Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1079, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Elemental Latin 1: Aurum. gold. 2: Ferrum. iron. 3: Plumbum. lead. 4: Argentum. silver. 5: Kalium. potassium. Round 2. Category: The Real Adams Family 1: Let's drink a beer to the memory of this man who died in Boston Oct. 2, 1803, aged 81. Sam Adams. 2: In 1900 Brooks Adams predict...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1078, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tom, Dick Or Harry 1: Slang for a private detective. a dick. 2: To raid or ravage. to harry. 3: "Long" swiveling navy cannon. a tom. 4: A deep-sided drum. a tom (tom-tom accepted). 5: A British "spotted" pudding. spotted dick. Round 2. Category: Finn Fun 1: Yeow! The heat in this tr...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1077, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: French Off The Boat 1: In 1920 a ship brought this 10-year-old future ocean explorer and family from France to NYC for a 2-year stay. Jacques Cousteau. 2: By 1809 this man and his brother Pierre had arrived in New Orleans and set up a blacksmith shop; piracy paid better, so.... (Jea...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1076, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Chicago Tv 1: Stacy Edwards as Lisa Catera is a doctor with commercial appeal on this series. Chicago Hope. 2: He played Chicago-based psychologist Bob Hartley. Bob Newhart. 3: Of surgeon, chef or hit man, it's the profession of Carmy, who returns to his home city to ply his trade i...

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 1074, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Er Talk 1: If a patient has suffered cardiac arrest, this color "code" should be called. blue. 2: This 4-letter term means ASAP! Immediately!. stat. 3: Give the patient 250 c.c.s of normal saline, c.c. standing for this. cubic centimeter. 4: You'll need follow-up rehab with a P.T.,...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1073, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: So It Must Be Tru. With Tru in quotation marks 1: From the German for "whirlpool" comes this treat that's rolled and baked. strudel. 2: I don't mean to do this, thrust myself without permission or welcome... actually, I do, I totally mean to do this. intrude. 3: Absent from school w...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1072, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tv Shows Based On Books By Women 1: This show and its prequel "The Carrie Diaries" were based on books by Candace Bushnell. Sex and the City. 2: Kathy Reichs drew upon her own work as a forensic anthropologist to pen the Temperance Brennan books that became this show. Bones. 3: In t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1071, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: African Islands 1: Uganda's Sese Islands lie in the northern part of this large lake. Lake Victoria. 2: Parts of this capital city lie on the islands of Gezira and Roda in the Nile River. Cairo. 3: Now a part of Tanzania, this island known for its cloves was mentioned in "The Patty...

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...