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Episode 396 - Cradles - 'Tis Time To Testify - The "Lightning" Round - 2003 Nobel Prize Winners - World Lit

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 396, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cradles

  • 1: These 2 rivers were the cradle of civilization in Mesopotamia.
  • Tigris and Euphrates.
  • 2: Incorporated in 1819, this current state capital was once the cradle of the Confederacy.
  • Montgomery, Alabama.
  • 3: In mythology this baby strangled 2 serpents placed in his cradle.
  • Hercules.
  • 4: In mythology this baby strangled 2 serpents placed in his cradle.
  • Hercules.
  • 5: In the 19th century William Ross Wallace wrote, "the hand that" does this "is the hand that rules the world".
  • "rocks the cradle".

    • Round 2. Category: 'Tis Time To Testify

    • 1: In 1947 playwright Bertolt Brecht returned to Europe after testifying before this House committee.
    • the House Un-American Activities Committee.
    • 2: In 1966 this consumer advocate gained national attention testifying before Congress on auto safety.
    • Ralph Nader.
    • 3: In 1991 the Senate testimony of law professor Anita Hill nearly derailed this man's Supreme Court nomination.
    • Clarence Thomas.
    • 4: In 1987 Fawn Hall testified that she had altered and shredded documents for this man, her boss.
    • Oliver North.
    • 5: On June 25, 1973 he testified before the Senate and revealed the existence of a White House "enemies list".
    • (John) Dean.

      • Round 3. Category: The "Lightning" Round

      • 1: It's another name for moonshine, cousin.
      • White lightning.
      • 2: A substance called Luciferin helps these creatures light up for their mates.
      • Lightning bugs.
      • 3: Blitzkrieg!.
      • "Lightning war".
      • 4: It's the full name of the only NHL team that fits the category.
      • Tampa Bay Lightning.
      • 5: Richard Pryor played race car driver Wendell Scott in this "fast" 1977 biopic.
      • "Greased Lightning".

        • Round 4. Category: 2003 Nobel Prize Winners

        • 1: Robert Engle and Clive Granger earned this prize for their new statistical models for financial data.
        • Economics.
        • 2: Of both Boer and English descent, J.M. Coetzee of this country won the Nobel for Literature.
        • South Africa.
        • 3: Abriskosov, Ginzburg and Leggett fielded this award for their work with quantum superconductivity.
        • Physics.
        • 4: John Paul II was the favorite, but Shirin Ebadi, a female Muslim from this country, took home the Peace Prize.
        • Iran.
        • 5: For their work leading to the MRI, American Paul Lauterbur and Briton Sir Peter Mansfield scanned this Nobel.
        • Medicine.

          • Round 5. Category: World Lit

          • 1: In "Blessed By Thunder", Flor Fernandez Barrios describes growing up in this country during Castro's revolution.
          • Cuba.
          • 2: His 1999 memoir "'Tis" opens in 1949, when he emigrated from Ireland to America at age 19.
          • Frank McCourt.
          • 3: Euphrase Kezilahabi of Tanzania wrote his novel "Rosa Mistika" in this African language.
          • Swahili.
          • 4: Some find that reading this marquis' 18th century novel "Justine" is pure torture.
          • Marquis de Sade.
          • 5: This Canadian author of "The Handmaid's Tale" set her novel "Cat's Eye" in Toronto.
          • Margaret Atwood.

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