Episode 69 - Cities Of New York - In Memoriam 2006 - Sculpture - Load The Magazine - "Winter" Wonderland

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 69, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cities Of New York

• 1: "The Honeymoon City".
• Niagara Falls.
• 2: It's "The Bison City".
• Buffalo.
• 3: It's "The Kodak City" and "The Photo Capital of the World".
• Rochester.
• 4: It's "The Capital of the Empire State" and "The Edinburgh of America".
• Albany.
• 5: "The Birthplace of Baseball".
• Cooperstown.

Round 2. Category: In Memoriam 2006

• 1: "The Midnight Hour" came calling for this R and B legend in January 2006.
• Wilson Pickett.
• 2: A host of "Hee Haw" for 17 years, he pioneered the Bakersfield sound of country music.
• Buck Owens.
• 3: Grandpa on "The Munsters", he once ran for governor of New York as a Green Party candidate.
• Al Lewis.
• 4: Long before "The X-Files", he stalked the night as Carl Kolchak, a savvy reporter of the weird and the horrific.
• Darren McGavin.
• 5: The winner of 13 Emmy Awards, this low-key TV sportscaster was a true "American Sportsman".
• Curt Gowdy.

Round 3. Category: Sculpture

• 1: Both Rodin and Brancusi (who once worked for Rodin) did sculptures of an embracing couple titled this.
• "The Kiss".
• 2: His suspended abstract sculptures were given the name "mobiles" by Marcel Duchamp.
• Alexander Calder.
• 3: The 2 slaves Michelangelo sculpted for the unfinished tomb of Pope Julius II are in this Parisian museum.
• the Louvre.
• 4: In 1953 sculptor William Zorach created the relief "Man and Work" for this Rochester, Minnesota clinic.
• the Mayo Clinic.
• 5: His work "Balzac" was refused by the society that commissioned it; they didn't think it looked like Balzac.
• Auguste Rodin.

Round 4. Category: Load The Magazine

• 1: In Oct. 2004 this "Institution"al mag pondered what the U.S. would be like had Breckenridge won the 1860 election.
• Smithsonian.
• 2: With 11 appearances, this former "Baywatch" beauty has been on the cover of Playboy more than any other person.
• Pamela Anderson.
• 3: In 1953 the baby son of Lucille Ball and this man was on the first national cover of TV Guide.
• Desi Arnaz.
• 4: Begun in 1884, this magazine's name is synonymous with the New York City theater scene.
• Playbill.
• 5: Elle Macpherson, Kathy Ireland and Rachel Hunter all adorned this magazine's Feb. 14, 1994 cover.
• Sports Illustrated.

Round 5. Category: "Winter" Wonderland

• 1: Varieties of this cereal crop include Kawvale and Blackhull.
• winter wheat.
• 2: This 1935 Maxwell Anderson play was based in part on the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.
• Winterset.
• 3: Russian revolutionaries stormed it in November 1917.
• the Winter Palace.
• 4: It happens on or about December 21.
• the winter solstice.
• 5: This plant, Gaultheria procumbens, produces an oil used in medicine and as a flavoring.
• wintergreen.

Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!