Instant Trivia

Episode 656 - African Americans - 4-Letter Words - Authors' Native Lands - Let's Eat Italian! - Sports 2004

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 656, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: African Americans

  • 1: Crispus Attucks, called the first American to die for independence, was killed in this 1770 incident.
  • the Boston Massacre.
  • 2: This Harlem-born singer-dancer-actor was a member of the 1960s "Rat Pack" with Frank and Dino.
  • Sammy Davis, Jr..
  • 3: An award for African-American authors and illustrators is named for this wife of Martin Luther King Jr..
  • Coretta Scott King.
  • 4: "I cannot offer you money, position or fame", he said when he offered George Washington Carver a job at Tuskegee.
  • Booker T. Washington.
  • 5: 8 years before she won Olympic gold, this gymnast was a 2004 Virginia State champion.
  • Gabby Douglas.

    • Round 2. Category: 4-Letter Words

    • 1: Bacall's last word on how to whistle.
    • blow.
    • 2: From Greek for "single", a single man who lives in a monastery.
    • monk.
    • 3: This word commonly follows cuff or missing.
    • link.
    • 4: A boy who bears a bride's train, or a bellboy calling out a name.
    • page.
    • 5: A collection of tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne were "Twice" this.
    • Told.

      • Round 3. Category: Authors' Native Lands

      • 1: Godot waiter Samuel Beckett.
      • Ireland.
      • 2: "The Remains of the Day" novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.
      • Japan.
      • 3: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, chronicler of a death foretold.
      • Colombia.
      • 4: Celebrator of imperialism Rudyard Kipling.
      • India.
      • 5: Deptford trilogist Robertson Davies.
      • Canada.

        • Round 4. Category: Let's Eat Italian!

        • 1: Served before the pasta, it's an appetizer plate of meats, cheese, fish and vegetables.
        • antipasto.
        • 2: Long, very thin pasta called capellini is also known by this "divine" name.
        • angel hair pasta.
        • 3: This blue-veined cheese is named for a suburb of Milan, not a snake-haired monster.
        • Gorgonzola.
        • 4: From the Italian for "knot of wood", these potato dumplings may have cheese or spinach in them.
        • gnocchi.
        • 5: It's a layered ice cream dessert usually containing chopped fruits and nuts.
        • spumoni.

          • Round 5. Category: Sports 2004

          • 1: These big cats gave the Patriots all they could handle in Super Bowl XXXVIII.
          • the (Carolina) Panthers.
          • 2: All "Hale" this 58-year-old who won his fourth Senior PGA championship by a str--a shot.
          • Hale Irwin.
          • 3: He was the winning pitcher in the clinching game of all 3 series in the Red Sox' magical run.
          • Derek Lowe.
          • 4: Women from this country won tennis' Wimbledon and French and U.S. Opens.
          • Russia.
          • 5: This team's Chauncey Billups was MVP of the NBA Finals.
          • the Detroit Pistons.

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

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