Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 905, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: homework 1: For starters you can read the first entry, dated June 14, 1942, in this girl's diary. Anne Frank. 2: Continue working on your math problems and give us this square root of 121. 11. 3: For science, classify rocks according to their 3 main types: metamorphic, sedimentary an...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 904, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: royal female nicknames 1: Prime Minister Tony Blair dubbed her "The People's Princess". Princess Diana. 2: She was "The Untamed Heifer" and "The Virgin Queen". Elizabeth I. 3: Mark Antony called her "The Queen of Queens". Cleopatra. 4: The 19th century's "Widow of Windsor". Queen Vic...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 903, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: one word off 1: Oh, to be in Yonkers,/now that April's there. Yonkers (for England). 2: Had we but world enough, and time,/This coyness, baby, were no crime. baby (for lady). 3: An earnest man's the noblest work of God. earnest (for honest). 4: I should have been a pair of ragged jaw...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 902, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: see you in court 1: Deaths in its Pinto made it the first U.S. corporation to face criminal charges over product design. Ford. 2: The government sued Frank Snepp over his 1977 book based on his years with this agency. CIA. 3: Perhaps because no one could figure out what he'd been try...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 901, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: music of the '60s 1: In 1969 "Something" became the only No. 1 hit he composed for The Beatles. George Harrison. 2: In 1969 B.J. Thomas had the biggest hit of his career with this song from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head". 3: In this 1965 hit...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 900, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: monday night football 1: He started as a play-by-play man in 1971 and became an analyst in 1986. Frank Gifford. 2: This Dallas quarterback was quite "Dandy". Don Meredith. 3: The current play-by-play commentator, he's remembered for calling the Olympic hockey games in the '80s. Al Mi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 899, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: pope-pourri 1: Gerbert picked this name, not Tweety, when he became pope in 999. Sylvester. 2: In Manila on Jan. 15, 1995 the Pope honored World Youth Day by celebrating this with over 4 million people. a mass. 3: Around 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to decorate this...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 898, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: men behaving badly 1: In an 1804 duel Aaron Burr shot this man who had insulted him. Hamilton. 2: During a U.N. Assembly session in 1960 this Soviet premier banged his shoe on a desk. Khrushchev. 3: This public enemy No. 1 bragged that he had escaped from jail using a fake gun carved...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 897, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: european cities 1: This capital lies 5 miles from the Bay of Phaleron, an arm of the Aegean Sea. Athens. 2: This city is central to works by James Joyce; after all, he was born there. Dublin. 3: The World Health Organization is headquartered in this Swiss city. Geneva. 4: In Krakow,...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 896, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: villages 1: Washington Square Park is the hub of this area of New York City. Greenwich Village. 2: A famous hard cheese is named for this Somerset, England village in which it was first developed. Cheddar. 3: Jacques Cartier gave this name to the hill behind the village of Hochelaga....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 895, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: the 4th 1: The 4th Gospel of the New Testament. John. 2: The 4th dimension according to the theory of relativity. time. 3: The 4th letter of the Greek alphabet. delta. 4: The 4th oldest college in the United States, it's found in New Jersey. Princeton. 5: The 4th most populous countr...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 894, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: singers and their roles 1: When Sonny gets blue, he can think of "Good Times", the film in which he and this partner played themselves. Cher. 2: She earned an Oscar nomination for starring in "The Rose" and an Emmy nomination for playing Mama Rose in "Gypsy". Bette Midler. 3: Reba Mc...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 891, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: kiss your lass goodbye 1: In a 1965 epic this Omar Sharif character keeps getting separated from his beloved Lara. Dr. Zhivago. 2: In "Casablanca" this Bogart character reminds Ilsa as they part, "We'll always have Paris". Rick Blaine. 3: This actor keeps parting and getting back tog...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 871, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: rhythm and booze 1: His beach bum anthem "Margaritaville" made its Top 40 debut in 1977. Jimmy Buffett. 2: This 1958 hit by The Champs with a liquor as its title has been covered by numerous artists. "Tequila". 3: "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" is a classic s...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 889, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: death sentences 1: It was in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy that he wrote nothing is "Certain except death and taxes". Benjamin Franklin. 2: Filmmaker who said, "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens". Woody Allen. 3: In a June 1897 issue of...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 888, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: countries by college 1: The University of Sunderland,the University of Sheffield,Oxford University. England. 2: The Emile Cohl School,the University of Toulouse,the University of Provence. France. 3: Chiba University,Waseda University,Fukuoka Junior College. Japan. 4: Menoufia Univer...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 871, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: rhythm and booze 1: His beach bum anthem "Margaritaville" made its Top 40 debut in 1977. Jimmy Buffett. 2: This 1958 hit by The Champs with a liquor as its title has been covered by numerous artists. "Tequila". 3: "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" is a classic s...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 886, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: a few good men 1: This general announced the end of the Revolutionary War and disbanded the army in Newburgh, New York. George Washington. 2: The 1973 Nobel Peace Prize went to Le Duc Tho who declined it and this Secretary of State who accepted. Henry Kissinger. 3: In 1987 this outfi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 885, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: what's cooking, cowboy? 1: After a good feed, it's time to settle down with a cup of arbuckle, or this. coffee. 2: If you know what kind of wagon it was served in, you'll know this old west word for food, chow, grub. a chuckwagon. 3: From genus prosopis, this western wood that starte...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 884, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: balls 1: Perhaps, in the future, you'll see one of these divinatory aids. a crystal ball. 2: Francis Johnson of Darwin, Minn. holds the Guinness record for making a ball out of this. string. 3: Keene, New Hampshire is known for manufacturing miniature and precision ones. Ball bearing...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 883, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: the cold war 1: In the 1970s Linus Pauling advocated huge doses of this to battle the common cold. vitamin C. 2: By the end of the Cold War the population of this "sleeping giant" was over 1 billion. China. 3: The Red Scare of the 1950s destroyed many careers, including that of this...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 882, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: clubs 1: It's the correct term for a member of a Rotary Club. Rotarian. 2: The Literary Club was founded in the 1760s by Sir Joshua Reynolds and this subject of a Boswell biography. (Samuel) Johnson. 3: This service organization sponsors Circle K International, a club for college stu...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 881, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: texas 1: About 60% of Texas' foreign-born residents are from this country. Mexico. 2: In 1901 this was discovered at Spindletop. oil. 3: Big Bend National Park lies within the big bend of this river. the Rio Grande. 4: This city's Chronicle is the state's largest daily newspaper. Hou...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 880, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: sitcoms change 1: On this sitcom in 1998, Tim Taylor's son Randy ran off to work in a Costa Rican rainforest. Home Improvement . 2: On her self-titled sitcom, she worked at a plastics factory and a beauty salon before opening her own diner. Roseanne . 3: On "The Cosby Show", daughter...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 879, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "house"s 1: Abbreviated HUAC, it investigated communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government. House Un-American Activities Commission. 2: New York madam Polly Adler titled her memoirs this. A House is Not a Home . 3: The Animals made this traditional New Orleans folk song...