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Episode 444 - "B"Eople - "Short" Stuff - Iowans - If You're Going To Do It... - Say It "Aint" So

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 444, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "B"Eople

  • 1: On June 1, 2000 this governor stayed an execution for the first time; he had let over 130 go off normally.
  • George W. Bush (when he was governor of Texas).
  • 2: He joined "60 Minutes" during the 1981-'82 season.
  • Ed Bradley.
  • 3: Former NFL great Esiason.
  • Boomer.
  • 4: Seen here, he's a Democrat and the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
  • Joe Biden.
  • 5: With 82% of the vote, she was elected Chicago's first female mayor in 1979 and led the city for 4 years.
  • Jane Byrne.

    • Round 2. Category: "Short" Stuff

    • 1: Raspberry Tart, Apple Dumplin' and Lemon Meringue are characters in this line of dolls.
    • Strawberry Shortcake.
    • 2: "Hams" broadcast via this.
    • shortwave radio.
    • 3: In this 1995 film in which John Travolta played mob enforcer Chili Palmer, the real Palmer had a cameo.
    • Get Shorty.
    • 4: Myopic.
    • short-sighted.
    • 5: In 1927 court reporter Martin Dupraw used this to take testimony at the rate of 282 words per minute.
    • shorthand.

      • Round 3. Category: Iowans

      • 1: Born in Iowa in 1907, he starred in "Rio Lobo", "Rio Bravo" and "Rio Grande".
      • John Wayne.
      • 2: Prior to marrying Roseanne, this man from Ottumwa worked as a ham packer at a Hormel plant.
      • Tom Arnold.
      • 3: Des Moines' Marilyn Maye sang 76 times, more than anyone else on the talk show of this man born in Corning.
      • Johnny Carson.
      • 4: Iowan Meredith Willson wrote this 1957 musical set in River City, Iowa.
      • The Music Man.
      • 5: Burlingtonian best remembered for playing TV's Fred Mertz.
      • William "Bub" Frawley.

        • Round 4. Category: If You're Going To Do It...

        • 1: As a Swiss Guard, today you are responsible for the safety of this one person.
        • John Paul II (the Pope).
        • 2: To score 2 points at once in pro football the offense has a 2-point conversion and the defense has this.
        • a safety.
        • 3: To know the truth of the Matrix, take this color pill.
        • the red pill.
        • 4: You mix, then heat, lime, silica, alumina and iron oxide with gypsum to create the Portland type of this.
        • cement.
        • 5: To read the Mahabharata in its original language you have to know this one.
        • Sanskrit.

          • Round 5. Category: Say It "Aint" So

          • 1: To lose consciousness abruptly is to do this.
          • Faint.
          • 2: It covers the walls.
          • Paint.
          • 3: An extremely virtuous person, especially after canonization.
          • Saint.
          • 4: To contaminate or morally corrupt is to do this.
          • Taint.
          • 5: In other words, odd in an old-fashioned sort of way.
          • Quaint.

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

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