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Episode 860 - corporal punishment - named for - lions, tigers and bears - we love the theatre - paperback writer

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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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