Episode 1214 - Passion - 1000 - Name the seuss title - The original language - Love actuarily

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1214, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Passion

• 1: Devotion to a cause, or in another way, "To Phil and Judie: I could not have written the clue without you".
• a dedication.
• 2: Mais oui and toujours, it's French for "love", mon....
• amour.
• 3: We are obsessed, perhaps even crazed, about this suffix, from the Greek for "excessive desire".
• mania.
• 4: Zest is a 4-letter word starting with Z that fits the category; so is this.
• zeal.
• 5: These 2 passionate words make up the title of a 1965 film about Michelangelo.
• agony and ecstasy.

Round 2. Category: 1000

• 1: There was widespread fear that this would happen; people worried about the millennium back then, too.
• the world would end.
• 2: This sport can be traced back to c. 1000 when a monk named Eilmer jumped and sailed from Malmesbury Abbey.
• hang gliding.
• 3: This country's Stephen I was crowned in 1000 in his hometown of Esztergom and the crown is a national treasure.
• Hungary.
• 4: Piasts ruled this country in 1000; in 1919, a pianist ruled it: Ignace Paderewski.
• Poland.
• 5: Sweyn Forkbeard, King Olaf of Sweden and 2 others defeated and killed King Olaf I of this country at Svold.
• Norway.

Round 3. Category: Name The Seuss Title

• 1: "I will not eat them in the rain. I will not eat them on a train. Not in the dark! Not in a tree! Not in a car! You let me be!".
• Green Eggs and Ham.
• 2: Through the high jungle tree tops, the news quickly spread: "He talks to a dust speck! He's out of his head!".
• Horton Hears a Who.
• 3: "No! Not in the house!" said the fish in the pot, "They should not fly kites in a house! They should not".
• The Cat in the Hat.
• 4: "Silence!" the king of the turtles barked back. "I'm king, and you're only a turtle named Mack".
• Yertle the Turtle.
• 5: "Socks on chicks and chicks on fox. Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks".
• Fox in Socks.

Round 4. Category: The Original Language

• 1: "From the Earth to the Moon".
• French.
• 2: The diary of Anne Frank.
• Dutch.
• 3: "In this best of all possible worlds...Everything is for the best".
• French.
• 4: Kowtow, typhoon, and tycoon.
• Chinese.
• 5: The 1880s work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".
• German.

Round 5. Category: Love Actuarily

• 1: They may be "single", "birth" or "helicopter", and a 2017 study says they live longer than other people.
• parents.
• 2: A U. of Miami study found married men survived the longest with this most common male gland cancer.
• prostate cancer.
• 3: I know, he snores and has morning breath, but Pitt researchers found doing this raises stress hormone levels.
• sleeping separately (or alone).
• 4: The A.H.A., short for this, says having a dog lowers your risk of the type of disease it fights.
• the American Heart Association.
• 5: The death rate in healthy men was found to double if they'd experienced this sad event from Old English reafian, "to steal".
• a bereavement.

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