Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 860, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: corporal punishment
1: In 1994 Singapore's punishment for vandalism by U.S. citizen Michael Fay was flogging with a rattan one of these.cane.2: This instrument of torture, a wooden frame with moveable bars, stretches the body until the bones separate.a rack.3: One superstition says that a trinity of trinities would be more efficient, hence the number of lashes on this whip.a cat-o-nine-tails.4: This device doesn't sound as ominous when it's called a thumbkin.a thumbscrew.5: The name of this medieval instrument of torture is a translation of Eiserne Jungfrau.iron maiden.Round 2. Category: named for
1: The company formerly called "Alonzo Richmond, Agents for Onondaga Salt" now bears his name.Morton.2: While Asa Gray was known for his books on botany, Henry Gray was known for his books on this science.anatomy.3: While John Bartlett put his name on a book of quotes, Enoch Bartlett put his name on this.a pear.4: Textile manufacturer whose big donation got the N.Y. Institute of Musical Art named for him.Augustus Juilliard.5: Captain Cook gave this name to a Pacific island group in honor of Earl John Montagu.the Sandwich Islands.Round 3. Category: lions, tigers and bears
1: The 2 you'd find naturally in Siberia.Bears and tigers.2: The website for this spokes-animal includes "Campfire Rules" and "Preventing Wildfires".Smokey Bear (Smokey the Bear).3: This Ivy League university began using a tiger as its mascot in part because its school colors are orange and black.Princeton.4: An early version of this Mississippi author's story "The Bear" was published under the title "Lion".Faulkner.5: The Leone d'oro, or the Golden Lion, is the top prize awarded at this Italian city's film festival, the world's oldest.Venice.Round 4. Category: we love the theatre
1: A '97 musical told the story of a kid who was half-boy and half-one of these bloodsucking flying animals.bat.2: Plays written by teens are featured in HYPE, this "space"y Texas city's Young Playwrights Exchange Festival.Houston.3: Written about teens for a teen audience, "Generation Why?" premiered in Costa Mesa in this West Coast state in 1999.California.4: Son of a gun! Bernadette Peters won her second Tony in 1999, for playing Annie Oakley in this musical revival.Annie Get Your Gun.5: The New York Times called the hero of this Disney musical "a cross between Quasimodo and a buffalo".Beauty and the Beast.Round 5. Category: paperback writer
1: Sales of the paperback of Steinbeck's "East of Eden" skyrocketed when she picked it for her book club.Oprah Winfrey.2: Crush your enemies and name this Robert E. Howard barbarian whose "Collected Adventures" are collected in paperback.Conan.3: His bestselling paperback "The No Spin Zone" chronicles his confrontations with the powerful and the famous.Bill O'Reilly.4: This crime novelist wrote the 1961 paperback Western classic "Hombre".Elmore Leonard.5: This man who's given us "Goosebumps" has sold more than 400 million books.(R.L.) Stine.Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
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