Episode 1175 - The original 31 flavors - Wintry reading - Ancient science - London on film - He was senator and president

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1175, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Original 31 Flavors

• 1: Sour item that precedes Crisp, Custard and Sherbet in 3 of Baskin-Robbins' original 31 flavors.
• Lemon.
• 2: Varieties of this flavor included French and Burnt Almond.
• Vanilla.
• 3: This traditional Christmas drink was available.
• Egg Nog.
• 4: Flavors included this type of "Stick" (but not this type of "Patty").
• Peppermint.
• 5: Nuts to you! and marshmallows, too, with this alliterative original flavor.
• Rocky Road.

Round 2. Category: Wintry Reading

• 1: In a kids' book, on a snowy day Nicki loses this item of clothing, just like the 3 little kittens.
• mittens.
• 2: Dostoyevsky's autobiographical novel "The House of the Dead" has been published with the subtitle "or, Prison Life" here--brrr!.
• Siberia.
• 3: The 2019 book "The Enchanted Forest" is a tie-in with this long-awaited animated sequel.
• Frozen 2.
• 4: Set in Iceland, the sixth novel in the Detective Erlendur series is titled not "Frostbite" but this condition.
• hypothermia.
• 5: It's 1954 and tensions are high on an island with a lot of Japanese Americans in David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these.
• Cedars.

Round 3. Category: Ancient Science

• 1: The ancient Sumerian number system, based on 60, is still used today to measure this.
• time.
• 2: Around 400 B.C. Democritus proposed that all matter is composed of these tiny units.
• atoms.
• 3: Considered 1st universal genius, this student of Plato believed goats breathed through their ears.
• Aristotle.
• 4: Chinese general Huang-ti used a lodestone as one of these around 300 B.C., perhaps by floating it in a bowl.
• a compass.
• 5: Delta city with automatic door openers, washing machines, and a world-famous library.
• Alexandria.

Round 4. Category: London On Film

• 1: Guinness says this current resident of 10 Downing Street was 1st portrayed on film in "For Your Eyes Only".
• Margaret Thatcher.
• 2: R. Chandler's novel was set in L.A., but this '77 remake was "curiously and ineffectively set in London".
• The Big Sleep.
• 3: In "My Fair Lady", Eliza Doolittle peddled her posies here, in front of the opera house.
• Covent Garden.
• 4: The bird woman in "Mary Poppins" sells feed for birds in front of this church build by Wren.
• St. Paul's.
• 5: 1973 film in which George Segal trysts with Glenda Jackson in a Garrard St. flat.
• A Touch of Class.

Round 5. Category: He Was Senator And President

• 1: Though he served Penn. in the Senate from 1834 to 1845, he supported pro-slavery Southern positions; he didn't get better as pres..
• Buchanan.
• 2: His nickname "Tricky Dick" dates back to the 1950s California campaign that put him in the Senate.
• Nixon.
• 3: Though the Senate failed by one vote to de-president him, his later return to the body was met with flowers and applause.
• (Andrew) Johnson.
• 4: This Ohioan found the Senate "far more to my liking than" being pres. could be; scandal and death in office followed.
• Warren G. Harding.
• 5: This New Yorker and future president joined the Senate in 1821 and soon led the fight against imprisonment for debt.
• Martin Van Buren.

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