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Episode 148 - To Build A Flower - Book Sequels? - Driving - Shoot The Moon - Oh, The Humanities!

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 148, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 148, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: To Build A Flower

  • 1: A fib plus French for "lake".
  • a lilac.
  • 2: Any automobile plus any country.
  • a carnation.
  • 3: Word preceding "and proper" plus "Charmed" actress McGowan.
  • a primrose.
  • 4: An English fop plus the king of beasts.
  • a dandelion.
  • 5: A numeric pair plus a part of the mouth.
  • a tulip.

    • Round 2. Category: Book Sequels?

    • 1: Arthur Dimmesdale returns (difficult, as he died in the first book) in this 19th c. author's "The Chartreuse Number".
    • Hawthorne.
    • 2: Guy Montag is back, and those books are gonna pay in this author's "Celsius 232.78".
    • Ray Bradbury.
    • 3: Natty Bumppo discovers there's "The Penultimate Iroquois" in this man's 1820s sequel.
    • James Fenimore Cooper.
    • 4: Edmond Dantes gets a promotion in this author's 19th c. sequel "The Fresh Prince of Monte Cristo".
    • Alexandre Dumas.
    • 5: Jose Arcadio Buendia is back a-buildin' in this author's 1960s book "25 More Years of Me-Time".
    • Gabriel García Márquez.

      • Round 3. Category: Driving

      • 1: This type of transmission has been making stop-and-go driving easier since 1904.
      • Automatic transmission.
      • 2: If you can read this clue, you can name this station wagon part that means to follow too closely.
      • Tailgate.
      • 3: In September 2000, Congress held hearings on this company's product found on Fords.
      • Firestone.
      • 4: Experts disagree on whether 10 and 2 o'clock or 9 and 3 is better for this; no one thinks much of the old wrist drape.
      • steering wheel position.
      • 5: Term for the type of skidding in which a car rides on a film of water, losing traction.
      • Hydroplaning.

        • Round 4. Category: Shoot The Moon

        • 1: This lunar "sea" was the landing site of Apollo 11's Eagle module.
        • Sea of Tranquility.
        • 2: This term used for an Apollo mission's return to Earth tells you it landed in water.
        • Splashdown.
        • 3: On the Apollo 14 mission, Alan Shepard introduced this sport to the moon.
        • Golf.
        • 4: A NASA doctor declined this president's dinner invitation to the Apollo 11 crew because of risk of infections.
        • Richard M. Nixon.
        • 5: Apollo 15, 16 and 17 used these 4-wheeled vehicles to fetch rock samples.
        • Lunar rovers.

          • Round 5. Category: Oh, The Humanities!

          • 1: Last name of Lucian, a certain psychoanalyst's grandson; his '50s paintings keyed on realistic nudes, for some reason.
          • Freud.
          • 2: He's hosted the Tony Awards and in 2014 won one for "Hedwig and the Angry Inch".
          • Neil Patrick Harris.
          • 3: His "Book of Marvels" was about his 13th C. trip to the East with his father and uncle (who'd been there before).
          • Marco Polo.
          • 4: Keep incredibly calm and carry on; Britannica says "tranquillity of mind" is key to this ancient Greek philosophy.
          • stoicism.
          • 5: Keep incredibly calm and carry on; Britannica says "tranquillity of mind" is key to this ancient Greek philosophy.
          • stoicism.

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

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