Episode 598 - America's Most Want Ads - Mythological Relatives - Candles - 20Th Century Poetry - It's All A Plant

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 598, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: America's Most Want Ads

• 1: Wanted: Mass quantities of this hardest natural substance on Earth.
• diamonds.
• 2: Wanted: Any one of the remaining ones of this vintage toy in its original box from 1959.
• Barbie.
• 3: Wanted: Any living specimens of the Schaus Swallowtail, one of the rarest species of this insect.
• the butterfly.
• 4: Wanted: Street maps of this lost continent first described by a priest to the philosopher Solon.
• Atlantis.
• 5: Wanted: Recent photos of this reclusive author and creator of Holden Caulfield.
• J.D. Salinger.

Round 2. Category: Mythological Relatives

• 1: Some say Penelope played around with Hermes and produced this god known for playing the pipes.
• Pan.
• 2: Eris, the personification of discord, accompanies this Greek war god, her brother, into battle.
• Ares.
• 3: This king of Crete was Phaedra's father.
• Minos.
• 4: The Graeae, or "gray women", are gray-haired sisters of this gruesome group that includes Medusa.
• Gorgons.
• 5: Typhon, who had a hundred heads, was the father of this multi-headed serpent.
• the Hydra.

Round 3. Category: Candles

• 1: Elton John's "Candle In The Wind" was originally written as a tribute to this actress.
• Marilyn Monroe.
• 2: Blowing out his birthday candles, a boy wishes for 24 hours of truth from his dad in this 1997 Jim Carrey film.
• Liar Liar.
• 3: Erle Stanley Gardner had this attorney take on "The Case Of The Crooked Candle".
• Perry Mason.
• 4: In the mid-19th century, candles were often made with this wax crystallized from petroleum.
• Paraffin wax.
• 5: This play contains the line "Out, out brief candle!".
• Macbeth.

Round 4. Category: 20Th Century Poetry

• 1: Frank O'Hara's "The Day Lady Died" is a tribute to this black singer.
• Billie Holiday.
• 2: In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", it's the color of the wood two roads diverged in.
• yellow.
• 3: It's the first name of Edwin Arlington Robinson's morose Mr. Cheevy.
• Miniver.
• 4: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", he "howled".
• Allen Ginsberg.
• 5: He went from laboring in a Siberian camp to becoming a US citizen to winning the 1987 Nobel Literature Prize.
• Josef Brodsky.

Round 5. Category: It's All A Plant

• 1: Arkansas has made the pink variety of this its state fruit and its state vegetable, just in case.
• a tomato.
• 2: Scientifically Hamamelis virginiana, this "bewitching" plant is used to make a soothing astringent.
• witch hazel.
• 3: In Dutch, these tuber vegetables are known as aardappelen.
• potatoes.
• 4: Arctic alpine plants include the saxifrage, whose roots manage to grow into these to anchor themselves.
• rocks.
• 5: The Great Basin bristlecone species of this tree can live for more than 4,000 years.
• a pine.

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