Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 631, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: National Parks 1: In this southern national park you can take a boat ride on the underground Echo River. Mammoth Cave. 2: Logs in this forest may be 150 million years old. the Petrified Forest. 3: Bridalveil Fall is usually the first waterfall seen by visitors to this California Park...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 630, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Po" Pourri 1: Its national anthem is "Jeszcze Polkska Nie Zginela". Poland. 2: Connemara, Dartmoor, Exmoor or Shetland. ponies. 3: Wm. Wordsworth accepted this honor on the understanding he would not have to write official verses. Poet Laureate. 4: Someone who steals a wild duck or...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 629, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Times They Are A-Changin' 1: Ian Astbury of The Cult joined Robbie Krieger and Ray Manzarek for the retooling of this band "of the 21st Century". The Doors. 2: In 2004 Veritas software's marketing dept. made news when it banned this type of communication on Fridays. e-mail. 3: Be...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 628, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Sitcoms 1: In the 1st episode of this series, Cliff gave Theo an economics lesson with Monopoly money. The Cosby Show . 2: A 1998 CD of music from this sitcom featured "Cleveland Rocks" and "Five O'Clock World". The Drew Carey Show . 3: This series is a spin-off of "The Big Bang Theo...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 627, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: It's A Girl! 1: This 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is set in a small Alabama town and narrated by a young girl. To Kill a Mockingbird . 2: Short story shorter: "Grimm" girl, loves power colors and older relatives, has problems with wolf. (Little) Red Riding Hood. 3: In this 1900...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fountains 1: Architect Nicola Salvi designed this, often called the last great baroque monument in Rome. Trevi Fountain. 2: A fountain in front of this kids' cable network's studios in Orlando spurts out green slime. Nickelodeon. 3: Andrea Del Verrocchio sculpted his bronze "Boy With...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 625, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Blank The Blank 1: Written the night before it was recorded in 1962, it was Ray Stevens' 1st major hit. "Ahab The Arab". 2: Look after a military installation while the troops are out. guard the fort (hold the fort). 3: Obama told this Ohio blue-collar guy spreading the wealth was go...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 624, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Un" Words 1: Tom, Miltie, or $crooge. uncles. 2: If you ask the Miami operator for Don Johnson's phone number, she'll probably tell you it's this. unlisted. 3: An "unspeakable" euphemism for underwear. unmentionables. 4: Hades is also known as this, sure as hell. the underworld. 5:...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 623, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Davis Cup 1: Kim Carnes sang about her eyes. Bette Davis. 2: In 1861 he resigned from the U.S. Senate. Jefferson Davis. 3: He's moved his Raiders all over California. Al Davis. 4: In 1978 this cartoonist introduced his character Garfield to the world. Jim Davis. 5: This black act...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 622, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: When 1: On Aug. 28, 1963 he told a crowd gathered in Washington, D.C. "I have a dream". Martin Luther King, Jr.. 2: An American hero on April 18, 1775, he was accused of cowardice in 1779, but a court-martial cleared him. Paul Revere. 3: As of April 7, 1984 it surpassed Chicago as th...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 621, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Animal Offspring 1: A general term for the young of most fish, or how you cook them after you catch them. fry. 2: A young kangaroo, or a musical pal. a joey. 3: The male young of these are called cockerels; the female young, pullets. chickens. 4: A young rat, seal, or, so we're told,...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 620, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Definitions 1: It's a "comfy" covering for your teapot. a tea cozy. 2: This word means to speak pompously or to officiate as a pontiff. pontificate. 3: Any place of great spiritual suffering, named for the garden in Mark 14. Gethsemane. 4: Of a little lamb, a fugitive from the law, o...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 619, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Female Flyers 1: On August 1, 1911 Harriet Quimby became the first American woman to get one of these. Pilot's license. 2: "Charlie", now in the Smithsonian, was the plane in which Flying Angel Geraldine Mock did this in 29 days in 1964. Circumnavigate the globe. 3: Anne Spencer Morr...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 618, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Rockin' Stupid Answers 1: It's the band that had a hit with "Up on Cripple Creek". The Band. 2: It's the nickname of the Beatles album that has a stark white cover. "The White Album". 3: In a 1978 song, this group asked, "Who Are You?". The Who. 4: A song by this group says, "Everybo...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 617, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: My Favorite Films 1: William Holden leads this 1969 title group of robbers and killers with a sense of honor. The Wild Bunch . 2: Cathy, Cathy, Cathy! A 1939 classic... amour on the moors... need we say moor?. Wuthering Heights . 3: The hero of this 1962 epic is worshiped by the men...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 616, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 1995 1: France drew worldwide protests in September by doing this at the Mururoa Atoll. detonating an atomic bomb. 2: This city's subway was hit by a nerve gas attack March 20, 1995. Tokyo. 3: In January, Camilla Parker Bowles announced that she was getting a divorce, and this prince...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 615, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Olympic Events 1: Downhill and slalom. Skiing. 2: 100-meter butterfly and 100-meter freestyle. Swimming. 3: 10,000 meters and javelin. Track and field. 4: Individual epee and individual foil. Fencing. 5: Trap and skeet. Shooting. Round 2. Category: Radio Stars 1: This conservative ic...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 614, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Show Biz Siblings 1: This director's brother Ingo Preminger produced the film M*A*S*H. Otto Preminger. 2: Her sister Michie Mader sings backup for her whether she's performing with Regis or without him. Kathie Lee. 3: Early in their careers, these brothers appeared on the TV series "...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 613, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Pavlovian Jeopardy! 1: "Bell Jar".Dead.. (Sylvia) Plath. 2: Apple. First law guy.. Newton. 3: Nobel Prize. Wrote Okie story.. Steinbeck. 4: Speech.32 days. Dead.. William Henry Harrison. 5: Scottish. Steel guy.. (Andrew) Carnegie. Round 2. Category: Saucey! 1: The name of this season...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 612, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tool Time 1: Henry F. Phillips invented a popular type of this hand tool. Screwdriver. 2: Toothed tool that's half a teeter-totter, see?. a saw. 3: Things on the up and up are "on" this tool, honest. the level (or the square). 4: This volcanic material was used by primitive humans in...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 611, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Boris Yeltsin File 1: 1931:Boris Yeltsin is born in Sverdlovsk, an industrial region in these mountains. the Ural Mountains. 2: 1985:This new General Secretary of the Communist Party brings Yeltsin to Moscow. Gorbachev. 3: 1986:Yeltsin is inducted into this national executive and...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 610, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "C" Of Love 1: The title of a 1958 Connie Francis song calls this love god "stupid". Cupid. 2: If you didn't show up for a blind date, you have these kind of "feet". cold feet. 3: From an old word for "cape", it's an older person who, for propriety's sake, accompanies young unmarried...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 609, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Juan 1: Days out of prison in 1945, he married Maria Eva Duarte; we now know her as Evita. Juan Peron. 2: While trying to colonize what's now this state, Juan Ponce de Leon received a mortal wound from the natives. Florida. 3: Juan Belmonte is considered the founder of the modern ver...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 608, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: State Dept. Travel Warnings 1: The U.S. uses the Swiss embassy in Iran to conduct business and the Polish embassy in this neighboring country. Iraq. 2: Say so long to Sarajevo; the U.S. has been warning people about visiting this country since 1992. Bosnia. 3: In June 1997 the U.S. c...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 607, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: At "Ease" 1: What Monet used to hold up this work while he painted it. an easel. 2: A military agreement to stop fighting for a limited time. ceasefire. 3: The otter is an aquatic member of this animal family. weasel. 4: The political strategy of pacifying a hostile nation in the hop...