Episode 1040 - Pop culture from bartlett's - Answer the homophone! - The game's a "foot" - Fantasy island - Monopoly tokens

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1040, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pop Culture From Bartlett'S

• 1: He made Bartlett's with his signoff "Here it is... your moment of Zen".
• Jon Stewart.
• 2: This movie line is listed under M. Night Shyamalan, though Bartlett's notes that it was spoken by Hayley Joel Osment.
• "I see dead people".
• 3: Muhammad Ali used this boxing credo that mentions 2 insects.
• "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee".
• 4: From Series 2, Episode 2 of "Monty Python's Flying Circus": this 5-word phrase about a surprise to all.
• "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!".
• 5: Trey Parker and Matt Stone get credit for "Oh my God" followed by this 3-word catch phrase.
• "They killed Kenny!".

Round 2. Category: Answer The Homophone!

• 1: Having a scratchy throat, and the equine you rode in on.
• hoarse/horse.
• 2: Multiple beers, and the minor injury you got when you fell after multiple beers.
• brews/bruise.
• 3: The act of aiding, and the personal errand runners for a movie star.
• assistance/assistants.
• 4: To construct, and what the contractor did to the customer after construction was completed.
• build/billed.
• 5: To cause to be disconcerted, and a stage in a process of development.
• faze/phase.

Round 3. Category: The Game'S A Foot. With Foot in quotation marks

• 1: You'd think this creature said to be 7 to 10 feet tall and 600 to 1,000 lbs. would be pretty easy to find, but no.
• Bigfoot.
• 2: It's an acute contagious febrile disease of cattle.
• foot-and-mouth.
• 3: A "delicate" newcomer or novice.
• a tenderfoot.
• 4: It's been slang for a sailor as well as a policeman.
• a flatfoot.
• 5: You're said to "gain" this when you establish a firm basis for further progress.
• a foothold.

Round 4. Category: Fantasy Island

• 1: Turn out the lights, Caliban; you're the last one left on the island in this play, written around 1611.
• The Tempest.
• 2: Peter Pan can bring visitors to this island, home to the Lost Boys.
• Never-Never Land.
• 3: The temple of Poseidon was on this legendary island that was said to lie west of the Strait of Gibraltar.
• Atlantis.
• 4: The Chateau d'If isn't a 5-star hotel in this 1844 novel; it's an island prison.
• The Count of Monte Cristo.
• 5: In one version of the legend, King Arthur was offered Excalibur when Merlin brought him to this island.
• Avalon.

Round 5. Category: Monopoly Tokens

• 1: This piece is a Scottie.
• a dog.
• 2: As Roy Scheider said in "Jaws", "You're gonna need a bigger" one.
• a boat.
• 3: Domicile for the nursery rhyme old woman with a family of unmanageable size.
• the shoe.
• 4: This load-carrying item is lifted and pushed by 2 horizontal shafts.
• a wheelbarrow.
• 5: This speedy item is also a palindrome.
• a racecar.

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