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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