Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 299, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Mm" Bop 1: If I can never die, I'm this. Immortal. 2: On the football field, this line separates the Lions from the Bears. Line of scrimmage. 3: IDG books "For" these people include ones on "Bird Watching", "Opera" and "Windows 98". Dummies. 4: "Tell me more" about this song from "G...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 298, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Premiere 1: It was sporty of a posh fellow like Prince Charles to turn out for this singing group's first movie in 1997. The Spice Girls. 2: This Beatles film premiered in London on July 6, 1964. A Hard Day's Night . 3: Disney didn't take this film's 1996 premiere to Paris, but to th...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 297, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Been There... 1: This country is in the east of a subcontinent. Bangladesh. 2: This nation sticks out like a sore thumb. Denmark. 3: It extends about 3,200 miles from east to west. Indonesia. 4: You don't hear so much about the East Bank where this country is. Jordan. 5: Formerly a B...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 296, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "W"Ords 1: Walk like a duck. Waddle. 2: It can mean to exercise power, or to handle and use a weapon. Wield. 3: To hone or stimulate, like an appetite or one's curiosity. to whet. 4: Ah-one and ah-two, it's the marine snail in the photo looking at you. Whelk. 5: An intense desire to...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 295, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 295, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 295, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 295, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Cat...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 294, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Words For Two 1: It's a musical composition for 2 voices or 2 instruments. Duet. 2: Word for 2 cards of the same value in a poker game. Pair. 3: They can be fraternal or identical. Twins. 4: In other words, "Similar as 2 legume fruits in a seed holder". "Like two peas in a pod". 5: O...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 293, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Ink 1: If your business is losing money, you're awash in this color ink. Red. 2: Company that makes the Eraser Mate, a pen that has erasable ink. Paper Mate. 3: From Latin roots meaning "cannot be obliterated", it describes ink that's permanent. Indelible. 4: 1988 film that featured...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 292, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Of Montezuma 1: From 1502 to 1520 Montezuma II ruled these people. Aztecs. 2: One of these works entitled "Montezuma" was composed by Roger Sessions in 1964. an opera. 3: This defeater of Montezuma reached Mexico in 1519 and some historians believe he was mistaken for a god. Hernando...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 291, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tell 'Em What They've Won, Johnny 1: Walt Disney won a record 14 of these statuettes now given out in March. Oscars. 2: The first of these were awarded in 1901 and they are given out yearly for Physics, Chemistry, Peace and 3 other disciplines. the Nobel Prizes. 3: A brave French sol...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 290, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Friday The 13Th 1: Friday October 13, 1944: Greek patriots retake Athens from this group after 3 1/2 years of occupation. Germany (or the Nazis). 2: Friday January 13, 1995: The first all-female crew wins a qualifying race for this contest. the America's Cup. 3: Friday October 13, 19...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 289, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Go Old West, Young Man 1: Fort Bonneville in this "Cowboy State" was "Fort Nonsense" to scoffing trappers. Wyoming. 2: Wells, Fargo and Company opened in this California city in 1852 to offer miners express and banking services. San Francisco. 3: "Cowpuncher" was a term for a cowboy;...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 288, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Fools And Follies 1: This country sold what's known as Seward's Folly. Russia. 2: A gowk is a person who is tricked on the Scottish equivalent of this U.S. observance. April Fool's Day. 3: Iron pyrite. Fool's gold. 4: Proper name of what's been called Fulton's Folly. The Clermont. 5:...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 287, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Forewords 1: This 1955 novel's foreword says, "I have no intention to glorify 'H.H.'....he is a shining example of moral leprosy". Lolita . 2: This author said that he would have offered the savage a third alternative if he were to rewrite "Brave New World". Aldous Huxley. 3: "Conrad...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 286, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Irish Counties 1: The name of this southeastern county sounds like what someone often does on "South Park". Kilkenny. 2: Ireland's most populous county, it shares its name with Ireland's most populous city. Dublin. 3: Like Harris in Scotland, Ireland's County Donegal produces a disti...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 285, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Women In Song 1: From 1965:"Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble". Michelle. 2: Neil Diamond:"Hands, touchin' hands, reachin' out, touchin' me, touchin' you...". Sweet Caroline. 3: Barry Manilow:"Well, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking and I need you today, oh" her. Mand...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 284, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "R"T 1: Born in Limoges in 1841, as a child this Impressionist worked in a porcelain factory painting china. Renoir. 2: He was the youngest of the 3 creators of the high Renaissance. Raphael. 3: Fragonard, painter of "The Swing", is considered one of the greatest artists of this orna...

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...