Instant Trivia

Episode 760 - World Holidays And Observances - "7" Movies - Jimmy Jam - The Occult - Let's Get Married

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 760, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: World Holidays And Observances

  • 1: At midnight on New Year's Eve, Spaniards eat one of these vine fruits with each chime of a clock bell.
  • a grape.
  • 2: His July 15 birthday is a holiday in Brunei.
  • the Sultan of Brunei.
  • 3: Tahiti celebrates this on July 14; it's that French connection.
  • Bastille Day.
  • 4: "The Folklore of World Holidays" gives instructions on how to make a turnip lantern for this observance.
  • Halloween.
  • 5: In Germany, Pfingsten is this observance, 50 days after Easter.
  • Pentecost.

    • Round 2. Category: "7" Movies

    • 1: Marilyn Monroe's immortal billowing skirt photo is a still from this film.
    • The Seven Year Itch.
    • 2: This title refers to Sherlock Holmes' cocaine habit.
    • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.
    • 3: Lina Wertmuller's 1976 film that fits this category.
    • Seven Beauties.
    • 4: James Cagney reprised his George M. Cohan role in this Bob Hope film.
    • Seven Little Foys.
    • 5: "The Magnificent 7" was based on this 1954 Japanese film.
    • Seven Samurai.

      • Round 3. Category: Jimmy Jam

      • 1: He played Victor Sifuentes on "L.A. Law" before hitting the street as Det. Bobby Simone on "NYPD Blue".
      • Jimmy Smits.
      • 2: "Boats, Beaches, Bars and Ballads" is a 1992 box set retrospective by this singer.
      • Jimmy Buffett.
      • 3: From 1974 through 1978, he was ranked the No. 1 tennis player in the world.
      • Jimmy Connors.
      • 4: He was the lead guitarist for Led Zeppelin.
      • Jimmy Page.
      • 5: And now an update...this "Saturday Night Live" regular also appeared in HBO's "Band of Brothers".
      • Jimmy Fallon.

        • Round 4. Category: The Occult

        • 1: Yes, yes, this aid to mediums at large takes its name from the French and German words for "yes".
        • a Ouija board.
        • 2: In folklore of this religion "dybbuks" are evil spirits which take possession of the living.
        • Jewish.
        • 3: It's the ability to move an object using psychic powers.
        • telekinesis.
        • 4: A "Dictionary of the Occult" defines white this as consorting with spirits for a good or innocent purpose.
        • magic.
        • 5: In New Orleans jujus include these double-talk magick bags traditionally consecrated to the 4 elements.
        • gris-gris (bags).

          • Round 5. Category: Let's Get Married

          • 1: On Sept. 12, 1953 Boston Archbishop Richard Cushing conducted the marriage between this famous pair.
          • JFK and Jackie.
          • 2: About his mother's remarriage, Hamlet disdainfully remarks, "Frailty thy name is" this.
          • woman.
          • 3: In the section on marriage in "The Prophet", he wrote "Let there be spaces in your togetherness".
          • Khalil Gibran.
          • 4: The first 2 acts of this 1938 play are titled "The Daily Life" and "Love and Marriage".
          • Our Town.
          • 5: He must have liked the family; Thomas Seymour married this English king's widow and later tried to marry his daughter.
          • Henry VIII.

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

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