July 19, 2023

Episode 889 - death sentences - skunks - dance history - epitaphs and tributes - crayola crayons

8 minutes

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 889, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: death sentences

1: It was in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy that he wrote nothing is "Certain except death and taxes".

Benjamin Franklin.

2: Filmmaker who said, "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens".

Woody Allen.

3: In a June 1897 issue of the New York Journal he quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration".

Mark Twain.

4: He was quoted by Plato as saying, "No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death".

Socrates.

5: Emily Dickinson wrote, "Because I could not stop for death he kindly" did this.

stopped for me.

Round 2. Category: skunks

1: With a favorable wind, skunks can do this for up to about 23 feet.

spray.

2: The skunk lends its name to this foul-smelling "vegetable" found in swamps.

skunk cabbage.

3: Name of zee skunk in zee popular Warner Brothers cartoons.

PepÃƒÂ© Le Pew.

4: Skunks are the major carriers of this disease in the continental U.S..

rabies.

5: Condition of the skunk in the title of the following 1973 Top 20 hit:"Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose! /Roll up yer window and hold yer nose".

dead and in the middle of the road.

Round 3. Category: dance history

1: In the 11th and 14th centuries it was the macabre place where a "danse macabre" was preformed.

cemetery.

2: The record for one of these events is held by a couple who danced from August 29, 1930 to April 1, 1931.

dance marathon.

3: With her husband, Ted Shawn, this modern dancer began the Denishaw Dance Company and School.

Ruth St. Denis.

4: This courtly, elegant dance fell out of favor when the waltz hit the dance halls of Europe about 1769.

minuet.

5: Latin chain dance introduced in the 1930s that goes like this: "1-2-3 kick, 1-2-3 kick...".

conga.

Round 4. Category: epitaphs and tributes

1: Signer of the Dec. of Indep., framer of the Constitution of Mass., second President of the United States.

John Adams.

2: "And away we go".

Jackie Gleason.

3: Outlaw: "Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here".

Jesse James.

4: Revolutionary War hero: "His spirit is in Vermont now".

Ethan Allen.

5: 1939 Oscar winner: "...you are a credit to your craft, your race and to your family".

Hattie McDaniel (for her role in Gone with the Wind).

Round 5. Category: crayola crayons

1: Shades of this color include Magic Mint and Granny Smith Apple.

green.

2: You might use this shade of yellow to color the songbird of the same name.

Canary.

3: What's up, Doc?--in 1990 Crayola dangled a new orange crayon called Neon this.

Carrot.

4: Billy Crystal gets all "fired up" for this reddish-brown classic; it's the color he used as a kid to draw autumn in N.Y..

Burnt Sienna.

5: Simple, but not surprising--It's the favorite color of the current California governor.

gray.

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

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