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Podcast: Instant Trivia
Episode: Episode 974 - That 1870s show - Send me a letter - "water" you saying? - French class - Oh, witty woman
Description: Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 974, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: That 1870s Show
1: This Norwegian's "Pillars of Society" debuted in Denmark in 1877.
Ibsen.
2: "Yn Wyneb Y Nef" is one of the songs from 1878's "Blodwen", thought to be the first opera in this language.
Welsh.
3: "Thespis", the first collaboration by this pair, opened in London in Dec. 1871 and ran for 2 months; they'd do better later.
Gilbert and Sullivan.
4: This city just northeast of Nuremberg got on the opera map with the 1876 premiere of the full "Ring" cycle.
Bayreuth.
5: Jacques...