Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 30, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Yesterday 1: Zulu Prince Shaka conquered much of southern Africa when he adapted this throwing weapon for stabbing Spear. 2: He first led his red-shirted Italian legion in the 1840s, fighting for Uruguay against Argentina Giuseppe Garibaldi. 3: In 1915 this Michigan industrialist char...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 29, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: It's "Tea" Time 1: In the 1920s this scandal poured out of Wyoming Teapot Dome. 2: One of the 2 plays with "tea" in their title that earned Tony Awards for their actors in 1954 (1 of) Teahouse of the August Moon and Tea and Sympathy . 3: It's the spicy red fruit of the American winter...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 28, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: State Fish 1: Though this "regal" salmon is Alaska's state fish, it doesn't wear a crown king salmon. 2: This largest species of salmon, Oregon's state fish, shares its name with an Indian tribe and may grow to 3 feet the chinook salmon. 3: A Massachusetts cape is named for this state...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 27, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Sing It, Sister 1: She took the name of her band "Nine Stories" from a J.D. Salinger work Lisa Loeb. 2: This French-Canadian had only spoken English for about a year when she cut her 1990 English debut album "Unison" Celine Dion. 3: Her hits include "Miss You Much", "Escapade" and "Th...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 26, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Company Symbols 1: This black-and-white flightless bird is the symbol of a British-American book company a penguin. 2: The button fasteners on these jeans include the company name and S.F. Cal. Levi's. 3: This polishing soap's baby chick was created in the late 1890s; it still "hasn't...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 25, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Facts And Figures 1: 3-5 P.M. is the best time of day to post on this microblogging site if you want to be retweeted Twitter. 2: He was the last of the 3 men who were king of England during 1066 William the Conqueror. 3: He planted 64 poems in his "Child's Garden of Verses" Robert Lou...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 24, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Size Matters 1: Olive oil with oleic acid content under 1% is graded "Extra" this Extra Virgin. 2: To keep the ratios, for a 1:12 scale dollhouse buy a smaller dollhouse in this scale to put inside it 1:144. 3: American ones are 53 to 57 inches long and hang to the top of the belt buc...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 23, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: We're Here To "Win" 1: Castle community that the Queen calls home Windsor. 2: TV's Dr. Phil got his first big exposure on her show Oprah Winfrey. 3: If you're playing Florizel, you're in this late Shakespeare play The Winter's Tale . 4: City that's home to the Blue Bombers of the CFL...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 22, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Television Milestones 1: One of the first TV miniseries was this 1976 adaptation of a bestselling Irwin Shaw novel about 2 brothers Rich Man, Poor Man . 2: One of the first British productions to play in the U.S. was a 1955 series about this 12th century outlaw Robin Hood. 3: American...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 21, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: People In Space 1: Astronaut Michael Foale was left in the dark in June 1997 after a supply ship punctured this craft's Spektr module Mir. 2: With Deke Slayton grounded with a heart condition, this man got to be the second U.S. man in space Scott Carpenter. 3: James Lovell went on 2 A...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 20, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Jackson 5 1: The Big Apple's Jackson Heights is part of this borough Queens. 2: The 1953 Alan Ladd film "Shane" is among the many Westerns filmed in this valley east of the Tetons Jackson Hole. 3: During this Virginia battle, Stonewall Jackson was fired upon by his own men; he died a...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 19, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Just Like A Woman 1: Fred Grandy's character Gopher had this rank on "The Love Boat" yeoman. 2: Last name of the traveling salesman whose life was dramatized in a 1949 play (Willy) Loman. 3: This UCLA basketball coach led his team to a record 88 straight NCAA basketball victories John...

Welcome to the Just Trivia podcast episode 18, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Whatever 1: In "A Psalm of Life", Longfellow wrote of leaving "behind us" these "on the sands of time" footprints. 2: In 2011 a group of 28 people set a Guinness world record by cramming into one of these "mini" cars Mini Cooper. 3: This is how he looked in high school; today he's a tale...

Welcome to the Just Trivia podcast episode 17, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: General Information 1: Found in Southeast Asia, they're the smallest apes gibbons. 2: This title folk story guy steals a golden egg-laying hen, bags of gold & a golden harp; the "giant-cide" comes later Jack. 3: Playing the pass line in craps, it's the winning number on the opening roll...

Welcome to the Just Trivia podcast episode 16, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Feeling "Ill" 1: It's the "Prairie State" Illinois. 2: A large stiff feather, or a porcupine spine Quill. 3: The rate of this in Gambia is about 60 percent illiteracy. 4: From the Latin for "illegal" or "against the law", it can denote certain activities or drugs Illicit. 5: Spock knows...

Welcome to the Just Trivia podcast episode 15, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Eight. 1: On "M*A*S*H" Klinger dressed in women's clothes to try to qualify for this type of insanity discharge Section 8 discharge. 2: The 8 in this collegiate group include Yale, Brown and Harvard The Ivy League. 3: The Eightfold Path leads to release from suffering in this religion Bu...

Welcome to the Just Trivia podcast episode 14, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. The category is: From Book To Tv. Question 1: In 1979 this James Jones novel was a miniseries with Steve Railsback in Montgomery Clift's movie role The answer is: . From Here to Eternity Question 2: Christopher Plummer narrated a 1993 Family Channel series about this Paris schoolgirl The answer is...

Welcome to the Just Trivia podcast episode 13, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. The category is: name the james. Question 1: Founded Savannah and the Georgia colony The answer is: James Oglethorpe. Question 2: The fourth and fifth U.S. Presidents The answer is: James Madison and James Monroe. Question 3: Discovered the Hawaiian islands The answer is: (James) Cook. Question 4:...

Welcome to the Just Trivia podcast episode 12, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. The category is: keep your pantheon. Question 1: Pryderi is the son of this ancient people's god Pwyll and Rhiannon is his consort The answer is: Welsh. Question 2: Associated with artists and craftsmen, Ptah was a creator god of these ancient people The answer is: Egyptians. Question 3: Yama is a...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 11, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Care To See My Etchings? 1: This man worked with Robert Havell on some etchings so that his "Birds of America" could find a publisher. (John James) Audubon. 2: He created etchings of Paul Gachet, a doctor who in 1890 took him in and cared for him at Auvers. van Gogh. 3: One of his mos...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 10, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Tv Goes To Work 1: He's the assistant director of personnel at Cleveland's Winfred-Louder Department Store. Drew Carey. 2: Bill McNeal and Catherine Duke are behind the mikes at WNYX on this sitcom. NewsRadio . 3: Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson played editor and reporter for the New...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 9, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: October Fest 1: This U.S. university was founded October 28, 1636. Harvard. 2: In late October 1922, he became premier of Italy. Benito Mussolini. 3: Martin Sheen played Bobby Kennedy in this 1974 TV movie about a crisis in Cuba. The Missiles of October . 4: This Middle Eastern preside...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 8, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Parents 1: Maiden name of the mother of Martin Luther King III. Scott. 2: In the Bible, King Solomon takes the throne of this man, his father. David. 3: After his parents died, this poet was raised by his wealthy foster father, John Allan. Edgar Allan Poe. 4: A college student studying...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 7, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Hail, Hail Rock 'N' Roll 1: In this 1971 hit, Don McLean wrote that "Something touched me deep inside the day the music died". "American Pie". 2: In 1978 the Bee Gees spent a total of 13 weeks at No. 1 and this youngest brother took the top spot for 9 weeks. Andy Gibb. 3: "Roll Over Be...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 6, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Dancing Painfully With The Stars 1: OK, he's 400 feet tall with bad fire breath, but as long as we don't go near Tokyo, this title guy can really samba. Godzilla. 2: Hope your salsa is up to snuff when you team with Det. Sonny Crockett's pet alligator, Elvis, from this show. Miami Vice...