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Episode 951 - Playwrights - Howdy, "buster" - Best picture oscar winners - Nice "ab"s - Comparing

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 951, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: playwrights

  • 1: Dustin Hoffman reincarnated his "Salesman" on Broadway in 1984.
  • Arthur Miller.
  • 2: Wrote "The Man in the Glass Booth" but acted in "Jaws" and "The Deep".
  • Robert Shaw.
  • 3: Robert Lopez, Trey Parker and Matt Stone won the Tony for Best Book of a Musical for penning this show.
  • The Book of Mormon.
  • 4: Won Tonys for "Torch Song Trilogy" and "La Cage aux Folles".
  • Harvey Fierstein.
  • 5: "You Never Can Tell", the initial literary work of this "Pygmalion" author, earned him less than 10 shillings a year.
  • George Bernard Shaw.

    • Round 2. Category: howdy, "buster"

    • 1: This video chain began in Dallas in 1985; it now has more than 4,000 U.S. stores and 2,000 overseas.
    • Blockbuster.
    • 2: Who ya gonna call? Well, in this 1984 film it was Bill Murray and his cohorts.
    • Ghostbusters.
    • 3: This commercial spokeskid of the 1950s lived in a shoe with his dog Tige, who lived there too.
    • Buster Brown.
    • 4: In 1964 Russell Long and other senators led one that lasted a record 74 days against a civil rights bill.
    • a filibuster.
    • 5: This 1895 sculpture was the first of 25 Western art bronzes by Frederic Remington.
    • Bronco Buster.

      • Round 3. Category: best picture oscar winners

      • 1: In this 1977 Woody Allen-Diane Keaton film, author Truman Capote had an uncredited bit as a Truman Capote look-alike.
      • Annie Hall.
      • 2: In this film, Clint Eastwood says, "Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Ya take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have".
      • Unforgiven.
      • 3: This Best Picture winner for 2006 is Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film to date.
      • The Departed.
      • 4: Mel Gibson won Oscars for producing and directing this 1995 Best Picture.
      • Braveheart.
      • 5: Temperance groups and the liquor industry both pleaded with Paramount not to release this 1945 Oscar winner.
      • The Lost Weekend.

        • Round 4. Category: nice "ab"s

        • 1: To give up the throne.
        • abdicate.
        • 2: A not so nice collection of pus caused by infection.
        • an abscess.
        • 3: Military term for a 180.
        • an about face.
        • 4: Servile or wretched, like poverty.
        • abject.
        • 5: A summary of a document or text.
        • an abridgment (or an abstract).

          • Round 5. Category: comparing

          • 1: A math axiom says a line is this superlative distance between 2 points on a flat surface.
          • shortest.
          • 2: This irregular comparative describes a wise, experienced "statesman".
          • elder.
          • 3: Superlative in the Queen's question to her mirror in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
          • fairest.
          • 4: Boxer Bob Fitzsimmons gets credit for the line that contains "bigger" and this other comparative.
          • harder.
          • 5: Toni Morrison titled a novel "The" this superlative "Eye".
          • Bluest.

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

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