Episode 1227 - The missing man - The reformation - The new york knocks - Last words - It sounds like

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1227, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Missing Man

• 1: Aboard Apollo 11:Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin.
• (Michael) Collins.
• 2: In a famous double-play combo:Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers.
• Frank Chance.
• 3: In the name of an optical products company:John Jacob Bausch.
• (Henry) Lomb.
• 4: In a legendary trio:Balthazar, Melchior.
• Caspar.
• 5: On an 1896 Republican presidential ticket:Garret A. Hobart.
• McKinley.

Round 2. Category: The Reformation

• 1: This king's demand for an annulment aided the spread of the Reformation to England.
• Henry VIII.
• 2: Some reformers insisted that this initiatory rite be performed not on infants but on adults who had made a choice.
• baptism.
• 3: The Reformation's greatest leaders were Martin Luther in Germany and this Geneva-based Frenchman.
• Calvin.
• 4: Contrary to church doctrine, the Reformation declared that grace was a reward for this, not for works.
• faith.
• 5: Around 1545 the Catholic Church launched this movement to oppose the Protestants.
• the Counter-Reformation.

Round 3. Category: The New York Knocks

• 1: Anyone from Boston will tell you the New England type of this, with milk, tops Manhattan's, with tomatoes.
• chowder.
• 2: The title of this Broadway musical that opened on May 5, 1955 makes its feelings about the local baseball team quite apparent.
• Damn Yankees.
• 3: Tough times at this arena, the "Mecca of Basketball", as even Pixar dunked on the Knicks in "Soul", explaining decades of futility.
• Madison Square Garden.
• 4: In their 1979 Top 40 hit "Shattered", this group sang, "Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots"... shadoobie.
• The Rolling Stones.
• 5: A Yelper on this landmark connecting Canal St. and Jersey City: a "traffic jam tunnel. If you have a small bladder like me, good luck".
• the Holland Tunnel.

Round 4. Category: Last Words

• 1: This 1892 Leoncavallo opera ends with "La commedia e finita", or "The comedy is finished".
• I Pagliacci.
• 2: This term for "the end of the line" was once a god celebrated at the end of the Roman year.
• terminus.
• 3: In Clement Moore poem, what Santa said after "Happy Christmas to all".
• and to all a good night.
• 4: "Crito, I owe a cock to Aesculapius; do not forget to pay it".
• Socrates.
• 5: Founder of Communism, he said, "last words are for fools who haven't said enough".
• Karl Marx.

Round 5. Category: It Sounds Like

• 1: Jay Leno's show, it sounds like how you address a letter for Sir Galahad.
• Tonight.
• 2: A cylindrical storage container for grain, it sounds like an order to exhale quietly.
• Silo.
• 3: A pitcher who comes in late in the game, it sounds like a feeling trees have in the spring.
• Relief.
• 4: It sounds like the kind of personality most likely to have a heart attack in the capital of Taiwan.
• Taipei.
• 5: A runway material, it sounds like what you do before you feather your Apple computer.
• Tarmac.

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