Episode 1186 - Fete offensive - Polyhymnia - 4 top men - Working with a beatle - From movie to musical

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1186, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fete Offensive

• 1: 1953 and 2009 were years of riots in France on this festive day that was violent back in 1789, too.
• Bastille Day.
• 2: After this war hero's 1829 inauguration, crowds nearly crushed him and the White House was trashed.
• Andrew Jackson.
• 3: Beijing feted 70 years of Communist rule on "National Day" in 2019, but protests in this administrative region turned ugly.
• Hong Kong.
• 4: 30 years after the original concert, this reboot featured overpriced water and arson.
• Woodstock.
• 5: Netflix' documentary about this ill-conceived Bahamian romp is subtitled "The Greatest Party that Never Happened".
• the Fyre Festival.

Round 2. Category: Polyhymnia

• 1: "Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!" Joan Baez sang this national hymn on a 1963 concert album.
• "Battle Hymn Of The Republic".
• 2: "In the snow of far off northern lands and in sunny tropic scenes" is in the second part of their hymn.
• the Marine Corps.
• 3: Also meaning a commonly repeated word or phrase, this term originally referred to a Hindu vedic hymn.
• mantra.
• 4: A processional is sung as clergy and laity enter a church; this type of hymn, as they leave.
• recessional.
• 5: Bede recorded this earliest-known Anglo-Saxon Christian poet's "Hymn" in prose.
• Cædmon.

Round 3. Category: 4 Top Men

• 1: You know it would be true, you know I wouldn't be a liar, to say this band turned down $50K from Buick to use "Light My Fire".
• The Doors.
• 2: This foursome was "Runnin' With The Devil" but runnin' without brown MandMs, excluded in their concert contracts.
• Van Halen.
• 3: For a track on "Quadrophenia", this band had to bribe a train driver to blow his whistle departing Waterloo station.
• The Who.
• 4: Bob Geldof on the show-stopping performance by this band at Live Aid: "It was the perfect stage for Freddie".
• Queen.
• 5: At the 2017 Grammys, this hard rocking quartet of dudes went (Lady) Gaga to play "Moth Into Flame".
• Metallica.

Round 4. Category: Working With A Beatle

• 1: In a 1995 Pizza Hut ad, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Davy Jones welcomed Ringo as this band's new drummer.
• the Monkees.
• 2: "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey", a 1971 No. 1, is credited to Paul and this woman.
• Linda Eastman (McCartney).
• 3: In 1997 Ringo said, "Baby, I Love Your Way" and had this ex-Humble Pie guy in the All-Starr Band.
• Peter Frampton.
• 4: "Handle with Care"! Along with George, this '80s group featured Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan.
• the Traveling Wilburys.
• 5: On Thanksgiving 1974, John joined this man at Madison Square Garden to perform "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds".
• Elton John.

Round 5. Category: From Movie To Musical

• 1: This musical based on a 1933 film is currently tapping away on the NYC thoroughfare of the same name.
• 42nd Street.
• 2: Tony Curtis took the Joe E. Brown role, not the Tony Curtis part, in a new musical based on this Billy Wilder film.
• Some Like It Hot.
• 3: You could say John C. Reilly butchered the role in the 2002 musical based on this Ernest Borgnine film.
• Marty.
• 4: It had to happen: this 1962 classic in which Bette Davis tormented Joan Crawford became a musical in 2002.
• Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?.
• 5: "Illya Darling" was based on this foreign film about a woman who worked only Monday through Saturday.
• Never On Sunday.

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