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