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October 08, 2022Episode 605 - Simply Simon - Rock Collecting - Cream - Nation"Z" - Ends With "Oof"
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 605, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Simply Simon
1: This CBS private eye series starred Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney.

Simon and Simon.

2: simonsays.com is the web address of this publishing company founded in 1924.

Simon and Schuster.

3: Her first Top Ten hit was "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" in 1971.

Carly Simon.

4: This character has Uncle Tom beaten to death in "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

Simon Legree.

5: In 1812 he penned the "Cartagena Manifesto".

Simon Bolivar.
Round 2. Category: Rock Collecting
1: The crack, chisel and sledge types of these tools are useful in the field.

hammers.

2: It's the canine nickname for an amateur geologist.

rockhound.

3: Diluted in water, this chemical, HCI, can be used to dissolve calcite deposits on specimens.

hydrochloric acid.

4: This finishing process can be done by hand with silicon carbide or with a tumbling machine.

polishing.

5: A mineral has this property if it glows under ultraviolet light.

fluorescence.
Round 3. Category: Cream
1: Your basic all-American baked potato often comes with this "cream" and chives.

sour.

2: One type is made with chocolate and cream; another with damp soil, mostly by children.

a mud pie.

3: Captain Parker's in Yarmouth is a 2-time winner of Boston Harborfest's competition in this creamy soup.

clam chowder.

4: This Kraft Foods dessert topping comes in an extra creamy version.

Cool Whip.

5: Teutonic name for a mousse made with whipped cream and set in a towering mold.

Bavarian cream.
Round 4. Category: Nation"Z"
1: This country has numerous national parks including Fiordland, Tongariro and Abel Tasman.

New Zealand.

2: South America's largest known petroleum deposits lie in this country's Maracaibo Basin.

Venezuela.

3: Its Latin name, Helvetia, appears on its coins and stamps.

Switzerland.

4: It was once known as Portuguese East Africa.

Mozambique.

5: The Baykonur Cosmodrome, Russia's space-launch facility, is actually in this nation.

Kazakhstan.
Round 5. Category: Ends With "Oof"
1: As a noun it's the horny sheath covering the toes of certain mammals; as a verb, it means "to dance".

hoof.

2: To complain bitterly and loudly is to "raise" this.

the roof.

3: This can be a careless mistake or a foolish person who might make one.

goof.

4: Standoffish.

aloof.

5: Accidental poisonings of kids under 5 have declined since this type of closure was introduced.

childproof.
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October 07, 2022Episode 604 - British Trivia - Red Shoes - Origins - Insert Coin - Myth
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 604, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: British Trivia
1: King Richard II is credited with this invention, which is something to sneeze at.

the handkerchief.

2: He's the British equivalent of Santa Claus.

Father Christmas.

3: 1 of 4 royal family members who took part in a '87 celebrity version of the game show "It's a Knockout".

Prince Andrew (or Prince Edward, Princess Anne, or Fergie, the Duchess of York).

4: June 1987 event referred to in British tabloid headline "Super Mag Wins Her Hat Trick".

Thatcher winning her third national election.

5: The governor of a harbor town was called a portreeve and the governor of a county, this.

shire reeve.
Round 2. Category: Red Shoes
1: He flies over Metropolis in his red high-tops.

Superman.

2: Tom Hanks, in a 1985 film.

The Man with One Red Shoe.

3: Bespectacled British rocker who sang, "The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes".

Elvis Costello.

4: In the 1948 film, she danced in "The Red Shoes".

Moira Shearer.

5: "Wicked Witch of the West" who finally wore the ruby slippers in 1971's "Brewster McCloud".

Margaret Hamilton.
Round 3. Category: Origins
1: This fuzzy-skinned cousin of the nectarine seems to have originated in China, not Georgia.

Peach.

2: Pope Gregory the Great is credited with starting the custom of saying "God bless you" after one of these.

a sneeze.

3: In modern times it originated as a way to teach geography; kids put together cut-up maps.

Jigsaw puzzles.

4: Bast, an Egyptian goddess with a cat's head, had this many lives.

9.

5: Thought barbaric by Roman nobles, this item of clothing came from Asian nomads who rode a lot.

pants.
Round 4. Category: Insert Coin
1: A porcelain or plastic porker with a slot in its back.

piggy bank.

2: A slip-on shoe with a slot for a coin in the vamp.

penny loafer.

3: On July 16, 1935 these were 1st installed on the streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

parking meters.

4: Inserting a coin in a fruit machine in England is the equivalent of doing this in the U.S..

putting a coin in a slot machine.

5: The Greeks put a coin in the mouth of the dead so they could pay the fare for his boat ride.

Charon.
Round 5. Category: Myth
1: For Remus looking at him must have been like looking in a mirror.

Romulus.

2: This group led by Jason sailed on a ship with 50 oars.

Argonauts.

3: Amalthea was the nurse who secretly brought up this kid so his father Cronus wouldn't eat him.

Zeus.

4: Iris, the daughter of Thaumas and Electra, was the goddess of this colorful effect.

rainbow.

5: One version says she got the gift of prophecy after her ears were licked by a serpent in Apollo's temple.

Cassandra.
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October 06, 2022Episode 603 - Venture "A" - Hotels By City - Cards And Dice - Bob Dylan - Saucey!
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 603, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Venture "A"
1: Him, her, him, him, her...doesn't matter who.

anyone.

2: It's also called a postmortem.

autopsy.

3: Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" is described as this, as it's partially based on incidents in her own life.

autobiography.

4: Get mad, get really mad -- it's alphabetically the first of the 7 Deadly Sins.

anger.

5: Bartolomeo Eustachio is considered a founder of the modern version of this science.

anatomy.
Round 2. Category: Hotels By City
1: The Marriott Riverwalk, The Hilton Palacio Del Rio,The Holiday Inn Crockett Hotel.

San Antonio.

2: The Inn at the Opera,The Nob Hill Lambourne,The Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf.

San Francisco.

3: The Mirage,Excalibur,Caesar's Palace.

Las Vegas.

4: The Golden Nugget,The Flamingo Hilton,The Mirage.

Las Vegas.

5: The Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel,Penn's View Inn,The Penn Tower Hotel.

Philadelphia.
Round 3. Category: Cards And Dice
1: Card game that's the equivalent of the French "vingt-et-un".

blackjack.

2: Instead of pips, poker dice have 6 card values on them that run 9 through this.

Ace.

3: Of the numbers you can throw on your 1st roll in craps to win, it's the harder to hit.

11.

4: The 4 players in bridge are given these directional titles.

North, South, East and West.

5: If you roll a die and the 1 is on top, this number is on the bottom.

6.
Round 4. Category: Bob Dylan
1: Jenna Elfman played drums when Bob made an appearance on this ABC sitcom.

Dharma and Greg.

2: In 1998 a man with "Soy Bomb" marked on his chest interrupted Bob's performance at this awards show.

Grammy Awards.

3: In 1975 Bob spoke out for this imprisoned boxer; in 1999 Denzel Washington played him on film.

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.

4: When this Robbie Robertson group first backed Dylan in the '60s, it was known as The Hawks.

The Band.

5: Bob's "Lay Lady Lay" was considered for this 1969 Jon Voight film, but didn't make the soundtrack.

Midnight Cowboy.
Round 5. Category: Saucey!
1: The name of this seasoned tomato sauce comes from the Italian word for "seafaring".

marinara.

2: Basil and pine nuts go into this classic sauce from Genoa.

pesto sauce.

3: Restaurateur Signore di Lello is credited with creating this sauce named for him and served over fettucine.

Alfredo.

4: This chicken topper whose name is from the Aztec for "chili sauce" has a bit of chocolate in it.

mole.

5: This hot creamy sauce made with tarragon and vinegar is traditionally served with chateaubriand.

bearnaise.
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October 05, 2022Episode 602 - "California" Songs - "Little" - Battles - Movie Crossword Clues "G" - Native Americana
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 602, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: "California" Songs
1: "Though East Coast girls are hip," the Beach Boys wished "'they all could be" these.

"California Girls".

2: The Eagles' top-selling single that begins "on a dark desert highway".

"Hotel California".

3: "All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray," it is 1966, and the Mamas and the Papas are doing this.

"California Dreamin'".

4: Albert Hammond's sadly inaccurate weather presumption: 'cause "it pours, man. It pours".

"It Never Rains In Southern California".

5: In this 1924 song, Al Jolson, born in Russia, claimed the West Coast was "right back where I started from".

"California, Here I Come".
Round 2. Category: "Little"
1: We're never told what this "good boy" did with his thumb or the plum once he pulled them from the pie.

Little Jack Horner.

2: Ursa Minor.

little bear.

3: If your wife is a member of N.O.W., you'd probably never introduce her as this.

the little woman.

4: Now a Los Angeles newscaster, she was Miss America in 1976.

Tawny Little.

5: A young quahog suitable for eating raw.

littleneck clam.
Round 3. Category: Battles
1: The American Revolution began in April 1775 with the battles of these 2 Massachusetts towns.

Lexington and Concord.

2: This battle fought in Maryland in 1862 was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.

Antietam.

3: England's King Harold II lost the all-important Battle of Hastings in this year.

1066.

4: The Battles of Missolonghi and Navarino helped win this country its independence from Turkey.

Greece.

5: "2 ships, 2 brigs, 1 schooner and 1 sloop" were the fleet defeated in this battle in the War of 1812.

the Battle of Lake Erie.
Round 4. Category: Movie Crossword Clues "G"
1: Steve and Ali made one, before Kim and Alec(7).

Getaway.

2: They "Prefer Blondes"(9).

Gentlemen.

3: It precedes "Canyon", "Hotel" and "Theft Auto"(5).

Grand.

4: "Luminous" Boyer and Bergman classic(8).

Gaslight.

5: Oddjob's master (10).

Goldfinger.
Round 5. Category: Native Americana
1: The well-meant Dawes Act of 1887 divided these Indian areas into individual parcels of land.

Reservations.

2: Mahicans lived along the Hudson; Mohegans lived in Connecticut; Mohicans were created by this author.

James Fenimore Cooper.

3: The name of this soft leather Native American shoe comes from an Algonquin word.

a moccasin.

4: This English word comes from a Delaware name for a turtle.

Terrapin.

5: The Crow are known for their ceremonial costumes with unique beadwork and dyed quills from these.

porcupines.
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October 04, 2022Episode 601 - Shopping U.s.a. - Character Study - "C" In Shakespeare - Around The Horn - Flops
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 601, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Shopping U.s.a.
1: In 1996 Graceland Gifts in this city sold a limited edition Elvis Cabbage Patch Kid in a gold lame suit.

Memphis.

2: Elvis Presley Enterprises owns several gift shops in this city; they're all close to Graceland.

Memphis.

3: Rumors on Royal Street in this city specializes in hand-crafted Mardi Gras masks.

New Orleans.

4: Browsing for baubles? Tiffany, Cartier and Van Cleef and Arpels all have shops on this chic Beverly Hills street.

Rodeo Drive.

5: This L.A. street noted for its Mexican handicrafts is named for Los Angeles' first county judge.

Olvera Street.
Round 2. Category: Character Study
1: Freddy Eynsford Hill,Col. Pickering,Henry Higgins.

Pygmalion (or My Fair Lady).

2: Natasha Rostova,Pierre Bezuhov,Napoleon.

War and Peace.

3: Rusty Trawler,Sally Tomato,Holly Golightly.

Breakfast at Tiffany's.

4: Bertha Mason,Grace Poole,Mr. Rochester.

Jane Eyre.

5: Amelia Sedley,George Osborne,Becky Sharp.

Vanity Fair.
Round 3. Category: "C" In Shakespeare
1: Juliet's maiden name.

Capulet.

2: Tragic tramp who two-timed Troilus.

Cressida.

3: Co-conspirator who says, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves...".

Cassius.

4: In "Hamlet", he's the king of Denmark.

Claudius.

5: This play about a king of Britain contains the famous poem "Hark, hark! the lark...".

Cymbeline.
Round 4. Category: Around The Horn
1: The southernmost point in South America, Cape Horn is part of this country.

Chile.

2: SE of Cape Horn is the "South" version of this Scottish island group that shares its name with dogs and ponies.

the Shetlands.

3: This strait that separates the Pacific and Atlantic oceans is named for a Portuguese guy.

Magellan.

4: Cape Horn is the southern extremity of this fiery archipelago.

Tierra del Fuego.

5: The largest desert in the Americas is in this Argentinean region visited by Darwin on his Beagle trips.

Patagonia.
Round 5. Category: Flops
1: Ford, '57, flop, 'nuf said.

Edsel.

2: This former NFL linebacker's show "Lawless" was sacked in March 1997 after one airing.

Brian Bosworth.

3: With teams including the Florida Blazers, this football league lasted for 1 1/2 seasons in '74-'75.

WFL (World Football League).

4: Roger Ebert called this 1980 Michael Cimino film "Painful and unpleasant to look at".

Heaven's Gate.

5: "La Traviata", his modern-dress opera version of "La Dame Aux Camelias", flopped in its 1853 premiere.

Giuseppe Verdi.
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October 03, 2022Episode 600 - Musical Genres - Lesser-Known Names - The Arts - Hurricane Names - Initialed Authors
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 600, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Musical Genres
1: Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power" and MotÃƒÂ¶rhead's "No Remorse" made Rolling Stone's Top 100 Albums of this genre.

(heavy) metal.

2: The book of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John.

Gospel.

3: In 2020 "Contigo" by Alejandro Sanz won Record of the Year at these Grammys.

the Latin Grammys.

4: Electronic style that can precede -logical, -babble or -crat.

techno.

5: This subgenre of metal can also mean "to beat savagely".

thrash.
Round 2. Category: Lesser-Known Names
1: Most famous son of the man born Alois Schicklgruber in 1837.

Adolf Hitler.

2: Sadly, Army nurse Clara Maass died in 1901 after she volunteered to be bitten by a mosquito carrying this.

yellow fever.

3: Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief, is credited with the look of this music player introduced in 2001.

an iPod.

4: Rock and roller Ernest Evans, his stage name is a "twisted" version of Fats Domino's.

Chubby Checker.

5: George Archer joined this man's company in 1903; the "Midland" comes from a linseed products company.

John Daniels.
Round 3. Category: The Arts
1: In August 1988 the Getty Museum announced one of its prized pieces, the head of Achilles, was this.

fake.

2: Nearly 10 feet long, "Lavender Mist" from 1950 is one of his drip paintings.

Jackson Pollock.

3: "The Lady with the Unicorn" is a medieval example of this textile art form.

tapestry.

4: A Michael Smuin work was the first full-length ballet shown on "Dance in America", part of this "great" PBS series.

Performances.

5: Perhaps the greatest composer of German songs, he died the year after his hero Beethoven.

(Franz) Schubert.
Round 4. Category: Hurricane Names
1: 1985:Same as Steinem and Estefan.

Gloria.

2: 1991:Same as Fosse and Barker.

Bob.

3: 1955:Same as Reno and Jackson.

Janet.

4: 1983:Same as Witt and Silverstone.

Alicia.

5: 1979:Same as Remington and Chopin.

Frederic.
Round 5. Category: Initialed Authors
1: In 2001 she wrote 2 of Harry Potter's school books under 2 different pseudonyms.

J.K. Rowling.

2: "Women in Love" was the sequel to "The Rainbow" by this British author.

D.H. Lawrence.

3: The struggle between good and evil forces over a magic ring is at the cnter of his epic trilogy.

J.R.R. Tolkien.

4: His published work: one novel and about 15 short stories, including "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters".

J.D. Salinger.

5: He wrote the "Chronicles of Narnia" for his goddaughter Lucy, who shares her name with a character in them.

C.S. Lewis.
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October 02, 2022Episode 599 - A Lovely Port - 1930s Aviation - In A Minute - California Cities - State Borders
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 599, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: A Lovely Port
1: This Australian city was given its name by a former HMS Beagle sailor.

Darwin.

2: Built for Spanish trade with Asia, this Mexican city is now famous for the cliff divers of La Quebrada.

Acapulco.

3: La Libertad is a port supplying this alliterative capital of El Salvador.

San Salvador.

4: If you take the last train to this Tennessee port, you'll be at the junction of the Red and Cumberland Rivers.

Clarksville.

5: 5 years as an unsold slave in this north African capital inspired Cervantes' play "El Trato de Angel".

Algiers.
Round 2. Category: 1930s Aviation
1: In the 1930s he moved the Wright Bros.' home and bicycle workshop to Dearborn, Michigan.

Henry Ford.

2: The Mitsubishi flown from Japan for George VI's coronation was named this, Japanese for "divine wind".

Kamikaze.

3: On January 8, 1930 Walter Mittelholzer took off from the Serengeti plain to fly in a plane over this mount.

Mount Kilimanjaro.

4: In 1932 and '33 one of these airships made a total of 18 trips between Germany and Brazil.

Zeppelin.

5: In 1931 Boeing, National, Pacific and Varney Airlines joined forces under this new name.

United Airlines.
Round 3. Category: In A Minute
1: Each minute 5 million of these are sent; how many of them are spam, we don't know.

E-mails.

2: Men's Health magazine says the average guy can do 33 of these in a minute in his 20s, 21 in his 40s.

push-ups.

3: In a June 2000 film Nicolas Cage played a guy who could do this in a minute.

Steal a car.

4: Each minute it pumps about 5 quarts of blood.

The heart.

5: Under the slogan "Real Estate for the Real World", this company claims on average to buy or sell a home every minute.

Century 21.
Round 4. Category: California Cities
1: This city near the U.S.-Mexico border is home to a naval base and a world famous zoo.

San Diego.

2: This city's zoo, located in Balboa Park, is one of the largest in the world.

San Diego.

3: This upscale community was founded in 1906 by the Rodeo Land and Water Company.

Beverly Hills.

4: Its name comes from the Santa Ana River and the German word for home.

Anaheim.

5: This Silicon Valley city served as California's first capital from 1849 to 1851.

San Jose.
Round 5. Category: State Borders
1: Kansas and Utah.

Colorado.

2: Oklahoma and Arkansas.

Texas.

3: New York and Ohio.

Pennsylvania.

4: Montana and Oregon.

Idaho.

5: Alabama and Louisiana.

Mississippi.
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October 01, 2022Episode 598 - America's Most Want Ads - Mythological Relatives - Candles - 20Th Century Poetry - It's All A Plant
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 598, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: America's Most Want Ads
1: Wanted: Mass quantities of this hardest natural substance on Earth.

diamonds.

2: Wanted: Any one of the remaining ones of this vintage toy in its original box from 1959.

Barbie.

3: Wanted: Any living specimens of the Schaus Swallowtail, one of the rarest species of this insect.

the butterfly.

4: Wanted: Street maps of this lost continent first described by a priest to the philosopher Solon.

Atlantis.

5: Wanted: Recent photos of this reclusive author and creator of Holden Caulfield.

J.D. Salinger.
Round 2. Category: Mythological Relatives
1: Some say Penelope played around with Hermes and produced this god known for playing the pipes.

Pan.

2: Eris, the personification of discord, accompanies this Greek war god, her brother, into battle.

Ares.

3: This king of Crete was Phaedra's father.

Minos.

4: The Graeae, or "gray women", are gray-haired sisters of this gruesome group that includes Medusa.

Gorgons.

5: Typhon, who had a hundred heads, was the father of this multi-headed serpent.

the Hydra.
Round 3. Category: Candles
1: Elton John's "Candle In The Wind" was originally written as a tribute to this actress.

Marilyn Monroe.

2: Blowing out his birthday candles, a boy wishes for 24 hours of truth from his dad in this 1997 Jim Carrey film.

Liar Liar.

3: Erle Stanley Gardner had this attorney take on "The Case Of The Crooked Candle".

Perry Mason.

4: In the mid-19th century, candles were often made with this wax crystallized from petroleum.

Paraffin wax.

5: This play contains the line "Out, out brief candle!".

Macbeth.
Round 4. Category: 20Th Century Poetry
1: Frank O'Hara's "The Day Lady Died" is a tribute to this black singer.

Billie Holiday.

2: In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", it's the color of the wood two roads diverged in.

yellow.

3: It's the first name of Edwin Arlington Robinson's morose Mr. Cheevy.

Miniver.

4: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", he "howled".

Allen Ginsberg.

5: He went from laboring in a Siberian camp to becoming a US citizen to winning the 1987 Nobel Literature Prize.

Josef Brodsky.
Round 5. Category: It's All A Plant
1: Arkansas has made the pink variety of this its state fruit and its state vegetable, just in case.

a tomato.

2: Scientifically Hamamelis virginiana, this "bewitching" plant is used to make a soothing astringent.

witch hazel.

3: In Dutch, these tuber vegetables are known as aardappelen.

potatoes.

4: Arctic alpine plants include the saxifrage, whose roots manage to grow into these to anchor themselves.

rocks.

5: The Great Basin bristlecone species of this tree can live for more than 4,000 years.

a pine.
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September 30, 2022Episode 597 - Also A Baseball Team - "Black" And "White" - Little Birdies - 1979 - Adam Sandler
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 597, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Also A Baseball Team
1: Raphael, Michael, Gabriel and Uriel.

angels.

2: Don Quixote thought the windmills were these.

giants.

3: Numbers like 1, 2 and 7012.

cardinals.

4: Split zygotes.

twins.

5: Icterus galbula songbirds.

orioles.
Round 2. Category: "Black" And "White"
1: This Bing Crosby hit is the best-selling record of all time.

White Christmas.

2: It's the more familiar name for Ursus americanus.

Black bear.

3: 1 oz Kahlua, 2 oz. vodka and some milk or cream.

White Russian.

4: It's another name for a termite.

white ant.

5: The fastest-moving land snake is believed to be this venomous snake.

black mamba.
Round 3. Category: Little Birdies
1: Snoopy's best little buddy, in the comics he talks in "scratches".

Woodstock.

2: These little yellow birds were once carried into coal mines because of their sensitivity to poisonous gas.

Canaries.

3: A wise parrot named Polynesia taught him how to talk to the animals.

Dr. Dolittle.

4: A clock invented in the Black Forest around 1775 introduced this little birdie to timekeeping.

Cuckoo.

5: It's the symbol of happiness Shirley Temple went looking for in a 1940 film.

Bluebird.
Round 4. Category: 1979
1: Acronym used to refer to the treaty signed by Brezhnev and Carter in Vienna in June.

SALT II.

2: 1,000 Chinese protested the privileges of high officials in this square, more famous 10 years later.

Tiananmen Square.

3: This Boston outfielder became the first American League player to get both 3,000 hits and 400 home runs.

Carl Yastrzemski.

4: No longer a Sex Pistol, he was facing murder charges when he died in February.

Sid Vicious.

5: On April 3 she was elected mayor of Chicago with 82.5% of the vote.

Jane Byrne.
Round 5. Category: Adam Sandler
1: In the new movie "Click" I have a slight disagreement with this actor who gained fame as a lifeguard on the TV.

David Hasselhoff.

2: In "Happy Gilmore", I had enough and decked this long-time CBS game show host--you up for the sequel, Alex?.

Bob Barker.

3: In the new movie "Click", this "Deer Hunter" actor plays Morty; he also was The Continental on "SNL" many times.

Christopher Walken.

4: I had a recurring role as Theo's friend Smitty in this 1980s No. 1-rated sitcom"What was it?".

The Cosby Show.

5: I played tackling machine and H2O enthusiast in this 1998 film.

The Waterboy.
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September 29, 2022Episode 596 - Hummingbirds - Singers' First Films - "Down" Words - Southernmost Points - Approbation
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 596, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Hummingbirds
1: The largest hummingbird is the 8 1/2-inch Patagona gigas, native to this mountain range.

the Andes.

2: Of 50, 100 or 200, the number of wingbeats per second for the smallest hummingbirds during courtship.

200.

3: Although it's true that hummingbirds prefer flowers of this color, the shape of the flower is equally important.

red.

4: When migrating, the ruby-throated hummingbird flies more than 500 miles nonstop over this body of water to reach the Yucatan.

the Gulf of Mexico.

5: Part of a male's courtship is this maneuver in which he reaches 50 mph and experiences 9G forces when pulling out of it.

a mating dive.
Round 2. Category: Singers' First Films
1: "Lady Sings The Blues".

Diana Ross.

2: "The Bodyguard".

Whitney Houston.

3: "9 To 5".

Dolly Parton.

4: "Oh, God!".

John Denver.

5: "The Electric Horseman".

Willie Nelson.
Round 3. Category: "Down" Words
1: Othello's was jealousy.

his fatal downfall.

2: According to Petula Clark, "The lights are much brighter there".

"Downtown".

3: Word describing a period when computers can't compute.

downtime.

4: On a PBS series, Hudson, Rose and Mrs. Bridges resided there.

Downstairs.

5: Description of someone who is practical.

down-to-earth.
Round 4. Category: Southernmost Points
1: Willem Schouten was the first to sail around this cape, South America's southernmost point.

Cape Horn.

2: Cape Tainaron on the Peloponnesus is the southernmost mainland point of this country.

Greece.

3: Mexico's southernmost point lies on its Pacific coast border with this country.

Guatemala.

4: Asia's southernmost mainland point, Cape Piai, lies in this country just north of Singapore.

Malaysia.

5: Cape Sarych, Ukraine's southernmost point, lies on this peninsula that juts into the Black Sea.

the Crimean Peninsula.
Round 5. Category: Approbation
1: In 1982 Lenny Skutnick rescued a passenger on a crashed 737 from this D.C. river.

Potomac.

2: Fittingly, CNN broke the news in 1997 when this man decided to give $1 billion to the U.N..

Ted Turner.

3: Jody Williams won a 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to ban these weapons.

land mines.

4: In 1997, 5 decades late, 7 black soldiers received this highest award for bravery during WWII.

the Congressional Medal of Honor.

5: Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara, who saved hundreds of Jews in WWII, bears the title "Righteous" this.

Gentile.
Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
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