Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1110, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: That'S A Rap. With Rap in quotation marks
- 1: Go ahead, let your hair down reading the story of this princess locked in a tower.
- Rapunzel.
- 2: To descend a steep slope by rope.
- rappel.
- 3: Any bird of prey.
- raptor.
- 4: This 212-mile river flows into Chesapeake Bay.
- the Rappahannock.
- 5: Greedy and grasping, especially for money.
- rapacious.
Round 2. Category: I Played Her In The Movie
- 1: Bad singer Florence Foster Jenkins.
- Meryl Streep.
- 2: Good singer Beca, a member of the Barden Bellas who is pitch perfect.
- Anna Kendrick.
- 3: Andy Sachs, assistant to the editor of a fashion magazine.
- (Anne) Hathaway.
- 4: Jenny Curran, Forrest Gump's beloved.
- Robin Wright.
- 5: Rachel Watson, the girl on the train.
- Emily Blunt.
Round 3. Category: Reconstruction
- 1: Founded at the end of Reconstruction, Nicodemus in this "Sunflower State" was the 1st Black settlement west of the Mississippi.
- Kansas.
- 2: By the end of Reconstruction, production of this "king" crop in the South was nearly equal to pre-war levels.
- cotton.
- 3: This largest Tennessee city needed its own reconstruction after 1866 race riots there.
- Memphis.
- 4: Ironically, President Johnson opposed the 14th Amendment but this state was the first former Confederate state to pass it.
- Tennessee.
- 5: In 1872 the Union general this D.C. HBCU was named for wrote about "the cosmopolitan character of the university".
- Howard.
Round 4. Category: Birth, Art, Death
- 1: Born Aug. 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh,"Mao",died Feb. 22, 1987.
- Andy Warhol.
- 2: Born 1606 in the Netherlands,"The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp",died 1669.
- Rembrandt.
- 3: Born 1834 in Massachusetts,"Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Thomas Carlyle", died 1903.
- Whistler.
- 4: Born 1912 in Wyoming,"Lavender Mist", died 1956 in East Hampton, New York.
- Pollock.
- 5: Born 1859 in Paris, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"died 1891.
- (Georges) Seurat.
Round 5. Category: Musical Prime Numbers
- 1: Prince:"2000 zero zero party over, oops, out of time, so tonight I'm gonna party like it's blank".
- 1999.
- 2: ABBA:"You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only blank".
- 17.
- 3: Counting Crows:"In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in blank he came home across the deep blue sea".
- 1493.
- 4: Foreigner:"Well I'm hot blooded, check it and see, got a fever of blank".
- 103.
- 5: Blink-182:"That's about the time she walked away from me, nobody likes you when you're blank".
- 23.
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