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Episode 1189 - Bill clinton - "song" of poets - Rewriting hamlet - The 19th century - Ad-jectives

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1189, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bill Clinton

  • 1: Clinton won first chair in this instrument in the Arkansas state band.
  • the saxophone.
  • 2: His birthplace; it's where he lived the first 7 years of his life.
  • Hope, Arkansas.
  • 3: The day before taking office, Clinton prayed at this president's Arlington, Va. grave.
  • John F. Kennedy.
  • 4: Bill Clinton met Hillary Rodham while both were attending this law school.
  • Yale.
  • 5: Clinton got his bachelor's degree at this D.C. school, the only college he applied to.
  • Georgetown.

    • Round 2. Category: Song Of Poets. With Song in quotation marks

    • 1: William Blake published this collection in 1789; "Experience" would come a few years later.
    • Songs of Innocence.
    • 2: Sections of this 1855 poem include "The Peace Pipe", "The White-Man's Foot" and "Blessing the Corn Fields".
    • The Song of Hiawatha.
    • 3: Read during Passover, it's also referred to as the "Canticle of Canticles".
    • Song of Songs.
    • 4: Before the 1881 edition, it was simply titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American".
    • "Song of Myself".
    • 5: An insignificant battle between Charlemagne and the Basques at Roncesvalles is the basis for this French epic poem.
    • The Song of Roland.

      • Round 3. Category: Rewriting Hamlet

      • 1: Fair one, thy dad had thee repel my letters and deny me access to thee... but a restraining order? What is uppeth with that?.
      • Ophelia.
      • 2: Zounds! I saw thee not behind that arras! Denmark needeth a new minister to the king! My bad!.
      • Polonius.
      • 3: Though I did say of thee "Frailty, thy name is woman", Mother, I hope thou acceptest my wedding gift from Pottery Barn.
      • Gertrude.
      • 4: 'Tis okay ye killed Dad and wed Mom--thou said thy "offence is rank, it smells to heaven", but I'm a live and let live kind of guy.
      • Claudius.
      • 5: You "two-school-fellows, whom I will trust as I will adders fanged" ...Aw, I ain't mad atcha! Giveth me hugs!.
      • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

        • Round 4. Category: The 19Th Century

        • 1: Much of the fighting in this war, 1853 to 1856, took place on a peninsula in the Black Sea.
        • the Crimean War.
        • 2: In 1893 this labor leader founded the American Railway Union.
        • (Eugene) Debs.
        • 3: In 1825 patriots crossed the Rio de la Plata from Argentina to fight for this country's freedom from Brazil.
        • Uruguay.
        • 4: King John VI of this country died in 1826 and left his throne to Dom Pedro of Brazil who became Pedro I.
        • Portugal.
        • 5: This family was restored to power in the 1870s when Alfonso XII ascended the Spanish throne.
        • the Bourbons.

          • Round 5. Category: Ad-Jectives

          • 1: In other words this common pair of advertising adjectives could be "novel as well as ameliorated".
          • new and improved.
          • 2: In a slogan almost a century old, Maxwell House coffee is this "to the last drop".
          • "good".
          • 3: In other words, this common pair of adjectives could be "novel as well as ameliorated".
          • new and improved.
          • 4: Taking this adjective literally, the ads say that BMW is the last driving machine that'll be made.
          • ultimate.
          • 5: Since 1975 BMW has been touting its vehicles as this kind of "driving machine".
          • "ultimate".

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

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