Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 201, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Measuring Up 1: There are 3 teaspoons in this unit of measure. tablespoon. 2: 37 degrees Celsius equals 98.6 degrees on this scale. Fahrenheit. 3: Equal to 1,000 grams, this metric standard is abbreviated KG. kilogram. 4: Of 6 miles, 16 miles or 60 miles, the one closest to the lengt...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 200, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The New York Times Journalists 1: As Michelle Higgins is the "Practical" this, she'll tell you how to cut the high cost of flying to Africa. Traveler. 2: Frank Bruni, whose yearly entertainment budget is $350,000, is on this beat. restaurants (food critic). 3: In 1990 Nicholas Kristo...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 199, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Famous Amys 1: (Hi, I'm Kirsten Dunst) In "Little Women" Amy is the youngest of 4 sisters with this last name. March. 2: She guided fans through gracious living with etiquette books, columns and radio and TV shows. Amy Vanderbilt. 3: She married Barbra Streisand in "Yentl" and Steven...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 198, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: What's New? 1: A malihini is a newcomer to this state. Hawaii. 2: In 2003 Edith Grossman served up a new translation of this Cervantes work. Don Quixote . 3: Experts say the smell in a new one of these is from the phthalate plasticizers used in PVC, not leather. car. 4: Developed in...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 197, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Double Meanings 1: I stared down into my blank of latte so I wouldn't have to look at his ugly jowly blank . mug. 2: Swift, or the largest organized unit of naval ships. fleet. 3: You always fall for my blank sacrifice; too bad I'm so broke my chess set is in blank . pawn. 4: Just be...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 196, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: '70s Nonfiction 1: Billy Graham called them "God's secret agents". angels. 2: A bestseller by Dr. David Reuben gave us this 13-word-long self-help title. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex but Were Afraid to Ask . 3: His 1971 autobiography "Wunnerful, Wunnerful!" was a, w...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 195, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: You Should "C" 1: To overturn a boat is to do this to it. Capsize. 2: Name shared by the mother of 3 kings of France and a "Great" Russian empress. Catherine. 3: At times, only the grin of this Lewis Carroll feline could be seen. Cheshire Cat. 4: Clint Black knows it's the organizati...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 194, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Groovy Times 1: To accessorize granny dresses chicks wore these necklaces of little balls for peace and goodwill. Love beads. 2: In a famous '60s slogan it came between "turn on" and "drop out". "Tune In". 3: Bought a black light for my posters, man, and one of these ooze lights for...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 193, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: A Fly Category 1: To WWI British aviators, the Red Baron's group with its colorful planes was one of these, like Monty Python's. a Flying Circus. 2: These BF Goodrich sneakers were said to make you "run faster and jump higher". PF Flyers. 3: During World War II, a famous American vol...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 192, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: On The Lone Prairie 1: The prairie has been called a "Sea of" this, like the over 6-foot-tall Big Bluestem. Grass. 2: A lot fewer of this Kansas state animal "roam" the prairies today than in the 19th century. Buffalo/bison. 3: This city's nicknames include "City of the Lakes and Pra...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 191, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Well, You "No" 1: To propose someone for election to an office. nominate. 2: 9-letter adjective pertaining to the night. nocturnal. 3: It's a wistful desire to return in thought to a former time in one's life. nostalgia. 4: Neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon and helium, collectively....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 190, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Silver" 1: Nostalgic name for the movies or the motion picture industry. the silver screen. 2: When the going gets rough, remember that "Every cloud has" one of these. a silver lining. 3: To produce rain, clouds are sometimes seeded with this chemical compound. silver iodide. 4: Thi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 189, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: I'm On Cloud "Nine" 1: This Hugh Grant movie was based on the French film "Neuf mois". Nine Months . 2: This hit song begins "Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition". "9 To 5". 3: In this comedy, dentist Matthew Perry meets up with hitman Bruce Wi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 188, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Bye Bye Birdie 1: Pigs were among the creatures that killed off this bird on Mauritius in the 1600s. the dodo. 2: The Puerto Rican plain one is endangered; the passenger one has already passed on. a pigeon. 3: This city's Bishop Museum has a princess' pa'u (skirt) made from feathers...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 187, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Also A Chinese Dynasty 1: The astronauts drank this orange-flavored breakfast drink. Tang. 2: Mr. Solo of the movies. Han. 3: The past participle of the verb that means to make music vocally. sung. 4: A protruding part of the face below the lips. chin. 5: The last name of designer An...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 186, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Boo"! 1: This song was written in 1947 in the U.S., not Ireland:. Clancy Lowered the Boom . 2: Word that can precede hatch, prize or trap. booby. 3: A hiding game played with very small children, or a see-through blouse worn by grown-up women. peek-a-boo. 4: From the Tagalog word fo...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 185, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Union Labels 1: The DGA, this guild, gives awards for achievement in commercials as well as feature films. Directors Guild of America. 2: Arturo Rodriguez heads the UFW, this union once led by Cesar Chavez. United Farm Workers. 3: The NALC, National Association of these, says its mem...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 184, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Twelfth Night 1: Dealing with a beastly triple-header was this man's famous twelfth labor. Hercules. 2: The traditional present for your twelfth wedding anniversary is this fabric created by a type of moth larva. silk. 3: Seen here, she represented New York's 12th District in the Hou...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 183, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Lunch Counter Lingo 1: "Whistle berries" refers to these Boston legumes. baked beans. 2: Bow wow and Coney Island both refer to this food. a hot dog. 3: Number that Mel might have called out to say "We're all out of it". 86. 4: The name of this state is slang for maple syrup. Vermont...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 182, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Ss" The Situation 1: The ADA says to do this gently, once a day; it "helps keep your gums healthy". floss. 2: Did you know I could bench-press 250 lbs.? But I do this, a 7-letter term meaning to deviate from the main topic. digress. 3: From the Greek for "bottomless", it's a vast ch...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 181, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Car Talk 1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Jay Leno) Car buffs like me know in starting some classic cars you pull out the choke to constrict airflow to this part". Carburetor. 2: It's the "A" in ABS, which is designed to keep you from hitting the skids. Anti(-lock Brake System). 3:...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 180, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Past Tense 1: Before the fall, Humpty Dumpty did it "on a wall". sat. 2: Meaning "manufactured", it was in a famous telegraph message after "What hath God...". wrought. 3: If you missed the big day, go online; Blue Mountain has a whole section of this kind of birthday e-card. belated...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 179, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: While John Paul I Was Pope 1: Sadat sat down to begin talks with Begin and Carter at this U.S. site September 6, 1978. Camp David. 2: He regained the heavyweight title from the man he had lost it to in February -- Leon Spinks. Muhammad Ali. 3: In an Aug. 30, 1978 press conference he...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 178, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Body Parts By Prefix 1: Entero-. the intestine. 2: Dermato-. skin. 3: Opto-. the eye. 4: Gastro-. the stomach. 5: Chiro-. the hand. Round 2. Category: Tree-Letter Words 1: A sudden burst of light; some can be "in the pan". a fl ash . 2: On "Sesame Street" he's tickled to have his own...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 177, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Hot Spots Of The '80s 1: On April 12, 1982 Great Britain imposed a blockade on this island group. Falkland Islands (or Malvinas). 2: Students who met in this square April 18, 1989 to mourn Hu Yaobang's death stayed to demonstrate. Tiananmen Square. 3: The Achille Lauro was in this se...