Instant Trivia

Episode 1019 - Literary tourism - Prawnography - "left", "right" or "center" - Character mashups - Stupid answers at the movies

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1019, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Literary Tourism

  • 1: This poet's birthplace in Alloway, Scotland is adjacent to a museum devoted to him.
  • Robert Burns.
  • 2: The home of this "Ivanhoe" author is a tourist attraction in Abbotsford, Scotland.
  • Sir Walter Scott.
  • 3: George Bernard Shaw's recently restored birthplace is a tourist attraction in this capital city.
  • Dublin.
  • 4: A St. Helena, California museum displays the toy soldiers he wrote about in "A Child's Garden of Verses".
  • Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • 5: The museum devoted to this playwright is a short walk from the National Theatre in Oslo.
  • Henrik Ibsen.

    • Round 2. Category: Prawnography

    • 1: The word "prawn" is used loosely for a large one of these shellfish.
    • a shrimp.
    • 2: The Muppet known as Pepe the Prawn did commercials for a restaurant chain named for this "Long" character.
    • Long John Silver.
    • 3: Like many insects, prawns also feature pairs of these long, thin sensory organs on their heads.
    • antennae.
    • 4: Prawns go through as many as 11 different metamorphoses during this stage of immaturity.
    • the larval stage.
    • 5: From the Latin for "having a shell", it's the subphylum to which all prawns belong.
    • crustacean.

      • Round 3. Category: Left, Right Or Center. With Left", "Right" Or "Center in quotes

      • 1: Current name of the branch of the U.S. Public Health Service charged with investigating and mitigating contagions.
      • the Centers for Disease Control.
      • 2: Traffic precedence of one vehicle over another.
      • right of way.
      • 3: Related to the sports world, it's a source for unexpected or strange insight.
      • left field.
      • 4: The point within an object where its entire weight is evenly balanced.
      • the center of gravity.
      • 5: Paris' Latin Quarter is found there.
      • the Left Bank.

        • Round 4. Category: Character Mashups

        • 1: Huckleberry Finch (1884 and 1960).
        • Huckleberry Finn and Scout Finch.
        • 2: Fredo Baggins(1969 and 1954).
        • Fredo Corleone and Bilbo Baggins.
        • 3: Holden Copperfield (1951 and 1850).
        • Holden Caulfield and David Copperfield.
        • 4: Rhett Smiley (1936 and 1961, '62, etc.).
        • Rhett Butler and George Smiley.
        • 5: Sansa Panza(1996 and 1605).
        • Sansa Stark and Sancho Panza.

          • Round 5. Category: Stupid Answers At The Movies

          • 1: This feel-good film starred Dennis Quaid as Jim Morris, a major league rookie at age 35.
          • The Rookie.
          • 2: Dustin Hoffman is the graduate who's seduced by a middle aged woman in this 1967 classic.
          • The Graduate.
          • 3: Kevin Costner was the bodyguard assigned to Whitney Houston in this 1992 romance.
          • The Bodyguard.
          • 4: John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale meet serendiptously and dine at NYC's Serendipity Cafe in this 2001 romance.
          • Serendipity.
          • 5: Dudley Moore thought Bo Derek was a perfect "10" in this 1979 romp.
          • 10.

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