Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1111, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Ask The Nearest Hippie 1: Have you and your teenagers Mao and Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents and kids?. the generation gap. 2: I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway?. t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1103, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Shakespeare'S Endings 1: "With the help of your good hands, gentle breath of yours my sails must fill, or else my project fails". The Tempest. 2: "Gratiano, keep the house, and seize upon the fortunes of the Moor, for they succeed on you". Othello. 3: "We will unite the white rose a...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1102, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Around The Vatican 1: The Vatican bank is unique in allowing ATM transactions to be conducted in this language. Latin. 2: This room with a ceiling fresco is where the Cardinals vote for a new pope. the Sistine Chapel. 3: The Vatican one of these was established by Pope Nicholas V, "...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1101, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: An Imp Of A Rhyme 1: To spend time making adjustments to one's appearance. primp. 2: "Snoopy One" was one for Metlife. blimp. 3: 6-letter word meaning to economize. scrimp. 4: Crangon crangon is the scientific name for the common European one. shrimp. 5: To connect 2 wires by squeez...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1100, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Home, Sweet Home 1: From 1903 to 1957, Beauvoir, his former home in Biloxi, was a home for Confederate veterans and their widows. Jefferson Davis. 2: Ralph Waldo Emerson owned a Concord home nicknamed this; Hawthorne rented it and wrote some "Mosses from" it. the Old Manse. 3: The s...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1099, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Waits And Measures 1: This name for a type of ounce used to measure gold comes from a city in medieval France, not ancient Turkey. the troy ounce. 2: One U.S. beer barrel contains 31 of these units; that's nearly 4,000 delicious ounces. gallons. 3: Glidden says it takes about an hou...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1098, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Heavy Metal Heroes 1: He bedeviled us as the lead singer of Black Sabbath before his reality TV fame. (Ozzy) Osbourne. 2: With his work on songs like "Hot For Teacher", some rank him as the greatest heavy metal guitarist. Eddie Van Halen. 3: 1980s heavy metal included this band that...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1097, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Nebraska, New York Or North Dakota 1: The least populous. North Dakota. 2: Its name does not have a Native American origin. New York. 3: The Oregon Trail crossed it. Nebraska. 4: The largest in area. Nebraska. 5: Its cities include Minot, Jamestown and Grand Forks. North Dakota. Rou...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1096, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Things To Do On A Rainy Day 1: Learn a new one of these from Duolingo. (foreign) languages. 2: Put together one of these; the 4,000-piece world map should take you a while. a jigsaw puzzle. 3: Assume the warrior pose, mountain pose or seated twist while practicing this. yoga. 4: Dre...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1095, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Beastly Literary Characters 1: The title character of this 19th c. tale had "a pretty white star on my forehead. I was thought very handsome". Black Beauty. 2: In the original Pinocchio story, the guy given this name in the movie is just called the talking cricket. Jiminy Cricket. 3...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1094, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: You Just Made That Stuff Up 1: It's the very hard-to-get substance that causes humans to set up shop on Pandora. unobtanium. 2: Fraudulin was the miracle ingredient in Crelm toothpaste in a 1970 episode by this comedy troupe. Monty Python. 3: Kyber crystals, which are attuned to the...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1093, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Be My Pal. With Pal in quotation marks 1: Under a League of Nations mandate, the British oversaw the affairs of this region from 1920 to 1948. Palestine. 2: It can mean the roof of the mouth, or more generally the sense of taste. Palate. 3: A board on which a painter mixes colors, o...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1092, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Quite Contrary 1: Lawyers grudgingly call this "witness" who isn't violent, just unfriendly to the case. hostile. 2: As a verb, this car part is the opposite of invigorate. Tire. 3: For a knife, it's the opposite of sharp; for a life, it's the opposite of exciting. Dull. 4: Being th...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1091, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Geographic Abbrev. 1: It's the SF in the airport code SFO. San Francisco. 2: AS:This U.S. Pacific territory. American Samoa. 3: SL:This West African nation. Sierra Leone. 4: MB:This Canadian province. Manitoba. 5: BH:This nation, a former Yugoslav republic. Bosnia and Herzegovina. R...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1090, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Roman Architecture Terms 1: From the Latin for "to hear", it was a building where orators, poets and critics would speak. an auditorium. 2: Consisting of a final cold pool, a frigidarium was the third and last chamber of one of these public buildings. a bath. 3: In a Roman villa, a...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1089, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: O, How Entertaining. With O in quotation marks 1: Called the "most influential work in the American musical theatre", it opens with "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin"'. Oklahoma!. 2: In 2011 Elizabeth, kid sister in this celebrated family, gave a breakout performance in "Martha Marcy May...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1088, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Flying... 1: The flying wedge was first used in this sport by Harvard in 1892 but became illegal due to players being brutalized. football. 2: We're not sure if this Bullwinkle pal is biologically a flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) or a regular gray squirrel who can fly. Roc...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1087, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Wise Guys 1: Leibniz was a noted philosopher of optimism; Schopenhauer, of this opposite view. pessimism. 2: Reb, the Yiddish for Mr., comes from this Hebrew word for "my master". rabbi. 3: This ancient Chinese thinker said, "The superior man does not, even for... a single meal, act...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1086, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Revolutionary War Before And After 1: American general who became a traitor and a great golfer, winning the Masters 4 times beginning in 1958. Benedict Arnold Palmer. 2: "Drag Race" host who had a dramatic horseback ride on the night of April 18, 1775. RuPaul Revere. 3: Formal agree...

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 1084, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Don'T Be Afraid Of The Dark 1: Umbra is the Latin word for this dark area that can follow you around. shadow. 2: Crepuscule is another word for this 8-letter moment just before darkness falls. twilight. 3: In the first line of Poe's "The Raven", this dark adjective describes midnigh...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1083, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Greek Letter Homophones 1: One way to propel a boat. row. 2: Feline vocalization. mew. 3: More advanced, or recently created. new. 4: A trademark brand of format for VCR tape. Beta. 5: Lao-Tzu's ultimate principle of the universe. Tao. Round 2. Category: Pup Fiction 1: Dodie Smith w...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1082, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: French First Names 1: Magritte andDescartes. René. 2: Monet andDebussy. Claude. 3: Cocteau andLafitte. Jean. 4: Cardin andBoulle. Pierre. 5: Escoffier andRodin. Auguste. Round 2. Category: The Golden Age Of Radio 1: All-American boy Jack Armstrong never tired of this "Breakfast of C...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1081, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Nyc 1: Trendy adjective applied to people who have homes in both NYC and L.A.. bicoastal. 2: Before she ran for VP, Geraldine Ferraro was a Congresswoman from this NYC borough. Queens. 3: Daily and Sunday, it has the largest circulation of any NYC newspaper. the Daily News. 4: The C...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1080, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Patrons Of The Arts 1: 7 National Medals of Arts have gone to corporate patrons of the arts, like Exxon, Sara Lee and this card company. Hallmark. 2: In 1603 Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, switched to royal patronage and to this name. the King's Men. 3: Gustave C...