Instant Trivia

Episode 720 - Movie Objects - Memorials - '90s Movies - In The Cards - Colorful Idioms

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 720, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Movie Objects

  • 1: In this holiday classic, Ralphie's dad's "leg lamp" causes quite a stir.
  • A Christmas Story.
  • 2: In "A Very Brady Sequel", Tim Matheson struggles to steal the Bradys' statue of one of these animals.
  • Horse.
  • 3: In "Cool Hand Luke", Paul Newman is put on a chain gang for vandalizing these mechanical devices.
  • Parking meters.
  • 4: At the beginning of "Close Encounters", a bunch of these, missing since 1945, are found in the Sonoran Desert.
  • airplanes.
  • 5: This shiny title object from a 2007 fantasy film is actually an alethiometer, which cryptically answers questions.
  • The Golden Compass.

    • Round 2. Category: Memorials

    • 1: The national memorial that commemorates this 1889 disaster preserves what's left of the South Fork Dam.
    • the Johnstown flood.
    • 2: At its headquarters you can find Barbara Hepworth's Dag Hammarskjold Memorial.
    • United Nations.
    • 3: This memorial consists of 4 sculpted heads, each 60 feet tall.
    • Mount Rushmore.
    • 4: The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial stands near the north gate of this Virginia site.
    • Arlington National Cemetery.
    • 5: On April 15, 1962 memorials were held in remembrance of this tragic event's 50th anniversary.
    • sinking of the Titanic.

      • Round 3. Category: '90s Movies

      • 1: This term for total nudity is the title of a 1997 film about male strippers.
      • The Full Monty.
      • 2: Matt Damon stars as a genius janitor from South Boston in this 1997 movie.
      • Good Will Hunting.
      • 3: Rob Lowe played the leader of a conservative religious group in this 1997 sci-fi film starring Jodie Foster.
      • Contact.
      • 4: Ethan Hawke and Robert De Niro starred in this film based on a Dickens novel.
      • Great Expectations.
      • 5: Whitney Houston played the spouse of a New York pastor in this 1996 film.
      • The Preacher's Wife.

        • Round 4. Category: In The Cards

        • 1: It's the number of playing cards in a standard deck (not counting the jokers).
        • 52.
        • 2: These fortune telling cards include "The Lovers", "The Magician" and "The Wheel of Fortune".
        • tarot cards.
        • 3: The Donald knows one of these is a "key resource to be used at an opportune moment".
        • a trump card.
        • 4: If you're "carded" while buying cigarettes in Calif. it's because you don't look old enough to be this age.
        • 18.
        • 5: The most valuable of these is the T206 Honus Wagner.
        • a baseball card.

          • Round 5. Category: Colorful Idioms

          • 1: Elephant or lie.
          • white.
          • 2: Elephants or slip.
          • pink.
          • 3: Humor or market.
          • black.
          • 4: Blood or streak.
          • blue.
          • 5: Light or thumb.
          • green.

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

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