Instant Trivia

Episode 90 - Geograph"Y" - Ad Campaigns - Manhattan's Museum Mile - Ice Cream - You're Scaring Me

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 90, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Geograph"Y"

  • 1: There's an active volcano on Sicily, an island that's part of this country.
  • Italy.
  • 2: While many countries in Europe have been splitting up, this one got back together in 1990.
  • Germany.
  • 3: This Scandinavian country has 2 forms of its official language -- Bokmal and Nynorsk.
  • Norway.
  • 4: It's the largest city in Utah.
  • Salt Lake City.
  • 5: The last British ship of convicts pulled into this Australian city's port in 1849.
  • Sydney.

    • Round 2. Category: Ad Campaigns

    • 1: A long-running campaign shows fabulous places that "Don't Take" this credit card.
    • American Express.
    • 2: Ridley Scott directed the "Share the Fantasy" ads for this tony perfume.
    • Chanel No. 5.
    • 3: This company took us for a ride with "It's Such a Comfort to Take the Bus and Leave the Driving to Us".
    • Greyhound.
    • 4: The following clip dramatizes a famous cartoon ad for this man's products.
    • Charles Atlas.
    • 5: A Sports Illustrated subscription drive popularized the phrase "The Gift That" does this.
    • Keeps on Giving.

      • Round 3. Category: Manhattan's Museum Mile

      • 1: The exterior of this museum at 5th and 89th was designed to break the rectangular grid of Manhattan.
      • the Guggenheim.
      • 2: 5 of the fewer than 40 known Vermeers reside in this 5th Avenue museum.
      • the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
      • 3: A Latino art museum goes by the name El Museo del this, a Spanish word for the inner city.
      • Barrio.
      • 4: New to Museum Mile, the Neue Galerie features works from Austria and this country, home of Ernst Kirchner.
      • Germany.
      • 5: The Museum of the City of N.Y. has the derby of this governor, the first Catholic to be a major party pres. candidate.
      • Al Smith.

        • Round 4. Category: Ice Cream

        • 1: This Italian word for rich ice cream comes from the Italian for "to freeze".
        • gelato.
        • 2: The ice cream cone was popularized at the 1904 World's Fair in this U.S. city.
        • St. Louis.
        • 3: In 1923 Harry Burt patented these ice cream bars on a stick; bringing a pail of them for patent officials to sample was smart.
        • a Good Humor Bar.
        • 4: Top off a Japanese meal with these golf-ball-sized ice cream treats wrapped in soft dough.
        • mochi.
        • 5: Harry Burt started this co. whose 1st white truck used a set of bells from the family bobsled.
        • Good Humor.

          • Round 5. Category: You're Scaring Me

          • 1: A literary character named Brom Bones may have been the one who scared this schoolmaster out of town.
          • Ichabod Crane.
          • 2: Jonathan Edwards literally scared the hell out of New England with this "angry" 1741 sermon.
          • "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
          • 3: Matthew 14 tells that this disciple also walked on water until he got scared and started to sink like a stone.
          • Simon Peter.
          • 4: Little Miss Muffet couldn't tough it out and one of these scared her away.
          • spider.
          • 5: This captain scared the locals in Jamaica in 1504 when he predicted an eclipse and it happened.
          • Christopher Columbus.

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

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