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Episode 1117 - Forget u - Country - Other christmas songs - Write foot - The age of the robber barons

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1117, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Forget U

  • 1: Forget the "U" in this synonym for "abode" and you get this stocking.
  • house and hose.
  • 2: Drop the "U" from this float used to mark a navigational channel to get this male word.
  • buoy and boy.
  • 3: Dropping the "U" from this synonym for "leap" gives you this uniting force.
  • bound and bond.
  • 4: This verb meaning "to recommend" becomes this word for a small child when it loses its "U".
  • tout and tot.
  • 5: This, the worth or merit of something, loses its "U" to become this mortal life, like the one "of tears".
  • value and vale.

    • Round 2. Category: Country

    • 1: This country's coat of arms has 3 stars for its 3 main island groups, an eagle for the U.S. and and a lion representing Spain.
    • the Philippines.
    • 2: In October 2002 this late rocker's "30 #1 Hits" CD debuted at the top of the country charts.
    • Elvis Presley.
    • 3: It's where you'll find Kerry's lovely lakes of Killarney.
    • Ireland.
    • 4: He won a 1967 Grammy for "Gentle on My Mind", which later became the theme song to his TV series.
    • Glen Campbell.
    • 5: In 2005 Lech Kaczynski became the president of this country.
    • Poland.

      • Round 3. Category: Other Christmas Songs

      • 1: In 1942 this crooner had a No. 1 hit with "White Christmas".
      • Bing Crosby.
      • 2: This title line is followed by "underneath the mistletoe last night".
      • "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus".
      • 3: His "Christmas Album" of 1957 includes the now classic "Blue Christmas".
      • Elvis Presley.
      • 4: It's the alternate title and first line of "The Christmas Song", definitively sung by Nat King Cole.
      • "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire".
      • 5: In 2014 Bob Geldof re-recorded this 30-year-old song as a fundraiser to fight Ebola.
      • "Do They Know It's Christmas?".

        • Round 4. Category: Write Foot

        • 1: Beginning readers may learn about trick feet and sick feet in "The Foot Book" by this author whose real name was Theodor Geisel.
        • Dr. Seuss.
        • 2: In this Grimm tale, one sister cuts off a toe to fit into a golden shoe; the other, part of her heel; the title girl, a perfect fit!.
        • Cinderella.
        • 3: After landing in Oz, Dorothy is dismayed to see this woman's lifeless feet "shod in silver shoes with pointed toes".
        • the Wicked Witch of the East.
        • 4: In Fulgentius' "Mythologies", the goddess Thetis douses this babe in the River Styx, "his heel alone she did not dip".
        • Achilles.
        • 5: Artist Christy Brown wrote in this autobiography that he was "living in chains" battling cerebral palsy.
        • My Left Foot.

          • Round 5. Category: The Age Of The Robber Barons

          • 1: In 1890 he became president of the American Tobacco Company in Durham, North Carolina.
          • (James Buchanan) Duke.
          • 2: Henry Frick made a fortune supplying the Pittsburgh steel industry with this product made from heating pulverized coal.
          • coke.
          • 3: The "P." in the name of this preeminent banker of the Gilded Age stood for Pierpont, his mother's family.
          • (J.P.) Morgan.
          • 4: 5 years after this act was passed, the Supreme Court gutted it in 1895's United States v. E.C. Knight.
          • the Sherman Antitrust Act.
          • 5: Montana's Marcus Daly owned this, the USA's richest copper mine, as well as the town named for it.
          • Anaconda.

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