April 27, 2022

Episode 441 - The Crusades - Colleges And Universities - He Was In That? - The Ocean Blue - 1980

7 minutes

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 441, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Crusades

1: Peter the Hermit, like Sancho Panza, rode one of these animals through France rousing the peasants.

Donkey.

2: Some orders of these were Teutonic, Templar and of St. John.

Knights.

3: This king of England was a leader of the Third Crusade.

Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted).

4: Kings Baldwin I and II were Christian rulers of this holy Mideastern city.

Jerusalem.

5: During the third Crusade, Saladin, sultan of Egypt and Syria, made this Syrian city his headquarters.

Damascus.

Round 2. Category: Colleges And Universities

1: The Museum of Art at Bowdoin College in this state has works by Winslow Homer and related memorabilia.

Maine.

2: This state university's medical center has campuses in New Orleans and Shreveport.

LSU (Louisiana State).

3: Florida Institute of Technology is sometimes called "Countdown College" from its proximity to this site.

Cape Canaveral.

4: This college has 3 representatives in the Irish senate.

Trinity College.

5: This Low Country's oldest university is the State University of Leiden, founded in 1575.

the Netherlands.

Round 3. Category: He Was In That?

1: Before playing Cliff on "Cheers", John Ratzenberger appeared as Major Derlin in this second "Star Wars" film.

The Empire Strikes Back.

2: In 1961 this future "Jeopardy!" announcer hit the big screen in "Gidget Goes Hawaiian".

Johnny Gilbert.

3: Mr. C on "Happy Days", he played the man Natalie Wood's parents want her to marry in "Love with the Proper Stranger".

Tom Bosley.

4: This boxing champ played a bartender in "The Hustler", and that's no "Raging Bull".

(Jake) LaMotta.

5: Before "Starsky and Hutch", Paul Michael Glaser played Perchik in this movie musical (Hint: Topol got top billing).

Fiddler on the Roof.

Round 4. Category: The Ocean Blue

1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Michael Newman of "Baywatch") It's the Japanese term for seismic sea waves, sometimes 100 feet high, that can bring lots of tsuris".

Tsunami.

2: It may go plankton-crustacean-herring-haddock and be only as strong as its weakest link.

Food chain.

3: The extension of a land mass to about 500' underwater; it gives way to the Continental Slope.

Continental Shelf.

4: The photic zone is the upper ocean layer, with enough sunlight to allow this plant process.

Photosynthesis.

5: As you'd expect, they're the 2 most abundant chemical elements in the dissolved solids found in seawater.

Sodium and chlorine.

Round 5. Category: 1980

1: In "Swanson On Swanson", Gloria claimed she had a love affair with this father of a president.

Joseph Kennedy.

2: Pres. Carter signed a bill granting $1.5 billion in loan guarantees to this company.

Chrysler.

3: The IRS said the cost of maintaining a cat trained to alert these people to possible dangers is tax deductible.

the deaf.

4: FBI agents posed as foreign businessmen in this investigation that implicated 8 congressmen.

ABSCAM.

5: Due to their unpopularity the U.S. Mint stopped making them, temporarily, less than a year after their introduction.

the Susan B. Anthony dollar coins.

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

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