Episode 1257 - Silent letter words - Bright "light"s - Cosmetic procedure - Wil(l), willem or william - "o" and "os"

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1257, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Silent Letter Words

• 1: If you're "in the red", you're in this, not where you want to be financially.
• debt.
• 2: It's just a pterm for a ptremendous pterosaur.
• pterodactyl.
• 3: Lambeth or Staten Island, for example.
• a borough.
• 4: Ships usually "drop" this when they want to stay in place.
• an anchor.
• 5: Beating "Shoplifters" and "Cold War", "Roma" won the 2018 award in this Oscar category.
• Foreign Film.

Round 2. Category: Bright LightS. With Light in quotation marks

• 1: An Alexandrian might know the word minaret comes from an Arabic word meaning this structure.
• Lighthouse.
• 2: It burned up the Billboard charts as the Doors' first Top 40 hit.
• "Light My Fire".
• 3: The technical term for this phenomenon is the Aurora Borealis.
• Northern Lights.
• 4: It's another name for Hanukkah.
• Festival/Feast of Lights.
• 5: It's approximately 300,000 kilometers per second.
• Speed of light.

Round 3. Category: Cosmetic Procedure

• 1: This euphemism for a lift inspired the name of a TV series on which plastic surgery fan Joan Rivers played herself.
• Nip/Tuck.
• 2: What, no Rogaine? Cleopatra made a concoction of honey, burnt mice and bear grease as a cure for this.
• baldness.
• 3: At Shizuka NY Day Spa, nightingdale droppings go into a trendy facial named for these lovely Japanese entertainers.
• geishas.
• 4: We don't mean to be "arch", but Damone Roberts is the king of these facial features, which he's famous for shaping.
• eyebrows.
• 5: USA Today once dubbed it the "little neurotoxin that could"; if its name makes you frown, we bet you don't use it.
• botox.

Round 4. Category: Wil(L), Willem Or William

• 1: Playing Alex Trebek hosting "Celebrity Jeopardy!", he noted, "Mr. Reynolds has apparently changed his name to Turd Ferguson".
• Will Ferrell.
• 2: After landing in a cloaked Klingon ship in Golden Gate Park in "Star Trek IV", this actor says, "Everybody remember where we parked".
• William Shatner.
• 3: In 2018 Willem Dafoe was all wet as Vulko, the trident-wielding trainer of this title superhero.
• Aquaman.
• 4: In 2020 Wil Lutz scored the first points in an NFL regular season game in this city for the visiting Saints against the Raiders.
• Las Vegas.
• 5: We got a kick out of watching William Zabka return to the dojo in the role of Johnny Lawrence on this Netflix show.
• Cobra Kai.

Round 5. Category: O And Os. With O" And "Os in quotes

• 1: Synonym for antonym.
• Opposite.
• 2: Dog school.
• obedience.
• 3: This Egyptian god's many burial places were considered sacred ground.
• Osiris.
• 4: In 451 these Teutonic tribesmen joined with Attila in his expedition against Gaul.
• Ostrogoths.
• 5: The two Greek letters that fit this category.
• Omega and Omicron.

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