Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 652, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fun With Country Names 1: It's the only country in the world with the name of its ruling family in the name of the country. Saudi Arabia (the House of Saud). 2: Besides East Timor, 2 of the 3 independent countries with compass directions in their English names. South Africa and/or No...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 651, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Peru 1: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Iquitos was a major shipping port on this river during the rubber boom. the Amazon. 2: Lima's Palacio de Gobierno was built in 1938 on the site of this Spanish conquistador's palace. Pizarro. 3: He served as Peru's first ambassador t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 650, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Forbes' Fictional Billionaires 1: Topping the list is this North Pole resident with apparently unlimited, incalculable wealth. Santa Claus. 2: $1 billion is the total for this fictional billionaire, Homer Simpson's boss. C. Montgomery Burns. 3: This candy magnate from a Roald Dahl no...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 649, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Hollywood Queens 1: Von Stroheim directed this star in "Queen Kelly", but she bossed him around in "Sunset Boulevard". Gloria Swanson. 2: When Gable was named King of the Movies, this "Thin Man" star was voted queen. Myrna Loy. 3: This sheep queen of "The Thorn Birds" was "Cattle Que...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 648, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Next Stop, Venus 1: Contributing to its high temperature, Venus' atmosphere is predominantly made up of this gas. carbon dioxide. 2: It's the planet that's closest to Venus. Earth. 3: In 1610 this Italian discovered that Venus has phases like the moon. Galileo. 4: With few exceptions...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 647, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Famous Feuds 1: From the Latin for "to avenge", these family feuds are associated with the island of Corsica. Vendettas. 2: George Steinbrenner fired him 4 times as manager of the Yankees. Billy Martin. 3: In the 1949 movie "Roseanna McCoy", Roseanna runs off with a member of this en...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 646, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: To The Nearest... 1: To the nearest minute, it's how long it took Secretariat to run the Kentucky Derby in 1973. 2 minutes. 2: According to the USDA food guide pyramid, to the nearest ounce, the serving size for ready-to-eat cereal. 1 ounce. 3: To the nearest 50, number of years Harp...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 645, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: File Under "S" 1: Head and Shoulders, Agree, and Pert Plus are leading types of these. Shampoos. 2: It's a heavy, single-edged cavalry sword with a blade less curved than a scimitar. Saber. 3: This disease caused by the lack of ascorbic acid is called Barlow's Disease in infants. Scu...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 644, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fabrics And Textiles 1: Gauze is named for this Palestinian city where it's thought to have originated. Gaza. 2: In 552 Emperor Justinian sent 2 monks to China to discover the secret of this fabric. Silk. 3: The chief hair fiber used in textiles today comes from this kind of animal....

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...