Instant Trivia

Episode 569 - Bringing Home The Bacon - Paris - Striking - "Wind" Words - The Regina Monologues

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 569, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bringing Home The Bacon

  • 1: Served hot or cold, this "European" style of potato salad is made with vinegar and bacon.
  • German.
  • 2: Spaghetti a la this has a sauce made with eggs, cream, Parmesan cheese and Italian bacon.
  • carbonara.
  • 3: Oui! This thick, round cut of lean beef tenderloin is popularly served with a bacon strip wrap around it.
  • filet mignon.
  • 4: Named for a French region, it's a brunch dish of eggs, crumbled bacon and often Swiss cheese in a pastry shell.
  • Quiche Lorraine.
  • 5: Wrap bacon around a water chestnut and a piece of chicken liver and you've got this Asian-style appetizer.
  • rumaki.

    • Round 2. Category: Paris

    • 1: Unless flooding occurs, you can tour the Paris underground by way of les egouts, which are these.
    • the sewers.
    • 2: This Paris subway system opened in July 1900.
    • Metro.
    • 3: It's 1 of 2 international airports serving Paris.
    • (1 of) Charles de Gaulle ( or Orly).
    • 4: This avenue, once a marshland, was created as a fashionable carriage-drive by Marie de Medicis in 1616.
    • Champs- and Eacute;lys and eacute;es.
    • 5: Charles de Gaulle Airport was opened in 1974 to relieve traffic at this airport south of Paris.
    • Orly.

      • Round 3. Category: Striking

      • 1: Abbreviated the WGA, this entertainment union went on strike in 1981, 1985 and 1988.
      • Writers Guild of America.
      • 2: A major 1970 strike by federal employees in this "service" helped change it to an independent gov't agency.
      • U.S. Postal Service.
      • 3: International Women's Day on March 8 honors a famous 1857 strike began by textile workers in this city.
      • New York City.
      • 4: In 1892 a workers' strike at this steel magnate's Homestead, Penn. plant led to several injuries and deaths.
      • Andrew Carnegie.
      • 5: In May of 1926, unions in this nation banded together and quit work in support of striking coal miners.
      • Great Britain.

        • Round 4. Category: "Wind" Words

        • 1: The largest one is in Hawaii, not Holland.
        • a windmill.
        • 2: This knot usually is wider than the 4-in-hand.
        • a windsor knot.
        • 3: The tractor to convey Saturn rockets at Cape Canaveral has largest set of these squeegees.
        • windshield wipers.
        • 4: President Carter proposed that oil companies would have to pay taxes on these.
        • windfall profits.
        • 5: The British call them windcheaters.
        • windbreakers.

          • Round 5. Category: The Regina Monologues

          • 1: In 1882 the city then known as "Pile O' Bones" was renamed Regina in this person's honor.
          • Queen Victoria.
          • 2: Regina is the capital of this Canadian province.
          • Saskatchewan.
          • 3: Regina is home to a training center and museum for this group, the RCMP.
          • the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
          • 4: Until 1905 Regina was the capital of these "Territories".
          • the Northwest Territories.
          • 5: Regina is home to one of the world's largest rinks for this sport of sliding stones on ice.
          • curling.

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

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