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 GarcÃÂa 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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