March 08, 2024

Episode 1123 - Colors of the rainbow - She blinded me with science - Guardians - Unfinished operas - Songs

9 minutes

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1123, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Colors Of The Rainbow

1: This genre of country music is fittingly Kentucky's state music.

bluegrass.

2: Sad or gloomy.

blue.

3: In the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections, Ralph Nader ran as a member of this party.

the Green Party.

4: In a sad mood.

blue.

5: IBM is known informally as Big this.

Blue.

Round 2. Category: She Blinded Me With Science

1: Dorothy Hodgkin's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was for her work on this vitamin, whose deficiency causes pernicious anemia.

B12.

2: Alice Ball was 23 and a college instructor in Hawaii in 1915 when she developed the first successful treatment for this, also known as Hansen's disease.

leprosy.

3: Pioneering computer programmer Grace Murray Hopper coined this term for a mysterious computer problem.

bug.

4: Nobel laureate Gertrude Elion helped develop drugs to treat herpes, gout and this, cancer of the bone marrow.

leukemia.

5: In 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer received a Nobel Prize in Physics for her "shell model" of this part of an atom.

Nucleus.

Round 3. Category: Guardians

1: U.S. Coast Guard units based in Cleveland, Ohio are known as the "Guardians of" these bodies of water.

the Great Lakes.

2: 4-letter term for a person, usually a minor, legally placed in the charge of a guardian.

a ward.

3: "Keeping it safe" is the motto of this red-bereted group founded by Curtis Sliwa.

the Guardian Angels.

4: The scarlet and gold dress uniforms of these guardians of the Tower of London date back to 1552.

the Beefeaters (or Yeoman Warders).

5: In Arthurian legend this wounded monarch is the guardian of the Holy Grail.

the Fisher King.

Round 4. Category: Unfinished Operas

1: This composer finished just 3 scenes of "Olav Trygvason"; they're sometimes performed as a cantata.

Edvard Grieg.

2: Make an exodus from the theatre after seeing Schoenberg's incomplete opera about this man and his brother Aaron.

Moses.

3: Biondello hides inside a mechanical goose in Mozart's unfinished opera "The Goose of" this Egyptian city.

Cairo.

4: Let's wax philosophical and wonder why Rousseau left only fragments of his opera about Daphnis and her.

Chloe.

5: Smetana's "Viola", with just 365 bars of music, is based on this play.

Twelfth Night.

Round 5. Category: Songs

1: Having this title problem, Barry Manilow sings, "I can't laugh and I can't sing, I'm finding it hard to do anything".

"Can't Smile Without You".

2: 1930s song to which the Marcels added the following over 25 years later:"Bom ba ba bom ba bom ba bom bom ba ba bom ba ba bom ba ba dang a dang dang / Ba ba ding a dong ding".

"Blue Moon".

3: 2 of the 3 Top 10 Fats Domino songs with "Walk" in the title.

"I'm Walkin'", "I Want to Walk You Home", and/or "Walking to New Orleans".

4: "Under the Sea" from this Disney animated feature won the 1989 Oscar for Best Song.

The Little Mermaid.

5: He's told to "mind the music and the step, and with the girls be handy".

Yankee Doodle Dandy.

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

Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

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March 08, 2024

Episode 1123 - Colors of the rainbow - She blinded me with science - Guardians - Unfinished operas - Songs

9 minutes

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1123, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Colors Of The Rainbow

1: This genre of country music is fittingly Kentucky's state music.

bluegrass.

2: Sad or gloomy.

blue.

3: In the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections, Ralph Nader ran as a member of this party.

the Green Party.

4: In a sad mood.

blue.

5: IBM is known informally as Big this.

Blue.

Round 2. Category: She Blinded Me With Science

1: Dorothy Hodgkin's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was for her work on this vitamin, whose deficiency causes pernicious anemia.

B12.

2: Alice Ball was 23 and a college instructor in Hawaii in 1915 when she developed the first successful treatment for this, also known as Hansen's disease.

leprosy.

3: Pioneering computer programmer Grace Murray Hopper coined this term for a mysterious computer problem.

bug.

4: Nobel laureate Gertrude Elion helped develop drugs to treat herpes, gout and this, cancer of the bone marrow.

leukemia.

5: In 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer received a Nobel Prize in Physics for her "shell model" of this part of an atom.

Nucleus.

Round 3. Category: Guardians

1: U.S. Coast Guard units based in Cleveland, Ohio are known as the "Guardians of" these bodies of water.

the Great Lakes.

2: 4-letter term for a person, usually a minor, legally placed in the charge of a guardian.

a ward.

3: "Keeping it safe" is the motto of this red-bereted group founded by Curtis Sliwa.

the Guardian Angels.

4: The scarlet and gold dress uniforms of these guardians of the Tower of London date back to 1552.

the Beefeaters (or Yeoman Warders).

5: In Arthurian legend this wounded monarch is the guardian of the Holy Grail.

the Fisher King.

Round 4. Category: Unfinished Operas

1: This composer finished just 3 scenes of "Olav Trygvason"; they're sometimes performed as a cantata.

Edvard Grieg.

2: Make an exodus from the theatre after seeing Schoenberg's incomplete opera about this man and his brother Aaron.

Moses.

3: Biondello hides inside a mechanical goose in Mozart's unfinished opera "The Goose of" this Egyptian city.

Cairo.

4: Let's wax philosophical and wonder why Rousseau left only fragments of his opera about Daphnis and her.

Chloe.

5: Smetana's "Viola", with just 365 bars of music, is based on this play.

Twelfth Night.

Round 5. Category: Songs

1: Having this title problem, Barry Manilow sings, "I can't laugh and I can't sing, I'm finding it hard to do anything".

"Can't Smile Without You".

2: 1930s song to which the Marcels added the following over 25 years later:"Bom ba ba bom ba bom ba bom bom ba ba bom ba ba bom ba ba dang a dang dang / Ba ba ding a dong ding".

"Blue Moon".

3: 2 of the 3 Top 10 Fats Domino songs with "Walk" in the title.

"I'm Walkin'", "I Want to Walk You Home", and/or "Walking to New Orleans".

4: "Under the Sea" from this Disney animated feature won the 1989 Oscar for Best Song.

The Little Mermaid.

5: He's told to "mind the music and the step, and with the girls be handy".

Yankee Doodle Dandy.

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

Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

AI Voices used

...more