Instant Trivia

Episode 490 - Going Bananas - Old Hickory - 2-Word Capitals - Warner Bros. - Famous Joes And Josephs

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 490, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Going Bananas

  • 1: Recipes for this cake-like loaf call for 2 or 3 ripe bananas, mashed.
  • Banana bread.
  • 2: This term for the leading comedian in a show originated in a burlesque routine involving bananas.
  • Top banana.
  • 3: A traditional banana daiquiri contains the light type of this liquor.
  • Rum.
  • 4: While singing with The Tarriers, Alan Arkin had a hit with this song one month before Harry Belafonte.
  • "The Banana-Boat Song".
  • 5: The documentary film subtitled "Bananas Is My Business" profiles this movie star of the '30s and '40s.
  • Carmen Miranda.

    • Round 2. Category: Old Hickory

    • 1: With no $7 bill, seventh president Andrew Jackson is honored on this currency denomination.
    • $20 bill.
    • 2: In 1787 Jackson set up his office to practice this in McLeansville, North Carolina.
    • Law.
    • 3: On June 6, 1833 Jackson became the first sitting president to take a ride on one of these.
    • Train.
    • 4: Waightstill Avery in 1787 and Charles Dickinson in 1806 are 2 of about 100 men Jackson faced in these.
    • Duels.
    • 5: This 6th president wouldn't attend Jackson's inauguration or his honorary degree ceremony at Harvard.
    • John Quincy Adams.

      • Round 3. Category: 2-Word Capitals

      • 1: This Asian capital was built between 1912 and '29 and designed by the British architect Lutyens.
      • New Delhi.
      • 2: The name of this capital of El Salvador is similar to the name of the country.
      • San Salvador.
      • 3: Of the capitals of South Africa, it's the only one that fits the category.
      • Cape Town.
      • 4: Do you know the way to this capital of Costa Rica?.
      • San José.
      • 5: This Ethiopian capital whose name means "new flower" was founded by Emperor Menelik II in 1887.
      • Addis Ababa.

        • Round 4. Category: Warner Bros.

        • 1: In May 1999 her Warners talk show was hit with a $2.5 million judgment after one guest killed another.
        • Jenny Jones.
        • 2: You can tour the Warner Bros. lot online, or in person in this San Fernando Valley city.
        • Burbank.
        • 3: Former mortuary entrepreneur Steve Ross negotiated Warners' 1989 merger with this publisher.
        • Time.
        • 4: Movies found their voice in this 1927 Warner Bros. film.
        • The Jazz Singer.
        • 5: He outlasted his brothers Sam, Albert and Harry in the company, finally selling out in 1967.
        • Jack Warner.

          • Round 5. Category: Famous Joes And Josephs

          • 1: 1 of the 3 heavyweight boxing champs to fit this category.
          • Joe Frazier, Joe Louis and "Jersey Joe" Walcott.
          • 2: This Delaware senator chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee.
          • Joseph Biden.
          • 3: This world leader's real name was Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili.
          • Joseph Stalin.
          • 4: In 1982 this British singer paired with Jennifer Warnes in the No. 1 hit "Up Where We Belong".
          • Joe Cocker.
          • 5: Late charismatic scholar seen on a PBS series in 1988 conversing with Bill Moyers on "The Power Of Myth".
          • Joseph Campbell.

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