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Episode 1217 - Getting jazzed - 1949 - Waist up, neck down - Show biz shelleys - America literature

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1217, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Getting Jazzed

  • 1: Introduced in 1948, these items let jazz become more complex by allowing longer performances on a single side.
  • LPs.
  • 2: Look away, look away, look away, it's a revivalist style of New Orleans jazz.
  • Dixieland.
  • 3: Billy Strayhorn composed classics like "Take The 'A' Train" during his collaboration with this bandleader.
  • Duke Ellington.
  • 4: In 1998 Ellis, patriarch of this jazz family, released his own trio album, "Twelve's It".
  • Marsalis.
  • 5: In the '70s Weather Report had "nuclear" results with this style that combined jazz and rock.
  • fusion.

    • Round 2. Category: 1949

    • 1: On August 23 a manslaughter charge was filed against the cabbie who killed this "Gone with the Wind" author.
    • (Margaret) Mitchell.
    • 2: On January 31 the U.S. formally recognized Transjordan and this country.
    • Israel.
    • 3: This camera which produced a print in 60 seconds went on sale May 11.
    • a Polaroid.
    • 4: There were about 40,000 horologists making these in the U.S..
    • clocks (watches).
    • 5: Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, shah of this country, was wounded when a reporter fired 5 shots at him.
    • Iran.

      • Round 3. Category: Waist Up, Neck Down

      • 1: "Breadbasket" is slang for the midsection or specifically this digestive organ.
      • the stomach.
      • 2: The cecum is part of the large intestine; animals use it to digest this kind of food, so in koalas, it's 3 times body length.
      • plants (vegetation).
      • 3: Filtering the entire contents of your blood as many as 40 times a day is the job of this pair of organs.
      • the kidneys.
      • 4: As part of the body's immune response, the spleen releases these proteins such as IgM that counteract pathogens.
      • antibodies.
      • 5: The formation of solid deposits also called choleliths is a common occurrence in this organ.
      • the gallbladder.

        • Round 4. Category: Show Biz Shelleys

        • 1: 3 "cheers" for this actress who played waitress Diane Chambers.
        • Shelley Long.
        • 2: While playing Mary Stone on The Donna Reed Show, she had a #1 hit with "Johnny Angel".
        • Shelley Fabares.
        • 3: The TV boss she worked for and perfume she represented were both named Charlie.
        • Shelley Hack.
        • 4: He said, "I'm not a sick comedian; I'm a healthy actor".
        • Shelley Berman.
        • 5: When Clark Gable came to pick her up, she thinks her mother may have said, "Don't be careful".
        • Shelley Winters.

          • Round 5. Category: America Literature

          • 1: While walking, this Washington Irving character comes upon a party of odd-looking men playing ninepins.
          • Rip Van Winkle.
          • 2: In "Moby Dick" this captain dies when a harpoon line loops around his neck and pulls him overboard.
          • Ahab.
          • 3: In this Steinbeck work, dimwitted Lennie Small has a vision of his Aunt Clara.
          • Of Mice and Men.
          • 4: After Judge Pyncheon's death, this Hawthorne title home is left to Hepzibah and her brother Clifford.
          • the House of Seven Gables.
          • 5: Tom Sawyer is ordered to whitewash a fence because this brother tells Aunt Polly Tom played hooky.
          • Sid.

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