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Episode 880 - sitcoms change - street sense - for the record - medical tests - african-american firsts

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 880, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: sitcoms change

  • 1: On this sitcom in 1998, Tim Taylor's son Randy ran off to work in a Costa Rican rainforest.
  • Home Improvement.
  • 2: On her self-titled sitcom, she worked at a plastics factory and a beauty salon before opening her own diner.
  • Roseanne.
  • 3: On "The Cosby Show", daughter Denise left for Hillman College and this spin-off.
  • A Different World.
  • 4: In 1979 when its main setting moved to a bar, "All In The Family" took this new title.
  • Archie Bunker's Place.
  • 5: (Hi, I'm Jon Lovitz) In 1998 I joined the cast of this sitcom as Max Lewis, a man with a few insecurities.
  • NewsRadio.

    • Round 2. Category: street sense

    • 1: Hey, gimme an I-5, "I" being short for this.
    • Interstate.
    • 2: In the case of Piccadilly, it's 1-ring, not 3-ring.
    • Circus.
    • 3: Hey bud, it's "My way or" this.
    • The highway.
    • 4: A ring road surrounding an urban area; on a diet you may have to tighten it a notch.
    • Belt.
    • 5: Spanish for "road"; for Tennessee Williams it was the "real" thing.
    • Camino.

      • Round 3. Category: for the record

      • 1: It's the book in which a ship's speed, route and the events that affect them are recorded.
      • the log.
      • 2: A necrology is a record of people who've done this.
      • died.
      • 3: They're the official records of what went on at an organization's meeting.
      • the minutes.
      • 4: From the Latin for "daily allowance", it's a record of each day's events.
      • a diary.
      • 5: The name of this directory of famous people repeats an interrogative pronoun.
      • a Who's Who.

        • Round 4. Category: medical tests

        • 1: A finger stick is done to draw this.
        • blood.
        • 2: Patch and scratch tests can determine if you have one or more of these.
        • allergies.
        • 3: Not a soldier, the G.I. in an upper G.I. is this tract.
        • gastrointestinal.
        • 4: From the Latin for "life appearance", this procedure takes a sample of tissue, fluid or cells for study.
        • a biopsy.
        • 5: CTs and MRIs have largely replaced this procedure, also the name of a Nigel Tufnel group.
        • a spinal tap.

          • Round 5. Category: african-american firsts

          • 1: In 1989, aboard Discovery, Frederick D. Gregory became the first black commander of one of these missions.
          • a Space Shuttle mission.
          • 2: In October 1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American one of these.
          • Supreme Court justices.
          • 3: W.E.B. Du Bois was the first African-American to earn a doctorate from this prestigious Massachusetts university.
          • Harvard.
          • 4: In 1978 this escaped slave became the first African-American woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp.
          • Harriet Tubman.
          • 5: Robert Weaver, the first black Cabinet member, made himself at "home" in this department in 1966.
          • Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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

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