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November 28, 2022Episode 656 - African Americans - 4-Letter Words - Authors' Native Lands - Let's Eat Italian! - Sports 2004
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 656, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: African Americans
1: Crispus Attucks, called the first American to die for independence, was killed in this 1770 incident.

the Boston Massacre.

2: This Harlem-born singer-dancer-actor was a member of the 1960s "Rat Pack" with Frank and Dino.

Sammy Davis, Jr..

3: An award for African-American authors and illustrators is named for this wife of Martin Luther King Jr..

Coretta Scott King.

4: "I cannot offer you money, position or fame", he said when he offered George Washington Carver a job at Tuskegee.

Booker T. Washington.

5: 8 years before she won Olympic gold, this gymnast was a 2004 Virginia State champion.

Gabby Douglas.
Round 2. Category: 4-Letter Words
1: Bacall's last word on how to whistle.

blow.

2: From Greek for "single", a single man who lives in a monastery.

monk.

3: This word commonly follows cuff or missing.

link.

4: A boy who bears a bride's train, or a bellboy calling out a name.

page.

5: A collection of tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne were "Twice" this.

Told.
Round 3. Category: Authors' Native Lands
1: Godot waiter Samuel Beckett.

Ireland.

2: "The Remains of the Day" novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.

Japan.

3: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, chronicler of a death foretold.

Colombia.

4: Celebrator of imperialism Rudyard Kipling.

India.

5: Deptford trilogist Robertson Davies.

Canada.
Round 4. Category: Let's Eat Italian!
1: Served before the pasta, it's an appetizer plate of meats, cheese, fish and vegetables.

antipasto.

2: Long, very thin pasta called capellini is also known by this "divine" name.

angel hair pasta.

3: This blue-veined cheese is named for a suburb of Milan, not a snake-haired monster.

Gorgonzola.

4: From the Italian for "knot of wood", these potato dumplings may have cheese or spinach in them.

gnocchi.

5: It's a layered ice cream dessert usually containing chopped fruits and nuts.

spumoni.
Round 5. Category: Sports 2004
1: These big cats gave the Patriots all they could handle in Super Bowl XXXVIII.

the (Carolina) Panthers.

2: All "Hale" this 58-year-old who won his fourth Senior PGA championship by a str--a shot.

Hale Irwin.

3: He was the winning pitcher in the clinching game of all 3 series in the Red Sox' magical run.

Derek Lowe.

4: Women from this country won tennis' Wimbledon and French and U.S. Opens.

Russia.

5: This team's Chauncey Billups was MVP of the NBA Finals.

the Detroit Pistons.
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November 27, 2022Episode 655 - Presidential Demises - Henry - The "Lightning" Round - The Beatles - Actresses' Middle Names
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 655, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Presidential Demises
1: He preferred to be buried at West Point, but thought his wife couldn't be buried there, so NYC became his final resting place.

Ulysses S. Grant.

2: At 46 years, 177 days, he died at the youngest age of any president.

John F. Kennedy.

3: At his death on October 20, 1964, he had survived his presidency longer than any other president: 31 years, 231 days.

Herbert Hoover.

4: In March 1930, a month after he retired from the Supreme Court, his funeral was one of the first heard on radio.

William Howard Taft.

5: Abraham Lincoln was assassinated during Act 3, Scene 2 of this stage comedy starring Laura Keene.

"Our American Cousin".
Round 2. Category: Henry
1: Nominated for 18 Oscars, one of his first jobs was composing music for an Abbott and Costello movie.

Mancini.

2: In 1957 he produced and starred in the landmark drama "12 Angry Men".

Henry Fonda.

3: Flowery poems by Henry Gibson were often featured on this wacky 1960s sketch-comedy show.

Laugh-In.

4: King Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn's head chopped off so he could take up with this lady-in-waiting, his next wife.

Jane Seymour.

5: Henry Pu Yi's last years as the ruler of China were the basis of this 1987 film.

The Last Emperor.
Round 3. Category: The "Lightning" Round
1: It's another name for moonshine, cousin.

White lightning.

2: A substance called Luciferin helps these creatures light up for their mates.

Lightning bugs.

3: Blitzkrieg!.

"Lightning war".

4: It's the full name of the only NHL team that fits the category.

Tampa Bay Lightning.

5: Richard Pryor played race car driver Wendell Scott in this "fast" 1977 biopic.

"Greased Lightning".
Round 4. Category: The Beatles
1: Tommy Smothers, Timothy Leary and others joined this Beatle and his new wife in the following 1969 hit:Ev'rybody's talking aboutBagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, TagismThis-ism, that-ism, ism, ism, ismAll we are saying is give peace a chance.

John Lennon.

2: This 1964 film is a fictional account of 2 days in the life of The Beatles.

A Hard Day's Night.

3: It's "waiting...", "hoping...", "coming...", and "dying to take you away".

"The Magical Mystery Tour".

4: Since "Sgt. Pepper" was released in 1967, this was the year Pepper taught the band to play.

1947.

5: The girl of his dreams "called herself Lil, but everyone knew her as Nancy".

Rocky Raccoon.
Round 5. Category: Actresses' Middle Names
1: Mary Moore.

Tyler.

2: Mary Place.

Kay.

3: Mary Mobley.

Ann.

4: Mary Hurt.

Beth.

5: Mary Mastrantonio.

Elizabeth.
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November 26, 2022Episode 654 - Record Album Covers - Poetry Fill In The Blank - Film Directors - The '70s - Spies
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 654, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Austria
1: Some 71% of Austria is covered by this mountain range compared to 62% of Switzerland.

Alps.

2: Austria's basic unit of currency, it sounds just like an obsolete coin in Britain.

Schilling.

3: For over 6 centuries until 1918, this family ruled Austria.

Hapsburgs.

4: This city that twice hosted the Olympics was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire under Maximilian I.

Innsbruck.

5: The Bundesrat and the Nationalrat aren't Austria's mascots but these.

Houses of Parliament.
Round 2. Category: Bald Is Beautiful
1: Shaven-headed fighter who legally changed his name to include "Marvelous".

Marvin Hagler.

2: Charles Middleton wore a bald pate to portray this Flash Gordon villain.

Ming from Mongo (Ming the Merciless).

3: One of her newsworthy exploits was shaving her head in 2007, the year of her album "Blackout".

Britney Spears.

4: The thing is, one of this TV and movie actor's roles was as "The Thing".

(Michael) Chiklis.

5: Famous for playing a Siamese king, he also played a royal on film in "Solomon and Sheba"--he had hair in that one.

Yul Brynner.
Round 3. Category: Anagrammed U.s. Cities
1: SAY CURSE,New York.

Syracuse.

2: LONG LEASES,California.

Los Angeles, California.

3: SAVE SLAG, Nevada.

Las Vegas (for Save Slag).

4: NO BRAG,Maine.

Bangor.

5: JAVELIN LOCKS,Florida.

Jacksonville.
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 654, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Record Album Covers
1: The cover of this Beatles album boasts pictures of Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe and W.C. Fields.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

2: He sang with Barbra Streisand on her "'Til I Loved You" album, but he's not pictured on the cover.

Don Johnson.

3: For no apparent reason, Michael Jackson wore 46 of these for the cover of his "Bad" album.

buckles.

4: This redhead wore blue lipstick and a skirt made of newspaper on her "True Colors" album.

Cyndi Lauper.

5: A woman covered with whipped cream graced the cover of his album "Whipped Cream and Other Delights".

Herb Alpert.
Round 2. Category: Poetry Fill In The Blank
1: Poe: "Once upon a midnight dreary, / while I pondered, weak and blank ".

weary.

2: "In a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of blank blank ".

Annabel Lee.

3: Nash: "Behold the duck. / It does not cluck. / A cluck it lacks. It blank ".

quacks.

4: "Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me--The carriage held but just Ourselves and blank ".

immortality.

5: Angelou: "You may cut me with your eye, / you may kill me with your hatefulness, / but still, like air, I'll blank ".

rise.
Round 3. Category: Film Directors
1: John Wayne spends years looking for his niece in this western often called director John Ford's masterpiece.

The Searchers.

2: The recent film from Mira Nair, the director of "Salaam Bombay!", takes its title from this Hindu love manual.

the "Kama Sutra".

3: Vittorio De Sica directed a classic 1948 film about Antonio, who steals one of these vehicles.

a bicycle.

4: This actress/filmmaker got an Oscar nomination for her direction of the 2017 film "Lady Bird".

(Greta) Gerwig.
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November 25, 2022Episode 653 - James K. Polk Me - Disney Film Voices - Desert Life - The State I'm In - On The Cover Of Rolling Stone
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 653, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: James K. Polk Me
1: Throughout his career Polk remained an ardent member of the Jacksonian wing of this political party.

Democrats.

2: Running for president as a relative unknown, Polk is considered the first of these swarthy animals.

Dark horse.

3: During Polk's administration, the U.S. waged this war of expansion from 1846 to 1848.

Mexican-American War.

4: After John Quincy Adams' disputed election, Polk called for an end to the electoral system and for this type of vote.

a popular vote.

5: Before winning the White House, Polk served in this state's assembly and as its governor.

Tennessee.
Round 2. Category: Disney Film Voices
1: Oscar-winner Linda Hunt was a real "tree"t as the voice of Grandmother Willow in this 1995 film.

Pocahontas.

2: After turning down Deanna Durbin, Disney chose Adriana Caselotti to play this "pristine" heroine.

Snow White.

3: This talk show host supplied the singing voice of Prince Charming in "Cinderella".

Mike Douglas.

4: Later an opera star, Mary Costa was a young unknown when Disney picked her to play this somnolent heroine.

Sleeping Beauty.

5: Eddie Murphy was dragon around as a dragon named Mushu in this 1998 release.

Mulan.
Round 3. Category: Desert Life
1: The name of these Arabs means "dwellers in the desert".

Bedouins.

2: These can carry 1,000-pound loads and go for 10 days without water.

Camels.

3: Although this cuckoo can fly with ease, it prefers to speed across the desert on foot, reaching 20 miles per hour.

the roadrunner.

4: This large yucca plant of the Mojave has a national park named for it.

Joshua Tree.

5: The people of Victorville, California and Boulder City, Nevada are part of the life of this desert.

the Mojave Desert.
Round 4. Category: The State I'm In
1: Snowflake,Bullhead City,Scottsdale.

Arizona.

2: Anaconda,Billings,Helena.

Montana.

3: Corvallis,Coos Bay,Klamath Falls.

Oregon.

4: Clarksdale,Oxford,Natchez.

Mississippi.

5: Rome,Dublin,Athens.

Georgia.
Round 5. Category: On The Cover Of Rolling Stone
1: The stars of this sitcom, including Jason Alexander, hit the yellow brick road for the 1998 30th anniversary cover.

Seinfeld.

2: Anthony Kiedis went solo for a 1994 cover and appeared with this group on a '95 cover.

Red Hot Chili Peppers.

3: "Nothing Compares" to this singer seen on covers in 1990 and '91, and with even less hair in '92.

Sinead O'Connor.

4: This Academy Award-winning actress from Kentucky was "America's Kick-Ass Sweetheart" in 2012.

Jennifer Lawrence.

5: She was on the cover as a "Manic Diva" and inside she discussed her verse on Kanye's "Monster".

Nicki Minaj.
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November 24, 2022Episode 652 - Fun With Country Names - Meat And Potatoes - Be Afraid... - The Solar System - Denmark
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 652, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Fun With Country Names
1: It's the only country in the world with the name of its ruling family in the name of the country.

Saudi Arabia (the House of Saud).

2: Besides East Timor, 2 of the 3 independent countries with compass directions in their English names.

South Africa and/or North Korea and South Korea.

3: They're the 2 western European island countries whose names differ by only one letter.

Iceland and Ireland.

4: Of the countries named for saints, the one that's completely surrounded by Italy.

San Marino.

5: It's the only nation in the world with "name" in its English name.

Suriname.
Round 2. Category: Meat And Potatoes
1: The original version of this toy included facial pieces to attach to a real spud.

Mr. Potato Head.

2: The fungus phytophthora infestans caused this historic Irish tragedy.

Irish potato famine.

3: In Genesis, God told this man "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you".

Noah.

4: A 23-inch by 14 1/2-inch one of these was produced in 1990 by a Pringle's plant in Tennessee.

potato chip.

5: At 19, this future potato breeder read Darwin's "Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication".

Luther Burbank.
Round 3. Category: Be Afraid...
1: These items terrify pternophobics, so give them a pillow with artificial filling.

feathers.

2: It's not a fear of actress Rene (unless she's from Moscow).

russophobia.

3: Lucrezia Borgia may not be a good choice as a dinner guest if you're toxiphobic, afraid of this.

poison.

4: Anthophobia is a fear of these, but don't let it vase you.

flowers.

5: You won't feel the need for this, if you're tachophobic.

speed.
Round 4. Category: The Solar System
1: Using Newton's laws of motion, astronomer Edmund Halley determined that these travel in elliptical orbits.

comets.

2: In the 1600s his findings like the phases of Venus made this Italian think maybe the sun is what stuff revolves around.

Galileo.

3: In December 2006 NASA announced that water may have flowed on this planet's surface within the past decade.

Mars.

4: Its moon Triton was first seen in 1846; a second satellite around this planet wasn't found until 1949.

Neptune.

5: These solar discharges consisting of light, heat and cosmic rays may last up to an hour.

solar flares.
Round 5. Category: Denmark
1: As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark lost this country to Sweden in 1814.

Norway.

2: Main farming activity of Danish-owned Greenland is not growing plants but raising these animals.

sheep.

3: While Great Dane dogs originated in Germany, this pianist called "The Great Dane" is from Copenhagen.

Victor Borge.

4: Between 1513 and 1972, all Danish kings were alternately name Frederik and this pious name.

Christian.

5: Helle Thorning-Schmidt holds this post in Denmark; her father-in-law, Kinnock, once hoped to hold it in the United Kingdom.

prime minister.
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November 23, 2022Episode 651 - Peru - The Grateful Dead - They Were Expelled - Olympic Boxers - Starts With "A"
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 651, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Peru
1: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Iquitos was a major shipping port on this river during the rubber boom.

the Amazon.

2: Lima's Palacio de Gobierno was built in 1938 on the site of this Spanish conquistador's palace.

Pizarro.

3: He served as Peru's first ambassador to the Soviet Union before moving his diplomatic skills to the U.N..

(Javier) Perez de Cuellar.

4: Several Indian languages are spoken in Peru, including this one that's now an official language.

Quechua.

5: This lake that's 12,500 feet above sea level is on the border of Peru and Bolivia.

Lake Titicaca.
Round 2. Category: The Grateful Dead
1: A childhood woodchopping mishap claimed half of this lead guitarist's right middle finger.

(Jerry) Garcia.

2: Slotted between The Who and Hendrix, The Dead was No. 6 to play at this city's 1967 Pop Festival.

Monterey.

3: The Dead was scheduled to play at this group's ill-fated 1969 show at Altamont Speedway but refused to go on.

The Rolling Stones.

4: In 1978 the last of 3 Dead shows near this Wonder of the Ancient World was timed to coincide with a lunar eclipse.

the Pyramids.

5: In 1991 The Dead played a memorial concert in Golden Gate Park for this promoter before an estimated 300,000 people.

Bill Graham.
Round 3. Category: They Were Expelled
1: This star of "Casablanca" was booted out of Phillips Academy for uncontrollably high spirits.

Humphrey Bogart.

2: Perhaps responding "nevermore", this poet was expelled from West Point in 1831 for refusing to attend drills.

Edgar Allan Poe.

3: Once publisher of the USA's largest newspaper chain, he was expelled from Harvard in 1885 for insulting his professors.

William Randolph Hearst.

4: Assassinated in August 1940, this Russian Communist leader was expelled in his youth for howling at his teacher.

Trotsky.

5: The leading actress of her time, in 1860 she was expelled from a Paris convent school for making fun of a bishop.

(Sarah) Bernhardt.
Round 4. Category: Olympic Boxers
1: With this name, Muhammad Ali won 1960 light-heavyweight gold.

Cassius Clay.

2: You'd be chillin' and grillin' if you knew that he won the heavyweight gold medal in 1968.

(George) Foreman.

3: Teofilo Stevenson of this country impressively won heavyweight gold in 1972, 1976 and 1980.

Cuba.

4: Both the 1972 and 1976 Olympic light-welterwight gold medalists had this "sweet" nickname.

Sugar Ray.

5: Last name of the brotherly pair who both won gold medals in Montreal.

Spinks.
Round 5. Category: Starts With "A"
1: Excuse you should have if Kojak asks where you were at 11 last night.

an alibi.

2: In names of holidays, this word precedes Saints' Day and Souls' Day.

All.

3: Formerly the sixth month, it was originally called Sextilis.

August.

4: Founded in NYC, this sporting goods chain is noted for its exotic assortment of equipment.

Abercrombie and Fitch.

5: From the Latin word for "tree", it's a place where many kinds of trees and plants are exhibited.

arboretum.
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November 22, 2022Episode 650 - Forbes' Fictional Billionaires - Food Trivia - Outdoor Sports - Vitamins And Minerals - What's Up, Duck?
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 650, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Forbes' Fictional Billionaires
1: Topping the list is this North Pole resident with apparently unlimited, incalculable wealth.

Santa Claus.

2: $1 billion is the total for this fictional billionaire, Homer Simpson's boss.

C. Montgomery Burns.

3: This candy magnate from a Roald Dahl novel hoards a sweet $8 billion.

Willy Wonka.

4: This "Gilligan's Island" tycoon washes ashore with $8 billion.

Thurston Howell III.

5: A James Bond villain, he's worth an estimated $1.2 billion.

Auric Goldfinger.
Round 2. Category: Food Trivia
1: This song, with a food in the title, made No. 2 on the pop charts in 1968:"Oh, I wake up in the morning, with my hair down in my eyes, and she says Hi!, and I stumble to the breakfast table while the kids are off to school...".

"Little Green Apples".

2: You can spread it on your hot dog or put a plaster of it on your chest when you have a cold.

Mustard.

3: Fresh sturgeon roe has to be processed to become this.

Caviar.

4: These bivalves are wrapped in bacon, grilled and served on toast to make "Angels on Horseback".

Oysters.

5: "Poivre" is French for this, which is sprinkled generously on steak au poivre.

Pepper.
Round 3. Category: Outdoor Sports
1: In the 'Odyssey", Homer hit the bullseye describing competition in this sport.

archery.

2: In 1974, Ruth Hangen tossed a woman's record of 42 straight ringers in a single game of this.

horseshoes.

3: In 1981, this Dodger rookie's 13 wins included 8 shutouts.

Fernando Valenzuela.

4: An orchestra conductor or a relay runner had better keep this firmly in hand.

baton.

5: In 1978, this teenager rode Affirmed to a triple crown title.

Steve Cauthen.
Round 4. Category: Vitamins And Minerals
1: The livers of chickens and these gilled animals are good sources of vitamin A.

fish.

2: Parsley, turnip greens, and guava have a much higher content of this vitamin than oranges do.

vitamin C.

3: A sunscreen when applied externally, B vit. para-amino benzoic-acid is better known as this.

PABA.

4: A lack of protein and this mineral contribute to anemia.

iron.

5: Lack or this B vitamin causes pellagra in humans and black-tongue in dogs.

niacin.
Round 5. Category: What's Up, Duck?
1: Like a duck, this monotreme has webbed feet and its snout looks like a duck's too.

the duck-billed platypus.

2: This team's official colors and logo were unveiled June 7, 1993.

the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

3: Head to L.A.'s Chinatown to eat this classic dish named for a capital city.

Peking duck.

4: To prepare this Chinese dish, first force air between the skin and the flesh.

Peking duck.

5: This controversial social drama by Henrik Ibsen premiered in Norway in 1885.

The Wild Duck.
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November 21, 2022Episode 649 - Hollywood Queens - Swimming - Packaging - Connections - Beastly Quotes
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 649, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Hollywood Queens
1: Von Stroheim directed this star in "Queen Kelly", but she bossed him around in "Sunset Boulevard".

Gloria Swanson.

2: When Gable was named King of the Movies, this "Thin Man" star was voted queen.

Myrna Loy.

3: This sheep queen of "The Thorn Birds" was "Cattle Queen of Montana" in the 1954 film.

Barbara Stanwyck.

4: This Oscar-winner had had 4 husbands by the time she starred in "The Virgin Queen".

Bette Davis.

5: Carol Channing was the White Queen and Ann Jillian the Red in the TV movie of this classic.

Alice in Wonderland.
Round 2. Category: Swimming
1: Marty Hull invented Zoomers, a shorter, speedier type of this foot gear.

Flippers/fins.

2: In this stroke, not seen in competition, the head rests on the arm while the legs scissors-kick.

Sidestroke.

3: It's the only major racing stroke where the swimmers start in the pool.

Backstroke.

4: Krisztina Egerszegi of this eastern European country has won gold at the last 3 Olympics.

Hungary.

5: It's the individual race in which 4 different strokes are used.

Individual medley.
Round 3. Category: Packaging
1: In 1938 Clicquot Club Ginger Ale was the first soft drink sold in these.

cans.

2: "Peanuts" of this plastic are found in boxes of variously-shaped products, and then in your hair, shoes, etc..

Styrofoam.

3: In honor of Abe Lincoln, P.J. Towle began selling his maple syrup in a container shaped like one of these structures in 1887.

a log cabin.

4: Term for a type of "bomb" or a spray can that contains gas under pressure.

Aerosol.

5: At the end of TV's "Adventures of Rin Tin Tin", kids were told how to send in these from Shredded Wheat to get prizes.

box tops.
Round 4. Category: Connections
1: It's the term for the unknown evolutionary connection between man and apes.

the missing link.

2: He's the husband "shared" by Connie Stevens, Liz Taylor and Debbie Reynolds.

Eddie Fisher.

3: Before you were born, this cord connected you and your mommy for about 9 months.

the umbilical cord.

4: The land bridge that connected Asia and North America is now covered by this strait.

the Bering Strait.

5: It's the capital city shared by the Ottoman and the Byzantine Empires.

Constantinople (Istanbul).
Round 5. Category: Beastly Quotes
1: To say someone is mad, people once said he had this "in his bonnet".

bee.

2: The Bible:"As a shepherd divideth his sheep from" these.

goats.

3: Who "sleepeth with dogges, shall rise with" these.

fleas.

4: Twain opined, "I believe...our heavenly father invented man because he was disappointed in" this.

monkey.

5: Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Curious Incident of" this "in the Nighttime"--it "did nothing".

the dog.
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November 20, 2022Episode 648 - Next Stop, Venus - Hitchcock's Cattle - Coffee Break - Up In The Sky! - Puzzles And Games
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 648, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Next Stop, Venus
1: Contributing to its high temperature, Venus' atmosphere is predominantly made up of this gas.

carbon dioxide.

2: It's the planet that's closest to Venus.

Earth.

3: In 1610 this Italian discovered that Venus has phases like the moon.

Galileo.

4: With few exceptions all specified surface features of Venus are appropriately named after these.

women.

5: Similar to an eclipse, it's the term for the rare passing in front of the sun that Venus did on June 8, 2004.

a transit.
Round 2. Category: Hitchcock's Cattle
1: A good guy as Perry Mason, he played the bad guy Jimmy Stewart spied on in "Rear Window".

Raymond Burr.

2: In a "monumental" death scene in "North By Northwest", Martin Landau fell off this famous landmark.

Mount Rushmore.

3: Before he played Ted Baxter, Ted Knight had a bit role as a cop guarding Norman Bates in this 1960 film.

Psycho.

4: Suzanne Pleshette is found pecked to death in this 1963 classic.

The Birds.

5: Diane Ladd knows this actor, her ex-husband, appeared as a sailor in "Marnie".

Bruce Dern.
Round 3. Category: Coffee Break
1: The Swiss water process is a popular way to remove this bitter stimulant from coffee.

Caffeine.

2: The Kona district of this U.S. island produces a prized variety of coffee.

Hawaii.

3: There are more than 600 coffee farms on the Kona coast of this U.S. island.

Hawaii.

4: Sumatra Mandehling, one of the world's finest full-bodied coffees, comes from this country.

Indonesia.

5: Type of instant made by turning brewed coffee to ice and drawing off the crystals.

freeze-dried.
Round 4. Category: Up In The Sky!
1: In a poem by Ann and Jane Taylor, it's "Like a diamond in the sky".

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".

2: Soaring object in the title of the following:.

a kite.

3: The name of these electric lines doesn't mean they're tight, but have great voltage.

High-tension lines.

4: This troubled space station, built 12 years ago, was only supposed to be in use for 5 years.

Mir.

5: Usually reaching its peak on August 12, it's been called the "Old Faithful" of meteor showers.

a perseid.
Round 5. Category: Puzzles And Games
1: The largest of these was over 50,000 square feet; a much smaller one had the most pieces, 204,484.

a jigsaw puzzle (*picture puzzle).

2: An example of one of these is "flit on cheering angel" for Florence Nightingale.

an anagram.

3: These are the foundation cards in regular or Klondike solitaire.

aces.

4: This game has 108 suit tiles, 28 honor tiles and 8 flower tiles.

mahjong.

5: It's Elizabeth Kingsley's puzzle creation in which the letters of defined words form a quote in a grid.

a double-crostic.
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November 19, 2022Episode 647 - Famous Feuds - Adjectives Of The Young And The Restless - The Prez Sez - Let's Put On An Opera! - Turn
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 647, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Famous Feuds
1: From the Latin for "to avenge", these family feuds are associated with the island of Corsica.

Vendettas.

2: George Steinbrenner fired him 4 times as manager of the Yankees.

Billy Martin.

3: In the 1949 movie "Roseanna McCoy", Roseanna runs off with a member of this enemy family.

Hatfield.

4: There was no love lost between these 2 men, JFK's vice president and his attorney general.

Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy.

5: The future Louis XI feuded with his father while holding this French title as heir apparent.

Dauphin.
Round 2. Category: Adjectives Of The Young And The Restless
1: "Abby, I hear The Naked Heiress is gonna be on Jeopardy! that's huge!""Mom, please. I am rich and famous." [Sighs]"Honey, don't you think you're being..."...this adjective that means "world-weary" and "cynical"--it doesn't mean "covered in green gemstones".

jaded.

2: (Gina Tognoni gives the clue as Phyllis from The Young and the Restless.) I will never forgive Sharon for pushing me down those stairs; no matter what she claims, it wasn't this adjective, like the tourist in the title of an Anne Tyler bestseller.

accidental.

3: "We can never do this again. Nobody, and I mean nobody, can know about it.""Tres romantic, Nick. What are you implying, that I'm not..."...this 11-letter adjective meaning reliable and responsible like a Boy Scout.

trustworthy.

4: ...this passionate type of love named for the Greek god of love.

erotic.

5: ...adjective from the name of a mid-16th century Florentine writer.

Machiavellian.
Round 3. Category: The Prez Sez
1: On Jan. 14, 1963 he said, "The mere absence of war is not peace".

John F. Kennedy.

2: He told America, "To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body".

Richard Nixon.

3: He once said, "I'm just a politician from Missouri and proud of it".

Harry S. Truman.

4: "The release of atomic energy (is) a new force too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas".

Truman.

5: "2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas".

Wilson.
Round 4. Category: Let's Put On An Opera!
1: We hope our tardy cellists show up for this instrumental prelude to the opera.

Overture.

2: We'll let Uncle Charlie be a "carrier" of one of these in the battle scene.

Spear carrier.

3: Let's move the duel upstage so no one falls onto the musicians in this area.

Orchestra pit.

4: We've got basses, we've got tenors, but we can't find one of these like the guy on the CD[audio clip].

Baritone.

5: From dealing with Betsy, I know why this 2-word Italian term can mean a diva or a real pain.

Prima donna.
Round 5. Category: Turn
1: Duke Emanuele Filberto brought it to Turin in 1578; it's now housed in the Cathedral of San Giovanni.

the Shroud of Turin.

2: While touring Turin, stop into the Biblioteca Reale, and you'll be drawn to this artist's self-portrait.

da Vinci.

3: This opera that made its debut in Turin in 1896 probably helped Puccini pay his "rent".

La Boheme.

4: Turin's Egyptian Museum has a well-known statue of this "Let my people go" pharaoh.

Ramses II (Ramses the Great).

5: For most of the time, from 1720 to 1861, Turin was capital of this fishy-sounding kingdom.

Sardinia.
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