Instant Trivia

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...

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...