Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1240, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: I Read It On A Bumper Sticker 1: "Save water" do this "with a friend". shower. 2: "What if" this kids' dance song "is what it's all about?". "The Hokey Pokey". 3: Punning on a slogan of the United Negro College Fund, "A waist is a terrible thing to...". mind. 4: "Never play leap fro...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1239, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Where'S That Church? 1: Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity. Israel. 2: Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família. Spain. 3: The Crystal Cathedral, now known as Christ Cathedral. the United States. 4: Hagia Sophia. Turkey. 5: St. Stephen's Cathedral, AKA Stephanskirche, consecra...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1238, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 20Th C. America 1: As a lt. colonel, Washington led British colonial troops in the 1st battle of this war. French and Indian War. 2: In 1794, a 62-mile paved turnpike was completed from Lancaster to this Pennsylvania city. Philadelphia. 3: In 1763, a widespread Indian uprising was l...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1237, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Netflix And Chill 1: "Polar" stars Mads Mikkelsen as a retired one of these professionals, who has relocated to a snowier clime. a hitman (assassin). 2: What could be more chilling than "The Chilling Adventures of" this gal, last name Spellman, of course. Sabrina. 3: When Netflix re...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1236, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Performer 1: Patton Oswalt cooked up the voice of Remy the Rodent in this 2007 Pixar film. Ratatouille. 2: From 1960 to 2010 Don Hastings played Bob Hughes on this "global" CBS soap opera. As the World Turns. 3: Esai Morales lawyered up as Edward James Olmos' dad, Joseph Adama,...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1235, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Holy Cow. With Cow in quotation marks 1: The Random House Dictionary calls it a children's game involving shooting, chasing, and capturing. cowboys and Indians. 2: A form of leather, or what has to happen before other cow go seek. cowhide. 3: The 3rd line of "Hey Diddle Diddle", it...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1234, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Margaret Me 1: She led Britain through the 1980s. Margaret Thatcher. 2: I'll get you to name this "Wizard of Oz" actress, my pretty. Margaret Hamilton. 3: Princess Margaret was born in 1930, 4 years after this sister. Elizabeth II. 4: Margaret Burbidge was the first woman to head up...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1233, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Siegfrieds And Roys 1: In an 1870s ballet, Prince Siegfried falls in love with one of these graceful birds. Swan. 2: This singer took "Oh, Pretty Woman" to No. 1 in 1964. Roy Orbison. 3: This composer of the opera "Siegfried" also named his son Siegfried. Richard Wagner. 4: Before h...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1232, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Flying Maneuvers 1: To do it to a fire, you cover it, to do it to a plane, you lower one wing. Bank it. 2: Noisy term for flying low over a person or area. Buzzing. 3: Also a Coney Island ride, it's a 360-degree maneuver that starts by pointing the nose upward. Loop-the-loop. 4: In...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1231, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Gluten-Free Foods 1: There's an octet of veggies in this alphanumeric brand's vegetable juice, but no gluten. V-8. 2: This classic canned meat from Hormel that debuted in 1937 has no gluten. Spam. 3: In the U.S., this soda is gluten free, as its Vanilla Zero version. Coca-Cola. 4: D...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1230, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: People Who Became Words 1: A swift fellow, this Austrian's name means the speed of an object as a multiple of the speed of sound. Ernst Mach. 2: Don't lose your head trying to name this execution device named after a French doctor. the guillotine. 3: The name of this cigarette ingre...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1229, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Raleigh 1: In 1603 Sir Walter Raleigh was tried and convicted of this for plotting to dethrone the king. treason. 2: Raleigh introduced this tuber into Ireland; seemed like a good idea at the time. the potato. 3: In 1569 Raleigh fought in France on the side of these French Protestan...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1228, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Very Old East 1: Some 15 million years ago, what's now this country moved away from east Asia, and the same-named sea opened in its wake. Japan. 2: This subcontinent collided with Eurasia some 40 to 50 million years ago. India. 3: A long, long time ago, protoceratops roamed what...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1227, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Missing Man 1: Aboard Apollo 11:Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin. (Michael) Collins. 2: In a famous double-play combo:Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers. Frank Chance. 3: In the name of an optical products company:John Jacob Bausch. (Henry) Lomb. 4: In a legendary trio:Balthazar, Melchior. Cas...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1226, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: To The Mountaintop! 1: The Gouter Route is the most popular path from Chamonix up this "roof of Europe". Mont Blanc. 2: Washington State Route 706 will take you to the national park for your climb to the 14,410-foot top of this. Mount Rainier. 3: It takes about 6 hours to hike up th...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1225, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Around The Garden? 1: A reward is paired with a punishment in the phrase this veggie "and stick". carrot. 2: It's the mysterious dying utterance of the title character of "Citizen Kane". Rosebud. 3: This 2-word phrase refers to something unimportant, probably referring to a tuber th...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1224, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Grease 1: A Hawaiian greasy spoon might well serve a dish called musubi made with rice, seaweed and this Hormel product. Spam. 2: Every March brings the national day named for this sometimes-greasy treat. a corndog. 3: Though we doubt he did it in a "hut", a New Zealand man set a Gu...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1223, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: A Disaster Of Biblical Proportions 1: There's a lot of smiting and destroying after this group steals the Ark of God; things don't end well for Goliath, either. the Philistines. 2: After this man makes burnt offerings, "The Lord said... neither will I again smite any more every thin...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1222, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Water Music 1: This song by Otis Redding mentions "the Frisco Bay" and "Watchin' the tide roll away". "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay". 2: Ike and Tina Turner were "rollin' on the river" with this song. "Proud Mary". 3: In 2016 this British woman had a hit with "Water Under The Br...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1221, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: That Movie'S Genius 1: Doc Brown created the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible, in this film. Back to the Future. 2: Dr. Ryan Stone is a medical engineer on her first shuttle mission in this 2013 film. Gravity. 3: An un-Gandhi-like Ben Kingsley takes a child c...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1220, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Olde Music 1: Solo piano works by this man include 1846's Opus 60 "Barcarolle" and 17 Polish songs. (Frédéric) Chopin. 2: "Die Zauberflöte" in German, this Mozart opera premiered in 1791, just months before the composer's death. The Magic Flute. 3: Compositions by Bach include "Tocc...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1219, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: At The Museum 1: The Ulster Museum in Belfast displays treasures from the Girona and 2 other ships that were part of this famed fleet. the Spanish Armada. 2: An Oregon science museum has the USS Blueback, one of these; in addition to its navy days, it was in "The Hunt For Red Octobe...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1218, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: All You Need Is Love. With Love in quotation marks 1: The Internet is full of tips to get rid of these, the bulges of fat at the sides of the waist. love handles. 2: Rawlings makes them for ballplayers. gloves. 3: It's also called a courting chair. a love seat. 4: Split, like some h...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1217, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Getting Jazzed 1: Introduced in 1948, these items let jazz become more complex by allowing longer performances on a single side. LPs. 2: Look away, look away, look away, it's a revivalist style of New Orleans jazz. Dixieland. 3: Billy Strayhorn composed classics like "Take The 'A' T...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1216, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Ends In Oo. With Oo in quotation marks 1: Members of this Algonquian-speaking tribe live in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Mexico, but not in Dogpatch. the Kickapoo. 2: Necromancy, Haitian-style. Voodoo. 3: It's sometimes a quadruped, but to move quickly it becomes a biped and leaps. a...