Instant Trivia

Episode 1175 - The original 31 flavors - Wintry reading - Ancient science - London on film - He was senator and president

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1175, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Original 31 Flavors

  • 1: Sour item that precedes Crisp, Custard and Sherbet in 3 of Baskin-Robbins' original 31 flavors.
  • Lemon.
  • 2: Varieties of this flavor included French and Burnt Almond.
  • Vanilla.
  • 3: This traditional Christmas drink was available.
  • Egg Nog.
  • 4: Flavors included this type of "Stick" (but not this type of "Patty").
  • Peppermint.
  • 5: Nuts to you! and marshmallows, too, with this alliterative original flavor.
  • Rocky Road.

    • Round 2. Category: Wintry Reading

    • 1: In a kids' book, on a snowy day Nicki loses this item of clothing, just like the 3 little kittens.
    • mittens.
    • 2: Dostoyevsky's autobiographical novel "The House of the Dead" has been published with the subtitle "or, Prison Life" here--brrr!.
    • Siberia.
    • 3: The 2019 book "The Enchanted Forest" is a tie-in with this long-awaited animated sequel.
    • Frozen 2.
    • 4: Set in Iceland, the sixth novel in the Detective Erlendur series is titled not "Frostbite" but this condition.
    • hypothermia.
    • 5: It's 1954 and tensions are high on an island with a lot of Japanese Americans in David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these.
    • Cedars.

      • Round 3. Category: Ancient Science

      • 1: The ancient Sumerian number system, based on 60, is still used today to measure this.
      • time.
      • 2: Around 400 B.C. Democritus proposed that all matter is composed of these tiny units.
      • atoms.
      • 3: Considered 1st universal genius, this student of Plato believed goats breathed through their ears.
      • Aristotle.
      • 4: Chinese general Huang-ti used a lodestone as one of these around 300 B.C., perhaps by floating it in a bowl.
      • a compass.
      • 5: Delta city with automatic door openers, washing machines, and a world-famous library.
      • Alexandria.

        • Round 4. Category: London On Film

        • 1: Guinness says this current resident of 10 Downing Street was 1st portrayed on film in "For Your Eyes Only".
        • Margaret Thatcher.
        • 2: R. Chandler's novel was set in L.A., but this '77 remake was "curiously and ineffectively set in London".
        • The Big Sleep.
        • 3: In "My Fair Lady", Eliza Doolittle peddled her posies here, in front of the opera house.
        • Covent Garden.
        • 4: The bird woman in "Mary Poppins" sells feed for birds in front of this church build by Wren.
        • St. Paul's.
        • 5: 1973 film in which George Segal trysts with Glenda Jackson in a Garrard St. flat.
        • A Touch of Class.

          • Round 5. Category: He Was Senator And President

          • 1: Though he served Penn. in the Senate from 1834 to 1845, he supported pro-slavery Southern positions; he didn't get better as pres..
          • Buchanan.
          • 2: His nickname "Tricky Dick" dates back to the 1950s California campaign that put him in the Senate.
          • Nixon.
          • 3: Though the Senate failed by one vote to de-president him, his later return to the body was met with flowers and applause.
          • (Andrew) Johnson.
          • 4: This Ohioan found the Senate "far more to my liking than" being pres. could be; scandal and death in office followed.
          • Warren G. Harding.
          • 5: This New Yorker and future president joined the Senate in 1821 and soon led the fight against imprisonment for debt.
          • Martin Van Buren.

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