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Episode 680 - "Fire" - Secret Service Code Names - Former Occupation - Politicians - Fire!

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 680, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Fire"

  • 1: The oldest portable one, invented about 1837, used soda-acid.
  • fire extinguisher.
  • 2: It's as old as the code of Hammurabi, which didn't mention what the rates were.
  • fire insurance.
  • 3: Term for a meteor brighter than Venus in the morning or evening sky.
  • a fireball.
  • 4: A British fighter plane of WWII, or a fierce-tempered woman.
  • a Spitfire.
  • 5: This 3-word phrase means taking a risk while engaging in what seems like a game.
  • playing with fire.

    • Round 2. Category: Secret Service Code Names

    • 1: This vice president from Tenn. joked he was so dull, his code name was simply his name, but officially, he was "Sundance".
    • Al Gore.
    • 2: The Secret Service also protects foreign dignitaries; "Halo" was this late man's code name.
    • Pope John Paul II.
    • 3: Fittingly, Fraction is the Secret Service code name for this cabinet post.
    • Secretary of Education.
    • 4: This late Massachusetts senator was "Sunburn"; his mom, "Coppertone".
    • Ted Kennedy.
    • 5: Sarah Palin was assigned this code name, the native name of the tallest mountain in her state.
    • Denali.

      • Round 3. Category: Former Occupation

      • 1: Former N.Y. lawyer who stated his case on Monday Night Football for 13 years.
      • Howard Cosell.
      • 2: Our last president without a bachelor's degree, once a Kansas City haberdasher.
      • Harry Truman.
      • 3: Altar boy and seminarian who became infamous Soviet dictator.
      • Stalin.
      • 4: Former Washington Senators' pitching prospect, now long-time Caribbean dictator.
      • Fidel Castro.
      • 5: While observing "God and Man at Yale", this conservative spokesman taught Spanish there.
      • (William F.) Buckley (Jr.).

        • Round 4. Category: Politicians

        • 1: Here's this representative handing off a cherished item in 2011; we think she wants it back.
        • (Nancy) Pelosi.
        • 2: John Nance Garner held this job 1933-1941 and said it isn't worth "a bucket of warm spit" (or something else, in other sources).
        • vice president.
        • 3: (I'm George Stephanopoulos.) After seeing Bill Clinton speak for the first time, I thought, this is the guy who can bring blacks and whites together the way that this senator promised to do back in 1968.
        • RFK (Bobby Kennedy).
        • 4: As a senator from this state, 1985-2015, Jay Rockefeller pushed for health and safety measures for coal miners.
        • West Virginia.
        • 5: In 2006 Deval Patrick was elected to succeed this man as governor of Massachusetts.
        • Mitt Romney.

          • Round 5. Category: Fire!

          • 1: On Oct. 10, 1871, after 2 days, unbuilt lots, rainfall and Lake Michigan quelled a huge fire in this city.
          • Chicago.
          • 2: On March 18, 1925 this woman's house of wax in London went up in smoke; the models within could be heard sizzling.
          • Madame Tussaud.
          • 3: This general was blamed for the fire that destroyed Columbia, South Carolina, but he denied setting it and tried to put it out.
          • (William Tecumseh) Sherman.
          • 4: Genesis 19 says, "the Lord rained upon" these 2 cities "brimstone and fire ...out of heaven".
          • Sodom and Gomorrah.
          • 5: The 1911 fire in the NYC shirtwaist factory with this geometric name led to improvements in working conditions.
          • the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

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

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