Episode 1180 - What's he like? - Grammar a-z - World place names - The hall of fame position - "short" subjects

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1180, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What'S He Like?

• 1: It's the national capital a Sinophile would most like to visit.
• Beijing (Peking).
• 2: A discophile doesn't particularly like discos but does like these, which are used there.
• records.
• 3: A logophile is a lover of these: long or short, Latinate or Anglo-Saxon....
• words.
• 4: 1 of the 2 letters that can begin the standard term for a lover and connoisseur of wine.
• O or E (oenophile or enophile).
• 5: From the French, it's someone who wouldn't miss a Samuel Fuller or Alain Resnais festival.
• cinephile.

Round 2. Category: Grammar A-Z

• 1: S:The set of rules for the proper arrangement of a sentence from the Greek for "orderly arrangement".
• syntax.
• 2: P: The building blocks of a sentence are subject and this, what is said of the subject.
• the predicate.
• 3: I: To be this form of a verb, some say, means to never split it.
• an infinitive.
• 4: M: Nouns, adjectives and adverbs can be these qualifiers.
• modifiers.
• 5: R:Essential info comes in a clause that's relative as well as this adjective.
• restrictive.

Round 3. Category: World Place Names

• 1: The Arabic name of this biblical town means "house of meat"; the Hebrew name--"house of bread".
• Bethlehem.
• 2: Legend says this sea is named for Theseus' father, who flung himself into the waters when he thought his son was dead.
• the Aegean.
• 3: We're bullish on this Spanish city that tradition says was founded by and named for Pompey.
• Pamplona.
• 4: Ah, can you smell it? The name of this former British colony is Chinese for "fragrant harbor".
• Hong Kong.
• 5: This Indian capital was so named to distinguish it from the older city of the same name.
• New Delhi.

Round 4. Category: The Hall Of Fame Position

• 1: Kareem, Moses,Wilt.
• center (in basketball).
• 2: Dizzy, Lefty, Pud,Cy.
• pitcher.
• 3: Magic,Isiah, John(okay, John Stockton).
• point guard.
• 4: Tony Esposito,Vladislav Tretiak, Ken Dryden.
• goalie (in hockey).
• 5: Lawrence "L.T." Taylor, Ted "The Mad Stork" Hendricks,Harry "no cool nickname" Carson.
• linebacker.

Round 5. Category: Short Subjects. With Short in quotation marks

• 1: A cropped permanent, a brief gesture of farewell, or a radio band.
• a short wave.
• 2: Puritan, Wesson or Crisco.
• types of shortening.
• 3: It could be said that a hapless person is always "a day late and" this.
• a dollar short.
• 4: What you are when you get short of breath very quickly.
• short-winded.
• 5: Comedian who plays the character for whom life holds no greater thrill than meeting the following:.
• Martin Short.

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