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WELL READ: Test Your Literary Knowledge from Atticus to Anagrams
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Join The Trivia Twins for a double dose of trivia each week!
In today's episode, test your literary knowledge with the following format:
The Name Game: Name a certain number of things from a given topic.
What’s the Connection?: We're giving you 3 things that have something in common and you'll guess the answer to each.
The Timeline Challenge: We’ll give you 3 events from history and ask you to guess the year they happened.
A Triple Shot of Trivia: We’ll ask 3 themed trivia questions.
5 Clues: We’ll give you 5 clues about an answer starting with the most difficult and ending with the easiest. Bonus points if you can correctly guess the answer in the fewest amount of clues.
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Theme
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Hey guys, welcome to the Trivia Twins podcast. I'm Andi. And I'm Dani, we'll be your hosts. On Tuesdays, we quiz you on our general knowledge topic of the week.
00:00:21
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Today, the theme is well read. But first, be sure to follow us on Instagram or sign up for our newsletter.
Support and Community Engagement
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The link is in the show notes.
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Also, if you'd like to show appreciation for our content, you can buy us a coffee. Our buy me a coffee link is in the show notes. And if you do send us a little something, make sure to request a trivia topic that you or a loved one would enjoy, and we'll include that in a future episode for you.
Literary Hypotheticals
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All right, let's start off with a quick round of this or that.
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This or that? Would you rather explore a haunted house with the King of Horror, Stephen King, or attend a murder mystery dinner with the Queen of Mystery, Agatha Christie?
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All right both of those sound really fun. i feel like I want to do both of them, but I think I'd have to go with the Queen of Mystery and do a little murder mystery dinner with her. That sounds fun.
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I just watched A Haunting in Venice, I haven't read any her books. I've only seen the movies. But I've seen Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express, and now I've seen A Haunting in Venice, which I think was my favorite.
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Really? Because I've seen the other other two as well and I haven't seen Haunting in Venice yet. I bet you would like a Haunting in Venice like me. So I don't know. That's a tough one though. What would you choose? That is a tough one. I would choose both too. But I think if I had to, I would, I want to meet Stephen King. I mean, he's from Maine.
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True. has so many just iconic films, books. I think I'd go with him. I mean, if he did a haunted house with Stephen King, I would want him to like create the haunted house. Yeah, exactly. What would he put in there?
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Then you know it would be fun. Yes. And scary. And weird, probably. All right. This or that. Would you rather drink tea with the Mad Hatter in Wonderland or sample sweets with Willy Wonka at his chocolate factory? i don't know if I would trust going to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. i feel like something horrible would happen to me.
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It would probably be delicious, but I think I got to go drinking tea with Mad Hatter. agree. kind of feel like I wouldn't trust the tea from the Mad Hatter either though. Yeah I know.
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If I don't trust either of them. think I would take the risk and go to the chocolate factory and just see what happens because i love chocolate.
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Yeah. Let's get into the trivia.
Trivia Challenges
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Let's start off with the name game. Can you name three anagrams from the word E-V-I-L? And the answer is veil, vile, and live.
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Alright, let's move on to What's the Connection? What's the connection with the titles of the books where you'd find these three characters?
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Atticus Finch, Sam Spade, and Nurse Ratched.
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And the answer is they're all famous books with birds in the title. um So Atticus Finch is from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Sam Spade is from the Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.
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And Nurse Ratched is from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
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Alright, let's move on to the Timeline Challenge. In which year did all of the following book series release their first movie?
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ah Bridget Jones's Diary, by Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings.
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And the answer is, they all were released in 2001.
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All right, let's get into a triple shot of trivia. Question number one. According to the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, which three-letter word, starting with R, has the most definitions in the English language?
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Question number two. What's the term for a word that reads the same backward as forward, like race car or madam?
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Question number three. Lilliput is a fictional island in which classic novel written by Jonathan Swift? And the answers are question number one.
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According to the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary,
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number one according to the editors of the oxford english dictionary Run has the most definitions in the English language.
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Question number two. The term for a word that reads the same backward and forward like race car or madam is a palindrome.
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Question number three. Lilliput is a fictional island in the novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift.
Novel Clue Game
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All right, let's move on to five clues. We'll give you five clues about a book and you have to guess which book it Clue number one.
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The novel was published 1818. Clue number two. first edition was published anonymously. Clue number three. number two the first edition was published
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The author of this novel began writing it for a contest where they were competing to write the best ghost story. Clue number four. Contrary to popular belief, the title of this book refers to the scientist creator, not the unnamed creature he brings to life.
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And clue number five, the subtitle for this classic novel is The Modern And the answer is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Closing and Next Episode Teaser
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All right, that's the show. Join us Thursday for our pop culture trivia episode of the week. Thanks for playing. See you next time.