Episode 1199 - Greek alphabet puzzlers - Here come the brides - The coat closet - "an" the beginning - Nelson mandela

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1199, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Greek Alphabet Puzzlers

• 1: It's a symbol of the all-american way of life.
• apple pie.
• 2: What baby needs, according to craps players.
• a nu pair of shoes.
• 3: Around 1960, it was a state-of-the-art music system.
• Hi-Fi.
• 4: In song, she's asked, "What's that flower you have on?".
• Delta Dawn.
• 5: A type of violent windstorm.
• a psi-clone.

Round 2. Category: Here Come The Brides

• 1: In 1993 this "Pretty Woman" who was once engaged to Kiefer Sutherland married singer Lyle Lovett.
• Julia Roberts.
• 2: In a 1993 TV movie, she married her childhood sweetheart Bamm-Bamm Rubble.
• Pebbles (Flintstone).
• 3: "Our reception was most enthusiastic", she wrote in her diary of her 1840 marriage to her beloved Albert.
• Queen Victoria.
• 4: She was Mickey Rooney's first bride, and Frank Sinatra's second.
• Ava Gardner.
• 5: In Genesis Jacob was tricked into taking this woman as his bride, even though he loved Rachel.
• Leah.

Round 3. Category: The Coat Closet

• 1: In 1988 Claude Montana designed a coat named for this wrap that's worn after taking a shower.
• a bathrobe.
• 2: The coat named for this time of day is also called a cutaway.
• a morning coat.
• 3: It's an evening coat that wraps around the body like the larval moth covering of the same name.
• a cocoon (coat).
• 4: This Scotsman started making raincoats after he invented a rubberized fabric in 1823.
• Macintosh.
• 5: This great French couturier debuted his A-Line coat in 1955.
• (Christian) Dior.

Round 4. Category: An The Beginning. With An in quotation marks

• 1: An iron block on which metals are hammered into shapes; it also hammers roadrunner-chasing coyotes.
• an anvil.
• 2: With the stress on the first syllable, a building add-on; on the second, to incorporate another country's territory.
• an annex.
• 3: A collection of writings by various authors, often from a specific period.
• an anthology.
• 4: The runner who goes last for a team in a relay race.
• the anchor leg.
• 5: A sometimes fatal allergic reaction to bee venom is this type of "shock".
• anaphylactic.

Round 5. Category: Nelson Mandela

• 1: In 1993 Mandela shared this prize with white South African president F.W. De Klerk.
• the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 2: Mandela was already 45 years old when he was sentenced to life in prison early in this decade.
• the 1960s.
• 3: For 18 years of his 27-year imprisonment, Nelson was held in Robben Island Prison near this South African city.
• Cape Town.
• 4: Recounting his life and his struggles, Nelson's autobiography is titled "Long Walk to" this.
• Freedom.
• 5: Nelson was a leading member of this long-banned political party, the ANC.
• the African National Congress.

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