Instant Trivia

Episode 933 - cars in song - '60s muscle cars - medical matters - first lines - summer songs

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 933, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: cars in song

  • 1: According to the Beach Boys, "She'll have fun, fun, fun 'til her daddy takes" this car "away".
  • a T-Bird.
  • 2: In the '50s, Dinah Shore always closed her show by singing "See The U.S.A." in this.
  • a Chevrolet.
  • 3: Pontiac model Ronnie and the Daytonas could have driven at Daytona.
  • a GTO.
  • 4: Johnny Cash got this car 1 piece at a time and it didn't cost him a dime.
  • a Cadillac.
  • 5: Person who drives the car described here"If you see her on the street, don't try to choose her / Go Granny, go Granny, go Granny, go".
  • The Little Old Lady From Pasadena.

    • Round 2. Category: '60s muscle cars

    • 1: Ronny and the Daytonas wanted to "turn it on, wind it up" and "blow it out".
    • GTO.
    • 2: This Plymouth named for a sharp-toothed fish really had some bite.
    • Barracuda.
    • 3: This Chevy was still going strong into the '90s with a Z-28 model.
    • Camaro.
    • 4: This Pontiac muscle car moves much faster than the Stravinsky ballet.
    • Firebird.
    • 5: Later maker of the Pacer, this automaker's Javelin hit the mark.
    • American Motors (AMC).

      • Round 3. Category: medical matters

      • 1: Hemicrania, literally "pain on one side of the head", gives us this word for a terrible pain in the head.
      • migraine.
      • 2: On the minus side, it's a type of food poisoning; on the plus, the toxin that causes it can be used to smooth wrinkles.
      • botulism.
      • 3: Until the 1940s and this test named for its creator, cervical cancer was killing more women than any other kind.
      • a Pap smear.
      • 4: Studying dementia and epilepsy are 2 common subspecialties within this ‑ology.
      • neurology.
      • 5: Because it mainly affects babies and children, this disease is also called infantile paralysis.
      • polio.

        • Round 4. Category: first lines

        • 1: "Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh".
        • "Jingle Bells".
        • 2: "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream...".
        • The Old Man and the Sea.
        • 3: "Hey, there! Stella, baby!".
        • A Streetcar Named Desire.
        • 4: "There once lived in a sequestered part of...Devonshire, one Mr. Godfrey Nickleby...".
        • Nicholas Nickleby.
        • 5: "All children, except one, grow up.".
        • Peter Pan.

          • Round 5. Category: summer songs

          • 1: This tune by the Percy Faith Orchestra was the biggest instrumental single of the past 30 years.
          • "Theme From a Summer Place".
          • 2: This girl group's "Cruel Summer" heated up the summer of 1984.
          • Bananarama.
          • 3: Only animals mentioned in George Gershwin's "Summertime (An; the Livin' is Easy)".
          • fish.
          • 4: Bryan Hyland hit which began, "Though we gotta say goodbye for the summer".
          • "Sealed with a Kiss".
          • 5: A song from this opera says, "Summertime and the livin' is easy, fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high".
          • "Porgy and Bess".

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

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