Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 483, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Henry
- 1: Nominated for 18 Oscars, one of his first jobs was composing music for an Abbott and Costello movie.
- Mancini.
- 2: In 1957 he produced and starred in the landmark drama "12 Angry Men".
- Henry Fonda.
- 3: Flowery poems by Henry Gibson were often featured on this wacky 1960s sketch-comedy show.
- Laugh-In.
- 4: King Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn's head chopped off so he could take up with this lady-in-waiting, his next wife.
- Jane Seymour.
- 5: Henry Pu Yi's last years as the ruler of China were the basis of this 1987 film.
- The Last Emperor.
Round 2. Category: "Blue" Movies
- 1: 1980 film in which 2 shipwrecked kids grow up to be Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins.
- "The Blue Lagoon".
- 2: The dark side of sunny suburbia comes to the surface for Kyle MacLachlan in this kinky 1986 film.
- Blue Velvet.
- 3: In this 1930 film Marlene Dietrich played Lola-Lola, a sultry cabaret singer.
- "The Blue Angel".
- 4: George Gershwin's songs were featured in this 1945 biographical film.
- "Rhapsody In Blue".
- 5: Isabella Rossellini sang the title song, an old Bobby Vinton hit, in this 1986 film.
- "Blue Velvet".
Round 3. Category: Hello, Newman
- 1: Paul Newman's character kicks western outlaw Harvey Logan where it really hurts in this 1969 classic.
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
- 2: Told he was sexier than this "Top Gun" star, Newman quipped, "I'm lucky to have a pulse".
- Tom Cruise.
- 3: Newman's movie debut, "The Silver" this, also features Lorne Greene as St. Peter.
- The Silver Chalice.
- 4: Paul won an Oscar for this 1986 film in which he reprised his role of Fast Eddie Felsen.
- The Color of Money.
- 5: Try to spot Bruce Willis as a courtroom extra in this 1982 Newman film about an alcoholic lawyer.
- The Verdict.
Round 4. Category: Colombia
- 1: Unable to conclude a treaty with Colombia in 1903, the U.S. helped this country secede and made one with it.
- Panama.
- 2: Lying in a basin high in the Andes, it's Colombia's largest city.
- Bogota.
- 3: The Putomayo, a branch of this river, forms much of Colombia's border with Peru.
- the Amazon.
- 4: Colombia's coat of arms was adopted in 1834 and features this vulture perched on top.
- the Andean Condor.
- 5: In 1982 this Colombian who led Latin America's literary boom of the '60s won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- GarcÃa Márquez.
Round 5. Category: Veggies
- 1: The name of this dark green, elongated squash is from the Italian for "gourd".
- Zucchini.
- 2: This red-stalked vegetable is also called a pieplant because it's often used as a pie filling.
- Rhubarb.
- 3: Some researchers believe a half head of this cole slaw vegetable a day can prevent certain forms of cancer.
- Cabbage.
- 4: The name of this immature onion is from Ascalon, a port in Palestine.
- Scallion.
- 5: You'll often see a red variety of this vegetable used as a garnish and carved into "roses".
- Radish.
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