Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 966, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Solve For X
1: 500 - X 1 = 381.120.2: 99 - x = the number of keys on a standard piano.11.3: 105/x = blackjack!.5.4: √25 3X = 29.8.5: 20 - x = days in a fortnight.6.Round 2. Category: Take A Stab
1: To protect Winona Ryder, Johnny Depp stabs Anthony Michael Hall with his "hands" in this Tim Burton film.Edward Scissorhands.2: In this John Boorman film, Mordred pierces Arthur with his spear, but Arthur gets him anyway.Excalibur.3: In a 1976 horror film, this telekinetic teen uses her powers to "throw" cutlery at her uber-religious mom.Carrie.4: Lucy Liu looks great as a Yakuza leader, but gets a little off the top courtesy of "The Bride" in this movie.Kill Bill.5: John Conner's foster father comes to a stabby, milky end in this 1991 sequel.Terminator 2.Round 3. Category: Punk'D
1: This word for something bad or unfair is a homophone of what you do to a burrowing mammal in an arcade game.wack.2: This 4-letter word for a journey or to stumble now means to overreact.trip.3: If you fail to give someone proper deference, you do this 3-letter word to them.dis.4: While a Betty is attractive, someone who's like this husband of Betty on "The Flintstones" is a dork.Barney.5: A tree-hugger is a nature lover; a tree this, like what Butterfly Hill did in a redwood, is an extremist.tree-sitter.Round 4. Category: Big 4 Sports Team Names Irl
1: In 2015 Iran's city of Bandar Mahshahr hit a near-record 165 on this index.the heat index.2: Vermilion, burgundy,scarlet.reds.3: Canada has 105 of these lawmakers.senators.4: In song Gene Autry had these "that jingle jangle jingle".spurs.5: Moyers,Nye,Pecos.the Bills.Round 5. Category: Presidential Wit
1: Arriving at the hospital on March 30, 1981, he told one of his doctors, "I hope you're a Republican".Ronald Reagan.2: In 1953 he told visitors, "There is one thing about being president--nobody can tell you when to sit down".Eisenhower.3: In a January 6, 1947 diary entry, he called the White House the "great white jail".Harry Truman.4: This 16th pres. said about a lawyer, "He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met".Lincoln.5: He said he made his brother attorney general "to give him...experience before he goes out to practice law".JFK.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
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