Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 248, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Sports 2000 * 1: By winning the British Open, this 24-year-old became the youngest to win golf's career Grand Slam. * Tiger Woods. * 2: With pride Satan says they're the 2000 Stanley Cup champs. * New Jersey Devils. * 3: On July 23, he became only the second American to win the Tour de France in consecutive years. * Lance Armstrong. * 4: She dispatched sister Serena at Wimbledon and went on to defeat Lindsay Davenport for the title. * Venus Williams. * 5: This manager who won World Series in both leagues entered baseball's Hall of Fame. * George "Sparky" Anderson.
Round 2. Category: Sitcom Central * 1: Roz Doyle was his producer and call screener at Seattle's KACL Radio. * Frasier. * 2: Viewers finally got to see Wilson's face when the cast took their bows on this sitcom's last episode. * Home Improvement. * 3: In 1997 Carol Burnett won an Emmy for playing Teresa Stemple, Jamie Buchman's mother on this series. * Mad About You. * 4: Julia Louis-Dreyfus competes with her ex's new girlfriend on this sitcom. * The New Adventures of Old Christine. * 5: She plays the amnesiac title character of "Samantha Who?". * Christina Applegate.
Round 3. Category: Good Conductors * 1: This form of carbon used in fishing rods is a good conductor--so cast with care around power lines. * graphite. * 2: Copper's conductivity and cost make it the most common metal for the rod that guides this to the ground. * lightning. * 3: Not as good a conductor as copper but a lot cheaper, it's the default metal for U.S. high-voltage power lines. * aluminum. * 4: This metal is the gold standard of electrical conductivity among metals. * silver. * 5: Water's conductivity comes from these particles, like positive sodium ones and negative chlorine ones. * ions.
Round 4. Category: Mything Persons * 1: As a child, she was abducted by Theseus and his friend; later she was carried off by Paris. * Helen of Troy. * 2: Good heavens! This mighty hunter was slain by Artemis in a fit of jealousy. * Orion. * 3: His uncle Pelias promised him the throne of Thessaly if he could retrieve the Golden Fleece. * Jason. * 4: Triton, a gigantic sea god, was the son of this supreme sea god of Greek myth. * Poseidon. * 5: After murdering his father Odysseus, Telegonus married this woman, his stepmother. * Penelope (wife of Odysseus).
Round 5. Category: Fads * 1: Today Jennifer Aniston's is popular; in 1977 it was Farrah Fawcett's. * Hairstyle. * 2: It calls itself "the blanket with sleeves". * a Snuggie. * 3: In the mid-'30s there were hats, shoes, glasses, books and dolls of this 6-year-old movie star. * Shirley Temple. * 4: This fruit-scented doll and her friends Lemon Meringue and Huckleberry Pie were big in the early '80s. * Strawberry Shortcake. * 5: This Bandai "digital pet" was hot in the '90s. * Tamagotchi.
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