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May 05, 2022Episode 449 - From The French - Aesop A.s.a.p. - Whatever - Movie Stars - Sunday School
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 449, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: From The French
1: This word for a type of business like Quizno's comes from the French for "free".

a franchise.

2: The name of the U.S. state is partly from the French word for "green".

Vermont.

3: The name of this rodent that hibernates nearly half the year may come from the French for "sleep".

a dormouse.

4: The name of this type of vehicle is a shortened version of the French for "walking hospital".

ambulance.

5: This word for an alpine cottage comes from the Swiss French for "shelter".

a chalet.
Round 2. Category: Aesop A.s.a.p.
1: One of these creatures talks a lion out of eating him, later saves the lion from a trap.

mouse.

2: Farmer proves strength in unity to sons by showing a bundle of these that can't be broken all at once.

sticks.

3: Fox can't reach these, decides they are sour.

grapes.

4: Wolf disguised as one of these gets killed by shepherd wanting dinner.

sheep.

5: Hungry, lazy grasshopper tries to talk these insects out of food in winter.

ants.
Round 3. Category: Whatever
1: Unlike most birds, which have 4, ostriches have this many toes on each foot, adapted to aid in running.

2.

2: This is how he looked in high school; today he's a talented actor and director as well.

Ben Affleck.

3: For one brief shining moment, the Kennedys were said to live in this mythic kingdom.

Camelot.

4: The name of this physicist is used to describe measurements of supersonic speed.

(Ernst) Mach.

5: In "A Psalm of Life", Longfellow wrote of leaving "behind us" these "on the sands of time".

footprints.
Round 4. Category: Movie Stars
1: In "Apollo 13" he played astronaut Jim Lovell, who was much smarter than Forrest Gump.

Tom Hanks.

2: Robert Duvall felt Sally Kellerman's "hot lips" when he played Major Frank Burns in this 1970 film.

M*A*S*H.

3: Teri Garr played Dustin Hoffman's neglected girlfriend in this 1982 comedy; what a "drag"!.

Tootsie.

4: In 1997 he was named best actor at Cannes for "She's So Lovely", which co-starred his lovely wife Robin Wright.

Sean Penn.

5: He gave Lauren Bacall a gold bracelet with her name engraved on one side and "The Whistler" on the other.

Humphrey Bogart (her husband).
Round 5. Category: Sunday School
1: Chipping in for charity will show us the truth of Jesus' words "it is more blessed" to do this "than to receive".

to give.

2: Timmy, here's an old shirt to wear; we'll act out the scene where Saul's robe is cut by this future king.

David.

3: Today we'll learn about this agreement God makes with man; Deuteronomy 10 talks about the "ark of" it.

the Covenant.

4: No, the ladder is not for changing a light bulb--it's supposed to be the one from Genesis that this patriarch dreamed about.

Jacob.

5: No, the ladder is not for changing a light bulb--it's supposed to be the one from Genesis that this patriarch dreamed about.

Jacob.
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May 04, 2022Episode 448 - Army, Navy Or Marines - 20Th Century Poetry - They're History! - Paying Tribute - Diamonds Are Forever
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 448, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Army, Navy Or Marines
1: Chester Nimitz.

the Navy.

2: World War I flying ace Frank Luke.

the Army.

3: John Glenn.

the Marines.

4: Roger Staubach.

the Navy.

5: Comedian Drew Carey.

the Marines.
Round 2. 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 3. Category: They're History!
1: This "Scourge of God" was a real Hun-y; he had his brother Bleda killed in 445.

Attila.

2: Having lost about half his troops whil crossing the Alps, he recruited about 15,000 Gauls.

Hannibal.

3: Known for his long wall, he also built Rome's magnificent Athenaeum.

Hadrian.

4: During his long reign, this Egyptian king built temples at many sites, including Abu Simbel.

Ramses II (or Ramses the Great).

5: A little birdie "ptold" me: after Alexander the Great's death, this general took control of Egypt.

Ptolemy.
Round 4. Category: Paying Tribute
1: War ensued when in 1801 this Barbary state, now part of Libya, tried to jack up the tribute the U.S. was paying.

Tripoli.

2: In 434 this group led by Attila doubled the tribute they demanded from Roman Emperor Theodosius II.

the Huns.

3: In 1004 the Chinese Song emperor pledged to pay the Khitan people 100,000 yearly oz. of silver and 200,000 bolts of this.

silk.

4: Before repelling these invaders in 896, Alfred the Great of England tried to buy them off.

the Vikings (or the Danes).

5: In the 790s this Frankish king forced the Slavs and Avars to pay him tribute.

Charlemagne.
Round 5. Category: Diamonds Are Forever
1: If you were born in this month, the diamond is your traditional birthstone -- no foolin'.

April.

2: One of the plane surfaces of a cut diamond; the brilliant cut has 58.

Facet.

3: Sanguinary term for a diamond sold to finance military operations.

a blood diamond.

4: A 41.94 carat diamond is named for this emperor; we assume his wife Carlotta was mad about it.

Maximilian.

5: The slogan "A diamond is forever" was coined in 1947 by an ad exec for this South African commercial giant.

De Beers.
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May 03, 2022Episode 447 - Jimmy - The 3 Bs - Crossword Clues "I" - Cultured Celebrities - Memoirs
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 447, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Jimmy
1: The Kentucky Derby-winning jockey in 1878, or the president of the U.S. in 1978.

Jimmy Carter.

2: He's won the U.S Open on 3 surfaces: grass (1974), clay (1976) and hard courts (1978, 1982, 1983).

JImmy Connors.

3: He helped bring down Jim and Tammy Bakker, then got knocked off his own pulpit.

Jimmy Swaggart.

4: Bobby Kennedy was chief council of the Senate committee investigating David Beck and this man.

Jimmy Hoffa.

5: He was dyn-o-mite as mayor of New York from 1926 to 1932.

Jimmy Walker.
Round 2. Category: The 3 Bs
1: Beethoven tried all the latest scientific methods including sulphur vapors to cure this.

Deafness.

2: Of the three B's, he's the one who composed the following:.

Brahms.

3: Bach's 1721 "Concerts a Plusieurs Instruments" are popularly known as these "Concertos".

"The Brandenburg Concertos".

4: The 2 who called Vienna home.

Beethoven and Brahms.

5: Beethoven's only opera, based on J.N. Bouilly's "Leonore", it premiered in 1805.

"Fidelio".
Round 3. Category: Crossword Clues "I"
1: Titanic sinker(7).

Iceberg.

2: Dante's Hell(7).

Inferno.

3: Pianists tickle them(7).

Ivories.

4: "Aha!", e.g.(12).

Interjection.

5: A store's stock(9).

Inventory.
Round 4. Category: Cultured Celebrities
1: This "X-Files" star has expressed his admiration for the complex modern poetry of John Ashbery.

David Duchovny.

2: TV's Felix Unger, he founded the National Actors Theatre to educate Americans in the classic plays.

Tony Randall.

3: Yo, Adrian! This actor says that what "separates us from being totally bestial is...a sense of the aesthetic".

Sylvester Stallone.

4: This crooner whose career was renewed on MTV in the '90s is also a painter influenced by the Impressionists.

Tony Bennett.

5: This actress and sister of actress Jennifer made her debut as a novelist with 1994's "Singing Songs".

Meg Tilly.
Round 5. Category: Memoirs
1: He gets right to the point, the ear point, in "I Am Spock".

Leonard Nimoy.

2: She tells of life before and after Burt in "My Life in High Heels".

Loni Anderson.

3: Her book is "After All", after all, her show's theme song ended "You're gonna make it after all".

Mary Tyler Moore.

4: "Palimpsest" is "A Memoir" by this "Burr" author.

Gore Vidal.

5: "A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures" is by this former Washington Post editor.

Ben Bradlee.
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May 02, 2022Episode 446 - Celebrity Spouses - Where Are You "At"? - Tv Catch Phrases - Best Picture Oscar Winners - Snowy Songs
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 446, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Celebrity Spouses
1: Joanne Woodward.

Paul Newman.

2: Lauren Holly.

Jim Carrey.

3: Meg Ryan.

Dennis Quaid.

4: Rita Wilson.

Tom Hanks.

5: Iman.

David Bowie.
Round 2. Category: Where Are You "At"?
1: You ran the light and are liable for causing the accident, so you're said to be this.

at fault.

2: You're no longer at attention, and are now permitted to scratch yourself.

at ease.

3: You're out of patience, or in the position of a lassoed steer.

at the end of your rope/at your rope's end.

4: You're being sold below cost, or you're perplexed.

at a loss.

5: You're helpless before someone; in his power.

at his/her mercy.
Round 3. Category: Tv Catch Phrases
1: "Nanu, Nanu" and "Shazbat" were Orkan words frequently heard on this sitcom.

Mork and Mindy.

2: On "The Addams Family", he would enter and croak, "You rang?".

Lurch.

3: On this game show, answers were checked against what the "Survey Says!".

Family Feud.

4: As Arnold Jackson on "Diff'rent Strokes", he asked, "What you talkin' about, Willis?".

Gary Coleman.

5: She signed off "NBC News Overnight" with "And so it goes".

Linda Ellerbee.
Round 4. Category: Best Picture Oscar Winners
1: Riff and Bernardo lead 2 warring gangs in New York City in this 1961 musical.

West Side Story.

2: This Oscar winner starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert was based on a cosmopolitan short story titled "Night Bus".

It Happened One Night.

3: Mel Gibson won Oscars for producing and directing this 1995 Best Picture.

Braveheart.

4: This Best Picture winner for 2006 is Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film to date.

The Departed.

5: Inmates at the Oregon State Mental Hospital played extras in this 1975 Oscar winner.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Round 5. Category: Snowy Songs
1: This guy "knew that the sun was out that day, so he said, 'let's run and have some fun now before I melt away'".

Frosty the Snowman.

2: Title that follows "the fire is slowly dying, and, my dear, we're still goodbye-ing, but as long as you love me so...".

"Let It Snow (Let It Snow, Let It Snow)".

3: He "looked out on the feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even".

Good King Wenceslas.

4: "In the lane snow is glistening, a beautiful sight, we're happy tonight" in this place.

a winter wonderland.

5: In "I'll be home for Christmas", "please have" these 2 rhyming items "and presents on the tree".

snow and mistletoe.
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May 01, 2022Episode 445 - Giants - Crosses - A World Of Pirates - The "End" - Hit Tunes
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 445, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Giants
1: I Samuel says the metal head of his spear weighed 600 shekels, or about 15 pounds.

Goliath.

2: Cormoran, a Cornish giant, was felled by this famous giant killer.

Jack.

3: In "Jack and the Beanstalk", Jack stole from the giant a little brown hen that laid these.

golden eggs.

4: This Ted Hughes kids' book creation loves eating barbed wire and rusty chains.

the Iron Giant.

5: After Hermes slew this 100-eyed giant, the 100 eyes were placed on the tail of the peacock.

Argus.
Round 2. Category: Crosses
1: A crusader's white cross on a field of red, used by a canton in the 13th century, became this country's flag.

Switzerland.

2: In England this game is called noughts and crosses.

tic-tac-toe.

3: The Chi-Rho cross is formed from the first 2 letters of his title in Greek.

Jesus.

4: The St. Andrew's cross resembles this math sign.

multiplication.

5: The Crux Ansata, a tau cross with a loop on top, is known as this to Egyptians.

ankh.
Round 3. Category: A World Of Pirates
1: The costumes for this 1991 Steven Spielberg film included 350 pirate outfits for the extras alone.

Hook.

2: Later dictator, this Roman was kidnapped by pirates while on a journey to Rhodes around 75 B.C..

Julius Caesar.

3: In 1815 Washington Irving planned to join Stephen Decatur on an expedition against these north African pirates.

Barbary Pirates.

4: Born around 1645, this pirate captain was sent to England for trial and hanged in 1701.

Captain Kidd.

5: Kevin Kline won a Tony Award for his role in this swashbuckling Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.

The Pirates of Penzance.
Round 4. Category: The "End"
1: It means to make a change to something, especially to the Constitution.

amend.

2: It's to grasp mentally; understand?.

comprehend.

3: This Indiana city is home to the College Football Hall of Fame.

South Bend.

4: It's a bonus paid by a company to its stockholders, often on a quarterly basis.

dividend.

5: Take a suspect into custody.

apprehend.
Round 5. Category: Hit Tunes
1: "Where The Streets Have No Name","With Or Without You".

U2.

2: "Angel","Building A Mystery".

Sarah McLachlan.

3: This Bob Carlisle ballad about watching his daughter grow was a surprise hit in 1997.

"Butterfly Kisses".

4: "How's It Going to Be","Semi-Charmed Life".

Third Eye Blind.

5: On the sound track of "Nothing to Lose", it's when Coolio will "C U".

When U Get There.
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April 30, 2022Episode 444 - "B"Eople - "Short" Stuff - Iowans - If You're Going To Do It... - Say It "Aint" So
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 444, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: "B"Eople
1: On June 1, 2000 this governor stayed an execution for the first time; he had let over 130 go off normally.

George W. Bush (when he was governor of Texas).

2: He joined "60 Minutes" during the 1981-'82 season.

Ed Bradley.

3: Former NFL great Esiason.

Boomer.

4: Seen here, he's a Democrat and the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Joe Biden.

5: With 82% of the vote, she was elected Chicago's first female mayor in 1979 and led the city for 4 years.

Jane Byrne.
Round 2. Category: "Short" Stuff
1: Raspberry Tart, Apple Dumplin' and Lemon Meringue are characters in this line of dolls.

Strawberry Shortcake.

2: "Hams" broadcast via this.

shortwave radio.

3: In this 1995 film in which John Travolta played mob enforcer Chili Palmer, the real Palmer had a cameo.

Get Shorty.

4: Myopic.

short-sighted.

5: In 1927 court reporter Martin Dupraw used this to take testimony at the rate of 282 words per minute.

shorthand.
Round 3. Category: Iowans
1: Born in Iowa in 1907, he starred in "Rio Lobo", "Rio Bravo" and "Rio Grande".

John Wayne.

2: Prior to marrying Roseanne, this man from Ottumwa worked as a ham packer at a Hormel plant.

Tom Arnold.

3: Des Moines' Marilyn Maye sang 76 times, more than anyone else on the talk show of this man born in Corning.

Johnny Carson.

4: Iowan Meredith Willson wrote this 1957 musical set in River City, Iowa.

The Music Man.

5: Burlingtonian best remembered for playing TV's Fred Mertz.

William "Bub" Frawley.
Round 4. Category: If You're Going To Do It...
1: As a Swiss Guard, today you are responsible for the safety of this one person.

John Paul II (the Pope).

2: To score 2 points at once in pro football the offense has a 2-point conversion and the defense has this.

a safety.

3: To know the truth of the Matrix, take this color pill.

the red pill.

4: You mix, then heat, lime, silica, alumina and iron oxide with gypsum to create the Portland type of this.

cement.

5: To read the Mahabharata in its original language you have to know this one.

Sanskrit.
Round 5. Category: Say It "Aint" So
1: To lose consciousness abruptly is to do this.

Faint.

2: It covers the walls.

Paint.

3: An extremely virtuous person, especially after canonization.

Saint.

4: To contaminate or morally corrupt is to do this.

Taint.

5: In other words, odd in an old-fashioned sort of way.

Quaint.
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April 29, 2022Episode 443 - Singers And Their Roles - Right On The Money - Group Therapy - Musical Matters - Kenya Feel The Love
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 443, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Singers And Their Roles
1: When Sonny gets blue, he can think of "Good Times", the film in which he and this partner played themselves.

Cher.

2: On stage, he was Ziggy Stardust, the king of space rock, and on film, an alien in "The Man Who Fell to Earth".

David Bowie.

3: She earned an Oscar nomination for starring in "The Rose" and an Emmy nomination for playing Mama Rose in "Gypsy".

Bette Midler.

4: She was the Acid Queen in "Tommy" and Auntie Entity in "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome".

Tina Turner.

5: He made 2 films, "Come September" and "That Funny Feeling", with his wife, Sandra Dee.

Bobby Darin.
Round 2. Category: Right On The Money
1: The current $2 bill features Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of this document on the back.

the Declaration of Independence.

2: The 2004 silver dollar honoring Thomas Edison was inscribed on the reverse side, "125th anniversary of" this invention.

the light bulb.

3: This cabinet department's seal appears on all U.S. paper currency.

Treasury.

4: Federal Reserve notes bear the statement "This note is legal tender for all" these, "public and private".

debts.

5: Bills printed in 2008 bear the signatures of Anna Cabral, U.S. Treasurer, and Henry Paulson, this official.

Secretary of the Treasury.
Round 3. Category: Group Therapy
1: A group of students at the same grade level.

Class.

2: A group that meets for a common purpose; Groucho wouldn't join one that would have him as a member.

Club.

3: The Mistick Krewe of Comus has been participating in parades in this city since 1857.

New Orleans.

4: alt.tv.game-shows is one of these "groups" in which you may find comments on this clue tomorrow.

Newsgroup.

5: Wolfe and over 999 others are part of this group in the St. Lawrence.

Thousand Islands.
Round 4. Category: Musical Matters
1: At age 14 Wynton Marsalis performed Haydn's concerto for this instrument.

trumpet.

2: The Dixie Chicks' first CD had the rhyming title "Thank Heavens for" this TV cowgirl.

Dale Evans.

3: It sounds like a small trench around a castle, but it was the major type of late medieval composition.

motet.

4: The 19th century composer of the following, he basically wrote for only one instrument.

Frederic Chopin.

5: James Blake, who wrote the song "I'm Just Wild About Harry", was better known by this nickname.

Eubie.
Round 5. Category: Kenya Feel The Love
1: Kenya's official languages are English and this one, whose name means "people of the coast".

Swahili.

2: Traditionally, the nomadic Masai of Kenya live almost entirely on their herds of these.

cattle.

3: At over 17,000 feet, Mount Kenya is eclipsed by only this other peak as the highest in Africa.

Kilimanjaro.

4: To the southwest, Kenya borders this 27,000-square-mile body of water.

Lake Victoria.

5: Now the chief port of Kenya, Mombasa was visited by this Portuguese explorer in 1498.

(Vasco) da Gama.
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April 28, 2022Episode 442 - Mystery Meat - My Fantasy Football Team - Celebrity Roommates - The Abcs Of The Cdc - No. 1 Hits
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 442, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Mystery Meat
1: Tournedos.

beef.

2: A specially trained butcher known as a shochet is required to prepare meat to this religious standard.

kosher.

3: Scrapple.

pork.

4: Scrapple.

pork.

5: Hasenpfeffer.

rabbit.
Round 2. Category: My Fantasy Football Team
1: You should have heard my "boo-yah!" in 2004 when Shaun Alexander scored his NFL-leading 20th of these.

a touchdown.

2: Straight-up swap at this position, Roethlisberger for Culpepper... what do you say?.

quarterback.

3: I'm glad I traded for this flamboyant receiver who went from Frisco to Philly in 2004.

Terrell Owens.

4: I'm expecting a few long ones from the well-named Ryan Longwell, a regular at this position.

kicker.

5: Letting go of this Rams back with almost 12,000 career rushing yards could come back to haunt me.

Marshall Faulk.
Round 3. Category: Celebrity Roommates
1: Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman and this "Graduate" all lived together and all later won Oscars -- must've been the water.

Dustin Hoffman.

2: Until Henry Fonda got married, he lived with this actor -- what a "Wonderful Life".

Jimmy Stewart.

3: TV's "Mr. Peepers", he was one of tough guy Marlon Brando's roommates.

Wally Cox.

4: Seen here, this actor got his stage name when college roomie Stanley Tucci said, "You don't look like an Irving".

Ving Rhames.

5: The Coens wrote "Raising Arizona" for Holly Hunter after this roommate of hers got the lead in "Blood Simple".

Frances McDormand.
Round 4. Category: The Abcs Of The Cdc
1: In 1992 the CDC added this word to its name to reflect its broader role, but didn't add "P" to its initials.

Prevention.

2: The CDC says this form of cancer, which includes melanoma, is the most common in the U.S..

Skin cancer.

3: At its inception in 1946, the CDC fought this mosquito-borne disease that was prevalent in the South at the time.

Malaria.

4: In 1981 the first cases of this disease were published in the CDC's "Morbidity And Mortality Weekly Report".

AIDS.

5: The CDC is an agency of this department of the federal government.

Health and Human Services.
Round 5. Category: No. 1 Hits
1: In 1986 she topped the charts with "How Will I Know" and "The Greatest Love of All".

Whitney Houston.

2: 1984s "The Reflex" was this band's first No. 1 song in the U.S.; "Hungry Like The Wolf" peaked at No. 3.

Duran Duran.

3: This singer was habit-forming with his 1986 hit "Addicted To Love".

Robert Palmer.

4: The movie "Buster" starred this singer and drummer, who hit No. 1 with "Two Hearts", the movie's theme.

Phil Collins.

5: No. 1 songs from her "Forever Your Girl" album include the title track and "Cold Hearted".

Paula Abdul.
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April 27, 2022Episode 441 - The Crusades - Colleges And Universities - He Was In That? - The Ocean Blue - 1980
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 441, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: The Crusades
1: Peter the Hermit, like Sancho Panza, rode one of these animals through France rousing the peasants.

Donkey.

2: Some orders of these were Teutonic, Templar and of St. John.

Knights.

3: This king of England was a leader of the Third Crusade.

Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted).

4: Kings Baldwin I and II were Christian rulers of this holy Mideastern city.

Jerusalem.

5: During the third Crusade, Saladin, sultan of Egypt and Syria, made this Syrian city his headquarters.

Damascus.
Round 2. Category: Colleges And Universities
1: The Museum of Art at Bowdoin College in this state has works by Winslow Homer and related memorabilia.

Maine.

2: This state university's medical center has campuses in New Orleans and Shreveport.

LSU (Louisiana State).

3: Florida Institute of Technology is sometimes called "Countdown College" from its proximity to this site.

Cape Canaveral.

4: This college has 3 representatives in the Irish senate.

Trinity College.

5: This Low Country's oldest university is the State University of Leiden, founded in 1575.

the Netherlands.
Round 3. Category: He Was In That?
1: Before playing Cliff on "Cheers", John Ratzenberger appeared as Major Derlin in this second "Star Wars" film.

The Empire Strikes Back.

2: In 1961 this future "Jeopardy!" announcer hit the big screen in "Gidget Goes Hawaiian".

Johnny Gilbert.

3: Mr. C on "Happy Days", he played the man Natalie Wood's parents want her to marry in "Love with the Proper Stranger".

Tom Bosley.

4: This boxing champ played a bartender in "The Hustler", and that's no "Raging Bull".

(Jake) LaMotta.

5: Before "Starsky and Hutch", Paul Michael Glaser played Perchik in this movie musical (Hint: Topol got top billing).

Fiddler on the Roof.
Round 4. Category: The Ocean Blue
1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Michael Newman of "Baywatch") It's the Japanese term for seismic sea waves, sometimes 100 feet high, that can bring lots of tsuris".

Tsunami.

2: It may go plankton-crustacean-herring-haddock and be only as strong as its weakest link.

Food chain.

3: The extension of a land mass to about 500' underwater; it gives way to the Continental Slope.

Continental Shelf.

4: The photic zone is the upper ocean layer, with enough sunlight to allow this plant process.

Photosynthesis.

5: As you'd expect, they're the 2 most abundant chemical elements in the dissolved solids found in seawater.

Sodium and chlorine.
Round 5. Category: 1980
1: In "Swanson On Swanson", Gloria claimed she had a love affair with this father of a president.

Joseph Kennedy.

2: Pres. Carter signed a bill granting $1.5 billion in loan guarantees to this company.

Chrysler.

3: The IRS said the cost of maintaining a cat trained to alert these people to possible dangers is tax deductible.

the deaf.

4: FBI agents posed as foreign businessmen in this investigation that implicated 8 congressmen.

ABSCAM.

5: Due to their unpopularity the U.S. Mint stopped making them, temporarily, less than a year after their introduction.

the Susan B. Anthony dollar coins.
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April 26, 2022Episode 440 - Tough Nursery Rhymes - Hold It - Architecture - Flinchius The Gladiator - Executive Perks
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 440, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Tough Nursery Rhymes
1: An early version had 4 and 20 naughty boys in a pie; it was changed to these feathered friends.

Blackbirds.

2: According to the rhyme, she had a little crook.

Little Bo Peep.

3: Webster's defines this 6-letter word as a low seat; Chambers' defines it as a mound.

Tuffet.

4: "These two fruits, say the bells of St. Clemon's".

Oranges and Lemons.

5: Completes "As your bright and tiny spark lights the traveler in the dark, though I know not what you are".

"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star".
Round 2. Category: Hold It
1: Gunny comes from the Sanskrit for this container, so it's redundant when followed by it.

Sack.

2: A small box to hold tea leaves, or a person who carries another container, a golf bag.

Caddy.

3: A silo--but for this, only since the mid-20th century.

nuclear missiles.

4: A metal scuttle.

coal.

5: A jerrycan in WWII Britain (danger: flammable).

gasoline (or petrol).
Round 3. Category: Architecture
1: Italian high-tech architect Renzo Piano co-designed this city's celebrated Pompidou Center.

Paris.

2: A flight is a series of these unbroken by a landing.

stairs.

3: At each end, a pitched roof has one of these triangles, from an Old English word meaning "fork".

a gable.

4: Some living rooms feature these high ceilings named for a type of church.

cathedral.

5: This Swiss man who used a pseudonym was known for houses on stilts like the Savoye house in Poissy.

Le Corbusier.
Round 4. Category: Flinchius The Gladiator
1: Because he speaks Latin, Flinchius knows that "gladiator" means a "man of" this weapon.

sword.

2: Flinchius covers his eyes when the crowd determines his fate by displaying this digit.

a thumb.

3: Flinchius calls it his office, but it's the better known name for the Flavian amphitheater where he fights.

the Colosseum.

4: Flinchius never quite got a handle on this 3-pronged weapon that was a favorite of the god Neptune.

the trident.

5: With his chariot payments, Flinchius is glad this first Christian emperor failed to ban gladiator bouts.

Constantine.
Round 5. Category: Executive Perks
1: From 1997 to 2001 Tyson Foods paid 84,000 of green to care for this area at the homes of its chairman.

the lawn.

2: In "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?", Tony Randall's goal is to get the key to this executive sanctum.

the executive washroom.

3: An exec might be kept happy with a membership in one of these, like Winged Foot.

a country club (or a golf club).

4: A book helping women get ahead is called "Nice Girls Don't Get" this desirably positioned workspace.

the corner office.

5: The right to buy a certain number of shares of the company you work for for a certain price at a certain time.

a stock option.
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