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Episode 492 - Independent Films - Neil Down - Skywatch - Padres - Hey, Tiger!

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 492, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Independent Films

  • 1: This Coen Brothers tale from 1996 is "A homespun murder story".
  • Fargo.
  • 2: Reverse in told was film Nolan Christopher 2001 this.
  • Memento.
  • 3: Robert Duvall wrote, directed and played a preacher in this 1997 film.
  • The Apostle.
  • 4: Title job of Dante and Randal in a 1994 Kevin Smith film.
  • clerks.
  • 5: An Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature went to this '50s-style melodrama with Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid.
  • Far from Heaven.

    • Round 2. Category: Neil Down

    • 1: Neil Patrick Harris will always be remembered for playing this title teen on TV.
    • Doogie Howser.
    • 2: He's been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo performer and as a member of Buffalo Springfield.
    • Neil Young.
    • 3: In 1983 a Broadway theater was renamed for this man, the first time a living playwright was so honored.
    • Neil Simon.
    • 4: Neil Tennant is half of this British duo whose '80s hits include "West End Girls".
    • Pet Shop Boys.
    • 5: He had a No. 1 hit with "Laughter In The Rain".
    • Neil Sedaka.

      • Round 3. Category: Skywatch

      • 1: From the ground you only see half of this colorful effect; from a plane it is often seen as a full circle.
      • Rainbow.
      • 2: The winds in this part of a hurricane may be less than 15 miles an hour.
      • Eye.
      • 3: Known to farmers as "white plague", they travel to Earth at up to 100 miles per hour, damaging crops.
      • Hailstones.
      • 4: This is the term for a large group of meteors, or of bees.
      • Swarm.
      • 5: Normally, the trade winds blow in this direction.
      • West.

        • Round 4. Category: Padres

        • 1: Set in Australia, this 1983 miniseries centered on the doomed love of Meggie and Father de Bricassart.
        • The Thorn Birds.
        • 2: He received Best Actor Oscar nominations for 1944 and 1945 for playing the same role: Father Chuck O'Malley.
        • Bing Crosby.
        • 3: This "Happy Days" father later played a crime-solving priest in the "Father Dowling Mysteries".
        • Tom Bosley.
        • 4: On film, Henry II muses, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?", referring to him.
        • Thomas Becket.
        • 5: Gene Hackman's Rev. Frank Scott leads a band of survivors to safety aboard a capsized ship in this 1972 film.
        • The Poseidon Adventure.

          • Round 5. Category: Hey, Tiger!

          • 1: Name shared by a talking flower in "Through the Looking Glass" and an Indian princess in "Peter Pan".
          • Tiger Lily.
          • 2: In 1973 he won his second Oscar, for his role in "Save the Tiger".
          • Jack Lemmon.
          • 3: This mogul, whose name means "tiger", not "cartoon elephant", established India's Mogul dynasty.
          • Babar.
          • 4: In this comedy "Le Tigre" is one of model Ben Stiller's arsenal of devastating looks.
          • Zoolander.
          • 5: The beastly villain in this classic collection is the tiger Shere Khan.
          • Jungle Book.

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

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