Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 283, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Duke 1: In 1960's "The Alamo", John Wayne played this king of the wild frontier. Davy Crockett. 2: It's the type of transport in the title of John Wayne's 1939 breakout film. Stagecoach. 3: This 1969 film earned John Wayne an Oscar; must have been the eye patch. True Grit . 4: John W...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 282, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Clean This Place Up! 1: A bundle on a stick used for cleaning floors, or a similar-looking mass of hair. a mop. 2: Holystone, which may get its name from being used while kneeling, was used to clean these "floors" of ships. decks. 3: In a common appliance, a suction fan creates this,...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 281, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Biblical Military Men 1: This Philistine had a "helmet of brass" and a coat of mail weighing 5,000 shekels. Goliath. 2: The Roman centurion Cornelius, possibly the first Gentile Christian, was converted by this fisherman. Peter. 3: Moses designated him to defend Israel against Amalek...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 280, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Quick Moby-Dick 1: The biblical prophet who's the subject of chapter 83. Jonah. 2: Of the Monica, the Rachel or the Phoebe, the rescue ship at the tale's end. the Rachel . 3: Melville's subtitle for the first American edition. The Whale . 4: The harpooner from Kokovoko with the rad t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 279, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Honky "Cat" 1: Tiffany published its first one of these in 1845 (online shopping came a little later). catalog. 2: This tough, thin cord is used to string musical instruments and tennis rackets. catgut. 3: It's a 2-hulled sailing boat. catamaran. 4: The name of this ancient war devic...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 278, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: She's Canadian, Eh? 1: This Windsor native's 2002 CD "Up!" offers pop and country versions of the same 19 songs. Shania Twain. 2: We've got a hankering for this singer from Consort, Alberta. k.d. lang. 3: As a kid, this angry alt-rocker from Ottawa starred on Nickelodeon's "You Can't...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 277, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: People In Entertainment 1: Educated at L.A.'s Lycee Francais and on film sets, this star of "Taxi Driver" graduated from Yale in 1985. Jodie Foster. 2: TV's Ally McBeal, she had viewers concerned about her weight in '98. Calista Flockhart. 3: This country singer of "Shut Up And Kiss...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 276, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Haulin' "Oat"S 1: A German submarine. U-boat. 2: It contains the pharynx and the larynx. Throat. 3: To move slowly and lightly through the air. Float. 4: To become swollen or inflated. Bloat. 5: AKA an ermine. Stoat. Round 2. Category: "F" In Geography 1: This Alaska town was founded...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 275, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: How Provincial! 1: Hainan,Hunan,Yunnan. China. 2: Western Cape,Eastern Cape, Kwazulu-Natal. South Africa. 3: Limburg,Antwerp,West Flanders. Belgium. 4: Dong Nai, Dong Thap,Lam Dong. Vietnam. 5: Almeria,Salamanca,Cordoba. Spain. Round 2. Category: Irish Eyes 1: This Boomtown Rat organ...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 274, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Mama And Papaya 1: While these look like caviar and are edible, Mama usually throws them out. papaya seeds. 2: Mama joked that this other name for the papaya makes it sound like little cat feet -- Mama wasn't funny. pawpaw. 3: Papaya plants are dioecious, meaning the plants are divid...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 273, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Let's Go To A Museum 1: You might find your invitation to her Deerfield, Illinois museum under your pillow, along with a dollar. The Tooth Fairy. 2: This Spanish museum's paintings are displayed in 2 buildings: The Villanueva Building and the Cason del Buen Retiro. The Prado. 3: Chec...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 272, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Can't Live With 'Em 1: This folklore figure killed 6 wives who went against his orders and entered a room he kept locked. Bluebeard. 2: Ernie K-Doe sang about her, "Every time I open my mouth she steps in and tries to put me out". "Mother-in-Law". Round 2. Category: Pitches From The...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 271, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Oman 1: It's the principle natural resource of Oman. oil. 2: Oman waspart of the international force that defeated this country in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Iraq. 3: A section of Oman, separated from the rest of the country by the UAE, juts into this important strait. the Strait of...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 270, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: What's Falling? 1: As Charles Lindbergh rode down Broadway June 13, 1927. ticker tape (confetti accepted). 2: As the Seventh Plague of Egypt. hail. 3: In the form of dust or sand after a volcanic eruption. ash. 4: By design, from a Tupolev Tu-26 "Backfire" or Petlyakov PE-2. a bomb....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 269, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Explorers 1: Francisco Pizarro was with him when he claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain September 29, 1513. Vasco de Balboa. 2: He led the expedition that rescued Emin Pasha, as well as the one that found Livingstone. Henry Stanley. 3: His 1872 book was titled "How I Found Livingston...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 268, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: That's Write! 1: "Garabatos" in Spanish; Polly Wolly and a certain "Yankee" are dandy at these idle scribbles. doodles. 2: A preliminary version; the Brits spell it with a "ugh", we use an "f". a draft. 3: From the Latin for "to write across", it's making a written copy of dictated m...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 267, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Amazon 1: Beginning in Peru, the Amazon flows over 4,000 miles to this ocean. Atlantic Ocean. 2: Abundant in the Amazon River, this feared fish is also known as a caribe. Piranha. 3: The upper Amazon is known as the Solimoes River until it reaches this nation's city of Manaus. Brazil...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 266, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Musical Architecture 1: In "Royal Wedding" Fred Astaire gives a textbook demonstration of this, the title of a 1986 Lionel Richie hit. Dancing On The Ceiling . 2: The B-52's headed up the charts when they headed on down to this place. Love Shack . 3: The Dixie Cups sang, "Gee I reall...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 265, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Subway Stops 1: Stops on this city's Line 1 include Carioca, Flamengo and Botafogo. Rio de Janeiro. 2: Kyobashi and Toranomon are stops on the Ginza Line cutting through this city. Tokyo. 3: You'll have to switch lines in this city to go from Chapultepec to Politecnico. Mexico City....

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 264, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Battles 1: In the 490 B.C. battle of this plain, the Greeks ran up their first important victory over the Persians. Marathon. 2: The defeat of this city's invasion force at Syracuse in 413 B.C. was the beginning of its end and the start of Sparta's rise. Athens. 3: This foolhardy "ch...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 263, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The "Meth"Od 1: This word begins a rhyme about what a bride needs on her wedding day. something. 2: Rice paddies release this greenhouse gas. methane. 3: Term originally applied to a mid-18th century religious society founded at Oxford. the Methodists. 4: His group won a Grammy in 19...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 262, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fire! 1: On Oct. 10, 1871, after 2 days, unbuilt lots, rainfall and Lake Michigan quelled a huge fire in this city. Chicago. 2: On March 18, 1925 this woman's house of wax in London went up in smoke; the models within could be heard sizzling. Madame Tussaud. 3: On March 18, 1925 this...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 261, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Gray Matters 1: "She ain't what she used to be". the Old Gray Mare. 2: Gore Vidal adapted this military-school novel for TV, 1st screenplay he's taken credit for since 1964. Dress Gray . 3: His career "Bud"ded as Princess and Kitten's brother "Father Knows Best". Bill Gray. 4: Though...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 260, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Dream"Y Songs 1: 1 of 2 "dream"y Top 20 songs recorded by Cass Elliott with The Mamas and The Papas. "California Dreamin'" and "Dream a Little Dream of Me". 2: Title that follows "When I want you in my arms, when I want you and all your charms, whenever I want you...". "All I Have t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 259, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Ballet In The '90s 1: Of Jerome Robbins' ballet based on this musical, New York Magazine quipped, "When you're a Jete...". West Side Story . 2: Matthew Bourne set his innovative new production of "Cinderella" in this city during the Blitz. London. 3: We hope the Artist Formerly Known...