Episode 1195 - "win" win situation - Soft words - Reportage - Analogies - Pun-ishing clues

Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1195, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Win Win Situation. With Win in quotes

• 1: Flavor of Life Saver that may set off sparks in your mouth.
• wint o green.
• 2: Native Americans who lived in the Green Bay area (Their name is now on mobile homes).
• Winnebago.
• 3: Buzz Aldrin's real first name.
• Edwin.
• 4: Charming, in a childlike way.
• winsome.
• 5: Separating the wheat from the chaff by air.
• winnowing.

Round 2. Category: Soft Words

• 1: The King James Bible sayeth, "A soft answer turneth away" this synonym for anger.
• wrath.
• 2: "The Long Goodbye" finds this gumshoe describing various blondes, including a shadowy one who "speaks softly out of nowhere".
• Philip Marlowe.
• 3: In a poem by this 3-named guy, Evangeline whispers to Gabriel, "If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us".
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
• 4: In "Thus Spake Zarathustra", he wrote, "The voice of beauty speaks softly: it steals only into the most awakened souls".
• Friedrich Nietzsche.
• 5: In Poe's "The Raven", her whispered name is heard in the darkness.
• Lenore.

Round 3. Category: Reportage

• 1: (I'm Hiroko Tabuchi.) In 2015 I reported on the Japanese company Takata's delay investigating why inflators on these in cars were exploding.
• air bags.
• 2: James Whitaker, royal reporter for the Daily Mirror, shocked Britain with the news of this woman's eating disorder.
• Lady Diana (Princess Diana).
• 3: "An age-old journalistic dilemma": getting the story or protecting this "S"-person.
• a source.
• 4: The thrilling Zachary Taylor/Lewis Cass contest of 1848 was the first presidential election for this new wire service.
• the Associated Press.
• 5: The first reporter in space, Japanese journalist Akiyama Toyohiro trained at Star City in this country.
• Russia.

Round 4. Category: Analogies

• 1: Dog is to bark as duck is to this.
• quack.
• 2: A ruler is to length as this is to body temperature.
• a thermometer.
• 3: Foot is to feet as datum is to this.
• data.
• 4: Car is to garage as airplane is to this.
• hangar.
• 5: Santiago is to Chile as this is to Peru.
• Lima.

Round 5. Category: Pun-Ishing Clues

• 1: "To live until you are very, very old", or to widen one's pupils.
• to dilate/die late.
• 2: "Things that can be seen from the Eiffel Tower", or animals that live and feed on other animals.
• Paris sites/parasites.
• 3: "What a female softball player catches the ball with", or a religious recluse.
• her mitt/hermit.
• 4: "What a chicken does to an egg", or a small ax.
• hatch it/hatchet.
• 5: "Former circus big top enclosure", or the distance something encompasses.
• ex-tent/extent.

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