Instant Trivia

Episode 54 - Musical Geography - Ripley's Believe It Or Not! - Great Rulers - Funny Pages - Smooching In Shakespeare

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 54, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Musical Geography

  • 1: Pick me up some spices if you're going to this Simon and Garfunkel "Fair".
  • "Scarborough Fair".
  • 2: City mentioned in the title of the TV show whose theme is heard here:.
  • Beverly Hills, 90210.
  • 3: "Start spreading the news", Ol' Blue Eyes made it here.
  • New York.
  • 4: This "house in New Orleans" has "been the ruin of many a poor boy".
  • The House of the Rising Sun.
  • 5: It's where Fats Domino found his thrill in 1956.
  • "Blueberry Hill".

    • Round 2. Category: Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

    • 1: B.I.O.N., Texan David Pay has written over 300 alphabetic characters on a single grain of this!.
    • rice.
    • 2: B.I.O.N., a 3-year old Ugandan boy was adopted and raised for 4 years by a colony of these human-like apes!.
    • chimps.
    • 3: B.I.O.N., herpetologist Bill Haast has been bitten over 150 times by these deadly creatures!.
    • snakes.
    • 4: B.I.O.N., every year a Filipino village recreates this event of around 30 A.D. using nails.
    • the crucifixion.
    • 5: B.I.O.N., because he believes it's possessed by his dead fiancee, a man married one of these dolls!.
    • a Barbie doll.

      • Round 3. Category: Great Rulers

      • 1: This king of Judea from 37-4 B.C. was a friend of Mark Anthony.
      • Herod (the Great).
      • 2: Justinian the Great's wife was a former one of these, like the wife of the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan.
      • an actress.
      • 3: Constantine the Great was the first Roman ruler to convert to this religion.
      • Christianity.
      • 4: He was born June 9, 1672, the son of Czar Alexis I Mikhailovich.
      • Peter the Great.
      • 5: By 896 A.D. this West Saxon king had captured the city of London.
      • Alfred the Great.

        • Round 4. Category: Funny Pages

        • 1: "Rock This".
        • Chris Rock.
        • 2: "Leading with my Chin".
        • Jay Leno.
        • 3: "I Rant, Therefore I Am".
        • Dennis Miller.
        • 4: "Enter Whining".
        • Fran Drescher.
        • 5: "Sein Language".
        • Jerry Seinfeld.

          • Round 5. Category: Smooching In Shakespeare

          • 1: In this comedy Petruchio says, "Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday".
          • Taming of the Shrew.
          • 2: "We have kiss'd away kingdoms and provinces" says Scarus in the play about this title couple.
          • Antony and Cleopatra.
          • 3: "Love's Labour's Lost" and "Henry VI, Part III" both mention the kiss of this Biblical traitor.
          • Judas Iscariot.
          • 4: He claims that the sleeping Michael Cassio kissed him hard while dreaming of Desdemona.
          • Iago.
          • 5: He says, "Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft" while holding Yorick's skull.
          • Hamlet.

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

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