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Episode 168 - Bierce's Devil's Dictionary - 13 - Strait-En Up - Reporting The News - Peninsulas

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 168, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bierce's Devil's Dictionary

  • 1: Ambrose Bierce was known for his short stories and defined this longer form as " A short story padded".
  • Novel.
  • 2: Wife Mollie may have agreed with Bierce that this emotion is "A temporary insanity curable by marriage".
  • Love.
  • 3: Bierce defined this event as "The first and direst of all disasters"; his occured on June 24, 1842.
  • Birth.
  • 4: Bierce saw this, "An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment" in Mexico while following Villa's army.
  • Revolution.
  • 5: Some Greek philosophers, or men like Bierce "Whose faulty vision sees things as they are".
  • Cynics.

    • Round 2. Category: 13

    • 1: The 13 people at his final dinner included James, Andrew, John and Judas.
    • Jesus.
    • 2: The TV cops of New York's 13th precinct included this Greek-American title lieutenant.
    • Kojak.
    • 3: It's the term for a spellbound assembly of 13 witches.
    • Coven.
    • 4: Prepared by Maimonides, the "13 Articles of Faith" is a summary of the basic tenets of this religion.
    • Judaism.
    • 5: The unluckiness of Friday the 13th may date from the suppression of this order of knights on Fri., Oct. 13, 1307.
    • Knights Templar.

      • Round 3. Category: Strait-En Up

      • 1: Between Alaska and Russia.
      • Bering Strait.
      • 2: Between Europe and Morocco.
      • Strait of Gibraltar.
      • 3: Between the English Channel and the North Sea.
      • Strait of Dover.
      • 4: Between New Zealand's North Island and South Island.
      • Cook Strait.
      • 5: Bearing Taiwan's Portuguese name, it's between Taiwan and mainland China.
      • Strait of Formosa.

        • Round 4. Category: Reporting The News

        • 1: In the 1980s this Texan sometimes ended his broadcast with a cryptic "Courage".
        • Dan Rather.
        • 2: This Torontonian was just 26 when he first anchored ABC's nightly news in 1965, and some thought he looked too young.
        • Peter Jennings.
        • 3: Until 1981, this CBS anchorman signed off with "And that's the way it is".
        • Walter Cronkite.
        • 4: (Hi. I'm Tim Russert of NBC's Meet the Press.) An interview I did in 2000 with this senator and former P.O.W. won an excellence in TV journalism award.
        • John McCain.
        • 5: This gossip and radio man greeted audiences, "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea".
        • Walter Winchell.

          • Round 5. Category: Peninsulas

          • 1: This triangular peninsula juts into the northern end of the Red Sea.
          • the Sinai Peninsula.
          • 2: The Cleveland Peninsula is about 40 miles northwest of Ketchikan in this state.
          • Alaska.
          • 3: This country's Chukchi Peninsula is the easternmost mainland part of Asia.
          • Russia.
          • 4: It's the body part of the Italian "boot" made up by the Salentine peninsula in the Puglia region.
          • the heel.
          • 5: Yalta and Balaklava are located on this peninsula.
          • the Crimean.

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

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