Instant Trivia

Episode 1157 - Name the work - Earth, wind and fire - Remember reruns? - Gay blades - Women of myth

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1157, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Name The Work

  • 1: Melville:"Captain Vere was an exceptional character".
  • Billy Budd.
  • 2: Cervantes:"At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember".
  • Don Quixote.
  • 3: Verne:"Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner".
  • Around the World in Eighty Days.
  • 4: Jack London:"'The Ghost' was rolling slightly on a calm sea without a breath of wind".
  • The Sea Wolf.
  • 5: O. Henry:"Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present".
  • "The Gift of the Magi".

    • Round 2. Category: Earth, Wind And Fire

    • 1: On the Beaufort scale, winds range from 0 for calm to 12 to 17 for these powerful storms.
    • hurricanes.
    • 2: About 80% of energy released by quakes comes from events with epicenters in the Circum-Pacific belt, AKA this, AKA a Johnny Cash tune.
    • Ring of Fire.
    • 3: In the '90s home fires caused by these nearly doubled, with almost half of them starting in the bedroom.
    • candles.
    • 4: A devastating forest fire swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin on the very same day in 1871 as this city's "Great" fire.
    • Chicago.
    • 5: Oh, "Boy"! This warming of the Pacific that causes unusual weather patterns occurs about every 2 to 7 years.
    • El Nino.

      • Round 3. Category: Remember Reruns?

      • 1: In reruns and syndication, "Mystery Science Theater" was followed by "Hour", replacing this number.
      • 3000.
      • 2: "The Andy Griffith Show" came back around as "Andy of" here.
      • Mayberry.
      • 3: Her "and Friends"--Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence and others--was a half-hour rerun of her "Show".
      • Carol Burnett.
      • 4: Ponderosa was a ranch on and a rerun title of this show.
      • Bonanza.
      • 5: "The Best of Groucho" was a rerun title of this game show.
      • You Bet Your Life.

        • Round 4. Category: Gay Blades

        • 1: The mark left by George Hamilton's "gay blade".
        • a Z.
        • 2: Its use was abolished in France in 1981, 188 years too late for Marie Antoinette.
        • the guillotine.
        • 3: The sword in the stone from the Lady of the Lake.
        • Excalibur.
        • 4: You'd need an undertaker, not a styptic pencil after this was used by Sweeney Todd.
        • a straight razor.
        • 5: Ridley Scott's dim futuristic film view of Los Angeles.
        • Blade Runner.

          • Round 5. Category: Women Of Myth

          • 1: Courtesy of Perseus, her snaky severed head was placed on the shield of Athena.
          • Medusa.
          • 2: This daughter of Zeus and Leda was considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
          • Helen of Troy.
          • 3: After she died of a snakebite, her husband Orpheus tried to rescue her from Hades.
          • Eurydice.
          • 4: According to Ovid, this jealous goddess turned the nymph Callisto into a bear for being Jupiter's lover.
          • Juno.
          • 5: After she spurned Apollo, he made sure no one would believe her prophecies.
          • Cassandra.

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

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