Episode 870 - rhyme giver - watch your tongue - "pu" - so great they need 2 nicknames - midnight reads

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 870, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: rhyme giver

• 1: To make a speech or to give birth.
• deliver.
• 2: To shake from cold, or to shatter something, like "me timbers".
• shiver.
• 3: Body detox center.
• liver.
• 4: China's Hongshui or India's Tapi.
• river.
• 5: The goddess Diana is often depicted holding this container.
• quiver.

Round 2. Category: watch your tongue

• 1: The standard form of this language is based on the Central dialect, the speech in and around Moscow.
• Russian.
• 2: In the early 1500s Martin Luther translated the Bible into this language using a dialect of Saxony.
• German.
• 3: English began to absorb French words after this 1066 event.
• the Battle of Hastings (the Norman Conquest).
• 4: The poet Sappho wrote in the Aeolic dialect of this language.
• Greek.
• 5: This Scandinavian language has many dialects, especially in North Jutland and the island of Bornholm.
• Danish.

Round 3. Category: "pu"

• 1: It's the time of life when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of... sex.
• puberty.
• 2: Oscar De La Hoya or Evander Holyfield.
• Pugilist.
• 3: It's another name for the cougar or mountain lion.
• Puma.
• 4: It means downright rotten.
• Putrid.
• 5: The third of these wars wiped Carthage off the map, though it was later rebuilt.
• The Punic Wars.

Round 4. Category: so great they need 2 nicknames

• 1: Before he was Magic he was June Bug, because he's Earvin Junior.
• "Magic" Johnson.
• 2: George Herman Ruth was not just "Babe" but this Italian version, too.
• The Bambino.
• 3: By career's end Wayne Gretzky was "The Great One"; earlier he was this, also a Chaplin film title.
• "The Kid".
• 4: The Baseball Encyclopedia lists his nicknames as "The Franchise" and "Tom Terrific".
• Tom Seaver.
• 5: This carrot-topped running back built muscle working on an Illinois ice truck, becoming "The Wheaton Iceman".
• "Red" Grange.

Round 5. Category: midnight reads

• 1: He gave us the line "Listen my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere".
• Longfellow.
• 2: He won the 1981 Booker Prize for "Midnight's Children"; his 1988 novel won him a fatwa.
• Salman Rushdie.
• 3: This book is Billy Hayes' account of drug smuggling in Turkey and his subsequent imprisonment.
• Midnight Express.
• 4: This bestseller is subtitled "A Savannah Story".
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
• 5: The book "Midnight Dreary" examines "The Mysterious Death" of this poet.
• Edgar Allan Poe.

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