Episode 218 - When - Politically Incorrect - Foreign Legislature - Frisky Presidents - Silent Movies

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 218, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: When

• 1: On Aug. 28, 1963 he told a crowd gathered in Washington, D.C. "I have a dream".
• Martin Luther King, Jr..
• 2: On Jan. 20, 1981 Iran released its hostages and this president was inaugurated.
• Ronald Reagan.
• 3: On Sept. 15, 1862 Stonewall Jackson captured this town made famous by John Brown 3 years earlier.
• Harpers Ferry.
• 4: These Americans got the right to vote on August 26, 1920.
• Women.
• 5: On Dec. 17, 1819 this "George Washington of South America" became Gran Colombia's first president.
• Bolívar.

Round 2. Category: Politically Incorrect

• 1: From its start in 1993, this Steven Bochco show has been attacked by the Christian Family Network.
• NYPD Blue.
• 2: In July 1997 the National Federation for the Blind urged a halt to a live-action version of this cartoon.
• Mr. Magoo.
• 3: "Read my lips, no new taxes!".
• George H. W. Bush.
• 4: "We did not --repeat--did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages--nor will we".
• Reagan.
• 5: "There is no Soviet domination of eastern Europe".
• (Gerald) Ford.

Round 3. Category: Foreign Legislature

• 1: Bundestag and Bundesrat.
• Germany.
• 2: The Knesset.
• Israel.
• 3: The Cortes.
• Spain.
• 4: Dail Eireann and Seanad Eireann.
• Ireland.
• 5: The Storting.
• Norway.

Round 4. Category: Frisky Presidents

• 1: Some scholars believe he initially called off his marriage, as he'd fallen in love with a friend of the Todds.
• Lincoln.
• 2: Ooh la la! He fooled around with the very married Maria Cosway while he was Minister to France.
• Jefferson.
• 3: Kay Summersby drove him to work in the 1940s and may have driven him to infidelity as well.
• Eisenhower.
• 4: In an effort to keep his affair with Mrs. Carrie Phillips a secret, the RNC sent her on a paid trip to Asia in 1920.
• Harding.
• 5: In the 1870s, while he was the sheriff of Buffalo, he fathered a child with a Mrs. Maria Halpin.
• (Grover) Cleveland.

Round 5. Category: Silent Movies

• 1: This film could have been called "Little Lady Fauntleroy" since it starred her, "America's sweetheart".
• Mary Pickford.
• 2: This cowboy star's middle initial stood for Surrey.
• William S. Hart.
• 3: This 1903 Edwin S. Porter classic wasn't filmed in the Wild West but in the wilds of New Jersey.
• The Great Train Robbery.
• 4: He was White Arm Joe in "The Birth of a Nation", but is better known as the screen's first "Tarzan".
• Elmo Lincoln.
• 5: In 1914 this actress silently suffered "The Perils of Pauline".
• Pearl White.

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