Episode 700 - New York - 14-Letter Words - Artists - Webster's 3Rd P. 2004 - Famous Kims

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 700, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: New York

• 1: The top of the Skylon Tower soars 775' above this natural landmark.
• Niagara Falls.
• 2: This building in Albany is bounded by Washington Avenue and Swan, State and Eagle Streets.
• Capital building.
• 3: Troy, New York was home to the meatpacker who inspired this national symbol.
• "Uncle Sam".
• 4: A N. Tarrytown bridge named for this Washington Irving rider once stood where US9 crosses the Pocantico River.
• The Headless Horseman.
• 5: Val-Kill in Hyde Park was this first lady's retreat.
• Eleanor Roosevelt.

Round 2. Category: 14-Letter Words

• 1: The American colonists complained to England about "taxation without" this.
• representation.
• 2: In arithmetic this operation yields a product.
• multiplication.
• 3: Passports and drivers' licenses are forms of this.
• identification.
• 4: It was a time of rebuilding after the Civil War, and before all the Confederate states were readmitted.
• Reconstruction.
• 5: In the 1950s, the RF-101 was the first supersonic aircraft built for this observation purpose.
• reconnaissance.

Round 3. Category: Artists

• 1: In July 1954 her coffin was draped with a hammer and sickle flag while lying in state in Mexico's Palace of Fine Arts.
• Frida Kahlo.
• 2: Eugene Delacroix wrote "The first virtue of painting is to be a feast for" these.
• eyes.
• 3: This Spanish surrealist once broke the window of a 5th Avenue gallery after it had rearranged a display of his art.
• Salvador Dali.
• 4: Edward Hicks, best known for "The Peaceable Kingdom", was a minister of this religion.
• Friends (Society of Friends, Quakers).
• 5: One of America's most noted illustrators, he was Andrew Wyeth's father.
• N.C. Wyeth.

Round 4. Category: Webster's 3Rd P. 2004

• 1: A cowboy might mosey into one of these bars.
• a saloon.
• 2: A sock in the eye hurts; a sockeye is this fish.
• salmon.
• 3: Meaning to leap or burst "forth", it's also the name of famous astronaut Ride.
• sally.
• 4: The living room of a fashionable French home, it's also a place your mom may go for a beauty treatment.
• a salon.
• 5: This genus of bacteria found on poultry and eggs can also be spread by pet turtles.
• salmonella.

Round 5. Category: Famous Kims

• 1: As photojournalist Vicki Vale, she got the scoop on Batman.
• Kim Basinger.
• 2: This "Picnic" star is known for the menagerie she keeps on her ranch in Carmel, California.
• Kim Novak.
• 3: This KGB mole in the British government fled to Moscow in 1963.
• Kim Philby.
• 4: This Kim was born in Detroit but she wound up on the "Planet of the Apes".
• Kim Hunter.
• 5: He's been head of the Communist Party in North Korea since the 1940s.
• Kim Il-sung.

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