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July 24, 2021Episode 164 - Name The Instrument - I Am A Crook - Totally 1680s! - The Marrier - Canadian Cities
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 164, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Name The Instrument
1: In Billy Joel's " blank Man".

piano.

2: In Wynonna's "Girls With blank ".

guitars.

3: In Bruce Hornsby's " blank Rain".

mandolin.

4: In Linda Ronstadt's "Different blank ".

drum.

5: In the Byrds' "Mr. blank Man".

tambourine.
Round 2. Category: I Am A Crook
1: Ralph, nicknamed "Bottles", was the brother of this gangster, nicknamed "Scarface".

Al Capone.

2: Sheriff Pat Garrett said this crook's "face always wore a smile".

Billy the Kid.

3: In 1868 the Reno Brothers robbed one of these in Indiana, years before the James Gang did it out west.

train.

4: The Queen Anne's Revenge was a ship of this pirate, whose whole known career lasted from 1716 to 1718.

Blackbeard.

5: 2 months after Bonnie and Clyde were shot down in Louisiana, he got it outside the Biograph in Chicago.

John Dillinger.
Round 3. Category: Totally 1680s!
1: Around 1683 Jules Hardouin-Mansart completed this narcissistic Versailles feature, Galerie des Glaces in France.

Hall of Mirrors.

2: The 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk between Russia and this country on its east remained in force for 170 years.

China.

3: In 1682 La Salle said, "Laissez les bon temps rouler" as he claimed this North American territory for France.

Louisiana.

4: Last name of father and son Cotton and Increase, co-ministers at Boston's North Chruch starting in 1685.

Mather.

5: On his deathbed, speaking of his mistress Nell Gwyn, King Charles II said, "Let not poor Nelly" do this.

Starve.
Round 4. Category: The Marrier
1: Tom Hayden, Roger Vadim, Ted Turner.

Jane Fonda.

2: Sean Penn, Guy Ritchie.

Madonna.

3: Andre Previn, Frank Sinatra.

Mia Farrow.

4: Jeremy Thomas, Tom Green.

Drew Barrymore.

5: Robert Evans, Steve McQueen.

Ali McGraw.
Round 5. Category: Canadian Cities
1: English is also widely spoken in this largest French-speaking city outside of Paris.

Montreal.

2: The North Saskatchewan River divides this Albertan capital in half.

Edmonton.

3: The CFL's B.C. Lions play their home games in this city.

Vancouver.

4: Whitehorse replaced Dawson as capital of this territory in 1953.

Yukon Territory.

5: This Ontario city's underground walkway system can get you from Eaton Centre to Union Station.

Toronto.
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July 23, 2021Episode 163 - I Need My "Space" - Say "Jack" - A Capital Idea - Toys And Games - Throw It Here
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 163, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: I Need My "Space"
1: Ittowers605 feetoverSeattle.

the Space Needle.

2: It's been making people scream at Disney World since the '70s.

Space Mountain.

3: It's between the 2 "Alt" keys on a standard keyboard.

the spacebar.

4: The Chandra or the Hubble, for example.

a space telescope.

5: The Oscar-winning actress and actor who fit the category.

Kevin Spacey and Sissy Spacek.
Round 2. Category: Say "Jack"
1: This man's Chicago-based Rainbow/PUSH action network is a merger of 2 earlier political groups.

Jesse Jackson.

2: On TV he played Steve McGarrett, head of Five-O, a special Hawaiian police unit.

Jack Lord.

3: He played for the Kansas City Monarchs before he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Jackie Robinson.

4: This actress who now plays Lisa Landry on "Sister, Sister" won an Emmy for "227".

Jackee Harry.

5: Formerly a special advisor to LBJ, he's presided over the MPAA since 1966.

Jack Valenti.
Round 3. Category: A Capital Idea
1: Abuja, this country's first planned city, was built in the Chukuku Hills to replace Lagos as the capital.

Nigeria.

2: Empress Taitu chose the name of this Ethiopian capital; it means "new flower".

Addis Ababa.

3: Someone had the bright idea to name this city for a duke even before it became New Zealand's capital.

Wellington.

4: Someone had the bright idea to build a Disneysea theme park in this Asian city; it opened in 2001.

Tokyo.

5: Hey, mon, Bob Marley's home in this Caribbean capital was turned into a Bob Marley museum.

Kingston, Jamaica.
Round 4. Category: Toys And Games
1: Parker Bros, has made balls, boomerangs and ping pong paddles out of this soft material.

Nerf (or foam rubber).

2: Another name for a firefly, or Hasbro's toy that lights up when you hug it.

glow worm.

3: Introduced as a doll for boys, this action figure was named after a 1945 WWII movie.

G.I. Joe.

4: The Toys R Us 2011 holiday hot toys list included the LeapPad Explorer from this company.

LeapFrog.

5: If you roll 5 of a kind you've gotten this, the name of a dice game by Milton Bradley.

Yahtzee.
Round 5. Category: Throw It Here
1: Completes the proverb "People who live in glass houses shouldn't...".

throw stones.

2: To issue a challenge is to "throw down" this, like a medieval knight.

the gauntlet.

3: Too bad when Hart Crane jumped ship his father couldn't throw him this, like the same-named candy he invented.

a lifesaver.

4: From the Latin for "to speak from the belly", it's the art of throwing one's voice.

ventriloquism (to ventriloquize accepted).

5: In 1915 he became the first president to attend the World Series and to throw out the first pitch during a Series game.

(Woodrow) Wilson.
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July 22, 2021Episode 162 - "Bell"S And "Whistle"S - Parents Are People Too - Music Trivia - Tiny Things - Urban Myths
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 162, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: "Bell"S And "Whistle"S
1: To enter a pool of water....tummy first.

Bellyflop.

2: Sailors wore these pants long before they became fashionable in the 1960s.

Bell-bottoms.

3: They supply the weight in Olympic weightlifting.

Barbells.

4: They're employees who go public with stories of their employers' wrongdoing.

Whistleblowers.

5: Common name for deadly nighshade, a plant that's poisonous in all its parts.

Belladonna.
Round 2. Category: Parents Are People Too
1: Also a home for hummingbirds, it becomes "empty" when the last child leaves home.

Nest.

2: It's what a lonely dad may want to be to you, or the name of the one on the left(President Clinton's dog).

Buddy.

3: At least this restriction dad put on you isn't a dusk-to-dawn one, as in Warri, Nigeria.

Curfew.

4: If you get one of these in your nose or navel, parents may let out the same kind of "shriek".

Piercing.

5: This term for a right that divorcing parents may fight over comes from Latin for "guardian".

Custody.
Round 3. Category: Music Trivia
1: After the death of Keith Moon in 1978, Kenney Jones became this British group's drummer.

The Who.

2: "The Camptown Racetrack" was this many "miles long".

five.

3: It follows "Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above".

"don't fence me in".

4: This onetime drummer with Benny Goodman was portrayed by Sal Mineo in a 1959 film biography.

Gene Krupa.

5: In 1929 this crooner began using "My Time Is Your Time" as his theme song.

Rudy Vallee.
Round 4. Category: Tiny Things
1: These minute grains link the flowers and the bees.

pollen.

2: Mayonnaise is an example of an emulsion that is a suspension of tiny globules of this in water.

oil.

3: Access time on hard drives isn't measured in minutes, but in these units abbreviated ms.

milliseconds.

4: Present in minute amounts in soil and water, these "elements", such as copper and zinc, are essential for your good health.

trace elements.

5: Those minute red blood cells are erythrocytes, white ones are leukocytes and these are thrombocytes.

platelets.
Round 5. Category: Urban Myths
1: It's not a croc, I heard it from a friend: these croc relatives are living in the New York City sewers.

Alligators.

2: Because he's barefoot on the cover of "Abbey Road", I'm convinced this member of the Beatles is dead.

Paul McCartney.

3: My cousin just told me that a man in a hotel room had this renal organ removed while he slept.

Kidney.

4: Wow! A couple found this pirate prosthesis on their car door handle when they got home from a date.

Hook.

5: Did you hear? This man had a congressional page fired for making a "Love Boat" joke.

Fred Grandy.
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July 21, 2021Episode 161 - Chick Lit - Prime Ministers Of Israel - Realm Of The Senses - Notable Weddings - It Comes With The Territory
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 161, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Chick Lit
1: In an L. Frank Baum novel, Billina the hen is blown overboard from a steamship along with this girl.

Dorothy.

2: 6 Californians read and discuss "Persuasion", "Emma" and 4 other novels in Karen Joy Fowler's novel her "Book Club".

Jane Austen.

3: A sisterly rivalry to give Henry VIII a male heir is the basis for this Philippa Gregory historical novel.

The Other Boleyn Girl.

4: A giant's hen lays golden eggs in many versions of this story.

"Jack and the Beanstalk".

5: This HBO series originated with Candace Bushnell's newspaper column.

Sex and the City.
Round 2. Category: Prime Ministers Of Israel
1: The 2 Yitzhaks.

Rabin and Shamir.

2: The only one commemorated with a one-woman Broadway play.

Golda Meir.

3: The founding father after whom Tel Aviv's airport is named.

Ben-Gurion.

4: This Nobel Prize winner was Prime Minister of Israel of twice: once in the '80s and once in the '90s.

Shimon Peres.

5: Then serving as prime minister, he was a mourner at Anwar Sadat's funeral in 1981.

Begin.
Round 3. Category: Realm Of The Senses
1: Sounds can cause discomfort above about 100 of these units.

decibels.

2: The lingual papillae are the main locale for this sense.

taste.

3: In the brain, the smell of perfume goes to this "bulb".

the olfactory bulb.

4: If yours is "absolute", you know your ABCs ( and DEFGs) by ear.

pitch.

5: Planning prudently, or hyperopic.

farsighted.
Round 4. Category: Notable Weddings
1: This star of "Honeymoon in Vegas" and "Leaving Las Vegas" married Patricia Arquette in 1995.

Nicolas Cage.

2: People magazine said she dyed her veil in coffee to match her beige dress when she married Arthur Miller in 1956.

Marilyn Monroe.

3: Chynna Phillips, whose mama and papa are John and Michelle, married this Baldwin with his brothers in attendance.

William (Billy) Baldwin.

4: Bart Conner must think she's a perfect 10; he married her in Romania in 1996.

Nadia Comaneci.

5: This "Mayflower Madam" wore pale pink at her wedding, saying, "White would have been ludicrous".

Sydney Biddle Barrows.
Round 5. Category: It Comes With The Territory
1: Tokelau, a territory of this country, is over 1,000 miles north of its Noeth Island.

New Zealand.

2: In 1896 George Carmack, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie found gold in this territory.

Yukon Territory.

3: In 1858 the British established this type of colony on India's Andaman Islands.

Penal colony.

4: The price paid for these Caribbean islands in 1917 was $25 million, over 3 times what Alaska cost.

Virgin Islands.

5: Australia has an uninhabited territory named for this sea off its northeast coast.

Coral Sea.
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July 20, 2021Episode 160 - Lights - 1983 - Made Up - It's A Jungle Out There - A Trashery Of Ogden Nashery
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 160, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Lights
1: The hollowed, carved fruit of the "Cucurbita pepo" plant with a light inside.

jack-o'-lantern (or pumpkin).

2: It's a very slender candle or the wax-coated wick used to light it.

a taper.

3: Color of the bulb in all theatrical spotlights.

white.

4: Fairy tale that includes the line "Who will change old lamps for new?".

"(The History of) Aladdin".

5: Originally an explosion of gunpowder in a flintlock rifle that failed to set off the charge.

a flash in the pan.
Round 2. Category: 1983
1: In 1983 he won the Nobel Peace Prize; in 2000 he received 1% of the vote in Poland's presidential election.

Lech Walesa.

2: For the first time since it was formed in 1960, this group cut its benchmark barrel price for crude, from $34 to $29.

OPEC.

3: NASA verified that the meteorite found under the ice in Antarctica came from this celestial body.

Moon.

4: The Philippine government identified Rolando Galman as the assassin of this opposition leader.

Benigno Aquino.

5: When Barney Clark died March 23, 1983 this device, implanted 112 days earlier, was still working normally.

an artificial heart.
Round 3. Category: Made Up
1: The name of this brand of cosmetics is a French word for a type of hospital.

Clinique.

2: This makeup line that includes Great Lash mascara takes its name from its founder's sister Mabel.

Maybelline.

3: In ads for Revlon's Colorstay liquid lip, this country diva sings "Man! I feel like a woman".

Shania Twain.

4: This company introduced Vamp, a black-red nail polish and a matching lipstick also called Vamp.

Chanel.

5: This brand known for its clear glycerin soap introduced Lip Plush lipsticks.

Neutrogena.
Round 4. Category: It's A Jungle Out There
1: A large knife whose name comes from an earlier Spanish word for "mallet"; it's handy for cutting jungle paths.

Machete.

2: The length of this South American water boa may exceed 30 feet.

Anaconda.

3: About 2/3 of this river's 2.3 million square mile tropical rain forest lies in Brazil.

Amazon.

4: 6-letter term for the thick covering formed by the tops of trees and vines where many animals live.

Canopy.

5: In 1863 French archaeologists began uncovering this temple of Vishnu in the jungles of Cambodia.

Angkor Wat.
Round 5. Category: A Trashery Of Ogden Nashery
1: "The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo the other" this.

Milk.

2: Nash coined the word "Cleopatricide" in his quatrain about this snake.

Asp.

3: In "Reflections on Ice-Breaking", he wrote that "Candy is dandy but" this "is quicker".

Liquor.

4: "God in his wisdom made" this insect "and then forgot to tell us why".

Fly.

5: In his poem "The Baby", Nash remarked, "A bit of" this "is always walcum".

Talcum.
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July 19, 2021Episode 159 - Prefixes - Near Disasters - "Moo" - EspaÃ±ol - Historic Occasions
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 159, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Prefixes
1: "Anti-" means "against; "ante-" means this.

before.

2: This thoroughly modern prefix means "one thousandth".

milli-.

3: A prefix meaning "after" is found in this word meaning an after-death examination.

postmortem.

4: This prefix that means "first" or "primitive" is found before "plasm" and "zoa".

proto-.

5: When this prefix precedes "active", it means "backwards"; by itself it refers to the style of an earlier time.

retro-.
Round 2. Category: Near Disasters
1: On Sept. 8, 2001 Erin became the Atlantic season's first of these, but stayed mostly out at sea.

hurricane.

2: In 1919 the lonely keeper of one of these helped save all 21 crewmen from fire on the steamer Frank O'Connor.

a lighthouse.

3: A possible nuclear war was averted (for the moment) in June 2002 talks between India and this country.

Pakistan.

4: In July 2002 9 men were dramatically rescued from a flooded mine in this state.

Pennsylvania.

5: In 1907 this financier kept the stock market afloat by locking bankers in his library until they raised $25 million.

J.P. Morgan.
Round 3. Category: "Moo"
1: The song "That's Amore" is on the soundtrack to this 1987 Cher film.

Moonstruck.

2: This adjective means "purely academic" or "irrelevant".

Moot.

3: This stir-fried Chinese dish that contains shredded pork, scallions and egg is rolled in a thin pancake.

Moo shu pork.

4: It's another name for a person born under the sign of Cancer.

Moonchild/moonchildren.

5: This Cab Calloway song includes the lines "Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi!" and "Ho-De-Ho-De-Ho-De-Ho!".

"Minnie The Moocher".
Round 4. Category: EspaÃ±ol
1: The Spanish "calabozo" and the cowboy variation calaboose both mean thse.

jail.

2: Any Spanish pier or wharf, or a certain waterfront area in San Francisco.

embarcadero.

3: This day of the week is domingo.

Sunday.

4: This pet is un perro.

a dog.

5: You'll find these, los escritorios, in the classroom.

a desk.
Round 5. Category: Historic Occasions
1: Name shared by an American film made in 1903 and a British crime committed in 1963.

The Great Train Robbery.

2: James Marshall found this Jan. 24, 1848, days before California was handed over to the U.S..

Gold.

3: The 1851 Lopez Expedition, a disasterous attempt to free this island, was an early version of the Bay of Pigs.

Cuba.

4: In 1798, in this African country, Napoleon said, "Soldiers...forty centuries look down upon you".

Egypt.

5: This man died April 5, 1975, after a quarter of a century leading Nationalist China on Taiwan.

Chiang Kai-shek.
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July 18, 2021Episode 158 - '80s Song Lyrics - Know Your Earth - Puttin' Out The Welcome Matt - Ordinal People - Potent Potables
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 158, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: '80s Song Lyrics
1: "So hurry up and bring your jukebox money", this "is a little old place where we can get together".

"The Love Shack".

2: "Shot through the heart and you're to blame, you" do this.

give love a bad name.

3: "We gonna rock down to" this place "and then we'll take it higher".

"Electric Avenue".

4: "Jenny, I've got your number, I need to make you mine, Jenny don't change your number" ...this one.

867-5309.

5: "But you'll never see the end of the road while you're traveling with me, hey now, hey now, don't" do this.

dream it's over.
Round 2. Category: Know Your Earth
1: It's the length in hours of a mean solar day.

24.

2: Follow this line and you'll travel almost exactly 24,900 miles to get back to your starting point.

the equator.

3: Filling this reservoir behind Hoover Dam caused earthquakes in the area until the land settled.

Lake Mead.

4: The book "The Earth" calls this the most potent geomorphological agent there is, causing the most damage.

man.

5: Just above the troposphere is this ozone-containing layer of the atmosphere.

the stratosphere.
Round 3. Category: Puttin' Out The Welcome Matt
1: This "Friends" star lost the tip of his right middle finger in a childhood accident (It's not LeBlanc).

Matthew Perry.

2: On June 24, 2005, this Matt, Matt, Matt interviewed Tom Cruise on NBC.

Matt Lauer.

3: 12 years after taking a "Day Off", he played Dr. Niko Tatopoulos in 1998's "Godzilla".

Matthew Broderick.

4: He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as a cop in "Crash".

Matt Dillon.

5: He played the "Private Ryan" Tom Hanks was trying to save.

Matt Damon.
Round 4. Category: Ordinal People
1: If you're the official attendant to someone in a duel or a boxing match, you're known by this ordinal term.

a second.

2: Adding to a list that includes the pyramids, Andre the Giant and King Kong have each been called this.

the Eighth Wonder of the World.

3: Harry Truman once "globally" broadened eleanor Roosevelt's title by calling her this.

First Lady of the World.

4: After Guy Burgess and Donald McClean defected to Russia, Kim Philby was called this, after a Graham Greene title.

the Third Man.

5: J. Lucas-Dubreton's biography of Alexandre Dumas is titled this, like what d'Artagnan wants to be.

The Fourth Musketeer.
Round 5. Category: Potent Potables
1: It's added to a gin fizz to make it fizz.

carbonated soda (or soda water or carbonated water).

2: It's the French region synonymous with sparkling wine.

Champagne.

3: This Mexican spirit is obtained by distilling pulque.

Tequila.

4: This 19th century Philadelphia distiller's name became slang for liquor.

Booze.

5: Trader Vic claims credit for inventing this rum drink and says it was named by a Tahitian friend.

Mai tai.
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July 17, 2021Episode 157 - A Driving Tour - Necco Sweethearts - Taken Literally - Journalists - Geographic Cinema
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 157, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 157, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: A Driving Tour
1: Drive by the cops when you put the pedal to the metal on most of these high-speed German highways.

autobahns.

2: Krasnaya Ploshchad is the local name for this square you can drive by, but not across.

Red Square.

3: High degree Freemasons know it can be hard to drive by this L.A. auditorium on Jefferson Blvd. on Oscar night.

the Shrine Auditorium.

4: You'll reach the president's office in this country driving to the union buildings on Government Ave. in Pretoria.

South Africa.

5: Drive down Obala Vojvode Stepe in this city and relive the street's most famous moment of June 28, 1914.

Sarajevo.
Round 2. Category: Necco Sweethearts
1: 2-letter word that precedes "mine", "good" and "true" on the hearts.

be.

2: In 2001 a colon and right parenthesis were put together to create this design on a heart.

happy/smiley face.

3: The pink hearts are cherry flavored, the green, lemon, and the yellow, this.

banana.

4: In the 2001 mix there was the name of this goddess or planet.

Venus.

5: Originally called Motto Hearts, the fact they're now called this will give you something to talk about.

Conversation Hearts.
Round 3. Category: Taken Literally
1: German combo of "car" and "road".

Autobahn.

2: French: black beast; English: nemesis.

a bÃªte noir.

3: It's Spanish for "hand to hand".

mano a mano.

4: Evidently, it's Latin for "from the first face".

prima facie.

5: "Inquistion" contestants know its Portugese for "act of the faith".

auto-da-fÃ©.
Round 4. Category: Journalists
1: Jason Robards played this Washington Post editor in "All the President's Men".

Ben Bradlee.

2: This son of a "60 Minutes" correspondent was at ABC News for 15 years before joining Fox News in 2003.

Chris Wallace.

3: "A Mighty Heart" is a 2003 biography of this slain Wall Street Journal reporter by his widow, Mariane.

(Daniel) Pearl.

4: This Pulitzer winner gained fame reporting on My Lai and has written on Iraq for The New Yorker.

(Seymour) Hersh.

5: Michael Kinsley is the founding editor of this "rocking" online publication.

Slate.
Round 5. Category: Geographic Cinema
1: 1979:"The blank Horror".

Amityville.

2: 1957:"The Spirit of blank ".

St. Louis.

3: 1987:"Born in blank ".

East L.A..

4: 1931:"Sidewalks of blank ".

New York.

5: 1960:"Sunrise at blank ".

Campobello.
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July 16, 2021Episode 156 - Biblical Firsts - Gimme An "H" - Follow The Leader - You're The Mayor - Gay Blades
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 156, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Biblical Firsts
1: Rachel is the first shepherdess mentioned and he's the first shepherd.

Abel.

2: He's the first person in the Bible to build a ship.

Noah.

3: God's first instructions to human beings were "be fruitful and" do this.

to multiply.

4: This strongman told the first riddle; it concerned a honey-filled lion.

Samson.

5: This disguised man was the first person to kiss someone in the Bible; he kissed his father.

Jacob.
Round 2. Category: Gimme An "H"
1: He was the last major party pres. candidate to win his party's nod without winning the most votes in the primaries.

Hubert Humphrey.

2: The western hemisphere country with French as an official language that fits the category.

Haiti.

3: This Onondaga chief who helped unite the Iroquois was celebrated by Longfellow.

Hiawatha.

4: In the New Testament, he tells the Magi, "Go and search diligently for the young child...".

Herod (the Great).

5: This scientific endeavor abbreviated HGP had the goal of mapping every gene of Homo sapiens.

the Human Genome Project.
Round 3. Category: Follow The Leader
1: It's the military rank of the head of state of Libya.

Colonel.

2: Following the lead of Germany, this man declared war on Britain and France in June 1940.

Mussolini.

3: Taking over from his assassinated father in 2001, Joseph Kabila is the president of this country once known as Zaire.

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

4: In 2002 Helen Clark won election to a second term as this Down Under country's prime minister.

New Zealand.

5: In northern Europe, Goran Persson leads as the prime minister of this nation.

Sweden.
Round 4. Category: You're The Mayor
1: Now in his fifth term, Richard M. Daley has the daily duty of running this metropolis.

Chicago.

2: In 2005 he was re-elected mayor of New York City by an almost 20 percent margin.

(Michael) Bloomberg.

3: The most populous U.S. city with an elected female mayor is this 2nd-largest Texas city, with Laura Miller.

Dallas.

4: Former state governor Jerry Brown reigns as the mayor of this California city.

Oakland.

5: Sworn in as this city's 97th mayor in 2000, John F. Street is a graduate of its Temple University.

Philadelphia.
Round 5. Category: Gay Blades
1: The mark left by George Hamilton's "gay blade".

a Z.

2: Its use was abolished in France in 1981, 188 years too late for Marie Antoinette.

the guillotine.

3: The sword in the stone from the Lady of the Lake.

Excalibur.

4: You'd need an undertaker, not a styptic pencil after this was used by Sweeney Todd.

a straight razor.

5: Ridley Scott's dim futuristic film view of Los Angeles.

Blade Runner.
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July 15, 2021Episode 155 - Famous Armstrongs - "Glad" Tidings - Out Of The Microwave - Kidnapped - Start "In" On It
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 155, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 155, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Famous Armstrongs
1: His earlier nickname was "Dippermouth" and he learned how to play the bugle in reform school.

Satchmo Armstrong.

2: On radio, Dick York played Billy Fairfield, best friend of this all-American boy.

Jack Armstrong.

3: Henry Armstrong is the only pro to hold 3 world championships simultaneously in this sport.

boxing.

4: He's Wapakoneta, Ohio's most famous Armstrong.

Neil Armstrong.

5: In 1933 American engineer Edwin Armstrong came up with this new radio system.

FM, or frequency modulation.
Round 2. Category: "Glad" Tidings
1: Colosseum combatants of ancient Rome.

the gladiators.

2: 1st line of Carol Burnett's theme.

"I'm so glad we had this time together".

3: Your best "fun" clothing.

your glad rags.

4: Named for a 19th century British statesman, it's a suitcase hinged to open flat.

Gladstone.

5: On "Bewitched", she was the nosy neighbor of Darren and Samantha Stevens.

Gladys Kravitz.
Round 3. Category: Out Of The Microwave
1: To cook this ballpark treat, put it in a bun, wrap it in a paper towel and microwave it for 30 seconds.

Hot dog.

2: Betty Crocker sells this snack food under the name Pop Secret.

Microwave popcorn.

3: Baking these russets in a regular oven can take 45-60 minutes, but the microwave can cook them in 5.

Potatoes.

4: Dishes made of this type of material can damage a microwave and shouldn't be used.

Metal.

5: This brand of microwaveable dinners makes Lean Cuisine.

Stouffer's.
Round 4. Category: Kidnapped
1: This heiress was abducted from her Berkeley apt. on Feb. 4, 1974; the FBI captured her on Sept. 18, 1975.

Patty Hearst.

2: On Dec. 2, 1969 Cindy Birdsong of this Motown group was kidnapped at knifepoint but escaped by jumping out of a car.

the Supremes.

3: This billionaire's grandson was kidnapped in 1973; ransom wasn't paid until the boy's ear was sent to a newspaper.

(John Paul) Getty.

4: This 14-year-old was taken from her Salt Lake City home in June 2002 and found walking down a street 9 months later.

Elizabeth Smart.

5: In December 1991 this bureau chief for the A.P. in Beirut was released by Hezbollah after 6 years, 7 months.

Terry Anderson.
Round 5. Category: Start "In" On It
1: John Hinckley was acquitted of shooting Ronald Reagan by reason of this.

Insanity.

2: From the Latin for "no boundary", it refers to a quantity or distance so large it cannot be measured.

Infinite.

3: It's the emission of visible light by a hot object.

Incandescence.

4: According to Locke, these kinds of rights cannot be violated by any governing authority.

Inalienable rights.

5: It's a ritual recitation of verbal charms or spells to produce a magic effect.

Incantation.
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