Episode 285 - Women In Song - Unicef - Art Attack - American Revolution - Presidential Campaign Slogan Years

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 285, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Women In Song

• 1: From 1965:"Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble".
• Michelle.
• 2: Neil Diamond:"Hands, touchin' hands, reachin' out, touchin' me, touchin' you...".
• Sweet Caroline.
• 3: Barry Manilow:"Well, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking and I need you today, oh" her.
• Mandy.
• 4: Tom Jones:"Why, why, why" her.
• Delilah.
• 5: Elvis Costello:"You can call me anything you like but my name is" this.
• Veronica.

Round 2. Category: Unicef

• 1: UNICEF is the world's largest buyer of these for poor countries, a shot in the arm for the survival of kids.
• vaccinations.
• 2: (Her Majesty delivers the clue again.) In 2007 UNICEF Canada supplied 33,000 insecticide-treated bednets to help children and pregnant women in Liberia to fight this disease.
• malaria.
• 3: Throughout October 2003 Katie Couric and the "Today" show promoted the UNICEF program called this.
• Trick Or Treat for UNICEF.
• 4: (Queen Rania delivers the clue again.) My 2007 visit to a community health center in the Chaoyang district in this world capital emphasized the continuing need for better migrant health care.
• Beijing.
• 5: (Queen Rania delivers the final clue.) As UNICEF's first Eminent Advocate for Children, I visited a school in Fez, in this country, that offers one-time child laborers a formal education.
• Morocco.

Round 3. Category: Art Attack

• 1: Laszlo Toth took a hammer to his Pieta and Pietro Cannata took one to his David.
• Michelangelo.
• 2: In January 1999 a man scribbled with a gray marker on a painting in Rome by this American drip master.
• Jackson Pollock.
• 3: In 1998 an art student in London painted a yellow pound sign on a self-portrait by this Dutchman.
• Rembrandt.
• 4: Students looking at "Fall of the Angels" in a Rome museum noticed this problem, as it didn't match the guidebook photo.
• it was upside down.
• 5: In 1999 an escaped mental patient in Amsterdam slashed this Spaniard's "Nude Woman in Front of the Garden".
• Pablo Picasso.

Round 4. Category: American Revolution

• 1: Ben Franklin was 70 years old when he signed this document in 1776.
• Declaration of Independence.
• 2: The battle that was fought the farthest north was the one at this Canadian city, December 31, 1775.
• Quebec.
• 3: While Kosciusko survived the war, this Polish count was mortally wounded at Savannah.
• Casimir Pulaski.
• 4: Now site of a military academy, Benedict Arnold plotted to turn over its fort to the British.
• West Point.
• 5: France entered the war on our side after this 1777 American victory in New York State.
• Saratoga.

Round 5. Category: Presidential Campaign Slogan Years

• 1: "Help hustle Harry home".
• 1948.
• 2: "I like Ike".
• 1952.
• 3: "All the way with LBJ".
• 1964.
• 4: "We're madly for Adlai".
• 1952 (or 1956).
• 5: "In Hoover we trusted, now we are busted".
• 1932.

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