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Episode 711 - June 1969 - Wed To The Idea - Name The Playwright - Red, White Or Blue - What The "H" Is It?

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 711, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: June 1969

  • 1: J. Edgar Hoover said RFK authorized the FBI to tap this black leader's phone.
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..
  • 2: Riots that followed games in this sport set off a war between El Salvador and Honduras.
  • soccer/football.
  • 3: The U.N. security council voted to keep peace-keeping forces on this island near Turkey another 6 months.
  • Cyprus.
  • 4: Nixon became the 1st president to address the Supreme Court when this chief justice was sworn in.
  • Warren Burger.
  • 5: This president emeritus of the United Mine Workers "kicked the coal bucket".
  • John L. Lewis.

    • Round 2. Category: Wed To The Idea

    • 1: The sacrament of marriage, it's "holy".
    • matrimony.
    • 2: "Marry in" this color "and you will always be true", hence the requirement for "something" of it.
    • blue.
    • 3: Apparel usually tied to the back of the newly-married couple's carriage.
    • (baby) shoes.
    • 4: Once, a groom paid a sum to the bride's family and she came with a collection of money and property known as this.
    • a dowry.
    • 5: A married couple may start off as a DINK couple, an acronym for this.
    • double income, no kids.

      • Round 3. Category: Name The Playwright

      • 1: "A Doll's House".
      • Henrik Ibsen.
      • 2: "Summer And Smoke".
      • Tennessee Williams.
      • 3: "The Sisters Rosensweig".
      • Wendy Wasserstein.
      • 4: "Rhinoceros".
      • Eugene Ionesco.
      • 5: "Murder In The Cathedral".
      • T.S. Eliot.

        • Round 4. Category: Red, White Or Blue

        • 1: It's a synonym for Bolshevik.
        • Red.
        • 2: The largest living animal on earth has this color in its name.
        • a blue whale.
        • 3: The one that's not a label of Johnnie Walker.
        • White.
        • 4: It's the color of the flag that stops an auto race before the finish.
        • red.
        • 5: Jack London's follow-up doggie tale to "The Call of the Wild".
        • White Fang.

          • Round 5. Category: What The "H" Is It?

          • 1: These phenomena are also known as tropical cyclones.
          • hurricanes.
          • 2: Hawaii favorite flowering here.
          • Hibiscus.
          • 3: Das kapital of das Keystone State.
          • Harrisburg (Pennsylvania).
          • 4: The pagan New Year festival of Samhain evolved into this current observance.
          • Halloween.
          • 5: The government departments, jurisdiction and authority associated with the Vatican.
          • the Holy See.

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

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