November 24, 2021

Episode 287 - Forewords - Biography - Muscle Cars - Dude, Where's My Carb? - Historical Paintings

7 minutes

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 287, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Forewords

1: This 1955 novel's foreword says, "I have no intention to glorify 'H.H.'....he is a shining example of moral leprosy".

Lolita.

2: This author said that he would have offered the savage a third alternative if he were to rewrite "Brave New World".

Aldous Huxley.

3: "Conrad begins (and ends) Marlow's journey... on the Thames, on the yawl, Nellie", says the foreword to this novel.

Heart of Darkness.

4: Part 2 "is Lilliput in reverse, but...also offers some of" his "fiercest assaults upon the behavior of" his countrymen.

Jonathan Swift.

5: A translator's introduction to this novel says that Dostoyevsky was, "Like Raskolnikov, up to the neck in debt".

Crime and Punishment.

Round 2. Category: Biography

1: She was one of the last stars in the studio system"The tobacco farmer's daughter from North Carolina was awed and intimidated by the luxury of the MGM system.".

Ava Gardner.

2: Born in the West Indies in the 1750s, got involved in money matters, fatally wounded in a duel in 1804.

Alexander Hamilton.

3: "Titan: The Life of" this 19th century oil baron gushes with the tale of history's first billionaire.

(John D.) Rockefeller.

4: For many years our own Johnny Gilbert was her announcer.

Dinah Shore.

5: Turned on in 1920, tuned in to LSD in the '60s, dropped out in 1996.

Dr. Timothy Leary.

Round 3. Category: Muscle Cars

1: A Plymouth named for this Warner Bros. cartoon character even had the horn sound to match.

the Road Runner.

2: The 1968 Dart GTS was a muscle car from this maker.

Dodge.

3: In the '60s Ford named a fastback after this newly opened Alabama speedway.

Talladega.

4: The E-type by this British company was one of the first to offer independent rear suspension.

Jaguar.

5: V-8 engines with major displacement are alliteratively called "big" this.

big block.

Round 4. Category: Dude, Where's My Carb?

1: This hormone secreted by the pancreas controls your carbohydrate metabolism.

insulin.

2: A carbohydrate contains 4 of these energy units per gram, as opposed to 9 for a gram of fat.

a calorie.

3: The main component of the cell walls of plants, this complex carbohydrate is what termites eat.

cellulose.

4: The name of this variety of complex carbohydrate comes from an Old German word meaning "to be rigid".

starch.

5: Carbohydrates are predominantly made up of these three elements.

carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

Round 5. Category: Historical Paintings

1: Guido Reni could have called his painting of this ruler "T and A", "A" standing for asp.

Cleopatra.

2: Around 1814 Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes painted this catastrophic 79 A.D. event.

the eruption of Vesuvius.

3: She's the woman depicted here at the coronation of Charles VII.

Joan of Arc.

4: Using newspaper accounts of the event, Edouard Manet painted the "Execution of" this emperor in Mexico.

Maximilian.

5: Jacob Lawrence's Toussaint L'Ouverture series is a pictorial history of this country's slave rebellion.

Haiti.

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

...more

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November 24, 2021

Episode 287 - Forewords - Biography - Muscle Cars - Dude, Where's My Carb? - Historical Paintings

7 minutes

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 287, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Forewords

1: This 1955 novel's foreword says, "I have no intention to glorify 'H.H.'....he is a shining example of moral leprosy".

Lolita.

2: This author said that he would have offered the savage a third alternative if he were to rewrite "Brave New World".

Aldous Huxley.

3: "Conrad begins (and ends) Marlow's journey... on the Thames, on the yawl, Nellie", says the foreword to this novel.

Heart of Darkness.

4: Part 2 "is Lilliput in reverse, but...also offers some of" his "fiercest assaults upon the behavior of" his countrymen.

Jonathan Swift.

5: A translator's introduction to this novel says that Dostoyevsky was, "Like Raskolnikov, up to the neck in debt".

Crime and Punishment.

Round 2. Category: Biography

1: She was one of the last stars in the studio system"The tobacco farmer's daughter from North Carolina was awed and intimidated by the luxury of the MGM system.".

Ava Gardner.

2: Born in the West Indies in the 1750s, got involved in money matters, fatally wounded in a duel in 1804.

Alexander Hamilton.

3: "Titan: The Life of" this 19th century oil baron gushes with the tale of history's first billionaire.

(John D.) Rockefeller.

4: For many years our own Johnny Gilbert was her announcer.

Dinah Shore.

5: Turned on in 1920, tuned in to LSD in the '60s, dropped out in 1996.

Dr. Timothy Leary.

Round 3. Category: Muscle Cars

1: A Plymouth named for this Warner Bros. cartoon character even had the horn sound to match.

the Road Runner.

2: The 1968 Dart GTS was a muscle car from this maker.

Dodge.

3: In the '60s Ford named a fastback after this newly opened Alabama speedway.

Talladega.

4: The E-type by this British company was one of the first to offer independent rear suspension.

Jaguar.

5: V-8 engines with major displacement are alliteratively called "big" this.

big block.

Round 4. Category: Dude, Where's My Carb?

1: This hormone secreted by the pancreas controls your carbohydrate metabolism.

insulin.

2: A carbohydrate contains 4 of these energy units per gram, as opposed to 9 for a gram of fat.

a calorie.

3: The main component of the cell walls of plants, this complex carbohydrate is what termites eat.

cellulose.

4: The name of this variety of complex carbohydrate comes from an Old German word meaning "to be rigid".

starch.

5: Carbohydrates are predominantly made up of these three elements.

carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

Round 5. Category: Historical Paintings

1: Guido Reni could have called his painting of this ruler "T and A", "A" standing for asp.

Cleopatra.

2: Around 1814 Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes painted this catastrophic 79 A.D. event.

the eruption of Vesuvius.

3: She's the woman depicted here at the coronation of Charles VII.

Joan of Arc.

4: Using newspaper accounts of the event, Edouard Manet painted the "Execution of" this emperor in Mexico.

Maximilian.

5: Jacob Lawrence's Toussaint L'Ouverture series is a pictorial history of this country's slave rebellion.

Haiti.

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

...more

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