Instant Trivia

Episode 470 - Double Letter Perfect - Doubtful Downloads - Former Place Names - 20Th Century World Leaders - The Upper Crust

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 470, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Double Letter Perfect

  • 1: A street sign with this letter pair denotes a crossing that has the ties that bind.
  • RR.
  • 2: This suffix denotes a person who is a recipient of something.
  • ee (as in honoree).
  • 3: A little ball, 0.18 inches in diameter, fired from an air rifle or a special gun.
  • BB.
  • 4: Ask a Spaniard how to pronounce this double letter pair and he may say "y".
  • ll.
  • 5: For the ivory tickler it means "very softly".
  • pp (pianissimo).

    • Round 2. Category: Doubtful Downloads

    • 1: The Net spit up the false story that this baby food co. lost a lawsuit and was giving out $500 savings bonds.
    • Gerber.
    • 2: This pig film's Chinese title "The Happy Dumpling-to-be Who Talks and Solves Agricultural Problems" was a Web invention.
    • Babe.
    • 3: He wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five", but didn't write the MIT commencement speech circulated under his name.
    • Kurt Vonnegut.
    • 4: Fox News and online gossip-monger whose "report" on the president's love child turned out to be sludge.
    • Matt Drudge.
    • 5: Ian Goddard has retracted his online claims that the Navy brought down this airline's Flight 800.
    • TWA.

      • Round 3. Category: Former Place Names

      • 1: Siam.
      • Thailand.
      • 2: Leningrad.
      • St. Petersburg (Russia).
      • 3: East Pakistan.
      • Bangladesh.
      • 4: Burma.
      • Myanmar.
      • 5: British Honduras.
      • Belize.

        • Round 4. Category: 20Th Century World Leaders

        • 1: In 1986 this president crossed the Pacific and went into exile in Hawaii.
        • Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines.
        • 2: He led his troops on a 6,000-mile march that began in October 1934.
        • Mao Tse-tung.
        • 3: A 1952 coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser forced this king's abdication.
        • King Faruk.
        • 4: Swiss-educated and staunchly pro-Western, he ruled his Middle Eastern country from 1941 until his ouster in 1979.
        • the Shah of Iran.
        • 5: At age 84 in 1940 he was put in charge of the Vichy State in France.
        • Marshall Pétain.

          • Round 5. Category: The Upper Crust

          • 1: Athina Roussel, granddaughter of this Greek tycoon, inherited billions when she turned 18 in 2003.
          • Onassis.
          • 2: This prince was really in the swim when he was voted water polo captain at St. Andrews University.
          • Prince William.
          • 3: Ulysses Grant's granddaughter Julia married a prince from this country and had to flee its revolution in 1917.
          • Russia.
          • 4: Oralando Montagu is making a lot of "bread" selling this lunch item (he's descended from the Earl who invented it).
          • a sandwich.
          • 5: (Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN.) My great-great-great grandfather was this shipping and railroad magnate known as "The Commodore".
          • Cornelius Vanderbilt.

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

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