Episode 1197 - Books of the dead - Study abroad - African-american playwrights - "season" - Festivals and celebrations

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1197, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Books Of The Dead

• 1: The first volume of her poems didn't appear until 1890, 4 years after death stopped for her.
• (Emily) Dickinson.
• 2: Irene Nemirovsky's "Suite Francaise" was a bestseller 6 decades after her 1942 death in this infamous camp in Poland.
• Auschwitz.
• 3: Samuel Butler's "The Way of All" this was published in 1903, the year after his death.
• The Way of All Flesh.
• 4: He died of a heart attack in 2004, shortly before the first novel in his mega-selling thriller trilogy was published.
• (Stieg) Larsson.
• 5: Franz Kafka told an executor to destroy the manuscript of the 1925 novel "Der Prozess", this title in English.
• The Trial.

Round 2. Category: Study Abroad

• 1: The University of Queensland offers a BMid, a bachelor's degree certifying you as one of these baby deliverers.
• a midwife.
• 2: You can get a master of music degree from the Sibelius Academy at this European capital's university.
• Helsinki.
• 3: You can earn a Ph.D. in pedagogy at Masaryk University in this Central European republic.
• the Czech Republic.
• 4: It's safe now to attend Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a battlefront in this 1930s conflict.
• the Spanish Civil War.
• 5: Bite into the university of this meaty Italian city, like Copernicus did.
• Bologna.

Round 3. Category: African-American Playwrights

• 1: Playwright Langston Hughes formed the Suitcase Theater in Harlem and the New Negro Theater in this Calif. city.
• L.A. (Los Angeles).
• 2: With its strong political message, Amiri Baraka's play "Dutchman" won one of these off-Broadway awards in 1964.
• an OBIE.
• 3: This play about a family moving to the suburbs was the first Broadway play written and directed by African Americans.
• A Raisin in the Sun.
• 4: James Baldwin loosely based his play "Blues for Mister Charlie" on the '55 murder of Emmitt Till in this southern state.
• Mississippi.
• 5: This playwright of "Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company.
• August Wilson.

Round 4. Category: Season. With Season in quotation marks

• 1: Winter to a baseball player, and a good time to visit a resort to avoid peak tourist times.
• off-season.
• 2: Herbs and spices will be these in our stew.
• seasonings.
• 3: This Vivaldi work begins with "spring".
• "The Four Seasons".
• 4: Paul Scofield won an Oscar as the "year-round" Thomas More in this 1966 film.
• A Man For All Seasons.
• 5: This Jason Miller play about a basketball team's reunion was a slam-dunk with critics in 1973.
• That Championship Season.

Round 5. Category: Festivals And Celebrations

• 1: "Mountaineers are always free" to attend Mountaineer Week in Morgantown in this state.
• West Virginia.
• 2: Corbin in this "Bluegrass State" is home to the Nibroc (Corbin spelled backward) festival.
• Kentucky.
• 3: This state has a rose festival in Jackson and a lilac festival on Mackinac Island.
• Michigan.
• 4: Don't "space out" or you'll miss Panoply, a spring celebration of the arts in this Alabama city.
• Huntsville.
• 5: A fire ant mating call contest is part of the Fire Ant Festival in Marshall in this southwest state.
• Texas.

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