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

Instant Trivia

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.

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