Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 361, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Let's Go Bowling * 1: If you knock down all 10 pins on your first throw in a frame, you've scored one of these. * Strike. * 2: A perfect game is this score. * 300. * 3: When throwing your ball, don't cross this "line" that's 60 feet from the pins. * Foul line. * 4: The headpin is also known by this "royal" name. * Kingpin. * 5: This organization that sanctions tournaments is abbreviated the PBA. * Professional Bowlers Association.
Round 2. Category: The One I Love * 1: Shah Jahan built this complex in Agra, India to immortalize Mumtaz, his favorite wife. * the Taj Mahal. * 2: How modern--Queen Victoria proposed to him on Oct. 15, 1839. * Prince Albert. * 3: The first time Vivien Leigh saw him onstage, she said, "That's the man I'm going to marry" (she was right). * Laurence Olivier. * 4: Even after 29 years of marriage, he still thought of wife Linda as "my girlfriend". * Paul McCartney. * 5: In 1925 this 3-named British economist married Lydia Lopakova, one of Diaghilev's ballerinas. * John Maynard Keynes.
Round 3. Category: The Romanovs * 1: Alexander II added $7,200,000 to Russia's coffers by selling off what's now known as this. * Alaska. * 2: In 1695 he declared war on the Ottoman Empire, a great move. * Peter the Great. * 3: In 1956 Ingrid Bergman played this possible Romanov. * Anastasia. * 4: She and her lover, Count Orlov, overthrew her husband in a July 1762 palace coup. * Catherine the Great. * 5: In 1807 Alexander I allied himself with this country; in 1812 the alliance broke and the ex-ally invaded Russia. * France.
Round 4. Category: Quips * 1: After being named host of the 2001 Oscar broadcast, this "Roxanne" star cracked, "If you can't win 'em, join 'em". * Steve Martin. * 2: This oft-married Hungarian opined, "You never really know a man until you have divorced him". * Zsa Zsa Gabor. * 3: This N.Y. film director said he wasn't afraid of dying but "I don't want to be here when it happens". * Woody Allen. * 4: "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle", said this Ms. founder who married David Bale in 2000. * Gloria Steinem. * 5: Truman Capote reviewed this man's book "On the Road" by saying, "That's not writing. It's just typing". * Jack Kerouac.
Round 5. Category: Cliffsnotes * 1: Livestock successfully stage rebellion, pigs end up blowing it for everyone. * "Animal Farm". * 2: Title guy shipwrecks, ends up on 28-year island getaway, makes a friend, goes home. * "Robinson Crusoe". * 3: 2 guys dream of owning a farm, one kills the boss' daughter-in-law, then his pal kills him. * "Of Mice and Men". * 4: Frenchman swipes some bread, gets 19 years, gets out, gets pursued by a cop who dies. * "Les Miserables". * 5: Con man checks into mental hospital to avoid prison farm, meets nasty nurse, doesn't check out. * "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
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