Instant Trivia

Episode 187 - Also A Chinese Dynasty - This Category Is Gonna Tank - Capital - I'll Have The "Ham" - 20Th Century Novels

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 187, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Also A Chinese Dynasty

  • 1: The astronauts drank this orange-flavored breakfast drink.
  • Tang.
  • 2: Mr. Solo of the movies.
  • Han.
  • 3: The past participle of the verb that means to make music vocally.
  • sung.
  • 4: A protruding part of the face below the lips.
  • chin.
  • 5: The last name of designer Anna, it sounds like a popular hog call.
  • Sui.

    • Round 2. Category: This Category Is Gonna Tank

    • 1: When air forces out the seawater in a sub's ballast tank, the sub will do this.
    • rise.
    • 2: The Firefly was one of these "General" tanks equipped with a 76.2-millimeter long-barreled gun.
    • Sherman tank.
    • 3: The University of Arizona warns never use matches when inspecting this home waste-water treater.
    • septic tank.
    • 4: Gouramis are kept in these.
    • fish tanks.
    • 5: He and Emile Gagnan perfected the tank of air with a pressure-regulating valve worn by divers.
    • Jacques Cousteau.

      • Round 3. Category: Capital

      • 1: Rainfall is rare in this capital of Peru.
      • Lima.
      • 2: Yokusuka and Yokohama lie on the same harbor as this capital.
      • Tokyo.
      • 3: When Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky in 1972 for the world chess title, they were in this world capital.
      • Reykjavik.
      • 4: This city's highest hill at almost 400 feet was built out of rubble collected after WWII.
      • Berlin.
      • 5: Now capital, Gaborone was the administrative seat of Bechuanaland, which became this country in 1966.
      • Botswana.

        • Round 4. Category: I'll Have The "Ham"

        • 1: A Cricetus cricetus with large cheek pouches.
        • hamster.
        • 2: This tendon is at the back of the thigh.
        • hamstring.
        • 3: This man co-wrote several popular musicals including "The King and I".
        • Oscar Hammerstein.
        • 4: He wrote hard-boiled detective novels like "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man".
        • Dashiell Hammett.
        • 5: This county in southern England borders the English Channel.
        • Hampshire.

          • Round 5. Category: 20Th Century Novels

          • 1: Chief Bromden, a mental patient, narrates this 1962 novel.
          • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
          • 2: The slogan "Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad" appears in this 1945 novel.
          • Animal Farm.
          • 3: In the Stephen King book, Annie Wilkes loves company, but only author Paul Sheldon's.
          • Misery.
          • 4: In 1955 he got an offer he couldn't refuse: the publication of his first novel, "The Dark Arena".
          • (Mario) Puzo.
          • 5: The 8,000-copy first printing of this Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel sold out in a week.
          • A Hundred Years of Solitude.

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

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