Instant Trivia

Episode 1195 - "win" win situation - Soft words - Reportage - Analogies - Pun-ishing clues

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1195, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Win Win Situation. With Win in quotes

  • 1: Flavor of Life Saver that may set off sparks in your mouth.
  • wint o green.
  • 2: Native Americans who lived in the Green Bay area (Their name is now on mobile homes).
  • Winnebago.
  • 3: Buzz Aldrin's real first name.
  • Edwin.
  • 4: Charming, in a childlike way.
  • winsome.
  • 5: Separating the wheat from the chaff by air.
  • winnowing.

    • Round 2. Category: Soft Words

    • 1: The King James Bible sayeth, "A soft answer turneth away" this synonym for anger.
    • wrath.
    • 2: "The Long Goodbye" finds this gumshoe describing various blondes, including a shadowy one who "speaks softly out of nowhere".
    • Philip Marlowe.
    • 3: In a poem by this 3-named guy, Evangeline whispers to Gabriel, "If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us".
    • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
    • 4: In "Thus Spake Zarathustra", he wrote, "The voice of beauty speaks softly: it steals only into the most awakened souls".
    • Friedrich Nietzsche.
    • 5: In Poe's "The Raven", her whispered name is heard in the darkness.
    • Lenore.

      • Round 3. Category: Reportage

      • 1: (I'm Hiroko Tabuchi.) In 2015 I reported on the Japanese company Takata's delay investigating why inflators on these in cars were exploding.
      • air bags.
      • 2: James Whitaker, royal reporter for the Daily Mirror, shocked Britain with the news of this woman's eating disorder.
      • Lady Diana (Princess Diana).
      • 3: "An age-old journalistic dilemma": getting the story or protecting this "S"-person.
      • a source.
      • 4: The thrilling Zachary Taylor/Lewis Cass contest of 1848 was the first presidential election for this new wire service.
      • the Associated Press.
      • 5: The first reporter in space, Japanese journalist Akiyama Toyohiro trained at Star City in this country.
      • Russia.

        • Round 4. Category: Analogies

        • 1: Dog is to bark as duck is to this.
        • quack.
        • 2: A ruler is to length as this is to body temperature.
        • a thermometer.
        • 3: Foot is to feet as datum is to this.
        • data.
        • 4: Car is to garage as airplane is to this.
        • hangar.
        • 5: Santiago is to Chile as this is to Peru.
        • Lima.

          • Round 5. Category: Pun-Ishing Clues

          • 1: "To live until you are very, very old", or to widen one's pupils.
          • to dilate/die late.
          • 2: "Things that can be seen from the Eiffel Tower", or animals that live and feed on other animals.
          • Paris sites/parasites.
          • 3: "What a female softball player catches the ball with", or a religious recluse.
          • her mitt/hermit.
          • 4: "What a chicken does to an egg", or a small ax.
          • hatch it/hatchet.
          • 5: "Former circus big top enclosure", or the distance something encompasses.
          • ex-tent/extent.

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

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