Instant Trivia

Episode 56 - Jail - "W" - 20Th Century Science Tidbits - Stephen King - Shortwave

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 56, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Jail

  • 1: This country's Kharkov Prison is said to be world's largest, accommodating 40,000 prisoners.
  • Soviet Union.
  • 2: In "Monopoly", if you pay to get out of jail, it costs this much.
  • $50.
  • 3: Calling it "Most Secure Prison", Guinness says tho 23 attempted to escape from Alcatraz, this many succeeded.
  • none.
  • 4: Unlucky Col. Klink was in charge of this prison camp housing "Hogan's Heroes".
  • Stalag 13.
  • 5: (audio Daily Double)Title of the following prison song, the 2nd-biggest hit of its singer's career:.
  • "Chain Gang" (by Sam Cooke).

    • Round 2. Category: "W"

    • 1: 56 miles from Hopewell, Virginia is this city that has been restored to the way it was in Colonial times.
    • Williamsburg.
    • 2: The saxophone is a member of this instrument family, not the brass family.
    • woodwinds.
    • 3: He was the British prime minister from 1964 to 1970 and again from '74 to '76.
    • Harold Wilson.
    • 4: Considered the greatest poet of Medieval Germany, this man from Eschenbach wrote an early epic poem about the Grail.
    • Wolfram von Eschenbach.
    • 5: When measuring a horse using hands, you measure from the ground up to these, not the ears.
    • the withers.

      • Round 3. Category: 20Th Century Science Tidbits

      • 1: Meredith Gourdine's work on gas dispersion led to a way of clearing this from airport runways.
      • fog.
      • 2: After Sir James Chadwick's 1932 discovery of this fundamental particle of matter, the world went fission.
      • a neutron.
      • 3: Entomologist Thomas Eisner helped decipher the flash code used by the femmes fatales of these insects.
      • fireflies.
      • 4: In the '70s Hans Dehmelt took a color photo of Astrid, a single charged ion of this element, Ba.
      • barium.
      • 5: The UNIVAC computer used this format for permanent data storage.
      • magnetic tape.

        • Round 4. Category: Stephen King

        • 1: "The Wizard and Glass" is one entry in this series.
        • The Dark Tower.
        • 2: This nickname for death row at Cold Mountain penitentiary is also the title of a serial novel by King.
        • The Green Mile.
        • 3: "The Wizard and Glass" is one entry in this series.
        • The Dark Tower.
        • 4: The inspiration for this novel came when king's daughter's cat was killed by a passing truck.
        • Pet Semetary.
        • 5: Judging by its title, this 1994 novel kept readers up all night.
        • "Insomnia".

          • Round 5. Category: Shortwave

          • 1: Mainly funded by the CIA, this broadcasting operation began transmitting behind the Iron Curtain in 1949.
          • Radio Free Europe.
          • 2: One book calls this 12-letter word the "arch-enemy of shortwave listeners"; I just call it annoying.
          • interference.
          • 3: This service that broadcasts from Abuja and Lagos has a name reflecting that of the USA's official radio service.
          • Voice of Nigeria.
          • 4: The shortwave band begins at about 1700 these units abbreviated kHz; below that you're in AM territory.
          • kilohertz.
          • 5: To catch the BBC at 1700 UTC, or Universal Time Coordinated, tune in at this morning hour Pacific Standard time.
          • 9:00 AM.

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

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