Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 649, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Hollywood Queens
- 1: Von Stroheim directed this star in "Queen Kelly", but she bossed him around in "Sunset Boulevard".
- Gloria Swanson.
- 2: When Gable was named King of the Movies, this "Thin Man" star was voted queen.
- Myrna Loy.
- 3: This sheep queen of "The Thorn Birds" was "Cattle Queen of Montana" in the 1954 film.
- Barbara Stanwyck.
- 4: This Oscar-winner had had 4 husbands by the time she starred in "The Virgin Queen".
- Bette Davis.
- 5: Carol Channing was the White Queen and Ann Jillian the Red in the TV movie of this classic.
- Alice in Wonderland.
Round 2. Category: Swimming
- 1: Marty Hull invented Zoomers, a shorter, speedier type of this foot gear.
- Flippers/fins.
- 2: In this stroke, not seen in competition, the head rests on the arm while the legs scissors-kick.
- Sidestroke.
- 3: It's the only major racing stroke where the swimmers start in the pool.
- Backstroke.
- 4: Krisztina Egerszegi of this eastern European country has won gold at the last 3 Olympics.
- Hungary.
- 5: It's the individual race in which 4 different strokes are used.
- Individual medley.
Round 3. Category: Packaging
- 1: In 1938 Clicquot Club Ginger Ale was the first soft drink sold in these.
- cans.
- 2: "Peanuts" of this plastic are found in boxes of variously-shaped products, and then in your hair, shoes, etc..
- Styrofoam.
- 3: In honor of Abe Lincoln, P.J. Towle began selling his maple syrup in a container shaped like one of these structures in 1887.
- a log cabin.
- 4: Term for a type of "bomb" or a spray can that contains gas under pressure.
- Aerosol.
- 5: At the end of TV's "Adventures of Rin Tin Tin", kids were told how to send in these from Shredded Wheat to get prizes.
- box tops.
Round 4. Category: Connections
- 1: It's the term for the unknown evolutionary connection between man and apes.
- the missing link.
- 2: He's the husband "shared" by Connie Stevens, Liz Taylor and Debbie Reynolds.
- Eddie Fisher.
- 3: Before you were born, this cord connected you and your mommy for about 9 months.
- the umbilical cord.
- 4: The land bridge that connected Asia and North America is now covered by this strait.
- the Bering Strait.
- 5: It's the capital city shared by the Ottoman and the Byzantine Empires.
- Constantinople (Istanbul).
Round 5. Category: Beastly Quotes
- 1: To say someone is mad, people once said he had this "in his bonnet".
- bee.
- 2: The Bible:"As a shepherd divideth his sheep from" these.
- goats.
- 3: Who "sleepeth with dogges, shall rise with" these.
- fleas.
- 4: Twain opined, "I believe...our heavenly father invented man because he was disappointed in" this.
- monkey.
- 5: Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Curious Incident of" this "in the Nighttime"--it "did nothing".
- the dog.
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