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Episode 375 - A Royal Pain - World Of Words - Corporate America - My Dear Watson - If You Can't Say Something Nice

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 375, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: A Royal Pain

  • 1: In 711 a large Muslim army crossed this strait and defeated Roderick, the last Visigoth king of Spain.
  • Strait of Gibraltar.
  • 2: It's the royal title held by Heliogabalus, assassinated in his bathroom by his own Praetorian Guard.
  • Emperor.
  • 3: In 1789 pesky revolutionaries imprisoned this king and his family in the Tuileries Palace.
  • Louis XVI.
  • 4: Bad report card? In the 1580s this royal Russian killed his son and heir in a fit of rage.
  • Ivan the Terrible.
  • 5: When assassinated in 1908, Carlos I of this Iberian country was in a virtual state of war with his subjects.
  • Portugal.

    • Round 2. Category: World Of Words

    • 1: From the Latin for "to lick", it's a ridiculing satire and a Harvard magazine.
    • Lampoon.
    • 2: Based on its etymology, it's the period in a human's life when you'd expect him or her to be speechless.
    • Infancy/infant.
    • 3: The spirit or outlook of a period or generation, it's German for "time spirit".
    • Zeitgeist.
    • 4: The 1980s program of reforms in the USSR included this, Russian for "restructuring".
    • perestroika.
    • 5: Probably the one Icelandic word everybody knows is this one for a spewing hot spring.
    • a geyser.

      • Round 3. Category: Corporate America

      • 1: In 1994 this company launched Winterfresh, its first sugar-based chewing gum in almost 20 years.
      • Wrigley.
      • 2: Nabisco is hounding the bad doggie breath problem by adding this flavor to its Milk-Bones.
      • Mint.
      • 3: This bookstore chain founded by Larry Hoyt in 1933 was named for an inspirational pond.
      • Waldenbooks.
      • 4: This media company's NYSE symbol is TWX.
      • Time Warner.
      • 5: Automaker whose ad campaign centers around "The heartbeat of America".
      • Chevrolet.

        • Round 4. Category: My Dear Watson

        • 1: On Jan. 25, 1915 the first transcontinental phone call was made by this man in NYC to Thomas Watson in S.F..
        • (Alexander Graham) Bell.
        • 2: Diane Watson represents this state's 33rd district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
        • California.
        • 3: Now playing on golf's senior tour, he's won 5 British Opens and 2 Masters tournaments.
        • Tom Watson.
        • 4: English astronomer Frank Watson Dyson was director of this observatory from 1910 to 1933.
        • the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
        • 5: English scholar Thomas Watson is best known today for his 1581 translation of "Antigone" by this Ancient Greek.
        • Sophocles.

          • Round 5. Category: If You Can't Say Something Nice

          • 1: On April 4, 1940 Neville Chamberlain said that this dictator had "missed the bus".
          • Adolf Hitler.
          • 2: Margot Asquith said of Lloyd George, "He could not see" one of these "without hitting below it".
          • Belt.
          • 3: Bartletts quotes this comedian: "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception".
          • Groucho Marx.
          • 4: "I can sometimes deal with men as equals and therefore can afford to like them", she wrote in Ms..
          • Gloria Steinem.
          • 5: Simon Cameron said "An honest" one of these "is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought".
          • Politician.

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

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