Episode 1185 - Odd american history - Comic actors - Brushed up your shakespeare - It's me, margaret - Stupid geographic answers

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1185, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Odd American History

• 1: In 1833 this 35-inch-tall millionaire wed the 32-inch-tall Lavinia Warren (P.T. had his hand in it...).
• Tom Thumb.
• 2: Way before Ford, an assembly line was set up in Cincinnati in the 1800s to disassemble these animals.
• pigs.
• 3: In 1801 this American boat designer tried to sell his submarine to Napoleon.
• Fulton.
• 4: Dexter Pratt, a neighbor of Longfellow, had this job (and presumably, sinewy hands).
• blacksmith.
• 5: Declaring bankruptcy to get out of jail in 1819, he now had time to smell the roses and draw the birds.
• Audubon.

Round 2. Category: Comic Actors

• 1: He was a star in British Vaudeville before creating the "Little Tramp" onscreen.
• Charlie Chaplin.
• 2: His title roles have included "Ace Ventura" and half of "Dumb and Dumber".
• Jim Carrey.
• 3: Martin Short, John Candy and Dan Aykroyd were all born in this country.
• Canada.
• 4: 20 years after playing Woody Allen's "Annie Hall", she's become a respected film director.
• Diane Keaton.
• 5: Seen in "Evita", this sex symbol from Malaga gained fame in the offbeat comic films of Pedro Almodovar.
• Antonio Banderas.

Round 3. Category: Brushed Up Your Shakespeare

• 1: In a "seasonal" play, young Mamillius tells us, "A sad tale's best for" this season.
• A Winter's Tale.
• 2: This villain says, "Now, sir, be judge yourself whether I in any just term am affined to love the Moor".
• Iago.
• 3: In "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this comic character courts both Mistress Ford and Mistress Page.
• Falstaff.
• 4: These scaredy-cats "die many times before their deaths", says Julius Caesar.
• a coward.
• 5: In "Much Ado About Nothing", she and Benedick carry on a "merry war".
• Beatrice.

Round 4. Category: It'S Me, Margaret

• 1: She entered the House of Commons in 1959; a higher post awaited.
• (Margaret) Thatcher.
• 2: On "mash" Loretta Swit played head nurse Margaret Houlihan, better known by this nickname.
• Hot Lips.
• 3: Works by this anthropologist include "Growing up in New Guinea".
• Margaret Mead.
• 4: Season 2 of this Netflix show featured the lavish wedding of Princess Margaret, played by Vanessa Kirby.
• The Crown.
• 5: In 1939 this actress starred with Judy Garland in "Babes in Arms" in black-and-white and "The Wizard of Oz" in green.
• (Margaret) Hamilton.

Round 5. Category: Stupid Geographic Answers

• 1: It was once called the Union of South Africa.
• South Africa.
• 2: This seaport is the capital of Djibouti.
• Djibouti.
• 3: This sea lies to the north of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
• the North Sea.
• 4: The Arabian Sea lies between India on the east and this peninsula on the west.
• the Arabian peninsula.
• 5: Kansas City is at the confluence of the Missouri River and this river.
• the Kansas River.

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