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Episode 528 - 19Th Century Literature - Green Beers - English Lit. - Down Under - Documents

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 528, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 19Th Century Literature

  • 1: "Knitting", "Still Knitting" and "The Knitting Done" are chapters in this 1859 novel.
  • A Tale of Two Cities.
  • 2: It may ring a bell that he had "a huge head sprouting red hair; between the two shoulders an enormous hump".
  • the hunchback (of Notre Dame).
  • 3: The title wrongdoing in this novel is the murder of a pawnbroker and her sister by Raskolnikov.
  • Crime and Punishment.
  • 4: The year before her death, 29-year-old Emily Bronte published this, her only novel.
  • Wuthering Heights.
  • 5: Published in 1849, "Redburn: His FIrst Voyage" was based on this author's first voyage as a cabin boy.
  • Herman Melville.

    • Round 2. Category: Green Beers

    • 1: This Bremen beer's motto appropriately reads "Life beckons".
    • Beck's.
    • 2: Brittany Evans is the new icon for this beer that's named in honor of an old German monastery.
    • St. Pauli's.
    • 3: Dennis Hopper has a particular aversion to this Dutch beer in the movie "Blue Velvet".
    • Heineken.
    • 4: Brewed since 1615, this Dutch beer with a green bottle has a swingtop cap.
    • Grolsch.
    • 5: Tonight let it be this beer of Munich that's properly spelled with 2 umlauts.
    • Löwenbräu.

      • Round 3. Category: English Lit.

      • 1: He's the legendary king in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King".
      • King Arthur.
      • 2: Thomas Hardy, who gave us "The Return of the Native", also wrote of this girl "of the d'Urbervilles".
      • Tess.
      • 3: Last name shared by "Murder in the Cathedral" author T .S. and "Adam Bede" author George.
      • Eliot.
      • 4: This Miss Marple creator was one of the 1st authors to be published in a Penguin paperback.
      • Agatha Christie.
      • 5: The final version of his "Paradise Lost" was published in 1674.
      • Milton.

        • Round 4. Category: Down Under

        • 1: The ABA, Inc. in Sydney is an Australian association that gives lessons in how to throw these.
        • Boomerangs.
        • 2: It has webbed feet, no teeth or external ears, brown fur and a rubbery, duckbill-shaped muzzle.
        • Platypus.
        • 3: Walter Burley Griffin, an architect from Chicago, designed this capital city, site unseen.
        • Canberra.
        • 4: This now popular tourist attraction almost wrecked the Endeavour, Captain Cook's ship.
        • Great Barrier Reef.
        • 5: Over 309 of these are operating in the Barossa Valley, the Aussie equivalent of our Napa.
        • Wineries.

          • Round 5. Category: Documents

          • 1: The U.S. government encourages traveling citizens to smile for their photos in these booklets.
          • Passports.
          • 2: Colorful term for a document allowing aliens to legally work in the United States.
          • Green card.
          • 3: "To take" this often means to sign a document forswearing liquor.
          • The pledge.
          • 4: After this proceeding is complete, a court issues the child a new birth certificate.
          • Adoption.
          • 5: Once, this document disposed of personal effects, while property was covered in the "last will".
          • Testament.

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

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