Episode 657 - "K" Mart - City Nicknames - Poland - Gangster Movies - Blank Of The Blank

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 657, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "K" Mart

• 1: In 1883 more than 36,000 died following an explosion on this volcanic Indonesian island.
• Krakatoa.
• 2: The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
• kappa.
• 3: After criminal activities by this secret society, Oklahoma was placed under martial law in September 1923.
• Ku Klux Klan.
• 4: These tiny shrimp-like crustaceans are the primary food of baleen whales.
• krill.
• 5: It's the structure where you'll find the black stone, a revered object believed to have been given to man by God.
• the Kaaba.

Round 2. Category: City Nicknames

• 1: "The Golden Gate City".
• San Francisco.
• 2: Though Motown Records is now in L.A., "Motown" itself refers to this city.
• Detroit.
• 3: "The Big Apple".
• New York City.
• 4: "Big D".
• Dallas.
• 5: "Kodak City".
• Rochester, New York.

Round 3. Category: Poland

• 1: After WWII, over 80% of the buildings in this capital were uninhabitable.
• Warsaw.
• 2: The 2 longest of these in Poland are the Oder and Vistula.
• rivers.
• 3: The city of Torun is famous for its honey cakes and as the birthplace of this astronomer.
• Copernicus.
• 4: Of 1 out of 5, 1 out of 15, or 1 out of 50, approximate ratio of Polish families who own cars.
• 1 out of 50.
• 5: These currency units come in notes of up to 2,000,000.
• zlotys.

Round 4. Category: Gangster Movies

• 1: In gangster gab, they're "choppers", "rods" and "gats".
• guns.
• 2: Shelley Winters' "Bloody Mama".
• Ma Barker.
• 3: "Asphalt Jungle's" gorgeous golden-haired gun moll.
• Marilyn Monroe.
• 4: Color of the "Heat" that Jimmy Cagney felt in classic '49 flick.
• White.
• 5: His gangster characters terrorized "The Petrified Forest" and "High Sierra".
• Humphrey Bogart.

Round 5. Category: Blank Of The Blank

• 1: Hannibal Lecter is supposed to help the FBI find a serial killer nicknamed Buffalo Bill in this bestseller.
• Silence of the Lambs.
• 2: To make a favorable judgment when you're uncertain is to give someone this.
• benefit of the doubt.
• 3: This local public officer with judicial powers may accept payment for your speeding ticket.
• a justice of the peace.
• 4: Here's an illustration from this mortuary text.
• the Book of the Dead.
• 5: In 1961 British critic Martin Esslin used this phrase to describe the plays of Beckett and Ionesco.
• theatre of the absurd.

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