June 09, 2024

Episode 1216 - Ends in "oo" - I know ur - "to" and "fro" - Arts - The songs of max martin

6 minutes

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1216, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ends In Oo. With Oo in quotation marks

1: Members of this Algonquian-speaking tribe live in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Mexico, but not in Dogpatch.

the Kickapoo.

2: Necromancy, Haitian-style.

Voodoo.

3: It's sometimes a quadruped, but to move quickly it becomes a biped and leaps.

a kangaroo.

4: Also.

too.

5: Eskimo condo.

an igloo.

Round 2. Category: I Know Ur

1: Ur is dominated by one of these stepped, pyramidal temple towers dating from the 3rd millennium B.C..

a ziggurat.

2: The first major excavations of Ur were made after WWI by H.R. Hall of this London institution.

the British Museum.

3: One of the last kings to build at Ur was this "great" Persian, also called Koresh.

Cyrus.

4: Now called Tall al-Muqayyar, modern Ur is about 10 miles from Nasiriyah in this troubled Mideast country.

Iraq.

5: Founded in the 4th millennium B.C., Ur was a capital city of this oldest Mesopotamian civilization.

Sumeria.

Round 3. Category: To And Fro. With To" And "Fro in quotation marks

1: This injury from low temperatures can lead to gangrene.

frostbite.

2: You'll hear this when someone scores a hit in fencing.

touché.

3: It's "An Irish Lullaby" me mother sang to me in Killarney.

"Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral".

4: Colloquial 5-letter title for a first-year college student.

frosh.

5: Mais oui, it's French for "cheese".

fromage.

Round 4. Category: Arts

1: The full title of this modernist Stravinsky ballet includes "Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts".

The Rite of Spring.

2: Drummer Art Blakey was a real heavy cat in this style of music that preceded "Messengers" in his band's name.

jazz.

3: Arthur Burns battled inflation as the chairman of this economic body from 1970 to 1978.

The Fed (the Federal Reserve).

4: This architect fell in love with the Arizona desert and built Taliesin West, his winter home, in Scottsdale.

Frank Lloyd Wright.

5: He attended UCLA on a tennis scholarship and in 1965 won the U.S. collegiate men's singles title.

Arthur Ashe.

Round 5. Category: The Songs Of Max Martin

1: "and Juliet" imagines the Shakespeare story had the heroine lived and here she is performing this song, Britney Spears' first hit"I must confess, that my loneliness is killing me now...".

"...Baby One More Time".

2: Juliet stops the show with "Roar", a 2013 hit from this artist"I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter / Dancing through the fire / 'Cause I am a...".

Katy Perry.

3: Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway performs "That's The Way It Is", a Top 10 hit for this chanteuse in 2000"Don't give up on your faith / Love comes to those who believe it".

Celine Dion.

4: The first musical number in "and Juliet" has William Shakespeare performing this Backstreet Boys song"All you people can't you see, can't you see / How your love's affecting our reality".

"Larger Than Life".

5: The finale of "and Juliet" features the cast performing this Justin Timberlake hit"Come on / All those things I shouldn't do / But you dance, dance, dance /And ain't nobody leavin' soon, so keep dancin'".

"Can't Stop The Feeling!".

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

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