Instant Trivia

Episode 598 - America's Most Want Ads - Mythological Relatives - Candles - 20Th Century Poetry - It's All A Plant

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 598, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: America's Most Want Ads

  • 1: Wanted: Mass quantities of this hardest natural substance on Earth.
  • diamonds.
  • 2: Wanted: Any one of the remaining ones of this vintage toy in its original box from 1959.
  • Barbie.
  • 3: Wanted: Any living specimens of the Schaus Swallowtail, one of the rarest species of this insect.
  • the butterfly.
  • 4: Wanted: Street maps of this lost continent first described by a priest to the philosopher Solon.
  • Atlantis.
  • 5: Wanted: Recent photos of this reclusive author and creator of Holden Caulfield.
  • J.D. Salinger.

    • Round 2. Category: Mythological Relatives

    • 1: Some say Penelope played around with Hermes and produced this god known for playing the pipes.
    • Pan.
    • 2: Eris, the personification of discord, accompanies this Greek war god, her brother, into battle.
    • Ares.
    • 3: This king of Crete was Phaedra's father.
    • Minos.
    • 4: The Graeae, or "gray women", are gray-haired sisters of this gruesome group that includes Medusa.
    • Gorgons.
    • 5: Typhon, who had a hundred heads, was the father of this multi-headed serpent.
    • the Hydra.

      • Round 3. Category: Candles

      • 1: Elton John's "Candle In The Wind" was originally written as a tribute to this actress.
      • Marilyn Monroe.
      • 2: Blowing out his birthday candles, a boy wishes for 24 hours of truth from his dad in this 1997 Jim Carrey film.
      • Liar Liar.
      • 3: Erle Stanley Gardner had this attorney take on "The Case Of The Crooked Candle".
      • Perry Mason.
      • 4: In the mid-19th century, candles were often made with this wax crystallized from petroleum.
      • Paraffin wax.
      • 5: This play contains the line "Out, out brief candle!".
      • Macbeth.

        • Round 4. Category: 20Th Century Poetry

        • 1: Frank O'Hara's "The Day Lady Died" is a tribute to this black singer.
        • Billie Holiday.
        • 2: In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", it's the color of the wood two roads diverged in.
        • yellow.
        • 3: It's the first name of Edwin Arlington Robinson's morose Mr. Cheevy.
        • Miniver.
        • 4: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", he "howled".
        • Allen Ginsberg.
        • 5: He went from laboring in a Siberian camp to becoming a US citizen to winning the 1987 Nobel Literature Prize.
        • Josef Brodsky.

          • Round 5. Category: It's All A Plant

          • 1: Arkansas has made the pink variety of this its state fruit and its state vegetable, just in case.
          • a tomato.
          • 2: Scientifically Hamamelis virginiana, this "bewitching" plant is used to make a soothing astringent.
          • witch hazel.
          • 3: In Dutch, these tuber vegetables are known as aardappelen.
          • potatoes.
          • 4: Arctic alpine plants include the saxifrage, whose roots manage to grow into these to anchor themselves.
          • rocks.
          • 5: The Great Basin bristlecone species of this tree can live for more than 4,000 years.
          • a pine.

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

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