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Episode 346 - Chi-Town Nicknames - British Royal Dads - Oh, "Ic" - Silent "K" - "I" Pod

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 346, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Chi-Town Nicknames

  • 1: A New York editor gave Chicago this nickname to describe its politicians during its first World's Fair.
  • "The Windy City".
  • 2: In his poem "Chicago" Carl Sandburg called the city this "Butcher for the World".
  • Hog Butcher.
  • 3: Sandburg called Chicago the "City of Big" these.
  • Shoulders.
  • 4: That wry poet Carl came up with "Stacker of" this.
  • Wheat.
  • 5: Good-old Carl S. hammered home the fact that the city is a this "maker".
  • tool maker.

    • Round 2. Category: British Royal Dads

    • 1: He fathered the current Prince of Wales.
    • Prince Philip.
    • 2: He fathered 2 queens of England by 2 different women.
    • Henry VIII.
    • 3: He died from typhoid fever at age 42 in 1861, but not before he fathered King Edward VII.
    • Prince Albert.
    • 4: Born in what's now France, he fathered William Rufus and Henry I.
    • William the Conqueror.
    • 5: He fathered the current monarch.
    • George VI.

      • Round 3. Category: Oh, "Ic"

      • 1: There once was a clue from Nantucket, this kind of humorous 5-line Irish verse (sorry, that's it).
      • limerick.
      • 2: Kill a plant with a deadly substance and you could be accused of this, also describing the substance itself.
      • herbicide.
      • 3: Hey, baby, what's your zodiac sign? It's this, isn't it, the only that fits the category... Hey, where are you going?.
      • Capricorn.
      • 4: To renounce a throne, as Norodom Sihanouk did in 2004.
      • abdicate.
      • 5: From 1940 to 1942, this was the capital of unoccupied France.
      • Vichy.

        • Round 4. Category: Silent "K"

        • 1: A finger joint.
        • a knuckle.
        • 2: To fold and stretch bread dough into a smooth, uniform mass.
        • knead.
        • 3: It's a British term for women's underwear.
        • knickers.
        • 4: The sound of a bell rung ominously.
        • knell.
        • 5: A backpack for a hiker.
        • a knapsack.

          • Round 5. Category: "I" Pod

          • 1: On loans, it can be compound or simple.
          • interest.
          • 2: Sad to say, some people hunt walruses, as well as elephants, to get this valuable material.
          • ivory.
          • 3: From the Latin for "unable to speak", this 3-syllable word means extremely childish.
          • infantile.
          • 4: Meaning "beyond memory", this type of time originally referred to the period before 1189 A.D..
          • immemorial.
          • 5: This Austrian city's name is German for "bridge over the Inn River".
          • Innsbruck.

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