Episode 1244 - Bible belts - Avian poetry - Then you get the women - Brains - Clues across america

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1244, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bible Belts

• 1: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says that if someone "smiteth" you here, "offer also the other".
• the cheek.
• 2: In this Bible book named for songs of praise, "Thou hast smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone".
• Psalms.
• 3: Par-tay! "Song of" him says, "I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly".
• Solomon.
• 4: In Numbers 20, after the Israelites complained, Moses smote this object twice and water came out.
• the rock.
• 5: After a big Bible belt that kills his brother, he is marked and heads east of Eden.
• Cain.

Round 2. Category: Avian Poetry

• 1: In this poem, Lewis Carroll warned us, "Beware the jubjub bird, and shun the frumious bandersnatch".
• "Jabberwocky".
• 2: "A wonderful bird is" this, "his bill will hold more than his belican".
• a pelican.
• 3: When first seen, this title bird was "perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door".
• the raven.
• 4: "And a good south wind sprung up behind"; it "did follow, and every day, for food or play, came to the mariner's hollo!".
• the albatross.
• 5: John Keats called this bird immortal; "Thou wast not born for death".
• a nightingale.

Round 3. Category: Then You Get The Women

• 1: In 2005 her "Alias" changed to Mrs. Ben Affleck.
• Jennifer Garner.
• 2: On her divorce from her "Eyes Wide Shut" co-star, she quipped, "Well, I can wear heels now".
• Nicole Kidman.
• 3: This Emmy winner once had a tattoo that read "Property of Tom Arnold".
• Roseanne Barr.
• 4: Her voice was Lola, a fish in "Shark Tale", but some wondered if her life was the Pitts in 2005.
• Angelina Jolie.
• 5: Marriage to a star made this Kansas-born actress Shirley MacLaine's sister-in-law.
• Annette Bening.

Round 4. Category: Brains

• 1: His writings include the 1920 publication "Relativity: The Special and General Theory".
• Albert Einstein.
• 2: Past winners of this annual event include Bob Verini and Bob Blake.
• Tournament of Champions on Jeopardy!.
• 3: "A Gardener Touched with Genius" is Peter Dreyer's book on this American hoticulturist.
• Luther Burbank.
• 4: Blaise Pascal is said to have mastered this Greek mathematician's "Elements" by age 12.
• Euclid.
• 5: After this coil inventor moved to America, he worked briefly with another genius⁠—Thomas Edison.
• Nikola Tesla.

Round 5. Category: Clues Across America

• 1: (I'm Jim Gardner from 6ABC.) The Franklin Institute has the only intact Model B made by these 2 men; it was the first plane to carry air freight, live bombs and a U.S. president.
• Orville and Wilbur Wright.
• 2: (Hi, I'm Eric Perkins from KARE 11. [He presents from U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.]) In the first sporting event at Minneapolis' U.S. Bank Stadium, Chelsea played AC Milan in this sport.
• soccer.
• 3: (Hi, I'm Shannon Hegy, from WPRI 12.) Waterfire is an art installation of more than 80 bonfires that float above the surface of 3 rivers in this capital of Rhode Island.
• Providence.
• 4: (I'm Ryan Chiaverini.) (And I'm Val Warner of Windy City Live.) Everyone knows Chicago is the Windy City some say it has to do with the way we brag about out town......But more likely it has to do with the stiff breezes that come off of this lake.
• Lake Michigan.
• 5: (Hi, I'm Liz Cho from ABC 7.) Mosaics in Ulysses S. Grant's New York City tomb depict the greatest moments in the general's career including the April 1865 surrender of Robert E. Lee at this Virgi