Instant Trivia

Episode 971 - Key - Sixth sense - Celebrity biographies - Time to "re"-up - Twain

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 971, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Key

  • 1: It's the fort over which Francis Scott Key observed "the rockets' red glare".
  • Fort McHenry.
  • 2: If you're shooting from the top of the key, you're trying to score in this sport.
  • basketball.
  • 3: His most famous work was completed in a Baltimore hotel room in 1814.
  • Francis Scott Key.
  • 4: This ornithologist visited Key West in the 1830s; here's the house that's now named in his honor.
  • Audubon.
  • 5: What the priest uses to lock doors after mass, or a slang term for a bottle opener.
  • a church key.

    • Round 2. Category: Sixth Sense

    • 1: Her predictions, including the JFK assassination, earned her the epithet "Seeress of Washington".
    • Jeane Dixon.
    • 2: French for "seeing clearly", it's the ability to "see" or envision images and events.
    • clairvoyance.
    • 3: Scientist Joseph Banks Rhine popularized this term for the sixth sense.
    • ESP (extrasensory perception).
    • 4: Also called mind-to-mind communication, it's the sending of thoughts from one person to another.
    • telepathy.
    • 5: This southern seer, who died in 1945, was famous for making medical diagnoses while in a trance.
    • Edgar Cayce.

      • Round 3. Category: Celebrity Biographies

      • 1: "Norma Jean".
      • Marilyn Monroe.
      • 2: "His Way".
      • Frank Sinatra.
      • 3: "A Rocky Life".
      • Sylvester Stallone.
      • 4: "Mr. Strangelove".
      • Peter Sellers.
      • 5: "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Rebel".
      • James Dean.

        • Round 4. Category: Time To Re-Up. With Re in quotes

        • 1: To resurface a piece of furniture with some new varnish.
        • refinish.
        • 2: To increase your efforts--specifically twofold.
        • redouble.
        • 3: 6 letters: hairlines do this, get farther away into the distance.
        • recede.
        • 4: To follow the title command of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's biggest hit.
        • relax.
        • 5: Refusal to accept someone or something; in basketball, it's a blocked shot.
        • reject.

          • Round 5. Category: Twain

          • 1: Twain claimed it was easy to give up this habit, saying "I've done it a thousand times".
          • smoking.
          • 2: The grave of Laura H. Frazer, Twain's childhood friend, also bears the name of this character she inspired.
          • Becky Thatcher.
          • 3: As a teenager Twain, like Ben Franklin, was apprenticed to one of these.
          • printer.
          • 4: Mark Twain's grave is in Elmira in this state.
          • New York.
          • 5: Twain was on the staff of this Nevada town's Territorial Enterprise.
          • Virginia City.

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

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