Instant Trivia

Episode 217 - Potable Words - Kids In Books - Tasmanian Tidbits - Albert Camus - Car And Driver

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 217, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Potable Words

  • 1: A cotton-cleaning device, or a cry in a card game saying you've completed your hand.
  • gin.
  • 2: It's the opposite of starboard.
  • port.
  • 3: The band Looking Glass found her "a fine girl".
  • "Brandy".
  • 4: To strike with a fist or make a hole in a ticket.
  • punch.
  • 5: It's the residue coal leaves after destructive distillation.
  • coke.

    • Round 2. Category: Kids In Books

    • 1: "The Sword in the Stone" is a book about a kid who grows up to be this king.
    • King Arthur.
    • 2: Based on a real child, a kid named Christopher Robin hangs out with this literary bear.
    • Winnie the Pooh.
    • 3: This collie was the faithful friend of a kid named Joe in a book by British novelist Eric Knight.
    • Lassie.
    • 4: Mowgli is the human kid hanging out in the woods with wolves and tigers in this Rudyard Kipling "Book".
    • "The Jungle Book".
    • 5: She's Beezus Quimby's pesky young sister.
    • Ramona.

      • Round 3. Category: Tasmanian Tidbits

      • 1: Tasmania is this country's smallest state.
      • Australia.
      • 2: Discovering the island in 1642, he named it Van Diemen's Land.
      • Abel Tasman.
      • 3: Also called wolfram, this metal used in lamp filaments is a big source of income.
      • Tungsten.
      • 4: The island is home to the Tasmanian devil and this animal.
      • Wombat.
      • 5: The Derwent River in Tasmania has a concrete one of these floating bridges.
      • Pontoon bridge.

        • Round 4. Category: Albert Camus

        • 1: On Dec. 10, 1957 Albert Camus received this prize in Stockholm, Sweden.
        • Nobel Prize for Literature.
        • 2: Camus' father Lucien died at the First Battle of the Marne, a major turning point in this conflict.
        • World War I.
        • 3: Camus was born in this then French colony, the setting for some of his works.
        • Algeria.
        • 4: Camus' attack on Stalinism in 1951's "L'Homme Revolte" strained his relationship with this other existentialist.
        • Jean-Paul Sartre.
        • 5: In an influential essay, Camus compared the human condition to the Greek myth of this rock pusher.
        • Sisyphus.

          • Round 5. Category: Car And Driver

          • 1: In a 1978 movie musical:Greased Lightning.
          • Danny Zuko (John Travolta).
          • 2: On '80s TV:The General Lee, a souped-up Dodge Charger.
          • The Dukes of Hazzard/Bo and Luke Duke (John Schneider and Tom Wopat).
          • 3: On '60s TV:Black Beauty, the Green Hornet's car.
          • Kato (Bruce Lee).
          • 4: On '80s TV:KITT, a talking black Pontiac.
          • Knight Rider/Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff).
          • 5: Marty McFly went "Back to the Future" in this make of car.
          • a DeLorean.

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

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