Instant Trivia

Episode 281 - Biblical Military Men - Little-Read Books - "Oops" - Last Wills And Testaments - It Was The '60s

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 281, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Biblical Military Men

  • 1: This Philistine had a "helmet of brass" and a coat of mail weighing 5,000 shekels.
  • Goliath.
  • 2: The Roman centurion Cornelius, possibly the first Gentile Christian, was converted by this fisherman.
  • Peter.
  • 3: Moses designated him to defend Israel against Amalek; he later brought down the walls of Jericho.
  • Joshua.
  • 4: Benaiah was commander of this wise king's army.
  • Solomon.
  • 5: This Hittite soldier was sent to the front lines of battle so that David could take his wife Bathsheba.
  • Uriah.

    • Round 2. Category: Little-Read Books

    • 1: This early sci-fi writer tackled polar exploration (from his study) in the 1860s with "Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras".
    • Jules Verne.
    • 2: You might have to be on a desert island before you get around to his 1722 novel "Colonel Jack".
    • Daniel Defoe.
    • 3: This author of "An American Tragedy" also wrote a little-read treatise called "Tragic America".
    • Theodore Dreiser.
    • 4: Many readers don't get through the Slough of Despond in this 1678 John Bunyan work.
    • The Pilgrim's Progress.
    • 5: Kant strained brains with this type of analysis "Of Pure Reason" and "Of Judgement".
    • Critique.

      • Round 3. Category: "Oops"

      • 1: Kellogg's makes "Froot" ones.
      • Loops.
      • 2: Cries of a crane, or a cry when you drop something, butterfingers!.
      • Whoops.
      • 3: Soldiers trained to lead an attack are called shock these.
      • Troops.
      • 4: They keep a barrel's staves together.
      • Hoops.
      • 5: It's what Oliver Goldsmith's woman does "to conquer".
      • Stoops.

        • Round 4. Category: Last Wills And Testaments

        • 1: This "commodore" willed $90 million to his son William, $7.5 million to his 4 grandsons, and to his 8 daughters... well, not as much.
        • (Cornelius) Vanderbilt.
        • 2: After his 1616 death, his will stipulated that his "second best bed" go to his wife, Anne, which does beg a question....
        • Shakespeare.
        • 3: Item 6 in his will:"I give... unto my wife, Zelda... in the event she regain her sanity all of my household and kitchen furniture".
        • F. Scott Fitzgerald.
        • 4: This Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986 left a self-written 176-word will with no provisions for estate taxes; oops.
        • Warren Burger.
        • 5: His will called for a "secret society" to take back the U.S. for Britain (his "scholarship" gets much more press).
        • (Cecil) Rhodes.

          • Round 5. Category: It Was The '60s

          • 1: A July 21, 1969 Wapakoneta, Ohio Daily News headline about a local boy read, "Neil steps on" this.
          • the Moon.
          • 2: This Argentine-born minister for Castro left Cuba in 1965, reappearing as a fighter in Bolivia.
          • Che Guevara.
          • 3: On July 3, 1962 this European president proclaimed the independence of Algeria.
          • De Gaulle.
          • 4: In "The Feminine Mystique", she wrote of the suburban wife "afraid to ask even of herself... 'Is this all?'".
          • Betty Friedan.
          • 5: Seen here, his attempt to enroll at Ole Miss in 1962 led to riots but was ultimately successful.
          • James Meredith.

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

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