Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1172, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: 20Th Century Poets
1: In 1917, at age 52, this Irishman got married and published his book "The Wild Swans Of Coole".William Butler Yeats.2: This author of the poem "Daddy" committed suicide in 1963, before she could work out her parental issues.Sylvia Plath.3: In 2000 the Librarian of Congress announced that 95-year-old Stanley Kunitz would take up this post.poet laureate.4: He read almost as well as he wrote: "Do not go gentle into that good night...".Dylan Thomas.5: Trees figured in many of his poems, like "Birches", "Dust of Snow" and "Good-Bye and Keep Cold".Robert Frost.Round 2. Category: Cooking Methods
1: To pass dry ingredients like flour through a fine-meshed sieve; doing so removes large pieces and incorporates air.to sift.2: Highly seasoned meat is seared so that the surface forms a crust in this "colorful" Cajun technique.blackening.3: This synonym for perspire is also a method of cooking over low heat to soften ingredients without browning.sweating.4: To cook fish en papillote, you'll need this type of paper to seal in the flavor and juices.parchment paper.5: From the Latin for "to make soft", it's soaking food, usually fruit, in a liquid in order to infuse it with the liquid's flavor.macerate.Round 3. Category: Grape Jam
1: In an Aesop tale this animal decided the grapes he couldn't reach had to be sour.the fox.2: Grape Island in this Massachusetts harbor was the site of a skirmish over hay during the Revolutionary War.Boston Harbor.3: Mae West's famous order in "I'm No Angel"."Peel me a grape!".4: Greek stuffed grape leaves, or dolmades, are usually stuffed with this grain.rice.5: This dentist and prohibitionist began selling his "unfermented wine" in 1869; in 1890 he renamed it "Grape Juice".Thomas B. Welch.Round 4. Category: I Played A Doctor And Some Other Guy On Tv
1: Dr. Doogie Howser andEthan Burdick.Neil Patrick Harris.2: Dr. Derek Shepherd andAaron Brooks.(Patrick) Dempsey.3: Dr. Doug Ross andChic Chesbro.George Clooney.4: Quincy, M.E. andOscar Madison.Jack Klugman.5: Marcus Welby andJim Anderson (the "Father" who "Knows Best").Robert Young.Round 5. Category: Johnny Gilbert Goes Country
1: "...Found new thread for my old spool, just because I'm blonde, don't think I'm dumb, 'cause this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool".Dolly Parton.2: "I hear the train a-comin', it's rolling 'round the bend, and I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when".Johnny Cash.3: "The red headed stranger had eyes like thunder, his lips they were sad and tight".Willie Nelson.4: "Just two good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born".Waylon Jennings.5: "Take this job and shove it, I ain't workin' here no more, my woman done left and took all the reason I was workin' for".(Johnny) Paycheck.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
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