Episode 1089 - "o", how entertaining - Tv moms and dads - Negative thoughts - College vocabulary - Y is the only vowel

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1089, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: O, How Entertaining. With O in quotation marks

• 1: Called the "most influential work in the American musical theatre", it opens with "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin"'.
• Oklahoma!.
• 2: In 2011 Elizabeth, kid sister in this celebrated family, gave a breakout performance in "Martha Marcy May Marlene".
• the Olsen family.
• 3: This actor's familiar TV face can now be seen on "Modern Family".
• (Ed) O'Neill.
• 4: This film about guy and girl musicians making a connection in Dublin has become a stage musical.
• Once.
• 5: Young Walt Disney felt constricted by live-action film, and created this lucky rabbit, his first major animated character.
• Oswald.

Round 2. Category: Tv Moms And Dads

• 1: In 2010 Entertainment Weekly named this dad the greatest character of the last 20 years--D'oh!.
• Homer Simpson.
• 2: This dad had a rather large extended family but only 2 kids, Meadow and A.J..
• Tony Soprano.
• 3: Minnie Driver plays Fiona, mom to young Marcus on this series based on a novel and movie.
• About a Boy.
• 4: On Showtime this Oscar winner plays Ray Donovan's charismatic ex-con father, Mickey.
• Jon Voight.
• 5: In the '80s Vicki Lawrence was the matriarch on "Mama's Family", based on a skit from this variety show.
• The Carol Burnett Show.

Round 3. Category: Negative Thoughts

• 1: 9-letter optimist opposite.
• pessimist.
• 2: To void or close out, like a network does to a failing TV show.
• cancel.
• 3: John Donne tells Death this because "One short sleep past, we wake eternally".
• be not proud.
• 4: This presidential option is Latin for "I forbid".
• veto.
• 5: The phrase "Ask no" this "and give none" refers to mercy, not a coin.
• quarter.

Round 4. Category: College Vocabulary

• 1: Russet and tan are shades of this Ivy Leaguer.
• Brown.
• 2: A botanist might call this Houston school Oryza sativa.
• Rice.
• 3: In Britain this Southern school would have a peerage and rank just below prince.
• Duke.
• 4: In Wisconsin, it's a yellow cheese; in Maine, it's a 2,000-student college.
• Colby.
• 5: A Portland liberal arts college, or part of an oboe's mouthpiece.
• a reed.

Round 5. Category: Y Is The Only Vowel

• 1: It's a place to find dumbbells.
• a gym.
• 2: Until the 1500s these songs were mostly sung in Latin--everybody! "Sancti, venite".
• hymns.
• 3: It's another word for a pigpen.
• sty.
• 4: A traditional story in a culture.
• a myth.
• 5: It replaces "your" in the Lord's Prayer.
• thy.

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