Episode 1064 - Airborne - Owed on a grecian urn - One-letter geography - Acting families - Water carriers

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1064, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Airborne

• 1: It figures that Otto was the name of the autopilot in this 1980 movie comedy in the clouds.
• Airplane!.
• 2: Tom Hanks and several FedEx packages survive a particularly bumpy flight in this film.
• Cast Away.
• 3: Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a prisoner with a heart of gold, in this flighty film.
• Con Air.
• 4: One of the President's own men is a terrorist when the title plane gets hijacked in this 1997 actioner.
• Air Force One.
• 5: Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick were both nominated for Oscars for this 2009 film.
• Up in the Air.

Round 2. Category: Owed On A Grecian Urn

• 1: For building the Parthenon as leader of Athens, I say to the citizens: you owe me! and please take better care of it.
• Pericles.
• 2: Though blind, I see that you're still reading my "Iliad" and "Odyssey"; you owe me! Or at least the overdue library fees.
• Homer.
• 3: "Slow and steady wins the race" is one of the morals I have taught you; you owe me!.
• Aesop.
• 4: I left behind treatises on how to treat diseases and my oath is still taken today; you owe me! Do you have Blue Cross?.
• Hippocrates.
• 5: Without my "Parallel Lives", you'd know a lot less about our history.
• Plutarch.

Round 3. Category: One-Letter Geography

• 1: Due west of its capital Salem, this state's D River is billed as the world's shortest at 120 feet.
• Oregon.
• 2: You'll find the region called "U" in Pohnpei, one of the Federated States of this multi-island Pacific nation.
• Micronesia.
• 3: Sweden, Denmark and Norway all have villages with the "ring" type of this vowel for a name.
• A.
• 4: This French village exists at the junction of 3 roads, hence its one-letter name.
• Y.
• 5: Mount E on this island is at the entrance to the Tsugaru Strait, across which lies Honshu.
• Hokkaido.

Round 4. Category: Acting Families

• 1: Ryan andTatum.
• O'Neal.
• 2: BrothersBen and Casey.
• Affleck.
• 3: Dad and sonFreddie.
• Prinze.
• 4: Efrem andStephanie.
• Zimbalist.
• 5: Junius and his boys Edwin and John.
• Booth.

Round 5. Category: Water Carriers

• 1: The 62-mile Kings River flume in California wasn't built for a theme park but to float these.
• logs.
• 2: One of these channels, built to bring goods by water to Madras, India, took 76 years to finish.
• an canal.
• 3: Martin Luther King hoped for righteousness to roll down "like a mighty" this, not quite a river.
• a mighty stream.
• 4: In 1590 Sir Francis Drake built the 17-mile River Leat, one of these channels, bringing water to Plymouth, England.
• an aqueduct.
• 5: In the 1950s this project opened up a 2,300-mile system of waterways.
• the Saint Lawrence Seaway project.

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