Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1027, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Finish The Terrible Rhyme
1: "Diplomacy in action", which really does sound great / Is on the website of the cabinet department that we call....State.2: Killing a dragon named python at Delphi, is that too much to swallow? / It wasn't odd for this Greek god, the one known as....Apollo.3: To gather, rouse or summon / You better believe it, buster / It's this word that will be heard / This is the word you'll....muster.4: "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" was not writ just to shame us / It is, however, right here now, from the Bible's book of....Amos.5: "The best is the enemy of the good"--no dolt, there / It must be the enlightened author, Monsieur....Voltaire.Round 2. Category: Detroit: News Clues
1: (I'm Kimberly Gill.) Detroit was often the last stop before freedom on this network, and the Second Baptist Church, still a vibrant house of worship, was an important station.the Underground Railroad.2: (I'm Rhonda Walker.) Speaking in Tiger Stadium in 1990, four months after his release from prison, this man quoted Marvin Gaye, "Brother, brother, there's far too many of you dying".Nelson Mandela.3: (I'm Devin Scillian.) On October 3, 1997, the International Hockey League's Detroit Vipers welcomed a new teammate playing in his sixth decade; this 69-year-old ex-Red Wing, Alex Trebek's hero, took a 46-second shift in his very last pro game.Gordie Howe.4: (I'm Evrod Cassimy.) After GM's president told Detroit car executives, "We must outbuild Hitler", Ford's Willow Run plant churned out the B-24 Liberator, a 4-engine this type of warplane at an unbelievable rate of one per hour.a bomber.5: (I'm Kimberly Gill.) December 10, 2014 was a bright day in a long saga as Detroit officially exited the largest municipal one of these in the history of the United States, and emergency manager Kevyn Orr's resignation took effect.a bankruptcy.Round 3. Category: You Can'T
1: ...buy more of the golden Kellogg's cereal named for this "Star Wars" droid; it was discontinued years ago.C-3PO.2: ...move this kind of big rock if it's on public property in the Colorado city of the same name; the municipal code says no.a boulder.3: ...change gears in a manual transmission auto without first disengaging and then re-engaging this.the clutch.4: ...go boating in Owens Lake near the California-Nevada border; it dried up in the 1920s after its water was sent to this city.Los Angeles.5: ...visit Swaziland any more; in 2018 it changed its name to this.Eswatini.Round 4. Category: Friend Like Me
1: Mary Lincoln said her "best living friend" was her dressmaker Lizzie Keckley, who'd bought her own way out of this.slavery.2: This physicist wrote a foreword to the bio of his German pal Emanuel Lasker, world chess champ from 1896 to 1921.Einstein.3: Marilyn Monroe adored this jazz great and helped her get a booking at a Hollywood hot spot.Ella Fitzgerald.4: George Vancouver named the highest point in Washington state for his friend Pete, this British admiral.(Peter) Rainier.5: Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote a celebratory poem for the 80th birthday of this "life-long friend" and fellow crusader.Susan B. Anthony.Round 5. Category: Flag 'Em Down
1: The Alamo is located in this city and is depicted on its flag.San Antonio.2: This descriptive nickname of the U.S. flag was coined by Francis Scott Key.the Star-Spangled Banner.3: The
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