Instant Trivia

Episode 963 - States by city trash-talking - Financial gobbledygook - Double talk names - Fly countries - Contrary to popular belief

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 963, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: States By City Trash-Talking

  • 1: "Truth or Consequences isn't a choice! and Los Alamos may be the bomb, but it's Roswell that ends well!".
  • New Mexico.
  • 2: "Sure, Ogden and Orem are nice, but I prefer Brigham City-- gee, I've really got to work on my trash-talking".
  • Utah.
  • 3: "I get no kick from Champaign! I'm not Havana a good time! I only play in Peoria!".
  • Illinois.
  • 4: "I'm not Spokane for, and I ain't putting on the Ritzville! Everybody loves Raymond!".
  • Washington.
  • 5: "Stick Three Forks in it, it's done! and kiss our Butte, Bozeman!".
  • Montana.

    • Round 2. Category: Financial Gobbledygook

    • 1: The most widely used interest rate in the world, LIBOR is this city's "interbank offered rate".
    • London.
    • 2: Don't get them mixed up: ETF means "exchange-traded" these; EFT means "electronic" these "transfer".
    • funds.
    • 3: An unregulated statement of profit, EBITDA stands for these before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization.
    • earnings.
    • 4: CAGR, short for an investment's compound annual this rate, basically just averages what it did over time.
    • growth.
    • 5: In the VIX index, "V" is for this measure of how much an investment's value fluctuates.
    • volatility.

      • Round 3. Category: Double Talk Names

      • 1: Neuwirth of "Cheers".
      • Bebe.
      • 2: Bean or Cool J.
      • L.L..
      • 3: Michelle Pfeiffer's sister who was in "Vamp" and "Falling Down".
      • Dedee.
      • 4: Poet cummings, whose first book of poetry, "Tulips and Chimneys", came out in 1923.
      • e.e..
      • 5: Singer Peniston or Winans.
      • CeCe.

        • Round 4. Category: Fly Countries

        • 1: Iberia Airlines.
        • Spain.
        • 2: Aer Lingus.
        • Ireland.
        • 3: Olympic Airlines.
        • Greece.
        • 4: Belavia (Its first terminal was in Minsk).
        • Belarus.
        • 5: KoninklijkeLuchtvaartMaatshappij(you might know it by its abbreviation).
        • The Netherlands (KLM).

          • Round 5. Category: Contrary To Popular Belief

          • 1: When Rome burned in 64 A.D., Nero was 35 miles away and couldn't have played this, as it wasn't invented until the 15th c..
          • a fiddle.
          • 2: This "ground lion" reptile rarely changes its color for camouflage: it's usually signifying its emotional state.
          • chameleon.
          • 3: By some measures, the largest organism isn't a blue whale, but a 2,385-acre Oregon mushroom, the "humongous" this.
          • fungus.
          • 4: Some argue there are 46 states, not 50, as Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts are all these.
          • Commonwealths.
          • 5: Some think America was named for Richard Ameryk, one of Cabot's investors, not for this Italian who died in 1512.
          • Amerigo Vespucci.

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

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