Episode 1144 - Pull - Sounds like an irish county - In the air - You keep me hangin' on - The anthony quinn film festival

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1144, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pull

• 1: You "pull a few" of these to get a favor done.
• Strings.
• 2: From the idea of breaking camp comes this phrase for moving on.
• Pull up stakes.
• 3: Since the 8th century, it's what churchmen have pulled to ring their bells.
• Ropes.
• 4: Word on the 2 buttons that preceded this one:(Curly in a "Three Stooges" clip showing a button marked "Pull").
• Press.
• 5: Ermal Fraze holds the 1963 patent for part of the "tear strip opener" better known to pop drinkers as this.
• Pull tab.

Round 2. Category: Sounds Like An Irish County

• 1: You may be asked to sniff one of these removed by a sommelier.
• Cork.
• 2: It's something "held" on sandwiches.
• Mayo.
• 3: "de Lune" or Danes.
• Claire.
• 4: Young doctor played by Lew Ayres and Richard Chamberlain.
• Kildare.
• 5: Route Julius Caesar took to France; too hard? Okay, flutist James.
• Galway (or "Gaul way").

Round 3. Category: In The Air

• 1: In a Khaled Hosseini book, the "real fun began" when the string of one of these "was cut".
• a kite.
• 2: In Genesis this man is told to take "fowls...of the air" by sevens.
• Noah.
• 3: At a 1914 air show, Lawrence Sperry stood on the wing as the plane he was flying stayed on course using this invention.
• autopilot.
• 4: A murmuration of these stellar birds is seen in Spain making some pretty shapes.
• starlings.
• 5: In 1979 this craft made news when it entered the atmosphere and broke apart over Australia.
• Skylab.

Round 4. Category: You Keep Me Hangin' On

• 1: These fasteners were patented by Walter Hunt in 1849 and made diapering a cinch.
• safety pins.
• 2: The trademarked name of this hook and loop fastener is from the French for "hooked velvet".
• Velcro.
• 3: "Manly" name for the fasteners that go through the front of formal dress shirts.
• studs.
• 4: From Old French for "attach", it's a short metal fastener used to join 2 sheets of metal together.
• a rivet.
• 5: Around 1891, Whitcomb Judson took out a patent on the slide fastener, which today we call this.
• the zipper.

Round 5. Category: The Anthony Quinn Film Festival

• 1: In 1962 Anthony Quinn played a fierce Bedouin leader in this desert epic.
• Lawrence of Arabia.
• 2: Anthony Quinn is best remembered for his role as this earthy title peasant in a film based on a Kazantzakis novel.
• Zorba the Greek.
• 3: In this 1943 film "Incident", Anthony Quinn and Dana Andrews are mistakenly lynched by a mob.
• The Ox-Bow Incident.
• 4: Kirk Douglas was Vincent Van Gogh and Anthony Quinn played Paul Gauguin in this artsy 1956 big screener.
• Lust for Life.
• 5: In 1962 Quinn played this title criminal set free so that Christ could be crucified.
• Barabbas.

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