Instant Trivia

Episode 147 - Taking A "Bath" - Odd Words - Berkeley In The '60S - Where The "H" Are We? - Poetry Potpourri

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 147, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Taking A "Bath"

  • 1: It attracts feathered friends.
  • Birdbath.
  • 2: It's what the baby shouldn't be thrown out with.
  • the Bathwater.
  • 3: This vehicle can take you under the sea.
  • Bathyscape.
  • 4: Extreme sentimentality.
  • Bathos.
  • 5: It's the chemical rinse that keeps photographic film from overdeveloping.
  • Stop bath.

    • Round 2. Category: Odd Words

    • 1: A person described as loquacious does this a lot.
    • Talks.
    • 2: Something that displays eutexia does this easily, like ice cream.
    • Melt.
    • 3: An opera extra, when not carrying one of these, can set it in a fewter.
    • Spear.
    • 4: Stipple means to draw or paint with these instead of lines; Seurat was a master.
    • Points (Pointilism).
    • 5: In this sport, a "firstbrun" is a jump turn at right angles.
    • Skiing.

      • Round 3. Category: Berkeley In The '60S

      • 1: In October 1965 Oakland police turned back over 10,000 marchers protesting this war.
      • Vietnam War.
      • 2: This actor won the California governorship in 1966 using the unrest at Berkeley as a campaign issue.
      • Ronald Reagan.
      • 3: Mario Savio was an informal leader of the FSM, a group named for this constitutional right.
      • Free Speech Movement.
      • 4: It completes the protest slogan "I am a UC student: do not fold, bend or" this.
      • Mutilate.
      • 5: In May 1960, the San Francisco meeting of this House committee was disrupted by protesters from Berkeley.
      • the House Un-American Activities Committee.

        • Round 4. Category: Where The "H" Are We?

        • 1: Parker Ranch,Kilauea Volcano,Monument to Captain Cook.
        • Hawaii.
        • 2: Victoria Peak,Kai Tak Airport,Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel.
        • Hong Kong.
        • 3: Lake Balaton,Bela Bartok Memorial House,Buda Concert Hall.
        • Hungary.
        • 4: Senate Square,Mannerheim Museum,Sibelius Park.
        • Helsinki.
        • 5: The Malecon,Morro Castle,Revolution Square.
        • Havana.

          • Round 5. Category: Poetry Potpourri

          • 1: He married Minnehaha, the "Loveliest of Dacotah Women".
          • Hiawatha.
          • 2: Milton work that begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree...".
          • "Paradise Lost".
          • 3: An 8-line stanza, it's usually the first 8 lines in an Italian sonnet.
          • Octave.
          • 4: Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, he idealized his boss as a knight in "The Faerie Queene".
          • Edmund Spenser.
          • 5: She described her nervous breakdown in her 1960 poetry collection "To Bedlam and Part Way Back".
          • Anne Sexton.

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