Episode 862 - historic historians - who was the prez when... - trail mix - films of the '50s - the desperate housewife who...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 862, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: historic historians

• 1: 2nd century B.C. historian Ssu-Ma Ch'ien put together the first comprehensive history of this country.
• China.
• 2: Christian Lange edited "Diplomatarium Norvegicum", a valuable source on this, his native land.
• Norway.
• 3: William Prescott's 2 big tales of the Conquistadors were about "The Conquest of Peru" and "The Conquest of" this country.
• Mexico.
• 4: This venerable saint's eccesiastical history of England goes up to 731; he died in 735.
• the Venerable Bede.
• 5: 6th century Roman historian Flavius Cassiodorus did a history of this group that split into Visi- and Ostro- halves.
• the Goths.

Round 2. Category: who was the prez when...

• 1: ...the Berlin airlift resupplied a Soviet-blocked West Berlin.
• Harry Truman.
• 2: ...the Beatles appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show".
• Lyndon Johnson.
• 3: ...Three Mile Island's nuclear reactor No. 2 went kerflooey.
• Jimmy Carter.
• 4: ...Neil and Buzz strolled across the Sea of Tranquility.
• Richard Nixon.
• 5: ...the War of 1812 was fought in the U.S..
• James Madison.

Round 3. Category: trail mix

• 1: Popular with cyclists, the 18.5-mile Mount Vernon trail follows this river's shoreline.
• the Potomac.
• 2: Pompeys Pillar, a famous rock formation in Montana, lies along the trail named for this pair.
• Lewis and Clark.
• 3: Popular with backpackers, the Mantario Trail is located mostly in this Canadian province that borders Ontario.
• Manitoba.
• 4: You can still see wheel ruts along this 2,000-mile-long route used by pioneers heading west to the Willamette Valley.
• the Oregon Trail.
• 5: The complex of roads known as this Communist leader's trail was a major supply route for North Vietnam.
• the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Round 4. Category: films of the '50s

• 1: In 1958 he starred as a middle-aged Andy Hardy in "Andy Hardy Comes Home".
• Mickey Rooney.
• 2: "Cattle Queen of Montana" in 1954, she went on to run a ranch on "The Big Valley".
• Barbara Stanwyck.
• 3: He played Brick to ELizabeth Taylor's Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".
• Paul Newman.
• 4: Clare Boothe Luce protested the 1955 Venice showing of this Glenn Ford-Sidney Poitier high school film.
• Blackboard Jungle.
• 5: In this 1956 sci-fi classic, Leslie Nielsen found himself on Altair-4 with Anne Francis and Robby the Robot.
• Forbidden Planet.

Round 5. Category: the desperate housewife who...

• 1: ...got an Oscar nomination in 2006.
• Felicity Huffman.
• 2: ...showered a little too much affection on Terrell Owens on "Monday Night Football".
• Nicollette Sheridan.
• 3: ...appeared on the cover of the April 2006 Vanity Fair.
• Teri Hatcher.
• 4: ...literally blew up "Melrose Place" as Dr. Kimberly Shaw.
• Marcia Cross.
• 5: ...has a B.S. in kinesiology and was No. 1 on Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100" list.
• Eva Longoria.

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