Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 855, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 3-letter abbreviations 1: Your car's tachometer measures them. RPM (revolutions per minute). 2: If you're half an hour away at 2:47, your this is 3:17. ETA (estimated time of arrival). 3: This group had a Top 10 hit when it joined Olivia Newton-John for "Xanadu". ELO (Electric Light...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 854, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: chicken 〠la king shopping list 1: You may want chicken described with these 2 words, meaning the bird lived relatively unconfined. free range. 2: This fortified wine you'll cook with is in a separate section from other Spanish wines. sherry. 3: Weighty name for a standard ingredi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 853, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: let's mess with texas 1: Educated at Phillips Academy, Yale and Harvard, this part-time Crawford resident was born in Connecticut in 1946. George W. Bush. 2: Since 1935 this agency that originated in the 1820s has operated as a branch of the Texas Dept. of Public Safety. the Texas Ra...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 852, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: talk show hosts 1: TV Guide said, with an estimated worth of at least $250 million, she may be the richest woman on TV. Oprah Winfrey. 2: He recorded the album "Large and in Charge" as Chunky A, a 300-pound rapper. Arsenio Hall. 3: In 1989 this "Can we talk" comedienne took another s...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 851, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: also a bar drink 1: Flathead or Phillips head. a screwdriver. 2: With so much brainpower on stage today, this "Living Dead" movie monster wouldn't know where to start. a zombie. 3: It was last call for this Scottish outlaw on Dec. 28, 1734. Rob Roy. 4: Take a flying leap and name thi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 850, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: -ologies 1: Biology is generally divided into 2 branches: botany and this study of animals. Zoology. 2: A high school requirement for many, it's the scientific study of life. biology. 3: Buzz in if you know that apiology is the study of these. bees. 4: Although it sounds like it deal...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 849, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: what's my line? 1: Mickey D's doesn't have a maitre d', which is short for this. maitre d'hotel . 2: In the Who song "My Generation", this line follows and rhymes with "Things they do look awful cold". "Hope I die before I get old". 3: Longfellow called this Italian city a "white pha...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 848, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "hang" time 1: It's a place to park your airplane. a hangar. 2: "Hair of the dog" is taken as a remedy for this. a hangover. 3: It's the type of look worn by a browbeaten or defeated person. hang dog. 4: To be completely candid in expressing one's feelings, or to live without inhibit...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 847, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "ling"o 1: A sister or brother. a sibling. 2: If you can "spare" the time, try this, the USA's biggest participatory sport. bowling. 3: It can be a small savory lump of dough served in soup, or a baked treat filled with apples. a dumpling. 4: I've got a feeling you'll know it's a vag...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 846, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: '60s british rock 1: Herman's Hermits hit #1 telling Mrs. Brown she had a lovely one. a daughter. 2: Other category on this board which could be a group in this one. ANIMALS. 3: Group whose song titles included "Do The Freddie" and album titles, "Frantic Freddie". Freddie and the Dre...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 845, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: the bee 1: Bees gather this flower secretion to make honey. Nectar. 2: Bees are found on every continent but this one. Antarctica. 3: Young bees are fed beebread, made from honey and this plant product. Pollen. 4: On their heads bees have 5 of these -- 2 compound and 3 simple. Eyes....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 844, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: ecology 1: CFCs, believed to damage the ozone layer, are commonly used in this kitchen appliance. Refrigerator. 2: Of insectivores, herbivores or carnivores, the group whose food source is most likely to live to be fed on again. herbivores. 3: The Environmental Defense Fund has propo...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 843, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: from here to maternity 1: This French doctor called his childbirth preparation method psychoprophylaxis: mental prevention. Fernand Lamaze. 2: Doctors can assess an unborn baby's health by testing this fluid that surrounds the fetus. amniotic fluid. 3: Usually 16 to 24 inches long, t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 842, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: i was a teenage... 1: In 1979 at the age of 18, this "Great One" began playing in the NHL. Wayne Gretzky. 2: As a teenager and president-yet-to-be this man met JFK in 1963. Bill Clinton. 3: In his late teens, this "Top Gun" star played a loony military cadet in "Taps". Tom Cruise. 4:...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 841, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: club me 1: To join England's venerable Carlton Club, Margaret Thatcher had to be made an honorary one of these. a man. 2: For many years, Henny Youngman received much of his fan mail at this comedy "club" found on NYC's East 55th Street. the Friar's Club. 3: It's the "happy" name for...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 840, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: i shot the sharif 1: David Lean gave Omar Sharif a big-screen break when he shot this epic starring Peter O'Toole. Lawrence of Arabia . 2: Omar made a Russian house call in this classic shot by David Lean. Doctor Zhivago . 3: Director Richard Fleischer shot Omar getting shot as "Che!...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 839, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: blue jeans 1: His first "jeans" made in 1853, were neither blue nor denim, but brown and canvas. Levi Strauss. 2: On the back of his 1984 album cover, he's wearing blue jeans with a red baseball cap in the right rear pocket. Bruce Springsteen. 3: A huge billboard in Italy parodied th...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 838, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: all business 1: Since going public in 2000, this Winston-Salem-based doughnut chain has made a lot of dough for investors. Krispy Kreme. 2: We predict you'll know that this computer software company has the stock symbol ORCL. Oracle. 3: It's true! This leader in wireless and local ph...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 837, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: virginia woolf 1: Woolf was active in this cause which she wrote "roused in man an extraordinary desire for self-assertion". women's suffrage. 2: This gathering of artsy types that flourished between 1907 and 1930 sometimes met at Virginia's house. the Bloomsbury Group. 3: A 1931 nov...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 836, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: don knotts 1: Don won 5 Emmys in the '60s for playing this jittery comic sidekick. Barney Fife. 2: Jack and Chrissy could tell you Don slayed 'em as new landlord Ralph Furley on this sitcom. Three's Company . 3: Don played a magical TV repairman in this 1998 fantasy in black and whit...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 835, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: sporting words 1: In golf, it denotes a tournament which can be entered by both amateur and professional players. open. 2: For a football team, it's being sent back 5 yards, for a hockey player, being put in a box. penalty. 3: A 40-40 tie in tennis. deuce. 4: Unless he's up 1st in an...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 834, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: blank of blank 1: Insurers may not compensate you for damages from these, like hurricanes or floods. Acts of God. 2: At your bank a CD isn't a compact disc, it's this. Certificate of deposit. 3: It was the "Holy Grail" for Ponce De Leon. Fountain of Youth. 4: A severe test, it's also...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 832, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: beasts 1: Battling stags can get in big trouble when these become hopelessly interlocked. Antlers. 2: The over 900 species of these mammals range from bumblebee size to others with a 5-foot wingspan. Bats. 3: This turtle named for its method of biting is more aggressive on land than...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 832, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: beasts 1: Battling stags can get in big trouble when these become hopelessly interlocked. Antlers. 2: The over 900 species of these mammals range from bumblebee size to others with a 5-foot wingspan. Bats. 3: This turtle named for its method of biting is more aggressive on land than...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 831, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: kangaroo words 1: It's just 1 letter shorter than rotund. round. 2: Precipitation is often just a fancy word for this. rain. 3: Within instructor you'll find this private instructor. tutor. 4: Cut Brobdingnagian down to size with this little 3-letter synonym. big. 5: If you salvage s...