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!