January 02, 2024

Episode 1057 - Astronomical rhyme time - Fill in the (mel) blanc - Monarchs of england - Literary couples - Biography

8 minutes

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1057, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Astronomical Rhyme Time

1: Any song about Earth's natural satellite.

a Moon tune.

2: Red planet pubs.

Mars bars.

3: Space telescope problem.

Hubble trouble.

4: Comet discoverer Edmond's narrow lanes.

Halley's alleys.

5: One who determines the age of meteorite impact holes.

a crater dater (crater rater accepted).

Round 2. Category: Fill In The (Mel) Blanc

1: This 3-word query might have been Mel Blanc's first words.

What's up, Doc?.

2: Blanc joined Hanna-Barbera to voice this character, Fred's neighbor and Betty's husband.

(Barney) Rubble.

3: It was Mel Blanc's catchphrase when voicing a crested bird of the southwest U.S..

Beep, beep.

4: For "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", Blanc revived 5 characters including Tweety and this other bird.

Daffy Duck.

5: As a railroad announcer on Jack Benny's radio and TV shows, Blanc called out the stations "Anaheim, Azusa and" this.

Cucamonga.

Round 3. Category: Monarchs Of England

1: The one with the second-longest reign.

Elizabeth II.

2: Harold II had been king less than 10 months when he was defeated by William the Conqueror in this year.

1066.

3: He was king not only during the American war of independence but during the War of 1812 as well.

George III.

4: This king, brother of Richard the Lionheart has a bad reputation; even his title, Count of Mortain, sounds evil.

John.

5: This restored king ruled during the great plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London the following year.

Charles II.

Round 4. Category: Literary Couples

1: Her book title "Sonnets from the Portuguese" refers to her husband's nickname for her.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

2: Dashiell Hammett modeled this lady sleuth after his lover, Lillian Hellman.

Nora Charles.

3: She wrote a book subtitled "The Modern Prometheus"; he wrote the drama "Prometheus Unbound".

Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley.

4: 2 of her novels contain barely fictionalized portraits of her lover, Jean-Paul Sartre.

Simone de Beauvoir.

5: At least 2 of her books are dedicated to Quintana, her daughter by John Gregory Dunne.

Joan Didion.

Round 5. Category: Biography

1: Born an Air Force brat in Germany in 1959, he won his first Wimbledon in 1981 and married Tatum O'Neal in 1986.

John McEnroe.

2: "Parting the Waters" is volume 1 in Taylor Branch's trilogy about this man's life and the civil rights movement.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..

3: She's the political wife profiled here.

Ethel Kennedy.

4: She was one of the last stars in the studio system"The tobacco farmer's daughter from North Carolina was awed and intimidated by the luxury of the MGM system.".

Ava Gardner.

5: Born into Philadelphia's "High Society" in 1929, became a princess in 1956, lived happily ever after until 1982.

Princess Grace/Grace Kelly.

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

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