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Episode 540 - The High Cost Of Living - Victorian Verse - Bedtime - Fraternities And Sororities - Name That Tune-Ster

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 540, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Benny

  • 1: In the 1790s astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker compiled an annual one of these.
  • almanac.
  • 2: In 1785 Thomas Jefferson succeeded him as minister to France.
  • Benjamin Franklin.
  • 3: While in office, he admitted 6 states, more than any other U.S. president.
  • Benjamin Harrison.
  • 4: In addition to his "Baby and Child Care" book, he wrote "Caring for Your Disabled Child".
  • Dr. Benjamin Spock.
  • 5: In 1954 he turned Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" into an opera.
  • Benjamin Britten.

    • Round 2. Category: Going Cuckoo

    • 1: Sonny is the bird who's "cuckoo for" this cereal.
    • Cocoa Puffs.
    • 2: Edmund Spenser called "The Merry Cuckoo" the "messenger of" this season.
    • Spring.
    • 3: This term for the husband of an adulterous wife is derived from cuckoo.
    • Cuckold.
    • 4: In this 1962 novel, McMurphy takes on Nurse Ratched.
    • "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
    • 5: In this film, Harry Lime says Switzerland's 500 years of democracy and peace produced--the cuckoo clock.
    • The Third Man.

      • Round 3. Category: Plagues On Egypt

      • 1: Plague No. 4, they were everywhere, including in my soup! Waiter!.
      • flies.
      • 2: In plague No. 2 these went a-pharaoh courtin', uh-huh.
      • frogs.
      • 3: This plague, No. 8, occurs every 17 years in some places.
      • locusts.
      • 4: In 1991 Gloria Estefan was "Coming Out of" this, also plague No. 9.
      • the darkness.
      • 5: Pharaoh could have used a pediculicidal shampoo to get rid of these in plague No. 3.
      • lice.

        • Round 4. Category: Urban Myths

        • 1: It's not a croc, I heard it from a friend: these croc relatives are living in the New York City sewers.
        • Alligators.
        • 2: Because he's barefoot on the cover of "Abbey Road", I'm convinced this member of the Beatles is dead.
        • Paul McCartney.
        • 3: My cousin just told me that a man in a hotel room had this renal organ removed while he slept.
        • Kidney.
        • 4: Wow! A couple found this pirate prosthesis on their car door handle when they got home from a date.
        • Hook.
        • 5: Did you hear? This man had a congressional page fired for making a "Love Boat" joke.
        • Fred Grandy.

          • Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 540, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

          Round 1. Category: The High Cost Of Living

          • 1: According to DOE figures, it was 25 cents in 1919, and in 1980 broke through the dollar-a-gallon barrier nationally.
          • the cost of a gallon of gas.
          • 2: If something's irrelevant, you might ask what it has to do with the price of these ($5,000 from a fertile donor).
          • eggs.
          • 3: In 1931 New York was crowded with men selling these fruits for a nickel; today they're about 10 times that.
          • apples.
          • 4: This NYC water transport cost 5 cents in 1900, 50 cents in 1990 but (happy ending) now it's free.
          • the Staten Island Ferry.
          • 5: This company's first Superman comic book cost 10 cents; in 2004 its "Superman/Batman" No. 14 was $2.95.
          • DC Comics.

            • Round 2. Category: Victorian Verse

            • 1: "Beware" this, "my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the jubjub bird...".
            • the jabberwock.
            • 2: The last verse of the first version of this Tennyson poem begins, "When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!".
            • "The Charge of the Light Brigade".
            • 3: In his "Departmental Ditties", Kipling wrote, "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is" this.
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