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March 15, 2021Episode 32 - Warner Bros. Animation - Ink - The Political Life - Don't Listen To Them! - Fabrics
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 32, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Warner Bros. Animation
1: Gaining his powers from exposure to mutagenetic gas, he's the African-American teen superhero seen here

Static Shock.

2: These title crime fighters all live together in a tower that might be even messier than your room

the Teen Titans.

3: This classic Warner Bros. animated duo helps Granny solve mysteries

Sylvester and Tweety.

4: Mechanikat is one of the evil adversaries of this new breed of superhero seen here

Krypto the Superdog.

5: Monks in training battle villains for sacred, ancient objects on this action-packed program

Xiaolin Showdown.
Round 2. Category: Ink
1: If your business is losing money, you're awash in this color ink

Red.

2: His test, developed in 1921, includes 5 multicolored inkblots

Herman Rohrshach.

3: 1988 film that featured a will written in Acme disappearing and re-appearing ink

"Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

4: From Latin roots meaning "cannot be obliterated", it describes ink that's permanent

Indelible.

5: Company that makes the Eraser Mate, a pen that has erasable ink

Paper Mate.
Round 3. Category: The Political Life
1: From the Latin for "to be away", this type of ballot is a vote cast by mail, not at a polling place

Absentee.

2: An officeholder during the interval before a successor takes over is known as one of these limping birds

Lame duck.

3: From the Latin for "grow together", it's an alliance of different groups for a specific cause

Coalition.

4: Proverbially, to indicate one's candidacy is to throw one's hat here

In the ring.

5: Term for the speech at a convention that sets the tone and outlines the main issues

Keynote speech.
Round 4. Category: Don't Listen To Them!
1: "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" asked one of these Hollywood "Brothers" in 1927

Warner Brothers.

2: In 1929 a Yale economics professor said these "have reached...a permanently high plateau"

Stocks.

3: Rejecting this band in 1962, Decca Records said, "We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out"

The Beatles.

4: An 1876 Western Union internal memo said this device has "many shortcomings" and "is inherently of no value to us"

Telephone.

5: In 1899 Charles Duell, the head of this U.S. "Office" said, "Everything that can be invented has been invented"

U.S. Patent Office.
Round 5. Category: Fabrics
1: The name of this fabric often used for shirts worn by lumberjacks may be from the Welsh for "wool"

flannel.

2: This fabric is called plush when the pile is more than 1/8" in height

velvet.

3: From the Persian for "rag", this bed sheet fabric is finer than muslin

percale.

4: From the Persian for "rag", this bed sheet fabric is finer than muslin

percale.

5: It sounds like hammerheads provide the material for this, but it's really a worsted fabric for men's suits

sharkskin.
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March 14, 2021Episode 31 - Kareem - Famous Pairs - "C" In Geography - "Ee" - Hey, "Good" Looking!
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 31, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Kareem
1: Kareem majored in history while leading this college's team to 3 straight national championships

UCLA.

2: In 1989 Kareem finished his 20-year pro basketball career playing with this team

Los Angeles Lakers.

3: In 1996 Kareem's strong interest in history inspired him to co-write "Black Profiles in" this

Courage.

4: Before legally adopting the name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he was known by this name

Lew Alcindor.

5: In 1969 this Midwest team chose Kareem as the NBA's No. 1 draft choice

Milwaukee Bucks.
Round 2. Category: Famous Pairs
1: Coffe merchants:Chase and blank

Sanborn.

2: Seen here Bringing Home the Logs, Winter Landscape is a 19th century lithograph from this pair

Currier and Ives.

3: This couple who studied "human sexual response" tied the knot in 1971 and untied it 22 years later

Masters and Johnson.

4: Irene Curie paired up with Frederic Joliot; this man was the famous partner of Louis Jolliet

Marquette.

5: Songwriting team who gave us "The Sound of Music"

Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Round 3. Category: "C" In Geography
1: Picturesque Ionian island that was the birthplace of Britain's Prince Philip

Corfu.

2: The Chinese city of Guangzhou, better known to westerners as this, is also called Yangcheng, "City of Goats"

Canton.

3: The name of 2 cities; one in England and one in the U.S., both famous for their universities

Cambridge.

4: It's the seat of Laramie County

Cheyenne, Wyoming.

5: On a 1923 trip, Warren G. Harding made the 1st presidential visit to the Alaska Territory and to this nation

Canada.
Round 4. Category: "Ee"
1: There are 360 in a circle

degrees.

2: Type of birth where the baby's feet come out first

breech.

3: Your professional life, hopefully a distinguished one

career.

4: During this growth process a baby may be given a wet washcloth to gnaw on

teething.

5: A superfluous person is a "fifth" one

wheel.
Round 5. Category: Hey, "Good" Looking!
1: The liturgy of this day includes a reading of the Passion according to St. John

Good Friday.

2: Spoiler alert: The title schoolmaster of this 1934 novel dies at the end

Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

3: He's the hero of the parable in Luke 10

the Good Samaritan.

4: 1994 Savannah-set John Berendt bestseller

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

5: False Bay lies between Cape Hangklip and this promontory

the Cape of Good Hope.
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March 13, 2021Episode 30 - Yesterday - Doesn't Rhyme With Squat - Musical Venues - "Field" Of Dreams - Rated Pg
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 30, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Yesterday
1: Zulu Prince Shaka conquered much of southern Africa when he adapted this throwing weapon for stabbing

Spear.

2: He first led his red-shirted Italian legion in the 1840s, fighting for Uruguay against Argentina

Giuseppe Garibaldi.

3: In 1915 this Michigan industrialist chartered a "peace ship" and sailed off to stop WWI

Henry Ford.

4: An April 1971 visit by a team of players of this game was part of a thaw in U.S.-China relations

Ping-pong (table tennis).

5: This British naval hero lost an eye during the capture of Corsica in 1794

Lord Nelson.
Round 2. Category: Doesn't Rhyme With Squat
1: In "Camelot", he has a romance with Guenevere

King Arthur.

2: It makes up half of the Morse Code letter "N"

Dash.

3: In Genesis, he split with his kinsman because Canaan wasn't big enough for both of them

Abram.

4: It's one of the words that form the contraction "won't"

Will.

5: One of your choices when your sink has 2 knobs to turn on the water

Cold.
Round 3. Category: Musical Venues
1: Chicago's area for this genre moved from the south side to north side clubs like Kingston Mines

Blues.

2: In 1925 this famed piano company opened a concert hall on 57th Street in New York City

Steinway.

3: Saint-Saens and Faure were organists at Paris' La Madeleine, the church of this Biblical woman

Mary Magdalene.

4: This crowd-pleasing group has performed on the Charles River Esplanade since July 4, 1929

The Boston Pops.

5: When Bruce Springsteen opened this L.A. arena, he said he thought he was playing an office supplies store

Staples Center.
Round 4. Category: "Field" Of Dreams
1: England's Wars of the Roses ended there

Bosworth Field.

2: It's gray or brown and 2-5 inches long not counting the tail

fieldmouse.

3: The highest rank in the British army

field marshal.

4: Binoculars

field glasses.

5: Sport in which 2 teams use curved sticks to hit a ball into their opponents' goal

field hockey.
Round 5. Category: Rated Pg
1: In 2002 Freddie Prinze Jr. went to the dogs in this film

Scooby-Doo.

2: The 4 main food groups where Will Ferrell comes from in this film are candy, candy canes, candy corn and syrup

Elf.

3: "Save the world. Get the girl. Pass math" was a tagline for this 2003 Frankie Muniz pic

Agent Cody Banks.

4: Lindsay Curtis and Jamie Lee Lohan--wait, switch those last names--starred in this 2003 remake

Freaky Friday.

5: Kingdom of Far Far AwayÂ… Hello! Larry King voices an ugly stepsister in this sequel

Shrek 2.
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March 12, 2021Episode 29 - It's "Tea" Time - The History Of The World: Part 1 - Panthers And Bobcats - Animals In Paradise - Special Days
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 29, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: It's "Tea" Time
1: In the 1920s this scandal poured out of Wyoming

Teapot Dome.

2: One of the 2 plays with "tea" in their title that earned Tony Awards for their actors in 1954

(1 of) Teahouse of the August Moon and Tea and Sympathy.

3: It's the spicy red fruit of the American wintergreen; a brand of chewing gum is named for it

teaberry.

4: Officially, the Disneyland ride often called "The Teacups" is named for this loony fictional festivity

the Mad Hatter's tea party.

5: It's a small chest made to hold tea leaves, not golf clubs

a tea caddy.
Round 2. Category: The History Of The World: Part 1
1: This event on October 8-9, 1871 forced thousands of Illinois residents to flee their homes

Chicago Fire.

2: In his last battle, this man defeated Pompey's sons and supporters in 45 B.C. at Munda in Spain

Julius Caesar.

3: In 325 A.D. this "Great" leader presided over the Religious Council of Nicaea

Constantine.

4: Code-named "Operation Valkyrie", the "July Plot" of 1944 was an attempt to kill this leader

Adolf Hitler.

5: The public farewell seen here took place in this year:(Nixon leaving Washington)

1974.
Round 3. Category: Panthers And Bobcats
1: Y acts as the only vowel in the name of this wildcat, a bobcat relative

lynx.

2: E.T. Seton referred to the "lithe and splended beasthood" of the New World panther with this 2-word name

a mountain lion.

3: For the first 9 to 10 days of its life, a bobcat suffers from this ocular disability

blindness.

4: When it's black instead of spotted, this cat is often called a panther; there are albino ones, too

a leopard.

5: Taxonomists group cats into ones that roar and ones, including bobcats, that do this instead

purr.
Round 4. Category: Animals In Paradise
1: Solomon talked to this industrious insect that was later allowed into paradise

ant.

2: The largest animal in paradise is this biblical one that swallowed a person whole

(Jonah's) whale.

3: A bird called the Hoopoe of Bilquis is on the list, Bilqis being a name for the biblical queen of this place

Sheba.

4: The ram he sacrificed instead of his son is in the fold

Abraham.

5: His mount Al-Buraq was allowed into heaven

Muhammad.
Round 5. Category: Special Days
1: International Boss' Day Off was proclaimed for this day on which Julius Caesar was offed

March 15 (Ides of March).

2: Officially approved by Congress in 2009, National Pi Day is celebrated on this date

March 14.

3: I can smell it in the oven--be it white, wheat or sourdough, November 17 is homemade this

bread.

4: The Copts celebrate this holiday on January 7, 13 days after we've roasted all our chestnuts

Christmas.

5: In Tennessee, Confederate Memorial Day is observed on June 3, the birthday of this confederate president

Jefferson Davis.
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March 11, 2021Episode 28 - State Fish - Then We Can Dig It - World Cup '98 - Tycoons - Tallest, Longest, Widest, Deepest
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 28, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: State Fish
1: Though this "regal" salmon is Alaska's state fish, it doesn't wear a crown

king salmon.

2: This largest species of salmon, Oregon's state fish, shares its name with an Indian tribe and may grow to 3 feet

the chinook salmon.

3: A Massachusetts cape is named for this state fish, a valuable food source

cod.

4: The largemouth species of this fish is the state fish of Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Georgia

bass.

5: Called a muskie for short, it's Wisconsin's state fish

a muskellunge.
Round 2. Category: Then We Can Dig It
1: Finds at Whitehall Villa in Britain reveal that this ancient people ate dormice and really loved oysters

the Romans.

2: The neolithic folk of Catal Huyuk, Turkey exposed their dead to the vultures, then put these remains under their beds

their bones.

3: Homeric Troy was found to date from this age, the metal of the Trojans' weapons in the "Iliad"

the Bronze Age.

4: Ironically, an "aquatic civilization" has been unearthed in this area that covers much of North Africa

the Sahara Desert.

5: Some skulls from colonial America show wear on a tooth from sucking on the stem of this artifact

a pipe.
Round 3. Category: World Cup '98
1: There were an average of 2.67 of these a game, not enough for some bored U.S. viewers

Goals.

2: This country's win over the "Great Satan" knocked the U.S. out of contention for the second round

Iran.

3: It was a good July for this country: they reached the World Cup semis and Goran Ivanisevic made the Wimbledon final

Croatia.

4: Argentina didn't "kick" about this controversial tie-breaking method after using it to beat England

Penalty kicks/shootout.

5: Only in France: the pre-game show at the final was a tribute to this "saint"ly fashion designer

Yves Saint Laurent.
Round 4. Category: Tycoons
1: This eccentric billionaire aircraft-maker turned to communications satellites in the 1960s

Howard Hughes.

2: Steve Ballmer became the president and CEO of Microsoft after this man stepped aside

Bill Gates.

3: World Book reports this Omaha investor's company owns the ublisher of...well, World Book

Buffett.

4: One letter was changed in this tycoon's last name to get the company name Revlon

Charles Revson.

5: In 1990 this entrepreneur lent his name and casino to a TV game show

Donald Trump.
Round 5. Category: Tallest, Longest, Widest, Deepest
1: One of the 3 states with 13 letters in their names

(1 of 3) Massachusetts, North Carolina or South Carolina.

2: It's the tallest living creature with wings

ostrich.

3: This river reaches its widest point, about 4 miles, near Clinton, Iowa

Mississippi River.

4: At about 25,000 feet down, the Cayman Trench is the deepest part of this sea

Caribbean Sea.

5: The widest possible split in bowling is between these 2 pins in the back row

7 and 10.
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March 10, 2021Episode 27 - Sing It, Sister - 20Th Century Presidents - Scientists - They're All Winners! - "Andy"
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 27, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Sing It, Sister
1: She took the name of her band "Nine Stories" from a J.D. Salinger work

Lisa Loeb.

2: This French-Canadian had only spoken English for about a year when she cut her 1990 English debut album "Unison"

Celine Dion.

3: Her hits include "Miss You Much", "Escapade" and "The Pleasure Principle"

Janet Jackson.

4: In 1998 she showed her "Spirit" singing "My hands are small, I know, but they're not yours they are my own"

Jewel.

5: Whitney Houston and this pop diva joined voices on "When You Believe", a duet from "The Prince of Egypt"

Mariah Carey.
Round 2. Category: 20Th Century Presidents
1: In 1962 he published a book on his career highlights to date -- "Six Crises"

Richard Nixon.

2: To give the nominating speech for Al Smith in 1924, he rose from his wheelchair and made his way to the mike

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

3: He wrote an article "About Man-Eating Lions" for the November 1913 issue of Boy's Life

Theodore Roosevelt.

4: His 1976 campaign plane was called Peanut One

Jimmy Carter.

5: His given names were the same as the full name of a 16th century leader of the Protestant Reformation

Calvin Coolidge.
Round 3. Category: Scientists
1: This chemist was born Marie Sklodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland

Marie Curie.

2: [Photo] Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born was the grandfather of this singer seen here

Olivia Newton-John.

3: In 1609 and 1619 this German astronomer published his 3 laws of planetary motion

(Johannes) Kepler.

4: Astronomer Sosigenes advised this Roman on the development of the calendar named for him

Julius Caesar.

5: In 1661 Isaac Newton entered this university's Trinity College as a subsizar, a student with domestic duties

Cambridge.
Round 4. Category: They're All Winners!
1: The epic in Stephen Vincent Benet's body of work that won him a 1929 Pulitzer

John Brown's Body.

2: (Hi, I'm Gretchen Carlson of the CBS Saturday Early Show.) You could say it was my "crowning" moment when I became the 1st classical violinist to win this national title

Miss America.

3: (Hi. I'm LeVar Burton, and) In 1999 I won a Grammy for narrating "The Autobiography of" this winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Martin Luther King, Jr..

4: Things were grave indeed when Patricia Clarkson picked up an Emmy in 2002 for guest-starring on this HBO show

Six Feet Under.

5: Talk about a super Mario! He won more than 50 Indy car races before he retired in 1994

Mario Andretti.
Round 5. Category: "Andy"
1: An 8-hour static film of the Empire State Building was done by this pop artist

Andy Warhol.

2: Reg Smythe's pub-crawling comic strip husband of Flo

Andy Capp.

3: Donny Osmond made his debut at the age of 4 on his show

The Andy Williams Show.

4: "A Family Affair" was the 1st of 15 films in this Mickey Rooney series

the Andy Hardy series.

5: The black and white bear of Walter Lantz cartoons

Andy Panda.
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March 09, 2021Episode 26 - Company Symbols - You Get An "F" - You Have Too Much... - "M.d."S - Bill To Law
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 26, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Company Symbols
1: This black-and-white flightless bird is the symbol of a British-American book company

a penguin.

2: The button fasteners on these jeans include the company name and S.F. Cal.

Levi's.

3: This polishing soap's baby chick was created in the late 1890s; it still "hasn't scratched yet"

Bon Ami.

4: McDonald's are "golden"

the Arches.

5: In the '20s the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Assn. added an Indian maiden to this butter brand logo

Land o' Lakes.
Round 2. Category: You Get An "F"
1: This verb can mean to fatten pillows or to mess up an actor's line

fluff.

2: Ithaca, New York is on Cayuga, one of this group of narrow bodies of water

the Finger Lakes.

3: Hopefully you'll remember that this plant of the genus Myosotis is Alaska's state flower

a forget-me-not.

4: Opponents of Sabine Bau, a world champion in this sport, might say, "Curses! Foiled again!"

fencing.

5: The main city on the Main River, it's located 19 miles upstream from where the Main flows into the Rhine

Frankfurt.
Round 3. Category: You Have Too Much...
1: ...if you're bicycling with higher-than-recommended PSI

pressure in your tires.

2: ...if you suffer from hypernatremia (put down the potato chips)

sodium.

3: ...of this if afflicted with hirsutism

hair.

4: ...of this on your bow that's overstrung

tension.

5: You have too much of this in your blood if you have diabetes mellitus

sugar.
Round 4. Category: "M.d."S
1: The first national observance of this holiday took place May 30, 1868

Memorial Day.

2: He monkeed around with Davy Jones, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith

Micky Dolenz.

3: The common wild pigeon of North America is often called this because of its sad cooing

the mourning dove.

4: In 1978 Christina Crawford hit No. 1 on the bestseller list with this book

Mommie Dearest.

5: 1992 marks his 10th year as head coach of the Chicago Bears

Mike Ditka.
Round 5. Category: Bill To Law
1: This fraction of the House needs to vote yes to overturn a presidential veto

2/3.

2: On the third reading, the bill is put either to a voice vote or this alphabetical vote

Roll call.

3: If Congress adjourns, a president can veto a bill by not signing it within this many days (Sundays excluded)

10.

4: After the first reading, the bill is sent to one of these that may table it

Committee.

5: For the first reading, the representative or senator gives the bill to the person in this post

Clerk.
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March 08, 2021Episode 25 - Facts And Figures - Shut Your Mouth! - "Epi"Sodes - Green Beers - Broadway Musicals By Characters
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 25, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Facts And Figures
1: 3-5 P.M. is the best time of day to post on this microblogging site if you want to be retweeted

Twitter.

2: He was the last of the 3 men who were king of England during 1066

William the Conqueror.

3: He planted 64 poems in his "Child's Garden of Verses"

Robert Louis Stevenson.

4: This private college in Northern California has 20 libraries with some 8.5 million physical volumes

Stanford.

5: After 27 years, he's the current NFL coach who has served the longest with 1 team

Landry.
Round 2. Category: Shut Your Mouth!
1: "I will remain silent. Neither I, nor my wife, will leave Krypton", says Marlon Brando in this 1978 film

Superman.

2: This comic was silenced by obscenity charges in the '60s; in 2003 Gov. Pataki gave him a posthumous pardon

Lenny Bruce.

3: If you're arrested, you have the right to remain silent thanks to this arrestee's 1966 case

Miranda.

4: "'Are you lost, Daddy?' I arsked... 'Shut up,' he explained" is from this "circular" sportswriter's "Young Immigrunts"

Ring Lardner.

5: "Factor" in the idea that this Fox commentator has been known to tell guests in his "No Spin Zone" to "Shut up!"

Bill O'Reilly.
Round 3. Category: "Epi"Sodes
1: From the Greek for "seizure", it's a medical condition involving abnormal electrical brain activity

epilepsy.

2: The best example of something

the epitome.

3: A fast-spreading outbreak of a disease

an epidemic.

4: A short section at the end of a book

an epilogue.

5: A witty saying or expression

an epigram.
Round 4. Category: Green Beers
1: Dennis Hopper has a particular aversion to this Dutch beer in the movie "Blue Velvet"

Heineken.

2: Tonight let it be this beer of Munich that's properly spelled with 2 umlauts

LÃ¶wenbrÃ¤u.

3: Brewed since 1615, this Dutch beer with a green bottle has a swingtop cap

Grolsch.

4: Brittany Evans is the new icon for this beer that's named in honor of an old German monastery

St. Pauli's.

5: This Bremen beer's motto appropriately reads "Life beckons"

Beck's.
Round 5. Category: Broadway Musicals By Characters
1: Tevye,Golde,Yente

Fiddler on the Roof.

2: Velma Von Tussle,Tracy Turnblad,Corny Collins

Hairspray.

3: Bustopher Jones,Old Deuteronomy,Mistoffelees

Cats.

4: Fantine,Javert,Jean Valjean

Les Miserables.

5: Mrs. Potts,Belle,Gaston

Beauty and the Beast.
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March 06, 2021Episode 24 - Size Matters - Kids In History - Herbs And Spice Girls - It's All Your Fault- Gadgets
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 24, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Size Matters
1: Olive oil with oleic acid content under 1% is graded "Extra" this

Extra Virgin.

2: To keep the ratios, for a 1:12 scale dollhouse buy a smaller dollhouse in this scale to put inside it

1:144.

3: American ones are 53 to 57 inches long and hang to the top of the belt buckle; the longer British ones hang lower

Ties.

4: As a rule, the length of this item should be 3 times the thickness of the board being fastened with it

Nail.

5: A 1.5-liter champagne bottle, or sometimes a .357 round of ammunition

Magnum.
Round 2. Category: Kids In History
1: A gifted student and a fine athlete, this member of the Tudor family became the heir to Engl.'s throne at age 10, in 1502

Henry VIII.

2: Born in Scotland in 1747, he sailed off as a cabin boy at age 12 and later became a naval hero in the Amer. Revolution

John Paul Jones.

3: When this Italian explorer was a kid, his dad went to China without him; when he was a teen, his dad took him along

Marco Polo.

4: Even as a young girl in Philadelphia, this future flagmaker showed a talent for fine needlework

Betsy Ross.

5: This Polish-French composer who was born in 1810 composed a polonaise when he was only 7

(Fredric) Chopin.
Round 3. Category: Herbs And Spice Girls
1: She rocked the spice world when she left the Spice Girls in May 1998

Ginger Spice.

2: Spice Girl Mel B. gets this nickname from her pierced tongue, wild hair and wilder lifestyle

"Scary Spice".

3: This photographer directed music videos for Madonna and Michael Jackson

Herb Ritts.

4: It's the appropriate Spice name of Emma Bunton, youngest of the Spice Girls

"Baby Spice".

5: "Spanish Flea", the theme song of "The Dating Game", was a hit for this bandleader

Herb Alpert.
Round 4. Category: It's All Your Fault!
1: Speculators were blamed for the 1929 stock market crash that marked the beginning of this decade-long calamity

the Great Depression.

2: Napoleon's cannons usually get blamed, but the head of this huge statue near Giza was damaged long before him

the Sphinx.

3: In 1990 a flaw in this $1.5 billion piece of hardware was blamed on a spherical aberration in one of its mirrors

the Hubble Telescope.

4: This song from the movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" garnered a 2000 Oscar nomination

"Blame Canada".

5: A January 1942 report faulted Gen. Walter Short and Admiral Husband Kimmel for the disastrousness of this event

Pearl Harbor.
Round 5. Category: Gadgets
1: This company's I-Zone comes in a color called phat blue

Polaroid.

2: The solar bikini uses strips of this "light current" film to charge up your iPod while you tan; looks good on me, too

a photovoltaic strip.

3: Despite its name, you don't throw this "box", you use it to watch TV anywhere on your laptop, phone or tablet

Slingbox.

4: Sony president Kaz Hirai said this handheld Playstation console was named for the Latin word for "life"

the PS Vita.

5: The Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox can store over 100 hours of music in this popular format

mp3.
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March 05, 2021Episode 23 - We're Here To "Win" - For Old Crimes' Sake - The Getty - Numbers In Song - What Did I Do With My Keys?
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 23, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: We're Here To "Win"
1: Castle community that the Queen calls home

Windsor.

2: TV's Dr. Phil got his first big exposure on her show

Oprah Winfrey.

3: If you're playing Florizel, you're in this late Shakespeare play

The Winter's Tale.

4: City that's home to the Blue Bombers of the CFL

Winnipeg.

5: To use air to remove chaff from wheat

to winnow.
Round 2. Category: For Old Crimes' Sake
1: The man who shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel was vice president under this man

Thomas Jefferson.

2: Assassin James Earl Ray was arrested in this capital city June 8, 1968 by Scotland Yard detectives

London.

3: This publishing heiress was kidnapped on February 4, 1974

Patty Hearst.

4: Returning from the Third Crusade, this English "lion" king was kidnapped and held until a huge ransom was paid in 1194

Richard the Lion-Hearted.

5: Bank robber Clyde Barrow died along with this woman in a 1930s police ambush

Bonnie Parker.
Round 3. Category: The Getty
1: Type of chest seen here in the Getty collection; those of the Getty trust are quite full

coffer.

2: One of the largest paintings at the Getty is Ensor's 1888 "Entry of Christ Into" this Belgian capital

Brussels.

3: At the new Getty Center, admission is free, but you need $5 and a reservation to do this

Park.

4: The previous Getty Museum, just south of this coastal community, will reopen to show antiquities

Malibu.

5: The Getty calls its 110 acres of galleries and institutions this, like the grounds of a college

Campus.
Round 4. Category: Numbers In Song
1: Title of the song that begins, "Some people say a man is made out of mud"

"Sixteen Tons".

2: Lacy J. Dalton sang "God bless the boys who make the noise on" this Nashville street

16th Avenue.

3: Biggest hit for The Crests was about a birthday cake with this many candles

16.

4: It's the specific distance mentioned in folk song "The Erie Canal"

15 miles.

5: Neil Sedaka said, "You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen" when she'd reached this age

sweet 16.
Round 5. Category: What Did I Do With My Keys?
1: You left them in this (from the Latin for "fire"), you fool (from the Latin for "fool")

the ignition.

2: They were in the pocket of those Red Tabs jeans from this company -- you know, the ones we just took to Goodwill

Levi's.

3: One of these crow relatives famous for their love of shiny objects flew off with them

magpie.

4: They turned up in the bottom of the neighbors' jetted bath -- as Emile Zola might say, this brand

Jacuzzi.

5: They fell into this pot that's also a term for one who makes his money growing cotton

planter.
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