Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 955, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: I'Ll Have The Ham. With Ham in quotes
1: A Cricetus cricetus with large cheek pouches.hamster.2: This tendon is at the back of the thigh.the hamstring.3: This man co-wrote several popular musicals including "The King and I".Oscar Hammerstein.4: He wrote hard-boiled detective novels like "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man".Dashiell Hammett.5: This county in southern England borders the English Channel.Hampshire.Round 2. Category: Muppet News
1: Over to Elmo, who reports on the "Tickle Me Satchmo" doll honoring this "Hello, Dolly!" musician.Louis Armstrong.2: Longtime roommates Bert and Ernie interview these 2 characters played by Lemmon and Matthau in 1968.Felix Unger and Oscar Madison.3: Next, Cookie Monster gets up close and personal with the "Head Baker and Spokes-Elf" of this company.Keebler.4: In "Gonzo's Book Corner", our blue man snoop reviews this gonzo journalist's "Great Shark Hunt".Hunter S. Thompson.5: Hi ho, this CNN Finance host who replaced Willow Bay in 2001 here, sitting in for Kermit the anchorfrog.Lou Dobbs.Round 3. Category: The Brady Bunch
1: The Brady Bill requires a 5-day waiting period on the purchase of these.handguns.2: Because he was not well enough known, Gene Hackman lost the role of Mike Brady to this actor.(Robert) Reed.3: In 2017 he released his first book, "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance".Tom Brady.4: In the late 1890s its territorial gov. John Green Brady called for statehood; he died in Sitka before it happened.Alaska.5: She died in April 2015 after 30 years of gun control activism.Sarah Brady.Round 4. Category: And The Fish Was This Big!
1: Up to 15 feet long, this fish has no teeth as an adult but does have a weapon for a nose.a swordfish.2: Don't struggle clumsily; identify the summer type of this, which can grow to almost three feet long.a flounder.3: Gail Choy-Kaleiki wasn't an old man but she pulled an 1,800-pound blue one of these out of the sea in 1970.a marlin.4: A general term for a small fish; most American ones are less than 6 inches, but one in the Colorado River can run 6 feet.minnow.5: If you're doing this type of "Fishing in America", remember that New Jersey's record for a lake one is over 32 pounds.trout.Round 5. Category: Countries' Official Languages
1: In Israel, Arabic and this.Hebrew.2: In San Marino.Italian.3: In Liechtenstein.German.4: In Finland, Finnish and this.Swedish.5: In Andorra, this language named for a region of Spain.Catalan.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
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