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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1179, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: State Of The Book

• 1: "The Help".
• Mississippi.
• 2: "The Last Picture Show".
• Texas.
• 3: "Washington Square".
• New York.
• 4: "Centennial" by James Michener.
• Colorado.
• 5: "The Grapes of Wrath"--2 states please, where the story begins and ends.
• Oklahoma and California.

Round 2. Category: Tell

• 1: Although he may be legendary, William Tell is one of the best-known heroes of this nation.
• Switzerland.
• 2: This form of "William" is in the German title of Friedrich Schiller's play about Tell.
• Wilhelm.
• 3: In the traditional William Tell story, this is the cause of death of the cruel governor Gessler.
• shot with an arrow.
• 4: It was Tell's response when Gessler asked what the extra arrow was for.
• to kill him if he missed with the first one.
• 5: The overture to this Italian composer's opera about William Tell is used to speed things up.
• Rossini.

Round 3. Category: Guinness Animal Records

• 1: The largest one ever made by birds was built by bald eagles and weighed over 6,700 lbs..
• a nest.
• 2: A Texas cat named Dusty must have been the cat's meow as she had 420 of these.
• kittens.
• 3: Some of these arthropods have as many as 750 legs, not a thousand as their name implies.
• a millipede.
• 4: The Gaboon viper has the longest of any snake, nearly 2".
• the fang.
• 5: It's the slowest-moving land mammal, and its name is a synonym for laziness.
• a sloth.

Round 4. Category: The New York Times Style

• 1: An nytimes.com slide show on this woman's style included the red and black number from Election Night 2008.
• Michelle Obama.
• 2: Disco hoops and other styles of extravagant these "suggest you are taking the party with you".
• earrings.
• 3: A blog post notes that Junya Watanabe's Spring '09 collection continues to rely on this basic type of working pants.
• jeans.
• 4: In May 2008 the times reported on a more modest look in this wear, including boy shorts and halter tops.
• swimwear.
• 5: The times said this "NY" designer became "a Seventh Avenue original" using tights as a foundation for skirts and shirts.
• Donna Karan.

Round 5. Category: A Success With Brush

• 1: In "The Story of Painting" Sister Wendy says, "He is much more than a painter of the fair and fat".
• (Peter Paul) Rubens.
• 2: An early 1730s work by Canaletto shows this canal city's "Quay of the Piazzetta".
• Venice.
• 3: There are 2 versions of John Singleton Copley's "Watson and" this sea predator in U.S. galleries.
• the Shark.
• 4: For your information, no, your six-year-old could not make paintings just like this man's 1952 "Convergence".
• (Jackson) Pollock.
• 5: Victorine Meurent, his favorite model, is the nude in his "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe".
• Edouard Manet.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1178, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Businesses

• 1: Ewing Oil.
• Dallas.
• 2: Duff Brewery.
• The Simpsons.
• 3: Bluth's Original Frozen Banana.
• Arrested Development.
• 4: Luthercorp.
• Smallville.
• 5: Los Pollos Hermanos--best chicken in New Mexico!.
• Breaking Bad.

Round 2. Category: A Visit From St. Nicholas

• 1: '"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even" this one.
• a mouse.
• 2: It completes the line "but I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, 'Happy Christmas to all,...'".
• and to all a good night.
• 3: "He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished with" these 2 items.
• ashes and soot.
• 4: St. Nick's nose is described as resembling this fruit.
• a cherry.
• 5: Of Santa's 8 reindeer, it's the last one named.
• Blitzen.

Round 3. Category: Black

• 1: If your black piano keys are shiny, they're probably plastic; if they dull with age, probably this wood.
• ebony.
• 2: This company cleaned up when it introduced the Dustbuster in 1979.
• Black and Decker.
• 3: A black monolith mysteriously appears at different times in human history in this classic sci-fi film.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• 4: The Black Death that killed many in Europe in the 1300s is believed to have been caused by this type of organism, Yersinia pestis.
• a bacterium.
• 5: Their home ice is located at 1901 West Madison Street.
• the Blackhawks.

Round 4. Category: Field Of DreamS. With Dream in quotation marks

• 1: Someone considered very good-looking is said to be one of these "ships".
• Dreamboat.
• 2: Collective name for the 1992 U.S. men's Olympic basketball squad.
• "The Dream Team".
• 3: In 1983 Eurythmics hit No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts with this song.
• "Sweet Dreams".
• 4: This popular musical was supposedly based in part on the lives and careers of the Supremes.
• Dreamgirls.
• 5: Freud published this landmark study in 1899.
• The Interpretation Of Dreams.

Round 5. Category: Name The Parent Company

• 1: Post-it notes.
• 3M.
• 2: Fisher-Price toys.
• Mattel.
• 3: Cheerios andBetty Crocker products.
• General Mills.
• 4: Crest toothpaste.
• Procter and Gamble.
• 5: Velveeta.
• Kraft.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1177, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: On The Pga Tour

• 1: Out on an island in 2001, a downhill 60-foot triple-break putt at TPC Sawgrass' famed 17th was better than most for this superstar.
• Tiger Woods.
• 2: Here's Bubba Watson cutting loose with this type of 5-letter shot that veers to the side of the dominant hand of the player.
• a slice.
• 3: The long chip at the 1978 Jackie Gleason Classic was one of 5 straight birdies to seal the win for this Golden Bear.
• Jack Nicklaus.
• 4: Here's Phil Mickelson putting for birdie at the gorgeous par-5 18th to claim the 2012 Pro-Am title at this California beach.
• Pebble Beach.
• 5: Check out the $10 million putt that won the 2016 FedEx Cup bonus for this man, also known as Wee Mac.
• Rory McIlroy.

Round 2. Category: Ageless Quotes

• 1: Whale tale author who wrote, "Youth is immortal; 'tis the elderly only grow old!".
• Melville.
• 2: In "The Brook" this "Light Brigade" author wrote, "For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever".
• Tennyson.
• 3: About this queen, Shakespeare wrote, "age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety".
• Cleopatra.
• 4: Oscar Wilde wrote, "One should never trust a woman who tells one" this; she "would tell one anything".
• her real age.
• 5: Betty Friedan wrote, "to keep... life-giving ties alive... is our" this, the opposite of Ponce de Leon's legendary quest.
• "fountain of age".

Round 3. Category: America'S Most Haunted

• 1: The white-haired ghost of this fiery leader walks alongside a black dog at Harpers Ferry in West Virginia.
• John Brown.
• 2: Ghosts may account for a mysterious chill in cell 14-D of this former California island prison.
• Alcatraz.
• 3: The father of Jennie Wade, the lone civilian casualty of this PA. battle, haunts the home in which she was killed.
• Gettysburg.
• 4: Some say the ghost in this city's Hilton Hotel may be a murder victim or the volcano goddess Madame Pele.
• Honolulu.
• 5: The Shaft Alley Spectre is one of many ghosts haunting this Long Beach luxury liner first launched in 1936.
• Queen Mary.

Round 4. Category: World Theatre

• 1: This "War and Peace" author's play "The Power of Darkness" was once banned in his native Russia.
• Leo Tolstoy.
• 2: Conor McPherson's haunting play "The Weir" is set in a pub in this country.
• Ireland.
• 3: The first known play presented at this British university was "St. Katherine" in 1490.
• Oxford.
• 4: The Olivier Theatre opened in this city in 1976 with a production of "Tamburlaine the Great".
• London.
• 5: Israeli playwright Nathan Alterman called his first play "Kineret, Kineret...", Kineret being Hebrew for the Sea of this.
• Sea of Galilee.

Round 5. Category: Where Is That, Pierre?

• 1: If you're visiting the Cannes Film Festival, you're on this sea.
• the Mediterranean.
• 2: The Jura Mountains straddle the border between France and this country.
• Switzerland.
• 3: This region of NW France derives its name from Celts fleeing the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England.
• Brittany.
• 4: This region of France between the Seine and Marne Valleys is famous for its soft white cheese.
• Brie.
• 5: A northern member of the Windward Islands, this volcanic isle has been a possession of France since 1635.
• Martinique.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1176, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Alphanumerics

• 1: The first swine flu, identified in 1930, was caused by this alphanumeric virus; in 2009 it was back.
• H1N1.
• 2: This company makes scotchlite reflective material.
• 3M.
• 3: This astromech droid served 2 Skywalkers.
• R2-D2.
• 4: Talk about primo and to the point! It was the alpanumeric license plate--London's first--issued December 1903.
• A1.
• 5: A young Anakin Skywalker created this droid to help his mother with household chores.
• C-3PO.

Round 2. Category: Indian Chiefs

• 1: This Chiricahua leader joined the Dutch Reformed Church in 1903 but was expelled for gambling.
• Geronimo.
• 2: It's said that Hiawatha started this league of the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and Cayuga tribes.
• Iroquois League.
• 3: Called "Curly" as a boy, this great Oglala Sioux chief died a year after the Battle of Little Bighorn.
• Crazy Horse.
• 4: In 1903 he pleaded with Pres. Roosevelt for the return of his Nez Perce to their home.
• Chief Joseph.
• 5: A monument to this Mohegan chief was erected on the site of the home of J.F. Cooper.
• Uncas.

Round 3. Category: Fictional Witches

• 1: In "The Thirteenth Sacrifice", witches have returned to this city and Boston cop Samantha Ryan is hunting them.
• Salem.
• 2: Cho Chang and Fleur Delacour are 2 of the many witches in this book series.
• Harry Potter.
• 3: In "Macbeth" the three witches who prophesy his success and doom are appropriately also known as these "sisters".
• the weird sisters.
• 4: Jadis of Charn is the evil White Witch laying chilly havoc to this C.S. Lewis land.
• Narnia.
• 5: Jane, Alexandra and Sukie are the 3 title uninhibited magical mavens in this Updike novel.
• The Witches of Eastwick.

Round 4. Category: Geographic Crossword Clues B. With B in quotes

• 1: Look out "B" low country(7).
• Belgium.
• 2: Strait through Istanbul(9).
• Bosphorus.
• 3: French Frenchvolcanic volcanicisland island(4-4).
• Bora-Bora.
• 4: "Common" place city(6).
• Boston.
• 5: Cream center of Germany(7).
• Bavaria.

Round 5. Category: What A Beast!

• 1: Bigger than Jerseys, this U.K. cow breed from its own isle produces lots of slightly yellowish milk.
• a Guernsey.
• 2: Here's a close-up of one of the 30,000 quills on this animal; they slide in easy, but back-facing barbs make removal difficult.
• a porcupine.
• 3: Unlike the hippo, which has fully developed 4 of these, the rhino only has 3 with which to test water daintily.
• toes.
• 4: A flap of skin and fur called a bell hangs from the throat of this largest member of the deer family.
• moose (elk accepted).
• 5: This "hairless" breed of cat developed from a kitty born in Canada, not Egypt.
• Sphynx.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1175, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Original 31 Flavors

• 1: Sour item that precedes Crisp, Custard and Sherbet in 3 of Baskin-Robbins' original 31 flavors.
• Lemon.
• 2: Varieties of this flavor included French and Burnt Almond.
• Vanilla.
• 3: This traditional Christmas drink was available.
• Egg Nog.
• 4: Flavors included this type of "Stick" (but not this type of "Patty").
• Peppermint.
• 5: Nuts to you! and marshmallows, too, with this alliterative original flavor.
• Rocky Road.

Round 2. Category: Wintry Reading

• 1: In a kids' book, on a snowy day Nicki loses this item of clothing, just like the 3 little kittens.
• mittens.
• 2: Dostoyevsky's autobiographical novel "The House of the Dead" has been published with the subtitle "or, Prison Life" here--brrr!.
• Siberia.
• 3: The 2019 book "The Enchanted Forest" is a tie-in with this long-awaited animated sequel.
• Frozen 2.
• 4: Set in Iceland, the sixth novel in the Detective Erlendur series is titled not "Frostbite" but this condition.
• hypothermia.
• 5: It's 1954 and tensions are high on an island with a lot of Japanese Americans in David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these.
• Cedars.

Round 3. Category: Ancient Science

• 1: The ancient Sumerian number system, based on 60, is still used today to measure this.
• time.
• 2: Around 400 B.C. Democritus proposed that all matter is composed of these tiny units.
• atoms.
• 3: Considered 1st universal genius, this student of Plato believed goats breathed through their ears.
• Aristotle.
• 4: Chinese general Huang-ti used a lodestone as one of these around 300 B.C., perhaps by floating it in a bowl.
• a compass.
• 5: Delta city with automatic door openers, washing machines, and a world-famous library.
• Alexandria.

Round 4. Category: London On Film

• 1: Guinness says this current resident of 10 Downing Street was 1st portrayed on film in "For Your Eyes Only".
• Margaret Thatcher.
• 2: R. Chandler's novel was set in L.A., but this '77 remake was "curiously and ineffectively set in London".
• The Big Sleep.
• 3: In "My Fair Lady", Eliza Doolittle peddled her posies here, in front of the opera house.
• Covent Garden.
• 4: The bird woman in "Mary Poppins" sells feed for birds in front of this church build by Wren.
• St. Paul's.
• 5: 1973 film in which George Segal trysts with Glenda Jackson in a Garrard St. flat.
• A Touch of Class.

Round 5. Category: He Was Senator And President

• 1: Though he served Penn. in the Senate from 1834 to 1845, he supported pro-slavery Southern positions; he didn't get better as pres..
• Buchanan.
• 2: His nickname "Tricky Dick" dates back to the 1950s California campaign that put him in the Senate.
• Nixon.
• 3: Though the Senate failed by one vote to de-president him, his later return to the body was met with flowers and applause.
• (Andrew) Johnson.
• 4: This Ohioan found the Senate "far more to my liking than" being pres. could be; scandal and death in office followed.
• Warren G. Harding.
• 5: This New Yorker and future president joined the Senate in 1821 and soon led the fight against imprisonment for debt.
• Martin Van Buren.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1174, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Online And Texting Abbrev.

• 1: If I want you to call, hmu stands for this... say, tomorrow?.
• hit me up.
• 2: Someone sliding into your DMs is trying to reach you via these.
• direct messages.
• 3: Making an OTP, one true this, means figuring out ideal character matches.
• pairing.
• 4: Want to know if others are experiencing the same? dae is short for this question starter.
• does anybody else?.
• 5: eli5 is shorthand for this expression, so use small words to clarify.
• explain it to me like I'm 5.

Round 2. Category: Tv Theme Song Hits

• 1: 1962:"The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" from this show.
• The Beverly Hillbillies.
• 2: 1995:"I'll Be There For You".
• Friends.
• 3: 1993:"Bad Boys".
• Cops.
• 4: 1976:"Making Our Dreams Come True".
• Laverne and Shirley.
• 5: 1981:"Believe It Or Not".
• The Greatest American Hero.

Round 3. Category: Med. Abbrev.

• 1: CTS, carpal tunnel syndrome, can be an RSI, this kind of injury.
• repetitive stress injury.
• 2: On a prescription, q.i.d. is a Latin abbreviation indicating the medication should be taken this often.
• four times a day.
• 3: In the event of SCA (Sudden Cardiac Arrest), a life can be saved by an AED (an Automated External one of these devices).
• defibrillator.
• 4: To decrease swelling from an injury, a doctor may order you to be on BR, short for this.
• bed rest.
• 5: Don't get all stressed out by an EKG, which stands for this.
• electrocardiogram.

Round 4. Category: Ard Stuff. With Ard in quotation marks

• 1: A large drinking vessel with a single handle and often a hinged cover.
• a tankard.
• 2: Payment offered and made for the return of lost property.
• a reward.
• 3: 7-letter word for a grove of fruit or nut trees.
• orchard.
• 4: Clumsy, or hard to handle.
• awkward.
• 5: An explosive device used to break down a wall; you might be "hoisted with your own" if you're unlucky.
• a petard.

Round 5. Category: Anagram Pairs

• 1: Japan's capital, now and then.
• Tokyo and Kyoto.
• 2: A short sleep anda dish to cook eggs.
• nap and pan.
• 3: Cut calories and cut and splice a film.
• edit and diet.
• 4: A personal journal about working in a milk-producing facility.
• a dairy diary.
• 5: An adult female horse and 500 sheets of paper.
• a mare and a ream.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1173, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Historic Classifieds

• 1: "FSBO." this "vast region including Aleutian Islands. $7.2 million OBO".
• Alaska.
• 2: In 431 he would have jumped at the ad "Bishop needed for Celtic island. Must have shamrock".
• St. Patrick.
• 3: Situation wanted: this "ex-naval minister seeks post, nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, sweat".
• Winston Churchill.
• 4: In 1508 he may have successfully responded to "Chapel painter needed. Strong neck a must".
• Michelangelo.
• 5: In the 1660s she could have advertised, "Experienced queen seeks throne. Catholic countries only".
• Queen Christina of Sweden.

Round 2. Category: 1995 Cars

• 1: This company has a new ragtop Celica.
• Toyota.
• 2: Pontiac's Sunfire replaced this other "Sun" model.
• the Sunbird.
• 3: Its new XJ6 sedan has a base price of $53,450; its XJ12, $77,250.
• Jaguar.
• 4: This Japanese automaker's Odyssey is its first minivan.
• Honda.
• 5: Its Integra LS is Consumer Reports' top recommended small car.
• Acura.

Round 3. Category: Tough Chicks

• 1: Yvonne Craig on TV and Alicia Silverstone on film played this hero.
• Batgirl.
• 2: This New Zealander hung up her chakram in 2001.
• Lucy Lawless.
• 3: As this hero, Lynda Carter was in her satin tights, fighting for her rights.
• Wonder Woman.
• 4: She was played on TV by Diana Rigg and on film by Uma Thurman.
• Emma Peel.
• 5: She was a kick as Yu Shu Lien in "Crouching Tiger" and Wai Lin in "Tomorrow Never Dies".
• Michelle Yeoh.

Round 4. Category: Comedians

• 1: Comic whose "trial by fire" fueled his comedy routines.
• Richard Pryor.
• 2: Michael Palin was one of "the knights who say 'Ni'" in a 1975 film by this comedy troupe.
• Monty Python.
• 3: His teaming with Dean Martin lasted 10 years - 1946 to 1956.
• Jerry Lewis.
• 4: Before he became Mork from Ork, he studied acting with John Houseman at Juilliard.
• Robin Williams.
• 5: After walking the beat with Nick Nolte, he's on his own in "Beverly Hills Cop".
• Eddie Murphy.

Round 5. Category: Transportation In Song

• 1: In "The Christmas Song, "They know that Santa's on his way, he's loaded lots of toys and goodies on" this.
• his sleigh.
• 2: A hotel party inspired Steven Tyler to write, "Love In" one of these, "livin' it up when I'm goin' down".
• an elevator.
• 3: In "Dead Man's Curve" the driver of a Jaguar XK-E challenged the driver of this Chevy sports car to a drag race.
• a (Stingray) Corvette.
• 4: Day-o! This Harry Belafonte calypso favorite was featured in a raucous dinner scene in the film "Beetlejuice".
• the "Banana Boat" (song).
• 5: In "The Letter" the Box Tops didn't have "time to make the fast train", so they got a ticket on this.
• an airplane.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1172, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 20Th Century Poets

• 1: In 1917, at age 52, this Irishman got married and published his book "The Wild Swans Of Coole".
• William Butler Yeats.
• 2: This author of the poem "Daddy" committed suicide in 1963, before she could work out her parental issues.
• Sylvia Plath.
• 3: In 2000 the Librarian of Congress announced that 95-year-old Stanley Kunitz would take up this post.
• poet laureate.
• 4: He read almost as well as he wrote: "Do not go gentle into that good night...".
• Dylan Thomas.
• 5: Trees figured in many of his poems, like "Birches", "Dust of Snow" and "Good-Bye and Keep Cold".
• Robert Frost.

Round 2. Category: Cooking Methods

• 1: To pass dry ingredients like flour through a fine-meshed sieve; doing so removes large pieces and incorporates air.
• to sift.
• 2: Highly seasoned meat is seared so that the surface forms a crust in this "colorful" Cajun technique.
• blackening.
• 3: This synonym for perspire is also a method of cooking over low heat to soften ingredients without browning.
• sweating.
• 4: To cook fish en papillote, you'll need this type of paper to seal in the flavor and juices.
• parchment paper.
• 5: From the Latin for "to make soft", it's soaking food, usually fruit, in a liquid in order to infuse it with the liquid's flavor.
• macerate.

Round 3. Category: Grape Jam

• 1: In an Aesop tale this animal decided the grapes he couldn't reach had to be sour.
• the fox.
• 2: Grape Island in this Massachusetts harbor was the site of a skirmish over hay during the Revolutionary War.
• Boston Harbor.
• 3: Mae West's famous order in "I'm No Angel".
• "Peel me a grape!".
• 4: Greek stuffed grape leaves, or dolmades, are usually stuffed with this grain.
• rice.
• 5: This dentist and prohibitionist began selling his "unfermented wine" in 1869; in 1890 he renamed it "Grape Juice".
• Thomas B. Welch.

Round 4. Category: I Played A Doctor And Some Other Guy On Tv

• 1: Dr. Doogie Howser andEthan Burdick.
• Neil Patrick Harris.
• 2: Dr. Derek Shepherd andAaron Brooks.
• (Patrick) Dempsey.
• 3: Dr. Doug Ross andChic Chesbro.
• George Clooney.
• 4: Quincy, M.E. andOscar Madison.
• Jack Klugman.
• 5: Marcus Welby andJim Anderson (the "Father" who "Knows Best").
• Robert Young.

Round 5. Category: Johnny Gilbert Goes Country

• 1: "...Found new thread for my old spool, just because I'm blonde, don't think I'm dumb, 'cause this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool".
• Dolly Parton.
• 2: "I hear the train a-comin', it's rolling 'round the bend, and I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when".
• Johnny Cash.
• 3: "The red headed stranger had eyes like thunder, his lips they were sad and tight".
• Willie Nelson.
• 4: "Just two good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born".
• Waylon Jennings.
• 5: "Take this job and shove it, I ain't workin' here no more, my woman done left and took all the reason I was workin' for".
• (Johnny) Paycheck.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1171, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: He'S The Coach

• 1: UCLA Men's Basketball, 1949-1975.
• John Wooden.
• 2: Indiana Pacers, 1997-2000.
• Larry Bird.
• 3: Green Bay Packers, 1959-1967.
• Vince Lombardi.
• 4: University of Nebraska Football, 1973-1997.
• Tom Osborne.
• 5: Chicago Bears, 1920-1967 (with a few breaks).
• George Halas.

Round 2. Category: Weather Gear

• 1: To avoid the sun's glare at the beach, wear these tinted accessories.
• sunglasses.
• 2: In winter these are often connected by a string that runs through the sleeves of a child's coat.
• mittens.
• 3: Protective device the French call un parapluie and the British call a brolly.
• an umbrella.
• 4: A small cylinder of fur or cloth into which the hands are inserted for warmth.
• Muff.
• 5: A raincoat, often yellow, named for its glossy appearance.
• a slicker.

Round 3. Category: We'Re An American Land

• 1: Annexed in 1867, this island may be only 2 square miles but a 1942 battle there proved to be a key moment in the Pacific in WWII.
• Midway.
• 2: This Caribbean island that became a commonwealth in 1952 covers more than 3,400 square miles.
• Puerto Rico.
• 3: 2,300 miles SW of Hawaii, this territory that has "American" in its name is administered by the Interior Dept..
• (American) Samoa.
• 4: This became a territory on Aug. 1, 1950 and the focus of a possible nuclear confrontation in 2017.
• Guam.
• 5: This term that precedes "Guinea" is also found before "Islands" that include U.S. possessions like Kingman Reef.
• equatorial.

Round 4. Category: Letter Words

• 1: If you think of something to add after you've finished a letter, put it in one of these, abbreviated P.S..
• postscript.
• 2: Letter writers must really mean what they say, as they often sign off pairing this 9-letter adverb with "yours".
• sincerely.
• 3: This word for the greeting that begins a letter comes from Latin for "health".
• salutation.
• 4: With certified mail and this 10-letter type, the postal service provides proof of mailing.
• registered.
• 5: The address and date at a letter's beginning, it's also a word for a ship's direction.
• a heading.

Round 5. Category: Wild Things. With Wild in quotes

• 1: Before marriage, many a man is said to "sow" these.
• wild oats.
• 2: Popularly served with poultry, its scientific name is Zizania aquatica.
• wild rice.
• 3: The domesticated pig is believed to be descended from this animal.
• the wild boar.
• 4: It was President Truman's 1948 campaign song.
• "I'm Just Wild About Harry".
• 5: This 1969 western is considered Sam Peckinpah's best work.
• The Wild Bunch.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1170, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: At The Bookstore

• 1: Kathryn Glasgow's first novel, "Another Song About the King", features a mom obsessed with this singer.
• Elvis Presley.
• 2: 2 men travel America with this man's brain in a Tupperware bowl in the true story "Driving Mr. Albert".
• Albert Einstein.
• 3: This prolific novelist proved her "metal" once again with her 2000 bestseller "The House on Hope Street".
• Danielle Steel.
• 4: "Dark Eagle" by historian John Ensor Harr is called "A Novel Of" this traitor "And the American Revolution".
• Benedict Arnold.
• 5: The front cover of "Hooking Up" by this "Bonfire of the Vanities" author shows his name but not the book's title.
• Tom Wolfe.

Round 2. Category: Ends In Ola. With Ola in quotation marks

• 1: It's what you ride along the canals of Venice.
• a gondola.
• 2: It often includes rolled oats, wheat germ, honey, fruit and nuts.
• granola.
• 3: This early phonograph began cranking out music in 1906.
• a Victrola.
• 4: Italy's Lombardy region is famous for producing this soft (and smelly) blue cheese.
• Gorgonzola.
• 5: Haiti occupies a third of this island; the Dominican Republic covers the rest.
• Hispaniola.

Round 3. Category: Classic Country

• 1: 1 of 3 original members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• (1 of) Hank Williams, Sr., Jimmie Rodgers and Fred Rose.
• 2: To make it as "A big star in the movies", Buck Owens said he had to "act" this way.
• naturally.
• 3: Lefty Frizzell told his honey, "If you've got the money, I've got" this.
• the time.
• 4: Migrants leaving this state's "Dust Bowl" helped bring country music to the West.
• Oklahoma.
• 5: In 1958, the first country music Grammy Award went to this Kingston Trio song.
• "Tom Dooley".

Round 4. Category: The Last Word Said In Classic Films

• 1: "The Wizard of Oz".
• home.
• 2: "Gone with the Wind".
• day.
• 3: "Casablanca".
• friendship.
• 4: "King Kong", from 1933.
• beast.
• 5: "Apocalypse Now".
• Horror.

Round 5. Category: Ute Tell Me. With Ute in quotation marks

• 1: To water down.
• dilute.
• 2: Drive in from the burbs.
• commute.
• 3: Hairy.
• hirsute.
• 4: In a proper one of these, the forefinger touches the hat just to the right of the right eye.
• salute.
• 5: Jekyll calls Hyde this type of rough fellow "that slept within me".
• brute.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1169, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What'S The Gossip?

• 1: In the 1950s the New York Evening this newspaper became a tabloid and "National" , eventually moving to Florida.
• the Enquirer.
• 2: The name of the tabloid website and TV show TMZ refers to a 30-mile zone centering on this major city.
• Los Angeles.
• 3: This word also used for gossip is a drinking fountain aboard ship.
• a scuttlebutt.
• 4: In 1977 Rupert Murdoch launched a gossip column originally found at and named for this page of the New York Post.
• Page Six.
• 5: Famous feuding gossip columnists in the golden age of Hollywood were Louella Parsons and this alliterative lady.
• Hedda Hopper.

Round 2. Category: Starbuck

• 1: Starbuck was a native of this Massachusetts island, like that man in the limerick.
• Nantucket.
• 2: Starbuck serves as chief mate aboard the Pequod in the most famous work by this author.
• Herman Melville ("Moby Dick").
• 3: Starbuck openly spoke against this captain's mad quest.
• Captain Ahab.
• 4: Because Starbuck was a member of this religious group, anyone on board could call him "Friend".
• Quakers (Society of Friends).
• 5: "I will have no man in my boat", said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of" one of these.
• Whale.

Round 3. Category: New Country

• 1: The 2 Saudi-adjacent countries called this (Aden) and this (Sanaa) merged in 1990 to form a new nation.
• North and South Yemen.
• 2: With independence in 1993, Eritrea made Ethiopia landlocked, cutting off its access to this sea.
• the Red Sea.
• 3: A 24-year armed conflict led to the independence of this nation from South Africa in 1990.
• Namibia.
• 4: Until 1994 the nation of Palau was part of this "small" Pacific island group.
• Micronesia.
• 5: Russia and China do not recognize the sovereignty of this Muslim majority nation that broke away from Serbia in 2008.
• Kosovo.

Round 4. Category: Something'S Looming Over Me

• 1: In the state of Querétaro, this country's largest monolith looms over the town of Bernal.
• Mexico.
• 2: In Norwich, England it's Norwich Castle, which for 500 years was repurposed as this type of institution, for sure using its keep.
• a prison.
• 3: Historic cog railway line and all, in Manitou Springs, Colorado it's this peak that looms.
• Pikes Peak.
• 4: Looming over San Francisco, this landmark that opened in 1972 was sold in 2020 for the first time.
• the Transamerica Pyramid.
• 5: The cliffs of the Dodecanese Islands, a popular place for rock climbers, loom over this sea.
• the Aegean.

Round 5. Category: Harry Potter And The Chapter Titles

• 1: In book 1,"The blank Hat".
• Sorting.
• 2: In book 4,"The blank World Cup".
• Quidditch.
• 3: In book 6,her "Helping Hand".
• Hermione.
• 4: In book 7,"The Elder blank".
• Wand.
• 5: In book 2,"The Whomping blank".
• Willow.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1168, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Finish The Line

• 1: The Beatles:"Yesterday all my troubles seemed...".
• so far away.
• 2: Francis Scott Key:"Oh! Say, can you see...".
• By the dawn's early light.
• 3: President Bush:"Read my lips...".
• no new taxes.
• 4: Clark Gable in "Gone with the Wind": "Frankly, my dear...".
• I don't give a damn.
• 5: Your mom:"Penny wise...".
• pound foolish.

Round 2. Category: My Tv Dads

• 1: James Gandolfini led 2 types of families, each with their own unique sets of problems, on this HBO drama.
• The Sopranos.
• 2: In "Two and a Half Men", he was just Duckie playing Alan Harper, dad to the half-man.
• (Jon) Cryer.
• 3: On this show, Will moved in with his Auntie Viv and Uncle Phil, parents to Hilary, Ashley, Nicky and dance master Carlton.
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
• 4: Taiwanese immigrant Louis Huang makes a go of it in 1990s Orlando with his wife and 3 sons on this ABC sitcom.
• Fresh Off the Boat.
• 5: His 2017 Emmy award as dad and son on "This Is Us" was his second in two years--for your information, the "K" is for Kelby.
• (Sterling K.) Brown.

Round 3. Category: Let'S Play Clue

• 1: This murder weapon could also light up the table in the dining room.
• Candlestick.
• 2: In the 1985 film based on Clue, this "Rocky Horror" actor played Wadsworth the butler.
• Tim Curry.
• 3: It's the main claim to fame of Anthony E. Pratt, a fire warden in Leeds, England.
• He invented the game ("Cluedo").
• 4: He's the only academic among the 6 suspects.
• Professor Plum.
• 5: In the U.S. version, the game of Clue starts when this man is found dead in his mansion.
• Mr. Boddy.

Round 4. Category: National Velvet. With Velvet in quotes

• 1: Bobby Vinton revived this Tony Bennett song and took it to No. 1 in 1963.
• Blue Velvet.
• 2: "Dark" mixed drink of stout beer and champagne.
• Black Velvet.
• 3: Holy Roman emperor Charles V spoke of power as "An iron hand in" one of these.
• a velvet glove.
• 4: Classic songs by this '60s band include "Venus in Furs" and "All Tomorrow's Parties".
• The Velvet Underground.
• 5: 1989 Czechoslovakian uprising that led to democratic elections.
• the "Velvet Revolution".

Round 5. Category: Soft Rock

• 1: This French-Canadian woman topped the adult contemporary charts with "The Power Of Love" and "All By Myself".
• Céline Dion.
• 2: Putting the "easy" into easy listening, Lionel Richie sang, "That's why I'm easy, I'm easy like" this.
• Sunday morning.
• 3: Now known as Yusuf Islam, he embarked on the Peace Train Tour in 2014.
• Cat Stevens.
• 4: In the '80s this duo had a string of hits beginning with "Lost In Love" and "All Out Of Love".
• Air Supply.
• 5: Seals and Crofts made us feel fine with this tune, "blowing through the jasmine in my mind".
• "Summer Breeze".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1167, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: It'S The End Fer You!. With Fer in quotes

• 1: A pine, fir or spruce.
• a conifer.
• 2: Troy Aikman did this from Oklahoma to UCLA--good move.
• transfer.
• 3: A box or chest for valuables; fill it now!.
• coffer.
• 4: To steal, purloin or filch.
• pilfer.
• 5: A geological formation conducting ground water.
• aquifer.

Round 2. Category: Their Last No. 1 Hit

• 1: "Sledgehammer".
• Peter Gabriel.
• 2: "Cathy's Clown".
• The Everly Brothers.
• 3: "I'm Henry VIII, I Am".
• Herman's Hermits.
• 4: "I'll Be There".
• The Jackson 5.
• 5: 1987:"La Bamba".
• Los Lobos.

Round 3. Category: Kansas City: News Clues

• 1: (Hi, I'm John Holt.) It was an exciting but sobering event in 2006 when Kansas City opened the USA's official museum of this event, with features for visitors to ponder like a field of 9,000 silk poppies.
• World War I.
• 2: (Hi, I'm Pat McGonigle.) Hollywood came to Kansas City to film a biopic starring Gary Sinise as this man; locations included Lee's Summit and of course, Independence.
• Truman.
• 3: (Hi, I'm Nick Vasos.) In 1997, the 100th anniversary of her birth, her hometown of Atchison, Kansas unveiled a 42,000-square foot earth work portrait of this globe-trotting heroine.
• Amelia Earhart.
• 4: (Hi, I'm Karli Ritter.) A highlight of the holiday season each year is the lighting of the mayor's 100-foot Christmas tree at Crown Center, opened in 1971 by the same Kansas City businessman who founded this card company.
• Hallmark.
• 5: (Hi, I'm Christel Bell.) In 1997, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum opened its new permanent home under the leadership of Buck O'Neill, who had been a star for this Kansas City Negro Leagues team, as had greats like Satchel Paige and Jackie Robinson.
• the Monarchs.

Round 4. Category: Stadiums

• 1: This baseball team will soon leave Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium for a new home across the street.
• Braves.
• 2: Maryland crab cakes are a specialty of this team's ballpark at Camden Yards.
• Orioles.
• 3: When a member of this team homers at Shea Stadium, a big apple pops out of a hat in center field.
• Mets.
• 4: Originally called the Pontiac Metropolitan Stadium, the Silverdome is home to this football team.
• (Detroit) Lions.
• 5: This Boston Park is Major League Baseball's only single-deck stadium.
• Fenway.

Round 5. Category: Presidential Soldiers

• 1: Revolutionary War,Creek War,War of 1812,First Seminole War.
• Andrew Jackson.
• 2: WWI,WWII.
• Eisenhower.
• 3: The Spanish-American War.
• Teddy Roosevelt.
• 4: The Mexican War,The Civil War.
• Grant.
• 5: War of 1812,Second Seminole War,Black Hawk War,Mexican War.
• (Zachary) Taylor.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1166, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hollywood Ugly

• 1: This actress was quite ugly before her transformation in "Miss Congeniality".
• Sandra Bullock.
• 2: No one wants to date Julia Stiles in this 1999 movie except Heath Ledger, and he does it on a lark.
• 10 Things I Hate About You.
• 3: Of the frumpy sorority girls led by Anna Faris in "The House Bunny", this "American Idol" runner-up sure stands out.
• Katharine McPhee.
• 4: When this loner gets a makeover in "The Breakfast Club", we realize she was pretty all the time.
• Ally Sheedy.
• 5: Rachael Leigh Cook, the "ugly duckling", is pursued by Freddie Prinze Jr. in this high school comedy.
• She's All That.

Round 2. Category: While Henry Viii Was King

• 1: Cosimo I refounded the university of this city and parents of the time leaned towards sending their kids there.
• Pisa.
• 2: In his 1512 "Commentariolus" he stated the planets travel around the sun.
• Copernicus.
• 3: In 1534, after working on the tomb of the Medici, this artist moved from Florence to Rome.
• Michelangelo.
• 4: In 1534 he published "Gargantua", part 2 of "Pantagruel".
• Rabelais.
• 5: In 1526 Babar set up this dynasty in Delhi.
• Mogul.

Round 3. Category: Lead Singer Of The Band

• 1: Chris Martin.
• Coldplay.
• 2: Gwen Stefani.
• No Doubt.
• 3: Rob Thomas.
• Matchbox 20.
• 4: For much of the '80s and '90s, Michael McDonald.
• The Doobie Brothers.
• 5: Pat Monahan.
• Train.

Round 4. Category: 20Th Century Bestsellers

• 1: The concept of a "whisperer" who calms animals was popularized by this Nicholas Evans novel.
• The Horse Whisperer.
• 2: 1916's "Mr. Britling Sees It Through" by this author tried to make sense of the madness of WWI; no time travel involved.
• H.G. Wells.
• 3: The disaster movie genre really took off when this 1968 novel about Trans America flight No. 2 out of Chicago came to the screen.
• Airport.
• 4: This Edith Hull bestseller about forbidden love in the desert became a 1921 film starring Rudolph Valentino.
• The Sheik.
• 5: In a 1952 book a craftsman fashions "The Silver" this title drinking vessel to house the Holy Grail.
• chalice.

Round 5. Category: Crown Plaza

• 1: This queen has been on more coin types of numerous countries than any other human being.
• Elizabeth II.
• 2: King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz reversed policy and allowed foreign fighters in this country in 1990.
• Saudi Arabia.
• 3: In 2006 the first male in over 40 years was born into this land's Chrysanthemum Throne imperial family.
• Japan.
• 4: The last English king with this name reigned less than a year, in 1936.
• Edward (VIII).
• 5: Rudolf II moved this dynastic family's royal court from Vienna to Prague in the late 1500s.
• the Hapsburgs.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1165, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What Does It Prevent?

• 1: Higher-octane gasoline: this "kn"oise, partner of the dreaded pinging.
• knocking.
• 2: Bounce dryer sheets, symbolized by a tee shirt and a lightning bolt.
• static cling.
• 3: The compound levonorgestrel, in products like Mirena.
• pregnancy.
• 4: A living trust: this court procedure to carry out the terms of a will.
• probate.
• 5: Ladybugs and lacewings: these garden menaces also known as plant lice.
• aphids.

Round 2. Category: Right Here In River City

• 1: 38 years before she lost her head, Marie Antoinette was born in this capital on the Danube River.
• Vienna.
• 2: Its 3,400-square-mile metropolitan area extends over 8 administrative units known as parishes.
• New Orleans.
• 3: Amsterdam is at the junction of the IJ and this river where you can enjoy the same-named beer.
• Amstel.
• 4: The area between this city's Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers is called the Golden Triangle.
• Pittsburgh.
• 5: 2 steamboats race annually on the Mississippi between St. Louis and this city about 700 miles away.
• New Orleans.

Round 3. Category: So, What Have You Been Up To?

• 1: A picture of your new dog? Uh, that's this type of canine that's big in LA canyons. Is it in your house?.
• a coyote.
• 2: On coach Lionel Scaloni's staff for this team at the 2022 World Cup? I thought I saw you celebrating after the final.
• Argentina.
• 3: Wait, you became the leader of this Cabinet department that oversees the Transportation Security Admin.? When was that?!.
• the Department of Homeland Security.
• 4: In 2022 you were on the U.S. team that made the first nuclear this reaction resulting in a net energy gain... congrats!.
• fusion.
• 5: Becoming fluent in this artificial language constructed by a Polish oculist? Fabela! (Fabulous!).
• Esperanto.

Round 4. Category: The Astronaut Hall Of Fame

• 1: State in which the Hall of Fame is located.
• Florida.
• 2: His historic 1962 orbital flight was marked by drama over a possibly loose heat shield.
• John Glenn.
• 3: While others moonwalked, this vehicle was piloted by Michael Collins on Apollo 11 and Ronald Evans on Apollo 17.
• the command module.
• 4: The other Mercury astronauts knew him as "Wally".
• Wally Schirra.
• 5: This astronaut's sunken Mercury capsule was recovered in 1999.
• Gus Grissom.

Round 5. Category: Oscar Best Picture Partial Marquees

• 1: The thirdBest-Picture winner.
• All Quiet on the Western Front.
• 2: From 1993.
• Schindler's List.
• 3: Set in Atlanta.
• Driving Miss Daisy.
• 4: Directed by Ron Howard.
• A Beautiful Mind.
• 5: A 1971 thriller.
• The French Connection.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1164, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Mtv Video Of The Year Artists

• 1: 1988:"Need You Tonight/Meditate".
• INXS.
• 2: 2009:"Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)".
• Beyoncé.
• 3: 1984:"You Might Think".
• The Cars.
• 4: 2004:"Hey Ya!".
• OutKast.
• 5: 1993:"Jeremy".
• Pearl Jam.

Round 2. Category: Classic Country Music

• 1: In 1963 Johnny Cash sang, "And it" this, this, this, "the ring of fire, the ring of fire".
• burns, burns, burns.
• 2: No "Dumb Blonde" (the name of her first hit in 1967), this buxom beauty was Country Music Entertainer of the Year in 1978.
• (Dolly) Parton.
• 3: In 1953 "Your Cheatin' Heart" was a big hit for this country singer who lived fast and died young that same year.
• Hank Williams, Sr..
• 4: In a 1975 crossover hit, Freddy Fender put this word before his "Days" and "Nights".
• Wasted.
• 5: This country music legend didn't weigh "Sixteen Tons", but he was known as "The Ol' Pea Picker".
• Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Round 3. Category: Egypt

• 1: It was closed June 6, 1967 and re-opened June 5, 1975.
• The Suez Canal.
• 2: Construction of this began in 1960 and cost about $1 billion.
• the Aswan Dam.
• 3: 1 of 3 men who each built one of the pyramids of Giza.
• (1 of) Cheops (Khufu) or (Khefren and Mykerinos).
• 4: Though this dam controls the Nile's flood waters, some say it's harmed the environment.
• Aswan High Dam.
• 5: While the pharaohs built ancient wonders, Ferdinand de Lesseps built this "modern" one.
• the Suez Canal.

Round 4. Category: Fold It 5 Ways

• 1: Kids make these from 1 sheet of typing paper; they use a lot less fuel than a Cessna.
• Paper airplane.
• 2: The word origami means "paper folding" in this language.
• Japanese.
• 3: It's black and white and read all over; it's also the perfect size to make a hat.
• Newspaper.
• 4: Complex snout folds are needed to make this animal, whose next Chinese year is 2007.
• Pig/boar.
• 5: A square sheet of paper can become a star to put on a Christmas tree, a triangle becomes this Jewish star.
• Star of David.

Round 5. Category: A World To Kiss

• 1: In this French pilgrimage city, many have kissed the stone in the cave where St. Bernadette had her vision.
• Lourdes.
• 2: In Spanish churches, besamanos and besapiés are the customs of kissing these 2 parts of religious statues.
• the hands and the feet.
• 3: Kissing this at a castle in County Cork will get you the gift of gab, or so they say.
• the Blarney Stone.
• 4: In the 1930s newly single women were known to kiss the Washoe County courthouse pillars in this divorce-friendly Nevada city.
• Reno.
• 5: It's traditional at this venerable state university to streak across the space known as the Lawn and kiss the Homer statue.
• University of Virginia.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1163, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Yesterday'S Hotties

• 1: This lovely's look was all the rage on college campuses in the 1940s.
• Veronica Lake.
• 2: This actress who played opposite Victor Mature in "Samson and Delilah" invented the technology used in cell phones.
• Hedy Lamarr.
• 3: Some child mannequins of the 1920s were designed to look like this sweetheart of an actress.
• Mary Pickford.
• 4: This groundbreaking actress was played by Halle Berry in an acclaimed TV biopic.
• Dorothy Dandridge.
• 5: The alluring star of a number of classic films, this Kansas native was equally famous for her haircut.
• Louise Brooks.

Round 2. Category: Take A Nee. With Nee in quotation marks

• 1: Someone in the running for an Emmy or a Tony.
• a nominee.
• 2: A scornful, lip-curling facial expression.
• a sneer.
• 3: A Native American people who lived on the Platte River, or Leslie Knope's fictional Indiana town.
• Pawnee.
• 4: Captain Bligh suffered the wrath of a group of them.
• mutineers.
• 5: Stanley makes these long-jawed pliers.
• needle-nose.

Round 3. Category: Pound Key. With Pound in quotes

• 1: This word can come before microscope or fracture; the first is definitely better.
• compound.
• 2: Traditionally, one of these requires 16 ounces each of butter, sugar and flour.
• a pound cake.
• 3: Where you go to retrieve your car after it gets towed for being parked in front of a fire hydrant.
• the impound lot.
• 4: 2-word official name for the standard monetary unit of the United Kingdom.
• pound sterling.
• 5: A harsh debt payment insisted upon, it was Antonio's obligation to Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice".
• a pound of flesh.

Round 4. Category: Names For Your Dog

• 1: Give your male Rottweiler a strong name like Apollo or that of this supreme Greek god.
• Zeus.
• 2: If you have a small brown dog, try this 4-letter name, the seed of a legume.
• Bean.
• 3: If it's black and white, how about Tuxedo or this, the name of Nabisco's classic sandwich cookie.
• Oreo.
• 4: Thanks to "Twilight", this has been the most popular name for female dogs for the last few years.
• Bella.
• 5: Hey, pal! You can't go wrong with this name that Bill Clinton gave his chocolate lab in 1997.
• Buddy.

Round 5. Category: Script Tease

• 1: 1969:"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man".
• True Grit.
• 2: 1946:"Every time you hear a bell ring, it means some angel's just got his wings".
• It's A Wonderful Life.
• 3: 1939:"You should be kissed -- and often -- and by someone who knows how".
• Gone with the Wind.
• 4: 1962:"Bond. James Bond".
• Dr. No.
• 5: 1964:"Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!".
• Dr. Strangelove.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1162, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Anagrammed Birds

• 1: Illinois' state bird:CLAN RAID.
• cardinal.
• 2: A real show-off:COP CAKE.
• peacock.
• 3: A holiday standard:KEY RUT.
• turkey.
• 4: Seen at the seashore:DARN PIPES.
• sandpiper.
• 5: It's game if you are:HATE NAPS.
• pheasant.

Round 2. Category: Are You Eating Right?

• 1: You can eat ice cream from a dull, ordinary cone, or from one named for this breakfast food.
• waffle cone.
• 2: It's cooking food by immersing it in hot oil; it's a Scottish practice to do it to Mars bars.
• deep-fat frying.
• 3: Sweet and sour sauce is a popular dip for these fried Chinese dumplings for which a soup is also named.
• won tons.
• 4: It can be an apparatus to make a popular movie snack, or a jalapeno and cheese concoction.
• popper.
• 5: Popular in Cajun cooking, this sausage with a French name is full of tripey goodness.
• Andouille.

Round 3. Category: I'M On The Money

• 1: His smiling face beams on a 5-rand coin released in 2008 to honor his 90th birthday.
• Nelson Mandela.
• 2: Maybe if you climb Mt. Everest you can get your face on a New Zealand $5 bill, like him.
• Hillary.
• 3: Starting in 1975, you could nurse a beer or two with a British 10-pound note featuring her.
• Florence Nightingale.
• 4: It's a scientific fact--this physicist, who died in 1962, was on a Danish note.
• Niels Bohr.
• 5: Indonesia's 100,000-rupiah note features Prime Minister Hatta and the first president, him--an airport is named for them, too.
• Sukarno.

Round 4. Category: The Four Seasons

• 1: It's the 7-word first line of "Richard III".
• "Now is the winter of our discontent".
• 2: The fall guy in the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert Fall, was born November 26, 1861 in this season.
• the fall.
• 3: In the northern hemisphere, the first day of fall falls in this month.
• September.
• 4: "The Four Seasons" consists of 4 concertos for this instrument and orchestra.
• Violin.
• 5: According to "You've Got A Friend", it's when you can call your "friend" James Taylor.
• winter, spring, summer, or fall.

Round 5. Category: 1950s People

• 1: In 1954 he ran unoppposed for president of Cuba.
• (Fulgencio) Batista.
• 2: Israel offered this physicist the presidency in 1952; feeling he didn't have the personality for the job, he declined.
• Einstein.
• 3: In 1950 this sen. said there were 205 Communists in the State Dept. but in Sen. testimony gave no proof of a single card carrier.
• Joe McCarthy.
• 4: William M. Gaines wasn't worried when he launched this irreverent humor magazine in 1952.
• Mad.
• 5: Born in New York, she moved with her family to Greece and was back for her Metropolitan Opera debut as Norma in 1956.
• Maria Callas.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1161, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What A Month!

• 1: It shares its name with a type of musical piece: Forward--Move It!.
• March.
• 2: The United States celebrates its birthday during this month.
• July.
• 3: Timewise, it's the shortest month.
• February.
• 4: It's National Dental Hygiene Month, and with all that candy at month's end, it's a good thing!.
• October.
• 5: The U.S. presidential election takes place in this month.
• November.

Round 2. Category: The Name On The Airport

• 1: What a wonderful world! In 2001 the New Orleans airport was renamed to honor this jazz great's 100th birthday.
• Louis Armstrong.
• 2: The airport code for Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport is SPI, which stands for this state capital.
• Springfield.
• 3: The airport serving Grand Rapids, Michigan is named for this 38th president.
• Gerald Ford.
• 4: The smallest of the 3 major airports serving NYC, it's named for the mayor who oversaw its construction.
• LaGuardia.
• 5: A 9-foot statue of this actor graces the terminal building of the Orange County, California airport named for him.
• John Wayne.

Round 3. Category: Ebony And Ivory

• 1: The white tops of its keys were once made of ivory, hence the phrase "tickle the ivories".
• a piano.
• 2: Ancient kings of India used ebony for drinking vessels because it supposedly neutralized this.
• poison.
• 3: Most commercial ivory still comes from this continent.
• Africa.
• 4: Some of the best ebony is grown in the flat country west of Trincomalee on this "teardrop island".
• Sri Lanka.
• 5: Ivory comes not only from elephants but also from hippos, walruses and these small tusked whales.
• narwhals.

Round 4. Category: 4Th And Goal

• 1: Launched to recapture this city from the Muslims, the Fourth Crusade ended up sacking Constantinople instead.
• Jerusalem.
• 2: Denis Diderot suggested that actors imagine a fourth this to help them behave more realistically.
• a wall.
• 3: Greek scholars celebrate the fourth of this month as Exelauno Day because exelauno means to do this "forth".
• March.
• 4: University of Arizona students know that "The Ave" is Fourth Avenue in this city, fun by day and night.
• Tucson.
• 5: The goal of this was to capture the ferocious Erymanthian boar.
• Hercules' fourth labor.

Round 5. Category: 6-Letter Birds

• 1: This "clock" bird's scientific name is Cuculus canorus.
• cuckoo.
• 2: The flightless New Zealand kakapo is the heaviest type of this bird; the macaw is the largest.
• parrot.
• 3: Eagles and hawks can also be used in the sport named for this bird.
• falcon.
• 4: In New England it's often called a partridge while southerners call it a pheasant.
• grouse.
• 5: This diving bird of the auk family is distinguished by its colorful, triangular beak.
• puffin.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1160, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Where Does It Hurt?

• 1: Myalgia (these parts).
• muscles.
• 2: Dermatalgia.
• skin.
• 3: Hepatalgia.
• the liver.
• 4: Odontalgia.
• teeth.
• 5: Arthralgia (these parts, whether hinge or ball-and-socket).
• joint.

Round 2. Category: Will You Still Feed Me?

• 1: Och aye! Haggamuggie is a simplified version of this, but with fish liver--sounds even better.
• haggis.
• 2: Rachael Ray has a 22-minute recipe for burgers of this "cordon bleu"; 10 minutes of prep and 12 to cook.
• chicken.
• 3: From the Dutch for "to curl", this doughnut-style dough is fried and brushed with a sweet glaze.
• a cruller.
• 4: "Why don't you dance with me? I'm not no" this cheese described as "devastatingly odorous".
• limburger.
• 5: "Polska" precedes the name of this sausage in a Hillshire Farm product.
• kielbasa.

Round 3. Category: Japanese Food

• 1: Tonyu is the liquid left over when this bland substance is made from soybeans.
• Tofu.
• 2: Surimi, meaning "formed fish", turns up in packages labeled this type of "crabmeat" and "lobster".
• imitation.
• 3: It's traditional for the host to serve a meal called kaiseki before this ceremony.
• The Tea Ceremony.
• 4: Tendon is a one-dish meal of rice topped with this mix of battered and fried seafood and vegetables.
• tempura.
• 5: Umeboshi are plums that are pickled, not tickled, this color.
• pink.

Round 4. Category: Shakespeare'S Lovers

• 1: "The barge she sat in, like a burnisht throne burned on the water...".
• Cleopatra.
• 2: Bassanio found this lady lawyer's picture inside a leaden casket.
• Portia.
• 3: In 3rd play in which he appears, he becomes king and gets a girl, but she can't speak English.
• Henry V.
• 4: After he murdered her husband, Lady Anne spit in his face and then agreed to wear his ring.
• Richard III.
• 5: In "12th Night" it's Maria, not Olivia, who writes him the love not about his yellow stockings.
• Malvolio.

Round 5. Category: Name That Tunesmith

• 1: 1967:"Ruby Tuesday"(both men, please).
• Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
• 2: 2012, with Yoo Gun Hyung:"Gangnam Style".
• Psy.
• 3: 1957:"Peggy Sue"(along with Jerry Allison and Norman Petty).
• Buddy Holly.
• 4: 1980:"(Just Like) Starting Over".
• John Lennon.
• 5: 2006:"Waiting On The World To Change".
• John Mayer.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1159, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Requiem For A Skyline

• 1: In November of 1972, the Kingdome was dedicated in this West Coast city. In March 2000, the Kingdome was demolished in this West Coast city.
• Seattle.
• 2: In 1978, New Jersey's Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel got checked out to make way for a casino in this city.
• Atlantic City.
• 3: Northwestern University's old Prentice Women's Hospital, an example of Brutalist architecture, was demoed in 2013-2014 in this big city.
• Chicago.
• 4: Sunset Boulevard isn't the same since the bulldozer came for the home and playground of many movie stars called the Garden of this.
• the Garden of Allah.
• 5: Demolished in 1999, the Jorba Labs near Madrid was often called this general 6-letter term for a sacred building in China.
• a pagoda.

Round 2. Category: Can You Digit?

• 1: John Stossel, a co-anchor of this ABC News show, overcame stuttering and has won 19 Emmys.
• 20/20.
• 2: Number of stories on each of the 1,483-foot-high Petronas towers, or of keys on a standard piano keyboard.
• 88.
• 3: For the records, translate these 2 Roman numerals, XLV and LXXVIII.
• 45 and 78.
• 4: Tennyson's "Valley of Death" chargers minus the total number of U.S. senators.
• 500.
• 5: In print journalism this number is traditionally used to mark the end of a piece of copy.
• 30.

Round 3. Category: Interviewing The Interviewer

• 1: About his famous interviews with Richard Nixon, he said he felt empathy, not sympathy, for Nixon.
• David Frost.
• 2: In February 2011 he sat down for a somewhat grumpy interview with his replacement, Piers Morgan.
• Larry King.
• 3: (Hi. I'm Anderson Cooper.) Hosting a 2009 special on the Time 100, I got to interview Barbara Walters and her co-hosts on this show about their influence.
• The View.
• 4: This late "Meet the Press" host told the N.Y. Times he sometimes felt like shaking his guests and saying, "Answer the question".
• (Tim) Russert.
• 5: In 2005 Mike Wallace got the treatment he'd often dished out--from this "Fox News Sunday" interviewer.
• Chris Wallace (his son).

Round 4. Category: James K. Polk

• 1: Mrs. Polk banned this in the White House so you couldn't have waltzed into James' office.
• dancing.
• 2: Polk's was the first inauguration reported via this communications device; Morse was at the key.
• the telegraph.
• 3: While Speaker of the House Polk was called this president's lackey and nicknamed "Young Hickory".
• Andrew Jackson.
• 4: During Polk's term of office the border of the United States was extended west to this natural boundary.
• the Pacific Ocean.
• 5: In 1845 Polk reaffirmed this president's "Doctrine" against European colonization of America.
• the Monroe Doctrine.

Round 5. Category: Storm

• 1: Hurricane Camille leaves only one operational shrimping boat in Bayou La Batre in this 1994 Oscar winner.
• Forrest Gump.
• 2: This 2000 film was based on Sebastian Junger's bestseller about a hurricane that meets a cold front.
• The Perfect Storm.
• 3: Bogey and Bacall's final film together was this one that saw them waiting out a storm in Florida.
• Key Largo.
• 4: The probe used to investigate tornados in this film is aptly named Dorothy.
• Twister.
• 5: In this cool 2004 film, climatologist Dennis Quaid is right and much of the U.S. evacuates to Mexico.
• The Day After Tomorrow.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1158, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Numeric Words And Phrases

• 1: The Lakers won championships in 1987 and '88, so before the next season, Pat Riley trademarked this.
• a three-peat.
• 2: You're too old for the single-piece type of underwear that Gerber trademarked under this name.
• a onesie.
• 3: Hyphenated term for a contest that's really no contest.
• one-sided.
• 4: "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" is traditionally sung in this break.
• the seventh-inning stretch.
• 5: Alliterative term for a married person having an affair.
• a two-timer.

Round 2. Category: Bulfinch'S Mythology

• 1: These part-leonine beasts built their nests from gold; Merv might be interested.
• griffins.
• 2: Pliny said this mythical beast had "a single black horn... standing out in the middle of its forehead".
• a unicorn.
• 3: As the porter of Heaven, he opened the year, so our first month is named for him.
• Janus.
• 4: She left Menelaus for Paris—the man, not the city.
• Helen (of Troy).
• 5: Camilla and this Roman goddess of the hunt got along famously, unlike the British women who bear their names today.
• Diana.

Round 3. Category: Drew Barrymore Loves Music

• 1: (Drew Barrymore delivers the clue one last time.) Bernie Taupin was a teenager when he answered an ad looking for songwriters, this future partner of his did the same, and the rest is rock and roll history.
• Elton John.
• 2: (Drew Barrymore gives the clue again.) The music and lyrics of these famous brothers posed the "fever"ish question "How Deep Is Your Love".
• the Bee Gees.
• 3: (Drew Barrymore gives the clue once more.) The ever-popular "Evergreen" has lyrics by Paul Williams and music by this singer who introduced it in "A Star Is Born".
• Barbra Streisand.
• 4: (Drew Barrymore gives the clue again.) "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" swings with the lyrics of Irving Mills and the music of this jazzman.
• (Duke) Ellington.
• 5: (Drew Barrymore gives the clue.) Some of the most romantic songs of all time, including "Embraceable You", were written by these brothers.
• George and Ira Gershwin.

Round 4. Category: Place Your Bet. With Bet in quotation marks

• 1: Your present spouse is your this 2-word phrase.
• better half.
• 2: Your future spouse is your this word.
• betrothed.
• 3: To hurt someone who trusts you.
• betrayal.
• 4: It designates any constellation's second-brightest star.
• beta.
• 5: Pair it with "between" to mean in an awkward middle position.
• betwixt.

Round 5. Category: Silent K Words

• 1: Sir Francis Bacon wrote, "ipsa scientia potestas est", often translated to this phrase.
• knowledge is power.
• 2: It's a type of backpack.
• a knapsack.
• 3: In a Chumbawamba song, this happens, "but I get up again".
• (I get) knocked down.
• 4: In an epic takedown in "King Lear", Oswald is called a this, "a rascal... filthy, worsted-stocking" this (again).
• knave.
• 5: This aptly named brand calls itself a "wedding marketplace that connects couples with local wedding professionals".
• the Knot.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1157, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Name The Work

• 1: Melville:"Captain Vere was an exceptional character".
• Billy Budd.
• 2: Cervantes:"At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember".
• Don Quixote.
• 3: Verne:"Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner".
• Around the World in Eighty Days.
• 4: Jack London:"'The Ghost' was rolling slightly on a calm sea without a breath of wind".
• The Sea Wolf.
• 5: O. Henry:"Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present".
• "The Gift of the Magi".

Round 2. Category: Earth, Wind And Fire

• 1: On the Beaufort scale, winds range from 0 for calm to 12 to 17 for these powerful storms.
• hurricanes.
• 2: About 80% of energy released by quakes comes from events with epicenters in the Circum-Pacific belt, AKA this, AKA a Johnny Cash tune.
• Ring of Fire.
• 3: In the '90s home fires caused by these nearly doubled, with almost half of them starting in the bedroom.
• candles.
• 4: A devastating forest fire swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin on the very same day in 1871 as this city's "Great" fire.
• Chicago.
• 5: Oh, "Boy"! This warming of the Pacific that causes unusual weather patterns occurs about every 2 to 7 years.
• El Nino.

Round 3. Category: Remember Reruns?

• 1: In reruns and syndication, "Mystery Science Theater" was followed by "Hour", replacing this number.
• 3000.
• 2: "The Andy Griffith Show" came back around as "Andy of" here.
• Mayberry.
• 3: Her "and Friends"--Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence and others--was a half-hour rerun of her "Show".
• Carol Burnett.
• 4: Ponderosa was a ranch on and a rerun title of this show.
• Bonanza.
• 5: "The Best of Groucho" was a rerun title of this game show.
• You Bet Your Life.

Round 4. 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.

Round 5. Category: Women Of Myth

• 1: Courtesy of Perseus, her snaky severed head was placed on the shield of Athena.
• Medusa.
• 2: This daughter of Zeus and Leda was considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
• Helen of Troy.
• 3: After she died of a snakebite, her husband Orpheus tried to rescue her from Hades.
• Eurydice.
• 4: According to Ovid, this jealous goddess turned the nymph Callisto into a bear for being Jupiter's lover.
• Juno.
• 5: After she spurned Apollo, he made sure no one would believe her prophecies.
• Cassandra.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1156, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: That Old Time Television

• 1: This 1950s Nelson family sitcom ran for 14 years.
• Ozzie and Harriet.
• 2: 2 of the 3 full-time "Tonight Show" hosts before Jay Leno.
• (2 of 3) Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson.
• 3: This actress' TV character Alexis Carrington was once described as "starts with B, rhymes with rich".
• Joan Collins.
• 4: With boxing as her category, Dr. Joyce Brothers won the top prize on this TV quiz show.
• The $64,000 Question.
• 5: Jeepers, Dr. Smith! On TV's "Lost in Space", this actor played the youngest Robinson.
• Billy Mumy.

Round 2. Category: Soccer

• 1: At the beginning of a game, the choice of goal and kickoff is decided by this.
• a toss of a coin.
• 2: =.
• =.
• 3: Like a castle, a soccer field in Rio is surrounded by this to keep out overzealous fans.
• a moat.
• 4: First held in Uruguay in 1930, it's the largest single-sport tournament in the world.
• the World Cup.
• 5: International competition for this trophy began in 1930.
• World Cup.

Round 3. Category: African-American Biography

• 1: "The Road to Freedom" is the subtitle of Catherine Clinton's bio of this 19th century woman.
• Harriet Tubman.
• 2: Jonathan Eig's bio of this champ who passed away in 2016 is one of the "Greatest" sports biographies.
• Ali.
• 3: "The New Negro" is "The Life of Alain Locke", the first African American to earn this honor that sent him to Oxford.
• a Rhodes Scholarship.
• 4: "Talking at the Gates" is "A Life of" this "If Beale Street Could Talk" novelist.
• James Baldwin.
• 5: Published in 2007, "Supreme Discomfort" is a portrait of this jurist.
• Clarence Thomas.

Round 4. Category: Country Groups

• 1: The "Lady" in this group that won 5 2010 ACM Awards is Hillary Scott, daughter of country singer Linda Davis.
• Lady Antebellum.
• 2: Randy Owen fronted this "stately" group whose hits include "Christmas in Dixie" and "Born Country".
• Alabama.
• 3: This organization was formed in April 1949 to counter the Soviet Union.
• NATO.
• 4: This country group stays in motion with hits like "I'm Movin' On" and "Life Is A Highway".
• Rascal Flatts.
• 5: In 1981 they burned up the pop and country charts singing, "My heart's on fire, Elvira".
• The Oak Ridge Boys.

Round 5. Category: Where It'S At. With At in quotation marks

• 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".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1155, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Those Phabulous Phoenicians

• 1: Seaport city known for its very expensive purple dye.
• Tyre.
• 2: The Phoenician city of Berytus is known known by this name.
• Beirut.
• 3: The ancient city of Byblos was known for its production of this material, hence bible, meaning book.
• papyrus.
• 4: The Phoenicians were known for this skill; even the Greeks called the North Star the Phoenician Star.
• navigation.
• 5: Zeno, a Phoenician, founded this "Greek" school of philosophy.
• Stoicism.

Round 2. Category: Parts Of The Body

• 1: This organ has a mitral valve and semilunar valves.
• the heart.
• 2: Condyles are the rounded ends of bones that meet up at joints--the femur has one where it meets up with the tibia in this joint.
• the knee.
• 3: The brain region known as the parietal this 4-letter area contains the sensory cortex.
• lobe.
• 4: The Palatine type of these masses in your throat are the ones often removed--the pharyngeal types are called adenoids.
• tonsils.
• 5: The gallbladder stores this greenish fluid that aids in the digestion of fats.
• bile.

Round 3. Category: QuadS. With Quad in quotes

• 1: Examples include dogs, cats, rats, crocodiles, horses, and salamanders.
• quadrupeds.
• 2: You'll find these muscles in the front of your thighs.
• quadriceps.
• 3: Adjective for something that occurs every four years.
• quadrennial.
• 4: ¼ of a circle.
• a quadrant.
• 5: The name for this 19th c. dance originally meant a group of horsemen performing riding maneuvers.
• a quadrille.

Round 4. Category: Takes The Cake

• 1: Angel food cake uses only this part of an egg.
• the white.
• 2: Light and dark batters combined give this cake the appearance of the rock it's named for.
• marble cake.
• 3: This classic Viennese torte is filled with apricot jam.
• Sachertorte.
• 4: Trademarked name for a fluted tube pan or the cake baked in it.
• a Bundt.
• 5: A Baba is most commonly flavored with this potent potable.
• rum.

Round 5. Category: Always Broadway

• 1: "Joseph Smith American Moses" is a song in this musical.
• The Book of Mormon.
• 2: In 2010 this "Avenger" won a Best Actress Tony for "A View from the Bridge".
• Scarlett Johansson.
• 3: In 2017 Broadway met its matchmaker when she was "divine" as the title star of "Hello, Dolly!".
• Bette Midler.
• 4: In 1990 this musical about a musical closed after 6,137 shows; God, I hope you get it! I hope you get it!.
• A Chorus Line.
• 5: I've got a lead for you... Alan Alda portrayed Shelly Levene in this Mamet play in 2005.
• Glengarry Glen Ross.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1154, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Poke Out An I

• 1: Whether acrylic or watercolor, an art supply without its "I" becomes this--breathe hard.
• a pant.
• 2: A word towards the end of an auctioneer's spiel sells its "I" to ring out as this instrument.
• gong.
• 3: Without its "I", a synonym for "landed" becomes this computer key.
• alt.
• 4: Poke out the "I" from a ghostly apparition to get this intense anger.
• wrath.
• 5: Drop the "I" from the start of a word for one's likeness to get this synonym for sorcerer.
• mage.

Round 2. Category: '70s Pop Culture

• 1: In 1972 he spread a 200,000 square-foot curtain across a mountain valley in Colorado.
• Christo.
• 2: One day he woke up to find his 1973 book "Awakenings" on the bestseller list.
• Oliver Sacks.
• 3: You could say this French Olympian went downhill as a ski instructor turned thief in the 1972 film "Snow Job".
• Jean-Claude Killy.
• 4: She was 13 when she became Broadway's original "Annie" in 1977.
• Andrea McArdle.
• 5: Barbra Streisand's fans know this is her middle name, because it's in the title of a 1971 album.
• Joan.

Round 3. Category: I Got 3 As!

• 1: This word is properly plural, but you can use it for just one.
• candelabra.
• 2: It's Japanese for "goodbye".
• sayonara.
• 3: Any big waterfall.
• a cataract (or Niagara).
• 4: You fraud! You quack! You this 9-letter word!.
• charlatan.
• 5: It's kind of a mash-up of comradeship and bonhomie.
• camaraderie.

Round 4. Category: Stories Of The South

• 1: In "The Night the Lights Went Out" by Karen White, Merilee Dunlap fittingly moves to Sweet Apple in this state.
• Georgia.
• 2: Fannie Flagg wrote of Idgie and Ruth, who ran the Whistle Stop Cafe, known for this "colorful" title fare.
• fried green tomatoes.
• 3: After graduating from Ole Miss in this Kathryn Stockett novel, Skeeter can't find her former maid and nanny.
• The Help.
• 4: "Black Thunder" is about one of these events in 1800 planned by Gabriel Prosser, with the goal of seizing Richmond.
• a slave uprising.
• 5: In Rebecca Wells' tale of this "Sisterhood", Siddalee Walker returns to uncover some "Divine Secrets".
• Ya-Ya.

Round 5. Category: Celebrities

• 1: As spokesman for Champ Gourmet Chocolate Chip Cookies, he's the greatest.
• Muhammad Ali.
• 2: Alyssa Milano plays Tony's college co-ed daughter on this sitcom.
• Who's the Boss.
• 3: Tracy Pollan played his girlfriend on "Family Ties" before marrying him in real life.
• Michael J. Fox.
• 4: "Time" described "King of the Night" as "a scandal-mongering biography" of this talk show host.
• Johnny Carson.
• 5: He's the pop star who has thrilled fans with such albums as "Bad" and "Thriller".
• Michael Jackson.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1153, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Stupid Show Biz Answers

• 1: It's the role Danny Bonaduce played on "The Partridge Family".
• Danny.
• 2: Mike Myers flexed his powers to play Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell in this 1998 film.
• 54.
• 3: Andrea McArdle, who starred in a production of "Annie Get Your Gun" in 2006, first became famous playing this role.
• Annie.
• 4: Greer Garson became the Mrs. of actor Richard Ney after he played her son Vin Miniver in this 1942 film.
• Mrs. Miniver.
• 5: It was the title of the last big-screen remake of "Beau Geste", released in 1977.
• The Last Remake of Beau Geste.

Round 2. Category: Sharp

• 1: Cardsharp is an old term for a gambler who is notorious for doing this.
• cheating.
• 2: This synonym for a sniper has the same first and last letters as "sniper".
• a sharpshooter.
• 3: Be a sharp dresser by ironing your pants to keep these sharp.
• the creases.
• 4: Patricia Clarkson won a Golden Globe for playing Amy Adams' mom on this HBO miniseries.
• Sharp Objects.
• 5: This Chikara line of knives from this company is made of "premium Japanese stainless steel".
• Ginsu.

Round 3. Category: Occupational Homonyms

• 1: A job like a chauffeur, or a part of your PC that needs to be updated occasionally.
• a driver.
• 2: It can mean highest in rank or value, as well as someone of high rank at your school.
• principal.
• 3: Not just an occupation, it's also a type of fruity pie.
• a cobbler.
• 4: A certain member of our military forces, or an adjective that refers broadly to the sea.
• Marine.
• 5: Someone who oversees construction work, or a muscle that becomes shorter.
• contractor.

Round 4. Category: Add Some Consonants

• 1: Numbered explanatory comment at a page's bottom: OOOE.
• a footnote.
• 2: MPH indicator: EEOEE.
• speedometer.
• 3: A John Lennon classic: IAIE.
• "Imagine".
• 4: A portable musical instrument: AOIO.
• an accordion.
• 5: Old MacDonald had this point in a planet's orbit when it's nearest to the Sun: EIEIO.
• perihelion.

Round 5. Category: Renting

• 1: In Alaska, a failure to pay utility bills can be grounds for this process against a tenant within 5 days.
• eviction.
• 2: Many states limit this required upfront sum to an amount equal to 1 or 2 months rent.
• a (security) deposit.
• 3: Renters with low incomes can seek assistance through the Section 8 program of this U.S. govt. department.
• HUD.
• 4: Discrimination against renting to families with children is illegal except for housing reserved for these only.
• senior citizens.
• 5: California rental agreements have implied warranties that the apt. isn't rotten, verminous or otherwise this 13-letter word.
• uninhabitable.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1152, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cities Through Time

• 1: A brief civil war took place in this capital after Finland declared independence from Russia in 1917.
• Helsinki.
• 2: Before 1918 Guangzhou was known by this name; a Chinese language still reminds us of it.
• Canton.
• 3: A team name came from this word that preceded "67" in the name of a 1967 Montreal happening.
• Expos.
• 4: In 1535 Lima was founded by Pizarro as Ciudad de los Reyes, meaning this.
• City of Kings.
• 5: About 1,000 years ago, Casablanca was a village of these double-talk people.
• the Berbers.

Round 2. Category: Gangsters

• 1: While Bugsy Siegel was being shot in B. H., Meyer Lansky's goons were walking into a hotel in this city and taking over.
• Las Vegas.
• 2: He's quoted as saying, "They've hung everything on me but the Chicago Fire".
• Al Capone.
• 3: Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein was accused of masterminding the big fix of this in 1919; it wasn't proved.
• World Series.
• 4: Gangster Louis Amberg was just "Pretty" while Charles Floyd was nicknamed this.
• "Pretty Boy".
• 5: His brother Buck was part of his gang, as was his moll Bonnie.
• Clyde Barrow.

Round 3. Category: .Organizations

• 1: uncf.org: where "a mind is a terrible thing to waste".
• the United Negro College Fund.
• 2: pbk.org: it's an honor--society.
• Phi Beta Kappa.
• 3: kofc.org: these "Knights" who contribute more than $150 million to charitable needs and projects annually.
• the Knights of Columbus.
• 4: nrdc.org: the "Defense Council" for these.
• Natural Resources.
• 5: cfa.org: the "Association" of these people, lovers of felines.
• Cat Fanciers'.

Round 4. Category: The Lore Of The Land

• 1: The feathers of this creature of Russian legend that lent its name to a ballet were said to provide beauty and protection upon the earth.
• firebird.
• 2: We pulled some strings to tell you about Dagda, a deity in Irish folklore who played this instrument to put enemies to sleep.
• the harp.
• 3: He wrote a verse play about the Scandinavian folk hero Peer Gynt and Edvard Grieg wrote music to go with it.
• Ibsen.
• 4: Georgia's state flower is this people's rose; legend says one grew along the trail at each spot where their tears fell.
• Cherokee.
• 5: A spider and a trickster god whose origins are in West Africa lives as Mr. Nancy in "Anansi Boys" by this writer.
• Neil Gaiman.

Round 5. Category: Rainy Day P.E.

• 1: I'm so good at catching the rubber ball in this game that all my teammates are getting back in.
• dodgeball.
• 2: In half-court basketball, you do this to start the game, pass the ball to the defender who passes it back to you.
• checking.
• 3: Rope climbing today! It looks so easy on the NBC show called this "warrior".
• American Ninja.
• 4: We have to practice this "shapely" dance, because I haven't do-si-doed very much.
• square dancing.
• 5: Badminton is fun indoors, where you are less likely to lose the "birdie", AKA this projectile.
• the shuttlecock.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1151, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Back To The Hotel

• 1: In 1975, Lyn Weiner opened the Kennelworth, a hotel in New York City for these pets.
• dogs.
• 2: The Celtic Lodge and Kelly's Hotel are famous hotels in this world capital.
• Dublin.
• 3: This large ocean liner that's been docked in Long Beach since 1967 is a hotel and tourist attraction.
• Queen Mary.
• 4: With canals, piazzas, and St. Mark's Square, this Vegas hotel sits on the old Sands Hotel site.
• the Venetian.
• 5: This "presidential" hotel was elected to host the first Academy Awards ceremony.
• the Roosevelt.

Round 2. Category: Significant Old Books

• 1: Dating from the 5th century B.C., this Asian philosopher's "Analects".
• Confucius.
• 2: This ancient Greek playwright's comedies, which include "The Frogs".
• Aristophanes.
• 3: This German's 18th century coming of age classic "The Sorrows of Young Werther".
• Goethe.
• 4: Greek historian and soldier Thucydides' firsthand account "The History of" this peninsular war.
• the Peloponnesian War.
• 5: This Swiss-French writer's 18th century political covenant "The Social Contract".
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Round 3. Category: The Last Category. With Last in quotes

• 1: Something about to tumble down is standing on these.
• its last legs.
• 2: Type of final effort that might be required to finish a trench.
• last-ditch.
• 3: It breaks a camel's back.
• the last straw.
• 4: It's what you have when your joke succeeds when all told you it would fail.
• the last laugh.
• 5: A desperate attempt, such as defending the endmost trench.
• a last ditch effort.

Round 4. Category: It'S A Flat-Out Fact

• 1: All babies have flat feet, but if you develop the condition later in life, it's called fallen these.
• arches.
• 2: Please pass over this bread in unleavened form or now that I think of it, as a ball in some delicious soup.
• matzah.
• 3: "Tortilla Flat", a 1935 novel set in Monterey, established him as a successful author.
• Steinbeck.
• 4: In 2021 a vehicle aptly named Speed Demon hit 466 mph at these salt flats in Utah.
• Bonneville.
• 5: Some Native Americans practiced skull binding for a rounded look; Lewis and Clark called the Salish this because they didn't.
• the Flathead.

Round 5. Category: China Patterns

• 1: Ruins of this run from Bo Hai, a gulf of the Yellow Sea, to the Gansu province in the west.
• The Great Wall.
• 2: This former crown colony is partly on the southeast coast of China and partly on over 200 islands.
• Hong Kong.
• 3: The Hainan province has this type of climate, hence the coconut trees and pineapple plants.
• Tropical.
• 4: The 3 Gorges Dam, over 1 mile long, is being built to control the flooding of this river.
• Yangtze.
• 5: Immensely popular in China, this paddle sport is known as the "national game".
• ping pong.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1150, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Liberty Bell Rang...

• 1: On Feb. 3, 1757, when the Assembly directed this man to go to England to address colonial grievances.
• Benjamin Franklin.
• 2: on July 8, 1776 to announce the first public reading of this.
• the Declaration of Independance.
• 3: on February 4, 1771 to summon the Pennsylvania assembly into session to repeal the duty on this commodity.
• tea.
• 4: on July 8, 1763 to give notice of the end of this war.
• the French and Indian War.
• 5: on Feb. 11, 1915; a recording was transmitted to the opening of the Pan Pacific Exposition in this West Coast city.
• San Francisco.

Round 2. Category: States And Territories Of Australia

• 1: The one state named for a man.
• Tasmania.
• 2: An Australian territorial claim covers 42% of this continent.
• Antarctica.
• 3: 95% of the population of the small enclave known as the Australian Capital Territory resides in this city.
• Canberra.
• 4: Australia's most populous city, Sydney, is in this state with a 3-word name.
• New South Wales.
• 5: One of the 2 states named in honor of a woman.
• Victoria (or Queensland).

Round 3. Category: Silent Consonant Words

• 1: A prominent rounded hill, or a rounded control switch or dial.
• knob.
• 2: Her unrequited love for Narcissus reverberates through mythology.
• Echo.
• 3: Jesus had 12 of these special disciples, from the Greek for "messenger".
• apostles.
• 4: To bite or chew persistently, like an animal with a bone.
• gnaw.
• 5: This 6-letter synonym for self-assurance comes from the French; we hope you respond to the clue "with" it.
• aplomb.

Round 4. Category: Brando

• 1: Rebellious naval Lt. Fletcher Christian.
• Mutiny on the Bounty.
• 2: "Family" man Don Vito Corleone.
• The Godfather.
• 3: Terry Malloy, who could've been a contender.
• On the Waterfront.
• 4: Johnny, leader of the Black Rebels.
• The Wild One.
• 5: Blanche's brother-in-law Stanley.
• A Streetcar Named Desire.

Round 5. Category: Yestercareer

• 1: A vintager was a harvester of these.
• grapes.
• 2: Essential before an extended journey, a caulker made sure this, the frame of a ship, was watertight.
• the hull.
• 3: A spinner made this.
• thread.
• 4: The knocker-upper, with a long pole or a peashooter to aim at windows, has been replaced by this bedside device.
• an alarm clock.
• 5: Author/magistrate Henry Fielding professionalized this job when he started the Bow Street runners.
• a policeman.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1149, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Coffees All Around

• 1: This "Good to the last drop" brand lets you choose among smooth, rich and bold.
• Maxwell House.
• 2: At Starbucks, a "shot" is typically a shot of this coffee brew.
• espresso.
• 3: The press you can use to infuse your coffee bears the name of this country that invented the infusion method.
• France (a French press accepted).
• 4: If you feel a chill in Chinchina, Colombia, you may be passing the factory where instant coffee is made this way.
• freeze-dried.
• 5: This "heavenly coffee", a New York institution, is the official coffee of Radio City Music Hall.
• Chock Full O' Nuts.

Round 2. Category: BottomS Up. With Bottom in quotation marks

• 1: This type of boat lets you view undersea life while keeping your feet dry.
• Glass-Bottomed.
• 2: It's your net profit or loss as shown on an income statement.
• Bottom Line.
• 3: This '60s TV series was set aboard the Seaview, an atomic sub built by Harriman Nelson.
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
• 4: Miners first adapted this term for a hard place to mean as low as one can get.
• rock bottom.
• 5: Contadicting its foreboding name, this feature of Mammoth Cave is only 105 feet deep.
• Bottomless Pit.

Round 3. Category: College Life

• 1: To be "official", this detailed academic record should be sent from the school in a sealed envelope.
• a transcript.
• 2: This 2-word Latin phrase means you graduated with distinction.
• cum laude.
• 3: Classes in the semester system last 15 to 18 weeks; in this other system, they run about 10 weeks.
• the quarter system.
• 4: grammarly.com has a program that can compare an essay against academic databases to detect this dishonest act.
• plagiarism.
• 5: The 2 major learning management systems for American colleges are canvas and this, another name for a slate.
• blackboard.

Round 4. Category: The Family Business

• 1: In 1990 they became the first father and son to be Major League teammates.
• Ken Griffey Jr. and Sr..
• 2: The first half of this greeting card company's name is the family that founded it in 1910.
• Hallmark.
• 3: In 1985 Bob Haas took this jeans company founded by his great- great-granduncle from public back to private.
• Levi Strauss.
• 4: In 2006 the new CEO of this beverage company was August IV, great-great-grandson of co-founder Adolphus.
• Anheuser-Busch.
• 5: Donna Wolf Steigerwaldt is in the "Saddle" at this underwear maker.
• Jockey.

Round 5. Category: Turkey, The Bird

• 1: Turkey carving step 1: Cut the band of skin holding the legs which are known as these.
• Drumsticks.
• 2: This 19th C. British author is credited with making the turkey a popular choice for Christmas dinners.
• Charles Dickens.
• 3: A male turkey's snood hangs directly over this part of its body.
• Beak/nose.
• 4: Turkey that joined Henny-Penny's "Sky is Falling" campaign.
• Turkey-Lurkey.
• 5: This top-selling U.S. turkey brand turned 45 in 1999.
• Butterball.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1148, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Big Battalions

• 1: This country's nearly 2.2 million active military personnel is by far the world's largest standing force.
• China.
• 2: Russia leads the world with more than 20,000 of these, like the new T-14 with an automated turret and 125mm cannon.
• tanks.
• 3: The U.S. rules the seas with 11 of these mighty ships, more than the rest of the world's fleets combined.
• aircraft carriers.
• 4: North Korea has one of the largest fleets of these craft, including the Yono class midget type.
• submarines.
• 5: Together, these 2 countries that fought a late 1940s war over Kashmir now deploy about 2 million active troops.
• India and Pakistan.

Round 2. Category: Cliches

• 1: This cliche referring to callousness in the face of calamity was inspired by the emperor Nero.
• Fiddling While Rome Burns.
• 2: This expression meaning away from turmoil became popular after Thomas Hardy used it as a book title.
• Far from the Madding Crowd.
• 3: Meaning you can't make sense of it, to not be able to do this "of" something, may refer to a flipped coin.
• make heads or tails of it.
• 4: =.
• =.
• 5: When you accept something you don't want to, you do this to your pride⁠—gulp!.
• swallow.

Round 3. Category: Scrambled Greek Gods

• 1: Rose.
• Eros.
• 2: Deter me.
• Demeter.
• 3: Noise pod.
• Poseidon.
• 4: Run USA.
• Uranus.
• 5: Hair depot.
• Aphrodite.

Round 4. Category: The '50s

• 1: Year in which the Soviets launched Sputnik.
• 1957.
• 2: First racehorse to win a million dollars when he took the Hollywood Gold Cup in '51.
• Citation.
• 3: In May 1956 India observed the 2,500th anniversary of this person's death.
• the founder of Buddhism (Buddha).
• 4: Before playing Pete Nolan on TV's "Rawhide", he had a major hit with this:"Well I saw the thing comin' out of the sky / It had the one long horn, and one big eye / I commenced to shakin' and I said "Ooh-eee" / It looks like a purple people eater to me / It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater / (One-eyed, one-horned...".
• Sheb Wooley.
• 5: According to a popular ad, to keep your pompadour in place, a "little dab" of this would do you.
• Brylcreem.

Round 5. Category: Something To Wear

• 1: They have metal plates at heel and toe to increase sound.
• tap shoes.
• 2: Put this pretend-tious French word before "rabbit" or "fox" to keep yourself warm.
• faux.
• 3: In 1884 the U.S. Army introduced these tired-sounding casual clothes.
• fatigues.
• 4: GQ says these suits typified by an extra row of buttons don't have to be boxy, 1930s gangster-style.
• double breasted suits.
• 5: For Muslim women, a burqa covers the face; a niqab leaves the eyes uncovered; this five-letter word is a headscarf.
• hijab.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1147, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hymns And Spirituals

• 1: Title that precedes "How sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me".
• "Amazing Grace".
• 2: It's where "I'm goin' to lay down my burden", and "my sword and shield".
• "down by the riverside".
• 3: A hymn and anthem, "Lift" this "and sing, till earth and heaven ring".
• every voice.
• 4: "We shall come rejoicing, bringing in" these.
• the sheaves.
• 5: Asking for comfort and guidance, do this, "fast falls the eventide", "in life, in death, O Lord" do this.
• abide with me.

Round 2. Category: Presidents And Baseball

• 1: On April 19, 1909 Taft attended a home game of this team and probably had a hot dog or 9.
• the Washington Senators.
• 2: Saying it was in the national interest, he kept baseball going during World War II.
• FDR.
• 3: It's the only team that has a U.S. president on its roster of former owners.
• the Texas Rangers.
• 4: One of his first jobs was re-creating Cubs games over the radio in Iowa.
• Ronald Reagan.
• 5: Before his Army years, he played baseball under an assumed name in the Kansas minor leagues.
• (Dwight) Eisenhower.

Round 3. Category: Abbreviated States

• 1: This state that acts as a conjunction between Nevada and Washington has an abbreviation that is a conjunction.
• Oregon.
• 2: The abbreviation of this state is also an abbreviation for the largest city in California.
• Louisiana.
• 3: Show me that the abbreviation for this state means the habits of a predictable criminal.
• Missouri.
• 4: When abbreviated before the number 47, this state becomes an assault weapon.
• Alaska.
• 5: State whose abbreviation is also a cabinet department that was formed in 1989.
• Virginia.

Round 4. Category: American Food And Drink

• 1: Maryland and Mississippi both "got" this as their state drink or beverage.
• milk.
• 2: This type of bread made from a starter has been a San Francisco specialty since the gold rush days.
• sourdough.
• 3: Packets of this fruity soft drink were first sold through the mail in 1927 for 10 cents apiece.
• Kool-Aid.
• 4: Some recipes for this sweet treat call for beets instead of food coloring.
• red velvet cake.
• 5: They're the 2 beverages that are combined to make an Arnold Palmer.
• iced tea and lemonade.

Round 5. Category: Top Seeds

• 1: As the picture proves, you don't need the luck of the Irish for this plant; just scatter the seed about.
• clover.
• 2: This plant of genus Nicotiana has tiny seeds that use light to germinate so they can grow after top seeding.
• tobacco.
• 3: As Porky Pig's gal knows, seeds of these flowers should stay on top of the soil as they need light to germinate.
• petunia.
• 4: The seeds of this edible plant, whether Butterhead or Burgundy Boston, are planted on top.
• lettuce.
• 5: Just place the seeds of this flower on top of your soil and they'll be sprouting in no time.
• snapdragons.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1146, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cousin It. With It in quotation marks

• 1: A person serving in place of another, perhaps as a teacher.
• a substitute.
• 2: A group of 3, with or without a Holy Ghost.
• a trinity.
• 3: The state of living alone, even for 100 years... in a fortress.
• solitude.
• 4: A coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz and feldspar.
• granite.
• 5: Reparation made by giving compensation for loss or damage.
• restitution.

Round 2. Category: Poetic Feet

• 1: This word for an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one actually has the reverse pattern.
• Iamb.
• 2: This word for a type of spoken stress pattern is from Greek for "finger"; it's also found after "ptero".
• Dactyl.
• 3: A foot of 2 unstressed syllables or a costly type of "victory".
• pyrrhic.
• 4: This word for the poetic movement including Keats and Byron is an example of an amphibrach.
• Romantic poets.
• 5: A fine example of verse written in anapests is this first line of "That's Amore".
• "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie".

Round 3. Category: The Evolutionary War

• 1: Orderly people are bothered by the idea of thse random changes in genetic material helping evolution along.
• mutations.
• 2: In 1995 Alabama Gov. James Mocked evolution theory by imitating this type of animal whose name means "to imitate".
• an ape.
• 3: "Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object... the production of the higher animals, directly follows."That was the final paragraph of a famous work by this man.
• (Charles) Darwin.
• 4: He surprised many in 1996 when he told the Pontifical Academy of Science that evolution was no mere hypothesis.
• Pope John Paul II.
• 5: A 1981 Arkansas law called for balanced teaching of evolution and this opposite type of "science".
• creationism.

Round 4. Category: All Around The World

• 1: A gigantic 3/4 dome, Montreal's biosphere was designed by this American for the city's 1967 Expo.
• (Buckminster) Fuller.
• 2: When visiting this Vatican basilica, you might want to spring for a ticket to the dome, which includes a guided tour.
• St. Peter's.
• 3: A national park in Australia gets its name from basalt columns called these, components of a musical instrument.
• organ pipes.
• 4: You'll catch the Baseball Hall of Fame in this village that was settled by the dad of the author of "The Deerslayer".
• Cooperstown.
• 5: Be wary around Mont St. Michel of this substance, sables mouvants in French, which is perhaps not as deadly as films portray.
• quicksand.

Round 5. Category: The Johnny Gilbert BlueS. With Blue in quotes

• 1: Johnny has left the building wearing these"You can knock me down /Step on my face /Slander my name all over the place...".
• "Blue Suede Shoes".
• 2: Linda Ronstadt, brace yourself for this tune"I feel so bad / I got a worried mind / I'm so lonesome all the time / Since I left my baby behind on...".
• "Blue Bayou".
• 3: Witness the birth of "Captain Fantastic 2" with this song"Laughing like children /Living like lovers /Rolling like thunder /Under the covers...".
• "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues".
• 4: Completes this "Crystal"ine line"I'll be fine when you’re gone / I'll just cry all night long / Say it isn't true and don't it...".
• "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue".
• 5: This 1968 classic features the Man in Black, Johnny... Gilbert"My mama always told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns / But I shot a man in Reno just to

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1145, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Wacky Math

• 1: Strings on a standard guitar times the Oscars won by Pauly Shore.
• 0.
• 2: Number of "golden rings" in a Christmas song plus the number of rings in Ringling's circus.
• 8 (5 3).
• 3: Days in a leap year minus the title "route" number of a TV show starring Martin Milner.
• 300 (366 - 66).
• 4: Joe Namath's Jet uniform No. divided by the title number of a TV police car driven by Martin Milner.
• 1 (12/Adam-12).
• 5: No. of "islands" in a mayo-based salad dressing plus a "baker's dozen" of cookies made by Martin Milner.
• 1,013.

Round 2. Category: Who Sang It First?

• 1: "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" that before Marvin Gaye's version hit, this singer and her Pips took the song to No. 2.
• Gladys Knight.
• 2: This song was a hit for Ben E. King in 1961, for John Lennon in 1975 and for Ben again in 1986.
• "Stand By Me".
• 3: Manfred Mann made "Blinded By The Light" a hit after it was introduced on a 1973 album by this rocker who wrote it.
• (Bruce) Springsteen.
• 4: On their "Mother's Milk" album, the Red Hot Chili Peppers covered this Motown great's "Higher Ground".
• Stevie Wonder.
• 5: In 2004 the White Stripes had a U.K. hit with a live version of her "Jolene".
• Dolly Parton.

Round 3. Category: Let'S Go For A Swim

• 1: A swimmer kicks twice with one leg for each stroke of the opposite arm in the "Australian" this.
• crawl.
• 2: Simultaneously bring both arms out of the water in forward, circular motions to do this stroke.
• the butterfly.
• 3: World Book says it's "a restful stroke because your face is always out of the water and breathing is easy".
• the backstroke.
• 4: This stroke is made in the prone position using both hands simultaneously and doing a frog kick.
• the breaststroke.
• 5: Your head rests on your lower arm, extended with the palm turned downward in this stroke.
• the sidestroke.

Round 4. Category: Beastly Movies

• 1: 1988:Sigourney Weaver battles primate poachers.
• Gorillas in the Mist.
• 2: 2000:"blank Ugly".
• Coyote.
• 3: 1980:Robert De Niro battles his way to the top of the middleweight boxing world.
• Raging Bull.
• 4: 1978:Robert De Niro battles post-Vietnam stress.
• The Deer Hunter.
• 5: 1986:Paul Hogan faces the jungle of New York City.
• Crocodile Dundee.

Round 5. Category: Surprise!

• 1: A striking disclosure, or the final book of the New Testament; it should come as a....
• revelation.
• 2: We've found it! It being this exclamation of finding something, perhaps its namesake California city.
• Eureka.
• 3: Proverbially, this type of pitch mastered by Bert Blyleven is a deceptive trick.
• a curveball.
• 4: It can mean a sudden burst of electricity and it rhymes with an electrical unit of measure.
• a jolt.
• 5: It can be an experience resulting in a sudden realization and also an early A.M. drink of liquor.
• an eye-opener.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1144, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pull

• 1: You "pull a few" of these to get a favor done.
• Strings.
• 2: From the idea of breaking camp comes this phrase for moving on.
• Pull up stakes.
• 3: Since the 8th century, it's what churchmen have pulled to ring their bells.
• Ropes.
• 4: Word on the 2 buttons that preceded this one:(Curly in a "Three Stooges" clip showing a button marked "Pull").
• Press.
• 5: Ermal Fraze holds the 1963 patent for part of the "tear strip opener" better known to pop drinkers as this.
• Pull tab.

Round 2. Category: Sounds Like An Irish County

• 1: You may be asked to sniff one of these removed by a sommelier.
• Cork.
• 2: It's something "held" on sandwiches.
• Mayo.
• 3: "de Lune" or Danes.
• Claire.
• 4: Young doctor played by Lew Ayres and Richard Chamberlain.
• Kildare.
• 5: Route Julius Caesar took to France; too hard? Okay, flutist James.
• Galway (or "Gaul way").

Round 3. Category: In The Air

• 1: In a Khaled Hosseini book, the "real fun began" when the string of one of these "was cut".
• a kite.
• 2: In Genesis this man is told to take "fowls...of the air" by sevens.
• Noah.
• 3: At a 1914 air show, Lawrence Sperry stood on the wing as the plane he was flying stayed on course using this invention.
• autopilot.
• 4: A murmuration of these stellar birds is seen in Spain making some pretty shapes.
• starlings.
• 5: In 1979 this craft made news when it entered the atmosphere and broke apart over Australia.
• Skylab.

Round 4. Category: You Keep Me Hangin' On

• 1: These fasteners were patented by Walter Hunt in 1849 and made diapering a cinch.
• safety pins.
• 2: The trademarked name of this hook and loop fastener is from the French for "hooked velvet".
• Velcro.
• 3: "Manly" name for the fasteners that go through the front of formal dress shirts.
• studs.
• 4: From Old French for "attach", it's a short metal fastener used to join 2 sheets of metal together.
• a rivet.
• 5: Around 1891, Whitcomb Judson took out a patent on the slide fastener, which today we call this.
• the zipper.

Round 5. Category: The Anthony Quinn Film Festival

• 1: In 1962 Anthony Quinn played a fierce Bedouin leader in this desert epic.
• Lawrence of Arabia.
• 2: Anthony Quinn is best remembered for his role as this earthy title peasant in a film based on a Kazantzakis novel.
• Zorba the Greek.
• 3: In this 1943 film "Incident", Anthony Quinn and Dana Andrews are mistakenly lynched by a mob.
• The Ox-Bow Incident.
• 4: Kirk Douglas was Vincent Van Gogh and Anthony Quinn played Paul Gauguin in this artsy 1956 big screener.
• Lust for Life.
• 5: In 1962 Quinn played this title criminal set free so that Christ could be crucified.
• Barabbas.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1143, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: An Arm Or A Leg. With Arm" Or A "Leg in quotation marks

• 1: 4-word term for Gen. McClellan's Union forces that guarded D.C. against invasion across a certain river.
• Army of the Potomac.
• 2: Assembled in the 1580s, it was commanded by Medina Sidonia.
• the Spanish Armada.
• 3: He's known for one-man shows like "Mambo Mouth" and for film roles like Chi Chi in "To Wong Foo...".
• John Leguizamo.
• 4: In 1913 a major exhibit of modern art was held at NYC's 69th Regiment one of these.
• an armory.
• 5: Chaps are a type of these protective outer garments.
• leggings.

Round 2. Category: Stop The Presses!

• 1: A phone-hacking scandal forced this British tabloid to close in 2011.
• News of the World.
• 2: A kids magazine survey found out this fairy tends to leave girls about 25 cents more than boys.
• the tooth fairy.
• 3: A British paper claimed Prince Charles puts toothpaste in his nose to prevent this nocturnal noise.
• snoring.
• 4: People Magazine reported that Clint Black wears size 7 1/4 while Garth Brooks' is 7 5/8.
• a cowboy hat.
• 5: In 1992 she not only left her ministry but divorced her jailed husband.
• Tammy Faye Bakker.

Round 3. Category: A Cy Of Relief. With Cy in quotation marks

• 1: If this monster of Greek mythology had an eye on you, that was all the eyes he had.
• Cyclops.
• 2: In 2004 this island nation joined the European Union.
• Cyprus.
• 3: Business and spin are types of this.
• a cycle.
• 4: This "Insane in the Brain" Latino hip-hop group was named after a street in L.A..
• Cypress Hill.
• 5: Isn't that sweet? It's just short for cyclohexylsulfamate.
• Cyclamate.

Round 4. Category: Dylan Thomas

• 1: The radio play "Under Milk Wood" is set in Llareggub in this U.K. country where Thomas was born.
• Wales.
• 2: Dylan may have died as a result of this activity, defined for a male in college as having 5 in a row.
• Binge drinking.
• 3: Thomas addressed the Blitz in "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in" this city.
• London.
• 4: In "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night", the poet addresses this man.
• His father.
• 5: Dylan riffed on one of this author's titles in the book "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog".
• James Joyce.

Round 5. Category: 3-Word Responses

• 1: Feathers flew in the business world in 1991 when a fast food chain slimmed down to 3 letters from this name.
• Kentucky Fried Chicken.
• 2: In 1737 Boston held its first parade celebrating what became this annual event.
• St. Patrick's Day.
• 3: This 2018 film had a wealth of talent that included Awkwafina, Gemma Chan and Lisa Lu.
• Crazy Rich Asians.
• 4: The Natl. Highway Traffic Safety Admin.'s family of these includes 50th percentile adult male and 6-year-old weighted child.
• crash test dummy.
• 5: This Elizabeth Gilbert title/set of commands spent 57 weeks as a No. 1 on the N.Y. Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list.
• Eat Pray Love.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1142, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Dead Precedents

• 1: In 1943 the Supreme Court overruled a 1940 decision and said students couldn't be required to salute this.
• the flag.
• 2: In 1987 the Supreme Court overruled an 1861 decision that courts couldn't do this, order a suspect handed over to another state.
• extradite.
• 3: Agostini v. Felton reversed a 1985 ruling that prohibited public school teachers from teaching in these schools.
• parochial.
• 4: 1961's Mapp v. Ohio overturned a 1949 ruling and said this amendment bars illegally seized evidence from state courts.
• the 4th Amendment.
• 5: This controversial 2010 decision overruled a precedent that had barred certain political contributions.
• Citizens United.

Round 2. Category: Hot Films, Cool Films

• 1: George Kennedy won an Oscar in part for beating the heck out of Paul Newman in this movie.
• Cool Hand Luke.
• 2: A brutal murder is solved in this 1967 Oscar winner.
• In the Heat of the Night.
• 3: Judith Anderson played Big Mama Pollitt, the matriarch of a greedy Southern family, in this film.
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
• 4: After "Body Heat" steamed up the screen, Lawrence Kasdan cooled down and directed this movie next.
• The Big Chill.
• 5: As Rev. Clayton Brooks, Dick Van Dyke led a townwide effort to quit smoking in this 1971 film.
• Cold Turkey.

Round 3. Category: Take The Kids!

• 1: Toon Lagoon at Universal Studios Florida boasts a white-knuckle raft ride named for Bluto and this sailor.
• Popeye.
• 2: In part of Disney's Animal Kingdom, no glass separates you from the giant fruit type of this flying mammal.
• Bat.
• 3: The kids love "Pecos Goofy's Frontier Revue" at this Asian city's Disneyland.
• Tokyo.
• 4: At Nepal's Royal Chitwan National Park, watch out for the marsh-mugger type of this gator relative.
• Crocodile.
• 5: This West Coast city boasts museums devoted to Asian art, cartoon art and cable cars.
• San Francisco.

Round 4. Category: I Learned It Online

• 1: freetranslation.com taught me "Your eyes shine like oysters" in this language--"I suoi occhi brillano come le ostriche".
• Italian.
• 2: wendys.com informed me that the "3/4 lb. triple with" this has 980 calories, but plenty of calcium.
• cheese.
• 3: americanheart.org tells us that a "hands-only" version of this procedure is fine --no need for rescue breaths.
• CPR.
• 4: howstuffworks.com told me each Apache one of these can carry 16 Hellfire missiles--cool.
• a helicopter.
• 5: The "This Day in History" feature on history.com taught me Dec. 25 is the day in 1991 when he quit as Soviet leader.
• Mikhail Gorbachev.

Round 5. Category: 2 Types Of China

• 1: Shallow 7-letter dish used to serve food; maybe we should have served you the clue on one.
• a platter.
• 2: It's the animal of the Chinese year beginning in 2008.
• the rat.
• 3: In the Chinese Civil War, 1945 to 1949, it was the Communists versus these.
• the Nationalists.
• 4: In 1998 this Chinese org. abbreviated PLA was ordered to sell off all its non-defense assets.
• the People's Liberation Army.
• 5: Henry James compared his character Miss Pansy Osmond to a China figurine from this German city.
• Dresden.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1141, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: On My Dog'S Ipod

• 1: The first song my dog downloaded was "Atomic Dog" by this funky member of Parliament.
• George Clinton.
• 2: My dog can't help it-- he salivates every time he listens to the disco classic "Ring My" this.
• "Bell".
• 3: For inspiration, my dog listens to "Bark At The Moon", the title track of a 1983 album by this metal man.
• Ozzy Osbourne.
• 4: My dog really sinks his teeth into the George Thorogood classic "Bad To" this.
• "The Bone".
• 5: My dog loves the upbeat chorus of this Grammy-winning song by the Baha Men.
• "Who Let The Dogs Out".

Round 2. Category: J Movies. With J in quotation marks

• 1: 2009:Meryl Streep prepares a chicken.
• Julie and Julia.
• 2: 1979:Steve Martin is "born a poor black child".
• The Jerk.
• 3: 1995:An old magic board game comes to life.
• Jumanji.
• 4: 1985:Glenn Close/Jeff Bridges thriller.
• Jagged Edge.
• 5: 1990:Vietnam messed with Tim Robbins' head.
• Jacob's Ladder.

Round 3. Category: I Like Ike. With Ike in quotation marks

• 1: To solicit a free ride along a road.
• hitchhike.
• 2: Myers,Ditka, orWallace.
• Mike.
• 3: A sharp rise on a graph followed by a sharp decline.
• a spike.
• 4: A proverb says that powerful cerebrums "think..." this way.
• alike.
• 5: Unbecoming conduct on the gridiron.
• unsportsmanlike (conduct).

Round 4. Category: Fruits

• 1: Two fruits that combine to breed tangelos.
• tangerine and grapefruit.
• 2: This fruit plant can grow 20 feet high and produce a dozen hands.
• a banana plant.
• 3: This golfball-sized fruit, Citrus aurantifolia swingle, is now grown mostly in Mexico, not Southern Florida.
• the key lime.
• 4: This largest South American country is the world's largest producer of oranges.
• Brazil.
• 5: "Swedish" Lingonberries are closely related to this American fruit grown in bogs.
• cranberries.

Round 5. Category: Happy Trails

• 1: An important commercial route, this trail to New Mexico was started in 1821.
• the Santa Fe Trail.
• 2: Completed in 1937, this 2,000-mile hiking trail passes through 14 states.
• the Appalachian Trail.
• 3: Starting in this state, the Chisholm Trail was the principal route to take Longhorn cattle to Kansas.
• Texas.
• 4: California's Highway 101 follows El Camino Real, which linked 4 presidios with 21 of these.
• missions.
• 5: The Bozeman Trail was closed in 1868 by a treaty with this Indian nation.
• the Sioux.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1140, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Asian Bodies Of Water

• 1: Although called a sea, it's actually a large salty lake between Israel and Jordan.
• the Dead Sea.
• 2: According to Hindu myth, this river once flowed in the heavens but was ordered to go down to Earth.
• the Ganges.
• 3: This holy river of India was named for the daughter of the Mountain God Himalaya.
• the Ganges.
• 4: Arabs call this river Nahr Al-Urdun; the Hebrew name is Ha-Yarden.
• the Jordan (River).
• 5: This Siberian lake contains around 20% of the fresh water on the world's surface.
• Baikal.

Round 2. Category: Eat Your Foreign Vegetables

• 1: In Italy these are distinguished as peperoni rossi and peperoni verdi.
• red and green peppers.
• 2: In Espanol it's espinaca (and I'm still not eating it).
• spinach.
• 3: In French they're petits pois and weird people use a knife and honey to eat them.
• peas.
• 4: In Polish it's cebula; you can cry out your response now.
• onions.
• 5: In a Caribbean mood in Sweden? You might serve your svarta bonor, these, with kokat ris, "white rice".
• black beans.

Round 3. Category: The Girls In The Group

• 1: Emma, Geri, Mel B, Mel C, and Victoria.
• the Spice Girls.
• 2: LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson, Kelly Rowland and some singer with the last name Knowles.
• Destiny's Child.
• 3: Anita, June and Ruth, so excited to be these eponymic siblings.
• the Pointer Sisters.
• 4: "Don't Cha" remember Ashley, Carmit, Jessica, Kimberly, Melody and Nicole, these kittens?.
• the Pussycat Dolls.
• 5: Keren Woodward, Sara Dallin and Siobhan Fahey, who were really saying something in the 1980s and still in the 20-teens.
• Bananarama.

Round 4. Category: Austen-Tatious

• 1: While prince regent during his father's madness, this king had a set of Austen's novels in each of his residences.
• George IV.
• 2: Jane Austen said Elizabeth Bennet, the hero of this novel, was "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print".
• "Pride and Prejudice".
• 3: After her unsuccessful and meddlesome matchmaking, this title character realizes she loves Mr. Knightley.
• Emma Woodhouse.
• 4: This author of "Orlando" said, "Of all the great writers" Jane "is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness".
• Virginia Woolf.
• 5: This title abbey is the home of clergyman Henry Tilney.
• "Northanger Abbey".

Round 5. Category: 20Th Century Authors

• 1: In 1974 this Brit turned out another novel like clockwork, "The Clockwork Testament".
• Anthony Burgess.
• 2: Pennsylvania-born expatriate author depicted here in a 1917 sculpture by Jo Davidson.
• Gertrude Stein.
• 3: Ancestors of this elusive modern author protested after Hawthorne used their name in "The House of the Seven Gables".
• Thomas Pynchon.
• 4: This "Humboldt's Gift" author won both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes in 1976.
• Saul Bellow.
• 5: "There is no contentment on the road" says this CBS correspondent in "A Life on the Road".
• Charles Kuralt.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1139, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hard Wood

• 1: Ted Turner said these have no future because there aren't enough trees left to keep making wood pulp.
• newspapers.
• 2: This eating utensil's name is from Old English for a "chip of wood".
• spoon.
• 3: Only National Hockey League with a type of tree mentioned in their name.
• (Toronto) Maple Leafs.
• 4: The power ring of the 1940s version of this super hero was useless against wood.
• Green Lantern.
• 5: If God had taken this day off in creating the world we wouldn't have wood today.
• 3rd day.

Round 2. Category: Literary Characters' Ads

• 1: Paralyzed British landowner seeks gamekeeper for Wragby estate.
• Sir Chatterley (Lady Chatterley's husband).
• 2: Swiss student seeks companion for scavenger hunts in graveyards and dissecting rooms.
• Victor Frankenstein.
• 3: Young Russian count wanted for affair with married woman; open to pregnancy and train travel.
• Anna Karenina.
• 4: Seeking nymphet to be light of my life, fire of my loins. Must answer to "Lolita".
• Humbert Humbert.
• 5: Seeking governess for ward Adele at Thornfield; must not snoop in the attic.
• Rochester.

Round 3. Category: Let'S Go Camping!

• 1: This type of small, 2-man tent sounds like it's designed for your young dog.
• pup tent.
• 2: These soft feathers from geese or ducks are a lightweight insulating material for camping clothes.
• down.
• 3: Be careful hiking through the woods and avoid brushing up against this itchy 3-leafed plant, Rhus radicans.
• poison ivy.
• 4: The mummy variety of this camping equipment is perfect for cold weather.
• sleeping bag.
• 5: Small cans of this trademarked flammable hydrocarbon jelly are used as a heat source for camp cooking.
• Sterno.

Round 4. Category: We Have A New State Capital

• 1: Replacing Wheeling.
• Charleston.
• 2: Replacing Tuscaloosa.
• Montgomery.
• 3: Replacing Williamsburg.
• Richmond.
• 4: Replacing New Castle.
• Dover.
• 5: Replacing Portland, in 1832.
• Augusta.

Round 5. Category: Squid

• 1: The squid is better at hugging than the octopus, as it has this many appendages.
• ten.
• 2: A squid has teeth on its tongue, but its main weapon is this, which it uses to dismember prey.
• its beak.
• 3: Squids have sacs full of this used for distraction and yum! It's edible.
• ink.
• 4: Loligo opalescens is this 6-letter squid, a word that also follows "stock" or "farmers".
• market.
• 5: Though boneless, squids have a rudimentary type of this substance that serves as a sort of backbone.
• cartilage.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1138, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Did I Hear That Right?

• 1: "Saturday Night Live" editorialist Emily Litella wasn't sure why all the fuss about these "on television".
• Violins.
• 2: A coming-of-age novel by Bruce Ducker is titled "Lead Us Not Into" this NYC train depot.
• Penn Station.
• 3: (Hi, I'm Tony Danza) On "Friends", Lisa Kudrow was convinced that this man's song "Tiny Dancer" was really "Tony Danza".
• Elton John.
• 4: George W. Bush once referred to these 2 trade obstacles as "terriers and bariffs".
• Tariffs and barriers.
• 5: In a 2000 film, the idiomatically challenged "Trixie" speaks of "drinking yourself into" this South American country.
• Bolivia (instead of "oblivion").

Round 2. Category: You'Re Going In. With In in quotation marks

• 1: It's a polypeptide hormone produced by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans.
• insulin.
• 2: Any of the 4 anterior teeth in the jaw used for cutting.
• incisors.
• 3: It's found after "Disco" in a Top 40 song and "Dante's" in story.
• inferno.
• 4: It's a 10-letter verb meaning to introduce into public use by some formal ceremony.
• inaugurate.
• 5: From the Latin for "deceitful", it means "stealthily treacherous".
• insidious.

Round 3. Category: As You Like It. With As in quotation marks

• 1: A fibrous mineral formerly used to make fireproof articles.
• asbestos.
• 2: A paroxysmal, often allergic disorder of respiration characterized by bronchospasm and wheezing.
• asthma.
• 3: A village in Berkshire, England or a scarf with broad ends.
• an ascot.
• 4: In TV, this ratio of the width of an image to its height can be 4 to 3.
• an aspect ratio.
• 5: A secluded building, often the residence of a guru, used for the instruction of Hinduism.
• an ashram.

Round 4. Category: Music Industry Terms

• 1: This is taking a snippet of one song and using it in another; "Funky Drummer" by James Brown is often used.
• a sample.
• 2: Incorporating part of an old song into a new song, or trying a free piece of cheese at the deli.
• sampling.
• 3: In digital music sales, this method used to be about 20% of purchases and downloads were 70%; now it's flipped.
• streaming.
• 4: A hit song from one genre of music that also achieves commercial success in another genre.
• a crossover.
• 5: Non-reserved general admission seating at a performance venue; it sounds like a celebration.
• festival seating.

Round 5. Category: Completes The Movie Title

• 1: "Down and Out...".
• ...In Beverly Hills.
• 2: "Dog Day...".
• ...Afternoon.
• 3: "Kind Hearts and...".
• ...Coronets.
• 4: "Jim Thorpe...".
• ...All-American.
• 5: "Heaven Knows...".
• ...Mr. Allison.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1137, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: B.C. Vips

• 1: In 399 B.C. he told a jury, "I am not grieved, men of Athens, at this vote of condemnation".
• Socrates.
• 2: Rather than surrender to the Romans, this great Carthaginian general took his own life.
• Hannibal.
• 3: Ankhesenamun, one of the daughters of King Akhenaten and this beautiful queen, married King Tut.
• Nefertiti.
• 4: Farmer/soldier Cincinnatus saved ancient Rome, then refused to stay on as a dictator, preserving this Roman form of govt..
• the republic.
• 5: One of the 7 wise men of Greece, his code of laws formed the foundation of Athens' democracy.
• Solon.

Round 2. Category: Christmas Stories

• 1: Dickens wrote it for the money but said he laughed and cried over it more than any other story.
• A Christmas Carol.
• 2: In Luke's version of Christ's birth, the angel brings them "tidings of great joy".
• the shepherds.
• 3: Recounting his early years in Wales, this author said, "One Christmas was so like another".
• Dylan Thomas.
• 4: In his short story "The Gift of the Magi", a young husband and wife sacrifice to give each other gifts.
• O. Henry.
• 5: Truman Capote's story of his childhood holidays, he narrated the TV movie version.
• A Christmas Memory.

Round 3. Category: Arnold

• 1: Larger-than-life gambler Arnold Rothstein was implicated in this 1919 baseball scandal involving bribed players.
• the Black Sox Scandal.
• 2: Natl. hero Arnold von Winkelried of this mountainous country helped it achieve a victory over the Austrians in 1386.
• Switzerland.
• 3: Inspired by his years in India, Sir Edwin Arnold's blank-verse epic "The Light of Asia" told of this religion founder.
• Buddha.
• 4: English educator Thomas Arnold was the longtime headmaster of this boys school that shares its name with a sport.
• Rugby.
• 5: This poet's feelings of spiritual isolation are reflected in works like "Dover Beach".
• Matthew Arnold.

Round 4. Category: Bottom Feeders

• 1: This animal has no head, arms or internal organs and belongs to the phylum Porifera, meaning "pore-bearer".
• sponge.
• 2: The long-necked species of this bivalve is also known as the steamer.
• a clam.
• 3: In the Pacific and Atlantic halibuts, both of these organs are usually on the right side.
• eyes.
• 4: Although this echinoderm usually has 5 arms, some may have more than 40.
• a starfish.
• 5: The tube type of these live near deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and can reach 6' in length.
• worms.

Round 5. Category: Sting Like A Be. With Be in quotes

• 1: Your garden variety this veggie is often eaten pickled; the sugar type, not.
• a beet.
• 2: Meaning small, round and glittering, this adjective is usually applied to the eyes of the untrustworthy.
• beady.
• 3: A warning signal or radar device that helps you determine your position.
• a beacon.
• 4: Not Paul or Ringo, but a synagogue caretaker or a minor church official.
• a beadle.
• 5: This name is combined with Hawker in a Wichita-based airplane company.
• Beechcraft.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1136, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: State Sandwich

• 1: It's sandwiched between Mississippi and Georgia.
• Alabama.
• 2: It's sandwiched between California and Utah.
• Nevada.
• 3: It's the cheesy filling between Illinois and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
• Wisconsin.
• 4: It's sandwiched between Oregon and Wyoming.
• Idaho.
• 5: It's sandwiched between Minnesota and Missouri.
• Iowa.

Round 2. Category: I'M Latin Intolerant

• 1: I cannot tolerate this Latin phrase abbreviated A.D. when referring to the time since Jesus was born.
• Anno Domini.
• 2: I don't care that it's only 4 letters long; I'm not using this abbrev. phrase meaning "and others" in a crossword clue.
• et al..
• 3: I certainly won't call you this word meaning "retired but still retaining the title of your old position".
• emeritus.
• 4: Not that I care but...it means "for the time being"; you'll find it as part of a Senate job title.
• pro tem.
• 5: It's a fact; there's no way I'm saying this phrase that means "in fact" (as in the man behind the scenes, perhaps).
• de facto.

Round 3. Category: Beatlewomania

• 1: Lady Gaga was among the stars who joined her new "Plastic" band for a 2010 rendition of "Give Peace A Chance".
• Yoko Ono.
• 2: Ringo Starr wed first wife Maureen Cox in London in 1965; she'd been born in this Mersey River city in 1946.
• Liverpool.
• 3: Buddy Clark's 1947 chart-topping song "Linda" was written about the future wife of this Beatle (when she was 5 years old).
• Paul McCartney.
• 4: "Half of what I say is meaningless", John Lennon sang on "Julia", which bears the name of this woman in his life.
• his mother.
• 5: Before she was married to Eric Clapton, George Harrison wrote the song "Something" about her.
• Pattie Boyd.

Round 4. Category: Current Monarchs

• 1: He spoke Catalan at the opening ceremonies of the 1992 Summer Olympics.
• King Juan Carlos (of Spain).
• 2: He is the reigning prince of Monaco.
• Prince Rainier.
• 3: Princess Stephanie of Monaco is his youngest child.
• Prince Rainier.
• 4: Bhumibol Adulyadej, not Yul Brynner, current rules this country.
• Thailand.
• 5: OPEC nation ruled by King Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz.
• Saudi Arabia.

Round 5. Category: Pick A Number From 1-10

• 1: The prefix kilo signifies 10 to the power of this.
• 3.
• 2: Number of singers in the group that hit No. 1 in 1970 with "ABC".
• (Jackson) 5.
• 3: You should know this number is an anagram and a homophone of the German word for "no".
• nine.
• 4: Legend says only Adrastus survived out of a group of this many heroes who took on Thebes.
• 7.
• 5: In 1816 Ferdinand I ruled over the kingdom of this many Sicilies.
• 2.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1135, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Crossword Clues M. With M in quotation marks

• 1: Bede was one; so was Mendel (4).
• monk.
• 2: "La boheme" femme(4).
• Mimi.
• 3: Thoroughly modern girl(6).
• Millie.
• 4: Mickey and Minnie (4).
• mice.
• 5: Merry month (3).
• May.

Round 2. Category: Snacks On A Plane

• 1: Bon appetit! On long flights, this airline serves baguettes, cheese and champagne in the "affaires" cabin.
• Air France.
• 2: Allergy concerns have caused most carriers to discontinue these snacks, but Northwest still serves 'em.
• peanuts.
• 3: USA! USA! This red-white-and-blue carrier will sell you a 4-ounce chocolate chip cookie for just 3 bucks.
• American Airlines.
• 4: United's "classic snackbox" includes this brand of gourmet jelly beans.
• Jelly Belly.
• 5: This Atlanta-based airline's "flight delights" includes hummus, pita chips and a deck of miniature playing cards.
• Delta.

Round 3. Category: Let'S Rock!

• 1: Her father is Fred; her mother, Wilma.
• Pebbles Flintstone.
• 2: Keith, Brian, Mick, Bill and Charlie on drums.
• The Rolling Stones.
• 3: The Rolling Stones were inducted into it in 1989; meanwhile, The Comateens remain unjustly excluded.
• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• 4: In 1969 CCR had 3 No. 2 hits: "Bad Moon Rising", "Green River" and this one that kept on "rollin', rollin', rollin'".
• "Proud Mary".
• 5: "Large rock" city northwest of Denver.
• Boulder, Colorado.

Round 4. Category: What'S The DealIo?. With Io in quotes

• 1: A Brit might bid farewell to an "old chap" using this word.
• cheerio.
• 2: It's a large-scale musical work for voices and orchestra usually based on a religious theme.
• an oratorio.
• 3: It adds some spicy bitterness to a salad.
• radicchio.
• 4: Type of cabinet in which to display your knickknacks, bizarre or otherwise.
• a curio.
• 5: From the Latin for "messenger", it's a papal ambassador to a foreign government.
• nuncio.

Round 5. Category: Specs And The City

• 1: Its airport, named for 2 of its past mayors, is the world's busiest passenger airport.
• Atlanta.
• 2: Of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, this Michigan city has the highest percentage of African-Americans.
• Detroit.
• 3: With 126,000 daily copies, this city's La Opinion is the USA's top-selling non-English newspaper.
• Los Angeles.
• 4: About 600 miles from the mouth of the river, this Tennessee city of 650,000 is the largest on the Mississippi.
• Memphis.
• 5: Home to the Air Force Academy, this city has the highest elevation of any city that's home to a U.S. service academy.
• Colorado Springs.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1134, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ways To Play. With Play in quotation marks

• 1: To cut class or skip school.
• To play hooky.
• 2: It's a 3-word synonym for a pun.
• Play on words.
• 3: A person who doesn't date anyone exclusively does this; so do some baseball players.
• Play the field.
• 4: A detailed verbal account of an event, not necessarily a sporting event.
• Play-by-play.
• 5: New ideas that please the regular folk in Illinois are said to do this.
• To play in Peoria.

Round 2. Category: Their First Billboard No. 1 Hit

• 1: "Rock Around The Clock".
• Bill Haley and His Comets (Bill Haley and The Comets accepted).
• 2: "I Get Around".
• The Beach Boys.
• 3: "Heart Of Glass".
• Blondie.
• 4: "Dancing Queen".
• ABBA.
• 5: "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter".
• Herman's Hermits.

Round 3. Category: Lewis And Clark

• 1: =.
• =.
• 2: A week after his election, this president offered Lewis a post as his private secretary.
• Jefferson.
• 3: Named for a structural section, it's the type of boat the boys set off in; it ran aground on day 2.
• a keelboat.
• 4: As a member of the militia, Lewis went to Pennsylvania in 1794 to suppress this rebellion.
• the Whiskey Rebellion.
• 5: This man, one of William Clark's brothers, captured Vincennes during the Revolution.
• George Rogers Clark.

Round 4. Category: Double That Double S!

• 1: Murderer of a politically prominent person.
• assassin.
• 2: 14-letter way to describe a facial look without emotion.
• expressionless.
• 3: A society with no social demarcations (and no sessions of school).
• classless.
• 4: To oust someone from owning a piece of property.
• dispossess.
• 5: To evaluate, or to impose a tax.
• assess.

Round 5. Category: WindY Talk. With Wind in quotation marks

• 1: A bassoon or oboe, for example.
• woodwind.
• 2: This jacket often has elastic cuffs and waistband.
• windbreaker.
• 3: 3 principal types of these devices are the multivane, the propeller and the S rotor.
• windmills.
• 4: The Maui Makani Classic is a competition in this sport.
• windsurfing.
• 5: A proper British bug would get squished on this.
• windscreen.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1133, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Da, You Speak Russian

• 1: Also called the great sturgeon, this species lends its name to a type of caviar.
• beluga.
• 2: A Russian monarch, or an American policy expert appointed by the government to tackle a particular problem.
• a czar.
• 3: These thin pancakes are similar to crepes and traditionally made with buckwheat flour and served with sour cream.
• blinis.
• 4: Meaning "set of three", it's also a wagon or sleigh pulled by 3 horses.
• a troika.
• 5: This word borrowed from Russian refers to the influential educated social and political classes.
• intelligentsia.

Round 2. Category: European Museums

• 1: A U.K. museum dedicated to this author has a ball made of chocolate bar foil wrappers.
• Roald Dahl.
• 2: The Richelieu wing of this Paris art museum houses the apartments of Napoleon III.
• the Louvre.
• 3: Opened in 1993, this Danish capital's Tivoli Museum documents the history of Tivoli Amusement Park.
• Copenhagen.
• 4: This city boasts a Byzantine museum and an Acropolis museum.
• Athens.
• 5: This Swiss city's Palais des Nations houses a stamp museum and the League of Nations Museum.
• Geneva.

Round 3. Category: Songs Of The '80s

• 1: She was the Dionne of Dionne and Friends who recorded "That's What Friends Are For".
• Dionne Warwick.
• 2: With "Ev'ry breath you take, every move you make...," Sting said he'd be doing this.
• "I'll Be Watching You".
• 3: Written by Jan Hammer the them of this TV cop show hit No. 1 in 1985.
• Miami Vice.
• 4: Though "Fame" won the 1980 Oscar, this song beat it on the pop charts:.
• "9 To 5".
• 5: In a 1984 Cyndi Lauper hit, it follows "If you're lost, you can look and you will find me...".
• "Time After Time".

Round 4. Category: Leann Rhymes?

• 1: In a Beatles hit, the title words preceding "Work It Out".
• We Can.
• 2: Though the characters never mention it, the film "mash" takes place during this war.
• the Korean War.
• 3: The Enbridge Stairclimb goes up this Toronto tower.
• the CN Tower.
• 4: "By the power of Grayskull!" Prince Adam becomes this hero.
• He-Man.
• 5: "Borstal Boy" is the autobiography of this Irish author named Brendan.
• Behan.

Round 5. Category: Hispanic-American Firsts

• 1: He's the first labor leader and the first Hispanic American to be honored with a public legal holiday.
• (César) Chávez.
• 2: In 1982 Richard Cavazos became the first Hispanic American with this many stars as a full general in the Army.
• 4 stars.
• 3: In 1973 this late Pittsburgh Pirate became the first Hispanic American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• (Roberto) Clemente.
• 4: This onetime husband of Rosemary Clooney was the first Hispanic American to win the Oscar for Best Actor.
• José Ferrer.
• 5: In the 1990s he was the first Hispanic Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Energy.
• Federico Peña.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1132, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Books For The Young

• 1: This Mark Twain character is "hated" by moms because he is "vulgar and bad" but "all their children admired him".
• Huckleberry Finn.
• 2: This Margaret Wise Brown children's classic about bedtime begins "In the great green room...".
• Goodnight Moon.
• 3: He illustrated "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?".
• Eric Carle.
• 4: Discovered in 1993 an asteroid was named Besixdouze, an homage to this title character who lives on Asteroid B-612.
• the Little Prince.
• 5: Russell Hoban wrote 6 picture book stories about this little badger and her family.
• Frances.

Round 2. Category: Pipe Dreams. With Pipe in quotes

• 1: It stretches from the larynx to the bronchi.
• the windpipe.
• 2: This head covering is named for its shape.
• a stovepipe hat.
• 3: In 2006 and again in 2010 it was all golden for Shaun White in this Olympic event.
• the halfpipe.
• 4: The yagua of the Peruvian Amazon are skilled in using these weapons to bring down game.
• a blowpipe.
• 5: Also known as a syrinx, this variety of flute is popular in the Pyrenees.
• a panpipe.

Round 3. Category: Scrambled Kegs

• 1: Cheers, mate:FORESTS.
• Fosters.
• 2: It's been known to shed a little light:A/C OR NO.
• Corona.
• 3: Not just for the stoutest:INN GUESS.
• Guinness.
• 4: Weekends were made for it:CLIMB HOE.
• Michelob.
• 5: Perfect for award season:PROBABLE BIB NUTS.
• Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Round 4. Category: Genesis Basics

• 1: In Genesis 40 he takes a job as a dream interpreter.
• Joseph.
• 2: It sets sail in Genesis 7.
• Noah's Ark.
• 3: He is slain in Genesis 4.
• Abel.
• 4: These metropolises are destroyed in Genesis 19.
• Sodom and Gomorrah.
• 5: Thestartofthis structureis found inGenesis 11.
• the Tower of Babel.

Round 5. Category: Country Confusion

• 1: Togo is in Africa; Tobago is just off the coast of this continent.
• South America.
• 2: Slovakia was once part of Czechoslovakia; Slovenia was part of this country until 1991.
• Yugoslavia.
• 3: Mauritania is in northwest Africa; this island nation lies 500 miles east of Madagascar.
• Mauritius.
• 4: In Africa, there is Guinea and Guinea-this, a neighbor of Guinea.
• Bissau.
• 5: The Dominican Republic is part of Hispaniola; Dominica is part of these "Lesser" islands.
• the Antilles.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1131, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Better Known As...

• 1: Marion Morrison.
• John Wayne.
• 2: "Stardust" man David Jones.
• David Bowie.
• 3: Funnyman Cornelius Chase.
• Chevy Chase.
• 4: WWII radio propagandist Iva D'Aquino.
• "Tokyo Rose".
• 5: Norma Jean Baker.
• Marilyn Monroe.

Round 2. Category: Famous Flops

• 1: McDonald's hope for meatless Friday was the Hula Burger, this fruit topped with cheese and grilled.
• a pineapple.
• 2: In 1959 only 2,846 of this oversized and overpriced car's 1960 line were made before it was discontinued.
• the Edsel.
• 3: Businesses stuck with carbon paper because this company's 1949 Model A was slow, messy and hard to use.
• the Xerox.
• 4: Consumers didn't warm up to the nonrefrigerated milk in this company's 1998 cereal-and-milk combo product.
• Kellogg's.
• 5: This company's 1983 Lisa died because it was slow and pricey, but the graphical user interface lived on in other products.
• Apple.

Round 3. Category: National Sites

• 1: The Golden Spike historic site in this state commemorates the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
• Utah.
• 2: This island that was home to a notorious prison is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco.
• Alcatraz.
• 3: This D.C. national historic site is the only one that's also an active theater.
• Ford's Theatre.
• 4: Commemorating a 1965 civil rights march is the Selma to this city National Historic Trail in Alabama.
• Montgomery.
• 5: This state's only national memorial honors clergyman Roger Williams.
• Rhode Island.

Round 4. Category: Katie Couric, Witness To History

• 1: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) In 2006, on my first broadcast as anchor of the CBS Evening News, I reported that this group that formerly ruled Afghanistan was "back with a vengeance".
• the Taliban.
• 2: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) On "60 Minutes" in 2009 I conducted the first interview with this pilot, who vividly described "birds filling the entire windscreen".
• Sullenberger.
• 3: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) In a 2008 foreign policy interview, I asked this candidate, "Have you ever been involved with any negotiations with the Russians?" -- it seemed like a reasonable question.
• (Sarah) Palin.
• 4: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) My first network job was as deputy correspondent at this site, preparing me for interviewing the Petraeuses and Odiernos of the world.
• the Pentagon.
• 5: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) This Saudi royal was still Crown Prince when he did an exclusive interview with me in 2003; now he's king.
• Abdullah.

Round 5. Category: G.I. Joe

• 1: Because '60s boys didn't play with dolls, Hasbro coined this 2-word term to describe Joe.
• an action figure.
• 2: 1967's female G.I. Jo(e), now worth thousands in mint condition, wasn't a warrior but had this caring job.
• a nurse.
• 3: The original 11-1/2" long Joe began a long hiatus (or was he undercover?) the year after this real conflict ended.
• the Vietnam War.
• 4: In the '80s this pro wrestler with a rank in his name became the first real person to join the G.I. Joe corps.
• Sgt. Slaughter.
• 5: In the '70s Joe took up martial arts and learned this "grip".
• kung fu.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1130, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 7

• 1: Tradition says this city was founded in 753 B.C. on one of a group of 7 hills.
• Rome.
• 2: In the Romanian language, this group includes Duminica, Luni and Vineri.
• days of the week.
• 3: Shivah in this religion is a 7-day period of mourning.
• Judaism.
• 4: Lust, sloth and gluttony are 3 of the 7 of these.
• the 7 deadly sins.
• 5: Bryn Mawr, Vassar and Barnard are among this scholarly septet.
• Seven Sisters.

Round 2. Category: The State Governed

• 1: Bill Clinton.
• Arkansas.
• 2: George Pataki.
• New York.
• 3: William McKinley.
• Ohio.
• 4: Christine Todd Whitman.
• New Jersey.
• 5: Janet Napolitano.
• Arizona.

Round 3. Category: Got Milk?

• 1: AKA "America’s Dairyland", it’s one of the leading U.S. states in milk production.
• Wisconsin.
• 2: This "MMMBop" trio pushes "MMMMilk".
• Hanson.
• 3: 1 of this unit of milk weighs about 8 pounds.
• a gallon.
• 4: This Chicago Bulls forward sports golden-colored hair as well as a white mustache.
• Dennis Rodman.
• 5: A Frenchman created this process that kills microorganisms in milk by heating it.
• pasteurization.

Round 4. Category: Band With

• 1: Freddie Mercury andBrian May.
• Queen.
• 2: Mike Love,Al Jardine andthe Wilson brothers.
• the Beach Boys.
• 3: Eddie Vedder on vocals.
• Pearl Jam.
• 4: Richie Sambora on guitar.
• Bon Jovi.
• 5: Donald Fagen andWalter Becker.
• Steely Dan.

Round 5. Category: The Anthony Quinn Film Festival

• 1: In 1962 Anthony Quinn played a fierce Bedouin leader in this desert epic.
• Lawrence of Arabia.
• 2: Anthony Quinn is best remembered for his role as this earthy title peasant in a film based on a Kazantzakis novel.
• Zorba the Greek.
• 3: In this 1943 film "Incident", Anthony Quinn and Dana Andrews are mistakenly lynched by a mob.
• The Ox-Bow Incident.
• 4: Kirk Douglas was Vincent Van Gogh and Anthony Quinn played Paul Gauguin in this artsy 1956 big screener.
• Lust for Life.
• 5: In 1962 Quinn played this title criminal set free so that Christ could be crucified.
• Barabbas.

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