Instant Trivia

Episode 1172 - 20th century poets - Cooking methods - Grape jam - I played a doctor and some other guy on tv - Johnny gilbert goes country

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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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