Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1195, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Win Win Situation. With Win in quotes
- 1: Flavor of Life Saver that may set off sparks in your mouth.
- wint o green.
- 2: Native Americans who lived in the Green Bay area (Their name is now on mobile homes).
- Winnebago.
- 3: Buzz Aldrin's real first name.
- Edwin.
- 4: Charming, in a childlike way.
- winsome.
- 5: Separating the wheat from the chaff by air.
- winnowing.
Round 2. Category: Soft Words
- 1: The King James Bible sayeth, "A soft answer turneth away" this synonym for anger.
- wrath.
- 2: "The Long Goodbye" finds this gumshoe describing various blondes, including a shadowy one who "speaks softly out of nowhere".
- Philip Marlowe.
- 3: In a poem by this 3-named guy, Evangeline whispers to Gabriel, "If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us".
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- 4: In "Thus Spake Zarathustra", he wrote, "The voice of beauty speaks softly: it steals only into the most awakened souls".
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
- 5: In Poe's "The Raven", her whispered name is heard in the darkness.
- Lenore.
Round 3. Category: Reportage
- 1: (I'm Hiroko Tabuchi.) In 2015 I reported on the Japanese company Takata's delay investigating why inflators on these in cars were exploding.
- air bags.
- 2: James Whitaker, royal reporter for the Daily Mirror, shocked Britain with the news of this woman's eating disorder.
- Lady Diana (Princess Diana).
- 3: "An age-old journalistic dilemma": getting the story or protecting this "S"-person.
- a source.
- 4: The thrilling Zachary Taylor/Lewis Cass contest of 1848 was the first presidential election for this new wire service.
- the Associated Press.
- 5: The first reporter in space, Japanese journalist Akiyama Toyohiro trained at Star City in this country.
- Russia.
Round 4. Category: Analogies
- 1: Dog is to bark as duck is to this.
- quack.
- 2: A ruler is to length as this is to body temperature.
- a thermometer.
- 3: Foot is to feet as datum is to this.
- data.
- 4: Car is to garage as airplane is to this.
- hangar.
- 5: Santiago is to Chile as this is to Peru.
- Lima.
Round 5. Category: Pun-Ishing Clues
- 1: "To live until you are very, very old", or to widen one's pupils.
- to dilate/die late.
- 2: "Things that can be seen from the Eiffel Tower", or animals that live and feed on other animals.
- Paris sites/parasites.
- 3: "What a female softball player catches the ball with", or a religious recluse.
- her mitt/hermit.
- 4: "What a chicken does to an egg", or a small ax.
- hatch it/hatchet.
- 5: "Former circus big top enclosure", or the distance something encompasses.
- ex-tent/extent.
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