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Episode 553 - Texans - Hey, That's "Great"! - But Fear Itself - We "Love" Literature - Stars In Music Videos

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 553, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Texans

  • 1: The younger sister of Phylicia Rashad, this dancer won 2 Emmys for her choreography on "Fame".
  • Debbie Allen.
  • 2: Anchorman who wrote a memoir titled "The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures in TV Journalism".
  • Dan Rather.
  • 3: When orphaned at age 17, he took control of his father's Houston-based tool company.
  • (Howard) Hughes.
  • 4: This first black heavyweight boxing champ claimed he lost deliberately to Jess Willard in 1915.
  • Jack Johnson.
  • 5: This "outlaw" singer topped the country charts in 1977 with "Luckenbach, Texas".
  • Waylon Jennings.

    • Round 2. Category: Hey, That's "Great"!

    • 1: Stretching over 4,000 miles, it's been called the largest engineering and building project ever made by man.
    • the Great Wall of China.
    • 2: Much of this 1925 novel takes place in the West Egg area of Long Island.
    • The Great Gatsby.
    • 3: This city in North-Central Montana is the seat of Cascade County.
    • Great Falls.
    • 4: In this classic movie, Charlie Chaplin played dual roles including that of Adenoid Hynkel of Tomania.
    • The Great Dictator.
    • 5: In 1417 Martin V was elected the sole pope, ending this division within the Catholic Church.
    • the Great Schism.

      • Round 3. Category: But Fear Itself

      • 1: Your only option may be to lie down if you have stasiphobia, a fear of standing, and thaasophobia, a fear of this.
      • sitting.
      • 2: Cryophobics won't add this to their glasses of whiskey.
      • ice.
      • 3: Fearing this, a linonophobe could never work a yo-yo.
      • string.
      • 4: Scared of these, a chromophobe probably liked NBC better before the peacock.
      • colors.
      • 5: A man suffering from gynophobia and gymnophobia would be doubly afraid of women who are this.
      • naked.

        • Round 4. Category: We "Love" Literature

        • 1: Despite war and outbreaks of disease, the love of Florentino for Fermina endures in this Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel.
        • Love in the Time of Cholera.
        • 2: What can you say about a 33-year-old novel by Erich Segal? Perhaps just this, the book's title.
        • Love Story.
        • 3: (Video of Cheryl in Providence, RI.) This is the original 1920 manuscript of a horror story by this author, whose initials stood for Howard Phillips.
        • H.P. Lovecraft.
        • 4: Modern lit just wouldn't be the same without such seminal works as this 1969 Jacqueline Susann novel.
        • The Love Machine.
        • 5: It's the only Evelyn Waugh novel we know that became a film starring Jonathan Winters and Liberace.
        • The Loved One.

          • Round 5. Category: Stars In Music Videos

          • 1: Rebecca Gayheart plays one of these in Train's "Meet Virginia", but turns in her order pad at the end of the song.
          • Waitress.
          • 2: LFO's "Girl on TV" is this girl who has the time of her life in Neutrogena ads.
          • Jennifer Love Hewitt.
          • 3: Appearing in "Real Love" by Slaughter, she's been leading a "Charmed" life since "90210".
          • Shannen Doherty.
          • 4: "Halo" by Depeche Mode has good karma with this TV Dharma.
          • Jenna Elfman.
          • 5: You can see this actress, film's Wednesday Addams, any day in Moby's "Natural Blues".
          • Christina Ricci.

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

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