Episode 902 - see you in court - secret service code names - noun to verb - name the james - tv title pairs

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 902, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: see you in court

• 1: Deaths in its Pinto made it the first U.S. corporation to face criminal charges over product design.
• Ford.
• 2: The government sued Frank Snepp over his 1977 book based on his years with this agency.
• CIA.
• 3: Perhaps because no one could figure out what he'd been trying to do, Aaron Burr was acquitted of this in 1807.
• treason.
• 4: Carol Burnett's suit against the National Enquirer for this hinged on whether the Enquirer was really a newspaper.
• libel.
• 5: In 1977 the Supreme Court ruled that John Bates, in this profession, had the right to advertise low fees.
• lawyer/law.

Round 2. Category: secret service code names

• 1: This vice president from Tenn. joked he was so dull, his code name was simply his name, but officially, he was "Sundance".
• Al Gore.
• 2: The Secret Service also protects foreign dignitaries; "Halo" was this late man's code name.
• Pope John Paul II.
• 3: A Baptist president:Deacon.
• Carter.
• 4: Eisenhower was Providence; oddly, this president was General.
• President Harry Truman.
• 5: A religious visitor:Halo.
• Pope John Paul II.

Round 3. Category: noun to verb

• 1: One state of water; as a verb, it can mean to decorate a cake or to ensure a victory.
• ice.
• 2: From the French for "to cut", it can mean a small piece or the whole or to do careful work on your car.
• detail.
• 3: Natural event sometimes used as a verb; there's a form of it in Prissy's famous line in "Gone with the Wind".
• birth.
• 4: "Relatively" speaking, it means to exempt someone already in business from new regulation.
• grandfather.
• 5: When launched in 1998, it was just a noun; now it's a verb meaning to check up on somebody online.
• Google.

Round 4. Category: name the james

• 1: "The Godfather of Soul".
• James Brown.
• 2: The fourth and fifth U.S. Presidents.
• James Madison and James Monroe.
• 3: Discovered the Hawaiian islands.
• (James) Cook.
• 4: Led the first bombing raid on Tokyo in World War II.
• James Doolittle.
• 5: Founded Savannah and the Georgia colony.
• James Oglethorpe.

Round 5. Category: tv title pairs

• 1: Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain.
• "Lois and Clark".
• 2: Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin.
• "Kate and Allie".
• 3: NBC rebooted this sitcom whose title characters have the surnames Truman and Adler.
• Will and Grace.
• 4: Cop Billy Gardell and teacher Melissa McCarthy.
• Mike and Molly.
• 5: Streetwise cops Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul.
• Starsky and Hutch.

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