Instant Trivia

Episode 145 - Tales - "R" Town - Oscar-Winning Roles - The Deans List - Whaaazuuup?!

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 145, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tales

  • 1: "Needful Things" is a recent tale of terror by this author of "It" and "Cujo".
  • Stephen King.
  • 2: In 1931 Jean de Brunhoff wrote the first of several children's tales about this elephant.
  • Babar.
  • 3: This author was one of the first to use the term "Jazz Age" in his "Tales of the Jazz Age" in 1922.
  • Fitzgerald.
  • 4: The general prologue to this monumental work describes the meeting of 30 pilgrims at the Tabard Inn.
  • The Canterbury Tales.
  • 5: "The Last of the Mohicans" is among the novels that make up this series of tales.
  • The Leatherstocking Tales.

    • Round 2. Category: "R" Town

    • 1: "Believe It or Not", Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia all have a town named this.
    • Ripley.
    • 2: "Take A Ride" through this town, named for the ancestral home of William Penn's family.
    • Reading.
    • 3: Vikings founded the first permanent settlement in this national capital around 874.
    • Reykjavik.
    • 4: This Georgia city was founded in 1834 on a site that had 7 hills.
    • Rome.
    • 5: Founded in the 13th century, this major Dutch port was heavily damaged by German bombing in World War II.
    • Rotterdam.

      • Round 3. Category: Oscar-Winning Roles

      • 1: Forrest Gump.
      • Tom Hanks.
      • 2: Rooster Cogburn.
      • John Wayne.
      • 3: Miss Daisy Werthan.
      • Jessica Tandy.
      • 4: 2009:He was really good as Bad Blake.
      • Jeff Bridges.
      • 5: 1999:Her multi-dimensional performance as Brandon Teena / Teena Brandon won an Oscar.
      • Hilary Swank.

        • Round 4. Category: The Deans List

        • 1: Much of this Rat Pack crooner's hard-drinking persona may have been just for the cameras.
        • Dean Martin.
        • 2: In the 1930s this "lightheaded" pitcher led the National League in strikeouts 4 times.
        • Dizzy Dean.
        • 3: The then-new fad of skateboarding was celebrated in this duo's 1964 hit song "Sidewalk Surfin'".
        • Jan and Dean.
        • 4: It doesn't take a sausage to know that this country singer took "Big Bad John" to No. 1 in 1961.
        • Jimmy Dean.
        • 5: This author's thrillers turned into films include "Phantoms" and "Demon Seed".
        • Dean Koontz.

          • Round 5. Category: Whaaazuuup?!

          • 1: On Dec. 14, 1972 Gene Cernan became the last man to drive a vehicle up here.
          • the moon.
          • 2: Launched Oct. 4, 1957, it circled the Earth once every 96 minutes, going 18,000 MPH.
          • Sputnik.
          • 3: Leonardo da Vinci sketched one of these in 1483; Sikorsky produced the first practical one in 1939.
          • helicopter.
          • 4: In May 1927 this plane was tested by flying from San Diego to NYC; it took 20 hours, 21 minutes.
          • the Spirit of St. Louis.
          • 5: With room for 700, this traveled 1 mile at a height of 70 feet on its only flight in 1947.
          • the Spruce Goose.

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

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