Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1172, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: 20Th Century Poets
- 1: In 1917, at age 52, this Irishman got married and published his book "The Wild Swans Of Coole".
- William Butler Yeats.
- 2: This author of the poem "Daddy" committed suicide in 1963, before she could work out her parental issues.
- Sylvia Plath.
- 3: In 2000 the Librarian of Congress announced that 95-year-old Stanley Kunitz would take up this post.
- poet laureate.
- 4: He read almost as well as he wrote: "Do not go gentle into that good night...".
- Dylan Thomas.
- 5: Trees figured in many of his poems, like "Birches", "Dust of Snow" and "Good-Bye and Keep Cold".
- Robert Frost.
Round 2. Category: Cooking Methods
- 1: To pass dry ingredients like flour through a fine-meshed sieve; doing so removes large pieces and incorporates air.
- to sift.
- 2: Highly seasoned meat is seared so that the surface forms a crust in this "colorful" Cajun technique.
- blackening.
- 3: This synonym for perspire is also a method of cooking over low heat to soften ingredients without browning.
- sweating.
- 4: To cook fish en papillote, you'll need this type of paper to seal in the flavor and juices.
- parchment paper.
- 5: From the Latin for "to make soft", it's soaking food, usually fruit, in a liquid in order to infuse it with the liquid's flavor.
- macerate.
Round 3. Category: Grape Jam
- 1: In an Aesop tale this animal decided the grapes he couldn't reach had to be sour.
- the fox.
- 2: Grape Island in this Massachusetts harbor was the site of a skirmish over hay during the Revolutionary War.
- Boston Harbor.
- 3: Mae West's famous order in "I'm No Angel".
- "Peel me a grape!".
- 4: Greek stuffed grape leaves, or dolmades, are usually stuffed with this grain.
- rice.
- 5: This dentist and prohibitionist began selling his "unfermented wine" in 1869; in 1890 he renamed it "Grape Juice".
- Thomas B. Welch.
Round 4. Category: I Played A Doctor And Some Other Guy On Tv
- 1: Dr. Doogie Howser andEthan Burdick.
- Neil Patrick Harris.
- 2: Dr. Derek Shepherd andAaron Brooks.
- (Patrick) Dempsey.
- 3: Dr. Doug Ross andChic Chesbro.
- George Clooney.
- 4: Quincy, M.E. andOscar Madison.
- Jack Klugman.
- 5: Marcus Welby andJim Anderson (the "Father" who "Knows Best").
- Robert Young.
Round 5. Category: Johnny Gilbert Goes Country
- 1: "...Found new thread for my old spool, just because I'm blonde, don't think I'm dumb, 'cause this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool".
- Dolly Parton.
- 2: "I hear the train a-comin', it's rolling 'round the bend, and I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when".
- Johnny Cash.
- 3: "The red headed stranger had eyes like thunder, his lips they were sad and tight".
- Willie Nelson.
- 4: "Just two good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born".
- Waylon Jennings.
- 5: "Take this job and shove it, I ain't workin' here no more, my woman done left and took all the reason I was workin' for".
- (Johnny) Paycheck.
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