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Episode 997 - The deans list - Columbus, ohio - Sinatra hits in other words - Founders - Despicable "me"

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 997, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Deans List

  • 1: Much of this Rat Pack crooner's hard-drinking persona may have been just for the cameras.
  • Dean Martin.
  • 2: In the 1930s this "lightheaded" pitcher led the National League in strikeouts 4 times.
  • Dizzy Dean.
  • 3: The then-new fad of skateboarding was celebrated in this duo's 1964 hit song "Sidewalk Surfin'".
  • Jan and Dean.
  • 4: It doesn't take a sausage to know that this country singer took "Big Bad John" to No. 1 in 1961.
  • Jimmy Dean.
  • 5: This author's thrillers turned into films include "Phantoms" and "Demon Seed".
  • Dean Koontz.

    • Round 2. Category: Columbus, Ohio

    • 1: The Standard Oil Company opened the U.S.A.’s first drive-in one of these in Columbus around 1913.
    • a gas station.
    • 2: USA Today says this ice cream and tropical fruit dish was invented in 1904 at Foeller’s Drug Store.
    • a banana split.
    • 3: School in Columbus that’s home to the world’s largest all-brass marching band.
    • Ohio State University.
    • 4: On October 12, 1992 Columbus plans to have a replica of this flagship sitting in its Scioto River.
    • the Santa Maria.
    • 5: Columbus was the first U.S. city planned and built to be one of these.
    • a state capital (a capital city accepted).

      • Round 3. Category: Sinatra Hits In Other Words

      • 1: "Affection Plus Matrimony".
      • "Love And Marriage".
      • 2: "Elevated Expectations".
      • "High Hopes".
      • 3: "The Method Belonging To Me".
      • "My Way".
      • 4: "The Art Of Magic Powers".
      • "Witchcraft".
      • 5: "Unknown Newcomers Before Dawn".
      • "Strangers In The Night".

        • Round 4. Category: Founders

        • 1: This religion founder attained enlightenment under a bo tree and stayed near it 7 weeks to savor the experience.
        • Buddha.
        • 2: George Fox founded the religion nicknamed this because its followers trembled "at the word of the Lord".
        • the Quakers.
        • 3: Elizabeth Glaser, wife of actor Paul Michael, helped start a foundation to battle pediatric this disease.
        • AIDS.
        • 4: Tradition says this "great" rival of Julius Caesar founded a colony in Pamplona in 75 B.C.; the city's name honors him.
        • Pompey (the Great).
        • 5: To support the Bill of Rights, Roger Baldwin co-founded this group in NYC in 1920.
        • the ACLU (the American Civil Liberties Union).

          • Round 5. Category: Despicable Me. With Me in quotation marks

          • 1: She's just doing her alliterative job--it was you who parked too long.
          • a meter maid.
          • 2: John, Paul, George and Ringo battled blue ones of these bad guys.
          • Meanies.
          • 3: No one likes this ailment whose symptoms include Koplik's spots.
          • measles.
          • 4: Houdini tried to expose one of these who went by the name Margery.
          • a medium.
          • 5: The Assyrians despised this ancient people who destroyed their empire.
          • the Medes.

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

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