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Episode 897 - european cities - literary relatives - howdy, partner! - actual mlb announcer quotes - he was in that?

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 897, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: european cities

  • 1: This capital lies 5 miles from the Bay of Phaleron, an arm of the Aegean Sea.
  • Athens.
  • 2: This city is central to works by James Joyce; after all, he was born there.
  • Dublin.
  • 3: The World Health Organization is headquartered in this Swiss city.
  • Geneva.
  • 4: In Krakow, Poland you'll find the former factory, now a museum, of this righteous businessman.
  • (Oskar) Schindler.
  • 5: Signed in 1975, the accord named for this city was an effort to ease tensions between the Soviet Bloc and the West.
  • Helsinki.

    • Round 2. Category: literary relatives

    • 1: Their father, an Irish-born clergyman named Patrick Brunty, changed the spelling of the family name.
    • Brontandeuml; Sisters (The Brontandeuml;s).
    • 2: Sara Coleridge wrote children's verse but was best known for editing the works of this man, her father.
    • Samuel Coleridge.
    • 3: Her mother, feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft, died 11 days after her birth.
    • Mary Shelley.
    • 4: "Lord Jim" author whose father, Apollo Korzeniowski, was a Polish poet.
    • Joseph Conrad.
    • 5: Quaker novelist Jessamyn West was a second cousin of this Quaker president.
    • (Richard) Nixon.

      • Round 3. Category: howdy, partner!

      • 1: 19th century printing partner of Nathaniel Currier.
      • Ives.
      • 2: After his partner's death in 1809, he partnered with Nicholas Biddle to complete the expedition report.
      • (William) Clark.
      • 3: Born in 1895, this lyricist partnered with composers Friml, Romberg, Kern and Rodgers.
      • Hammerstein.
      • 4: He partnered with Edward Williams in 1866 to "Cover the Earth" with paint.
      • Sherwin.
      • 5: In 1673, he and his exploring partner Joliet became the first Europeans to visit the area of Chicago.
      • Marquette.

        • Round 4. Category: actual mlb announcer quotes

        • 1: "Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like" this king of beasts.
        • a lion.
        • 2: "Today is Father's Day, so everyone out there, Happy" this, a 1968 Beatles tune.
        • Birthday.
        • 3: "The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's" this 2-word term, "low and outside".
        • ball one.
        • 4: "Winfield goes back... He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling" to here, the usual position of Robbie Alomar.
        • second base.
        • 5: "If Don Mattingly isn't the American League MVP, something isn't kosher in" this Asian country.
        • China.

          • Round 5. Category: he was in that?

          • 1: He appeared fleet-ingly in "Sailor Beware" with Martin and Lewis before "East of Eden" made him a star.
          • James Dean.
          • 2: Kevin Spacey played a sleazy businessman in this Melanie Griffith film about an ambitious secretary.
          • Working Girl.
          • 3: This boxing champ played a bartender in "The Hustler", and that's no "Raging Bull".
          • (Jake) LaMotta.
          • 4: Wayne Knight, who played Newman on "Seinfeld", got to interrogate Sharon Stone in this revealing thriller.
          • Basic Instinct.
          • 5: Before "Starsky and Hutch", Paul Michael Glaser played Perchik in this movie musical (Hint: Topol got top billing).
          • Fiddler on the Roof.

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

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