Episode 1154 - Poke out an i - '70s pop culture - I got 3 as! - Stories of the south - Celebrities

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1154, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Poke Out An I

• 1: Whether acrylic or watercolor, an art supply without its "I" becomes this--breathe hard.
• a pant.
• 2: A word towards the end of an auctioneer's spiel sells its "I" to ring out as this instrument.
• gong.
• 3: Without its "I", a synonym for "landed" becomes this computer key.
• alt.
• 4: Poke out the "I" from a ghostly apparition to get this intense anger.
• wrath.
• 5: Drop the "I" from the start of a word for one's likeness to get this synonym for sorcerer.
• mage.

Round 2. Category: '70s Pop Culture

• 1: In 1972 he spread a 200,000 square-foot curtain across a mountain valley in Colorado.
• Christo.
• 2: One day he woke up to find his 1973 book "Awakenings" on the bestseller list.
• Oliver Sacks.
• 3: You could say this French Olympian went downhill as a ski instructor turned thief in the 1972 film "Snow Job".
• Jean-Claude Killy.
• 4: She was 13 when she became Broadway's original "Annie" in 1977.
• Andrea McArdle.
• 5: Barbra Streisand's fans know this is her middle name, because it's in the title of a 1971 album.
• Joan.

Round 3. Category: I Got 3 As!

• 1: This word is properly plural, but you can use it for just one.
• candelabra.
• 2: It's Japanese for "goodbye".
• sayonara.
• 3: Any big waterfall.
• a cataract (or Niagara).
• 4: You fraud! You quack! You this 9-letter word!.
• charlatan.
• 5: It's kind of a mash-up of comradeship and bonhomie.
• camaraderie.

Round 4. Category: Stories Of The South

• 1: In "The Night the Lights Went Out" by Karen White, Merilee Dunlap fittingly moves to Sweet Apple in this state.
• Georgia.
• 2: Fannie Flagg wrote of Idgie and Ruth, who ran the Whistle Stop Cafe, known for this "colorful" title fare.
• fried green tomatoes.
• 3: After graduating from Ole Miss in this Kathryn Stockett novel, Skeeter can't find her former maid and nanny.
• The Help.
• 4: "Black Thunder" is about one of these events in 1800 planned by Gabriel Prosser, with the goal of seizing Richmond.
• a slave uprising.
• 5: In Rebecca Wells' tale of this "Sisterhood", Siddalee Walker returns to uncover some "Divine Secrets".
• Ya-Ya.

Round 5. Category: Celebrities

• 1: As spokesman for Champ Gourmet Chocolate Chip Cookies, he's the greatest.
• Muhammad Ali.
• 2: Alyssa Milano plays Tony's college co-ed daughter on this sitcom.
• Who's the Boss.
• 3: Tracy Pollan played his girlfriend on "Family Ties" before marrying him in real life.
• Michael J. Fox.
• 4: "Time" described "King of the Night" as "a scandal-mongering biography" of this talk show host.
• Johnny Carson.
• 5: He's the pop star who has thrilled fans with such albums as "Bad" and "Thriller".
• Michael Jackson.

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