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Episode 1255 - Oh "ph" - Wallaces - Chicago - 20th century thinkers - Written in cyrillic

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1255, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Oh Ph. With Ph in quotes

  • 1: For the record, Thomas Edison invented the first practical one of these in 1877.
  • the phonograph.
  • 2: The mortar and pestle is a symbol of this profession.
  • a pharmacist.
  • 3: In days gone by this game bird was popularly served "under glass".
  • a pheasant.
  • 4: A finger bone, or a group of heavily armed infantry with overlapping weapons.
  • a phalanx.
  • 5: In mythology, after Hippolytus rejects her, this wife of Theseus hangs herself.
  • Phaedra.

    • Round 2. Category: Wallaces

    • 1: Lurleen Burns married this man when she was 16 and later succeeded him as governor of Alabama.
    • George Wallace.
    • 2: Before "Braveheart" his story was told in the 15th century by Henry the Minstrel.
    • William Wallace.
    • 3: (Hi, I'm Wallace Langham) Mike's son, this broadcaster became NBC News White House Correspondent in 1982.
    • Chris Wallace.
    • 4: He and his wife Lila launched Reader's Digest in 1922 with a press run of 5,000.
    • DeWitt Wallace.
    • 5: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" is a famous work by this poet whose day job was VP of an insurance company.
    • Wallace Stevens.

      • Round 3. Category: Chicago

      • 1: Remove 1 letter from the name of a plaza in Dallas and you get this plaza in Chicago's Loop.
      • Daley Plaza.
      • 2: Nearly 250,000 gathered to see Obama's 2008 victory speech in Chicago's front yard, this park named for another president.
      • Grant Park.
      • 3: Scandalous highlight of the 1893 Columbian Exposition and title of the following:"She had a ruby on her tummy and / A diamond big as Texas on her toe, whoa whoa / She let her hair down and / She did the hoochie coochie real slow, whoa whoa".
      • "Little Egypt".
      • 4: Untouchable Tours visits such sanguineous spots as the site of this February 1929 event.
      • the Valentine's Day Massacre.
      • 5: Some attribute this nickname of the city to its proud, boasting citizens, not its breeziness.
      • "The Windy City".

        • Round 4. Category: 20Th Century Thinkers

        • 1: Called the Russian Revolution's most brilliant thinker, he lost a power struggle with Stalin and was killed in Mexico.
        • Trotsky.
        • 2: This New Yorker wondered, "Can we actually 'know' the universe?... It's hard enough finding your way around Chinatown".
        • Woody Allen.
        • 3: The works of this woman on the left include 1965's "Normality and Pathology in Childhood".
        • Anna Freud.
        • 4: This 3-named economist was an architect of the International Monetary Fund and part of the Bloomsbury Group.
        • Keynes.
        • 5: This "in the machine" was Gilbert Ryle's term for the idea that the mind is apart from the body yet controls it.
        • ghost in the machine.

          • Round 5. Category: Written In Cyrillic

          • 1: Some Tajik speakers call their language Zaboni Forsi, meaning this national tongue.
          • Persian.
          • 2: This carnivore associated with Russia is medved in Russian.
          • a bear.
          • 3: One way to say hello in Serbian is this, borrowed from Italian.
          • ciao.
          • 4: In Ukrainian, this winter month when Russia invaded in 2022 is Lyutyy, "cruel".
          • February.
          • 5: Belarussian took words like "pan", meaning "sir" or "mister" from this language spoken due west of Belarus.
          • Polish.

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

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