Episode 926 - if they were musicals... - fun with zip codes - tree words - devilish movies - historic homes

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 926, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: if they were musicals...

• 1: The musical version of this Ibsen play might be titled "Hedda Get Your Gun!".
• "Hedda Gabler".
• 2: Forget "Cats"; the musical of this Orwell book would feature jackbooted dancing pigs.
• "Animal Farm".
• 3: His play about Mrs. Warren could become "Best Little Whorehouse in Europe".
• George Bernard Shaw ("Mrs. Warren's Profession").
• 4: A musical of this Hardy novel might include the song "Jude, Glorious Jude".
• "Jude the Obscure".
• 5: Songs from this TV show would highlight the adaptation "Shirley and the Amazing Technicolor School Bus".
• The Partridge Family.

Round 2. Category: fun with zip codes

• 1: This Virginia suburb where famous dead are remembered has the easily remembered code 22222.
• Arlington.
• 2: 50010 is found in the heartland, Ames in this state.
• Iowa.
• 3: Remember the Alamo and this city whose ZIP Codes run from 78201 to 78299.
• San Antonio.
• 4: To promote the use of ZIP Codes, Ethel Merman recorded a jingle to the tune of this song from "Song of the South".
• "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah".
• 5: Manhattan buildings with their own ZIP Codes include the Postum and Metlife buildings, both on the avenue with this scenic name.
• Park Avenue.

Round 3. Category: tree words

• 1: We'll give you a hand--these are well read by fortune tellers.
• palms.
• 2: It's a brown color for eyes or a maid for the Baxters.
• hazel.
• 3: When talking feelings, it's a synonym for to long for something.
• pine.
• 4: A more aged influential member of a tribe, or a member of the Mormon priesthood.
• elder.
• 5: You wood wood like like this 1966 Neil Diamond hit if you heard it.
• "Cherry Cherry".

Round 4. Category: devilish movies

• 1: A very sexy Satan, this supermodel tempts Brendan Fraser in 2000's "Bedazzled".
• Elizabeth Hurley.
• 2: Poor little Regan MacNeil is possessed by the devil in this 1973 classic.
• The Exorcist.
• 3: Max von Sydow was Leland Gaunt, AKA the Devil, in "Needful Things", based on one of this author's novels.
• Stephen King.
• 4: Could it be Satan who fathered Mia Farrow's child in this 1968 flick?.
• Rosemary's Baby.
• 5: Keanu Reeves works for Al Pacino, one hell of a lawyer, in this 1997 film.
• The Devil's Advocate.

Round 5. Category: historic homes

• 1: The Martha Vick house in this Mississippi city was constructed in 1830 by the daughter of the city's founder.
• Vicksburg.
• 2: This Asheville, N.C. estate built by George Washington Vanderbilt has a 250-room house and its own winery.
• Biltmore.
• 3: The home this president lived in while he served on the Supreme Court is now the Syrian embassy.
• Taft.
• 4: You'll find this president's boyhood home in the Plymouth Notch Historic District of Plymouth, VT..
• Coolidge.
• 5: This writer's home in Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived beginning in 1874, is often called Steamboat Gothic.
• Mark Twain.

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