Instant Trivia

Episode 606 - The 18Th Century - All Stars - The League Of Nations - "A.m." - Russian Literature

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 606, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 606, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The 18Th Century

  • 1: This man was hanged for murder and piracy May 23, 1701.
  • Captain Kidd.
  • 2: Name of 3 French kings in the century, and of a gold French coin of the time.
  • Louis.
  • 3: Sweden's major power status ended with defeat by this czar in the 1709 battle of Poltava.
  • Peter the Great.
  • 4: Tiradentes, or "tooth puller", lead a revolt against Portugal in this South America colony.
  • Brazil.
  • 5: 1787 Mozart work often called a serenade; the "New Oxford Companion to Music" says it's, aptly, a nocturne.
  • "A Little Night Music" ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik").

    • Round 2. Category: All Stars

    • 1: This Cardinal slugger hit his 500th career homer in 1999.
    • Mark McGwire.
    • 2: Nicknamed "The Rocket", this pitcher won 3 Cy Young Awards with the Red Sox and 2 with the Blue Jays.
    • Roger Clemens.
    • 3: Flags at Dodger Stadium flew at half-staff after this '50s all-star died Aug. 14, 1999.
    • Pee Wee Reese.
    • 4: One of the 2 all-stars who reached the 3,000-hit mark in 1999.
    • Wade Boggs or Tony Gwynn.
    • 5: This Minnesota Twin inspired the Kirby Bear, a stuffed doll wearing his No. 34 jersey.
    • Kirby Puckett.

      • Round 3. Category: The League Of Nations

      • 1: Of the 63 members the league had over the years, this was the only one expelled, for attacking Finland.
      • Soviet Union/USSR/Russia.
      • 2: After Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, this emperor made a vain plea for the league's help.
      • Haile Selassie.
      • 3: The committee that drafted the league's covenant included this U.S. president.
      • Woodrow Wilson.
      • 4: On September 5, 1929 Aristide Briand presented a plan to create a "United States Of" this.
      • Europe.
      • 5: In March 1920 the U.S. Senate did not ratify this treaty that created the League of Nations.
      • the Treaty of Versailles.

        • Round 4. Category: "A.m."

        • 1: When Phonemate introduced the first commercially successful one in 1971, it weighed 10 pounds.
        • Answering machine.
        • 2: At age 9 Ben Stiller made his TV acting debut on "Kate McShane" starring this actress, his mom.
        • Anne Meara.
        • 3: Hail Schubert who came up with this composition so "full of grace" in 1825.
        • "Ave Maria".
        • 4: Marilyn Monroe's last movie, "The Misfits", was written by this playwright, her then-husband.
        • Arthur Miller.
        • 5: Once home to the Hittites, today this region is occupied by Turkey.
        • Asia Minor.

          • Round 5. Category: Russian Literature

          • 1: The last words spoken in this novel are "Hurrah for Karamazov!".
          • The Brothers Karamazov.
          • 2: In this last Chekov play, the character Trofimov says, "All Russia is our orchard".
          • The Cherry Orchard.
          • 3: This 1957 Pasternak novel was finally published in the USSR in 1987.
          • Doctor Zhivago.
          • 4: His 1863 novel "The Cossacks" grew out of his service in the Russian Army in the Caucasus.
          • Tolstoy.
          • 5: He was expelled from the Soviet Writer's Union in 1969; in 1970 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
          • Solzhenitsyn.

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

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