Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1115, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Almost Assassinated 1: August 22, 1962 when his limousine was attacked near Paris. Charles de Gaulle. 2: February 15, 1933 after making a speech in Miami. FDR. 3: May 12, 1982 on a visit to the famous shrine in Fatima, Portugal. Pope John Paul II. 4: September 5, 1975 while greeting...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1114, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: What Do You Mean? 1: In the E.R., doctors ask for things to be done immediately by using this 4-letter Latin abbreviation. Stat. 2: In restaurants this number means "all gone". 86. 3: When used with "up", this type of little house is slang for living together without being married....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1113, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: State Capital Nicknames 1: "The Bluegrass Capital". Frankfort. 2: "The Charter Oak City". Hartford. 3: "Arkopolis". Little Rock. 4: "The Gateway to Glacier Bay National Park". Juneau (Alaska). 5: "The Cradle of the Confederacy" and "The Birthplace of Civil Rights". Montgomery, Alaba...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1112, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Moving Journalism 1: British Airways' in-flight magazine has this name, like a Miller beer brand. High Life. 2: Different regions get different magazines from this club, AAA for short; Via and Westways are 2 of its publications. the American Automobile Association. 3: Passengers in...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1111, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Ask The Nearest Hippie 1: Have you and your teenagers Mao and Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents and kids?. the generation gap. 2: I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway?. t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1110, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: That'S A Rap. With Rap in quotation marks 1: Go ahead, let your hair down reading the story of this princess locked in a tower. Rapunzel. 2: To descend a steep slope by rope. rappel. 3: Any bird of prey. raptor. 4: This 212-mile river flows into Chesapeake Bay. the Rappahannock. 5:...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1109, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 3-Name The Author 1: "Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out". Louisa May Alcott. 2: "Kidnapped". Robert Louis Stevenson. 3: "The Deerslayer". James Fenimore Cooper. 4: "The Maine Woods", published posthumously in 1864. Henry David Thoreau. 5: "The Magician of Lublin". Isaac Bashevis Si...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1108, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Sing That Song 1: "I Will Wait" is by this singer and sons (though they aren't really his sons). Mumford and Sons. 2: In 1970 "I'll Be There" was the fourth consecutive No. 1 hit for these siblings. The Jackson 5. 3: Bono sang, "The real battle just begun / to claim the victory Jesu...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1107, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Da Or Ba Or Dee. With Da" Or "Ba" Or "Dee in quotes 1: When Santa gives these creatures P.T.O. in the summer, some travel up to 800 miles for grazing grounds. reindeer. 2: It's the last name of a film character played by both Gary Cooper and Adam Sandler. Deeds. 3: Its name origin i...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1106, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: European Lit 1: Yannis Ritsos' poetry collection "O Epitafios" was symbolically burned at the foot of this hill. the Acropolis. 2: This 1759 Voltaire work attacks optimism by putting the title trusting young man through misery. Candide. 3: Her diary was originally published in Dutch...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1111, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Ask The Nearest Hippie 1: Have you and your teenagers Mao and Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents and kids?. the generation gap. 2: I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway?. t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1105, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: They Don'T Live On Sesame Street 1: South African-born Ernie Els is a longtime standout performer in this pro sport. golf. 2: Bert wasn't a doctor, but Dr. Paul Bert made important studies of divers with decompression sickness, also known as this. the bends. 3: Accompanying him on h...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1111, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Ask The Nearest Hippie 1: Have you and your teenagers Mao and Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents and kids?. the generation gap. 2: I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway?. t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1104, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Confirmation Code Is Rlktd 1: R as in this unusual way 1950s football lineman Bob St. Clair liked his meat. raw. 2: L as in this island event where you literally pig out. a luau. 3: K as in this brown seaweed that can be used as soup stock or turned into a powder for use as a season...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1111, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Ask The Nearest Hippie 1: Have you and your teenagers Mao and Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents and kids?. the generation gap. 2: I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway?. t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1103, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Shakespeare'S Endings 1: "With the help of your good hands, gentle breath of yours my sails must fill, or else my project fails". The Tempest. 2: "Gratiano, keep the house, and seize upon the fortunes of the Moor, for they succeed on you". Othello. 3: "We will unite the white rose a...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1102, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Around The Vatican 1: The Vatican bank is unique in allowing ATM transactions to be conducted in this language. Latin. 2: This room with a ceiling fresco is where the Cardinals vote for a new pope. the Sistine Chapel. 3: The Vatican one of these was established by Pope Nicholas V, "...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1101, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: An Imp Of A Rhyme 1: To spend time making adjustments to one's appearance. primp. 2: "Snoopy One" was one for Metlife. blimp. 3: 6-letter word meaning to economize. scrimp. 4: Crangon crangon is the scientific name for the common European one. shrimp. 5: To connect 2 wires by squeez...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1100, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Home, Sweet Home 1: From 1903 to 1957, Beauvoir, his former home in Biloxi, was a home for Confederate veterans and their widows. Jefferson Davis. 2: Ralph Waldo Emerson owned a Concord home nicknamed this; Hawthorne rented it and wrote some "Mosses from" it. the Old Manse. 3: The s...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1099, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Waits And Measures 1: This name for a type of ounce used to measure gold comes from a city in medieval France, not ancient Turkey. the troy ounce. 2: One U.S. beer barrel contains 31 of these units; that's nearly 4,000 delicious ounces. gallons. 3: Glidden says it takes about an hou...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1098, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Heavy Metal Heroes 1: He bedeviled us as the lead singer of Black Sabbath before his reality TV fame. (Ozzy) Osbourne. 2: With his work on songs like "Hot For Teacher", some rank him as the greatest heavy metal guitarist. Eddie Van Halen. 3: 1980s heavy metal included this band that...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1097, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Nebraska, New York Or North Dakota 1: The least populous. North Dakota. 2: Its name does not have a Native American origin. New York. 3: The Oregon Trail crossed it. Nebraska. 4: The largest in area. Nebraska. 5: Its cities include Minot, Jamestown and Grand Forks. North Dakota. Rou...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1096, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Things To Do On A Rainy Day 1: Learn a new one of these from Duolingo. (foreign) languages. 2: Put together one of these; the 4,000-piece world map should take you a while. a jigsaw puzzle. 3: Assume the warrior pose, mountain pose or seated twist while practicing this. yoga. 4: Dre...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1095, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Beastly Literary Characters 1: The title character of this 19th c. tale had "a pretty white star on my forehead. I was thought very handsome". Black Beauty. 2: In the original Pinocchio story, the guy given this name in the movie is just called the talking cricket. Jiminy Cricket. 3...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1094, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: You Just Made That Stuff Up 1: It's the very hard-to-get substance that causes humans to set up shop on Pandora. unobtanium. 2: Fraudulin was the miracle ingredient in Crelm toothpaste in a 1970 episode by this comedy troupe. Monty Python. 3: Kyber crystals, which are attuned to the...