Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1006, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Obvious Answers
- 1: This machine that produces printed letters on paper can be spelled using just letters on a typewriter's top row.
- Typewriter.
- 2: William Tyler Page, who wrote "The American's Creed" that the House adopted in 1918, had this job there in 1881.
- Page.
- 3: In an April 17, 1965 speech in Johnson City, Texas, this president rejected appeals to halt the bombing in Vietnam.
- Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 4: Millenios, a new cereal for the year 2000, contained 2 types of bits, little zeros and little these.
- Twos.
- 5: Milestones in this director's career include "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "A Walk in the Sun".
- Lewis Milestone.
Round 2. Category: All You Need Is Ove. With Ove in quotation marks
- 1: Bird of the Columbidae family.
- a dove.
- 2: A hitter wears them on his hands.
- batting glove.
- 3: To desire something that belongs to someone else.
- covet.
- 4: To linger around a particular place.
- hover.
- 5: To aim a gun directly at someone.
- cover.
Round 3. Category: Dancing Stars
- 1: He cut a rug with Cameron Diaz in "The Mask".
- Jim Carrey.
- 2: Tina Fey said acting with Alec Baldwin is like this man dancing with a hatrack--he makes the hatrack look good.
- Fred Astaire.
- 3: He danced with cartoon mouse Jerry (as in Tom and) in "Anchors Aweigh", the film that established him as a superstar.
- Gene Kelly.
- 4: She danced with the animated MC Skat Kat in the video to her 1990 no. 1 hit "Opposites Attract".
- Paula Abdul.
- 5: A lowlight of this Brat Packer's career: singing and dancing with Snow White at the Academy Awards in 1989.
- Rob Lowe.
Round 4. Category: In Trouble With The Fcc
- 1: A $550,000 fine on CBS for her revealing 2004 Super Bowl halftime show was later overturned.
- Janet Jackson.
- 2: A $500,000 hit for a discussion about Richard Gere was one of many fines for this shock jock; no wonder he went to satellite!.
- Howard Stern.
- 3: The FCC rebuked NBC for a 1937 radio skit about Adam and Eve by this suggestive "I'm No Angel" blonde.
- Mae West.
- 4: On May 17, 1972 this comedian recorded his "7 Dirty Words" bit and the FCC started dealing with that a year later.
- George Carlin.
- 5: In 1989 a station was fined $2,000 for playing "Erotic City" by this funky musician.
- Prince.
Round 5. Category: The Carolinas
- 1: North Carolina supplied 1/4 of the casualties to the losing side in this war.
- Civil War.
- 2: A 1971 Supreme Court case brought this mobile method of racial integration to Charlotte, N,C..
- Busing.
- 3: In 1902 "In The Good Old Summertime" was a hit and this current senator was born in Edgefield, S.C..
- Strom Thurmond.
- 4: During WWII the Army trained its first 2 airborne divisions at this N.C. fort.
- Fort Bragg.
- 5: It's about 200 miles between these 2 capital cities of the Carolinas.
- Columbia and Raleigh.
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