Instant Trivia

Episode 902 - see you in court - secret service code names - noun to verb - name the james - tv title pairs

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 902, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: see you in court

  • 1: Deaths in its Pinto made it the first U.S. corporation to face criminal charges over product design.
  • Ford.
  • 2: The government sued Frank Snepp over his 1977 book based on his years with this agency.
  • CIA.
  • 3: Perhaps because no one could figure out what he'd been trying to do, Aaron Burr was acquitted of this in 1807.
  • treason.
  • 4: Carol Burnett's suit against the National Enquirer for this hinged on whether the Enquirer was really a newspaper.
  • libel.
  • 5: In 1977 the Supreme Court ruled that John Bates, in this profession, had the right to advertise low fees.
  • lawyer/law.

    • Round 2. Category: secret service code names

    • 1: This vice president from Tenn. joked he was so dull, his code name was simply his name, but officially, he was "Sundance".
    • Al Gore.
    • 2: The Secret Service also protects foreign dignitaries; "Halo" was this late man's code name.
    • Pope John Paul II.
    • 3: A Baptist president:Deacon.
    • Carter.
    • 4: Eisenhower was Providence; oddly, this president was General.
    • President Harry Truman.
    • 5: A religious visitor:Halo.
    • Pope John Paul II.

      • Round 3. 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 4. Category: name the james

        • 1: "The Godfather of Soul".
        • James Brown.
        • 2: The fourth and fifth U.S. Presidents.
        • James Madison and James Monroe.
        • 3: Discovered the Hawaiian islands.
        • (James) Cook.
        • 4: Led the first bombing raid on Tokyo in World War II.
        • James Doolittle.
        • 5: Founded Savannah and the Georgia colony.
        • James Oglethorpe.

          • Round 5. Category: tv title pairs

          • 1: Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain.
          • "Lois and Clark".
          • 2: Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin.
          • "Kate and Allie".
          • 3: NBC rebooted this sitcom whose title characters have the surnames Truman and Adler.
          • Will and Grace.
          • 4: Cop Billy Gardell and teacher Melissa McCarthy.
          • Mike and Molly.
          • 5: Streetwise cops Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul.
          • Starsky and Hutch.

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

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