Instant Trivia

Episode 758 - "In" Cities - Famous Cows - Book Sequels? - Renaissance Men - Words Of The '60s

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 758, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "In" Cities

  • 1: This resort city in Austria's Tirol is the northern gateway to the Brenner Pass in the Alps.
  • Innsbruck.
  • 2: This Kansas City suburb was the starting point for the Oregon, Santa Fe and California Trails.
  • Independence.
  • 3: The headquarters for the American Legion is located in this state capital.
  • Indianapolis.
  • 4: This Swiss resort town is so named because it's located between 2 lakes.
  • Interlaken.
  • 5: Some say Macbeth murdered Duncan in a castle near this Scottish city.
  • Inverness.

    • Round 2. Category: Famous Cows

    • 1: Said to have started the Great Chicago Fire.
    • Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
    • 2: Wife of Elmer, she's the Borden cow.
    • Elsie.
    • 3: The emotional state of Carnation Company's cows.
    • contented.
    • 4: 1 of 2 breeds named for a British Channel island on which they were developed.
    • Guernsey (or Jersey).
    • 5: Cow seen in Mickey Mouse cartoons who shares her name with a male Howdy Doody character.
    • Clarabelle.

      • Round 3. Category: Book Sequels?

      • 1: Arthur Dimmesdale returns (difficult, as he died in the first book) in this 19th c. author's "The Chartreuse Number".
      • Hawthorne.
      • 2: Guy Montag is back, and those books are gonna pay in this author's "Celsius 232.78".
      • Ray Bradbury.
      • 3: Natty Bumppo discovers there's "The Penultimate Iroquois" in this man's 1820s sequel.
      • James Fenimore Cooper.
      • 4: Edmond Dantes gets a promotion in this author's 19th c. sequel "The Fresh Prince of Monte Cristo".
      • Alexandre Dumas.
      • 5: Jose Arcadio Buendia is back a-buildin' in this author's 1960s book "25 More Years of Me-Time".
      • Gabriel García Márquez.

        • Round 4. Category: Renaissance Men

        • 1: Unlike his predecessors, Maximilian I of this empire wasn't crowned by the Pope.
        • the Holy Roman Empire.
        • 2: "Being unarmed...causes you to be despised", he wrote in "The Prince".
        • Machiavelli.
        • 3: Pope Leo X was the second son of this "Magnificent" Medici.
        • Lorenzo.
        • 4: 1 of the first reliefs this great artist sculpted was the "Madonna of the Stairs".
        • Michelangelo.
        • 5: This Borgia was accused of murdering his brother Giovanni in 1497.
        • Cesare.

          • Round 5. Category: Words Of The '60s

          • 1: These 2 birds represented conciliatory and aggressive attitudes toward war.
          • Doves and hawks.
          • 2: To talk freely and frankly, or H. Brown's "middle name".
          • rap.
          • 3: Logically enough, it's the single word for a topless bikini.
          • Monokini.
          • 4: Term for those who rode buses to test integration in interstate travel.
          • "Freedom Riders".
          • 5: Precedes "wasted", "down" and "your act together".
          • get.

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

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