Episode 1148 - The big battalions - Cliches - Scrambled greek gods - The '50s - Something to wear

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1148, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Big Battalions

• 1: This country's nearly 2.2 million active military personnel is by far the world's largest standing force.
• China.
• 2: Russia leads the world with more than 20,000 of these, like the new T-14 with an automated turret and 125mm cannon.
• tanks.
• 3: The U.S. rules the seas with 11 of these mighty ships, more than the rest of the world's fleets combined.
• aircraft carriers.
• 4: North Korea has one of the largest fleets of these craft, including the Yono class midget type.
• submarines.
• 5: Together, these 2 countries that fought a late 1940s war over Kashmir now deploy about 2 million active troops.
• India and Pakistan.

Round 2. Category: Cliches

• 1: This cliche referring to callousness in the face of calamity was inspired by the emperor Nero.
• Fiddling While Rome Burns.
• 2: This expression meaning away from turmoil became popular after Thomas Hardy used it as a book title.
• Far from the Madding Crowd.
• 3: Meaning you can't make sense of it, to not be able to do this "of" something, may refer to a flipped coin.
• make heads or tails of it.
• 4: =.
• =.
• 5: When you accept something you don't want to, you do this to your pride⁠—gulp!.
• swallow.

Round 3. Category: Scrambled Greek Gods

• 1: Rose.
• Eros.
• 2: Deter me.
• Demeter.
• 3: Noise pod.
• Poseidon.
• 4: Run USA.
• Uranus.
• 5: Hair depot.
• Aphrodite.

Round 4. Category: The '50s

• 1: Year in which the Soviets launched Sputnik.
• 1957.
• 2: First racehorse to win a million dollars when he took the Hollywood Gold Cup in '51.
• Citation.
• 3: In May 1956 India observed the 2,500th anniversary of this person's death.
• the founder of Buddhism (Buddha).
• 4: Before playing Pete Nolan on TV's "Rawhide", he had a major hit with this:"Well I saw the thing comin' out of the sky / It had the one long horn, and one big eye / I commenced to shakin' and I said "Ooh-eee" / It looks like a purple people eater to me / It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater / (One-eyed, one-horned...".
• Sheb Wooley.
• 5: According to a popular ad, to keep your pompadour in place, a "little dab" of this would do you.
• Brylcreem.

Round 5. Category: Something To Wear

• 1: They have metal plates at heel and toe to increase sound.
• tap shoes.
• 2: Put this pretend-tious French word before "rabbit" or "fox" to keep yourself warm.
• faux.
• 3: In 1884 the U.S. Army introduced these tired-sounding casual clothes.
• fatigues.
• 4: GQ says these suits typified by an extra row of buttons don't have to be boxy, 1930s gangster-style.
• double breasted suits.
• 5: For Muslim women, a burqa covers the face; a niqab leaves the eyes uncovered; this five-letter word is a headscarf.
• hijab.

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