Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 399, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Your Days Are Numbered 1: Dies Martis is the Latin name for this day of the week. Tuesday. 2: Number of months with only 30 days. four. 3: Years that read the same upside down and right side up include 1881, 6009 and this year of the 1960s. 1961. 4: Title of the 1965 Beatles No. 1 hi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 398, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Iraq 1: It's the country Iraqi nationalists call Iraq's 19th province. Kuwait. 2: Iraq's old name, Mesopotamia, was derived from its location between these 2 rivers. the Tigris and Euphrates. 3: Roughly 75 percent of Iraq's people are Arabs and 20 percent are of this ethnic group. Ku...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 397, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Printing 1: A halftone print is really an optical illusion; it's actually lots and lots of these that seem to form an image. dots. 2: XBLD, short for this, designates a very heavy typeface. extra bold. 3: The group of songs a singer performs, or a set of available characters in a fon...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 396, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Cradles 1: These 2 rivers were the cradle of civilization in Mesopotamia. Tigris and Euphrates. 2: Incorporated in 1819, this current state capital was once the cradle of the Confederacy. Montgomery, Alabama. 3: In mythology this baby strangled 2 serpents placed in his cradle. Hercul...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 395, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Also A Weather Term 1: To welcome, or to order a cab. hail. 2: Usual noun for what appears on a TV with bad reception. snow. 3: Trumpets, trombones and flutes are grouped as this type of instrument. winds. 4: If you're "on" one, you're in high spirits; if you're "under" one, you're i...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 394, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Presidential Quotations 1: In 1865 he said, "Whenever I hear someone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally". Lincoln. 2: In a 1976 Playboy interview, he said, "I've committed adultery in my heart many times". Jimmy Carter. 3: On April 12, 1945...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 393, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Andrew Johnson 1: Andrew Johnson succeeded this man as president, having served as his vice president for only 6 weeks. Abraham Lincoln. 2: Johnson was the first president to whom the House of Representatives did this; the Senate acquitted him in May 1868. impeached. 3: With no forma...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 392, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Read American 1: "O'Hara's Choice" is the final novel by this author who made his own exodus from this world in 2003. Leon Uris. 2: In 2003 he said he had completed the last 3 volumes of his "Dark Tower" series and had revised the first volume. Stephen King. 3: A werebeaver turns up...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 391, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Lose A Turn 1: In 1991, after 8 years as the AKC's top dog, the cocker spaniel lost the No. 1 ranking to this dog called a lab. a Labrador retriever. 2: Chillicothe was this state's capital twice, losing out to Zanesville once and finally to Columbus. Ohio. 3: Only twice between 1949...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 390, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: You Bot It 1: In 1961 the world's first production-line robot was used by this U.S. automaker. General Motors. 2: Started in 1997 to develop robotics and A.I., the Robocup features robots playing this competitive sport. soccer. 3: The humanoid robot Asimo performs some John Travolta...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 389, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Geographic Saints 1: After its 1980 eruption, this volcano in the American Northwest lost over 1,200 feet in height. Mount St. Helens. 2: This city's metro area includes Universal City, Castle Hills and Alamo Heights. San Antonio. 3: Exceeded only by the Mackenzie, it's Canada's seco...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 388, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tv Is So Dramatic 1: Meredith had a near-death experience and Izzie decided to practice medicine again on this show. Grey's Anatomy . 2: Gabrielle and Susan have multiple man problems on this show. Desperate Housewives . 3: On this show an Internet stripper has unnatural abilities th...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 387, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: What's On The Tube? 1: Keith Carradine's role as Wild Bill Hickok on this series ended when Jack McCall killed Hickok. Deadwood . 2: This veteran Pulitzer-winning film critic trades reviews with Richard Roeper. (Roger) Ebert. 3: In one episode of this comedienne's Bravo Channel show...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 386, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: All The Rave 1: You can camp overnight at the Global Gathering Weekend Rave near Stratford-upon-Avon in this country. England. 2: This Black Rock Desert event hasn't had an official rave since 1996, but nuzzle a speaker and feel the fire's glow. Burning Man. 3: In 1999 the Love Parad...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 385, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 1970s Album Covers 1: 1977:John Travolta strikes a pose and points his finger to the sky. Saturday Night Fever . 2: 1978:Mick, Keith and the boys smile and smirk in wig catalog ads. Some Girls . 3: 1973:Against a black background, a prism bends a beam of light into a colorful spectru...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 384, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: English Lit 1: During his "Travels" , he visited the flying island of Laputa. Gulliver. 2: This Bronte sister died 1 year after the publication of her second novel, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Anne Bronte. 3: She introduced Mr. and Mrs. Dalloway in her first novel, "The Voyage Out...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 383, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Sinonyms 1: "Sow" these and you may be sinning or just planting. Wild oats. 2: A bad habit that can have a grip on you, the police have a squad to fight it. Vice. 3: From a word meaning "uneven", you may find "a den of" one. iniquity. 4: If you're doing this you're sinning; if you "A...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 382, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Hit Songs 1: "Smoke on the Water" was a 1973 hit for this British band. Deep Purple. 2: In 1987 jazz vocalist Al Jarreau had a pop hit with the theme from this Cybill Shepherd-Bruce Willis series. Moonlighting . 3: This song by Christina Aguilera says, "You are" this, "no matter what...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 381, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Snow Business Like Show Business 1: A newsman's stuck in a snowy Penn. town in this 1993 film. A newsman's stuck in a snowy Penn. town in this 1993 film. Groundhog Day . 2: Heeeeere's Johnny! Jack Nicholson has crazy fun in a snow maze in this 1980 thriller. The Shining . 3: A man ru...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 380, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Sweet "Virginia" 1: James Drury played the mysterious title character in this '60s drama, the first 90-minute western on TV. The Virginian . 2: In June 1996 the U.S. Supreme Court ordered this college to admit women and they did. Virginia Military Institute (VMI). 3: This noisy, soul...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 379, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Purple Haze 1: In 1893 Katharine Lee Bates wrote of "purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain" in this song. "America The Beautiful". 2: The current Purple Heart medal has a portrait of this man on it. George Washington. 3: This alliterative phrase refers to overly florid wr...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 378, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Seashore Life 1: An edible type of this seaweed seen at low tide grows up to 10 feet long on the Atlantic coast. Kelp. 2: Blubber and the tufts at the base of their densely packed feathers keep them warm while diving. Penguins. 3: The American species of this crustacean has a 6-segme...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 377, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Hugh Done It 1: Marilyn Monroe graced his first centerfold back in 1953. Hugh Hefner. 2: This actor has played the befuddled Bertie Wooster and the curmudgeonly Dr. House. Hugh Laurie. 3: He's starred in "Mickey Blue Eyes" as well as "Lair of the White Worm". Hugh Grant. 4: In Septem...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 376, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tossin' And Turnin' 1: From the French for "to roast", it's a spit used to turn meat over a source of heat. rotisserie. 2: This tradition began because the bride fled crowds trying to take something from her for good luck. tossing the bouquet. 3: This portal has become a metaphor for...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 375, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: A Royal Pain 1: In 711 a large Muslim army crossed this strait and defeated Roderick, the last Visigoth king of Spain. Strait of Gibraltar. 2: It's the royal title held by Heliogabalus, assassinated in his bathroom by his own Praetorian Guard. Emperor. 3: In 1789 pesky revolutionarie...