Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1064, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Airborne 1: It figures that Otto was the name of the autopilot in this 1980 movie comedy in the clouds. Airplane!. 2: Tom Hanks and several FedEx packages survive a particularly bumpy flight in this film. Cast Away. 3: Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a prisoner with a heart of gold,...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1063, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: A Plague On You! 1: The 14th century "Black Death" that swept Europe was this type of plague, from the Greek for "groin". Bubonic. 2: The first of these was the Nile turning to blood. 10 plagues of Egypt. 3: This physician and seer of the "centuries" treated plague victims in 16th c...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1062, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Play Faster! 1: Largo is a slow tempo of around 50 bpm, which is short for these. beats per minute. 2: At a setting of 70, you're in this tempo; Samuel Barber wrote one "for Strings". adagio. 3: A metronome setting of 100 is this tempo that includes the author of "Inferno". andante....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1061, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: This Is I Country 1: An island, it's the world's northernmost "I" country. Iceland. 2: They're the only 2 "I" countries to border each other. Iran and Iraq. 3: One of this country's driest regions is the Negev Desert, with an annual rainfall of usually less than 10 inches. Israel. 4...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1060, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Quick Study 1: Etymology is the study of the origin of these--it's time to use yours. words. 2: It's the study of crime and punishment and the management of prisons. penology. 3: It's the study of the glands and hormones. endocrinology. 4: If you know that vexillology is the study o...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1059, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Eels 1: There are more than 800 species of eels, including this large nocturnal hunter. the moray. 2: These charged-up creatures are technically not eels at all, but knifefish. electric eels. 3: This term is used for a young eel, especially when on migration upriver from the ocean....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1058, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: '60s Muscle Cars 1: Ronny and the Daytonas wanted to "turn it on, wind it up" and "blow it out". GTO. 2: This Plymouth named for a sharp-toothed fish really had some bite. Barracuda. 3: This Chevy was still going strong into the '90s with a Z-28 model. Camaro. 4: This Pontiac muscle...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1057, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Astronomical Rhyme Time 1: Any song about Earth's natural satellite. a Moon tune. 2: Red planet pubs. Mars bars. 3: Space telescope problem. Hubble trouble. 4: Comet discoverer Edmond's narrow lanes. Halley's alleys. 5: One who determines the age of meteorite impact holes. a crater...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1056, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Food Chain 1: Black bears sometimes prey on the young of this big deer, Alces alces. a moose. 2: The $6 Footlong Sub of the Day. Subway. 3: This green stuff that encompasses diatoms and seaweed is the base of the food chain for almost all aquatic life. algae. 4: This convenience...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1055, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: God 1: This prophet tried to flee God's presence by shipping out to Tarshish -- didn't work. Jonah. 2: In this speech Jesus said that God "knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him". the Sermon on the Mount. 3: "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man so...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1054, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Abolitionism 1: Between 1830 and 1860, this system transported many runaway slaves to southern Ontario. the Underground Railroad. 2: Before the Harpers Ferry attack, he and his men killed 5 proslavers in Pottawatomie, Kansas. John Brown. 3: This 1787 ordinance included a fugitive sl...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1053, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Travel Europe 1: Stops on this city's Metro Line B include Termini Station, Tiburtina Station and the Colosseum. Rome. 2: The Friseurmuseum, a hairdressing museum in this German capital, has a lock of Bismarck's hair. Berlin. 3: "Wax" nostalgic (or is that nostalgique?) at Musee Gre...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1052, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Canadian Geography 1: Slowly I turned towards this over 160-foot cataract found on the U.S.-Canadian border. Niagara Falls. 2: The Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s took place in this territory that borders Alaska. the Yukon. 3: Made a British crown colony in 1849, this island al...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1051, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 5-Letter Countries 1: It stretches southward to Cape Horn. Chile. 2: Gaining independence in 1804, it was the second country in the Americas to free itself from colonial rule. Haiti. 3: In the 19th century, this Mideast nation fell under the control of the Al Thani Dynasty, which st...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1050, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Starts And Ends With The Same Letter 1: A Utah senator or boat's passageway. Hatch. 2: A cutting remark or a sharp point, perhaps on a fishhook. a barb. 3: A generally nonmalignant growth on the surface of a mucous membrane. a polyp. 4: It's the noble gas on the periodic table that...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1049, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: B Prepared. With B in quotes 1: A non-rigid flexible dirigible. blimp. 2: This type of piano is about 5 feet long. Baby grand. 3: This contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis can be spread by fleas from infected rats. bubonic plague. 4: "I'll Go Home With Bonnie J...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1048, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Company Line 1: In 1963, live on "The Art Linkletter Show", this company served its billionth burger. McDonald's. 2: This housewares store was named for the packaging its merchandise came in and was first displayed on. Crate and Barrel. 3: This company's Accutron watch, introduc...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1047, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Stay Away From Meat 1: AKA soybean curd, it can be frozen up to 3 months--but that will change its texture, making it slightly chewier. tofu. 2: This 5-letter term coined in 1944 is the beginning and end of "vegetarian". vegan. 3: Not "Yesterday" but in 2009, this musician and longt...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1046, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Southernmost Points 1: The southernmost point on the USA's mainland is Cape Sable in this Florida national park. the Everglades. 2: South America's southernmost mainland point, cape froward on the Brunswick Peninsula, lies in this country. Chile. 3: Asia's southernmost mainland poin...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1045, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Don'T Get... 1: ...up if this sign is illuminated. the fasten seat belt sign. 2: ...one of the unsatisfactory cars known by this fruity term. a lemon. 3: ...too close to the edge if you're leaning to get a view from this, part of a World Heritage Site in Tuscany. the Leaning Tower o...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1044, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 18 Years Of Leftovers 1: From Season 3:This "Pretty Baby" once suggested wearing red mascara, because it's "perfect for the disco". Brooke Shields. 2: From Season 14:21-year-old Frances Folsom married 49-year-old Grover Cleveland in this "colorful" room. the Blue Room. 3: From Seaso...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1043, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: They Own It 1: Everything from Charmin to Duracell:This company named for 2 guys. Procter and Gamble. 2: Uncle Ben's, MandM's and, fittingly, Orbit gum. Mars. 3: Cheerios and Wheaties:This "military" corporation. General Mills. 4: Dasani and Sprite:This soft drink concern. Coca-Cola...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1042, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: HayEs. With Hay in quotes 1: A type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes. hay fever. 2: A huge punch that usually results in a knockout. a haymaker. 3: Out of control, disordered, crazy. haywire. 4: To glide or move nonchalantly across the floor. sashay. 5...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1041, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: After The White House 1: In 1999 he celebrated his 75th birthday by jumping from a plane over the grounds of his Texas library. George H.W. Bush. 2: In 1841 he represented the Amistad mutineers before the Supreme Court. John Quincy Adams. 3: In 1965 LBJ invited this former president...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1040, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Pop Culture From Bartlett'S 1: He made Bartlett's with his signoff "Here it is... your moment of Zen". Jon Stewart. 2: This movie line is listed under M. Night Shyamalan, though Bartlett's notes that it was spoken by Hayley Joel Osment. "I see dead people". 3: Muhammad Ali used this...