Episode 1123 - Colors of the rainbow - She blinded me with science - Guardians - Unfinished operas - Songs

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1123, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Colors Of The Rainbow

• 1: This genre of country music is fittingly Kentucky's state music.
• bluegrass.
• 2: Sad or gloomy.
• blue.
• 3: In the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections, Ralph Nader ran as a member of this party.
• the Green Party.
• 4: In a sad mood.
• blue.
• 5: IBM is known informally as Big this.
• Blue.

Round 2. Category: She Blinded Me With Science

• 1: Dorothy Hodgkin's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was for her work on this vitamin, whose deficiency causes pernicious anemia.
• B12.
• 2: Alice Ball was 23 and a college instructor in Hawaii in 1915 when she developed the first successful treatment for this, also known as Hansen's disease.
• leprosy.
• 3: Pioneering computer programmer Grace Murray Hopper coined this term for a mysterious computer problem.
• bug.
• 4: Nobel laureate Gertrude Elion helped develop drugs to treat herpes, gout and this, cancer of the bone marrow.
• leukemia.
• 5: In 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer received a Nobel Prize in Physics for her "shell model" of this part of an atom.
• Nucleus.

Round 3. Category: Guardians

• 1: U.S. Coast Guard units based in Cleveland, Ohio are known as the "Guardians of" these bodies of water.
• the Great Lakes.
• 2: 4-letter term for a person, usually a minor, legally placed in the charge of a guardian.
• a ward.
• 3: "Keeping it safe" is the motto of this red-bereted group founded by Curtis Sliwa.
• the Guardian Angels.
• 4: The scarlet and gold dress uniforms of these guardians of the Tower of London date back to 1552.
• the Beefeaters (or Yeoman Warders).
• 5: In Arthurian legend this wounded monarch is the guardian of the Holy Grail.
• the Fisher King.

Round 4. Category: Unfinished Operas

• 1: This composer finished just 3 scenes of "Olav Trygvason"; they're sometimes performed as a cantata.
• Edvard Grieg.
• 2: Make an exodus from the theatre after seeing Schoenberg's incomplete opera about this man and his brother Aaron.
• Moses.
• 3: Biondello hides inside a mechanical goose in Mozart's unfinished opera "The Goose of" this Egyptian city.
• Cairo.
• 4: Let's wax philosophical and wonder why Rousseau left only fragments of his opera about Daphnis and her.
• Chloe.
• 5: Smetana's "Viola", with just 365 bars of music, is based on this play.
• Twelfth Night.

Round 5. Category: Songs

• 1: Having this title problem, Barry Manilow sings, "I can't laugh and I can't sing, I'm finding it hard to do anything".
• "Can't Smile Without You".
• 2: 1930s song to which the Marcels added the following over 25 years later:"Bom ba ba bom ba bom ba bom bom ba ba bom ba ba bom ba ba dang a dang dang / Ba ba ding a dong ding".
• "Blue Moon".
• 3: 2 of the 3 Top 10 Fats Domino songs with "Walk" in the title.
• "I'm Walkin'", "I Want to Walk You Home", and/or "Walking to New Orleans".
• 4: "Under the Sea" from this Disney animated feature won the 1989 Oscar for Best Song.
• The Little Mermaid.
• 5: He's told to "mind the music and the step, and with the girls be handy".
• Yankee Doodle Dandy.

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