Episode 1242 - The lyin' king - A samantha bee - Books and their movies - Mountain / man - A tough food category

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1242, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Lyin' King

• 1: This mythical king whose name now refers to a never-ending task lied to get out of Hades.
• Sisyphus.
• 2: The False Dmitrys were 3 men who tried to rule Russia by pretending to be sons of this brutal czar.
• Ivan the Terrible.
• 3: One story says this king of Ithaca told Clytemnestra her daughter could marry Achilles, but it was a lie.
• Odysseus.
• 4: Leopold II of this country created the Congo Free State, which the world would later realize was anything but free.
• Belgium.
• 5: Troubadour Bertran said of this man who tried to steal the throne from crusading brother Richard, "No man may ever trust him".
• King John.

Round 2. Category: A Samantha Bee

• 1: Elizabeth Montgomery had viewers in a spell as the magical Samantha Stephens on this classic sitcom.
• Bewitched.
• 2: Before going "Full Frontal", Samantha Bee was a correspondent for this Comedy Central series.
• The Daily Show.
• 3: Samantha, the operating system in this 2013 film, shares a name with Samantha Morton, who was its original voice.
• Her.
• 4: After her years as Kelly Bundy, she played the amnesiac title character of "Samantha Who?".
• Christina Applegate.
• 5: She played the lusty Samantha Jones on "Sex and the City".
• Kim Cattrall.

Round 3. Category: Books And Their Movies

• 1: The title of this 2007 film adapted from a novel comes from a Yeats poem that says, "An aged man is but a paltry thing".
• No Country for Old Men.
• 2: The first line of Winston Groom's novel about this guy mentions a box of chocolates; the Tom Hanks film mentioned them too.
• Forrest Gump.
• 3: The title of this Michael Ondaatje novel and film actually refers to a Hungarian count, badly burned after a plane crash.
• The English Patient.
• 4: When Hitler saw this 1940 movie based on a Steinbeck novel, he saw Americans as pushovers; Stalin relished the misery of the proletariat.
• The Grapes of Wrath.
• 5: This Ridley Scott film based on Eric Jager's true story of medieval France saw Matt Damon tilting against Adam Driver.
• The Last Duel.

Round 4. Category: Mountain / Man

• 1: Why ask about this mountain named for a British surveyor in 1865? Because it's there.
• Everest.
• 2: A 16,000-foot Venezuelan mountain is known as Pico this last name, honoring a noted liberator.
• Bolívar.
• 3: In 1792 George Vancouver named this mountain, the tallest in Wash., after a British navy man who never even saw it.
• Rainier.
• 4: In 1792 William Broughton named this mountain, the tallest in Oregon, after a British navy man who never even saw it.
• Mount Hood.
• 5: Around 1890 I.C. Russell named this mountain, the tallest in Canada, for a geologist.
• Logan.

Round 5. Category: A Tough Food Category

• 1: Biltong is a South African version of this tough and salty 5-letter food, thin strips of meat that's been dried.
• jerky.
• 2: Eating this organ meat can be tough but does help ward off anemia; an oil is also made from the cod's.
• liver.
• 3: Large pods of this gumbo ingredient may be tough and fibrous.
• okra.
• 4: It's the Italian name for squid, whose meat is firm and chewy.
• calamari.
• 5: Tough and requiring long cooking, it's the lining of beef stomach.
• tripe.

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