Episode 1192 - The century of the crime - January 1, 1993 - Of the nile - Words of the year - 3

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1192, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Century Of The Crime

• 1: Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to money laundering, fraud and a bunch of other stuff.
• the 21st century.
• 2: Charlotte Corday kills Marat, is not sad.
• the 18th century.
• 3: Lewis Payne causes William Seward pain, but even wounding the Secretary of State is not the biggest crime that day.
• the 19th century.
• 4: The Salem witch trials burn into history.
• the 17th century.
• 5: William Wallace is condemned as a traitor, though he said he never swore allegiance to Edward.
• the 14th century.

Round 2. Category: January 1, 1993

• 1: These 2 countries came into existence.
• Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
• 2: This country knocked 3 zeros off its pesos.
• Mexico.
• 3: President Bush spent the day wishing happy new year to the U.S. troops in this country.
• Somalia.
• 4: This college team became No. 1 by defeating the Miami Hurricanes 34-13 in the Sugar Bowl.
• the University of Alabama.
• 5: Robert Eaton took over as this automaker's CEO.
• Chrysler.

Round 3. Category: Of The Nile

• 1: The Nile runs through Cairo and this other national capital city.
• Khartoum, Sudan.
• 2: The first of the 10 Biblical plagues of Egypt occurred when the waters of the Nile were turned into this.
• blood.
• 3: The High Dam across the Nile at this city creates Lake Nasser, one of the largest reservoirs in the world.
• Aswan.
• 4: He was knighted in 1886 in part for his journeys in search of the source of the Nile.
• Sir Richard Burton.
• 5: There's no denial, Act III of this Verdi opera takes place on the banks of the Nile.
• Aida.

Round 4. Category: Words Of The Year

• 1: dictionary.com:Xenophobia, meaning "fear of" these.
• foreigners (or strangers).
• 2: The Cambridge Dictionary picked this adjective meaning having delusions of persecution.
• paranoid.
• 3: Merriam-Webster:Not merely "real" but this word meaning weirdly unreal, like a dream.
• surreal.
• 4: Collins Dictionary:This word with a useful suffix to indicate leaving.
• Brexit.
• 5: Oxford:Post-truth, edging out this 4-letter adjective meaning alert to injustice.
• woke.

Round 5. Category: 3

• 1: The 3-tiered crown of this personage stands for spiritual power, temporal power and ecclesiastical power.
• the pope.
• 2: Ned Nederlander, Dusty Bottoms and Lucky Day go up against El Guapo in this 1986 movie.
• ¡Three Amigos!.
• 3: This secretary in Ronald Reagan's cabinet shares his name with one of the 3 men in a tub.
• (James) Baker.
• 4: The 3 main classifications of these are active, dormant and extinct.
• volcanoes.
• 5: The 3 orders of these monks are the Friars Minor, the Poor Clares and the Brothers and Sisters of Penance.
• the Franciscans.

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