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Episode 989 - The communist manifesto - From d to d - Baltimore - Plot - Tv narrators

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 989, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Communist Manifesto

  • 1: These 2 authors were both in their 20s when they wrote the pamphlet.
  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
  • 2: The pamphlet ends, "Workers of the world," do this!.
  • unite.
  • 3: The proletarians "have nothing to lose but" these.
  • Their chains.
  • 4: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of" these.
  • class struggles.
  • 5: "The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of" this, an alliterative phrase.
  • private property.

    • Round 2. Category: From D To D

    • 1: Beastly cross-country transport in Arctic regions.
    • a dog sled.
    • 2: Adjective meaning you are so surprised by something that you do not know what to do or say.
    • dumbfounded.
    • 3: The name of these muscles comes from their triangular shape.
    • deltoids.
    • 4: A car battery brand, or someone loyal to particular ideas and unwilling to change.
    • Diehard.
    • 5: The plastic skin stretched tight over a snare or bass frame.
    • a drumhead.

      • Round 3. Category: Baltimore

      • 1: Begun in 1815, America's first large-scale monument to this man towers above Mount Vernon Place.
      • George Washington.
      • 2: The 1814 bombardment of this nearby site is commemorated on Defenders' Day.
      • Fort McHenry.
      • 3: "Liberty Heights" and "Diner" are among the Baltimore-set movies by this Baltimore-born writer and director.
      • Barry Levinson.
      • 4: Famous for its medical school, this university celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2001.
      • Johns Hopkins.
      • 5: Horse racing's Preakness Stakes runs each May at this racetrack.
      • Pimlico.

        • Round 4. Category: Plot

        • 1: Code name Valkyrie, the July plot was a 1944 attempt to assassinate this man.
        • Hitler.
        • 2: The gunpowder in the 1605 gunpowder plot was found under this building.
        • Parliament.
        • 3: A certain agency whose initials are C.I.A. helped plot the overthrow of this country's PM Mossadegh in 1953.
        • Iran.
        • 4: Khrushchev said in 1956 that this leader had created the trumped-up "Doctors' Plot".
        • Stalin.
        • 5: Yui Shosetsu failed in 1651 to oust the Tokugawa shogunate with an army of these "masterless warriors".
        • ronin.

          • Round 5. Category: Tv Narrators

          • 1: The finale of this sitcom was not narrated by Bob Saget but by Josh Radnor, who played the title pronoun.
          • How I Met Your Mother.
          • 2: Michael C. Hall played the titular serial killer and narrator of this Showtime series.
          • Dexter.
          • 3: (I'm Iain Armitage.) So you don't get us mixed up, on the show "Young Sheldon", I play young Sheldon Cooper, while this actor is the voice of older Sheldon.
          • Jim Parsons.
          • 4: Mary Alice Young is the omniscient dead narrator of this series about her neighbors on Wisteria Lane.
          • Desperate Housewives.
          • 5: As the narrator of "Arrested Development" he said, "Tobias was a never-nude, which is exactly what it sounds like".
          • Ron Howard.

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