Instant Trivia

Episode 704 - You Could Hurt Someone - Wine - A "War And Peace" Quiz - Historic Trios - Newspaper Towns

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 704, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: You Could Hurt Someone

  • 1: Roy Blunt of Missouri is the majority one in the House of Representatives.
  • a whip.
  • 2: Playing Lieutenant Howard Hunter, James B. Sikking led this team on "Hill Street Blues".
  • a SWAT team.
  • 3: A cord used on laundry day in sunny weather.
  • a clothesline.
  • 4: On a standard computer keyboard it shares a key with the question mark.
  • a slash.
  • 5: It precedes "Monaco" in this name of a brand owned by Ralph Lauren.
  • club.

    • Round 2. Category: Wine

    • 1: Vin Santo, a sweet specialty of this country's Tuscany region, is made with semi-dried grapes.
    • Italy.
    • 2: The Coonawarra is a top wine region in this down under country.
    • Australia.
    • 3: The Douro Valley in this country is an important port producer.
    • Portugal.
    • 4: Lacrima Christi, or "tears of Christ", is made from grapes grown on this Italian volcano.
    • Vesuvius.
    • 5: The area surrounding this seaport of SW France is the most important fine wine region in the world.
    • Bordeaux.

      • Round 3. Category: A "War And Peace" Quiz

      • 1: When it comes to "War And Peace", he wrote the book.
      • Leo Tolstoy.
      • 2: In Part XI we see "The grand and inevitable event of the abandonment and burning of" this city.
      • Moscow.
      • 3: First name of Ms. Pavlovna, at whose party the book opens; the author also used it for Ms. Karenina.
      • Anna.
      • 4: Pierre, a prisoner set to be executed facing one of these, watches 5 die before he is reprieved.
      • firing squad.
      • 5: Nikolay and Andrey Bolkonsky were princes; Ilya Rostov had this title, 2, 3, 4....
      • Count.

        • Round 4. Category: Historic Trios

        • 1: In music history, they're known as "The Three B's".
        • Bach, Brahms and Beethoven.
        • 2: Crassus, Pompey and this guy made up the first Roman triumvirate.
        • Caesar.
        • 3: It was the slogan of the French Revolution.
        • "Liberte, egalite, fraternite".
        • 4: These three men who formed the first triumvirate in 60 B.C. had no official sanction.
        • Caesar, Crassus and Pompey.
        • 5: With Israel's Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, this man won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
        • (Yasser) Arafat.

          • Round 5. Category: Newspaper Towns

          • 1: The Arizona Republic.
          • Phoenix.
          • 2: Pravda,shut down in 1996.
          • Moscow.
          • 3: The Inquirer,founded 1829.
          • Philadelphia.
          • 4: Jornal do Brasil.
          • Rio de Janeiro.
          • 5: The Rocky Mountain News.
          • Denver.

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

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