Episode 124 - Days Of The Week - One Of The 12 Tribes Of Israel - First Novels - A Game Of Chess - Summer Camp

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 124, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Days Of The Week

• 1: Day of the week in the title of the following:[audio clue: "Something calls to me..."].
• Tuesday (Tuesday Afternoon).
• 2: For Jews, the sabbath starts on the evening of this day.
• Friday.
• 3: It's the day of the week for presidents and labor.
• Monday.
• 4: Dutch:Donderdag.
• Thursday.
• 5: Hebrew:Shabbat.
• Saturday.

Round 2. Category: One Of The 12 Tribes Of Israel

• 1: Haggerty or Fogelberg.
• Dan.
• 2: A corned beef and sauerkraut sandwich on rye.
• Reuben.
• 3: Goldie's "Private".
• Benjamin.
• 4: It joins with "zooks!" as a mild or ironic oath.
• Gad.
• 5: Sans the San, Hearst's California castle.
• Simeon.

Round 3. Category: First Novels

• 1: Xavier Herbert's debut novel, "Capricornia", explores the lives of Aborigines in this country's northern Outback.
• Australia.
• 2: This southern playwright's first novel, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone", became a film starring Vivian Leigh.
• Tennessee Williams.
• 3: His first novel, "The Town And The City", might be good to read while you're "On The Road".
• Jack Kerouac.
• 4: Not surprisingly, Ireland is the setting for this "Circle of Friends" author's first novel, "Light A Penny Candle".
• Maeve Binchy.
• 5: Amory Blaine, a handsome, spoiled Princeton student, was the hero of this man's first novel, "This Side of Paradise".
• F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Round 4. Category: A Game Of Chess

• 1: If you pawn your chess set, the shop will check to make sure there are this many pawns in it.
• 16.
• 2: In castling, you move the king and this piece (aka a castle) simultaneously.
• the rook.
• 3: It's the only chess piece that can jump over others.
• the knight.
• 4: The 17th letter of the English alphabet, in chess notation it stands for the most powerful piece on the board.
• Q.
• 5: The final stage, with most of the pieces off the board, it's also a Samuel Beckett play title.
• the endgame.

Round 5. Category: Summer Camp

• 1: A building or tent where the kids sleep, or the bed within it.
• Bunk.
• 2: Many camps insist that you (or, more likely, mom) do this to all your clothing, maybe with a laundry marker.
• label it.
• 3: This word for the area down by the lake and activities there is also found in a Brando film title.
• Waterfront.
• 4: Dating from the 1880s, the oldest camp run by this "Christian" organization is Camp Dudley on Lake Champlain.
• YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association).
• 5: A New Hampshire camp is named for this man in tribute to his poem "I Hear America Singing".
• Walt Whitman.

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