Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 771, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Cool, Dude!. With Cool in quotes
1: Paul Newman refuses to conform to rural prison life in this movie.Cool Hand Luke.2: In the late 19-teens, he was the governor of Massachusetts.Calvin Coolidge.3: In the 1980s Ernest and Julio Gallo introduced these beverages under the Bartles and Jaymes label.wine coolers.4: Rapper born Artis Ivey Jr..Coolio.5: Nickname of ballplayer James Bell, said to be so fast that a ball he hit struck him as he slid into second."Cool Papa".Round 2. Category: Tanks!
1: Reportedly this British prime minister once termed the English Channel the world's best tank trap.Churchill.2: This large U.S. tank bearing the name of a Civil War general was the most widely produced tank of World War II.Sherman.3: In 1942 British forces were pushed from Libya into Egypt by this general's Afrika Korps tank units.Rommel.4: This country's T-34 tank played a large part in fighting off German invasion in 1941.Soviet Union.5: "War As I Knew It" was the memoir of this fierce tank commander who participated in the invasion of Sicily.Patton.Round 3. Category: Army, Navy, Air Force Or Marines
1: Future president John F. Kennedy.Navy.2: "The Right Stuff" guy Chuck Yeager after 1947.Air Force.3: The Civil War's David Glasgow Farragut.Navy.4: Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.Marines.5: Cold War figure Francis Gary Powers.Air Force.Round 4. Category: Hundreds
1: Scrape together 100 pence and trade it into the Bank of England for 1 of these.Pound.2: Richard Dawson hosted this show that featured surveys of 100 people.Family Feud.3: In 2000 a roll or "coil" of 100 first-class stamps set you back this much at the post office.$33.4: This movie about the Battle of Thermopylae was based on a Frank Miller graphic novel.300.5: The Dewey decimal system puts history and geography in the group starting with this 3-digit number.the 900s.Round 5. Category: Film Noir
1: Jack Nicholson played L.A. private eye J.J. Gittes in this 1974 classic.Chinatown.2: David Mamet wrote the screenplay for the 1981 remake of this noir classic based on a novel by James M. Cain.The Postman Always Rings Twice.3: Emma Thompson and this actor each had 2 roles in the 1991 noir thriller "Dead Again".Kenneth Branagh.4: He made his directorial debut with 1981's "Body Heat".Lawrence Kasdan.5: The Coen Brothers paid homage to film noir with this 1984 movie about a private eye hired to kill a cheating wife.Blood Simple.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
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