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Episode 626 - 1902 - French Menu - Where It's "At" - "X" Rated - Throwing The Book At You

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fountains

  • 1: Architect Nicola Salvi designed this, often called the last great baroque monument in Rome.
  • Trevi Fountain.
  • 2: A fountain in front of this kids' cable network's studios in Orlando spurts out green slime.
  • Nickelodeon.
  • 3: Andrea Del Verrocchio sculpted his bronze "Boy With" this sea creature for a Medici villa.
  • Dolphin.
  • 4: This statue in the Louvre once stood in a fountain on the Greek isle of Samothrace.
  • Winged Victory.
  • 5: King Matyas Corvinus and his beloved Ilonka adorn the Matyas Fountain at this Hungarian city's Royal Palace.
  • Budapest.

    • Round 2. Category: Day Time

    • 1: The first day of the week mentioned by name in "Robinson Crusoe" isn't Friday but this (1st day is a clue).
    • Sunday.
    • 2: In English, it's alphabetically the last day of the week.
    • Wednesday.
    • 3: J. Wellington Wimpy often said, "I will gladly pay you" this day "for a hamburger today".
    • Tuesday.
    • 4: Day of the week that's the English equivalent to the Latin Saturni dies.
    • Saturday.
    • 5: G.K. Chesterton wrote of a "Man Who Was" this day.
    • Thursday.

      • Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

      Round 1. Category: 1902

      • 1: When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school.
      • Oxford University.
      • 2: In 1902 he published his newest Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Hound of the Baskervilles".
      • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
      • 3: He and Matthew Henson made their first serious attempt to reach the North Pole, but it would take 7 more years.
      • Robert Peary.
      • 4: After 3 years of fighting, this South African war came to an end.
      • the Boer War.
      • 5: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet and essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court.
      • Oliver Wendell Holmes.

        • Round 2. Category: French Menu

        • 1: Canard aux mangues is duck served with this tropical fruit.
        • mango.
        • 2: I crave some sauce moutarde, named for this ingredient; I'll put in on everything.
        • mustard.
        • 3: We know these squashes by an Italian name, but to the French they're courgettes.
        • zucchini.
        • 4: In France this huge melon, called a pasteque, may be filled with wine before it's served.
        • watermelon.
        • 5: Bifteck.
        • Steak.

          • Round 3. Category: Where It's "At"

          • 1: Goldthwait's moniker.
          • Bobcat.
          • 2: It's his political party.
          • Democrat.
          • 3: Omar Khayyam's handiwork.
          • "The Rubaiyat".
          • 4: This neck scarf is named for its resemblance to one worn by Croatian soldiers.
          • Cravat.
          • 5: The Captain and Tennille sang of this kind of beastly love.
          • "Muskrat Love".

            • Round 4. Category: "X" Rated

            • 1: The narration that opened this TV show began, "A mighty princess forged in the heat of battle...".
            • Xena: Warrior Princess.
            • 2: Located in Cincinnati, it's one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
            • Xavier.
            • 3: The horizontal number line in a Cartesian plane coordinate system.
            • the x-axis.
            • 4: William B. Davis played the mysterious Cigarette-Smoking Man on this Fox show.
            • The X-Files.
            • 5: From the Greek, it's literally someone who likes foreigners and foreign things.
            • a xenophile.

              • Round 5. Category: Throwing The Book At You

              • 1: "Alexey... was the
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