Instant Trivia

Episode 551 - True Story - California Cities - 4-Letter Verbs - Padres - Adventure Heroes

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 551, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: True Story

  • 1: Dr. Jerri Nielsen gives her account of discovering that she had breast cancer while "ice bound" here.
  • the South Pole.
  • 2: "Into Thin Air" is his account of scaling Everest and the tragedy that befell others around him.
  • Jon Krakauer.
  • 3: Wonder what it's like to be a girl from Seattle accused of murder in Italy? Read her "Waiting to be Heard".
  • Amanda Knox.
  • 4: John Steinbeck chronicled his journey across America with his pet poodle in "Travels with" him.
  • Charley.
  • 5: Peter Matthiessen's memoir of hiking in the Himalayas has this title, also a rare feline of that region.
  • The Snow Leopard.

    • Round 2. Category: California Cities

    • 1: The world's largest known almond processing center as well as the governor's mansion are in this city.
    • Sacramento.
    • 2: This city's Moscone Center has over 500,000 square feet of exhibit and meeting space.
    • San Francisco.
    • 3: This city's zoo, located in Balboa Park, is one of the largest in the world.
    • San Diego.
    • 4: Its name comes from the Santa Ana River and the German word for home.
    • Anaheim.
    • 5: This upscale community was founded in 1906 by the Rodeo Land and Water Company.
    • Beverly Hills.

      • Round 3. Category: 4-Letter Verbs

      • 1: According to the title of a 1992 film "White Men Can't" do this.
      • Jump.
      • 2: TV game show host Martindale.
      • Wink.
      • 3: As a noun, it's the rear portion of an aircraft; as a verb, it means to follow and keep under surveillance.
      • tail.
      • 4: As a noun, it's the ridge on the fingerboard of a guitar; as a verb, it means to worry.
      • fret.
      • 5: A housewife might do it to the mantle; a forensic expert would do it to look for fingerprints.
      • Dust.

        • Round 4. Category: Padres

        • 1: Set in Australia, this 1983 miniseries centered on the doomed love of Meggie and Father de Bricassart.
        • The Thorn Birds.
        • 2: He received Best Actor Oscar nominations for 1944 and 1945 for playing the same role: Father Chuck O'Malley.
        • Bing Crosby.
        • 3: This "Happy Days" father later played a crime-solving priest in the "Father Dowling Mysteries".
        • Tom Bosley.
        • 4: On film, Henry II muses, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?", referring to him.
        • Thomas Becket.
        • 5: Gene Hackman's Rev. Frank Scott leads a band of survivors to safety aboard a capsized ship in this 1972 film.
        • The Poseidon Adventure.

          • Round 5. Category: Adventure Heroes

          • 1: In March 1997 he got a new costume: hot white and blue, no cape and an S like a lightning bolt.
          • Superman.
          • 2: Simon Templar's initials give you an abbreviation for this, his nickname.
          • The Saint.
          • 3: This Dumas hero who left home at age 16 to be a Musketeer was based on a real person.
          • d'Artagnan.
          • 4: Trapped by a cave-in after World War I, gases preserved him and he awoke in the 25th century.
          • Buck Rogers.
          • 5: First names of detective Fenton Hardy's adventurous sons.
          • Frank and Joe.

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

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