Episode 931 - 1970s album covers - water sports - music of the '60s - a "b" city - track and field

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 931, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 1970s album covers

• 1: 1977:John Travolta strikes a pose and points his finger to the sky.
• Saturday Night Fever.
• 2: 1978:Mick, Keith and the boys smile and smirk in wig catalog ads.
• Some Girls.
• 3: 1973:Against a black background, a prism bends a beam of light into a colorful spectrum.
• Dark Side of the Moon.
• 4: 1973:Paul McCartney and 8 others including James Coburn and Christopher Lee are caught by a police spotlight.
• Band on the Run.
• 5: 1978:Billy Joel leans against an alley wall holding a trumpet.
• 52nd Street.

Round 2. Category: water sports

• 1: Cypress Gardens show done on water, not on snow.
• water skiing.
• 2: Fishing from a moving boat.
• trolling.
• 3: Competitor in this sport was the model for nude male torso atop L.A.'s Olympic gate.
• water polo.
• 4: Name of yacht immortalized after winning the 100-Guinea Cup away from England in 1851.
• the America.
• 5: What an unlucky surfer has just experienced in this song.
• wipeout.

Round 3. Category: music of the '60s

• 1: In 1969 "Something" became the only No. 1 hit he composed for The Beatles.
• George Harrison.
• 2: In 1969 B.J. Thomas had the biggest hit of his career with this song from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
• "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head".
• 3: In this 1965 hit, Roger Miller tells us that "Two hours of pushing broom buys a eight by twelve four-bit room".
• "King of the Road".
• 4: In 1968 his "Hurdy Gurdy Man" came singing songs of love.
• Donovan.
• 5: In the 1960s she reached the Top 20 3 times with duets: twice with Lee Hazelwood and once with her father.
• Nancy Sinatra.

Round 4. Category: a "b" city

• 1: You can cross this city's Francis Scott Key Bridge by the dawn's early light.
• Baltimore.
• 2: In 1937 the Loyalists in Spain made this city their capital.
• Barcelona.
• 3: Aurelia Aquensis in ancient times, you may want to take a "double" dip in this German city's baths.
• Baden-Baden.
• 4: Its first name was F-E-L-S-I-N-A, not O-S-C-A-R.
• Bologna.
• 5: The center of the Czech Republic's wool industry, it looks like it needs to buy a vowel.
• Brno.

Round 5. Category: track and field

• 1: Dutch Warmerdam, the 1st man to vault over 15', in 1940, used poles made of this natural substance.
• bamboo.
• 2: They're either 36" or 42" high, depending on the race.
• a hurdle.
• 3: In 1989 this country removed Imre Nagy's remains from a potter's field and reburied them with honors.
• Hungary.
• 4: In 1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee was named the amateur athlete of the year; this sister-in-law won in 1988.
• Florence Griffith Joyner.
• 5: This son of a Dutch immigrant had the first 15' pole vault--in fact, he had the first 43 15' pole vaults.
• "Dutch" Warmerdam.

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