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Episode 657 - "K" Mart - City Nicknames - Poland - Gangster Movies - Blank Of The Blank

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 657, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "K" Mart

  • 1: In 1883 more than 36,000 died following an explosion on this volcanic Indonesian island.
  • Krakatoa.
  • 2: The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
  • kappa.
  • 3: After criminal activities by this secret society, Oklahoma was placed under martial law in September 1923.
  • Ku Klux Klan.
  • 4: These tiny shrimp-like crustaceans are the primary food of baleen whales.
  • krill.
  • 5: It's the structure where you'll find the black stone, a revered object believed to have been given to man by God.
  • the Kaaba.

    • Round 2. Category: City Nicknames

    • 1: "The Golden Gate City".
    • San Francisco.
    • 2: Though Motown Records is now in L.A., "Motown" itself refers to this city.
    • Detroit.
    • 3: "The Big Apple".
    • New York City.
    • 4: "Big D".
    • Dallas.
    • 5: "Kodak City".
    • Rochester, New York.

      • Round 3. Category: Poland

      • 1: After WWII, over 80% of the buildings in this capital were uninhabitable.
      • Warsaw.
      • 2: The 2 longest of these in Poland are the Oder and Vistula.
      • rivers.
      • 3: The city of Torun is famous for its honey cakes and as the birthplace of this astronomer.
      • Copernicus.
      • 4: Of 1 out of 5, 1 out of 15, or 1 out of 50, approximate ratio of Polish families who own cars.
      • 1 out of 50.
      • 5: These currency units come in notes of up to 2,000,000.
      • zlotys.

        • Round 4. Category: Gangster Movies

        • 1: In gangster gab, they're "choppers", "rods" and "gats".
        • guns.
        • 2: Shelley Winters' "Bloody Mama".
        • Ma Barker.
        • 3: "Asphalt Jungle's" gorgeous golden-haired gun moll.
        • Marilyn Monroe.
        • 4: Color of the "Heat" that Jimmy Cagney felt in classic '49 flick.
        • White.
        • 5: His gangster characters terrorized "The Petrified Forest" and "High Sierra".
        • Humphrey Bogart.

          • Round 5. Category: Blank Of The Blank

          • 1: Hannibal Lecter is supposed to help the FBI find a serial killer nicknamed Buffalo Bill in this bestseller.
          • Silence of the Lambs.
          • 2: To make a favorable judgment when you're uncertain is to give someone this.
          • benefit of the doubt.
          • 3: This local public officer with judicial powers may accept payment for your speeding ticket.
          • a justice of the peace.
          • 4: Here's an illustration from this mortuary text.
          • the Book of the Dead.
          • 5: In 1961 British critic Martin Esslin used this phrase to describe the plays of Beckett and Ionesco.
          • theatre of the absurd.

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

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