Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 606, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 606, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The 18Th Century 1: This man was hanged for murder and piracy May 23, 1701. Captain Kidd. 2: Name of 3 French kings in the century, and of a gold French coin of the time. Louis. 3: Sweden...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 605, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Simply Simon 1: This CBS private eye series starred Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney. Simon and Simon . 2: simonsays.com is the web address of this publishing company founded in 1924. Simon and Schuster. 3: Her first Top Ten hit was "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" in...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 604, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: British Trivia 1: King Richard II is credited with this invention, which is something to sneeze at. the handkerchief. 2: He's the British equivalent of Santa Claus. Father Christmas. 3: 1 of 4 royal family members who took part in a '87 celebrity version of the game show "It's a Knoc...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 603, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Venture "A" 1: Him, her, him, him, her...doesn't matter who. anyone. 2: It's also called a postmortem. autopsy. 3: Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" is described as this, as it's partially based on incidents in her own life. autobiography. 4: Get mad, get really mad -- it's alphabeticall...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 602, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "California" Songs 1: "Though East Coast girls are hip," the Beach Boys wished "'they all could be" these. "California Girls". 2: The Eagles' top-selling single that begins "on a dark desert highway". "Hotel California". 3: "All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray," it is 1966,...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 601, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Shopping U.s.a. 1: In 1996 Graceland Gifts in this city sold a limited edition Elvis Cabbage Patch Kid in a gold lame suit. Memphis. 2: Elvis Presley Enterprises owns several gift shops in this city; they're all close to Graceland. Memphis. 3: Rumors on Royal Street in this city spec...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 600, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Musical Genres 1: Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power" and Motörhead's "No Remorse" made Rolling Stone's Top 100 Albums of this genre. (heavy) metal. 2: The book of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. Gospel. 3: In 2020 "Contigo" by Alejandro Sanz won Record of the Year at these Grammys....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 599, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: A Lovely Port 1: This Australian city was given its name by a former HMS Beagle sailor. Darwin. 2: Built for Spanish trade with Asia, this Mexican city is now famous for the cliff divers of La Quebrada. Acapulco. 3: La Libertad is a port supplying this alliterative capital of El Salv...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 598, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: America's Most Want Ads 1: Wanted: Mass quantities of this hardest natural substance on Earth. diamonds. 2: Wanted: Any one of the remaining ones of this vintage toy in its original box from 1959. Barbie. 3: Wanted: Any living specimens of the Schaus Swallowtail, one of the rarest sp...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 597, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Also A Baseball Team 1: Raphael, Michael, Gabriel and Uriel. angels. 2: Don Quixote thought the windmills were these. giants. 3: Numbers like 1, 2 and 7012. cardinals. 4: Split zygotes. twins. 5: Icterus galbula songbirds. orioles. Round 2. Category: "Black" And "White" 1: This Bing...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 596, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Hummingbirds 1: The largest hummingbird is the 8 1/2-inch Patagona gigas, native to this mountain range. the Andes. 2: Of 50, 100 or 200, the number of wingbeats per second for the smallest hummingbirds during courtship. 200. 3: Although it's true that hummingbirds prefer flowers of...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 595, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Pigs On Film 1: He made his debut in 1935's "I Haven't Got a Hat" and is famous for the line "That's all folks". Porky (Pig). 2: Roger Ebert describes her water ballet number in "The Great Muppet Caper" as Busby Berkeley-like. Miss Piggy. 3: This 1995 film tells the tale of a piglet...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 594, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Oscar-Losing Songs 1: Celestial songs losing '36 Oscars included "A Melody from the Sky", "When Did You Leave Heaven" and this: [Piano instrumental plays]. "Pennies from Heaven". 2: After she sang "True Love" in "High Society", the song lost an Oscar but then she won a crown. Grace K...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 593, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: New Video Games 1: In Microids' "Ben Hur" you race these vehicles. chariots. 2: You can download "Wheel of Fortune" onto the Nokia 3650, one of these devices. a cell phone. 3: X-2 isn't a Marvel super hero game, it's the sequel to the 10th game in this long-running Japanese RPG serie...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 592, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Cities In Literature 1: "Gone with the Wind"'s Rhett Butler was a profiteer from this South Carolina port city. Charleston. 2: In Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", Hester Prynne did her sinning in this Puritan city. Boston. 3: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn's hometown, St. Petersburg, was...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 591, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Hall"S 1: What you do with your "boughs of holly". deck the halls. 2: Oklahoma City, OK., Canton, OH., and Cooperstown, N.Y. are each known for 1 of these. hall of fame. 3: During Mexican War, U.S. Marines raised the Amer. flag over Nat'l Palace in Mexico City, later called this. Ha...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 590, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: All God's Creatures 1: An owl cannot move these from side to side, so it must move its head. its eyes. 2: Grevy's, the largest species of this striped mammal, is named for former French president Francois Grevy. a zebra. 3: Called a "bamboo chicken" by locals in Belize, a male one of...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 589, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Island Countries 1: It takes up an entire continent. Australia. 2: In 1998 Pope John Paul II concluded his visit to this country with a mass at the Plaza de la Revolucion. Cuba. 3: Its national anthem, "San-Min-Chu-I", was co-written by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Taiwan. 4: "Please, Sir, I wan...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 588, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The 7 Wonders 1: We sort of know what the Statue of Zeus looked like because it was reproduced on these of the realm. coins. 2: They were located on terraces that possibly rose some 300 feet. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. 3: Made of bronze, it was destroyed by an earthquake in 224...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 587, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Lakes 1: Leech Lake in Minnesota is the largest of this river's headwater lakes. Mississippi River. 2: Lake Titicaca is the largest lake on this continent. South America. 3: Named for a British king in 1755, this New York lake empties into Lake Champlain from the north. Lake George....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 586, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Pop And Rock Music 1: This "Hotel California" band first came together to back Linda Ronstadt at a concert at Disneyland. the Eagles. 2: Hit song title shared by Kris Kross and Van Halen. "Jump". 3: Oddly, female rapper Megan Pete calls herself "Megan Thee" this word for a male horse...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 585, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Third 1: He was the last king of the House of York. Richard III. 2: Charles Conrad, Jr. was the third man to walk here. The Moon. 3: Our third president, for 4 years he had a Burr in his side. Thomas Jefferson. 4: The third reindeer named in "A Visit From St. Nicholas", he follow...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 584, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: First In Our Hearts 1: The first U.S. coin with the likeness of a president was this coin based on a photo taken in Mathew Brady's studio. (the Lincoln) penny. 2: The first of these in the U.S. was for a potash process and was signed by Washington and Jefferson. a patent. 3: The firs...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 583, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tv Series Finales 1: As many hoped, on the final episode of "Friends", these 2 characters finally got back together. Ross and Rachel. 2: Miss Ellie turned Southfork Ranch over to Bobby. Dallas . 3: This title serial killer became a lumberjack, because why not. Dexter. 4: Was it all a...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 582, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 1990s Business 1: In 1992 Hughes Aircraft Co., a division of this automaker, agreed to buy part of General Dynamics. General Motors. 2: This company's 1st restaurant in China served nearly 40,000 people the day it opened April 23, 1992. McDonald's. 3: In 1995 this apparel company rei...