Instant Trivia

Episode 1180 - What's he like? - Grammar a-z - World place names - The hall of fame position - "short" subjects

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1180, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What'S He Like?

  • 1: It's the national capital a Sinophile would most like to visit.
  • Beijing (Peking).
  • 2: A discophile doesn't particularly like discos but does like these, which are used there.
  • records.
  • 3: A logophile is a lover of these: long or short, Latinate or Anglo-Saxon....
  • words.
  • 4: 1 of the 2 letters that can begin the standard term for a lover and connoisseur of wine.
  • O or E (oenophile or enophile).
  • 5: From the French, it's someone who wouldn't miss a Samuel Fuller or Alain Resnais festival.
  • cinephile.

    • Round 2. Category: Grammar A-Z

    • 1: S:The set of rules for the proper arrangement of a sentence from the Greek for "orderly arrangement".
    • syntax.
    • 2: P: The building blocks of a sentence are subject and this, what is said of the subject.
    • the predicate.
    • 3: I: To be this form of a verb, some say, means to never split it.
    • an infinitive.
    • 4: M: Nouns, adjectives and adverbs can be these qualifiers.
    • modifiers.
    • 5: R:Essential info comes in a clause that's relative as well as this adjective.
    • restrictive.

      • Round 3. Category: World Place Names

      • 1: The Arabic name of this biblical town means "house of meat"; the Hebrew name--"house of bread".
      • Bethlehem.
      • 2: Legend says this sea is named for Theseus' father, who flung himself into the waters when he thought his son was dead.
      • the Aegean.
      • 3: We're bullish on this Spanish city that tradition says was founded by and named for Pompey.
      • Pamplona.
      • 4: Ah, can you smell it? The name of this former British colony is Chinese for "fragrant harbor".
      • Hong Kong.
      • 5: This Indian capital was so named to distinguish it from the older city of the same name.
      • New Delhi.

        • Round 4. Category: The Hall Of Fame Position

        • 1: Kareem, Moses,Wilt.
        • center (in basketball).
        • 2: Dizzy, Lefty, Pud,Cy.
        • pitcher.
        • 3: Magic,Isiah, John(okay, John Stockton).
        • point guard.
        • 4: Tony Esposito,Vladislav Tretiak, Ken Dryden.
        • goalie (in hockey).
        • 5: Lawrence "L.T." Taylor, Ted "The Mad Stork" Hendricks,Harry "no cool nickname" Carson.
        • linebacker.

          • Round 5. Category: Short Subjects. With Short in quotation marks

          • 1: A cropped permanent, a brief gesture of farewell, or a radio band.
          • a short wave.
          • 2: Puritan, Wesson or Crisco.
          • types of shortening.
          • 3: It could be said that a hapless person is always "a day late and" this.
          • a dollar short.
          • 4: What you are when you get short of breath very quickly.
          • short-winded.
          • 5: Comedian who plays the character for whom life holds no greater thrill than meeting the following:.
          • Martin Short.

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

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