Episode 921 - "mm" bop - shrew-ed - hurricane names - playwrights - states by senators

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 921, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "mm" bop

• 1: If I can never die, I'm this.
• Immortal.
• 2: On the football field, this line separates the Lions from the Bears.
• Line of scrimmage.
• 3: IDG books "For" these people include ones on "Bird Watching", "Opera" and "Windows 98".
• Dummies.
• 4: "Tell me more" about this song from "Grease".
• "Summer Nights".
• 5: For 1/3 and 1/4, it's 12.
• Lowest common denominator.

Round 2. Category: shrew-ed

• 1: Continent where you'd find the shrews Crocidura nigeriae and Crocidura tansaniana.
• Africa.
• 2: Canadian province where you'll most likely spot Trowbridge's shrew, which enjoys Douglas fir seeds.
• British Columbia.
• 3: The Southeastern shrew inhabits the marshy U.S. region that got this uninviting name from Col. William Byrd.
• the Great Dismal Swamp.
• 4: The Mt. Malindang shrew and the Palawan tree shrew are native to this country.
• the Philippines.
• 5: It would be "serendip"itous to see a Kelaart's long-clawed shrew, as it lives only on this island.
• Sri Lanka.

Round 3. Category: hurricane names

• 1: 1985:Same as Steinem and Estefan.
• Gloria.
• 2: 1991:Same as Fosse and Barker.
• Bob.
• 3: 1955:Same as Reno and Jackson.
• Janet.
• 4: 1983:Same as Witt and Silverstone.
• Alicia.
• 5: 1979:Same as Remington and Chopin.
• Frederic.

Round 4. Category: playwrights

• 1: Known for his comedies, his "Chapter Two" told of his remarriage after his wife's death.
• Neil Simon.
• 2: This "Odd Couple" writer said, "if he did not take a big chance, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor".
• Neil Simon.
• 3: His "The Crucible" was produced in 1953; in 1956 he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
• Arthur Miller.
• 4: Okay, you bleepin' bleepity bleep contestants! "Boston Marriage" is a 1999 comedy by this bleepin' playwright! Bleep!.
• David Mamet.
• 5: "You Never Can Tell", the initial literary work of this "Pygmalion" author, earned him less than 10 shillings a year.
• George Bernard Shaw.

Round 5. Category: states by senators

• 1: Akaka and Inouye.
• Hawaii.
• 2: Thurmond and Hollings.
• South Carolina.
• 3: Cochran and Lott.
• Mississippi.
• 4: Specter and Santorum.
• Pennsylvania.
• 5: Grassley and Harkin.
• Iowa.

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