Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 681, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Official State Mottoes 1: Michigan's motto mentions this type of land area. a peninsula. 2: This 6-word phrase about sticking together is Kentucky's state motto. "United we stand, divided we fall". 3: Sic semper tyrannis, "Thus always to tyrants", is the motto of this state. Virginia...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 680, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Fire" 1: The oldest portable one, invented about 1837, used soda-acid. fire extinguisher. 2: It's as old as the code of Hammurabi, which didn't mention what the rates were. fire insurance. 3: Term for a meteor brighter than Venus in the morning or evening sky. a fireball. 4: A Briti...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 679, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Professors 1: In 2010 the U. of Idaho celebrated the 100th birthday of chemist Malcolm Renfrew, holder of this type of professorship. emeritus. 2: Professor Asaph Hall, who discovered Deimos and Phobos, taught math and this at Harvard. astronomy. 3: This "Do the Right Thing" filmmake...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 678, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 678, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: For The Sole 1: The name of these soft leather loafers comes from an Algonquin word for "shoes". moccasins. 2: The Kyrie 2 and the Kobe XI are basketball shoes from this company. Nike. 3:...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 677, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 19Th Century Literature 1: Essays making up this 1854 work include "Reading", "Solitude" and "The Pond in Winter". Walden; or, Life in the Woods . 2: Akela the wolf and Baloo the brown bear are 2 of the animals featured in this collection of stories. The Jungle Book . 3: Early in thi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 676, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Blank Um 1: It's the course of study at a college. curriculum. 2: To feign sleep or death is "to play" this marsupial. possum. 3: This ancient Roman amphitheater was built on the grounds of Nero's Golden House. the Colosseum. 4: It's this state of balance when a chemical reaction and...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 675, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 2 Kinds Of "Esque" 1: A variety of bawdy stage show, or reminding one of Mr. Ives. burlesque. 2: Pertaining to an Italian Renaissance painter, or in a very different mood, to TV's Sally Jessy. Raphaelesque. 3: "Goddess" term meaning stately, or something a lot like that Ellen Page fi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 674, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Et"Ymology 1: Mind your manners and tell us this word from French for "prescribed behavior". etiquette. 2: There's no beginning or end of this adjective from Latin for "age". eternal. 3: This type of engraving using a corrosive on a surface is from old German for "to be eaten". etch...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 673, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Prefixes 1: This thoroughly modern prefix means "one thousandth". milli-. 2: Meaning "between", it comes before "section" and "galactic". inter-. 3: A prefix meaning "after" is found in this word meaning an after-death examination. postmortem. 4: "Pharyngo" and "laryngo" both refer t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 672, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Celebrity Ailments 1: In the 1960s Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with a disease named for this famous athlete. Lou Gehrig. 2: (I'm Jerome Bettis of the NFL.) As a sufferer from this condition, I've testified on Capitol Hill about the need to keep inhalers on the market. asthma. 3: He...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 671, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fishing For Vocabulary 1: It might be a social blunder to use one of these long poles with a hook on the end to land a large fish. a gaff. 2: Tell the theater troupe it's a single toss of a fisherman's line and bait. a cast. 3: You might be enticed by this general name for any artifi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 670, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Myth And Magic 1: Unlike in the U.S., if one of these crosses your path in England, it means good luck. a black cat. 2: Cloves of this are sometimes placed in a bridal bouquet for good luck. garlic. 3: This card deck's Minor Arcana has 14 cards in each suit; a page is between the 10...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 669, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 19Th Century America 1: On February 28, the first of the Forty-Niners to arrive by ship docked at this California port city. San Francisco. 2: In 1870 he published his "National Photographic Collection of War Views and Portraits....". Mathew Brady. 3: Savannah's antebellum Green-Meld...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 668, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Oz 1: This character gets a ride (likely to his home in Omaha) in the balloon meant to take Dorothy to Kansas. the Wizard. 2: The Wicked Witch's golden cap allows her to summon these to do her bidding 3 times. the flying monkeys. 3: Dorothy followed the Yellow Brick Road to this plac...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 667, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tv Dads 1: James B. Sikking of "Hill Street Blues" plays this teenage doctor's dad. Doogie Howser. 2: James Noble, who plays Larry's dad on "Perfect Strangers", was Governor Gatling on this sitcom. Benson . 3: Higgins on "Magnum, P.I."; he went on to play Sandy Duncan's dad on "The H...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 666, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: College Team Nicknames 1: (I'm Kurt Warner.) The team at my alma mater, Northern Iowa, is these big, fierce black cats. Panthers. 2: The Nittany Lions. Penn State. 3: Penn's peaceable players. Quakers. 4: The University of Maryland's reptilian representatives. Terrapins. 5: This Univ...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 665, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Springs" On The Map 1: From 1988 - 1992 this Calif. town didn't work its mayor pro bono, it worked its mayor Sonny Bono. Palm Springs. 2: It's the chief town of the interior of Northern Territory, Australia. Alice Springs. 3: A residence in this western Georgia resort was known for...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 664, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Mild-Mannered Reporters 1: (Hi, I'm Wolf Blitzer.) From 1990 to 1992 my beat for CNN was this building where I had to see all sides of an issue, not just 5. Pentagon. 2: Sportswriter Grantland Rice wrote that the "Great Scorer" marks "Not that you won or lost" but this. How you playe...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 663, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Director Directory 1: Profession of Joseph (of Christmas, not Halloween, fame). Carpenter. 2: What an angry mob might have done to David's "Blue Velvet". Lynch. 3: This castle in Brno used as a Hapsburg prison didn't make "Schindler's List". Spielberg Castle. 4: Tragic 1846-47 pionee...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 662, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Cities Of New York 1: It's "The Capital of the Empire State" and "The Edinburgh of America". Albany. 2: It's "The Bison City". Buffalo. 3: "The Birthplace of Baseball". Cooperstown. 4: "The Honeymoon City". Niagara Falls. 5: It's "The Kodak City" and "The Photo Capital of the World"....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 661, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Invisible Men 1: As Nick in "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", all he wants are his molecules back and Daryl Hannah. Chevy Chase. 2: These days Goldie Hawn sees a lot of this "Now You See Him, Now You Don't" star. Kurt Russell. 3: In a 1951 film this comedy pair joins forces with invisib...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 660, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Military Matters 1: All 28 members of this international organization have sent troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. NATO. 2: Ready to fight at a moment's notice, the Minutemen were militia soldiers in this war. the American Revolution. 3: A broad area where explosive devices...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 659, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Are You Addressing Me? 1: The personal pronoun of the second person in the nominative case; people often act holier than it. thou. 2: A surgeon in England is simply addressed as this, not Dr.. Mr.. 3: Miss came from the first syllable of this word and mrs. is a shortened form of it....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 658, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Thomas Aquinas, Advice Columnist 1: Dear Uncertain:Christ didn't break the laws against working on this day; they apply to human, not divine work. the sabbath. 2: Dear Worried:It's a slippery slope -- a venial one of these disposes you to a mortal one. sin. 3: Dear Struggling:Sorry,...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 657, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "K" Mart 1: In 1883 more than 36,000 died following an explosion on this volcanic Indonesian island. Krakatoa. 2: The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet. kappa. 3: After criminal activities by this secret society, Oklahoma was placed under martial law in September 1923. Ku Klux Klan....