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Episode 299 - "Mm" Bop - Put Out The China - The Art Of War - Oz - Ordinal Number, Please

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 299, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Mm" Bop

  • 1: If I can never die, I'm this.
  • Immortal.
  • 2: On the football field, this line separates the Lions from the Bears.
  • Line of scrimmage.
  • 3: IDG books "For" these people include ones on "Bird Watching", "Opera" and "Windows 98".
  • Dummies.
  • 4: "Tell me more" about this song from "Grease".
  • "Summer Nights".
  • 5: For 1/3 and 1/4, it's 12.
  • Lowest common denominator.

    • Round 2. Category: Put Out The China

    • 1: This Chinese dictator was born December 26, 1893 in the city of Shaoshan.
    • Mao Tse-tung.
    • 2: After a 3,900-mile journey, this Chinese river flows into the East China Sea.
    • the Yangtze.
    • 3: The name of this Chinese-American stew of meat and vegetables translates into English as "mixed bits".
    • chop suey.
    • 4: Wushu is the Chinese word for martial arts; this term more familiar to TV watchers means any acquired skill.
    • kung fu.
    • 5: In Chinese, Wanli Changcheng is the name of this formidable construction.
    • the Great Wall of China.

      • Round 3. Category: The Art Of War

      • 1: This attack during the Battle of Balaklava inspired a painting by Richard Caton Woodville and a poem by Tennyson.
      • the Charge of the Light Brigade.
      • 2: Far from Trenton, Emanuel Leutze probably used the Rhine as a model for his painting of "Washington Crossing" this.
      • the Delaware.
      • 3: It's the 1836 battle captured here by Kirk Stirnweis.
      • The Alamo.
      • 4: Seen here, "Leave No One Behind", by Joe Klein, depicts a scene from this war.
      • Vietnam War.
      • 5: Archibald Willard first planned to call his painting of 2 Revolutionary War drummers and a fife player "Yankee Doodle".
      • "The Spirit of '76".

        • Round 4. Category: Oz

        • 1: This character gets a ride (likely to his home in Omaha) in the balloon meant to take Dorothy to Kansas.
        • the Wizard.
        • 2: The Wicked Witch's golden cap allows her to summon these to do her bidding 3 times.
        • the flying monkeys.
        • 3: Dorothy followed the Yellow Brick Road to this place, the capital of Oz.
        • the Emerald City.
        • 4: One chapter is called "The Magic Art of the Great" this 6-letter word meaning a hoax or fraud.
        • humbug.
        • 5: In L. Frank Baum's original book, this, not ruby, is the color of Dorothy's slippers.
        • silver.

          • Round 5. Category: Ordinal Number, Please

          • 1: (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):Street in the title of the following: (audio clue - instrumental).
          • "42nd Street".
          • 2: It's where Washington was in war, in peace and in the hearts of his countrymen.
          • First.
          • 3: "Nervous Breakdown" the Rolling Stones suffered in the '60s.
          • Nineteenth.
          • 4: Shakespeare's "night" to remember.
          • Twelfth.
          • 5: In "The Music Man", the penultimate trombonist in "The Big Parade".
          • 75th.

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

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