Episode 1016 - After "all" - Biblical police blotter - Not no. 1 - You "dy" - Cathay society

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1016, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: After All. With All in quotes

• 1: This unproved assertion or accusation.
• an allegation.
• 2: No longer used, the first verse of Germany's national anthem follows "Deutschland" with this phrase meaning "over all".
• Uber Alles.
• 3: "The Pilgrim's Progress" is an example of this symbolic literary form.
• Allegory.
• 4: This adjective means formed by sand, silt or mud left by flowing water, like a plain or a deposit.
• Alluvial.
• 5: This verb meaning to reduce in severity.
• alleviate (or allay).

Round 2. Category: Biblical Police Blotter

• 1: Seems this perp was the first murderer in the Bible and to top it off he iced his own brother.
• Cain.
• 2: When Herodias' burlesque-dancing daughter said she wanted to get ahead, she meant the head of this man.
• John the Baptist.
• 3: We admire his faith, but it seems this guy almost knocked off his own son in Genesis 22.
• Abraham.
• 4: Hey, we don't make the rules; this man's wife gazed back at Sodom against orders and was turned into a pillar of salt.
• Lot.
• 5: We don't have to worry about collaring Uzzah; he was killed for touching this object in violation of divine law.
• The Ark of the Covenant.

Round 3. Category: Not No. 1

• 1: As this, Abbie Rabine would become Miss America 2002 if Katie Harman throws in the sash.
• first runner-up.
• 2: A major Red Sea port, Jeddah is this country's second most populous city.
• Saudi Arabia.
• 3: For the Glen Campbell 45-rpm version of "Wichita Lineman", it was "True Grit".
• flip side.
• 4: K2, the world's second-highest mountain, is also called this, after a geographer.
• Mount Godwin Austen.
• 5: It's the position of the horse that comes in second.
• place.

Round 4. Category: You Dy. With Dy in quotation marks

• 1: Term for a sports team that wins several championships in a row, like the Bulls in the 1990s.
• a dynasty.
• 2: Implosion initiator for buildings past their prime.
• dynamite.
• 3: Oh, Rob... the Petries were the family on this sitcom.
• The Dick Van Dyke Show.
• 4: The DC41 Animal is a model from this manufacturer of high-tech bagless vacuum cleaners.
• Dyson.
• 5: This 4-word "fabric" phrase means someone is extreme or unwilling to change an opinion.
• dyed in the wool.

Round 5. Category: Cathay Society

• 1: What medieval Europeans knew of Cathay, or China, was largely from this Venetian's 1298 tales of his travels.
• Marco Polo.
• 2: The merit-based civil servants of old Cathay were called these, from the language they spoke.
• Mandarins.
• 3: One theory says this was created in China through accidental coagulation when curds formed in soybean soup.
• tofu.
• 4: Guangzhou, a boomtown in the 1200s, is known to westerners as this.
• Canton.
• 5: Ni Zan painted many landscapes featuring this grass, one of the "4 noble plants".
• bamboo.

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