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Episode 705 - The Pilgrims - In A Word - -Isms - Salad Days - The Ends In "X" Files

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 705, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Pilgrims

  • 1: Prior to settling in America, the Pilgrims sought religious freedom in Leiden, in this country, in 1609.
  • Holland (or the Netherlands).
  • 2: He came over on the Mayflower with his wife, Rose, and worked with the Pilgrims; the courtship poem is fictional.
  • Myles Standish.
  • 3: This last surviving signer of the Mayflower Compact died in 1687; wife Priscilla is believed to have preceded him.
  • John Alden.
  • 4: This Pawtuxet Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to plant crops is said to have lived in England from 1605 to 1614.
  • Squanto.
  • 5: A war with the Indians that broke out in 1675 was named for the Wampanoag leader called King this.
  • Philip.

    • Round 2. Category: In A Word

    • 1: It's how you play certain instruments, like a guitar.
    • strum (in instruments).
    • 2: In ligament you'll find this slang term for a woman's shapely leg.
    • a gam (in ligament).
    • 3: What she felt when she wasn't hired.
    • ire (in hired).
    • 4: Hidden in the chandelier is the name of this famous composer.
    • Handel (in chandelier).
    • 5: Take your medicine and tell us the name of this once powerful family of Florence, Italy.
    • Medici (in medicine).

      • Round 3. Category: -Isms

      • 1: Betty Friedan was frequently called "The Mother of" this 1960s and '70s movement.
      • feminism.
      • 2: To keep an industry safe from foreign competition, the government might impose quotas or tariffs, examples of this -ism.
      • protectionism.
      • 3: Novelist Israel Zangwill was an early leader of this back-to-Palestine movement.
      • Zionism.
      • 4: Saint-Simon was a founder of the "Christian" type of this, also a movement to redistribute property.
      • Socialism.
      • 5: Donald Judd and Robert Morris were important figures of this "scaled-down" art movement that began in the '60s.
      • Minimalism.

        • Round 4. Category: Salad Days

        • 1: A Waldorf salad usually contains this type of nut.
        • walnut.
        • 2: This type of lettuce is used to make a Caesar salad.
        • romaine.
        • 3: This "Belgian" salad ingredient is also called witloof, meaning "white leaf".
        • endive.
        • 4: Some say this salad of crabmeat on a bed of lettuce in a chili sauce was created at Seattle's Olympic Club.
        • Crab Louie.
        • 5: This type of orange adds a sweet tang to the classic Chinese chicken salad.
        • mandarin.

          • Round 5. Category: The Ends In "X" Files

          • 1: Dude! It's a Keanu movie!.
          • The Matrix.
          • 2: A 2-tenant dwelling with separate entrances.
          • duplex.
          • 3: Oh my gosh! It's the most exciting point in a dramatic narrative!.
          • Climax.
          • 4: This bacterial cattle disease whose name is from the Greek for "coal" can be transmitted to humans.
          • Anthrax.
          • 5: It can be the highest point in someone's career or the highest point of a building.
          • Apex.

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

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