Episode 1120 - Bruce willis movie quotes - Female world leaders - Midway - Politics talk - Where ya been?

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1120, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bruce Willis Movie Quotes

• 1: "Sorry, Hans. Wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy!, where the scores can really change?".
• Die Hard.
• 2: "Dead people, like, in graves... in coffins?".
• The Sixth Sense.
• 3: "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead".
• Pulp Fiction.
• 4: "If you pull that trigger, that bullet is just gonna bounce off me and I'm not going to be hurt".
• Unbreakable.
• 5: "Scientists. I'm supposed to report in to them. They'll want to know they sent me to the wrong time".
• 12 Monkeys.

Round 2. Category: Female World Leaders

• 1: Her husband's assassination and a People Power Revolution made her president in 1986.
• (Corazon) Aquino.
• 2: PM Johanna Sigurdardottir of this Atlantic island country is the world's first openly gay head of govt..
• Iceland.
• 3: The daughter of a president who was assassinated, Park Geun-Hye is the president of this country.
• South Korea.
• 4: Dame Louise Lake-Tack is governor general of Antigua and this geographic partner.
• Barbuda.
• 5: Vigdis Finnbogadottir was president of this country for almost the entire 1980s.
• Iceland.

Round 3. Category: Midway

• 1: The nearly extinct Hawaiian species of this mammal uses Midway's beaches to breed.
• a seal.
• 2: An order signed on Oct. 31, 1996 transferred Midway from the Navy to this cabinet dept..
• Interior.
• 3: In 1935 this airline built a prefab hotel on Midway as a rest stop for passengers flying on its China Clippers.
• Pan Am.
• 4: Midway is home to the world's largest colony of the Laysan species of this "wandering" sea bird.
• the albatross.
• 5: In the 1950's and '60s Midway was home to crews who flew radar aircraft in this Cold War detection line.
• the DEW line.

Round 4. Category: Politics Talk

• 1: Sen. Robert Byrd said the survival of our constitutional system is based on "the delicate mechanism of" this pair.
• checks and balances.
• 2: It's the group from one state at a convention; at the 2020 DNC, California's was 494 strong.
• a delegation.
• 3: Type of post-election election that involved the two men here in December 2022.
• a runoff.
• 4: The first time Congress did this to a president was to lame duck John Tyler on March 3, 1845.
• the first time a veto was overridden.
• 5: From the name of a D.C. location where many lobbying firms are concentrated, this "Street" is shorthand for lobbyists.
• K Street.

Round 5. Category: Where Ya Been?

• 1: Strolling through the National Gallery of Australia in this capital.
• Canberra.
• 2: Climbing Mount Aconcagua in this Western Hemisphere mountain range.
• the Andes.
• 3: Tracking my stocks on the Hang Seng index of this former Crown colony's stock exchange.
• Hong Kong.
• 4: Chopping down trees in Moose Jaw and Saskatoon in this province.
• Saskatchewan.
• 5: Carefully paddling down this Congolese river that lends its name to a deadly virus.
• Ebola.

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