Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 55, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 5 Rhymes 1: To grow vigorous and healthy. thrive. 2: Herb with a strong onion flavor. chive. 3: In Tennyson it precedes "...to seek, to find, and not to yield". strive. 4: Honeycomb home. hive. 5: A dirty, shabby bar. dive. Round 2. Category: Oops! 1: During "Carmen" in 1995, tenor Fa...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 54, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Musical Geography 1: Pick me up some spices if you're going to this Simon and Garfunkel "Fair". "Scarborough Fair". 2: City mentioned in the title of the TV show whose theme is heard here:. Beverly Hills, 90210 . 3: "Start spreading the news", Ol' Blue Eyes made it here. New York. 4:...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 53, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 1890S Science 1: In 1895 Aleksandr Popov and this Italian separately came up with the antenna to improve radio reception. Guglielmo Marconi. 2: He was just trying to make things glow in the dark when he discovered X-rays in 1895. Wilhelm Roentgen. 3: While trying to create these preci...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 52, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Photo Ops 1: Ocean Spray's Cranberry World visitors' center is berry close to this site of the Pilgrims' landing. Plymouth Rock. 2: This London "circus" takes its name from the home of a 17th c. tailor who sold a type of high collar. Piccadilly Circus. 3: France's Tomb of the Unknown...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 51, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Veterinarians 1: Vets help prevent bird owners from catching psittacosis, known as this bird's "fever". Parrot fever. 2: In the U.S., to become a veterinarian, you'll need this 4-year professional degree. DVM (doctor of veterinary medicine). 3: When a veterinarian spays your dog, she...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 50, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 50, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Let's Get Married! 1: Instead of throwing rice, some guests release these insects--painted ladies, for example. butterflies. 2: There wasn't a traditional song for this pair to dance to at...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 49, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Bodies Of Water 1: Latvia's capital shares its name with this nearby gulf. Gulf of Riga. 2: Botany Bay on the coast of New South Wales, Australia is an inlet of this sea. the Tasman Sea. 3: It's the saltiest of the oceans and the second largest. Atlantic Ocean. 4: The Ukranians call t...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 48, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Familiar Tv Faces 1: Now practicing on "Ally McBeal", Peter MacNicol was killed off as a lawyer on this Midwestern medical show Chicago Hope . 2: Once Ferris Bueller's best friend Cameron, Alan Ruck plays the mayor's chief of staff on this sitcom Spin City . 3: The romantic Taster's C...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 47, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Lakes And Rivers 1: More chairs are thrown on "Jerry Springer", but her talk show that debuted in 1993 is still on the air, too Ricki Lake. 2: American river only 33 miles shorter than the Mississippi the Missouri. 3: River mentioned most often in the Bible the Jordan. 4: Hindus belie...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 46, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: States In Song 1: According to Beach Boys' hit, state with the cutest girls in the world California. 2: State where you'd find Elvis' rain and Diamond's woman Kentucky. 3: The alternate lyrics to "I've Been Working On The Railroad" "The Eyes Of Texas". 4: Patti Page hit that is offici...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 45, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Cell 1: This company beat out Qwest to buy MCI and become a telecom colossus Verizon. 2: This cellphone maker has jumped back to the No. 2 spot worldwide by a Razr's edge Motorola. 3: Started by SBC and Bellsouth, it's now a "one of a kind" company with its purchase of A and Wireless...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 44, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tv Attorneys 1: Many women were smitten with him when he played Victor Sifuentes on "L.A. Law" Jimmy Smits. 2: He played E.G. Marshall's lawyer son on "The Defenders" before he played dad to "The Brady Bunch" Robert Reed. 3: He played sleazy lawyer Marty Lang on the 1985 sitcom "Sara"...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 43, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Everything From A To X 1: The tip, point or summit apex. 2: A conclusion that is far less important or less powerful than expected anticlimax. 3: In 1613 some 60,000 died of this infectious disease in southern Europe anthrax. 4: To officially incorporate territory into a country's dom...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 42, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Nyc Business History 1: Last name of siblings Daniel, John and Elisha, who took over dad's clothing store in 1850 Brooks. 2: The Baker's Local No. 338 formed between 1910 and 1915 was for an elite group of bakers of these "Jewish Donuts" bagels. 3: George Dunlap joined up with this ma...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 41, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Start Me "Up" 1: 2 lines of rhyming verse at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet a couplet. 2: Plural word that's a synonym for a wedding ceremony nuptials. 3: From the Latin for "to break", it's political dishonesty for personal gain corruption. 4: You've really put your foot in it if...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 40, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Animals Aloft 1: In the 1940s this singing cowboy took his animal co-star Champion on airplane flights Gene Autry. 2: As part of a 1940s Arctic search and rescue unit, these team animals were parachuted in to help rescue downed pilots huskies (or malamutes). 3: This German WWI flying...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 39, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Sweet" Songs 1: It's the title of a 1963 Patsy Cline song and of a 1985 film biography of Patsy Cline starring Jessica Lange "Sweet Dreams". 2: This Neil Diamond hit is subtitled "Good Times Never Seemed So Good" "Sweet Caroline". 3: The Harlem Globetrotters use this song as a theme...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 38, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Almost Rhymes With Orange 1: The Italian city of this name has Il Duomo; the one in South Carolina has the Pee Dee Experiment Station Florence. 2: A cereal cooked in water or milk and eaten for breakfast; Baby Bear's was "just right" Porridge. 3: This adjective meaning "alien" might r...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 37, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: College Crossword Clues "C" 1: Degree ceremony (12) commencement. 2: 2-year college (9) community. 3: Holiday yule have off (9) Christmas. 4: Grounds for a college (6) campus. 5: Element-ary subject (9) chemistry. Round 2. Category: The Sixth Sense 1: Per the text of the Sixth Amendme...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 36, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Spiders 1: 1 of the world's most dangerous spiders is this country's Sydney funnel web Australia. 2: 2 of the 3 colors found in names of the "widow" spiders found in the U.S. (2 of) black, brown and red(-legged). 3: Scientists separate these hairy cousins from the "true spiders" taran...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 35, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Choose Your Weapon 1: An M1 Abrams is one of these vehicles with a moving turret that rides on caterpillar tracks tank. 2: Abbreviated SAM, it's a guided weapon meant to be fired from the ground (or from a ship) surface-to-air missile. 3: The Gatling gun was the first practical one of...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 34, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: January 1: The Treaty of this place, imposing reparations on Germany, took effect January 10, 1920 Versailles. 2: The U.S. slapped down $25 mil to buy this island group from Denmark January 17, 1917 the U.S. Virgin Islands. 3: On Jan. 30, 2000, at age 63, this Ram leader became the ol...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 33, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Take A Shot 1: Sport covered in the film "Slap Shot" hockey. 2: In volleyball, it's a hard smash close to the net almost straight down into the opponent's court spike. 3: A piece of random criticism that's easily made, or firing at game for food, not for sport potshot. 4: Animal term...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 32, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Warner Bros. Animation 1: Gaining his powers from exposure to mutagenetic gas, he's the African-American teen superhero seen here Static Shock. 2: These title crime fighters all live together in a tower that might be even messier than your room the Teen Titans. 3: This classic Warner...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 31, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Kareem 1: Kareem majored in history while leading this college's team to 3 straight national championships UCLA. 2: In 1989 Kareem finished his 20-year pro basketball career playing with this team Los Angeles Lakers. 3: In 1996 Kareem's strong interest in history inspired him to co-wr...