Instant Trivia

Episode 104 - What'cha Got Cookin'? - Oh "Mi" - Dough - By, The Book - Plays And Playwrights

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 104, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What'cha Got Cookin'?

  • 1: This clear meat soup will be finished in a jiffy; actually, "finished" is what its name means.
  • a consommé.
  • 2: I'm sauteeing this organ meat in butter and lemon juice, as you'd know, if you had any.
  • brains.
  • 3: I'm making passover breakfast fun by using this unleavened bread in a version of French toast.
  • matzah.
  • 4: I'm boiling these to mix with red cabbage; it's too darn hot to roast them on an open fire.
  • chestnuts.
  • 5: Don't be intimidated by the skewers; I'll use them on the marinated lamb to make this.
  • shish kabob.

    • Round 2. Category: Oh "Mi"

    • 1: This city's Herald was founded in 1910.
    • Miami.
    • 2: 2 Samuel 1:25 proclaims "How" have they "fallen in the midst of the battle!".
    • The mighty.
    • 3: Muscovite is a white type of this rock that splits into thin leaves.
    • mica.
    • 4: Math sign that looks like a hyphen.
    • Minus sign.
    • 5: The process of a cell with 46 chromosomes spilitting into 2 cells, each also with 46 chromosomes.
    • Mitosis.

      • Round 3. Category: Dough

      • 1: Chile uses this basic unit of currency.
      • a peso.
      • 2: Italy has issued Euro coins with part of this painter's "Birth of Venus" on the reverse.
      • Botticelli.
      • 3: The name of this unit of currency used in Libya is from the Latin for "ten".
      • Dinar.
      • 4: Cherry blossoms are featured on the back of the coin worth 100 of these.
      • Yen.
      • 5: No peeking! This building is portrayed on the back of the $20 bill.
      • the White House.

        • Round 4. Category: By, The Book

        • 1: The first book by this "Chocolate Factory" guy was "The Gremlins" in 1943, written for Walt Disney.
        • Roald Dahl.
        • 2: False advertising alert! In 1933 she penned "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas".
        • Gertrude Stein.
        • 3: He wrote "Redburn", "Omoo" and a seafaring novel of some repute.
        • (Herman) Melville.
        • 4: In addition to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", he penned "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency".
        • Douglas Adams.
        • 5: The second part of his "The Sound and the Fury" is told by a neurotic on the day of his suicide.
        • Faulkner.

          • Round 5. Category: Plays And Playwrights

          • 1: David Henry Hwang wrote his first play, "F.O.B.", while studying at this school near Palo Alto, California.
          • Stanford.
          • 2: Edward Albee's adaptation of this Nabokov novel starred Donald Sutherland as Humbert Humbert.
          • "Lolita".
          • 3: In 1941 her "Watch on the Rhine" was named best American play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle.
          • Lillian Hellman.
          • 4: He worked as a stagehand in Prague before writing plays such as "Temptation" and before becoming a president.
          • Vaclav Havel.
          • 5: In 1991 Nigel Hawthorne won a Tony for his role as this author in William Nicholson's play "Shadowlands".
          • C.S. Lewis.

            • Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

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