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Episode 939 - Boy story - Of the tiger - Logo a-gogo - Time for "t" - Russian literature

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 939, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: boy story

  • 1: What, were you raised by wolves? well, if you're this "Jungle Book" boy, then yes, you were.
  • Mowgli.
  • 2: Parzival is the avatar of a kid with an extremely good handle on '80s pop culture in this novel.
  • Ready Player One.
  • 3: The name "Pip" is mentioned 3 times in the first 2 sentences of this novel--we get it, the guy's name is Pip.
  • Great Expectations.
  • 4: R.J. Palacio said this bestseller about Auggie Pullman and his unique face was "a meditation on kindness".
  • Wonder.
  • 5: It's Nick Hornby's novel concerning a 12-year-old lad and a man in his 30s and how the 2 bond.
  • About a Boy.

    • Round 2. Category: of the tiger

    • 1: The Jersey boys who play sports for this university are the Tigers.
    • Princeton.
    • 2: First graders work to achieve tiger rank in this organization.
    • the Cub Scouts.
    • 3: Here's the story of a dog named Tiger who was a family pet on this TV show.
    • The Brady Bunch.
    • 4: "Tyger tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night", begins a poem in his 1794 collection "Songs of Experience".
    • (William) Blake.
    • 5: The largest carnivorous marsupial of modern times was the now-extinct thylacine, also known as this alliterative tiger.
    • Tasmanian.

      • Round 3. Category: logo a-gogo

      • 1: The dynamic ribbon device (AKA "the wave") is part of the logo of this soft drink.
      • Coca-Cola.
      • 2: Its red and white bullseye logo was born in 1962 along with this retailer's brand name.
      • Target.
      • 3: This purveyor of roast beef and other sandwiches wanted to be called Big Tex, so the stylized cowboy hat logo makes more sense.
      • Arby's.
      • 4: Larry, the white-haired gent on the label of steel-cut and other products of this brand, got a subtle makeover in 2012.
      • Quaker Oats.
      • 5: A black prancing horse on a canary yellow background, the color of Modena, is the logo of this Italian car.
      • Ferrari.

        • Round 4. Category: time for "t"

        • 1: These small pincers are used to remove splinters or hair.
        • tweezers.
        • 2: It's a newspaper concentrating on lurid news or whose pages are about half the standard size.
        • a tabloid.
        • 3: It's a set of kettledrums that's used in an orchestra.
        • a timpani.
        • 4: This plant belongs to the genus Nicotiana.
        • tobacco.
        • 5: It's the 11-letter word for an excessively fast heartbeat.
        • tachycardia.

          • Round 5. Category: russian literature

          • 1: The last words spoken in this novel are "Hurrah for Karamazov!".
          • The Brothers Karamazov.
          • 2: In this last Chekov play, the character Trofimov says, "All Russia is our orchard".
          • The Cherry Orchard.
          • 3: This 1957 Pasternak novel was finally published in the USSR in 1987.
          • Doctor Zhivago.
          • 4: His 1863 novel "The Cossacks" grew out of his service in the Russian Army in the Caucasus.
          • Tolstoy.
          • 5: He was expelled from the Soviet Writer's Union in 1969; in 1970 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
          • Solzhenitsyn.

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

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