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January 11, 2024Episode 1066 - Let's go online - The unicorn - Good knight - Culture around the world - Tough oz
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1066, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Let'S Go Online
1: Oh my God! It's a double rainbow video! Seen by more than 19.3 million people on this site! What does this mean?!.
YouTube.
2: "The Clone Wars: Fierce Twilight" and "The Powerpuff Girls: Fast and Flurrious" are games at this TV channel's .com.
Cartoon Network.
3: On May 15, 2007 Shawn Cotter used this site to prank friends, creating the rickroll.
YouTube.
4: There's no place like this cozy page, the first page of a website.
the home page.
5: Nora Ephron is editor at large for this political site co-founded by Arianna.
the Huffington Post.
Round 2. Category: The Unicorn
1: This Japanese beer brand uses a unicorn for its logo and that's what its name means.
Kirin.
2: In "Through the Looking-Glass", she meets a unicorn who is stunned to discover she's not a monster.
Alice.
3: The endangered Indian species of this large ungulate has the scientific name R. unicornis.
rhinoceros.
4: The "Gentleman Caller" breaks Laura's prized figurine in this play from 1945.
The Glass Menagerie.
5: This unicorn-like whale's "horn" is really a long tusk.
narwhal.
Round 3. Category: Good Knight
1: The Poor Knights of Christ became known by this name after occupying a house near the Temple of Solomon.
the Knights Templar.
2: Anne Crompton reworks medieval lit by pairing this knight not with the Green Knight but rather with "Lady Green".
Gawain.
3: "The Hedge Knight" is a graphic novel set in the same world as this author's "A Song of Ice and Fire".
George R.R. Martin.
4: When a woman gets a knighthood from the British, she gets this title before her name.
dame.
5: 11th century knight El Cid was a soldier of fortune for both Christians and these Spanish Muslims.
Moors.
Round 4. Category: Culture Around The World
1: Drawing from the name of our motion picture capital, it's the name for India's movie industry.
Bollywood.
2: This museum's original holdings consisted of art collected by the Hapsburg and Bourbon monarchs of Spain.
the Prado.
3: In 1953 the Shakespeare Festival in this Ontario, Canada city held its first performance.
Stratford.
4: This form of Japanese drama that incorporates music, dance and mime developed in the 1600s.
kabuki.
5: Originated by 2 high schoolers in 1971 , the Roskilde culture and music festival in this country is one of Europe's largest.
Denmark.
Round 5. Category: Tough Oz
1: The Wicked Witch of the West dies when Dorothy does this to her.
Sprays her with water.
2: The 3 kinds of animals fretted about in the forest, "Oh My!".
Lions and tigers and bears.
3: It's the part of the Tin Man's body that Dorothy oils first.
his mouth.
4: The warning on the Haunted Forest signpost says "I'd" do this "If I were you".
Turn back.
5: This animal pulls the coach in the Emerald City.
the Horse of a Different Color.
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January 10, 2024Episode 1065 - Poe-pourri - Serial killers - They named a city for me in... - "out" at first - The ship of state
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1065, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Poe-Pourri
1: Poe was terribly ill when he was found in a tavern in this city on October 3, 1849; he died a few days later.
Baltimore.
2: One of the title objects in this Poe story had a "terrifically wide sweep (some thirty feet or more)".
"The Pit and the Pendulum"?.
3: "I admit the deed! Tear up the planks!" this title object is beneath them.
"The Tell-Tale Heart".
4: 16-letter word used by Poe to describe the runic rhyme that musically welled from the bells.
tintinnabulation.
5: Twain said it's the only animal that blushes; Poe said it's the only animal that diddles.
humans (man).
Round 2. Category: Serial Killers
1: Mistah Kurtz--he dead; in the April 1899 issue of Balckwood's Magazine thanks to this author.
(Joseph) Conrad.
2: In a March 1852 serial chapter in The National Era, Harriet Beecher Stowe killed off this title character.
Uncle Tom.
3: Charles Dickens dragged out the death of Little Nell over installments of this "Old" novel.
The Old Curiosity Shop.
4: Stephen King senselessly snuffed out this mouse in part 3 of "The Green Mile"... he'd be back.
Mr. Jingles.
5: In the May 1, 1886 issue of Graphic, this author killed off Lucetta and her unborn child in "The Mayor of Casterbridge".
Thomas Hardy.
Round 3. Category: They Named A City For Me In...
1: Reverend Newitt Vick (1811).
Mississippi.
2: Dr. Bartlett Durham (1854).
North Carolina.
3: Sedona Schnebly (1902).
Arizona.
4: Commodore Robert F. Stockton (1850).
California.
5: Lieutenant Caspar (sic) Collins (1888).
Wyoming.
Round 4. Category: Out At First. With Out in quotes
1: A loss of electrical power.
an outage.
2: A discount store devoted to a single retail brand.
an outlet.
3: This word for a criminal comes from early Scandinavian.
outlaw.
4: Let's get things straight from this, the very beginning of something.
the outset.
5: A rock formation that projects from the ground.
an outcrop.
Round 5. Category: The Ship Of State
1: In the 1860s a paddle-wheeler named this plied the waters of the same-named river around Fort Yuma.
Colorado.
2: Designated SSN-780, the current USS Missouri isn't a battleship but a nuclear-powered one of these.
a submarine.
3: 2 schooners called the Oregon Fir and the Oregon this carried lumber from the U.S. to Australia in the 1920s.
the Oregon Pine.
4: The Pearl Harbor Memorial to this ship reminds visitors it was the scene of great loss and asks them to dress appropriately.
the Arizona.
5: In 1862, the captured and rebuilt USS Merrimack was relaunched as the CSS this state.
the Virginia.
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January 09, 2024Episode 1064 - Airborne - Owed on a grecian urn - One-letter geography - Acting families - Water carriers
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1064, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Airborne
1: It figures that Otto was the name of the autopilot in this 1980 movie comedy in the clouds.
Airplane!.
2: Tom Hanks and several FedEx packages survive a particularly bumpy flight in this film.
Cast Away.
3: Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a prisoner with a heart of gold, in this flighty film.
Con Air.
4: One of the President's own men is a terrorist when the title plane gets hijacked in this 1997 actioner.
Air Force One.
5: Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick were both nominated for Oscars for this 2009 film.
Up in the Air.
Round 2. Category: Owed On A Grecian Urn
1: For building the Parthenon as leader of Athens, I say to the citizens: you owe me! and please take better care of it.
Pericles.
2: Though blind, I see that you're still reading my "Iliad" and "Odyssey"; you owe me! Or at least the overdue library fees.
Homer.
3: "Slow and steady wins the race" is one of the morals I have taught you; you owe me!.
Aesop.
4: I left behind treatises on how to treat diseases and my oath is still taken today; you owe me! Do you have Blue Cross?.
Hippocrates.
5: Without my "Parallel Lives", you'd know a lot less about our history.
Plutarch.
Round 3. Category: One-Letter Geography
1: Due west of its capital Salem, this state's D River is billed as the world's shortest at 120 feet.
Oregon.
2: You'll find the region called "U" in Pohnpei, one of the Federated States of this multi-island Pacific nation.
Micronesia.
3: Sweden, Denmark and Norway all have villages with the "ring" type of this vowel for a name.
A.
4: This French village exists at the junction of 3 roads, hence its one-letter name.
Y.
5: Mount E on this island is at the entrance to the Tsugaru Strait, across which lies Honshu.
Hokkaido.
Round 4. Category: Acting Families
1: Ryan andTatum.
O'Neal.
2: BrothersBen and Casey.
Affleck.
3: Dad and sonFreddie.
Prinze.
4: Efrem andStephanie.
Zimbalist.
5: Junius and his boys Edwin and John.
Booth.
Round 5. Category: Water Carriers
1: The 62-mile Kings River flume in California wasn't built for a theme park but to float these.
logs.
2: One of these channels, built to bring goods by water to Madras, India, took 76 years to finish.
an canal.
3: Martin Luther King hoped for righteousness to roll down "like a mighty" this, not quite a river.
a mighty stream.
4: In 1590 Sir Francis Drake built the 17-mile River Leat, one of these channels, bringing water to Plymouth, England.
an aqueduct.
5: In the 1950s this project opened up a 2,300-mile system of waterways.
the Saint Lawrence Seaway project.
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January 08, 2024Episode 1063 - A plague on you! - Ice cream - London boroughs - Bloody business - Joe, annes and joannes
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1063, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: A Plague On You!
1: The 14th century "Black Death" that swept Europe was this type of plague, from the Greek for "groin".
Bubonic.
2: The first of these was the Nile turning to blood.
10 plagues of Egypt.
3: This physician and seer of the "centuries" treated plague victims in 16th century France.
Nostradamus.
4: He published "The Plague" in 1947.
Albert Camus.
5: In his diary, Samuel Pepys recounted the "Great Plague" sweeping through London in this decade.
1660s.
Round 2. Category: Ice Cream
1: This best-selling brand of cookies is also available as "cookies n' cream" ice cream.
Oreos.
2: More ice cream is consumed in this country than any other.
United States.
3: When setting up an ice cream maker, use table salt or this type which dissolves more slowly.
rock salt.
4: It's the most popular fruit flavor of ice cream in the U.S..
strawberry.
5: 2005 was the 20th birthday of this restaurant's Blizzard, a soft-serve treat.
Dairy Queen.
Round 3. Category: London Boroughs
1: This borough's name is synonymous with Britain's Parliament.
Westminster.
2: The 33 boroughs that make up London include this one that helps us keep time worldwide.
Greenwich.
3: 2 boroughs, Richmond and Kingston, are more properly followed by "upon" this body of water.
upon Thames.
4: Take a walk down memory lane in the borough of Camden and name this thoroughfare made famous by The Beatles.
Abbey Road.
5: More than 1,300 bombs were dropped on the especially hard-hit borough of Croydon during this 1940-41 German-named assault.
the Blitz.
Round 4. Category: Bloody Business
1: About half the blood collected in the U.S. is acquired by this organization.
Red Cross.
2: A bonding ritual turns 2 unrelated men into these.
Blood brothers.
3: It was the persecution of this group that earned Bloody Mary her nickname.
Protestants.
4: His first role as a swashbuckler was in 1935 as Captain Blood.
Errol Flynn.
5: The 4 things Churchill told the House of Commons he had to offer May 13, 1940 were blood and these.
"Toil, tears and sweat".
Round 5. Category: Joe, Annes And Joannes
1: In 1533 she gave birth to future Queen Elizabeth I.
Anne Boleyn.
2: His marriage to Marilyn Monroe lasted only 9 months in 1954.
Joe DiMaggio.
3: He retired from boxing in 1949, but returned only to be KOed by Rocky Marciano in 1951.
Joe Louis.
4: She played opposite her husband in the movies "The Drowning Pool" and "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge".
Joanne Woodward.
5: Her "Breathing Lessons" really paid off; in 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Anne Tyler.
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January 07, 2024Episode 1062 - Play faster! - Royal female nicknames - Literary houses - British business - Lousy souvenirs
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1062, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Play Faster!
1: Largo is a slow tempo of around 50 bpm, which is short for these.
beats per minute.
2: At a setting of 70, you're in this tempo; Samuel Barber wrote one "for Strings".
adagio.
3: A metronome setting of 100 is this tempo that includes the author of "Inferno".
andante.
4: 140 bpm brings you to this word, the basic musical indication for "fast" or "lively".
allegro.
5: This very fast tempo is also a word used by magicians to command the amazing to happen.
presto.
Round 2. Category: Royal Female Nicknames
1: Prime Minister Tony Blair dubbed her "The People's Princess".
Princess Diana.
2: England's "Good Queen Bess".
Elizabeth I.
3: She was "The Untamed Heifer" and "The Virgin Queen".
Elizabeth I.
4: Mark Antony called her "The Queen of Queens".
Cleopatra.
5: France's "The Austrian Wench".
Marie Antoinette.
Round 3. Category: Literary Houses
1: Harry Angstrom's house burns to the ground in this author's 1971 novel "Rabbit Redux".
(John) Updike.
2: Scarlett O'Hara's plantation home.
Tara.
3: In this Anne Tyler novel, a travel writer breaks his leg and moves into his siblings' home.
The Accidental Tourist.
4: This title gal's Manderley, which had an "iron gate leading to the drive".
Rebecca.
5: Title place where Hindley hates Heathcliff.
Wuthering Heights.
Round 4. Category: British Business
1: John Shepherd-Barron invented it and in 1967 Barclays Bank installed the world's first one.
an ATM.
2: This art book publisher took its name from the rivers flowing through London and New York City.
Thames and Hudson.
3: In the early 1700s William Fortnum, a footman who sold Queen Anne's used candles, went into retail with this partner.
(Hugh) Mason.
4: Lea and Perrins of sauce fame both started their careers as these, meaning druggists or pharmacists.
chemists.
5: In 1986 inefficiency and strikes did in this auto brand known as BL.
British Leyland.
Round 5. Category: Lousy Souvenirs
1: My aunt went to Spain and all I got were these lousy pants worn by heroes of the bullring.
Toreador pants.
2: My mother went to Hawaii and all I got was this long, loose dress.
Muumuu.
3: My uncle went to England and all I got was this lousy piece of a suit, which Americans call a vest.
Waistcoat.
4: My brother went to Venice Beach and all I got was this lousy shirt named for what he showed off.
Muscle shirt.
5: My granddad went to Ireland and all I got was this lousy overcoat named for a province there.
Ulster.
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January 06, 2024Episode 1061 - This is i country - Auditions for a new mustache - The works of victor hugo - The body politic - Lafayette
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1061, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: This Is I Country
1: An island, it's the world's northernmost "I" country.
Iceland.
2: They're the only 2 "I" countries to border each other.
Iran and Iraq.
3: One of this country's driest regions is the Negev Desert, with an annual rainfall of usually less than 10 inches.
Israel.
4: Its ethnic groups include the Dayaks on Borneo, the Toraja on Sulawesi and some Papuan groups on Irian Jaya.
Indonesia.
5: Among its 26 counties are one famed for its cut glass and one known for its tweed cloth.
Ireland.
Round 2. Category: Auditions For A New Mustache
1: It's thick, bushy and named for a tusked northern mammal.
a walrus mustache.
2: It bears the name of an artist born in Figueres.
Dalí.
3: With its twirlable up-curled ends, it's the perfect style for villains like Snidely Whiplash.
a handlebar mustache.
4: The shape of this 'stache gives it this name, like an item used in a backyard game.
horseshoe.
5: An Asian villain of literature and film lends his name to this mustache.
Fu Manchu.
Round 3. Category: The Works Of Victor Hugo
1: In "The Last Day of a Condemned Man," a prisoner wakes up every morning knowing each day could lead to this instrument of doom.
the guillotine.
2: "The Toilers of the Sea" is a story of a shipwreck in these islands between France and Britain where Hugo lived in exile for decades.
Channel Islands.
3: Hugo's only opera libretto was for "La Esmeralda," based on this novel of his.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
4: The early novel "Bug-Jargal" is set during the Revolution in this French Caribbean island possession.
Haiti.
5: Hugo's last novel, "Ninety-Three" refers to 1793, the fourth year of the French Revolution and the beginning of this brutal period.
The Reign of Terror.
Round 4. Category: The Body Politic
1: The 160-seat Dáil Éireann is the lower house of this country's parliament.
Ireland.
2: The lower house of Argentina's legislature is the chamber of these--representatives, not junior sheriffs.
deputies.
3: There are 338 members in this branch of Canada's parliament.
the House of Commons.
4: In the west Japan's national assembly, the Kokkai, goes by this slender name.
the Diet.
5: This name of Iceland's parliament comes from words meaning "whole assembly".
the Althing.
Round 5. Category: Lafayette
1: In April 1771 he joined this group of king's guards that was all for one and one for all.
the Musketeers.
2: In 1777 he spent part of a harsh winter here with George Washington.
Valley Forge.
3: Before turning his attention fully to the telegraph, he painted a portrait of Lafayette.
(Samuel) Morse.
4: In 1771 he joined this military group over 100 years after D'Artagnan.
the Musketeers.
5: July 15, 1789 the day after this political event, Lafayette was appointed head of the French national guard.
the storming of the Bastille.
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January 05, 2024Episode 1060 - Quick study - The cracker barrel - Honorary u.s. citizens - Presidential quotations - It's harbor day!
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1060, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Quick Study
1: Etymology is the study of the origin of these--it's time to use yours.
words.
2: It's the study of crime and punishment and the management of prisons.
penology.
3: It's the study of the glands and hormones.
endocrinology.
4: If you know that vexillology is the study of these, we salute you.
flags.
5: Though not an -ology, it's the study of coats of arms.
heraldry.
Round 2. Category: The Cracker Barrel
1: "The snack that smiles back", this kids' favorite from Pepperidge Farm comes in pizza and Parmesan flavors as well as Cheddar.
Goldfish.
2: As well as the traditional type, Manischewitz also makes this unleavened bread in the form of smaller crackers.
matzo.
3: Since 1934 we've been finding new toppings for "Putting on" these round classics.
Ritz.
4: Keebler bills Town House Flipsides as buttery crackers with the added taste of this salty snack.
pretzels.
5: Despite their name, these teensy crackers contain no shellfish.
oyster crackers.
Round 3. Category: Honorary U.S. Citizens
1: A city and a bay in this state derive their names from the most recent honoree, Revolutionary War hero Bernardo de Gálvez.
Texas.
2: Winston Churchill, the first honorary citizen, had the honor conferred on him April 9, 1963 by this man.
Kennedy.
3: This Quaker who founded a U.S. colony and his wife were given ex post facto citizenship for their farsighted reforms.
(William) Penn.
4: The law making him a citizen said he "secured the help of France to aid the United States' colonists against Great Britain".
Lafayette.
5: Named "Righteous Among the Nations" by Israel in 1963, this Swede was named an honorary citizen in 1981.
Wallenberg.
Round 4. Category: Presidential Quotations
1: In 1865 he said, "Whenever I hear someone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally".
Lincoln.
2: John Quincy Adams called this, which his father signed, "a light of salvation and redemption to the oppressed".
the Declaration of Independence.
3: In a 1976 Playboy interview, he said, "I've committed adultery in my heart many times".
Jimmy Carter.
4: On August 18, 1988 he told the GOP National Convention, "I want a kinder, gentler nation".
George H.W. Bush (George... Bush... the dad accepted).
5: After this April 1775 battle John Adams said, "The die was cast, the Rubicon passed".
Concord and Lexington.
Round 5. Category: It'S Harbor Day!
1: There's a 225-ton lady eternally greeting visitors at the entrance to this harbor.
New York Harbor.
2: Darwin Harbor was named in 1839 by John Stokes, a surveyor aboard this ship.
the Beagle.
3: On Dec. 16, 1773 the locals decided to give this harbor an unusual bit of pollution, and the world would never be the same.
Boston Harbor.
4: About 400 miles at its widest point, this sea has harbors in Riga, Latvia and Klaipeda, Lithuania.
the Baltic Sea.
5: Here's a view from this bridge named for the water below.
Sydney Harbor.
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January 04, 2024Episode 1059 - Eels - Rulers - Colorful cities - Texting in class - Movie endings
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1059, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Eels
1: There are more than 800 species of eels, including this large nocturnal hunter.
the moray.
2: These charged-up creatures are technically not eels at all, but knifefish.
electric eels.
3: This term is used for a young eel, especially when on migration upriver from the ocean.
an elver.
4: These long, slender sharklike fish of the Sphyraenidae family are among an eel's natural enemies.
barracuda.
5: There are about 100 species of this 6-letter variety of eel that can be 6 feet long.
the conger eel.
Round 2. Category: Rulers
1: Fredericksburg, Va. was founded in the 1720s and named after this king's father, Prince Frederick Louis.
George III.
2: This cousin of Julius Caesar committed suicide in August, 20 B.C. at Alexandria, Egypt.
Marc Antony.
3: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I was called Barbarossa, which means this.
red beard.
4: Philip V was the first Bourbon king of this country.
Spain.
5: When Solon ruled this city, he diminished the power of the aristocracy and freed those enslaved by debt.
Athens.
Round 3. Category: Colorful Cities
1: This former mining town was Colorado's territorial capital.
Golden.
2: Football fans know it sits at the mouth of Wisconsin's Fox River.
Green Bay.
3: A Southern California city and a Northern New Jersey township share this citrusy name.
Orange.
4: Parlez-vous Francais? Then name this Louisiana port at the head of the Mississippi's deepwater navigation.
Baton Rouge.
5: This "ville" is across the Rio Grande from Matamoros.
Brownsville.
Round 4. Category: Texting In Class
1: IANAL, but if I were one I'd be part of this class, the opposite of amateur.
a professional.
2: Dad makes big $? Yr family is in this class w/name of a pie layer.
the upper crust.
3: This head servant OTD? BOL finding a new one.
the butler.
4: NK, this bureau sez 46m Americans now in poverty.
the Census.
5: Per treasury sec, L/T prosperity "depends on an expanding, vibrant" this class.
the middle class.
Round 5. Category: Movie Endings
1: "Independence","The Longest","Training".
Day.
2: "Police","Toy","Love".
Story.
3: "Safe","Road","Animal".
House.
4: "After","Battlefield","The Good".
Earth.
5: "Hollow","Rain","Inside".
Man.
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January 03, 2024Episode 1058 - '60s muscle cars - Top "ten" - "word" play - Hunger games - Write, patterson
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1058, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: '60s Muscle Cars
1: Ronny and the Daytonas wanted to "turn it on, wind it up" and "blow it out".
GTO.
2: This Plymouth named for a sharp-toothed fish really had some bite.
Barracuda.
3: This Chevy was still going strong into the '90s with a Z-28 model.
Camaro.
4: This Pontiac muscle car moves much faster than the Stravinsky ballet.
Firebird.
5: Later maker of the Pacer, this automaker's Javelin hit the mark.
American Motors (AMC).
Round 2. Category: Top Ten. With Ten in quotes
1: Squid have 8 arms and 2 of these longer limbs.
tentacles.
2: Once a teacher is granted this, it's hard to dismiss him.
tenure.
3: During the '90s Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras performed together as "The Three" these.
Tenors.
4: Papaya contains an enzyme that breaks down connective tissue, so it is often used as one of these for meat.
a tenderizer.
5: It's the slender part of a vine that often wraps around another plant.
a tendril.
Round 3. Category: Word Play. With Word in quotes
1: Psychological "test" of verbal stimuli given to induce revelatory verbal responses.
word association.
2: The first of these was seen in the New York World newspaper Dec. 21, 1913.
Crossword puzzle.
3: An introductory chapter or essay.
Foreword.
4: This game show premiered on CBS Oct. 2, 1961.
Password.
5: At the turn of the 19th century, he penned the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us".
(William) Wordsworth.
Round 4. Category: Hunger Games
1: Nona Sivley won season 8 of this devil of a cooking competition that's on Fox.
Hell's Kitchen.
2: An "All Stars" version of this Bravo cooking show brought back 18 contestants who'd almost won in past seasons.
Top Chef.
3: "Ryori No Tetsujin" is the original title of this Japanese import.
Iron Chef.
4: Meals on wheels, indeed! Teams competed in a coast-to-coast culinary battle in a great race of these.
food trucks.
5: After each course, a chef is "cut" from the competition on this show hosted by Ted Allen of "queer eye".
Chopped.
Round 5. Category: Write, Patterson
1: James Patterson's first novel, "The Thomas Berryman Number", won this literary award named for Mr. Poe.
the Edgar Award.
2: Patterson's love of this sport inspired him to write "Miracle at Augusta".
golf.
3: Patterson came along in 1993 with "Along Came a Spider", his first book about this psychologist and detective.
Alex Cross.
4: While working in advertising, he wrote the slogan "I don't want to grow up, I'm a" this kind of kid.
Toys "R" Us.
5: Patterson's young adult series about siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood is titled "Witch and" this.
Witch and Wizard.
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January 02, 2024Episode 1057 - Astronomical rhyme time - Fill in the (mel) blanc - Monarchs of england - Literary couples - Biography
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1057, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Astronomical Rhyme Time
1: Any song about Earth's natural satellite.
a Moon tune.
2: Red planet pubs.
Mars bars.
3: Space telescope problem.
Hubble trouble.
4: Comet discoverer Edmond's narrow lanes.
Halley's alleys.
5: One who determines the age of meteorite impact holes.
a crater dater (crater rater accepted).
Round 2. Category: Fill In The (Mel) Blanc
1: This 3-word query might have been Mel Blanc's first words.
What's up, Doc?.
2: Blanc joined Hanna-Barbera to voice this character, Fred's neighbor and Betty's husband.
(Barney) Rubble.
3: It was Mel Blanc's catchphrase when voicing a crested bird of the southwest U.S..
Beep, beep.
4: For "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", Blanc revived 5 characters including Tweety and this other bird.
Daffy Duck.
5: As a railroad announcer on Jack Benny's radio and TV shows, Blanc called out the stations "Anaheim, Azusa and" this.
Cucamonga.
Round 3. Category: Monarchs Of England
1: The one with the second-longest reign.
Elizabeth II.
2: Harold II had been king less than 10 months when he was defeated by William the Conqueror in this year.
1066.
3: He was king not only during the American war of independence but during the War of 1812 as well.
George III.
4: This king, brother of Richard the Lionheart has a bad reputation; even his title, Count of Mortain, sounds evil.
John.
5: This restored king ruled during the great plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London the following year.
Charles II.
Round 4. Category: Literary Couples
1: Her book title "Sonnets from the Portuguese" refers to her husband's nickname for her.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
2: Dashiell Hammett modeled this lady sleuth after his lover, Lillian Hellman.
Nora Charles.
3: She wrote a book subtitled "The Modern Prometheus"; he wrote the drama "Prometheus Unbound".
Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley.
4: 2 of her novels contain barely fictionalized portraits of her lover, Jean-Paul Sartre.
Simone de Beauvoir.
5: At least 2 of her books are dedicated to Quintana, her daughter by John Gregory Dunne.
Joan Didion.
Round 5. Category: Biography
1: Born an Air Force brat in Germany in 1959, he won his first Wimbledon in 1981 and married Tatum O'Neal in 1986.
John McEnroe.
2: "Parting the Waters" is volume 1 in Taylor Branch's trilogy about this man's life and the civil rights movement.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..
3: She's the political wife profiled here.
Ethel Kennedy.
4: She was one of the last stars in the studio system"The tobacco farmer's daughter from North Carolina was awed and intimidated by the luxury of the MGM system.".
Ava Gardner.
5: Born into Philadelphia's "High Society" in 1929, became a princess in 1956, lived happily ever after until 1982.
Princess Grace/Grace Kelly.
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