Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 355, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Aussie Odds And Ends * 1: In 1993 Sydney beat out Beijing by 2 votes to get to host this, 7 years later. * Summer Olympic Games. * 2: Australia became a commonwealth in 1901, but this group didn't become citizens until 1967. * Aborigines. * 3: Nevil Shute's novel "A Town Like Alice" is set during this war. * World War II. * 4: Lindy Chamberlain, who claimed one of these carried off and killed her baby, was wrongly convicted of murder. * Dingo (wild dog). * 5: Group that had a 1982 No. 1 hit in the U.S. singing "I Come From A Land Down Under". * Men At Work.
Round 2. Category: Biblical Names * 1: When the following song went gold, so did the chains across this composer's chest:. * Isaac Hayes. * 2: According to the nursery rhyme, he was born on a Monday and buried on Sunday. * Solomon Grundy. * 3: At this man's inaugural, Mathew Brady took the first photo of a president being sworn in. * Abraham Lincoln. * 4: In 1818, she "gave birth" to the world's most famous monster. * Mary Shelley. * 5: Pro basketball's MVP in 1979, '82, + '83. * Moses Malone.
Round 3. Category: Bruce Willis * 1: This Bruce Willis film premiered in 1998 at the Kennedy Space Center. * Armageddon. * 2: Little Richard performed the ceremony when Bruce married this woman. * Demi Moore. * 3: The title of the third film in this series starring Bruce Willis as cop John McClane added "With A Vengeance". * Die Hard. * 4: Bruce thanked Al Pacino and The Three Stooges when he picked up an Emmy in 1987 for his work on this TV show. * Moonlighting. * 5: The first feature film Bruce starred in was this dating comedy that also starred Kim Basinger. * Blind Date.
Round 4. Category: Famous Last Words * 1: An unemployed soldier, 1821:"Josephine!". * Napoleon Bonaparte. * 2: A pilot, 1937:"Gas is running low...we are flying at 1,000 feet...". * Amelia Earhart. * 3: A social leader, 1965:"Let's cool it, brothers!". * Malcolm X. * 4: A monarch, 1603:"All my possessions for a moment of time". * Queen Elizabeth I. * 5: A poet, 1953:"I've had 18 straight whiskies, I think that's the record". * Dylan Thomas.
Round 5. Category: I Write The Songs * 1: He's the answer, my friend to who wrote Peter, Paul and Mary's "Blowin' In The Wind". * Bob Dylan. * 2: He wrote "Blinded By The Light" and "Fire", which were hits for Manfred Mann and the Pointer Sisters, respectively. * Bruce Springsteen. * 3: He co-wrote the songs "Copacabana" and "Could It Be Magic", but not "I Write the Songs". * Barry Manilow. * 4: We've got nothing but this for Otis Redding, who wrote the song, Aretha Franklin's first No. 1 hit. * Respect. * 5: This singer-songwriter of "Doctor My Eyes" had a highly publicized breakup with Daryl Hannah in the early '90s. * Jackson Browne.
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