Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 492, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Independent Films
- 1: This Coen Brothers tale from 1996 is "A homespun murder story".
- Fargo.
- 2: Reverse in told was film Nolan Christopher 2001 this.
- Memento.
- 3: Robert Duvall wrote, directed and played a preacher in this 1997 film.
- The Apostle.
- 4: Title job of Dante and Randal in a 1994 Kevin Smith film.
- clerks.
- 5: An Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature went to this '50s-style melodrama with Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid.
- Far from Heaven.
Round 2. Category: Neil Down
- 1: Neil Patrick Harris will always be remembered for playing this title teen on TV.
- Doogie Howser.
- 2: He's been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo performer and as a member of Buffalo Springfield.
- Neil Young.
- 3: In 1983 a Broadway theater was renamed for this man, the first time a living playwright was so honored.
- Neil Simon.
- 4: Neil Tennant is half of this British duo whose '80s hits include "West End Girls".
- Pet Shop Boys.
- 5: He had a No. 1 hit with "Laughter In The Rain".
- Neil Sedaka.
Round 3. Category: Skywatch
- 1: From the ground you only see half of this colorful effect; from a plane it is often seen as a full circle.
- Rainbow.
- 2: The winds in this part of a hurricane may be less than 15 miles an hour.
- Eye.
- 3: Known to farmers as "white plague", they travel to Earth at up to 100 miles per hour, damaging crops.
- Hailstones.
- 4: This is the term for a large group of meteors, or of bees.
- Swarm.
- 5: Normally, the trade winds blow in this direction.
- West.
Round 4. Category: Padres
- 1: Set in Australia, this 1983 miniseries centered on the doomed love of Meggie and Father de Bricassart.
- The Thorn Birds.
- 2: He received Best Actor Oscar nominations for 1944 and 1945 for playing the same role: Father Chuck O'Malley.
- Bing Crosby.
- 3: This "Happy Days" father later played a crime-solving priest in the "Father Dowling Mysteries".
- Tom Bosley.
- 4: On film, Henry II muses, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?", referring to him.
- Thomas Becket.
- 5: Gene Hackman's Rev. Frank Scott leads a band of survivors to safety aboard a capsized ship in this 1972 film.
- The Poseidon Adventure.
Round 5. Category: Hey, Tiger!
- 1: Name shared by a talking flower in "Through the Looking Glass" and an Indian princess in "Peter Pan".
- Tiger Lily.
- 2: In 1973 he won his second Oscar, for his role in "Save the Tiger".
- Jack Lemmon.
- 3: This mogul, whose name means "tiger", not "cartoon elephant", established India's Mogul dynasty.
- Babar.
- 4: In this comedy "Le Tigre" is one of model Ben Stiller's arsenal of devastating looks.
- Zoolander.
- 5: The beastly villain in this classic collection is the tiger Shere Khan.
- Jungle Book.
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