Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1070, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Novels Since 1900 1: 23-year-old Andrea Sachs gets a job as a personal assistant at Runway magazine in this Lauren Weisberger novel. The Devil Wears Prada. 2: "Texasville" and "Duane's Depressed" are 2 of the many tales of the small-town west by this author who died in 2021. (Larry)...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1085, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Medical Prefixes And Suffixes 1: These 2 -iatricians specialize in opposite times of life and there's often talk of a surplus of one and a shortage of the other. a pediatrician and a geriatrician. 2: -sclerosis,as in "of an artery". hardening. 3: After my-, it means pain in the musc...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1075, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: International Get-Togethers 1: In spring, head out from this largest Dutch city to the regional trade event focusing on tulips. Amsterdam. 2: Toronto's Collision Conference has a program for these tech companies named for their fledgling nature. start-ups. 3: This Austin-based meet-...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1069, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: A Trip To The Islands 1: This 2,200-square-mile Canadian island was named for a son of George III. Prince Edward Island. 2: The "Big Island" of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago is shared between Argentina and this country. Chile. 3: The migration of the red crabs is an annual specta...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1068, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Letters In Song 1: Title of the following Beatles hit, it's how many people conclude a letter:"As I write this letter/Send my love to you/Remember I'll always be with you/Be in love with you...". P.S. I Love You. 2: If your sweetheart sends a letter of goodbye, it's no secret you'll...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1067, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Women Directing Women 1: This Oscar-winning actress directed herself in the film "Little Man Tate". Jodie Foster. 2: Gurinder Chadha scored when she directed Parminder Nagra in this soccer film. Bend It Like Beckham. 3: Mira Nair had "Hysterical Blindness" before directing Reese Wit...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1066, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Let'S Go Online 1: Oh my God! It's a double rainbow video! Seen by more than 19.3 million people on this site! What does this mean?!. YouTube. 2: "The Clone Wars: Fierce Twilight" and "The Powerpuff Girls: Fast and Flurrious" are games at this TV channel's .com. Cartoon Network. 3:...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1065, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Poe-Pourri 1: Poe was terribly ill when he was found in a tavern in this city on October 3, 1849; he died a few days later. Baltimore. 2: One of the title objects in this Poe story had a "terrifically wide sweep (some thirty feet or more)". "The Pit and the Pendulum"?. 3: "I admit t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1064, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Airborne 1: It figures that Otto was the name of the autopilot in this 1980 movie comedy in the clouds. Airplane!. 2: Tom Hanks and several FedEx packages survive a particularly bumpy flight in this film. Cast Away. 3: Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a prisoner with a heart of gold,...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1063, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: A Plague On You! 1: The 14th century "Black Death" that swept Europe was this type of plague, from the Greek for "groin". Bubonic. 2: The first of these was the Nile turning to blood. 10 plagues of Egypt. 3: This physician and seer of the "centuries" treated plague victims in 16th c...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1062, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Play Faster! 1: Largo is a slow tempo of around 50 bpm, which is short for these. beats per minute. 2: At a setting of 70, you're in this tempo; Samuel Barber wrote one "for Strings". adagio. 3: A metronome setting of 100 is this tempo that includes the author of "Inferno". andante....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1061, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: This Is I Country 1: An island, it's the world's northernmost "I" country. Iceland. 2: They're the only 2 "I" countries to border each other. Iran and Iraq. 3: One of this country's driest regions is the Negev Desert, with an annual rainfall of usually less than 10 inches. Israel. 4...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1060, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Quick Study 1: Etymology is the study of the origin of these--it's time to use yours. words. 2: It's the study of crime and punishment and the management of prisons. penology. 3: It's the study of the glands and hormones. endocrinology. 4: If you know that vexillology is the study o...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1059, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Eels 1: There are more than 800 species of eels, including this large nocturnal hunter. the moray. 2: These charged-up creatures are technically not eels at all, but knifefish. electric eels. 3: This term is used for a young eel, especially when on migration upriver from the ocean....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1058, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: '60s Muscle Cars 1: Ronny and the Daytonas wanted to "turn it on, wind it up" and "blow it out". GTO. 2: This Plymouth named for a sharp-toothed fish really had some bite. Barracuda. 3: This Chevy was still going strong into the '90s with a Z-28 model. Camaro. 4: This Pontiac muscle...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1057, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Astronomical Rhyme Time 1: Any song about Earth's natural satellite. a Moon tune. 2: Red planet pubs. Mars bars. 3: Space telescope problem. Hubble trouble. 4: Comet discoverer Edmond's narrow lanes. Halley's alleys. 5: One who determines the age of meteorite impact holes. a crater...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1056, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Food Chain 1: Black bears sometimes prey on the young of this big deer, Alces alces. a moose. 2: The $6 Footlong Sub of the Day. Subway. 3: This green stuff that encompasses diatoms and seaweed is the base of the food chain for almost all aquatic life. algae. 4: This convenience...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1055, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: God 1: This prophet tried to flee God's presence by shipping out to Tarshish -- didn't work. Jonah. 2: In this speech Jesus said that God "knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him". the Sermon on the Mount. 3: "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man so...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1054, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Abolitionism 1: Between 1830 and 1860, this system transported many runaway slaves to southern Ontario. the Underground Railroad. 2: Before the Harpers Ferry attack, he and his men killed 5 proslavers in Pottawatomie, Kansas. John Brown. 3: This 1787 ordinance included a fugitive sl...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1053, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Travel Europe 1: Stops on this city's Metro Line B include Termini Station, Tiburtina Station and the Colosseum. Rome. 2: The Friseurmuseum, a hairdressing museum in this German capital, has a lock of Bismarck's hair. Berlin. 3: "Wax" nostalgic (or is that nostalgique?) at Musee Gre...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1052, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Canadian Geography 1: Slowly I turned towards this over 160-foot cataract found on the U.S.-Canadian border. Niagara Falls. 2: The Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s took place in this territory that borders Alaska. the Yukon. 3: Made a British crown colony in 1849, this island al...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1051, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 5-Letter Countries 1: It stretches southward to Cape Horn. Chile. 2: Gaining independence in 1804, it was the second country in the Americas to free itself from colonial rule. Haiti. 3: In the 19th century, this Mideast nation fell under the control of the Al Thani Dynasty, which st...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1050, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Starts And Ends With The Same Letter 1: A Utah senator or boat's passageway. Hatch. 2: A cutting remark or a sharp point, perhaps on a fishhook. a barb. 3: A generally nonmalignant growth on the surface of a mucous membrane. a polyp. 4: It's the noble gas on the periodic table that...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1049, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: B Prepared. With B in quotes 1: A non-rigid flexible dirigible. blimp. 2: This type of piano is about 5 feet long. Baby grand. 3: This contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis can be spread by fleas from infected rats. bubonic plague. 4: "I'll Go Home With Bonnie J...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1048, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Company Line 1: In 1963, live on "The Art Linkletter Show", this company served its billionth burger. McDonald's. 2: This housewares store was named for the packaging its merchandise came in and was first displayed on. Crate and Barrel. 3: This company's Accutron watch, introduc...