Instant Trivia

Episode 1091 - Geographic abbrev. - German 101 - Historic greats - A lover of latin - Peeved veeps

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1091, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Geographic Abbrev.

  • 1: It's the SF in the airport code SFO.
  • San Francisco.
  • 2: AS:This U.S. Pacific territory.
  • American Samoa.
  • 3: SL:This West African nation.
  • Sierra Leone.
  • 4: MB:This Canadian province.
  • Manitoba.
  • 5: BH:This nation, a former Yugoslav republic.
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    • Round 2. Category: German 101

    • 1: These 2 antonyms are ja and nein.
    • yes and no.
    • 2: When traveling in Germany, you might ask, "Sprechen sie Englisch?", which means this.
    • Do you speak English?.
    • 3: If you rent ein auto in der Winter, you might need some of this fluid, der Frostschutz.
    • antifreeze.
    • 4: To find one of these, look for a sign that says "damen" or "frauen".
    • a ladies' room.
    • 5: "Ich habe hunger" means "I'm hungry"; "Ich habe durst" means this.
    • I'm thirsty.

      • Round 3. Category: Historic Greats

      • 1: Frederick the Great brought this kingdom into European ascendancy; it's no longer around, though.
      • Prussia.
      • 2: This empress did not promulgate the 1773 papal bull suppressing Jesuits, allowing them to survive in Russia.
      • Catherine the Great.
      • 3: Part of this 11-letter name of the king of the Franks means "great" in Old French.
      • Charlemagne.
      • 4: King Sejong the Great was responsible for bringing the Hangul alphabet to these people.
      • Korea (the Koreans).
      • 5: Jews have warm fuzzy feelings for this "Great" Persian who released them from captivity in Babylonia.
      • Cyrus the Great.

        • Round 4. Category: A Lover Of Latin

        • 1: It's from the Latin for "crossbred animal" but a prius is a modern form of it, too.
        • a hybrid.
        • 2: It's the ablative form of locus, "place", as when it precedes "parentis".
        • loco.
        • 3: Used in statistics, this word is from the Latin adverbial phrase for "by the hundred".
        • percent.
        • 4: Meaning "in or at another place", you better have a good one for the night of the 16th, ya mug.
        • an alibi.
        • 5: This two-word phrase, Latin for "good faith", means "authentic" in English.
        • bona fide.

          • Round 5. Category: Peeved Veeps

          • 1: This veep lead the Democratic-Republican attacks against 1798's Alien and Sedition Acts.
          • Thomas Jefferson.
          • 2: He said that if his successor, Joe Biden, "wants to diminish the office of the vice president, that's... his call".
          • (Dick) Cheney.
          • 3: Returning from Europe in 1812, he entered the U.S. under an assumed name, Adolphus Arnot; oh yeah, he shot a guy.
          • (Aaron) Burr.
          • 4: He initially didn't want to be McKinley's 2nd VP; he thought it would weaken him for a 1904 presidential run.
          • Teddy Roosevelt.
          • 5: This Greek American published a memoir, "Go Quietly... or Else".
          • Spiro Agnew.

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

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