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Episode 1016 - After "all" - Biblical police blotter - Not no. 1 - You "dy" - Cathay society

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1016, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: After All. With All in quotes

  • 1: This unproved assertion or accusation.
  • an allegation.
  • 2: No longer used, the first verse of Germany's national anthem follows "Deutschland" with this phrase meaning "over all".
  • Uber Alles.
  • 3: "The Pilgrim's Progress" is an example of this symbolic literary form.
  • Allegory.
  • 4: This adjective means formed by sand, silt or mud left by flowing water, like a plain or a deposit.
  • Alluvial.
  • 5: This verb meaning to reduce in severity.
  • alleviate (or allay).

    • Round 2. Category: Biblical Police Blotter

    • 1: Seems this perp was the first murderer in the Bible and to top it off he iced his own brother.
    • Cain.
    • 2: When Herodias' burlesque-dancing daughter said she wanted to get ahead, she meant the head of this man.
    • John the Baptist.
    • 3: We admire his faith, but it seems this guy almost knocked off his own son in Genesis 22.
    • Abraham.
    • 4: Hey, we don't make the rules; this man's wife gazed back at Sodom against orders and was turned into a pillar of salt.
    • Lot.
    • 5: We don't have to worry about collaring Uzzah; he was killed for touching this object in violation of divine law.
    • The Ark of the Covenant.

      • Round 3. Category: Not No. 1

      • 1: As this, Abbie Rabine would become Miss America 2002 if Katie Harman throws in the sash.
      • first runner-up.
      • 2: A major Red Sea port, Jeddah is this country's second most populous city.
      • Saudi Arabia.
      • 3: For the Glen Campbell 45-rpm version of "Wichita Lineman", it was "True Grit".
      • flip side.
      • 4: K2, the world's second-highest mountain, is also called this, after a geographer.
      • Mount Godwin Austen.
      • 5: It's the position of the horse that comes in second.
      • place.

        • Round 4. Category: You Dy. With Dy in quotation marks

        • 1: Term for a sports team that wins several championships in a row, like the Bulls in the 1990s.
        • a dynasty.
        • 2: Implosion initiator for buildings past their prime.
        • dynamite.
        • 3: Oh, Rob... the Petries were the family on this sitcom.
        • The Dick Van Dyke Show.
        • 4: The DC41 Animal is a model from this manufacturer of high-tech bagless vacuum cleaners.
        • Dyson.
        • 5: This 4-word "fabric" phrase means someone is extreme or unwilling to change an opinion.
        • dyed in the wool.

          • Round 5. Category: Cathay Society

          • 1: What medieval Europeans knew of Cathay, or China, was largely from this Venetian's 1298 tales of his travels.
          • Marco Polo.
          • 2: The merit-based civil servants of old Cathay were called these, from the language they spoke.
          • Mandarins.
          • 3: One theory says this was created in China through accidental coagulation when curds formed in soybean soup.
          • tofu.
          • 4: Guangzhou, a boomtown in the 1200s, is known to westerners as this.
          • Canton.
          • 5: Ni Zan painted many landscapes featuring this grass, one of the "4 noble plants".
          • bamboo.

            • Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

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