Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 175, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Put Me In, Coach! 1: I can't believe the ref called one of these on our goalie for elbowing, but I'm ready to go to the box and serve it. a penalty. 2: Notre Dame's football coach from 1918 to 1930, he had a winning percentage of .881, the highest in NCAA history. Rockne. 3: Put me i...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 174, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Barn"S 1: This purple Jurassic giant is a PBS headliner. Barney. 2: These crustaceans adhere to ships' hulls. barnacles. 3: Step right up! This impresario's ostentatious mansion was known as "Iranistan". P.T. Barnum. 4: Aerial acrobatics popular in the Midwest after WWI. barnstormin...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 173, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The 1880s 1: On January 27, 1880 he received a patent for his incandescent light. Thomas Edison. 2: She represented the U.S. at the 1884 Red Cross conference in Geneva, Switzerland. Clara Barton. 3: In 1883 Belle Starr was convicted of stealing these. horses. 4: (Kelly of the clue cr...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 172, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Travel 1: This island's Mataveri Intl. Airport, the world's most remote, is serviced only by Chile's LAN Airlines. Easter Island. 2: In 1993 Circus Circus opened Grand Slam Canyon, a theme park under a dome, in this city. Las Vegas. 3: The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is a narrow gau...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 171, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: I "Like" This Song 1: This Bob Seger song was used in ads for Chevy trucks. "Like A Rock". 2: Duran Duran made its Top 40 debut with this song. "Hungry Like The Wolf". 3: This 1965 song begins, "Once upon a time you dressed so fine". "Like A Rolling Stone". 4: The 2 Madonna No. 1 hit...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 170, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tom Time 1: Cuba Gooding's Oscar acceptance speech included this man! "I love you, brother!". Tom Cruise. 2: He and his band were runnin' down a dream as the halftime entertainment at the Super Bowl in 2008. Tom Petty. 3: In addition to techno-thrillers, he's also written such nonfic...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 169, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: College Aka 1: In Alabama:A reddish-brown colour. Auburn. 2: In New York:A brand of toothpaste. Colgate. 3: In Texas:An edible grain of the Gramineae family. Rice. 4: In Massachusetts:Small clumps of hairs, trees or grass. Tufts. 5: In Iowa:A male duck. Drake. Round 2. Category: You'...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 168, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Bierce's Devil's Dictionary 1: Ambrose Bierce was known for his short stories and defined this longer form as " A short story padded". Novel. 2: Wife Mollie may have agreed with Bierce that this emotion is "A temporary insanity curable by marriage". Love. 3: Bierce defined this event...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 167, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Presidential Daughters 1: They were kids when she met her future husband at Ike's inauguration. Julie Nixon (Eisenhower). 2: She graduated from Stanford and was impersonated by Julia Sweeney on "Saturday Night Live". Chelsea Clinton. 3: A Columbia Law School graduate, she married mus...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 166, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "O" Yes! 1: A synonym for scent, this noun is from the Latin for "smell". odor. 2: Impenetrable to light, like some glass. opaque. 3: It's a single performance by a band in a single locale, or the title of a Wesley Snipes film. One Night Stand . 4: A temporary suspension of operation...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 165, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Lenin Closet 1: When Russian Marxism split into 2 factions, Lenin led this "majority" group. the Bolsheviks. 2: Lenin got a degree in this in 1891, then went on to court a lot of trouble. law. 3: Lenin met his wife Nadezhda while exiled here. Siberia. 4: Lenin spent WWI in this c...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 164, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Name The Instrument 1: In Billy Joel's " blank Man". piano. 2: In Wynonna's "Girls With blank ". guitars. 3: In Bruce Hornsby's " blank Rain". mandolin. 4: In Linda Ronstadt's "Different blank ". drum. 5: In the Byrds' "Mr. blank Man". tambourine. Round 2. Category: I Am A Crook 1: R...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 163, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: I Need My "Space" 1: Ittowers605 feetoverSeattle. the Space Needle. 2: It's been making people scream at Disney World since the '70s. Space Mountain. 3: It's between the 2 "Alt" keys on a standard keyboard. the spacebar. 4: The Chandra or the Hubble, for example. a space telescope. 5...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 162, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Bell"S And "Whistle"S 1: To enter a pool of water....tummy first. Bellyflop. 2: Sailors wore these pants long before they became fashionable in the 1960s. Bell-bottoms. 3: They supply the weight in Olympic weightlifting. Barbells. 4: They're employees who go public with stories of t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 161, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Chick Lit 1: In an L. Frank Baum novel, Billina the hen is blown overboard from a steamship along with this girl. Dorothy. 2: 6 Californians read and discuss "Persuasion", "Emma" and 4 other novels in Karen Joy Fowler's novel her "Book Club". Jane Austen. 3: A sisterly rivalry to giv...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 160, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Lights 1: The hollowed, carved fruit of the "Cucurbita pepo" plant with a light inside. jack-o'-lantern (or pumpkin). 2: It's a very slender candle or the wax-coated wick used to light it. a taper. 3: Color of the bulb in all theatrical spotlights. white. 4: Fairy tale that includes...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 159, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Prefixes 1: "Anti-" means "against; "ante-" means this. before. 2: This thoroughly modern prefix means "one thousandth". milli-. 3: A prefix meaning "after" is found in this word meaning an after-death examination. postmortem. 4: This prefix that means "first" or "primitive" is found...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 158, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: '80s Song Lyrics 1: "So hurry up and bring your jukebox money", this "is a little old place where we can get together". "The Love Shack". 2: "Shot through the heart and you're to blame, you" do this. give love a bad name. 3: "We gonna rock down to" this place "and then we'll take it...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 157, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 157, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: A Driving Tour 1: Drive by the cops when you put the pedal to the metal on most of these high-speed German highways. autobahns. 2: Krasnaya Ploshchad is the local name for this square you...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 156, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Biblical Firsts 1: Rachel is the first shepherdess mentioned and he's the first shepherd. Abel. 2: He's the first person in the Bible to build a ship. Noah. 3: God's first instructions to human beings were "be fruitful and" do this. to multiply. 4: This strongman told the first riddl...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 155, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 155, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Famous Armstrongs 1: His earlier nickname was "Dippermouth" and he learned how to play the bugle in reform school. Satchmo Armstrong. 2: On radio, Dick York played Billy Fairfield, best f...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 154, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Nba Retired Jerseys 1: Los Angeles Lakers no. 32. Magic Johnson. 2: Philadelphia 76ers no. 6. Julius Erving. 3: Boston Celtics no. 33. Larry Bird. 4: New York Knicks no. 33. Patrick Ewing. 5: Indiana Pacers no. 31. Reggie Miller. Round 2. Category: Happy Trails To You 1: Often used t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 153, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Those Wacky Germans 1: Gesundheit, meaning "health", is what Germans say instead of "bless you" when you do this. Sneeze. 2: The food many Germans like best is wurst, which are these hot-dog-shaped meat treats. Sausages. 3: Germans decorate Christmas trees with silvery strings and ca...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 152, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Last 1: Ordered by Texas inmate Stanley Baker, Jr., it included 2 16-oz. ribeyes, 2 potatoes and a pint of ice cream. his last meal. 2: Daniel Bakeman of New York, who died in 1869 at age 109, was the last surviving veteran of this war. the Revolutionary War. 3: It was for Virgin...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 151, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: '80S Bands In Other Words 1: Lugers Plus American Beauties. Guns N' Roses. 2: Non-Hearing Panthera Pardus. Def Leppard. 3: Several Of The Boeing Craft Known As Stratofortresses. B-52's. 4: Gnarled Nun. Twisted Sister. 5: Hommes Sans Chapeaux. Men Without Hats. Round 2. Category: Inve...