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October 30, 2022Episode 627 - It's A Girl! - Kids' Songs - Steven Spielberg - Shakespeare's Tragic Cast - Colorful Geography
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 627, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: It's A Girl!
1: This 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is set in a small Alabama town and narrated by a young girl.

To Kill a Mockingbird.

2: Short story shorter: "Grimm" girl, loves power colors and older relatives, has problems with wolf.

(Little) Red Riding Hood.

3: In this 1900 book a farm girl encounters some rough weather and ends up, well, not in Kansas anymore.

The Wizard of Oz.

4: Proving once again that pig's blood and proms just don't mix, this Stephen King title girl puts mind over matter.

Carrie.

5: This 9-year-old novel heroine has superhuman strength and lives in Sweden in her house, Villa Villekulla.

Pippi Longstocking.
Round 2. Category: Kids' Songs
1: "I'm a little" one of these "short and stout, here is my handle, here is my spout".

a teapot.

2: According to the song title, it "helps the medicine go down, in a most delightful way".

a spoonful of sugar.

3: He "lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee".

Puff the Magic Dragon.

4: It includes the lines "Dinah, won't you blow, Dinah, won't you blow, Dinah, won't you blow your horn?".

"Working On The Railroad".

5: It's the question that precedes "do they wobble to and fro, can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow".

"Do your ears hang low?".
Round 3. Category: Steven Spielberg
1: As a child, the first film Steven ever saw was this Cecil B. DeMille circus extravaganza.

The Greatest Show on Earth.

2: Vilmos Zsigmond won an Oscar as Steven's cinematographer on this 1977 sci-fi hit.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

3: A critic once compared the panic on the beach scene in "Jaws" to this film's "Odessa Steps" sequence.

Battleship Potemkin.

4: Steven directed Joan Crawford in the pilot for this innovative Rod Serling anthology.

Night Gallery.

5: This 22-minute Spielberg film about 2 people who hitchhike west lends its name to one of his companies.

Amblin'.
Round 4. Category: Shakespeare's Tragic Cast
1: Duncan, Banquo, Macduff.

Macbeth.

2: Bianca, Iago, Desdemona.

Othello.

3: Cinna, Cassius, Cicero.

Julius Caesar.

4: Goneril, Regan, Cordelia.

King Lear.

5: Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt.

Romeo and Juliet.
Round 5. Category: Colorful Geography
1: Contrary to name, this world's largest island is primarily icecap.

Greenland.

2: The city of Santa Ana is the seat of this southern California county.

Orange County.

3: No rivers flow into this sea between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Red Sea.

4: A 1951 agreement with Denmark gave the U.S. rights to military bases on this island.

Greenland.

5: Dijon is the largest city in this historic French region famous for its grapes and wine.

Burgundy.
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October 29, 2022Episode 626 - 1902 - French Menu - Where It's "At" - "X" Rated - Throwing The Book At You
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Fountains
1: Architect Nicola Salvi designed this, often called the last great baroque monument in Rome.

Trevi Fountain.

2: A fountain in front of this kids' cable network's studios in Orlando spurts out green slime.

Nickelodeon.

3: Andrea Del Verrocchio sculpted his bronze "Boy With" this sea creature for a Medici villa.

Dolphin.

4: This statue in the Louvre once stood in a fountain on the Greek isle of Samothrace.

Winged Victory.

5: King Matyas Corvinus and his beloved Ilonka adorn the Matyas Fountain at this Hungarian city's Royal Palace.

Budapest.
Round 2. Category: Day Time
1: The first day of the week mentioned by name in "Robinson Crusoe" isn't Friday but this (1st day is a clue).

Sunday.

2: In English, it's alphabetically the last day of the week.

Wednesday.

3: J. Wellington Wimpy often said, "I will gladly pay you" this day "for a hamburger today".

Tuesday.

4: Day of the week that's the English equivalent to the Latin Saturni dies.

Saturday.

5: G.K. Chesterton wrote of a "Man Who Was" this day.

Thursday.
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: 1902
1: When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school.

Oxford University.

2: In 1902 he published his newest Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

3: He and Matthew Henson made their first serious attempt to reach the North Pole, but it would take 7 more years.

Robert Peary.

4: After 3 years of fighting, this South African war came to an end.

the Boer War.

5: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet and essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court.

Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Round 2. Category: French Menu
1: Canard aux mangues is duck served with this tropical fruit.

mango.

2: I crave some sauce moutarde, named for this ingredient; I'll put in on everything.

mustard.

3: We know these squashes by an Italian name, but to the French they're courgettes.

zucchini.

4: In France this huge melon, called a pasteque, may be filled with wine before it's served.

watermelon.

5: Bifteck.

Steak.
Round 3. Category: Where It's "At"
1: Goldthwait's moniker.

Bobcat.

2: It's his political party.

Democrat.

3: Omar Khayyam's handiwork.

"The Rubaiyat".

4: This neck scarf is named for its resemblance to one worn by Croatian soldiers.

Cravat.

5: The Captain and Tennille sang of this kind of beastly love.

"Muskrat Love".
Round 4. Category: "X" Rated
1: The narration that opened this TV show began, "A mighty princess forged in the heat of battle...".

Xena: Warrior Princess.

2: Located in Cincinnati, it's one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.

Xavier.

3: The horizontal number line in a Cartesian plane coordinate system.

the x-axis.

4: William B. Davis played the mysterious Cigarette-Smoking Man on this Fox show.

The X-Files.

5: From the Greek, it's literally someone who likes foreigners and foreign things.

a xenophile.
Round 5. Category: Throwing The Book At You
1: "Alexey... was the
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October 28, 2022Episode 625 - Blank The Blank - The Kids' Table - The Brady Bunch - She's Canadian, Eh? - British Potpourri
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 625, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Blank The Blank
1: Written the night before it was recorded in 1962, it was Ray Stevens' 1st major hit.

"Ahab The Arab".

2: Look after a military installation while the troops are out.

guard the fort (hold the fort).

3: Obama told this Ohio blue-collar guy spreading the wealth was good; he became part of the McCain campaign.

Joe the Plumber.

4: This spokesbovine for Borden began extolling the virtues of milk back in the 1930s.

Elsie the Cow.

5: In "Portrait of a Killer", Patricia Cornwell contends that this killer was actor and artist Walter Sickert.

Jack the Ripper.
Round 2. Category: The Kids' Table
1: Don't have a cow, man, a baby elephant walks away with this term, too.

a calf.

2: For young horses, a colt is a male, this is a female.

a filly.

3: If this animal category aged a few years, we'd retitle it this.

the goats table.

4: As the ugly duckling was really a swan, he was in truth the beautiful this.

cygnet.

5: In its youth this "holy" fish can be a tinker or a blinker, or even a spike (if Mr. Lee doesn't sue it).

a mackerel.
Round 3. Category: The Brady Bunch
1: In 2017 he released his first book, "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance".

Tom Brady.

2: In a 1917 movie Alice Brady played this flag maker, with lines like "There can be no reward so great as the honor".

Betsy Ross.

3: A little jealous, this middle daughter bemoaned, "All I ever hear is 'Marcia, Marcia, Marcia'!".

Jan.

4: In 1999 Barry Williams released a CD, "The Return of" this pop star, his alter ego on the show.

Johnny Bravo.

5: When the 1993 bill named for him became law, it instituted background checks for gun purchases.

(James) Jim Brady.
Round 4. Category: She's Canadian, Eh?
1: This Windsor native's 2002 CD "Up!" offers pop and country versions of the same 19 songs.

Shania Twain.

2: We've got a hankering for this singer from Consort, Alberta.

k.d. lang.

3: As a kid, this angry alt-rocker from Ottawa starred on Nickelodeon's "You Can't Do That on Television".

Alanis Morissette.

4: This jazz vocalist from British Columbia lists Carmen McRae and Nat King Cole as her biggest influences.

Diana Krall.

5: This teen from Ontario sang about a "Sk8er Boi".

Avril Lavigne.
Round 5. Category: British Potpourri
1: When the British Crown Jewels aren't on the queen's head, they're on display here.

the Tower of London.

2: The daughter of an earl uses this title in front of her name, as Diana Spencer did.

Lady.

3: The 2 sphinxes at the base of this famous ancient obelisk were added during the Victorian Era.

Cleopatra's Needle.

4: The ancient baths in Bath, England were built by these people soon after they invaded Britain.

the Romans.

5: In England it is appropriate to fly the Union Jack on April 23, this saint's day.

Saint George.
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October 27, 2022Episode 624 - "Un" Words - Star Trek: Ds9 - Skiing - Weather - The "Rh" Factor
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 624, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: "Un" Words
1: Tom, Miltie, or $crooge.

uncles.

2: If you ask the Miami operator for Don Johnson's phone number, she'll probably tell you it's this.

unlisted.

3: An "unspeakable" euphemism for underwear.

unmentionables.

4: Hades is also known as this, sure as hell.

the underworld.

5: Ointment.

unguent (or unction).
Round 2. Category: Star Trek: Ds9
1: This Ferengi runs the bar on the promenade.

Quark.

2: The show is set in this century at the same time as "Star Trek: The Next Generation".

24th.

3: The station is located next to the first stable one of these quadrant-to-quadrant short-cuts ever known.

wormhole.

4: Rene Auberjonois plays this shape-shifting security officer.

Odo.

5: The symbiont in the body of this Terry Farrell character was previously in a man's body.

Dax.
Round 3. Category: Skiing
1: The T-bar, the chair and the gondola are 3 types of these devices that transport skiers.

a lift.

2: Skiers wear these in part to reduce glare and prevent eyestrain.

sunglasses.

3: "Cosmetic" name of the light, dry snow that's ideal for skiing.

powder.

4: In the snowplow method of stopping, a skier brings the tips of the skis together to form this letter.

a V.

5: The most basic movement in this type of skiing is the diagonal stride.

cross-country skiing.
Round 4. Category: Weather
1: This storm's name is derived from Spanish tronada, meaning "thunderstorm".

tornado.

2: If the air is Â½ saturated, this is the relative humidity.

50%.

3: During a storm this can occur in a cloud, between clouds or from a cloud to the ground.

lightning.

4: Season of the year when Arizona has its "monsoons".

Summer.

5: This Italian's invention of the wind vane about 1500 changed the direction of forecasting.

Leonardo da Vinci.
Round 5. Category: The "Rh" Factor
1: Scarlett O'Hara's favorite Butler.

Rhett.

2: While the reddish stalks of this plant may be eaten, the leaves are highly poisonous.

Rhubarb.

3: These 2 important European rivers differ by only one letter.

Rhine and Rhone.

4: This parallelogram with 4 equal sides resembles a slanted square.

Rhombus.

5: In mythology she's the wife of Cronus and the mother of Zeus.

Rhea.
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October 26, 2022Episode 623 - The Davis Cup - Salad - Movie Locations - "Sea" Ya - Which U.s. Cabinet Department?
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 623, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: The Davis Cup
1: Kim Carnes sang about her eyes.

Bette Davis.

2: In 1861 he resigned from the U.S. Senate.

Jefferson Davis.

3: He's moved his Raiders all over California.

Al Davis.

4: In 1978 this cartoonist introduced his character Garfield to the world.

Jim Davis.

5: This black activist ran for vice president on the 1980 Communist Party ticket.

Angela Davis.
Round 2. Category: Salad
1: The name of this salad comes from the Dutch for "cabbage salad".

coleslaw.

2: The ever-popular salad made from this elbow-shaped pasta often contains celery, olives and chopped pimiento.

Macaroni salad.

3: There's a kitchen honcho in the name of this classic salad with egg, cheese and meat.

a chef salad.

4: This salad of tomatoes and mozzarella gets its name from an island near the Bay of Naples.

caprese.

5: This salad with chopped turkey, bacon, tomatoes and hard-boiled eggs is named for the owner of the Brown Derby.

a Cobb salad.
Round 3. Category: Movie Locations
1: 1972:Brando prefers anonymity in "Last Tango in blank ".

Paris.

2: 2002:Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones get away with murder in " blank ".

Chicago.

3: 2004:Don Cheadle managed "Hotel blank ".

Rwanda.

4: L.A.'s Biltmore played the Sedgewick Hotel, where guests got slimed in this 1984 comedy.

Ghostbusters.

5: 1985:Jeff Daniels steps out of "The Purple Rose of blank ".

Cairo.
Round 4. Category: "Sea" Ya
1: The First Daughter.

Chelsea Clinton.

2: This company's V.O. whisky had a gold and black ribbon signifying the horse racing colors of its founder.

Seagram's.

3: This city's annual Seafair features various water sports and a hydroplane race on Lake Washington.

Seattle.

4: This fish of the genus Hippocampus has the ability to change its color to conform to its background.

Seahorse.

5: In this Bobby Darin tune, "My lover stands on golden sands and watches the ships that go sailing".

"Beyond the Sea".
Round 5. Category: Which U.s. Cabinet Department?
1: The Food Safety and Inspection Service.

the Department of Agriculture.

2: The Federal Railroad Administration.

Transportation.

3: The National Park Service.

Department of Interior.

4: The U.S. Parole Commission.

the Justice Department.

5: The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Department of Health and Human Services.
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October 25, 2022Episode 622 - When - Chimpanzees - What's The Matter...yellow?? - "Go"Ing - Company Symbols
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 622, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: When
1: On Aug. 28, 1963 he told a crowd gathered in Washington, D.C. "I have a dream".

Martin Luther King, Jr..

2: An American hero on April 18, 1775, he was accused of cowardice in 1779, but a court-martial cleared him.

Paul Revere.

3: As of April 7, 1984 it surpassed Chicago as the nation's second most populous city.

Los Angeles.

4: These Americans got the right to vote on August 26, 1920.

Women.

5: On June 11, 2004 this ex-British P.M. delivered a videotaped eulogy for Ronald Reagan at Washington's National Cathedral.

Margaret Thatcher.
Round 2. Category: Chimpanzees
1: Song that includes the line "Chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee".

"Talk To The Animals".

2: He was introduced in the first Tarzan sound feature.

Cheeta.

3: In 1989 Deborah Norville replaced Jane Pauley on the Today show; in 1957 Mr. Kokomo replaced him.

J. Fred Muggs.

4: Scientists at the University of Nevada taught Washoe the chimp some ASL, which is this.

American Sign Language.

5: She wrote "The Chimpanzees of Gombe".

Jane Goodall.
Round 3. Category: What's The Matter...yellow??
1: Call it crazy, but unlike other types of these birds, the yellow-billed one builds its own nest instead of invading.

Cuckoo.

2: Appropriately, you can see the yellow-bellied marmot in this Wyoming-Montana-Idaho national park.

Yellowstone.

3: The yellow-winged type of this mammal hopes insects don't see its yellow wings coming.

Bat.

4: Narcissus pseudonarcissus is the scientific name of this garden flower.

Daffodil.

5: East Africa is home to the yellow species of these large monkeys known for their colorful bottoms.

Baboons.
Round 4. Category: "Go"Ing
1: Transportation for kids.

go-karts.

2: From a Persian word for "snake-eater", a markhor is a wild type of this bearded ruminant.

goat.

3: This 1965 record was Shirley Bassey's biggest hit in the U.S..

"Goldfinger".

4: A word for mining haphazardly in irregular holes comes from the name of this burrowing rodent.

gopher.

5: Biblical name shared by the oldest son of Japheth and a TV Marine.

Gomer.
Round 5. Category: Company Symbols
1: This black-and-white flightless bird is the symbol of a British-American book company.

a penguin.

2: In 1946 Chicago maitre d' Frank Brown posed for this rice brand's trademark picture.

Uncle Ben's.

3: McDonald's are "golden".

the Arches.

4: This Swiss wristwatch company uses a white cross on a red square as its symbol.

Swatch.

5: In the '30s Sinclair Oil used this Brontosaurus in its ads; inflatable toys and other promotions followed.

Dino.
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October 24, 2022Episode 621 - Animal Offspring - Doohickeys - Driving Don'ts - A Day's Calories In One Meal - Bad Hair Days
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 621, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Animal Offspring
1: A general term for the young of most fish, or how you cook them after you catch them.

fry.

2: A young kangaroo, or a musical pal.

a joey.

3: The male young of these are called cockerels; the female young, pullets.

chickens.

4: A young rat, seal, or, so we're told, dragon.

a pup.

5: A hinny is the offspring of these 2 animals.

a horse and a donkey.
Round 2. Category: Doohickeys
1: It's a small swiveling wheel attached to the bottom of pieces of furniture.

a caster.

2: Also one of the senses, it's that little metal notch on a rifle barrel that helps you aim.

sight.

3: It hangs inside a bell and strikes the sides to produce ringing.

a clapper.

4: The raised connector for the positive side of a car battery.

the terminal (or the cathode).

5: That "CE" key on calculators... what's it stand for again?.

clear entry.
Round 3. Category: Driving Don'ts
1: "Piggish" term for an aggressive driver who invades the lanes of other drivers.

"Road Hog".

2: This phrase describes an accident in which the driver flees the scene.

Hit-and-run.

3: Don't gun the engine and pop this pedal.

Clutch.

4: To make your tires squeak and leave blackmarks is called "burning" this.

Rubber.

5: It's the term for what you're doing if you can read an "If you can read this you're too close" bumper sticker.

Tailgating.
Round 4. Category: A Day's Calories In One Meal
1: Double Whopper with cheese, King fries, large vanilla shake, Dutch apple pie.

Burger King.

2: Zesty Chicken Border Bowl, Fiesta Taco Salad, Nachos Bellgrande, apple empanada.

Taco Bell.

3: Market Fresh Roast Beef and Swiss sandwich, large Jalapeno Bites, Jamocha shake.

Arby's.

4: 2 large orders of popcorn chicken, 2 biscuits, potato wedges, BBQ beans, Lil' Bucket lemon creme, large Pepsi.

KFC.

5: 2 Big Bacon Classics, great Biggie fries, Homestyle Chicken Strips Salad with ranch dressing, medium Frosty.

Wendy's.
Round 5. Category: Bad Hair Days
1: It was hair today, gone tomorrow for this Biblical hero when he fell asleep on Delilah's knees.

Samson.

2: When this fairy tale maiden let down her hair, a handsome prince climbed up it -- must have hurt!.

Rapunzel.

3: We loved this Little Rascal, even though he never had a good hair day in his life.

Alfalfa.

4: In a 1903 opera, this queen strangles herself with her own hair after she's caught with Lancelot.

Guinevere.

5: This Irish singer had more than a bad hair day when she tore the pope's picture on "Saturday Night Live".

Sinead O'Connor.
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October 23, 2022Episode 620 - Definitions - Asian Places - Anatomic Quotes - Y-R - It's Miller Time
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 620, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Definitions
1: It's a "comfy" covering for your teapot.

a tea cozy.

2: This word means to speak pompously or to officiate as a pontiff.

pontificate.

3: Any place of great spiritual suffering, named for the garden in Mark 14.

Gethsemane.

4: Of a little lamb, a fugitive from the law, or a lady hamster, what a "lamster" is.

a fugitive from the law.

5: A "philhellenist" admires this.

Greek civilization.
Round 2. Category: Asian Places
1: Bandipur and Sanjay Gandhi are national parks in this nation.

India.

2: It was a small town until the opening of foreign trade made it China's largest city.

Shanghai.

3: We wonder if there's a village idiot in Moron, 350 miles west of Ulan Bator in this country.

Mongolia.

4: The smallest nation on the Bay of Bengal, most of it is less than 50 feet above sea level.

Bangladesh.

5: Not to be confused with Yakutsk, this region found on the Risk board lies just west of Lake Baikal.

Irkutsk.
Round 3. Category: Anatomic Quotes
1: Edmond Rostand work that includes the line "Enorme, mon nez!" -- "My nose is huge!".

"Cyrano de Bergerac".

2: The Latin proverb "Ubi amor, ibi oculus" is translated as "Where love is, there" this "wanders".

Eye.

3: Ben Franklin advised, "Keep your mouth wet" and these "dry".

Feet.

4: Jonathan Swift wrote, "I am as old as my tongue, and a little older than" these.

Teeth.

5: Shelley penned, "Worse than a bloody hand is a hard" one of these.

Heart.
Round 4. Category: Y-R
1: An astronomer may speak of a solar, lunar, equinoctial or sidereal one.

a year.

2: A short war between Israel and Egypt and Syria in October 1973 was named for this high holiday.

Yom Kippur.

3: In October 2002 he made another supersonic flight, 55 years after his first.

Chuck Yeager.

4: This Cole was a known associate of Jesse James.

Younger.

5: "Savage Sam" is a sequel to the Fred Gipson book called "Old" this.

Yeller.
Round 5. Category: It's Miller Time
1: This writer has been married to Ingeborg Morath and Marilyn Monroe.

Arthur Miller.

2: Pardon me boy, this bandleader's plane was reported missing December 15, 1944.

Glenn Miller.

3: Now a hot-shooting guard with the Indiana Pacers, he majored in history and played ball at UCLA.

Reggie Miller.

4: This Tony Award winner had hits with "Do-Wacka-Do" and "King of the Road".

Roger Miller.

5: The works of this writer, born in 1891, have been banned numerous times for their sexual content.

Henry Miller.
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October 22, 2022Episode 619 - Female Flyers - The Circulatory System - It's A Living - Money, Money, Money - House Standing Committees
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 619, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Female Flyers
1: On August 1, 1911 Harriet Quimby became the first American woman to get one of these.

Pilot's license.

2: "Charlie", now in the Smithsonian, was the plane in which Flying Angel Geraldine Mock did this in 29 days in 1964.

Circumnavigate the globe.

3: Anne Spencer Morrow's first date with this man, her future husband, was a flying lesson.

Charles Lindbergh.

4: Some say Ruth Law was the first woman to perform this big circle trick, others say it was Katharine Stinson.

Loop-the-loop.

5: Geraldyn Cobb began testing to get into this program in 1960; after besting many of the men, she wasn't allowed in.

Space/astronaut program.
Round 2. Category: The Circulatory System
1: Carbon dioxide is swapped for oxygen in the alveoli of these organs.

lungs.

2: Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of this poisonous metal.

mercury.

3: When the heart's atria contract, blood flows from the right atrium into the right this.

ventricle.

4: The plasma globulin called transferrin transports this ferric material.

iron.

5: These tiny bits of cytoplasm lacking nuclei are there to gang up in clots.

platelets.
Round 3. Category: It's A Living
1: Donna Karan,Mossimo.

a fashion designer.

2: Aka custodians, they may use the supplies of the Cintas Corp., which sponsors an award for the one of the year.

janitors.

3: A specialized job in a police force, CSI stands for this, just like on TV.

crime scene investigator ("crime scene investigation" accepted).

4: In 1968 a U.S. craft with this name, also George Washington's pre-military occupation, landed on the moon.

Surveyor.

5: 2-word term for one who studies the plant and animal life of the oceans.

marine biologist.
Round 4. Category: Money, Money, Money
1: In 1792 Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized construction of a mint in this city.

Philadelphia.

2: In 1994 a portrait of this author whose father went to debtor's prison was put on the British 10-pound note.

Charles Dickens.

3: From 1792 to 1873 the U.S. issued silver 5-cent coins called not nickels but "half" these.

dimes.

4: Iraq's 25-dinar note features Saddam Hussein on the front and this ancient city's Ishtar Gate on the back.

Babylon.

5: Unit of currency used by the greatest number of Arab countries.

dinar.
Round 5. Category: House Standing Committees
1: There's a committee for this size of business.

a small business.

2: Transportation and Infrastructure is one committee; this and Means, another.

Ways.

3: There's a Permanent Select Committee on this headed by Porter Goss; how smart!.

Intelligence.

4: The name of a small committee says it covers the "standards of official" this for House members.

conduct.

5: C.W. Bill Young has a tendency to pass out (money) as chairman of this committee.

Appropriations.
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October 21, 2022Episode 618 - Rockin' Stupid Answers - Snowy Songs - 7-Letter Cities - Kiddy Lit Creatures - Book Reviews
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 618, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Rockin' Stupid Answers
1: It's the band that had a hit with "Up on Cripple Creek".

The Band.

2: It's the nickname of the Beatles album that has a stark white cover.

"The White Album".

3: In a 1978 song, this group asked, "Who Are You?".

The Who.

4: A song by this group says, "Everybody have fun tonight, everybody Wang Chung tonight".

Wang Chung.

5: This double album by Kiss was certified platinum.

"Double Platinum".
Round 2. 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.
Round 3. Category: 7-Letter Cities
1: The stevedores here, in West Germany's busiest port, must be really beefy.

Hamburg.

2: This city didn't rise from its ashes like its namesake, but from the Salt River Valley.

Phoenix.

3: The name of this Scottish city, 3rd largest in Great Britain, is said to be from the Celtic for "dear green spot".

Glasgow.

4: This city in Nova Scotia is the Atlantic terminus of Canada's 2 major railways.

Halifax.

5: As Iran and Iraq have 4 letters, these cities, their capitals, both have 7, as usually spelled in English.

Teheran and Baghdad.
Round 4. Category: Kiddy Lit Creatures
1: In "The 3 Little Pigs", the wolf huffed and puffed in order to do this.

blow the door (house) down.

2: Kipling's "Just So Stories" include the one which explains "How the Leopard Got" these.

his spots.

3: Some versions say Henny-Penny 1st said "The sky's a-going to fall"; some say it was this fowl creature.

Chicken Little.

4: This 1923 Felix Salten novel was originally intended for adults as well as children.

Bambi.

5: The mischievous, black Scotty dog who was curious about the ducks.

Angus.
Round 5. Category: Book Reviews
1: One review called this Robert James Waller tale of a photographer's affair with a farmwife "Yuppie women's porn".

"The Bridges of Madison County".

2: The N.Y. Times said his "Ragtime" "reflects all that is most significant and dramatic in America's last hundred years".

E.L. Doctorow.

3: It "is remembered as a stomach-turning expose of unsanitary conditions...in the meat-packing industry".

The Jungle.

4: One reviewer said "Wondrous beasts and scientific possibilities" made this Michael Crichton novel "alluring".

"Jurassic Park".

5: This 1925 classic "captures all the romance and glitter of the Jazz Age".

The Great Gatsby.
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