Episode 1189 - Bill clinton - "song" of poets - Rewriting hamlet - The 19th century - Ad-jectives

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1189, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bill Clinton

• 1: Clinton won first chair in this instrument in the Arkansas state band.
• the saxophone.
• 2: His birthplace; it's where he lived the first 7 years of his life.
• Hope, Arkansas.
• 3: The day before taking office, Clinton prayed at this president's Arlington, Va. grave.
• John F. Kennedy.
• 4: Bill Clinton met Hillary Rodham while both were attending this law school.
• Yale.
• 5: Clinton got his bachelor's degree at this D.C. school, the only college he applied to.
• Georgetown.

Round 2. Category: Song Of Poets. With Song in quotation marks

• 1: William Blake published this collection in 1789; "Experience" would come a few years later.
• Songs of Innocence.
• 2: Sections of this 1855 poem include "The Peace Pipe", "The White-Man's Foot" and "Blessing the Corn Fields".
• The Song of Hiawatha.
• 3: Read during Passover, it's also referred to as the "Canticle of Canticles".
• Song of Songs.
• 4: Before the 1881 edition, it was simply titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American".
• "Song of Myself".
• 5: An insignificant battle between Charlemagne and the Basques at Roncesvalles is the basis for this French epic poem.
• The Song of Roland.

Round 3. Category: Rewriting Hamlet

• 1: Fair one, thy dad had thee repel my letters and deny me access to thee... but a restraining order? What is uppeth with that?.
• Ophelia.
• 2: Zounds! I saw thee not behind that arras! Denmark needeth a new minister to the king! My bad!.
• Polonius.
• 3: Though I did say of thee "Frailty, thy name is woman", Mother, I hope thou acceptest my wedding gift from Pottery Barn.
• Gertrude.
• 4: 'Tis okay ye killed Dad and wed Mom--thou said thy "offence is rank, it smells to heaven", but I'm a live and let live kind of guy.
• Claudius.
• 5: You "two-school-fellows, whom I will trust as I will adders fanged" ...Aw, I ain't mad atcha! Giveth me hugs!.
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Round 4. Category: The 19Th Century

• 1: Much of the fighting in this war, 1853 to 1856, took place on a peninsula in the Black Sea.
• the Crimean War.
• 2: In 1893 this labor leader founded the American Railway Union.
• (Eugene) Debs.
• 3: In 1825 patriots crossed the Rio de la Plata from Argentina to fight for this country's freedom from Brazil.
• Uruguay.
• 4: King John VI of this country died in 1826 and left his throne to Dom Pedro of Brazil who became Pedro I.
• Portugal.
• 5: This family was restored to power in the 1870s when Alfonso XII ascended the Spanish throne.
• the Bourbons.

Round 5. Category: Ad-Jectives

• 1: In other words this common pair of advertising adjectives could be "novel as well as ameliorated".
• new and improved.
• 2: In a slogan almost a century old, Maxwell House coffee is this "to the last drop".
• "good".
• 3: In other words, this common pair of adjectives could be "novel as well as ameliorated".
• new and improved.
• 4: Taking this adjective literally, the ads say that BMW is the last driving machine that'll be made.
• ultimate.
• 5: Since 1975 BMW has been touting its vehicles as this kind of "driving machine".
• "ultimate".

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