Episode 1110 - That's a "rap" - I played her in the movie - Reconstruction - Birth, art, death - Musical prime numbers

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1110, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: That'S A Rap. With Rap in quotation marks

• 1: Go ahead, let your hair down reading the story of this princess locked in a tower.
• Rapunzel.
• 2: To descend a steep slope by rope.
• rappel.
• 3: Any bird of prey.
• raptor.
• 4: This 212-mile river flows into Chesapeake Bay.
• the Rappahannock.
• 5: Greedy and grasping, especially for money.
• rapacious.

Round 2. Category: I Played Her In The Movie

• 1: Bad singer Florence Foster Jenkins.
• Meryl Streep.
• 2: Good singer Beca, a member of the Barden Bellas who is pitch perfect.
• Anna Kendrick.
• 3: Andy Sachs, assistant to the editor of a fashion magazine.
• (Anne) Hathaway.
• 4: Jenny Curran, Forrest Gump's beloved.
• Robin Wright.
• 5: Rachel Watson, the girl on the train.
• Emily Blunt.

Round 3. Category: Reconstruction

• 1: Founded at the end of Reconstruction, Nicodemus in this "Sunflower State" was the 1st Black settlement west of the Mississippi.
• Kansas.
• 2: By the end of Reconstruction, production of this "king" crop in the South was nearly equal to pre-war levels.
• cotton.
• 3: This largest Tennessee city needed its own reconstruction after 1866 race riots there.
• Memphis.
• 4: Ironically, President Johnson opposed the 14th Amendment but this state was the first former Confederate state to pass it.
• Tennessee.
• 5: In 1872 the Union general this D.C. HBCU was named for wrote about "the cosmopolitan character of the university".
• Howard.

Round 4. Category: Birth, Art, Death

• 1: Born Aug. 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh,"Mao",died Feb. 22, 1987.
• Andy Warhol.
• 2: Born 1606 in the Netherlands,"The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp",died 1669.
• Rembrandt.
• 3: Born 1834 in Massachusetts,"Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Thomas Carlyle", died 1903.
• Whistler.
• 4: Born 1912 in Wyoming,"Lavender Mist", died 1956 in East Hampton, New York.
• Pollock.
• 5: Born 1859 in Paris, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"died 1891.
• (Georges) Seurat.

Round 5. Category: Musical Prime Numbers

• 1: Prince:"2000 zero zero party over, oops, out of time, so tonight I'm gonna party like it's blank".
• 1999.
• 2: ABBA:"You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only blank".
• 17.
• 3: Counting Crows:"In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in blank he came home across the deep blue sea".
• 1493.
• 4: Foreigner:"Well I'm hot blooded, check it and see, got a fever of blank".
• 103.
• 5: Blink-182:"That's about the time she walked away from me, nobody likes you when you're blank".
• 23.

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