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Episode 1070 - Novels since 1900 - This side "up" - "x"odus - Pie-pourri - Great places to propose

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1070, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Novels Since 1900

  • 1: 23-year-old Andrea Sachs gets a job as a personal assistant at Runway magazine in this Lauren Weisberger novel.
  • The Devil Wears Prada.
  • 2: "Texasville" and "Duane's Depressed" are 2 of the many tales of the small-town west by this author who died in 2021.
  • (Larry) McMurtry.
  • 3: The name of this realtor and Sinclair Lewis title character has come to mean a witless booster.
  • (George) Babbitt.
  • 4: There's a weapon in the title of this modern updating of an ancient English legend by T.H. White.
  • The Sword in the Stone.
  • 5: Paul Bäumer is a young German student turned soldier in this World War I novel.
  • All Quiet on the Western Front.

    • Round 2. Category: This Side Up. With Up in quotation marks

    • 1: Dude, you're way too this word, nervous and easily annoyed.
    • uptight.
    • 2: This "Saturday Night Live" newscast title has been used since a weekend in 1975.
    • Weekend Update.
    • 3: "Casablanca" begins with an order to do this to "all suspicious characters and search them".
    • round up.
    • 4: In summer 2013 shares of Pandora stock surged after Goldman Sachs did this to it from "neutral" to "buy".
    • upgrade.
    • 5: Hang gliders ride these rising currents of air to stay aloft.
    • updrafts.

      • Round 3. Category: XOdus. With X in quotes

      • 1: Back Off! I've got this irrational fear of strangers.
      • Xenophobia.
      • 2: A brand name, it's become a synonym for a photocopy.
      • Xerox.
      • 3: Second name of St. Francis, known as the "Apostle of the Indies".
      • Xavier.
      • 4: It's the 4-letter spelling of the shortened form of Christmas; many Christians frown on it.
      • Xmas.
      • 5: It's the alphabetical name for the troubling 1790s incident involving French agents.
      • XYZ Affair.

        • Round 4. Category: Pie-Pourri

        • 1: Betty Crocker has a recipe for rhubarb pie topped with this fluff made from egg whites.
        • meringue.
        • 2: To make this pie topping, stiffly beat egg whites and add granulated sugar one tablespoon at a time.
        • meringue.
        • 3: You don't need a lot of dough to make pie crust; smash up some chocolate wafers to make this kind of crust instead.
        • a crumb crust.
        • 4: Confusingly, this official state dessert of Massachusetts is called pie but made with sponge cake.
        • Boston cream pie.
        • 5: Not chocolate silk or chocolate chiffon, but chocolate this glossy fabric is a favorite at Marie Callender's.
        • chocolate satin.

          • Round 5. Category: Great Places To Propose

          • 1: At a spot near this spectacular site in Africa.
          • Victoria Falls.
          • 2: In Agra, before this monument to eternal love.
          • the Taj Mahal.
          • 3: High atop this British attraction.
          • the Millennium Wheel.
          • 4: On this oldest bridge in Paris, whose name means otherwise.
          • Pont-Neuf.
          • 5: On a beach on this Caribbean island, named for a female saint, with one of its famous volcanic peaks in the background.
          • Saint Lucia.

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