Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1017, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: I'Ll Have Thirds
- 1: It says you can't be forced to let soldiers live in your house.
- the Third Amendment.
- 2: This annual observance that's on the third Sunday in June should seem familial to you.
- Father's Day.
- 3: This third book in the King James Bible says, "It shall be a perpetual statute... that ye eat neither fat nor blood".
- Leviticus.
- 4: This general who died late in 1945 led the U.S. Third Army on major campaigns of World War II including Normandy.
- (George S.) Patton.
- 5: In 1996 this Reform Party presidential candidate, a Texas businessman, got third place with 8 million votes.
- Ross Perot.
Round 2. Category: What Sort Of Establishment Is This?
- 1: The type of roadhouse called a this joint lent its name to a coin-operated music machine.
- a juke joint.
- 2: In Mexico, it's a bar; on Tatooine, it's also "an ideal spot to hire a starship's crew".
- a cantina.
- 3: If you encounter a meat and three establishment in the American South, the "three" refers to these.
- the side dishes.
- 4: Raw bars traditionally serve live, uncooked these.
- oysters (shellfish, clams).
- 5: There's an alloy in this word for a type of casual restaurant, French for "brewery".
- a brasserie.
Round 3. Category: 1988
- 1: The Thatcher government imposed a broadcast ban on this political wing of the IRA.
- Sinn Fein.
- 2: Bone, Crossbeak and Bonnet, or, as the Eskimos called them, Pontu, Siku and Kannick.
- gray whales that were trapped.
- 3: In August this Indiana senator was chosen as the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
- Dan Quayle.
- 4: In mid-March, Midway Island will be midway along the path of one of these.
- a solar eclipse.
- 5: Along with the Marcoses, this Saudi arms merchant was indicted in October on charges of racketeering.
- Adnan Khashoggi.
Round 4. Category: Singers' Shared First Names
- 1: Chesney and Loggins.
- Kenny.
- 2: Nicks and Wonder.
- Stevie.
- 3: Trevi and Gaynor.
- Gloria.
- 4: Bolton and Buble.
- Michael.
- 5: Maines and Merchant.
- Natalie.
Round 5. Category: In Life
- 1: In regard to benefits, ssa.gov says this period of your life begins at age 62.
- retirement.
- 2: In common law, the age of this, signaling adulthood, is presumed to be 14 in boys and 12 in girls.
- puberty.
- 3: In the Holmes-Rahe life stress inventory, the death of a spouse is tops, while this similar outcome is second.
- divorce.
- 4: In Catholicism this sacrament, administered on baptized persons at least age 7, allows you to take communion.
- confirmation.
- 5: "When age chills the blood", waxed Byron, "our sweetest memorial" will be the "first" this "of love".
- kiss.
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