Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 6, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Dancing Painfully With The Stars
1: OK, he's 400 feet tall with bad fire breath, but as long as we don't go near Tokyo, this title guy can really samba.
Godzilla.
2: Hope your salsa is up to snuff when you team with Det. Sonny Crockett's pet alligator, Elvis, from this show.
Miami Vice.
3: Might be best not to bring up this fishy movie's sequels "3-D" and "The Revenge" when taking the floor.
Jaws.
4: If you tango with this "mild" '60s TV title bear, at 650 lbs., let him lead.
Gentle Ben.
5: Better take a deep breath before you do an underwater merengue with this '60s TV title dolphin.
Flipper.Round 2. Category: '60s Trivia
1: By 1966 the Air Force had logged 10,147 sightings of these, but didn't believe any.
UFOs.
2: It's what LBJ showed off to reporters in October 1965.
a scar.
3: Jean Nidetch in 1963 lost 72 lbs. and started this company.
Weight Watchers.
4: In 1967 he was kicked out of the House of Representatives for reprehensible behavior.
Adam Clayton Powell.
5: In '61 this oil billionaire installed a pay phone in his mansion for guests to use.
J. Paul Getty.Round 3. Category: The New York Times Book Review
1: In 2008 the Times called this author's "The Widows of Eastwick" a "predictably ingenious sequel".
John Updike.
2: Julie Powell's "Julie and Julia", a blog-turned-book about mastering this chef's recipes, "has too much blog in its DNA".
Julia Child.
3: This Bernhard Schlink novel about Hanna Schmitz was "ultimately hopeful"; it became a 2008 film.
The Reader.
4: In 2009 the Times liked "The Women", which dealt with this man's loves, like Mamah, who was murdered at Taliesin.
Frank Lloyd Wright.
5: His "A Man in Full" "contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written... by any American novelist".
Tom Wolfe.Round 4. Category: Homonyms
1: Where newlyweds might walk on their wedding day and on the day after.
Aisle/isle.
2: To switch, or the dimes and quarters in your pocket.
change.
3: To throw a fishing net into the water, or the actors in a play.
cast.
4: Part of the covering on a lizard, or the minimum wage fixed by a performer's contract.
scale.
5: The triangular blade on an anchor's arm, or an accidental stroke of good luck.
a fluke.Round 5. Category: Second Place
1: South America's second largest country in area, it borders the largest.
Argentina.
2: It's the second place award in an Olympic event.
Silver medal.
3: It was the second nation to put a man in space.
USA.
4: He had the second highest vote total in the 1944 U.S. presidential balloting.
Thomas E. Dewey.
5: This man wasn't knighted after being the second man to stand on top of Mt. Everest.
Tenzing Norgay (the man who was with Hillary).Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!