Episode 924 - "v" love it! - history test - classic tv title roles - "day" or "night" - cnn 25: international news

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 924, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "v" love it!

• 1: With names like Michelangelo and Black Widow, they're designed to vandalize your computer system.
• viruses.
• 2: "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" was the classic tagline of these cigarettes.
• Virginia Slims.
• 3: It flows through Kazan and Saratov.
• Volga River.
• 4: God bless this author of "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater".
• Kurt Vonnegut.
• 5: The third most populous city in Spain, it's known for its silks and its oranges.
• Valencia.

Round 2. Category: history test

• 1: The Spanish version of this judicial body was set up in 1478; the Roman one, in 1542.
• the Inquisition.
• 2: In 1848 this U.S.-Mexico peace treaty was signed not far from the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
• 3: The Boxer Protocol, signed in September 1901, forced this country to pay about $330 million.
• China.
• 4: Vermeer's view of this city dates from a few years after its devastating powder magazine explosion.
• Delft.
• 5: This ship left Tahiti April 4, 1789, apparently to the regret of many of the crew.
• the Bounty.

Round 3. Category: classic tv title roles

• 1: Dry cleaner Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford and their son.
• The Jeffersons.
• 2: Police captain Hal Linden.
• Barney Miller.
• 3: Alien life form voiced by Paul Fusco.
• ALF.
• 4: Waitress Linda Lavin.
• Alice.
• 5: Streetwise detective Robert Blake.
• Baretta.

Round 4. Category: "day" or "night"

• 1: If you're habitually up and active late into the night you're one of these "bird"s.
• Night owl.
• 2: A trademark for luminous paints and colors like that of my "Rocket Red" underwear.
• DayGlo.
• 3: One of mine is being chased by a tyrannosaurus rex, one of yours may be "on Elm Street".
• Nightmare.
• 4: The goddess Eos knows it's another word for dawn.
• Daybreak.
• 5: On his 20th attempt, Dale Earnhardt won this grueling auto race February 15, 1998.
• Daytona 500.

Round 5. Category: cnn 25: international news

• 1: In 1989, one lone protestor halted a column of tanks as it advanced on this square.
• Tiananmen Square.
• 2: (Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN's 360.) In 2002 I reported from this capital that U.S. allies had liberated the previous November.
• Kabul.
• 3: In 1997, we said "hello" to this sheep as CNN reported on her cloning by Scottish scientists.
• Dolly.
• 4: Held hostage in Lebanon, this AP correspondant was finally freed in 1991, ending his 7-year ordeal.
• Terry Anderson.
• 5: Tragically in 1995, more than 200 people died in the country then called this during an outbreak of the Ebola virus.
• Zaire.

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