Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 643, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Made In Japan 1: This sport whose name means "the way of softness" was added to the Olympics at the 1964 games in Tokyo. judo. 2: A rin is 1/10 of a sen, which is 1/100 of one of these. Yen. 3: On the Shizuoka-Yamanashi border, it's still classified as active, though dormant since 17...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 642, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Could You Translate That For Me? 1: It's the all-American way of saying "Rouge, blanc et bleu". red, white and blue. 2: It's the English translation of the German word in the lyric "Let me call you liebchen, I'm in love with you". sweetheart. 3: "Benevolenza", you can give old clothe...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 641, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: File Under "D" 1: A 1932 song asked, "Brother, Can You Spare" one of these. a dime. 2: The "bones" in this game are pulled out of the "boneyard". Dominoes. 3: French for "relaxation", it was the easing of tensions between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in the '70s. détente. 4: A blend of 2...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 640, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Words From "Jeopardy!" 1: Give someone enough of this and he'll hang himself with it. rope. 2: This term for a minute opening in the skin doesn't sound very rich. pore. 3: Whenever it precedes "vu" I feel like I've seen this word before. deja. 4: When talking about your kids, it pair...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 639, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Stage Names 1: "Peyton Place" star Dorothy Eloise Maloney. Dorothy Malone. 2: Marshall Mathers is the real name of the rapper who performs using this 1-word nickname. Eminem. 3: Elliott Goldstein. Elliott Gould. 4: Henry Montgomery Jr., Elizabeth's father. Robert Montgomery. 5: Riley...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 638, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Literary Heroines 1: "Anne of Avonlea" is a 1909 sequel to this 1908 classic. "Anne of Green Gables". 2: Thorny problems beset this Bronte heroine when she's hired as a governess at Thornfield Hall. Jane Eyre. 3: Countess Olenska is the not-so-innocent heroine of this Edith Wharton n...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 637, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Going "Bust" 1: Able or likely to catch fire and burn. Combustible. 2: In 1927 he deadpanned his way through the silent classic "The General". Buster Keaton. 3: It was a pad used in a pre-20th century skirt to fill out the back. Bustle. 4: Strong, healthy and hardy in constitution. R...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 636, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Iowans 1: Born in Iowa in 1907, he starred in "Rio Lobo", "Rio Bravo" and "Rio Grande". John Wayne. 2: Prior to marrying Roseanne, this man from Ottumwa worked as a ham packer at a Hormel plant. Tom Arnold. 3: Des Moines' Marilyn Maye sang 76 times, more than anyone else on the talk...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 635, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Here Pig 1: It's not good when you "let the cat out of the bag" when you were expecting a "pig in" this. a poke. 2: In April 1961 a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles landed here in Cuba. the Bay of Pigs. 3: As these smell like male pigs, sows are used in the forests of France to root...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 634, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tell 'Em What They've Won, Johnny 1: The first of these were awarded in 1901 and they are given out yearly for Physics, Chemistry, Peace and 3 other disciplines. the Nobel Prizes. 2: Walt Disney won a record 14 of these statuettes now given out in March. Oscars. 3: In the category Be...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 633, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Triple Talk 1: Comes between "In the valley of the Jolly" and "Green Giant". ho, ho, ho. 2: You do it to your boat, gently down the stream. row, row, row. 3: In "The King and I", Yul Brynner's famous line that fits the category. et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 4: According to The Te...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 632, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Mysteries 1: 1st cousins Dannay and Lee wrote the Ellery Queen stories under this pen name. Ellery Queen. 2: It's the last name of Tom, the psychopath Patricia Highsmith created in 1955: believe it or not!. Ripley. 3: Although this former Pinkerton investigator only wrote 1 "Thin Man...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 631, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: National Parks 1: In this southern national park you can take a boat ride on the underground Echo River. Mammoth Cave. 2: Logs in this forest may be 150 million years old. the Petrified Forest. 3: Bridalveil Fall is usually the first waterfall seen by visitors to this California Park...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 630, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Po" Pourri 1: Its national anthem is "Jeszcze Polkska Nie Zginela". Poland. 2: Connemara, Dartmoor, Exmoor or Shetland. ponies. 3: Wm. Wordsworth accepted this honor on the understanding he would not have to write official verses. Poet Laureate. 4: Someone who steals a wild duck or...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 629, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Times They Are A-Changin' 1: Ian Astbury of The Cult joined Robbie Krieger and Ray Manzarek for the retooling of this band "of the 21st Century". The Doors. 2: In 2004 Veritas software's marketing dept. made news when it banned this type of communication on Fridays. e-mail. 3: Be...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 628, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Sitcoms 1: In the 1st episode of this series, Cliff gave Theo an economics lesson with Monopoly money. The Cosby Show . 2: A 1998 CD of music from this sitcom featured "Cleveland Rocks" and "Five O'Clock World". The Drew Carey Show . 3: This series is a spin-off of "The Big Bang Theo...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 627, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: It's A Girl! 1: This 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is set in a small Alabama town and narrated by a young girl. To Kill a Mockingbird . 2: Short story shorter: "Grimm" girl, loves power colors and older relatives, has problems with wolf. (Little) Red Riding Hood. 3: In this 1900...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fountains 1: Architect Nicola Salvi designed this, often called the last great baroque monument in Rome. Trevi Fountain. 2: A fountain in front of this kids' cable network's studios in Orlando spurts out green slime. Nickelodeon. 3: Andrea Del Verrocchio sculpted his bronze "Boy With...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 625, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Blank The Blank 1: Written the night before it was recorded in 1962, it was Ray Stevens' 1st major hit. "Ahab The Arab". 2: Look after a military installation while the troops are out. guard the fort (hold the fort). 3: Obama told this Ohio blue-collar guy spreading the wealth was go...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 624, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Un" Words 1: Tom, Miltie, or $crooge. uncles. 2: If you ask the Miami operator for Don Johnson's phone number, she'll probably tell you it's this. unlisted. 3: An "unspeakable" euphemism for underwear. unmentionables. 4: Hades is also known as this, sure as hell. the underworld. 5:...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 623, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Davis Cup 1: Kim Carnes sang about her eyes. Bette Davis. 2: In 1861 he resigned from the U.S. Senate. Jefferson Davis. 3: He's moved his Raiders all over California. Al Davis. 4: In 1978 this cartoonist introduced his character Garfield to the world. Jim Davis. 5: This black act...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 622, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: When 1: On Aug. 28, 1963 he told a crowd gathered in Washington, D.C. "I have a dream". Martin Luther King, Jr.. 2: An American hero on April 18, 1775, he was accused of cowardice in 1779, but a court-martial cleared him. Paul Revere. 3: As of April 7, 1984 it surpassed Chicago as th...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 621, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Animal Offspring 1: A general term for the young of most fish, or how you cook them after you catch them. fry. 2: A young kangaroo, or a musical pal. a joey. 3: The male young of these are called cockerels; the female young, pullets. chickens. 4: A young rat, seal, or, so we're told,...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 620, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Definitions 1: It's a "comfy" covering for your teapot. a tea cozy. 2: This word means to speak pompously or to officiate as a pontiff. pontificate. 3: Any place of great spiritual suffering, named for the garden in Mark 14. Gethsemane. 4: Of a little lamb, a fugitive from the law, o...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 619, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Female Flyers 1: On August 1, 1911 Harriet Quimby became the first American woman to get one of these. Pilot's license. 2: "Charlie", now in the Smithsonian, was the plane in which Flying Angel Geraldine Mock did this in 29 days in 1964. Circumnavigate the globe. 3: Anne Spencer Morr...