Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1075, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: International Get-Togethers
- 1: In spring, head out from this largest Dutch city to the regional trade event focusing on tulips.
- Amsterdam.
- 2: Toronto's Collision Conference has a program for these tech companies named for their fledgling nature.
- start-ups.
- 3: This Austin-based meet-up was focused on music when it launched in 1987, but now includes other media.
- South by Southwest.
- 4: In 2018 the India Mobile Congress event focused on telecom issues, especially this new alphanumeric mobile network.
- 5G.
- 5: Billed as the "most influential tech event in the world", this event featuring gizmos and gadgets has been held in Las Vegas since 1978.
- the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
Round 2. Category: Drug Store
- 1: For most of its 100 plus years, it's been the world's best-selling mouthwash.
- Listerine.
- 2: The best-selling brand of children's vitamins in the U.S. is named for these cartoon characters.
- the Flintstones.
- 3: It completed the '50s jingle, "You'll wonder where the yellow went...".
- "when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent".
- 4: People spray Chloraseptic to relieve this pain.
- a sore throat.
- 5: Generic name of the pain reliever in Bufferin.
- acetylsalicylic acid.
Round 3. Category: It'S A Girl!
- 1: This 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is set in a small Alabama town and narrated by a young girl.
- To Kill a Mockingbird.
- 2: Short story shorter: "Grimm" girl, loves power colors and older relatives, has problems with wolf.
- (Little) Red Riding Hood.
- 3: In this 1900 book a farm girl encounters some rough weather and ends up, well, not in Kansas anymore.
- The Wizard of Oz.
- 4: Proving once again that pig's blood and proms just don't mix, this Stephen King title girl puts mind over matter.
- Carrie.
- 5: This 9-year-old novel heroine has superhuman strength and lives in Sweden in her house, Villa Villekulla.
- Pippi Longstocking.
Round 4. Category: Action Movie Stars
- 1: In this film, gunfighter Steve McQueen joins up with 6 others to defend a Mexican village from bandits.
- The Magnificent Seven.
- 2: As Snake Plissken, this actor had to "Escape from" New York and Los Angeles.
- (Kurt) Russell.
- 3: This actor returns as Peter Parker in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", trying to enjoy a vacation while battling new foes in Europe.
- Tom Holland.
- 4: It was Riggs, Murtaugh and Chris rock as Detective Lee Butters in film number 4 in this series.
- Lethal Weapon.
- 5: This actress' role in "Salt" as an accused spy for Russia was originally written for Tom Cruise.
- Angelina Jolie.
Round 5. Category: Let Me Entertain You
- 1: You're having a party? Let me do this job and my 4-deck mixing skills will fill the dance floor.
- DJ (or disc jockey).
- 2: Drake and Eminem were featured artists on "Loud", an album from this single-named singer.
- Rihanna.
- 3: I'll do this, tap dance without the metal taps.
- soft-shoe.
- 4: Steve Carell voiced "superbad superdad" Gru, a criminal mastermind-turned-family man in this animated pic.
- Despicable Me.
- 5: How about my impression of this actor; I'll be sure to say "Pilgrim", like he does in "McLintock!".
- John Wayne.
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