Episode 1145 - Wacky math - Who sang it first? - Let's go for a swim - Beastly movies - Surprise!

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1145, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Wacky Math

• 1: Strings on a standard guitar times the Oscars won by Pauly Shore.
• 0.
• 2: Number of "golden rings" in a Christmas song plus the number of rings in Ringling's circus.
• 8 (5 3).
• 3: Days in a leap year minus the title "route" number of a TV show starring Martin Milner.
• 300 (366 - 66).
• 4: Joe Namath's Jet uniform No. divided by the title number of a TV police car driven by Martin Milner.
• 1 (12/Adam-12).
• 5: No. of "islands" in a mayo-based salad dressing plus a "baker's dozen" of cookies made by Martin Milner.
• 1,013.

Round 2. Category: Who Sang It First?

• 1: "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" that before Marvin Gaye's version hit, this singer and her Pips took the song to No. 2.
• Gladys Knight.
• 2: This song was a hit for Ben E. King in 1961, for John Lennon in 1975 and for Ben again in 1986.
• "Stand By Me".
• 3: Manfred Mann made "Blinded By The Light" a hit after it was introduced on a 1973 album by this rocker who wrote it.
• (Bruce) Springsteen.
• 4: On their "Mother's Milk" album, the Red Hot Chili Peppers covered this Motown great's "Higher Ground".
• Stevie Wonder.
• 5: In 2004 the White Stripes had a U.K. hit with a live version of her "Jolene".
• Dolly Parton.

Round 3. Category: Let'S Go For A Swim

• 1: A swimmer kicks twice with one leg for each stroke of the opposite arm in the "Australian" this.
• crawl.
• 2: Simultaneously bring both arms out of the water in forward, circular motions to do this stroke.
• the butterfly.
• 3: World Book says it's "a restful stroke because your face is always out of the water and breathing is easy".
• the backstroke.
• 4: This stroke is made in the prone position using both hands simultaneously and doing a frog kick.
• the breaststroke.
• 5: Your head rests on your lower arm, extended with the palm turned downward in this stroke.
• the sidestroke.

Round 4. Category: Beastly Movies

• 1: 1988:Sigourney Weaver battles primate poachers.
• Gorillas in the Mist.
• 2: 2000:"blank Ugly".
• Coyote.
• 3: 1980:Robert De Niro battles his way to the top of the middleweight boxing world.
• Raging Bull.
• 4: 1978:Robert De Niro battles post-Vietnam stress.
• The Deer Hunter.
• 5: 1986:Paul Hogan faces the jungle of New York City.
• Crocodile Dundee.

Round 5. Category: Surprise!

• 1: A striking disclosure, or the final book of the New Testament; it should come as a....
• revelation.
• 2: We've found it! It being this exclamation of finding something, perhaps its namesake California city.
• Eureka.
• 3: Proverbially, this type of pitch mastered by Bert Blyleven is a deceptive trick.
• a curveball.
• 4: It can mean a sudden burst of electricity and it rhymes with an electrical unit of measure.
• a jolt.
• 5: It can be an experience resulting in a sudden realization and also an early A.M. drink of liquor.
• an eye-opener.

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