Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 914, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: state trees 1: Its state tree is the candlenut, but locals call it the Kukui. Hawaii. 2: Rhode Island picked the "red" type of this tree; Vermont got the "sugar" kind. maple. 3: Delaware chose a type of this tree that's paired with "the ivy" in a Christmas song. holly. 4: This state...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 913, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: rudolph 1: This grandson of Italian immigrants was elected the 107th mayor of New York City on November 2, 1993. Rudolph Giuliani. 2: You'll find this body of water in the eastern part of Kenya's Rift Valley. Lake Rudolph. 3: Bravo! This man was the general manager of the Metropolita...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 912, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: biblical quotes 1: Eccles. 11:1 says cast this "upon the waters: For thou shalt find it after many days". bread. 2: "The serpent beguiled me and I did eat". Eve. 3: She said, "Thou hast mocked me these 3 times and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. Delilah. 4: These 3...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 911, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "z" abbreviations 1: Z.Hr.; it's time to go. Zero. 2: The Z in ZIP code is short for this. Zone (Improvement Plan). 3: Book of the Bible abbreviated Zech.. Zechariah. 4: You may answer with zeal that zl is short for this currency. Zloty. 5: The abbreviations for the 2 elements whose...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 910, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: the nfl's star quarterbacks 1: Steve Young. San Francisco 49ers. 2: Brett Favre. Green Bay Packers. 3: Dan Marino. Miami Dolphins. 4: Doug Flutie. Buffalo Bills. 5: Drew Bledsoe. New England Patriots. Round 2. Category: fruit 1: Technically, a raspberry isn't a berry, but these commo...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 909, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: the body bovine 1: Cattle use this long body part to shoo away insects. the tail. 2: A cow has 32 of these but none in the front part of its upper jaw. teeth. 3: In beef cows this suspended milk-storing organ is smaller than in dairy cows. udder. 4: The rumen is the largest of the 4...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 908, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: submarines 1: By the mid-1950s this country had about 375 subs in various oceans and seas. the Soviet Union. 2: After WWI the Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee developed this to detect subs. sonar. 3: Until this arrived in the 1950s, almost all subs used diesel-elect...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 907, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: home sweet home 1: The house where she wrote "Silent Spring" is a National Historic Monument in Silver Spring, Maryland. Rachel Carson. 2: Spanish for "Sea to Lake" this Palm Beach estate was home to Donald Trump and earlier, Marjorie Merriweather Post. Mar-a-Lago. 3: Her Silver Spri...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 906, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: creepy crawly things 1: A sailor's superstition says that these creatures desert a ship they know will sink. rats. 2: This creepy creature might be lug, inch or book. worm. 3: These pre-moth creatures eat constantly. caterpillars. 4: Related to the snail, these gastropods climb trees...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 905, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: homework 1: For starters you can read the first entry, dated June 14, 1942, in this girl's diary. Anne Frank. 2: Continue working on your math problems and give us this square root of 121. 11. 3: For science, classify rocks according to their 3 main types: metamorphic, sedimentary an...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 904, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: royal female nicknames 1: Prime Minister Tony Blair dubbed her "The People's Princess". Princess Diana. 2: She was "The Untamed Heifer" and "The Virgin Queen". Elizabeth I. 3: Mark Antony called her "The Queen of Queens". Cleopatra. 4: The 19th century's "Widow of Windsor". Queen Vic...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 903, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: one word off 1: Oh, to be in Yonkers,/now that April's there. Yonkers (for England). 2: Had we but world enough, and time,/This coyness, baby, were no crime. baby (for lady). 3: An earnest man's the noblest work of God. earnest (for honest). 4: I should have been a pair of ragged jaw...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 902, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: see you in court 1: Deaths in its Pinto made it the first U.S. corporation to face criminal charges over product design. Ford. 2: The government sued Frank Snepp over his 1977 book based on his years with this agency. CIA. 3: Perhaps because no one could figure out what he'd been try...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 901, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: music of the '60s 1: In 1969 "Something" became the only No. 1 hit he composed for The Beatles. George Harrison. 2: In 1969 B.J. Thomas had the biggest hit of his career with this song from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head". 3: In this 1965 hit...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 900, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: monday night football 1: He started as a play-by-play man in 1971 and became an analyst in 1986. Frank Gifford. 2: This Dallas quarterback was quite "Dandy". Don Meredith. 3: The current play-by-play commentator, he's remembered for calling the Olympic hockey games in the '80s. Al Mi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 899, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: pope-pourri 1: Gerbert picked this name, not Tweety, when he became pope in 999. Sylvester. 2: In Manila on Jan. 15, 1995 the Pope honored World Youth Day by celebrating this with over 4 million people. a mass. 3: Around 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to decorate this...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 898, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: men behaving badly 1: In an 1804 duel Aaron Burr shot this man who had insulted him. Hamilton. 2: During a U.N. Assembly session in 1960 this Soviet premier banged his shoe on a desk. Khrushchev. 3: This public enemy No. 1 bragged that he had escaped from jail using a fake gun carved...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 897, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: european cities 1: This capital lies 5 miles from the Bay of Phaleron, an arm of the Aegean Sea. Athens. 2: This city is central to works by James Joyce; after all, he was born there. Dublin. 3: The World Health Organization is headquartered in this Swiss city. Geneva. 4: In Krakow,...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 896, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: villages 1: Washington Square Park is the hub of this area of New York City. Greenwich Village. 2: A famous hard cheese is named for this Somerset, England village in which it was first developed. Cheddar. 3: Jacques Cartier gave this name to the hill behind the village of Hochelaga....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 895, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: the 4th 1: The 4th Gospel of the New Testament. John. 2: The 4th dimension according to the theory of relativity. time. 3: The 4th letter of the Greek alphabet. delta. 4: The 4th oldest college in the United States, it's found in New Jersey. Princeton. 5: The 4th most populous countr...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 894, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: singers and their roles 1: When Sonny gets blue, he can think of "Good Times", the film in which he and this partner played themselves. Cher. 2: She earned an Oscar nomination for starring in "The Rose" and an Emmy nomination for playing Mama Rose in "Gypsy". Bette Midler. 3: Reba Mc...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 891, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: kiss your lass goodbye 1: In a 1965 epic this Omar Sharif character keeps getting separated from his beloved Lara. Dr. Zhivago. 2: In "Casablanca" this Bogart character reminds Ilsa as they part, "We'll always have Paris". Rick Blaine. 3: This actor keeps parting and getting back tog...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 871, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: rhythm and booze 1: His beach bum anthem "Margaritaville" made its Top 40 debut in 1977. Jimmy Buffett. 2: This 1958 hit by The Champs with a liquor as its title has been covered by numerous artists. "Tequila". 3: "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" is a classic s...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 889, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: death sentences 1: It was in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy that he wrote nothing is "Certain except death and taxes". Benjamin Franklin. 2: Filmmaker who said, "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens". Woody Allen. 3: In a June 1897 issue of...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 888, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: countries by college 1: The University of Sunderland,the University of Sheffield,Oxford University. England. 2: The Emile Cohl School,the University of Toulouse,the University of Provence. France. 3: Chiba University,Waseda University,Fukuoka Junior College. Japan. 4: Menoufia Univer...