Episode 656 - African Americans - 4-Letter Words - Authors' Native Lands - Let's Eat Italian! - Sports 2004

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 656, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: African Americans

• 1: Crispus Attucks, called the first American to die for independence, was killed in this 1770 incident.
• the Boston Massacre.
• 2: This Harlem-born singer-dancer-actor was a member of the 1960s "Rat Pack" with Frank and Dino.
• Sammy Davis, Jr..
• 3: An award for African-American authors and illustrators is named for this wife of Martin Luther King Jr..
• Coretta Scott King.
• 4: "I cannot offer you money, position or fame", he said when he offered George Washington Carver a job at Tuskegee.
• Booker T. Washington.
• 5: 8 years before she won Olympic gold, this gymnast was a 2004 Virginia State champion.
• Gabby Douglas.

Round 2. Category: 4-Letter Words

• 1: Bacall's last word on how to whistle.
• blow.
• 2: From Greek for "single", a single man who lives in a monastery.
• monk.
• 3: This word commonly follows cuff or missing.
• link.
• 4: A boy who bears a bride's train, or a bellboy calling out a name.
• page.
• 5: A collection of tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne were "Twice" this.
• Told.

Round 3. Category: Authors' Native Lands

• 1: Godot waiter Samuel Beckett.
• Ireland.
• 2: "The Remains of the Day" novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.
• Japan.
• 3: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, chronicler of a death foretold.
• Colombia.
• 4: Celebrator of imperialism Rudyard Kipling.
• India.
• 5: Deptford trilogist Robertson Davies.
• Canada.

Round 4. Category: Let's Eat Italian!

• 1: Served before the pasta, it's an appetizer plate of meats, cheese, fish and vegetables.
• antipasto.
• 2: Long, very thin pasta called capellini is also known by this "divine" name.
• angel hair pasta.
• 3: This blue-veined cheese is named for a suburb of Milan, not a snake-haired monster.
• Gorgonzola.
• 4: From the Italian for "knot of wood", these potato dumplings may have cheese or spinach in them.
• gnocchi.
• 5: It's a layered ice cream dessert usually containing chopped fruits and nuts.
• spumoni.

Round 5. Category: Sports 2004

• 1: These big cats gave the Patriots all they could handle in Super Bowl XXXVIII.
• the (Carolina) Panthers.
• 2: All "Hale" this 58-year-old who won his fourth Senior PGA championship by a str--a shot.
• Hale Irwin.
• 3: He was the winning pitcher in the clinching game of all 3 series in the Red Sox' magical run.
• Derek Lowe.
• 4: Women from this country won tennis' Wimbledon and French and U.S. Opens.
• Russia.
• 5: This team's Chauncey Billups was MVP of the NBA Finals.
• the Detroit Pistons.

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