Instant Trivia

Episode 662 - Cities Of New York - Beloved Poems - Space Missions - Russellmania - Michelangelo

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 662, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cities Of New York

  • 1: It's "The Capital of the Empire State" and "The Edinburgh of America".
  • Albany.
  • 2: It's "The Bison City".
  • Buffalo.
  • 3: "The Birthplace of Baseball".
  • Cooperstown.
  • 4: "The Honeymoon City".
  • Niagara Falls.
  • 5: It's "The Kodak City" and "The Photo Capital of the World".
  • Rochester.

    • Round 2. Category: Beloved Poems

    • 1: "If I should die" wrote WWI poet Rupert Brooke, "... some corner of a foreign field ... is forever" this jolly old place.
    • England.
    • 2: Completes the final lines of a Longfellow poem: "Thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life some ...".
    • rain must fall.
    • 3: Auden's "Funeral Blues" became a favorite of mourners after it was featured in this Hugh Grant film.
    • Four Weddings and a Funeral.
    • 4: "Breathes there the man, with" this "so dead, who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!".
    • soul.
    • 5: 19th century bard George Pope Morris wrote the poem urging, "Woodman", do this.
    • spare that tree.

      • Round 3. Category: Space Missions

      • 1: The U.S. Ranger spacecrafts were designed to crash-land on this heavenly body.
      • Moon.
      • 2: All the nicknames of the Mercury capsules ended in this number, honoring the first group of astronauts.
      • 7.
      • 3: In 2008 the Phoenix Mars lander found ice on this region of the planet.
      • the poles.
      • 4: The New Horizons mission was launched to explore this planet before it was downgraded to a dwarf.
      • Pluto.
      • 5: The Cassini project is exploring Titan and Enceladus, moons of this second-largest planet.
      • Saturn.

        • Round 4. Category: Russellmania

        • 1: In 1966 this All-Star player became the first African-American head coach in the NBA.
        • Bill Russell.
        • 2: Astronomers Henry Russell and Ejnar Hertzsprung devised a diagram displaying the luminosity of these.
        • stars.
        • 3: "The Analysis of Mind" and "Marriage and Morals" are books by this thinker, grandson of a British prime minister.
        • Bertrand Russell.
        • 4: Until 1931 members of this religious movement founded by Charles Russell were known as Russellites.
        • Jehovah's Witnesses.
        • 5: A collection of this New York Times columnist's work was titled "Poor Russell's Almanac".
        • Russell Baker.

          • Round 5. Category: Michelangelo

          • 1: The left arm of this over 14-foot marble statue was broken in 1527 and not repaired until later.
          • David.
          • 2: Born in Caprese, Michelangelo was taken to this city while still an infant.
          • Florence.
          • 3: 'Bacchus", his first surviving large statue, led to a commission for this sculpture now in St. Peter's.
          • the Pieta.
          • 4: Michelangelo's enormous statue of Pope Julius II in this metal was later recast into a cannon.
          • bronze.
          • 5: In 1489 Michelangelo enrolled at an art school established by this "Magnificent" Medici.
          • Lorenzo.

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

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