Instant Trivia

Episode 256 - Your Basic Monster - Poets - Stupid Answers - Denmark - Financial Matters

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 256, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Your Basic Monster

  • 1: Count yourself lucky to know that one of these monsters drinks your blood and can turn into a bat.
  • vampire.
  • 2: A full moon gets this type of monster in a hairy situation.
  • werewolf.
  • 3: In a Mary Shelley work, he's the doctor who used electricity to charge his constructed monster to life.
  • Dr. Frankenstein.
  • 4: St. George fought and killed one of these mythical, fire-breathing monsters.
  • dragon.
  • 5: This monster is a giant, one-eyed creature from Greek mythology.
  • cyclops.

    • Round 2. Category: Poets

    • 1: Georgia poet Sidney Lanier spent several months in a Maryland prison during this war.
    • the Civil War.
    • 2: His poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, was first published July 31, 1786, in Kilmarnock.
    • Robert Burns.
    • 3: In one of his cute couplets he quipped, "A bit of talcum is always walcum".
    • Ogden Nash.
    • 4: Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece, "Les Fleurs du mal", translates as these "of Evil".
    • Flowers.
    • 5: This Maine poetess sometimes wrote under the shorter pen name Nancy Boyd.
    • Edna St. Vincent Millay.

      • Round 3. Category: Stupid Answers

      • 1: It's the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution that mentions religion.
      • First Amendment.
      • 2: It's the name given the nearly 1-week-long military conflict between Israel and several Arab neighbors in 1967.
      • Six-Day War.
      • 3: Carvings of a bell and a star are found on her gravestone in Porum, Oklahoma.
      • Belle Starr.
      • 4: (Hi, I'm Jason Williams of the New Jersey Nets) In 1999 this flashy Sacramento Kings guard was second in voting for NBA Rookie of the Year.
      • Jason Williams.
      • 5: Kodiak Island is the habitat of this type of bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi.
      • Kodiak bear.

        • Round 4. Category: Denmark

        • 1: This most important naval battle of World War I took place off Denmark's coast.
        • the Battle of Jutland.
        • 2: Between 1513 and 1972, all Danish kings were alternately name Frederik and this pious name.
        • Christian.
        • 3: Now a ruin, the Trelleborg Fortress of these warriors was built using half the timber on the island of Zealand.
        • the Vikings.
        • 4: This 11th century "Great" Dane united Denmark, England and Norway.
        • Canute the Great.
        • 5: This 11th century "Great" Dane united Denmark, England and Norway.
        • Canute the Great.

          • Round 5. Category: Financial Matters

          • 1: This alphanumeric clause of the 1978 Tax Reform Act now enrolls over 40 million Americans.
          • 401(k).
          • 2: A killer bee is an investment banker helping thwart a hostile one of these.
          • takeover.
          • 3: Appropriately, investing in housing can be one of these, letting you pay less to the IRS.
          • tax shelter.
          • 4: Term for the interest rate on a bond, as well as a piece of paper that lowers your grocery bill.
          • coupon.
          • 5: This 6-letter word can mean frugality, or a savings and loan association.
          • thrift.

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

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