Instant Trivia

Episode 1140 - Asian bodies of water - Eat your foreign vegetables - The girls in the group - Austen-tatious - 20th century authors

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1140, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Asian Bodies Of Water

  • 1: Although called a sea, it's actually a large salty lake between Israel and Jordan.
  • the Dead Sea.
  • 2: According to Hindu myth, this river once flowed in the heavens but was ordered to go down to Earth.
  • the Ganges.
  • 3: This holy river of India was named for the daughter of the Mountain God Himalaya.
  • the Ganges.
  • 4: Arabs call this river Nahr Al-Urdun; the Hebrew name is Ha-Yarden.
  • the Jordan (River).
  • 5: This Siberian lake contains around 20% of the fresh water on the world's surface.
  • Baikal.

    • Round 2. Category: Eat Your Foreign Vegetables

    • 1: In Italy these are distinguished as peperoni rossi and peperoni verdi.
    • red and green peppers.
    • 2: In Espanol it's espinaca (and I'm still not eating it).
    • spinach.
    • 3: In French they're petits pois and weird people use a knife and honey to eat them.
    • peas.
    • 4: In Polish it's cebula; you can cry out your response now.
    • onions.
    • 5: In a Caribbean mood in Sweden? You might serve your svarta bonor, these, with kokat ris, "white rice".
    • black beans.

      • Round 3. Category: The Girls In The Group

      • 1: Emma, Geri, Mel B, Mel C, and Victoria.
      • the Spice Girls.
      • 2: LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson, Kelly Rowland and some singer with the last name Knowles.
      • Destiny's Child.
      • 3: Anita, June and Ruth, so excited to be these eponymic siblings.
      • the Pointer Sisters.
      • 4: "Don't Cha" remember Ashley, Carmit, Jessica, Kimberly, Melody and Nicole, these kittens?.
      • the Pussycat Dolls.
      • 5: Keren Woodward, Sara Dallin and Siobhan Fahey, who were really saying something in the 1980s and still in the 20-teens.
      • Bananarama.

        • Round 4. Category: Austen-Tatious

        • 1: While prince regent during his father's madness, this king had a set of Austen's novels in each of his residences.
        • George IV.
        • 2: Jane Austen said Elizabeth Bennet, the hero of this novel, was "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print".
        • "Pride and Prejudice".
        • 3: After her unsuccessful and meddlesome matchmaking, this title character realizes she loves Mr. Knightley.
        • Emma Woodhouse.
        • 4: This author of "Orlando" said, "Of all the great writers" Jane "is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness".
        • Virginia Woolf.
        • 5: This title abbey is the home of clergyman Henry Tilney.
        • "Northanger Abbey".

          • Round 5. Category: 20Th Century Authors

          • 1: In 1974 this Brit turned out another novel like clockwork, "The Clockwork Testament".
          • Anthony Burgess.
          • 2: Pennsylvania-born expatriate author depicted here in a 1917 sculpture by Jo Davidson.
          • Gertrude Stein.
          • 3: Ancestors of this elusive modern author protested after Hawthorne used their name in "The House of the Seven Gables".
          • Thomas Pynchon.
          • 4: This "Humboldt's Gift" author won both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes in 1976.
          • Saul Bellow.
          • 5: "There is no contentment on the road" says this CBS correspondent in "A Life on the Road".
          • Charles Kuralt.

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

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