Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1197, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Books Of The Dead
- 1: The first volume of her poems didn't appear until 1890, 4 years after death stopped for her.
- (Emily) Dickinson.
- 2: Irene Nemirovsky's "Suite Francaise" was a bestseller 6 decades after her 1942 death in this infamous camp in Poland.
- Auschwitz.
- 3: Samuel Butler's "The Way of All" this was published in 1903, the year after his death.
- The Way of All Flesh.
- 4: He died of a heart attack in 2004, shortly before the first novel in his mega-selling thriller trilogy was published.
- (Stieg) Larsson.
- 5: Franz Kafka told an executor to destroy the manuscript of the 1925 novel "Der Prozess", this title in English.
- The Trial.
Round 2. Category: Study Abroad
- 1: The University of Queensland offers a BMid, a bachelor's degree certifying you as one of these baby deliverers.
- a midwife.
- 2: You can get a master of music degree from the Sibelius Academy at this European capital's university.
- Helsinki.
- 3: You can earn a Ph.D. in pedagogy at Masaryk University in this Central European republic.
- the Czech Republic.
- 4: It's safe now to attend Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a battlefront in this 1930s conflict.
- the Spanish Civil War.
- 5: Bite into the university of this meaty Italian city, like Copernicus did.
- Bologna.
Round 3. Category: African-American Playwrights
- 1: Playwright Langston Hughes formed the Suitcase Theater in Harlem and the New Negro Theater in this Calif. city.
- L.A. (Los Angeles).
- 2: With its strong political message, Amiri Baraka's play "Dutchman" won one of these off-Broadway awards in 1964.
- an OBIE.
- 3: This play about a family moving to the suburbs was the first Broadway play written and directed by African Americans.
- A Raisin in the Sun.
- 4: James Baldwin loosely based his play "Blues for Mister Charlie" on the '55 murder of Emmitt Till in this southern state.
- Mississippi.
- 5: This playwright of "Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company.
- August Wilson.
Round 4. Category: Season. With Season in quotation marks
- 1: Winter to a baseball player, and a good time to visit a resort to avoid peak tourist times.
- off-season.
- 2: Herbs and spices will be these in our stew.
- seasonings.
- 3: This Vivaldi work begins with "spring".
- "The Four Seasons".
- 4: Paul Scofield won an Oscar as the "year-round" Thomas More in this 1966 film.
- A Man For All Seasons.
- 5: This Jason Miller play about a basketball team's reunion was a slam-dunk with critics in 1973.
- That Championship Season.
Round 5. Category: Festivals And Celebrations
- 1: "Mountaineers are always free" to attend Mountaineer Week in Morgantown in this state.
- West Virginia.
- 2: Corbin in this "Bluegrass State" is home to the Nibroc (Corbin spelled backward) festival.
- Kentucky.
- 3: This state has a rose festival in Jackson and a lilac festival on Mackinac Island.
- Michigan.
- 4: Don't "space out" or you'll miss Panoply, a spring celebration of the arts in this Alabama city.
- Huntsville.
- 5: A fire ant mating call contest is part of the Fire Ant Festival in Marshall in this southwest state.
- Texas.
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