Instant Trivia

Episode 183 - Lunch Counter Lingo - Born On The Fourth Of July - Poetry Potpourri - The Ocean - Jazz

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 183, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lunch Counter Lingo

  • 1: "Whistle berries" refers to these Boston legumes.
  • baked beans.
  • 2: Bow wow and Coney Island both refer to this food.
  • a hot dog.
  • 3: Number that Mel might have called out to say "We're all out of it".
  • 86.
  • 4: The name of this state is slang for maple syrup.
  • Vermont.
  • 5: This beverage is Adam's ale.
  • water.

    • Round 2. Category: Born On The Fourth Of July

    • 1: This newsman was born on July 4, 1943, and not named Jerry Rivers.
    • Geraldo Rivera.
    • 2: P.T. Barnum's circus partner, he took his first bow on July 4, 1847.
    • (James) Bailey.
    • 3: An associate said of this "boss", "There's nothing more limited than a limited partner in the Yankees".
    • Steinbrenner.
    • 4: Take our advice and name the columnists born in 1918 as Esther Pauline Friedman and Pauline Esther Friedman.
    • Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers.
    • 5: Pennsylvania-born in 1826, he penned "Swanee River" only 25 years later.
    • (Stephen) Foster.

      • Round 3. 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.

        • Round 4. Category: The Ocean

        • 1: Ho, ho, ho! The North Pole sits near the center of this ocean.
        • Arctic Ocean.
        • 2: In the open sea where the Labrador Current meets the Gulf Stream, fog makes these even more of a shipping hazard.
        • icebergs.
        • 3: The 2 bodies whose gravitational pull on the Earth has the greatest effect on ocean tides.
        • Sun and Moon.
        • 4: 80% of U.S. lifeguard ocean rescues are prompted by this type of "current" (inaccurately called a "tide").
        • rips.
        • 5: You cross it going from Mogadishu to the Maldives.
        • Indian Ocean.

          • Round 5. Category: Jazz

          • 1: Known as the "First Lady of Song", she won 13 Grammy Awards, the most by any jazz artist.
          • Ella Fitzgerald.
          • 2: In the title of the album "Diz 'N' Bird In Concert", Diz is Dizzy Gillespie and Bird is this saxophonist.
          • Charlie Parker.
          • 3: In 1964 this jazz great reached the top of the pop charts with his vocal recording of "Hello, Dolly!".
          • Louis Armstrong.
          • 4: Induction into the Jazz Hall of Fame in Orlando is determined by a poll conducted by this leading jazz publication.
          • Down Beat.
          • 5: On April 7, 1986 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- nearly 27 years after her death.
          • Billie Holiday.

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

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