Episode 1221 - That movie’s genius - Internal rhyme verbs - Measure up - Art books - Umbrella potpourri

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1221, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: That Movie'S Genius

• 1: Doc Brown created the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible, in this film.
• Back to the Future.
• 2: Dr. Ryan Stone is a medical engineer on her first shuttle mission in this 2013 film.
• Gravity.
• 3: An un-Gandhi-like Ben Kingsley takes a child chess prodigy under his wing in this 1993 film.
• Searching for Bobby Fischer.
• 4: Hugh Jackman is super-hacker Stanley Jobson in this 2001 film; give us the password.
• Swordfish.
• 5: Coal miner's son Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal) takes up rocketry in this film.
• October Sky.

Round 2. Category: Internal Rhyme Verbs

• 1: Hyphenated verb meaning to quaff an entire beer in one go.
• chug-a-lug.
• 2: This gathering of Native Americans is also a verb meaning "to confer".
• powwow.
• 3: To keep going on the same course, or to stay at the same weight.
• maintain.
• 4: From the Chinese, it means to show excessive subservience.
• kowtow.
• 5: To spend time with the rich and famous.
• hobnob.

Round 3. Category: Measure Up

• 1: It was supposed to equal the distance from Henry VIII's nose to the tip of his outstretched thumb.
• a yard.
• 2: It's really gross, man, when you have a gross which is this many dozen.
• 12.
• 3: The number of square inches in a square foot.
• 144.
• 4: 1 astronomical unit = about 93 million miles, the average distance between these 2 objects.
• the Earth and the Sun.
• 5: This measure of booze equals .666 jigger or 1 ounce.
• a shot.

Round 4. Category: Art Books

• 1: The diary of young Julie Manet has been published as "Growing Up With" this group of painters.
• the Impressionists.
• 2: Great painters? Just tracers, per the book "Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old" these.
• Masters.
• 3: "A Life Discovered" is the subtitle of a book about this enigmatic woman, the most famous portrait sitter of all time.
• the Mona Lisa.
• 4: Hayden Herrera's biography of this Mexican woman was the basis for a movie.
• Frida Kahlo.
• 5: The "Basic Genre" series includes "Landscape", "Self-Portraits" and this, with a cover showing fruit on a table.
• Still Life.

Round 5. Category: Umbrella Potpourri

• 1: This umbrella-wielding Batman foe made his comic book debut in 1941 in Detective Comics No. 58.
• the Penguin.
• 2: The sun is out,so the light umbrellas carried here are known by this word.
• parasol.
• 3: In 2007 her "Umbrella" was named MTV's Monster Single of the Year.
• Rihanna.
• 4: In 2011, his last full year as French president, he got a Kevlar-coated umbrella as part of his protection.
• Nicolas Sarkozy.
• 5: This insurance company lost its umbrella logo when it merged with Citicorp in 1998 but later purchased it back.
• Travelers.

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