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Episode 427 - Now That's Inventive! - Pillow Talk - Harvard Degree Honorees - American Counties - Make Way For Hemingway

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 427, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Now That's Inventive!

  • 1: In the '40s AT and T used a radio with no conventional vacuum tubes to demonstrate this device invented in its lab.
  • a transistor.
  • 2: Developed by a German physicist, it measures radioactivity by "counting" ionizing particles like protons.
  • a Geiger counter.
  • 3: Famous for his jet, he also invented the automobile radio for the company that became Motorola.
  • (William) Lear.
  • 4: This 18th century seed drill inventor shares his name with the band that gave us "Aqualung".
  • Jethro Tull.
  • 5: At the funeral of Sylvan Goldman, who invented this, there wasn't one wonky pallbearer who went in an odd direction.
  • the shopping cart.

    • Round 2. Category: Pillow Talk

    • 1: In classic radio comedy, Dick Orkin turned this under-kids'-pillows cash provider into the Molar Marauder.
    • the Tooth Fairy.
    • 2: Legend has it that each night Alexander the Great put his sword and a book by this epic poet under his pillow.
    • Homer.
    • 3: Tradition says after a wedding a single girl puts this under her pillow so she'll dream of a future spouse.
    • a slice of wedding cake.
    • 4: Named for the variety of designs and stitches on it, this type of pillow can bear a homily or a homemade design.
    • sampler.
    • 5: He wrote his son Kermit from the White House in 1903 about his being ambushed in a pillow fight.
    • Theodore Roosevelt.

      • Round 3. Category: Harvard Degree Honorees

      • 1: 1982 recipients included Mother Teresa and this "Big Daddy" of Southern playwrights.
      • Tennessee Williams.
      • 2: In 1993 he got an honorary degree from Harvard and retired from the U.S. military; today he's a secretary.
      • Colin Powell.
      • 3: This Bostonian's name was on an honorary degree in 1792; today it's on a beer.
      • Samuel Adams.
      • 4: One of the special singularities in this British physicist's life is an honorary degree from Harvard in 1990.
      • Stephen Hawking.
      • 5: In 1968 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, better known by this title, received an honorary doctorate.
      • Shah of Iran.

        • Round 4. Category: American Counties

        • 1: Name shared by the counties in which you'll find Disneyland and Disney World.
        • Orange (County).
        • 2: All the letters in this state's name are found in the name of its Uintah County.
        • Utah.
        • 3: Ogemaw, Saginaw and Washtenaw are all counties in this state.
        • Michigan.
        • 4: This state's Norfolk County disappeared in 1963 when it became part of the city of Chesapeake.
        • Virginia.
        • 5: While many states have counties named Lincoln, this is the only state that has one named Snohomish.
        • Washington.

          • Round 5. Category: Make Way For Hemingway

          • 1: "Death in the Afternoon" is a treatise on this, which Hemingway considered a tragic spectacle, not a sport.
          • Bullfighting.
          • 2: Hemingway served as an ambulance driver during WWI, like Frederic Henry, the hero of this novel.
          • "A Farewell to Arms".
          • 3: The title of this Hemingway novel set during the Spanish Civil War comes from one of John Donne's "Devotions".
          • "For Whom the Bell Tolls".
          • 4: "In Our Time", a collection of short stories, features this character who is similar to Hemingway.
          • Nick Adams.
          • 5: This 1926 novel begins, "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton".
          • "The Sun Also Rises".

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

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