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Episode 876 - noun to verb - "fee", "fi", "fo", "fum" - bits and pieces - brownsville - film festivals

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 876, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: noun to verb

  • 1: One state of water; as a verb, it can mean to decorate a cake or to ensure a victory.
  • ice.
  • 2: From the French for "to cut", it can mean a small piece or the whole or to do careful work on your car.
  • detail.
  • 3: Natural event sometimes used as a verb; there's a form of it in Prissy's famous line in "Gone with the Wind".
  • birth.
  • 4: "Relatively" speaking, it means to exempt someone already in business from new regulation.
  • grandfather.
  • 5: When launched in 1998, it was just a noun; now it's a verb meaning to check up on somebody online.
  • Google.

    • Round 2. Category: "fee", "fi", "fo", "fum"

    • 1: Physically weak, or weak-"minded".
    • Feeble.
    • 2: Doing this as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles will lose possession for your team and get you booed.
    • a fumble.
    • 3: In the song "Charlie Brown", it precedes "I smell smoke in the auditorium".
    • "Fee Fee Fi Fi Fo Fo Fum".
    • 4: It's that Italian bread you're dipping into olive oil.
    • focaccia.
    • 5: To foster the seeds of a rebellion.
    • foment.

      • Round 3. Category: bits and pieces

      • 1: Bits on this appliance include a color selector, a lever and a bread guide.
      • toaster.
      • 2: This musical accessory includes a weighted pendulum and a graduated scale.
      • Metronome.
      • 3: Spankers, jiggers and jibs are types of these.
      • sails.
      • 4: If served this legal writ, you will be required to appear in court to give testimony.
      • subpoena.
      • 5: This part of a drill that tightens the jaw around the bit has a special key.
      • chuck.

        • Round 4. Category: brownsville

        • 1: This shade of brown is also a plant resin that'll hold a bug "forever".
        • amber.
        • 2: Animal shades of brown include mink, seal, fox and this "ship of the desert".
        • the camel.
        • 3: On your palette or in a mug, mix chocolate and coffee and you get this.
        • mocha.
        • 4: The umber pigment can be "raw" or this.
        • burnt.
        • 5: You'll find this shade of brown in the name Audrey Hepburn.
        • auburn.

          • Round 5. Category: film festivals

          • 1: Sacre Bleu! "Godzilla" was chosen as the 1998 closing-night attraction at this Riviera festival.
          • Cannes.
          • 2: The New York Film Festival is sponsored by this institution "centrally" located at 64th and Broadway.
          • Film Society of Lincoln Center.
          • 3: 2-word name for the grand prize at the Berlin Film Festival, or for golfer Jack Nicklaus.
          • Golden Bear.
          • 4: "The Crying Game" and "The Piano" had their U.S. premieres at the festival in this Colorado mining town.
          • Telluride.
          • 5: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Alicia Witt) In 1994 I won a special acting award at this festival supported by Robert Redford".
          • Sundance.

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

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