Episode 955 - I'Ll Have The "Ham" - Muppet News - The Brady Bunch - And The Fish Was This Big! - Countries' Official Languages

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 955, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I'Ll Have The Ham. With Ham in quotes

• 1: A Cricetus cricetus with large cheek pouches.
• hamster.
• 2: This tendon is at the back of the thigh.
• the hamstring.
• 3: This man co-wrote several popular musicals including "The King and I".
• Oscar Hammerstein.
• 4: He wrote hard-boiled detective novels like "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man".
• Dashiell Hammett.
• 5: This county in southern England borders the English Channel.
• Hampshire.

Round 2. Category: Muppet News

• 1: Over to Elmo, who reports on the "Tickle Me Satchmo" doll honoring this "Hello, Dolly!" musician.
• Louis Armstrong.
• 2: Longtime roommates Bert and Ernie interview these 2 characters played by Lemmon and Matthau in 1968.
• Felix Unger and Oscar Madison.
• 3: Next, Cookie Monster gets up close and personal with the "Head Baker and Spokes-Elf" of this company.
• Keebler.
• 4: In "Gonzo's Book Corner", our blue man snoop reviews this gonzo journalist's "Great Shark Hunt".
• Hunter S. Thompson.
• 5: Hi ho, this CNN Finance host who replaced Willow Bay in 2001 here, sitting in for Kermit the anchorfrog.
• Lou Dobbs.

Round 3. Category: The Brady Bunch

• 1: The Brady Bill requires a 5-day waiting period on the purchase of these.
• handguns.
• 2: Because he was not well enough known, Gene Hackman lost the role of Mike Brady to this actor.
• (Robert) Reed.
• 3: In 2017 he released his first book, "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance".
• Tom Brady.
• 4: In the late 1890s its territorial gov. John Green Brady called for statehood; he died in Sitka before it happened.
• Alaska.
• 5: She died in April 2015 after 30 years of gun control activism.
• Sarah Brady.

Round 4. Category: And The Fish Was This Big!

• 1: Up to 15 feet long, this fish has no teeth as an adult but does have a weapon for a nose.
• a swordfish.
• 2: Don't struggle clumsily; identify the summer type of this, which can grow to almost three feet long.
• a flounder.
• 3: Gail Choy-Kaleiki wasn't an old man but she pulled an 1,800-pound blue one of these out of the sea in 1970.
• a marlin.
• 4: A general term for a small fish; most American ones are less than 6 inches, but one in the Colorado River can run 6 feet.
• minnow.
• 5: If you're doing this type of "Fishing in America", remember that New Jersey's record for a lake one is over 32 pounds.
• trout.

Round 5. Category: Countries' Official Languages

• 1: In Israel, Arabic and this.
• Hebrew.
• 2: In San Marino.
• Italian.
• 3: In Liechtenstein.
• German.
• 4: In Finland, Finnish and this.
• Swedish.
• 5: In Andorra, this language named for a region of Spain.
• Catalan.

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