Instant Trivia

Episode 649 - Hollywood Queens - Swimming - Packaging - Connections - Beastly Quotes

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 649, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hollywood Queens

  • 1: Von Stroheim directed this star in "Queen Kelly", but she bossed him around in "Sunset Boulevard".
  • Gloria Swanson.
  • 2: When Gable was named King of the Movies, this "Thin Man" star was voted queen.
  • Myrna Loy.
  • 3: This sheep queen of "The Thorn Birds" was "Cattle Queen of Montana" in the 1954 film.
  • Barbara Stanwyck.
  • 4: This Oscar-winner had had 4 husbands by the time she starred in "The Virgin Queen".
  • Bette Davis.
  • 5: Carol Channing was the White Queen and Ann Jillian the Red in the TV movie of this classic.
  • Alice in Wonderland.

    • Round 2. Category: Swimming

    • 1: Marty Hull invented Zoomers, a shorter, speedier type of this foot gear.
    • Flippers/fins.
    • 2: In this stroke, not seen in competition, the head rests on the arm while the legs scissors-kick.
    • Sidestroke.
    • 3: It's the only major racing stroke where the swimmers start in the pool.
    • Backstroke.
    • 4: Krisztina Egerszegi of this eastern European country has won gold at the last 3 Olympics.
    • Hungary.
    • 5: It's the individual race in which 4 different strokes are used.
    • Individual medley.

      • Round 3. Category: Packaging

      • 1: In 1938 Clicquot Club Ginger Ale was the first soft drink sold in these.
      • cans.
      • 2: "Peanuts" of this plastic are found in boxes of variously-shaped products, and then in your hair, shoes, etc..
      • Styrofoam.
      • 3: In honor of Abe Lincoln, P.J. Towle began selling his maple syrup in a container shaped like one of these structures in 1887.
      • a log cabin.
      • 4: Term for a type of "bomb" or a spray can that contains gas under pressure.
      • Aerosol.
      • 5: At the end of TV's "Adventures of Rin Tin Tin", kids were told how to send in these from Shredded Wheat to get prizes.
      • box tops.

        • Round 4. Category: Connections

        • 1: It's the term for the unknown evolutionary connection between man and apes.
        • the missing link.
        • 2: He's the husband "shared" by Connie Stevens, Liz Taylor and Debbie Reynolds.
        • Eddie Fisher.
        • 3: Before you were born, this cord connected you and your mommy for about 9 months.
        • the umbilical cord.
        • 4: The land bridge that connected Asia and North America is now covered by this strait.
        • the Bering Strait.
        • 5: It's the capital city shared by the Ottoman and the Byzantine Empires.
        • Constantinople (Istanbul).

          • Round 5. Category: Beastly Quotes

          • 1: To say someone is mad, people once said he had this "in his bonnet".
          • bee.
          • 2: The Bible:"As a shepherd divideth his sheep from" these.
          • goats.
          • 3: Who "sleepeth with dogges, shall rise with" these.
          • fleas.
          • 4: Twain opined, "I believe...our heavenly father invented man because he was disappointed in" this.
          • monkey.
          • 5: Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Curious Incident of" this "in the Nighttime"--it "did nothing".
          • the dog.

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

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