Instant Trivia

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...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1215, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Shirley Booth 1: Before the closing of the theaters in 1642, James Shirley wrote about 30 plays during the reign of this king. Charles I. 2: "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is a Gothic novel by this author also known for her short stories. Shirley Jackson. 3: This Welsh sin...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1214, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Passion 1: Devotion to a cause, or in another way, "To Phil and Judie: I could not have written the clue without you". a dedication. 2: Mais oui and toujours, it's French for "love", mon.... amour. 3: We are obsessed, perhaps even crazed, about this suffix, from the Greek for "exces...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1213, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: It Happened In The 20Th Century 1: On May 18, 1954 The New York Times headlined, "High Court Bans School" this divisive practice. segregation. 2: In 1981 Ananda Chakrabarty received a patent for a life form made of just 1 this. a cell. 3: In May 1940 he became prime minister and beg...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1212, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Allusions Of Grandeur 1: An ancient city on the Euphrates River known for its magnificence, today it can also mean a place of vice and corruption. Babylon. 2: You're living in grand style if you have the "white" type of this strong-smelling underground fungus on your table. truffle....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1211, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Movie Menagerie 1: Bogie's 1941 "bird". The Maltese Falcon. 2: One of the top five films of 1986 was this little wonder from Down Under. Crocodile Dundee. 3: 2 of the 3 Marx brothers movies with a specific animal in the title. (2 of) Duck Soup, Horse Feathers and Monkey Business. 4:...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1210, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Shared Last Names 1: Governor Howard and pitcher Dizzy. Dean. 2: Musician Miles and actress MacKenzie. Davis. 3: Actresses Lana and Kathleen. Turner. 4: Singer James and chef Alton. Brown. 5: Actress Esther and pianist Roger. Williams. Round 2. Category: Disguise 1: Participants in...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1209, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Ancient Egypt 1: Paradise in the Egyptian afterlife was in this god's "field of reeds". Osiris. 2: In 332 B.C. he took possession of Egypt without a struggle. Alexander (the Great). 3: In 212 A.D., with few exceptions, the entire population was granted citizenship in this. the Roman...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1208, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Cello 1: This cellist founded a music collective called the Silkroad Ensemble, with whom he plays cello. Yo-Yo Ma. 2: When you think of a cello solo, you're probably thinking of this Baroque composer's cello prelude from around 1720. Bach. 3: The uncrowned king of the cello, David P...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1207, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 1990--25 Years Ago 1: This city, capital of the same-named country, was overrun by Iraqi forces. Kuwait. 2: After 11 years in the job, this U.K. prime minister resigned. (Margaret) Thatcher. 3: For the first time Pavarotti, Carreras and Domingo performed together as this supergroup....