Instant Trivia

Episode 410 - Born First - Haunted Mansion - I Do Impressions - What's Cooking? - War

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 410, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Born First

  • 1: Dr. Jonas Salk,Dr. Louis Pasteur,Dr. Benjamin Spock.
  • Dr. Louis Pasteur.
  • 2: Ulysses Grant,Abraham Lincoln,Franklin Pierce.
  • Franklin Pierce.
  • 3: Harriet Beecher Stowe,James Fenimore Cooper,Ernest Hemingway.
  • James Fenimore Cooper.
  • 4: Ludwig van Beethoven,Johann Sebastian Bach,Johannes Brahms.
  • Bach.
  • 5: John Irving,James Michener,Arthur Miller.
  • James Michener.

    • Round 2. Category: Haunted Mansion

    • 1: Every Thursday after "Jeopardy!" we hold one of these "sittings" to receive messages from our late Uncle Wiggin.
    • Seance.
    • 2: Whenever we have a devilish problem, Father Gary helps us with one of these spirited expelling rites.
    • Exorcism.
    • 3: None of us got any sleep last night with one of these "noisy" ghosts wandering all about.
    • Poltergeist.
    • 4: Sometimes our phantoms leave behind this spectral stuff whose name comes from Greek for "outside mold".
    • Ectoplasm.
    • 5: Our ghosts are so troubled, they may have taken lessons from this title ghost in an Oscar Wilde work.
    • "The Canterville Ghost".

      • Round 3. Category: I Do Impressions

      • 1: This music legend penned hits like "Lay Lady Lay" and "Tangled Up In Blue".
      • Bob Dylan.
      • 2: Hello, my name this 2006 title movie film guy who say, "This suit is not black!"; very nice, high five.
      • Borat.
      • 3: "Here's Johnny!"; no, it's this actor known for his truth handling and a famous chicken salad sandwich request.
      • Jack Nicholson.
      • 4: I hear Darrell Hammond also does an impression of this "Finding Forrester" title guy, the filthy....
      • Sean Connery.
      • 5: Watch me channel this 2'8" "Austin Powers" character.
      • Mini-Me.

        • Round 4. Category: What's Cooking?

        • 1: This basic tomato-based spaghetti sauce whose name means "in sailor's style".
        • marinara.
        • 2: The eggs in Eggs Benedict aren't fried or scrambled, but cooked this way.
        • poached.
        • 3: This basic tomato-based spaghetti sauce whose name means "in sailor's style".
        • marinara.
        • 4: In the Persian dish Dolmeh Sib, this fruit is stuffed with a mix of peas, onions and meat -- a little too much to give to a teacher.
        • apple.
        • 5: This salad green, a variety of Italian chicory, is usually reddish.
        • radicchio.

          • Round 5. Category: War

          • 1: "Operation Rolling Thunder" was the 1965 U.S. bombing campaign designed in part to stop men and supplies coming south on this road.
          • the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
          • 2: On June 25, 1950 fighting broke out on the 38th Parallel, thus beginning this war.
          • the Korean War.
          • 3: Of all the USA's wars, this one claimed the most American lives.
          • the Civil War.
          • 4: Meaning "little war", this term for a type of warfare originated during Napoleon's wars in Spain.
          • guerrilla warfare.
          • 5: This term for a member of Japan's powerful warrior class comes from the Japanese word meaning "guard".
          • samurai.

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

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