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Episode 672 - Celebrity Ailments - File Under "S" - Zeus - "G" Whiz - "Nothing" Doing

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 672, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Celebrity Ailments

  • 1: In the 1960s Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with a disease named for this famous athlete.
  • Lou Gehrig.
  • 2: (I'm Jerome Bettis of the NFL.) As a sufferer from this condition, I've testified on Capitol Hill about the need to keep inhalers on the market.
  • asthma.
  • 3: Hepatitis C is not named for this sufferer, the C in the singing group CSN.
  • David Crosby.
  • 4: Musician Michael Wolff suffers from this, inspiring his wife Polly Draper to write the film "The Tic Code".
  • Tourette's syndrome.
  • 5: Kathleen Turner is a sufferer of and spokesperson about R.A., short for this.
  • rheumatoid arthritis.

    • Round 2. Category: File Under "S"

    • 1: Head and Shoulders, Agree, and Pert Plus are leading types of these.
    • Shampoos.
    • 2: It's a heavy, single-edged cavalry sword with a blade less curved than a scimitar.
    • Saber.
    • 3: This disease caused by the lack of ascorbic acid is called Barlow's Disease in infants.
    • Scurvy.
    • 4: This Middle Eastern dog is also called a gazelle hound because it was once trained to hunt gazelles.
    • Saluki.
    • 5: Known as "Old Fuss N' Feathers", he wrote the Army's first complete manual of drill regulations.
    • Winfield Scott.

      • Round 3. Category: Zeus

      • 1: In honor of Zeus, these were held by the Greeks every 4 years.
      • Olympics.
      • 2: Zeus' counterpart in Roman mythology.
      • Jupiter.
      • 3: Hera was not only Zeus' wife but also related to him this way.
      • his sister.
      • 4: Zeus' father Cronus was part of this group whom Zeus and his brothers overthrew.
      • Titans.
      • 5: The 9 kids Zeus had with Mnemosyne all girls, are known collectively as these.
      • Muses.

        • Round 4. Category: "G" Whiz

        • 1: This astronomer had a brother named Michelangelo who was a musician, not an artist.
        • Galileo.
        • 2: From Japanese for "art person", she's trained in the art of entertaining men.
        • geisha.
        • 3: A Soviet republic, or a U.S. state.
        • Georgia.
        • 4: A voracious eater, or someone with an enormous capacity "for work" or "for punishment".
        • a glutton.
        • 5: In a 1960s ad jingle, Mr. Clean was supposed to get rid of these 2 "G"s in just a minute.
        • grease and grime.

          • Round 5. Category: "Nothing" Doing

          • 1: What a magician says to the audience as he pushes up his shirt cuffs.
          • "Nothing up my sleeve".
          • 2: Little, unimportant things that you'd whisper in your beloved's ear.
          • Sweet Nothings.
          • 3: Completes the line from "Macbeth", "... A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury...".
          • "Signifying Nothing".
          • 4: According to "Me and Bobby McGee", "Freedom's just another word for" this.
          • "Nothing left to lose".
          • 5: In 1856 Millard Fillmore was its candidate for president.
          • Know-Nothing Party.

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

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