Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 552, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Film Noir Lingo 1: When Dana Andrews used this term for women in "Laura", he didn't mean they'd been knighted. dame. 2: Change one letter in "champ" to get this word for a fool or patsy. a chump. 3: Slang name of Philip Marlowe's job in "Murder, My Sweet", or first name of actor Powe...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 551, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: True Story 1: Dr. Jerri Nielsen gives her account of discovering that she had breast cancer while "ice bound" here. the South Pole. 2: "Into Thin Air" is his account of scaling Everest and the tragedy that befell others around him. Jon Krakauer. 3: Wonder what it's like to be a girl...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 550, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Reagan 101 1: The state where Ronald Reagan was born in 1911. Illinois. 2: The year he took up residence in the White House. 1981. 3: Nickname he gained from his role in "Knute Rockne--All American". "The Gipper". 4: His term as president of this began in 1947. the Screen Actors Guil...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 549, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: All Fall Down 1: "Saturday Night Live" comic known for pratfalls he took imitating Gerald Ford. Chevy Chase. 2: The World Book calls them "generally more clumsy" than frogs. toads. 3: Popular comic strip with a character known as Clumsy Carp. B.C. . 4: Familiar nursery rhyme from whi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 548, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Welcome To Denver 1: Located at 1340 Pennsylvania Street, the house of this storied Titanic survivor is preserved as it was in 1910. Molly Brown. 2: The Denver Zoo has the world's largest indoor habitat for this giant Indonesian lizard. the Komodo dragon. 3: The Kirkland Museum has e...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 547, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: See The Usa 1: The Hall of Fame devoted to these Texas lawmen in Waco has memorabilia belonging to Bonnie and Clyde. Texas Rangers. 2: Each year kids can compete in the National Fence Painting Contest in this Missouri town. Hannibal. 3: You can "Go Home Again" to see this author's bo...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 546, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Truckin' 1: Instead of "truck", the British use this other 5-letter word. Lorry. 2: You could drive this automaker's Silverado through an avalanche. Chevrolet. 3: This company's F-Series pickup, the USA's bestselling car or truck since 1981, turned 50 in 1998. Ford. 4: This maker of...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 545, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Oil" 1: Petroleum as it comes to the surface is called this; that's why it has to be refined. Crude oil. 2: This Procter and Gamble product has nearly a third of the U.S. facial moisturizer market. Oil of Olay. 3: A long waterproof garment for sailors in sou'westers. Oilskin. 4: "Be...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 544, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: National Anthems 1: "Land der Berge, Land am Strome". Austria. 2: This large Asian country's "Jana-Gana-Mana" means "Thou art the ruler of the minds of all the people". India. 3: Franz Erkel, a noted composer of this country, wrote its nat'l anthem, "Isten Aldd Meg A Magyart". Hungar...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 574, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "House" And "Home" 1: It's the part of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. Homestretch. 2: On Nov. 8, 1972 this subscription cable TV service began transmitting. Home Box Office. 3: This 1862 act gave ownership of 160 acres to anyone who lived and worked on them for 5...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 543, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Africa's Official Languages 1: In Benin:this. French. 2: In Gabon:this. French. 3: In Cameroon:English and this. French. 4: In Equatorial Guinea:Spanish and this. French. 5: In Rwanda:Kinyarwanda, French and this. English. Round 2. Category: Noms De Plume 1: In French this graceful s...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 542, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Going National 1: Heel and cigar. Cuban. 2: Guard and chard. Swiss. 3: Toast and twist. French. 4: Linen and potato. Ireland. 5: Linen and potato. Ireland. Round 2. Category: Double D Words 1: Colby is a mild variety of this cheese. cheddar. 2: It follows step-, corporate and Jacob's...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 541, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Taunt "O" 1: By its isolated nature, your last original thought might be considered one of these children without parents. an orphan. 2: Being around you has completely killed my sense of this, the tendency to expect the best of life. optimism. 3: At your place of work, it might beho...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 540, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Benny 1: In the 1790s astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker compiled an annual one of these. almanac. 2: In 1785 Thomas Jefferson succeeded him as minister to France. Benjamin Franklin. 3: While in office, he admitted 6 states, more than any other U.S. president. Benjamin Ha...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 539, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Actor-Directors 1: He directed himself, dad Lloyd and brother Jeff in the TV movie "The Thanksgiving Promise". Beau Bridges. 2: He cast Debbie Reynolds as his "mother" in a 1996 film. Albert Brooks. 3: "The Great Dictator" (1940). Charlie Chaplin. 4: "The Great Dictator" (1940). Char...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 538, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Quick Moby-Dick 1: The biblical prophet who's the subject of chapter 83. Jonah. 2: Of the Monica, the Rachel or the Phoebe, the rescue ship at the tale's end. the Rachel . 3: Melville's subtitle for the first American edition. The Whale . 4: The harpooner from Kokovoko with the rad t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 537, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The '40s 1: The women for whom Walter Annenberg founded this magazine in 1944 are now on Social Security. Seventeen. 2: In 1942 RCA plated a master copy of Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo" this color to honor a million sold. Gold. 3: In his first speech as prime minister May 13...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 536, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: In The Minority 1: They're the largest minority group in Kyrgyzstan. the Russians. 2: People of this national ancestry form the majority, 67%, of the USA's Hispanic minority. Mexican. 3: Filipino Muslims are called Moros, the Spanish form of this English word. Moor. 4: Initially, Spa...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 535, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Questionable Songs 1: Million seller in which Elvis Presley asks, "Are you sorry we drifted apart?". "Are You Lonesome Tonight?". 2: It's what Patti Page asked about "the one with the waggly tail". "(How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window?". 3: It followed Linda Ronstadt's lament "I'...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 534, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Money Slang 1: The shell of this mollusk is composed chiefly of calcium carbonate. a clam. 2: Cheap way off a rodeo bronco. Buck. 3: Proverbially, you can "break" this food, or "take (it) out of someone's mouth"; earn some dough. bread. 4: Bank notes that sing before fa-so-la. Do-re-...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 533, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Let's Split! 1: In 2000 Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that this computer company should be split in two. Microsoft. 2: Grammar alert: there's a split one of these in the phrase "He chose to wisely decline the invitation". an infinitive. 3: Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman got toge...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 532, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Advertising Mascots 1: He's the giraffe mascot for Toys 'R Us. Geoffrey. 2: It's the animal that's represented one of the major TV networks since 1956. a peacock. 3: One of these critters is the mascot of the Hartford Insurance Company. an elk. 4: Name of the bull terrier "party anim...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 531, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 3-Letter Animals 1: The red species of this canine eats 'most anything, except perhaps sour grapes. Fox. 2: One can be barn or screech. an owl. 3: In ancient times this killer cobra was used to execute criminals. Asp. 4: In India the tail of this wild ox is used to swat flies. Yak. 5...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 530, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Attle" Field 1: Bovines. Cattle. 2: Snake tail tip. Rattle. 3: Disclose a secret. Tattle. 4: City between Puget Sound and Lake Washington. Seattle. 5: Childish talk. Prattle. Round 2. Category: Arnold Schwarzenegger 1: Schwarzenegger, whose name means "black plowman" in German, was...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 529, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Real Ghosts? 1: Not one but two of this king's six wives are said to haunt Hampton Court Palace. Henry VIII. 2: Glamis Castle in this U.K. country has several ghosts, including an earl who gambled with the devil, and lost. Scotland. 3: Screaming ghosts have been heard at the old Lala...