Episode 217 - Potable Words - Kids In Books - Tasmanian Tidbits - Albert Camus - Car And Driver

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 217, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Potable Words

• 1: A cotton-cleaning device, or a cry in a card game saying you've completed your hand.
• gin.
• 2: It's the opposite of starboard.
• port.
• 3: The band Looking Glass found her "a fine girl".
• "Brandy".
• 4: To strike with a fist or make a hole in a ticket.
• punch.
• 5: It's the residue coal leaves after destructive distillation.
• coke.

Round 2. Category: Kids In Books

• 1: "The Sword in the Stone" is a book about a kid who grows up to be this king.
• King Arthur.
• 2: Based on a real child, a kid named Christopher Robin hangs out with this literary bear.
• Winnie the Pooh.
• 3: This collie was the faithful friend of a kid named Joe in a book by British novelist Eric Knight.
• Lassie.
• 4: Mowgli is the human kid hanging out in the woods with wolves and tigers in this Rudyard Kipling "Book".
• "The Jungle Book".
• 5: She's Beezus Quimby's pesky young sister.
• Ramona.

Round 3. Category: Tasmanian Tidbits

• 1: Tasmania is this country's smallest state.
• Australia.
• 2: Discovering the island in 1642, he named it Van Diemen's Land.
• Abel Tasman.
• 3: Also called wolfram, this metal used in lamp filaments is a big source of income.
• Tungsten.
• 4: The island is home to the Tasmanian devil and this animal.
• Wombat.
• 5: The Derwent River in Tasmania has a concrete one of these floating bridges.
• Pontoon bridge.

Round 4. Category: Albert Camus

• 1: On Dec. 10, 1957 Albert Camus received this prize in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 2: Camus' father Lucien died at the First Battle of the Marne, a major turning point in this conflict.
• World War I.
• 3: Camus was born in this then French colony, the setting for some of his works.
• Algeria.
• 4: Camus' attack on Stalinism in 1951's "L'Homme Revolte" strained his relationship with this other existentialist.
• Jean-Paul Sartre.
• 5: In an influential essay, Camus compared the human condition to the Greek myth of this rock pusher.
• Sisyphus.

Round 5. Category: Car And Driver

• 1: In a 1978 movie musical:Greased Lightning.
• Danny Zuko (John Travolta).
• 2: On '80s TV:The General Lee, a souped-up Dodge Charger.
• The Dukes of Hazzard/Bo and Luke Duke (John Schneider and Tom Wopat).
• 3: On '60s TV:Black Beauty, the Green Hornet's car.
• Kato (Bruce Lee).
• 4: On '80s TV:KITT, a talking black Pontiac.
• Knight Rider/Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff).
• 5: Marty McFly went "Back to the Future" in this make of car.
• a DeLorean.

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