Instant Trivia

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...

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...