Episode 957 - Say cheese! - Recycling - Blank that guy - Business men - "i" didn't expect

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 957, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Say Cheese!

• 1: Add white wine to some shaved Gruyere and Emmentaler and then heat to make this dipping treat.
• fondue.
• 2: It's a long way to this Irish county famous for its Cashel blue cheese.
• Tipperary.
• 3: Napoleon III may have named this white, downy-rind cow's-milk cheese after the Norman village where he first sampled it.
• Camembert.
• 4: The name of this cheese of India follows saag in a spinach and cheese dish.
• paneer.
• 5: A favorite of Charlemagne, a true version of this cheese can be authenticated by a red sheep on the wrapper.
• Roquefort.

Round 2. Category: Recycling

• 1: Because a yellow dye has been found that washes out, some of these directories are now recyclable.
• Yellow Pages (telephone book).
• 2: Doing this to aluminum cans makes it easier to store and transport them.
• crushing them.
• 3: For some envelopes to be recyclable, this material must be removed from the address window.
• cellophane (plastic).
• 4: Some cities provide curbside pickup of leaves, which are then recycled into this for fertilizing gardens.
• mulch (compost).
• 5: To make this material, furnaces must run at 2800° F.; to recycle it, at lower temperatures.
• glass.

Round 3. Category: Blank That Guy

• 1: Connived his way to control of the New York City Treasury in the 1870s:William "blank" blank.
• "Boss" Tweed.
• 2: Alliterative SS chief:Heinrich blank.
• Himmler.
• 3: Ran a brutal gang in Prohibition-era NYC:Dutch blank.
• Schultz.
• 4: Shot near a Virginia farmhouse in April 1865:blank blank blank.
• John Wilkes Booth.
• 5: Took over in Cambodia in 1975:blank blank.
• Pol Pot.

Round 4. Category: Business Men

• 1: This company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1998.
• Motown Records.
• 2: In 1998 he went to his first owners meeting since 1989, to try to stop rival Murdoch's Dodgers buy.
• Ted Turner.
• 3: It shouldn't take you overnight to deliver the name of this company Fred Smith founded in 1973.
• Federal Express.
• 4: With a yardstick and a piece of plywood, Edwin Shoemaker felt inclined to design this recliner in 1928.
• La-Z-Boy.
• 5: This inventor of vulcanization was sent to debtor's prison; maybe for bouncing checks?.
• Charles Goodyear.

Round 5. Category: I Didn'T Expect. With I in quotes

• 1: It precedes coffee, setter, whiskey and wolfhound.
• Irish.
• 2: Jacques Rogge was elected president of this governing body in July 2001.
• the IOC, the International Olympic Committee.
• 3: Ron Kovic could have called his book "Born on" this--it's the same thing.
• Independence Day.
• 4: This verb form makes the word a command.
• imperative.
• 5: The black, shiny crystals of this element are dissolved in alcohol to make an antiseptic.
• iodine.

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