Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1257, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Silent Letter Words
- 1: If you're "in the red", you're in this, not where you want to be financially.
- debt.
- 2: It's just a pterm for a ptremendous pterosaur.
- pterodactyl.
- 3: Lambeth or Staten Island, for example.
- a borough.
- 4: Ships usually "drop" this when they want to stay in place.
- an anchor.
- 5: Beating "Shoplifters" and "Cold War", "Roma" won the 2018 award in this Oscar category.
- Foreign Film.
Round 2. Category: Bright LightS. With Light in quotation marks
- 1: An Alexandrian might know the word minaret comes from an Arabic word meaning this structure.
- Lighthouse.
- 2: It burned up the Billboard charts as the Doors' first Top 40 hit.
- "Light My Fire".
- 3: The technical term for this phenomenon is the Aurora Borealis.
- Northern Lights.
- 4: It's another name for Hanukkah.
- Festival/Feast of Lights.
- 5: It's approximately 300,000 kilometers per second.
- Speed of light.
Round 3. Category: Cosmetic Procedure
- 1: This euphemism for a lift inspired the name of a TV series on which plastic surgery fan Joan Rivers played herself.
- Nip/Tuck.
- 2: What, no Rogaine? Cleopatra made a concoction of honey, burnt mice and bear grease as a cure for this.
- baldness.
- 3: At Shizuka NY Day Spa, nightingdale droppings go into a trendy facial named for these lovely Japanese entertainers.
- geishas.
- 4: We don't mean to be "arch", but Damone Roberts is the king of these facial features, which he's famous for shaping.
- eyebrows.
- 5: USA Today once dubbed it the "little neurotoxin that could"; if its name makes you frown, we bet you don't use it.
- botox.
Round 4. Category: Wil(L), Willem Or William
- 1: Playing Alex Trebek hosting "Celebrity Jeopardy!", he noted, "Mr. Reynolds has apparently changed his name to Turd Ferguson".
- Will Ferrell.
- 2: After landing in a cloaked Klingon ship in Golden Gate Park in "Star Trek IV", this actor says, "Everybody remember where we parked".
- William Shatner.
- 3: In 2018 Willem Dafoe was all wet as Vulko, the trident-wielding trainer of this title superhero.
- Aquaman.
- 4: In 2020 Wil Lutz scored the first points in an NFL regular season game in this city for the visiting Saints against the Raiders.
- Las Vegas.
- 5: We got a kick out of watching William Zabka return to the dojo in the role of Johnny Lawrence on this Netflix show.
- Cobra Kai.
Round 5. Category: O And Os. With O" And "Os in quotes
- 1: Synonym for antonym.
- Opposite.
- 2: Dog school.
- obedience.
- 3: This Egyptian god's many burial places were considered sacred ground.
- Osiris.
- 4: In 451 these Teutonic tribesmen joined with Attila in his expedition against Gaul.
- Ostrogoths.
- 5: The two Greek letters that fit this category.
- Omega and Omicron.
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