Instant Trivia

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....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 656, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: African Americans 1: Crispus Attucks, called the first American to die for independence, was killed in this 1770 incident. the Boston Massacre. 2: This Harlem-born singer-dancer-actor was a member of the 1960s "Rat Pack" with Frank and Dino. Sammy Davis, Jr.. 3: An award for African-...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 655, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Presidential Demises 1: He preferred to be buried at West Point, but thought his wife couldn't be buried there, so NYC became his final resting place. Ulysses S. Grant. 2: At 46 years, 177 days, he died at the youngest age of any president. John F. Kennedy. 3: At his death on October...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 654, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Austria 1: Some 71% of Austria is covered by this mountain range compared to 62% of Switzerland. Alps. 2: Austria's basic unit of currency, it sounds just like an obsolete coin in Britain. Schilling. 3: For over 6 centuries until 1918, this family ruled Austria. Hapsburgs. 4: This ci...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 653, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: James K. Polk Me 1: Throughout his career Polk remained an ardent member of the Jacksonian wing of this political party. Democrats. 2: Running for president as a relative unknown, Polk is considered the first of these swarthy animals. Dark horse. 3: During Polk's administration, the...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 652, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fun With Country Names 1: It's the only country in the world with the name of its ruling family in the name of the country. Saudi Arabia (the House of Saud). 2: Besides East Timor, 2 of the 3 independent countries with compass directions in their English names. South Africa and/or No...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 651, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Peru 1: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Iquitos was a major shipping port on this river during the rubber boom. the Amazon. 2: Lima's Palacio de Gobierno was built in 1938 on the site of this Spanish conquistador's palace. Pizarro. 3: He served as Peru's first ambassador t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 650, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Forbes' Fictional Billionaires 1: Topping the list is this North Pole resident with apparently unlimited, incalculable wealth. Santa Claus. 2: $1 billion is the total for this fictional billionaire, Homer Simpson's boss. C. Montgomery Burns. 3: This candy magnate from a Roald Dahl no...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 649, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Hollywood Queens 1: Von Stroheim directed this star in "Queen Kelly", but she bossed him around in "Sunset Boulevard". Gloria Swanson. 2: When Gable was named King of the Movies, this "Thin Man" star was voted queen. Myrna Loy. 3: This sheep queen of "The Thorn Birds" was "Cattle Que...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 648, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Next Stop, Venus 1: Contributing to its high temperature, Venus' atmosphere is predominantly made up of this gas. carbon dioxide. 2: It's the planet that's closest to Venus. Earth. 3: In 1610 this Italian discovered that Venus has phases like the moon. Galileo. 4: With few exceptions...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 647, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Famous Feuds 1: From the Latin for "to avenge", these family feuds are associated with the island of Corsica. Vendettas. 2: George Steinbrenner fired him 4 times as manager of the Yankees. Billy Martin. 3: In the 1949 movie "Roseanna McCoy", Roseanna runs off with a member of this en...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 646, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: To The Nearest... 1: To the nearest minute, it's how long it took Secretariat to run the Kentucky Derby in 1973. 2 minutes. 2: According to the USDA food guide pyramid, to the nearest ounce, the serving size for ready-to-eat cereal. 1 ounce. 3: To the nearest 50, number of years Harp...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 645, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: File Under "S" 1: Head and Shoulders, Agree, and Pert Plus are leading types of these. Shampoos. 2: It's a heavy, single-edged cavalry sword with a blade less curved than a scimitar. Saber. 3: This disease caused by the lack of ascorbic acid is called Barlow's Disease in infants. Scu...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 644, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fabrics And Textiles 1: Gauze is named for this Palestinian city where it's thought to have originated. Gaza. 2: In 552 Emperor Justinian sent 2 monks to China to discover the secret of this fabric. Silk. 3: The chief hair fiber used in textiles today comes from this kind of animal....