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Episode 940 - From the greek - I'm surprised - Where you going? - A "kid" in - Literary collaborators

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 940, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: from the greek

  • 1: The name of this solid figure used to disperse light into a spectrum is from the Greek for "something sawed".
  • a prism.
  • 2: A preparation such as lipstick, skin cream or rouge, it's from the Greek for "order" or "arrangement".
  • cosmetic.
  • 3: A wound, or the psychological damage it causes.
  • a trauma.
  • 4: An absolute ruler; in ancient Greece it was one who seized power illegally.
  • a tyrant.
  • 5: This first name of poet Roethke means "gift of God".
  • Theodore.

    • Round 2. Category: i'm surprised

    • 1: Seeing the unexpectedly high price of a car can put you into the "sticker" type of this.
    • shock.
    • 2: This word for "speechless" can precede -struck or -founded.
    • dumb.
    • 3: Remarkable news may throw you for one of these, also the name of an aeronautical maneuver.
    • loop.
    • 4: Captain Kirk often ordered phasers set on this non-lethal surprising setting.
    • stun.
    • 5: On hearing a surprising affront, you may be "taken" this 5-letter way.
    • aback.

      • Round 3. Category: where you going?

      • 1: If you're going to Mecca, you know you're going to this country on the Red Sea.
      • Saudi Arabia.
      • 2: You're so vain, you're probably going to Halifax in this Canadian province to see that total eclipse of the sun.
      • Nova Scotia.
      • 3: Maybe braving this desert referred to as Dorsland or "Thirstland" by the Boers who trekked through it.
      • Kalahari.
      • 4: Are you meeting Captain Jean-Luc in this French region that recently merged with Nord-Pas-de-Calais?.
      • Picardy.
      • 5: Are you finally traversing the length of this mountain range that stretches from the Caspian to the Black Sea?.
      • the Caucasus.

        • Round 4. Category: a "kid" in

        • 1: Using care is treating something with these, as if you had delicate handwear.
        • kid gloves.
        • 2: This boy band began with a city-wide talent search in Boston.
        • the New Kids on the Block.
        • 3: Harry Longabaugh had this nickname as a member of the Wild Bunch.
        • the Sundance Kid.
        • 4: Parodying the Cabbage Patch Kids, these gross stickers were a sensation in the 1980s.
        • the Garbage Pail Kids.
        • 5: This term describes children who have to unlock the door when they come home to an empty house.
        • latchkey kids.

          • Round 5. Category: literary collaborators

          • 1: These brothers first published their "Fairy Tales" in 1812 as "Kinderund Hausmarchen".
          • the Brothers Grimm.
          • 2: She and her tres cher ami Jean-Paul Sartre collaborated on the political and literary journal Modern Times.
          • Simone de Beauvoir.
          • 3: For "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", Malcolm collaborated with this author.
          • Alex Haley.
          • 4: Sidney Howard helped this author dramatize "Dodsworth".
          • Sinclair Lewis.
          • 5: George S Kaufman died in June 1961; this man, his frequent collaborator, in December of that year.
          • Moss Hart.

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