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May 13, 2023Episode 822 - geograph"ia" - jingles and slogans - a time to be born - poland - a short history of western union
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 822, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: geograph"ia"
1: Victoria is the capital of this Canadian province.

British Columbia.

2: In 1976 Nadia Comaneci scored perfect 10s and Olympic gold for this country.

Romania.

3: Lake Titicaca is on the border of Peru and this country.

Bolivia.

4: This country is moving its capital to Dodoma from Dar es Salaam.

Tanzania.

5: George Washington helped lay out the streets of this Virginia city.

Alexandria.
Round 2. Category: jingles and slogans
1: "You Deserve a Break Today" at this chain.

McDonald's.

2: It's slogan "The Milk Chocolate Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand" was introduced in 1954.

MandM's.

3: "Like a Good Neighbor", this insurer "is There".

State Farm.

4: It's "M'm! M'm! Good!".

Campbell's soup.

5: According to the old jingle, he "Gets Rid of Dirt and Grime and Grease in Just a Minute".

Mr. Clean.
Round 3. Category: a time to be born
1: Striae is the medical term for these silvery lines that sometimes appear on the skin during pregnancy.

stretch marks.

2: The umbilical cord connects the baby to this organ, which is attached to the mom's uterus.

the placenta.

3: Before this is done on a pregnant woman, she drinks a lot of water and gets a gel applied.

ultrasound.

4: A 4- to 5-inch needle is used in this procedure that tests the fluid surrounding the fetus for genetic disorders.

amniocentesis.

5: These contractions are known as "false labor".

Braxton Hicks.
Round 4. Category: poland
1: After WWII, over 80% of the buildings in this capital were uninhabitable.

Warsaw.

2: The 2 longest of these in Poland are the Oder and Vistula.

rivers.

3: Lenin's name has been stripped from the shipyards in this city where the Solidarity union began.

Gdansk.

4: Poland is among the world's largest producer of this fuel.

coal.

5: These currency units come in notes of up to 2,000,000.

zlotys.
Round 5. Category: a short history of western union
1: The 2006 New York Times headline on Western Union's last telegram used this word, telegrams' version of a period.

stop.

2: Like the railroad would in 1869, the telegraph went transcontinental by linking up in this state, in 1861.

Utah.

3: In 1866 Western Union had the "heart" to introduce the first of these stock-price reporting devices.

a ticker.

4: Western Union introduced the first of these deferred-payment instruments in 1914; it was made of metal.

a credit card (or charge card).

5: In 1964 Western Union began using these high-frequency beams transcontinentally to replace land lines.

microwaves.
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May 12, 2023Episode 821 - on- and off-screen romances - european museums - funny pages - underwear - "s.f."
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 821, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: on- and off-screen romances
1: This "Pretty Woman" fell for Dylan McDermott when she played his wife in "Steel Magnolias".

Julia Roberts.

2: Laura Dern and this "Tall Guy" were linked romantically when they co-starred in "Jurassic Park".

Jeff Goldblum.

3: Dennis Quaid found inner peace when he married this co-star of "Innerspace" in 1991.

Meg Ryan.

4: Brad Pitt's break-up with this "Se7en" co-star made the June 30, 1997 cover of People.

Gwyneth Paltrow.

5: Yves Montand and this blond sex symbol took the title of their 1960 film "Let's Make Love" literally.

Marilyn Monroe.
Round 2. Category: european museums
1: The Richelieu wing of this Paris art museum houses the apartments of Napoleon III.

the Louvre.

2: This city boasts a Byzantine museum and an Acropolis museum.

Athens.

3: This Swiss city's Palais des Nations houses a stamp museum and the League of Nations Museum.

Geneva.

4: A highlight of Berlin's Egyptian Museum is the 3300-year-old bust of this queen.

Nefertiti.

5: A Prague museum devoted to this composer contains the rooms where he finished "Don Giovanni".

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Round 3. Category: funny pages
1: "Sein Language".

Jerry Seinfeld.

2: "Leading with my Chin".

Jay Leno.

3: "Rock This".

Chris Rock.

4: "I Rant, Therefore I Am".

Dennis Miller.

5: "Enter Whining".

Fran Drescher.
Round 4. Category: underwear
1: This Funky Bunch leader helped popularize the boxer short waistband sticking over the top of the pants look.

Marky Mark.

2: For "Days of Thunder", Tom Cruise wore a pair of $100 long johns treated to be this.

fireproof.

3: The Fruit of the Loom quartet has a fig leaf, an apple and 2 different types of this fruit.

grapes.

4: In 2011 Madonna's black one of these one-piece garments, a bra and waist cincher combo, sold for $72,000 at auction.

a bustier.

5: Common options for undershirts with sleeves are V-neck and the rounded one with this sporty name.

a crew neck.
Round 5. Category: "s.f."
1: An oft-quoted cure for this is imagining your audience in their underwear.

Stage fright.

2: If you're showing no sign of emotion, you're keeping one of these.

Straight face.

3: This liquid's on tap, but only your doctor has backbone enough to get it.

Spinal fluid.

4: This songwriter wrote the original version of the following:("O Susanna").

Stephen Foster.

5: It's in the either of the following:(people in a line, or a lone folder).

Single file.
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9min
May 11, 2023Episode 820 - early america - animal common bonds - jewel - warner bros. cartoons - "down" the hatch
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 820, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: early america
1: Carpenters in this colony's city of Savannah went on strike in 1746 for better working conditions.

Georgia.

2: This colony of James Oglethorpe banned the importation of rum and brandy, and forbade slavery.

Georgia.

3: In 1723 in Boston, construction began on this church, one of the first Georgian churches in the Northeast.

the Old North Church.

4: The second of these legislatures drew up the Articles of Confederation.

the Continental Congress.

5: Hot on the trail of 7 magnificent cities, Estevanico called the first one this, entered it and was killed there.

Cibola.
Round 2. Category: animal common bonds
1: Angora,Flemish giant,cottontail.

rabbits.

2: Schipperke,borzoi,bichon frise.

Dogs.

3: Thresher,nurse,whale.

Sharks.

4: Bufflehead,Eider,Teal.

ducks.

5: Black,brown,spectacled.

bears.
Round 3. Category: jewel
1: The Pinctada maxima, or silver-lip oyster, is the largest oyster capable of cultivating one of these.

pearl.

2: The Aztecs showed their rank in society by wearing this bluish-green December birthstone.

turquoise.

3: A variety of smoky quartz, cairngorm is a gemstone that comes from the Cairngorm Mountains of this country.

Scotland.

4: The bulk of the world's peridot is mined from Peridot Mesa on the Apache Indian Reservation in this state.

Arizona.

5: The American ruby and the Cape ruby are not rubies, but red varieties of this mineral.

garnet.
Round 4. Category: warner bros. cartoons
1: "Carnivorous vulgaris" is one of this Roadrunner-chasing rascal's "scientific" names.

the (Wile E.) Coyote.

2: This "scent-imental" skunk was named after Charles Boyer's character in the film "Algiers".

PepÃƒÂ© Le Pew.

3: This "fastest mouse" made his debut in 1953's "Cat-Tails for Two".

Speedy Gonzales.

4: This "roughest, toughest he-man hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande" could never beat Bugs Bunny.

Yosemite Sam.

5: This animal is the symbol of the new Warner Bros. network.

Michigan J. Frog.
Round 5. Category: "down" the hatch
1: This highly undesirable event can occur when a nuclear reactor's core overheats.

Meltdown.

2: If you're hunting by scent, it's where you want to be, relative to your prey.

Downwind.

3: The New England Primer popularized the bedtime prayer beginning with this line.

"Now I lay me down to sleep...".

4: It describes the "trampled" masses.

Downtrodden.

5: In 1902 Battling Nelson inflicted 42 of these on Christy Williams, who finally stayed on the canvas.

Knockdowns.
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9min
May 10, 2023Episode 819 - eggs - pets - napoleon - international books and authors - people on the map
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 819, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: eggs
1: When hard boiling eggs, add a pinch of this to the water to keep the eggs from cracking.

salt.

2: "Joy of Cooking" says not to use a bowl made of this metal when beating eggs, as it will cause the eggs to gray.

aluminum.

3: If you buy a dozen eggs weighing 2 oz. each, they'll have this size designation.

large.

4: Of all reptile eggs, it's the type most commonly eaten.

turtle eggs.

5: Japanese savor the tiny eggs of this game bird and eat them raw on top of sushi.

quail.
Round 2. Category: pets
1: Of the more than 25 Amazon species of these birds, most have green body feathers.

parrots.

2: To impoverish his enemies, the king of Siam gave them elephants of this color, not allowed to work.

white.

3: From Greek for "bloodlessness", this condition can affect cats suffering from too many fleas.

anemia.

4: Basic obedience training makes a dog comfortable, because he sees you as the leader of this group.

a pack.

5: William Howard Taft was the last prez to have one of these grazing at the White House; her name was Pauline Wayne.

a cow.
Round 3. Category: napoleon
1: The cast-off mistress of revolutionary leader Paul Barras, she married Napoleon in 1796.

Josephine.

2: As a child Napoleon Bonaparte hated France for its bloody conquest of this island of his birth.

Corsica.

3: Napoleon was "The Little" this; hey, one more promotion and he makes little sergeant.

Corporal.

4: In 1793 24-year-old Napoleon was seriously wounded in the thigh by one of these musket attachments.

a bayonet.

5: In 1798 Napoleon struck at England by occupying this country, threatening trade routes to India.

Egypt.
Round 4. Category: international books and authors
1: Explorer "of Arabia" who wrote "Seven Pillars of Wisdom".

T.E. Lawrence.

2: Moses Isegawa's 2000 novel "Abyssinian Chronicles" is set partly in Kampala in this, his native country.

Uganda.

3: Argentina's Manuel Puig gave us the "Kiss of" this "Woman"; I read about it on the "web".

"Kiss of the Spider Woman".

4: This author of "Shogun" called himself a "half-Irish Englishman...born in Australia".

James Clavell.

5: Former first lady Jehan Sadat called her moving memoir "A Woman of" this country.

Egypt.
Round 5. Category: people on the map
1: He wrote the songs "There's No Business Like Show Business" and "White Christmas".

Irving Berlin.

2: This Los Angeles Lakers star with 3 championship rings speaks fluent Italian.

Kobe Bryant.

3: He was nominated for an Emmy for his role as Buddy Sorrell on "The Dick Van Dyke Show".

Morey Amsterdam.

4: Among the many larger-than-life characters he created are Captain Wolf Larsen and Buck the sled dog.

Jack London.

5: This British-born actor has starred in "Cabaret", Logan's Run" and "Austin Powers".

Michael York.
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9min
May 09, 2023Episode 818 - the inc.-uisition - nations of africa - movie princes - brave words - nyc street foods
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 818, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: the inc.-uisition
1: This Michigan company formerly had a 30-minute pizza delivery guarantee.

Domino's Pizza.

2: The rhyming New England chain Stop and do this is mentioned in the classic song "Roadrunner".

Shop.

3: Made for over a century by Hillerich and Bradsby Inc., it's the best-known brand of baseball bat.

Louisville Slugger.

4: In the '90s this clothing retailer introduced a "Crewcuts" line for kids.

J. Crew.

5: In 1989 the company called Corning these Works became simply Corning Inc..

Corning Glass Works.
Round 2. Category: nations of africa
1: Add 2 letters to Niger to get the name of this country just south of it.

Nigeria.

2: In a song title, this country whose capital is Nairobi might come before "Feel the Love Tonight".

Kenya.

3: In a song title, this country whose capital is Accra might come before "Fly Now".

Ghana.

4: (Hi, I'm NBA All-Star Dikembe Mutombo) One of the many languages I speak is this official one of my birthplace, Congo.

French.

5: Milton Obote, no bargain either, ran this country before and after Idi Amin.

Uganda.
Round 3. Category: movie princes
1: R. Chamberlain was charming as the prince in "The Slipper and the Rose", a movie based on this.

"Cinderella".

2: In her last Hollywood film, "The Swan", she was engaged to a prince named Albert, not Prince Rainier.

Grace Kelly.

3: Prince, the rock star, began his reign as a movie star in this, his 1st film.

Purple Rain.

4: In 1954 Robert Wagner played this comic strip cutie.

Prince Valiant.

5: Mario Lanza was fired from this movie operetta, but the songs he recorded are still in the film.

The Student Prince.
Round 4. Category: brave words
1: This song calls the U.S. "The land of the free and the home of the brave".

"Star-Spangled Banner".

2: "A hero is brave in deeds as well as words" is the moral of one of his fables.

Aesop.

3: "It is hard to be brave", said this friend of Winnie-The-Pooh, "when you're only a very small animal".

Piglet.

4: In his "Plea For" this abolitionist, Thoreau asked, "When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?".

John Brown.

5: This 20th century novelist defined "guts" as "grace under pressure".

Ernest Hemingway.
Round 5. Category: nyc street foods
1: (Sofia is on Park Avenue, enjoying a pretzel, when....) Oops! I forgot to get a side of this traditional yellow condiment.

mustard.

2: (Sofia is tasting a Mediterranean delicacy.) This pita contains little balls of this, a deep-fried Mideast treat made from chickpeas or fava beans.

falafel.

3: (Sofia is enjoying a foreign potato product.) From the Ukranian for "dumpling", it's the name of the potato product I'm eating.

knish.

4: (Sofia holds up a slice of thin-crust pizza.) You can get pizza New York-style or in this thicker style named for an Italian island.

Sicilian.

5: (Sofia wraps up our taste of the Big Apple--with a stomache--and a bottle of a well-known product for curing such.) Fortunately, also available in New York is this Procter and Gamble tummy-soothing liquid.

Pepto-Bismol.
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May 08, 2023Episode 817 - ranks and measures - variety pack - legends - perils - well, duh!
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 817, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: ranks and measures
1: In the U.S. this document is the highest law in the land.

the Constitution.

2: Amplified rock music and a very close thunderclap hit 120 on this noise scale.

decibel scale.

3: A low grade of copier paper, it's also the weight for a standard bowling ball.

16 pounds.

4: What the British call a billion, a 1 followed by 12 zeros, we call this.

trillion.

5: In the old Hindu caste system the twice-born castes were the Vaisyas, the Kshatriyas and this, which included priests.

Brahmins.
Round 2. Category: variety pack
1: In 1956 this Brynner played King Mongkut on screen.

Yul Brynner.

2: This log traditionally goes into the fireplace at Christmas.

yule log.

3: In the '70s this Gibbons became the spokesman for the health benefits of Grape-Nuts cereals.

Euell Gibbons.

4: It's the first word in the title of the original name of the show on which Phil Silvers played Sgt. Bilko.

You'll (Never Get Rich).

5: Off Detroit, you'll find Belle this.

Isle.
Round 3. Category: legends
1: The man whom Miles Standish asked to have a chat with Priscilla.

John Alden.

2: This legendary outlaw was said to be an early name Robert Fitz-ooth, born in Nottinghamshire.

Robin Hood.

3: Scottish water spirits called Kelpies take the shape of these animals and drown their riders.

horses.

4: Calamity Jane boasted that she rode for this short-lived delivery service.

Pony Express.

5: Container Mary Hays used to bring water to the troops at the Battle of Monmouth.

pitcher (hence the name "Molly Pitcher").
Round 4. Category: perils
1: Jean Lussier and William Fitzgerald are among those who've gone over this landmark in a barrel and survived.

Niagara Falls.

2: On April 13, 1970, this space mission turned perilous as Haise, Lovell and Swigert had to abandon the main ship.

Apollo 13.

3: In the highest helicopter rescue ever, American Seaborne Weathers was plucked from this mountain in 1996.

Everest.

4: In 1974 his chute released early, causing him to plunge into a river canyon, not rocket across it.

Evel Knievel.

5: Aleksandr Pushkin, Stephen Decatur and Button Gwinnett all died from wounds received in one of these.

duel.
Round 5. Category: well, duh!
1: The English word for this animal comes from the Greek "kamelos".

camel.

2: Joan Embery reports that all birds have these, "A characteristic shared by no other type of animal".

Feathers.

3: Waswahili are people who speak this language as their sole mother tongue.

Swahili.

4: This brand of oats uses a man in Quaker garb in its logo.

Quaker Oats.

5: The name of this fruit comes from its clusters' resemblance to a bunch of grapes.

grapefruit.
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9min
May 07, 2023Episode 816 - what's your sign? - anatomy - siegfrieds and roys - things to do with carrots - fads and fashions
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 816, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: what's your sign?
1: I'm this sign; my constellation's brightest star is called Hamal, Arabic for "sheep".

Aries.

2: Add an "N" to the end of this sign and you get a type of animal.

Scorpio.

3: I'm this sign and my name is also an ancient Roman unit of weight.

Libra.

4: December 1:Go ahead, take a shot.

Sagittarius.

5: The name of this sign begins with the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.

Taurus.
Round 2. Category: anatomy
1: The cones in the eye allow us to see colors and these light-sensitive cells allow us to see shades of gray.

rods.

2: When fibrogen is converted to fibrin by thrombin, blood does this.

clot.

3: A bone that vibrates when it hears "go horsey", or a place for your foot on a saddle.

a stirrup.

4: When you toss a drink down the hatch, it goes down this tube to the stomach.

your esophagus.

5: In osteoarthritis this tissue disintegrates and bones rub against one another.

the cartilage.
Round 3. Category: siegfrieds and roys
1: In an 1870s ballet, Prince Siegfried falls in love with one of these graceful birds.

Swan.

2: This singer took "Oh, Pretty Woman" to No. 1 in 1964.

Roy Orbison.

3: This composer of the opera "Siegfried" also named his son Siegfried.

Richard Wagner.

4: Before he became the "King of the Cowboys" on film, he formed the Sons of the Pioneers singing group.

Roy Rogers.

5: In a Sir Walter Scott novel, this title character is an outlaw of the MacGregor clan.

Rob Roy.
Round 4. Category: things to do with carrots
1: Have your mom cut your carrots into these for your lunchbox and you can play a "pick up" game with them.

sticks.

2: A man named Mel Blanc crunched carrots while providing the voice of this carrot-loving rabbit.

Bugs Bunny.

3: In February 1999 people in Bethel, Maine made one 113 feet tall with an 8-foot-long "carrot" nose.

a snowman.

4: This popular dessert is usually topped with a cream cheese frosting.

carrot cake.

5: Carrots go into one version of this side dish, shredded cabbage and a mayonnaise-based sauce.

cole slaw.
Round 5. Category: fads and fashions
1: The bobbed hair style of this skater known for her camel was the rage in 1976.

Dorothy Hamill.

2: To be fashionable, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice did it to her hair.

bobbed it.

3: Striking a prayerful pose on one knee isn't called Timming but this.

Tebowing.

4: The 1950s Davy Crockett craze sent the price of these pelts from 25 cents to $8 a pound.

raccoon pelts.

5: In the 1920s folks got all fired up about sitting at the top of these, sometimes for weeks at a time.

flagpoles.
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9min
May 07, 2023Episode 815 - like a lion - think twice - the four seasons - earls - the daily show
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 815, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: like a lion
1: People of this Zodiac sign represented by a lion can be brave, noble and ferocious.

Leo.

2: This "Lion-Hearted" king was born in Oxford in 1157.

Richard.

3: More than one lion has been the spokesroarer for this legendary motion picture company.

MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).

4: This mythical hero wore the skin of the Nemean lion he had slain.

Hercules.

5: One of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's titles was the "Conquering Lion of" this tribe.

Judah.
Round 2. Category: think twice
1: At Mach 2, a plane is traveling at twice the speed of this.

sound.

2: The Canary Islands were named after these animals.

Dogs.

3: Proverbially, "once" this, "twice shy".

bitten.

4: The 22nd Amendment puts a limit of twice on this.

presidential terms.

5: Number of horses who have won the Kentucky Derby twice.

zero.
Round 3. Category: the four seasons
1: The fall guy in the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert Fall, was born November 26, 1861 in this season.

the fall.

2: According to "You've Got A Friend", it's when you can call your "friend" James Taylor.

winter, spring, summer, or fall.

3: According to the old song, it's when "she's your tootsey wootsey".

the good old summertime.

4: The University of Cambridge's Michaelmas term takes place in this season.

the fall.

5: In this 1973 film Joanne Woodward obsesses on her childhood.

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams.
Round 4. Category: earls
1: Earl Browder, author of "Marx And America", was general secretary of this U.S. party from 1930 to 1944.

Communist Party.

2: By the time he died in 1992, his "Any Car, Any Color" offer had risen from $29.95 to $119.95.

Earl Scheib.

3: He narrated, no doubt resonantly, the 1972 documentary "Malcolm X".

James Earl Jones.

4: This future chief justice was Dewey's running mate when he didn't defeat Truman.

Earl Warren.

5: "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" wasn't recorded by Flatt and Sharp but by Flatt and him.

Earl Scruggs.
Round 5. Category: the daily show
1: The April 9, 2005 wedding of these 2 people was the topic of "Bride of Chucky".

Prince Charles and Camilla.

2: Now in its 34th season, this show featuring Nancy O'Dell is still keeping tabs on celebs.

Entertainment Tonight.

3: Mario Batali is a co-host of this ABC show about all things edible.

The Chew.

4: "Deconstructing Harriet" broke down her Supreme Court nomination (before it broke down).

Harriet Miers.

5: She's hosted the Oscars twice, in 2007 and 2014, and her own daily talk show since 2003.

Ellen DeGeneres.
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May 05, 2023Episode 814 - 1980s fads - well equipped - i've got supernatural powers - italian cinema - the letter g
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 814, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: 1980s fads
1: Torn sweatshirts and legwarmers were all the rage after this 1983 Jennifer Beals movie.

Flashdance.

2: Sensitive men of the '70s were out; "Real Men" didn't eat this.

quiche.

3: Androgeny was exemplified by Eurythmics' Annie Lennox, and by this lead singer of Culture Club.

Boy George.

4: Based on Xavier Roberts' sculptures, these dolls were a popular item for adoption in 1983.

Cabbage Patch (Kids).

5: Greed was good: Trump taught "The Art of the Deal", and she said, "Only the little people pay taxes".

(Leona) Helmsley.
Round 2. Category: well equipped
1: Cars come with standard equipment, but you can add on these, from the Latin for "choice".

options.

2: This piece of equipment was first worn by a future admiral playing in the 1893 Army-Navy Game.

football helmet.

3: Corers, ballers, griddles and mousse rings are equipment used by these professionals.

chefs.

4: Among the equipment in a well-stocked lab is this piece you grow your mold in.

petri dish.

5: Hidden cameras, bugs and PC taps are classified as this type of equipment, from the French for "to watch over".

surveillance.
Round 3. Category: i've got supernatural powers
1: Hanuman, a monkey god of this religion, sometimes has 5 heads.

Hinduism.

2: A Scottish breed of cow shares its name with this Celtic god of love whose kisses become birds.

Angus.

3: This Semitic mother goddess can make the heavens and earth tremble (and film critics wince).

Ishtar.

4: The Greek goddess of justice, she can turn herself into animals and also be your worst enemy.

Nemesis.

5: The Greek goddess of magic and Shakespeare's queen of the witches, she can make cows fat or skinny.

Hecate.
Round 4. Category: italian cinema
1: His film "Life is Beautiful" was widely compared to Jerry Lewis' "The Day the Clown Cried".

Roberto Benigni.

2: Literary classics Pasolini adapted for the screen include this one, as "I Racconti di Canterbury".

"The Canterbury Tales".

3: "Miss Italia" was an early film by this beauty known as "La Lollo".

Gina Lollobrigida.

4: It's the "Open City" in the title of Rossellini's film about the German occupation.

Rome.

5: In "La Dolce Vita", Walter Santesso played the photographer who gave his name to this profession.

Paparazzi (named for Paparazzo).
Round 5. Category: the letter g
1: A G-note is slang for this amount of money.

a $1,000.

2: Item in common to a stripper and the guitarist in her band.

a G-string.

3: The logo of this Cheerios maker is a big letter G.

General Mills.

4: Of the U.S. presidents, the one whose middle name is usually shown as G..

Harding.

5: This fusion saxophonist's real last name is Gorelick.

Kenny G.
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May 04, 2023Episode 813 - march - classic movies - '50s rock lyrics - washingtonnage - news of the '90s
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 813, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: march
1: Touching off the "War of the Oranges", Spain declared war on this neighbor on March 2, 1801.

Portugal.

2: March 19 is the traditional day the swallows return to this California mission.

San Juan Capistrano.

3: On March 4, 1861, the Confederacy adopted its flag, exactly 72 years after this document had gone into effect.

Constitution.

4: On St. Patrick's Day in 1940, the Brooklyn kill-for-hire gang later nicknamed this was exposed.

Murder Incorporated.

5: Not a good sign: on March 11, 1824 this govt. bureau abbreviated B.I.A. began as a part of the War Department.

the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Round 2. Category: classic movies
1: Once upon a time Robin Wright played Buttercup in this film scripted by William Goldman.

The Princess Bride.

2: "Road to Bali" has these 2 stars on an island with Dorothy Lamour, who's wearing a sarong, natch.

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.

3: In one of the original slasher films, Janet Leigh is killed off just 20 minutes into this 1960 thriller.

Psycho.

4: In a 1967 film Charles Bronson and Jim Brown are among this title group of 12 who are trained by Lee Marvin for a war mission.

The Dirty Dozen.

5: This Kurosawa film about a crime told from multiple points of view is credited with introducing Japanese cinema to the Western world.

Rashomon.
Round 3. Category: '50s rock lyrics
1: This 1957 Paul Anka hit begins, "I'm so young and you're so old. This my darling I've been told".

"Diana".

2: 1959 Coasters hit which contains the line "Fee fee fi fi fo fo fum".

"Charlie Brown".

3: In 1959 Ray Charles sang, "Tell your mama, tell your pa, I'm gonna ship you back to" this state.

Arkansas.

4: In 1954 The Penguins asked her, "Will you be mine, my darling dear, love you all the time".

"Earth Angel".

5: In 1958 the Crests told us these "make a lovely sight but not as bright as your eyes tonight".

"Sixteen Candles".
Round 4. Category: washingtonnage
1: In 1998 Washington state processed 43,500 tons of grapes into white wine, about half of it this variety.

Chardonnay.

2: With 13 offensive linemen totaling almost 2 tons, UW's football team lives up to this nickname.

the Huskies.

3: The "freighter" type of this huge Boeing jetliner has a maximum takeoff weight of over 430 tons.

747.

4: Oddly, in 1997 state aquaculture produced 28 tons of the Pacific type of this fish but 6,326 tons of the Atlantic type.

salmon.

5: This structure that created Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake weighs about 24 million tons.

the Grand Coulee Dam.
Round 5. Category: news of the '90s
1: In 1991 he became the first popularly elected national leader in Russian history.

Boris Yeltsin.

2: In 1990 George Bush took a firm stand against eating this vegetable.

broccoli.

3: Common name of the U.N. conference on environment and development held in Rio in 1992.

the Earth Summit.

4: On Jan. 17, 1991 Allied air forces began bombing this country in order to liberate it.

Kuwait.

5: After her election as governor in 1990, she said, "In Texas, politics is a contact sport".

Ann Richards.
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