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Episode 302 - Line 'Em Up - Rhyme Quest - Novel Vocabulary - Classic Cartoon Characters - The Library

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 302, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Line 'Em Up

  • 1: From largest in area to smallest:Australia, United States, Russia.
  • Russia, United States, Australia.
  • 2: From farthest away to closest to the Earth:Uranus, Mars, Pluto.
  • Pluto, Uranus, Mars.
  • 3: From earliest movie to most recent:"The Birds", "Birdman of Alcatraz", "The Birdcage".
  • Birdman of Alcatraz, The Birds, The Birdcage.
  • 4: From longest river to shortest:The Volga, The Nile, The Po.
  • Nile, Volga, Po.
  • 5: From north to south:Warsaw, Pretoria, Helsinki.
  • Helsinki, Warsaw, Pretoria.

    • Round 2. Category: Rhyme Quest

    • 1: A final, as in a final exam.
    • a test.
    • 2: Better than better.
    • best.
    • 3: Repose.
    • rest.
    • 4: A soiree invitee (if he shows up).
    • a guest.
    • 5: Gusto.
    • zest.

      • Round 3. Category: Novel Vocabulary

      • 1: Flaysome, a synonym for frightful, appears in this Emily Bronte novel.
      • "Wuthering Heights".
      • 2: In "Bleak House" this author used the word "swipes" for weak beer.
      • Dickens.
      • 3: In "Animal Farm" Major is a prize boar whose "tushes had never been cut" (tushes being these).
      • tusks.
      • 4: In "A Tale of Two Cities", Jerry Cruncher is a "resurrection-man"--defined as a person who steals and sells these.
      • corpses.
      • 5: In "Emma", Emma speaks of being in Broadway-lane when "it began to mizzle", which means this.
      • drizzle (mist accepted).

        • Round 4. Category: Classic Cartoon Characters

        • 1: ("Canadian Mountie").
        • Dudley Do-Right.
        • 2: (alliterative Hanna-Barbera pooch).
        • Huckleberry Hound.
        • 3: ("Have no fear...").
        • Underdog.
        • 4: Jay Ward and Bill Scott created this moose and squirrel.
        • Rocky and Bullwinkle.
        • 5: This cartoon character from Bedrock is a large purple-ish pet snorkasaurus.
        • Dino.

          • Round 5. Category: The Library

          • 1: On most reference books in your local library, you'll find this letter above the call number.
          • R.
          • 2: When a book has been checked out it's said to be "in" this.
          • circulation.
          • 3: Sethe, a former slave, is haunted by the ghost of her daughter, whom she killed, in this Toni Morrison novel.
          • Beloved.
          • 4: Shirley Jones played this part by the book in "The Music Man".
          • (Marion the) librarian.
          • 5: For some really deep reading, grab this ancient Greek philosopher's "Physics" or "Metaphysics".
          • Aristotle.

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

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