Instant Trivia

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 572, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Silver Screen 1: You should know that she played Batgirl in "Batman and Robin" -- unless you're "Clueless". Alicia Silverstone. 2: 1960 film that says "Matricide is probably the most unbearable crime of all", especially for "the son who commits it". Psycho . 3: Rent the 1978 film...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 571, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Know Beans 1: To make the popular Mexican dish frijoles negros, begin with these beans. Black beans. 2: It's the bean whose "milk" is used to make tofu. Soybean. 3: When making a homemade pot of pork and beans, you'll be at sea without these beans. Navy beans. 4: Like contracts, runn...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 570, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: "Sick" 1: It's junior's longing for mommy and daddy his 1st time away at summer camp. homesick. 2: Beanie's friend Cecil was this type of sea serpent. seasick. 3: Tool a loyal communist would use to cut wheat. sickle. 4: Thoroughly fatigued and bored, or a Fats Domino hit of 1958. "S...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 569, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Bringing Home The Bacon 1: Served hot or cold, this "European" style of potato salad is made with vinegar and bacon. German. 2: Spaghetti a la this has a sauce made with eggs, cream, Parmesan cheese and Italian bacon. carbonara. 3: Oui! This thick, round cut of lean beef tenderloin i...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 568, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Yangtze Doodle 1: The Grand Canal connects the Yangtze River to this other major river. the Yellow River. 2: The 2 rivers in the world that are longer than the Yangtze. the Amazon and the Nile. 3: The Yangtze flows through this province that's China's most populous and known for its...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 567, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Animal Adjectives 1: Something shabby, as though gnawed by rodents. ratty. 2: What you might feel after spilling wine all over your hostess' lamb chops. sheepish. 3: A vulpine synonym for sexy. foxy. 4: Lupine, like the Ethiopian or the timber. the wolf. 5: Anserine, like the snow or...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 566, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Also An Auto 1: This Kate Mulgrew "Star Trek" show would've been very different if the crew traveled around space in the Chrysler van. Star Trek: Voyager . 2: It won't tax you much to take a gamble and name this Riviera city 9 miles from Nice, France. Monte Carlo. 3: One might think...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 565, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: The Letter T 1: 'T is short for this in words like 'twas. it. 2: It's cut from the center of the short loin. the t-bone. 3: In 18th c. England, a person with a T branded on his thumb was one of these felons. a thief. 4: The phrase "it fits to a T" alludes to this device used to draw...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 564, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Yogi Berra: Philosopher 1: Completes Yogi's simple but profound statement "It ain't over 'til...". it's over. 2: Yogi surmised that in baseball "90 percent of the game is half" this. mental. 3: Yogi once asked that this food dish be cut in 4 pieces because he wasn't hungry enough to...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 563, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Short Stories 1: "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" was one of the "Nine Stories" he published after "Catcher in the Rye". J.D. Salinger. 2: The 1922 play "Rain" is a dramatization of "Miss Thompson", this author's story about Sadie Thompson. Somerset Maugham. 3: In this O. Henry story,...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 562, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: At The Building Site 1: He's got the building wired for "current" affairs. an electrician. 2: The current affairs this person deals with are labelled H and C. the plumber. 3: A Fats Waller is a pianist and this "waller" is an installer of plasterboard. a drywaller. 4: He'll get you s...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 561, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Wood Lives! 1: In song, it's asked to "weep for me". a willow. 2: Film with line "A boy who won't be good might just as well be made of wood". Pinocchio . 3: Completes John Heywood's line from 1546: "You can't see the wood...". for the trees. 4: Shade tree with heart-shaped leaves of...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 560, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: You Just Saved My Blank 1: Similar to but smaller than a mesa, it's also a city in Montana. butte. 2: It's a foot covering for skiers, or a trunk on a British car. a boot. 3: From an old word meaning "exchange", it's a pirate's ill-gained loot. booty. 4: It's the group of football pl...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 559, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Last But Not Least 1: He was the last U.S. president not sworn in by the Chief Justice of the U.S.. Lyndon Johnson. 2: Number of the last complete symphony by Beethoven. 9. 3: This band gave its last concert with Jerry Garcia at Chicago's Soldier Field in 1995. the Grateful Dead. 4:...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 558, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Missed It By That Much... 1: Luke Floorwalker was the hero of my script "Store Wars", a better tale than this director's "Star Wars" movie. George Lucas. 2: My small tool trading game Minipulley didn't do as well as this property trading game by Charles Darrow. Monopoly. 3: I invente...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 557, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Working On The Railroad 1: A whiskey and beer drink, or what Richard Trevithick had to be to make the first locomotive. Boilermaker. 2: Whether from Wichita or not, it's a railroad worker who repairs the metal train tracks. a lineman. 3: In 1880 he set up his own U.S. town to build h...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 556, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Automobile Trivia 1: =. =. 2: The roofs of London taxicabs have extra height so gentlemen won't knock these off. tophats. 3: Most automobile horns beep on this note, 4th of the C scale. F. 4: According to 1980 census, within 5%, the % of all cars in the world that are in the U.S.. 37...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 555, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Flower Power 1: You can get a low-cal treat by sniffing Cosmos astrosanguineus, with the aroma of this sweet treat. Chocolate. 2: This popular Christmas flower comes in several different colors, but the red variety is in greatest demand. the poinsettia. 3: This "bruised" Maryland sta...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 554, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: It's A Leap 1: It's the next year that will be a leap year. 2000. 2: Some of these largest marsupials can travel up to 16 feet in one leap. Kangaroos. 3: In 1958 this country predicted its Great Leap Forward would establish a Communist utopia. China. 4: In song Kenny Loggins and Bruc...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 553, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Texans 1: The younger sister of Phylicia Rashad, this dancer won 2 Emmys for her choreography on "Fame". Debbie Allen. 2: Anchorman who wrote a memoir titled "The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures in TV Journalism". Dan Rather. 3: When orphaned at age 17, he took control of his father'...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 552, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Film Noir Lingo 1: When Dana Andrews used this term for women in "Laura", he didn't mean they'd been knighted. dame. 2: Change one letter in "champ" to get this word for a fool or patsy. a chump. 3: Slang name of Philip Marlowe's job in "Murder, My Sweet", or first name of actor Powe...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 551, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: True Story 1: Dr. Jerri Nielsen gives her account of discovering that she had breast cancer while "ice bound" here. the South Pole. 2: "Into Thin Air" is his account of scaling Everest and the tragedy that befell others around him. Jon Krakauer. 3: Wonder what it's like to be a girl...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 550, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Reagan 101 1: The state where Ronald Reagan was born in 1911. Illinois. 2: The year he took up residence in the White House. 1981. 3: Nickname he gained from his role in "Knute Rockne--All American". "The Gipper". 4: His term as president of this began in 1947. the Screen Actors Guil...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 549, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: All Fall Down 1: "Saturday Night Live" comic known for pratfalls he took imitating Gerald Ford. Chevy Chase. 2: The World Book calls them "generally more clumsy" than frogs. toads. 3: Popular comic strip with a character known as Clumsy Carp. B.C. . 4: Familiar nursery rhyme from whi...

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 548, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Welcome To Denver 1: Located at 1340 Pennsylvania Street, the house of this storied Titanic survivor is preserved as it was in 1910. Molly Brown. 2: The Denver Zoo has the world's largest indoor habitat for this giant Indonesian lizard. the Komodo dragon. 3: The Kirkland Museum has e...