Episode 1140 - Asian bodies of water - Eat your foreign vegetables - The girls in the group - Austen-tatious - 20th century authors

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1140, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Asian Bodies Of Water

• 1: Although called a sea, it's actually a large salty lake between Israel and Jordan.
• the Dead Sea.
• 2: According to Hindu myth, this river once flowed in the heavens but was ordered to go down to Earth.
• the Ganges.
• 3: This holy river of India was named for the daughter of the Mountain God Himalaya.
• the Ganges.
• 4: Arabs call this river Nahr Al-Urdun; the Hebrew name is Ha-Yarden.
• the Jordan (River).
• 5: This Siberian lake contains around 20% of the fresh water on the world's surface.
• Baikal.

Round 2. Category: Eat Your Foreign Vegetables

• 1: In Italy these are distinguished as peperoni rossi and peperoni verdi.
• red and green peppers.
• 2: In Espanol it's espinaca (and I'm still not eating it).
• spinach.
• 3: In French they're petits pois and weird people use a knife and honey to eat them.
• peas.
• 4: In Polish it's cebula; you can cry out your response now.
• onions.
• 5: In a Caribbean mood in Sweden? You might serve your svarta bonor, these, with kokat ris, "white rice".
• black beans.

Round 3. Category: The Girls In The Group

• 1: Emma, Geri, Mel B, Mel C, and Victoria.
• the Spice Girls.
• 2: LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson, Kelly Rowland and some singer with the last name Knowles.
• Destiny's Child.
• 3: Anita, June and Ruth, so excited to be these eponymic siblings.
• the Pointer Sisters.
• 4: "Don't Cha" remember Ashley, Carmit, Jessica, Kimberly, Melody and Nicole, these kittens?.
• the Pussycat Dolls.
• 5: Keren Woodward, Sara Dallin and Siobhan Fahey, who were really saying something in the 1980s and still in the 20-teens.
• Bananarama.

Round 4. Category: Austen-Tatious

• 1: While prince regent during his father's madness, this king had a set of Austen's novels in each of his residences.
• George IV.
• 2: Jane Austen said Elizabeth Bennet, the hero of this novel, was "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print".
• "Pride and Prejudice".
• 3: After her unsuccessful and meddlesome matchmaking, this title character realizes she loves Mr. Knightley.
• Emma Woodhouse.
• 4: This author of "Orlando" said, "Of all the great writers" Jane "is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness".
• Virginia Woolf.
• 5: This title abbey is the home of clergyman Henry Tilney.
• "Northanger Abbey".

Round 5. Category: 20Th Century Authors

• 1: In 1974 this Brit turned out another novel like clockwork, "The Clockwork Testament".
• Anthony Burgess.
• 2: Pennsylvania-born expatriate author depicted here in a 1917 sculpture by Jo Davidson.
• Gertrude Stein.
• 3: Ancestors of this elusive modern author protested after Hawthorne used their name in "The House of the Seven Gables".
• Thomas Pynchon.
• 4: This "Humboldt's Gift" author won both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes in 1976.
• Saul Bellow.
• 5: "There is no contentment on the road" says this CBS correspondent in "A Life on the Road".
• Charles Kuralt.

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