Instant Trivia

Episode 961 - Dealer's choice - Politics and current affairs books - Brain strain - Not without my daughter - "go" to the end

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 961, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Dealer'S Choice

  • 1: Wilhelm Roentgen won the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of these rays.
  • X-Rays.
  • 2: The Vulcans play for U.H. Hilo, this school with an active volcano next door.
  • the University of Hawaii.
  • 3: The 1932 Bela Lugosi classic "White Zombie" is set in this traditional Caribbean zombie homeland.
  • Haiti.
  • 4: Pablo Picasso said that "the genius of" this man "leads to Hiroshima".
  • (Albert) Einstein.
  • 5: A journalist's source who wants to remain anonymous may speak "on" this, or even "on deep" this.
  • background.

    • Round 2. Category: Politics And Current Affairs Books

    • 1: Longtime friend and coworker Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the foreword to a book of speeches by this late justice.
    • Scalia.
    • 2: "Escape from Camp 14" is the story of Shin Dong-Hyuk's escape to freedom from a prison in this country.
    • North Korea.
    • 3: This host of "Hardball" gives a behind-the-scenes portrait of a presidential brother in "Bobby Kennedy".
    • Chris Matthews.
    • 4: "The Weapon Wizards" is a study of the strategies that have helped make this Mideast nation a high-tech superpower.
    • Israel.
    • 5: "Kingfish" explores the life of this Louisiana governor some call a demagogue and some a visionary.
    • Huey Long.

      • Round 3. Category: Brain Strain

      • 1: The word monosyllable has this many syllables.
      • 5.
      • 2: This final board game maneuver comes from the Arabic phrase "Shah Mat"--the king is dead.
      • checkmate.
      • 3: A group of things of the same kind, or scenery constructed for a theatrical performance.
      • Set.
      • 4: Appropriately, this stadium has hosted the NFL Super Bowl more than any other.
      • Louisiana Superdome.
      • 5: Reassembled and rededicated in Arizona in 1971, it was the largest antique ever sold.
      • London Bridge.

        • Round 4. Category: Not Without My Daughter

        • 1: For many years, this "pretty baby" was inseparable from her manager mom Teri, an ex-model herself.
        • Brooke Shields.
        • 2: It's no rumor: her real daughter, Rumer, played her movie daughter in "Striptease".
        • Demi Moore.
        • 3: Mom Naomi kept performing as half of this duo for over a year after doctors advised her to quit.
        • the Judds.
        • 4: This current Dutch queen was a baby when she fled the Netherlands with her mother during WWII.
        • Beatrice (Beatrix).
        • 5: In 1986 she and her mother Nusrat were formally elected co-Chairwomen of the Pakistani People's Party.
        • (Benazir) Bhutto.

          • Round 5. Category: Go To The End. With Go in quotation marks

          • 1: In 2000 Ladies Home Journal ranked this North Dakota city among the Top 10 cities for women.
          • Fargo.
          • 2: A deep violet blue.
          • indigo.
          • 3: In "Othello", he delivers the line, "Beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey'd monster".
          • Iago.
          • 4: A pain in the back, the lower back.
          • lumbago.
          • 5: In mythology this ship on which Jason sailed contained magic wood from a sacred oak.
          • Argo.

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