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

Instant Trivia

12-01-2023 • 7 mins

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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