Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1170, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: At The Bookstore
- 1: Kathryn Glasgow's first novel, "Another Song About the King", features a mom obsessed with this singer.
- Elvis Presley.
- 2: 2 men travel America with this man's brain in a Tupperware bowl in the true story "Driving Mr. Albert".
- Albert Einstein.
- 3: This prolific novelist proved her "metal" once again with her 2000 bestseller "The House on Hope Street".
- Danielle Steel.
- 4: "Dark Eagle" by historian John Ensor Harr is called "A Novel Of" this traitor "And the American Revolution".
- Benedict Arnold.
- 5: The front cover of "Hooking Up" by this "Bonfire of the Vanities" author shows his name but not the book's title.
- Tom Wolfe.
Round 2. Category: Ends In Ola. With Ola in quotation marks
- 1: It's what you ride along the canals of Venice.
- a gondola.
- 2: It often includes rolled oats, wheat germ, honey, fruit and nuts.
- granola.
- 3: This early phonograph began cranking out music in 1906.
- a Victrola.
- 4: Italy's Lombardy region is famous for producing this soft (and smelly) blue cheese.
- Gorgonzola.
- 5: Haiti occupies a third of this island; the Dominican Republic covers the rest.
- Hispaniola.
Round 3. Category: Classic Country
- 1: 1 of 3 original members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
- (1 of) Hank Williams, Sr., Jimmie Rodgers and Fred Rose.
- 2: To make it as "A big star in the movies", Buck Owens said he had to "act" this way.
- naturally.
- 3: Lefty Frizzell told his honey, "If you've got the money, I've got" this.
- the time.
- 4: Migrants leaving this state's "Dust Bowl" helped bring country music to the West.
- Oklahoma.
- 5: In 1958, the first country music Grammy Award went to this Kingston Trio song.
- "Tom Dooley".
Round 4. Category: The Last Word Said In Classic Films
- 1: "The Wizard of Oz".
- home.
- 2: "Gone with the Wind".
- day.
- 3: "Casablanca".
- friendship.
- 4: "King Kong", from 1933.
- beast.
- 5: "Apocalypse Now".
- Horror.
Round 5. Category: Ute Tell Me. With Ute in quotation marks
- 1: To water down.
- dilute.
- 2: Drive in from the burbs.
- commute.
- 3: Hairy.
- hirsute.
- 4: In a proper one of these, the forefinger touches the hat just to the right of the right eye.
- salute.
- 5: Jekyll calls Hyde this type of rough fellow "that slept within me".
- brute.
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