Episode 813 - march - classic movies - '50s rock lyrics - washingtonnage - news of the '90s

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 813, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: march

• 1: Touching off the "War of the Oranges", Spain declared war on this neighbor on March 2, 1801.
• Portugal.
• 2: March 19 is the traditional day the swallows return to this California mission.
• San Juan Capistrano.
• 3: On March 4, 1861, the Confederacy adopted its flag, exactly 72 years after this document had gone into effect.
• Constitution.
• 4: On St. Patrick's Day in 1940, the Brooklyn kill-for-hire gang later nicknamed this was exposed.
• Murder Incorporated.
• 5: Not a good sign: on March 11, 1824 this govt. bureau abbreviated B.I.A. began as a part of the War Department.
• the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Round 2. Category: classic movies

• 1: Once upon a time Robin Wright played Buttercup in this film scripted by William Goldman.
• The Princess Bride.
• 2: "Road to Bali" has these 2 stars on an island with Dorothy Lamour, who's wearing a sarong, natch.
• Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
• 3: In one of the original slasher films, Janet Leigh is killed off just 20 minutes into this 1960 thriller.
• Psycho.
• 4: In a 1967 film Charles Bronson and Jim Brown are among this title group of 12 who are trained by Lee Marvin for a war mission.
• The Dirty Dozen.
• 5: This Kurosawa film about a crime told from multiple points of view is credited with introducing Japanese cinema to the Western world.
• Rashomon.

Round 3. Category: '50s rock lyrics

• 1: This 1957 Paul Anka hit begins, "I'm so young and you're so old. This my darling I've been told".
• "Diana".
• 2: 1959 Coasters hit which contains the line "Fee fee fi fi fo fo fum".
• "Charlie Brown".
• 3: In 1959 Ray Charles sang, "Tell your mama, tell your pa, I'm gonna ship you back to" this state.
• Arkansas.
• 4: In 1954 The Penguins asked her, "Will you be mine, my darling dear, love you all the time".
• "Earth Angel".
• 5: In 1958 the Crests told us these "make a lovely sight but not as bright as your eyes tonight".
• "Sixteen Candles".

Round 4. Category: washingtonnage

• 1: In 1998 Washington state processed 43,500 tons of grapes into white wine, about half of it this variety.
• Chardonnay.
• 2: With 13 offensive linemen totaling almost 2 tons, UW's football team lives up to this nickname.
• the Huskies.
• 3: The "freighter" type of this huge Boeing jetliner has a maximum takeoff weight of over 430 tons.
• 747.
• 4: Oddly, in 1997 state aquaculture produced 28 tons of the Pacific type of this fish but 6,326 tons of the Atlantic type.
• salmon.
• 5: This structure that created Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake weighs about 24 million tons.
• the Grand Coulee Dam.

Round 5. Category: news of the '90s

• 1: In 1991 he became the first popularly elected national leader in Russian history.
• Boris Yeltsin.
• 2: In 1990 George Bush took a firm stand against eating this vegetable.
• broccoli.
• 3: Common name of the U.N. conference on environment and development held in Rio in 1992.
• the Earth Summit.
• 4: On Jan. 17, 1991 Allied air forces began bombing this country in order to liberate it.
• Kuwait.
• 5: After her election as governor in 1990, she said, "In Texas, politics is a contact sport".
• Ann Richards.

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