Episode 1125 - Lakers - Nyc authors - 20th century books - Statuesque authors - Smarties

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1125, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lakers

• 1: Locals in this Upstate New York City know it hosted the 1980 winter Olympics.
• Lake Placid.
• 2: Folks on the Nevada border know this lake took its name from the Washoe word for "Big Water".
• Lake Tahoe.
• 3: Workers are way above average in ports such as Duluth on this Great Lake.
• Lake Superior.
• 4: People walk like Egyptians around this lake formed by the creation of the Aswan High Dam.
• Lake Nasser.
• 5: U.N. office workers in Switzerland overlook this lake and have a view of the Alps.
• Lake Geneva.

Round 2. Category: Nyc Authors

• 1: Walt Whitman, Henry Miller, and Betty Smith's "tree" all grew up in this borough.
• Brooklyn.
• 2: Tho he "looked homeward" to North Carolina, he lived in NYC because "You Can't Go Home Again".
• Thomas Wolfe.
• 3: James Baldwin called this "the only human part of New York", but left it anyway.
• Harlem.
• 4: Mark Twain, Dylan Thomas and Arthur Miller all lived in this famed hotel named for a London district.
• The Chelsea.
• 5: The Algonquin Hotel apparently threw this "Borstal Boy" out when he chased the maids thru the halls.
• Brendan Behan.

Round 3. Category: 20Th Century Books

• 1: "What is fire? It's a mystery", says this novel; "Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences".
• Fahrenheit 451.
• 2: In a Steinbeck tale this title object is thrown back into the water after causing trouble.
• the pearl.
• 3: Modern Library's pick as one of this century's top English-language novels is this 1969 Philip Roth book.
• "Portnoy's Complaint".
• 4: This novel begins on the porch of Tara.
• Gone with the Wind.
• 5: Lucy steps into this part of the title in a 1950 tale and discovers a "second row of coats hanging up behind the first".
• a wardrobe.

Round 4. Category: Statuesque Authors

• 1: Much of her 6th century B.C. poetry is lost, but her reputation as a female writing pioneer remains.
• Sappho.
• 2: That's not such an ugly duckling beside the statue of this Dane in Central Park.
• Hans Christian Andersen.
• 3: Never mind the "Nevermore",he's been in Baltimore since 1921.
• (Edgar Allan) Poe.
• 4: As you might expect, this author's statue is relaxing at the bar in the El Floridita in Havana.
• Hemingway.
• 5: The statue of this Victorian author, born Mary Ann Evans, is in Warwickshire, where she set many of her novels.
• George Eliot.

Round 5. Category: Smarties

• 1: In 1800 William Nicholson managed to break water molecules into atoms of these 2 elements.
• hydrogen and oxygen.
• 2: The temperature scale that this Swede invented in 1742 is used pretty much everywhere except the U.S..
• Anders Celsius.
• 3: We'd have much dirtier windows if Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau hadn't liquefied this gas in 1798.
• ammonia.
• 4: In 1996 Gary Hack discovered the sphenomandibularis, a previously unknown one of these in the face.
• muscle.
• 5: Last name of the French brothers who introduced the pneumatic tire for cars.
• Michelin.

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