Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 692, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tv Title Pairs 1: Best friends Eric McCormack and Debra Messing. Will and Grace . 2: 2 adolescents, both voiced by Mike Judge. Beavis and Butthead . 3: Cop Billy Gardell and teacher Melissa McCarthy. Mike and Molly . 4: Streetwise cops Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul. Starsky and...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 691, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Whatchamacallit 1: On a pencil, the ferrule is the metal ring that holds this. the eraser. 2: A witch could tell you a besom is one of these with a cluster of brush or twigs on the end. a broom. 3: You're ready for a home project with a whole set of this tool that includes a trademar...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 690, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Speaking In Code 1: It's what is asked for here in Morse code. help. 2: In 1942 the Marines recruited 29 men from this Native American tribe to develop a code, one the Japanese never broke. Navajo. 3: urbandictionary.com on this 3-letter code: "Never drink the last beer, unless you h...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 689, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Thump! 1: Slump to the floor "like a bag of wet" this, a mix of clay and limestone, and you're not likely getting up soon. cement. 2: You "hit" these when you walk the streets; if something hits you like a ton of 'em, you're shocked. bricks. 3: Jimmy Page got this band name from Keit...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 688, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: I Predict You're Wrong 1: This man, in 1860:"I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock... religious feelings". Charles Darwin. 2: Show biz' Variety, referring to this style of music in 1955:"It will be gone by June". rock 'n' roll. 3: Rockefeller's partner...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 687, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Nba Finals Mvps 1: 1983:This big man lived up to his name and led the Sixers to the promised land. Moses Malone. 2: 1988:This Tar Heel proved his merit for the Lakers. (James) Worthy. 3: 2007:He was the first European-born MVP. Tony Parker. 4: 1969:This Laker had a few logo-worthy pe...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 686, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Mountain / Man 1: Why ask about this mountain named for a British surveyor in 1865? Because it's there. Everest. 2: A 16,000-foot Venezuelan mountain is known as Pico this last name, honoring a noted liberator. Bolívar. 3: In 1792 George Vancouver named this mountain, the tallest...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 685, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Random Facts 1: (Hi, I'm Penn Jillette.) When a magician dies, a wand is sometimes broken at his funeral to symbolize his loss of magical power; the first broken wand ceremony was performed by the Society of American Magicians in 1926 at the memorial service for this famous escapolog...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 684, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fictional Females 1: Syrena is a mermaid in "On Stranger Tides" in this movie series. Pirates of the Caribbean . 2: Lydia is a housecarl given by Jarl Balgruuf the Greater in this "Elder Scrolls" game. Skyrim . 3: Appropriately, Victoria Justice stars as aspiring singer Tori Vega on...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 683, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: A First Name Basis 1: "I didn't know him from" this name (except for you, of course, Mr. Sandler). Adam. 2: A flat, springlike metal hairpin. a bobby pin. 3: Meaning people in general, the phrase with these 3 male names dates back to the 1700s. Tom, Dick and Harry. 4: This name is fo...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 682, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Thanks For The Kind Words 1: You do this delicate word to your resignation as you offer it. tender. 2: Meaning courteous, it's a bit oxymoronic when it refers to a type of "war". civil. 3: This 8-letter word meaning friendly and agreeable often precedes "divorce". amicable. 4: Meanin...

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...