Instant Trivia

Episode 289 - Go Old West, Young Man - Directional Diversions - Russian Cities - The "Naked" Truth - "C" Me

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 289, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Go Old West, Young Man

  • 1: Fort Bonneville in this "Cowboy State" was "Fort Nonsense" to scoffing trappers.
  • Wyoming.
  • 2: Wells, Fargo and Company opened in this California city in 1852 to offer miners express and banking services.
  • San Francisco.
  • 3: "Cowpuncher" was a term for a cowboy; this "puncher" was a preacher.
  • a Bible puncher.
  • 4: Thomas Moran's artwork helped influence Congress to make this America's first national park.
  • Yellowstone.
  • 5: A cowboy who "cut a man down" shot him; if he "cut the dust", he did this.
  • taking a drink.

    • Round 2. Category: Directional Diversions

    • 1: Steinbeck shows sadness in Salinas:" blank of Eden".
    • East.
    • 2: 1948 Pulitzer winner for Michener:"Tales of the blank Pacific".
    • South.
    • 3: Percy Bysshe Shelley:"Ode to the blank Wind".
    • West.
    • 4: Shared title of 2 tales, one by John Jakes and one by Elizabeth Gaskell:" blank and blank ".
    • North and South.
    • 5: Robert Frost's 1914 collection:" blank of Boston".
    • North.

      • Round 3. Category: Russian Cities

      • 1: This city is home to St. Basil's Cathedral and Red Square.
      • Moscow.
      • 2: Novosibirsk and Omsk are the 2 main cities in this large, cold Russian region.
      • Siberia.
      • 3: In 1712 the capital of Russia was moved to this city later named Leningrad.
      • St. Petersburg.
      • 4: The ancestral mother city of the Russian people is this capital of neighboring Ukraine.
      • Kiev.
      • 5: Grozny is the capital city of this region that has waged a struggle for independence since the mid-1990s.
      • Chechnya.

        • Round 4. Category: The "Naked" Truth

        • 1: A Leslie Nielsen comedy.
        • The Naked Gun.
        • 2: Unaided vision.
        • Naked eye.
        • 3: In other words, "dollar bill nude".
        • Buck naked.
        • 4: Boisterous beatnik Burroughs' book.
        • "Naked Lunch".
        • 5: Goya's girl.
        • "The Naked Maja".

          • Round 5. Category: "C" Me

          • 1: An evil prayer appealing for harm to come to another.
          • Curse.
          • 2: Adjective meaning curved inward, like the inside of a circle or sphere.
          • concave.
          • 3: A structure for venting gas or smoke.
          • Chimney.
          • 4: The state of sexual abstinence.
          • Celibacy.
          • 5: This Christian church is headed by The Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt.
          • the Coptic Church.

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

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