Instant Trivia

Episode 61 - Hallmark Holidays - Actor-Playwrights - Salad Bar - Charles Dickens - All "Set"

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 61, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hallmark Holidays

  • 1: Nurses Week begins on May 6th and ends May 12th--appropriately, this woman's birthday.
  • Florence Nightingale.
  • 2: Kiss-up alert: National Boss Day falls in this same month that clocks are set back an hour.
  • October.
  • 3: On Friendship Day, buy your bud a stuffed animal of this honey lover, the U.N.'s Friendship Ambassador.
  • Winnie the Pooh.
  • 4: This month was chosen for Grandparents Day to signify the autumn of life.
  • September.
  • 5: In 1939 this publisher, editor and politician gave Citizenship Day prominence through his newspapers.
  • Hearst.

    • Round 2. Category: Actor-Playwrights

    • 1: Jeff Daniels wrote "Escanaba in da Moonlight", a "super Yooper comedy" set on this state's Upper Peninsula.
    • Michigan.
    • 2: Now best remembered as a playwright, in his day he was famous for playing the ghost of Hamlet's father.
    • (himself) William Shakespeare.
    • 3: This Englishwoman called her "Shakespeare for My Father" a play about her father (Sir Michael) and her search for him.
    • Lynn Redgrave.
    • 4: 20 years before "Murphy Brown", her play "The Freezer" was named one of "the Best Short Plays of 1968".
    • Candice Bergen.
    • 5: In 2004 he won an Oscar for "Mystic River" and appeared off-Broadway in his own play "Embedded".
    • Tim Robbins.

      • Round 3. Category: Salad Bar

      • 1: National name of the tomato-&-feta salad also called horiatiki.
      • Greek salad.
      • 2: Kitchen personage whose "salad" includes hard-boiled eggs and strips of meat and cheese.
      • Chef salad.
      • 3: This salad topped with crumbled cheese is named for a restaurateur, not a Detroit Tiger legend.
      • Cobb salad.
      • 4: It gets its name because it contains the wax, green and kidney types.
      • Three bean salad.
      • 5: The French serve it with vinaigrette; the Germans serve it hot; we make it with great gobs of mayonnaise for picnics.
      • Potato salad.

        • Round 4. Category: Charles Dickens

        • 1: Charles met this "Moonstone" author and writing partner through a man named Augustus Egg.
        • Wilkie Collins.
        • 2: Last name of Ralph, who hates his nephew Nicholas and maybe is bitter that the book isn't named for him.
        • Nickleby.
        • 3: A 2012 Bicentennial exhibition featured the manuscript of this unfinished mystery.
        • The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
        • 4: It's considered Dickens' best book; it even has "Great" in the title.
        • Great Expectations.
        • 5: In 1836 Dickens published his stories and essays from magazines and newspapers in the book "Sketches by" him.
        • Boz.

          • Round 5. Category: All "Set"

          • 1: An element that balances another, or a type of printing that takes ink from plate to blanket to paper.
          • offset.
          • 2: In summer, when this happens just after 8 p.m. in Los Angeles, it happens after 11:30 p.m. in Anchorage.
          • sunset.
          • 3: It can be a useful quality, or any item of value that is owned.
          • an asset.
          • 4: Species of this small monkey include the common, buffy tufted-ear and pygmy.
          • a marmoset.
          • 5: Hebrew for "assembly", it's the parliament of Israel.
          • the Knesset.

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

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