Episode 1157 - Name the work - Earth, wind and fire - Remember reruns? - Gay blades - Women of myth

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1157, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Name The Work

• 1: Melville:"Captain Vere was an exceptional character".
• Billy Budd.
• 2: Cervantes:"At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember".
• Don Quixote.
• 3: Verne:"Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner".
• Around the World in Eighty Days.
• 4: Jack London:"'The Ghost' was rolling slightly on a calm sea without a breath of wind".
• The Sea Wolf.
• 5: O. Henry:"Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present".
• "The Gift of the Magi".

Round 2. Category: Earth, Wind And Fire

• 1: On the Beaufort scale, winds range from 0 for calm to 12 to 17 for these powerful storms.
• hurricanes.
• 2: About 80% of energy released by quakes comes from events with epicenters in the Circum-Pacific belt, AKA this, AKA a Johnny Cash tune.
• Ring of Fire.
• 3: In the '90s home fires caused by these nearly doubled, with almost half of them starting in the bedroom.
• candles.
• 4: A devastating forest fire swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin on the very same day in 1871 as this city's "Great" fire.
• Chicago.
• 5: Oh, "Boy"! This warming of the Pacific that causes unusual weather patterns occurs about every 2 to 7 years.
• El Nino.

Round 3. Category: Remember Reruns?

• 1: In reruns and syndication, "Mystery Science Theater" was followed by "Hour", replacing this number.
• 3000.
• 2: "The Andy Griffith Show" came back around as "Andy of" here.
• Mayberry.
• 3: Her "and Friends"--Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence and others--was a half-hour rerun of her "Show".
• Carol Burnett.
• 4: Ponderosa was a ranch on and a rerun title of this show.
• Bonanza.
• 5: "The Best of Groucho" was a rerun title of this game show.
• You Bet Your Life.

Round 4. Category: Gay Blades

• 1: The mark left by George Hamilton's "gay blade".
• a Z.
• 2: Its use was abolished in France in 1981, 188 years too late for Marie Antoinette.
• the guillotine.
• 3: The sword in the stone from the Lady of the Lake.
• Excalibur.
• 4: You'd need an undertaker, not a styptic pencil after this was used by Sweeney Todd.
• a straight razor.
• 5: Ridley Scott's dim futuristic film view of Los Angeles.
• Blade Runner.

Round 5. Category: Women Of Myth

• 1: Courtesy of Perseus, her snaky severed head was placed on the shield of Athena.
• Medusa.
• 2: This daughter of Zeus and Leda was considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
• Helen of Troy.
• 3: After she died of a snakebite, her husband Orpheus tried to rescue her from Hades.
• Eurydice.
• 4: According to Ovid, this jealous goddess turned the nymph Callisto into a bear for being Jupiter's lover.
• Juno.
• 5: After she spurned Apollo, he made sure no one would believe her prophecies.
• Cassandra.

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