Instant Trivia

Episode 926 - if they were musicals... - fun with zip codes - tree words - devilish movies - historic homes

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 926, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: if they were musicals...

  • 1: The musical version of this Ibsen play might be titled "Hedda Get Your Gun!".
  • "Hedda Gabler".
  • 2: Forget "Cats"; the musical of this Orwell book would feature jackbooted dancing pigs.
  • "Animal Farm".
  • 3: His play about Mrs. Warren could become "Best Little Whorehouse in Europe".
  • George Bernard Shaw ("Mrs. Warren's Profession").
  • 4: A musical of this Hardy novel might include the song "Jude, Glorious Jude".
  • "Jude the Obscure".
  • 5: Songs from this TV show would highlight the adaptation "Shirley and the Amazing Technicolor School Bus".
  • The Partridge Family.

    • Round 2. Category: fun with zip codes

    • 1: This Virginia suburb where famous dead are remembered has the easily remembered code 22222.
    • Arlington.
    • 2: 50010 is found in the heartland, Ames in this state.
    • Iowa.
    • 3: Remember the Alamo and this city whose ZIP Codes run from 78201 to 78299.
    • San Antonio.
    • 4: To promote the use of ZIP Codes, Ethel Merman recorded a jingle to the tune of this song from "Song of the South".
    • "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah".
    • 5: Manhattan buildings with their own ZIP Codes include the Postum and Metlife buildings, both on the avenue with this scenic name.
    • Park Avenue.

      • Round 3. Category: tree words

      • 1: We'll give you a hand--these are well read by fortune tellers.
      • palms.
      • 2: It's a brown color for eyes or a maid for the Baxters.
      • hazel.
      • 3: When talking feelings, it's a synonym for to long for something.
      • pine.
      • 4: A more aged influential member of a tribe, or a member of the Mormon priesthood.
      • elder.
      • 5: You wood wood like like this 1966 Neil Diamond hit if you heard it.
      • "Cherry Cherry".

        • Round 4. Category: devilish movies

        • 1: A very sexy Satan, this supermodel tempts Brendan Fraser in 2000's "Bedazzled".
        • Elizabeth Hurley.
        • 2: Poor little Regan MacNeil is possessed by the devil in this 1973 classic.
        • The Exorcist.
        • 3: Max von Sydow was Leland Gaunt, AKA the Devil, in "Needful Things", based on one of this author's novels.
        • Stephen King.
        • 4: Could it be Satan who fathered Mia Farrow's child in this 1968 flick?.
        • Rosemary's Baby.
        • 5: Keanu Reeves works for Al Pacino, one hell of a lawyer, in this 1997 film.
        • The Devil's Advocate.

          • Round 5. Category: historic homes

          • 1: The Martha Vick house in this Mississippi city was constructed in 1830 by the daughter of the city's founder.
          • Vicksburg.
          • 2: This Asheville, N.C. estate built by George Washington Vanderbilt has a 250-room house and its own winery.
          • Biltmore.
          • 3: The home this president lived in while he served on the Supreme Court is now the Syrian embassy.
          • Taft.
          • 4: You'll find this president's boyhood home in the Plymouth Notch Historic District of Plymouth, VT..
          • Coolidge.
          • 5: This writer's home in Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived beginning in 1874, is often called Steamboat Gothic.
          • Mark Twain.

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

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