Episode 940 - From the greek - I'm surprised - Where you going? - A "kid" in - Literary collaborators

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 940, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: from the greek

• 1: The name of this solid figure used to disperse light into a spectrum is from the Greek for "something sawed".
• a prism.
• 2: A preparation such as lipstick, skin cream or rouge, it's from the Greek for "order" or "arrangement".
• cosmetic.
• 3: A wound, or the psychological damage it causes.
• a trauma.
• 4: An absolute ruler; in ancient Greece it was one who seized power illegally.
• a tyrant.
• 5: This first name of poet Roethke means "gift of God".
• Theodore.

Round 2. Category: i'm surprised

• 1: Seeing the unexpectedly high price of a car can put you into the "sticker" type of this.
• shock.
• 2: This word for "speechless" can precede -struck or -founded.
• dumb.
• 3: Remarkable news may throw you for one of these, also the name of an aeronautical maneuver.
• loop.
• 4: Captain Kirk often ordered phasers set on this non-lethal surprising setting.
• stun.
• 5: On hearing a surprising affront, you may be "taken" this 5-letter way.
• aback.

Round 3. Category: where you going?

• 1: If you're going to Mecca, you know you're going to this country on the Red Sea.
• Saudi Arabia.
• 2: You're so vain, you're probably going to Halifax in this Canadian province to see that total eclipse of the sun.
• Nova Scotia.
• 3: Maybe braving this desert referred to as Dorsland or "Thirstland" by the Boers who trekked through it.
• Kalahari.
• 4: Are you meeting Captain Jean-Luc in this French region that recently merged with Nord-Pas-de-Calais?.
• Picardy.
• 5: Are you finally traversing the length of this mountain range that stretches from the Caspian to the Black Sea?.
• the Caucasus.

Round 4. Category: a "kid" in

• 1: Using care is treating something with these, as if you had delicate handwear.
• kid gloves.
• 2: This boy band began with a city-wide talent search in Boston.
• the New Kids on the Block.
• 3: Harry Longabaugh had this nickname as a member of the Wild Bunch.
• the Sundance Kid.
• 4: Parodying the Cabbage Patch Kids, these gross stickers were a sensation in the 1980s.
• the Garbage Pail Kids.
• 5: This term describes children who have to unlock the door when they come home to an empty house.
• latchkey kids.

Round 5. Category: literary collaborators

• 1: These brothers first published their "Fairy Tales" in 1812 as "Kinderund Hausmarchen".
• the Brothers Grimm.
• 2: She and her tres cher ami Jean-Paul Sartre collaborated on the political and literary journal Modern Times.
• Simone de Beauvoir.
• 3: For "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", Malcolm collaborated with this author.
• Alex Haley.
• 4: Sidney Howard helped this author dramatize "Dodsworth".
• Sinclair Lewis.
• 5: George S Kaufman died in June 1961; this man, his frequent collaborator, in December of that year.
• Moss Hart.

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