet your life he was born Julius Henry Marx.
        • Groucho Marx.
        • 3: Dairy Queen owns this drink created by Julius Freed back in 1926.
        • Orange Julius.
        • 4: "Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home" is its first line.
        • Julius Caesar.
        • 5: The "J." in the name of this director of the A-bomb project at Los Alamos was short for, you guessed it, Julius.
        • J. Robert Oppenheimer.

          • Round 5. Category: "Eek" City

          • 1: The title of an Irving Berlin song, it's how a famous pair danced in the film "Top Hat".
          • "Cheek To Cheek".
          • 2: A shallow or intermittent tributary.
          • a creek.
          • 3: To give off a strong, unpleasant smell.
          • reek.
          • 4: Onion relative that's a symbol of Wales.
          • a leek.
          • 5: It's the word that means happening once a fortnight.
          • biweekly.

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

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