Instant Trivia

Episode 356 - Literary Mommas - Noted Scribes - The Movies: But Weight, There's More - Math Symbols - Corporate

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 356, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Literary Mommas

  • 1: After arriving in California from Dust Bowl Oklahoma, she tells her son Tom, "They ain't gonna wipe us out".
  • Mother Joad.
  • 2: Jing-mei Woo takes the place of her deceased mother Suyuan at the weekly mah-jongg games in this 1989 novel.
  • The Joy Luck Club.
  • 3: In this 1868 novel Marmee takes care of her 4 girls while her husband is away serving as an army chaplain in the Civil War.
  • Little Women.
  • 4: This Dickens character returns home to find that his mother Clara has married the heartless Mr. Murdstone.
  • David Copperfield.
  • 5: After Beowulf kills this monster, the monster's mother ravages Heorot before she is also killed by Beowulf.
  • Grendel.

    • Round 2. Category: Noted Scribes

    • 1: Shortly after arriving in France in 1924, he completed "The Great Gatsby".
    • F. Scott Fitzgerald.
    • 2: While serving as an ambulance driver, he was injured at Fossalta di Piave, Italy on July 8, 1918.
    • Ernest Hemingway.
    • 3: He's written plays based on his works, including "Dandelion Wine" and "Fahrenheit 451".
    • Ray Bradbury.
    • 4: This essayist wrote 3 children's stories, the last being "The Trumpet of the Swan" in 1970.
    • E.B. White.
    • 5: From 1903 to 1905, American author Winston Churchill served in the legislature of this "Granite State".
    • New Hampshire.

      • Round 3. Category: The Movies: But Weight, There's More

      • 1: He took time off from filming "Raging Bull" in order to gain the weight he needed for the ending.
      • Robert De Niro.
      • 2: He gained as well as lost weight for his role in "Cast Away".
      • Tom Hanks.
      • 3: An Italian pasta job could have bulked her up for the 2003 film "Monster".
      • Charlize Theron.
      • 4: For his role as the hobbit Samwise, he packed on 30 pounds.
      • Sean Astin.
      • 5: The pounds he put on for "Cop Land" may have been from a lot of rocky road ice cream.
      • Sylvester Stallone.

        • Round 4. Category: Math Symbols

        • 1: ÷.
        • a division sign.
        • 2: √.
        • square root.
        • 3: ≠.
        • not equal.
        • 4: <.
        • less than.
        • 5: ≈.
        • approximately.

          • Round 5. Category: Corporate

          • 1: This car-repair chain founded in 1956 shares its name with a king of ancient Phrygia.
          • Midas.
          • 2: The Southland Corporation might say "Oh, thank heaven" for this chain of 30,000 convenience stores.
          • 7-11.
          • 3: In 1999 this shoe company named the largest building at its corporate headquarters after soccer great Mia Hamm.
          • Nike.
          • 4: Henry Ford called minority stockholders in his corporation these, like the ones that cause dysentery and malaria.
          • parasites.
          • 5: The discovery of oil in 1879 at Pico Canyon near Los Angeles was the start of what's now this petroleum corporation, stock symbol CVX.
          • Chevron.

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