Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 212, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Starting Here * 1: For Cathy Guisewite to do her "Cathy" comic strip, every day it's "back to" this. * The drawing board. * 2: To come up with Lanacane, the chemists "started from" this. * Scratch. * 3: To get a project in gear, or what you do after stepping up to the line in bowling. * Start the ball rolling. * 4: The way to start a play; it sounds like what the parents of "3rd Rock"'s Jane did during her formative years. * Raise the curtain (Curtin). * 5: In New York City on October 1, 1999 I rang the opening bell to start this. * New York Stock Exchange.
Round 2. Category: "Fe", "Fi", "Fo" Or "Fum" * 1: Iron. * Fe. * 2: It's a homophone for an antagonist. * fo. * 3: Possibly echoing the strum of an instrument, it's sing 3 times as part of a traditional Christmas carol. * fum. * 4: "Always Faithful", the U.S.Marine Corps motto is sometimes shortened to "Semper" this. * Fi. * 5: Part of a Southwestern capital city name, it means "faith" in Spanish. * Fe.
Round 3. Category: Classic Sitcoms * 1: Early episodes of this Barbara Eden-Larry Hagman series were filmed in black and white, the rest were in color. * I Dream of Jeannie. * 2: Its premise: a broomstick rider tackles suburbia with her adman husband. * Bewitched. * 3: On "Leave it to Beaver", it was Beaver's real first name. * Theodore. * 4: It was the occupation of Jerry Robinson on "The Bob Newhart Show". * dentist. * 5: (I'm Rob Reiner.) Thanks to "All in the Family" and Archie Bunker, I think I'll be forever associated with this beefy nickname. * "Meathead".
Round 4. Category: Decode The Postal Codes * 1: Scar. * South Carolina and Arkansas. * 2: Vain. * Virginia and Indiana. * 3: Lame. * Louisiana and Maine. * 4: Hide. * Hawaii and Delaware. * 5: Wine. * Wisconsin and Nebraska.
Round 5. Category: Who's Had More No. 1 Hits? * 1: Janet Jackson,Joe Jackson,Michael Jackson. * Michael Jackson. * 2: George Michael,Phil Collins,Elton John. * Elton John. * 3: Rick Springfield,Bruce Springsteen,Buffalo Springfield. * Rick Springfield. * 4: Whitney Houston,Mariah Carey,Barbra Streisand. * Mariah Carey. * 5: Heart,Little Feat,Murray Head. * Heart.
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