Episode 1255 - Oh "ph" - Wallaces - Chicago - 20th century thinkers - Written in cyrillic

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1255, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Oh Ph. With Ph in quotes

• 1: For the record, Thomas Edison invented the first practical one of these in 1877.
• the phonograph.
• 2: The mortar and pestle is a symbol of this profession.
• a pharmacist.
• 3: In days gone by this game bird was popularly served "under glass".
• a pheasant.
• 4: A finger bone, or a group of heavily armed infantry with overlapping weapons.
• a phalanx.
• 5: In mythology, after Hippolytus rejects her, this wife of Theseus hangs herself.
• Phaedra.

Round 2. Category: Wallaces

• 1: Lurleen Burns married this man when she was 16 and later succeeded him as governor of Alabama.
• George Wallace.
• 2: Before "Braveheart" his story was told in the 15th century by Henry the Minstrel.
• William Wallace.
• 3: (Hi, I'm Wallace Langham) Mike's son, this broadcaster became NBC News White House Correspondent in 1982.
• Chris Wallace.
• 4: He and his wife Lila launched Reader's Digest in 1922 with a press run of 5,000.
• DeWitt Wallace.
• 5: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" is a famous work by this poet whose day job was VP of an insurance company.
• Wallace Stevens.

Round 3. Category: Chicago

• 1: Remove 1 letter from the name of a plaza in Dallas and you get this plaza in Chicago's Loop.
• Daley Plaza.
• 2: Nearly 250,000 gathered to see Obama's 2008 victory speech in Chicago's front yard, this park named for another president.
• Grant Park.
• 3: Scandalous highlight of the 1893 Columbian Exposition and title of the following:"She had a ruby on her tummy and / A diamond big as Texas on her toe, whoa whoa / She let her hair down and / She did the hoochie coochie real slow, whoa whoa".
• "Little Egypt".
• 4: Untouchable Tours visits such sanguineous spots as the site of this February 1929 event.
• the Valentine's Day Massacre.
• 5: Some attribute this nickname of the city to its proud, boasting citizens, not its breeziness.
• "The Windy City".

Round 4. Category: 20Th Century Thinkers

• 1: Called the Russian Revolution's most brilliant thinker, he lost a power struggle with Stalin and was killed in Mexico.
• Trotsky.
• 2: This New Yorker wondered, "Can we actually 'know' the universe?... It's hard enough finding your way around Chinatown".
• Woody Allen.
• 3: The works of this woman on the left include 1965's "Normality and Pathology in Childhood".
• Anna Freud.
• 4: This 3-named economist was an architect of the International Monetary Fund and part of the Bloomsbury Group.
• Keynes.
• 5: This "in the machine" was Gilbert Ryle's term for the idea that the mind is apart from the body yet controls it.
• ghost in the machine.

Round 5. Category: Written In Cyrillic

• 1: Some Tajik speakers call their language Zaboni Forsi, meaning this national tongue.
• Persian.
• 2: This carnivore associated with Russia is medved in Russian.
• a bear.
• 3: One way to say hello in Serbian is this, borrowed from Italian.
• ciao.
• 4: In Ukrainian, this winter month when Russia invaded in 2022 is Lyutyy, "cruel".
• February.
• 5: Belarussian took words like "pan", meaning "sir" or "mister" from this language spoken due west of Belarus.
• Polish.

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