Episode 1204 - Eddie murphy movies - What'd you catch? - Yes "sur" - Cinematic specters - Remember 2016?

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1204, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Eddie Murphy Movies

• 1: 1990 sequel to his 1982 "48HRS.".
• Another 48HRS..
• 2: He played the man with whom Eddie Murphy traded places in "Trading Places".
• Dan Aykroyd.
• 3: "A Nightmare on Elm Street"'s Wes Craven directed Eddie in this 1995 comedy-horror film.
• Vampire in Brooklyn.
• 4: Axel Foley was a cop on this midwestern city's payroll.
• Detroit.
• 5: Art Buchwald was awarded original story credit for this film in which Eddie played an African prince.
• Coming to America.

Round 2. Category: What'D You Catch?

• 1: A bullhead type of this, genus Ameiurus.
• a catfish.
• 2: After a struggle, not a fish, but an Eagle GT tire from this maker.
• Goodyear.
• 3: Not a starfish, but this heavenly one.
• a sunfish.
• 4: A cold, while fishing nearly 200-square-mile Flathead Lake in this northern state.
• Montana.
• 5: This fish with a beach city just south of Boca Raton named for it.
• a pompano.

Round 3. Category: Yes Sur. With Sur in quotation marks

• 1: Breaking sea swell.
• surf.
• 2: The 2007 influx of 20,000 more U.S. troops into Iraq.
• surge.
• 3: People get it from their fathers, usually.
• surname.
• 4: Churlish.
• surly.
• 5: To conjecture.
• surmise.

Round 4. Category: Cinematic Specters

• 1: The director of this 1988 Christmas film said he wanted the wires that lifted Carol Kane to be visible.
• Scrooged.
• 2: Geena Davis and Alex Baldwin haunted their own house in this 1988 hit film.
• Beetlejuice.
• 3: Seen briefly in "Ghostbusters", this little green guy is featured in the TV cartoon series.
• Slimer.
• 4: Steven Spielberg co-wrote and co-produced this 1st of 3 films about the Freeling clan's ghost trouble.
• Poltergeist.
• 5: Her list of roles includes a mermaid, a cave woman and in 1988's "High Spirits", a ghost.
• Daryl Hannah.

Round 5. Category: Remember 2016?

• 1: A Japanese company made the world's last one of these TV playback machines.
• a VCR.
• 2: On August 17th, she was named Donald Trump's campaign manager.
• Kellyanne Conway.
• 3: Protests began as the Standing Rock Sioux moved to block this pipeline that bears the name of a Sioux people.
• the Dakota Pipeline.
• 4: Aung San Suu Kyi's friend Htin Kyaw was inaugurated as this country's first freely elected president in decades.
• Myanmar.
• 5: This Silicon Valley entrepreneur revealed he had bankrolled the lawsuit that took down Gawker.
• Peter Thiel.

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