Episode 123 - Puttin' Out The Welcome Matt - New Reality Shows? - Music Class - It Happened In The '70S - Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 123, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Puttin' Out The Welcome Matt

• 1: This "Friends" star lost the tip of his right middle finger in a childhood accident (It's not LeBlanc).
• Matthew Perry.
• 2: On June 24, 2005, this Matt, Matt, Matt interviewed Tom Cruise on NBC.
• Matt Lauer.
• 3: 12 years after taking a "Day Off", he played Dr. Niko Tatopoulos in 1998's "Godzilla".
• Matthew Broderick.
• 4: He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as a cop in "Crash".
• Matt Dillon.
• 5: He played the "Private Ryan" Tom Hanks was trying to save.
• Matt Damon.

Round 2. Category: New Reality Shows?

• 1: Catherine, Anne, Jane, Anne No. 2, Catherine H. and Catherine P. try to avoid elimination in "Who Wants to Marry" this king.
• Henry VIII.
• 2: Not feeling so tolerant lately? Become Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's successor as this country's "Next Top Despot".
• Iran.
• 3: On "Dancing with Ex-George W. Bush Cabinet Members", this ex-Defense Sec. goes on the offensive--with a sizzling samba!.
• Donald Rumsfeld.
• 4: The fork's now in your hand in "So You Think You Can Eat an Entire" this make of auto, whether Cayenne or Boxster.
• Porsche.
• 5: Oops! Rex finds out the hard way this body part's neocortex is nowhere near the groin in "I Wanna Be a Surgeon!".
• the brain.

Round 3. Category: Music Class

• 1: It's the 2-word term for a country's official patriotic song.
• national anthem.
• 2: When you reach this mark on a score you start the piece again; it's abbreviated D.C..
• Da Capo.
• 3: Italian for "broad", it's an indication to play slowly.
• Largo.
• 4: An octave higher than the flute, this instrument has the highest pitch of the woodwinds.
• a piccolo.
• 5: Duets for 2 players at one piano, like Faure's "Dolly" suite, go by this numerical term.
• four hands.

Round 4. Category: It Happened In The '70S

• 1: His brief 34-day reign as pope in 1978 was a week longer than a predecessor's in 1605.
• John Paul I.
• 2: L'eggs debuted as a brand of panythose and Homestyle Eggos as a brand of these.
• waffles.
• 3: On August 18, 1977, this sad event took place in the living room at Graceland.
• Elvis Presley's funeral service.
• 4: When the fast food "meal" now called this debuted nationally in '79, it came in a circus wagon box.
• a Happy Meal.
• 5: (Hi. I'm LeVar Burton.) I starred in this 1977 landmark miniseries that inspired millions of people to research their own family trees.
• Roots.

Round 5. Category: Kill Bill: Vol. 1

• 1: This former Secy. of State under Wilson died soon after winning a famous 1925 court case.
• William Jennings Bryan.
• 2: In 1881 this "bonney" lad was killed daid in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
• Billy the Kid.
• 3: This former "Ziegfeld follies" humorist died in 1935 in an Alaskan plane crash.
• Will Rogers.
• 4: Anarchy reigned when this President was shot while in a receiving line at the 1901 Buffalo Pan-American Expo.
• William McKinley.
• 5: This Dickens heavy gets his after dodging a bloodthirsty crowd bent on revenge after Nancy's murder.
• Bill Sikes.

Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!