Instant Trivia

Episode 1179 - State of the book - Tell - Guinness animal records - The new york times style - A success with brush

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1179, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: State Of The Book

  • 1: "The Help".
  • Mississippi.
  • 2: "The Last Picture Show".
  • Texas.
  • 3: "Washington Square".
  • New York.
  • 4: "Centennial" by James Michener.
  • Colorado.
  • 5: "The Grapes of Wrath"--2 states please, where the story begins and ends.
  • Oklahoma and California.

    • Round 2. Category: Tell

    • 1: Although he may be legendary, William Tell is one of the best-known heroes of this nation.
    • Switzerland.
    • 2: This form of "William" is in the German title of Friedrich Schiller's play about Tell.
    • Wilhelm.
    • 3: In the traditional William Tell story, this is the cause of death of the cruel governor Gessler.
    • shot with an arrow.
    • 4: It was Tell's response when Gessler asked what the extra arrow was for.
    • to kill him if he missed with the first one.
    • 5: The overture to this Italian composer's opera about William Tell is used to speed things up.
    • Rossini.

      • Round 3. Category: Guinness Animal Records

      • 1: The largest one ever made by birds was built by bald eagles and weighed over 6,700 lbs..
      • a nest.
      • 2: A Texas cat named Dusty must have been the cat's meow as she had 420 of these.
      • kittens.
      • 3: Some of these arthropods have as many as 750 legs, not a thousand as their name implies.
      • a millipede.
      • 4: The Gaboon viper has the longest of any snake, nearly 2".
      • the fang.
      • 5: It's the slowest-moving land mammal, and its name is a synonym for laziness.
      • a sloth.

        • Round 4. Category: The New York Times Style

        • 1: An nytimes.com slide show on this woman's style included the red and black number from Election Night 2008.
        • Michelle Obama.
        • 2: Disco hoops and other styles of extravagant these "suggest you are taking the party with you".
        • earrings.
        • 3: A blog post notes that Junya Watanabe's Spring '09 collection continues to rely on this basic type of working pants.
        • jeans.
        • 4: In May 2008 the times reported on a more modest look in this wear, including boy shorts and halter tops.
        • swimwear.
        • 5: The times said this "NY" designer became "a Seventh Avenue original" using tights as a foundation for skirts and shirts.
        • Donna Karan.

          • Round 5. Category: A Success With Brush

          • 1: In "The Story of Painting" Sister Wendy says, "He is much more than a painter of the fair and fat".
          • (Peter Paul) Rubens.
          • 2: An early 1730s work by Canaletto shows this canal city's "Quay of the Piazzetta".
          • Venice.
          • 3: There are 2 versions of John Singleton Copley's "Watson and" this sea predator in U.S. galleries.
          • the Shark.
          • 4: For your information, no, your six-year-old could not make paintings just like this man's 1952 "Convergence".
          • (Jackson) Pollock.
          • 5: Victorine Meurent, his favorite model, is the nude in his "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe".
          • Edouard Manet.

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

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