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Episode 1065 - Poe-pourri - Serial killers - They named a city for me in... - "out" at first - The ship of state

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1065, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Poe-Pourri

  • 1: Poe was terribly ill when he was found in a tavern in this city on October 3, 1849; he died a few days later.
  • Baltimore.
  • 2: One of the title objects in this Poe story had a "terrifically wide sweep (some thirty feet or more)".
  • "The Pit and the Pendulum"?.
  • 3: "I admit the deed! Tear up the planks!" this title object is beneath them.
  • "The Tell-Tale Heart".
  • 4: 16-letter word used by Poe to describe the runic rhyme that musically welled from the bells.
  • tintinnabulation.
  • 5: Twain said it's the only animal that blushes; Poe said it's the only animal that diddles.
  • humans (man).

    • Round 2. Category: Serial Killers

    • 1: Mistah Kurtz--he dead; in the April 1899 issue of Balckwood's Magazine thanks to this author.
    • (Joseph) Conrad.
    • 2: In a March 1852 serial chapter in The National Era, Harriet Beecher Stowe killed off this title character.
    • Uncle Tom.
    • 3: Charles Dickens dragged out the death of Little Nell over installments of this "Old" novel.
    • The Old Curiosity Shop.
    • 4: Stephen King senselessly snuffed out this mouse in part 3 of "The Green Mile"... he'd be back.
    • Mr. Jingles.
    • 5: In the May 1, 1886 issue of Graphic, this author killed off Lucetta and her unborn child in "The Mayor of Casterbridge".
    • Thomas Hardy.

      • Round 3. Category: They Named A City For Me In...

      • 1: Reverend Newitt Vick (1811).
      • Mississippi.
      • 2: Dr. Bartlett Durham (1854).
      • North Carolina.
      • 3: Sedona Schnebly (1902).
      • Arizona.
      • 4: Commodore Robert F. Stockton (1850).
      • California.
      • 5: Lieutenant Caspar (sic) Collins (1888).
      • Wyoming.

        • Round 4. Category: Out At First. With Out in quotes

        • 1: A loss of electrical power.
        • an outage.
        • 2: A discount store devoted to a single retail brand.
        • an outlet.
        • 3: This word for a criminal comes from early Scandinavian.
        • outlaw.
        • 4: Let's get things straight from this, the very beginning of something.
        • the outset.
        • 5: A rock formation that projects from the ground.
        • an outcrop.

          • Round 5. Category: The Ship Of State

          • 1: In the 1860s a paddle-wheeler named this plied the waters of the same-named river around Fort Yuma.
          • Colorado.
          • 2: Designated SSN-780, the current USS Missouri isn't a battleship but a nuclear-powered one of these.
          • a submarine.
          • 3: 2 schooners called the Oregon Fir and the Oregon this carried lumber from the U.S. to Australia in the 1920s.
          • the Oregon Pine.
          • 4: The Pearl Harbor Memorial to this ship reminds visitors it was the scene of great loss and asks them to dress appropriately.
          • the Arizona.
          • 5: In 1862, the captured and rebuilt USS Merrimack was relaunched as the CSS this state.
          • the Virginia.

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