Episode 819 - eggs - pets - napoleon - international books and authors - people on the map

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 819, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: eggs

• 1: When hard boiling eggs, add a pinch of this to the water to keep the eggs from cracking.
• salt.
• 2: "Joy of Cooking" says not to use a bowl made of this metal when beating eggs, as it will cause the eggs to gray.
• aluminum.
• 3: If you buy a dozen eggs weighing 2 oz. each, they'll have this size designation.
• large.
• 4: Of all reptile eggs, it's the type most commonly eaten.
• turtle eggs.
• 5: Japanese savor the tiny eggs of this game bird and eat them raw on top of sushi.
• quail.

Round 2. Category: pets

• 1: Of the more than 25 Amazon species of these birds, most have green body feathers.
• parrots.
• 2: To impoverish his enemies, the king of Siam gave them elephants of this color, not allowed to work.
• white.
• 3: From Greek for "bloodlessness", this condition can affect cats suffering from too many fleas.
• anemia.
• 4: Basic obedience training makes a dog comfortable, because he sees you as the leader of this group.
• a pack.
• 5: William Howard Taft was the last prez to have one of these grazing at the White House; her name was Pauline Wayne.
• a cow.

Round 3. Category: napoleon

• 1: The cast-off mistress of revolutionary leader Paul Barras, she married Napoleon in 1796.
• Josephine.
• 2: As a child Napoleon Bonaparte hated France for its bloody conquest of this island of his birth.
• Corsica.
• 3: Napoleon was "The Little" this; hey, one more promotion and he makes little sergeant.
• Corporal.
• 4: In 1793 24-year-old Napoleon was seriously wounded in the thigh by one of these musket attachments.
• a bayonet.
• 5: In 1798 Napoleon struck at England by occupying this country, threatening trade routes to India.
• Egypt.

Round 4. Category: international books and authors

• 1: Explorer "of Arabia" who wrote "Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
• T.E. Lawrence.
• 2: Moses Isegawa's 2000 novel "Abyssinian Chronicles" is set partly in Kampala in this, his native country.
• Uganda.
• 3: Argentina's Manuel Puig gave us the "Kiss of" this "Woman"; I read about it on the "web".
• "Kiss of the Spider Woman".
• 4: This author of "Shogun" called himself a "half-Irish Englishman...born in Australia".
• James Clavell.
• 5: Former first lady Jehan Sadat called her moving memoir "A Woman of" this country.
• Egypt.

Round 5. Category: people on the map

• 1: He wrote the songs "There's No Business Like Show Business" and "White Christmas".
• Irving Berlin.
• 2: This Los Angeles Lakers star with 3 championship rings speaks fluent Italian.
• Kobe Bryant.
• 3: He was nominated for an Emmy for his role as Buddy Sorrell on "The Dick Van Dyke Show".
• Morey Amsterdam.
• 4: Among the many larger-than-life characters he created are Captain Wolf Larsen and Buck the sled dog.
• Jack London.
• 5: This British-born actor has starred in "Cabaret", Logan's Run" and "Austin Powers".
• Michael York.

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