Episode 901 - music of the ’60s - irish stars - 1982 - utter nonsense - three cheers!

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 901, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: music of the '60s

• 1: In 1969 "Something" became the only No. 1 hit he composed for The Beatles.
• George Harrison.
• 2: In 1969 B.J. Thomas had the biggest hit of his career with this song from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
• "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head".
• 3: In this 1965 hit, Roger Miller tells us that "Two hours of pushing broom buys a eight by twelve four-bit room".
• "King of the Road".
• 4: In 1968 his "Hurdy Gurdy Man" came singing songs of love.
• Donovan.
• 5: In the 1960s she reached the Top 20 3 times with duets: twice with Lee Hazelwood and once with her father.
• Nancy Sinatra.

Round 2. Category: irish stars

• 1: This Bond of "Die Another Day" was born in County Meath.
• Pierce Brosnan.
• 2: The youngest man to play Henry V for the Royal Shakespeare Company, he starred in the 1989 film, too.
• Kenneth Branagh.
• 3: This Irish star of "Michael Collins" stretched his acting abilities to play Scottish legend Rob Roy.
• Liam Neeson.
• 4: In July of 2001 he stunned the world when he announced he was putting out his "Feet of Flames" forever.
• Michael Flatley.
• 5: In 1976 he returned as John Morgan in "The Return of a Man Called Horse".
• Richard Harris.

Round 3. Category: 1982

• 1: Spain joined NATO under the stipulation that none of these weapons would be based on its soil.
• nuclear weapons.
• 2: In August 1982 Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to be sent here by Russia.
• Space.
• 3: After 11 months of internment by the Polish government, this Solidarity leader went home in November.
• Lech Wałęsa.
• 4: By the time he died in 1982, he'd been top Soviet leader longer than anyone except Stalin.
• Brezhnev.
• 5: Family name of the father and daughter who created the following music:"I do not talk funny... /I'm sure (Valley Girl) /Whatsa matter with the way I talk? (Valley Girl)".
• Zappa.

Round 4. Category: utter nonsense

• 1: This Irish stone gives you the power of persuasion.
• the Blarney Stone.
• 2: Luncheon meat named for a city in Italy.
• Bologna.
• 3: A bed built on a shelf over another bed.
• a bunk bed.
• 4: A tower in Genesis 11:9.
• (the Tower of) Babel.
• 5: Helium or this can be used to raise a balloon from which a gondola is suspended.
• hot air.

Round 5. Category: three cheers!

• 1: It's the breakfast cereal pitched by the animated elves Snap, Crackle and Pop.
• Rice Krispies.
• 2: The 3 U.K. countries that make up the island of Great Britain.
• England, Scotland and Wales.
• 3: The 4-legged Omaha made the record books in 1935 with this 3-feat.
• racing's Triple Crown.
• 4: Since the 1979 incident at this location, no new nuclear reactors have been ordered in the U.S..
• Three-Mile Island.
• 5: Mythical monstrosity manifested here.
• Cerberus.

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