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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1227, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Missing Man

  • 1: Aboard Apollo 11:Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin.
  • (Michael) Collins.
  • 2: In a famous double-play combo:Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers.
  • Frank Chance.
  • 3: In the name of an optical products company:John Jacob Bausch.
  • (Henry) Lomb.
  • 4: In a legendary trio:Balthazar, Melchior.
  • Caspar.
  • 5: On an 1896 Republican presidential ticket:Garret A. Hobart.
  • McKinley.

Round 2. Category: The Reformation

  • 1: This king's demand for an annulment aided the spread of the Reformation to England.
  • Henry VIII.
  • 2: Some reformers insisted that this initiatory rite be performed not on infants but on adults who had made a choice.
  • baptism.
  • 3: The Reformation's greatest leaders were Martin Luther in Germany and this Geneva-based Frenchman.
  • Calvin.
  • 4: Contrary to church doctrine, the Reformation declared that grace was a reward for this, not for works.
  • faith.
  • 5: Around 1545 the Catholic Church launched this movement to oppose the Protestants.
  • the Counter-Reformation.

Round 3. Category: The New York Knocks

  • 1: Anyone from Boston will tell you the New England type of this, with milk, tops Manhattan's, with tomatoes.
  • chowder.
  • 2: The title of this Broadway musical that opened on May 5, 1955 makes its feelings about the local baseball team quite apparent.
  • Damn Yankees.
  • 3: Tough times at this arena, the "Mecca of Basketball", as even Pixar dunked on the Knicks in "Soul", explaining decades of futility.
  • Madison Square Garden.
  • 4: In their 1979 Top 40 hit "Shattered", this group sang, "Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots"... shadoobie.
  • The Rolling Stones.
  • 5: A Yelper on this landmark connecting Canal St. and Jersey City: a "traffic jam tunnel. If you have a small bladder like me, good luck".
  • the Holland Tunnel.

Round 4. Category: Last Words

  • 1: This 1892 Leoncavallo opera ends with "La commedia e finita", or "The comedy is finished".
  • I Pagliacci.
  • 2: This term for "the end of the line" was once a god celebrated at the end of the Roman year.
  • terminus.
  • 3: In Clement Moore poem, what Santa said after "Happy Christmas to all".
  • and to all a good night.
  • 4: "Crito, I owe a cock to Aesculapius; do not forget to pay it".
  • Socrates.
  • 5: Founder of Communism, he said, "last words are for fools who haven't said enough".
  • Karl Marx.

Round 5. Category: It Sounds Like

  • 1: Jay Leno's show, it sounds like how you address a letter for Sir Galahad.
  • Tonight.
  • 2: A cylindrical storage container for grain, it sounds like an order to exhale quietly.
  • Silo.
  • 3: A pitcher who comes in late in the game, it sounds like a feeling trees have in the spring.
  • Relief.
  • 4: It sounds like the kind of personality most likely to have a heart attack in the capital of Taiwan.
  • Taipei.
  • 5: A runway material, it sounds like what you do before you feather your Apple computer.
  • Tarmac.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1226, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: To The Mountaintop!

  • 1: The Gouter Route is the most popular path from Chamonix up this "roof of Europe".
  • Mont Blanc.
  • 2: Washington State Route 706 will take you to the national park for your climb to the 14,410-foot top of this.
  • Mount Rainier.
  • 3: It takes about 6 hours to hike up this via the Yoshida Trail from the Subaru Line 5th Station.
  • Mount Fuji.
  • 4: The West Buttress Route is the standard way up this North American one of the 7 Summits.
  • Denali.
  • 5: The nearby village of Cevirme is a good place to start your ascent of this 16,900-foot Turkish peak.
  • Ararat.

Round 2. Category: February

  • 1: As of Feb. 7, 1943, these were rationed to a limit of 3 leather pairs per civilian per year.
  • shoes.
  • 2: His Feb. 11, 1990 release from a South African jail after some 27 years made world headlines.
  • (Nelson) Mandela.
  • 3: Date of the next leap year day.
  • February 29, 1992.
  • 4: On February 23, 1863, Captains Speke and Grant announced they had found the source of this river.
  • the Nile.
  • 5: Congress established this National Park in Arizona February 26, 1919.
  • the Grand Canyon.

Round 3. Category: Track

  • 1: On August 16, 1995 this country's Haile Gebrselassie set the world record in the 5,000-meter run at 12:44:39.
  • Ethiopia.
  • 2: The "anchor" for this type of event is no dead weight; he's usually the team's fastest runner.
  • Relay race.
  • 3: This track star's authorized hats and T-shirts sold in Europe and Asia proclaim him to be "King Carl".
  • Carl Lewis.
  • 4: This 3,000-meter event consists of 28 3-foot-high hurdles and 7 12-foot-long water jumps.
  • steeplechase.
  • 5: On June 1, 1997 Donovan Bailey defeated this sprinter in a special 150-meter match race to win $1.5 million.
  • Michael Johnson.

Round 4. Category: Cover Me

  • 1: A bandage covering a wound, or a preparation covering a salad.
  • dressing.
  • 2: Used to prevent soil erosion, rye and buckwheat are alliteratively planted as "cover" these.
  • crops.
  • 3: "Easy, breezy, beautiful..." is a pitch of this makeup brand.
  • Cover Girl.
  • 4: An independent record label of yore, or a pupal covering for butterflies.
  • a chrysalis.
  • 5: In military slang, your "cover" refers to this article of clothing.
  • a helmet (or hat).

Round 5. Category: Hope You'Re Well Read...

  • 1: In this 1903 book, Buck, a dog in California, is stolen and taken to the Klondike.
  • The Call of the Wild.
  • 2: In 1798 he wrote several poems, including "France: An Ode" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
  • Coleridge.
  • 3: Gloria Naylor took home a 1983 National Book Award for "The Women of" this "Place".
  • Brewster Place.
  • 4: A 1980 Mordecai Richler novel told about this character "Then and Now".
  • Joshua.
  • 5: With his Mommy Dearest, this Frances Hodgson Burnett title character moves to England and inherits a title.
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1225, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Around The Garden?

  • 1: A reward is paired with a punishment in the phrase this veggie "and stick".
  • carrot.
  • 2: It's the mysterious dying utterance of the title character of "Citizen Kane".
  • Rosebud.
  • 3: This 2-word phrase refers to something unimportant, probably referring to a tuber that wasn't worth peeling.
  • small potatoes.
  • 4: In a Simon and Garfunkel song, this quartet is in the line after "Are you going to Scarborough Fair?".
  • parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
  • 5: On a military uniform, this "cluster" denotes further awards of a decoration already received.
  • the oak leaf cluster.

Round 2. Category: Elizabeth Taylor

  • 1: When asked what she wanted on her tombstone, she replied, "Here lies Elizabeth. She hated to be called" this.
  • Liz.
  • 2: This man married her in Montreal and then again in Botswana.
  • Richard Burton.
  • 3: Elizabeth Taylor was the first star to earn a million dollars for a film, for this 1963 title role.
  • Cleopatra.
  • 4: On January 15, 2001 this man who has been married 7 times interviewed Ms. Taylor on TV.
  • Larry King.
  • 5: On New Year's Eve 1999, Queen Elizabeth awarded her this title.
  • Dame.

Round 3. Category: Atch, You!. With Atch in quotation marks

  • 1: To emerge from an egg.
  • hatch.
  • 2: A small wooden igniter.
  • a match.
  • 3: A roof made with straw.
  • thatch.
  • 4: To withdraw a horse from a race.
  • scratch.
  • 5: A spring-loaded door lock.
  • a latch.

Round 4. Category: Yes, You May

  • 1: AKA a dun, this 4-winged insect has multiple tails and does not eat.
  • a mayfly.
  • 2: She collaborated with Warren Beatty on "Heaven Can Wait" (hooray!) and on "Ishtar" (did we mention "Heaven Can Wait"?).
  • Elaine May.
  • 3: Swedes set these up for their midsummer festivals in June--a few weeks late, we think.
  • a maypole.
  • 4: Cape May is a resort town in this state, down the shore from Point Pleasant.
  • New Jersey.
  • 5: Her first novel, "Moods", was published in 1864.
  • Louisa May Alcott.

Round 5. Category: In Country

  • 1: Tampico,Oaxaca,Mazatlan.
  • Mexico.
  • 2: Kakata,Buchanan,Monrovia.
  • Liberia.
  • 3: Zakinthos,Andros,Pappades.
  • Greece.
  • 4: Uranium City,Inuvik,Yellowknife.
  • Canada.
  • 5: Sao Luis,Manaus,Rio Verde.
  • Brazil.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1224, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Grease

  • 1: A Hawaiian greasy spoon might well serve a dish called musubi made with rice, seaweed and this Hormel product.
  • Spam.
  • 2: Every March brings the national day named for this sometimes-greasy treat.
  • a corndog.
  • 3: Though we doubt he did it in a "hut", a New Zealand man set a Guinness record by eating a 12" this in 1 min., 45 secs..
  • a pizza.
  • 4: The photo here will settle this breakfast dish.
  • hash browns.
  • 5: This sandwich with a city name is a French roll with thin slices of beef, sauteed onions and a certain dairy product.
  • a Philly cheesesteak.

Round 2. Category: We'Re Going To The Movies

  • 1: My favorite part of going is watching the previews called these, like something a car pulls.
  • trailers.
  • 2: I love this format that gives "up to 40% more image" and "highest quality 3D".
  • IMAX.
  • 3: The ticket guy knows me, so I'm front row center for this 2016 monster movie sequel with an address for a title.
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane.
  • 4: I scream, you scream for these bite-sized chocolate-covered ice cream treats with a double talk name.
  • bonbons.
  • 5: Before we go, we should check out the ratings on this website that sounds like something you throw at a bad film.
  • Rotten Tomatoes (rottentomatoes.com).

Round 3. Category: Farewell To The Chief

  • 1: August 2, 1923 in San Francisco, California.
  • Harding.
  • 2: July 4, 1826.
  • John Adams (or Thomas Jefferson).
  • 3: December 14, 1799 at his home in Virginia.
  • George Washington.
  • 4: December 26, 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri.
  • (Harry) Truman.
  • 5: His ride ended on January 6, 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York.
  • Teddy Roosevelt.

Round 4. Category: -Oon

  • 1: The name of this type of storm means "great wind".
  • a typhoon.
  • 2: This 1947 musical is set in the highlands of Scotland.
  • Brigadoon.
  • 3: This gold coin of Spain was once worth 8 escudos.
  • a doubloon.
  • 4: This Saskatchewan city was named for a local red berry.
  • Saskatoon.
  • 5: It's the French dialect spoken in the southern part of Belgium.
  • Walloon.

Round 5. Category: 2004 Oscar Nominations

  • 1: This acclaimed film about a trip through wine country got 5 nominations, including Best Picture.
  • Sideways.
  • 2: Clive Owen and Natalie Portman both received nominations for supporting roles in this drama.
  • Closer.
  • 3: Brad Bird was nominated for his original screenplay for this animated hit.
  • The Incredibles.
  • 4: Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke acted in this film, but were nominated for writing its screenplay.
  • Before Sunset.
  • 5: Johnny Depp received his second Oscar nomination for playing this author in "Finding Neverland".
  • J.M. Barrie.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1223, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: A Disaster Of Biblical Proportions

  • 1: There's a lot of smiting and destroying after this group steals the Ark of God; things don't end well for Goliath, either.
  • the Philistines.
  • 2: After this man makes burnt offerings, "The Lord said... neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done".
  • Noah.
  • 3: These insects "did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left".
  • locusts.
  • 4: The Lord says, "Your children shall wander in the wilderness" for this length of time, "until your carcases be wasted".
  • 40 years.
  • 5: In 2 Kings this king of Babylon "cut in pieces all the vessels of gold... in the Temple of the Lord".
  • Nebuchadnezzar.

Round 2. Category: River Damage

  • 1: A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is mainly caused by an excess of this element, much of it carried by the Mississippi.
  • nitrogen.
  • 2: Sediment from erosion hurts rivers because this can't penetrate the water, hindering the ecosystem.
  • sunlight.
  • 3: Surface runoff from farms or your lawn can add these chemicals, like chlordane, to your local river.
  • pesticides.
  • 4: This country's Sarno river is the most polluted in Europe.
  • Italy.
  • 5: You may not love the time of this disease that's been called the "archetype of waterborne illnesses".
  • cholera.

Round 3. Category: The Royal They

  • 1: 1894 to 1918: blank II and blank.
  • Nicholas and Alexandra.
  • 2: 1660 to 1683: this radiant royal and Marie-Therese.
  • Louis XIV.
  • 3: 1956 to 1982:he and Grace.
  • Rainier.
  • 4: 1924 to 1989: he and Nagako.
  • Hirohito.
  • 5: 1677 to 1694:they.
  • William and Mary.

Round 4. Category: Let'S Put On A Play

  • 1: Your cousin might know a friend of the roommate of a nephew of the lawyer of John Guare, who wrote this 1990 play.
  • Six Degrees of Separation.
  • 2: A book is the example of the "hand" type of these; a bookcase is an example of the "set" type.
  • Props.
  • 3: "Edible" name for a common type of water-soluble stage makeup.
  • Pancake.
  • 4: From Greek for "entrance to a tent", it's the arch that separates the stage from the auditorium.
  • the proscenium.
  • 5: Founded in 1913, this stage actors' union represents about 40,000 members in the U.S..
  • Equity.

Round 5. Category: 1951

  • 1: In 1951 it celebrated its 175th anniversary and was sealed in a helium-filled case.
  • the Declaration of Independence.
  • 2: On February 26 a constitutional amendment became law, limiting the holder of this office to 2 terms.
  • President of the United States.
  • 3: In May, this utility co. became the 1st corporation in the world to have over 1,000,000 stockholders.
  • ATandT.
  • 4: On Oct. 24,1951, Truman declared our state of war with this country had finally ended.
  • Germany.
  • 5: 90 cadets at this academy were ousted in a cheating scandal.
  • West Point.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1222, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Water Music

  • 1: This song by Otis Redding mentions "the Frisco Bay" and "Watchin' the tide roll away".
  • "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay".
  • 2: Ike and Tina Turner were "rollin' on the river" with this song.
  • "Proud Mary".
  • 3: In 2016 this British woman had a hit with "Water Under The Bridge".
  • Adele.
  • 4: Carly Simon wrote "Let The River Run" for this film starring Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford.
  • Working Girl.
  • 5: Joe Jonas of this 4-letter group described "Cake By The Ocean" as a party anthem.
  • DNCE.

Round 2. Category: Hill Of Beans

  • 1: In a 1910 toast J.C. Bossidy called this city "The home of the bean and the cod".
  • Boston.
  • 2: Using the old bean, Old Bean, mean you're using this, Old Chap.
  • your brain (your head).
  • 3: Of navy, green or pinto, the bean not named for its looks.
  • navy.
  • 4: It's what Jack traded for those magic beans.
  • a cow.
  • 5: This word comes from Mandarin Chinese for bean and curdled.
  • tofu.

Round 3. Category: Short Story Fill-In

  • 1: Twain:"The blank Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".
  • Celebrated.
  • 2: Ambrose Bierce:"An Occurrence at blank Creek Bridge".
  • Owl.
  • 3: Annie Proulx:"blank Mountain".
  • Brokeback.
  • 4: Faulkner:"A Rose for blank".
  • Emily.
  • 5: Flannery O'Connor:"A Good Man Is blank blank blank".
  • Hard to Find.

Round 4. Category: My Baby. With My in quotes

  • 1: "My doctor said" to take this liquid antacid from Johnson and Johnson.
  • Mylanta.
  • 2: It's the real first name of "60 Minutes" reporter Mike Wallace.
  • Myron.
  • 3: It's a trade name for biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate.
  • Mylar.
  • 4: This white fatty material insulates brain nerves in sheaths and enables enhanced transmission of impulses.
  • myelin.
  • 5: Agamemnon was from this region that was an important center in ancient Greece.
  • Mycenae.

Round 5. Category: Army AntS. With Ant in quotes

  • 1: This branch of the U.S. Army is its principal land combat force.
  • infantry.
  • 2: AAA is this type of artillery used to defend against attack from above.
  • anti-aircraft.
  • 3: A 3-star general is also known as this type and somewhat surprisingly, outranks a major one.
  • lieutenant (lieutenant general).
  • 4: The Army of the Potomac turned back the Army of Northern Virginia at this famously bloody 1862 battle.
  • Antietam.
  • 5: In the U.S. Army, a WO1 is this type of officer, the army's tactical and technical experts.
  • a warrant officer.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1221, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: That Movie'S Genius

  • 1: Doc Brown created the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible, in this film.
  • Back to the Future.
  • 2: Dr. Ryan Stone is a medical engineer on her first shuttle mission in this 2013 film.
  • Gravity.
  • 3: An un-Gandhi-like Ben Kingsley takes a child chess prodigy under his wing in this 1993 film.
  • Searching for Bobby Fischer.
  • 4: Hugh Jackman is super-hacker Stanley Jobson in this 2001 film; give us the password.
  • Swordfish.
  • 5: Coal miner's son Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal) takes up rocketry in this film.
  • October Sky.

Round 2. Category: Internal Rhyme Verbs

  • 1: Hyphenated verb meaning to quaff an entire beer in one go.
  • chug-a-lug.
  • 2: This gathering of Native Americans is also a verb meaning "to confer".
  • powwow.
  • 3: To keep going on the same course, or to stay at the same weight.
  • maintain.
  • 4: From the Chinese, it means to show excessive subservience.
  • kowtow.
  • 5: To spend time with the rich and famous.
  • hobnob.

Round 3. Category: Measure Up

  • 1: It was supposed to equal the distance from Henry VIII's nose to the tip of his outstretched thumb.
  • a yard.
  • 2: It's really gross, man, when you have a gross which is this many dozen.
  • 12.
  • 3: The number of square inches in a square foot.
  • 144.
  • 4: 1 astronomical unit = about 93 million miles, the average distance between these 2 objects.
  • the Earth and the Sun.
  • 5: This measure of booze equals .666 jigger or 1 ounce.
  • a shot.

Round 4. Category: Art Books

  • 1: The diary of young Julie Manet has been published as "Growing Up With" this group of painters.
  • the Impressionists.
  • 2: Great painters? Just tracers, per the book "Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old" these.
  • Masters.
  • 3: "A Life Discovered" is the subtitle of a book about this enigmatic woman, the most famous portrait sitter of all time.
  • the Mona Lisa.
  • 4: Hayden Herrera's biography of this Mexican woman was the basis for a movie.
  • Frida Kahlo.
  • 5: The "Basic Genre" series includes "Landscape", "Self-Portraits" and this, with a cover showing fruit on a table.
  • Still Life.

Round 5. Category: Umbrella Potpourri

  • 1: This umbrella-wielding Batman foe made his comic book debut in 1941 in Detective Comics No. 58.
  • the Penguin.
  • 2: The sun is out,so the light umbrellas carried here are known by this word.
  • parasol.
  • 3: In 2007 her "Umbrella" was named MTV's Monster Single of the Year.
  • Rihanna.
  • 4: In 2011, his last full year as French president, he got a Kevlar-coated umbrella as part of his protection.
  • Nicolas Sarkozy.
  • 5: This insurance company lost its umbrella logo when it merged with Citicorp in 1998 but later purchased it back.
  • Travelers.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1220, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Olde Music

  • 1: Solo piano works by this man include 1846's Opus 60 "Barcarolle" and 17 Polish songs.
  • (Frédéric) Chopin.
  • 2: "Die Zauberflöte" in German, this Mozart opera premiered in 1791, just months before the composer's death.
  • The Magic Flute.
  • 3: Compositions by Bach include "Toccata and" this "in D minor" as well as "The Art of the" this.
  • Fugue.
  • 4: Handel's 5-movement orchestral suite, "Music for the Royal" these, premiered in 1749 and naturally preceded a display.
  • Fireworks.
  • 5: One of Gabriel Faure's most famous pieces is his pavane, a centuries-old dance that gets its name from this Italian "P" city.
  • Padua.

Round 2. Category: Anagrammed Food And Drink

  • 1: If you're watching your carbs, eat these plain, not in cakes.
  • crabs (from carbs).
  • 2: Let's shop for this beer ingredient.
  • hops.
  • 3: We all scream for it:MICE CARE.
  • ice cream.
  • 4: When I'm in a slump, these purple fruits perk me up.
  • plums (from slump).
  • 5: I'll dine on this English custard and cake dessert, then let it filter through my body.
  • trifle.

Round 3. Category: Overcoming Obstacles

  • 1: Diagnosed with ALS in the '60s and given a few years to live, he lived another 50+ to become one of the greatest scientific minds of all time.
  • Hawking.
  • 2: Joe Biden used to read poetry for hours in front of a mirror to help overcome this speech disorder.
  • a stutter.
  • 3: This Swedish teen activist says of her Asperger's, "I'm sometimes a bit different... and... being different is a superpower".
  • (Greta) Thunberg.
  • 4: Legally deaf, this Oscar-winning actress was instrumental in getting closed captioning on TV and streaming.
  • (Marlee) Matlin.
  • 5: Born without a right hand, he pitched with his left, playing 10 seasons for 4 different MLB teams.
  • Jim Abbott.

Round 4. Category: Not Making It To The End Of The Movie

  • 1: Tina Fey said "Gravity" was about how this actor would rather float away and die in space than spend time with a woman his own age.
  • George Clooney.
  • 2: Bad puddy tat! This evil uncle admits fratricide when he whispers, "I killed Mufasa" to Simba.
  • Scar.
  • 3: Gwyneth Paltrow returns to the U.S. from Hong Kong, sickens and dies and this 2011 pandemic thriller is off and running.
  • Contagion.
  • 4: Look how they massacred my boy; James Caan wore 100-plus squibs to pay a heavy price at the tollbooth in this 1972 film.
  • The Godfather.
  • 5: Sometimes, you get older, adamantium in your body poisons you and a clone of your younger self up and kills you, like this 2017 guy.
  • Logan.

Round 5. Category: We Invented Stuff

  • 1: By 1881 his Menlo Park home had been set up with a complete electric lighting system.
  • Edison.
  • 2: In 1814 Robert Fulton developed "Fulton the First", the first warship powered by this force.
  • steam.
  • 3: On Feb. 14, 1876 Elisha Gray attempted to file a patent for this invention; however, Bell beat him by hours.
  • the telephone.
  • 4: In 1868 Carlos Glidden and Partners patented this 1st machine that wrote faster than one could write by hand.
  • a typewriter.
  • 5: During WWII, this rocketry pioneer served as director of research for the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics.
  • Goddard.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1219, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: At The Museum

  • 1: The Ulster Museum in Belfast displays treasures from the Girona and 2 other ships that were part of this famed fleet.
  • the Spanish Armada.
  • 2: An Oregon science museum has the USS Blueback, one of these; in addition to its navy days, it was in "The Hunt For Red October".
  • a submarine.
  • 3: (Alex Trebek reads the clue from the Smithsonian.) Higher than normal counters helped accommodate the 6'2" height of this chef, who used this very kitchen not only privately, but also to achieve television fame--bon appetit !.
  • Julia Child.
  • 4: Here's an early work by this artist, from the Pittsburgh museum that's devoted to him.
  • (Andy) Warhol.
  • 5: This specialized London museum has some 160,000 images of specific people, including 89 of Henry VIII and 116 of Elizabeth I.
  • National Portrait Gallery.

Round 2. Category: Energy Sources

  • 1: Used in reactors, this element's 239 isotope has a half-life of 24,360 years.
  • plutonium.
  • 2: It's the brand of battery that keeps going and going and going....
  • Energizer.
  • 3: Today a barrel of crude oil yields about 19 gallons of it.
  • gasoline.
  • 4: It's harvested in blocks, dried and used for fuel in Ireland.
  • peat.
  • 5: Water power is hydropower; this is steam power produced from water heated naturally in the earth.
  • geothermal power.

Round 3. Category: British Fictional Characters

  • 1: Disraeli created Vivian Grey; he created Dorian Gray.
  • Oscar Wilde.
  • 2: He created Mrs. Flanders, also known as Moll.
  • Daniel Defoe.
  • 3: Griffin is the name of this H.G. Wells title character.
  • the Invisible Man.
  • 4: Richard Llewellyn novel with coal miner Gwilym Morgan and minister Mr. Gruffydd.
  • How Green Was My Valley.
  • 5: Self-described "singleton" whose bestselling "diary" was concocted by Helen Fielding.
  • Bridget Jones.

Round 4. Category: Explorers And Travelers

  • 1: It's the passage sought but not found by Cartier, Frobisher and Franklin.
  • Northwest Passage.
  • 2: This Venetian traveler believed he found the kingdom of legendary King Prester John.
  • Marco Polo.
  • 3: In 1799 Alexander Von Humboldt set out to prove the Orinoco connects to this longer river.
  • Amazon.
  • 4: Vitus Bering was born in Denmark, but explored the Arctic for this European power.
  • Russia.
  • 5: 19th century world traveler Isabella Bird was the first female member of this British society founded in 1830.
  • Royal Geographical Society.

Round 5. Category: I'D Rather Have

  • 1: Instead of any current politician, I'd have lunch with this 16th president and hear about frontier life.
  • Lincoln.
  • 2: Instead of a fancy restaurant meal, I'd rather have a backyard cookout serving up grilled these, like brats and chorizos.
  • sausages.
  • 3: For a good guard dog, I'd pick from the AKC's list of them that includes the Doberman one of these, but not the miniature one.
  • A Pinscher.
  • 4: I'd rather see this epic 1962 movie biography set in the desert in a theater at 70mm projection than on a cell phone.
  • Lawrence of Arabia.
  • 5: Instead of a beer, I'd rather have this French wine that Food and Wine Mag calls "the world's most popular white".
  • chardonnay.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1218, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: All You Need Is Love. With Love in quotation marks

  • 1: The Internet is full of tips to get rid of these, the bulges of fat at the sides of the waist.
  • love handles.
  • 2: Rawlings makes them for ballplayers.
  • gloves.
  • 3: It's also called a courting chair.
  • a love seat.
  • 4: Split, like some hooves.
  • cloven.
  • 5: It seceded from Yugoslavia in 1991.
  • Slovenia.

Round 2. Category: Triple Alliteration

  • 1: One of this organization's missions is "calling out and addressing substandard marketplace behavior".
  • Better Business Bureau.
  • 2: This pencil-and-paper game is also known as Xs and Os.
  • tic-tac-toe.
  • 3: Only around since the early 1990s, it takes you practically anywhere you want to go--on the Internet.
  • the World Wide Web.
  • 4: The movie "A Christmas Story" used this canine phrase to up the ante in a big challenge.
  • double dog dare.
  • 5: Relationship of Queen Elizabeth to Queen Victoria.
  • great-great-granddaughter.

Round 3. Category: Magazines And Newspapers

  • 1: This largest newspaper chain owns the Des Moines Register and about 100 other papers.
  • Gannett.
  • 2: Guideposts magazine was founded in 1945 by this "positive" minister and his wife Ruth.
  • Norman Vincent Peale.
  • 3: This magazine's "Marginal Thinking Department" features "drawn out dramas" by Sergio Aragones.
  • Mad magazine.
  • 4: In March 1983 this "Magnum P.I." star became the first male centerfold in McCall's history; he kept his clothes on.
  • Tom Selleck.
  • 5: This British humor magazine was named for a puppet, not for a drink.
  • Punch.

Round 4. Category: 2018 College Football Names

  • 1: Cameron Rising isn't an action movie, he's a QB who wants to "hook 'em" for the Longhorns of this school.
  • University of Texas.
  • 2: Rocky Jacques-Louis is a Panther at FIU, Shocky Jacques-Louis is a Panther at this university in the "Steel City".
  • Pittsburgh.
  • 3: Bumper Pool bounces running backs around as a linebacker for the Razorbacks of this school.
  • the University of Arkansas.
  • 4: On Saturdays Smoke Monday is a Tigers defensive back for this in-state rival of Alabama.
  • the University of Auburn.
  • 5: Linebacker Justice Dingle floats like a butterfly and stings like a Yellow Jacket for this Southern U..
  • Georgia Tech.

Round 5. Category: Bible Numbers

  • 1: As depicted in Genesis, there were this many people on Noah's Ark.
  • 8.
  • 2: God spent this many days creating the heavens and the earth.
  • 6.
  • 3: David selected 5 smooth stones out of a stream before his encounter with this person.
  • Goliath.
  • 4: After fasting for this many days and nights, Jesus was tempted by Satan who challenged him to turn stones into bread.
  • 40.
  • 5: Jacob ended up serving this many years to win the hand of Rachel.
  • 14.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1217, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Getting Jazzed

  • 1: Introduced in 1948, these items let jazz become more complex by allowing longer performances on a single side.
  • LPs.
  • 2: Look away, look away, look away, it's a revivalist style of New Orleans jazz.
  • Dixieland.
  • 3: Billy Strayhorn composed classics like "Take The 'A' Train" during his collaboration with this bandleader.
  • Duke Ellington.
  • 4: In 1998 Ellis, patriarch of this jazz family, released his own trio album, "Twelve's It".
  • Marsalis.
  • 5: In the '70s Weather Report had "nuclear" results with this style that combined jazz and rock.
  • fusion.

Round 2. Category: 1949

  • 1: On August 23 a manslaughter charge was filed against the cabbie who killed this "Gone with the Wind" author.
  • (Margaret) Mitchell.
  • 2: On January 31 the U.S. formally recognized Transjordan and this country.
  • Israel.
  • 3: This camera which produced a print in 60 seconds went on sale May 11.
  • a Polaroid.
  • 4: There were about 40,000 horologists making these in the U.S..
  • clocks (watches).
  • 5: Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, shah of this country, was wounded when a reporter fired 5 shots at him.
  • Iran.

Round 3. Category: Waist Up, Neck Down

  • 1: "Breadbasket" is slang for the midsection or specifically this digestive organ.
  • the stomach.
  • 2: The cecum is part of the large intestine; animals use it to digest this kind of food, so in koalas, it's 3 times body length.
  • plants (vegetation).
  • 3: Filtering the entire contents of your blood as many as 40 times a day is the job of this pair of organs.
  • the kidneys.
  • 4: As part of the body's immune response, the spleen releases these proteins such as IgM that counteract pathogens.
  • antibodies.
  • 5: The formation of solid deposits also called choleliths is a common occurrence in this organ.
  • the gallbladder.

Round 4. Category: Show Biz Shelleys

  • 1: 3 "cheers" for this actress who played waitress Diane Chambers.
  • Shelley Long.
  • 2: While playing Mary Stone on The Donna Reed Show, she had a #1 hit with "Johnny Angel".
  • Shelley Fabares.
  • 3: The TV boss she worked for and perfume she represented were both named Charlie.
  • Shelley Hack.
  • 4: He said, "I'm not a sick comedian; I'm a healthy actor".
  • Shelley Berman.
  • 5: When Clark Gable came to pick her up, she thinks her mother may have said, "Don't be careful".
  • Shelley Winters.

Round 5. Category: America Literature

  • 1: While walking, this Washington Irving character comes upon a party of odd-looking men playing ninepins.
  • Rip Van Winkle.
  • 2: In "Moby Dick" this captain dies when a harpoon line loops around his neck and pulls him overboard.
  • Ahab.
  • 3: In this Steinbeck work, dimwitted Lennie Small has a vision of his Aunt Clara.
  • Of Mice and Men.
  • 4: After Judge Pyncheon's death, this Hawthorne title home is left to Hepzibah and her brother Clifford.
  • the House of Seven Gables.
  • 5: Tom Sawyer is ordered to whitewash a fence because this brother tells Aunt Polly Tom played hooky.
  • Sid.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1216, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ends In Oo. With Oo in quotation marks

  • 1: Members of this Algonquian-speaking tribe live in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Mexico, but not in Dogpatch.
  • the Kickapoo.
  • 2: Necromancy, Haitian-style.
  • Voodoo.
  • 3: It's sometimes a quadruped, but to move quickly it becomes a biped and leaps.
  • a kangaroo.
  • 4: Also.
  • too.
  • 5: Eskimo condo.
  • an igloo.

Round 2. Category: I Know Ur

  • 1: Ur is dominated by one of these stepped, pyramidal temple towers dating from the 3rd millennium B.C..
  • a ziggurat.
  • 2: The first major excavations of Ur were made after WWI by H.R. Hall of this London institution.
  • the British Museum.
  • 3: One of the last kings to build at Ur was this "great" Persian, also called Koresh.
  • Cyrus.
  • 4: Now called Tall al-Muqayyar, modern Ur is about 10 miles from Nasiriyah in this troubled Mideast country.
  • Iraq.
  • 5: Founded in the 4th millennium B.C., Ur was a capital city of this oldest Mesopotamian civilization.
  • Sumeria.

Round 3. Category: To And Fro. With To" And "Fro in quotation marks

  • 1: This injury from low temperatures can lead to gangrene.
  • frostbite.
  • 2: You'll hear this when someone scores a hit in fencing.
  • touché.
  • 3: It's "An Irish Lullaby" me mother sang to me in Killarney.
  • "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral".
  • 4: Colloquial 5-letter title for a first-year college student.
  • frosh.
  • 5: Mais oui, it's French for "cheese".
  • fromage.

Round 4. Category: Arts

  • 1: The full title of this modernist Stravinsky ballet includes "Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts".
  • The Rite of Spring.
  • 2: Drummer Art Blakey was a real heavy cat in this style of music that preceded "Messengers" in his band's name.
  • jazz.
  • 3: Arthur Burns battled inflation as the chairman of this economic body from 1970 to 1978.
  • The Fed (the Federal Reserve).
  • 4: This architect fell in love with the Arizona desert and built Taliesin West, his winter home, in Scottsdale.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • 5: He attended UCLA on a tennis scholarship and in 1965 won the U.S. collegiate men's singles title.
  • Arthur Ashe.

Round 5. Category: The Songs Of Max Martin

  • 1: "and Juliet" imagines the Shakespeare story had the heroine lived and here she is performing this song, Britney Spears' first hit"I must confess, that my loneliness is killing me now...".
  • "...Baby One More Time".
  • 2: Juliet stops the show with "Roar", a 2013 hit from this artist"I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter / Dancing through the fire / 'Cause I am a...".
  • Katy Perry.
  • 3: Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway performs "That's The Way It Is", a Top 10 hit for this chanteuse in 2000"Don't give up on your faith / Love comes to those who believe it".
  • Celine Dion.
  • 4: The first musical number in "and Juliet" has William Shakespeare performing this Backstreet Boys song"All you people can't you see, can't you see / How your love's affecting our reality".
  • "Larger Than Life".
  • 5: The finale of "and Juliet" features the cast performing this Justin Timberlake hit"Come on / All those things I shouldn't do / But you dance, dance, dance /And ain't nobody leavin' soon, so keep dancin'".
  • "Can't Stop The Feeling!".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1215, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Shirley Booth

  • 1: Before the closing of the theaters in 1642, James Shirley wrote about 30 plays during the reign of this king.
  • Charles I.
  • 2: "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is a Gothic novel by this author also known for her short stories.
  • Shirley Jackson.
  • 3: This Welsh singer sang the theme songs for 3 James Bond movies.
  • Bassey.
  • 4: In the miniseries "Mrs. America" about 1970s feminist wars, Uzo Aduba played this pioneering Black presidential candidate.
  • Shirley Chisholm.
  • 5: Post-Hollywood, Shirley Temple served as a U.S. ambassador and head of the office of this, diplomatic procedure.
  • the office of protocol.

Round 2. Category: Sleepy

  • 1: This sleepy Pennsylvania town is often called "The Most Famous Small Town in America".
  • Gettysburg.
  • 2: In 2010 the sleepy Hudson River town of Rhinebeck, N.Y. hosted the nuptials of this first kid.
  • Chelsea Clinton.
  • 3: Big Arm, Bigfork, and Big Sky are all little towns in this state.
  • Montana.
  • 4: A 1920s query asked, "Will it play in" this Illinois town that experts considered a bellwether?.
  • Peoria.
  • 5: Tim McGraw called this Colorado ski resort city southwest of Aspen and Vail a "sleepy little town".
  • Telluride.

Round 3. Category: Major Generals

  • 1: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993, he's now a member of Bush's cabinet.
  • Colin Powell.
  • 2: For sure he was a major general at Fort Sumter; that bit about inventing baseball....
  • Abner Doubleday.
  • 3: Eisenhower, MacArthur and Marshall all got big promotions in December of this year.
  • 1944.
  • 4: Some generals got better nicknames than others -- Joseph Hooker was "Fighting Joe" and he was "Mad Anthony".
  • Anthony Wayne.
  • 5: Lincoln took the command of the Army of the Potomac away from this man -- twice.
  • George McClellan.

Round 4. Category: A Marriage In Ruins

  • 1: Board the Hiram Bingham train in Cuzco and have your ceremony near these ruins with a shaman as your officiant.
  • Machu Picchu.
  • 2: There's an idea to turn the ruins of this old metropolis S. of Baghdad into a wedding venue, but you may want to wait for calm.
  • Babylon.
  • 3: Chichen Itza may be a good site for your nuptials; it's located in this Mexican state with the same name as a peninsula.
  • the Yucatán.
  • 4: Come clean with your bride at a wedding in Rome's baths of this emperor, opened in 216 A.D..
  • Caracalla.
  • 5: Wed at the Talisay Ruins, once a sugar plantation on Negros Island, part of this Southeast Asian archipelago.
  • the Philippines.

Round 5. Category: To L With Science. With L in quotes

  • 1: On average, this organ produces up to 2.5 pints of bile every day.
  • liver.
  • 2: A tree branch, or a solar flare seen at the edge of the Sun.
  • a limb.
  • 3: Any of a hydrophobic group of organic compounds, including fats and oils.
  • lipids.
  • 4: When you activate a light stick, the chemicals within react to produce this type of cold light.
  • luminescence.
  • 5: 5-letter term for a center of activity, or the position of a gene on a chromosome.
  • a locus.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1214, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Passion

  • 1: Devotion to a cause, or in another way, "To Phil and Judie: I could not have written the clue without you".
  • a dedication.
  • 2: Mais oui and toujours, it's French for "love", mon....
  • amour.
  • 3: We are obsessed, perhaps even crazed, about this suffix, from the Greek for "excessive desire".
  • mania.
  • 4: Zest is a 4-letter word starting with Z that fits the category; so is this.
  • zeal.
  • 5: These 2 passionate words make up the title of a 1965 film about Michelangelo.
  • agony and ecstasy.

Round 2. Category: 1000

  • 1: There was widespread fear that this would happen; people worried about the millennium back then, too.
  • the world would end.
  • 2: This sport can be traced back to c. 1000 when a monk named Eilmer jumped and sailed from Malmesbury Abbey.
  • hang gliding.
  • 3: This country's Stephen I was crowned in 1000 in his hometown of Esztergom and the crown is a national treasure.
  • Hungary.
  • 4: Piasts ruled this country in 1000; in 1919, a pianist ruled it: Ignace Paderewski.
  • Poland.
  • 5: Sweyn Forkbeard, King Olaf of Sweden and 2 others defeated and killed King Olaf I of this country at Svold.
  • Norway.

Round 3. Category: Name The Seuss Title

  • 1: "I will not eat them in the rain. I will not eat them on a train. Not in the dark! Not in a tree! Not in a car! You let me be!".
  • Green Eggs and Ham.
  • 2: Through the high jungle tree tops, the news quickly spread: "He talks to a dust speck! He's out of his head!".
  • Horton Hears a Who.
  • 3: "No! Not in the house!" said the fish in the pot, "They should not fly kites in a house! They should not".
  • The Cat in the Hat.
  • 4: "Silence!" the king of the turtles barked back. "I'm king, and you're only a turtle named Mack".
  • Yertle the Turtle.
  • 5: "Socks on chicks and chicks on fox. Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks".
  • Fox in Socks.

Round 4. Category: The Original Language

  • 1: "From the Earth to the Moon".
  • French.
  • 2: The diary of Anne Frank.
  • Dutch.
  • 3: "In this best of all possible worlds...Everything is for the best".
  • French.
  • 4: Kowtow, typhoon, and tycoon.
  • Chinese.
  • 5: The 1880s work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".
  • German.

Round 5. Category: Love Actuarily

  • 1: They may be "single", "birth" or "helicopter", and a 2017 study says they live longer than other people.
  • parents.
  • 2: A U. of Miami study found married men survived the longest with this most common male gland cancer.
  • prostate cancer.
  • 3: I know, he snores and has morning breath, but Pitt researchers found doing this raises stress hormone levels.
  • sleeping separately (or alone).
  • 4: The A.H.A., short for this, says having a dog lowers your risk of the type of disease it fights.
  • the American Heart Association.
  • 5: The death rate in healthy men was found to double if they'd experienced this sad event from Old English reafian, "to steal".
  • a bereavement.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1213, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: It Happened In The 20Th Century

  • 1: On May 18, 1954 The New York Times headlined, "High Court Bans School" this divisive practice.
  • segregation.
  • 2: In 1981 Ananda Chakrabarty received a patent for a life form made of just 1 this.
  • a cell.
  • 3: In May 1940 he became prime minister and began inspiring the British people.
  • Churchill.
  • 4: John, Paul, George and Ringo arrived in the U.S., bringing this 11-letter contagion.
  • Beatlemania.
  • 5: In 1949 mainland China became a Communist state with this man as its leader.
  • Mao Zedong.

Round 2. Category: He'S The Coach

  • 1: UCLA Men's Basketball, 1949-1975.
  • John Wooden.
  • 2: Indiana Pacers, 1997-2000.
  • Larry Bird.
  • 3: Green Bay Packers, 1959-1967.
  • Vince Lombardi.
  • 4: University of Nebraska Football, 1973-1997.
  • Tom Osborne.
  • 5: Chicago Bears, 1920-1967 (with a few breaks).
  • George Halas.

Round 3. Category: Playing Card Rhyme Time

  • 1: A cruel royal female.
  • Mean queen.
  • 2: A fire iron used to prod a jester.
  • Joker poker.
  • 3: Building extension for a monarch.
  • King wing.
  • 4: Tautless knave.
  • Slack jack.
  • 5: Dental appliances for a pair of bullets.
  • Aces' braces.

Round 4. Category: The Harvard Lampoon

  • 1: Now a fixture as a late-night TV talk show host, in the 1980s, this very tall redhead was a two-year president of the "Harvard Lampoon".
  • Conan O'Brien.
  • 2: The style and irreverence of "Harvard Lampoon" had a huge impact in the '70s when alums Doug Kenney and Henry Beard found "National Lampoon" and Doug co-wrote this very popular college comedy film.
  • Animal House.
  • 3: Lisa Henson was the "Lampoons's" first female president, and she helped her dad Jim write the speech that was given by this Muppet during the Harvard commencement season in 1982.
  • Kermit.
  • 4: Ex-Lampooner Jim Downey not only wrote for "Saturday Night Live" longer than anybody else, he also created this perennial list read by David Letterman.
  • the Top 10 List.
  • 5: Writers and performers who've gone from the "Lampoon" to "Saturday Night Live" include this young fellow who co-hosts "Weekend Update" with Michael Che.
  • Colin Jost.

Round 5. Category: The Deans List

  • 1: Dean Moriarty is a memorable character in this Beat Generation novel.
  • On the Road.
  • 2: Much of this Rat Pack crooner's hard-drinking persona may have been just for the cameras.
  • Dean Martin.
  • 3: 1955's "East of Eden" launched the iconic status of this actor.
  • James Dean.
  • 4: Your parents might know Dean Cain as Superman, but you probably know him as Jeremiah Danvers, father of this other DC hero.
  • Supergirl.
  • 5: In the 1930s this "lightheaded" pitcher led the National League in strikeouts 4 times.
  • Dizzy Dean.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1212, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Allusions Of Grandeur

  • 1: An ancient city on the Euphrates River known for its magnificence, today it can also mean a place of vice and corruption.
  • Babylon.
  • 2: You're living in grand style if you have the "white" type of this strong-smelling underground fungus on your table.
  • truffle.
  • 3: The 19th century railroad sleeping car named for this man was a symbol of splendor equal to the finest hotel.
  • Pullman.
  • 4: In 1909 this French jeweler opened a store on Fifth Ave. in New York City and briefly became owner of the Hope Diamond.
  • Pierre Cartier.
  • 5: From the name of a Greek city home to fabulously wealthy inhabitants, this adjective means devoted to luxury.
  • sybaritic.

Round 2. Category: Live Cams

  • 1: Through a conservation center in New York, you can observe critically endangered red and Mexican gray ones of these.
  • wolves.
  • 2: Opened in 1919, this iconic golf course on the Monterey Peninsula offers stunning views of the 17th and 18th holes.
  • Pebble Beach.
  • 3: A webcam on Sicily allows you to monitor the activity of this highest active volcano in Europe.
  • Etna.
  • 4: From a webcam in Finland, you can see this nighttime phenomenon that's dependent on a strong solar wind.
  • aurora borealis.
  • 5: You can see people praying day and night at this holy site that was a part of a structure surrounding the Temple of Jerusalem.
  • the Western Wall (Wailing Wall).

Round 3. Category: Psychological Problems

  • 1: Just because you have this pervasive suspicion of others, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
  • Paranoia.
  • 2: Maybe Alfred Adler didn't think he was good enough when he identified and named this complex.
  • Inferiority complex.
  • 3: This self-absorbed personality disorder is named for a mythical youth who loved his reflection.
  • Narcissism.
  • 4: Logorrhea, also called verbomania, is doing this excessively or uncontrollably.
  • Speaking/talking.
  • 5: Washers and hoarders are types of people with OCD, which stands for this.
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder.

Round 4. Category: Anything Goes

  • 1: Naval engineer Richard James invented this classic toy after watching a spring fall from a table.
  • Slinky.
  • 2: Appropriately, Bacchus is often depicted in art holding this fruit.
  • grapes.
  • 3: Young Dill in "To Kill a Mockingbird" was inspired by this author of "In Cold Blood".
  • Truman Capote.
  • 4: In 1962 he became the first Australian to win the Grand Slam of tennis; he won it again in 1969.
  • Rod Laver.
  • 5: In 2002 this South American country's Varig Airlines celebrated its 75th anniversary.
  • Brazil.

Round 5. Category: World Of Religion

  • 1: From the Arabic for "struggle", this word can mean a personal effort against sin, or a holy war in defense of Islam.
  • jihad.
  • 2: In February 1988, after confessing on live TV to be a sinner, this preacher stepped down from the pulpit.
  • Jimmy Swaggart.
  • 3: The Mahayana branch of this religion is more recent than the Theravada and includes the concept of adherents becoming Bodhisattvas.
  • Buddhism.
  • 4: The sacred shrine of Fushimi-Inari Tasha is dedicated to Inari, the Shinto god of this foodstuff.
  • rice.
  • 5: Asgard was home to the Norse gods and this most famous palace.
  • Valhalla.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1211, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Movie Menagerie

  • 1: Bogie's 1941 "bird".
  • The Maltese Falcon.
  • 2: One of the top five films of 1986 was this little wonder from Down Under.
  • Crocodile Dundee.
  • 3: 2 of the 3 Marx brothers movies with a specific animal in the title.
  • (2 of) Duck Soup, Horse Feathers and Monkey Business.
  • 4: In 1944 Mickey Rooney trained the horse in "National Velvet"; in 1979, this title steed.
  • The Black Stallion.
  • 5: This 1975 Jack Nicholson film could use a cage, a bird cage, to hold its Oscars.
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Round 2. Category: Monologues

  • 1: In a courtroom:"Darwin moved us forward to a hilltop... we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis".
  • Inherit the Wind.
  • 2: A modern tragedy:"Hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral. Things were sad on a lotta trains".
  • Death of a Salesman.
  • 3: A 1913 classic:"I'll have to learn to speak middle class language from you, instead of speaking proper English".
  • Pygmalion.
  • 4: A Shakespeare tragic hero:"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day".
  • Macbeth.
  • 5: From Tennessee:"I wore it on Sundays for my gentlemen callers! I had it on the day I met your father".
  • The Glass Menagerie.

Round 3. Category: From Page To Stage

  • 1: Gosh darn it! Douglass Wallop's "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant" hit a home run as this musical.
  • Damn Yankees.
  • 2: Based on "The Berlin Stories", this musical is set at a nightclub where Sally Bowles sings.
  • Cabaret.
  • 3: Seeing the Artful Dodger sing on stage made lyricist Alain Boublil think of turning this Victor Hugo novel into a musical.
  • Les Misérables.
  • 4: Ron Chernow's biography of this man was adapted into a 2015 Broadway musical.
  • Alexander Hamilton.
  • 5: Bizet based this opera about a tempestuous gypsy girl on a novella by Prosper Merimee.
  • Carmen.

Round 4. Category: Geek Love

  • 1: The Woz, Steve Wozniak, built the first computer for this company.
  • Apple.
  • 2: Harmonix created Guitar Hero and, in 2007, released this other music-playing megahit.
  • Rock Band.
  • 3: Steve Ballmer has big geek shoes to fill for this Washington State software company.
  • Microsoft.
  • 4: This director's geek cred was sealed when he sold his film co.'s computer division and it later became Pixar.
  • George Lucas.
  • 5: Sexy Linus Torvalds made us melt when he created this freely distributed UNIX clone in 1991.
  • Linux.

Round 5. Category: U.S. Airport Codes

  • 1: SLC serves this state capital.
  • Salt Lake City.
  • 2: The codes for the 2 airports in Queens, NYC are LGA and this.
  • JFK.
  • 3: Thurgood Marshall Airport has the code BWI, for these 2 cities "International".
  • Baltimore and Washington.
  • 4: American Airlines' largest hub is the Texas airport with this code.
  • DFW.
  • 5: DTW serves this city; the airport's full name includes Wayne County.
  • Detroit.

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Round 1. Category: Shared Last Names

  • 1: Governor Howard and pitcher Dizzy.
  • Dean.
  • 2: Musician Miles and actress MacKenzie.
  • Davis.
  • 3: Actresses Lana and Kathleen.
  • Turner.
  • 4: Singer James and chef Alton.
  • Brown.
  • 5: Actress Esther and pianist Roger.
  • Williams.

Round 2. Category: Disguise

  • 1: Participants in the famous Boston Tea Party were disguised as these.
  • Indians.
  • 2: Disguised as a clergyman, Thomas Blood stole the British crown from this site in 1671.
  • the Tower of London.
  • 3: He was a swan for Leda and a cuckoo for Hera.
  • Zeus.
  • 4: Dressed as a beggar, he discovered his wife Penelope had been faithful during his long trip.
  • Odysseus.
  • 5: Legend says in 878 this "Great" English king dressed up like a minstrel to spy on the Viking camp.
  • Alfred (the Great).

Round 3. Category: A Century Ago: 1923

  • 1: This facility hosts its first game, with Babe Ruth hitting a 3-run homer to beat the Red Sox.
  • Yankee Stadium.
  • 2: This constitutional amendment to ban discrimination based on sex is first proposed in Congress.
  • the ERA.
  • 3: At a conference of 20 nations in Vienna, this global law enforcement body is founded.
  • INTERPOL.
  • 4: Peering back millennia, this archaeologist opens King Tut's burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings.
  • Howard Carter.
  • 5: This Russian immigrant files a patent for the iconoscope, the first television transmission tube.
  • Vladimir Zworykin.

Round 4. Category: Girls With Guitars

  • 1: In 1995 she won Grammys for Best New Artist, Pop Vocal, Female and Record of the Year for "All I Wanna Do".
  • Sheryl Crow.
  • 2: This writer of "Both Sides Now" taught herself to play guitar from an instruction book.
  • Joni Mitchell.
  • 3: She got her start performing with her parents in Alaskan Eskimo villages.
  • Jewel.
  • 4: In 2002 she teamed up with Santana, singing lead on "The Game Of Love".
  • Michelle Branch.
  • 5: (I'm Wynonna.) One of my favorite songs is "I Can't Make You Love Me" by this sassy singer-guitar player.
  • Bonnie Raitt.

Round 5. Category: Wanna Bet?

  • 1: In Texas hold 'em, if the flop doesn't fit your hand, the experts say do this.
  • fold.
  • 2: If the bettor buys insurance after the dealer shows an ace, he's playing this game.
  • blackjack.
  • 3: In the '50s, Edward Thorp fed millions of hands of this game into a computer which figured out how to win at it.
  • blackjack.
  • 4: In 2016 a few happy bettors cashed in 5,000-1 tickets after Leicester City won the title in England's top league in this sport.
  • soccer.
  • 5: In this game a don't pass bet is a wager against the shooter.
  • craps.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1209, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ancient Egypt

  • 1: Paradise in the Egyptian afterlife was in this god's "field of reeds".
  • Osiris.
  • 2: In 332 B.C. he took possession of Egypt without a struggle.
  • Alexander (the Great).
  • 3: In 212 A.D., with few exceptions, the entire population was granted citizenship in this.
  • the Roman Empire.
  • 4: On Sept. 2, 31 B.C., Antony and Cleopatra lost the Battle of this Greek promontory to Octavian.
  • Actium.
  • 5: This flower was the symbol of rebirth and of the god Re.
  • Lotus.

Round 2. Category: Put It On What?

  • 1: Food to keep it chilled, or plans that have to be delayed.
  • ice.
  • 2: 10 bucks to win at Laurel Park.
  • a horse.
  • 3: A Kurt Adler star or angel finial.
  • a Christmas tree.
  • 4: Decca F.11940, released 1964.
  • a turntable.
  • 5: A kepi.
  • your head.

Round 3. Category: HatS On!. With Hat in quotation marks

  • 1: "Urban" cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth.
  • a Manhattan.
  • 2: A sloping rear car door that is lifted to open.
  • a hatchback.
  • 3: Internet place where users can communicate in real time.
  • a chatroom.
  • 4: Adjective for glass that resists splintering into many pieces when broken.
  • shatter-proof.
  • 5: In First Kings Judah is jumpin' with this man in charge.
  • Jehoshaphat.

Round 4. Category: Wrap It Up!

  • 1: This 4-letter seaweed that wraps up sushi is actually a type of red algae.
  • nori.
  • 2: At Subway the signature wraps come wrapped in one of these.
  • tortilla.
  • 3: The house here has this type of veranda that extends around the sides of the house.
  • a wraparound.
  • 4: According to Luke 2, Mary "brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in" these.
  • swaddling clothes.
  • 5: One of Christo's temporary works of art was the wrapping in fabric of this oldest Paris bridge.
  • the Pont Neuf.

Round 5. Category: Around The Hospital

  • 1: It's the "room" staffed 24 hours a day to aid those who arrive in need of immediate care.
  • the emergency room.
  • 2: An IV pole is the rack on which IVs are hung, IV standing for this.
  • intravenous.
  • 3: For deliveries go to this ward, not to the rear.
  • obstetrics (maternity).
  • 4: A doctor in his first year in a hospital; adding "ist" to it would make him a specialist.
  • an intern.
  • 5: It's the "ology" for the X-ray department.
  • radiology.

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Round 1. Category: Cello

  • 1: This cellist founded a music collective called the Silkroad Ensemble, with whom he plays cello.
  • Yo-Yo Ma.
  • 2: When you think of a cello solo, you're probably thinking of this Baroque composer's cello prelude from around 1720.
  • Bach.
  • 3: The uncrowned king of the cello, David Popper has a work titled this, what you'd sing under the window of your beloved.
  • a "Serenade".
  • 4: An excellent piece for the cello is "The Swan", from this work by Camille Saint-Saens.
  • The Carnival of the Animals.
  • 5: Portrayed on film in "Hilary and Jackie", the life of this British cellist was cut short by MS at age 42.
  • Jacqueline du Pré.

Round 2. Category: Shakespeare Play By Gradually Easier Character

  • 1: Bianca,Roderigo,Desdemona.
  • Othello.
  • 2: Baptista Minola,Gremio, Lucentio,Hortensio,Petruchio.
  • The Taming of the Shrew.
  • 3: Doctor,Duke of Cornwall,Goneril.
  • King Lear.
  • 4: Snug, Helena,Oberon.
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  • 5: Flavius,Cicero,Calpurnia.
  • Julius Caesar.

Round 3. Category: Frontwords And Backwords

  • 1: Bosses do this, to writers' dismay; also, what happens at sea twice a day.
  • edit/tide.
  • 2: A part of the body where the food goes; flip it around, it's a ship that tows.
  • gut/tug.
  • 3: This type of container can hold ale or mead; turn it around, it's a mouth part indeed.
  • mug/gum.
  • 4: Rivers do this, bend upon bend; reverse it for one who sends sheep to their end.
  • flow/wolf.
  • 5: Your colorless dress may earn this adjective, I fear; not so for this minstrel or other balladeer.
  • drab/bard.

Round 4. Category: Stock Up On Candy

  • 1: You definitely want to trick-or-treat at the house that gives out candy from this company with the stock symbol HSY.
  • Hershey.
  • 2: KRFT is Kraft Foods, maker of these Jet-Puffed treats that come in spooky shapes for Halloween.
  • marshmallows.
  • 3: Warren Buffett liked See's Candies so much that he bought it and folded it into BRK.B, this company.
  • Berkshire Hathaway.
  • 4: Mondelez, MDLZ, owns a slew of brands, including these Scandinavian candies.
  • Swedish Fish.
  • 5: If you're stocking up on candy at Costco (symbol COST), you'll know this house brand is named for a city in Washington.
  • Kirkland.

Round 5. Category: On The Wall

  • 1: ...of this museum is a portrait of Elizabeth Petrovna as a child (1712-13) by Ivan Nikitin.
  • the Hermitage Museum.
  • 2: A special black paint from Rust-Oleum will turn any wall into one of these writing slates.
  • a chalkboard.
  • 3: A large, concave one of these on your wall will make your room look bigger.
  • a mirror.
  • 4: Divided into 20 sections, it's often made of cork; take a shot!.
  • a dartboard.
  • 5: Perfect for your bedroom, this item is thought to provide protection through the night.
  • a dream catcher.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1207, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 1990--25 Years Ago

  • 1: This city, capital of the same-named country, was overrun by Iraqi forces.
  • Kuwait.
  • 2: After 11 years in the job, this U.K. prime minister resigned.
  • (Margaret) Thatcher.
  • 3: For the first time Pavarotti, Carreras and Domingo performed together as this supergroup.
  • the Three Tenors.
  • 4: Winnie (Churchill) got a ticker-tape parade on March 15, 1946; this Winnie was in one with her husband on June 20, 1990.
  • (Winnie) Mandela.
  • 5: This Brit created the first prototype web pages.
  • (Tim) Berners-Lee.

Round 2. Category: Middle G. With G in quotes

  • 1: Hear the howls and clanking chains from this dark underground chamber used to hold prisoners.
  • a dungeon.
  • 2: Merv Griffin used to play this word game with his sister and "Wheel of Fortune" is the result.
  • hangman.
  • 3: Fancy name for a list of movies a particular actor or director has made.
  • a filmography.
  • 4: The largest tree-dwelling mammal in the world, this ape from Sumatra and Borneo can weigh 220 pounds.
  • an orangutan.
  • 5: When vaulting, gymnasts use this flexible device.
  • the springboard.

Round 3. Category: Gibson Girls And Guys

  • 1: Cowboy star Edmund Gibson got this nickname as a boy either because he hunted owls or delivered for the Owl Drug Company.
  • Hoot.
  • 2: Tyrese Gibson has appeared as Roman Pearce, known for his banter and his driving, in this action film franchise.
  • The Fast and the Furious.
  • 3: "I need your love like a flame needs a fire", sang this '80s teen queen who also gave us "Only In My Dreams".
  • Debbie Gibson.
  • 4: He pitched for the Cardinals for 17 seasons and even briefly played with the Harlem Globetrotters.
  • Bob Gibson.
  • 5: In 1985 his "Neuromancer" won a Nebula and a Hugo.
  • William Gibson.

Round 4. Category: Potent History

  • 1: Sugar cane molasses was distilled into this liquor, a significant part of the "triangular trade" that promoted slavery.
  • rum.
  • 2: In 1729 and 1751 Britain passed acts aimed at curbing the consumption of this alcohol that originated in the Netherlands.
  • gin.
  • 3: Vodka was involved in 1994 as this white-haired Russian leader was found on a D.C. street in his underwear hailing cabs to go get pizza.
  • Yeltsin.
  • 4: The Whiskey Rebellion culminated in 1794 among farmers of the Monongahela Valley in this state.
  • Pennsylvania.
  • 5: In 1923 a beer hall called the Burgerbraukeller in this German city was the starting point of a failed putsch.
  • Munich.

Round 5. Category: The 5Th Beatle

  • 1: This Beatles producer started out making comedy records with Peter Sellers.
  • (Sir) George Martin.
  • 2: After being replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962, this man got a job in a bakery and then became a civil servant.
  • Pete Best.
  • 3: In "Backbeat" Stephen Dorff played this alliterative bassist who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1962.
  • (Stuart) Sutcliffe.
  • 4: This manager who died in 1967 was referred to as the "Fifth Beatle".
  • Brian Epstein.
  • 5: This keyboardist, who died in 2006, sat in with the Beatles often and also wrote Joe Cocker's hit "You Are So Beautiful".
  • Billy Preston.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1206, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Society

  • 1: A community of people who live near each other; Mister Rogers lives in one.
  • a neighborhood.
  • 2: It's a society led by women in which descent is traced through the female line.
  • a matriarchy.
  • 3: The rules of polite social interaction; Emily Post is a popular name in the field.
  • etiquette.
  • 4: Yuppie is a slang term which stands for this.
  • young urban professional.
  • 5: Better known name of ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
  • the Hare Krishnas.

Round 2. Category: Prey Purview

  • 1: The population of the lynx rises and falls with the availability of the snowshoe variety of this creature, its main prey.
  • a rabbit.
  • 2: The bombardier species of this insect ejects a vapor that pops when it hits the air, blinding and confusing its prey.
  • a beetle.
  • 3: Because they squeeze their prey to death, boas and pythons are this kind of nonvenomous snake.
  • a constrictor.
  • 4: The "ringed" species of this critter is a favorite prey of the polar bear.
  • a (ringed) seal.
  • 5: Fish, fish and more fish is on the menu for this bird of prey with long wings and a white head, also known as a fish hawk.
  • the osprey.

Round 3. Category: Book Bindings

  • 1: Eats, Shoots and blank of Grass.
  • leaves.
  • 2: Never Let Me blank Set a Watchman.
  • go.
  • 3: O'Neill, 1922 and Tolstoy, 1875-77:"Anna blank" and "Anna blank".
  • Christie and Karenina.
  • 4: The Art of blankand Peace.
  • War.
  • 5: Arms and blank blank Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
  • the man.

Round 4. Category: The Non-Adverb -Ly Word. With -Ly in quotes

  • 1: A young female horse.
  • a filly.
  • 2: In scientific classification, it's between order and genus.
  • family.
  • 3: 2 independent countries lie within the borders of this nation.
  • Italy.
  • 4: 5-letter piece of ornamental lace or embroidery found on a table.
  • doily.
  • 5: Hospital attendant job with nonmedical duties.
  • orderly.

Round 5. Category: Period Movies

  • 1: On the "Gladiator" poster, Russell Crowe holds a sword; on the "Robin Hood" poster, he holds this weapon.
  • a bow and arrow.
  • 2: Keira Knightley, as "The Duchess", does not have exactly a warm and loving marriage with Ralph Fiennes, as him.
  • the Duke of Devonshire.
  • 3: "Grease" came out in 1978; that's already prehistoric to you, but it's set even longer ago, in this decade.
  • the 1950s.
  • 4: This comedy about long ago stars Jack Black, Michael Cera and Oliver Platt as the high priest of Sodom.
  • Year One.
  • 5: "Me and" this "Citizen Kane" director shows the great man when he was still directing plays.
  • Orson Welles.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1205, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ad Verbs And Taglines

  • 1: MandM's: "The milk chocolate blank in your mouth, not in your hand".
  • melts.
  • 2: Apple, beginning in the 1990s:"blank different".
  • Think.
  • 3: Target:"blank more.Pay less.".
  • Expect.
  • 4: Instagram: "blank and share the world's moments".
  • Capture.
  • 5: Jantzen swimwear:"blank into life".
  • dive.

Round 2. Category: 7 Wonders Of The Ancient World

  • 1: Made of bronze and honoring the sun god Helios, it stood about 100 feet high in the harbor of a Greek island.
  • the Colossus of Rhodes.
  • 2: To irrigate this ancient wonder, water from the Euphrates was pumped to the top of the hill.
  • the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
  • 3: It was the earliest built of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World.
  • the Great Pyramid.
  • 4: Some sculptures from this marble tomb at Halicarnassus are in the British Museum in London.
  • the Mausoleum.
  • 5: A fire burned day and night at the top of this ancient wonder.
  • the lighthouse at Alexandria.

Round 3. Category: Rite

  • 1: In Judaism, this rite of passage is celebrated around the time of a boy's 13th birthday.
  • a bar mitzvah.
  • 2: The Catholic rite for this sacrament begins with asking the parents what they name their child.
  • baptism.
  • 3: In this religion, a book of the dead called the "Bardo Thodol" is read to the dying to help them prepare for a favorable rebirth.
  • Buddhism.
  • 4: Casting 7 stones at each of the 3 pillars of Mina is a rite enacted during the pilgrimage with this name.
  • hajj.
  • 5: This rite is a solo vigil by a Plains Indian boy to seek spiritual power and knowledge through an apparition.
  • a vision quest (or spirit quest).

Round 4. Category: All You Need Is L-O-V-E. With L-O-V-E in quotation marks

  • 1: A company called "London" this "tours" provides "a whirlwind tour of the history of the British public toilet".
  • loo.
  • 2: Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz", was fittingly born under this zodiac sign symbolized by a lion.
  • a Leo.
  • 3: Led Zeppelin warned that this type of wall is "going to break", while Don McLean lamented that it was dry.
  • a levee.
  • 4: This Swedish automaker's museum features a full-sized XC90 SUV made from Legos.
  • Volvo.
  • 5: As Charles Darwin could tell you, to do this is to gradually change or develop over time.
  • evolve.

Round 5. Category: Differs By A Vowel

  • 1: The pair found in the name of a large Scottish estuary that connects with the North Sea.
  • the Firth of Forth.
  • 2: A large, graceful tree and what a pig does in the mud to cool itself.
  • wallow and willow.
  • 3: A place to sit anda group of grapes.
  • bench and bunch.
  • 4: A mixture for making good old-fashioned pancakes and one of the ingredients.
  • batter and butter.
  • 5: A large British home in the country and a college student's secondary declared discipline.
  • minor and manor.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1204, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Eddie Murphy Movies

  • 1: 1990 sequel to his 1982 "48HRS.".
  • Another 48HRS..
  • 2: He played the man with whom Eddie Murphy traded places in "Trading Places".
  • Dan Aykroyd.
  • 3: "A Nightmare on Elm Street"'s Wes Craven directed Eddie in this 1995 comedy-horror film.
  • Vampire in Brooklyn.
  • 4: Axel Foley was a cop on this midwestern city's payroll.
  • Detroit.
  • 5: Art Buchwald was awarded original story credit for this film in which Eddie played an African prince.
  • Coming to America.

Round 2. Category: What'D You Catch?

  • 1: A bullhead type of this, genus Ameiurus.
  • a catfish.
  • 2: After a struggle, not a fish, but an Eagle GT tire from this maker.
  • Goodyear.
  • 3: Not a starfish, but this heavenly one.
  • a sunfish.
  • 4: A cold, while fishing nearly 200-square-mile Flathead Lake in this northern state.
  • Montana.
  • 5: This fish with a beach city just south of Boca Raton named for it.
  • a pompano.

Round 3. Category: Yes Sur. With Sur in quotation marks

  • 1: Breaking sea swell.
  • surf.
  • 2: The 2007 influx of 20,000 more U.S. troops into Iraq.
  • surge.
  • 3: People get it from their fathers, usually.
  • surname.
  • 4: Churlish.
  • surly.
  • 5: To conjecture.
  • surmise.

Round 4. Category: Cinematic Specters

  • 1: The director of this 1988 Christmas film said he wanted the wires that lifted Carol Kane to be visible.
  • Scrooged.
  • 2: Geena Davis and Alex Baldwin haunted their own house in this 1988 hit film.
  • Beetlejuice.
  • 3: Seen briefly in "Ghostbusters", this little green guy is featured in the TV cartoon series.
  • Slimer.
  • 4: Steven Spielberg co-wrote and co-produced this 1st of 3 films about the Freeling clan's ghost trouble.
  • Poltergeist.
  • 5: Her list of roles includes a mermaid, a cave woman and in 1988's "High Spirits", a ghost.
  • Daryl Hannah.

Round 5. Category: Remember 2016?

  • 1: A Japanese company made the world's last one of these TV playback machines.
  • a VCR.
  • 2: On August 17th, she was named Donald Trump's campaign manager.
  • Kellyanne Conway.
  • 3: Protests began as the Standing Rock Sioux moved to block this pipeline that bears the name of a Sioux people.
  • the Dakota Pipeline.
  • 4: Aung San Suu Kyi's friend Htin Kyaw was inaugurated as this country's first freely elected president in decades.
  • Myanmar.
  • 5: This Silicon Valley entrepreneur revealed he had bankrolled the lawsuit that took down Gawker.
  • Peter Thiel.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1203, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Music Icons

  • 1: Valerie Bertinelli said of this rock icon that she loved him "more than I know how to explain. I loved his soul".
  • Eddie Van Halen.
  • 2: Fans the world over celebrate this reggae legend on February 6, his birthday.
  • Bob Marley.
  • 3: At the 2022 Newport Folk Festival, she delighted fans with her "Both Sides Now" and "Big Yellow Taxi", among others.
  • Joni Mitchell.
  • 4: On a historic day in 1976, Joe Strummer met Mick Jones in London, calling their legendary band this came later.
  • The Clash.
  • 5: Her recording career lasted less than 4 years; her final studio album was 1971's "Pearl", featuring "Me And Bobby McGee".
  • Janis Joplin.

Round 2. Category: Crossword Clues D. With D in quotes

  • 1: The usually wealthy widow of a king(7).
  • a dowager.
  • 2: Pre-Christian Celtic priest(5).
  • a druid.
  • 3: France's patron saint(5).
  • Denis.
  • 4: Touch-tone predecessor (4).
  • dial.
  • 5: Bird of peace(4).
  • a dove.

Round 3. Category: Hairy

  • 1: The short hairstyles worn by the men who fought the Cavaliers in 17th C. England earned them this name.
  • the Roundheads.
  • 2: The feet of this arctic ursine creature are partly webbed and have hairy soles to help with traction.
  • polar bear.
  • 3: This term for a knight's apprentice is also the name of a bobbed, usually jaw-length hairstyle.
  • page boy.
  • 4: This great ape's name comes from a Greek word referring to a legendary tribe of hairy women.
  • gorilla.
  • 5: The name of this type of insect larva is from the late Latin for "hairy cat".
  • caterpillar.

Round 4. Category: Women'S Memoirs

  • 1: "I Feel Bad About My Neck", about the travails of aging, is by this late, great writer and director of "You've Got Mail".
  • Nora Ephron.
  • 2: "Fight Like a Girl" and "Unbecoming" recount women's experiences in this "most masculine" branch of the U.S. military.
  • Marines.
  • 3: "My Life in France" is the story of how this chef found her true calling.
  • Julia Child.
  • 4: Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody's record of her time as one of these performers is titled "Candy Girl".
  • a stripper.
  • 5: This advisor to Barack Obama wrote "Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward".
  • Valerie Jarrett.

Round 5. Category: Culinary Before And After

  • 1: Finest olive oil grade whose British capital is Road Town and whose American capital is Charlotte-Amalie.
  • extra Virgin Islands.
  • 2: Round Southern fried cornmeal cake that's the object of a youthful crush.
  • hush puppy love.
  • 3: Chili's rib cut that stars in a Robert Zemeckis time-traveling comedy.
  • Baby Back to the Future.
  • 4: Bite-size French language dessert cake that wreaks havoc in the Book of Revelation.
  • petit Four Horsemen of the Apocalyse.
  • 5: French dish of chicken, onion, wine, mushrooms and pork blindly stewing onscreen as space opera anti-hero Riddick.
  • coq au Vin Diesel.

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Round 1. Category: Stop And Go. With Stop" And "Go in quotes

  • 1: It's called the "peach of the tropics".
  • a mango.
  • 2: It's a brief appearance by a politician in a small town, traditionally on the rear platform of a train.
  • a whistle stop.
  • 3: In captivity this bird is fed a diet containing carotenoid pigments to maintain the color of its plumage.
  • a flamingo.
  • 4: On a camera, it's the setting of an adjustable lens aperture indicated by a number, such as 1.4 or 11.
  • an f-stop.
  • 5: A highlight of this 1956 film is a rendition of "That Old Black Magic" by Marilyn Monroe, who plays Cherie, a saloon singer.
  • Bus Stop.

Round 2. Category: The Prophecies Of Nostradamus

  • 1: "The faults of" this city "will be laid quite bare" must refer to the failure of the League of Nations--mustn't it?.
  • Geneva.
  • 2: Nostradamus very clearly predicted a new election of one of these for the year 1609--but Paul V failed to die.
  • a pope.
  • 3: The "Hister" who will "Vex Venice" is purportedly this 20th century fiend with a couple of letters changed.
  • Hitler.
  • 4: "The great camel" (your guess is as good as ours) will drink from these 2 longest rivers that pass through Germany.
  • the Danube and the Rhine.
  • 5: "More butcher than king in England" is seen as this leader born in 1599, 33 years after Nostradamus died.
  • Oliver Cromwell.

Round 3. Category: The Nose Knows

  • 1: One indicator of COVID infection learned of in recent years is anosmia, this impairment.
  • a loss of smell.
  • 2: Grab a hankie, an epistaxis is just one of these and can have many causes beyond trauma.
  • a bloody nose.
  • 3: Not just Great-Uncle Fred, but even you likely have nasal vibrissae, these.
  • (nose) hairs.
  • 4: The ethmoid and the sphenoid are two of these cavities that can drain into the nose.
  • a sinus.
  • 5: Part of an area known as the rhinarium in some mammals, it's the indentation below the nose and above the upper lip.
  • a philtrum.

Round 4. Category: Names That Are Verbs

  • 1: Mr. Nolte, or what he shouldn't do when he shaves.
  • Nick.
  • 2: Silent screen cowboy Tom, or what many people do at cocktail parties.
  • Mix.
  • 3: Gregory, or what his chickens might do.
  • Peck.
  • 4: Mr. Martindale, or what he might do if he likes you.
  • Wink.
  • 5: Mr. Owens, or what his horse might do to throw him.
  • Buck.

Round 5. Category: The DisPatch. With Dis in quotes

  • 1: Along with platform shoes, this was big in the '70s.
  • a disco ball.
  • 2: On its website, Columbia University offers doctoral students tips on completing this paper "without tears".
  • dissertation.
  • 3: Get off your high horse or off a piece of gymnastics equipment.
  • dismount.
  • 4: It's a comprehensive list of recordings by a composer or artist.
  • discography.
  • 5: It's the "dis" word in ADA, a law passed in 1990 prohibiting discrimination.
  • Disabilities.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1201, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Decade Of Discovery

  • 1: DNA's double helix.
  • the 1950s.
  • 2: Frank Sinatra by Harry James.
  • the 1930s.
  • 3: Quasars by astronomer and Faye Dunaway by Hollywood.
  • the 1960s.
  • 4: Hispaniola by Europeans.
  • the 1490s.
  • 5: Americium (atomic number 95).
  • the 1940s.

Round 2. Category: To Grind

  • 1: Keeping this body part "to the grindstone" means applying yourself.
  • nose.
  • 2: Most waiters consider this tool a real grind when using it to add seasoning to salads.
  • a pepper grinder (or pepper mill).
  • 3: Grinding guides can help you efficiently get to level 10 in this Blizzard game set in Azeroth.
  • World of Warcraft.
  • 4: To grind their food, birds use this organ that also starts with "G".
  • gizzard.
  • 5: Mt. Suribachi was the site of a famed flag raising on this WWII island; Meat Grinder Hill was also a tough battle there.
  • Iwo Jima.

Round 3. Category: The Edgars

  • 1: Part of "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams", "Obits" won the 2016 Short Story Edgar Award for my Maine man, this horror master.
  • Stephen King.
  • 2: "G" is for grand master as well as this woman who received the 2009 Grand Master Award.
  • Sue Grafton.
  • 3: 2018's best episode in a TV series was "Somebody to Love" by Noah Hawley for this Midwestern-set show spun off from a film, you betcha.
  • Fargo.
  • 4: This pseudonym of 2 authors got a special Edgar in 1950 for a "Mystery Magazine".
  • Ellery Queen.
  • 5: The Scotch was good. Too good. I tried to remember. It was 1955, and this writer had won for "The Long Goodbye". and now he had my gun.
  • (Raymond) Chandler.

Round 4. Category: Refugees

  • 1: Turkey has more than 3 million refugees from this country racked by Civil War since 2011.
  • Syria.
  • 2: In 2021 the area called "Little" this city in Fremont, California prepared for a new wave of Afghan refugees.
  • Little Kabul.
  • 3: Many refugees from Africa dwell in Kara Tepe II, a refugee camp on this Greek island also known for its poetic heritage.
  • Lesbos.
  • 4: Political instability and other causes have sent thousands of refugees from this country into its neighbors.
  • Burundi.
  • 5: Term for the largest Muslim group of mainly Buddhist Myanmar; many of them have become refugees.
  • the Rohingya.

Round 5. Category: Sports Franchises' Previous Homes

  • 1: The Los Angeles Dodgers.
  • Brooklyn.
  • 2: The Indianapolis Colts.
  • Baltimore.
  • 3: The Los Angeles Rams.
  • St. Louis.
  • 4: The Colorado Avalanche, oui, oui!.
  • Quebec City.
  • 5: The Atlanta Braves.
  • Milwaukee.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1200, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Map Happy

  • 1: Its name says where it's at.
  • South Africa.
  • 2: "Zone" in on this country important to world commerce.
  • Panama.
  • 3: Zone in on this country, important to world commerce.
  • Panama.
  • 4: A bit of serendipity will lead you to this country's name.
  • Sri Lanka.
  • 5: Nation where Bolivar is buried.
  • Venezuela.

Round 2. Category: Tea Time Movie

  • 1: Disney's "Johnny Tremain" takes part in this Dec. 16, 1773 incident.
  • the Boston Tea Party.
  • 2: Johnny Depp is at least eccentric as this tea party guest in 2010's "Alice in Wonderland".
  • the Mad Hatter.
  • 3: The title character of "Rikyu" teaches this painstaking routine to the fierce warlord Hideyoshi.
  • the Japanese tea ceremony.
  • 4: Jack Black as this character has tea with the dolls of a Brobdingnagian girl.
  • Gulliver.
  • 5: In "Tea with Mussolini", Cher plays a character based on this American art patron who spent a lot of time in Italy.
  • Peggy Guggenheim.

Round 3. Category: Phrases That Sell

  • 1: "Obey your thirst" and drink this.
  • Sprite.
  • 2: "Be all that you can be" in this military branch.
  • the Army.
  • 3: This network says it's "The most trusted name in news".
  • CNN.
  • 4: This shipping company asks, "What can Brown do for you?".
  • UPS.
  • 5: It's the popular query in Verizon's TV ads.
  • Can you hear me now?.

Round 4. Category: Pat. With Pat in quotation marks

  • 1: Let's take our drinks outside onto this paved lounge area.
  • patio.
  • 2: Adjective meaning characteristic of being a father.
  • paternal.
  • 3: Want a good pastry? Go to this French type of store that specializes in them.
  • a patisserie.
  • 4: A regional form of a language, not necessarily French.
  • patois.
  • 5: It's the murder of one's own father.
  • patricide.

Round 5. Category: Babes

  • 1: In his career, he walked a record 2,056 times.
  • Babe Ruth.
  • 2: If Paul Bunyan sang "I Got You Babe", he'd be referring to one of these animals.
  • an ox.
  • 3: It's where Victor Herbert set his "Babes".
  • Toyland.
  • 4: She set records in the 1932 Olympics in the javelin throw and the 80-meter hurdles.
  • Babe Didrikson.
  • 5: Nicknamed "Babe", this early film comedian played The Tin Woodsman in 1925's "The Wizard of Oz".
  • Oliver Hardy.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1199, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Greek Alphabet Puzzlers

  • 1: It's a symbol of the all-american way of life.
  • apple pie.
  • 2: What baby needs, according to craps players.
  • a nu pair of shoes.
  • 3: Around 1960, it was a state-of-the-art music system.
  • Hi-Fi.
  • 4: In song, she's asked, "What's that flower you have on?".
  • Delta Dawn.
  • 5: A type of violent windstorm.
  • a psi-clone.

Round 2. Category: Here Come The Brides

  • 1: In 1993 this "Pretty Woman" who was once engaged to Kiefer Sutherland married singer Lyle Lovett.
  • Julia Roberts.
  • 2: In a 1993 TV movie, she married her childhood sweetheart Bamm-Bamm Rubble.
  • Pebbles (Flintstone).
  • 3: "Our reception was most enthusiastic", she wrote in her diary of her 1840 marriage to her beloved Albert.
  • Queen Victoria.
  • 4: She was Mickey Rooney's first bride, and Frank Sinatra's second.
  • Ava Gardner.
  • 5: In Genesis Jacob was tricked into taking this woman as his bride, even though he loved Rachel.
  • Leah.

Round 3. Category: The Coat Closet

  • 1: In 1988 Claude Montana designed a coat named for this wrap that's worn after taking a shower.
  • a bathrobe.
  • 2: The coat named for this time of day is also called a cutaway.
  • a morning coat.
  • 3: It's an evening coat that wraps around the body like the larval moth covering of the same name.
  • a cocoon (coat).
  • 4: This Scotsman started making raincoats after he invented a rubberized fabric in 1823.
  • Macintosh.
  • 5: This great French couturier debuted his A-Line coat in 1955.
  • (Christian) Dior.

Round 4. Category: An The Beginning. With An in quotation marks

  • 1: An iron block on which metals are hammered into shapes; it also hammers roadrunner-chasing coyotes.
  • an anvil.
  • 2: With the stress on the first syllable, a building add-on; on the second, to incorporate another country's territory.
  • an annex.
  • 3: A collection of writings by various authors, often from a specific period.
  • an anthology.
  • 4: The runner who goes last for a team in a relay race.
  • the anchor leg.
  • 5: A sometimes fatal allergic reaction to bee venom is this type of "shock".
  • anaphylactic.

Round 5. Category: Nelson Mandela

  • 1: In 1993 Mandela shared this prize with white South African president F.W. De Klerk.
  • the Nobel Peace Prize.
  • 2: Mandela was already 45 years old when he was sentenced to life in prison early in this decade.
  • the 1960s.
  • 3: For 18 years of his 27-year imprisonment, Nelson was held in Robben Island Prison near this South African city.
  • Cape Town.
  • 4: Recounting his life and his struggles, Nelson's autobiography is titled "Long Walk to" this.
  • Freedom.
  • 5: Nelson was a leading member of this long-banned political party, the ANC.
  • the African National Congress.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1198, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Poetic Animals

  • 1: These animals "couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again".
  • the king's horses and king's men.
  • 2: When asked "Is there balm in Gilead?", this bird replied in the negative.
  • the raven.
  • 3: Thomas Gray wrote an "Ode on the Death of" 1 of these pets, "drowned in a tub of goldfishes".
  • "a Favourite Cat".
  • 4: In William Blake's poem, it was "burning bright in the forests of the night".
  • Tyger Tyger.
  • 5: By the end of "The Walrus and the Carpenter", the title gluttons have eaten every 1 of these.
  • oysters.

Round 2. Category: 2011 News

  • 1: He fell out of the top 50 world golf rankings for the first time since 1996.
  • Tiger Woods.
  • 2: Acting under Chapter VII of their charter, the U.N. voted to institute one of these over Libya, grounding Qaddafi's aircraft.
  • a no-fly zone.
  • 3: Starting Sept. 17, part of Lower Manhattan was occupied 24/7 by the protest group "Occupy" this.
  • Wall Street.
  • 4: This homeless man from Ohio stepped into the batter's box of fame thanks to his golden voice.
  • Ted Williams.
  • 5: Democratic state senators fled this state to stall Gov. Walker's union-busting budget bill.
  • Wisconsin.

Round 3. Category: Ben And Jerry'S Flavors

  • 1: There are almond cookies in the flavor called "Mission to" this confection.
  • Marzipan.
  • 2: This fan-suggested flavor is the first named for a rock legend.
  • Cherry Garcia.
  • 3: The U.K. was treated to "Bohemian Raspberry", a flavor in honor of this band.
  • Queen.
  • 4: In a Ben and Jerry's flavor, this candy bar comes between "Coffee" and "Crunch".
  • Heath.
  • 5: It's the rhyming name of the flavor that includes fudge-covered peanut butter-filled pretzels.
  • Chubby Hubby.

Round 4. Category: Famous Amos'S

  • 1: John Amos got an Emmy nomination for playing this character as an adult in.
  • Kunta Kinte.
  • 2: Living to age 102, pioneer coach Amos Alonzo Stagg was acclaimed as this sport's "Grand Old Man".
  • football.
  • 3: Before he became "Famous" for cookies, Wally Amos was 1 of these with William Morris.
  • an agent.
  • 4: This comedian of Lebanese descent, aka Amos Jacobs, was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal for humanitarianism.
  • Danny Thomas.
  • 5: On "The Real McCoys", he was Grandpappy Amos "Head of the clan, he roars like a lion, but he's gentle as a lamb".
  • Walter Brennan.

Round 5. Category: A Clash Of Symbols

  • 1: The eagle on the one-dollar bill grasps in its talons these seemingly antithetical items.
  • arrows and an olive branch.
  • 2: In 2013 France's Communist party said adieu to this pair of symbols, saying "It isn't so relevant to a new generation".
  • the hammer and sickle.
  • 3: In the NFL, both the Raiders and the Buccaneers have these weapons clashing on their logos.
  • swords.
  • 4: In an 1874 cartoon Thomas Nast drew this creature scaring other animals, including an elephant.
  • a donkey.
  • 5: The shield of Mars and the mirror of Venus are symbols for these, often known to clash.
  • men and women.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1197, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Books Of The Dead

  • 1: The first volume of her poems didn't appear until 1890, 4 years after death stopped for her.
  • (Emily) Dickinson.
  • 2: Irene Nemirovsky's "Suite Francaise" was a bestseller 6 decades after her 1942 death in this infamous camp in Poland.
  • Auschwitz.
  • 3: Samuel Butler's "The Way of All" this was published in 1903, the year after his death.
  • The Way of All Flesh.
  • 4: He died of a heart attack in 2004, shortly before the first novel in his mega-selling thriller trilogy was published.
  • (Stieg) Larsson.
  • 5: Franz Kafka told an executor to destroy the manuscript of the 1925 novel "Der Prozess", this title in English.
  • The Trial.

Round 2. Category: Study Abroad

  • 1: The University of Queensland offers a BMid, a bachelor's degree certifying you as one of these baby deliverers.
  • a midwife.
  • 2: You can get a master of music degree from the Sibelius Academy at this European capital's university.
  • Helsinki.
  • 3: You can earn a Ph.D. in pedagogy at Masaryk University in this Central European republic.
  • the Czech Republic.
  • 4: It's safe now to attend Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a battlefront in this 1930s conflict.
  • the Spanish Civil War.
  • 5: Bite into the university of this meaty Italian city, like Copernicus did.
  • Bologna.

Round 3. Category: African-American Playwrights

  • 1: Playwright Langston Hughes formed the Suitcase Theater in Harlem and the New Negro Theater in this Calif. city.
  • L.A. (Los Angeles).
  • 2: With its strong political message, Amiri Baraka's play "Dutchman" won one of these off-Broadway awards in 1964.
  • an OBIE.
  • 3: This play about a family moving to the suburbs was the first Broadway play written and directed by African Americans.
  • A Raisin in the Sun.
  • 4: James Baldwin loosely based his play "Blues for Mister Charlie" on the '55 murder of Emmitt Till in this southern state.
  • Mississippi.
  • 5: This playwright of "Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company.
  • August Wilson.

Round 4. Category: Season. With Season in quotation marks

  • 1: Winter to a baseball player, and a good time to visit a resort to avoid peak tourist times.
  • off-season.
  • 2: Herbs and spices will be these in our stew.
  • seasonings.
  • 3: This Vivaldi work begins with "spring".
  • "The Four Seasons".
  • 4: Paul Scofield won an Oscar as the "year-round" Thomas More in this 1966 film.
  • A Man For All Seasons.
  • 5: This Jason Miller play about a basketball team's reunion was a slam-dunk with critics in 1973.
  • That Championship Season.

Round 5. Category: Festivals And Celebrations

  • 1: "Mountaineers are always free" to attend Mountaineer Week in Morgantown in this state.
  • West Virginia.
  • 2: Corbin in this "Bluegrass State" is home to the Nibroc (Corbin spelled backward) festival.
  • Kentucky.
  • 3: This state has a rose festival in Jackson and a lilac festival on Mackinac Island.
  • Michigan.
  • 4: Don't "space out" or you'll miss Panoply, a spring celebration of the arts in this Alabama city.
  • Huntsville.
  • 5: A fire ant mating call contest is part of the Fire Ant Festival in Marshall in this southwest state.
  • Texas.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1196, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: April Fools' Day

  • 1: The United States sent up Tiros I, the 1st satellite of this kind, April 1, 1960.
  • weather satellite.
  • 2: Rachmaninoff and Rostand, to name two.
  • April 1 Birthdays.
  • 3: This silent movie "hunchback" whose parents were deaf mutes was born April 1, 1883.
  • Lon Chaney.
  • 4: The "core" of this computer company goes back to its founding, April 1, 1976.
  • Apple Computer.
  • 5: This Motown star was shot by his father April 1, 1984, the day before his 45th birthday.
  • Marvin Gaye.

Round 2. Category: Trees

  • 1: This "chestnut" is scientifically known as Aesculus hippocastanum.
  • the horse chestnut.
  • 2: “Botanical” name of this Scott Joplin tune:.
  • "The Maple Leaf Rag".
  • 3: The blue gum, which has been introduced into the U.S., and the Sydney peppermint are species of this tree.
  • the eucalyptus.
  • 4: This is the better-known Genus and species name of the maidenhair tree, used in Chinese medicine to boost memory.
  • Gingko biloba.
  • 5: Type of tree mentioned in the chorus of the following song:"As I went walking that ribbon of highway / I saw above me that endless skyway / I saw below me that golden valley...".
  • a redwood.

Round 3. Category: Science Puns

  • 1: Do bees build these from scratch or does the scratch come later.
  • hives.
  • 2: When a woman in labor yells out "Can't!", "Don't!" or "Won't!", she's having these.
  • contractions.
  • 3: When you are "under" this, a manometer will measure it.
  • pressure.
  • 4: Wyatt Earp gave these creatures the O.K. to build a reef in Tombstone's lake.
  • coral.
  • 5: At lunch whales commit murder on a massive scale when they're "going in for" this.
  • the krill.

Round 4. Category: Back To Basics

  • 1: This word for "basic" is also a 3rd grade type of school.
  • primary (or elementary).
  • 2: RIF, short for "Reading is" this, has aided children's literacy since 1966.
  • fundamental.
  • 3: The timeless line "when in doubt, go basic" this appeared in a 2017 Vogue feature.
  • black.
  • 4: "Watery" term for the dominant trend, perhaps describing big media.
  • mainstream.
  • 5: "R" you ready? This 11-letter word means "basic", like skills everyone should have.
  • rudimentary.

Round 5. Category: Highways And Byways

  • 1: The Tour de France ends on this boulevard.
  • the Champs-Élysées.
  • 2: In 1961, part of this city's Stalinallee was renamed Karl-Marx-Allee.
  • East Berlin.
  • 3: Gulag labor was used to build this 7,000-mile highway with the same name as a famous railroad.
  • the Trans-Siberian Highway.
  • 4: Peace, Hope and Friendship are streets in this state capital named in honor of God.
  • Providence, Rhode Island.
  • 5: As Wall Street is associated with stocks, this NYC street is associated with advertising.
  • Madison Avenue.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1195, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Win Win Situation. With Win in quotes

  • 1: Flavor of Life Saver that may set off sparks in your mouth.
  • wint o green.
  • 2: Native Americans who lived in the Green Bay area (Their name is now on mobile homes).
  • Winnebago.
  • 3: Buzz Aldrin's real first name.
  • Edwin.
  • 4: Charming, in a childlike way.
  • winsome.
  • 5: Separating the wheat from the chaff by air.
  • winnowing.

Round 2. Category: Soft Words

  • 1: The King James Bible sayeth, "A soft answer turneth away" this synonym for anger.
  • wrath.
  • 2: "The Long Goodbye" finds this gumshoe describing various blondes, including a shadowy one who "speaks softly out of nowhere".
  • Philip Marlowe.
  • 3: In a poem by this 3-named guy, Evangeline whispers to Gabriel, "If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us".
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • 4: In "Thus Spake Zarathustra", he wrote, "The voice of beauty speaks softly: it steals only into the most awakened souls".
  • Friedrich Nietzsche.
  • 5: In Poe's "The Raven", her whispered name is heard in the darkness.
  • Lenore.

Round 3. Category: Reportage

  • 1: (I'm Hiroko Tabuchi.) In 2015 I reported on the Japanese company Takata's delay investigating why inflators on these in cars were exploding.
  • air bags.
  • 2: James Whitaker, royal reporter for the Daily Mirror, shocked Britain with the news of this woman's eating disorder.
  • Lady Diana (Princess Diana).
  • 3: "An age-old journalistic dilemma": getting the story or protecting this "S"-person.
  • a source.
  • 4: The thrilling Zachary Taylor/Lewis Cass contest of 1848 was the first presidential election for this new wire service.
  • the Associated Press.
  • 5: The first reporter in space, Japanese journalist Akiyama Toyohiro trained at Star City in this country.
  • Russia.

Round 4. Category: Analogies

  • 1: Dog is to bark as duck is to this.
  • quack.
  • 2: A ruler is to length as this is to body temperature.
  • a thermometer.
  • 3: Foot is to feet as datum is to this.
  • data.
  • 4: Car is to garage as airplane is to this.
  • hangar.
  • 5: Santiago is to Chile as this is to Peru.
  • Lima.

Round 5. Category: Pun-Ishing Clues

  • 1: "To live until you are very, very old", or to widen one's pupils.
  • to dilate/die late.
  • 2: "Things that can be seen from the Eiffel Tower", or animals that live and feed on other animals.
  • Paris sites/parasites.
  • 3: "What a female softball player catches the ball with", or a religious recluse.
  • her mitt/hermit.
  • 4: "What a chicken does to an egg", or a small ax.
  • hatch it/hatchet.
  • 5: "Former circus big top enclosure", or the distance something encompasses.
  • ex-tent/extent.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1194, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: And The Award Goes To...

  • 1: This nutty comic won a 1996 National Society of Film Critics award for his role as "The Nutty Professor".
  • Eddie Murphy.
  • 2: Barbara Walters' "20/20" co-host, in 1998 he was awarded the Children's Champion Award from UNICEF.
  • Hugh Downs.
  • 3: While president of the Philippines, she received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize.
  • Corazon Aquino.
  • 4: Category for which James Tobin, Gary Becker and Milton Friedman all won Nobel Prizes.
  • Economics.
  • 5: This Spanish cellist was among the first recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
  • Pablo Casals.

Round 2. Category: The Old Testament

  • 1: Potiphar's wife tries to seduce this dream translator, who resists and ends up being sent to jail.
  • Joseph.
  • 2: Recipient of God's bad news "Thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither".
  • Moses.
  • 3: One lie he told was "If they bind me with 7 green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak".
  • Samson.
  • 4: He interpreted the "handwriting on the wall" for Belshazzar.
  • Daniel.
  • 5: In Exodus 21, 2 of the 4 body parts that follow "Thou shalt give life for life...".
  • (2 of) an eye, a tooth, a hand and a foot.

Round 3. Category: 20Th C. Quotes

  • 1: A remark attributed to Eldridge Cleaver states, "You're either part of the solution or part of" this.
  • the problem.
  • 2: In a 1969 speech, he was 1st to refer to "The Great Silent Majority".
  • Richard Nixon.
  • 3: This clergyman wrote from a Birmingham jail, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere".
  • Martin Luther King, Jr..
  • 4: Establishing scholarships in his will he said, "Educational relations make the strongest tie".
  • Cecil Rhodes.
  • 5: This famed WWII correspondent stated, "I write from the worm's-eye point of view".
  • Ernie Pyle.

Round 4. Category: Let'S Go For A Spin. With Spin in quotes

  • 1: "Melrose Place" was one for "Beverly Hills 90210".
  • a spin-off.
  • 2: Here are the rules: if the soda container stops rotating and faces you, it's time to pucker up.
  • spin the bottle.
  • 3: It can be a yarn maker, or a woman who never married.
  • a spinster.
  • 4: It's the rotating skid of a car losing control.
  • a spinout.
  • 5: The bowman on a yacht is there to set this sail.
  • a spinnaker.

Round 5. Category: Tools Of The Kitchen

  • 1: Different types of these can remove hot stuff from the oven or catch baseballs.
  • a mitt.
  • 2: A pair of hinged metal griddles with a honeycombed interior make up one of these.
  • a waffle iron.
  • 3: Both a product such as Adolph's and a kitchen tool have this name, referring to what they do to meat.
  • a tenderizer.
  • 4: You'll be draining without straining using a Williams-Sonoma one of these holey items.
  • a colander.
  • 5: The name of this perforated pasta prep bowl is from the Latin for "strain".
  • a colander.

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Round 1. Category: Phrases Literally Translated

  • 1: Don't overcook the pasta--I like it "to the tooth".
  • al dente.
  • 2: I was just walking down the street and I had a sudden sense of "already seen".
  • déja vu.
  • 3: I see you've positioned the bed according to the principles of "wind water".
  • feng shui.
  • 4: Step outside, pal--it's you and me, "hand to hand".
  • mano a mano.
  • 5: Gerry Adams is the leader of "Ourselves Alone".
  • Sinn Fein.

Round 2. Category: That'S Super!. With Super in quotes

  • 1: In the days following Hurricane Katrina, this venue sheltered nearly 25,000 evacuees.
  • the Superdome.
  • 2: The first one was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
  • the Super Bowl.
  • 3: These enormous cargo ships can hold over 300,000 tons of oil.
  • supertankers.
  • 4: When a massive star dies out, it may explode and become one of these, billions of times as bright as the sun.
  • a supernova.
  • 5: Here's a crossword clue: One-word movie song title(34 letters).
  • "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".

Round 3. Category: I Still Like Cartoons

  • 1: This guy's theme song tells us "Absorbent and yellow and porous is he".
  • SpongeBob SquarePants.
  • 2: This Great Dane was introduced in 1969, and you'd have gotten away with $400 if it weren't for those meddling kids.
  • Scooby-Doo.
  • 3: These 2 title kids get to torment the Grim Reaper after winning a limbo contest against him.
  • Billy and Mandy.
  • 4: He leads Ed and Edd in trying to carry out various adolescent schemes.
  • Eddy.
  • 5: Looking like a refugee from "Pac Man", Blooregard Q. Kazoo hangs out with his pal, Mac, on this show.
  • Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

Round 4. Category: Not A Current National Capital

  • 1: Asmara,Addis Ababa,Aswan.
  • Aswan.
  • 2: Ljubljana,Bratislava,Barcelona.
  • Barcelona.
  • 3: Quito,Sao Paulo,Bogota.
  • São Paulo.
  • 4: Istanbul,Ottawa,Amman.
  • Istanbul.
  • 5: Sofia,Sarajevo,Saigon.
  • Saigon.

Round 5. Category: M Tv. With M in quotation marks

  • 1: This series' title character worked for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
  • 2: This James Garner western once broadcast a satire of "Gunsmoke" titled "Gunshy".
  • Maverick.
  • 3: The novel it was derived from was written by a doctor who'd actually served in the Korean War.
  • mash.
  • 4: Guy Fieri hosted this TV competition in which contestants had 60 seconds to perform tasks for cash.
  • Minute to Win It.
  • 5: In a 1987 show, Matt Frewer played a dual role, Edison Carter and this title character.
  • Max Headroom.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1192, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Century Of The Crime

  • 1: Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to money laundering, fraud and a bunch of other stuff.
  • the 21st century.
  • 2: Charlotte Corday kills Marat, is not sad.
  • the 18th century.
  • 3: Lewis Payne causes William Seward pain, but even wounding the Secretary of State is not the biggest crime that day.
  • the 19th century.
  • 4: The Salem witch trials burn into history.
  • the 17th century.
  • 5: William Wallace is condemned as a traitor, though he said he never swore allegiance to Edward.
  • the 14th century.

Round 2. Category: January 1, 1993

  • 1: These 2 countries came into existence.
  • Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
  • 2: This country knocked 3 zeros off its pesos.
  • Mexico.
  • 3: President Bush spent the day wishing happy new year to the U.S. troops in this country.
  • Somalia.
  • 4: This college team became No. 1 by defeating the Miami Hurricanes 34-13 in the Sugar Bowl.
  • the University of Alabama.
  • 5: Robert Eaton took over as this automaker's CEO.
  • Chrysler.

Round 3. Category: Of The Nile

  • 1: The Nile runs through Cairo and this other national capital city.
  • Khartoum, Sudan.
  • 2: The first of the 10 Biblical plagues of Egypt occurred when the waters of the Nile were turned into this.
  • blood.
  • 3: The High Dam across the Nile at this city creates Lake Nasser, one of the largest reservoirs in the world.
  • Aswan.
  • 4: He was knighted in 1886 in part for his journeys in search of the source of the Nile.
  • Sir Richard Burton.
  • 5: There's no denial, Act III of this Verdi opera takes place on the banks of the Nile.
  • Aida.

Round 4. Category: Words Of The Year

  • 1: dictionary.com:Xenophobia, meaning "fear of" these.
  • foreigners (or strangers).
  • 2: The Cambridge Dictionary picked this adjective meaning having delusions of persecution.
  • paranoid.
  • 3: Merriam-Webster:Not merely "real" but this word meaning weirdly unreal, like a dream.
  • surreal.
  • 4: Collins Dictionary:This word with a useful suffix to indicate leaving.
  • Brexit.
  • 5: Oxford:Post-truth, edging out this 4-letter adjective meaning alert to injustice.
  • woke.

Round 5. Category: 3

  • 1: The 3-tiered crown of this personage stands for spiritual power, temporal power and ecclesiastical power.
  • the pope.
  • 2: Ned Nederlander, Dusty Bottoms and Lucky Day go up against El Guapo in this 1986 movie.
  • ¡Three Amigos!.
  • 3: This secretary in Ronald Reagan's cabinet shares his name with one of the 3 men in a tub.
  • (James) Baker.
  • 4: The 3 main classifications of these are active, dormant and extinct.
  • volcanoes.
  • 5: The 3 orders of these monks are the Friars Minor, the Poor Clares and the Brothers and Sisters of Penance.
  • the Franciscans.

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Round 1. Category: Go To H. With H in quotation marks

  • 1: It's the medical term for bad breath.
  • halitosis.
  • 2: Buzz in when you know this one -- in ancient times, this sweet, sticky liquid was used to treat wounds.
  • Honey.
  • 3: At best, it's a computer enthusiast; at worst, it's one who illegally taps into your computer.
  • Hacker.
  • 4: Established in 1519, this capital is the largest city in the West Indies.
  • Havana (Cuba).
  • 5: This small nocturnal mammal covered with spines rolls into a ball when threatened.
  • a hedgehog.

Round 2. Category: With A Sculpture On Top

  • 1: Commissioned by brewer Carl Jacobsen, a sculpture of this fairy-tale figure sits atop a rock in Copenhagen harbor.
  • the Little Mermaid.
  • 2: A classical statue called "Freedom" sits atop the dome of this Washington, D.C. building.
  • the U.S. Capitol.
  • 3: Philly's city hall is topped by a 37-foot tall statue of this colony founder; for a time no building there was built higher than his hat.
  • William Penn.
  • 4: The colossal Christ the Redeemer Statue on Mount Corcovado towers over this South American city.
  • Rio de Janeiro.
  • 5: A column topped by a 17-foot statue of this man is the centerpiece of London's Trafalgar Square.
  • Nelson.

Round 3. Category: Traditional Eastern Medicine

  • 1: Most acupuncture points relate to pathways along the body called these, like the ones connecting poles on a globe.
  • meridians.
  • 2: Cupping stimulates acupuncture points by applying suction through a glass jar, creating a partial one of these.
  • a vacuum.
  • 3: Acupuncture needles, now steel and as thin as a hair, were once made of the woody stem of this giant grass.
  • bamboo.
  • 4: Research shows that acupuncture increases brain production of these hormones, natural painkillers.
  • endorphins.
  • 5: Once in weight-loss products, ma huang is the Chinese name for this herbal stimulant used to treat asthma.
  • ephedra.

Round 4. Category: Shocking Art

  • 1: His mural at Rockefeller Center was destroyed because it included a depiction of Lenin.
  • Diego Rivera.
  • 2: 1485 Florence was shocked by this artist's large nude painting of the birth of a goddess.
  • Botticelli.
  • 3: In 1892 Berlin authorities screamed and closed the exhibit by this Scandinavian artist.
  • (Edvard) Munch.
  • 4: This impressionist's Christ paintings of 1864 and 1865 were crucified for being unidealized.
  • Édouard Manet.
  • 5: Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" caused a stir at this 1913 show in New York City.
  • the Armory Show.

Round 5. Category: And Span D_X. With D_X in quotes

  • 1: This 2-word term for a spiral shape dates to 1954.
  • double helix.
  • 2: A house with 2 living units, or an apartment with 2 floors.
  • duplex.
  • 3: Type of treatment to help someone recover from drug or alcohol abuse.
  • detox.
  • 4: Numerical 2-word term for getting rid of something, perhaps by sending it to Davy Jones' locker.
  • deep six.
  • 5: U.S. patent 4194846 is for this kind of printer.
  • dot-matrix.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1190, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Languages Of India

  • 1: Some dialects are characteristic of one of these Indian social divisions, like Ahirani, spoken by cattle herders.
  • a caste.
  • 2: Spoken by some 50 million, Gujarati was the first language of this "Father of Modern India".
  • Mahatma Gandhi.
  • 3: Works like the Bhagavad Gita were written in this ancient language.
  • Sanskrit.
  • 4: Marathi is the home language of this city, the financial and commercial center of India.
  • Mumbai.
  • 5: The written language of about 100 million people, it's basically Hindi, but with Arabic script.
  • Urdu.

Round 2. Category: Jeopardy! Acceptable Responses

  • 1: While we eternally accept Holland, this is the more accurate name for the country.
  • the Netherlands.
  • 2: We've never even heard anyone say the name Goyathlay, but we'd accept it for this Apache leader.
  • Geronimo.
  • 3: He went by a shorter name, but William Claude Dukenfield is an acceptable answer when referring to this actor.
  • W.C. Fields.
  • 4: You don't have to be high society to know that Society of Friends is an acceptable alternative name for this group.
  • the Quakers.
  • 5: When asking for the name of this mid-20th century British author, we will of course accept his real name, Eric Blair.
  • George Orwell.

Round 3. Category: Historic Figures

  • 1: Liu Pang, a man of humble birth, founded this country's Han Dynasty circa 202 B.C..
  • China.
  • 2: Forced from Mainland China in 1949, he established a nationalist government on Taiwan.
  • Chiang Kai-shek.
  • 3: This English seaman was known to the Spaniards as "The Dragon".
  • (Sir Francis) Drake.
  • 4: Only the core of this 13th century conqueror's army consisted of Mongols.
  • Genghis Khan.
  • 5: Wayzaro Menen, a great-granddaughter of Emperor Menelik II, was the wife of this Ethiopian ruler.
  • Haile Selassie.

Round 4. Category: Presidential Pooches

  • 1: Thomas Jefferson owned 2 briards that were a gift from this Frenchman.
  • LaFayette.
  • 2: In the early 1860's, his dog Fido became the first presidential dog to be photographed.
  • Abraham Lincoln.
  • 3: Garfield named his dog this to warn Congress not to send him any bills that he didn't want to sign into law.
  • Veto.
  • 4: A pup of liberty, this "golden" breed owned by Gerald Ford, became a guide dog for the blind.
  • a golden retriever.
  • 5: This chocolate lab was First Dog from 1997 to 2001.
  • Buddy.

Round 5. Category: Animated Movie Plots

  • 1: In this 2008 film Jedi Knights try to restore peace as the droid army rampages.
  • The Clone Wars.
  • 2: 4 musicians help Lord Admiral save Pepperland from the Blue Meanies and their anti-music missiles in this classic.
  • Yellow Submarine.
  • 3: Mrs. Brisby gets help from some super-smart rats who've escaped from a lab in this Don Bluth film.
  • The Secret of NIMH.
  • 4: 50-foot-tall, metal-eating, talking robot befriends boy in this 1999 film.
  • Iron Giant.
  • 5: In this 2007 film things don't get better for young Marjane after the Shah is supplanted by the Islamic Revolution.
  • Persepolis.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1189, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bill Clinton

  • 1: Clinton won first chair in this instrument in the Arkansas state band.
  • the saxophone.
  • 2: His birthplace; it's where he lived the first 7 years of his life.
  • Hope, Arkansas.
  • 3: The day before taking office, Clinton prayed at this president's Arlington, Va. grave.
  • John F. Kennedy.
  • 4: Bill Clinton met Hillary Rodham while both were attending this law school.
  • Yale.
  • 5: Clinton got his bachelor's degree at this D.C. school, the only college he applied to.
  • Georgetown.

Round 2. Category: Song Of Poets. With Song in quotation marks

  • 1: William Blake published this collection in 1789; "Experience" would come a few years later.
  • Songs of Innocence.
  • 2: Sections of this 1855 poem include "The Peace Pipe", "The White-Man's Foot" and "Blessing the Corn Fields".
  • The Song of Hiawatha.
  • 3: Read during Passover, it's also referred to as the "Canticle of Canticles".
  • Song of Songs.
  • 4: Before the 1881 edition, it was simply titled "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American".
  • "Song of Myself".
  • 5: An insignificant battle between Charlemagne and the Basques at Roncesvalles is the basis for this French epic poem.
  • The Song of Roland.

Round 3. Category: Rewriting Hamlet

  • 1: Fair one, thy dad had thee repel my letters and deny me access to thee... but a restraining order? What is uppeth with that?.
  • Ophelia.
  • 2: Zounds! I saw thee not behind that arras! Denmark needeth a new minister to the king! My bad!.
  • Polonius.
  • 3: Though I did say of thee "Frailty, thy name is woman", Mother, I hope thou acceptest my wedding gift from Pottery Barn.
  • Gertrude.
  • 4: 'Tis okay ye killed Dad and wed Mom--thou said thy "offence is rank, it smells to heaven", but I'm a live and let live kind of guy.
  • Claudius.
  • 5: You "two-school-fellows, whom I will trust as I will adders fanged" ...Aw, I ain't mad atcha! Giveth me hugs!.
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Round 4. Category: The 19Th Century

  • 1: Much of the fighting in this war, 1853 to 1856, took place on a peninsula in the Black Sea.
  • the Crimean War.
  • 2: In 1893 this labor leader founded the American Railway Union.
  • (Eugene) Debs.
  • 3: In 1825 patriots crossed the Rio de la Plata from Argentina to fight for this country's freedom from Brazil.
  • Uruguay.
  • 4: King John VI of this country died in 1826 and left his throne to Dom Pedro of Brazil who became Pedro I.
  • Portugal.
  • 5: This family was restored to power in the 1870s when Alfonso XII ascended the Spanish throne.
  • the Bourbons.

Round 5. Category: Ad-Jectives

  • 1: In other words this common pair of advertising adjectives could be "novel as well as ameliorated".
  • new and improved.
  • 2: In a slogan almost a century old, Maxwell House coffee is this "to the last drop".
  • "good".
  • 3: In other words, this common pair of adjectives could be "novel as well as ameliorated".
  • new and improved.
  • 4: Taking this adjective literally, the ads say that BMW is the last driving machine that'll be made.
  • ultimate.
  • 5: Since 1975 BMW has been touting its vehicles as this kind of "driving machine".
  • "ultimate".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1188, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Single T, Double T

  • 1: The winner of the battle for survival per Darwin.
  • the fittest.
  • 2: A short, half-suppressed laugh or giggle.
  • titter.
  • 3: Miss Manners is an expert on this standard of appropriate behavior in social settings.
  • etiquette.
  • 4: This women's underskirt has been worn since the Middle Ages.
  • a petticoat.
  • 5: Crenels are the empty parts and merlons are the solid parts in this structure, a type of parapet.
  • a battlement.

Round 2. Category: Where Are You At?. With At in quotation marks

  • 1: You ran the light and are liable for causing the accident, so you're said to be this.
  • at fault.
  • 2: You're no longer at attention, and are now permitted to scratch yourself.
  • at ease.
  • 3: You're out of patience, or in the position of a lassoed steer.
  • at the end of your rope/at your rope's end.
  • 4: You're being sold below cost, or you're perplexed.
  • at a loss.
  • 5: You're helpless before someone; in his power.
  • at his/her mercy.

Round 3. Category: Let'S Be Secure

  • 1: (Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge gives the clue.) I introduced the threat advisory system; during my time at the DHS we were never able to go below this color, for "elevated threat".
  • yellow.
  • 2: DHS is charged with protecting "critical" this--from subways to satellites, the systems we rely on every day.
  • infrastructure.
  • 3: (Tom Ridge reads.) I led the largest reorganization of the government since the 1940s, including bringing the Secret Service, customs, and this whole military service into the DHS.
  • the Coast Guard.
  • 4: Passenger screening is the responsibility of this Homeland Security agency established in November 2001.
  • the TSA.
  • 5: (Tom Ridge reads one last time.) Our front line of defense against a terrorist attack is local police and firefighters, known as "first" these.
  • responders.

Round 4. Category: Scrambled U.S. History

  • 1: 1820s announcement:NO CREDO ON MERIT.
  • the Monroe Doctrine.
  • 2: 1930s calamity: O DESPERATE GRINS.
  • the Great Depression.
  • 3: Big deal in 1803: A USUAL HIP SCENARIO.
  • the Louisiana Purchase.
  • 4: 1794 uprising: SOBER WHINE LIKELY.
  • the Whiskey Rebellion.
  • 5: One was on the radio April 28, 1935: CHIEFS TIRADE.
  • a fireside chat.

Round 5. Category: The Body In Question

  • 1: Marilyn Monroe's breathiness and John Wayne's slow speech were, says 1 expert, ways to correct this.
  • stuttering.
  • 2: Part of the body on which you might get enamel bonding.
  • your teeth.
  • 3: The 2 main gases exchanged in the alveoli of the lungs.
  • oxygen and carbon dioxide.
  • 4: PBS series from which this category takes its name was hosted by this actor/director/satirist/M.D..
  • Jonathan Miller.
  • 5: The technical term for it is "alopecia", and one of the remedies is a "rug".
  • baldness.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1187, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Other Bond Film Characters

  • 1: Miss Moneypenny is the personal assistant of this character, the head of MI6.
  • M.
  • 2: First name of American spy Mr. Leiter, who often helped James Bond defeat the bad guys.
  • Felix.
  • 3: Ben Whishaw is the new computer-savvy version of this character.
  • Q.
  • 4: Supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld shows up in "Thunderball" as the head of this criminal organization.
  • SPECTRE.
  • 5: The giant metal-mouthed assassin "Jaws" chews up the scenery in "The Spy Who Loved Me" and this film in space.
  • Moonraker.

Round 2. Category: Ad Council Classics

  • 1: The Ad Council began in 1942 as the War Advertising Council; its first campaign urged the sale of war these.
  • bonds.
  • 2: A 1983 campaign introduced the phrase "Friends don't let friends" do this.
  • drive drunk.
  • 3: In 1979 the Council unleashed McGruff the Crime Dog, who urged Americans to do this 6-word thing.
  • take a bite out of crime.
  • 4: A 1988 campaign that said "Help stop AIDS. Use" one of these was the first in America to use the word.
  • a condom.
  • 5: The Council's 1960s recruiting campaign for this JFK program called it "the toughest job you'll ever love".
  • the Peace Corps.

Round 3. Category: Symphonies

  • 1: This Soviet superstar subtitled his third symphony "May First".
  • (Dmitri) Shostakovich.
  • 2: In 1889 Cesar Franck shocked some French critics by using this "English" instrument in a symphony.
  • the English horn.
  • 3: The "Pathetic" Symphony is by this Russian who also gave us the celebratory "1812 Overture".
  • Tchaikovsky.
  • 4: "Merry Gathering of the Peasants" is one movement of his 1808 "Pastoral" symphony.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven.
  • 5: In 1983 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Symphony No. 1 made her the first woman to win this prize for music.
  • the Pulitzer Prize.

Round 4. Category: BOoks. With B in quotation marks

  • 1: This children's classic is subtitled "A Life in the Woods".
  • Bambi.
  • 2: The title of this bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a smooth style of opera singing.
  • bel canto.
  • 3: This classic kids' book by Felix Salten is subtitled "A Life in the Woods".
  • Bambi.
  • 4: It's the huge 1992 bestseller about a photographer, a farm wife and 4 days in Iowa.
  • Bridges of Madison County.
  • 5: "Fleeing playgirl traced to Rio" is a headline about Holly Golightly in this Truman Capote tale.
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Round 5. Category: Every Day'S A Holiday

  • 1: On January 12 have a cuppa on National Hot this Day.
  • Tea.
  • 2: In Japan, November the 11th is a holiday celebrating this art form.
  • origami.
  • 3: National Thank You Note Day is on this date, the day after opening lots of gifts.
  • December 26th.
  • 4: August 13 is a special day for these folks, including Barack Obama, Paul McCartney and Clayton Kershaw.
  • southpaws (left-handers).
  • 5: Held in October at the end of the week, this alliterative day celebrates Mary Shelley and her famous creation.
  • Frankenstein Friday.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1186, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fete Offensive

  • 1: 1953 and 2009 were years of riots in France on this festive day that was violent back in 1789, too.
  • Bastille Day.
  • 2: After this war hero's 1829 inauguration, crowds nearly crushed him and the White House was trashed.
  • Andrew Jackson.
  • 3: Beijing feted 70 years of Communist rule on "National Day" in 2019, but protests in this administrative region turned ugly.
  • Hong Kong.
  • 4: 30 years after the original concert, this reboot featured overpriced water and arson.
  • Woodstock.
  • 5: Netflix' documentary about this ill-conceived Bahamian romp is subtitled "The Greatest Party that Never Happened".
  • the Fyre Festival.

Round 2. Category: Polyhymnia

  • 1: "Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!" Joan Baez sang this national hymn on a 1963 concert album.
  • "Battle Hymn Of The Republic".
  • 2: "In the snow of far off northern lands and in sunny tropic scenes" is in the second part of their hymn.
  • the Marine Corps.
  • 3: Also meaning a commonly repeated word or phrase, this term originally referred to a Hindu vedic hymn.
  • mantra.
  • 4: A processional is sung as clergy and laity enter a church; this type of hymn, as they leave.
  • recessional.
  • 5: Bede recorded this earliest-known Anglo-Saxon Christian poet's "Hymn" in prose.
  • Cædmon.

Round 3. Category: 4 Top Men

  • 1: You know it would be true, you know I wouldn't be a liar, to say this band turned down $50K from Buick to use "Light My Fire".
  • The Doors.
  • 2: This foursome was "Runnin' With The Devil" but runnin' without brown MandMs, excluded in their concert contracts.
  • Van Halen.
  • 3: For a track on "Quadrophenia", this band had to bribe a train driver to blow his whistle departing Waterloo station.
  • The Who.
  • 4: Bob Geldof on the show-stopping performance by this band at Live Aid: "It was the perfect stage for Freddie".
  • Queen.
  • 5: At the 2017 Grammys, this hard rocking quartet of dudes went (Lady) Gaga to play "Moth Into Flame".
  • Metallica.

Round 4. Category: Working With A Beatle

  • 1: In a 1995 Pizza Hut ad, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Davy Jones welcomed Ringo as this band's new drummer.
  • the Monkees.
  • 2: "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey", a 1971 No. 1, is credited to Paul and this woman.
  • Linda Eastman (McCartney).
  • 3: In 1997 Ringo said, "Baby, I Love Your Way" and had this ex-Humble Pie guy in the All-Starr Band.
  • Peter Frampton.
  • 4: "Handle with Care"! Along with George, this '80s group featured Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan.
  • the Traveling Wilburys.
  • 5: On Thanksgiving 1974, John joined this man at Madison Square Garden to perform "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds".
  • Elton John.

Round 5. Category: From Movie To Musical

  • 1: This musical based on a 1933 film is currently tapping away on the NYC thoroughfare of the same name.
  • 42nd Street.
  • 2: Tony Curtis took the Joe E. Brown role, not the Tony Curtis part, in a new musical based on this Billy Wilder film.
  • Some Like It Hot.
  • 3: You could say John C. Reilly butchered the role in the 2002 musical based on this Ernest Borgnine film.
  • Marty.
  • 4: It had to happen: this 1962 classic in which Bette Davis tormented Joan Crawford became a musical in 2002.
  • Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?.
  • 5: "Illya Darling" was based on this foreign film about a woman who worked only Monday through Saturday.
  • Never On Sunday.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1185, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Odd American History

  • 1: In 1833 this 35-inch-tall millionaire wed the 32-inch-tall Lavinia Warren (P.T. had his hand in it...).
  • Tom Thumb.
  • 2: Way before Ford, an assembly line was set up in Cincinnati in the 1800s to disassemble these animals.
  • pigs.
  • 3: In 1801 this American boat designer tried to sell his submarine to Napoleon.
  • Fulton.
  • 4: Dexter Pratt, a neighbor of Longfellow, had this job (and presumably, sinewy hands).
  • blacksmith.
  • 5: Declaring bankruptcy to get out of jail in 1819, he now had time to smell the roses and draw the birds.
  • Audubon.

Round 2. Category: Comic Actors

  • 1: He was a star in British Vaudeville before creating the "Little Tramp" onscreen.
  • Charlie Chaplin.
  • 2: His title roles have included "Ace Ventura" and half of "Dumb and Dumber".
  • Jim Carrey.
  • 3: Martin Short, John Candy and Dan Aykroyd were all born in this country.
  • Canada.
  • 4: 20 years after playing Woody Allen's "Annie Hall", she's become a respected film director.
  • Diane Keaton.
  • 5: Seen in "Evita", this sex symbol from Malaga gained fame in the offbeat comic films of Pedro Almodovar.
  • Antonio Banderas.

Round 3. Category: Brushed Up Your Shakespeare

  • 1: In a "seasonal" play, young Mamillius tells us, "A sad tale's best for" this season.
  • A Winter's Tale.
  • 2: This villain says, "Now, sir, be judge yourself whether I in any just term am affined to love the Moor".
  • Iago.
  • 3: In "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this comic character courts both Mistress Ford and Mistress Page.
  • Falstaff.
  • 4: These scaredy-cats "die many times before their deaths", says Julius Caesar.
  • a coward.
  • 5: In "Much Ado About Nothing", she and Benedick carry on a "merry war".
  • Beatrice.

Round 4. Category: It'S Me, Margaret

  • 1: She entered the House of Commons in 1959; a higher post awaited.
  • (Margaret) Thatcher.
  • 2: On "mash" Loretta Swit played head nurse Margaret Houlihan, better known by this nickname.
  • Hot Lips.
  • 3: Works by this anthropologist include "Growing up in New Guinea".
  • Margaret Mead.
  • 4: Season 2 of this Netflix show featured the lavish wedding of Princess Margaret, played by Vanessa Kirby.
  • The Crown.
  • 5: In 1939 this actress starred with Judy Garland in "Babes in Arms" in black-and-white and "The Wizard of Oz" in green.
  • (Margaret) Hamilton.

Round 5. Category: Stupid Geographic Answers

  • 1: It was once called the Union of South Africa.
  • South Africa.
  • 2: This seaport is the capital of Djibouti.
  • Djibouti.
  • 3: This sea lies to the north of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
  • the North Sea.
  • 4: The Arabian Sea lies between India on the east and this peninsula on the west.
  • the Arabian peninsula.
  • 5: Kansas City is at the confluence of the Missouri River and this river.
  • the Kansas River.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1184, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Washington Today

  • 1: She's the mother of 5, grandmother of 9 and minority leader in the House of Representatives.
  • Nancy Pelosi.
  • 2: "Pork barrel spending" is among the "issues" at the website of this Arizona senator and 2008 candidate for president.
  • John McCain.
  • 3: This congressman finished 2nd in the 2012 New Hampshire primary with 23% of the vote.
  • Ron Paul.
  • 4: This Connecticut man who ran for vice president in 2000 announced that 2012 would be his last year in the Senate.
  • (Joseph) Lieberman.
  • 5: GOP house members who don't follow the party program can feel the lash of Kevin McCarthy, house majority this.
  • whip.

Round 2. Category: Alexander The Great

  • 1: Alexander tried to look to the future by consulting the this "of Zeus-Ammon" in the Sahara but never revealed what he had learned.
  • the Oracle.
  • 2: William Ivey was nominated to replace this woman as head of the National Endowment for the Arts.
  • Jane Alexander.
  • 3: In "Parallel Lives", this Greek paired Alexander's biography with Julius Caesar's.
  • Plutarch.
  • 4: He's pictured on the $10 bill.
  • Alexander Hamilton.
  • 5: In 332 B.C. Alexander founded a city called Alexandria on the delta of this river.
  • the Nile.

Round 3. Category: New Testament

  • 1: "Blessed are" these "for they shall be called the children of God".
  • the peacemakers.
  • 2: 1 of the 3 Roman emperors specifically mentioned by name in the New Testament.
  • Augustus, Tiberius or Claudius.
  • 3: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called" this.
  • the children of God.
  • 4: In Mark 6 and 8 a total of about 9000 people are fed these 2 foods.
  • loaves and fishes.
  • 5: Though born in Bethlehem, Jesus was raised about 70 miles north from there in this city.
  • Nazareth.

Round 4. Category: Blue Plate Special. With Blue in quotes

  • 1: Come on in for our Monday special: flapjacks topped with this official state fruit of New Jersey.
  • the blueberry.
  • 2: Ma found the recipe for Tuesday's special, a tasty garden scramble, on this margarine's website.
  • Blue Bonnet.
  • 3: Yum, yum! Wednesday's special is this crustacean that has its own festival in Panacea, Florida.
  • a blue crab.
  • 4: Ma looked for the Maytag type of this in appliances instead of the grocery aisle before she put it in Thurs.'s salad.
  • blue cheese.
  • 5: For Friday, we're frying up some of these oysters named for a place on Long Island.
  • Blue Point oysters.

Round 5. Category: The Impassable Dream

  • 1: Dams and other barriers to migration have reduced the Atlantic species of this food fish to a fraction of historic numbers.
  • salmon.
  • 2: In October 1962 the U.S. put a naval this, an 8-letter word meaning obstruction, around Cuba.
  • blockade.
  • 3: In 1611 this English navigator sought the Northwest Passage but ended up trapped in the bay that would bear his name.
  • (Henry) Hudson.
  • 4: When you swallow, this flap covers the larynx to keep food out of the respiratory tract.
  • epiglottis.
  • 5: This 90-mile stretch of California south of Monterey is known for its scenic highway that sometimes does become impassble.
  • Big Sur.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1183, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Dickens Book By Character

  • 1: Bob Cratchit.
  • A Christmas Carol.
  • 2: Bill Sikes.
  • Oliver Twist.
  • 3: Esther Summerson.
  • Bleak House.
  • 4: Dr. Alexandre Manette.
  • A Tale of Two Cities.
  • 5: Uriah Heep.
  • David Copperfield.

Round 2. Category: All Hail The Creator

  • 1: This Mindy of "The Mindy Project" was named after Mindy in "Mork and Mindy".
  • Mindy Kaling.
  • 2: Its creator Phil Rosenthal summed it up as "a guy with this family who lives across the street from his parents".
  • Everybody Loves Raymond.
  • 3: In 1998 this man played up "Sports Night"; the next year, he came up with "The West Wing".
  • Sorkin.
  • 4: The initials of this creator of "Alias", also a big-time movie director, stand for Jeffrey Jacob.
  • Abrams.
  • 5: Ronald D. Moore co-created the 2005 version of this frakkin' awesome sci-fi show featuring Adama and Starbuck.
  • Battlestar Galactica.

Round 3. Category: In The Mouth

  • 1: Muscle which extends up and forward from the hyoid bone to, and sometimes past, the lips.
  • the tongue.
  • 2: They're "set" in the mouths of fish.
  • hooks.
  • 3: This company claimed they had 50% of the chewing gum market's sales in 1986.
  • Wrigley's.
  • 4: 3 of the 4 general types of teeth in the adult human mouth.
  • (3 of) molars, incisors, cuspids, or bicuspids.
  • 5: Comprised of a hard and soft portion, it's the roof of the mouth.
  • the palate.

Round 4. Category: Which Time Zone?

  • 1: Portland, Oregon.
  • Pacific.
  • 2: Medford, Oregon.
  • Pacific.
  • 3: Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • Pacific.
  • 4: Wichita, Kansas.
  • Central.
  • 5: Omaha, Nebraska.
  • Central.

Round 5. Category: Ron Howard Films

  • 1: He reprised the role of Robert Langdon in "Angels and Demons".
  • Tom Hanks.
  • 2: He played math genius John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind".
  • Russell Crowe.
  • 3: He's worked with Ron Howard twice, playing astronaut Jack Swigert in "Apollo 13" and Jack Brennan in "Frost/Nixon".
  • Kevin Bacon.
  • 4: Ron Howard was on fire with this film in which Kurt Russell and William Baldwin starred as firefighting brothers.
  • Backdraft.
  • 5: This actor and Nicole Kidman light out for the Oklahoma territory in 1992's "Far and Away".
  • Tom Cruise.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1182, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Known By One Name

  • 1: He's often called the "Father of Geometry".
  • Euclid.
  • 2: Before he could exact his revenge, he was taken prisoner by Cortes and died after an attack.
  • Montezuma.
  • 3: He recently announced that he plans to step down as Japan's emperor in April 2019.
  • Akihito.
  • 4: After her baptism and marriage, she went by the name Lady Rebecca Rolfe.
  • Pocahontas.
  • 5: The Venus in his "Venus of Urbino" painting has hair of the red-gold color for which his art was known.
  • Titian.

Round 2. Category: That Movie'S Genius

  • 1: Doc Brown created the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible, in this film.
  • Back to the Future.
  • 2: Dr. Ryan Stone is a medical engineer on her first shuttle mission in this 2013 film.
  • Gravity.
  • 3: An un-Gandhi-like Ben Kingsley takes a child chess prodigy under his wing in this 1993 film.
  • Searching for Bobby Fischer.
  • 4: Hugh Jackman is super-hacker Stanley Jobson in this 2001 film; give us the password.
  • Swordfish.
  • 5: Coal miner's son Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal) takes up rocketry in this film.
  • October Sky.

Round 3. Category: A Word In Your Ear

  • 1: It's a 4-letter word for the soft part of the external ear.
  • lobe.
  • 2: Let's hear you nail this other word for the malleus.
  • a hammer.
  • 3: It precedes "membrane" to designate the eardrum.
  • the tympanic.
  • 4: The curved fold of the external ear is called this spiral shape--just single, not double.
  • a helix.
  • 5: I predict you will know this 7-letter word for the visible part of the outer ear.
  • the auricle.

Round 4. Category: World City Walk

  • 1: It's the city (also a country) that's home to St. Peter's Basilica.
  • Vatican City.
  • 2: In the 17th century the Corsairs controlled this current capital of Morocco.
  • Rabat.
  • 3: The first Japanese city to host the Winter Olympics, it's also famous for its beer and its Snow Festival.
  • Sapporo.
  • 4: In 1942 Field Marshal Erich Von Manstein led a failed effort to assist surrounded German forces in this Soviet city.
  • Stalingrad.
  • 5: Found in the Dong Cheng district, this capital city's main railway station connects to Harbin and Qingdao.
  • Beijing.

Round 5. Category: 1951

  • 1: In 1951 it celebrated its 175th anniversary and was sealed in a helium-filled case.
  • the Declaration of Independence.
  • 2: On February 26 a constitutional amendment became law, limiting the holder of this office to 2 terms.
  • President of the United States.
  • 3: In May, this utility co. became the 1st corporation in the world to have over 1,000,000 stockholders.
  • ATandT.
  • 4: 90 cadets at this academy were ousted in a cheating scandal.
  • West Point.
  • 5: On Oct. 24,1951, Truman declared our state of war with this country had finally ended.
  • Germany.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1181, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Comedies

  • 1: In 2001 this "Friends" character married Chandler Bing.
  • Monica.
  • 2: Much like "Lost", the TBS comedy "Wrecked" begins with one of these mishaps.
  • a plane crash.
  • 3: HBO's "Avenue 5" stars Hugh Laurie and Josh Gad, stuck on one of these for a while.
  • a spaceship.
  • 4: On a classic sitcom Lenny and Squiggy were a couple of friends of this title pair from Milwaukee.
  • Laverne and Shirley.
  • 5: Gavin Belson was the conniving chief innovation officer of tech company Hooli on this show.
  • Silicon Valley.

Round 2. Category: Kjpy Hit Radio

  • 1: Your KJPY T-shirt gets you half off to see "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", featuring Joey Fatone of this band.
  • 'N Sync.
  • 2: KJPY is sponsoring an in-store appearance by this young lady and we know you'd "Walk a Thousand Miles" to be there.
  • Vanessa Carlton.
  • 3: Caller number 99, you're going to Manhattan to see Dave Matthews at this 7th Avenue and 31st Street arena.
  • Madison Square Garden.
  • 4: In the next hour we'll chill out with this band whose hits include "Yellow".
  • Coldplay.
  • 5: We've got a listener poll -- is this "Fell in Love with a Girl" duo brother or sister, or exes.
  • The White Stripes.

Round 3. Category: Raise The Britannic!

  • 1: Now lying in 400' of Mediterranean water, the mighty Britannic was the largest ship sunk during this 20th century war.
  • World War I.
  • 2: Higher bulkheads for flotation were one lesson the Britannic took from this doomed sister ship; didn't help.
  • the Titanic.
  • 3: Some survivors and war propaganda said the ship was sunk by a torpedo, but a German field of these was the real culprit.
  • mines.
  • 4: The ship sank in 55 minutes partly due to an ill-fated dash to try to make Kea, an island of this country.
  • Greece.
  • 5: This Frenchman found the wreck in 1975.
  • (Jacques) Cousteau.

Round 4. Category: Reading With Jenna Bush Hager

  • 1: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) I developed my love of books as a child; my parents always made sure we were surrounded by plenty, and a favorite they used to read to me aloud was this author's "James and the Giant Peach".
  • Roald Dahl.
  • 2: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) One of my club picks for 2023 is "Black Candle Women" by Diane Marie Brown, about four generations of women who live under one roof and have a big secret--a love curse relating to a Voodoo sorceress in this Southern city that links the story back to the 1950s.
  • New Orleans.
  • 3: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) The perfect vacation read and one my sister Barbara and I still talk about is "Summer Sisters", a novel for adults by this woman who is beloved for her young adult fiction.
  • Judy Blume.
  • 4: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) One book that I have read multiple times and chose for my book club is "The Bluest Eye" by this woman, my all-time favorite author.
  • Toni Morrison.
  • 5: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) I recommended a 2022 novel that's as Gothic and mysterious as you can get; it's named for and set at this branch of the Met that's dedicated to the art of the Middle Ages.
  • the Cloisters.

Round 5. Category: What'S Their Sport?

  • 1: The Indiana Fever, whose star Tamika Catchings retired in 2016.
  • basketball.
  • 2: The New York Empire, coached by Patrick McEnroe.
  • tennis.
  • 3: The Durham Bulls.
  • baseball.
  • 4: The Portland Timbers.
  • soccer.
  • 5: Hoosier Team Pineapple, 2016 men's champs of the PVL, the "Premier" this "League".
  • volleyball.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1180, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What'S He Like?

  • 1: It's the national capital a Sinophile would most like to visit.
  • Beijing (Peking).
  • 2: A discophile doesn't particularly like discos but does like these, which are used there.
  • records.
  • 3: A logophile is a lover of these: long or short, Latinate or Anglo-Saxon....
  • words.
  • 4: 1 of the 2 letters that can begin the standard term for a lover and connoisseur of wine.
  • O or E (oenophile or enophile).
  • 5: From the French, it's someone who wouldn't miss a Samuel Fuller or Alain Resnais festival.
  • cinephile.

Round 2. Category: Grammar A-Z

  • 1: S:The set of rules for the proper arrangement of a sentence from the Greek for "orderly arrangement".
  • syntax.
  • 2: P: The building blocks of a sentence are subject and this, what is said of the subject.
  • the predicate.
  • 3: I: To be this form of a verb, some say, means to never split it.
  • an infinitive.
  • 4: M: Nouns, adjectives and adverbs can be these qualifiers.
  • modifiers.
  • 5: R:Essential info comes in a clause that's relative as well as this adjective.
  • restrictive.

Round 3. Category: World Place Names

  • 1: The Arabic name of this biblical town means "house of meat"; the Hebrew name--"house of bread".
  • Bethlehem.
  • 2: Legend says this sea is named for Theseus' father, who flung himself into the waters when he thought his son was dead.
  • the Aegean.
  • 3: We're bullish on this Spanish city that tradition says was founded by and named for Pompey.
  • Pamplona.
  • 4: Ah, can you smell it? The name of this former British colony is Chinese for "fragrant harbor".
  • Hong Kong.
  • 5: This Indian capital was so named to distinguish it from the older city of the same name.
  • New Delhi.

Round 4. Category: The Hall Of Fame Position

  • 1: Kareem, Moses,Wilt.
  • center (in basketball).
  • 2: Dizzy, Lefty, Pud,Cy.
  • pitcher.
  • 3: Magic,Isiah, John(okay, John Stockton).
  • point guard.
  • 4: Tony Esposito,Vladislav Tretiak, Ken Dryden.
  • goalie (in hockey).
  • 5: Lawrence "L.T." Taylor, Ted "The Mad Stork" Hendricks,Harry "no cool nickname" Carson.
  • linebacker.

Round 5. Category: Short Subjects. With Short in quotation marks

  • 1: A cropped permanent, a brief gesture of farewell, or a radio band.
  • a short wave.
  • 2: Puritan, Wesson or Crisco.
  • types of shortening.
  • 3: It could be said that a hapless person is always "a day late and" this.
  • a dollar short.
  • 4: What you are when you get short of breath very quickly.
  • short-winded.
  • 5: Comedian who plays the character for whom life holds no greater thrill than meeting the following:.
  • Martin Short.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1179, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: State Of The Book

  • 1: "The Help".
  • Mississippi.
  • 2: "The Last Picture Show".
  • Texas.
  • 3: "Washington Square".
  • New York.
  • 4: "Centennial" by James Michener.
  • Colorado.
  • 5: "The Grapes of Wrath"--2 states please, where the story begins and ends.
  • Oklahoma and California.

Round 2. Category: Tell

  • 1: Although he may be legendary, William Tell is one of the best-known heroes of this nation.
  • Switzerland.
  • 2: This form of "William" is in the German title of Friedrich Schiller's play about Tell.
  • Wilhelm.
  • 3: In the traditional William Tell story, this is the cause of death of the cruel governor Gessler.
  • shot with an arrow.
  • 4: It was Tell's response when Gessler asked what the extra arrow was for.
  • to kill him if he missed with the first one.
  • 5: The overture to this Italian composer's opera about William Tell is used to speed things up.
  • Rossini.

Round 3. Category: Guinness Animal Records

  • 1: The largest one ever made by birds was built by bald eagles and weighed over 6,700 lbs..
  • a nest.
  • 2: A Texas cat named Dusty must have been the cat's meow as she had 420 of these.
  • kittens.
  • 3: Some of these arthropods have as many as 750 legs, not a thousand as their name implies.
  • a millipede.
  • 4: The Gaboon viper has the longest of any snake, nearly 2".
  • the fang.
  • 5: It's the slowest-moving land mammal, and its name is a synonym for laziness.
  • a sloth.

Round 4. Category: The New York Times Style

  • 1: An nytimes.com slide show on this woman's style included the red and black number from Election Night 2008.
  • Michelle Obama.
  • 2: Disco hoops and other styles of extravagant these "suggest you are taking the party with you".
  • earrings.
  • 3: A blog post notes that Junya Watanabe's Spring '09 collection continues to rely on this basic type of working pants.
  • jeans.
  • 4: In May 2008 the times reported on a more modest look in this wear, including boy shorts and halter tops.
  • swimwear.
  • 5: The times said this "NY" designer became "a Seventh Avenue original" using tights as a foundation for skirts and shirts.
  • Donna Karan.

Round 5. Category: A Success With Brush

  • 1: In "The Story of Painting" Sister Wendy says, "He is much more than a painter of the fair and fat".
  • (Peter Paul) Rubens.
  • 2: An early 1730s work by Canaletto shows this canal city's "Quay of the Piazzetta".
  • Venice.
  • 3: There are 2 versions of John Singleton Copley's "Watson and" this sea predator in U.S. galleries.
  • the Shark.
  • 4: For your information, no, your six-year-old could not make paintings just like this man's 1952 "Convergence".
  • (Jackson) Pollock.
  • 5: Victorine Meurent, his favorite model, is the nude in his "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe".
  • Edouard Manet.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1178, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Businesses

  • 1: Ewing Oil.
  • Dallas.
  • 2: Duff Brewery.
  • The Simpsons.
  • 3: Bluth's Original Frozen Banana.
  • Arrested Development.
  • 4: Luthercorp.
  • Smallville.
  • 5: Los Pollos Hermanos--best chicken in New Mexico!.
  • Breaking Bad.

Round 2. Category: A Visit From St. Nicholas

  • 1: '"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even" this one.
  • a mouse.
  • 2: It completes the line "but I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, 'Happy Christmas to all,...'".
  • and to all a good night.
  • 3: "He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished with" these 2 items.
  • ashes and soot.
  • 4: St. Nick's nose is described as resembling this fruit.
  • a cherry.
  • 5: Of Santa's 8 reindeer, it's the last one named.
  • Blitzen.

Round 3. Category: Black

  • 1: If your black piano keys are shiny, they're probably plastic; if they dull with age, probably this wood.
  • ebony.
  • 2: This company cleaned up when it introduced the Dustbuster in 1979.
  • Black and Decker.
  • 3: A black monolith mysteriously appears at different times in human history in this classic sci-fi film.
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • 4: The Black Death that killed many in Europe in the 1300s is believed to have been caused by this type of organism, Yersinia pestis.
  • a bacterium.
  • 5: Their home ice is located at 1901 West Madison Street.
  • the Blackhawks.

Round 4. Category: Field Of DreamS. With Dream in quotation marks

  • 1: Someone considered very good-looking is said to be one of these "ships".
  • Dreamboat.
  • 2: Collective name for the 1992 U.S. men's Olympic basketball squad.
  • "The Dream Team".
  • 3: In 1983 Eurythmics hit No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts with this song.
  • "Sweet Dreams".
  • 4: This popular musical was supposedly based in part on the lives and careers of the Supremes.
  • Dreamgirls.
  • 5: Freud published this landmark study in 1899.
  • The Interpretation Of Dreams.

Round 5. Category: Name The Parent Company

  • 1: Post-it notes.
  • 3M.
  • 2: Fisher-Price toys.
  • Mattel.
  • 3: Cheerios andBetty Crocker products.
  • General Mills.
  • 4: Crest toothpaste.
  • Procter and Gamble.
  • 5: Velveeta.
  • Kraft.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1177, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: On The Pga Tour

  • 1: Out on an island in 2001, a downhill 60-foot triple-break putt at TPC Sawgrass' famed 17th was better than most for this superstar.
  • Tiger Woods.
  • 2: Here's Bubba Watson cutting loose with this type of 5-letter shot that veers to the side of the dominant hand of the player.
  • a slice.
  • 3: The long chip at the 1978 Jackie Gleason Classic was one of 5 straight birdies to seal the win for this Golden Bear.
  • Jack Nicklaus.
  • 4: Here's Phil Mickelson putting for birdie at the gorgeous par-5 18th to claim the 2012 Pro-Am title at this California beach.
  • Pebble Beach.
  • 5: Check out the $10 million putt that won the 2016 FedEx Cup bonus for this man, also known as Wee Mac.
  • Rory McIlroy.

Round 2. Category: Ageless Quotes

  • 1: Whale tale author who wrote, "Youth is immortal; 'tis the elderly only grow old!".
  • Melville.
  • 2: In "The Brook" this "Light Brigade" author wrote, "For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever".
  • Tennyson.
  • 3: About this queen, Shakespeare wrote, "age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety".
  • Cleopatra.
  • 4: Oscar Wilde wrote, "One should never trust a woman who tells one" this; she "would tell one anything".
  • her real age.
  • 5: Betty Friedan wrote, "to keep... life-giving ties alive... is our" this, the opposite of Ponce de Leon's legendary quest.
  • "fountain of age".

Round 3. Category: America'S Most Haunted

  • 1: The white-haired ghost of this fiery leader walks alongside a black dog at Harpers Ferry in West Virginia.
  • John Brown.
  • 2: Ghosts may account for a mysterious chill in cell 14-D of this former California island prison.
  • Alcatraz.
  • 3: The father of Jennie Wade, the lone civilian casualty of this PA. battle, haunts the home in which she was killed.
  • Gettysburg.
  • 4: Some say the ghost in this city's Hilton Hotel may be a murder victim or the volcano goddess Madame Pele.
  • Honolulu.
  • 5: The Shaft Alley Spectre is one of many ghosts haunting this Long Beach luxury liner first launched in 1936.
  • Queen Mary.

Round 4. Category: World Theatre

  • 1: This "War and Peace" author's play "The Power of Darkness" was once banned in his native Russia.
  • Leo Tolstoy.
  • 2: Conor McPherson's haunting play "The Weir" is set in a pub in this country.
  • Ireland.
  • 3: The first known play presented at this British university was "St. Katherine" in 1490.
  • Oxford.
  • 4: The Olivier Theatre opened in this city in 1976 with a production of "Tamburlaine the Great".
  • London.
  • 5: Israeli playwright Nathan Alterman called his first play "Kineret, Kineret...", Kineret being Hebrew for the Sea of this.
  • Sea of Galilee.

Round 5. Category: Where Is That, Pierre?

  • 1: If you're visiting the Cannes Film Festival, you're on this sea.
  • the Mediterranean.
  • 2: The Jura Mountains straddle the border between France and this country.
  • Switzerland.
  • 3: This region of NW France derives its name from Celts fleeing the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England.
  • Brittany.
  • 4: This region of France between the Seine and Marne Valleys is famous for its soft white cheese.
  • Brie.
  • 5: A northern member of the Windward Islands, this volcanic isle has been a possession of France since 1635.
  • Martinique.

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Round 1. Category: Alphanumerics

  • 1: The first swine flu, identified in 1930, was caused by this alphanumeric virus; in 2009 it was back.
  • H1N1.
  • 2: This company makes scotchlite reflective material.
  • 3M.
  • 3: This astromech droid served 2 Skywalkers.
  • R2-D2.
  • 4: Talk about primo and to the point! It was the alpanumeric license plate--London's first--issued December 1903.
  • A1.
  • 5: A young Anakin Skywalker created this droid to help his mother with household chores.
  • C-3PO.

Round 2. Category: Indian Chiefs

  • 1: This Chiricahua leader joined the Dutch Reformed Church in 1903 but was expelled for gambling.
  • Geronimo.
  • 2: It's said that Hiawatha started this league of the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca and Cayuga tribes.
  • Iroquois League.
  • 3: Called "Curly" as a boy, this great Oglala Sioux chief died a year after the Battle of Little Bighorn.
  • Crazy Horse.
  • 4: In 1903 he pleaded with Pres. Roosevelt for the return of his Nez Perce to their home.
  • Chief Joseph.
  • 5: A monument to this Mohegan chief was erected on the site of the home of J.F. Cooper.
  • Uncas.

Round 3. Category: Fictional Witches

  • 1: In "The Thirteenth Sacrifice", witches have returned to this city and Boston cop Samantha Ryan is hunting them.
  • Salem.
  • 2: Cho Chang and Fleur Delacour are 2 of the many witches in this book series.
  • Harry Potter.
  • 3: In "Macbeth" the three witches who prophesy his success and doom are appropriately also known as these "sisters".
  • the weird sisters.
  • 4: Jadis of Charn is the evil White Witch laying chilly havoc to this C.S. Lewis land.
  • Narnia.
  • 5: Jane, Alexandra and Sukie are the 3 title uninhibited magical mavens in this Updike novel.
  • The Witches of Eastwick.

Round 4. Category: Geographic Crossword Clues B. With B in quotes

  • 1: Look out "B" low country(7).
  • Belgium.
  • 2: Strait through Istanbul(9).
  • Bosphorus.
  • 3: French Frenchvolcanic volcanicisland island(4-4).
  • Bora-Bora.
  • 4: "Common" place city(6).
  • Boston.
  • 5: Cream center of Germany(7).
  • Bavaria.

Round 5. Category: What A Beast!

  • 1: Bigger than Jerseys, this U.K. cow breed from its own isle produces lots of slightly yellowish milk.
  • a Guernsey.
  • 2: Here's a close-up of one of the 30,000 quills on this animal; they slide in easy, but back-facing barbs make removal difficult.
  • a porcupine.
  • 3: Unlike the hippo, which has fully developed 4 of these, the rhino only has 3 with which to test water daintily.
  • toes.
  • 4: A flap of skin and fur called a bell hangs from the throat of this largest member of the deer family.
  • moose (elk accepted).
  • 5: This "hairless" breed of cat developed from a kitty born in Canada, not Egypt.
  • Sphynx.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1175, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Original 31 Flavors

  • 1: Sour item that precedes Crisp, Custard and Sherbet in 3 of Baskin-Robbins' original 31 flavors.
  • Lemon.
  • 2: Varieties of this flavor included French and Burnt Almond.
  • Vanilla.
  • 3: This traditional Christmas drink was available.
  • Egg Nog.
  • 4: Flavors included this type of "Stick" (but not this type of "Patty").
  • Peppermint.
  • 5: Nuts to you! and marshmallows, too, with this alliterative original flavor.
  • Rocky Road.

Round 2. Category: Wintry Reading

  • 1: In a kids' book, on a snowy day Nicki loses this item of clothing, just like the 3 little kittens.
  • mittens.
  • 2: Dostoyevsky's autobiographical novel "The House of the Dead" has been published with the subtitle "or, Prison Life" here--brrr!.
  • Siberia.
  • 3: The 2019 book "The Enchanted Forest" is a tie-in with this long-awaited animated sequel.
  • Frozen 2.
  • 4: Set in Iceland, the sixth novel in the Detective Erlendur series is titled not "Frostbite" but this condition.
  • hypothermia.
  • 5: It's 1954 and tensions are high on an island with a lot of Japanese Americans in David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these.
  • Cedars.

Round 3. Category: Ancient Science

  • 1: The ancient Sumerian number system, based on 60, is still used today to measure this.
  • time.
  • 2: Around 400 B.C. Democritus proposed that all matter is composed of these tiny units.
  • atoms.
  • 3: Considered 1st universal genius, this student of Plato believed goats breathed through their ears.
  • Aristotle.
  • 4: Chinese general Huang-ti used a lodestone as one of these around 300 B.C., perhaps by floating it in a bowl.
  • a compass.
  • 5: Delta city with automatic door openers, washing machines, and a world-famous library.
  • Alexandria.

Round 4. Category: London On Film

  • 1: Guinness says this current resident of 10 Downing Street was 1st portrayed on film in "For Your Eyes Only".
  • Margaret Thatcher.
  • 2: R. Chandler's novel was set in L.A., but this '77 remake was "curiously and ineffectively set in London".
  • The Big Sleep.
  • 3: In "My Fair Lady", Eliza Doolittle peddled her posies here, in front of the opera house.
  • Covent Garden.
  • 4: The bird woman in "Mary Poppins" sells feed for birds in front of this church build by Wren.
  • St. Paul's.
  • 5: 1973 film in which George Segal trysts with Glenda Jackson in a Garrard St. flat.
  • A Touch of Class.

Round 5. Category: He Was Senator And President

  • 1: Though he served Penn. in the Senate from 1834 to 1845, he supported pro-slavery Southern positions; he didn't get better as pres..
  • Buchanan.
  • 2: His nickname "Tricky Dick" dates back to the 1950s California campaign that put him in the Senate.
  • Nixon.
  • 3: Though the Senate failed by one vote to de-president him, his later return to the body was met with flowers and applause.
  • (Andrew) Johnson.
  • 4: This Ohioan found the Senate "far more to my liking than" being pres. could be; scandal and death in office followed.
  • Warren G. Harding.
  • 5: This New Yorker and future president joined the Senate in 1821 and soon led the fight against imprisonment for debt.
  • Martin Van Buren.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1174, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Online And Texting Abbrev.

  • 1: If I want you to call, hmu stands for this... say, tomorrow?.
  • hit me up.
  • 2: Someone sliding into your DMs is trying to reach you via these.
  • direct messages.
  • 3: Making an OTP, one true this, means figuring out ideal character matches.
  • pairing.
  • 4: Want to know if others are experiencing the same? dae is short for this question starter.
  • does anybody else?.
  • 5: eli5 is shorthand for this expression, so use small words to clarify.
  • explain it to me like I'm 5.

Round 2. Category: Tv Theme Song Hits

  • 1: 1962:"The Ballad Of Jed Clampett" from this show.
  • The Beverly Hillbillies.
  • 2: 1995:"I'll Be There For You".
  • Friends.
  • 3: 1993:"Bad Boys".
  • Cops.
  • 4: 1976:"Making Our Dreams Come True".
  • Laverne and Shirley.
  • 5: 1981:"Believe It Or Not".
  • The Greatest American Hero.

Round 3. Category: Med. Abbrev.

  • 1: CTS, carpal tunnel syndrome, can be an RSI, this kind of injury.
  • repetitive stress injury.
  • 2: On a prescription, q.i.d. is a Latin abbreviation indicating the medication should be taken this often.
  • four times a day.
  • 3: In the event of SCA (Sudden Cardiac Arrest), a life can be saved by an AED (an Automated External one of these devices).
  • defibrillator.
  • 4: To decrease swelling from an injury, a doctor may order you to be on BR, short for this.
  • bed rest.
  • 5: Don't get all stressed out by an EKG, which stands for this.
  • electrocardiogram.

Round 4. Category: Ard Stuff. With Ard in quotation marks

  • 1: A large drinking vessel with a single handle and often a hinged cover.
  • a tankard.
  • 2: Payment offered and made for the return of lost property.
  • a reward.
  • 3: 7-letter word for a grove of fruit or nut trees.
  • orchard.
  • 4: Clumsy, or hard to handle.
  • awkward.
  • 5: An explosive device used to break down a wall; you might be "hoisted with your own" if you're unlucky.
  • a petard.

Round 5. Category: Anagram Pairs

  • 1: Japan's capital, now and then.
  • Tokyo and Kyoto.
  • 2: A short sleep anda dish to cook eggs.
  • nap and pan.
  • 3: Cut calories and cut and splice a film.
  • edit and diet.
  • 4: A personal journal about working in a milk-producing facility.
  • a dairy diary.
  • 5: An adult female horse and 500 sheets of paper.
  • a mare and a ream.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1173, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Historic Classifieds

  • 1: "FSBO." this "vast region including Aleutian Islands. $7.2 million OBO".
  • Alaska.
  • 2: In 431 he would have jumped at the ad "Bishop needed for Celtic island. Must have shamrock".
  • St. Patrick.
  • 3: Situation wanted: this "ex-naval minister seeks post, nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, sweat".
  • Winston Churchill.
  • 4: In 1508 he may have successfully responded to "Chapel painter needed. Strong neck a must".
  • Michelangelo.
  • 5: In the 1660s she could have advertised, "Experienced queen seeks throne. Catholic countries only".
  • Queen Christina of Sweden.

Round 2. Category: 1995 Cars

  • 1: This company has a new ragtop Celica.
  • Toyota.
  • 2: Pontiac's Sunfire replaced this other "Sun" model.
  • the Sunbird.
  • 3: Its new XJ6 sedan has a base price of $53,450; its XJ12, $77,250.
  • Jaguar.
  • 4: This Japanese automaker's Odyssey is its first minivan.
  • Honda.
  • 5: Its Integra LS is Consumer Reports' top recommended small car.
  • Acura.

Round 3. Category: Tough Chicks

  • 1: Yvonne Craig on TV and Alicia Silverstone on film played this hero.
  • Batgirl.
  • 2: This New Zealander hung up her chakram in 2001.
  • Lucy Lawless.
  • 3: As this hero, Lynda Carter was in her satin tights, fighting for her rights.
  • Wonder Woman.
  • 4: She was played on TV by Diana Rigg and on film by Uma Thurman.
  • Emma Peel.
  • 5: She was a kick as Yu Shu Lien in "Crouching Tiger" and Wai Lin in "Tomorrow Never Dies".
  • Michelle Yeoh.

Round 4. Category: Comedians

  • 1: Comic whose "trial by fire" fueled his comedy routines.
  • Richard Pryor.
  • 2: Michael Palin was one of "the knights who say 'Ni'" in a 1975 film by this comedy troupe.
  • Monty Python.
  • 3: His teaming with Dean Martin lasted 10 years - 1946 to 1956.
  • Jerry Lewis.
  • 4: Before he became Mork from Ork, he studied acting with John Houseman at Juilliard.
  • Robin Williams.
  • 5: After walking the beat with Nick Nolte, he's on his own in "Beverly Hills Cop".
  • Eddie Murphy.

Round 5. Category: Transportation In Song

  • 1: In "The Christmas Song, "They know that Santa's on his way, he's loaded lots of toys and goodies on" this.
  • his sleigh.
  • 2: A hotel party inspired Steven Tyler to write, "Love In" one of these, "livin' it up when I'm goin' down".
  • an elevator.
  • 3: In "Dead Man's Curve" the driver of a Jaguar XK-E challenged the driver of this Chevy sports car to a drag race.
  • a (Stingray) Corvette.
  • 4: Day-o! This Harry Belafonte calypso favorite was featured in a raucous dinner scene in the film "Beetlejuice".
  • the "Banana Boat" (song).
  • 5: In "The Letter" the Box Tops didn't have "time to make the fast train", so they got a ticket on this.
  • an airplane.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1172, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 20Th Century Poets

  • 1: In 1917, at age 52, this Irishman got married and published his book "The Wild Swans Of Coole".
  • William Butler Yeats.
  • 2: This author of the poem "Daddy" committed suicide in 1963, before she could work out her parental issues.
  • Sylvia Plath.
  • 3: In 2000 the Librarian of Congress announced that 95-year-old Stanley Kunitz would take up this post.
  • poet laureate.
  • 4: He read almost as well as he wrote: "Do not go gentle into that good night...".
  • Dylan Thomas.
  • 5: Trees figured in many of his poems, like "Birches", "Dust of Snow" and "Good-Bye and Keep Cold".
  • Robert Frost.

Round 2. Category: Cooking Methods

  • 1: To pass dry ingredients like flour through a fine-meshed sieve; doing so removes large pieces and incorporates air.
  • to sift.
  • 2: Highly seasoned meat is seared so that the surface forms a crust in this "colorful" Cajun technique.
  • blackening.
  • 3: This synonym for perspire is also a method of cooking over low heat to soften ingredients without browning.
  • sweating.
  • 4: To cook fish en papillote, you'll need this type of paper to seal in the flavor and juices.
  • parchment paper.
  • 5: From the Latin for "to make soft", it's soaking food, usually fruit, in a liquid in order to infuse it with the liquid's flavor.
  • macerate.

Round 3. Category: Grape Jam

  • 1: In an Aesop tale this animal decided the grapes he couldn't reach had to be sour.
  • the fox.
  • 2: Grape Island in this Massachusetts harbor was the site of a skirmish over hay during the Revolutionary War.
  • Boston Harbor.
  • 3: Mae West's famous order in "I'm No Angel".
  • "Peel me a grape!".
  • 4: Greek stuffed grape leaves, or dolmades, are usually stuffed with this grain.
  • rice.
  • 5: This dentist and prohibitionist began selling his "unfermented wine" in 1869; in 1890 he renamed it "Grape Juice".
  • Thomas B. Welch.

Round 4. Category: I Played A Doctor And Some Other Guy On Tv

  • 1: Dr. Doogie Howser andEthan Burdick.
  • Neil Patrick Harris.
  • 2: Dr. Derek Shepherd andAaron Brooks.
  • (Patrick) Dempsey.
  • 3: Dr. Doug Ross andChic Chesbro.
  • George Clooney.
  • 4: Quincy, M.E. andOscar Madison.
  • Jack Klugman.
  • 5: Marcus Welby andJim Anderson (the "Father" who "Knows Best").
  • Robert Young.

Round 5. Category: Johnny Gilbert Goes Country

  • 1: "...Found new thread for my old spool, just because I'm blonde, don't think I'm dumb, 'cause this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool".
  • Dolly Parton.
  • 2: "I hear the train a-comin', it's rolling 'round the bend, and I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when".
  • Johnny Cash.
  • 3: "The red headed stranger had eyes like thunder, his lips they were sad and tight".
  • Willie Nelson.
  • 4: "Just two good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born".
  • Waylon Jennings.
  • 5: "Take this job and shove it, I ain't workin' here no more, my woman done left and took all the reason I was workin' for".
  • (Johnny) Paycheck.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1171, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: He'S The Coach

  • 1: UCLA Men's Basketball, 1949-1975.
  • John Wooden.
  • 2: Indiana Pacers, 1997-2000.
  • Larry Bird.
  • 3: Green Bay Packers, 1959-1967.
  • Vince Lombardi.
  • 4: University of Nebraska Football, 1973-1997.
  • Tom Osborne.
  • 5: Chicago Bears, 1920-1967 (with a few breaks).
  • George Halas.

Round 2. Category: Weather Gear

  • 1: To avoid the sun's glare at the beach, wear these tinted accessories.
  • sunglasses.
  • 2: In winter these are often connected by a string that runs through the sleeves of a child's coat.
  • mittens.
  • 3: Protective device the French call un parapluie and the British call a brolly.
  • an umbrella.
  • 4: A small cylinder of fur or cloth into which the hands are inserted for warmth.
  • Muff.
  • 5: A raincoat, often yellow, named for its glossy appearance.
  • a slicker.

Round 3. Category: We'Re An American Land

  • 1: Annexed in 1867, this island may be only 2 square miles but a 1942 battle there proved to be a key moment in the Pacific in WWII.
  • Midway.
  • 2: This Caribbean island that became a commonwealth in 1952 covers more than 3,400 square miles.
  • Puerto Rico.
  • 3: 2,300 miles SW of Hawaii, this territory that has "American" in its name is administered by the Interior Dept..
  • (American) Samoa.
  • 4: This became a territory on Aug. 1, 1950 and the focus of a possible nuclear confrontation in 2017.
  • Guam.
  • 5: This term that precedes "Guinea" is also found before "Islands" that include U.S. possessions like Kingman Reef.
  • equatorial.

Round 4. Category: Letter Words

  • 1: If you think of something to add after you've finished a letter, put it in one of these, abbreviated P.S..
  • postscript.
  • 2: Letter writers must really mean what they say, as they often sign off pairing this 9-letter adverb with "yours".
  • sincerely.
  • 3: This word for the greeting that begins a letter comes from Latin for "health".
  • salutation.
  • 4: With certified mail and this 10-letter type, the postal service provides proof of mailing.
  • registered.
  • 5: The address and date at a letter's beginning, it's also a word for a ship's direction.
  • a heading.

Round 5. Category: Wild Things. With Wild in quotes

  • 1: Before marriage, many a man is said to "sow" these.
  • wild oats.
  • 2: Popularly served with poultry, its scientific name is Zizania aquatica.
  • wild rice.
  • 3: The domesticated pig is believed to be descended from this animal.
  • the wild boar.
  • 4: It was President Truman's 1948 campaign song.
  • "I'm Just Wild About Harry".
  • 5: This 1969 western is considered Sam Peckinpah's best work.
  • The Wild Bunch.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1170, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: At The Bookstore

  • 1: Kathryn Glasgow's first novel, "Another Song About the King", features a mom obsessed with this singer.
  • Elvis Presley.
  • 2: 2 men travel America with this man's brain in a Tupperware bowl in the true story "Driving Mr. Albert".
  • Albert Einstein.
  • 3: This prolific novelist proved her "metal" once again with her 2000 bestseller "The House on Hope Street".
  • Danielle Steel.
  • 4: "Dark Eagle" by historian John Ensor Harr is called "A Novel Of" this traitor "And the American Revolution".
  • Benedict Arnold.
  • 5: The front cover of "Hooking Up" by this "Bonfire of the Vanities" author shows his name but not the book's title.
  • Tom Wolfe.

Round 2. Category: Ends In Ola. With Ola in quotation marks

  • 1: It's what you ride along the canals of Venice.
  • a gondola.
  • 2: It often includes rolled oats, wheat germ, honey, fruit and nuts.
  • granola.
  • 3: This early phonograph began cranking out music in 1906.
  • a Victrola.
  • 4: Italy's Lombardy region is famous for producing this soft (and smelly) blue cheese.
  • Gorgonzola.
  • 5: Haiti occupies a third of this island; the Dominican Republic covers the rest.
  • Hispaniola.

Round 3. Category: Classic Country

  • 1: 1 of 3 original members of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
  • (1 of) Hank Williams, Sr., Jimmie Rodgers and Fred Rose.
  • 2: To make it as "A big star in the movies", Buck Owens said he had to "act" this way.
  • naturally.
  • 3: Lefty Frizzell told his honey, "If you've got the money, I've got" this.
  • the time.
  • 4: Migrants leaving this state's "Dust Bowl" helped bring country music to the West.
  • Oklahoma.
  • 5: In 1958, the first country music Grammy Award went to this Kingston Trio song.
  • "Tom Dooley".

Round 4. Category: The Last Word Said In Classic Films

  • 1: "The Wizard of Oz".
  • home.
  • 2: "Gone with the Wind".
  • day.
  • 3: "Casablanca".
  • friendship.
  • 4: "King Kong", from 1933.
  • beast.
  • 5: "Apocalypse Now".
  • Horror.

Round 5. Category: Ute Tell Me. With Ute in quotation marks

  • 1: To water down.
  • dilute.
  • 2: Drive in from the burbs.
  • commute.
  • 3: Hairy.
  • hirsute.
  • 4: In a proper one of these, the forefinger touches the hat just to the right of the right eye.
  • salute.
  • 5: Jekyll calls Hyde this type of rough fellow "that slept within me".
  • brute.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1169, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What'S The Gossip?

  • 1: In the 1950s the New York Evening this newspaper became a tabloid and "National" , eventually moving to Florida.
  • the Enquirer.
  • 2: The name of the tabloid website and TV show TMZ refers to a 30-mile zone centering on this major city.
  • Los Angeles.
  • 3: This word also used for gossip is a drinking fountain aboard ship.
  • a scuttlebutt.
  • 4: In 1977 Rupert Murdoch launched a gossip column originally found at and named for this page of the New York Post.
  • Page Six.
  • 5: Famous feuding gossip columnists in the golden age of Hollywood were Louella Parsons and this alliterative lady.
  • Hedda Hopper.

Round 2. Category: Starbuck

  • 1: Starbuck was a native of this Massachusetts island, like that man in the limerick.
  • Nantucket.
  • 2: Starbuck serves as chief mate aboard the Pequod in the most famous work by this author.
  • Herman Melville ("Moby Dick").
  • 3: Starbuck openly spoke against this captain's mad quest.
  • Captain Ahab.
  • 4: Because Starbuck was a member of this religious group, anyone on board could call him "Friend".
  • Quakers (Society of Friends).
  • 5: "I will have no man in my boat", said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of" one of these.
  • Whale.

Round 3. Category: New Country

  • 1: The 2 Saudi-adjacent countries called this (Aden) and this (Sanaa) merged in 1990 to form a new nation.
  • North and South Yemen.
  • 2: With independence in 1993, Eritrea made Ethiopia landlocked, cutting off its access to this sea.
  • the Red Sea.
  • 3: A 24-year armed conflict led to the independence of this nation from South Africa in 1990.
  • Namibia.
  • 4: Until 1994 the nation of Palau was part of this "small" Pacific island group.
  • Micronesia.
  • 5: Russia and China do not recognize the sovereignty of this Muslim majority nation that broke away from Serbia in 2008.
  • Kosovo.

Round 4. Category: Something'S Looming Over Me

  • 1: In the state of Querétaro, this country's largest monolith looms over the town of Bernal.
  • Mexico.
  • 2: In Norwich, England it's Norwich Castle, which for 500 years was repurposed as this type of institution, for sure using its keep.
  • a prison.
  • 3: Historic cog railway line and all, in Manitou Springs, Colorado it's this peak that looms.
  • Pikes Peak.
  • 4: Looming over San Francisco, this landmark that opened in 1972 was sold in 2020 for the first time.
  • the Transamerica Pyramid.
  • 5: The cliffs of the Dodecanese Islands, a popular place for rock climbers, loom over this sea.
  • the Aegean.

Round 5. Category: Harry Potter And The Chapter Titles

  • 1: In book 1,"The blank Hat".
  • Sorting.
  • 2: In book 4,"The blank World Cup".
  • Quidditch.
  • 3: In book 6,her "Helping Hand".
  • Hermione.
  • 4: In book 7,"The Elder blank".
  • Wand.
  • 5: In book 2,"The Whomping blank".
  • Willow.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1168, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Finish The Line

  • 1: The Beatles:"Yesterday all my troubles seemed...".
  • so far away.
  • 2: Francis Scott Key:"Oh! Say, can you see...".
  • By the dawn's early light.
  • 3: President Bush:"Read my lips...".
  • no new taxes.
  • 4: Clark Gable in "Gone with the Wind": "Frankly, my dear...".
  • I don't give a damn.
  • 5: Your mom:"Penny wise...".
  • pound foolish.

Round 2. Category: My Tv Dads

  • 1: James Gandolfini led 2 types of families, each with their own unique sets of problems, on this HBO drama.
  • The Sopranos.
  • 2: In "Two and a Half Men", he was just Duckie playing Alan Harper, dad to the half-man.
  • (Jon) Cryer.
  • 3: On this show, Will moved in with his Auntie Viv and Uncle Phil, parents to Hilary, Ashley, Nicky and dance master Carlton.
  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
  • 4: Taiwanese immigrant Louis Huang makes a go of it in 1990s Orlando with his wife and 3 sons on this ABC sitcom.
  • Fresh Off the Boat.
  • 5: His 2017 Emmy award as dad and son on "This Is Us" was his second in two years--for your information, the "K" is for Kelby.
  • (Sterling K.) Brown.

Round 3. Category: Let'S Play Clue

  • 1: This murder weapon could also light up the table in the dining room.
  • Candlestick.
  • 2: In the 1985 film based on Clue, this "Rocky Horror" actor played Wadsworth the butler.
  • Tim Curry.
  • 3: It's the main claim to fame of Anthony E. Pratt, a fire warden in Leeds, England.
  • He invented the game ("Cluedo").
  • 4: He's the only academic among the 6 suspects.
  • Professor Plum.
  • 5: In the U.S. version, the game of Clue starts when this man is found dead in his mansion.
  • Mr. Boddy.

Round 4. Category: National Velvet. With Velvet in quotes

  • 1: Bobby Vinton revived this Tony Bennett song and took it to No. 1 in 1963.
  • Blue Velvet.
  • 2: "Dark" mixed drink of stout beer and champagne.
  • Black Velvet.
  • 3: Holy Roman emperor Charles V spoke of power as "An iron hand in" one of these.
  • a velvet glove.
  • 4: Classic songs by this '60s band include "Venus in Furs" and "All Tomorrow's Parties".
  • The Velvet Underground.
  • 5: 1989 Czechoslovakian uprising that led to democratic elections.
  • the "Velvet Revolution".

Round 5. Category: Soft Rock

  • 1: This French-Canadian woman topped the adult contemporary charts with "The Power Of Love" and "All By Myself".
  • Céline Dion.
  • 2: Putting the "easy" into easy listening, Lionel Richie sang, "That's why I'm easy, I'm easy like" this.
  • Sunday morning.
  • 3: Now known as Yusuf Islam, he embarked on the Peace Train Tour in 2014.
  • Cat Stevens.
  • 4: In the '80s this duo had a string of hits beginning with "Lost In Love" and "All Out Of Love".
  • Air Supply.
  • 5: Seals and Crofts made us feel fine with this tune, "blowing through the jasmine in my mind".
  • "Summer Breeze".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1167, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: It'S The End Fer You!. With Fer in quotes

  • 1: A pine, fir or spruce.
  • a conifer.
  • 2: Troy Aikman did this from Oklahoma to UCLA--good move.
  • transfer.
  • 3: A box or chest for valuables; fill it now!.
  • coffer.
  • 4: To steal, purloin or filch.
  • pilfer.
  • 5: A geological formation conducting ground water.
  • aquifer.

Round 2. Category: Their Last No. 1 Hit

  • 1: "Sledgehammer".
  • Peter Gabriel.
  • 2: "Cathy's Clown".
  • The Everly Brothers.
  • 3: "I'm Henry VIII, I Am".
  • Herman's Hermits.
  • 4: "I'll Be There".
  • The Jackson 5.
  • 5: 1987:"La Bamba".
  • Los Lobos.

Round 3. Category: Kansas City: News Clues

  • 1: (Hi, I'm John Holt.) It was an exciting but sobering event in 2006 when Kansas City opened the USA's official museum of this event, with features for visitors to ponder like a field of 9,000 silk poppies.
  • World War I.
  • 2: (Hi, I'm Pat McGonigle.) Hollywood came to Kansas City to film a biopic starring Gary Sinise as this man; locations included Lee's Summit and of course, Independence.
  • Truman.
  • 3: (Hi, I'm Nick Vasos.) In 1997, the 100th anniversary of her birth, her hometown of Atchison, Kansas unveiled a 42,000-square foot earth work portrait of this globe-trotting heroine.
  • Amelia Earhart.
  • 4: (Hi, I'm Karli Ritter.) A highlight of the holiday season each year is the lighting of the mayor's 100-foot Christmas tree at Crown Center, opened in 1971 by the same Kansas City businessman who founded this card company.
  • Hallmark.
  • 5: (Hi, I'm Christel Bell.) In 1997, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum opened its new permanent home under the leadership of Buck O'Neill, who had been a star for this Kansas City Negro Leagues team, as had greats like Satchel Paige and Jackie Robinson.
  • the Monarchs.

Round 4. Category: Stadiums

  • 1: This baseball team will soon leave Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium for a new home across the street.
  • Braves.
  • 2: Maryland crab cakes are a specialty of this team's ballpark at Camden Yards.
  • Orioles.
  • 3: When a member of this team homers at Shea Stadium, a big apple pops out of a hat in center field.
  • Mets.
  • 4: Originally called the Pontiac Metropolitan Stadium, the Silverdome is home to this football team.
  • (Detroit) Lions.
  • 5: This Boston Park is Major League Baseball's only single-deck stadium.
  • Fenway.

Round 5. Category: Presidential Soldiers

  • 1: Revolutionary War,Creek War,War of 1812,First Seminole War.
  • Andrew Jackson.
  • 2: WWI,WWII.
  • Eisenhower.
  • 3: The Spanish-American War.
  • Teddy Roosevelt.
  • 4: The Mexican War,The Civil War.
  • Grant.
  • 5: War of 1812,Second Seminole War,Black Hawk War,Mexican War.
  • (Zachary) Taylor.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1166, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hollywood Ugly

  • 1: This actress was quite ugly before her transformation in "Miss Congeniality".
  • Sandra Bullock.
  • 2: No one wants to date Julia Stiles in this 1999 movie except Heath Ledger, and he does it on a lark.
  • 10 Things I Hate About You.
  • 3: Of the frumpy sorority girls led by Anna Faris in "The House Bunny", this "American Idol" runner-up sure stands out.
  • Katharine McPhee.
  • 4: When this loner gets a makeover in "The Breakfast Club", we realize she was pretty all the time.
  • Ally Sheedy.
  • 5: Rachael Leigh Cook, the "ugly duckling", is pursued by Freddie Prinze Jr. in this high school comedy.
  • She's All That.

Round 2. Category: While Henry Viii Was King

  • 1: Cosimo I refounded the university of this city and parents of the time leaned towards sending their kids there.
  • Pisa.
  • 2: In his 1512 "Commentariolus" he stated the planets travel around the sun.
  • Copernicus.
  • 3: In 1534, after working on the tomb of the Medici, this artist moved from Florence to Rome.
  • Michelangelo.
  • 4: In 1534 he published "Gargantua", part 2 of "Pantagruel".
  • Rabelais.
  • 5: In 1526 Babar set up this dynasty in Delhi.
  • Mogul.

Round 3. Category: Lead Singer Of The Band

  • 1: Chris Martin.
  • Coldplay.
  • 2: Gwen Stefani.
  • No Doubt.
  • 3: Rob Thomas.
  • Matchbox 20.
  • 4: For much of the '80s and '90s, Michael McDonald.
  • The Doobie Brothers.
  • 5: Pat Monahan.
  • Train.

Round 4. Category: 20Th Century Bestsellers

  • 1: The concept of a "whisperer" who calms animals was popularized by this Nicholas Evans novel.
  • The Horse Whisperer.
  • 2: 1916's "Mr. Britling Sees It Through" by this author tried to make sense of the madness of WWI; no time travel involved.
  • H.G. Wells.
  • 3: The disaster movie genre really took off when this 1968 novel about Trans America flight No. 2 out of Chicago came to the screen.
  • Airport.
  • 4: This Edith Hull bestseller about forbidden love in the desert became a 1921 film starring Rudolph Valentino.
  • The Sheik.
  • 5: In a 1952 book a craftsman fashions "The Silver" this title drinking vessel to house the Holy Grail.
  • chalice.

Round 5. Category: Crown Plaza

  • 1: This queen has been on more coin types of numerous countries than any other human being.
  • Elizabeth II.
  • 2: King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz reversed policy and allowed foreign fighters in this country in 1990.
  • Saudi Arabia.
  • 3: In 2006 the first male in over 40 years was born into this land's Chrysanthemum Throne imperial family.
  • Japan.
  • 4: The last English king with this name reigned less than a year, in 1936.
  • Edward (VIII).
  • 5: Rudolf II moved this dynastic family's royal court from Vienna to Prague in the late 1500s.
  • the Hapsburgs.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1165, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What Does It Prevent?

  • 1: Higher-octane gasoline: this "kn"oise, partner of the dreaded pinging.
  • knocking.
  • 2: Bounce dryer sheets, symbolized by a tee shirt and a lightning bolt.
  • static cling.
  • 3: The compound levonorgestrel, in products like Mirena.
  • pregnancy.
  • 4: A living trust: this court procedure to carry out the terms of a will.
  • probate.
  • 5: Ladybugs and lacewings: these garden menaces also known as plant lice.
  • aphids.

Round 2. Category: Right Here In River City

  • 1: 38 years before she lost her head, Marie Antoinette was born in this capital on the Danube River.
  • Vienna.
  • 2: Its 3,400-square-mile metropolitan area extends over 8 administrative units known as parishes.
  • New Orleans.
  • 3: Amsterdam is at the junction of the IJ and this river where you can enjoy the same-named beer.
  • Amstel.
  • 4: The area between this city's Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers is called the Golden Triangle.
  • Pittsburgh.
  • 5: 2 steamboats race annually on the Mississippi between St. Louis and this city about 700 miles away.
  • New Orleans.

Round 3. Category: So, What Have You Been Up To?

  • 1: A picture of your new dog? Uh, that's this type of canine that's big in LA canyons. Is it in your house?.
  • a coyote.
  • 2: On coach Lionel Scaloni's staff for this team at the 2022 World Cup? I thought I saw you celebrating after the final.
  • Argentina.
  • 3: Wait, you became the leader of this Cabinet department that oversees the Transportation Security Admin.? When was that?!.
  • the Department of Homeland Security.
  • 4: In 2022 you were on the U.S. team that made the first nuclear this reaction resulting in a net energy gain... congrats!.
  • fusion.
  • 5: Becoming fluent in this artificial language constructed by a Polish oculist? Fabela! (Fabulous!).
  • Esperanto.

Round 4. Category: The Astronaut Hall Of Fame

  • 1: State in which the Hall of Fame is located.
  • Florida.
  • 2: His historic 1962 orbital flight was marked by drama over a possibly loose heat shield.
  • John Glenn.
  • 3: While others moonwalked, this vehicle was piloted by Michael Collins on Apollo 11 and Ronald Evans on Apollo 17.
  • the command module.
  • 4: The other Mercury astronauts knew him as "Wally".
  • Wally Schirra.
  • 5: This astronaut's sunken Mercury capsule was recovered in 1999.
  • Gus Grissom.

Round 5. Category: Oscar Best Picture Partial Marquees

  • 1: The thirdBest-Picture winner.
  • All Quiet on the Western Front.
  • 2: From 1993.
  • Schindler's List.
  • 3: Set in Atlanta.
  • Driving Miss Daisy.
  • 4: Directed by Ron Howard.
  • A Beautiful Mind.
  • 5: A 1971 thriller.
  • The French Connection.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1164, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Mtv Video Of The Year Artists

  • 1: 1988:"Need You Tonight/Meditate".
  • INXS.
  • 2: 2009:"Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)".
  • Beyoncé.
  • 3: 1984:"You Might Think".
  • The Cars.
  • 4: 2004:"Hey Ya!".
  • OutKast.
  • 5: 1993:"Jeremy".
  • Pearl Jam.

Round 2. Category: Classic Country Music

  • 1: In 1963 Johnny Cash sang, "And it" this, this, this, "the ring of fire, the ring of fire".
  • burns, burns, burns.
  • 2: No "Dumb Blonde" (the name of her first hit in 1967), this buxom beauty was Country Music Entertainer of the Year in 1978.
  • (Dolly) Parton.
  • 3: In 1953 "Your Cheatin' Heart" was a big hit for this country singer who lived fast and died young that same year.
  • Hank Williams, Sr..
  • 4: In a 1975 crossover hit, Freddy Fender put this word before his "Days" and "Nights".
  • Wasted.
  • 5: This country music legend didn't weigh "Sixteen Tons", but he was known as "The Ol' Pea Picker".
  • Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Round 3. Category: Egypt

  • 1: It was closed June 6, 1967 and re-opened June 5, 1975.
  • The Suez Canal.
  • 2: Construction of this began in 1960 and cost about $1 billion.
  • the Aswan Dam.
  • 3: 1 of 3 men who each built one of the pyramids of Giza.
  • (1 of) Cheops (Khufu) or (Khefren and Mykerinos).
  • 4: Though this dam controls the Nile's flood waters, some say it's harmed the environment.
  • Aswan High Dam.
  • 5: While the pharaohs built ancient wonders, Ferdinand de Lesseps built this "modern" one.
  • the Suez Canal.

Round 4. Category: Fold It 5 Ways

  • 1: Kids make these from 1 sheet of typing paper; they use a lot less fuel than a Cessna.
  • Paper airplane.
  • 2: The word origami means "paper folding" in this language.
  • Japanese.
  • 3: It's black and white and read all over; it's also the perfect size to make a hat.
  • Newspaper.
  • 4: Complex snout folds are needed to make this animal, whose next Chinese year is 2007.
  • Pig/boar.
  • 5: A square sheet of paper can become a star to put on a Christmas tree, a triangle becomes this Jewish star.
  • Star of David.

Round 5. Category: A World To Kiss

  • 1: In this French pilgrimage city, many have kissed the stone in the cave where St. Bernadette had her vision.
  • Lourdes.
  • 2: In Spanish churches, besamanos and besapiés are the customs of kissing these 2 parts of religious statues.
  • the hands and the feet.
  • 3: Kissing this at a castle in County Cork will get you the gift of gab, or so they say.
  • the Blarney Stone.
  • 4: In the 1930s newly single women were known to kiss the Washoe County courthouse pillars in this divorce-friendly Nevada city.
  • Reno.
  • 5: It's traditional at this venerable state university to streak across the space known as the Lawn and kiss the Homer statue.
  • University of Virginia.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1163, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Yesterday'S Hotties

  • 1: This lovely's look was all the rage on college campuses in the 1940s.
  • Veronica Lake.
  • 2: This actress who played opposite Victor Mature in "Samson and Delilah" invented the technology used in cell phones.
  • Hedy Lamarr.
  • 3: Some child mannequins of the 1920s were designed to look like this sweetheart of an actress.
  • Mary Pickford.
  • 4: This groundbreaking actress was played by Halle Berry in an acclaimed TV biopic.
  • Dorothy Dandridge.
  • 5: The alluring star of a number of classic films, this Kansas native was equally famous for her haircut.
  • Louise Brooks.

Round 2. Category: Take A Nee. With Nee in quotation marks

  • 1: Someone in the running for an Emmy or a Tony.
  • a nominee.
  • 2: A scornful, lip-curling facial expression.
  • a sneer.
  • 3: A Native American people who lived on the Platte River, or Leslie Knope's fictional Indiana town.
  • Pawnee.
  • 4: Captain Bligh suffered the wrath of a group of them.
  • mutineers.
  • 5: Stanley makes these long-jawed pliers.
  • needle-nose.

Round 3. Category: Pound Key. With Pound in quotes

  • 1: This word can come before microscope or fracture; the first is definitely better.
  • compound.
  • 2: Traditionally, one of these requires 16 ounces each of butter, sugar and flour.
  • a pound cake.
  • 3: Where you go to retrieve your car after it gets towed for being parked in front of a fire hydrant.
  • the impound lot.
  • 4: 2-word official name for the standard monetary unit of the United Kingdom.
  • pound sterling.
  • 5: A harsh debt payment insisted upon, it was Antonio's obligation to Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice".
  • a pound of flesh.

Round 4. Category: Names For Your Dog

  • 1: Give your male Rottweiler a strong name like Apollo or that of this supreme Greek god.
  • Zeus.
  • 2: If you have a small brown dog, try this 4-letter name, the seed of a legume.
  • Bean.
  • 3: If it's black and white, how about Tuxedo or this, the name of Nabisco's classic sandwich cookie.
  • Oreo.
  • 4: Thanks to "Twilight", this has been the most popular name for female dogs for the last few years.
  • Bella.
  • 5: Hey, pal! You can't go wrong with this name that Bill Clinton gave his chocolate lab in 1997.
  • Buddy.

Round 5. Category: Script Tease

  • 1: 1969:"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man".
  • True Grit.
  • 2: 1946:"Every time you hear a bell ring, it means some angel's just got his wings".
  • It's A Wonderful Life.
  • 3: 1939:"You should be kissed -- and often -- and by someone who knows how".
  • Gone with the Wind.
  • 4: 1962:"Bond. James Bond".
  • Dr. No.
  • 5: 1964:"Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!".
  • Dr. Strangelove.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1162, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Anagrammed Birds

  • 1: Illinois' state bird:CLAN RAID.
  • cardinal.
  • 2: A real show-off:COP CAKE.
  • peacock.
  • 3: A holiday standard:KEY RUT.
  • turkey.
  • 4: Seen at the seashore:DARN PIPES.
  • sandpiper.
  • 5: It's game if you are:HATE NAPS.
  • pheasant.

Round 2. Category: Are You Eating Right?

  • 1: You can eat ice cream from a dull, ordinary cone, or from one named for this breakfast food.
  • waffle cone.
  • 2: It's cooking food by immersing it in hot oil; it's a Scottish practice to do it to Mars bars.
  • deep-fat frying.
  • 3: Sweet and sour sauce is a popular dip for these fried Chinese dumplings for which a soup is also named.
  • won tons.
  • 4: It can be an apparatus to make a popular movie snack, or a jalapeno and cheese concoction.
  • popper.
  • 5: Popular in Cajun cooking, this sausage with a French name is full of tripey goodness.
  • Andouille.

Round 3. Category: I'M On The Money

  • 1: His smiling face beams on a 5-rand coin released in 2008 to honor his 90th birthday.
  • Nelson Mandela.
  • 2: Maybe if you climb Mt. Everest you can get your face on a New Zealand $5 bill, like him.
  • Hillary.
  • 3: Starting in 1975, you could nurse a beer or two with a British 10-pound note featuring her.
  • Florence Nightingale.
  • 4: It's a scientific fact--this physicist, who died in 1962, was on a Danish note.
  • Niels Bohr.
  • 5: Indonesia's 100,000-rupiah note features Prime Minister Hatta and the first president, him--an airport is named for them, too.
  • Sukarno.

Round 4. Category: The Four Seasons

  • 1: It's the 7-word first line of "Richard III".
  • "Now is the winter of our discontent".
  • 2: The fall guy in the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert Fall, was born November 26, 1861 in this season.
  • the fall.
  • 3: In the northern hemisphere, the first day of fall falls in this month.
  • September.
  • 4: "The Four Seasons" consists of 4 concertos for this instrument and orchestra.
  • Violin.
  • 5: According to "You've Got A Friend", it's when you can call your "friend" James Taylor.
  • winter, spring, summer, or fall.

Round 5. Category: 1950s People

  • 1: In 1954 he ran unoppposed for president of Cuba.
  • (Fulgencio) Batista.
  • 2: Israel offered this physicist the presidency in 1952; feeling he didn't have the personality for the job, he declined.
  • Einstein.
  • 3: In 1950 this sen. said there were 205 Communists in the State Dept. but in Sen. testimony gave no proof of a single card carrier.
  • Joe McCarthy.
  • 4: William M. Gaines wasn't worried when he launched this irreverent humor magazine in 1952.
  • Mad.
  • 5: Born in New York, she moved with her family to Greece and was back for her Metropolitan Opera debut as Norma in 1956.
  • Maria Callas.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1161, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What A Month!

  • 1: It shares its name with a type of musical piece: Forward--Move It!.
  • March.
  • 2: The United States celebrates its birthday during this month.
  • July.
  • 3: Timewise, it's the shortest month.
  • February.
  • 4: It's National Dental Hygiene Month, and with all that candy at month's end, it's a good thing!.
  • October.
  • 5: The U.S. presidential election takes place in this month.
  • November.

Round 2. Category: The Name On The Airport

  • 1: What a wonderful world! In 2001 the New Orleans airport was renamed to honor this jazz great's 100th birthday.
  • Louis Armstrong.
  • 2: The airport code for Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport is SPI, which stands for this state capital.
  • Springfield.
  • 3: The airport serving Grand Rapids, Michigan is named for this 38th president.
  • Gerald Ford.
  • 4: The smallest of the 3 major airports serving NYC, it's named for the mayor who oversaw its construction.
  • LaGuardia.
  • 5: A 9-foot statue of this actor graces the terminal building of the Orange County, California airport named for him.
  • John Wayne.

Round 3. Category: Ebony And Ivory

  • 1: The white tops of its keys were once made of ivory, hence the phrase "tickle the ivories".
  • a piano.
  • 2: Ancient kings of India used ebony for drinking vessels because it supposedly neutralized this.
  • poison.
  • 3: Most commercial ivory still comes from this continent.
  • Africa.
  • 4: Some of the best ebony is grown in the flat country west of Trincomalee on this "teardrop island".
  • Sri Lanka.
  • 5: Ivory comes not only from elephants but also from hippos, walruses and these small tusked whales.
  • narwhals.

Round 4. Category: 4Th And Goal

  • 1: Launched to recapture this city from the Muslims, the Fourth Crusade ended up sacking Constantinople instead.
  • Jerusalem.
  • 2: Denis Diderot suggested that actors imagine a fourth this to help them behave more realistically.
  • a wall.
  • 3: Greek scholars celebrate the fourth of this month as Exelauno Day because exelauno means to do this "forth".
  • March.
  • 4: University of Arizona students know that "The Ave" is Fourth Avenue in this city, fun by day and night.
  • Tucson.
  • 5: The goal of this was to capture the ferocious Erymanthian boar.
  • Hercules' fourth labor.

Round 5. Category: 6-Letter Birds

  • 1: This "clock" bird's scientific name is Cuculus canorus.
  • cuckoo.
  • 2: The flightless New Zealand kakapo is the heaviest type of this bird; the macaw is the largest.
  • parrot.
  • 3: Eagles and hawks can also be used in the sport named for this bird.
  • falcon.
  • 4: In New England it's often called a partridge while southerners call it a pheasant.
  • grouse.
  • 5: This diving bird of the auk family is distinguished by its colorful, triangular beak.
  • puffin.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1160, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Where Does It Hurt?

  • 1: Myalgia (these parts).
  • muscles.
  • 2: Dermatalgia.
  • skin.
  • 3: Hepatalgia.
  • the liver.
  • 4: Odontalgia.
  • teeth.
  • 5: Arthralgia (these parts, whether hinge or ball-and-socket).
  • joint.

Round 2. Category: Will You Still Feed Me?

  • 1: Och aye! Haggamuggie is a simplified version of this, but with fish liver--sounds even better.
  • haggis.
  • 2: Rachael Ray has a 22-minute recipe for burgers of this "cordon bleu"; 10 minutes of prep and 12 to cook.
  • chicken.
  • 3: From the Dutch for "to curl", this doughnut-style dough is fried and brushed with a sweet glaze.
  • a cruller.
  • 4: "Why don't you dance with me? I'm not no" this cheese described as "devastatingly odorous".
  • limburger.
  • 5: "Polska" precedes the name of this sausage in a Hillshire Farm product.
  • kielbasa.

Round 3. Category: Japanese Food

  • 1: Tonyu is the liquid left over when this bland substance is made from soybeans.
  • Tofu.
  • 2: Surimi, meaning "formed fish", turns up in packages labeled this type of "crabmeat" and "lobster".
  • imitation.
  • 3: It's traditional for the host to serve a meal called kaiseki before this ceremony.
  • The Tea Ceremony.
  • 4: Tendon is a one-dish meal of rice topped with this mix of battered and fried seafood and vegetables.
  • tempura.
  • 5: Umeboshi are plums that are pickled, not tickled, this color.
  • pink.

Round 4. Category: Shakespeare'S Lovers

  • 1: "The barge she sat in, like a burnisht throne burned on the water...".
  • Cleopatra.
  • 2: Bassanio found this lady lawyer's picture inside a leaden casket.
  • Portia.
  • 3: In 3rd play in which he appears, he becomes king and gets a girl, but she can't speak English.
  • Henry V.
  • 4: After he murdered her husband, Lady Anne spit in his face and then agreed to wear his ring.
  • Richard III.
  • 5: In "12th Night" it's Maria, not Olivia, who writes him the love not about his yellow stockings.
  • Malvolio.

Round 5. Category: Name That Tunesmith

  • 1: 1967:"Ruby Tuesday"(both men, please).
  • Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
  • 2: 2012, with Yoo Gun Hyung:"Gangnam Style".
  • Psy.
  • 3: 1957:"Peggy Sue"(along with Jerry Allison and Norman Petty).
  • Buddy Holly.
  • 4: 1980:"(Just Like) Starting Over".
  • John Lennon.
  • 5: 2006:"Waiting On The World To Change".
  • John Mayer.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1159, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Requiem For A Skyline

  • 1: In November of 1972, the Kingdome was dedicated in this West Coast city. In March 2000, the Kingdome was demolished in this West Coast city.
  • Seattle.
  • 2: In 1978, New Jersey's Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel got checked out to make way for a casino in this city.
  • Atlantic City.
  • 3: Northwestern University's old Prentice Women's Hospital, an example of Brutalist architecture, was demoed in 2013-2014 in this big city.
  • Chicago.
  • 4: Sunset Boulevard isn't the same since the bulldozer came for the home and playground of many movie stars called the Garden of this.
  • the Garden of Allah.
  • 5: Demolished in 1999, the Jorba Labs near Madrid was often called this general 6-letter term for a sacred building in China.
  • a pagoda.

Round 2. Category: Can You Digit?

  • 1: John Stossel, a co-anchor of this ABC News show, overcame stuttering and has won 19 Emmys.
  • 20/20.
  • 2: Number of stories on each of the 1,483-foot-high Petronas towers, or of keys on a standard piano keyboard.
  • 88.
  • 3: For the records, translate these 2 Roman numerals, XLV and LXXVIII.
  • 45 and 78.
  • 4: Tennyson's "Valley of Death" chargers minus the total number of U.S. senators.
  • 500.
  • 5: In print journalism this number is traditionally used to mark the end of a piece of copy.
  • 30.

Round 3. Category: Interviewing The Interviewer

  • 1: About his famous interviews with Richard Nixon, he said he felt empathy, not sympathy, for Nixon.
  • David Frost.
  • 2: In February 2011 he sat down for a somewhat grumpy interview with his replacement, Piers Morgan.
  • Larry King.
  • 3: (Hi. I'm Anderson Cooper.) Hosting a 2009 special on the Time 100, I got to interview Barbara Walters and her co-hosts on this show about their influence.
  • The View.
  • 4: This late "Meet the Press" host told the N.Y. Times he sometimes felt like shaking his guests and saying, "Answer the question".
  • (Tim) Russert.
  • 5: In 2005 Mike Wallace got the treatment he'd often dished out--from this "Fox News Sunday" interviewer.
  • Chris Wallace (his son).

Round 4. Category: James K. Polk

  • 1: Mrs. Polk banned this in the White House so you couldn't have waltzed into James' office.
  • dancing.
  • 2: Polk's was the first inauguration reported via this communications device; Morse was at the key.
  • the telegraph.
  • 3: While Speaker of the House Polk was called this president's lackey and nicknamed "Young Hickory".
  • Andrew Jackson.
  • 4: During Polk's term of office the border of the United States was extended west to this natural boundary.
  • the Pacific Ocean.
  • 5: In 1845 Polk reaffirmed this president's "Doctrine" against European colonization of America.
  • the Monroe Doctrine.

Round 5. Category: Storm

  • 1: Hurricane Camille leaves only one operational shrimping boat in Bayou La Batre in this 1994 Oscar winner.
  • Forrest Gump.
  • 2: This 2000 film was based on Sebastian Junger's bestseller about a hurricane that meets a cold front.
  • The Perfect Storm.
  • 3: Bogey and Bacall's final film together was this one that saw them waiting out a storm in Florida.
  • Key Largo.
  • 4: The probe used to investigate tornados in this film is aptly named Dorothy.
  • Twister.
  • 5: In this cool 2004 film, climatologist Dennis Quaid is right and much of the U.S. evacuates to Mexico.
  • The Day After Tomorrow.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1158, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Numeric Words And Phrases

  • 1: The Lakers won championships in 1987 and '88, so before the next season, Pat Riley trademarked this.
  • a three-peat.
  • 2: You're too old for the single-piece type of underwear that Gerber trademarked under this name.
  • a onesie.
  • 3: Hyphenated term for a contest that's really no contest.
  • one-sided.
  • 4: "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" is traditionally sung in this break.
  • the seventh-inning stretch.
  • 5: Alliterative term for a married person having an affair.
  • a two-timer.

Round 2. Category: Bulfinch'S Mythology

  • 1: These part-leonine beasts built their nests from gold; Merv might be interested.
  • griffins.
  • 2: Pliny said this mythical beast had "a single black horn... standing out in the middle of its forehead".
  • a unicorn.
  • 3: As the porter of Heaven, he opened the year, so our first month is named for him.
  • Janus.
  • 4: She left Menelaus for Paris—the man, not the city.
  • Helen (of Troy).
  • 5: Camilla and this Roman goddess of the hunt got along famously, unlike the British women who bear their names today.
  • Diana.

Round 3. Category: Drew Barrymore Loves Music

  • 1: (Drew Barrymore delivers the clue one last time.) Bernie Taupin was a teenager when he answered an ad looking for songwriters, this future partner of his did the same, and the rest is rock and roll history.
  • Elton John.
  • 2: (Drew Barrymore gives the clue again.) The music and lyrics of these famous brothers posed the "fever"ish question "How Deep Is Your Love".
  • the Bee Gees.
  • 3: (Drew Barrymore gives the clue once more.) The ever-popular "Evergreen" has lyrics by Paul Williams and music by this singer who introduced it in "A Star Is Born".
  • Barbra Streisand.
  • 4: (Drew Barrymore gives the clue again.) "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" swings with the lyrics of Irving Mills and the music of this jazzman.
  • (Duke) Ellington.
  • 5: (Drew Barrymore gives the clue.) Some of the most romantic songs of all time, including "Embraceable You", were written by these brothers.
  • George and Ira Gershwin.

Round 4. Category: Place Your Bet. With Bet in quotation marks

  • 1: Your present spouse is your this 2-word phrase.
  • better half.
  • 2: Your future spouse is your this word.
  • betrothed.
  • 3: To hurt someone who trusts you.
  • betrayal.
  • 4: It designates any constellation's second-brightest star.
  • beta.
  • 5: Pair it with "between" to mean in an awkward middle position.
  • betwixt.

Round 5. Category: Silent K Words

  • 1: Sir Francis Bacon wrote, "ipsa scientia potestas est", often translated to this phrase.
  • knowledge is power.
  • 2: It's a type of backpack.
  • a knapsack.
  • 3: In a Chumbawamba song, this happens, "but I get up again".
  • (I get) knocked down.
  • 4: In an epic takedown in "King Lear", Oswald is called a this, "a rascal... filthy, worsted-stocking" this (again).
  • knave.
  • 5: This aptly named brand calls itself a "wedding marketplace that connects couples with local wedding professionals".
  • the Knot.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1157, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Name The Work

  • 1: Melville:"Captain Vere was an exceptional character".
  • Billy Budd.
  • 2: Cervantes:"At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember".
  • Don Quixote.
  • 3: Verne:"Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner".
  • Around the World in Eighty Days.
  • 4: Jack London:"'The Ghost' was rolling slightly on a calm sea without a breath of wind".
  • The Sea Wolf.
  • 5: O. Henry:"Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present".
  • "The Gift of the Magi".

Round 2. Category: Earth, Wind And Fire

  • 1: On the Beaufort scale, winds range from 0 for calm to 12 to 17 for these powerful storms.
  • hurricanes.
  • 2: About 80% of energy released by quakes comes from events with epicenters in the Circum-Pacific belt, AKA this, AKA a Johnny Cash tune.
  • Ring of Fire.
  • 3: In the '90s home fires caused by these nearly doubled, with almost half of them starting in the bedroom.
  • candles.
  • 4: A devastating forest fire swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin on the very same day in 1871 as this city's "Great" fire.
  • Chicago.
  • 5: Oh, "Boy"! This warming of the Pacific that causes unusual weather patterns occurs about every 2 to 7 years.
  • El Nino.

Round 3. Category: Remember Reruns?

  • 1: In reruns and syndication, "Mystery Science Theater" was followed by "Hour", replacing this number.
  • 3000.
  • 2: "The Andy Griffith Show" came back around as "Andy of" here.
  • Mayberry.
  • 3: Her "and Friends"--Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence and others--was a half-hour rerun of her "Show".
  • Carol Burnett.
  • 4: Ponderosa was a ranch on and a rerun title of this show.
  • Bonanza.
  • 5: "The Best of Groucho" was a rerun title of this game show.
  • You Bet Your Life.

Round 4. Category: Gay Blades

  • 1: The mark left by George Hamilton's "gay blade".
  • a Z.
  • 2: Its use was abolished in France in 1981, 188 years too late for Marie Antoinette.
  • the guillotine.
  • 3: The sword in the stone from the Lady of the Lake.
  • Excalibur.
  • 4: You'd need an undertaker, not a styptic pencil after this was used by Sweeney Todd.
  • a straight razor.
  • 5: Ridley Scott's dim futuristic film view of Los Angeles.
  • Blade Runner.

Round 5. Category: Women Of Myth

  • 1: Courtesy of Perseus, her snaky severed head was placed on the shield of Athena.
  • Medusa.
  • 2: This daughter of Zeus and Leda was considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world.
  • Helen of Troy.
  • 3: After she died of a snakebite, her husband Orpheus tried to rescue her from Hades.
  • Eurydice.
  • 4: According to Ovid, this jealous goddess turned the nymph Callisto into a bear for being Jupiter's lover.
  • Juno.
  • 5: After she spurned Apollo, he made sure no one would believe her prophecies.
  • Cassandra.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1156, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: That Old Time Television

  • 1: This 1950s Nelson family sitcom ran for 14 years.
  • Ozzie and Harriet.
  • 2: 2 of the 3 full-time "Tonight Show" hosts before Jay Leno.
  • (2 of 3) Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson.
  • 3: This actress' TV character Alexis Carrington was once described as "starts with B, rhymes with rich".
  • Joan Collins.
  • 4: With boxing as her category, Dr. Joyce Brothers won the top prize on this TV quiz show.
  • The $64,000 Question.
  • 5: Jeepers, Dr. Smith! On TV's "Lost in Space", this actor played the youngest Robinson.
  • Billy Mumy.

Round 2. Category: Soccer

  • 1: At the beginning of a game, the choice of goal and kickoff is decided by this.
  • a toss of a coin.
  • 2: =.
  • =.
  • 3: Like a castle, a soccer field in Rio is surrounded by this to keep out overzealous fans.
  • a moat.
  • 4: First held in Uruguay in 1930, it's the largest single-sport tournament in the world.
  • the World Cup.
  • 5: International competition for this trophy began in 1930.
  • World Cup.

Round 3. Category: African-American Biography

  • 1: "The Road to Freedom" is the subtitle of Catherine Clinton's bio of this 19th century woman.
  • Harriet Tubman.
  • 2: Jonathan Eig's bio of this champ who passed away in 2016 is one of the "Greatest" sports biographies.
  • Ali.
  • 3: "The New Negro" is "The Life of Alain Locke", the first African American to earn this honor that sent him to Oxford.
  • a Rhodes Scholarship.
  • 4: "Talking at the Gates" is "A Life of" this "If Beale Street Could Talk" novelist.
  • James Baldwin.
  • 5: Published in 2007, "Supreme Discomfort" is a portrait of this jurist.
  • Clarence Thomas.

Round 4. Category: Country Groups

  • 1: The "Lady" in this group that won 5 2010 ACM Awards is Hillary Scott, daughter of country singer Linda Davis.
  • Lady Antebellum.
  • 2: Randy Owen fronted this "stately" group whose hits include "Christmas in Dixie" and "Born Country".
  • Alabama.
  • 3: This organization was formed in April 1949 to counter the Soviet Union.
  • NATO.
  • 4: This country group stays in motion with hits like "I'm Movin' On" and "Life Is A Highway".
  • Rascal Flatts.
  • 5: In 1981 they burned up the pop and country charts singing, "My heart's on fire, Elvira".
  • The Oak Ridge Boys.

Round 5. Category: Where It'S At. With At in quotation marks

  • 1: Goldthwait's moniker.
  • Bobcat.
  • 2: It's his political party.
  • Democrat.
  • 3: Omar Khayyam's handiwork.
  • "The Rubaiyat".
  • 4: This neck scarf is named for its resemblance to one worn by Croatian soldiers.
  • Cravat.
  • 5: The Captain and Tennille sang of this kind of beastly love.
  • "Muskrat Love".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1155, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Those Phabulous Phoenicians

  • 1: Seaport city known for its very expensive purple dye.
  • Tyre.
  • 2: The Phoenician city of Berytus is known known by this name.
  • Beirut.
  • 3: The ancient city of Byblos was known for its production of this material, hence bible, meaning book.
  • papyrus.
  • 4: The Phoenicians were known for this skill; even the Greeks called the North Star the Phoenician Star.
  • navigation.
  • 5: Zeno, a Phoenician, founded this "Greek" school of philosophy.
  • Stoicism.

Round 2. Category: Parts Of The Body

  • 1: This organ has a mitral valve and semilunar valves.
  • the heart.
  • 2: Condyles are the rounded ends of bones that meet up at joints--the femur has one where it meets up with the tibia in this joint.
  • the knee.
  • 3: The brain region known as the parietal this 4-letter area contains the sensory cortex.
  • lobe.
  • 4: The Palatine type of these masses in your throat are the ones often removed--the pharyngeal types are called adenoids.
  • tonsils.
  • 5: The gallbladder stores this greenish fluid that aids in the digestion of fats.
  • bile.

Round 3. Category: QuadS. With Quad in quotes

  • 1: Examples include dogs, cats, rats, crocodiles, horses, and salamanders.
  • quadrupeds.
  • 2: You'll find these muscles in the front of your thighs.
  • quadriceps.
  • 3: Adjective for something that occurs every four years.
  • quadrennial.
  • 4: ¼ of a circle.
  • a quadrant.
  • 5: The name for this 19th c. dance originally meant a group of horsemen performing riding maneuvers.
  • a quadrille.

Round 4. Category: Takes The Cake

  • 1: Angel food cake uses only this part of an egg.
  • the white.
  • 2: Light and dark batters combined give this cake the appearance of the rock it's named for.
  • marble cake.
  • 3: This classic Viennese torte is filled with apricot jam.
  • Sachertorte.
  • 4: Trademarked name for a fluted tube pan or the cake baked in it.
  • a Bundt.
  • 5: A Baba is most commonly flavored with this potent potable.
  • rum.

Round 5. Category: Always Broadway

  • 1: "Joseph Smith American Moses" is a song in this musical.
  • The Book of Mormon.
  • 2: In 2010 this "Avenger" won a Best Actress Tony for "A View from the Bridge".
  • Scarlett Johansson.
  • 3: In 2017 Broadway met its matchmaker when she was "divine" as the title star of "Hello, Dolly!".
  • Bette Midler.
  • 4: In 1990 this musical about a musical closed after 6,137 shows; God, I hope you get it! I hope you get it!.
  • A Chorus Line.
  • 5: I've got a lead for you... Alan Alda portrayed Shelly Levene in this Mamet play in 2005.
  • Glengarry Glen Ross.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1154, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Poke Out An I

  • 1: Whether acrylic or watercolor, an art supply without its "I" becomes this--breathe hard.
  • a pant.
  • 2: A word towards the end of an auctioneer's spiel sells its "I" to ring out as this instrument.
  • gong.
  • 3: Without its "I", a synonym for "landed" becomes this computer key.
  • alt.
  • 4: Poke out the "I" from a ghostly apparition to get this intense anger.
  • wrath.
  • 5: Drop the "I" from the start of a word for one's likeness to get this synonym for sorcerer.
  • mage.

Round 2. Category: '70s Pop Culture

  • 1: In 1972 he spread a 200,000 square-foot curtain across a mountain valley in Colorado.
  • Christo.
  • 2: One day he woke up to find his 1973 book "Awakenings" on the bestseller list.
  • Oliver Sacks.
  • 3: You could say this French Olympian went downhill as a ski instructor turned thief in the 1972 film "Snow Job".
  • Jean-Claude Killy.
  • 4: She was 13 when she became Broadway's original "Annie" in 1977.
  • Andrea McArdle.
  • 5: Barbra Streisand's fans know this is her middle name, because it's in the title of a 1971 album.
  • Joan.

Round 3. Category: I Got 3 As!

  • 1: This word is properly plural, but you can use it for just one.
  • candelabra.
  • 2: It's Japanese for "goodbye".
  • sayonara.
  • 3: Any big waterfall.
  • a cataract (or Niagara).
  • 4: You fraud! You quack! You this 9-letter word!.
  • charlatan.
  • 5: It's kind of a mash-up of comradeship and bonhomie.
  • camaraderie.

Round 4. Category: Stories Of The South

  • 1: In "The Night the Lights Went Out" by Karen White, Merilee Dunlap fittingly moves to Sweet Apple in this state.
  • Georgia.
  • 2: Fannie Flagg wrote of Idgie and Ruth, who ran the Whistle Stop Cafe, known for this "colorful" title fare.
  • fried green tomatoes.
  • 3: After graduating from Ole Miss in this Kathryn Stockett novel, Skeeter can't find her former maid and nanny.
  • The Help.
  • 4: "Black Thunder" is about one of these events in 1800 planned by Gabriel Prosser, with the goal of seizing Richmond.
  • a slave uprising.
  • 5: In Rebecca Wells' tale of this "Sisterhood", Siddalee Walker returns to uncover some "Divine Secrets".
  • Ya-Ya.

Round 5. Category: Celebrities

  • 1: As spokesman for Champ Gourmet Chocolate Chip Cookies, he's the greatest.
  • Muhammad Ali.
  • 2: Alyssa Milano plays Tony's college co-ed daughter on this sitcom.
  • Who's the Boss.
  • 3: Tracy Pollan played his girlfriend on "Family Ties" before marrying him in real life.
  • Michael J. Fox.
  • 4: "Time" described "King of the Night" as "a scandal-mongering biography" of this talk show host.
  • Johnny Carson.
  • 5: He's the pop star who has thrilled fans with such albums as "Bad" and "Thriller".
  • Michael Jackson.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1153, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Stupid Show Biz Answers

  • 1: It's the role Danny Bonaduce played on "The Partridge Family".
  • Danny.
  • 2: Mike Myers flexed his powers to play Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell in this 1998 film.
  • 54.
  • 3: Andrea McArdle, who starred in a production of "Annie Get Your Gun" in 2006, first became famous playing this role.
  • Annie.
  • 4: Greer Garson became the Mrs. of actor Richard Ney after he played her son Vin Miniver in this 1942 film.
  • Mrs. Miniver.
  • 5: It was the title of the last big-screen remake of "Beau Geste", released in 1977.
  • The Last Remake of Beau Geste.

Round 2. Category: Sharp

  • 1: Cardsharp is an old term for a gambler who is notorious for doing this.
  • cheating.
  • 2: This synonym for a sniper has the same first and last letters as "sniper".
  • a sharpshooter.
  • 3: Be a sharp dresser by ironing your pants to keep these sharp.
  • the creases.
  • 4: Patricia Clarkson won a Golden Globe for playing Amy Adams' mom on this HBO miniseries.
  • Sharp Objects.
  • 5: This Chikara line of knives from this company is made of "premium Japanese stainless steel".
  • Ginsu.

Round 3. Category: Occupational Homonyms

  • 1: A job like a chauffeur, or a part of your PC that needs to be updated occasionally.
  • a driver.
  • 2: It can mean highest in rank or value, as well as someone of high rank at your school.
  • principal.
  • 3: Not just an occupation, it's also a type of fruity pie.
  • a cobbler.
  • 4: A certain member of our military forces, or an adjective that refers broadly to the sea.
  • Marine.
  • 5: Someone who oversees construction work, or a muscle that becomes shorter.
  • contractor.

Round 4. Category: Add Some Consonants

  • 1: Numbered explanatory comment at a page's bottom: OOOE.
  • a footnote.
  • 2: MPH indicator: EEOEE.
  • speedometer.
  • 3: A John Lennon classic: IAIE.
  • "Imagine".
  • 4: A portable musical instrument: AOIO.
  • an accordion.
  • 5: Old MacDonald had this point in a planet's orbit when it's nearest to the Sun: EIEIO.
  • perihelion.

Round 5. Category: Renting

  • 1: In Alaska, a failure to pay utility bills can be grounds for this process against a tenant within 5 days.
  • eviction.
  • 2: Many states limit this required upfront sum to an amount equal to 1 or 2 months rent.
  • a (security) deposit.
  • 3: Renters with low incomes can seek assistance through the Section 8 program of this U.S. govt. department.
  • HUD.
  • 4: Discrimination against renting to families with children is illegal except for housing reserved for these only.
  • senior citizens.
  • 5: California rental agreements have implied warranties that the apt. isn't rotten, verminous or otherwise this 13-letter word.
  • uninhabitable.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1152, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cities Through Time

  • 1: A brief civil war took place in this capital after Finland declared independence from Russia in 1917.
  • Helsinki.
  • 2: Before 1918 Guangzhou was known by this name; a Chinese language still reminds us of it.
  • Canton.
  • 3: A team name came from this word that preceded "67" in the name of a 1967 Montreal happening.
  • Expos.
  • 4: In 1535 Lima was founded by Pizarro as Ciudad de los Reyes, meaning this.
  • City of Kings.
  • 5: About 1,000 years ago, Casablanca was a village of these double-talk people.
  • the Berbers.

Round 2. Category: Gangsters

  • 1: While Bugsy Siegel was being shot in B. H., Meyer Lansky's goons were walking into a hotel in this city and taking over.
  • Las Vegas.
  • 2: He's quoted as saying, "They've hung everything on me but the Chicago Fire".
  • Al Capone.
  • 3: Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein was accused of masterminding the big fix of this in 1919; it wasn't proved.
  • World Series.
  • 4: Gangster Louis Amberg was just "Pretty" while Charles Floyd was nicknamed this.
  • "Pretty Boy".
  • 5: His brother Buck was part of his gang, as was his moll Bonnie.
  • Clyde Barrow.

Round 3. Category: .Organizations

  • 1: uncf.org: where "a mind is a terrible thing to waste".
  • the United Negro College Fund.
  • 2: pbk.org: it's an honor--society.
  • Phi Beta Kappa.
  • 3: kofc.org: these "Knights" who contribute more than $150 million to charitable needs and projects annually.
  • the Knights of Columbus.
  • 4: nrdc.org: the "Defense Council" for these.
  • Natural Resources.
  • 5: cfa.org: the "Association" of these people, lovers of felines.
  • Cat Fanciers'.

Round 4. Category: The Lore Of The Land

  • 1: The feathers of this creature of Russian legend that lent its name to a ballet were said to provide beauty and protection upon the earth.
  • firebird.
  • 2: We pulled some strings to tell you about Dagda, a deity in Irish folklore who played this instrument to put enemies to sleep.
  • the harp.
  • 3: He wrote a verse play about the Scandinavian folk hero Peer Gynt and Edvard Grieg wrote music to go with it.
  • Ibsen.
  • 4: Georgia's state flower is this people's rose; legend says one grew along the trail at each spot where their tears fell.
  • Cherokee.
  • 5: A spider and a trickster god whose origins are in West Africa lives as Mr. Nancy in "Anansi Boys" by this writer.
  • Neil Gaiman.

Round 5. Category: Rainy Day P.E.

  • 1: I'm so good at catching the rubber ball in this game that all my teammates are getting back in.
  • dodgeball.
  • 2: In half-court basketball, you do this to start the game, pass the ball to the defender who passes it back to you.
  • checking.
  • 3: Rope climbing today! It looks so easy on the NBC show called this "warrior".
  • American Ninja.
  • 4: We have to practice this "shapely" dance, because I haven't do-si-doed very much.
  • square dancing.
  • 5: Badminton is fun indoors, where you are less likely to lose the "birdie", AKA this projectile.
  • the shuttlecock.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1151, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Back To The Hotel

  • 1: In 1975, Lyn Weiner opened the Kennelworth, a hotel in New York City for these pets.
  • dogs.
  • 2: The Celtic Lodge and Kelly's Hotel are famous hotels in this world capital.
  • Dublin.
  • 3: This large ocean liner that's been docked in Long Beach since 1967 is a hotel and tourist attraction.
  • Queen Mary.
  • 4: With canals, piazzas, and St. Mark's Square, this Vegas hotel sits on the old Sands Hotel site.
  • the Venetian.
  • 5: This "presidential" hotel was elected to host the first Academy Awards ceremony.
  • the Roosevelt.

Round 2. Category: Significant Old Books

  • 1: Dating from the 5th century B.C., this Asian philosopher's "Analects".
  • Confucius.
  • 2: This ancient Greek playwright's comedies, which include "The Frogs".
  • Aristophanes.
  • 3: This German's 18th century coming of age classic "The Sorrows of Young Werther".
  • Goethe.
  • 4: Greek historian and soldier Thucydides' firsthand account "The History of" this peninsular war.
  • the Peloponnesian War.
  • 5: This Swiss-French writer's 18th century political covenant "The Social Contract".
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Round 3. Category: The Last Category. With Last in quotes

  • 1: Something about to tumble down is standing on these.
  • its last legs.
  • 2: Type of final effort that might be required to finish a trench.
  • last-ditch.
  • 3: It breaks a camel's back.
  • the last straw.
  • 4: It's what you have when your joke succeeds when all told you it would fail.
  • the last laugh.
  • 5: A desperate attempt, such as defending the endmost trench.
  • a last ditch effort.

Round 4. Category: It'S A Flat-Out Fact

  • 1: All babies have flat feet, but if you develop the condition later in life, it's called fallen these.
  • arches.
  • 2: Please pass over this bread in unleavened form or now that I think of it, as a ball in some delicious soup.
  • matzah.
  • 3: "Tortilla Flat", a 1935 novel set in Monterey, established him as a successful author.
  • Steinbeck.
  • 4: In 2021 a vehicle aptly named Speed Demon hit 466 mph at these salt flats in Utah.
  • Bonneville.
  • 5: Some Native Americans practiced skull binding for a rounded look; Lewis and Clark called the Salish this because they didn't.
  • the Flathead.

Round 5. Category: China Patterns

  • 1: Ruins of this run from Bo Hai, a gulf of the Yellow Sea, to the Gansu province in the west.
  • The Great Wall.
  • 2: This former crown colony is partly on the southeast coast of China and partly on over 200 islands.
  • Hong Kong.
  • 3: The Hainan province has this type of climate, hence the coconut trees and pineapple plants.
  • Tropical.
  • 4: The 3 Gorges Dam, over 1 mile long, is being built to control the flooding of this river.
  • Yangtze.
  • 5: Immensely popular in China, this paddle sport is known as the "national game".
  • ping pong.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1150, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Liberty Bell Rang...

  • 1: On Feb. 3, 1757, when the Assembly directed this man to go to England to address colonial grievances.
  • Benjamin Franklin.
  • 2: on July 8, 1776 to announce the first public reading of this.
  • the Declaration of Independance.
  • 3: on February 4, 1771 to summon the Pennsylvania assembly into session to repeal the duty on this commodity.
  • tea.
  • 4: on July 8, 1763 to give notice of the end of this war.
  • the French and Indian War.
  • 5: on Feb. 11, 1915; a recording was transmitted to the opening of the Pan Pacific Exposition in this West Coast city.
  • San Francisco.

Round 2. Category: States And Territories Of Australia

  • 1: The one state named for a man.
  • Tasmania.
  • 2: An Australian territorial claim covers 42% of this continent.
  • Antarctica.
  • 3: 95% of the population of the small enclave known as the Australian Capital Territory resides in this city.
  • Canberra.
  • 4: Australia's most populous city, Sydney, is in this state with a 3-word name.
  • New South Wales.
  • 5: One of the 2 states named in honor of a woman.
  • Victoria (or Queensland).

Round 3. Category: Silent Consonant Words

  • 1: A prominent rounded hill, or a rounded control switch or dial.
  • knob.
  • 2: Her unrequited love for Narcissus reverberates through mythology.
  • Echo.
  • 3: Jesus had 12 of these special disciples, from the Greek for "messenger".
  • apostles.
  • 4: To bite or chew persistently, like an animal with a bone.
  • gnaw.
  • 5: This 6-letter synonym for self-assurance comes from the French; we hope you respond to the clue "with" it.
  • aplomb.

Round 4. Category: Brando

  • 1: Rebellious naval Lt. Fletcher Christian.
  • Mutiny on the Bounty.
  • 2: "Family" man Don Vito Corleone.
  • The Godfather.
  • 3: Terry Malloy, who could've been a contender.
  • On the Waterfront.
  • 4: Johnny, leader of the Black Rebels.
  • The Wild One.
  • 5: Blanche's brother-in-law Stanley.
  • A Streetcar Named Desire.

Round 5. Category: Yestercareer

  • 1: A vintager was a harvester of these.
  • grapes.
  • 2: Essential before an extended journey, a caulker made sure this, the frame of a ship, was watertight.
  • the hull.
  • 3: A spinner made this.
  • thread.
  • 4: The knocker-upper, with a long pole or a peashooter to aim at windows, has been replaced by this bedside device.
  • an alarm clock.
  • 5: Author/magistrate Henry Fielding professionalized this job when he started the Bow Street runners.
  • a policeman.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1149, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Coffees All Around

  • 1: This "Good to the last drop" brand lets you choose among smooth, rich and bold.
  • Maxwell House.
  • 2: At Starbucks, a "shot" is typically a shot of this coffee brew.
  • espresso.
  • 3: The press you can use to infuse your coffee bears the name of this country that invented the infusion method.
  • France (a French press accepted).
  • 4: If you feel a chill in Chinchina, Colombia, you may be passing the factory where instant coffee is made this way.
  • freeze-dried.
  • 5: This "heavenly coffee", a New York institution, is the official coffee of Radio City Music Hall.
  • Chock Full O' Nuts.

Round 2. Category: BottomS Up. With Bottom in quotation marks

  • 1: This type of boat lets you view undersea life while keeping your feet dry.
  • Glass-Bottomed.
  • 2: It's your net profit or loss as shown on an income statement.
  • Bottom Line.
  • 3: This '60s TV series was set aboard the Seaview, an atomic sub built by Harriman Nelson.
  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
  • 4: Miners first adapted this term for a hard place to mean as low as one can get.
  • rock bottom.
  • 5: Contadicting its foreboding name, this feature of Mammoth Cave is only 105 feet deep.
  • Bottomless Pit.

Round 3. Category: College Life

  • 1: To be "official", this detailed academic record should be sent from the school in a sealed envelope.
  • a transcript.
  • 2: This 2-word Latin phrase means you graduated with distinction.
  • cum laude.
  • 3: Classes in the semester system last 15 to 18 weeks; in this other system, they run about 10 weeks.
  • the quarter system.
  • 4: grammarly.com has a program that can compare an essay against academic databases to detect this dishonest act.
  • plagiarism.
  • 5: The 2 major learning management systems for American colleges are canvas and this, another name for a slate.
  • blackboard.

Round 4. Category: The Family Business

  • 1: In 1990 they became the first father and son to be Major League teammates.
  • Ken Griffey Jr. and Sr..
  • 2: The first half of this greeting card company's name is the family that founded it in 1910.
  • Hallmark.
  • 3: In 1985 Bob Haas took this jeans company founded by his great- great-granduncle from public back to private.
  • Levi Strauss.
  • 4: In 2006 the new CEO of this beverage company was August IV, great-great-grandson of co-founder Adolphus.
  • Anheuser-Busch.
  • 5: Donna Wolf Steigerwaldt is in the "Saddle" at this underwear maker.
  • Jockey.

Round 5. Category: Turkey, The Bird

  • 1: Turkey carving step 1: Cut the band of skin holding the legs which are known as these.
  • Drumsticks.
  • 2: This 19th C. British author is credited with making the turkey a popular choice for Christmas dinners.
  • Charles Dickens.
  • 3: A male turkey's snood hangs directly over this part of its body.
  • Beak/nose.
  • 4: Turkey that joined Henny-Penny's "Sky is Falling" campaign.
  • Turkey-Lurkey.
  • 5: This top-selling U.S. turkey brand turned 45 in 1999.
  • Butterball.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1148, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Big Battalions

  • 1: This country's nearly 2.2 million active military personnel is by far the world's largest standing force.
  • China.
  • 2: Russia leads the world with more than 20,000 of these, like the new T-14 with an automated turret and 125mm cannon.
  • tanks.
  • 3: The U.S. rules the seas with 11 of these mighty ships, more than the rest of the world's fleets combined.
  • aircraft carriers.
  • 4: North Korea has one of the largest fleets of these craft, including the Yono class midget type.
  • submarines.
  • 5: Together, these 2 countries that fought a late 1940s war over Kashmir now deploy about 2 million active troops.
  • India and Pakistan.

Round 2. Category: Cliches

  • 1: This cliche referring to callousness in the face of calamity was inspired by the emperor Nero.
  • Fiddling While Rome Burns.
  • 2: This expression meaning away from turmoil became popular after Thomas Hardy used it as a book title.
  • Far from the Madding Crowd.
  • 3: Meaning you can't make sense of it, to not be able to do this "of" something, may refer to a flipped coin.
  • make heads or tails of it.
  • 4: =.
  • =.
  • 5: When you accept something you don't want to, you do this to your pride⁠—gulp!.
  • swallow.

Round 3. Category: Scrambled Greek Gods

  • 1: Rose.
  • Eros.
  • 2: Deter me.
  • Demeter.
  • 3: Noise pod.
  • Poseidon.
  • 4: Run USA.
  • Uranus.
  • 5: Hair depot.
  • Aphrodite.

Round 4. Category: The '50s

  • 1: Year in which the Soviets launched Sputnik.
  • 1957.
  • 2: First racehorse to win a million dollars when he took the Hollywood Gold Cup in '51.
  • Citation.
  • 3: In May 1956 India observed the 2,500th anniversary of this person's death.
  • the founder of Buddhism (Buddha).
  • 4: Before playing Pete Nolan on TV's "Rawhide", he had a major hit with this:"Well I saw the thing comin' out of the sky / It had the one long horn, and one big eye / I commenced to shakin' and I said "Ooh-eee" / It looks like a purple people eater to me / It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater / (One-eyed, one-horned...".
  • Sheb Wooley.
  • 5: According to a popular ad, to keep your pompadour in place, a "little dab" of this would do you.
  • Brylcreem.

Round 5. Category: Something To Wear

  • 1: They have metal plates at heel and toe to increase sound.
  • tap shoes.
  • 2: Put this pretend-tious French word before "rabbit" or "fox" to keep yourself warm.
  • faux.
  • 3: In 1884 the U.S. Army introduced these tired-sounding casual clothes.
  • fatigues.
  • 4: GQ says these suits typified by an extra row of buttons don't have to be boxy, 1930s gangster-style.
  • double breasted suits.
  • 5: For Muslim women, a burqa covers the face; a niqab leaves the eyes uncovered; this five-letter word is a headscarf.
  • hijab.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1147, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hymns And Spirituals

  • 1: Title that precedes "How sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me".
  • "Amazing Grace".
  • 2: It's where "I'm goin' to lay down my burden", and "my sword and shield".
  • "down by the riverside".
  • 3: A hymn and anthem, "Lift" this "and sing, till earth and heaven ring".
  • every voice.
  • 4: "We shall come rejoicing, bringing in" these.
  • the sheaves.
  • 5: Asking for comfort and guidance, do this, "fast falls the eventide", "in life, in death, O Lord" do this.
  • abide with me.

Round 2. Category: Presidents And Baseball

  • 1: On April 19, 1909 Taft attended a home game of this team and probably had a hot dog or 9.
  • the Washington Senators.
  • 2: Saying it was in the national interest, he kept baseball going during World War II.
  • FDR.
  • 3: It's the only team that has a U.S. president on its roster of former owners.
  • the Texas Rangers.
  • 4: One of his first jobs was re-creating Cubs games over the radio in Iowa.
  • Ronald Reagan.
  • 5: Before his Army years, he played baseball under an assumed name in the Kansas minor leagues.
  • (Dwight) Eisenhower.

Round 3. Category: Abbreviated States

  • 1: This state that acts as a conjunction between Nevada and Washington has an abbreviation that is a conjunction.
  • Oregon.
  • 2: The abbreviation of this state is also an abbreviation for the largest city in California.
  • Louisiana.
  • 3: Show me that the abbreviation for this state means the habits of a predictable criminal.
  • Missouri.
  • 4: When abbreviated before the number 47, this state becomes an assault weapon.
  • Alaska.
  • 5: State whose abbreviation is also a cabinet department that was formed in 1989.
  • Virginia.

Round 4. Category: American Food And Drink

  • 1: Maryland and Mississippi both "got" this as their state drink or beverage.
  • milk.
  • 2: This type of bread made from a starter has been a San Francisco specialty since the gold rush days.
  • sourdough.
  • 3: Packets of this fruity soft drink were first sold through the mail in 1927 for 10 cents apiece.
  • Kool-Aid.
  • 4: Some recipes for this sweet treat call for beets instead of food coloring.
  • red velvet cake.
  • 5: They're the 2 beverages that are combined to make an Arnold Palmer.
  • iced tea and lemonade.

Round 5. Category: Top Seeds

  • 1: As the picture proves, you don't need the luck of the Irish for this plant; just scatter the seed about.
  • clover.
  • 2: This plant of genus Nicotiana has tiny seeds that use light to germinate so they can grow after top seeding.
  • tobacco.
  • 3: As Porky Pig's gal knows, seeds of these flowers should stay on top of the soil as they need light to germinate.
  • petunia.
  • 4: The seeds of this edible plant, whether Butterhead or Burgundy Boston, are planted on top.
  • lettuce.
  • 5: Just place the seeds of this flower on top of your soil and they'll be sprouting in no time.
  • snapdragons.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1146, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cousin It. With It in quotation marks

  • 1: A person serving in place of another, perhaps as a teacher.
  • a substitute.
  • 2: A group of 3, with or without a Holy Ghost.
  • a trinity.
  • 3: The state of living alone, even for 100 years... in a fortress.
  • solitude.
  • 4: A coarse-grained igneous rock composed of quartz and feldspar.
  • granite.
  • 5: Reparation made by giving compensation for loss or damage.
  • restitution.

Round 2. Category: Poetic Feet

  • 1: This word for an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one actually has the reverse pattern.
  • Iamb.
  • 2: This word for a type of spoken stress pattern is from Greek for "finger"; it's also found after "ptero".
  • Dactyl.
  • 3: A foot of 2 unstressed syllables or a costly type of "victory".
  • pyrrhic.
  • 4: This word for the poetic movement including Keats and Byron is an example of an amphibrach.
  • Romantic poets.
  • 5: A fine example of verse written in anapests is this first line of "That's Amore".
  • "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie".

Round 3. Category: The Evolutionary War

  • 1: Orderly people are bothered by the idea of thse random changes in genetic material helping evolution along.
  • mutations.
  • 2: In 1995 Alabama Gov. James Mocked evolution theory by imitating this type of animal whose name means "to imitate".
  • an ape.
  • 3: "Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object... the production of the higher animals, directly follows."That was the final paragraph of a famous work by this man.
  • (Charles) Darwin.
  • 4: He surprised many in 1996 when he told the Pontifical Academy of Science that evolution was no mere hypothesis.
  • Pope John Paul II.
  • 5: A 1981 Arkansas law called for balanced teaching of evolution and this opposite type of "science".
  • creationism.

Round 4. Category: All Around The World

  • 1: A gigantic 3/4 dome, Montreal's biosphere was designed by this American for the city's 1967 Expo.
  • (Buckminster) Fuller.
  • 2: When visiting this Vatican basilica, you might want to spring for a ticket to the dome, which includes a guided tour.
  • St. Peter's.
  • 3: A national park in Australia gets its name from basalt columns called these, components of a musical instrument.
  • organ pipes.
  • 4: You'll catch the Baseball Hall of Fame in this village that was settled by the dad of the author of "The Deerslayer".
  • Cooperstown.
  • 5: Be wary around Mont St. Michel of this substance, sables mouvants in French, which is perhaps not as deadly as films portray.
  • quicksand.

Round 5. Category: The Johnny Gilbert BlueS. With Blue in quotes

  • 1: Johnny has left the building wearing these"You can knock me down /Step on my face /Slander my name all over the place...".
  • "Blue Suede Shoes".
  • 2: Linda Ronstadt, brace yourself for this tune"I feel so bad / I got a worried mind / I'm so lonesome all the time / Since I left my baby behind on...".
  • "Blue Bayou".
  • 3: Witness the birth of "Captain Fantastic 2" with this song"Laughing like children /Living like lovers /Rolling like thunder /Under the covers...".
  • "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues".
  • 4: Completes this "Crystal"ine line"I'll be fine when you’re gone / I'll just cry all night long / Say it isn't true and don't it...".
  • "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue".
  • 5: This 1968 classic features the Man in Black, Johnny... Gilbert"My mama always told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns / But I shot a man in Reno just to

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1145, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Wacky Math

  • 1: Strings on a standard guitar times the Oscars won by Pauly Shore.
  • 0.
  • 2: Number of "golden rings" in a Christmas song plus the number of rings in Ringling's circus.
  • 8 (5 3).
  • 3: Days in a leap year minus the title "route" number of a TV show starring Martin Milner.
  • 300 (366 - 66).
  • 4: Joe Namath's Jet uniform No. divided by the title number of a TV police car driven by Martin Milner.
  • 1 (12/Adam-12).
  • 5: No. of "islands" in a mayo-based salad dressing plus a "baker's dozen" of cookies made by Martin Milner.
  • 1,013.

Round 2. Category: Who Sang It First?

  • 1: "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" that before Marvin Gaye's version hit, this singer and her Pips took the song to No. 2.
  • Gladys Knight.
  • 2: This song was a hit for Ben E. King in 1961, for John Lennon in 1975 and for Ben again in 1986.
  • "Stand By Me".
  • 3: Manfred Mann made "Blinded By The Light" a hit after it was introduced on a 1973 album by this rocker who wrote it.
  • (Bruce) Springsteen.
  • 4: On their "Mother's Milk" album, the Red Hot Chili Peppers covered this Motown great's "Higher Ground".
  • Stevie Wonder.
  • 5: In 2004 the White Stripes had a U.K. hit with a live version of her "Jolene".
  • Dolly Parton.

Round 3. Category: Let'S Go For A Swim

  • 1: A swimmer kicks twice with one leg for each stroke of the opposite arm in the "Australian" this.
  • crawl.
  • 2: Simultaneously bring both arms out of the water in forward, circular motions to do this stroke.
  • the butterfly.
  • 3: World Book says it's "a restful stroke because your face is always out of the water and breathing is easy".
  • the backstroke.
  • 4: This stroke is made in the prone position using both hands simultaneously and doing a frog kick.
  • the breaststroke.
  • 5: Your head rests on your lower arm, extended with the palm turned downward in this stroke.
  • the sidestroke.

Round 4. Category: Beastly Movies

  • 1: 1988:Sigourney Weaver battles primate poachers.
  • Gorillas in the Mist.
  • 2: 2000:"blank Ugly".
  • Coyote.
  • 3: 1980:Robert De Niro battles his way to the top of the middleweight boxing world.
  • Raging Bull.
  • 4: 1978:Robert De Niro battles post-Vietnam stress.
  • The Deer Hunter.
  • 5: 1986:Paul Hogan faces the jungle of New York City.
  • Crocodile Dundee.

Round 5. Category: Surprise!

  • 1: A striking disclosure, or the final book of the New Testament; it should come as a....
  • revelation.
  • 2: We've found it! It being this exclamation of finding something, perhaps its namesake California city.
  • Eureka.
  • 3: Proverbially, this type of pitch mastered by Bert Blyleven is a deceptive trick.
  • a curveball.
  • 4: It can mean a sudden burst of electricity and it rhymes with an electrical unit of measure.
  • a jolt.
  • 5: It can be an experience resulting in a sudden realization and also an early A.M. drink of liquor.
  • an eye-opener.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1144, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pull

  • 1: You "pull a few" of these to get a favor done.
  • Strings.
  • 2: From the idea of breaking camp comes this phrase for moving on.
  • Pull up stakes.
  • 3: Since the 8th century, it's what churchmen have pulled to ring their bells.
  • Ropes.
  • 4: Word on the 2 buttons that preceded this one:(Curly in a "Three Stooges" clip showing a button marked "Pull").
  • Press.
  • 5: Ermal Fraze holds the 1963 patent for part of the "tear strip opener" better known to pop drinkers as this.
  • Pull tab.

Round 2. Category: Sounds Like An Irish County

  • 1: You may be asked to sniff one of these removed by a sommelier.
  • Cork.
  • 2: It's something "held" on sandwiches.
  • Mayo.
  • 3: "de Lune" or Danes.
  • Claire.
  • 4: Young doctor played by Lew Ayres and Richard Chamberlain.
  • Kildare.
  • 5: Route Julius Caesar took to France; too hard? Okay, flutist James.
  • Galway (or "Gaul way").

Round 3. Category: In The Air

  • 1: In a Khaled Hosseini book, the "real fun began" when the string of one of these "was cut".
  • a kite.
  • 2: In Genesis this man is told to take "fowls...of the air" by sevens.
  • Noah.
  • 3: At a 1914 air show, Lawrence Sperry stood on the wing as the plane he was flying stayed on course using this invention.
  • autopilot.
  • 4: A murmuration of these stellar birds is seen in Spain making some pretty shapes.
  • starlings.
  • 5: In 1979 this craft made news when it entered the atmosphere and broke apart over Australia.
  • Skylab.

Round 4. Category: You Keep Me Hangin' On

  • 1: These fasteners were patented by Walter Hunt in 1849 and made diapering a cinch.
  • safety pins.
  • 2: The trademarked name of this hook and loop fastener is from the French for "hooked velvet".
  • Velcro.
  • 3: "Manly" name for the fasteners that go through the front of formal dress shirts.
  • studs.
  • 4: From Old French for "attach", it's a short metal fastener used to join 2 sheets of metal together.
  • a rivet.
  • 5: Around 1891, Whitcomb Judson took out a patent on the slide fastener, which today we call this.
  • the zipper.

Round 5. Category: The Anthony Quinn Film Festival

  • 1: In 1962 Anthony Quinn played a fierce Bedouin leader in this desert epic.
  • Lawrence of Arabia.
  • 2: Anthony Quinn is best remembered for his role as this earthy title peasant in a film based on a Kazantzakis novel.
  • Zorba the Greek.
  • 3: In this 1943 film "Incident", Anthony Quinn and Dana Andrews are mistakenly lynched by a mob.
  • The Ox-Bow Incident.
  • 4: Kirk Douglas was Vincent Van Gogh and Anthony Quinn played Paul Gauguin in this artsy 1956 big screener.
  • Lust for Life.
  • 5: In 1962 Quinn played this title criminal set free so that Christ could be crucified.
  • Barabbas.

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Round 1. Category: An Arm Or A Leg. With Arm" Or A "Leg in quotation marks

  • 1: 4-word term for Gen. McClellan's Union forces that guarded D.C. against invasion across a certain river.
  • Army of the Potomac.
  • 2: Assembled in the 1580s, it was commanded by Medina Sidonia.
  • the Spanish Armada.
  • 3: He's known for one-man shows like "Mambo Mouth" and for film roles like Chi Chi in "To Wong Foo...".
  • John Leguizamo.
  • 4: In 1913 a major exhibit of modern art was held at NYC's 69th Regiment one of these.
  • an armory.
  • 5: Chaps are a type of these protective outer garments.
  • leggings.

Round 2. Category: Stop The Presses!

  • 1: A phone-hacking scandal forced this British tabloid to close in 2011.
  • News of the World.
  • 2: A kids magazine survey found out this fairy tends to leave girls about 25 cents more than boys.
  • the tooth fairy.
  • 3: A British paper claimed Prince Charles puts toothpaste in his nose to prevent this nocturnal noise.
  • snoring.
  • 4: People Magazine reported that Clint Black wears size 7 1/4 while Garth Brooks' is 7 5/8.
  • a cowboy hat.
  • 5: In 1992 she not only left her ministry but divorced her jailed husband.
  • Tammy Faye Bakker.

Round 3. Category: A Cy Of Relief. With Cy in quotation marks

  • 1: If this monster of Greek mythology had an eye on you, that was all the eyes he had.
  • Cyclops.
  • 2: In 2004 this island nation joined the European Union.
  • Cyprus.
  • 3: Business and spin are types of this.
  • a cycle.
  • 4: This "Insane in the Brain" Latino hip-hop group was named after a street in L.A..
  • Cypress Hill.
  • 5: Isn't that sweet? It's just short for cyclohexylsulfamate.
  • Cyclamate.

Round 4. Category: Dylan Thomas

  • 1: The radio play "Under Milk Wood" is set in Llareggub in this U.K. country where Thomas was born.
  • Wales.
  • 2: Dylan may have died as a result of this activity, defined for a male in college as having 5 in a row.
  • Binge drinking.
  • 3: Thomas addressed the Blitz in "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in" this city.
  • London.
  • 4: In "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night", the poet addresses this man.
  • His father.
  • 5: Dylan riffed on one of this author's titles in the book "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog".
  • James Joyce.

Round 5. Category: 3-Word Responses

  • 1: Feathers flew in the business world in 1991 when a fast food chain slimmed down to 3 letters from this name.
  • Kentucky Fried Chicken.
  • 2: In 1737 Boston held its first parade celebrating what became this annual event.
  • St. Patrick's Day.
  • 3: This 2018 film had a wealth of talent that included Awkwafina, Gemma Chan and Lisa Lu.
  • Crazy Rich Asians.
  • 4: The Natl. Highway Traffic Safety Admin.'s family of these includes 50th percentile adult male and 6-year-old weighted child.
  • crash test dummy.
  • 5: This Elizabeth Gilbert title/set of commands spent 57 weeks as a No. 1 on the N.Y. Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list.
  • Eat Pray Love.

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Round 1. Category: Dead Precedents

  • 1: In 1943 the Supreme Court overruled a 1940 decision and said students couldn't be required to salute this.
  • the flag.
  • 2: In 1987 the Supreme Court overruled an 1861 decision that courts couldn't do this, order a suspect handed over to another state.
  • extradite.
  • 3: Agostini v. Felton reversed a 1985 ruling that prohibited public school teachers from teaching in these schools.
  • parochial.
  • 4: 1961's Mapp v. Ohio overturned a 1949 ruling and said this amendment bars illegally seized evidence from state courts.
  • the 4th Amendment.
  • 5: This controversial 2010 decision overruled a precedent that had barred certain political contributions.
  • Citizens United.

Round 2. Category: Hot Films, Cool Films

  • 1: George Kennedy won an Oscar in part for beating the heck out of Paul Newman in this movie.
  • Cool Hand Luke.
  • 2: A brutal murder is solved in this 1967 Oscar winner.
  • In the Heat of the Night.
  • 3: Judith Anderson played Big Mama Pollitt, the matriarch of a greedy Southern family, in this film.
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
  • 4: After "Body Heat" steamed up the screen, Lawrence Kasdan cooled down and directed this movie next.
  • The Big Chill.
  • 5: As Rev. Clayton Brooks, Dick Van Dyke led a townwide effort to quit smoking in this 1971 film.
  • Cold Turkey.

Round 3. Category: Take The Kids!

  • 1: Toon Lagoon at Universal Studios Florida boasts a white-knuckle raft ride named for Bluto and this sailor.
  • Popeye.
  • 2: In part of Disney's Animal Kingdom, no glass separates you from the giant fruit type of this flying mammal.
  • Bat.
  • 3: The kids love "Pecos Goofy's Frontier Revue" at this Asian city's Disneyland.
  • Tokyo.
  • 4: At Nepal's Royal Chitwan National Park, watch out for the marsh-mugger type of this gator relative.
  • Crocodile.
  • 5: This West Coast city boasts museums devoted to Asian art, cartoon art and cable cars.
  • San Francisco.

Round 4. Category: I Learned It Online

  • 1: freetranslation.com taught me "Your eyes shine like oysters" in this language--"I suoi occhi brillano come le ostriche".
  • Italian.
  • 2: wendys.com informed me that the "3/4 lb. triple with" this has 980 calories, but plenty of calcium.
  • cheese.
  • 3: americanheart.org tells us that a "hands-only" version of this procedure is fine --no need for rescue breaths.
  • CPR.
  • 4: howstuffworks.com told me each Apache one of these can carry 16 Hellfire missiles--cool.
  • a helicopter.
  • 5: The "This Day in History" feature on history.com taught me Dec. 25 is the day in 1991 when he quit as Soviet leader.
  • Mikhail Gorbachev.

Round 5. Category: 2 Types Of China

  • 1: Shallow 7-letter dish used to serve food; maybe we should have served you the clue on one.
  • a platter.
  • 2: It's the animal of the Chinese year beginning in 2008.
  • the rat.
  • 3: In the Chinese Civil War, 1945 to 1949, it was the Communists versus these.
  • the Nationalists.
  • 4: In 1998 this Chinese org. abbreviated PLA was ordered to sell off all its non-defense assets.
  • the People's Liberation Army.
  • 5: Henry James compared his character Miss Pansy Osmond to a China figurine from this German city.
  • Dresden.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1141, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: On My Dog'S Ipod

  • 1: The first song my dog downloaded was "Atomic Dog" by this funky member of Parliament.
  • George Clinton.
  • 2: My dog can't help it-- he salivates every time he listens to the disco classic "Ring My" this.
  • "Bell".
  • 3: For inspiration, my dog listens to "Bark At The Moon", the title track of a 1983 album by this metal man.
  • Ozzy Osbourne.
  • 4: My dog really sinks his teeth into the George Thorogood classic "Bad To" this.
  • "The Bone".
  • 5: My dog loves the upbeat chorus of this Grammy-winning song by the Baha Men.
  • "Who Let The Dogs Out".

Round 2. Category: J Movies. With J in quotation marks

  • 1: 2009:Meryl Streep prepares a chicken.
  • Julie and Julia.
  • 2: 1979:Steve Martin is "born a poor black child".
  • The Jerk.
  • 3: 1995:An old magic board game comes to life.
  • Jumanji.
  • 4: 1985:Glenn Close/Jeff Bridges thriller.
  • Jagged Edge.
  • 5: 1990:Vietnam messed with Tim Robbins' head.
  • Jacob's Ladder.

Round 3. Category: I Like Ike. With Ike in quotation marks

  • 1: To solicit a free ride along a road.
  • hitchhike.
  • 2: Myers,Ditka, orWallace.
  • Mike.
  • 3: A sharp rise on a graph followed by a sharp decline.
  • a spike.
  • 4: A proverb says that powerful cerebrums "think..." this way.
  • alike.
  • 5: Unbecoming conduct on the gridiron.
  • unsportsmanlike (conduct).

Round 4. Category: Fruits

  • 1: Two fruits that combine to breed tangelos.
  • tangerine and grapefruit.
  • 2: This fruit plant can grow 20 feet high and produce a dozen hands.
  • a banana plant.
  • 3: This golfball-sized fruit, Citrus aurantifolia swingle, is now grown mostly in Mexico, not Southern Florida.
  • the key lime.
  • 4: This largest South American country is the world's largest producer of oranges.
  • Brazil.
  • 5: "Swedish" Lingonberries are closely related to this American fruit grown in bogs.
  • cranberries.

Round 5. Category: Happy Trails

  • 1: An important commercial route, this trail to New Mexico was started in 1821.
  • the Santa Fe Trail.
  • 2: Completed in 1937, this 2,000-mile hiking trail passes through 14 states.
  • the Appalachian Trail.
  • 3: Starting in this state, the Chisholm Trail was the principal route to take Longhorn cattle to Kansas.
  • Texas.
  • 4: California's Highway 101 follows El Camino Real, which linked 4 presidios with 21 of these.
  • missions.
  • 5: The Bozeman Trail was closed in 1868 by a treaty with this Indian nation.
  • the Sioux.

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Round 1. Category: Asian Bodies Of Water

  • 1: Although called a sea, it's actually a large salty lake between Israel and Jordan.
  • the Dead Sea.
  • 2: According to Hindu myth, this river once flowed in the heavens but was ordered to go down to Earth.
  • the Ganges.
  • 3: This holy river of India was named for the daughter of the Mountain God Himalaya.
  • the Ganges.
  • 4: Arabs call this river Nahr Al-Urdun; the Hebrew name is Ha-Yarden.
  • the Jordan (River).
  • 5: This Siberian lake contains around 20% of the fresh water on the world's surface.
  • Baikal.

Round 2. Category: Eat Your Foreign Vegetables

  • 1: In Italy these are distinguished as peperoni rossi and peperoni verdi.
  • red and green peppers.
  • 2: In Espanol it's espinaca (and I'm still not eating it).
  • spinach.
  • 3: In French they're petits pois and weird people use a knife and honey to eat them.
  • peas.
  • 4: In Polish it's cebula; you can cry out your response now.
  • onions.
  • 5: In a Caribbean mood in Sweden? You might serve your svarta bonor, these, with kokat ris, "white rice".
  • black beans.

Round 3. Category: The Girls In The Group

  • 1: Emma, Geri, Mel B, Mel C, and Victoria.
  • the Spice Girls.
  • 2: LeToya Luckett, LaTavia Roberson, Kelly Rowland and some singer with the last name Knowles.
  • Destiny's Child.
  • 3: Anita, June and Ruth, so excited to be these eponymic siblings.
  • the Pointer Sisters.
  • 4: "Don't Cha" remember Ashley, Carmit, Jessica, Kimberly, Melody and Nicole, these kittens?.
  • the Pussycat Dolls.
  • 5: Keren Woodward, Sara Dallin and Siobhan Fahey, who were really saying something in the 1980s and still in the 20-teens.
  • Bananarama.

Round 4. Category: Austen-Tatious

  • 1: While prince regent during his father's madness, this king had a set of Austen's novels in each of his residences.
  • George IV.
  • 2: Jane Austen said Elizabeth Bennet, the hero of this novel, was "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print".
  • "Pride and Prejudice".
  • 3: After her unsuccessful and meddlesome matchmaking, this title character realizes she loves Mr. Knightley.
  • Emma Woodhouse.
  • 4: This author of "Orlando" said, "Of all the great writers" Jane "is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness".
  • Virginia Woolf.
  • 5: This title abbey is the home of clergyman Henry Tilney.
  • "Northanger Abbey".

Round 5. Category: 20Th Century Authors

  • 1: In 1974 this Brit turned out another novel like clockwork, "The Clockwork Testament".
  • Anthony Burgess.
  • 2: Pennsylvania-born expatriate author depicted here in a 1917 sculpture by Jo Davidson.
  • Gertrude Stein.
  • 3: Ancestors of this elusive modern author protested after Hawthorne used their name in "The House of the Seven Gables".
  • Thomas Pynchon.
  • 4: This "Humboldt's Gift" author won both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes in 1976.
  • Saul Bellow.
  • 5: "There is no contentment on the road" says this CBS correspondent in "A Life on the Road".
  • Charles Kuralt.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1139, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hard Wood

  • 1: Ted Turner said these have no future because there aren't enough trees left to keep making wood pulp.
  • newspapers.
  • 2: This eating utensil's name is from Old English for a "chip of wood".
  • spoon.
  • 3: Only National Hockey League with a type of tree mentioned in their name.
  • (Toronto) Maple Leafs.
  • 4: The power ring of the 1940s version of this super hero was useless against wood.
  • Green Lantern.
  • 5: If God had taken this day off in creating the world we wouldn't have wood today.
  • 3rd day.

Round 2. Category: Literary Characters' Ads

  • 1: Paralyzed British landowner seeks gamekeeper for Wragby estate.
  • Sir Chatterley (Lady Chatterley's husband).
  • 2: Swiss student seeks companion for scavenger hunts in graveyards and dissecting rooms.
  • Victor Frankenstein.
  • 3: Young Russian count wanted for affair with married woman; open to pregnancy and train travel.
  • Anna Karenina.
  • 4: Seeking nymphet to be light of my life, fire of my loins. Must answer to "Lolita".
  • Humbert Humbert.
  • 5: Seeking governess for ward Adele at Thornfield; must not snoop in the attic.
  • Rochester.

Round 3. Category: Let'S Go Camping!

  • 1: This type of small, 2-man tent sounds like it's designed for your young dog.
  • pup tent.
  • 2: These soft feathers from geese or ducks are a lightweight insulating material for camping clothes.
  • down.
  • 3: Be careful hiking through the woods and avoid brushing up against this itchy 3-leafed plant, Rhus radicans.
  • poison ivy.
  • 4: The mummy variety of this camping equipment is perfect for cold weather.
  • sleeping bag.
  • 5: Small cans of this trademarked flammable hydrocarbon jelly are used as a heat source for camp cooking.
  • Sterno.

Round 4. Category: We Have A New State Capital

  • 1: Replacing Wheeling.
  • Charleston.
  • 2: Replacing Tuscaloosa.
  • Montgomery.
  • 3: Replacing Williamsburg.
  • Richmond.
  • 4: Replacing New Castle.
  • Dover.
  • 5: Replacing Portland, in 1832.
  • Augusta.

Round 5. Category: Squid

  • 1: The squid is better at hugging than the octopus, as it has this many appendages.
  • ten.
  • 2: A squid has teeth on its tongue, but its main weapon is this, which it uses to dismember prey.
  • its beak.
  • 3: Squids have sacs full of this used for distraction and yum! It's edible.
  • ink.
  • 4: Loligo opalescens is this 6-letter squid, a word that also follows "stock" or "farmers".
  • market.
  • 5: Though boneless, squids have a rudimentary type of this substance that serves as a sort of backbone.
  • cartilage.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1138, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Did I Hear That Right?

  • 1: "Saturday Night Live" editorialist Emily Litella wasn't sure why all the fuss about these "on television".
  • Violins.
  • 2: A coming-of-age novel by Bruce Ducker is titled "Lead Us Not Into" this NYC train depot.
  • Penn Station.
  • 3: (Hi, I'm Tony Danza) On "Friends", Lisa Kudrow was convinced that this man's song "Tiny Dancer" was really "Tony Danza".
  • Elton John.
  • 4: George W. Bush once referred to these 2 trade obstacles as "terriers and bariffs".
  • Tariffs and barriers.
  • 5: In a 2000 film, the idiomatically challenged "Trixie" speaks of "drinking yourself into" this South American country.
  • Bolivia (instead of "oblivion").

Round 2. Category: You'Re Going In. With In in quotation marks

  • 1: It's a polypeptide hormone produced by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans.
  • insulin.
  • 2: Any of the 4 anterior teeth in the jaw used for cutting.
  • incisors.
  • 3: It's found after "Disco" in a Top 40 song and "Dante's" in story.
  • inferno.
  • 4: It's a 10-letter verb meaning to introduce into public use by some formal ceremony.
  • inaugurate.
  • 5: From the Latin for "deceitful", it means "stealthily treacherous".
  • insidious.

Round 3. Category: As You Like It. With As in quotation marks

  • 1: A fibrous mineral formerly used to make fireproof articles.
  • asbestos.
  • 2: A paroxysmal, often allergic disorder of respiration characterized by bronchospasm and wheezing.
  • asthma.
  • 3: A village in Berkshire, England or a scarf with broad ends.
  • an ascot.
  • 4: In TV, this ratio of the width of an image to its height can be 4 to 3.
  • an aspect ratio.
  • 5: A secluded building, often the residence of a guru, used for the instruction of Hinduism.
  • an ashram.

Round 4. Category: Music Industry Terms

  • 1: This is taking a snippet of one song and using it in another; "Funky Drummer" by James Brown is often used.
  • a sample.
  • 2: Incorporating part of an old song into a new song, or trying a free piece of cheese at the deli.
  • sampling.
  • 3: In digital music sales, this method used to be about 20% of purchases and downloads were 70%; now it's flipped.
  • streaming.
  • 4: A hit song from one genre of music that also achieves commercial success in another genre.
  • a crossover.
  • 5: Non-reserved general admission seating at a performance venue; it sounds like a celebration.
  • festival seating.

Round 5. Category: Completes The Movie Title

  • 1: "Down and Out...".
  • ...In Beverly Hills.
  • 2: "Dog Day...".
  • ...Afternoon.
  • 3: "Kind Hearts and...".
  • ...Coronets.
  • 4: "Jim Thorpe...".
  • ...All-American.
  • 5: "Heaven Knows...".
  • ...Mr. Allison.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1137, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: B.C. Vips

  • 1: In 399 B.C. he told a jury, "I am not grieved, men of Athens, at this vote of condemnation".
  • Socrates.
  • 2: Rather than surrender to the Romans, this great Carthaginian general took his own life.
  • Hannibal.
  • 3: Ankhesenamun, one of the daughters of King Akhenaten and this beautiful queen, married King Tut.
  • Nefertiti.
  • 4: Farmer/soldier Cincinnatus saved ancient Rome, then refused to stay on as a dictator, preserving this Roman form of govt..
  • the republic.
  • 5: One of the 7 wise men of Greece, his code of laws formed the foundation of Athens' democracy.
  • Solon.

Round 2. Category: Christmas Stories

  • 1: Dickens wrote it for the money but said he laughed and cried over it more than any other story.
  • A Christmas Carol.
  • 2: In Luke's version of Christ's birth, the angel brings them "tidings of great joy".
  • the shepherds.
  • 3: Recounting his early years in Wales, this author said, "One Christmas was so like another".
  • Dylan Thomas.
  • 4: In his short story "The Gift of the Magi", a young husband and wife sacrifice to give each other gifts.
  • O. Henry.
  • 5: Truman Capote's story of his childhood holidays, he narrated the TV movie version.
  • A Christmas Memory.

Round 3. Category: Arnold

  • 1: Larger-than-life gambler Arnold Rothstein was implicated in this 1919 baseball scandal involving bribed players.
  • the Black Sox Scandal.
  • 2: Natl. hero Arnold von Winkelried of this mountainous country helped it achieve a victory over the Austrians in 1386.
  • Switzerland.
  • 3: Inspired by his years in India, Sir Edwin Arnold's blank-verse epic "The Light of Asia" told of this religion founder.
  • Buddha.
  • 4: English educator Thomas Arnold was the longtime headmaster of this boys school that shares its name with a sport.
  • Rugby.
  • 5: This poet's feelings of spiritual isolation are reflected in works like "Dover Beach".
  • Matthew Arnold.

Round 4. Category: Bottom Feeders

  • 1: This animal has no head, arms or internal organs and belongs to the phylum Porifera, meaning "pore-bearer".
  • sponge.
  • 2: The long-necked species of this bivalve is also known as the steamer.
  • a clam.
  • 3: In the Pacific and Atlantic halibuts, both of these organs are usually on the right side.
  • eyes.
  • 4: Although this echinoderm usually has 5 arms, some may have more than 40.
  • a starfish.
  • 5: The tube type of these live near deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and can reach 6' in length.
  • worms.

Round 5. Category: Sting Like A Be. With Be in quotes

  • 1: Your garden variety this veggie is often eaten pickled; the sugar type, not.
  • a beet.
  • 2: Meaning small, round and glittering, this adjective is usually applied to the eyes of the untrustworthy.
  • beady.
  • 3: A warning signal or radar device that helps you determine your position.
  • a beacon.
  • 4: Not Paul or Ringo, but a synagogue caretaker or a minor church official.
  • a beadle.
  • 5: This name is combined with Hawker in a Wichita-based airplane company.
  • Beechcraft.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1136, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: State Sandwich

  • 1: It's sandwiched between Mississippi and Georgia.
  • Alabama.
  • 2: It's sandwiched between California and Utah.
  • Nevada.
  • 3: It's the cheesy filling between Illinois and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
  • Wisconsin.
  • 4: It's sandwiched between Oregon and Wyoming.
  • Idaho.
  • 5: It's sandwiched between Minnesota and Missouri.
  • Iowa.

Round 2. Category: I'M Latin Intolerant

  • 1: I cannot tolerate this Latin phrase abbreviated A.D. when referring to the time since Jesus was born.
  • Anno Domini.
  • 2: I don't care that it's only 4 letters long; I'm not using this abbrev. phrase meaning "and others" in a crossword clue.
  • et al..
  • 3: I certainly won't call you this word meaning "retired but still retaining the title of your old position".
  • emeritus.
  • 4: Not that I care but...it means "for the time being"; you'll find it as part of a Senate job title.
  • pro tem.
  • 5: It's a fact; there's no way I'm saying this phrase that means "in fact" (as in the man behind the scenes, perhaps).
  • de facto.

Round 3. Category: Beatlewomania

  • 1: Lady Gaga was among the stars who joined her new "Plastic" band for a 2010 rendition of "Give Peace A Chance".
  • Yoko Ono.
  • 2: Ringo Starr wed first wife Maureen Cox in London in 1965; she'd been born in this Mersey River city in 1946.
  • Liverpool.
  • 3: Buddy Clark's 1947 chart-topping song "Linda" was written about the future wife of this Beatle (when she was 5 years old).
  • Paul McCartney.
  • 4: "Half of what I say is meaningless", John Lennon sang on "Julia", which bears the name of this woman in his life.
  • his mother.
  • 5: Before she was married to Eric Clapton, George Harrison wrote the song "Something" about her.
  • Pattie Boyd.

Round 4. Category: Current Monarchs

  • 1: He spoke Catalan at the opening ceremonies of the 1992 Summer Olympics.
  • King Juan Carlos (of Spain).
  • 2: He is the reigning prince of Monaco.
  • Prince Rainier.
  • 3: Princess Stephanie of Monaco is his youngest child.
  • Prince Rainier.
  • 4: Bhumibol Adulyadej, not Yul Brynner, current rules this country.
  • Thailand.
  • 5: OPEC nation ruled by King Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz.
  • Saudi Arabia.

Round 5. Category: Pick A Number From 1-10

  • 1: The prefix kilo signifies 10 to the power of this.
  • 3.
  • 2: Number of singers in the group that hit No. 1 in 1970 with "ABC".
  • (Jackson) 5.
  • 3: You should know this number is an anagram and a homophone of the German word for "no".
  • nine.
  • 4: Legend says only Adrastus survived out of a group of this many heroes who took on Thebes.
  • 7.
  • 5: In 1816 Ferdinand I ruled over the kingdom of this many Sicilies.
  • 2.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1135, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Crossword Clues M. With M in quotation marks

  • 1: Bede was one; so was Mendel (4).
  • monk.
  • 2: "La boheme" femme(4).
  • Mimi.
  • 3: Thoroughly modern girl(6).
  • Millie.
  • 4: Mickey and Minnie (4).
  • mice.
  • 5: Merry month (3).
  • May.

Round 2. Category: Snacks On A Plane

  • 1: Bon appetit! On long flights, this airline serves baguettes, cheese and champagne in the "affaires" cabin.
  • Air France.
  • 2: Allergy concerns have caused most carriers to discontinue these snacks, but Northwest still serves 'em.
  • peanuts.
  • 3: USA! USA! This red-white-and-blue carrier will sell you a 4-ounce chocolate chip cookie for just 3 bucks.
  • American Airlines.
  • 4: United's "classic snackbox" includes this brand of gourmet jelly beans.
  • Jelly Belly.
  • 5: This Atlanta-based airline's "flight delights" includes hummus, pita chips and a deck of miniature playing cards.
  • Delta.

Round 3. Category: Let'S Rock!

  • 1: Her father is Fred; her mother, Wilma.
  • Pebbles Flintstone.
  • 2: Keith, Brian, Mick, Bill and Charlie on drums.
  • The Rolling Stones.
  • 3: The Rolling Stones were inducted into it in 1989; meanwhile, The Comateens remain unjustly excluded.
  • The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  • 4: In 1969 CCR had 3 No. 2 hits: "Bad Moon Rising", "Green River" and this one that kept on "rollin', rollin', rollin'".
  • "Proud Mary".
  • 5: "Large rock" city northwest of Denver.
  • Boulder, Colorado.

Round 4. Category: What'S The DealIo?. With Io in quotes

  • 1: A Brit might bid farewell to an "old chap" using this word.
  • cheerio.
  • 2: It's a large-scale musical work for voices and orchestra usually based on a religious theme.
  • an oratorio.
  • 3: It adds some spicy bitterness to a salad.
  • radicchio.
  • 4: Type of cabinet in which to display your knickknacks, bizarre or otherwise.
  • a curio.
  • 5: From the Latin for "messenger", it's a papal ambassador to a foreign government.
  • nuncio.

Round 5. Category: Specs And The City

  • 1: Its airport, named for 2 of its past mayors, is the world's busiest passenger airport.
  • Atlanta.
  • 2: Of the 10 most populous U.S. cities, this Michigan city has the highest percentage of African-Americans.
  • Detroit.
  • 3: With 126,000 daily copies, this city's La Opinion is the USA's top-selling non-English newspaper.
  • Los Angeles.
  • 4: About 600 miles from the mouth of the river, this Tennessee city of 650,000 is the largest on the Mississippi.
  • Memphis.
  • 5: Home to the Air Force Academy, this city has the highest elevation of any city that's home to a U.S. service academy.
  • Colorado Springs.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1134, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ways To Play. With Play in quotation marks

  • 1: To cut class or skip school.
  • To play hooky.
  • 2: It's a 3-word synonym for a pun.
  • Play on words.
  • 3: A person who doesn't date anyone exclusively does this; so do some baseball players.
  • Play the field.
  • 4: A detailed verbal account of an event, not necessarily a sporting event.
  • Play-by-play.
  • 5: New ideas that please the regular folk in Illinois are said to do this.
  • To play in Peoria.

Round 2. Category: Their First Billboard No. 1 Hit

  • 1: "Rock Around The Clock".
  • Bill Haley and His Comets (Bill Haley and The Comets accepted).
  • 2: "I Get Around".
  • The Beach Boys.
  • 3: "Heart Of Glass".
  • Blondie.
  • 4: "Dancing Queen".
  • ABBA.
  • 5: "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter".
  • Herman's Hermits.

Round 3. Category: Lewis And Clark

  • 1: =.
  • =.
  • 2: A week after his election, this president offered Lewis a post as his private secretary.
  • Jefferson.
  • 3: Named for a structural section, it's the type of boat the boys set off in; it ran aground on day 2.
  • a keelboat.
  • 4: As a member of the militia, Lewis went to Pennsylvania in 1794 to suppress this rebellion.
  • the Whiskey Rebellion.
  • 5: This man, one of William Clark's brothers, captured Vincennes during the Revolution.
  • George Rogers Clark.

Round 4. Category: Double That Double S!

  • 1: Murderer of a politically prominent person.
  • assassin.
  • 2: 14-letter way to describe a facial look without emotion.
  • expressionless.
  • 3: A society with no social demarcations (and no sessions of school).
  • classless.
  • 4: To oust someone from owning a piece of property.
  • dispossess.
  • 5: To evaluate, or to impose a tax.
  • assess.

Round 5. Category: WindY Talk. With Wind in quotation marks

  • 1: A bassoon or oboe, for example.
  • woodwind.
  • 2: This jacket often has elastic cuffs and waistband.
  • windbreaker.
  • 3: 3 principal types of these devices are the multivane, the propeller and the S rotor.
  • windmills.
  • 4: The Maui Makani Classic is a competition in this sport.
  • windsurfing.
  • 5: A proper British bug would get squished on this.
  • windscreen.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1133, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Da, You Speak Russian

  • 1: Also called the great sturgeon, this species lends its name to a type of caviar.
  • beluga.
  • 2: A Russian monarch, or an American policy expert appointed by the government to tackle a particular problem.
  • a czar.
  • 3: These thin pancakes are similar to crepes and traditionally made with buckwheat flour and served with sour cream.
  • blinis.
  • 4: Meaning "set of three", it's also a wagon or sleigh pulled by 3 horses.
  • a troika.
  • 5: This word borrowed from Russian refers to the influential educated social and political classes.
  • intelligentsia.

Round 2. Category: European Museums

  • 1: A U.K. museum dedicated to this author has a ball made of chocolate bar foil wrappers.
  • Roald Dahl.
  • 2: The Richelieu wing of this Paris art museum houses the apartments of Napoleon III.
  • the Louvre.
  • 3: Opened in 1993, this Danish capital's Tivoli Museum documents the history of Tivoli Amusement Park.
  • Copenhagen.
  • 4: This city boasts a Byzantine museum and an Acropolis museum.
  • Athens.
  • 5: This Swiss city's Palais des Nations houses a stamp museum and the League of Nations Museum.
  • Geneva.

Round 3. Category: Songs Of The '80s

  • 1: She was the Dionne of Dionne and Friends who recorded "That's What Friends Are For".
  • Dionne Warwick.
  • 2: With "Ev'ry breath you take, every move you make...," Sting said he'd be doing this.
  • "I'll Be Watching You".
  • 3: Written by Jan Hammer the them of this TV cop show hit No. 1 in 1985.
  • Miami Vice.
  • 4: Though "Fame" won the 1980 Oscar, this song beat it on the pop charts:.
  • "9 To 5".
  • 5: In a 1984 Cyndi Lauper hit, it follows "If you're lost, you can look and you will find me...".
  • "Time After Time".

Round 4. Category: Leann Rhymes?

  • 1: In a Beatles hit, the title words preceding "Work It Out".
  • We Can.
  • 2: Though the characters never mention it, the film "mash" takes place during this war.
  • the Korean War.
  • 3: The Enbridge Stairclimb goes up this Toronto tower.
  • the CN Tower.
  • 4: "By the power of Grayskull!" Prince Adam becomes this hero.
  • He-Man.
  • 5: "Borstal Boy" is the autobiography of this Irish author named Brendan.
  • Behan.

Round 5. Category: Hispanic-American Firsts

  • 1: He's the first labor leader and the first Hispanic American to be honored with a public legal holiday.
  • (César) Chávez.
  • 2: In 1982 Richard Cavazos became the first Hispanic American with this many stars as a full general in the Army.
  • 4 stars.
  • 3: In 1973 this late Pittsburgh Pirate became the first Hispanic American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • (Roberto) Clemente.
  • 4: This onetime husband of Rosemary Clooney was the first Hispanic American to win the Oscar for Best Actor.
  • José Ferrer.
  • 5: In the 1990s he was the first Hispanic Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Energy.
  • Federico Peña.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1132, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Books For The Young

  • 1: This Mark Twain character is "hated" by moms because he is "vulgar and bad" but "all their children admired him".
  • Huckleberry Finn.
  • 2: This Margaret Wise Brown children's classic about bedtime begins "In the great green room...".
  • Goodnight Moon.
  • 3: He illustrated "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?".
  • Eric Carle.
  • 4: Discovered in 1993 an asteroid was named Besixdouze, an homage to this title character who lives on Asteroid B-612.
  • the Little Prince.
  • 5: Russell Hoban wrote 6 picture book stories about this little badger and her family.
  • Frances.

Round 2. Category: Pipe Dreams. With Pipe in quotes

  • 1: It stretches from the larynx to the bronchi.
  • the windpipe.
  • 2: This head covering is named for its shape.
  • a stovepipe hat.
  • 3: In 2006 and again in 2010 it was all golden for Shaun White in this Olympic event.
  • the halfpipe.
  • 4: The yagua of the Peruvian Amazon are skilled in using these weapons to bring down game.
  • a blowpipe.
  • 5: Also known as a syrinx, this variety of flute is popular in the Pyrenees.
  • a panpipe.

Round 3. Category: Scrambled Kegs

  • 1: Cheers, mate:FORESTS.
  • Fosters.
  • 2: It's been known to shed a little light:A/C OR NO.
  • Corona.
  • 3: Not just for the stoutest:INN GUESS.
  • Guinness.
  • 4: Weekends were made for it:CLIMB HOE.
  • Michelob.
  • 5: Perfect for award season:PROBABLE BIB NUTS.
  • Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Round 4. Category: Genesis Basics

  • 1: In Genesis 40 he takes a job as a dream interpreter.
  • Joseph.
  • 2: It sets sail in Genesis 7.
  • Noah's Ark.
  • 3: He is slain in Genesis 4.
  • Abel.
  • 4: These metropolises are destroyed in Genesis 19.
  • Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • 5: Thestartofthis structureis found inGenesis 11.
  • the Tower of Babel.

Round 5. Category: Country Confusion

  • 1: Togo is in Africa; Tobago is just off the coast of this continent.
  • South America.
  • 2: Slovakia was once part of Czechoslovakia; Slovenia was part of this country until 1991.
  • Yugoslavia.
  • 3: Mauritania is in northwest Africa; this island nation lies 500 miles east of Madagascar.
  • Mauritius.
  • 4: In Africa, there is Guinea and Guinea-this, a neighbor of Guinea.
  • Bissau.
  • 5: The Dominican Republic is part of Hispaniola; Dominica is part of these "Lesser" islands.
  • the Antilles.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1131, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Better Known As...

  • 1: Marion Morrison.
  • John Wayne.
  • 2: "Stardust" man David Jones.
  • David Bowie.
  • 3: Funnyman Cornelius Chase.
  • Chevy Chase.
  • 4: WWII radio propagandist Iva D'Aquino.
  • "Tokyo Rose".
  • 5: Norma Jean Baker.
  • Marilyn Monroe.

Round 2. Category: Famous Flops

  • 1: McDonald's hope for meatless Friday was the Hula Burger, this fruit topped with cheese and grilled.
  • a pineapple.
  • 2: In 1959 only 2,846 of this oversized and overpriced car's 1960 line were made before it was discontinued.
  • the Edsel.
  • 3: Businesses stuck with carbon paper because this company's 1949 Model A was slow, messy and hard to use.
  • the Xerox.
  • 4: Consumers didn't warm up to the nonrefrigerated milk in this company's 1998 cereal-and-milk combo product.
  • Kellogg's.
  • 5: This company's 1983 Lisa died because it was slow and pricey, but the graphical user interface lived on in other products.
  • Apple.

Round 3. Category: National Sites

  • 1: The Golden Spike historic site in this state commemorates the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
  • Utah.
  • 2: This island that was home to a notorious prison is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco.
  • Alcatraz.
  • 3: This D.C. national historic site is the only one that's also an active theater.
  • Ford's Theatre.
  • 4: Commemorating a 1965 civil rights march is the Selma to this city National Historic Trail in Alabama.
  • Montgomery.
  • 5: This state's only national memorial honors clergyman Roger Williams.
  • Rhode Island.

Round 4. Category: Katie Couric, Witness To History

  • 1: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) In 2006, on my first broadcast as anchor of the CBS Evening News, I reported that this group that formerly ruled Afghanistan was "back with a vengeance".
  • the Taliban.
  • 2: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) On "60 Minutes" in 2009 I conducted the first interview with this pilot, who vividly described "birds filling the entire windscreen".
  • Sullenberger.
  • 3: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) In a 2008 foreign policy interview, I asked this candidate, "Have you ever been involved with any negotiations with the Russians?" -- it seemed like a reasonable question.
  • (Sarah) Palin.
  • 4: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) My first network job was as deputy correspondent at this site, preparing me for interviewing the Petraeuses and Odiernos of the world.
  • the Pentagon.
  • 5: (Katie Couric delivers the clue.) This Saudi royal was still Crown Prince when he did an exclusive interview with me in 2003; now he's king.
  • Abdullah.

Round 5. Category: G.I. Joe

  • 1: Because '60s boys didn't play with dolls, Hasbro coined this 2-word term to describe Joe.
  • an action figure.
  • 2: 1967's female G.I. Jo(e), now worth thousands in mint condition, wasn't a warrior but had this caring job.
  • a nurse.
  • 3: The original 11-1/2" long Joe began a long hiatus (or was he undercover?) the year after this real conflict ended.
  • the Vietnam War.
  • 4: In the '80s this pro wrestler with a rank in his name became the first real person to join the G.I. Joe corps.
  • Sgt. Slaughter.
  • 5: In the '70s Joe took up martial arts and learned this "grip".
  • kung fu.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1130, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 7

  • 1: Tradition says this city was founded in 753 B.C. on one of a group of 7 hills.
  • Rome.
  • 2: In the Romanian language, this group includes Duminica, Luni and Vineri.
  • days of the week.
  • 3: Shivah in this religion is a 7-day period of mourning.
  • Judaism.
  • 4: Lust, sloth and gluttony are 3 of the 7 of these.
  • the 7 deadly sins.
  • 5: Bryn Mawr, Vassar and Barnard are among this scholarly septet.
  • Seven Sisters.

Round 2. Category: The State Governed

  • 1: Bill Clinton.
  • Arkansas.
  • 2: George Pataki.
  • New York.
  • 3: William McKinley.
  • Ohio.
  • 4: Christine Todd Whitman.
  • New Jersey.
  • 5: Janet Napolitano.
  • Arizona.

Round 3. Category: Got Milk?

  • 1: AKA "America’s Dairyland", it’s one of the leading U.S. states in milk production.
  • Wisconsin.
  • 2: This "MMMBop" trio pushes "MMMMilk".
  • Hanson.
  • 3: 1 of this unit of milk weighs about 8 pounds.
  • a gallon.
  • 4: This Chicago Bulls forward sports golden-colored hair as well as a white mustache.
  • Dennis Rodman.
  • 5: A Frenchman created this process that kills microorganisms in milk by heating it.
  • pasteurization.

Round 4. Category: Band With

  • 1: Freddie Mercury andBrian May.
  • Queen.
  • 2: Mike Love,Al Jardine andthe Wilson brothers.
  • the Beach Boys.
  • 3: Eddie Vedder on vocals.
  • Pearl Jam.
  • 4: Richie Sambora on guitar.
  • Bon Jovi.
  • 5: Donald Fagen andWalter Becker.
  • Steely Dan.

Round 5. Category: The Anthony Quinn Film Festival

  • 1: In 1962 Anthony Quinn played a fierce Bedouin leader in this desert epic.
  • Lawrence of Arabia.
  • 2: Anthony Quinn is best remembered for his role as this earthy title peasant in a film based on a Kazantzakis novel.
  • Zorba the Greek.
  • 3: In this 1943 film "Incident", Anthony Quinn and Dana Andrews are mistakenly lynched by a mob.
  • The Ox-Bow Incident.
  • 4: Kirk Douglas was Vincent Van Gogh and Anthony Quinn played Paul Gauguin in this artsy 1956 big screener.
  • Lust for Life.
  • 5: In 1962 Quinn played this title criminal set free so that Christ could be crucified.
  • Barabbas.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1129, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Writing Stuff

  • 1: "Passing away" is this kind of term, an indirect substitute for something harsh or offensive.
  • a euphemism.
  • 2: "Uneven" 2-word term for an early version; Jefferson used it about one pass at the Declaration of Independence.
  • a rough draft.
  • 3: Aunt Grace wants 1 more copy; good thing you put out your poems using P.O.D., short for this.
  • printing on demand.
  • 4: Add a dose of this quality to your novel, the incongruity between what was expected and what actually occurs.
  • irony.
  • 5: Orson Scott Card said this is never solved by "writing through it" because you haven't solved the original problem.
  • writer's block.

Round 2. Category: It'S Hyphenated

  • 1: The Venerable Bede said they were descendants of 3 different Germanic peoples--the Jutes and the 2 in their name.
  • the Anglo-Saxons.
  • 2: "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself", Emerson wrote in this essay.
  • "Self-Reliance".
  • 3: Named for a cave in France, these prehistoric humans were skillful artists and toolmakers.
  • Cro-Magnon.
  • 4: It's a synonym for Old English, spoken before about 1150.
  • Anglo-Saxon.
  • 5: This city is home to Hanesbrands, the Hanes Mall and Wake Forest University.
  • Winston-Salem.

Round 3. Category: Let'S Take A World Tour

  • 1: It's the sacred river that runs through Kanpur and Allahabad.
  • Ganges.
  • 2: Heaviest of the parrots, the flightless kākāpō, of this Down Under island nation, can weigh up to nine pounds.
  • New Zealand.
  • 3: Southern Cross University and Lake Tuggeranong College are found in this large country.
  • Australia.
  • 4: Newspapers in this Asian kingdom include the Phuket Gazette and The Chiangmai Trader News.
  • Thailand.
  • 5: Originally settled by the Dutch, this country of NE South America came under British control in the 19th century.
  • Guyana.

Round 4. Category: What'S In A Dog'S Name?

  • 1: The name terrier goes back to the Latin word for this.
  • earth (terra).
  • 2: Rottweil, home of the Rottweiler, is a city in this country.
  • Germany.
  • 3: This silky-haired, droopy-eared variety is just a "Spanish" dog.
  • spaniel.
  • 4: Some claim it's the plural of mosenji, a Lingala word for "native".
  • basenji.
  • 5: This royal dog of Egypt was named for a town in Arabia.
  • saluki.

Round 5. Category: Cheers

  • 1: Yalies once cheered, "Brek-ek-ek-ex, ko-ax, ko-ax", the chorus of these creatures in an Aristophanes play.
  • frogs.
  • 2: Tequila and lime juice go into this cocktail that's served in a salt-rimmed glass.
  • Margarita.
  • 3: It's the booze that's in both a Bloody Mary and a screwdriver.
  • vodka.
  • 4: Mayday! This "Cheers" star's films include "Dad", "Getting Even with Dad" and "Three Men and a Baby".
  • Ted Danson.
  • 5: Equal parts of champagne and this juice make up a mimosa.
  • Orange juice.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1128, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Quotable Einstein

  • 1: "Life is like riding" one of these; "to keep your balance you must keep moving".
  • a bicycle.
  • 2: This "is more important than knowledge".
  • imagination.
  • 3: "I never think of" this period of time. "It comes soon enough".
  • the future.
  • 4: This "cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding".
  • peace.
  • 5: "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power," this "is inevitable".
  • war.

Round 2. Category: Begins And Ends With The Same Vowel

  • 1: Golden and triple double chocolate are varieties of this sandwich cookie.
  • an Oreo.
  • 2: One who lives in Haifa or Tel Aviv.
  • an Israeli.
  • 3: It's the area of study where kids make the acquaintance of polynomials.
  • algebra.
  • 4: For the Latin for "fox mange", it's the loss of hair.
  • alopecia.
  • 5: To take in marriage, or to speak in favor of a cause.
  • espouse.

Round 3. Category: Presidents' Speeches: One Word Off

  • 1: Reagan:"Mr. T, open this gate! Mr. T, tear down this wall!".
  • Gorbachev.
  • 2: LBJ:"The Great Pumpkin rests on abundance and liberty for all".
  • Society.
  • 3: Lincoln:"A world divided against itself cannot stand".
  • house.
  • 4: FDR:"In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good time".
  • neighbor.
  • 5: George H.W. Bush:"A thousand points of purchase, of all the community organizations... doing good".
  • light.

Round 4. Category: Classical Dance

  • 1: Jean-Baptiste Lully pioneered music for this dance whose name, from the Latin for "small", comes from its small, dainty steps.
  • a minuet.
  • 2: Not "sausage" but this dance follows "Vienna Blood" in a Johann Strauss Jr. title.
  • waltz.
  • 3: Between 1915 and 1917, after traveling among rural people, Bela Bartok wrote 6 "Romanian" these "Dances".
  • Folk.
  • 4: Bach's keyboard suites include music for this happy dance, 5 letters long (not 3) and starting with "G" (not "J").
  • a gigue.
  • 5: The gopak or hopak from Tchaikovsky's "Mazeppa" is a dance of these people who really know their steppes.
  • the Cossacks.

Round 5. Category: Numbers In Song

  • 1: The Beatles promised they'd love their girl this many days a week.
  • 8.
  • 2: It's the length of the Camptown racetrack.
  • 5 miles long.
  • 3: Biggest hit for The Crests was about a birthday cake with this many candles.
  • 16.
  • 4: According to Bobby Vee, the night has this many eyes.
  • a thousand.
  • 5: ? and the Mysterians' only #1 hit was about crying this many tears.
  • 96.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1127, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Asian Capitals

  • 1: This capital is named for a religion.
  • Islamabad.
  • 2: In 1959 this city was designated to replace Karachi as the capital; its construction began 2 years later.
  • Islamabad.
  • 3: On Jan. 6, 2005 an international summit on tsunami relief opened in this city.
  • Jakarta.
  • 4: King Rama I built this city's Grand Palace, which contains the Temple of the Emerald Buddha.
  • Bangkok.
  • 5: The Ming rulers gave this city its name, which means "northern capital".
  • Beijing.

Round 2. Category: At A Loss For Worlds

  • 1: This 1963 work was published in English with the title "Monkey Planet".
  • "Planet of the Apes".
  • 2: This 1963 work was published in England with the title "Monkey Planet".
  • Planet of the Apes.
  • 3: At the end of Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End", this world is destroyed.
  • Earth.
  • 4: Anne McCaffrey's written about "The Dragonriders of", "The Skies of" and "The Renegades of" this imaginary planet.
  • Pern.
  • 5: It's the real name of the planet referred to in the title of a 1965 Frank Herbert novel.
  • Arrakis.

Round 3. Category: At The Dentist'S Office

  • 1: Drill speed is measured in these; Dr. Morrison's in 1871 did about 600, today's turbine-powered ones about 300,000.
  • RPMs.
  • 2: The ADA says this is perfectly safe as the basis for amalgam fillings--it combines with other materials to make it stable.
  • mercury.
  • 3: Cavities form when bacteria break down sugars, forming this substance that dissolves enamel.
  • acid.
  • 4: Modern lead aprons worn during X-raying have a collar to protect this gland from the radiation.
  • the thyroid gland.
  • 5: From the Latin for "to close", it's the alignment and spacing of your upper and lower teeth when you bite.
  • occlusion.

Round 4. Category: Everyone Into The Pool!

  • 1: "Swimming World" magazine named him Male World Swimmer of the Year eight times.
  • Michael Phelps.
  • 2: One of the most popular swimming pool games bears the name of this Venetian traveler.
  • Marco Polo.
  • 3: He found relief from his polio swimming in the mineral pools of Warm Springs, Georgia, where he had a little "White House".
  • FDR (Franklin Roosevelt).
  • 4: Once known as water ballet, it became an Olympic sport in 1984.
  • synchronized swimming.
  • 5: You can enjoy some spectacular backdrops from this type of pool, also called a vanishing or negative edge pool.
  • an infinity pool.

Round 5. Category: Hits Of The '80s

  • 1: This song by Olivia Newton-John "worked out" to be No. 1 longer than any other song in '81.
  • "Physical".
  • 2: The only #1 pop hit for Kenny Rogers, it has a 1 word title.
  • "Lady".
  • 3: The profits from this Sager/Bacharach Grammy-winning 1986 single go to AIDS research.
  • "That's What Friends Are For".
  • 4: Diana Ross dedicated "Missing You" to this late singer with whom she had 2 Top 40 hits in the '70s.
  • Marvin Gaye.
  • 5: "All Out Of Love", "Lost In Love" and "The One That You Love" were 3 hits by this Aussie group.
  • Air Supply.

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Round 1. Category: Going For Ward. With Ward in quotation marks

  • 1: Former name for what we today call a flight attendant.
  • a stewardess.
  • 2: All the clothes belonging to you, or a tall piece of furniture to put them all in.
  • a wardrobe.
  • 3: Michael S. Evans holds this top administrative position at Folsom Prison.
  • warden.
  • 4: It precedes "Christian Soldiers" in a 19th century hymn.
  • "Onward".
  • 5: "Cavalcade" and "Conversation Piece" are 2 of his most popular plays.
  • Noël Coward.

Round 2. Category: Old Testament Heroes

  • 1: When presented with this son's bloodstained coat, Jacob assumed that "an evil beast hath devoured him".
  • Joseph.
  • 2: This man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman".
  • Adam.
  • 3: This prophet "prayed unto the Lord his god out of the fish's belly".
  • Jonah.
  • 4: When he came to present the Israelites with the tablets of the law, they were dancing around a golden calf.
  • Moses.
  • 5: Because of the many psalms he wrote, this king was called "The Sweet Psalmist of Israel".
  • David.

Round 3. Category: Sounds Serious

  • 1: Alcohol and spicy foods can cause pyrosis, better known as this painful sensation.
  • heartburn.
  • 2: Cutis anserina is nothing to worry about; it's just this "fowl" reaction to cold or fear.
  • goose bumps.
  • 3: If you have pollinosis, you have this seasonal allergy and not necessarily to the crop in its name.
  • hay fever.
  • 4: Diplopia is what doctors call this, also the title of a Foreigner hit.
  • double vision.
  • 5: Runners know medial tibial stress syndrome better by this 2-word name; ice may help.
  • shin splints.

Round 4. Category: Legendary Creatures

  • 1: It's a multiheaded sea serpent in Psalms and the title of a masterwork of political philosophy by Thomas Hobbes.
  • Leviathan.
  • 2: In heraldry a dragon is often depicted sticking this barbed feature out of its mouth; how rude.
  • its tongue.
  • 3: The hideous basilisk can be killed by showing it this, something a vampire can't see.
  • its reflection in the mirror.
  • 4: In ancient China they came in different colors, and yellow ones were superior.
  • dragons.
  • 5: After going to a lot of trouble building a nest of fragrant boughs and spices, the Phoenix does this to it.
  • burns it.

Round 5. Category: Broadway Musicals By Setting

  • 1: In and around the royal palace in Bangkok in the 1860s.
  • The King and I.
  • 2: The land of Oz, before and after Dorothy dropped in.
  • Wicked.
  • 3: A junkyard on the night of the Jellicle Ball.
  • Cats.
  • 4: The small village of Anatevka in Russia.
  • Fiddler on the Roof.
  • 5: Mushnik's skid row florists.
  • Little Shop of Horrors.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1125, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lakers

  • 1: Locals in this Upstate New York City know it hosted the 1980 winter Olympics.
  • Lake Placid.
  • 2: Folks on the Nevada border know this lake took its name from the Washoe word for "Big Water".
  • Lake Tahoe.
  • 3: Workers are way above average in ports such as Duluth on this Great Lake.
  • Lake Superior.
  • 4: People walk like Egyptians around this lake formed by the creation of the Aswan High Dam.
  • Lake Nasser.
  • 5: U.N. office workers in Switzerland overlook this lake and have a view of the Alps.
  • Lake Geneva.

Round 2. Category: Nyc Authors

  • 1: Walt Whitman, Henry Miller, and Betty Smith's "tree" all grew up in this borough.
  • Brooklyn.
  • 2: Tho he "looked homeward" to North Carolina, he lived in NYC because "You Can't Go Home Again".
  • Thomas Wolfe.
  • 3: James Baldwin called this "the only human part of New York", but left it anyway.
  • Harlem.
  • 4: Mark Twain, Dylan Thomas and Arthur Miller all lived in this famed hotel named for a London district.
  • The Chelsea.
  • 5: The Algonquin Hotel apparently threw this "Borstal Boy" out when he chased the maids thru the halls.
  • Brendan Behan.

Round 3. Category: 20Th Century Books

  • 1: "What is fire? It's a mystery", says this novel; "Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences".
  • Fahrenheit 451.
  • 2: In a Steinbeck tale this title object is thrown back into the water after causing trouble.
  • the pearl.
  • 3: Modern Library's pick as one of this century's top English-language novels is this 1969 Philip Roth book.
  • "Portnoy's Complaint".
  • 4: This novel begins on the porch of Tara.
  • Gone with the Wind.
  • 5: Lucy steps into this part of the title in a 1950 tale and discovers a "second row of coats hanging up behind the first".
  • a wardrobe.

Round 4. Category: Statuesque Authors

  • 1: Much of her 6th century B.C. poetry is lost, but her reputation as a female writing pioneer remains.
  • Sappho.
  • 2: That's not such an ugly duckling beside the statue of this Dane in Central Park.
  • Hans Christian Andersen.
  • 3: Never mind the "Nevermore",he's been in Baltimore since 1921.
  • (Edgar Allan) Poe.
  • 4: As you might expect, this author's statue is relaxing at the bar in the El Floridita in Havana.
  • Hemingway.
  • 5: The statue of this Victorian author, born Mary Ann Evans, is in Warwickshire, where she set many of her novels.
  • George Eliot.

Round 5. Category: Smarties

  • 1: In 1800 William Nicholson managed to break water molecules into atoms of these 2 elements.
  • hydrogen and oxygen.
  • 2: The temperature scale that this Swede invented in 1742 is used pretty much everywhere except the U.S..
  • Anders Celsius.
  • 3: We'd have much dirtier windows if Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau hadn't liquefied this gas in 1798.
  • ammonia.
  • 4: In 1996 Gary Hack discovered the sphenomandibularis, a previously unknown one of these in the face.
  • muscle.
  • 5: Last name of the French brothers who introduced the pneumatic tire for cars.
  • Michelin.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1132, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Books For The Young

  • 1: This Mark Twain character is "hated" by moms because he is "vulgar and bad" but "all their children admired him".
  • Huckleberry Finn.
  • 2: This Margaret Wise Brown children's classic about bedtime begins "In the great green room...".
  • Goodnight Moon.
  • 3: He illustrated "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?".
  • Eric Carle.
  • 4: Discovered in 1993 an asteroid was named Besixdouze, an homage to this title character who lives on Asteroid B-612.
  • the Little Prince.
  • 5: Russell Hoban wrote 6 picture book stories about this little badger and her family.
  • Frances.

Round 2. Category: Pipe Dreams. With Pipe in quotes

  • 1: It stretches from the larynx to the bronchi.
  • the windpipe.
  • 2: This head covering is named for its shape.
  • a stovepipe hat.
  • 3: In 2006 and again in 2010 it was all golden for Shaun White in this Olympic event.
  • the halfpipe.
  • 4: The yagua of the Peruvian Amazon are skilled in using these weapons to bring down game.
  • a blowpipe.
  • 5: Also known as a syrinx, this variety of flute is popular in the Pyrenees.
  • a panpipe.

Round 3. Category: Scrambled Kegs

  • 1: Cheers, mate:FORESTS.
  • Fosters.
  • 2: It's been known to shed a little light:A/C OR NO.
  • Corona.
  • 3: Not just for the stoutest:INN GUESS.
  • Guinness.
  • 4: Weekends were made for it:CLIMB HOE.
  • Michelob.
  • 5: Perfect for award season:PROBABLE BIB NUTS.
  • Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Round 4. Category: Genesis Basics

  • 1: In Genesis 40 he takes a job as a dream interpreter.
  • Joseph.
  • 2: It sets sail in Genesis 7.
  • Noah's Ark.
  • 3: He is slain in Genesis 4.
  • Abel.
  • 4: These metropolises are destroyed in Genesis 19.
  • Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • 5: Thestartofthis structureis found inGenesis 11.
  • the Tower of Babel.

Round 5. Category: Country Confusion

  • 1: Togo is in Africa; Tobago is just off the coast of this continent.
  • South America.
  • 2: Slovakia was once part of Czechoslovakia; Slovenia was part of this country until 1991.
  • Yugoslavia.
  • 3: Mauritania is in northwest Africa; this island nation lies 500 miles east of Madagascar.
  • Mauritius.
  • 4: In Africa, there is Guinea and Guinea-this, a neighbor of Guinea.
  • Bissau.
  • 5: The Dominican Republic is part of Hispaniola; Dominica is part of these "Lesser" islands.
  • the Antilles.

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Round 1. Category: Dr. Alex' Old-Time Feel-Good Medicine Show

  • 1: Muscles inflamed?Joints in pain?Dr. Alex' Youth Elixir clears away the ol' rheumatiz, or osteo- this (and it ain't "porosis"!).
  • arthritis.
  • 2: Make your mucous membranes merry and mirthful! Enjoy Dr. Alex' Cure-All to fight these, be they duodenal or gastric.
  • ulcers.
  • 3: Ate too much MSG or feelin' a megrim, or one of these, comin' on? Beta-blocker, shmeta-blocker! Try Dr. Alex' Head Cream!.
  • migraine.
  • 4: For this inherited trait in men, sure, you can use Propecia--or my amazing new "Trebektophan".
  • baldness.
  • 5: Step right up!I got me an "L" of an ointment for the chronic lower back pain known as this 7-letter malady.
  • lumbago.

Round 2. Category: VAcation Spots. With V in quotes

  • 1: A town 14 miles southwest of Paris developed around this 17th century palace that tourists flock to.
  • Versailles.
  • 2: Covering only 44 hectares, this country is found on the west bank of the Tiber River.
  • Vatican City.
  • 3: Ferdinand III made this city his royal residence in 1248, maybe to be near his barber.
  • Seville.
  • 4: The Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe in this state welcome skiers as well as superfans of "The Sound of Music".
  • Vermont.
  • 5: Brothers of the Sword merged with the Teutonic Knights and conquered this Baltic nation in the 13th century.
  • Latvia.

Round 3. Category: 5 Guys Named Moe

  • 1: Last name of Moe of the Three Stooges.
  • Howard (real name Moses Horvitz).
  • 2: Moe Strauss founded this auto parts chain along with Manny Rosenfield and Jack Jackson.
  • Pep Boys.
  • 3: Major league catcher Moe Berg was also a WWII spy for this agency, precursor of the CIA.
  • OSS (Office of Strategic Services).
  • 4: Term for the type of country music Moe Bandy plays, the clubs where he began, or the "Queen" he sang of in 1981.
  • Honky Tonk.
  • 5: This "Kool" rapper's album "How Ya Like Me Now" began a rivalry with LL Cool J.
  • Kool Moe Dee.

Round 4. Category: Cable Dramas

  • 1: Please refer to this actor as "Boss", his title role on a Chicago-set drama.
  • Kelsey Grammer.
  • 2: Denis Leary has to deal with fires and ghosts as Tommy Gavin on this show.
  • Rescue Me.
  • 3: CIA officer Claire Danes suspects that a U.S. marine sergeant is working for al Qaeda on this Showtime drama.
  • Homeland.
  • 4: Starz entered the arena with an ultra-bloody take on this character once played by Kirk Douglas.
  • Spartacus.
  • 5: The Starz series about this title swordsman has subtitles like "Blood and Sand" and "Gods of the Arena".
  • Spartacus.

Round 5. Category: The Lost World. With World in quotation marks

  • 1: The American League's Boston Pilgrims won the first of these in 1903.
  • World Series.
  • 2: This NYC complex is noted for its huge twin towers of 110 stories each.
  • World Trade Center.
  • 3: Peter Jennings hosts this show on ABC.
  • World News Tonight.
  • 4: Abbreviated the WTO, it promotes and enforces international commerce laws.
  • World Trade Organization.
  • 5: A giant panda is the symbol of this international organization.
  • the World Wildlife Fund.

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Round 1. Category: Colors Of The Rainbow

  • 1: This genre of country music is fittingly Kentucky's state music.
  • bluegrass.
  • 2: Sad or gloomy.
  • blue.
  • 3: In the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections, Ralph Nader ran as a member of this party.
  • the Green Party.
  • 4: In a sad mood.
  • blue.
  • 5: IBM is known informally as Big this.
  • Blue.

Round 2. Category: She Blinded Me With Science

  • 1: Dorothy Hodgkin's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was for her work on this vitamin, whose deficiency causes pernicious anemia.
  • B12.
  • 2: Alice Ball was 23 and a college instructor in Hawaii in 1915 when she developed the first successful treatment for this, also known as Hansen's disease.
  • leprosy.
  • 3: Pioneering computer programmer Grace Murray Hopper coined this term for a mysterious computer problem.
  • bug.
  • 4: Nobel laureate Gertrude Elion helped develop drugs to treat herpes, gout and this, cancer of the bone marrow.
  • leukemia.
  • 5: In 1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer received a Nobel Prize in Physics for her "shell model" of this part of an atom.
  • Nucleus.

Round 3. Category: Guardians

  • 1: U.S. Coast Guard units based in Cleveland, Ohio are known as the "Guardians of" these bodies of water.
  • the Great Lakes.
  • 2: 4-letter term for a person, usually a minor, legally placed in the charge of a guardian.
  • a ward.
  • 3: "Keeping it safe" is the motto of this red-bereted group founded by Curtis Sliwa.
  • the Guardian Angels.
  • 4: The scarlet and gold dress uniforms of these guardians of the Tower of London date back to 1552.
  • the Beefeaters (or Yeoman Warders).
  • 5: In Arthurian legend this wounded monarch is the guardian of the Holy Grail.
  • the Fisher King.

Round 4. Category: Unfinished Operas

  • 1: This composer finished just 3 scenes of "Olav Trygvason"; they're sometimes performed as a cantata.
  • Edvard Grieg.
  • 2: Make an exodus from the theatre after seeing Schoenberg's incomplete opera about this man and his brother Aaron.
  • Moses.
  • 3: Biondello hides inside a mechanical goose in Mozart's unfinished opera "The Goose of" this Egyptian city.
  • Cairo.
  • 4: Let's wax philosophical and wonder why Rousseau left only fragments of his opera about Daphnis and her.
  • Chloe.
  • 5: Smetana's "Viola", with just 365 bars of music, is based on this play.
  • Twelfth Night.

Round 5. Category: Songs

  • 1: Having this title problem, Barry Manilow sings, "I can't laugh and I can't sing, I'm finding it hard to do anything".
  • "Can't Smile Without You".
  • 2: 1930s song to which the Marcels added the following over 25 years later:"Bom ba ba bom ba bom ba bom bom ba ba bom ba ba bom ba ba dang a dang dang / Ba ba ding a dong ding".
  • "Blue Moon".
  • 3: 2 of the 3 Top 10 Fats Domino songs with "Walk" in the title.
  • "I'm Walkin'", "I Want to Walk You Home", and/or "Walking to New Orleans".
  • 4: "Under the Sea" from this Disney animated feature won the 1989 Oscar for Best Song.
  • The Little Mermaid.
  • 5: He's told to "mind the music and the step, and with the girls be handy".
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy.

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Round 1. Category: 3Rd Graders Know This Stuff

  • 1: Zero divided by 6 yields this quotient.
  • zero.
  • 2: Of I'm, they've, you're or won't, the contraction that lost the most letters.
  • won't.
  • 3: The predicate of a sentence tells what this part is or does.
  • the subject.
  • 4: The size of this body part changes, depending on the light.
  • the pupil.
  • 5: The 15th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 24th and 26th ones of these are specifically concerned with voting.
  • constitutional amendments.

Round 2. Category: Churches

  • 1: Famous signal lanterns were once hung there, and the oldest colonial peal of bells is still there.
  • the Old North Church.
  • 2: St. Etheldreda's, built in 1251, survived Henry VIII and is London's oldest church of this faith.
  • Roman Catholic.
  • 3: From the Latin for "raised place", originally it was where offerings were placed or sacrificed.
  • an altar.
  • 4: Milan's Santa Maria Delle Grazie features what's left of this mural masterpiece by Leonardo.
  • "The Last Supper".
  • 5: They're small churches often used for weddings, funerals or private worship.
  • chapels.

Round 3. Category: Castle Life

  • 1: It's usually a body of protective water spanned by the drawbridge.
  • Moat.
  • 2: Under feudal law this 4-letter word was the general title for the owner of a manor or castle.
  • Lord.
  • 3: Term for the trainer of a predatory bird used for hunting.
  • Falconer.
  • 4: 2-word term for the big chamber that was the main meeting and dining area.
  • Great hall.
  • 5: Crossbows were stored in the balistraria and these were stored in the chandlery.
  • Candles.

Round 4. Category: Literary Title Characters

  • 1: In this novel inspired by a painting, Griet is the title 17th century portrait sitter.
  • the Girl with a Pearl Earring.
  • 2: The name of this Sinclair Lewis Minister is a byword for hypocrisy.
  • Elmer Gantry.
  • 3: 1851:A white whale.
  • Moby-Dick.
  • 4: A whale of legendary size and ferocity, tormentor of Ahab.
  • "Moby Dick".
  • 5: Devil-dealing doctor-turned-necromancer.
  • "Dr. Faustus".

Round 5. Category: Small Jobs

  • 1: This little Roman love god performs his matchmaking job with a bow and arrow.
  • Cupid.
  • 2: The Munchkins toiled as slaves for this woman until a house fell on her.
  • The Wicked Witch of the East.
  • 3: To find a leprechaun, follow the tapping of his hammer as he busies himself making these.
  • Shoes.
  • 4: In the "Dilbert" comic strip, he's the evil director of human resources.
  • Catbert.
  • 5: Describing his job, this Shakespearean sprite says, "I jest to Oberon and make him smile".
  • Puck.

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Round 1. Category: U.S. Colleges And Universities

  • 1: Recovering from Katrina, it scheduled a makeup "lagniappe semester" starting in May 2006.
  • Tulane.
  • 2: The 2 founders of Yahoo! and the 2 founders of Google all attended this California school.
  • Stanford.
  • 3: Texas Lutheran University is in Seguin; this school founded in 1873 is in Fort Worth.
  • Texas Christian University.
  • 4: The North Carolina university founded in this town in 1834 is now in Winston-Salem.
  • Wake Forest.
  • 5: It's the northernmost Ivy League School.
  • Dartmouth.

Round 2. Category: The Iberian Peninsula

  • 1: The Spanish called the Muslims Moors, meaning from this country.
  • Morocco.
  • 2: This expensive spice from La Mancha gives paella its golden hue.
  • saffron.
  • 3: This 2.25-square-mile area on the Iberian Peninsula belongs to the United Kingdom.
  • Gibraltar.
  • 4: To make port in Porto, Portugal, add this to wine and age.
  • brandy.
  • 5: Eastern region that's the center of Spain's citrus industry; its oranges are harvested in December.
  • Valencia.

Round 3. Category: Don'T Lose Your Train Of Thought

  • 1: Platfprm 9 3/4 at King's Cross Station in this city is the place where Harry Potter boards the train to Hogwarts.
  • London.
  • 2: The Grand Traverse Dinner Train specializes in tours of this duration, so let's invite Gilligan.
  • 3 hours.
  • 3: The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway, one of the world's steepest, starts in this "Choo Choo" city.
  • Chattanooga.
  • 4: In 1912 Henry Flagler rode the first train that linked the U.S. mainland to this, the southernmost city in Florida.
  • Key West.
  • 5: After touring the Coors Brewing Company, you may want to visit the Colorado Railroad Museum in this city.
  • Golden.

Round 4. Category: The 10 Plagues Of Egypt

  • 1: The first plague was the turning of the waters of Egypt into this.
  • blood.
  • 2: The third plague was these parasitic arthropods that also plague kids in the classroom.
  • lice.
  • 3: In the seventh plague, this rained "upon the land of Egypt", breaking "every tree of the field".
  • hail.
  • 4: In the eighth plague, swarms of these covered the face of the Earth, darkening the land.
  • locusts.
  • 5: Passover gets its name from when God passes over the Israelites' homes, sparing them from this final plague.
  • death of the firstborn.

Round 5. Category: You Got Nerve

  • 1: When you "hit" this "bone", the ulnar nerve creates the "unamusing" sensation in your elbow.
  • humerus.
  • 2: Term for a group of nerves; among the most famous is the "solar" one.
  • plexus.
  • 3: As part of his "drill", this doctor often anesthetizes the mandibular and lingual nerves.
  • dentist.
  • 4: The olfactory nerve is the nerve of this sense.
  • smell.
  • 5: Running from the lower back down the leg, the sciatic nerve holds this distinction among the body's nerves.
  • the longest nerve.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1120, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bruce Willis Movie Quotes

  • 1: "Sorry, Hans. Wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy!, where the scores can really change?".
  • Die Hard.
  • 2: "Dead people, like, in graves... in coffins?".
  • The Sixth Sense.
  • 3: "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead".
  • Pulp Fiction.
  • 4: "If you pull that trigger, that bullet is just gonna bounce off me and I'm not going to be hurt".
  • Unbreakable.
  • 5: "Scientists. I'm supposed to report in to them. They'll want to know they sent me to the wrong time".
  • 12 Monkeys.

Round 2. Category: Female World Leaders

  • 1: Her husband's assassination and a People Power Revolution made her president in 1986.
  • (Corazon) Aquino.
  • 2: PM Johanna Sigurdardottir of this Atlantic island country is the world's first openly gay head of govt..
  • Iceland.
  • 3: The daughter of a president who was assassinated, Park Geun-Hye is the president of this country.
  • South Korea.
  • 4: Dame Louise Lake-Tack is governor general of Antigua and this geographic partner.
  • Barbuda.
  • 5: Vigdis Finnbogadottir was president of this country for almost the entire 1980s.
  • Iceland.

Round 3. Category: Midway

  • 1: The nearly extinct Hawaiian species of this mammal uses Midway's beaches to breed.
  • a seal.
  • 2: An order signed on Oct. 31, 1996 transferred Midway from the Navy to this cabinet dept..
  • Interior.
  • 3: In 1935 this airline built a prefab hotel on Midway as a rest stop for passengers flying on its China Clippers.
  • Pan Am.
  • 4: Midway is home to the world's largest colony of the Laysan species of this "wandering" sea bird.
  • the albatross.
  • 5: In the 1950's and '60s Midway was home to crews who flew radar aircraft in this Cold War detection line.
  • the DEW line.

Round 4. Category: Politics Talk

  • 1: Sen. Robert Byrd said the survival of our constitutional system is based on "the delicate mechanism of" this pair.
  • checks and balances.
  • 2: It's the group from one state at a convention; at the 2020 DNC, California's was 494 strong.
  • a delegation.
  • 3: Type of post-election election that involved the two men here in December 2022.
  • a runoff.
  • 4: The first time Congress did this to a president was to lame duck John Tyler on March 3, 1845.
  • the first time a veto was overridden.
  • 5: From the name of a D.C. location where many lobbying firms are concentrated, this "Street" is shorthand for lobbyists.
  • K Street.

Round 5. Category: Where Ya Been?

  • 1: Strolling through the National Gallery of Australia in this capital.
  • Canberra.
  • 2: Climbing Mount Aconcagua in this Western Hemisphere mountain range.
  • the Andes.
  • 3: Tracking my stocks on the Hang Seng index of this former Crown colony's stock exchange.
  • Hong Kong.
  • 4: Chopping down trees in Moose Jaw and Saskatoon in this province.
  • Saskatchewan.
  • 5: Carefully paddling down this Congolese river that lends its name to a deadly virus.
  • Ebola.

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Round 1. Category: National Narratives

  • 1: "And Quiet Flows The Don" and "The Gulag Archipelago".
  • Russia.
  • 2: "The Man Who Planted Trees" and "The Man In The Iron Mask".
  • France.
  • 3: "The Tale Of Genji" and "The Temple Of The Golden Pavilion".
  • Japan.
  • 4: "The Settlers" and "Exodus".
  • Israel.
  • 5: "Snow Flower And The Secret Fan" and "The Sand Pebbles".
  • China.

Round 2. Category: RebelS. With Rebel in quotation marks

  • 1: Called rock and roll's No. 1 instrumentalist, Duane Eddy had his 1st big hit with this:.
  • "Rebel-'Rouser".
  • 2: James Dean was considered the embodiment of the title of this film in which he starred.
  • Rebel Without a Cause.
  • 3: A prolonged high-pitched scream associated with Confederate soldiers.
  • rebel yell.
  • 4: Tho The Crystals were a real group, this, their biggest hit, was actually sung by Darlene Love and The Blossoms.
  • "He's a Rebel".
  • 5: This 1970 ABC series set in 1777 showed exploits of Pennsylvania's Yankee Doodle Society.
  • The Young Rebels.

Round 3. Category: Foreign Words And Phrases

  • 1: It's the Italian word for "You're welcome", not "You're with child".
  • prego.
  • 2: A criminal who is caught red-handed is caught this way, "while the crime is blazing".
  • in flagrante delicto.
  • 3: It's the name the Greeks gave to the primordial disorganization of the universe.
  • chaos.
  • 4: "Negus, from the Amharic for "king", was once used as a title for the emperors of this African nation.
  • Ethiopia.
  • 5: Meaning "10,000 years", this Japanese cry of triumph was often used in battle.
  • "Banzai!".

Round 4. Category: Silent-Letter Vocabulary

  • 1: The song entitled "Great Is Thy Faithfulness", for example.
  • a hymn.
  • 2: The Latin "Agnus Dei" means this baby animal "of God".
  • lamb.
  • 3: To twist violently, like a neck.
  • wrench (or wring).
  • 4: O. kisutch, or these, return upstream to deposit their eggs.
  • salmon.
  • 5: A silent "K" begins this British slang word meaning very tired.
  • knackered.

Round 5. Category: Directed But Didn'T Star In

  • 1: "Ordinary People"(1980).
  • Robert Redford.
  • 2: "Apollo 13"(1995).
  • Ron Howard.
  • 3: 2014's "Lost River", featuring girlfriend Eva Mendes.
  • Ryan Gosling.
  • 4: "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"(1997).
  • Clint Eastwood.
  • 5: "Unbroken".
  • Angelina Jolie.

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Round 1. Category: Action Figures

  • 1: Fact: This "Office" star sees plenty of action as the title character on Amazon's "Jack Ryan".
  • John Krasinski.
  • 2: Paddy Doyle's fitness records include throwing 470 of these in 1 minute--that should win the round.
  • punches.
  • 3: In 2003 Paul Crake ran up the 1,576 steps of this NYC building in 9 minutes 33 seconds.
  • the Empire State Building.
  • 4: In a tune by the Flaming Lips, Yoshimi battles some pink these; "she's a black belt in karate".
  • robots.
  • 5: In 2006 Leyan Lo, a student at this Pasadena school, solved a Rubik's Cube puzzle in 11.13 seconds.
  • Caltech.

Round 2. Category: The Vietnam Era

  • 1: Senator J. William Fulbright said his sponsorship of this resolution was one of his biggest political mistakes.
  • the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
  • 2: This "Where Are You Now, My Son" singer was noted for her anti-income tax and anti-war protests.
  • (Joan) Baez.
  • 3: David Dellinger and other activists figured this event in Chicago in 1968 would make a good site for a protest.
  • the Democratic National Convention.
  • 4: This former New York Times journalist's Vietnam books include "The Best and the Brightest" and "Ho".
  • David Halberstam.
  • 5: This man who often faced Kissinger across the bargaining table died in Hanoi in October 1990.
  • Lê Đức Thọ.

Round 3. Category: All-American Food

  • 1: On Fridays many people like to chow down on this thick, creamy style of clam chowder.
  • New England clam chowder.
  • 2: This spicy poultry appetizer is popularly served with blue-cheese dressing and celery sticks.
  • Buffalo wings.
  • 3: You'll cover several food groups dining on this city's lettuce, baked beans and cream pie.
  • Boston.
  • 4: Some credit a Delmonico's chef with cooking up this dessert of ice cream covered in meringue and browned.
  • Baked Alaska.
  • 5: The Anchor Bar says it's the home of the original this deep-fried chicken dish with hot sauce and bleu-cheese dressing.
  • buffalo wings.

Round 4. Category: Puerto Rican Holidays

  • 1: Jose Barbosa, who is honored on July 27, founded Puerto Rico's Republican Party on this patriotic American holiday.
  • the 4th of July (Independence Day).
  • 2: As elsewhere, it works out that this is the first Monday in September.
  • Labor Day.
  • 3: January 11 is the birthday of Eugenio Maria de Hostos, founder of the 1st "Normal" one of these in Santo Domingo.
  • school.
  • 4: A royal-sounding January 6 holiday, or a 1999 George Clooney film.
  • Three Kings Day.
  • 5: Luis Munoz Rivera, who fought for Puerto Rico's autonomy from these 2 countries, has his own holiday.
  • Spain and the United States.

Round 5. Category: North American Languages

  • 1: When traveling to a certain part of the U.S., you might be called a "malihini", meaning tourist in this language.
  • Hawaiian.
  • 2: About 4 million Canadians are unilingual speakers of this language.
  • French.
  • 3: As you might expect, Yucatec is a Mayan language spoken in Belize and Mexico on this peninsula.
  • the Yucatan.
  • 4: Nunavut means "our land" in the language of these people.
  • the Inuit.
  • 5: Nahuatl, Mexico's second-most widely spoken language, is also known by the name of this pre-Columbian people.
  • Aztecs.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1117, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Forget U

  • 1: Forget the "U" in this synonym for "abode" and you get this stocking.
  • house and hose.
  • 2: Drop the "U" from this float used to mark a navigational channel to get this male word.
  • buoy and boy.
  • 3: Dropping the "U" from this synonym for "leap" gives you this uniting force.
  • bound and bond.
  • 4: This verb meaning "to recommend" becomes this word for a small child when it loses its "U".
  • tout and tot.
  • 5: This, the worth or merit of something, loses its "U" to become this mortal life, like the one "of tears".
  • value and vale.

Round 2. Category: Country

  • 1: This country's coat of arms has 3 stars for its 3 main island groups, an eagle for the U.S. and and a lion representing Spain.
  • the Philippines.
  • 2: In October 2002 this late rocker's "30 #1 Hits" CD debuted at the top of the country charts.
  • Elvis Presley.
  • 3: It's where you'll find Kerry's lovely lakes of Killarney.
  • Ireland.
  • 4: He won a 1967 Grammy for "Gentle on My Mind", which later became the theme song to his TV series.
  • Glen Campbell.
  • 5: In 2005 Lech Kaczynski became the president of this country.
  • Poland.

Round 3. Category: Other Christmas Songs

  • 1: In 1942 this crooner had a No. 1 hit with "White Christmas".
  • Bing Crosby.
  • 2: This title line is followed by "underneath the mistletoe last night".
  • "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus".
  • 3: His "Christmas Album" of 1957 includes the now classic "Blue Christmas".
  • Elvis Presley.
  • 4: It's the alternate title and first line of "The Christmas Song", definitively sung by Nat King Cole.
  • "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire".
  • 5: In 2014 Bob Geldof re-recorded this 30-year-old song as a fundraiser to fight Ebola.
  • "Do They Know It's Christmas?".

Round 4. Category: Write Foot

  • 1: Beginning readers may learn about trick feet and sick feet in "The Foot Book" by this author whose real name was Theodor Geisel.
  • Dr. Seuss.
  • 2: In this Grimm tale, one sister cuts off a toe to fit into a golden shoe; the other, part of her heel; the title girl, a perfect fit!.
  • Cinderella.
  • 3: After landing in Oz, Dorothy is dismayed to see this woman's lifeless feet "shod in silver shoes with pointed toes".
  • the Wicked Witch of the East.
  • 4: In Fulgentius' "Mythologies", the goddess Thetis douses this babe in the River Styx, "his heel alone she did not dip".
  • Achilles.
  • 5: Artist Christy Brown wrote in this autobiography that he was "living in chains" battling cerebral palsy.
  • My Left Foot.

Round 5. Category: The Age Of The Robber Barons

  • 1: In 1890 he became president of the American Tobacco Company in Durham, North Carolina.
  • (James Buchanan) Duke.
  • 2: Henry Frick made a fortune supplying the Pittsburgh steel industry with this product made from heating pulverized coal.
  • coke.
  • 3: The "P." in the name of this preeminent banker of the Gilded Age stood for Pierpont, his mother's family.
  • (J.P.) Morgan.
  • 4: 5 years after this act was passed, the Supreme Court gutted it in 1895's United States v. E.C. Knight.
  • the Sherman Antitrust Act.
  • 5: Montana's Marcus Daly owned this, the USA's richest copper mine, as well as the town named for it.
  • Anaconda.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1116, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Taking The Driving Test

  • 1: This state agency, the DMV for short, administers the test.
  • the Department of Motor Vehicles.
  • 2: This alliterative method to get your car alongside the curb just might be on the test.
  • parallel parking.
  • 3: To take the test in most states, you'll need this proof of financial responsibility in case anything goes wrong.
  • insurance.
  • 4: Mirrors aren't enough--look over your shoulder to check these areas before changing lanes.
  • blind spots.
  • 5: Failing to give this 3-word clearance to pedestrians can be an automatic failure.
  • right of way.

Round 2. Category: Phi Beta Kappa

  • 1: 1904: deaf, blind and a Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa.
  • Helen Keller.
  • 2: 1997: Tennessee it to believe it! a Colts and now Broncos quarterback.
  • Peyton Manning.
  • 3: 1941: what a Betty, 22 years before "The Feminine Mystique".
  • (Betty) Friedan.
  • 4: 1916: at Bowdoin, a 1948 researcher on sex (but not drugs and rock and roll).
  • Kinsey.
  • 5: 1842: at Bowdoin, a novelist from Salem, Massachusetts.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Round 3. Category: Water Sports

  • 1: Cypress Gardens show done on water, not on snow.
  • water skiing.
  • 2: Fishing from a moving boat.
  • trolling.
  • 3: What an unlucky surfer has just experienced in this song.
  • wipeout.
  • 4: Competitor in this sport was the model for nude male torso atop L.A.'s Olympic gate.
  • water polo.
  • 5: Synchronized swimming used to be called "water" this, though it's hard to be "en pointe" in the pool.
  • ballet.

Round 4. Category: Medal Of Honor Winners

  • 1: Francis Flaherty saved shipmates and lost his own life aboard the Oklahoma during this infamous 1941 attack.
  • Pearl Harbor.
  • 2: During WWI Eddie Rickenbacker shot down 22 planes and 4 of these used for observation.
  • balloons.
  • 3: Back in 1932 Donald Truesdale earned his medal during the Marines' campaign against Sandinistas in this country.
  • Nicaragua.
  • 4: Veteran James Stockdale was the running mate of this wealthy third-party presidential candidate in 1992.
  • H. Ross Perot.
  • 5: Jacob Parrott, the first winner, was among the men who stole this "high-ranking" Confederate locomotive.
  • the General.

Round 5. Category: Mr. Mike

  • 1: On November 22, 1986 at age 20, he became the youngest world heavyweight boxing champion ever.
  • Mike Tyson.
  • 2: He's been Lothar, Dieter, Wayne and Austin Powers.
  • Mike Myers.
  • 3: He became the lead vocalist of the Beach Boys in 1961.
  • Mike Love.
  • 4: One of the senior journalists on U.S. television, he's been the leading host of "60 Minutes" since 1968.
  • Mike Wallace.
  • 5: A 3 time league MVP, this former Phillie hit a career total 548 home runs.
  • Mike Schmidt.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1115, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Almost Assassinated

  • 1: August 22, 1962 when his limousine was attacked near Paris.
  • Charles de Gaulle.
  • 2: February 15, 1933 after making a speech in Miami.
  • FDR.
  • 3: May 12, 1982 on a visit to the famous shrine in Fatima, Portugal.
  • Pope John Paul II.
  • 4: September 5, 1975 while greeting a crowd in Sacramento, California.
  • Gerald Ford.
  • 5: August 22, 1962 when his luxury Citroen was attacked near Paris.
  • Charles de Gaulle.

Round 2. Category: Who Directed It?

  • 1: "Riding in Cars with Boys","Awakenings".
  • (Penny) Marshall.
  • 2: "When They See Us", "A Wrinkle in Time", "Selma".
  • Ava DuVernay.
  • 3: 1991's "Point Break", "Zero Dark Thirty".
  • Kathryn Bigelow.
  • 4: "Wonder Woman", episodes of "Entourage" and "Arrested Development".
  • Patty Jenkins.
  • 5: "Red Hot Chili Peppers: Dark Necessities", "Booksmart".
  • Olivia Wilde.

Round 3. Category: The 2011 Fortune 500

  • 1: "And like a good neighbor", this co. is there at No. 37, "taking an active stance against texting while driving".
  • State Farm.
  • 2: Fannie Mae, No. 5, was delisted by the NYSE; this company, No. 20, got "$64 billion in... bailout money".
  • Freddie Mac.
  • 3: "Bailed out and buffed up", this car co., No. 8, "emerged from bankruptcy with a $20 billion public offering".
  • GM.
  • 4: No. 36, this co. got "a $30 billion contract to supply refueling aircraft to the Air Force, beating European rival Airbus".
  • Boeing.
  • 5: Checking out at No. 28, "88% of" this wholesaler's "customers renew their annual memberships".
  • Costco.

Round 4. Category: Channel Surfing

  • 1: It's the largest of the islands separated from the mainland by the Mozambique Channel.
  • Madagascar.
  • 2: The Corsica Channel separates Corsica from this other island where Napoleon lived.
  • Elba.
  • 3: Dusky dolphins surf this South American channel, named for a 19th century science ship.
  • the Beagle.
  • 4: Click on this channel and you might find yourself in the middle of "Shark Week".
  • Discovery Channel.
  • 5: Its western entrance lies between Land's End, U.K. and Ushant, France.
  • the English Channel.

Round 5. Category: All In

  • 1: Brick red, hot magenta, sea green and 117 more options are in a 120-count box of these.
  • crayons.
  • 2: Nevis, the Windward Passage and the Spanish Main are all in this sea.
  • the Caribbean Sea.
  • 3: At its core, this boozy clan was Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr..
  • the Rat Pack.
  • 4: The "Discobolus" statue, a Viking antler comb and a Henry I halfpenny are all in this London site.
  • the British Museum.
  • 5: If you had raided this object, you might have found a pot of manna, Aaron's rod and the 2 stone tablets of Moses.
  • the Ark of the Covenant.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1114, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What Do You Mean?

  • 1: In the E.R., doctors ask for things to be done immediately by using this 4-letter Latin abbreviation.
  • Stat.
  • 2: In restaurants this number means "all gone".
  • 86.
  • 3: When used with "up", this type of little house is slang for living together without being married.
  • Shack.
  • 4: From the Latin for "chest", it's a pen used for small animals such as rabbits.
  • a hutch.
  • 5: Manic depression is another term for this "disorder" marked by mood disturbances.
  • Bipolar disorder.

Round 2. Category: Tv Medical Shows By Hospital

  • 1: Seattle Grace.
  • Grey's Anatomy.
  • 2: St. Eligius.
  • St. Elsewhere.
  • 3: Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
  • House (M.D.).
  • 4: Sacred Heart.
  • Scrubs.
  • 5: In the 1980s:San Francisco Memorial Hospital.
  • Trapper John, M.D..

Round 3. Category: Tv'S Middle Child

  • 1: Francis and Dewey were the brothers of this kid "in the Middle".
  • Malcolm.
  • 2: Chris Griffin is this animated show's awkward and clueless middle child.
  • the Family Guy.
  • 3: Oh, my god! He's the middle child in the McCormick family on "South Park".
  • Kenny.
  • 4: Brother to Erica and Adam and occasionally trying to rap, Barry is the middle kid on this 1980s-set sitcom.
  • The Goldbergs.
  • 5: Mallory Keaton was older sister to Jennifer and younger sister to Alex on this 1980s sitcom.
  • Family Ties.

Round 4. Category: Authors' Names

  • 1: Born Jozef Korzeniowski, he went to the "heart of darkness" as a writer in English.
  • (Joseph) Conrad.
  • 2: Before this author of western novels dropped the first name Pearl, he made a lovely shade for tile flooring.
  • (Zane) Grey.
  • 3: Born Marguerite Johnson, the author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" adopted this name as an exotic dancer.
  • Maya Angelou.
  • 4: Her uncle's life was saved by doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital, so her mother added it to this poet's name.
  • (Edna St. Vincent) Millay.
  • 5: All things were bright and beautiful for veterinarian Alfred Wight when he wrote under this name.
  • James Herriot.

Round 5. Category: The Political Life

  • 1: Proverbially, to indicate one's candidacy is to throw one's hat here.
  • In the ring.
  • 2: An officeholder during the interval before a successor takes over is known as one of these limping birds.
  • Lame duck.
  • 3: From the Latin for "to be away", this type of ballot is a vote cast by mail, not at a polling place.
  • Absentee.
  • 4: Term for the speech at a convention that sets the tone and outlines the main issues.
  • Keynote speech.
  • 5: From the Latin for "grow together", it's an alliance of different groups for a specific cause.
  • a coalition.

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Round 1. Category: State Capital Nicknames

  • 1: "The Bluegrass Capital".
  • Frankfort.
  • 2: "The Charter Oak City".
  • Hartford.
  • 3: "Arkopolis".
  • Little Rock.
  • 4: "The Gateway to Glacier Bay National Park".
  • Juneau (Alaska).
  • 5: "The Cradle of the Confederacy" and "The Birthplace of Civil Rights".
  • Montgomery, Alabama.

Round 2. Category: Actors In Political Films

  • 1: In 1993 he was "In the Line of Fire" as Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan.
  • Clint Eastwood.
  • 2: This star of "Grumpy Old Men" played a grumpy Supreme Court justice in "First Monday in October".
  • Walter Matthau.
  • 3: Laurence Harvey and Frank Sinatra starred in this 1962 political thriller based on a novel by Richard Condon.
  • The Manchurian Candidate.
  • 4: In "All the President's Men", Hal Holbrook played this informer whose true identity is still a mystery.
  • "Deep Throat".
  • 5: This British actor, JFK's brother-in-law, played a U.S. senator in "Advise and Consent".
  • Peter Lawford.

Round 3. Category: One-Word Film Titles

  • 1: Ice Cube gave rise to a catchphrase with the dismissive "Bye, Felicia" in this 1995 comedy.
  • Friday.
  • 2: If Keanu Reeves' bus went under 50 mph in this flick, it'd like, totally explode.
  • Speed.
  • 3: This 2009 film is the all-time top-grossing movie in the U.S. and the world.
  • Avatar.
  • 4: Sly Stallone knocks the stuffing out of a slab of beef and Apollo Creed in this movie.
  • Rocky.
  • 5: (I'm Mario Andretti.) In 1967 I drove a Ford Fairlane to win the Daytona 500; almost 40 years later I played a Ford Fairlane who was at the racetrack in this Pixar film.
  • Cars.

Round 4. Category: -Mancy Pants

  • 1: What's that giant talking octopus smoking a cigar mean? Use oneiromancy, the practice of interpreting these.
  • dreams.
  • 2: A necromancy can mean this 5-letter magical word that is "cast" by wizards.
  • a spell.
  • 3: Tasseomancy, the reading of these, must be popular in England in the late afternoon.
  • tea leaves.
  • 4: A state of temporary inactivity like hibernation.
  • dormancy.
  • 5: Chiromancy is this method of telling someone's fortune.
  • palm reading.

Round 5. Category: Letters In Sequence

  • 1: 18-19-20:Explode, in air, perhaps.
  • burst.
  • 2: 7-8-9:A type of hyena.
  • laughing.
  • 3: 4-5-6:Transfer one's allegiance to another nation.
  • defect.
  • 4: 8-9-10:Forcibly seize control of a moving vehicle.
  • hijacking.
  • 5: 19-20-21:Dampness.
  • moisture.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1112, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Moving Journalism

  • 1: British Airways' in-flight magazine has this name, like a Miller beer brand.
  • High Life.
  • 2: Different regions get different magazines from this club, AAA for short; Via and Westways are 2 of its publications.
  • the American Automobile Association.
  • 3: Passengers in the Northeast Corridor of this train service can arrive at their stations reading its Arrive magazine.
  • Amtrak.
  • 4: Latitudes is the magazine of this cruise line, NCL for short.
  • Norwegian Cruise Lines.
  • 5: United Airlines has both the Eastern and Western halves of the globe covered with this on-board magazine that has a plural title.
  • Hemispheres.

Round 2. Category: SeedS. With Seed in quotes

  • 1: This phrase means funds given to start a business.
  • seed money.
  • 2: This wandering planter of the early U.S. is said to have dressed in a coffee sack, with a cooking-pot hat.
  • Johnny Appleseed.
  • 3: A classic McDonald's jingle ends, "on" this type of bun.
  • a sesame seed bun.
  • 4: Nick Cave's band.
  • The Bad Seeds.
  • 5: To marry Elvis in 1967, Priscilla wore a gown trimmed in these little gems.
  • seed pearls.

Round 3. Category: Rubies

  • 1: "The people...who put me in the position I'm in will never let the...facts come...to the world" said this assassin.
  • Jack Ruby.
  • 2: Saying "Her price is far above rubies", the Bible asks, "Who can find a virtuous" one.
  • woman.
  • 3: Avoiding "Let's Spend the Night Together", many radio stations played this flip side which made #1:.
  • "Ruby Tuesday".
  • 4: She was 1st black actress to star in major roles at the American Shakespeare Festival.
  • Ruby Dee.
  • 5: Only variety of this bird found east of the Mississippi and north of Florida is the ruby-throated.
  • hummingbird.

Round 4. Category: Remembering The Alamo

  • 1: Before fighting at the Alamo, he served 3 terms as a House representative from Tennessee.
  • Davy Crockett.
  • 2: Like the city where it's located, the mission was originally named in part for this man of Padua.
  • San Antonio.
  • 3: Accounts differ but it's believed this knifesman died on his cot where he had been confined due to illness.
  • (Jim) Bowie.
  • 4: A month after the siege, this commander of the Mexican army was captured at San Jacinto.
  • Santa Anna.
  • 5: A plea for help, this commander's "victory or death" letter was returned to the Alamo in 2013 for the 177th anniv..
  • William Barret Travis.

Round 5. Category: Colombian Connections

  • 1: In area, it's the largest country that borders Colombia.
  • Brazil.
  • 2: One can sail out of the port of Cartagena into this sea.
  • the Caribbean.
  • 3: With the help of the U.S., this country gained its independence from Colombia in 1903.
  • Panama.
  • 4: Its name means "peaceful" and it's home to El Nino.
  • the Pacific Ocean.
  • 5: In 2000 the pres. of this country wanted to replace its sucre with our dollar--he got deposed, but it happened.
  • Ecuador.

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Round 1. Category: Ask The Nearest Hippie

  • 1: Have you and your teenagers Mao and Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents and kids?.
  • the generation gap.
  • 2: I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway?.
  • the VW Bus.
  • 3: Do you vote Green Party or write in this comedy duo who went "Up in Smoke" in the '70s?.
  • Cheech and Chong.
  • 4: Moving to Oregon? Does that have anything to do with the passage of measure 91 on the legalization of this?.
  • marijuana.
  • 5: Did you really witness the birth of this rhyming movement at an anti-war rally at UC Berkeley in 1965?.
  • flower power.

Round 2. Category: Quoting The Shakespeare Character

  • 1: "I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me".
  • Bottom.
  • 2: "Tell me, my daughters... which of you shall we say doth love us most".
  • King Lear.
  • 3: "For Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men".
  • Marc Antony.
  • 4: "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'".
  • Henry V.
  • 5: "Come unto these yellow sands, and then take hands".
  • Ariel.

Round 3. Category: Pulitzer Prize Categories

  • 1: Bill Mauldin in 1945 and 1959.
  • Cartooning.
  • 2: Joe Rosenthal in 1945 for work done on Iwo Jima.
  • Photography.
  • 3: Robert Lowell in 1947 and 1974.
  • Poetry.
  • 4: Samuel Barber in 1958 and 1963.
  • Music.
  • 5: David McCullough, twice.
  • Biography.

Round 4. Category: Good Sportsmanship

  • 1: J.P. Hayes cost himself a 2009 spot on this tour by confessing to using an unapproved ball.
  • the PGA tour.
  • 2: In 2008 Central Wash. players of this sport carried injured Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon around the bases.
  • softball.
  • 3: Mike Bossy and Alexander Mogilny have won the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly conduct in this sport.
  • hockey.
  • 4: The chronicles of this hard-serving American include, in 2005, calling an opponent's shot in, costing himself the match.
  • Andy Roddick.
  • 5: This backcourt partner of Isiah Thomas on the "bad boys" of Detroit won the NBA's 1st Sportsmanship Award.
  • Joe Dumars.

Round 5. Category: LandS Of The World. With Land in quotes

  • 1: This 840,000-square mile area belonging to Denmark lies within 15 miles of Canada.
  • Greenland.
  • 2: The crusade of Father Theobald Mathew reduced this island's whiskey intake by half in the early 1840s.
  • Ireland.
  • 3: From 1900 to 1982 Sobhuza II was king of this country surrounded on 3 sides by South Africa.
  • Swaziland.
  • 4: It's the only U.S. state that fits the category.
  • Maryland (or Rhode Island).
  • 5: Poet John Donne compared his mistress' body to this Canadian province.
  • Newfoundland.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1110, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: That'S A Rap. With Rap in quotation marks

  • 1: Go ahead, let your hair down reading the story of this princess locked in a tower.
  • Rapunzel.
  • 2: To descend a steep slope by rope.
  • rappel.
  • 3: Any bird of prey.
  • raptor.
  • 4: This 212-mile river flows into Chesapeake Bay.
  • the Rappahannock.
  • 5: Greedy and grasping, especially for money.
  • rapacious.

Round 2. Category: I Played Her In The Movie

  • 1: Bad singer Florence Foster Jenkins.
  • Meryl Streep.
  • 2: Good singer Beca, a member of the Barden Bellas who is pitch perfect.
  • Anna Kendrick.
  • 3: Andy Sachs, assistant to the editor of a fashion magazine.
  • (Anne) Hathaway.
  • 4: Jenny Curran, Forrest Gump's beloved.
  • Robin Wright.
  • 5: Rachel Watson, the girl on the train.
  • Emily Blunt.

Round 3. Category: Reconstruction

  • 1: Founded at the end of Reconstruction, Nicodemus in this "Sunflower State" was the 1st Black settlement west of the Mississippi.
  • Kansas.
  • 2: By the end of Reconstruction, production of this "king" crop in the South was nearly equal to pre-war levels.
  • cotton.
  • 3: This largest Tennessee city needed its own reconstruction after 1866 race riots there.
  • Memphis.
  • 4: Ironically, President Johnson opposed the 14th Amendment but this state was the first former Confederate state to pass it.
  • Tennessee.
  • 5: In 1872 the Union general this D.C. HBCU was named for wrote about "the cosmopolitan character of the university".
  • Howard.

Round 4. Category: Birth, Art, Death

  • 1: Born Aug. 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh,"Mao",died Feb. 22, 1987.
  • Andy Warhol.
  • 2: Born 1606 in the Netherlands,"The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp",died 1669.
  • Rembrandt.
  • 3: Born 1834 in Massachusetts,"Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Thomas Carlyle", died 1903.
  • Whistler.
  • 4: Born 1912 in Wyoming,"Lavender Mist", died 1956 in East Hampton, New York.
  • Pollock.
  • 5: Born 1859 in Paris, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"died 1891.
  • (Georges) Seurat.

Round 5. Category: Musical Prime Numbers

  • 1: Prince:"2000 zero zero party over, oops, out of time, so tonight I'm gonna party like it's blank".
  • 1999.
  • 2: ABBA:"You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only blank".
  • 17.
  • 3: Counting Crows:"In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in blank he came home across the deep blue sea".
  • 1493.
  • 4: Foreigner:"Well I'm hot blooded, check it and see, got a fever of blank".
  • 103.
  • 5: Blink-182:"That's about the time she walked away from me, nobody likes you when you're blank".
  • 23.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1109, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 3-Name The Author

  • 1: "Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out".
  • Louisa May Alcott.
  • 2: "Kidnapped".
  • Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • 3: "The Deerslayer".
  • James Fenimore Cooper.
  • 4: "The Maine Woods", published posthumously in 1864.
  • Henry David Thoreau.
  • 5: "The Magician of Lublin".
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Round 2. Category: Et Al.. With Et in quotation marks

  • 1: Stones do it to tools and smells do it to appetites.
  • whet.
  • 2: In proofreading it means "don't delete".
  • a stet.
  • 3: It can mean a temporary bed or a movers' platform.
  • a pallet.
  • 4: It used to mean to hinder, as in a serve that grazes the net.
  • let.
  • 5: Owners of these pets usually remove the animals' scent glands.
  • ferrets.

Round 3. Category: Butler

  • 1: Carson, the butler on this TV show, said, "Keeping up standards is the only way to show the Germans... they will not beat us".
  • Downton Abbey.
  • 2: On TV 6'9" Ted Cassidy played this "Addams Family" butler.
  • Lurch.
  • 3: "Some men just want to watch the world burn", says this butler in a 2008 film.
  • Alfred.
  • 4: The name of this butler to Frank-N-Furter in "Rocky Horror" sounds like he's one of the lowest class of people.
  • Riff-Raff.
  • 5: "The Third" incarnation of this "colorful snake" finds Rowan Atkinson playing butler to Prince George.
  • Blackadder.

Round 4. Category: Classic Tv Drama Episodes

  • 1: "Jessica Behind Bars".
  • Murder, She Wrote.
  • 2: 1964:"Ponderosa Matador".
  • Bonanza.
  • 3: 1963:"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".
  • The Twilight Zone.
  • 4: "Ewing vs. Ewing".
  • Dallas.
  • 5: "The Trouble with Tribbles".
  • Star Trek.

Round 5. Category: The 5 Families

  • 1: Original surname of the first and third prime ministers of India.
  • Nehru.
  • 2: Beginning with Henry VII, this family ruled England from 1485 to 1603.
  • the Tudors.
  • 3: Every year from 1947 to 2011, a member of this family served in Congress; in 2013 the family began a new streak.
  • the Kennedys.
  • 4: The Newhouse publishing family started with the Bayonne Times and now owns this "Glamour" -ous magazine concern.
  • Condé Nast.
  • 5: Holy Roman Empire! This ruling family sat in the emperor's chair almost uninterrupted from 1438 to 1806.
  • the Hapsburgs.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1108, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Sing That Song

  • 1: "I Will Wait" is by this singer and sons (though they aren't really his sons).
  • Mumford and Sons.
  • 2: In 1970 "I'll Be There" was the fourth consecutive No. 1 hit for these siblings.
  • The Jackson 5.
  • 3: Bono sang, "The real battle just begun / to claim the victory Jesus won / on" this U2 song title.
  • "Sunday Bloody Sunday".
  • 4: This movie song begins, "Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you".
  • "My Heart Will Go On".
  • 5: "I remember when we broke up the first time", begins this Taylor Swift song with a 7-word title.
  • "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together".

Round 2. Category: Stay Cool

  • 1: Miles Davis was central to the musical movement known as "cool" this.
  • jazz.
  • 2: With flavors like Cool Ranch, it's no surprise this chip brand has a cool stylized triangle on its bags.
  • Doritos.
  • 3: In the Holocene Epoch, we've had a "medieval cool period" from 1250 to 1500 and a "little" one of these just after.
  • an ice age.
  • 4: Riff in this Broadway musical suggests that despite the rocket you may have in your pocket, "Keep coolly cool, boy".
  • West Side Story.
  • 5: Who knew gangsters could thrive in Hollywood? "Be Cool" was this novelist's follow-up to "Get Shorty".
  • Elmore Leonard.

Round 3. Category: The Jeopardy! School Of Enlightenment

  • 1: Boundless capacity, or a number greater than any countable quantity.
  • infinity.
  • 2: Another word for compassion; Jesus said those who practice it will have it shown to them.
  • mercy.
  • 3: A learned, venerable person; it sounds like an aromatic herb of the mint family used to season food.
  • sage.
  • 4: As taught by Lao Tzu, this is "the way", the religion of living a virtuous life of humility and piety.
  • Taoism.
  • 5: It can mean the lighting used to decorate a building, or someone's spiritual or intellectual understanding.
  • illumination.

Round 4. Category: Complete The Hugo Award-Winning Title

  • 1: 1960:"blank Troopers" by Robert Heinlein.
  • Starship.
  • 2: 1970:'The Left Hand of blank" by Ursula K. Le Guin.
  • Darkness.
  • 3: 1974:"blank With Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke.
  • Rendezvous.
  • 4: 1968:"I Have No Mouth, and I Must blank " by Harlan Ellison.
  • Scream.
  • 5: 1961:"A blank for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr..
  • Canticle.

Round 5. Category: Villainous Movie Schemes

  • 1: In a 1973 film Edward Fox, as an assassin with the code name of this other canine, tried to kill de Gaulle.
  • The Jackal.
  • 2: In "Space Jam" the alien Nerdlucks kidnap Looney Tunes stars, who turn to this man for help.
  • Michael Jordan.
  • 3: Rebecca de Mornay, not Fran Drescher, uses this job to get revenge in "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle".
  • Nanny.
  • 4: 1988 film in which Alan Rickman takes over a high-rise building to steal bonds.
  • Die Hard.
  • 5: 1996 film in which John Travolta takes time out from his job as an Air Force pilot to steal bombs.
  • Broken Arrow.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1107, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Da Or Ba Or Dee. With Da" Or "Ba" Or "Dee in quotes

  • 1: When Santa gives these creatures P.T.O. in the summer, some travel up to 800 miles for grazing grounds.
  • reindeer.
  • 2: It's the last name of a film character played by both Gary Cooper and Adam Sandler.
  • Deeds.
  • 3: Its name origin is African but this instrument is now widely associated with the music of Latin America.
  • marimba.
  • 4: It's a word describing motorcyclist Bud Ekins, or the name of a Marvel hero.
  • daredevil.
  • 5: Herb Caen referred to San Francisco as this place "by-the-Bay".
  • Baghdad.

Round 2. Category: Sports Films

  • 1: Sylvester Stallone was inspired to write this film after seeing underdog Chuck Wepner take on Muhammad Ali.
  • Rocky.
  • 2: In "Knute Rockne: All American", this actor delivered the famous deathbed line "Win one for the Gipper".
  • Ronald Reagan.
  • 3: This 1981 film about 2 participants in the 1924 Olympics ran off with 4 Oscars including Best Picture.
  • Chariots of Fire.
  • 4: Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins struck up a romance after meeting on the set of this baseball flick.
  • Bull Durham.
  • 5: This 1977 film featured Paul Newman as aging hockey coach Reggie Dunlop.
  • Slap Shot.

Round 3. Category: Home States

  • 1: Butch Cassidy,Roseanne,Donny Osmond.
  • Utah.
  • 2: Robert Motherwell,Kurt Cobain,Bill Gates.
  • Washington.
  • 3: Thomas Dewey,Henry Ford,Madonna.
  • Michigan.
  • 4: Dana Carvey,Evel Knievel,Jeannette Rankin.
  • Montana.
  • 5: Amelia Earhart,Edgar Lee Masters,Dennis Hopper.
  • Kansas.

Round 4. Category: 7, 8 Or 9

  • 1: Number of Snow White's height-challenged housemates.
  • 7.
  • 2: The one that starts with 2 vowels.
  • 8.
  • 3: In the famous Christmas poem, Santa's sleigh is pulled by this many tiny reindeer.
  • 8.
  • 4: Number of classic "Ancient Wonders" that included the Colossus of Rhodes.
  • 7.
  • 5: Some people compare happiness to being on this number cloud.
  • 9.

Round 5. Category: As A Young Man

  • 1: …He covered the Boer War for the Morning Post, got captured, escaped and became a national hero.
  • Winston Churchill.
  • 2: …as a pre-teen this "Le Nozze di Figaro" composer wrote a one-act German singspiel.
  • Mozart.
  • 3: …he was tutored by Aristotle and then beat Darius III at Issus.
  • Alexander the Great.
  • 4: …in the 1300s B.C. he made Thebes Egypt's capital and changed his name to honor Amon.
  • Tutankhamon.
  • 5: …he ran his brother's senatorial campaign, then investigated Hoffa and the Teamsters.
  • Bobby Kennedy.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1106, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: European Lit

  • 1: Yannis Ritsos' poetry collection "O Epitafios" was symbolically burned at the foot of this hill.
  • the Acropolis.
  • 2: This 1759 Voltaire work attacks optimism by putting the title trusting young man through misery.
  • Candide.
  • 3: Her diary was originally published in Dutch in 1947 as "Het Achterhuis".
  • Anne Frank.
  • 4: When he lashed Norwegian society in "A Doll's House", he had been in his homeland only once in 15 years.
  • Ibsen.
  • 5: "Outpouring Of The Heart Of An Art-Loving Lay Brother" from 1797 is called the first German work in this movement.
  • romanticism.

Round 2. Category: First 3 Letters Of States

  • 1: It's a number.
  • Tennessee.
  • 2: Past tense of "is".
  • Washington.
  • 3: Rock containing a sought-after metal.
  • Oregon.
  • 4: Grifters are this kind of "men".
  • Connecticut.
  • 5: Jeremy Piven's agent role.
  • Arizona.

Round 3. Category: Word Up!

  • 1: Wet, sticky substance campaigners "sling".
  • mud.
  • 2: A thesaurus lists among this 2-letter word's synonyms: "Over one's dead body" and "Not for all the tea in China".
  • no.
  • 3: Insult a Finn and he may just turn his other poski, this.
  • cheek.
  • 4: Change your attitude, or rather one letter in attitude, to get this word meaning "height".
  • altitude.
  • 5: As a noun, it's a short whip; as a verb, to trim a photo.
  • Crop.

Round 4. Category: Health And Fitness

  • 1: On the BMI, this index, 25.0 to 29.9 is overweight; 30.0 and above is obese.
  • the Body Mass Index.
  • 2: The 4 basic food groups identified by U.S. nutritionists as necessary to maintain good health.
  • dairy products, grains, fruits and vegetables, and meat and fish.
  • 3: You should visit your dentist right away if you notice these are swollen or bleed easily.
  • gums.
  • 4: Researchers claim that between 7 and 7.9 hours of this activity nightly correlates best with longevity.
  • sleep.
  • 5: In October 1986, she had 3 different fitness tapes on the top ten videocassette sales list.
  • Jane Fonda.

Round 5. Category: Singing Solo

  • 1: "Kodachrome" and"Slip Slidin' Away".
  • Paul Simon.
  • 2: "Irreplaceable" and"If I Were A Boy".
  • Beyoncé.
  • 3: "Fortress Around Your Heart" and"We'll Be Together".
  • Sting.
  • 4: "Mad About You" and"Heaven Is A Place On Earth".
  • Belinda Carlisle.
  • 5: "Centerfield" and"The Old Man Down The Road".
  • John Fogerty.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1111, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ask The Nearest Hippie

  • 1: Have you and your teenagers Mao and Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents and kids?.
  • the generation gap.
  • 2: I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway?.
  • the VW Bus.
  • 3: Do you vote Green Party or write in this comedy duo who went "Up in Smoke" in the '70s?.
  • Cheech and Chong.
  • 4: Moving to Oregon? Does that have anything to do with the passage of measure 91 on the legalization of this?.
  • marijuana.
  • 5: Did you really witness the birth of this rhyming movement at an anti-war rally at UC Berkeley in 1965?.
  • flower power.

Round 2. Category: Quoting The Shakespeare Character

  • 1: "I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me".
  • Bottom.
  • 2: "Tell me, my daughters... which of you shall we say doth love us most".
  • King Lear.
  • 3: "For Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men".
  • Marc Antony.
  • 4: "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'".
  • Henry V.
  • 5: "Come unto these yellow sands, and then take hands".
  • Ariel.

Round 3. Category: Pulitzer Prize Categories

  • 1: Bill Mauldin in 1945 and 1959.
  • Cartooning.
  • 2: Joe Rosenthal in 1945 for work done on Iwo Jima.
  • Photography.
  • 3: Robert Lowell in 1947 and 1974.
  • Poetry.
  • 4: Samuel Barber in 1958 and 1963.
  • Music.
  • 5: David McCullough, twice.
  • Biography.

Round 4. Category: Good Sportsmanship

  • 1: J.P. Hayes cost himself a 2009 spot on this tour by confessing to using an unapproved ball.
  • the PGA tour.
  • 2: In 2008 Central Wash. players of this sport carried injured Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon around the bases.
  • softball.
  • 3: Mike Bossy and Alexander Mogilny have won the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly conduct in this sport.
  • hockey.
  • 4: The chronicles of this hard-serving American include, in 2005, calling an opponent's shot in, costing himself the match.
  • Andy Roddick.
  • 5: This backcourt partner of Isiah Thomas on the "bad boys" of Detroit won the NBA's 1st Sportsmanship Award.
  • Joe Dumars.

Round 5. Category: LandS Of The World. With Land in quotes

  • 1: This 840,000-square mile area belonging to Denmark lies within 15 miles of Canada.
  • Greenland.
  • 2: The crusade of Father Theobald Mathew reduced this island's whiskey intake by half in the early 1840s.
  • Ireland.
  • 3: From 1900 to 1982 Sobhuza II was king of this country surrounded on 3 sides by South Africa.
  • Swaziland.
  • 4: It's the only U.S. state that fits the category.
  • Maryland (or Rhode Island).
  • 5: Poet John Donne compared his mistress' body to this Canadian province.
  • Newfoundland.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1105, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: They Don'T Live On Sesame Street

  • 1: South African-born Ernie Els is a longtime standout performer in this pro sport.
  • golf.
  • 2: Bert wasn't a doctor, but Dr. Paul Bert made important studies of divers with decompression sickness, also known as this.
  • the bends.
  • 3: Accompanying him on his post-White House trek to the Amazon, Kermit was the second son of this U.S. president.
  • Theodore Roosevelt.
  • 4: Big birds of the world include the 6-foot, 30-pound Dalmatian variety of this avian with a large bill and an elastic throat pouch.
  • a pelican.
  • 5: The grandfather of this Broadway lyricist was a major impresario of Vaudeville and opera.
  • Oscar Hammerstein.

Round 2. Category: Yes, I'Ve Eton

  • 1: He hopefully had a ball at Eton before going on to write "Thunderball".
  • Fleming.
  • 2: We know he revisited his "Brave New World" in 1958, but we don't know if he attended any Eton reunions.
  • (Aldous) Huxley.
  • 3: Marshall Field III, who had fun times at Eton, merged his Sun and Times papers in this city in 1948.
  • Chicago.
  • 4: James Oglethorpe went to Eton, did other stuff, then founded this colony in America.
  • Georgia.
  • 5: As a student at Eton, he did not have his own laptop computer, despite being second in line to the British throne.
  • Prince William.

Round 3. Category: Consumer Products

  • 1: Released in 1956 as a "house and garden bug killer", it uses the ad line "Kills Bugs Dead".
  • Raid.
  • 2: In 1989 this shoemaker introduced The Pump, a hot-selling inflatable sports shoe.
  • Reebok.
  • 3: During WWII this 100% whole wheat breakfast cereal contained "12 Large Biscuits" in every box.
  • Shredded Wheat.
  • 4: Originally just an apple, this firm's trademark became one of the first used for textiles in 1871.
  • Fruit of the Loom.
  • 5: This all-purpose "Formula" for cleaning is named after the number of tries it took to get it right.
  • Formula 409.

Round 4. Category: Composers All Around

  • 1: Music Tim Carleton wrote at age 16 was used by phone maker Cisco and has been heard by millions as this--your call is important to us.
  • hold music.
  • 2: A 1974 march for tuba by Luciano Michelini became the circusy-sounding theme to this HBO comedy.
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm.
  • 3: Known as "The Bong", the 5-note theme for this chip maker "Inside" a lot of computers was composed in 1994 by Walter Werzowa.
  • Intel.
  • 4: BJ Leiderman wrote themes for NPR programs like "Morning Edition" and this Saturday and Sunday counterpart.
  • Weekend Edition.
  • 5: Adam Schlesinger of this "Stacy's Mom" band also composed 157 songs for TV's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend".
  • Fountains of Wayne.

Round 5. Category: How Inspirational

  • 1: When your prom date leaves the dance without you, recall the proverb, this "heals all wounds".
  • time.
  • 2: This saint of Assisi said, "Where there is hatred, let me sow love... where there is despair, hope".
  • Francis.
  • 3: Thinking of his sins, poet Heinrich Heine said, "Of course" God will do this to "me; that's his business".
  • forgive.
  • 4: In 1903 Pope Pius X wrote, "Where justice is lacking there can be no hope of" this, pax in Latin.
  • peace.
  • 5: This "Candide" author helped popularize the saying, "The perfect is the enemy of the good".
  • Voltaire.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1111, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ask The Nearest Hippie

  • 1: Have you and your teenagers Mao and Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents and kids?.
  • the generation gap.
  • 2: I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway?.
  • the VW Bus.
  • 3: Do you vote Green Party or write in this comedy duo who went "Up in Smoke" in the '70s?.
  • Cheech and Chong.
  • 4: Moving to Oregon? Does that have anything to do with the passage of measure 91 on the legalization of this?.
  • marijuana.
  • 5: Did you really witness the birth of this rhyming movement at an anti-war rally at UC Berkeley in 1965?.
  • flower power.

Round 2. Category: Quoting The Shakespeare Character

  • 1: "I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me".
  • Bottom.
  • 2: "Tell me, my daughters... which of you shall we say doth love us most".
  • King Lear.
  • 3: "For Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men".
  • Marc Antony.
  • 4: "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'".
  • Henry V.
  • 5: "Come unto these yellow sands, and then take hands".
  • Ariel.

Round 3. Category: Pulitzer Prize Categories

  • 1: Bill Mauldin in 1945 and 1959.
  • Cartooning.
  • 2: Joe Rosenthal in 1945 for work done on Iwo Jima.
  • Photography.
  • 3: Robert Lowell in 1947 and 1974.
  • Poetry.
  • 4: Samuel Barber in 1958 and 1963.
  • Music.
  • 5: David McCullough, twice.
  • Biography.

Round 4. Category: Good Sportsmanship

  • 1: J.P. Hayes cost himself a 2009 spot on this tour by confessing to using an unapproved ball.
  • the PGA tour.
  • 2: In 2008 Central Wash. players of this sport carried injured Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon around the bases.
  • softball.
  • 3: Mike Bossy and Alexander Mogilny have won the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly conduct in this sport.
  • hockey.
  • 4: The chronicles of this hard-serving American include, in 2005, calling an opponent's shot in, costing himself the match.
  • Andy Roddick.
  • 5: This backcourt partner of Isiah Thomas on the "bad boys" of Detroit won the NBA's 1st Sportsmanship Award.
  • Joe Dumars.

Round 5. Category: LandS Of The World. With Land in quotes

  • 1: This 840,000-square mile area belonging to Denmark lies within 15 miles of Canada.
  • Greenland.
  • 2: The crusade of Father Theobald Mathew reduced this island's whiskey intake by half in the early 1840s.
  • Ireland.
  • 3: From 1900 to 1982 Sobhuza II was king of this country surrounded on 3 sides by South Africa.
  • Swaziland.
  • 4: It's the only U.S. state that fits the category.
  • Maryland (or Rhode Island).
  • 5: Poet John Donne compared his mistress' body to this Canadian province.
  • Newfoundland.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1104, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Confirmation Code Is Rlktd

  • 1: R as in this unusual way 1950s football lineman Bob St. Clair liked his meat.
  • raw.
  • 2: L as in this island event where you literally pig out.
  • a luau.
  • 3: K as in this brown seaweed that can be used as soup stock or turned into a powder for use as a seasoning.
  • kelp.
  • 4: T as in this old word, a promise to marry that you might plight.
  • troth.
  • 5: D as in this word for a quilt that in French means a bird's plumage.
  • duvet.

Round 2. Category: The Mother Of All Words. With Mother in quotation marks

  • 1: A female sponsor for a child at baptism.
  • a godmother.
  • 2: Title for a female adult leader of a small group of Cub Scouts.
  • a den mother.
  • 3: Nacre.
  • mother-of-pearl.
  • 4: It's what Emma Lazarus called the Statue of Liberty in her poem for it.
  • the Mother of Exiles.
  • 5: The H110MX-S is this product from Foxconn.
  • a motherboard.

Round 3. Category: Chamber Music

  • 1: A 1996 sonata by Lowell Lieberman is for flute and this, also a popular pairing at weddings.
  • a harp.
  • 2: Though pianists like Rubinstein might protest, Brahms' 2-player opus 78 is known as this instrument's sonata.
  • violin.
  • 3: A violinist, cellist and pianist from Denmark rhymingly call themselves this "con Brio".
  • a Trio.
  • 4: Bela Bartok wrote a trio called "Rhapsody" for this woodwind whose sound opens "Rhapsody In Blue".
  • clarinet.
  • 5: This composer's "Musical Offering" is based on a theme given him by Frederick the Great in 1747.
  • Bach.

Round 4. Category: Buff Actors

  • 1: 45 seconds of Sharon Stone and this naked actor were cut from "Basic Instinct" to get an R rating.
  • Michael Douglas.
  • 2: In his 1995 film "Braveheart", this actor-director showed us what Scotsmen wear under their kilts.
  • Mel Gibson.
  • 3: Holly Hunter was speechless when Harvey Keitel exposed himself in this 1993 film.
  • The Piano.
  • 4: Killer Schwarzenegger cyborg whose time travel device can't send his clothes with him.
  • the Terminator.
  • 5: Jaye Davidson surprised movie audiences when he slipped out of his clothes in this 1992 film.
  • The Crying Game.

Round 5. Category: Nfl Rules

  • 1: (Hi, I'm Brian Mitchell.) A punt returner who waves his hand over his head isn't swatting for flies, he's signaling for this.
  • a fair catch.
  • 2: (I'm Dan Fouts, Hall of Famer.) As it should be, there's an automatic 15-yard penalty for roughing the kicker or this person.
  • the quarterback.
  • 3: (Hi, I'm Keyshawn Johnson.) This infraction includes but is not limited to hooking the receiver, grabbing my arm, etc..
  • pass interference.
  • 4: (Hi, I'm Hall of Famer Dan Hampton.) Also a hockey penalty, it's called for using the hands illegally -- hey, it was the only way to stop me.
  • holding.
  • 5: (Hi, I'm Joey Galloway.) Only one player at a time may do this, run parallel to the line to confuse the defense.
  • go in motion.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1111, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ask The Nearest Hippie

  • 1: Have you and your teenagers Mao and Cosmos resolved this, a phrase from the '60s meaning a distance between parents and kids?.
  • the generation gap.
  • 2: I'm late for work; do you mind moving this large Volkswagen model first sold in 1950 out of my driveway?.
  • the VW Bus.
  • 3: Do you vote Green Party or write in this comedy duo who went "Up in Smoke" in the '70s?.
  • Cheech and Chong.
  • 4: Moving to Oregon? Does that have anything to do with the passage of measure 91 on the legalization of this?.
  • marijuana.
  • 5: Did you really witness the birth of this rhyming movement at an anti-war rally at UC Berkeley in 1965?.
  • flower power.

Round 2. Category: Quoting The Shakespeare Character

  • 1: "I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me".
  • Bottom.
  • 2: "Tell me, my daughters... which of you shall we say doth love us most".
  • King Lear.
  • 3: "For Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men".
  • Marc Antony.
  • 4: "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'".
  • Henry V.
  • 5: "Come unto these yellow sands, and then take hands".
  • Ariel.

Round 3. Category: Pulitzer Prize Categories

  • 1: Bill Mauldin in 1945 and 1959.
  • Cartooning.
  • 2: Joe Rosenthal in 1945 for work done on Iwo Jima.
  • Photography.
  • 3: Robert Lowell in 1947 and 1974.
  • Poetry.
  • 4: Samuel Barber in 1958 and 1963.
  • Music.
  • 5: David McCullough, twice.
  • Biography.

Round 4. Category: Good Sportsmanship

  • 1: J.P. Hayes cost himself a 2009 spot on this tour by confessing to using an unapproved ball.
  • the PGA tour.
  • 2: In 2008 Central Wash. players of this sport carried injured Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon around the bases.
  • softball.
  • 3: Mike Bossy and Alexander Mogilny have won the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly conduct in this sport.
  • hockey.
  • 4: The chronicles of this hard-serving American include, in 2005, calling an opponent's shot in, costing himself the match.
  • Andy Roddick.
  • 5: This backcourt partner of Isiah Thomas on the "bad boys" of Detroit won the NBA's 1st Sportsmanship Award.
  • Joe Dumars.

Round 5. Category: LandS Of The World. With Land in quotes

  • 1: This 840,000-square mile area belonging to Denmark lies within 15 miles of Canada.
  • Greenland.
  • 2: The crusade of Father Theobald Mathew reduced this island's whiskey intake by half in the early 1840s.
  • Ireland.
  • 3: From 1900 to 1982 Sobhuza II was king of this country surrounded on 3 sides by South Africa.
  • Swaziland.
  • 4: It's the only U.S. state that fits the category.
  • Maryland (or Rhode Island).
  • 5: Poet John Donne compared his mistress' body to this Canadian province.
  • Newfoundland.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1103, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Shakespeare'S Endings

  • 1: "With the help of your good hands, gentle breath of yours my sails must fill, or else my project fails".
  • The Tempest.
  • 2: "Gratiano, keep the house, and seize upon the fortunes of the Moor, for they succeed on you".
  • Othello.
  • 3: "We will unite the white rose and the red, smile heaven upon this fair conjunction".
  • Richard III.
  • 4: "Take up the bodies. such a sight as this becomes the field, but here shows much amiss".
  • Hamlet.
  • 5: "As for that ravenous tiger Tamora... being dead, let birds on her take pity".
  • Titus Andronicus.

Round 2. Category: Let It Snow

  • 1: In a 3-day period in November 2014, this second-most-populous city in New York got 7 feet of the white stuff.
  • Buffalo.
  • 2: From July 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999, the Mount Baker ski area in this "Evergreen State" got 1,140" of snow--that's 95 feet!.
  • Washington.
  • 3: In February 2015, Boston set a record for a month's snowfall with 58.5 inches by the 15th; this landmark helps tell the tale.
  • Fenway Park.
  • 4: On Dec. 30, 1963 this "Crescent City" got a record 5 inches of snow.
  • New Orleans.
  • 5: This state's 24-hour record for snowfall is 40 inches in Orono on Dec. 30, 1962.
  • Maine.

Round 3. Category: The Same Vowel, Every Other Letter

  • 1: This type of cloud forms in puffs, mounds or towers on a flat base.
  • cumulus.
  • 2: A brief 2-piece, poolside.
  • bikini.
  • 3: A diamond salesman has this job.
  • a jeweler.
  • 4: Also used as a royal epithet, it means calm or peaceful.
  • serene.
  • 5: It's also known as the pygmy chimpanzee.
  • the bonobo.

Round 4. Category: Album Cuts

  • 1: Michael Jackson:"Beat It" and"Billie Jean".
  • Thriller.
  • 2: Santana:"Put Your Lights On" and"Smooth".
  • Supernatural.
  • 3: Taylor Swift:"Sparks Fly" and"Mine".
  • Speak Now.
  • 4: Eagles:"New Kid In Town" and"The Last Resort".
  • Hotel California.
  • 5: The White Stripes:"Seven Nation Army" and"You've Got Her In Your Pocket".
  • Elephant.

Round 5. Category: Tall Tales

  • 1: This logger's griddle was so big it had to be greased by men skating with bacon on their feet.
  • Paul Bunyan.
  • 2: Some of the tales about this Tennessee congressman were spread by his Whig allies.
  • Davy Crockett.
  • 3: Stormalong's soapy ship squeezed through the English Channel, leaving these cliffs clean and white.
  • White Cliffs of Dover.
  • 4: Annie Christmas, who unloaded boats in this Louisiana city, could carry a barrel of flour under each arm.
  • New Orleans.
  • 5: This "King of the Keelboatmen" boasted of being half-horse and half-alligator.
  • Mike Fink.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1102, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Around The Vatican

  • 1: The Vatican bank is unique in allowing ATM transactions to be conducted in this language.
  • Latin.
  • 2: This room with a ceiling fresco is where the Cardinals vote for a new pope.
  • the Sistine Chapel.
  • 3: The Vatican one of these was established by Pope Nicholas V, "The Great Humanist".
  • the library.
  • 4: The Vatican compiled a list of some 4,000 works in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or "Index of" these.
  • prohibited books.
  • 5: In 1506 Pope Julius II founded this Vatican military group.
  • the Swiss Guard.

Round 2. Category: Pork And Mindy

  • 1: Mindy's up on her slang and knows you can "bring home" this porky term -- or if you're in trouble, you can "save" yours.
  • bacon.
  • 2: Mindy's not overacting but is livin' on this meat from the hind leg of the hog; it's rich in thiamine and iron.
  • ham.
  • 3: On vacation, Mindy saw a '95 film about this title porker, known in Taiwan as "I am not Stupid, I have Something to Say".
  • Babe.
  • 4: Multi-tasking Mindy knows this term for a type of pig can also apply to a stove.
  • potbelly.
  • 5: Mindy goes semiwild hog with the Arkansas football team to name this type of pig.
  • the razorbacks.

Round 3. Category: Measuring Devices

  • 1: An ebullioscope is used to determine this in liquids.
  • the boiling point.
  • 2: A chronoscope is used to measure this.
  • time.
  • 3: The amount of this in a solution can be measured by a saccharometer.
  • sugar.
  • 4: You might want to put one of these on the plain in Spain to measure how much precipitation occurs.
  • a rain gauge.
  • 5: The energy from this is measured by a pyrheliometer.
  • the Sun.

Round 4. Category: It'S Da End. With Da in quotes

  • 1: Material used to advance a cause; it's original sense was the early 17th century advancement of the Catholic cause.
  • propaganda.
  • 2: These short notes are written as reminders.
  • memoranda.
  • 3: Something in its entirety is said to be "the whole" this Mexican food dish.
  • enchilada.
  • 4: Italian for "tail", it's the tail end of a musical composition or movement.
  • a coda.
  • 5: Rudolf Rassendyll is the sword-wielding narrator of "The Prisoner of" here.
  • Zenda.

Round 5. Category: Books For Cooks

  • 1: A cookbook that promises "A Culinary Journey Through India" is called "Beyond" this 5-letter dish.
  • curry.
  • 2: Mimi Kirk explains how to "Live" this 3-letter way in which food is not cooked over 118 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • raw.
  • 3: This brand, "the original slow cooker", offers a book of its "Best-Loved Slow Cooker Recipes".
  • Crock-Pot.
  • 4: This title "At Home" is one of Ina Garten's many cookbooks.
  • Barefoot Contessa.
  • 5: This savory meat jelly is covered in the cold buffet chapter of Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking".
  • aspic.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1101, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: An Imp Of A Rhyme

  • 1: To spend time making adjustments to one's appearance.
  • primp.
  • 2: "Snoopy One" was one for Metlife.
  • blimp.
  • 3: 6-letter word meaning to economize.
  • scrimp.
  • 4: Crangon crangon is the scientific name for the common European one.
  • shrimp.
  • 5: To connect 2 wires by squeezing the ends together.
  • crimp.

Round 2. Category: One Man'S Meat. With Meat in quotation marks

  • 1: This term for anything essential or basic could also refer to steak and home fries.
  • Meat and potatoes.
  • 2: Bill Murray summer camped it up in this 1979 comedy.
  • Meatballs.
  • 3: (Hi, I'm Earl Brown.) In 1978 two out of three wasn't bad for this singer who I played on VH1 in 2000.
  • Meat Loaf.
  • 4: Slang term for a singles bar, or any place with a similar atmosphere.
  • Meat market.
  • 5: For example: bonbons, chocolate, toffee...anyone hungry yet?.
  • Sweet meats.

Round 3. Category: It'S A Special Day

  • 1: Made a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, it's also known as Black Independence Day.
  • Juneteenth.
  • 2: Every March brings a holiday in Iran on the date in 1951 when the country nationalized this industry.
  • the oil industry.
  • 3: This U.S. territory celebrates Flag Day on April 17, the day in 1900 that Old Glory was raised in Fagatogo on Tutuila Island.
  • American Samoa.
  • 4: Jerusalem's November 29 Street is named for the day in 1947 the U.N. voted to partition this British-controlled land.
  • Palestine.
  • 5: If you're in Peru in June, head to Cuzco on the 24th for Inti Raymi, "Sun Festival" in this language.
  • Quechuan.

Round 4. Category: Beauty And The Greek

  • 1: Her name comes from the Greek for "gift"; Zeus gift-boxed her for the human race as punishment.
  • Pandora.
  • 2: Cheating Zeus hung his jealous wife Hera by her wrists on this mountain.
  • Mount Olympus.
  • 3: Plato said this Greek love goddess was actually 2 individuals: Urania and Pandemos.
  • Aphrodite.
  • 4: "Mourning becomes" this nymph who became one of the Pleiades.
  • Elektra.
  • 5: Zeus allowed this underworld goddess to spend part of her time in the world above.
  • Persephone.

Round 5. Category: Mr. Dwayne Johnson

  • 1: Channeling his Pacific island heritage, Dwayne was the voice of Maui in this animated movie.
  • Moana.
  • 2: In the last 4 films in this speedy franchise, Dwayne has played Luke Hobbs.
  • Fast and Furious.
  • 3: D.J. flew a rescue chopper and saved lives in this "fault"-y disaster film.
  • San Andreas.
  • 4: In "Central Intelligence", Dwayne teamed up to catch a spy with this actor of smaller stature.
  • Kevin Hart.
  • 5: Still billed as "The Rock" in his film debut "The Mummy Returns", Dwayne played this ruler restored to life by ancient magic.
  • the Scorpion King.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1100, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Home, Sweet Home

  • 1: From 1903 to 1957, Beauvoir, his former home in Biloxi, was a home for Confederate veterans and their widows.
  • Jefferson Davis.
  • 2: Ralph Waldo Emerson owned a Concord home nicknamed this; Hawthorne rented it and wrote some "Mosses from" it.
  • the Old Manse.
  • 3: The site of this author's birth in Sauk Centre, Minnesota is now on an avenue named for him.
  • Sinclair Lewis.
  • 4: The Independence, Mo. house he lived in from 1919 belonged to his wife Bess' family.
  • Harry Truman.
  • 5: Michael Jackson, who identified with Peter Pan, lived on a sprawling California ranch he called this.
  • Neverland.

Round 2. Category: Horton Hears A Hoosier

  • 1: This aviator first flew into the world near Millville on April 16, 1867; Orville landed in Ohio in 1871.
  • Wilbur Wright.
  • 2: From this Hoosier's "Top Ten New Words of 2010": Lohab and baconfetti.
  • (David) Letterman.
  • 3: This 1960s Teamsters president was born on Valentine's Day 1913 in Brazil, Indiana.
  • Jimmy Hoffa.
  • 4: His website says he "dedicated his life to perfecting a lighter, fluffier popcorn", a life that began in Brazil, Ind. in 1907.
  • Redenbacher.
  • 5: In 1965 this Indianapolis-born novelist published "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater".
  • Vonnegut.

Round 3. Category: Big Screen Bloodsuckers

  • 1: The hypnotic eyes of this actor created a shiver of fear in his audiences as well as his victims.
  • Bela Lugosi.
  • 2: It was "Love At First Bite" for this actor when he played Count Dracula in 1979.
  • George Hamilton.
  • 3: The consumate vampire, this tall, dark and gruesome actor played a bloodsucker in 7 Hammer Studio films.
  • Christopher Lee.
  • 4: "Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck" was the subtitle of this Roman Polanski horror spoof.
  • The Fearless Vampire Killers.
  • 5: Before taking a bite out of Susan Sarandon, this French actress put David Bowie in a box in 1983's "The Hunger".
  • Catherine Deneuve.

Round 4. Category: They Named A Mountain For Me

  • 1: Mount Walsh in the Yukon is named for an officer in the North West Mounted Police, today known as this force.
  • the Mounties.
  • 2: Mount Clarence King in this range is named for the man who discovered Mount Whitney.
  • the Sierra Nevadas.
  • 3: The USA's 14,264-foot Mount Evans was named for the second governor of this then-territory.
  • Colorado.
  • 4: The Agassizhorn in the Bernese section of these mountains is named for a 19th century scientist.
  • the Alps.
  • 5: Imeni Ismail Samani Peak, the highest in Tajikistan, used to be named after this man (like some other places).
  • Stalin.

Round 5. Category: 3-Letter Words Ending In X

  • 1: Suit for a formal.
  • a tux.
  • 2: To dishonestly influence something to reach a predetermined outcome.
  • fix.
  • 3: To bewitch someone or cast a spell upon them is to do this.
  • hex.
  • 4: To disturb with minor irritations.
  • vex.
  • 5: No war, for a Roman.
  • pax.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1099, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Waits And Measures

  • 1: This name for a type of ounce used to measure gold comes from a city in medieval France, not ancient Turkey.
  • the troy ounce.
  • 2: One U.S. beer barrel contains 31 of these units; that's nearly 4,000 delicious ounces.
  • gallons.
  • 3: Glidden says it takes about an hour for latex this to dry; wanna watch?.
  • paint.
  • 4: A 2019 study found that Newark Airport had the longest average wait time, 23 minutes, in this 3-letter agency's lines.
  • the TSA.
  • 5: In 2019 more than 130,000 fans had their names on the Green Bay Packers' waiting list for these.
  • season tickets.

Round 2. Category: Czechs

  • 1: In the 1890s he moved briefly from Prague to New York City, inspiring his best-known symphony.
  • Dvořák.
  • 2: Czech-born director Forman and Czech prime minister Zeman share this first name.
  • Milos.
  • 3: After 74 years together, it was splitsville for the Czech Republic and this nation on January 1, 1993.
  • Slovakia.
  • 4: This international alliance welcomed the Czech Republic as a member in March 1999.
  • NATO.
  • 5: The Bohemian Czech king Charles IV held this "Holy" title from 1355 to 1378.
  • Holy Roman Emperor.

Round 3. Category: Who Wants Dessert?

  • 1: No dillydallying after taking this eggy dessert out of the oven; it will only stay fully risen for a minute or 2.
  • souffle.
  • 2: Colorful sprinkles baked in the batter turn ordinary birthday cake into this festive type, but don't toss it in celebration.
  • Funfetti (Confetti).
  • 3: This tangy dessert is an official state food of Florida.
  • key lime pie.
  • 4: At Christmas time we want traditional English this, slices of cake soaked in sherry and layered with fruit, custard and whipped cream.
  • trifle.
  • 5: Made with purple yams, ube hopia is a specialty of this country.
  • the Philippines.

Round 4. Category: Proofreading

  • 1: Using 3 right triangles, president and former math teacher James Garfield gave an original proof of this.
  • the Pythagorean Theorem.
  • 2: A proof that shows a statement to be true by building an example is called this, like helpful criticism.
  • constructive.
  • 3: There's no "di" in this term for a short theorem used to prove a larger one--but watch out for the horns anyway.
  • lemma.
  • 4: In 1637 he wrote, "I have discovered a truly remarkable proof, but this margin is too small to contain it".
  • Pierre de Fermat.
  • 5: Mathematicians were shocked to read his 1931 proof of the incompleteness of any given formal system.
  • Kurt Gödel.

Round 5. Category: I Got A Strait

  • 1: Bearing the name of an 8th century Berber conqueror, this strait separates 2 continents.
  • the Strait of Gibraltar.
  • 2: Some ancestors of Native Americans are believed to have crossed from Asia over what's now this about 13,000 years ago.
  • the Bering Strait.
  • 3: The Channel Tunnel travels under this strait for more than 20 miles.
  • Strait of Dover.
  • 4: The 1905 Battle of Tsushima Strait near Korea was a decisive victory for Japan over this nation.
  • Russia.
  • 5: The Sunda Strait connects the Indian Ocean with this sea that shares its name with an island.
  • the Java Sea.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1098, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Heavy Metal Heroes

  • 1: He bedeviled us as the lead singer of Black Sabbath before his reality TV fame.
  • (Ozzy) Osbourne.
  • 2: With his work on songs like "Hot For Teacher", some rank him as the greatest heavy metal guitarist.
  • Eddie Van Halen.
  • 3: 1980s heavy metal included this band that featured Izzy, Duff and Axl.
  • Guns N' Roses.
  • 4: "We're not gonna take it" if you can't name this band fronted by Dee Snider.
  • Twisted Sister.
  • 5: This "Fistful of Metal" band named itself for a disease.
  • Anthrax.

Round 2. Category: 5-Letter WS. With W in quotation marks

  • 1: The name of this dance is from German for "revolve".
  • the waltz.
  • 2: To twist a wet towel to extract all the moisture.
  • wring.
  • 3: An edible grass in the genus Triticum.
  • wheat.
  • 4: I can see it in your eyes when you do this, to flinch in pain.
  • wince.
  • 5: Roger, I heard your radio message and I'll use this combination of 2 words to indicate I'll do what you asked.
  • wilco.

Round 3. Category: More Nasal Passages

  • 1: The poem "Sing a Song of Sixpence" says, "Along came" one of these birds, "and snipped off her nose".
  • blackbird.
  • 2: "Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, entuned in hir nose ful semely" in the prologue to this masterpiece.
  • The Canterbury Tales.
  • 3: The heathens "have ears, but they hear not; noses have they, but they smell not" in no. 115 of this Biblical book.
  • Psalms.
  • 4: "My nose itched," wrote Jonathan Swift, "and I knew I should drink wine or" do this to "a fool".
  • kiss.
  • 5: "The nose of a mob is its imagination, by this...it can be quietly led", said this poet known for his "To Helen".
  • Edgar Allan Poe.

Round 4. Category: Elizabethan Plays And Playwrights

  • 1: In "Gorboduc", one of England's earliest plays in this genre, Porrex kills his brother; then their mother kills him.
  • a tragedy.
  • 2: Thomas Kyd helped establish the unrhyming form called this verse on the English stage.
  • blank verse.
  • 3: In John Lyly's 1595 play "The Woman in the Moon", shepherds ask Nature to create this first woman of Greek myth.
  • Pandora.
  • 4: This author of "Every Man in His Humour" was apparently out of humor when he stabbed a man to death in 1598.
  • Ben Jonson.
  • 5: Ian McKellen calls this author's "Edward II" "perhaps the first drama ever written with a homosexual hero".
  • Christopher Marlowe.

Round 5. Category: The 1780s

  • 1: He was given command of the Bounty in 1787.
  • Bligh.
  • 2: In 1788 French-Canadian trader Julien Dubuque became the first white settler in what is now this state.
  • Iowa.
  • 3: This first Constitution went into effect March 1, 1781 after Maryland became the last state to ratify it.
  • the Articles of Confederation.
  • 4: In 1784 Benjamin Franklin literally created a spectacle with his invention of these.
  • the bifocals.
  • 5: His "Blue-Backed Speller", published in 1783, helped standardize American spelling and pronunciation.
  • (Noah) Webster.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1097, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Nebraska, New York Or North Dakota

  • 1: The least populous.
  • North Dakota.
  • 2: Its name does not have a Native American origin.
  • New York.
  • 3: The Oregon Trail crossed it.
  • Nebraska.
  • 4: The largest in area.
  • Nebraska.
  • 5: Its cities include Minot, Jamestown and Grand Forks.
  • North Dakota.

Round 2. Category: Mattel-Ica

  • 1: Can you identify this classic Mattel fortune-telling toy with an internal die that answers queries? Signs point to yes!.
  • the Magic 8-Ball.
  • 2: The Splittin' Image and the Peeping Bomb were among the models in this "fiery" Mattel toy car line introduced in 1968.
  • Hot Wheels.
  • 3: Mattel now makes this classic boxing game in which the Red Rocker and Blue Bomber try to knock each other's blocks off.
  • Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.
  • 4: "Let's play house" and "Please change my dress" were 2 of the 11 phrases said by this talkative doll introduced in 1959.
  • Chatty Cathy.
  • 5: Back in the '60s, you needed a Thingmaker to cook up the insect toys with this alliterative 2-word name.
  • Creepy Crawlers.

Round 3. Category: Emperors And Empresses

  • 1: He was a rear admiral in the Austrian navy before he became emperor of Mexico.
  • Maximilian.
  • 2: Carolus Magnus is the Latin name of this king of the Franks and emperor of the Romans.
  • Charlemagne.
  • 3: This "fiery" Roman emperor reportedly said, "I have only to...sing to have peace once more in Gaul".
  • Nero.
  • 4: This Ethiopian emperor's wife, Wayzaro Menen, was a great- granddaughter of Menelik II.
  • Haile Selassie.
  • 5: In 963 Nicephorus II was crowned Byzantine emperor in this most famous Byzantine church.
  • Santa Sophia.

Round 4. Category: Y. With Y in quotes

  • 1: Part of an egg, or a natural grease exuded from sheep skin; now it's on you.
  • yolk.
  • 2: "Seinfeld" popularized this repeating term meaning "and so on".
  • yada yada yada.
  • 3: This "Y" word is in the title of Robert Crawford's 1939 Air Corps (now Air Force) song.
  • yonder.
  • 4: You could say it's the desire to acquire this Japanese currency.
  • a yen.
  • 5: A plant of the agave family, or a Nevada mountain that may or may not end up full of nuclear waste.
  • Yucca.

Round 5. Category: 6-Letter SYnonyms. With S in quotation marks

  • 1: A child's teeter-totter.
  • a seesaw.
  • 2: Slang for a black eye.
  • a shiner.
  • 3: Candle bracket.
  • a sconce.
  • 4: An ape, or apelike.
  • simian.
  • 5: To envelop or to bandage.
  • swathe.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1096, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Things To Do On A Rainy Day

  • 1: Learn a new one of these from Duolingo.
  • (foreign) languages.
  • 2: Put together one of these; the 4,000-piece world map should take you a while.
  • a jigsaw puzzle.
  • 3: Assume the warrior pose, mountain pose or seated twist while practicing this.
  • yoga.
  • 4: Dress your dog in traditional colors and pretend it's this celebration.
  • Mardi Gras.
  • 5: If you have a piano, play his 1801 "Moonlight Sonata".
  • Beethoven.

Round 2. Category: Hunting And Fishing

  • 1: Also a poker hand, in hunting this word means to cause game birds to break cover or take flight.
  • flush.
  • 2: The dall, stone, and desert bighorn are North American species of this game animal.
  • sheep.
  • 3: Make sure all flesh is removed from the hide before you begin this process of turning it to leather or things will get smelly.
  • tanning.
  • 4: About 1560, the modern type of these originated in Redditch, England, a needle-making region.
  • steel fish hooks.
  • 5: In Florida, the bag limit for the largemouth type of this is 5 a day, so don't get greedy.
  • bass.

Round 3. Category: Dumb Guys' Greatest Inventions

  • 1: Dumb guys cherish this microwave button; they no longer have their ear to the door waiting for the kernels to quiet.
  • the popcorn button.
  • 2: Dumb guys now have a place to put their 32-oz. drinks; not only do these come in cars but they're on movie seats!.
  • cup holders.
  • 3: Dumb guys no longer rip lettuce apart to make it; Fresh Express has it in a bag! (Dumb guys still let it rot in the fridge).
  • salad.
  • 4: Dumb guys think it's cool they get to slide their own credit card at the store; even cooler? This word for "slide".
  • swipe.
  • 5: Dumb guys at desks feel smart clicking this and pushing the lead back in, especially considering its complicated name.
  • a mechanical pencil.

Round 4. Category: Hundreds

  • 1: Scrape together 100 pence and trade it into the Bank of England for 1 of these.
  • Pound.
  • 2: Richard Dawson hosted this show that featured surveys of 100 people.
  • Family Feud.
  • 3: In 1955 this magazine first published its list of the 500 largest U.S. corporations by annual revenue.
  • Fortune.
  • 4: In 2000 a roll or "coil" of 100 first-class stamps set you back this much at the post office.
  • $33.
  • 5: In Rio in 2016, Kenya's David Rudisha won this Olympic running event equal to 2 laps around an outdoor track.
  • the 800 meter.

Round 5. Category: New Technology

  • 1: Dogs take notice: a new A.I. with neuromorphic computing may recognize these emitted by narcotics and explosives.
  • scents.
  • 2: NASA's Parker Probe is the fastest man-made thing ever--it will hit the speed of 430,000 mph en route to this heavenly body.
  • the Sun.
  • 3: Using hydrogels, scientists achieved their goal of creating rudimentary versions of the charged organs in these marine animals.
  • (electric) eels.
  • 4: Airbus' solar-powered unmanned Zephyr aircraft can fly in this area of the atmosphere above the tropopause.
  • the stratosphere.
  • 5: Instead of contaminating a burger, this bacterium can now make indigo in a process invented by a biotech company.
  • E. coli.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1095, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Beastly Literary Characters

  • 1: The title character of this 19th c. tale had "a pretty white star on my forehead. I was thought very handsome".
  • Black Beauty.
  • 2: In the original Pinocchio story, the guy given this name in the movie is just called the talking cricket.
  • Jiminy Cricket.
  • 3: In a tale by Beatrix Potter, Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca are "two bad" these rodents.
  • mice.
  • 4: She is Harry Potter's pet owl and airmail delivery system.
  • Hedwig.
  • 5: Polynesia is the parrot who teaches this title physician how to talk to the animals.
  • Dr. Dolittle.

Round 2. Category: Everyone'S Taking Sides

  • 1: In Mexican cuisine, these are refried and served as a side dish.
  • beans.
  • 2: Croutons or bread crumbs can be used to make this traditional Thanksgiving side dish.
  • stuffing.
  • 3: Simmer ground hominy in milk or water to make this Southern side dish.
  • grits.
  • 4: We're at liberty to tell you that during WWI this German side dish was known in the U.S. as Liberty cabbage.
  • sauerkraut.
  • 5: Tzatziki is a Greek side dish made with cucumbers and this fermented milk product.
  • yogurt.

Round 3. Category: Foreign Relations

  • 1: In Swedish a brorsdotter is this.
  • niece.
  • 2: In French a frere is this, whether in the monastery or the family.
  • brother.
  • 3: Depending on where you are speaking Spanish, this relative could be a nana or an abuela.
  • grandmother.
  • 4: This older relative is a grosstante in German.
  • great-aunt.
  • 5: In Portuguese irma means this and cidade irma is this kind of city.
  • sister.

Round 4. Category: World Currency

  • 1: In 2018 its pres. Erdogan urged his people to take euros and dollars from under their pillows and convert them to the native lira.
  • Turkey.
  • 2: The name of this Maltese currency comes from the Latin libra, meaning "pound".
  • lira.
  • 3: In December 1995 Venezuela devalued by 41% this currency named for its liberator.
  • bolívar.
  • 4: In England, paper bills of this monetary unit come in denominations of 5, 10, 20 and 50.
  • pounds.
  • 5: After the U.S. pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal with this country in 2018, its currency plunged.
  • Iran.

Round 5. Category: To Donuts

  • 1: "The Donut" by Michael Krondl says the treat became popular with this profession back when all-night food options were few.
  • policemen.
  • 2: Milk and powdered sugar are Mark Bittman's 2 ingredients for this 5-letter substance that covers many a Krispy Kreme donut.
  • glaze.
  • 3: In Israel, jelly donuts are the traditional food during this winter holiday.
  • Hanukkah.
  • 4: Your basic donut shop donut is made with yeast; this crispy type named for a different treat uses baking powder.
  • a cake donut.
  • 5: The doughboys of the WWI U.S. Army were grateful for the "Donut Lassies" of this "Army".
  • the Salvation Army.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1094, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: You Just Made That Stuff Up

  • 1: It's the very hard-to-get substance that causes humans to set up shop on Pandora.
  • unobtanium.
  • 2: Fraudulin was the miracle ingredient in Crelm toothpaste in a 1970 episode by this comedy troupe.
  • Monty Python.
  • 3: Kyber crystals, which are attuned to the Force, glow either blue or green and power these weapons.
  • lightsabers.
  • 4: First mentioned in a 1943 "Adventures of Superman" radio show, when it debuted in the comics in 1949, it was red, not green.
  • kryptonite.
  • 5: This super-bouncy stuff from Disney's much-loved 1961 "The Absent-Minded Professor" was the title of a 1997 remake.
  • flubber.

Round 2. Category: You'Ve Got Yellow Fever

  • 1: Control of yellow fever greatly aided the completion of this large-scale Central American project in 1914.
  • the Panama Canal.
  • 2: After Dolley Payne's first husband died of yellow fever in 1793, she married this man.
  • Madison.
  • 3: Yellow fever is caused by one of these microorganisms that get transmitted by mosquito bites.
  • a virus.
  • 4: From the old French for "yellowness", this skin condition puts the yellow in yellow fever.
  • jaundice.
  • 5: A Washington, D.C. hospital bears the name of this man who fought yellow fever in Cuba and discovered its cause.
  • Walter Reed.

Round 3. Category: Small Words

  • 1: Derived from a 1726 novel, this adjective can describe someone very small or petty in outlook.
  • lilliputian.
  • 2: French for "small", this word can refer to a garment size or to the gal who wears one.
  • petite.
  • 3: This 3-letter word can refer to something really small or the early hours of the morning.
  • wee.
  • 4: This word that's used to describe the weight class of a boxer first meant a small chicken.
  • bantam.
  • 5: The "let" at the end of "booklet" is this type of suffix that indicates a smaller form.
  • diminutive.

Round 4. Category: But Of Course. With But in quotation marks

  • 1: In a Gershwin tune, this phrase qualifies "They're writing songs of love" and "A lucky star's above".
  • "But not for me".
  • 2: Saying based on a quote by John Bradford on seeing criminals led to their execution.
  • "There, but for the grace of God, go I".
  • 3: This current pop duo took its name from a store that would sell almost any item.
  • Everything but the Girl.
  • 4: Romeo quiets himself with this interjection when Juliet appears at her window.
  • "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?".
  • 5: It completes Bette Davis' line to a suitor in "Cabin in the Cotton", "I'd love to kiss you....".
  • "but I just washed my hair".

Round 5. Category: Knowledge

  • 1: A coherent series of propositions that serves as an explanation; the "Big Bang" is called one.
  • a theory.
  • 2: This curve is a representation of progress in gaining knowledge measured vs. the time required to achieve mastery.
  • the learning curve.
  • 3: It's the ability to form logical conclusions and its "age" began in England and France in the 18th century.
  • reason.
  • 4: The King James Bible says, "of the tree of the knowledge of" these two opposites, "thou shalt not eat".
  • good and evil.
  • 5: Found in the name of a human species, this Latin word can be translated as "knowing".
  • sapiens.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1093, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Be My Pal. With Pal in quotation marks

  • 1: Under a League of Nations mandate, the British oversaw the affairs of this region from 1920 to 1948.
  • Palestine.
  • 2: It can mean the roof of the mouth, or more generally the sense of taste.
  • Palate.
  • 3: A board on which a painter mixes colors, or the range of colors he uses.
  • Palette.
  • 4: A fence of stakes forming a defensive barrier or fortification.
  • Palisade.
  • 5: These heroic champions of chivalry share their name with a 1950s Richard Boone TV character.
  • Paladins.

Round 2. Category: Edison: The Light And The Dark

  • 1: In 1892 Edison's Light Company became this entity that is still a big deal today.
  • General Electric.
  • 2: Attempts to profit off this man's X-rays led to the tragic death of Edison's assistant Clarence Dally.
  • Röntgen.
  • 3: Edison stiffed this man to the tune of $50,000 and told him, "When you become...American, you will appreciate an American joke".
  • Tesla.
  • 4: Edison on this: "What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that".
  • the sun.
  • 5: To discredit the A.C. power system, Edison tried to make this tycoon's name synonymous with electrocution.
  • Westinghouse.

Round 3. Category: Pick Up Your Clothes

  • 1: One runs between the hydrant and the fireman.
  • hose.
  • 2: It's a case in court brought by one party against another.
  • suit.
  • 3: Perspires.
  • sweats.
  • 4: For 2001 "For the Birds" and "The Accountant" are 2 of these that won Oscars.
  • shorts.
  • 5: The hours of the day you work; hopefully you're not on the night one.
  • shift.

Round 4. Category: An Inventive Category

  • 1: Need to replace the fender on your Corvette? Thank Dale Kleist, who pioneered this material in the 1930s.
  • fiberglass.
  • 2: In 1855 the Lundstrom brothers used red phosphorus in these hot items to make them "safe".
  • matches.
  • 3: In 1853 David Smith patented one of these to keep your undies hanging on a line by using a spring clamp and 2 wooden levers.
  • a clothespin.
  • 4: He left Morse in his dust with his 1876 patent titled "Improvement in Telegraphy".
  • Alexander Graham Bell.
  • 5: This navigating instrument that helps find latitude and longitude was first developed in the 1750s.
  • a sextant.

Round 5. Category: Landing Zones Of Normandy

  • 1: A branch of the Sioux Indian tribe.
  • Omaha.
  • 2: The Bear River runs through this state into a lake.
  • Utah.
  • 3: Bug, Glove or Coast.
  • Gold.
  • 4: Hellenically, Hera.
  • Juno.
  • 5: This weapon is aflame in Genesis 3:24.
  • Sword.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1092, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Quite Contrary

  • 1: Lawyers grudgingly call this "witness" who isn't violent, just unfriendly to the case.
  • hostile.
  • 2: As a verb, this car part is the opposite of invigorate.
  • Tire.
  • 3: For a knife, it's the opposite of sharp; for a life, it's the opposite of exciting.
  • Dull.
  • 4: Being the opposite of one of these would make Yankee Doodle a ragamuffin.
  • Dandy.
  • 5: This adjective for anyone who stubbornly refuses to go along could apply to the Minotaur.
  • bullish (or bull-headed).

Round 2. Category: At The End Of The Scary Movie

  • 1: "I used to hate the water"--"I can't imagine why".
  • Jaws.
  • 2: "This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off".
  • Alien.
  • 3: "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner".
  • The Silence of the Lambs.
  • 4: Sung: "One, two, Freddy's coming for you...".
  • Nightmare on Elm Street.
  • 5: "Excuse me, I don't mean to bother you, but are you Paul Sheldon... I just want to tell you I'm your No. 1 fan".
  • Misery.

Round 3. Category: Island Prisons

  • 1: New York City's main correctional facility, it lies in the East River and consists of 10 separate jails.
  • Riker's Island.
  • 2: Notorious gangster "Machine Gun" Kelly spent 1934 to 1951 in this West Coast lockup.
  • Alcatraz.
  • 3: In the 1950s he did time on Isla de Pinos; since 1959, he's ruled a larger island.
  • Fidel Castro.
  • 4: In the 1840s convicts sent to Australia's Cockatoo Island in this city's harbor had to build their own prison.
  • Sydney.
  • 5: This island between Queens and the Bronx has correctional facilities for men, women and teens.
  • Rikers Island.

Round 4. Category: Tv Shows That Bombed

  • 1: In a January 2007 episode of this series, a terrorist detonated a low-yield suitcase nuke in Valencia, California.
  • 24.
  • 2: In a "Twilight Zone" episode, bookworm Henry Bemis survives a nuclear war and finds a library but then breaks these.
  • his eyeglasses.
  • 3: The nuclear blast that caused chaos in Jericho, Kansas was detonated in this state capital to the west.
  • Denver.
  • 4: This series' Peter Petrelli had visions that he would cause a nuclear holocaust in NYC.
  • Heroes.
  • 5: In a 1977 episode of this sitcom, Det. Dietrich notes that a student's physics project is a functional nuke.
  • Barney Miller.

Round 5. Category: Camels

  • 1: Contrary to popular belief, it's where a camel stores fat, not water.
  • its hump.
  • 2: Alternate name of the Arabian camel or a brand of cake mix, dates or pimientos.
  • dromedary.
  • 3: Camels were first brought to this continent in 1840 and later transported goods between Adelaide and Perth.
  • Australia.
  • 4: 2 of the 4 New World relatives of the camel.
  • (2 of) the llama, the guanaco, the alpaca and the vicuña.
  • 5: From an earlier occupation, this prophet was known as the "Camel Driver of Mecca".
  • Mohammed.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1091, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Geographic Abbrev.

  • 1: It's the SF in the airport code SFO.
  • San Francisco.
  • 2: AS:This U.S. Pacific territory.
  • American Samoa.
  • 3: SL:This West African nation.
  • Sierra Leone.
  • 4: MB:This Canadian province.
  • Manitoba.
  • 5: BH:This nation, a former Yugoslav republic.
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Round 2. Category: German 101

  • 1: These 2 antonyms are ja and nein.
  • yes and no.
  • 2: When traveling in Germany, you might ask, "Sprechen sie Englisch?", which means this.
  • Do you speak English?.
  • 3: If you rent ein auto in der Winter, you might need some of this fluid, der Frostschutz.
  • antifreeze.
  • 4: To find one of these, look for a sign that says "damen" or "frauen".
  • a ladies' room.
  • 5: "Ich habe hunger" means "I'm hungry"; "Ich habe durst" means this.
  • I'm thirsty.

Round 3. Category: Historic Greats

  • 1: Frederick the Great brought this kingdom into European ascendancy; it's no longer around, though.
  • Prussia.
  • 2: This empress did not promulgate the 1773 papal bull suppressing Jesuits, allowing them to survive in Russia.
  • Catherine the Great.
  • 3: Part of this 11-letter name of the king of the Franks means "great" in Old French.
  • Charlemagne.
  • 4: King Sejong the Great was responsible for bringing the Hangul alphabet to these people.
  • Korea (the Koreans).
  • 5: Jews have warm fuzzy feelings for this "Great" Persian who released them from captivity in Babylonia.
  • Cyrus the Great.

Round 4. Category: A Lover Of Latin

  • 1: It's from the Latin for "crossbred animal" but a prius is a modern form of it, too.
  • a hybrid.
  • 2: It's the ablative form of locus, "place", as when it precedes "parentis".
  • loco.
  • 3: Used in statistics, this word is from the Latin adverbial phrase for "by the hundred".
  • percent.
  • 4: Meaning "in or at another place", you better have a good one for the night of the 16th, ya mug.
  • an alibi.
  • 5: This two-word phrase, Latin for "good faith", means "authentic" in English.
  • bona fide.

Round 5. Category: Peeved Veeps

  • 1: This veep lead the Democratic-Republican attacks against 1798's Alien and Sedition Acts.
  • Thomas Jefferson.
  • 2: He said that if his successor, Joe Biden, "wants to diminish the office of the vice president, that's... his call".
  • (Dick) Cheney.
  • 3: Returning from Europe in 1812, he entered the U.S. under an assumed name, Adolphus Arnot; oh yeah, he shot a guy.
  • (Aaron) Burr.
  • 4: He initially didn't want to be McKinley's 2nd VP; he thought it would weaken him for a 1904 presidential run.
  • Teddy Roosevelt.
  • 5: This Greek American published a memoir, "Go Quietly... or Else".
  • Spiro Agnew.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1090, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Roman Architecture Terms

  • 1: From the Latin for "to hear", it was a building where orators, poets and critics would speak.
  • an auditorium.
  • 2: Consisting of a final cold pool, a frigidarium was the third and last chamber of one of these public buildings.
  • a bath.
  • 3: In a Roman villa, a cenatio was a formal one of these.
  • dining room.
  • 4: These water channels could be placed on high arches above ground or go through tunnels below.
  • aqueducts.
  • 5: A sacrarium was one of these in a home or temple, smaller than the L.A. awards show venue dating from 1926.
  • a shrine.

Round 2. Category: Sports Book

  • 1: "Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream".
  • high school football.
  • 2: "Pinstripe Empire".
  • (major league) baseball.
  • 3: "Murder in the Rough".
  • golf.
  • 4: "Into Thin Air".
  • mountain climbing.
  • 5: "North Dallas Forty".
  • football.

Round 3. Category: Who Knows C‑P‑R?. With C‑P‑R in quotes

  • 1: It's the study of secret writing, including codes and ciphers.
  • cryptography.
  • 2: By trade, Joseph, the husband of Mary, was one of these.
  • a carpenter.
  • 3: We use this word, Spanish for "godfather", for a close friend or associate.
  • compadre.
  • 4: One who takes short dozes in the afternoon, or takes felines from their owners.
  • a catnapper.
  • 5: Found in the Southwest, it's a dense growth of shrubs or small trees.
  • a chaparral.

Round 4. Category: Sports Logos

  • 1: Of the buildings depicted on the logo of the Seattle Supersonics, this one is the tallest.
  • the Space Needle.
  • 2: This heavenly item is depicted on the logo of the California Angels.
  • a halo.
  • 3: The NBA's Charlotte team has a basketball and this insect on its logo.
  • a hornet.
  • 4: National Hockey League team whose logo features a crown.
  • the Los Angeles Kings.
  • 5: [sports logo].
  • the Phoenix Suns.

Round 5. Category: Pre-1929 U.S. Paper Currency

  • 1: For a brief time in the 1860s, this "Great Compromiser" appeared on the $50 U.S. note.
  • Henry Clay.
  • 2: In 1886 this first lady graced the $1 Silver Certificate, the first woman ever to appear on U.S. currency.
  • Martha Washington.
  • 3: A 1914 $5 Federal Reserve note depicted the pilgrims and this explorer sighting land on the reverse side.
  • Columbus.
  • 4: In 1896 a $2 "Educational" Series Silver Certificate was issued featuring this steamboat designer.
  • Fulton.
  • 5: This 22nd and 24th president's portrait graced the $20 bill from 1914 to 1928, when Jackson replaced him.
  • Cleveland.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1089, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: O, How Entertaining. With O in quotation marks

  • 1: Called the "most influential work in the American musical theatre", it opens with "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin"'.
  • Oklahoma!.
  • 2: In 2011 Elizabeth, kid sister in this celebrated family, gave a breakout performance in "Martha Marcy May Marlene".
  • the Olsen family.
  • 3: This actor's familiar TV face can now be seen on "Modern Family".
  • (Ed) O'Neill.
  • 4: This film about guy and girl musicians making a connection in Dublin has become a stage musical.
  • Once.
  • 5: Young Walt Disney felt constricted by live-action film, and created this lucky rabbit, his first major animated character.
  • Oswald.

Round 2. Category: Tv Moms And Dads

  • 1: In 2010 Entertainment Weekly named this dad the greatest character of the last 20 years--D'oh!.
  • Homer Simpson.
  • 2: This dad had a rather large extended family but only 2 kids, Meadow and A.J..
  • Tony Soprano.
  • 3: Minnie Driver plays Fiona, mom to young Marcus on this series based on a novel and movie.
  • About a Boy.
  • 4: On Showtime this Oscar winner plays Ray Donovan's charismatic ex-con father, Mickey.
  • Jon Voight.
  • 5: In the '80s Vicki Lawrence was the matriarch on "Mama's Family", based on a skit from this variety show.
  • The Carol Burnett Show.

Round 3. Category: Negative Thoughts

  • 1: 9-letter optimist opposite.
  • pessimist.
  • 2: To void or close out, like a network does to a failing TV show.
  • cancel.
  • 3: John Donne tells Death this because "One short sleep past, we wake eternally".
  • be not proud.
  • 4: This presidential option is Latin for "I forbid".
  • veto.
  • 5: The phrase "Ask no" this "and give none" refers to mercy, not a coin.
  • quarter.

Round 4. Category: College Vocabulary

  • 1: Russet and tan are shades of this Ivy Leaguer.
  • Brown.
  • 2: A botanist might call this Houston school Oryza sativa.
  • Rice.
  • 3: In Britain this Southern school would have a peerage and rank just below prince.
  • Duke.
  • 4: In Wisconsin, it's a yellow cheese; in Maine, it's a 2,000-student college.
  • Colby.
  • 5: A Portland liberal arts college, or part of an oboe's mouthpiece.
  • a reed.

Round 5. Category: Y Is The Only Vowel

  • 1: It's a place to find dumbbells.
  • a gym.
  • 2: Until the 1500s these songs were mostly sung in Latin--everybody! "Sancti, venite".
  • hymns.
  • 3: It's another word for a pigpen.
  • sty.
  • 4: A traditional story in a culture.
  • a myth.
  • 5: It replaces "your" in the Lord's Prayer.
  • thy.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1088, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Flying...

  • 1: The flying wedge was first used in this sport by Harvard in 1892 but became illegal due to players being brutalized.
  • football.
  • 2: We're not sure if this Bullwinkle pal is biologically a flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) or a regular gray squirrel who can fly.
  • Rocky.
  • 3: Known as "The Flying Tomato", this snowboarder won his first Olympic halfpipe gold in 2006.
  • (Shaun) White.
  • 4: In 2005 she won a TV Land Award as "Favorite Airborne Character" for her 1960s work as "The Flying Nun".
  • (Sally) Field.
  • 5: In song, "He floats through the air, with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on" this.
  • flying trapeze.

Round 2. Category: New York In The Movies

  • 1: On a Manhattan morning, Audrey Hepburn admires the gems in a shop window while eating a roll in this film's opening.
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's.
  • 2: It begins with a voice over: "Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion".
  • Manhattan.
  • 3: The "I'll have what she's having" scene in this romantic comedy took place at NYC's Katz's Deli.
  • When Harry Met Sally....
  • 4: (Hi. I'm Quvenzhané Wallis.) In an updated version of a beloved musical, I play this title girl as a foster kid--it's the hard knock life with Miss Hannigan in Harlem.
  • Annie.
  • 5: As this title superhero, Tobey Maguire spun his web across New York.
  • Spider-Man.

Round 3. Category: New Orleans

  • 1: This Catholic group founded the College of the Immaculate Conception, which evolved into Loyola University.
  • the Jesuits.
  • 2: If you "Desire" to use this type of transportation, a historic one runs along St. Charles Avenue.
  • streetcar.
  • 3: The police aren't allowed leave and work 12-hour shifts during the 12 days of this pre-Lenten festival.
  • Mardi Gras.
  • 4: This last day of Carnival was celebrated with masked balls and street processions as early as the 1700s.
  • Mardi Gras.
  • 5: If this play were written today, Blanche would have to ride the bus; the title vehicle doesn't run any more.
  • A Streetcar Named Desire.

Round 4. Category: Songs' Later Verses

  • 1: 19th c. song whose second verse includes "Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam".
  • "The Star-Spangled Banner".
  • 2: "He said, 'Let's run and we'll have some fun now before I melt away'".
  • Frosty the Snowman.
  • 3: One verse of this Foster song begins, "Oh, the long-tail filly and the big black horse".
  • "Camptown Races".
  • 4: Oscar-winning song that says, "What's too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget".
  • "The Way We Were".
  • 5: "I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard" in this pop hit.
  • "Just the Way You Are".

Round 5. Category: 3-Named People

  • 1: This inventor was one of the founders of the National Geographic Society and succeeded his father-in-law as its president in 1898.
  • Alexander Graham Bell.
  • 2: In command of the Bonhomme Richard, he said, "I have not yet begun to fight".
  • John Paul Jones.
  • 3: In 2016 this "Sling Blade" Oscar winner began playing lawyer Billy McBride in TV's "Goliath".
  • Billy Bob Thornton.
  • 4: Elected to Congress in 1830, he wrote, "My election as President of the United States was not half so gratifying".
  • John Quincy Adams.
  • 5: This lawyer who penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" was later a member of Andrew Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet".
  • Francis Scott Key.

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Round 1. Category: Wise Guys

  • 1: Leibniz was a noted philosopher of optimism; Schopenhauer, of this opposite view.
  • pessimism.
  • 2: Reb, the Yiddish for Mr., comes from this Hebrew word for "my master".
  • rabbi.
  • 3: This ancient Chinese thinker said, "The superior man does not, even for... a single meal, act contrary to virtue".
  • Confucius.
  • 4: Logician Willard Van Orman Quine is from Akron in this state--we wanted an excuse to say Willard Van Orman Quine.
  • Ohio.
  • 5: A manuscript by this wise guy explaining his E=mc squared was sold recently for over $1 million.
  • Albert Einstein.

Round 2. Category: Alliterative Geography

  • 1: This city was once the capital of the United Provinces of Central America.
  • San Salvador.
  • 2: Called Stingray Harbour by James Cook in 1770, it was renamed for the abundance of new plants found there.
  • Botany Bay.
  • 3: Sail through this strait to get from Oakland to the Pacific.
  • the Golden Gate.
  • 4: Provincetown and Barnstable are on this Bay State peninsula.
  • Cape Cod.
  • 5: In 1434 it supplanted Angkor Thom as the Khmer capital.
  • Phnom Penh.

Round 3. Category: Mathematics

  • 1: The square root of 9 times the square root of 16 equals the square root of this number.
  • 144.
  • 2: On the left is the decimal equivalent of three-fifths; on the right is the decimal equivalent of this fraction.
  • two-thirds.
  • 3: This angle is larger than an acute angle and smaller than an obtuse one.
  • a right angle.
  • 4: The 1st number that is the sum of all its divisors except itself.
  • 6.
  • 5: Like 4, this number is also the square root of 16.
  • -4.

Round 4. Category: Tv Numbers

  • 1: Edd "Kookie" Byrnes' "working address".
  • 77 Sunset Strip.
  • 2: Poor Jack Bauer--he always seems to be having a really bad day on this Fox drama.
  • 24.
  • 3: In '60s sitcom, officers Toody and Muldoon patrolled the Bronx in this vehicle.
  • Car 54.
  • 4: On ABC with Elizabeth Vargas and David Muir:"blank/blank".
  • 20/20.
  • 5: "Adam blank".
  • 12.

Round 5. Category: Super Bowl Mvp Qbs

  • 1: In 2015 this QB gave the truck he won as MVP to Malcolm Butler, the rookie who made the game-saving interception.
  • (Tom) Brady.
  • 2: Coach Weeb Ewbank, furious after this Jet guaranteed a win, was probably not as mad after his MVP performance.
  • Joe Namath.
  • 3: (I'm Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers.) I'm one of the first 2 Packer QBs to be Super Bowl MVP; this 2-time winner who later coached the team is the other.
  • Bart Starr.
  • 4: In 2010 this MVP QB said, "We played for our city... for the entire Gulf Coast region... for all the entire Who Dat Nation".
  • (Drew) Brees.
  • 5: Quoth the raven, "MVP!" after this man was deemed most valuable in 2013 at Super Bowl XLVII.
  • (Joe) Flacco.

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Round 1. Category: Revolutionary War Before And After

  • 1: American general who became a traitor and a great golfer, winning the Masters 4 times beginning in 1958.
  • Benedict Arnold Palmer.
  • 2: "Drag Race" host who had a dramatic horseback ride on the night of April 18, 1775.
  • RuPaul Revere.
  • 3: Formal agreement ending the Revolutionary War that's a hotel heiress and reality TV star.
  • the Treaty of Paris Hilton.
  • 4: Leader of the Green Mountain Boys who was a 76ers player nicknamed "The Answer".
  • Ethan Allen Iverson.
  • 5: British military officer executed as a spy who was half of the music duo OutKast.
  • John André 3000.

Round 2. Category: This Will Tie Your Room Together

  • 1: In Islam, many prayer rugs have an arch-shaped design called a mihrab, which the user faces toward this city before kneeling.
  • Mecca.
  • 2: These Native American people who call themselves Dine are known for their patterned rugs.
  • the Navajo.
  • 3: Sisal rugs are made from the fibers of this succulent that's also used to make beer and other alcoholic beverages.
  • agave.
  • 4: Bijar carpets and Sanandaj rugs are products of this countryless people who live in an area ranging from Syria to Iran.
  • the Kurds.
  • 5: Table coverings he painted in 16th-century portraits like the one of a merchant here led to a rug being named for this artist "the Younger".
  • (Hans) Holbein (the Younger).

Round 3. Category: On His Baseball Hall Of Fame Plaque

  • 1: "2,632 consecutive games played from May 30, 1982 through September 19, 1998".
  • Cal Ripken Jr..
  • 2: This Yankee was the "greatest drawing card in history of baseball".
  • Babe Ruth.
  • 3: "Detroit - Philadelphia, A.L. - 1905-1926... retired with 4191 major league hits".
  • (Ty) Cobb.
  • 4: "Hit safely in 56 consecutive games for Major League record 1941".
  • DiMaggio.
  • 5: "'Mr. October', found special success in World Series spotlight with 10 home runs".
  • (Reggie) Jackson.

Round 4. Category: Likes And Ravers

  • 1: In 2016 this social network sextupled the ways you can react to a posting, adding emojis to plain old "like".
  • Facebook.
  • 2: In 2017 Netflix went from a rating system using stars to a simpler one using these body parts.
  • thumbs.
  • 3: Jane Lynch leads a cast of comedians in an audiobook reading funny review from this shopping site.
  • Amazon.
  • 4: This 4-letter site suggests detailing your favorite dishes when writing restaurant reviews on it.
  • Yelp.
  • 5: Online, "h/t" is short for these 2 words, a way to express gratitude with your homburg or fedora.
  • hat tip.

Round 5. Category: Apostles

  • 1: There's no doubt Jesus told him "I am the way, the truth and the life".
  • Thomas.
  • 2: Jesus told him, "Fear not. From henceforth thou shalt catch men".
  • Simon Peter.
  • 3: Jesus found him sitting at the receipt of custom, which means collecting taxes.
  • Matthew.
  • 4: Considered the first called, he's also alphabetically first on the lists in the New Testament.
  • Andrew.
  • 5: Jesus called the brothers James and John "Boanerges", "sons of" this weather word.
  • thunder.

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Round 1. Category: Medical Prefixes And Suffixes

  • 1: These 2 -iatricians specialize in opposite times of life and there's often talk of a surplus of one and a shortage of the other.
  • a pediatrician and a geriatrician.
  • 2: -sclerosis,as in "of an artery".
  • hardening.
  • 3: After my-, it means pain in the muscles; after neur-, it's pain along the course of a nerve.
  • -algia.
  • 4: Following lump- and tonsil(l)-, it denotes a surgical removal.
  • -ectomy.
  • 5: Schizo-,as in an atom or a banana dessert.
  • split.

Round 2. Category: '80s Film Comedy

  • 1: Golf course groundskeeper Bill Murray battles gophers in this laugh riot.
  • Caddyshack.
  • 2: SCTV's Bob and Doug McKenzie foamed up on the big screen in this 1983 movie.
  • Strange Brew.
  • 3: He played movie star and TV guest star Alan Swann in 1982's "My Favorite Year".
  • Peter O'Toole.
  • 4: This film starring Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg and a robot electrified audiences in '86.
  • Short Circuit.
  • 5: It's the film in which Tom Hanks and Shelley Long buy a dream house that turns into a nightmare.
  • The Money Pit.

Round 3. Category: Show Me The Munchies!

  • 1: Logically enough, brands of this snack favorite include Jiffy Pop and Pop Secret.
  • popcorn.
  • 2: Get twisted with these ancient treats made from dough that's baked, salted and usually twisted into a loose knot.
  • a pretzel.
  • 3: It's Super Bowl time! Break out the chips and this yummy dip made from mashed avocados and cilantro.
  • guacamole.
  • 4: One of the two snacks mentioned in the song "Take Me Out To The Ball Game".
  • peanuts or Cracker Jacks.
  • 5: Many different snacks from this brand are supposedly baked by elves in a hollow tree.
  • Keebler.

Round 4. Category: 2 First Names

  • 1: He won an Emmy for portraying Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra".
  • Michael Douglas.
  • 2: The doormat at her Nashville museum reads, "Howdee!".
  • Minnie Pearl.
  • 3: This star of "Glee" made her Broadway debut at age 8 playing Cosette in "Les Miz".
  • Lea Michele.
  • 4: In 1988 he won the "Best Actor" Oscar.
  • Michael Douglas.
  • 5: In the '90s his "you got the right one baby" Diet Pepsi commercials earned him a new generation of fans--uh huh!.
  • Ray Charles.

Round 5. Category: Conquistadors

  • 1: The Cabrillo National Monument sits in this California city where Juan sailed in 1542.
  • San Diego.
  • 2: Sent to Mexico to get this Spanish leader to resign, Panfilo de Narvaez lost the battle and his eye instead.
  • Cortés.
  • 3: The conquistador-laden ships that landed at Darien in 1514 were called this, also the name of a later 16th c. Spanish fleet.
  • the Armada.
  • 4: Maybe the 1st black African in the New World, Juan Garrido pillaged in Mexico before going to Florida with this man.
  • Ponce de León.
  • 5: Despite retaking this Incan capital, Diego de Almagro was killed for imprisoning Pizarro's brothers.
  • Cuzco.

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Round 1. Category: Don'T Be Afraid Of The Dark

  • 1: Umbra is the Latin word for this dark area that can follow you around.
  • shadow.
  • 2: Crepuscule is another word for this 8-letter moment just before darkness falls.
  • twilight.
  • 3: In the first line of Poe's "The Raven", this dark adjective describes midnight.
  • dreary.
  • 4: Shakespeare's Portia says, "How far that little" this "throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world".
  • candle.
  • 5: Preserved in Jerusalem, "The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness" is one of the 7 original these.
  • Dead Sea Scrolls.

Round 2. Category: Lights! Camera! Action Movie!

  • 1: This actor was "Missing in Action" and feeling "Silent Rage" before he became TV's "Walker, Texas Ranger".
  • Chuck Norris.
  • 2: As Annie, the reluctant bus driver, Sandra Bullock ground through the gears in this 1994 action hit.
  • Speed.
  • 3: Like Scotland in 1995, the American colonies are defended by Mel Gibson in this jingoistic 2000 epic.
  • The Patriot.
  • 4: Randy Quaid and Will Smith help save the Earth in this 1996 action thriller.
  • Independence Day.
  • 5: Arnold Schwarzenegger has come back several times as one of these deadly title movie robots.
  • The Terminator.

Round 3. Category: Frequently Asked Questions

  • 1: This question that traditionally follows "Halt!" might also be asked about an unlikely destination.
  • Who goes there?.
  • 2: Abbreviated WWJD, this question was popularized by the book "In His Steps".
  • What would Jesus do?.
  • 3: "Medical" catchphrase used when a performer takes ill on stage.
  • Is there a doctor in the house?.
  • 4: In 2001 Jared Martin of TV's "Dallas" was featured under this heading in People magazine.
  • Where are they now?.
  • 5: You can put a male friend's courage in doubt with this rodent-related query.
  • Are you a man or a mouse?.

Round 4. Category: Don'T Songs. With Don'T in quotes

  • 1: Bobby Brown's first solo hit, it's also the title of an Elvis hit.
  • "Don't Be Cruel".
  • 2: Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand recorded this song individually before performing it as a duet.
  • "You Don't Bring Me Flowers".
  • 3: In the Broadway musical, Evita asks for the support of her country in this song.
  • "Don't Cry For Me Argentina".
  • 4: This Andrews Sisters request precedes "with anyone else but me".
  • "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree".
  • 5: This Cole Porter song in the style of a cowboy ballad was based on a poem.
  • "Don't Fence Me In".

Round 5. Category: Sub Category. With Sub in quotation marks

  • 1: A smaller residential community, like Scarsdale, New York or Greenwich, Connecticut.
  • Suburb.
  • 2: The one associated with "Oliver Twist" is "The Parish Boy's Progress".
  • Subtitle.
  • 3: The voices of John, Paul, George and Ringo were dubbed by actors for most of this film.
  • Yellow Submarine.
  • 4: Examples of these are protons and neutrons.
  • Subatomic particles.
  • 5: Bob Dylan was no longer "underground" with this song, his first Top 40 hit.
  • "Subterranean Homesick Blues".

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Round 1. Category: Greek Letter Homophones

  • 1: One way to propel a boat.
  • row.
  • 2: Feline vocalization.
  • mew.
  • 3: More advanced, or recently created.
  • new.
  • 4: A trademark brand of format for VCR tape.
  • Beta.
  • 5: Lao-Tzu's ultimate principle of the universe.
  • Tao.

Round 2. Category: Pup Fiction

  • 1: Dodie Smith wrote this "numerical" story, the basis for 3 Disney feature films.
  • 101 Dalmatians.
  • 2: This iconic canine made her bow wow in a 1938 Saturday Evening Post story.
  • Lassie.
  • 3: This Yiddish author wrote "Rabchik, a Jewish Dog", or as we like to call it, "Piddler on the Rug".
  • Sholom Aleichem.
  • 4: "Savage Sam" is the sequel to this Newbery medal-winning sob story, later a Disney film (Sam's his son).
  • Old Yeller.
  • 5: Argos is the faithful dog who recognizes his long-lost master in this ancient Greek work.
  • the Odyssey.

Round 3. Category: The Fabric Of Life

  • 1: If someone intends to tan your hide, he's going to turn it into this fabric.
  • leather.
  • 2: This fabric that's on the tips of markers is also used in blackboard erasers.
  • felt.
  • 3: Cobweb is a type of this fabric known for its open, networked quality.
  • lace.
  • 4: Used with other fibers like nylon, this 5-letter fiber makes swimwear fabric stretchy.
  • Lycra.
  • 5: Harris is a trademarked type of this rough fabric used in sport coats.
  • (Harris) tweed.

Round 4. Category: Aussie Slang

  • 1: Jumbuck is an Aussie term for this animal, of which there are a lot Down Under.
  • sheep.
  • 2: When you throw a shrimp here, make sure it's not the doll.
  • a barbie.
  • 3: To earn a living is to "make a" this (minus the pro quo).
  • a quid.
  • 4: A stubby is a small bottle of this; cheers!.
  • beer.
  • 5: Tommy Roe might know that this "Sweet Little" name is Aussie slang for a girl or woman.
  • Sheila.

Round 5. Category: Literary Literary Characters

  • 1: Stephen Daedalus is the writer hero of this Joycean "Portrait".
  • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
  • 2: Philip Jose Farmer wrote a novel under the name of this sci-fi writer invented by Kurt Vonnegut.
  • Kilgore Trout.
  • 3: In this Russian-American's "Pale Fire", John Shade is the late author of a 999-line poem.
  • Vladimir Nabokov.
  • 4: He's Philip Roth's novelist alter ego in books like him "Unbound".
  • Zuckerman.
  • 5: Writer Philip Quarles in "Point Counter Point" is a self-portrait by this author.
  • Aldous Huxley.

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Round 1. Category: French First Names

  • 1: Magritte andDescartes.
  • René.
  • 2: Monet andDebussy.
  • Claude.
  • 3: Cocteau andLafitte.
  • Jean.
  • 4: Cardin andBoulle.
  • Pierre.
  • 5: Escoffier andRodin.
  • Auguste.

Round 2. Category: The Golden Age Of Radio

  • 1: All-American boy Jack Armstrong never tired of this "Breakfast of Champions".
  • Wheaties.
  • 2: He's the answer to the question posed in the following:"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?".
  • the Shadow.
  • 3: "Lux Radio Theatre" was brought to you by Lever Brothers, makers of the Lux brand of this product.
  • Soap.
  • 4: "Sorry Wrong Number", a popular episode of "Suspense", starred this "Bewitched" actress.
  • Agnes Moorehead.
  • 5: Robert Ripley hosted the 1930s radio adaptation of this newspaper feature.
  • "Ripley's Believe It or Not!".

Round 3. Category: Born In The '60s

  • 1: NYC minister Joseph Simmons is better known as "Run" of this rap group.
  • Run-D.M.C..
  • 2: After the 1996 election, this 35-year-old Clinton adviser moved to ABC News.
  • George Stephanopoulos.
  • 3: In 1996, he beat a chess-playing IBM computer called Deep Blue; in 1997 the tables were turned.
  • Garry Kasparov.
  • 4: 1 of the 2 30-something female leads of "The English Patient".
  • (1 of) Juliette Binoche and Kristin Scott Thomas.
  • 5: 29-year-old Melinda French, a manager at this company, married its chairman January 1, 1994.
  • Microsoft.

Round 4. Category: Russian To Judgment

  • 1: Exiled in Siberia in 1899, this man wrote (ironically) "The Development of Capitalism in Russia".
  • Vladimir Lenin.
  • 2: In 2005 he quit pro chess and later founded the Other Russia, a coalition desiring a more open and democratic country.
  • Garry Kasparov.
  • 3: This first Russian port to trade with England was named for the heavenly title of Michael.
  • Archangel.
  • 4: Nicholas wooed Alexandra with these, Russian for "pancakes".
  • blinis.
  • 5: The 2013 vote in this parliamentary house for a bill that banned telling minors about gay life was 436-0.
  • the Duma.

Round 5. Category: Boys Town

  • 1: In 1976 this Calcutta woman was awarded the Father Flanagan Award for service to youth.
  • Mother Teresa.
  • 2: Completes the line on the town's famous statue of one boy carrying another, "He ain't heavy Father...".
  • he's my brother.
  • 3: When this movie comedy team visited in 1943, they bought the boys baseball uniforms.
  • Abbott and Costello.
  • 4: Father Flanagan opened his first home for boys in 1917 in this Nebraska city.
  • Omaha.
  • 5: In 1988 Bobs Watson and this actor visited Boys Town to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film.
  • Mickey Rooney.

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Round 1. Category: Nyc

  • 1: Trendy adjective applied to people who have homes in both NYC and L.A..
  • bicoastal.
  • 2: Before she ran for VP, Geraldine Ferraro was a Congresswoman from this NYC borough.
  • Queens.
  • 3: Daily and Sunday, it has the largest circulation of any NYC newspaper.
  • the Daily News.
  • 4: The Cloisters, a replica of a medieval monastery, is part of this world-famous museum.
  • the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • 5: Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton are buried in this churchyard near Wall Street.
  • Trinity Church.

Round 2. Category: The Killers

  • 1: Murderers are figuratively said to have the "mark" of this biblical man.
  • Cain.
  • 2: In Genesis 4 he becomes the first killer; God isn't happy.
  • Cain.
  • 3: In one of the few documented one-on-one Old West gunfights, this "Wild" man killed Davis Tutt in 1865.
  • Wild Bill Hickok.
  • 4: A tip following the publication of the manifesto of this long-distance killer led to his 1996 capture in Montana.
  • the Unabomber.
  • 5: Months after his wife Laci's disappearance, this man was caught with $15,000 in cash and his brother's I.D..
  • (Scott) Peterson.

Round 3. Category: Tricky Numbers

  • 1: Number of months with 28 days.
  • 12.
  • 2: The highest single-digit number that reads the same upside down and right side up.
  • 8.
  • 3: The number of stars on the U.S. flag divided by the number of U.S. states not in North America.
  • 50 (50÷1 (Hawaii)).
  • 4: Temperature in degrees Fahrenheit equal to -40 degrees Celsius.
  • -40° Fahrenheit.
  • 5: If you were to spell out the numbers, it's how far you'd have to go before using the letter A.
  • one thousand.

Round 4. Category: Stories Of The Saints

  • 1: In a vision on the wall of her room, St. Clare witnessed a mass and so today is the patron saint of this modern invention.
  • television.
  • 2: This apostle and letter writer was a tent maker by trade, so he moved easily around the ancient world with tools and cloth.
  • Paul.
  • 3: The story of Martin de Porres, the 1st Black saint in the Americas, includes this skill, letting him hover before the altar.
  • levitation.
  • 4: Story goes the patron saint of Wales, St. David, lived on nothing but water and these onion relatives.
  • leeks.
  • 5: St. Francisco Marto, one of 3 children who saw the Virgin Mary in this Portuguese town in 1917, died in the flu pandemic in 1919.
  • Fátima.

Round 5. Category: Tv Animal Roundup

  • 1: Itchy and Scratchy on "The Simpsons".
  • a mouse and a cat.
  • 2: Patrick on "SpongeBob SquarePants".
  • a starfish.
  • 3: Chestnut on "2 Broke Girls".
  • a horse.
  • 4: Stella on "Modern Family".
  • a French bulldog.
  • 5: Marcel on "Friends".
  • a monkey.

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Round 1. Category: Patrons Of The Arts

  • 1: 7 National Medals of Arts have gone to corporate patrons of the arts, like Exxon, Sara Lee and this card company.
  • Hallmark.
  • 2: In 1603 Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, switched to royal patronage and to this name.
  • the King's Men.
  • 3: Gustave Caillebotte was the main backer of several of these exhibitions, and his own work is kind of in that style.
  • Impressionist.
  • 4: Luciano of this colors-ful Italian clothing company is a noted arts patron through a center called Fabrica.
  • Benetton.
  • 5: As well as the Sistine Chapel, named for Sixtus, Pope Paul III got Michelangelo to fresco this chapel, named for himself.
  • the Pauline Chapel.

Round 2. Category: Collegiate Movie Titles

  • 1: Demi Moore was Esmeralda's voice in this epic from Disney.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
  • 2: Coach K knows all about this 2005 Johnny Knoxville film, based on a TV series.
  • The Dukes of Hazzard.
  • 3: We found Matthew Fox; he was in this 2006 movie with Matthew McConnaughey.
  • We Are Marshall.
  • 4: The title of this Homeric film is also a Sun Belt Conference school located in Alabama.
  • Troy.
  • 5: This 1984 Spielberg sequel had nothing to do with a Philadelphia university.
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Round 3. Category: Tv Series Episodes

  • 1: "McGarrett is Missing".
  • Hawaii Five-O.
  • 2: "A Bionic Christmas Carol".
  • The Six Million Dollar Man.
  • 3: "The Ghost of General Lee".
  • The Dukes of Hazzard.
  • 4: "The Gamesters of Triskelion".
  • Star Trek.
  • 5: "Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man".
  • The X-Files.

Round 4. Category: The B.G.'S. With B.G. in quotation marks

  • 1: In 2013 this Bee Gee launched his Mythology tour in tribute to his late brothers.
  • Barry Gibb.
  • 2: Classic ones include Parcheesi and Sorry!.
  • board games.
  • 3: In 2013 one of these worn by Jackie Robinson, possibly in the 1955 and '57 World Series, sold for $373,002 at auction.
  • a baseball glove.
  • 4: It's how to say good morning or good day in Italian.
  • buon giorno.
  • 5: This colorful Kentucky city made Forbes' list of the 25 best places to retire in 2014.
  • Bowling Green.

Round 5. Category: Taekwondo

  • 1: (Zee James presents the clue.) Taekwondo means the art of kicking and punching, and it's renowned for powerful kicks like this turning one with the circular structure in its name.
  • roundhouse.
  • 2: (Zee James presents the clue.) A punch delivered on the front foot side of a stance is called an obverse punch; one delivered from the back foot side is called this.
  • reverse.
  • 3: (Zee James presents the clue.) Blue represents the negative, red the positive in the Taegeuk, the symbol of this country that in 2018 named taekwondo its official sport.
  • South Korea.
  • 4: (Zee James presents the clue.) Kung fu master Bruce Lee advised students to be like this natural substance; taekwondo students learn to emulate it in the flowing movements of the form called Taegeuk Yook Jang.
  • water.
  • 5: (Zee James presents the clue.) Used for both offense and defense, the 1-legged stance, named for this wading bird, can be used to unleash a powerful side kick.
  • crane.

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Round 1. Category: Elemental Latin

  • 1: Aurum.
  • gold.
  • 2: Ferrum.
  • iron.
  • 3: Plumbum.
  • lead.
  • 4: Argentum.
  • silver.
  • 5: Kalium.
  • potassium.

Round 2. Category: The Real Adams Family

  • 1: Let's drink a beer to the memory of this man who died in Boston Oct. 2, 1803, aged 81.
  • Sam Adams.
  • 2: In 1900 Brooks Adams predicted that in 50 years these countries would be the world's 2 main powers.
  • the United States and Russia.
  • 3: On becoming president, he said he was "less possessed of your confidence... than any of my predecessors".
  • John Quincy Adams.
  • 4: Henry Adams lived in this city, and there's a memorial to his wife Clover in Rock Creek Cemetery there.
  • Washington, D.C..
  • 5: In 1848 Charles Francis Adams was on the ticket of this 2-word party formed to oppose the extension of slavery.
  • the Free Soil Party.

Round 3. Category: Beantown Tv

  • 1: We learned of 3 people who'd never been in Cliff Clavin's kitchen when he played "Jeopardy!" on this sitcom.
  • Cheers.
  • 2: Julie Bowen, Candice Bergen and Rene Auberjonois get lawyered up on this David E. Kelley drama.
  • Boston Legal.
  • 3: Bruce Greenwood, Ed Begley Jr. and Denzel Washington played doctors at St. Eligius on this drama.
  • St. Elsewhere.
  • 4: In the '70s he played Banacek, a suave Beacon Hill P.I.; in the '80s he led "The A-Team" and blew up a lot of stuff.
  • (George) Peppard.
  • 5: Sharon Leal, Jeri Ryan and Chi McBride educated us on this David E. Kelly drama.
  • Boston Public.

Round 4. Category: Consciousness Of Stream Writing

  • 1: Mark Twain's memoir "Life on" it tells tales of one of America's great rivers.
  • the Mississippi.
  • 2: Jonathan Schneer's history of this river includes an account of the 1215 negotiation of the Magna Carta on its banks.
  • the Thames.
  • 3: Whistle a happy tune and name this Pierre Boulle World War II P.O.W. novel that was made into an Oscar-winning film.
  • Bridge on the River Kwai.
  • 4: Alan Moorehead published histories of these 2 main branches of the world's longest river.
  • the Blue Nile and the White Nile.
  • 5: 4 men on a canoe trip in this James Dickey novel fight to survive the wild Cahulawassee River and scary locals.
  • Deliverance.

Round 5. Category: Call Me Cat. With Cat in quotation marks

  • 1: Something very appealing to people is likened to this "feline" herb of the mint family.
  • catnip.
  • 2: 19th c. consumers liked buying from folks they knew, so Mr. Montgomery Ward might send a personal note if you ordered from this.
  • the catalog.
  • 3: This No. 1 hit has haunted fathers since 1974 as they watch time pass all too quickly as their sons grow up.
  • "Cat's In The Cradle".
  • 4: Someone full of big talk without being able to back it up is said to be "all hat, no" this.
  • cattle.
  • 5: You're sitting in this idiomatic "seat" when you have a position of great advantage.
  • the catbird seat.

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Round 1. Category: Tom, Dick Or Harry

  • 1: Slang for a private detective.
  • a dick.
  • 2: To raid or ravage.
  • to harry.
  • 3: "Long" swiveling navy cannon.
  • a tom.
  • 4: A deep-sided drum.
  • a tom (tom-tom accepted).
  • 5: A British "spotted" pudding.
  • spotted dick.

Round 2. Category: Finn Fun

  • 1: Yeow! The heat in this traditional Finnish room may reach the boiling point of water.
  • Sauna.
  • 2: This ethnic minority in Finland consists of about 4,000 former nomads living north of the Arctic Circle.
  • Lapps/Laplanders.
  • 3: A famous Finnish tone poem, or a famous Finnish vodka.
  • Finlandia.
  • 4: This "Flying Finn" flies no more, but he has a statue near Helsinki's Olympic Stadium.
  • Paavo Nurmi.
  • 5: This architect, Eero's father, gained fame for designing Helsinki's railroad station.
  • Eliel Saarinen.

Round 3. Category: Honorary Oscars

  • 1: He didn't get nominated for Best Actor for "Gigi" but did get an honorary Oscar for that year.
  • Maurice Chevalier.
  • 2: Chuck Jones received one for his over 50 years of work in this field.
  • animation.
  • 3: This 1973 honoree joined the Oscar club even though it would have him as a member.
  • Groucho Marx.
  • 4: They should have made this director's 1992 honorary Oscar "8 1/2" inches tall.
  • Federico Fellini.
  • 5: Our gang on the board of governors voted this little rascal of a producer a 1983 honorary award.
  • Hal Roach.

Round 4. Category: Friends 'Til The Ends

  • 1: "C" is for this word, once one of the divisions of a Roman legion; it now can mean a colleague or a person born in the same year.
  • a cohort.
  • 2: It's paired with "Axis" in the name of a digital Hasbro game set in 1942.
  • Allies.
  • 3: As the song says, "Life is a cabaret, old" this synonym for friend.
  • chum.
  • 4: French for "good friend", this 2-word phrase can refer to a buddy or to a girlfriend.
  • bon ami(e).
  • 5: This type of friend comes after "Food Lover's" and "Pokemon Visual", 2 books that offer guidance.
  • Companion.

Round 5. Category: Head TurnerS. With Turner in quotation marks

  • 1: He recorded "A Fool In Love" with Tina in 1960; it was their first Top 40 hit.
  • Ike Turner.
  • 2: The Goodwill Games were his idea.
  • Ted Turner.
  • 3: After her father was murdered she moved to L.A. with her mother and became a "Sweater Girl".
  • Lana Turner.
  • 4: Movie comedy in which fastidious Tom Hanks got stuck with a big, slobbering pooch.
  • Turner and Hooch.
  • 5: According to the title of a play by August Wilson, he's "Come and Gone".
  • Joe Turner.

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Round 1. Category: French Off The Boat

  • 1: In 1920 a ship brought this 10-year-old future ocean explorer and family from France to NYC for a 2-year stay.
  • Jacques Cousteau.
  • 2: By 1809 this man and his brother Pierre had arrived in New Orleans and set up a blacksmith shop; piracy paid better, so....
  • (Jean) Lafitte.
  • 3: A few years after sailing here on the American Eagle, Irenee Du Pont opened a gunpowder mill in this state.
  • Delaware.
  • 4: This future city planner was only 22 when he arrived on the Amphitrite to serve as an engineer in the revolution.
  • L'Enfant.
  • 5: The wreck of Capt. Ribaut's flagship Trinité is still off Florida, a relic of France's first New World outpost at this fort.
  • Fort Caroline.

Round 2. Category: Shakespeare Rewrites The Beatles

  • 1: "I believe I shall be melancholy, I believe it shall be anon... the woman who disturbeth my temper is leaving hence".
  • "Ticket To Ride".
  • 2: "The lady is enamored of thee, verily, verily, verily".
  • "She Loves You".
  • 3: "Wilt thou still require me, wilt thou still provide sustenance unto me, roughly midway through my 7th decade?".
  • "When I'm Sixty-Four".
  • 4: "Aid me if thou canst, I feel sorrow... and my gratitude is large for thy presence here".
  • "Help!".
  • 5: "Dear gentleman or lady, wouldst thou peruse my volume? It hath taken me long to pen, wouldst thou peer at it?".
  • "Paperback Writer".

Round 3. Category: Human Body Of Knowledge

  • 1: This tendon enables muscles at the back of the lower leg to lift the heel when walking or running.
  • Achilles tendon.
  • 2: Also called the master gland, it's the most important of the endocrine glands.
  • pituitary gland.
  • 3: If you've "mapped" out the body, you know it's the topmost cervical vertebra of the neck.
  • atlas vertebra.
  • 4: The metatarsal bones are in the foot; these 5 bones lie between the wrist and the fingers.
  • metacarpals.
  • 5: The lowest part of the brain stem, it sits above the spinal cord.
  • medulla oblongata.

Round 4. Category: 20Th Century Monarchs

  • 1: After his cousin, Empress Zauditu, died in 1930, he became emperor of Ethiopia.
  • Haile Selassie.
  • 2: This king of Jordan was only 21 when he divorced his first wife, Queen Dina, in 1957.
  • King Hussein.
  • 3: Queen Ena of Spain, the last surviving granddaughter of this queen of England, died in 1969.
  • Queen Victoria.
  • 4: Olaf V, this country's king from 1957-1991, married his first cousin, Princess Martha, in 1929.
  • Norway.
  • 5: This country's current king was born Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus, at the Haga Palace in 1946.
  • Sweden.

Round 5. Category: Sci.

  • 1: In a chemical process, monomers, small molecules, link in chains to form these large molecules.
  • Polymers.
  • 2: This object in a spectrometer spreads a beam of light into separate colors.
  • Prism.
  • 3: The part of a tree from which quinine and aspirin's salicyclic acid are extracted.
  • Bark.
  • 4: Crowbars, nutcrackers and ice tongs are different types of this simple machine.
  • Lever.
  • 5: This order of mammals is divided into prosimians and anthropoids.
  • Primates.

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Round 1. Category: Chicago Tv

  • 1: Stacy Edwards as Lisa Catera is a doctor with commercial appeal on this series.
  • Chicago Hope.
  • 2: He played Chicago-based psychologist Bob Hartley.
  • Bob Newhart.
  • 3: Of surgeon, chef or hit man, it's the profession of Carmy, who returns to his home city to ply his trade in "The Bear".
  • chef.
  • 4: On "Early Edition", it's the pet that delivers the Chicago Sun-Times to Gary Hobson, a day earlier than to everyone else.
  • Cat.
  • 5: In 2015 this drama about Windy City doctors joined the "Chicago P.D." and "Chicago Fire" franchise.
  • Chicago Med.

Round 2. Category: That Book Gave Me A Nightmare

  • 1: Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's "Helter Skelter" is an account of the crimes of this man and his followers.
  • (Charles) Manson.
  • 2: These monsters du jour are the villains of "The Remaining", about a plague survivor waiting in a bunker.
  • zombies.
  • 3: This children's author is not so innocent--a kitten is almost baked in a pie in her "Tale of Samuel Whiskers".
  • Beatrix Potter.
  • 4: In "The Hungry Moon", horror stalks a town in England that practices the faith of these pre-Christian priests.
  • the druids.
  • 5: Bearing the name of a Catholic rite, it's Whitley Strieber's supposedly true account of his abduction by aliens.
  • Communion: A True Story.

Round 3. Category: What A Dive!

  • 1: Someone who profits, or a backwards somersault that lands feet first into the water.
  • a gainer (full gainer).
  • 2: You are the projectile in the name of this dive, with your knees pulled to the chest for maximum splash.
  • a cannonball.
  • 3: This dive named for a pocket blade involves touching your feet in the air.
  • a jackknife.
  • 4: This Mexican city is famous for its clavadistas, or cliff divers.
  • Acapulco.
  • 5: Your arms stick out to either side when you start this dive named for a waterfowl.
  • a swan dive.

Round 4. Category: Sharp

  • 1: Cardsharp is an old term for a gambler who is notorious for doing this.
  • cheating.
  • 2: This synonym for a sniper has the same first and last letters as "sniper".
  • a sharpshooter.
  • 3: Be a sharp dresser by ironing your pants to keep these sharp.
  • the creases.
  • 4: Patricia Clarkson won a Golden Globe for playing Amy Adams' mom on this HBO miniseries.
  • Sharp Objects.
  • 5: This Chikara line of knives from this company is made of "premium Japanese stainless steel".
  • Ginsu.

Round 5. Category: Anagrammed Shakespearean Characters

  • 1: She's a foreign queen:ALERT A COP.
  • Cleopatra.
  • 2: A fairy:NO ROBE.
  • Oberon.
  • 3: He's magical:ROSE PROP.
  • Prospero.
  • 4: He domesticates his wife:RIPE TOUCH.
  • Petruchio.
  • 5: He's a title prince:CRISP EEL.
  • Pericles.

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Round 1. Category: International Get-Togethers

  • 1: In spring, head out from this largest Dutch city to the regional trade event focusing on tulips.
  • Amsterdam.
  • 2: Toronto's Collision Conference has a program for these tech companies named for their fledgling nature.
  • start-ups.
  • 3: This Austin-based meet-up was focused on music when it launched in 1987, but now includes other media.
  • South by Southwest.
  • 4: In 2018 the India Mobile Congress event focused on telecom issues, especially this new alphanumeric mobile network.
  • 5G.
  • 5: Billed as the "most influential tech event in the world", this event featuring gizmos and gadgets has been held in Las Vegas since 1978.
  • the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Round 2. Category: Drug Store

  • 1: For most of its 100 plus years, it's been the world's best-selling mouthwash.
  • Listerine.
  • 2: The best-selling brand of children's vitamins in the U.S. is named for these cartoon characters.
  • the Flintstones.
  • 3: It completed the '50s jingle, "You'll wonder where the yellow went...".
  • "when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent".
  • 4: People spray Chloraseptic to relieve this pain.
  • a sore throat.
  • 5: Generic name of the pain reliever in Bufferin.
  • acetylsalicylic acid.

Round 3. Category: It'S A Girl!

  • 1: This 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is set in a small Alabama town and narrated by a young girl.
  • To Kill a Mockingbird.
  • 2: Short story shorter: "Grimm" girl, loves power colors and older relatives, has problems with wolf.
  • (Little) Red Riding Hood.
  • 3: In this 1900 book a farm girl encounters some rough weather and ends up, well, not in Kansas anymore.
  • The Wizard of Oz.
  • 4: Proving once again that pig's blood and proms just don't mix, this Stephen King title girl puts mind over matter.
  • Carrie.
  • 5: This 9-year-old novel heroine has superhuman strength and lives in Sweden in her house, Villa Villekulla.
  • Pippi Longstocking.

Round 4. Category: Action Movie Stars

  • 1: In this film, gunfighter Steve McQueen joins up with 6 others to defend a Mexican village from bandits.
  • The Magnificent Seven.
  • 2: As Snake Plissken, this actor had to "Escape from" New York and Los Angeles.
  • (Kurt) Russell.
  • 3: This actor returns as Peter Parker in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", trying to enjoy a vacation while battling new foes in Europe.
  • Tom Holland.
  • 4: It was Riggs, Murtaugh and Chris rock as Detective Lee Butters in film number 4 in this series.
  • Lethal Weapon.
  • 5: This actress' role in "Salt" as an accused spy for Russia was originally written for Tom Cruise.
  • Angelina Jolie.

Round 5. Category: Let Me Entertain You

  • 1: You're having a party? Let me do this job and my 4-deck mixing skills will fill the dance floor.
  • DJ (or disc jockey).
  • 2: Drake and Eminem were featured artists on "Loud", an album from this single-named singer.
  • Rihanna.
  • 3: I'll do this, tap dance without the metal taps.
  • soft-shoe.
  • 4: Steve Carell voiced "superbad superdad" Gru, a criminal mastermind-turned-family man in this animated pic.
  • Despicable Me.
  • 5: How about my impression of this actor; I'll be sure to say "Pilgrim", like he does in "McLintock!".
  • John Wayne.

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Round 1. Category: Er Talk

  • 1: If a patient has suffered cardiac arrest, this color "code" should be called.
  • blue.
  • 2: This 4-letter term means ASAP! Immediately!.
  • stat.
  • 3: Give the patient 250 c.c.s of normal saline, c.c. standing for this.
  • cubic centimeter.
  • 4: You'll need follow-up rehab with a P.T., this professional.
  • a physical therapist.
  • 5: Know your ABCs: check this (the "A"), breathing and circulation.
  • airway.

Round 2. Category: A Little R And R. With R" And "R in quotation marks

  • 1: In 1962 Nat King Cole sang the following to this title female:.
  • "Ramblin' Rose".
  • 2: In China, it's called Yuan Jiang; in Vietnam, Song Hong.
  • Red River.
  • 3: It's not a 100-meter dash for rodents, but a tiring, meaningless competitve activity.
  • Ratrace.
  • 4: Dale Evans might enjoy this nonalcoholic cocktail of cola and grenadine.
  • Roy Rogers.
  • 5: While attending Eureka College, this future president served as a reporter for the Pegasus, the school paper.
  • Ronald Reagan.

Round 3. Category: Food Potpourri

  • 1: You can make pudding and cookies, as well as pie, from the flesh of this jack-o-lantern gourd.
  • a pumpkin.
  • 2: This fast food chain officially introduced the Colonel's Rotisserie Gold in 1993.
  • KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken).
  • 3: The frosting for German chocolate cake contains this tropical ingredient, flaked and sweetened.
  • coconut.
  • 4: The name of this popular dip comes from the Nahuatl words ahuacatl-- "Avocado"-- and molli "sauce".
  • guacamole.
  • 5: This basic gumbo ingredient consists of tapering green pods that become sticky when stewed.
  • okra.

Round 4. Category: Long Live The King

  • 1: In 1964 Elvis bought a yacht owned by this ex-president for $55,000, then donated it to the March of Dimes.
  • FDR.
  • 2: John Hancock signed his name big so “John Bull” including this king, could read it without glasses.
  • George III.
  • 3: On Sept. 9, 1956 an estimated 1/3 of the U.S. population watched Elvis on this man's variety show.
  • Ed Sullivan.
  • 4: While married to Isabella I, he sired at least 2 daughters with other women.
  • Ferdinand.
  • 5: As harpsichordist for this Prussian king, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach often accompanied him in concert.
  • Frederick the Great.

Round 5. Category: Swamp Things

  • 1: Singer of the following 1971 song set in a swamp: "Yeah, here comes Amos / Now Amos Moses was a Cajun / He lived by himself...".
  • Jerry Reed.
  • 2: In "Gentle Ben" Dennis Weaver played a game warden in this Florida swamp.
  • the Everglades.
  • 3: Star of "Maude" who was pawed by the "Swamp Thing" in the 1982 film.
  • Adrienne Barbeau.
  • 4: Beetle Bailey is stationed there.
  • Camp Swampy.
  • 5: The 3 residents of "The Swamp" in the final season of "M·A·S·H".
  • Hawkeye, B.J. and Major Charles Winchester.

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Round 1. Category: So It Must Be Tru. With Tru in quotation marks

  • 1: From the German for "whirlpool" comes this treat that's rolled and baked.
  • strudel.
  • 2: I don't mean to do this, thrust myself without permission or welcome... actually, I do, I totally mean to do this.
  • intrude.
  • 3: Absent from school without permission.
  • truant.
  • 4: No lie, it's the 2-word colloquial term for the drug called thiopental.
  • truth serum.
  • 5: Unselfishly concerned for the welfare of others.
  • altruistic.

Round 2. Category: Happy Federal Holiday!

  • 1: In 1789 a general proclamation was issued naming November 26 a day of national this.
  • thanksgiving.
  • 2: This man's Jan. 15 birthday is honored each year with a holiday on the third Monday of the month.
  • Martin Luther King.
  • 3: In 1792 NYC honored the 300th anniv. of a famous arrival with the first major U.S. celebration of this holiday.
  • Columbus Day.
  • 4: I've never belted out "Here We Come A-Wassailing", traditionally sung to celebrate this, but I'm still takin' this day off!.
  • Christmas.
  • 5: Matthew Maguire, a machinist, played a big role in staging the first parade for this holiday in NYC in September 1882.
  • Labor Day.

Round 3. Category: Mountain Do

  • 1: Appropriately, the highest mountain peak in this South American country is Pico Cristobal Colon.
  • Colombia.
  • 2: This range has more mountains that rise at least 26,000 feet than any other.
  • the Himalayas.
  • 3: It's sometimes referred to as Mount Tacoma.
  • Mount Rainier.
  • 4: Belize has a mountain range named for these pre-Columbian people who retreated there from the Spaniards.
  • the Mayans.
  • 5: Frederick Cook, who claimed to have beaten Peary to the pole, also claimed to have scaled this highest Alaskan peak.
  • Denali (or Mount McKinley).

Round 4. Category: Cherchez La Femme

  • 1: Gene Tunney,Gene Tierney,Gene Rayburn.
  • Gene Tierney.
  • 2: Sean Bean,Sean Young,Sean O'Casey.
  • Sean Young.
  • 3: Joey Heatherton, Joey Lawrence, Joey Fatone.
  • Joey Heatherton.
  • 4: Ashley Montagu,Ashleigh Banfield,Ashley Wilkes.
  • Ashleigh Banfield.
  • 5: Parker Stevenson, Parker Posey, Parker Pyne.
  • Parker Posey.

Round 5. Category: Stock And Trade

  • 1: This company, TM, is a hybrid, as it also runs a financial services division.
  • Toyota.
  • 2: For everything else, there's MA, this company.
  • MasterCard.
  • 3: If you want to snowboard or ski, go freestyle with KTO, this sporty company.
  • K2.
  • 4: You can really clean up with this company, WHR.
  • Whirlpool.
  • 5: This company, RTN, believes in a strong defense.
  • Raytheon.

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Round 1. Category: Tv Shows Based On Books By Women

  • 1: This show and its prequel "The Carrie Diaries" were based on books by Candace Bushnell.
  • Sex and the City.
  • 2: Kathy Reichs drew upon her own work as a forensic anthropologist to pen the Temperance Brennan books that became this show.
  • Bones.
  • 3: In the 1970s and '80s Melissa Gilbert and Melissa Sue Anderson starred in "Little House on the Prairie", based on books by this author.
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder.
  • 4: 3 young E.T.s appear as humans and attend a New Mexico high school in books by Melinda Metz, the basis for this TV show.
  • Roswell.
  • 5: Based on novels by Deborah Harkness, "A Discovery of" these beings centers on historian Diana Bishop, who has magical abilities.
  • Witches.

Round 2. Category: Breads And Rolls

  • 1: This bread made with dough left over from the previous day is associated with prospecting.
  • sourdough.
  • 2: This crescent-shaped roll dates back to the 1680s, when Austria and Hungary were at war with Turkey.
  • a croissant.
  • 3: This heavy, dark bread originated in Westphalia, Germany.
  • pumpernickel.
  • 4: Puddinglike spoon bread is made of this grain.
  • corn.
  • 5: Made of clumps of dough piled in a tube pan, bubble bread is also known by this simian name.
  • monkey bread.

Round 3. Category: D.I.Y.

  • 1: This word for a way to save energy and money also refers to sealing up the seams of a ship.
  • caulking.
  • 2: To clean red wine out of a carpet, sprinkle on this common condiment for 15 minutes, then rinse with soap.
  • vinegar (or salt).
  • 3: Fix your stained-glass problems using this, the word for any alloy that's heated to join the lead strips.
  • solder.
  • 4: If you're working with wood that doesn't need a finished look, you can use the waffle-head type of this.
  • a hammer.
  • 5: To cut a hole in drywall for an electrical outlet, use this saw that sounds like you're working on a door.
  • a keyhole saw.

Round 4. Category: Catch The Quechua Word

  • 1: The Quechua people of Peru used this word meaning "ruler" to refer to themselves.
  • Inca.
  • 2: This 4-letter alternate name for the mountain lion comes from the Quechua.
  • puma.
  • 3: The Quechua word for "bark" gives us the name of this malaria medicine obtained from the bark of a tree.
  • quinine.
  • 4: Quechua for "dried flesh", it's meat cut into strips and cured.
  • jerky.
  • 5: Louisiana French for a bonus given to a customer for making a purchase, it's from the Quechua for 'to give more".
  • lagniappe.

Round 5. Category: Animals Among Us

  • 1: The U.S. military used these animals to aid the clearing of underwater mines during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
  • dolphins.
  • 2: The lesser pandas of Asia are related to this "masked" North American mammal of the genus Procyon.
  • the raccoon.
  • 3: Plentiful in the Eurasian steppes in the late Pleistocene, these animals stood 16 feet high and had tusks 16 feet long.
  • mammoths.
  • 4: A traditional Uzbek meal might include shurpa, the meat of this "timid" animal served with vegetable soup.
  • a lamb (or sheep).
  • 5: Like the last passenger pigeon, the last captive Carolina parakeet died in the 1910s in this Ohio city's zoo.
  • Cincinnati.

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Round 1. Category: African Islands

  • 1: Uganda's Sese Islands lie in the northern part of this large lake.
  • Lake Victoria.
  • 2: Parts of this capital city lie on the islands of Gezira and Roda in the Nile River.
  • Cairo.
  • 3: Now a part of Tanzania, this island known for its cloves was mentioned in "The Patty Duke Show" theme song.
  • Zanzibar.
  • 4: Smell the sweet air of the clove-producing island of Pemba in this country's Zanzibar archipelago.
  • Tanzania.
  • 5: Malagasy, 1 of its 2 official languages, is of Indonesian origin.
  • Madagascar.

Round 2. Category: Mystery Meat

  • 1: This popular sliced pizza sausage usually made of beef and pork is named for what seasons it.
  • Pepperoni.
  • 2: Coq au Vin.
  • chicken.
  • 3: Demonic adjective that describes a type of canned ham or an egg appetizer.
  • Deviled.
  • 4: You get a grade "A" if you know USDA stands for this, which has been grading meat quality since 1923.
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture.
  • 5: This North American marsupial finds its way into a tasty stew.
  • Opossum.

Round 3. Category: First In, Last Out. With In", Last "Out in quotes

  • 1: They're what acronyms are composed of.
  • initials.
  • 2: Molten gold is sometimes poured into this type of mold.
  • an ingot.
  • 3: When used by management, this type of labor tactic literally bars workers from their place of employ.
  • lockout.
  • 4: The sign here announces to drivers an upcoming one of these intersections.
  • a roundabout.
  • 5: Type of expenses incurred casually and in addition to the expected amount.
  • incidental.

Round 4. Category: Wonder Drugs

  • 1: Humulin, used by diabetics, is short for "human" this.
  • insulin.
  • 2: Football coach and triple-bypass patient Dan Reeves advertises Zocor, which mainly aims to lower this.
  • cholesterol.
  • 3: Advil migraine eases the throbbing with 200 milligrams of this.
  • ibuprofen.
  • 4: The arthritis medicine lodine is an NSAID, a non-steroidal anti-this drug.
  • inflammatory.
  • 5: Chlorpromazine, aka this, was approved by the FDA in 1954 and became the prototype antipsychotic.
  • thorazine.

Round 5. Category: Original Titles In Literature?

  • 1: 1937:"Ferris Bilbo's Day Off".
  • The Hobbit.
  • 2: 1949:"Big Brother and The Holding Co.: A Winston Smith Novel".
  • 1984.
  • 3: Homer's 24-book sequel:"Tell Penny I'll Be Right Back".
  • the Odyssey.
  • 4: Late 14th century:"A Miller, a Reeve and a Nun Walk into a Bar".
  • The Canterbury Tales.
  • 5: 1726:"Where in the World Is Lemuel?".
  • Gulliver's Travels.

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Round 1. Category: Novels Since 1900

  • 1: 23-year-old Andrea Sachs gets a job as a personal assistant at Runway magazine in this Lauren Weisberger novel.
  • The Devil Wears Prada.
  • 2: "Texasville" and "Duane's Depressed" are 2 of the many tales of the small-town west by this author who died in 2021.
  • (Larry) McMurtry.
  • 3: The name of this realtor and Sinclair Lewis title character has come to mean a witless booster.
  • (George) Babbitt.
  • 4: There's a weapon in the title of this modern updating of an ancient English legend by T.H. White.
  • The Sword in the Stone.
  • 5: Paul Bäumer is a young German student turned soldier in this World War I novel.
  • All Quiet on the Western Front.

Round 2. Category: This Side Up. With Up in quotation marks

  • 1: Dude, you're way too this word, nervous and easily annoyed.
  • uptight.
  • 2: This "Saturday Night Live" newscast title has been used since a weekend in 1975.
  • Weekend Update.
  • 3: "Casablanca" begins with an order to do this to "all suspicious characters and search them".
  • round up.
  • 4: In summer 2013 shares of Pandora stock surged after Goldman Sachs did this to it from "neutral" to "buy".
  • upgrade.
  • 5: Hang gliders ride these rising currents of air to stay aloft.
  • updrafts.

Round 3. Category: XOdus. With X in quotes

  • 1: Back Off! I've got this irrational fear of strangers.
  • Xenophobia.
  • 2: A brand name, it's become a synonym for a photocopy.
  • Xerox.
  • 3: Second name of St. Francis, known as the "Apostle of the Indies".
  • Xavier.
  • 4: It's the 4-letter spelling of the shortened form of Christmas; many Christians frown on it.
  • Xmas.
  • 5: It's the alphabetical name for the troubling 1790s incident involving French agents.
  • XYZ Affair.

Round 4. Category: Pie-Pourri

  • 1: Betty Crocker has a recipe for rhubarb pie topped with this fluff made from egg whites.
  • meringue.
  • 2: To make this pie topping, stiffly beat egg whites and add granulated sugar one tablespoon at a time.
  • meringue.
  • 3: You don't need a lot of dough to make pie crust; smash up some chocolate wafers to make this kind of crust instead.
  • a crumb crust.
  • 4: Confusingly, this official state dessert of Massachusetts is called pie but made with sponge cake.
  • Boston cream pie.
  • 5: Not chocolate silk or chocolate chiffon, but chocolate this glossy fabric is a favorite at Marie Callender's.
  • chocolate satin.

Round 5. Category: Great Places To Propose

  • 1: At a spot near this spectacular site in Africa.
  • Victoria Falls.
  • 2: In Agra, before this monument to eternal love.
  • the Taj Mahal.
  • 3: High atop this British attraction.
  • the Millennium Wheel.
  • 4: On this oldest bridge in Paris, whose name means otherwise.
  • Pont-Neuf.
  • 5: On a beach on this Caribbean island, named for a female saint, with one of its famous volcanic peaks in the background.
  • Saint Lucia.

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Round 1. Category: Medical Prefixes And Suffixes

  • 1: These 2 -iatricians specialize in opposite times of life and there's often talk of a surplus of one and a shortage of the other.
  • a pediatrician and a geriatrician.
  • 2: -sclerosis,as in "of an artery".
  • hardening.
  • 3: After my-, it means pain in the muscles; after neur-, it's pain along the course of a nerve.
  • -algia.
  • 4: Following lump- and tonsil(l)-, it denotes a surgical removal.
  • -ectomy.
  • 5: Schizo-,as in an atom or a banana dessert.
  • split.

Round 2. Category: '80s Film Comedy

  • 1: Golf course groundskeeper Bill Murray battles gophers in this laugh riot.
  • Caddyshack.
  • 2: SCTV's Bob and Doug McKenzie foamed up on the big screen in this 1983 movie.
  • Strange Brew.
  • 3: He played movie star and TV guest star Alan Swann in 1982's "My Favorite Year".
  • Peter O'Toole.
  • 4: This film starring Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg and a robot electrified audiences in '86.
  • Short Circuit.
  • 5: It's the film in which Tom Hanks and Shelley Long buy a dream house that turns into a nightmare.
  • The Money Pit.

Round 3. Category: Show Me The Munchies!

  • 1: Logically enough, brands of this snack favorite include Jiffy Pop and Pop Secret.
  • popcorn.
  • 2: Get twisted with these ancient treats made from dough that's baked, salted and usually twisted into a loose knot.
  • a pretzel.
  • 3: It's Super Bowl time! Break out the chips and this yummy dip made from mashed avocados and cilantro.
  • guacamole.
  • 4: One of the two snacks mentioned in the song "Take Me Out To The Ball Game".
  • peanuts or Cracker Jacks.
  • 5: Many different snacks from this brand are supposedly baked by elves in a hollow tree.
  • Keebler.

Round 4. Category: 2 First Names

  • 1: He won an Emmy for portraying Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra".
  • Michael Douglas.
  • 2: The doormat at her Nashville museum reads, "Howdee!".
  • Minnie Pearl.
  • 3: This star of "Glee" made her Broadway debut at age 8 playing Cosette in "Les Miz".
  • Lea Michele.
  • 4: In 1988 he won the "Best Actor" Oscar.
  • Michael Douglas.
  • 5: In the '90s his "you got the right one baby" Diet Pepsi commercials earned him a new generation of fans--uh huh!.
  • Ray Charles.

Round 5. Category: Conquistadors

  • 1: The Cabrillo National Monument sits in this California city where Juan sailed in 1542.
  • San Diego.
  • 2: Sent to Mexico to get this Spanish leader to resign, Panfilo de Narvaez lost the battle and his eye instead.
  • Cortés.
  • 3: The conquistador-laden ships that landed at Darien in 1514 were called this, also the name of a later 16th c. Spanish fleet.
  • the Armada.
  • 4: Maybe the 1st black African in the New World, Juan Garrido pillaged in Mexico before going to Florida with this man.
  • Ponce de León.
  • 5: Despite retaking this Incan capital, Diego de Almagro was killed for imprisoning Pizarro's brothers.
  • Cuzco.

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Round 1. Category: International Get-Togethers

  • 1: In spring, head out from this largest Dutch city to the regional trade event focusing on tulips.
  • Amsterdam.
  • 2: Toronto's Collision Conference has a program for these tech companies named for their fledgling nature.
  • start-ups.
  • 3: This Austin-based meet-up was focused on music when it launched in 1987, but now includes other media.
  • South by Southwest.
  • 4: In 2018 the India Mobile Congress event focused on telecom issues, especially this new alphanumeric mobile network.
  • 5G.
  • 5: Billed as the "most influential tech event in the world", this event featuring gizmos and gadgets has been held in Las Vegas since 1978.
  • the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Round 2. Category: Drug Store

  • 1: For most of its 100 plus years, it's been the world's best-selling mouthwash.
  • Listerine.
  • 2: The best-selling brand of children's vitamins in the U.S. is named for these cartoon characters.
  • the Flintstones.
  • 3: It completed the '50s jingle, "You'll wonder where the yellow went...".
  • "when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent".
  • 4: People spray Chloraseptic to relieve this pain.
  • a sore throat.
  • 5: Generic name of the pain reliever in Bufferin.
  • acetylsalicylic acid.

Round 3. Category: It'S A Girl!

  • 1: This 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is set in a small Alabama town and narrated by a young girl.
  • To Kill a Mockingbird.
  • 2: Short story shorter: "Grimm" girl, loves power colors and older relatives, has problems with wolf.
  • (Little) Red Riding Hood.
  • 3: In this 1900 book a farm girl encounters some rough weather and ends up, well, not in Kansas anymore.
  • The Wizard of Oz.
  • 4: Proving once again that pig's blood and proms just don't mix, this Stephen King title girl puts mind over matter.
  • Carrie.
  • 5: This 9-year-old novel heroine has superhuman strength and lives in Sweden in her house, Villa Villekulla.
  • Pippi Longstocking.

Round 4. Category: Action Movie Stars

  • 1: In this film, gunfighter Steve McQueen joins up with 6 others to defend a Mexican village from bandits.
  • The Magnificent Seven.
  • 2: As Snake Plissken, this actor had to "Escape from" New York and Los Angeles.
  • (Kurt) Russell.
  • 3: This actor returns as Peter Parker in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", trying to enjoy a vacation while battling new foes in Europe.
  • Tom Holland.
  • 4: It was Riggs, Murtaugh and Chris rock as Detective Lee Butters in film number 4 in this series.
  • Lethal Weapon.
  • 5: This actress' role in "Salt" as an accused spy for Russia was originally written for Tom Cruise.
  • Angelina Jolie.

Round 5. Category: Let Me Entertain You

  • 1: You're having a party? Let me do this job and my 4-deck mixing skills will fill the dance floor.
  • DJ (or disc jockey).
  • 2: Drake and Eminem were featured artists on "Loud", an album from this single-named singer.
  • Rihanna.
  • 3: I'll do this, tap dance without the metal taps.
  • soft-shoe.
  • 4: Steve Carell voiced "superbad superdad" Gru, a criminal mastermind-turned-family man in this animated pic.
  • Despicable Me.
  • 5: How about my impression of this actor; I'll be sure to say "Pilgrim", like he does in "McLintock!".
  • John Wayne.

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Round 1. Category: A Trip To The Islands

  • 1: This 2,200-square-mile Canadian island was named for a son of George III.
  • Prince Edward Island.
  • 2: The "Big Island" of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago is shared between Argentina and this country.
  • Chile.
  • 3: The migration of the red crabs is an annual spectacle on this Indian Ocean island named for a holiday.
  • Christmas Island.
  • 4: An island called the Phantom Ship rises from the water inside a volcanic caldera in this Oregon national park.
  • Crater Lake.
  • 5: On this Greek island you can soak up the sun on Elafonisi Beach or tour the ruins of the ancient palace of Knossos.
  • Crete.

Round 2. Category: The Name Of The Board Game

  • 1: Rhinoplasty or appendectomy, for example.
  • Operation.
  • 2: The USS Missouri is an Iowa-class one.
  • Battleship.
  • 3: The Sherman Act of 1890 was meant to combat this type of business.
  • Monopoly.
  • 4: Slang for a tornado.
  • Twister.
  • 5: Nixon's spaniel.
  • Checkers.

Round 3. Category: My Name Is Earl Warren

  • 1: In Reynolds v. Sims I said that representation in legislatures must be based mostly on population: one man, one this.
  • vote.
  • 2: I am interred at this national cemetery.
  • Arlington.
  • 3: I was a 3-term governor of this state, 1943-1953.
  • California.
  • 4: On June 23, 1969 I swore in this man as Chief Justice of the U.S..
  • Warren Burger.
  • 5: I ruled that public school segregation was unconstitutional in this landmark 1954 case.
  • Brown v. Board of Education.

Round 4. Category: Make Light Work

  • 1: Around noon on some days, Germany gets close to half its power from this source.
  • solar power.
  • 2: The light type of this is a basic tool of cell biology, magnifying specimens hundreds of times.
  • a microscope.
  • 3: Take a mind-expanding journey at the live show called Paramount's Laser Spectacular, with the music of this "Dark Side" band.
  • Pink Floyd.
  • 4: 10 projectors show astronomical wonders in the USA's largest of these facilities, at a Jersey City science center.
  • a planetarium.
  • 5: John Alcott and Emmanuel Lubezki, people in this profession, are noted for creative use of natural light.
  • cinematographers.

Round 5. Category: Inca Hoots?

  • 1: When in Peru, don't forget to check out the cute pygmy owls named for these mountains.
  • the Andes.
  • 2: The name of this city taken by Pizarro in 1533 is derived from Quechuan words meaning "rock of the owl".
  • Cuzco.
  • 3: After listening to its piercing cry, you'll know why this west Peruvian owl is so named.
  • the screech-owl.
  • 4: Peru's ferruginous pygmy owls are the color of this, which is formed by oxidation.
  • rust.
  • 5: A long-whiskered owlet was seen in Peru in 2007; it's so rare it has its own genus, Xenoglaux, meaning this "owl".
  • foreign (or strange).

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Round 1. Category: Letters In Song

  • 1: Title of the following Beatles hit, it's how many people conclude a letter:"As I write this letter/Send my love to you/Remember I'll always be with you/Be in love with you...".
  • P.S. I Love You.
  • 2: If your sweetheart sends a letter of goodbye, it's no secret you'll feel better if you do this.
  • cry.
  • 3: Pat Boone lamented, "Now my poor heart just aches with every wave it breaks over" these.
  • Love Letters in the Sand.
  • 4: "I gave a letter to the postman, he put it in his sack. Bright and early next morning he" did this.
  • brought my letter back.
  • 5: In "Please, Mr. Postman" it concludes the line, "Deliver the letter...".
  • "the sooner the better".

Round 2. Category: Organizations For Short

  • 1: Founded in 1847, the AMA.
  • the American Medical Association.
  • 2: The NAACP.
  • the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
  • 3: The AKC.
  • the American Kennel Club.
  • 4: The K of C, all 1.8 million of them.
  • the Knights of Columbus.
  • 5: Similar to the DAR, the SAR.
  • the Sons of the American Revolution.

Round 3. Category: Things You Shouldn'T Put In Your Mouth

  • 1: Put the golden barrel or saguaro type of this plant in your mouth only if you want pierced lips.
  • cactus.
  • 2: Socrates could tell you this herb that's sometimes confused with parsley is the perfect garnish for a funeral.
  • hemlock.
  • 3: Stay clear of this Algonquin weapon as well as the same-named cruise missile used in the Persian Gulf War.
  • a tomahawk.
  • 4: This man, who introduced A.C. current in the U.S., wouldn't recommend putting any appliance in your mouth.
  • George Westinghouse.
  • 5: Discoverer Daniel Rutherford might fertilize with it; don't try to freeze yourself by drinking the liquid form.
  • nitrogen.

Round 4. Category: Turtles All The Way Down

  • 1: "Turtles all the way down" is an apt description for how the turtle king rules Sala-ma-Sond for a time in this Dr. Seuss story.
  • Yertle the Turtle.
  • 2: This group of comic book superheroes got their powers from radioactive ooze.
  • the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
  • 3: Built in 1775 by David Bushnell, the Turtle was a one-man hand-cranked one of these vessels used by the military.
  • a submarine.
  • 4: In 1967 The Turtles had a No. 1 hit with this song that begins, "Imagine me and you, I do".
  • "Happy Together".
  • 5: Greek myth says Hermes invented this harp-like instrument using a turtle shell.
  • a lyre.

Round 5. Category: The Cherry Bowl

  • 1: In 1912 this Asian country gave the U.S. a bunch of cherry trees.
  • Japan.
  • 2: They wrote, "A couple Deadheads in Maine sent us a postcard with a name for a new flavor" -- Cherry Garcia.
  • Ben and Jerry.
  • 3: For a basketball player, it's scoring an easy hoop after a long pass downcourt.
  • Cherry-picking.
  • 4: Stepdaughter of jazz musician Don, she stood high on the charts in 1989 with "Buffalo Stance".
  • Neneh Cherry.
  • 5: This play debuted in 1904 at the Moscow Art Theater.
  • "The Cherry Orchard".

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Round 1. Category: Women Directing Women

  • 1: This Oscar-winning actress directed herself in the film "Little Man Tate".
  • Jodie Foster.
  • 2: Gurinder Chadha scored when she directed Parminder Nagra in this soccer film.
  • Bend It Like Beckham.
  • 3: Mira Nair had "Hysterical Blindness" before directing Reese Witherspoon in this Thackeray film.
  • Vanity Fair.
  • 4: Martha Coolidge directed this actress to an Emmy for playing Dorothy Dandridge.
  • Halle Berry.
  • 5: In this TV drama's "The Supremes" episode, Oscar winner Jessica Yu directed Glenn Close as a Court nominee.
  • The West Wing.

Round 2. Category: Acronyms Made Redundant

  • 1: PIN number.
  • personal identification number.
  • 2: EMP pulse.
  • electromagnetic pulse.
  • 3: UPC code.
  • universal product code.
  • 4: LCD display.
  • liquid crystal display.
  • 5: SALT talks.
  • strategic arms limitation talks.

Round 3. Category: Rhyme Pays

  • 1: To ponder yonder intently.
  • gaze.
  • 2: Proverbially, "a month of" them is a long long time.
  • Sundays.
  • 3: To eat sheep-ishly.
  • graze.
  • 4: To initiate someone with pranks and tasks.
  • haze.
  • 5: Judicial stoppages, like of executions.
  • stays.

Round 4. Category: Folk Etymology

  • 1: To get this word for a smelly varmint, we anglicized the French for "feline that eats poultry".
  • polecat.
  • 2: Cater-corner became kitty-corner after people stopped using "cater" to mean this number.
  • 4.
  • 3: Formed by folk etymology from an Old French word, it's not a basement but a small holder for salt.
  • a cellar.
  • 4: This 10-letter word we use for someone ending his bachelorhood is partly from an alteration of guma, "man".
  • bridegroom.
  • 5: Our word "cutlet" for a thin slice evolved from the French cotelette, a little one of these body parts.
  • rib.

Round 5. Category: After And Before

  • 1: It's Latin for "after" but comes before "-mortem".
  • post.
  • 2: As a poker term, it's a word on its own; as a prefix, it means "before".
  • ante.
  • 3: Another word for your rump, this word also means subsequent.
  • posterior.
  • 4: It's the adverb in the acronym FKA.
  • formerly.
  • 5: The order of who is next on the throne is the line of this 10-letter word.
  • succession.

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Round 1. Category: Let'S Go Online

  • 1: Oh my God! It's a double rainbow video! Seen by more than 19.3 million people on this site! What does this mean?!.
  • YouTube.
  • 2: "The Clone Wars: Fierce Twilight" and "The Powerpuff Girls: Fast and Flurrious" are games at this TV channel's .com.
  • Cartoon Network.
  • 3: On May 15, 2007 Shawn Cotter used this site to prank friends, creating the rickroll.
  • YouTube.
  • 4: There's no place like this cozy page, the first page of a website.
  • the home page.
  • 5: Nora Ephron is editor at large for this political site co-founded by Arianna.
  • the Huffington Post.

Round 2. Category: The Unicorn

  • 1: This Japanese beer brand uses a unicorn for its logo and that's what its name means.
  • Kirin.
  • 2: In "Through the Looking-Glass", she meets a unicorn who is stunned to discover she's not a monster.
  • Alice.
  • 3: The endangered Indian species of this large ungulate has the scientific name R. unicornis.
  • rhinoceros.
  • 4: The "Gentleman Caller" breaks Laura's prized figurine in this play from 1945.
  • The Glass Menagerie.
  • 5: This unicorn-like whale's "horn" is really a long tusk.
  • narwhal.

Round 3. Category: Good Knight

  • 1: The Poor Knights of Christ became known by this name after occupying a house near the Temple of Solomon.
  • the Knights Templar.
  • 2: Anne Crompton reworks medieval lit by pairing this knight not with the Green Knight but rather with "Lady Green".
  • Gawain.
  • 3: "The Hedge Knight" is a graphic novel set in the same world as this author's "A Song of Ice and Fire".
  • George R.R. Martin.
  • 4: When a woman gets a knighthood from the British, she gets this title before her name.
  • dame.
  • 5: 11th century knight El Cid was a soldier of fortune for both Christians and these Spanish Muslims.
  • Moors.

Round 4. Category: Culture Around The World

  • 1: Drawing from the name of our motion picture capital, it's the name for India's movie industry.
  • Bollywood.
  • 2: This museum's original holdings consisted of art collected by the Hapsburg and Bourbon monarchs of Spain.
  • the Prado.
  • 3: In 1953 the Shakespeare Festival in this Ontario, Canada city held its first performance.
  • Stratford.
  • 4: This form of Japanese drama that incorporates music, dance and mime developed in the 1600s.
  • kabuki.
  • 5: Originated by 2 high schoolers in 1971 , the Roskilde culture and music festival in this country is one of Europe's largest.
  • Denmark.

Round 5. Category: Tough Oz

  • 1: The Wicked Witch of the West dies when Dorothy does this to her.
  • Sprays her with water.
  • 2: The 3 kinds of animals fretted about in the forest, "Oh My!".
  • Lions and tigers and bears.
  • 3: It's the part of the Tin Man's body that Dorothy oils first.
  • his mouth.
  • 4: The warning on the Haunted Forest signpost says "I'd" do this "If I were you".
  • Turn back.
  • 5: This animal pulls the coach in the Emerald City.
  • the Horse of a Different Color.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1065, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Poe-Pourri

  • 1: Poe was terribly ill when he was found in a tavern in this city on October 3, 1849; he died a few days later.
  • Baltimore.
  • 2: One of the title objects in this Poe story had a "terrifically wide sweep (some thirty feet or more)".
  • "The Pit and the Pendulum"?.
  • 3: "I admit the deed! Tear up the planks!" this title object is beneath them.
  • "The Tell-Tale Heart".
  • 4: 16-letter word used by Poe to describe the runic rhyme that musically welled from the bells.
  • tintinnabulation.
  • 5: Twain said it's the only animal that blushes; Poe said it's the only animal that diddles.
  • humans (man).

Round 2. Category: Serial Killers

  • 1: Mistah Kurtz--he dead; in the April 1899 issue of Balckwood's Magazine thanks to this author.
  • (Joseph) Conrad.
  • 2: In a March 1852 serial chapter in The National Era, Harriet Beecher Stowe killed off this title character.
  • Uncle Tom.
  • 3: Charles Dickens dragged out the death of Little Nell over installments of this "Old" novel.
  • The Old Curiosity Shop.
  • 4: Stephen King senselessly snuffed out this mouse in part 3 of "The Green Mile"... he'd be back.
  • Mr. Jingles.
  • 5: In the May 1, 1886 issue of Graphic, this author killed off Lucetta and her unborn child in "The Mayor of Casterbridge".
  • Thomas Hardy.

Round 3. Category: They Named A City For Me In...

  • 1: Reverend Newitt Vick (1811).
  • Mississippi.
  • 2: Dr. Bartlett Durham (1854).
  • North Carolina.
  • 3: Sedona Schnebly (1902).
  • Arizona.
  • 4: Commodore Robert F. Stockton (1850).
  • California.
  • 5: Lieutenant Caspar (sic) Collins (1888).
  • Wyoming.

Round 4. Category: Out At First. With Out in quotes

  • 1: A loss of electrical power.
  • an outage.
  • 2: A discount store devoted to a single retail brand.
  • an outlet.
  • 3: This word for a criminal comes from early Scandinavian.
  • outlaw.
  • 4: Let's get things straight from this, the very beginning of something.
  • the outset.
  • 5: A rock formation that projects from the ground.
  • an outcrop.

Round 5. Category: The Ship Of State

  • 1: In the 1860s a paddle-wheeler named this plied the waters of the same-named river around Fort Yuma.
  • Colorado.
  • 2: Designated SSN-780, the current USS Missouri isn't a battleship but a nuclear-powered one of these.
  • a submarine.
  • 3: 2 schooners called the Oregon Fir and the Oregon this carried lumber from the U.S. to Australia in the 1920s.
  • the Oregon Pine.
  • 4: The Pearl Harbor Memorial to this ship reminds visitors it was the scene of great loss and asks them to dress appropriately.
  • the Arizona.
  • 5: In 1862, the captured and rebuilt USS Merrimack was relaunched as the CSS this state.
  • the Virginia.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1064, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Airborne

  • 1: It figures that Otto was the name of the autopilot in this 1980 movie comedy in the clouds.
  • Airplane!.
  • 2: Tom Hanks and several FedEx packages survive a particularly bumpy flight in this film.
  • Cast Away.
  • 3: Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a prisoner with a heart of gold, in this flighty film.
  • Con Air.
  • 4: One of the President's own men is a terrorist when the title plane gets hijacked in this 1997 actioner.
  • Air Force One.
  • 5: Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick were both nominated for Oscars for this 2009 film.
  • Up in the Air.

Round 2. Category: Owed On A Grecian Urn

  • 1: For building the Parthenon as leader of Athens, I say to the citizens: you owe me! and please take better care of it.
  • Pericles.
  • 2: Though blind, I see that you're still reading my "Iliad" and "Odyssey"; you owe me! Or at least the overdue library fees.
  • Homer.
  • 3: "Slow and steady wins the race" is one of the morals I have taught you; you owe me!.
  • Aesop.
  • 4: I left behind treatises on how to treat diseases and my oath is still taken today; you owe me! Do you have Blue Cross?.
  • Hippocrates.
  • 5: Without my "Parallel Lives", you'd know a lot less about our history.
  • Plutarch.

Round 3. Category: One-Letter Geography

  • 1: Due west of its capital Salem, this state's D River is billed as the world's shortest at 120 feet.
  • Oregon.
  • 2: You'll find the region called "U" in Pohnpei, one of the Federated States of this multi-island Pacific nation.
  • Micronesia.
  • 3: Sweden, Denmark and Norway all have villages with the "ring" type of this vowel for a name.
  • A.
  • 4: This French village exists at the junction of 3 roads, hence its one-letter name.
  • Y.
  • 5: Mount E on this island is at the entrance to the Tsugaru Strait, across which lies Honshu.
  • Hokkaido.

Round 4. Category: Acting Families

  • 1: Ryan andTatum.
  • O'Neal.
  • 2: BrothersBen and Casey.
  • Affleck.
  • 3: Dad and sonFreddie.
  • Prinze.
  • 4: Efrem andStephanie.
  • Zimbalist.
  • 5: Junius and his boys Edwin and John.
  • Booth.

Round 5. Category: Water Carriers

  • 1: The 62-mile Kings River flume in California wasn't built for a theme park but to float these.
  • logs.
  • 2: One of these channels, built to bring goods by water to Madras, India, took 76 years to finish.
  • an canal.
  • 3: Martin Luther King hoped for righteousness to roll down "like a mighty" this, not quite a river.
  • a mighty stream.
  • 4: In 1590 Sir Francis Drake built the 17-mile River Leat, one of these channels, bringing water to Plymouth, England.
  • an aqueduct.
  • 5: In the 1950s this project opened up a 2,300-mile system of waterways.
  • the Saint Lawrence Seaway project.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1063, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: A Plague On You!

  • 1: The 14th century "Black Death" that swept Europe was this type of plague, from the Greek for "groin".
  • Bubonic.
  • 2: The first of these was the Nile turning to blood.
  • 10 plagues of Egypt.
  • 3: This physician and seer of the "centuries" treated plague victims in 16th century France.
  • Nostradamus.
  • 4: He published "The Plague" in 1947.
  • Albert Camus.
  • 5: In his diary, Samuel Pepys recounted the "Great Plague" sweeping through London in this decade.
  • 1660s.

Round 2. Category: Ice Cream

  • 1: This best-selling brand of cookies is also available as "cookies n' cream" ice cream.
  • Oreos.
  • 2: More ice cream is consumed in this country than any other.
  • United States.
  • 3: When setting up an ice cream maker, use table salt or this type which dissolves more slowly.
  • rock salt.
  • 4: It's the most popular fruit flavor of ice cream in the U.S..
  • strawberry.
  • 5: 2005 was the 20th birthday of this restaurant's Blizzard, a soft-serve treat.
  • Dairy Queen.

Round 3. Category: London Boroughs

  • 1: This borough's name is synonymous with Britain's Parliament.
  • Westminster.
  • 2: The 33 boroughs that make up London include this one that helps us keep time worldwide.
  • Greenwich.
  • 3: 2 boroughs, Richmond and Kingston, are more properly followed by "upon" this body of water.
  • upon Thames.
  • 4: Take a walk down memory lane in the borough of Camden and name this thoroughfare made famous by The Beatles.
  • Abbey Road.
  • 5: More than 1,300 bombs were dropped on the especially hard-hit borough of Croydon during this 1940-41 German-named assault.
  • the Blitz.

Round 4. Category: Bloody Business

  • 1: About half the blood collected in the U.S. is acquired by this organization.
  • Red Cross.
  • 2: A bonding ritual turns 2 unrelated men into these.
  • Blood brothers.
  • 3: It was the persecution of this group that earned Bloody Mary her nickname.
  • Protestants.
  • 4: His first role as a swashbuckler was in 1935 as Captain Blood.
  • Errol Flynn.
  • 5: The 4 things Churchill told the House of Commons he had to offer May 13, 1940 were blood and these.
  • "Toil, tears and sweat".

Round 5. Category: Joe, Annes And Joannes

  • 1: In 1533 she gave birth to future Queen Elizabeth I.
  • Anne Boleyn.
  • 2: His marriage to Marilyn Monroe lasted only 9 months in 1954.
  • Joe DiMaggio.
  • 3: He retired from boxing in 1949, but returned only to be KOed by Rocky Marciano in 1951.
  • Joe Louis.
  • 4: She played opposite her husband in the movies "The Drowning Pool" and "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge".
  • Joanne Woodward.
  • 5: Her "Breathing Lessons" really paid off; in 1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
  • Anne Tyler.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1062, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Play Faster!

  • 1: Largo is a slow tempo of around 50 bpm, which is short for these.
  • beats per minute.
  • 2: At a setting of 70, you're in this tempo; Samuel Barber wrote one "for Strings".
  • adagio.
  • 3: A metronome setting of 100 is this tempo that includes the author of "Inferno".
  • andante.
  • 4: 140 bpm brings you to this word, the basic musical indication for "fast" or "lively".
  • allegro.
  • 5: This very fast tempo is also a word used by magicians to command the amazing to happen.
  • presto.

Round 2. Category: Royal Female Nicknames

  • 1: Prime Minister Tony Blair dubbed her "The People's Princess".
  • Princess Diana.
  • 2: England's "Good Queen Bess".
  • Elizabeth I.
  • 3: She was "The Untamed Heifer" and "The Virgin Queen".
  • Elizabeth I.
  • 4: Mark Antony called her "The Queen of Queens".
  • Cleopatra.
  • 5: France's "The Austrian Wench".
  • Marie Antoinette.

Round 3. Category: Literary Houses

  • 1: Harry Angstrom's house burns to the ground in this author's 1971 novel "Rabbit Redux".
  • (John) Updike.
  • 2: Scarlett O'Hara's plantation home.
  • Tara.
  • 3: In this Anne Tyler novel, a travel writer breaks his leg and moves into his siblings' home.
  • The Accidental Tourist.
  • 4: This title gal's Manderley, which had an "iron gate leading to the drive".
  • Rebecca.
  • 5: Title place where Hindley hates Heathcliff.
  • Wuthering Heights.

Round 4. Category: British Business

  • 1: John Shepherd-Barron invented it and in 1967 Barclays Bank installed the world's first one.
  • an ATM.
  • 2: This art book publisher took its name from the rivers flowing through London and New York City.
  • Thames and Hudson.
  • 3: In the early 1700s William Fortnum, a footman who sold Queen Anne's used candles, went into retail with this partner.
  • (Hugh) Mason.
  • 4: Lea and Perrins of sauce fame both started their careers as these, meaning druggists or pharmacists.
  • chemists.
  • 5: In 1986 inefficiency and strikes did in this auto brand known as BL.
  • British Leyland.

Round 5. Category: Lousy Souvenirs

  • 1: My aunt went to Spain and all I got were these lousy pants worn by heroes of the bullring.
  • Toreador pants.
  • 2: My mother went to Hawaii and all I got was this long, loose dress.
  • Muumuu.
  • 3: My uncle went to England and all I got was this lousy piece of a suit, which Americans call a vest.
  • Waistcoat.
  • 4: My brother went to Venice Beach and all I got was this lousy shirt named for what he showed off.
  • Muscle shirt.
  • 5: My granddad went to Ireland and all I got was this lousy overcoat named for a province there.
  • Ulster.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1061, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: This Is I Country

  • 1: An island, it's the world's northernmost "I" country.
  • Iceland.
  • 2: They're the only 2 "I" countries to border each other.
  • Iran and Iraq.
  • 3: One of this country's driest regions is the Negev Desert, with an annual rainfall of usually less than 10 inches.
  • Israel.
  • 4: Its ethnic groups include the Dayaks on Borneo, the Toraja on Sulawesi and some Papuan groups on Irian Jaya.
  • Indonesia.
  • 5: Among its 26 counties are one famed for its cut glass and one known for its tweed cloth.
  • Ireland.

Round 2. Category: Auditions For A New Mustache

  • 1: It's thick, bushy and named for a tusked northern mammal.
  • a walrus mustache.
  • 2: It bears the name of an artist born in Figueres.
  • Dalí.
  • 3: With its twirlable up-curled ends, it's the perfect style for villains like Snidely Whiplash.
  • a handlebar mustache.
  • 4: The shape of this 'stache gives it this name, like an item used in a backyard game.
  • horseshoe.
  • 5: An Asian villain of literature and film lends his name to this mustache.
  • Fu Manchu.

Round 3. Category: The Works Of Victor Hugo

  • 1: In "The Last Day of a Condemned Man," a prisoner wakes up every morning knowing each day could lead to this instrument of doom.
  • the guillotine.
  • 2: "The Toilers of the Sea" is a story of a shipwreck in these islands between France and Britain where Hugo lived in exile for decades.
  • Channel Islands.
  • 3: Hugo's only opera libretto was for "La Esmeralda," based on this novel of his.
  • The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
  • 4: The early novel "Bug-Jargal" is set during the Revolution in this French Caribbean island possession.
  • Haiti.
  • 5: Hugo's last novel, "Ninety-Three" refers to 1793, the fourth year of the French Revolution and the beginning of this brutal period.
  • The Reign of Terror.

Round 4. Category: The Body Politic

  • 1: The 160-seat Dáil Éireann is the lower house of this country's parliament.
  • Ireland.
  • 2: The lower house of Argentina's legislature is the chamber of these--representatives, not junior sheriffs.
  • deputies.
  • 3: There are 338 members in this branch of Canada's parliament.
  • the House of Commons.
  • 4: In the west Japan's national assembly, the Kokkai, goes by this slender name.
  • the Diet.
  • 5: This name of Iceland's parliament comes from words meaning "whole assembly".
  • the Althing.

Round 5. Category: Lafayette

  • 1: In April 1771 he joined this group of king's guards that was all for one and one for all.
  • the Musketeers.
  • 2: In 1777 he spent part of a harsh winter here with George Washington.
  • Valley Forge.
  • 3: Before turning his attention fully to the telegraph, he painted a portrait of Lafayette.
  • (Samuel) Morse.
  • 4: In 1771 he joined this military group over 100 years after D'Artagnan.
  • the Musketeers.
  • 5: July 15, 1789 the day after this political event, Lafayette was appointed head of the French national guard.
  • the storming of the Bastille.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1060, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Quick Study

  • 1: Etymology is the study of the origin of these--it's time to use yours.
  • words.
  • 2: It's the study of crime and punishment and the management of prisons.
  • penology.
  • 3: It's the study of the glands and hormones.
  • endocrinology.
  • 4: If you know that vexillology is the study of these, we salute you.
  • flags.
  • 5: Though not an -ology, it's the study of coats of arms.
  • heraldry.

Round 2. Category: The Cracker Barrel

  • 1: "The snack that smiles back", this kids' favorite from Pepperidge Farm comes in pizza and Parmesan flavors as well as Cheddar.
  • Goldfish.
  • 2: As well as the traditional type, Manischewitz also makes this unleavened bread in the form of smaller crackers.
  • matzo.
  • 3: Since 1934 we've been finding new toppings for "Putting on" these round classics.
  • Ritz.
  • 4: Keebler bills Town House Flipsides as buttery crackers with the added taste of this salty snack.
  • pretzels.
  • 5: Despite their name, these teensy crackers contain no shellfish.
  • oyster crackers.

Round 3. Category: Honorary U.S. Citizens

  • 1: A city and a bay in this state derive their names from the most recent honoree, Revolutionary War hero Bernardo de Gálvez.
  • Texas.
  • 2: Winston Churchill, the first honorary citizen, had the honor conferred on him April 9, 1963 by this man.
  • Kennedy.
  • 3: This Quaker who founded a U.S. colony and his wife were given ex post facto citizenship for their farsighted reforms.
  • (William) Penn.
  • 4: The law making him a citizen said he "secured the help of France to aid the United States' colonists against Great Britain".
  • Lafayette.
  • 5: Named "Righteous Among the Nations" by Israel in 1963, this Swede was named an honorary citizen in 1981.
  • Wallenberg.

Round 4. Category: Presidential Quotations

  • 1: In 1865 he said, "Whenever I hear someone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally".
  • Lincoln.
  • 2: John Quincy Adams called this, which his father signed, "a light of salvation and redemption to the oppressed".
  • the Declaration of Independence.
  • 3: In a 1976 Playboy interview, he said, "I've committed adultery in my heart many times".
  • Jimmy Carter.
  • 4: On August 18, 1988 he told the GOP National Convention, "I want a kinder, gentler nation".
  • George H.W. Bush (George... Bush... the dad accepted).
  • 5: After this April 1775 battle John Adams said, "The die was cast, the Rubicon passed".
  • Concord and Lexington.

Round 5. Category: It'S Harbor Day!

  • 1: There's a 225-ton lady eternally greeting visitors at the entrance to this harbor.
  • New York Harbor.
  • 2: Darwin Harbor was named in 1839 by John Stokes, a surveyor aboard this ship.
  • the Beagle.
  • 3: On Dec. 16, 1773 the locals decided to give this harbor an unusual bit of pollution, and the world would never be the same.
  • Boston Harbor.
  • 4: About 400 miles at its widest point, this sea has harbors in Riga, Latvia and Klaipeda, Lithuania.
  • the Baltic Sea.
  • 5: Here's a view from this bridge named for the water below.
  • Sydney Harbor.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1059, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Eels

  • 1: There are more than 800 species of eels, including this large nocturnal hunter.
  • the moray.
  • 2: These charged-up creatures are technically not eels at all, but knifefish.
  • electric eels.
  • 3: This term is used for a young eel, especially when on migration upriver from the ocean.
  • an elver.
  • 4: These long, slender sharklike fish of the Sphyraenidae family are among an eel's natural enemies.
  • barracuda.
  • 5: There are about 100 species of this 6-letter variety of eel that can be 6 feet long.
  • the conger eel.

Round 2. Category: Rulers

  • 1: Fredericksburg, Va. was founded in the 1720s and named after this king's father, Prince Frederick Louis.
  • George III.
  • 2: This cousin of Julius Caesar committed suicide in August, 20 B.C. at Alexandria, Egypt.
  • Marc Antony.
  • 3: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I was called Barbarossa, which means this.
  • red beard.
  • 4: Philip V was the first Bourbon king of this country.
  • Spain.
  • 5: When Solon ruled this city, he diminished the power of the aristocracy and freed those enslaved by debt.
  • Athens.

Round 3. Category: Colorful Cities

  • 1: This former mining town was Colorado's territorial capital.
  • Golden.
  • 2: Football fans know it sits at the mouth of Wisconsin's Fox River.
  • Green Bay.
  • 3: A Southern California city and a Northern New Jersey township share this citrusy name.
  • Orange.
  • 4: Parlez-vous Francais? Then name this Louisiana port at the head of the Mississippi's deepwater navigation.
  • Baton Rouge.
  • 5: This "ville" is across the Rio Grande from Matamoros.
  • Brownsville.

Round 4. Category: Texting In Class

  • 1: IANAL, but if I were one I'd be part of this class, the opposite of amateur.
  • a professional.
  • 2: Dad makes big $? Yr family is in this class w/name of a pie layer.
  • the upper crust.
  • 3: This head servant OTD? BOL finding a new one.
  • the butler.
  • 4: NK, this bureau sez 46m Americans now in poverty.
  • the Census.
  • 5: Per treasury sec, L/T prosperity "depends on an expanding, vibrant" this class.
  • the middle class.

Round 5. Category: Movie Endings

  • 1: "Independence","The Longest","Training".
  • Day.
  • 2: "Police","Toy","Love".
  • Story.
  • 3: "Safe","Road","Animal".
  • House.
  • 4: "After","Battlefield","The Good".
  • Earth.
  • 5: "Hollow","Rain","Inside".
  • Man.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1058, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: '60s Muscle Cars

  • 1: Ronny and the Daytonas wanted to "turn it on, wind it up" and "blow it out".
  • GTO.
  • 2: This Plymouth named for a sharp-toothed fish really had some bite.
  • Barracuda.
  • 3: This Chevy was still going strong into the '90s with a Z-28 model.
  • Camaro.
  • 4: This Pontiac muscle car moves much faster than the Stravinsky ballet.
  • Firebird.
  • 5: Later maker of the Pacer, this automaker's Javelin hit the mark.
  • American Motors (AMC).

Round 2. Category: Top Ten. With Ten in quotes

  • 1: Squid have 8 arms and 2 of these longer limbs.
  • tentacles.
  • 2: Once a teacher is granted this, it's hard to dismiss him.
  • tenure.
  • 3: During the '90s Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Jose Carreras performed together as "The Three" these.
  • Tenors.
  • 4: Papaya contains an enzyme that breaks down connective tissue, so it is often used as one of these for meat.
  • a tenderizer.
  • 5: It's the slender part of a vine that often wraps around another plant.
  • a tendril.

Round 3. Category: Word Play. With Word in quotes

  • 1: Psychological "test" of verbal stimuli given to induce revelatory verbal responses.
  • word association.
  • 2: The first of these was seen in the New York World newspaper Dec. 21, 1913.
  • Crossword puzzle.
  • 3: An introductory chapter or essay.
  • Foreword.
  • 4: This game show premiered on CBS Oct. 2, 1961.
  • Password.
  • 5: At the turn of the 19th century, he penned the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us".
  • (William) Wordsworth.

Round 4. Category: Hunger Games

  • 1: Nona Sivley won season 8 of this devil of a cooking competition that's on Fox.
  • Hell's Kitchen.
  • 2: An "All Stars" version of this Bravo cooking show brought back 18 contestants who'd almost won in past seasons.
  • Top Chef.
  • 3: "Ryori No Tetsujin" is the original title of this Japanese import.
  • Iron Chef.
  • 4: Meals on wheels, indeed! Teams competed in a coast-to-coast culinary battle in a great race of these.
  • food trucks.
  • 5: After each course, a chef is "cut" from the competition on this show hosted by Ted Allen of "queer eye".
  • Chopped.

Round 5. Category: Write, Patterson

  • 1: James Patterson's first novel, "The Thomas Berryman Number", won this literary award named for Mr. Poe.
  • the Edgar Award.
  • 2: Patterson's love of this sport inspired him to write "Miracle at Augusta".
  • golf.
  • 3: Patterson came along in 1993 with "Along Came a Spider", his first book about this psychologist and detective.
  • Alex Cross.
  • 4: While working in advertising, he wrote the slogan "I don't want to grow up, I'm a" this kind of kid.
  • Toys "R" Us.
  • 5: Patterson's young adult series about siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood is titled "Witch and" this.
  • Witch and Wizard.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1057, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Astronomical Rhyme Time

  • 1: Any song about Earth's natural satellite.
  • a Moon tune.
  • 2: Red planet pubs.
  • Mars bars.
  • 3: Space telescope problem.
  • Hubble trouble.
  • 4: Comet discoverer Edmond's narrow lanes.
  • Halley's alleys.
  • 5: One who determines the age of meteorite impact holes.
  • a crater dater (crater rater accepted).

Round 2. Category: Fill In The (Mel) Blanc

  • 1: This 3-word query might have been Mel Blanc's first words.
  • What's up, Doc?.
  • 2: Blanc joined Hanna-Barbera to voice this character, Fred's neighbor and Betty's husband.
  • (Barney) Rubble.
  • 3: It was Mel Blanc's catchphrase when voicing a crested bird of the southwest U.S..
  • Beep, beep.
  • 4: For "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", Blanc revived 5 characters including Tweety and this other bird.
  • Daffy Duck.
  • 5: As a railroad announcer on Jack Benny's radio and TV shows, Blanc called out the stations "Anaheim, Azusa and" this.
  • Cucamonga.

Round 3. Category: Monarchs Of England

  • 1: The one with the second-longest reign.
  • Elizabeth II.
  • 2: Harold II had been king less than 10 months when he was defeated by William the Conqueror in this year.
  • 1066.
  • 3: He was king not only during the American war of independence but during the War of 1812 as well.
  • George III.
  • 4: This king, brother of Richard the Lionheart has a bad reputation; even his title, Count of Mortain, sounds evil.
  • John.
  • 5: This restored king ruled during the great plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London the following year.
  • Charles II.

Round 4. Category: Literary Couples

  • 1: Her book title "Sonnets from the Portuguese" refers to her husband's nickname for her.
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
  • 2: Dashiell Hammett modeled this lady sleuth after his lover, Lillian Hellman.
  • Nora Charles.
  • 3: She wrote a book subtitled "The Modern Prometheus"; he wrote the drama "Prometheus Unbound".
  • Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley.
  • 4: 2 of her novels contain barely fictionalized portraits of her lover, Jean-Paul Sartre.
  • Simone de Beauvoir.
  • 5: At least 2 of her books are dedicated to Quintana, her daughter by John Gregory Dunne.
  • Joan Didion.

Round 5. Category: Biography

  • 1: Born an Air Force brat in Germany in 1959, he won his first Wimbledon in 1981 and married Tatum O'Neal in 1986.
  • John McEnroe.
  • 2: "Parting the Waters" is volume 1 in Taylor Branch's trilogy about this man's life and the civil rights movement.
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..
  • 3: She's the political wife profiled here.
  • Ethel Kennedy.
  • 4: She was one of the last stars in the studio system"The tobacco farmer's daughter from North Carolina was awed and intimidated by the luxury of the MGM system.".
  • Ava Gardner.
  • 5: Born into Philadelphia's "High Society" in 1929, became a princess in 1956, lived happily ever after until 1982.
  • Princess Grace/Grace Kelly.

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Round 1. Category: The Food Chain

  • 1: Black bears sometimes prey on the young of this big deer, Alces alces.
  • a moose.
  • 2: The $6 Footlong Sub of the Day.
  • Subway.
  • 3: This green stuff that encompasses diatoms and seaweed is the base of the food chain for almost all aquatic life.
  • algae.
  • 4: This convenience store was born when the Southland Ice Co. sold milk and eggs after grocery stores closed.
  • 7-Eleven.
  • 5: Cottageblanksteak.
  • cheese.

Round 2. Category: Rock 'N' Roll History

  • 1: It premiered on August 1, 1981 at 12:01 A.M. with John Lack saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll".
  • MTV.
  • 2: In August 1994 about 30,000 gathered in Bethel, New York to celebrate the 25th anniversary of this festival.
  • Woodstock.
  • 3: In 1967 this TV group became the only band other than The Beatles to have consecutive No. 1 albums.
  • The Monkees.
  • 4: In January 1995 he became probably the only singer with a No. 1 record to serve in Congress.
  • Sonny Bono.
  • 5: Kurt Cobain's suicide note quoted from this man's "My My, Hey Hey": "It's better to burn out than to fade away".
  • Neil Young.

Round 3. Category: Aim!

  • 1: Shaq holds the NBA record for most attempts of these in a game without making one, going 0-for-11 on a rough night in 2000.
  • free throws.
  • 2: Guinness reported the youngest male golfer to achieve this singular feat was 4 years and 195 days old.
  • a hole-in-one.
  • 3: Bull's-eye! On "Sport Science", QB Drew Brees of this team hit the center of a target 20 yards away 10 out of 10 times.
  • the New Orleans Saints.
  • 4: Bull's-eye! You ski cross-country to return to a 50-meter shooting range in this competition.
  • the biathlon.
  • 5: Bull's-eye! Cricket, baseball and 51 by 5s are varieties of this game.
  • darts.

Round 4. Category: Fold It 5 Ways

  • 1: Kids make these from 1 sheet of typing paper; they use a lot less fuel than a Cessna.
  • Paper airplane.
  • 2: The word origami means "paper folding" in this language.
  • Japanese.
  • 3: It's black and white and read all over; it's also the perfect size to make a hat.
  • Newspaper.
  • 4: Complex snout folds are needed to make this animal, whose next Chinese year is 2007.
  • Pig/boar.
  • 5: A square sheet of paper can become a star to put on a Christmas tree, a triangle becomes this Jewish star.
  • Star of David.

Round 5. Category: The Magic Word

  • 1: This 2-word rhyming phrase, a magical incantation, is also the name of a movie about 3 sister witches.
  • hocus pocus.
  • 2: In 1923 Horace Goldin was awarded a patent for this illusion; he later incorporated a buzz saw.
  • sawing a person in half.
  • 3: Ironically, this magician says he's never been able to finish the Dickens novel that gave him his stage name.
  • David Copperfield.
  • 4: Bullwinkle tried this cliched magic trick, but his results were feline and ursine, not leporine.
  • pulling a rabbit out of his hat.
  • 5: Author Peter Lamont traveled to India to write "The Rise of" this, called "the world's most famous illusion.
  • the Indian rope trick.

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Round 1. Category: God

  • 1: This prophet tried to flee God's presence by shipping out to Tarshish -- didn't work.
  • Jonah.
  • 2: In this speech Jesus said that God "knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him".
  • the Sermon on the Mount.
  • 3: "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also" do this.
  • reap.
  • 4: "And God looked upon the Earth, and behold, it was corrupt" is part of the story of this man.
  • Noah.
  • 5: Nebuchadnezzar told him, "Your god is a god of gods, and a lord of kings".
  • Daniel.

Round 2. Category: Tough Tv Trivia 2

  • 1: In the 1966-67 season, this Adam West superhero series aired 2 nights a week.
  • Batman.
  • 2: Lisa Kudrow plays twin sisters, one on "Mad About You", one on this series.
  • Friends.
  • 3: George Clooney has been a regular on 2 medical shows with this 2-letter title.
  • ER.
  • 4: He was the second person to play Chester A. Riley on TV; Jackie Gleason was first.
  • William Bendix.
  • 5: It was the second anthology series hosted by Rod Serling.
  • Night Gallery.

Round 3. Category: Music Festivals

  • 1: Over 300,000 showed up for this August 1969 rock festival.
  • Woodstock.
  • 2: The Beale Street Music Festival in this city has been called the "Mardi Gras of the mid-South".
  • Memphis.
  • 3: It was billed as "an Aquarian exposition in White Lake, N.Y., 3 days of peace and music".
  • Woodstock.
  • 4: When Beyoncé headlined this California music festival in 2018, some called it "Beychella".
  • Coachella.
  • 5: For a 2018 festival Paul McCartney and Metallica were in the "City Limits" of this Texas "Live Music Capital of the World".
  • Austin.

Round 4. Category: Sasha And Malia

  • 1: Like their mom, Sasha and Malia were born in this city, and they were living there when their dad was elected pres..
  • Chicago.
  • 2: When they moved into the White House, Sasha was 7 and Malia was this age (like some kids in our Kids Week).
  • 10.
  • 3: Marian Robinson, who moved to the White House to help take care of Sasha and Malia, is this relative of theirs.
  • their grandmother.
  • 4: On inaugural night, the girls had a White House scavenger hunt, and these singing brothers turned up at the end.
  • the Jonas Brothers.
  • 5: At their dad's inauguration, Sasha and Malia wore cute coats made by Crewcuts, the kids' line from this fashion co..
  • J. Crew.

Round 5. Category: Got A Wife And Kids

  • 1: If you're going to wed 5 times, you might as well have 5 sons, and then you might as well name them all George, like this boxer did.
  • George Foreman.
  • 2: He was Mad Max beyond parenthood, fathering 7 kids with his now ex-wife.
  • Mel Gibson.
  • 3: This twice-married actor is 7/9 of the way home to having a full "Field of Dreams" baseball team of his kids.
  • Kevin Costner.
  • 4: Knowing when to hold 'em in 2004, this country singing legend and his 5th wife welcomed twins just shy of his 66th birthday.
  • Kenny Rogers.
  • 5: All about "One Love" and wed at age 21, this late musician ended up having 13 kids.
  • Bob Marley.

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Round 1. Category: Abolitionism

  • 1: Between 1830 and 1860, this system transported many runaway slaves to southern Ontario.
  • the Underground Railroad.
  • 2: Before the Harpers Ferry attack, he and his men killed 5 proslavers in Pottawatomie, Kansas.
  • John Brown.
  • 3: This 1787 ordinance included a fugitive slave clause.
  • the Northwest Ordinance.
  • 4: The first issue of this William Lloyd Garrison abolitionist paper was published January 1, 1831.
  • The Liberator.
  • 5: By means of the Missouri Compromise, this New England state was admitted as a free state.
  • Maine.

Round 2. Category: Historical Transports

  • 1: The V-8 Ford in which this criminal couple were gunned down in 1934 became an instant attraction.
  • Bonnie and Clyde.
  • 2: Good grief! The Command Module and Lunar Module for Apollo 10 were named for these 2 characters.
  • Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
  • 3: It made its final flight in April 1928 when Charles Lindbergh presented it to the Smithsonian.
  • the Spirit of St. Louis.
  • 4: James Lawrence was referring to his frigate the Chesapeake when he gave this famous command in 1813.
  • "Don't give up the ship".
  • 5: When this "Express" train crashed in 1900, Casey Jones died with his hand still on the brake lever.
  • the Cannonball Express.

Round 3. Category: Divinity

  • 1: Born from a golden egg, this multifaced god of creation in Hinduism mediates between Vishnu and Shiva.
  • Brahma.
  • 2: Shinto deities are called kami; Inari is the kami of this grain.
  • rice.
  • 3: The Mahdi is an anticipated messianic spiritual figure who will restore this faith to its rightful purity.
  • Islam (or Muslim).
  • 4: 1 John 4 says "God is" this and "perfect" this "casteth out fear".
  • love.
  • 5: When Christian Science refers to the supreme being, it uses the term "divine" this 4-letter word.
  • mind.

Round 4. Category: Driving Alexis

  • 1: In 1912 someone must have driven Alexis Carrel to give his Nobel lecture on suturing these, arteries and veins.
  • blood vessels.
  • 2: If you're driving company founder Alexis Ohanian to Reddit's offices, head for the Tenderloin area of this city.
  • San Francisco.
  • 3: If you're driving this actress, it may be to the set of "The Handmaid's Tale".
  • Alexis Bledel.
  • 4: You'd want to drive the czarevich Alexis (born 1904) very carefully as he suffered from this condition.
  • hemophilia.
  • 5: Driving this author of "Democracy in America" may have been rough as he complained, "Trail infernal, carriage without springs".
  • (Alexis) de Tocqueville.

Round 5. Category: Genius: Picasso

  • 1: Living in Barcelona in 1899, Picasso befriended fellow artists and dodged police looking for these radicals against all government.
  • anarchists.
  • 2: Young Picasso was influenced by bullfighting and the pageantry of this southern region that includes Malaga.
  • Andalusia.
  • 3: Many of Picasso's motivations are dramatized, like how the horrors of the Spanish Civil War inspired this masterpiece.
  • Guernica.
  • 4: As a young man, Picasso lived in Catalonia with a friend, painting and avoiding service in this 1898 conflict.
  • the Spanish-American War.
  • 5: The suicide of a close friend in 1901 stimulated the emotional expressiveness of this period of Picasso's work.
  • the Blue Period.

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Round 1. Category: Travel Europe

  • 1: Stops on this city's Metro Line B include Termini Station, Tiburtina Station and the Colosseum.
  • Rome.
  • 2: The Friseurmuseum, a hairdressing museum in this German capital, has a lock of Bismarck's hair.
  • Berlin.
  • 3: "Wax" nostalgic (or is that nostalgique?) at Musee Grevin, this capital's answer to Madame Tussaud's.
  • Paris.
  • 4: It's the country from which you're most likely to bring home a souvenir bouzouki.
  • Greece.
  • 5: For a great view of this capital city, climb to the top of Lykavittos Hill, or take the funicular from Kolonaki.
  • Athens.

Round 2. Category: Those Are My Initials, Too

  • 1: Skinner,Goodrich.
  • B.F..
  • 2: Milne,TV's Ron Balakay.
  • A.A..
  • 3: Griffin,Du Bois.
  • W.E.B..
  • 4: Woolworth,De Klerk.
  • F.W..
  • 5: Hunley,Mencken.
  • H.L..

Round 3. Category: You Can Call Me Al. With Al in quotation marks

  • 1: A dead end lane, or a line of thought that leads nowhere, is called a blind this.
  • an alley.
  • 2: Italian for "to the tooth", it describes pasta cooked to be firm.
  • al dente.
  • 3: It designates both a constellation's brightest star and the head male in a group.
  • alpha.
  • 4: This bronchodilator helps ease breathing during an asthma attack.
  • albuterol.
  • 5: From the French for "others", this word is the opposite of egoist.
  • altruist.

Round 4. Category: Anagrammed Hobbies

  • 1: Not just for grannies these days:TINT KING.
  • knitting.
  • 2: Get behind the wheel: TRY POET.
  • pottery.
  • 3: It's what you yeast expect: GRIN WEB.
  • brewing.
  • 4: Watch the fishies; NON RISK GEL.
  • snorkeling.
  • 5: Don't let Fluffy see what you're doing; MY DIRT AXE.
  • taxidermy.

Round 5. Category: From The German

  • 1: Put this 4-letter word after "gab" or "fun" and you get an event with lots of those.
  • fest.
  • 2: If you say "he took a lot of" this, either he was criticized or his plane was shot at.
  • flak.
  • 3: I can't sit still; I've got this 10-letter need to roam.
  • wanderlust.
  • 4: Bringing extra defensive players to rush the passer.
  • a blitz.
  • 5: In 1969 the first watch using this mineral to keep time came on the market.
  • quartz.

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Round 1. Category: Canadian Geography

  • 1: Slowly I turned towards this over 160-foot cataract found on the U.S.-Canadian border.
  • Niagara Falls.
  • 2: The Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s took place in this territory that borders Alaska.
  • the Yukon.
  • 3: Made a British crown colony in 1849, this island aligned with British Columbia in 1866.
  • Vancouver.
  • 4: In surface area, it's the largest lake within or on the borders of Canada.
  • Superior.
  • 5: A popular children's book bear derived its name from this Canadian city of 600,000.
  • Winnipeg.

Round 2. Category: Hits Of The '80s

  • 1: The only #1 pop hit for Kenny Rogers, it has a 1 word title.
  • "Lady".
  • 2: "All Out Of Love", "Lost In Love" and "The One That You Love" were 3 hits by this Aussie group.
  • Air Supply.
  • 3: No, they're the group that sang "Owner Of A Lonely Heart".
  • Yes.
  • 4: This song originally released in 1968 became a posthumous hit for Elvis in 1981.
  • "Guitar Man".
  • 5: Though he's better known as an actor/comedian, he had the following hit in 1985:"My girl wants to party all the time /Party all the time /Party all the time /My girl wants to party all the time /Party all the time...".
  • Eddie Murphy.

Round 3. Category: A Kiss Is Still A Kiss

  • 1: In the fifth film of a series, this title guy had his first kiss, a magical one with girlfriend Cho Chang.
  • Harry Potter.
  • 2: The kiss between Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster in this 1953 movie seemed to go on forever.
  • From Here to Eternity.
  • 3: A busy Tokyo street is the setting of a goodbye kiss between Bill Murray and her in a 2003 movie.
  • Scarlett Johansson.
  • 4: A 2005 kiss between Heath Ledger and this actor was named "Best Screen Kiss of All Time" in a 2007 online vote.
  • Jake Gyllenhaal.
  • 5: Natalie Portman was just shy of lip action in this 2005 movie, though she does smooch Hugo Weaving's Guy Fawkes mask.
  • V for Vendetta.

Round 4. Category: Color Tv

  • 1: "blank Is the New blank".
  • Orange is the New Black.
  • 2: "Murphy blank".
  • Murphy Brown.
  • 3: "blank Acres".
  • Green Acres.
  • 4: "blank Collar".
  • White Collar.
  • 5: "blank Bloods".
  • Blue Bloods.

Round 5. Category: B Off!

  • 1: Remove "B" from an unfortunate biblical spot to get this unfortunate biblical brother.
  • Abel.
  • 2: Pluck "B" off a male swine (aren't they all?) to get this rowing implement.
  • oar.
  • 3: Without "B", a verb meaning to hit suddenly becomes this sports official many would like to hit suddenly.
  • ump.
  • 4: Empty "B" from a verb meaning to empty water from a boat to get this verb meaning to be unwell.
  • ail.
  • 5: Remove "B" from a German composer to get this German equivalent of "Oh".
  • ach.

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Round 1. Category: 5-Letter Countries

  • 1: It stretches southward to Cape Horn.
  • Chile.
  • 2: Gaining independence in 1804, it was the second country in the Americas to free itself from colonial rule.
  • Haiti.
  • 3: In the 19th century, this Mideast nation fell under the control of the Al Thani Dynasty, which still rules there today.
  • Qatar.
  • 4: The rugged Mahabharat range of the Himalayas spans part of this landlocked Asian nation.
  • Nepal.
  • 5: This kingdom consists of some 170 islands located about 1,300 miles north of New Zealand.
  • Tonga.

Round 2. Category: Modern Drunkard Rules

  • 1: "If you hesitate more than three seconds after" this person "looks at you, you do not deserve a drink".
  • a bartender.
  • 2: "The bar clock moves twice as fast from midnight to this" 2-word phrase hollered at closing time.
  • last call.
  • 3: Rule 18 is always have this in your house; rule 19 is if you break rule 18, try pushing down with a pen.
  • a corkscrew.
  • 4: "Never complain about the brand or quality of" this kind of drink.
  • a free drink.
  • 5: "Whoever buys the shot gets the first chance to offer" one of these.
  • a toast.

Round 3. Category: Snack Attack

  • 1: I've got a big appetite, so give me the Big Cup version of this Reese's treat.
  • a peanut butter cup.
  • 2: Spice things up with this snack--tortilla chips covered with melted cheese and dare I say jalapenos!.
  • nachos.
  • 3: Wow! The Chocolate Delight snack bar named for this "Miami" diet has just 100 calories! I'll have 6 of them.
  • the South Beach diet.
  • 4: I could eat a whole bag of this type of snack invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853.
  • potato chips.
  • 5: A hike sounds like the right time for this snack that you can make with Chex cereal, MandMs, raisins and peanuts.
  • trail mix.

Round 4. Category: Authors' Home States

  • 1: Stephen King.
  • Maine.
  • 2: John Irving.
  • New Hampshire.
  • 3: Larry McMurtry.
  • Texas.
  • 4: Mario Puzo.
  • New York.
  • 5: Anne Rice.
  • Louisiana.

Round 5. Category: T3. With T in quotation marks

  • 1: The Holy Bible is made up of the "Old" and "New" ones.
  • testaments.
  • 2: Gouverneur Morris was responsible for much of the wording of this in 1787.
  • the Constitution.
  • 3: It's the lever pilots use to control the power and speed of many planes.
  • throttle.
  • 4: To create an opera, you need a composer and this person who writes or adapts the text.
  • librettist.
  • 5: While not an M.D., this person can still diagnose eye problems and prescribe glasses.
  • optometrist.

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Round 1. Category: Starts And Ends With The Same Letter

  • 1: A Utah senator or boat's passageway.
  • Hatch.
  • 2: A cutting remark or a sharp point, perhaps on a fishhook.
  • a barb.
  • 3: A generally nonmalignant growth on the surface of a mucous membrane.
  • a polyp.
  • 4: It's the noble gas on the periodic table that fits the category.
  • neon.
  • 5: An estate given by a lord to a vassal in return for service.
  • a fief.

Round 2. Category: 4-Letter Anatomy

  • 1: Cyrano's was really long, but Rudolph's was famous in a Christmas song.
  • nose.
  • 2: The covering that's all about, to keep your innards from falling out.
  • skin.
  • 3: Cooked most certainly is your goose, when this is surrounded by a noose.
  • neck.
  • 4: Be careful when you do a flip, that one of these back parts doesn't slip.
  • a disc.
  • 5: Ballerinas and night watchmen, are both alert when they stay on them.
  • toes.

Round 3. Category: Machinery

  • 1: In 2002 China unveiled its first homegrown "super" one of these, with 272 gigabytes of RAM.
  • computer.
  • 2: In 1738 Lewis Paul patented a machine for this--processing fibers into yarn, not doing aerobics on a bike.
  • spinning.
  • 3: Named for a typographical mark, it copied written material using an ink-transfer process.
  • ditto machine.
  • 4: In 1895 Dr. Shields invented one of these machines that simulated the action of a calf.
  • a milker.
  • 5: The Jack LaLanne power one of these has surgical blades and a super-sized pulp catcher.
  • juicer.

Round 4. Category: A World Of Pirates

  • 1: Later dictator, this Roman was kidnapped by pirates while on a journey to Rhodes around 75 B.C..
  • Julius Caesar.
  • 2: In 1815 Washington Irving planned to join Stephen Decatur on an expedition against these North African pirates.
  • Barbary pirates.
  • 3: Born around 1645, this pirate captain was sent to England for trial and hanged in 1701.
  • Captain Kidd.
  • 4: Kevin Kline won a Tony Award for his role in this swashbuckling Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
  • The Pirates of Penzance.
  • 5: The costumes for this 1991 Steven Spielberg film included 350 pirate outfits for the extras alone.
  • Hook.

Round 5. 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's Houston-based tool company.
  • (Howard) Hughes.
  • 4: This first black heavyweight boxing champ claimed he lost deliberately to Jess Willard in 1915.
  • Jack Johnson.
  • 5: This "outlaw" singer topped the country charts in 1977 with "Luckenbach, Texas".
  • Waylon Jennings.

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Round 1. Category: B Prepared. With B in quotes

  • 1: A non-rigid flexible dirigible.
  • blimp.
  • 2: This type of piano is about 5 feet long.
  • Baby grand.
  • 3: This contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis can be spread by fleas from infected rats.
  • bubonic plague.
  • 4: "I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean" is one of many lively songs in this Lerner and Loewe musical.
  • Brigadoon.
  • 5: This Pennsylvania city was founded in 1741 and appropriately named on Christmas Eve.
  • Bethlehem.

Round 2. Category: A Mighty Wind

  • 1: In 1951 they called the wind this in "Paint Your Wagon", but Ms. Carey might challenge the spelling.
  • Maria.
  • 2: In April 1934 Mt. Washington had a wind gust reach 201 of this unit equal to 1 nautical mile per hour.
  • knots.
  • 3: 2-word "aeronautical" term for the strong, generally westerly winds in the Earth's upper troposphere.
  • the jet stream.
  • 4: It has a low-pressure center and circular wind motion; the Coney Island ride opened June 26, 1927 is much more fun.
  • a cyclone.
  • 5: Volkswagen aficionados know this hot, dusty wind that blows from North Africa and affects Southern Europe.
  • scirocco.

Round 3. Category: Relax, We'Re Still Rated G

  • 1: Paul Angelis voiced the chief Blue Meanie and some dude named Ringo in this 1968 film.
  • Yellow Submarine.
  • 2: The piscine lead in this '03 film: "If this is some kind of practical joke, it's not funny, and I know funny, I'm a clownfish".
  • Finding Nemo.
  • 3: For a category on G-rated films, that'll do, this 1995 title porker. That'll do.
  • Babe.
  • 4: Tom Hanks says, "That wasn't flying. That was...falling with style" in this 1995 animated movie.
  • Toy Story.
  • 5: In 2005 this title duo investigated "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit".
  • Wallace and Gromit.

Round 4. Category: On The Old Quarter

  • 1: At 8 letters, it's the longest word (hint: it's Latin).
  • pluribus.
  • 2: The direction in which the figures are facing.
  • left.
  • 3: The single word at the top of the "heads" side.
  • Liberty.
  • 4: The leaves of this plant are depicted on the reverse of the quarter.
  • (the) olive (tree).
  • 5: The sole verb.
  • trust.

Round 5. Category: Tasmanian Tidbits

  • 1: Tasmania is this country's smallest state.
  • Australia.
  • 2: Discovering the island in 1642, he named it Van Diemen's Land.
  • Abel Tasman.
  • 3: Also called wolfram, this metal used in lamp filaments is a big source of income.
  • Tungsten.
  • 4: The island is home to the Tasmanian devil and this animal.
  • Wombat.
  • 5: The Derwent River in Tasmania has a concrete one of these floating bridges.
  • Pontoon bridge.

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Round 1. Category: The Company Line

  • 1: In 1963, live on "The Art Linkletter Show", this company served its billionth burger.
  • McDonald's.
  • 2: This housewares store was named for the packaging its merchandise came in and was first displayed on.
  • Crate and Barrel.
  • 3: This company's Accutron watch, introduced in 1960, had a guarantee of accuracy to within one minute a month.
  • Bulova.
  • 4: Edward Teller and this man partnered in 1898 to sell high fashions to women.
  • (Paul) Bonwit.
  • 5: The Kirschner brothers, Don and Bill, named this ski company for themselves and the second-highest mountain.
  • K2.

Round 2. Category: Name That Body Part

  • 1: Dentine,Pulp,Crown.
  • Tooth.
  • 2: Calcaneus,Plantar arch, Sole.
  • Foot.
  • 3: Parietal lobe,Thalamus,Cerebellum.
  • Brain.
  • 4: Phagocytes,Alveoli,Bronchioles.
  • Lungs.
  • 5: Glomeruli,Nephron,Renal cortex.
  • Kidney.

Round 3. Category: Sports Halls Of Fame

  • 1: A museum and hall of fame for this sport in Huntington Beach, Calif. includes a shrine to Duke Kahanamoku.
  • surfing.
  • 2: The Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts bears the name of this inventor of the game.
  • (James) Naismith.
  • 3: The original of this trophy, a silver bowl, is on permanent display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
  • the Stanley Cup.
  • 4: 1960s inductees into this hall of fame include Don Budge, Alice Marble and Brooke Shields' grandfather Frank Shields.
  • the Tennis Hall of Fame.
  • 5: Start your engines please and head to this Alabama city to visit the Motorsports Hall of Fame.
  • Talladega.

Round 4. Category: The 2011 Emmys

  • 1: Emmy has spoken: he won his fourth straight award as Best Reality Host and we can tell you for sure that he knows how to rock and roll.
  • (Jeff) Probst.
  • 2: Guy Pearce won an acting Emmy for playing Monty in this HBO miniseries.
  • Mildred Pierce.
  • 3: With clear eyes and a full heart, Kyle Chandler couldn't lose Lead Actor in a Drama for this show.
  • Friday Night Lights.
  • 4: After joining her fellow nominees onstage, Melissa McCarthy won for this double "M" sitcom.
  • Mike and Molly.
  • 5: This best director was a raging bull in an Emmy shop for his work on "Boardwalk Empire".
  • Martin Scorsese.

Round 5. Category: Oscar

  • 1: This film about a family of superheroes beat out "Shrek 2" and "Shark Tale" as 2004's Best Animated Feature.
  • The Incredibles.
  • 2: (Al Gore delivers the clue.) This film about my campaign to recognize climate change as a worldwide problem won the Oscar in 2006 for Best Documentary Feature.
  • An Inconvenient Truth.
  • 3: Michael Douglas won for producing this 1975 film that swept all 5 major Oscar categories.
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
  • 4: 1980's Best Picture nominees included 2 black and white films: "The Elephant Man" and this boxing film.
  • Raging Bull.
  • 5: She received 2 1982 acting Oscar nominations, both for playing actresses--a soap star and a '40s film star.
  • Jessica Lange.

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Round 1. Category: Stay Away From Meat

  • 1: AKA soybean curd, it can be frozen up to 3 months--but that will change its texture, making it slightly chewier.
  • tofu.
  • 2: This 5-letter term coined in 1944 is the beginning and end of "vegetarian".
  • vegan.
  • 3: Not "Yesterday" but in 2009, this musician and longtime vegetarian launched a "meat free Monday" campaign.
  • Paul McCartney.
  • 4: Kashi makes this type of crunchy grain-fruit-honey-nut breakfast cereal and bars of it, too.
  • granola.
  • 5: The Food Network says kosher salt is optional for a 1 lb. serving of this, Japanese for green soybeans.
  • edamame.

Round 2. Category: Dairy Products

  • 1: A separator divides milk into light and heavy parts; this substance is light, so as they say, it rises to the top.
  • cream.
  • 2: Yogurt is made by curdling milk with purified cultures of these, like Streptococcus thermophilus.
  • bacteria.
  • 3: This process uses moderately high temperatures for a short time to kill microorganisms in milk.
  • pasteurization.
  • 4: Milk is tested for these, such as penicillin, which may have been used to treat cows that fell ill.
  • antibiotics.
  • 5: Greek-style this, like oikos, has become popular with its lush texture.
  • yogurt.

Round 3. Category: U.S. Mayors

  • 1: In 1999 Oscar Goodman, once a lawyer for Tony "The Ant" Spilotro, was elected mayor of this Nevada city.
  • Las Vegas.
  • 2: In 1993 Thomas Menino became the 1st non-Irish American since 1929 elected mayor of this city.
  • Boston.
  • 3: It was a historic event when this man was sworn in in 1990.
  • David Dinkins (first black mayor of NYC).
  • 4: Ed Rendell was elected mayor of this city when Frank Rizzo died after the primary.
  • Philadelphia.
  • 5: In 1999 Mayor Wellington Webb of this state capital asked the NRA to cancel its convention there.
  • Denver.

Round 4. Category: Before And After: Singers And Writers

  • 1: "The Heart Of Rock and Roll" lead singer who also wrote "Alice in Wonderland".
  • Huey Lewis Carroll.
  • 2: Folk trio that was "Blowin' In The Wind" with the writer of "Frankenstein".
  • Peter, Paul and Mary Shelley.
  • 3: "Super Freak" singer who also told "Tales of the South Pacific".
  • Rick James Michener.
  • 4: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" singer who takes up a pen and creates "The Mayor of Casterbridge".
  • B.J. Thomas Hardy.
  • 5: "Hit The Road Jack" with the singer and pianist who also came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection.
  • Ray Charles Darwin.

Round 5. Category: Latin Lovers

  • 1: It's Latin for "O Come, All Ye Faithful".
  • "Adeste Fideles".
  • 2: "Dictum sapient sat est" translates as "A word to" these people.
  • The wise.
  • 3: We've probably asked "Nil novi sub sole" before, as there's "Nothing new under" this.
  • The sun.
  • 4: It's what's no excuse in "Ignorantia legis neminem excusat".
  • Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
  • 5: Ancient Romans put great stock in "Ars moriendi", "The art" of doing this.
  • Dying.

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Round 1. Category: Southernmost Points

  • 1: The southernmost point on the USA's mainland is Cape Sable in this Florida national park.
  • the Everglades.
  • 2: South America's southernmost mainland point, cape froward on the Brunswick Peninsula, lies in this country.
  • Chile.
  • 3: Asia's southernmost mainland point, Cape Piai, lies in this country just north of Singapore.
  • Malaysia.
  • 4: Germany's is in this state bordering Austria.
  • Bavaria.
  • 5: Cape Sarych, Ukraine's southernmost point, lies on this peninsula that juts into the Black Sea.
  • the Crimean Peninsula.

Round 2. Category: B Nice. With B in quotes

  • 1: Medically, it's the opposite of malignant.
  • benign.
  • 2: Insurance entitlements, or things you might share with a really good friend.
  • benefits.
  • 3: A favor or gift, it's a homonym of a Colonial frontiersman's name.
  • boon.
  • 4: Robert Burns wrote that the men of Ayr were honest and the lasses were this.
  • bonnie.
  • 5: Officially, it's the "B" in B.P.O.E..
  • benevolent.

Round 3. Category: Old Testament Names

  • 1: Oddly, his name means "dove" and not "he of the big fish".
  • Jonah.
  • 2: Hebrew for "friend" or "companion", she was the companion and daughter-in-law of Naomi.
  • Ruth.
  • 3: Various sources list her name as meaning "temptress" and "seductive".
  • Delilah.
  • 4: "Behold, a son", this firstborn son of Jacob.
  • Reuben.
  • 5: Though his name is from Hebrew for "laughter", he probably didn't laugh much while he was on that altar.
  • Isaac.

Round 4. Category: The Writing Stuff

  • 1: "Passing away" is this kind of term, an indirect substitute for something harsh or offensive.
  • a euphemism.
  • 2: "Uneven" 2-word term for an early version; Jefferson used it about one pass at the Declaration of Independence.
  • a rough draft.
  • 3: Aunt Grace wants 1 more copy; good thing you put out your poems using P.O.D., short for this.
  • printing on demand.
  • 4: Add a dose of this quality to your novel, the incongruity between what was expected and what actually occurs.
  • irony.
  • 5: Orson Scott Card said this is never solved by "writing through it" because you haven't solved the original problem.
  • writer's block.

Round 5. Category: Presidential Astrology

  • 1: Gerald Ford was the last president born under this "crab"by sign.
  • Cancer.
  • 2: Even though this was John Quincy Adams' sign, we'd never describe him as "crab"by.
  • Cancer.
  • 3: Appropriately, we've had 2 presidents born under this sign, Bush and Kennedy.
  • Gemini.
  • 4: This was LBJ's sign, though he's not usually associated with maidenly virtues.
  • Virgo.
  • 5: With the exception of Reagan, every U.S. pres. born under this sign, including Lincoln, died in office.
  • Aquarius.

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Round 1. Category: Don'T Get...

  • 1: ...up if this sign is illuminated.
  • the fasten seat belt sign.
  • 2: ...one of the unsatisfactory cars known by this fruity term.
  • a lemon.
  • 3: ...too close to the edge if you're leaning to get a view from this, part of a World Heritage Site in Tuscany.
  • the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
  • 4: ...burned; the FDA says the fair-skinned may want sunscreen with this of 15 or higher.
  • an SPF.
  • 5: ...worried if you need to acquire a skill with a steep this; that actually means you can pick it up fast.
  • a learning curve.

Round 2. Category: In A Nutshell

  • 1: They make a tasty poultry stuffing and in a Christmas song, they're "roasting on an open fire".
  • Chestnuts.
  • 2: These large nuts from the Amazon River Valley can be used in cooking much the same way as coconut.
  • Brazil nuts.
  • 3: To make a traditional pesto sauce, you need these nuts.
  • Pine nuts.
  • 4: The Mauna Loa Corporation is the world's leading grower, processor and marketer of these nuts.
  • Macadamia nuts.
  • 5: These bright green nuts are said to have been a favorite of the Queen of Sheba.
  • Pistachios.

Round 3. Category: Katy Perry

  • 1: In this video, Katy's jungle adventure includes taming a tiger and painting an elephant's nails.
  • "Roar".
  • 2: "Who You Love" is Katy's duet with this man.
  • John Mayer.
  • 3: "I was dreaming for so long" and "Not losing any sleep" are lines from this hit.
  • "Wide Awake".
  • 4: Those are real marines with Katy in this video.
  • "Part Of Me".
  • 5: Snoop Dogg and a candy-clad Katy are highlights of this video.
  • "California Gurls".

Round 4. Category: Business Acronyms And Abbrev.

  • 1: The boss wants that report by EOD, this.
  • end of day.
  • 2: The pharmaceutical industry spends about $200 billion a year on RandD, short for this.
  • research and development.
  • 3: Let's get down to the bottom line and discuss AGI, "adjusted" this.
  • gross income.
  • 4: NASDAQ is the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated these bids and offers.
  • quotations.
  • 5: Business analysts use SWOT to stand for "strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and" these possible dangers.
  • threats.

Round 5. Category: Climb It

  • 1: When attempting this African mountain, use the Marangu Route; you'll find it's the easiest and most comfortable.
  • Mount Kilimanjaro.
  • 2: Sime climbers call 27,800-foot Makalu the most beautiful peak in this Asian range.
  • Himalayas.
  • 3: You might follow in astronaut James Irwin's footsteps up this mountain in search of Noah's Ark.
  • Mount Ararat.
  • 4: You'll see some Inca ruins during the 1-hour climb to the top of Huayna Picchu in this country.
  • Peru.
  • 5: These Wyoming peaks include the South, the Middle and the most imposing Grand.
  • Tetons.

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Round 1. Category: 18 Years Of Leftovers

  • 1: From Season 3:This "Pretty Baby" once suggested wearing red mascara, because it's "perfect for the disco".
  • Brooke Shields.
  • 2: From Season 14:21-year-old Frances Folsom married 49-year-old Grover Cleveland in this "colorful" room.
  • the Blue Room.
  • 3: From Season 12:Horace's quote "Permitte divis cetera" means "Leave the rest to" these beings.
  • the gods.
  • 4: From Season 11:British nonsense poet who wrote the 1877 poem "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo".
  • Edward Lear.
  • 5: From Season 10:This count who commanded a French force at Yorktown had almost become a priest.
  • Rochambeau.

Round 2. Category: Failed Constitutional Amendments

  • 1: The "Every Vote Counts" amendment tried to abolish this "College" but went nowhere.
  • the Electoral College.
  • 2: After a Kentucky congressman shot and killed a rep. from Maine in 1838, an amendment against this practice was proposed.
  • dueling.
  • 3: The Crittenden Compromise of 1860 suggested 6 amendments to protect this institution.
  • slavery.
  • 4: In 2017, 35 years after its congressional deadline had passed, Nevada ratified this failed amendment.
  • the ERA (the Equal Rights Amendment).
  • 5: An amendment replacing the 23rd Amendment with a grant of statehood to this area expired in 1985.
  • District of Columbia.

Round 3. Category: Ripley'S Believe It Or Not!

  • 1: B.I.O.N., Texan David Pay has written over 300 alphabetic characters on a single grain of this!.
  • rice.
  • 2: B.I.O.N., herpetologist Bill Haast has been bitten over 150 times by these deadly creatures!.
  • snakes.
  • 3: B.I.O.N., every year a Filipino village recreates this event of around 30 A.D. using nails.
  • the crucifixion.
  • 4: B.I.O.N., because he believes it's possessed by his dead fiancee, a man married one of these dolls!.
  • a Barbie doll.
  • 5: B.I.O.N., a 3-year old Ugandan boy was adopted and raised for 4 years by a colony of these human-like apes!.
  • chimps.

Round 4. Category: Is It Safe?

  • 1: A parasite spread by this insect sickens 300 million people a year and kills almost 3 million.
  • the mosquito.
  • 2: Christmas will not be jolly if you happen to eat the red berries from this evergreen holiday bush.
  • holly.
  • 3: This is in the top 3 of the most dangerous professions in the U.S.; most of the fatalities are from drowning.
  • fishing.
  • 4: Though the pygmy and river varieties look comical, Africans consider this 8,000-lb. mammal extremely dangerous.
  • the hippopotamus.
  • 5: This homophonic drug cocktail was a '90s weight-loss dream but was later discovered to be a health nightmare.
  • Fen-phen.

Round 5. Category: Now You Know

  • 1: Chopping an onion releases a compound that causes these glands to produce tears.
  • the lachrymal glands.
  • 2: The best result in this lakeside game also called "ducks and drakes" is with a flat projectile thrown at a 20-degree angle.
  • skipping stones.
  • 3: As we humans get older, less and less of this pigment is added to beginning hair cells, leading to gradual graying.
  • melanin.
  • 4: This type of "burn" happens when water molecules escape from food preserved there and begin to migrate.
  • freezer burn.
  • 5: The world's smallest flowers, Wolffia globosa, each consist of 1 pistil and 1 this, the pistil's male counterpart.
  • the stamen.

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Round 1. Category: They Own It

  • 1: Everything from Charmin to Duracell:This company named for 2 guys.
  • Procter and Gamble.
  • 2: Uncle Ben's, MandM's and, fittingly, Orbit gum.
  • Mars.
  • 3: Cheerios and Wheaties:This "military" corporation.
  • General Mills.
  • 4: Dasani and Sprite:This soft drink concern.
  • Coca-Cola.
  • 5: Xanax and Lipitor (don't get them mixed up):This pharmaceutical giant.
  • Pfizer.

Round 2. Category: The World At War

  • 1: The Chinese Communist First Front Army staged the 6,000-mile retreat known as the Long March under this leader.
  • Mao Tse-tung.
  • 2: St. Louis, Missouri was named for King Louis IX of France, who led the Seventh and Eighth of these military debacles.
  • the Crusades.
  • 3: In 1619 Rene Descartes went to join the army of the Duke of Bavaria during this decades-long war.
  • the 30 Years War.
  • 4: Unprepared for this man leading an army force over the Andes in 1817, the Spanish Empire lost Chile and Argentina.
  • José de San Martín.
  • 5: The first British recipient of the Victoria Cross, a sailor, received it for actions in the Baltic Sea during this war.
  • the Crimean War.

Round 3. Category: In Life

  • 1: In regard to benefits, ssa.gov says this period of your life begins at age 62.
  • retirement.
  • 2: In common law, the age of this, signaling adulthood, is presumed to be 14 in boys and 12 in girls.
  • puberty.
  • 3: In the Holmes-Rahe life stress inventory, the death of a spouse is tops, while this similar outcome is second.
  • divorce.
  • 4: In Catholicism this sacrament, administered on baptized persons at least age 7, allows you to take communion.
  • confirmation.
  • 5: "When age chills the blood", waxed Byron, "our sweetest memorial" will be the "first" this "of love".
  • kiss.

Round 4. Category: Happy 50Th Nasa

  • 1: NASA took up JFK's 1961 challenge to do this by decade's end and met it with 5 months to spare.
  • put a man on the Moon.
  • 2: NASA took up W's 2004 challenge to do this as the first of "the next steps of space exploration".
  • put a man on Mars.
  • 3: NASA radar checks out ECAs, Earth-orbit crossing these, in case one is about to wipe out civilization.
  • an asteroid.
  • 4: Named for this rocketry pioneer, NASA's first space flight center was set up when NASA was 1.
  • (Robert) Goddard.
  • 5: The 50th anniversary logo shows a grand design galaxy in which these anatomical features curl pleasingly inward.
  • the arms of the galaxy.

Round 5. Category: You'Re NutS!. With Nut in quotes

  • 1: These handy items are named for their shape, not for being used on airplanes.
  • wing nuts.
  • 2: It evolved from "Li'l Folks", a 1940s feature in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
  • Peanuts.
  • 3: The "English" type of this tree makes fine furniture and gunstocks.
  • walnut.
  • 4: Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated the tale of this character.
  • Squirrel Nutkin.
  • 5: Tasty term for the weighted ring used by hitters to warm up.
  • doughnut.

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Round 1. Category: HayEs. With Hay in quotes

  • 1: A type of allergic rhinitis affecting the mucous membranes of the eyes.
  • hay fever.
  • 2: A huge punch that usually results in a knockout.
  • a haymaker.
  • 3: Out of control, disordered, crazy.
  • haywire.
  • 4: To glide or move nonchalantly across the floor.
  • sashay.
  • 5: This revolt, chiefly by farmers, took place in Massachusetts in 1786.
  • Shays' Rebellion.

Round 2. Category: Slogans And Mottoes

  • 1: The FBI's motto is "fidelity, bravery," this.
  • integrity.
  • 2: "With a name like" this one, "it has to be good!".
  • Smuckers.
  • 3: A flag of the American Revolution featured a coiled rattlesnake above this 4-word motto.
  • dont tread on me.
  • 4: A Republican slogan of 1856 mentioned, among other things, free soil, free press and him.
  • Fremont.
  • 5: "Because I'm worth it".
  • L'Oréal.

Round 3. Category: Beloved Poems

  • 1: "If I should die" wrote WWI poet Rupert Brooke, "... some corner of a foreign field ... is forever" this jolly old place.
  • England.
  • 2: Completes the final lines of a Longfellow poem: "Thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life some ...".
  • rain must fall.
  • 3: Auden's "Funeral Blues" became a favorite of mourners after it was featured in this Hugh Grant film.
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral.
  • 4: "Breathes there the man, with" this "so dead, who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!".
  • soul.
  • 5: 19th century bard George Pope Morris wrote the poem urging, "Woodman", do this.
  • spare that tree.

Round 4. Category: Weapons

  • 1: An AA gun is a weapon designed as anti- this.
  • aircraft.
  • 2: These machines work like giant slingshots; medieval men used them to hurl stones at and over walls.
  • catapults.
  • 3: In the Marine Corps the next rank up from PFC has this weapon in its name.
  • lance.
  • 4: According to legend, you can destroy a vampire by driving one of these thru his heart.
  • stake.
  • 5: In the 1600s, Phineas Fletcher called it "the coward's weapon".
  • poison.

Round 5. Category: Adjectival Country Names

  • 1: It's the island of Great Britain plus a bit more.
  • the United Kingdom.
  • 2: In 1961 this nation withdrew from the British Commonwealth over member criticism of its apartheid policies.
  • South Africa.
  • 3: Caribbean country bearing the name of an order of Catholic priests.
  • Dominican Republic.
  • 4: The Cook Strait separates the 2 main parts of this Southern Hemisphere country.
  • New Zealand.
  • 5: The adjective in its 2-word name comes from the nation's position near 0 degrees latitude.
  • Equatorial Guinea.

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Round 1. Category: After The White House

  • 1: In 1999 he celebrated his 75th birthday by jumping from a plane over the grounds of his Texas library.
  • George H.W. Bush.
  • 2: In 1841 he represented the Amistad mutineers before the Supreme Court.
  • John Quincy Adams.
  • 3: In 1965 LBJ invited this former president to witness the signing of the Medicare Act in Missouri.
  • (Harry) Truman.
  • 4: On his 80th birthday, May 8, 1964, he became the first former President to address a regular Senate session.
  • Harry Truman.
  • 5: In February 1930 illness forced him to resign as U.S. Chief Justice; he died a month later.
  • William Howard Taft.

Round 2. Category: The Great Divide

  • 1: When we reference the North American Great Divide, we're generally talking about this mountain range.
  • Rockies (the Rocky Mountains).
  • 2: The white-tailed type of this rodent makes the Great Divide basin its home; who's a good boy?.
  • prairie dog.
  • 3: The Continental Divide National Scenic Trail runs from Montana to the Chihuahuan Desert in the bootheel of this state.
  • New Mexico.
  • 4: Here's a sign letting you know what's up in this national park that's mostly in Wyoming.
  • Yellowstone.
  • 5: In Canada the Great Divide runs along the border of British Columbia and this other province.
  • Alberta.

Round 3. Category: Duck, Duck, Goose

  • 1: She's the fictional woman famous for her "Nursery Rhymes".
  • Mother Goose.
  • 2: Hey, Daddy-O, this "avian" coiffure was very popular in the 1950s.
  • a ducktail.
  • 3: This 2-word term refers to a politician who has recently lost an election and is soon to leave office.
  • a lame duck.
  • 4: Stechschritt in German, this style of army marching has been used since the time of Frederick the Great.
  • goose-stepping.
  • 5: The down of this large sea duck, Somateria mollissima, is used as warm filling in jackets, pillows and quilts.
  • eider.

Round 4. Category: Where They'Re From

  • 1: Matt Damon hails from this education-oriented Boston-area city.
  • Cambridge.
  • 2: (Hey. I'm Wayne Brady.) I started my performing career in this Florida city sometimes called O-Town.
  • Orlando.
  • 3: Though born in Washington, D.C., this "Kiss of the Spider Woman" Oscar winner was raised in the South Pacific.
  • William Hurt.
  • 4: Wynton and Branford Marsalis were both born in this southern "Crescent City".
  • New Orleans.
  • 5: This sitcom star says Massapequa, N.Y., where he grew up, has an Indian name that means "by the mall".
  • (Jerry) Seinfeld.

Round 5. Category: Alphabet Dogs

  • 1: A: A plush tail curling over the back characterizes this breed from Japan.
  • the Akita.
  • 2: B: The AKC says these "move like the athletes they're named for: smooth... graceful... powerful".
  • a Boxer.
  • 3: C: Toto was one of these Scottish terriers bred to chase vermin in rock piles.
  • a Cairn Terrier.
  • 4: D: This breed was developed in Germany by a night watchman whose first name was Karl.
  • Doberman.
  • 5: E: It has a speckled coat unlike its solid mahogany Irish cousin.
  • English Setter.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1040, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pop Culture From Bartlett'S

  • 1: He made Bartlett's with his signoff "Here it is... your moment of Zen".
  • Jon Stewart.
  • 2: This movie line is listed under M. Night Shyamalan, though Bartlett's notes that it was spoken by Hayley Joel Osment.
  • "I see dead people".
  • 3: Muhammad Ali used this boxing credo that mentions 2 insects.
  • "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee".
  • 4: From Series 2, Episode 2 of "Monty Python's Flying Circus": this 5-word phrase about a surprise to all.
  • "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!".
  • 5: Trey Parker and Matt Stone get credit for "Oh my God" followed by this 3-word catch phrase.
  • "They killed Kenny!".

Round 2. Category: Answer The Homophone!

  • 1: Having a scratchy throat, and the equine you rode in on.
  • hoarse/horse.
  • 2: Multiple beers, and the minor injury you got when you fell after multiple beers.
  • brews/bruise.
  • 3: The act of aiding, and the personal errand runners for a movie star.
  • assistance/assistants.
  • 4: To construct, and what the contractor did to the customer after construction was completed.
  • build/billed.
  • 5: To cause to be disconcerted, and a stage in a process of development.
  • faze/phase.

Round 3. Category: The Game'S A Foot. With Foot in quotation marks

  • 1: You'd think this creature said to be 7 to 10 feet tall and 600 to 1,000 lbs. would be pretty easy to find, but no.
  • Bigfoot.
  • 2: It's an acute contagious febrile disease of cattle.
  • foot-and-mouth.
  • 3: A "delicate" newcomer or novice.
  • a tenderfoot.
  • 4: It's been slang for a sailor as well as a policeman.
  • a flatfoot.
  • 5: You're said to "gain" this when you establish a firm basis for further progress.
  • a foothold.

Round 4. Category: Fantasy Island

  • 1: Turn out the lights, Caliban; you're the last one left on the island in this play, written around 1611.
  • The Tempest.
  • 2: Peter Pan can bring visitors to this island, home to the Lost Boys.
  • Never-Never Land.
  • 3: The temple of Poseidon was on this legendary island that was said to lie west of the Strait of Gibraltar.
  • Atlantis.
  • 4: The Chateau d'If isn't a 5-star hotel in this 1844 novel; it's an island prison.
  • The Count of Monte Cristo.
  • 5: In one version of the legend, King Arthur was offered Excalibur when Merlin brought him to this island.
  • Avalon.

Round 5. Category: Monopoly Tokens

  • 1: This piece is a Scottie.
  • a dog.
  • 2: As Roy Scheider said in "Jaws", "You're gonna need a bigger" one.
  • a boat.
  • 3: Domicile for the nursery rhyme old woman with a family of unmanageable size.
  • the shoe.
  • 4: This load-carrying item is lifted and pushed by 2 horizontal shafts.
  • a wheelbarrow.
  • 5: This speedy item is also a palindrome.
  • a racecar.

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Round 1. Category: Wait Watchers

  • 1: On Dec. 5, 2015 throngs began lining up for this J.J. Abrams "Star Wars" flick, 12 days before it opened.
  • The Force Awakens.
  • 2: U.K. fans braved frigid climes in 2015, hoping this E.L. James film adaptation would raise their temperature.
  • Fifty Shades of Grey.
  • 3: Tom Felton, AKA Draco Malfoy, brought pizza to some campers who came to see this final film in the Potter franchise.
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.
  • 4: Fans queued in L.A. in 2008 not to see a movie but rather to catch a glimpse of stars R-Patz and K-Stew from this soon-to-be hit.
  • Twilight.
  • 5: Churches around America bought out entire screenings of this 2004 epic that opened on Ash Wednesday.
  • Passion of the Christ.

Round 2. Category: 1850s Hits

  • 1: 1854 song Stephen Foster wrote for his wife Jane before their marriage became a nightmare.
  • "I Dream of Jeanie".
  • 2: "I gave my love a cherry that had no stone, I gave my love" one of these "that had no bone".
  • chicken.
  • 3: Wagner wrote it as part of Lohengrin which premiered in 1850, and brides have been walking to it ever since.
  • "The Wedding March".
  • 4: According to the song "Good Night Ladies", "Merrily we" do this "o'er the deep blue sea".
  • roll along.
  • 5: This gondolier favorite, written in 1850, glorifies Saint Lucy.
  • "Santa Lucia".

Round 3. Category: Black America

  • 1: In 1996 People Magazine named this "Courage Under Fire" star "The Sexiest Man Alive".
  • Denzel Washington.
  • 2: When he retired from the Supreme Court in 1991, Clarence Thomas was appointed to his seat.
  • Thurgood Marshall.
  • 3: Duke Ellington first gained national attention while appearing at this famous Harlem nightclub.
  • the Cotton Club.
  • 4: His ragtime opera "Treemonisha" didn't have its first full performance until 1972.
  • Scott Joplin.
  • 5: This "Beloved" author was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931.
  • Toni Morrison.

Round 4. Category: Dumb Answers

  • 1: As the saying goes, do this to "me once, shame on you"; do this to "me twice, shame on me".
  • fool me.
  • 2: Opposite of keen, it's often found compared to "dishwater".
  • dull.
  • 3: This compound avian term says you don't have one single idea in your tiny mind.
  • birdbrain.
  • 4: It rhymes with a synonym for "fast", but describes a person empty of interest or originality.
  • vapid.
  • 5: Also a Jethro Tull album title, this 4-word rhyming phrase includes a building material.
  • thick as a brick.

Round 5. Category: Plastics

  • 1: In July 1988 Soviet Olympic Committee head Yuri Titov was issued the 1st "Sovcard", one of these.
  • credit card (Visa Card).
  • 2: In 1868 John W. Hyatt created the 1st "celluloid" to replace ivory balls used in this sport.
  • billiards.
  • 3: In 1988 this Danish "city" made out of little plastic bricks celebrated its 20th anniversary.
  • Legoland.
  • 4: Groucho Marx once quipped that a woman "got her good looks from her father--he's" this kind of physician.
  • a plastic surgeon.
  • 5: The word plastic comes from the Greek "plastikos", meaning it has this quality.
  • shapeable.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1038, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Genetics

  • 1: "Genetics" as we use the word was coined in a 1905 letter by William Bateson, who popularized this monk's work.
  • (Gregor) Mendel.
  • 2: The "23" of 23andme.com, a site tracing ancestry and personal genetic information, refers to pairs of these.
  • chromosomes.
  • 3: Way faster than it used to be, it's the act of determining a series like ACAAGATGCC and with it your genetic blueprint.
  • sequencing a genome.
  • 4: This test performed between the 15th and 18th weeks of pregnancy can detect fetal genetic disorders.
  • amniocentesis.
  • 5: In 1986 the U.S. issued the first patent on a plant produced through genetic engineering, a hybrid of this grain.
  • corn.

Round 2. Category: Surviving Prohibition

  • 1: Many breweries tried making this rhyming product, like Schlitz Famo, with less than .5% alcohol content.
  • near beer.
  • 2: Unable to brew, Pabst started making Pabst-ett, a Velveeta-like cheese; eventually this competitor sued.
  • Kraft.
  • 3: In 1925 this Milwaukee family couldn't sell its brewery but was living the "High Life" after Prohibition ended.
  • Miller.
  • 4: This brewery bought a Colorado ceramics company and sold porcelain under the brand name; the ceramics co. is worth billions today.
  • Coors.
  • 5: Many breweries struggled but got by selling beer ingredients like syrup made from this, sprouted barley grains.
  • malt.

Round 3. Category: Aye Aye, Captain

  • 1: A national park on this country's South Island is named for Captain Abel Tasman.
  • New Zealand.
  • 2: In 1837 Captain Matthew Perry took command of the U.S. Navy's first ship powered by this.
  • steam.
  • 3: This New World settlement was founded May 14, 1607 by a group led by Captain Christopher Newport.
  • Jamestown.
  • 4: After his fleet took New Orleans in April 1862, this captain was promoted to rear admiral.
  • David Farragut.
  • 5: This British explorer of the Pacific Northwest has his own herb as well as an island.
  • George Vancouver.

Round 4. Category: Makeup

  • 1: Some women dye their lashes instead of using this traditional eyelash makeup.
  • mascara.
  • 2: Common color of beauty patches, which were sometimes cut in silhouettes of friends or family.
  • black.
  • 3: As its name implies, one of these, often in stick or cream form, is used especially to cover up dark circles and blemishes.
  • concealer.
  • 4: Here are an array of eye shadows in one of these, like what a painter uses.
  • a palette.
  • 5: An alternative to foundation, BB cream can stand for beauty or blemish this soothing 4-letter word.
  • balm.

Round 5. Category: Fearful Quotes

  • 1: According to Alexander Pope, these "rush in where angels fear to tread".
  • fools.
  • 2: This larger-than-life tenor said, "Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?".
  • Pavarotti.
  • 3: Hard to believe she was ever alone, but this Gallic sex kitten revealed, "Solitude scares me".
  • Brigitte Bardot.
  • 4: "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer" is an axiom used by Bene Gesserit witches in this '65 Herbert novel.
  • Dune.
  • 5: "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear", opined this master of horror novels like "The Lurking Fear".
  • H.P. Lovecraft.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1037, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Mashed Up Tv Shows

  • 1: "Better Call Nine-Nine".
  • Better Call Saul and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
  • 2: "Touched by Improvement".
  • Touched by an Angel and Home Improvement.
  • 3: "I Dream of Anarchy".
  • I Dream of Jeannie and Sons of Anarchy.
  • 4: "What We Do in the Building".
  • What We Do in the Shadows and Only Murders in the Building.
  • 5: "Emily in Blinders".
  • Emily in Paris and Peaky Blinders.

Round 2. Category: Bein' Green

  • 1: The shape left when it leaves is a "polygon":.
  • Parrot.
  • 2: A mini matador may take it on:.
  • Bullfrog.
  • 3: Watch it "snatch the pebble from my hand":.
  • Grasshopper.
  • 4: If one of these rides up on you at your wedding, have the bridegroom throw it away:.
  • Garter snake.
  • 5: This lizard's not just happy to meet you, he's this:.
  • "Frilled" to meet you.

Round 3. Category: Hammer Time

  • 1: A tiny one of these in the ear is called the malleus or the hammer.
  • a bone.
  • 2: Known for its cephalofoil, this fierce fish can grow 20 feet long.
  • a hammerhead shark.
  • 3: House majority whip from 1995 to 2003, this Texas Republican was known as "The Hammer".
  • Tom DeLay.
  • 4: This tough guy private detective was the main character in the 1952 novel "Kiss Me, Deadly".
  • Mike Hammer.
  • 5: Countless hammers have swung since this org.'s founding in 1976, helping to house more than 1.5 million people.
  • Habitat for Humanity.

Round 4. Category: Fats

  • 1: In the 1860s Hippolyte Mege-Mouries invented this butter substitute made from animal and vegetable fats.
  • margarine.
  • 2: PUFAs, short for these healthier fats, are found mostly in plant-based foods and oils.
  • poly-unsaturated fats.
  • 3: The fat droplets in milk carry most of this vitamin aka retinol, so the FDA requires skim milk to be fortified.
  • vitamin A.
  • 4: Saturated fats have been implicated in the incidence of this 7-syllable disease aka hardening of the arteries.
  • arteriosclerosis.
  • 5: Regulated in some cities, partially hydrogenated fats are also known by this "changeable" name.
  • trans fats.

Round 5. Category: National Food Days

  • 1: Get out your creminis and portobellos--October 15 is national this day.
  • mushrooms.
  • 2: On July 6, you might pick up a bucket of KFC for national this day.
  • fried chicken.
  • 3: Friday or not, January 21 is national New England this day.
  • clam chowder.
  • 4: Don't pass over May 31; it's the national day for these cookies made from ground almonds or shredded coconut.
  • macaroons.
  • 5: On December 6, some people celebrate St. Nicholas; others, this cold Spanish soup.
  • gazpacho.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1036, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Soda Pop Quiz

  • 1: Quite simply, Bubble Up is "a kiss of lemon, kiss of" this.
  • lime.
  • 2: Fenton and Fowler's calls this elite Detroit ginger ale the best soft drink in the world.
  • Vernor's.
  • 3: It was originally called bib-label lithiated lemon-lime soda.
  • 7 Up.
  • 4: Pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle developed the soda sweetener Aspartame, marketed as this.
  • NutraSweet.
  • 5: In addition to root beer, AandW also sells this flavor of soda.
  • cream soda.

Round 2. Category: On The First Lady'S Imdb Page

  • 1: "Hellcats of the Navy" (1957) as "Nurse Lt. Helen Blair".
  • Nancy Reagan.
  • 2: "Miss Universe Pageant" (1999) as "herself - judge".
  • Melania Trump.
  • 3: "Masterchef Junior" (2017) as herself.
  • Michelle Obama.
  • 4: "The War Room" (1993) as herself.
  • Hillary Clinton.
  • 5: "Women in Defense" (documentary short) commentary written by (1941).
  • Eleanor Roosevelt.

Round 3. Category: Good Thinking

  • 1: With little wind resistance, these domes housed the radar equipment along the DEW line.
  • Geodesic Domes.
  • 2: Sales were slow for cellophane Scotch Tape until John Borden invented one of these for the roll.
  • a dispenser.
  • 3: After his 3-year-old was impatient to see the photo he'd taken, he set out to invent an "instant" camera.
  • Edwin Land.
  • 4: In 1892 Henry Perky invented a machine to shred this grain and form it into little pillow-shaped biscuits.
  • wheat.
  • 5: In 1949 he created a machine to shave an ice rink, scoop up debris and spread fresh water.
  • Frank Zamboni.

Round 4. Category: Internal Rhymes

  • 1: This term for an important person sounds like a giant toupee.
  • a bigwig.
  • 2: A flightless bird that's a national symbol.
  • a kiwi.
  • 3: The largest Bantu-speaking group of South Africa.
  • the Zulu.
  • 4: It can be a meeting among business colleagues, or a Native American ceremonial feast.
  • a powwow.
  • 5: This adjective meaning unkempt and varied is often applied to disorganized armies or militias.
  • ragtag.

Round 5. Category: B__D

  • 1: When followed by "Light", it comes from Anheuser-Busch.
  • Bud.
  • 2: Hef's home in Chicago was famous for its round one.
  • Bed.
  • 3: It was the way Jessica Rabbit was "drawn".
  • "Bad".
  • 4: To win on eBay, you gotta do this.
  • Bid.
  • 5: This Fruit of the Loom company goes under everyday.
  • BVD.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1035, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Nobel Winners By Category

  • 1: Mikhail Gorbachev.
  • Peace.
  • 2: Nadine Gordimer.
  • Literature.
  • 3: Alexander Fleming.
  • Medicine.
  • 4: Max Planck.
  • Physics.
  • 5: Linus Pauling(the first time).
  • Chemistry.

Round 2. Category: Clean 4-Letter Words

  • 1: Dial and Zest are 4-letter brands of this.
  • soap.
  • 2: Everything "will come out in" this.
  • the wash.
  • 3: The bird that found land for Noah, or the soap that's 1/4 moisturizing lotion.
  • Dove.
  • 4: Meaning free from dirt or taint, it's used in describing food and drug laws.
  • pure.
  • 5: The knob on a radio, or the antibacterial soap you'd use on your hands if the knob was dirty.
  • Dial.

Round 3. Category: College Rhyme Time

  • 1: A pack of playing cards for a Pasadena school with a Jet Propulsion Lab.
  • a Caltech deck.
  • 2: A ballroom dress for a Washington, D.C. university function.
  • a Georgetown gown.
  • 3: Precipitation falling on a New Orleans college.
  • Tulane rain.
  • 4: A stroke of unexpected good luck for a Durham college.
  • a Duke fluke.
  • 5: A tennis court divider at a university for the hearing impaired.
  • a Gallaudet net.

Round 4. Category: Office Supplying

  • 1: The WorkCentre 5325, makin' copies! Copyin' for the office! Makin' '90s "SNL" references!.
  • Xerox.
  • 2: The 4-color mini ballpoint pen.
  • Bic.
  • 3: Carla in human resources brought in this alliterative brand's Smirk and Wink doughnuts.
  • Krispy Kreme.
  • 4: Scotch heavy duty shipping tape.
  • 3M.
  • 5: "The world's best pencil".
  • Dixon Ticonderoga.

Round 5. Category: Water We Doing

  • 1: Just 50 miles separates the U.S. and Russia across this strait.
  • the Bering Strait.
  • 2: A Great Lake indeed, it stretches from Duluth to Ontario to Sault Ste. Marie.
  • Lake Superior.
  • 3: Appropriately, this 160-mile-long river in Canada flows past London; it passes Woodstock and Chatham as well.
  • the Thames.
  • 4: The northwest corner of the Indian Ocean is this grade-"A" sea.
  • the Arabian Sea.
  • 5: Lakes Maggiore and Garda empty into tributaries of this 400-mile-long Italian river.
  • the Po.

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Round 1. Category: Bogey Men

  • 1: 1942:Bogart as bitter Rick Blaine runs a bar in north Africa, sweetheart.
  • Casablanca.
  • 2: 1941:Private dick Sam Spade seeks a priceless statuette.
  • The Maltese Falcon.
  • 3: 1948:Prospector Fred C. Dobbs really digs Mexico while facing bandits and greed.
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
  • 4: 1954:Crazy Captain Queeg faces rebellious sailors aboard ship.
  • The Caine Mutiny.
  • 5: 1954:Linus Larrabee becomes interested in the chauffeur's daughter.
  • Sabrina.

Round 2. Category: Money Talk

  • 1: It's the regular payment made to support an ex-spouse.
  • Alimony.
  • 2: It's the money paid for the return of a kidnap victim.
  • Ransom.
  • 3: Of the 7 deadly sins, it's the one concerned with money.
  • Greed (Avarice).
  • 4: It's a formal gift of funds given by, for example, a government to a scientist to "cary" on with research.
  • Grant.
  • 5: From a Latin word for "booty", it's the payment you make to keep your booty insured.
  • Premium.

Round 3. Category: Spelling Casts

  • 1: Tori Spelling,Shannen Doherty,Jason Priestley.
  • Beverly Hills, 90210.
  • 2: Andrew Shue,Thomas Calabro,Heather Locklear.
  • Melrose Place.
  • 3: Catherine Hicks,Jessica Biel,Stephen Collins.
  • 7th Heaven.
  • 4: John Forsythe,Heather Locklear,Joan Collins.
  • Dynasty.
  • 5: John Forsythe,David Doyle,Kate Jackson.
  • Charlie's Angels.

Round 4. Category: Before Finals

  • 1: The final event in the Olympic decathlon is the 1,500 meters; right before that is throwing this spear.
  • the javelin.
  • 2: It was the next-to-last state to join the Union.
  • Alaska.
  • 3: It was the next-to-last Harry Potter novel.
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
  • 4: Alexander III, who reigned from 1881 to 1894, was the next-to-last man to hold this post.
  • the Czar of Russia.
  • 5: In the calendar year, it's the penultimate federal holiday.
  • Thanksgiving.

Round 5. Category: Russellmania

  • 1: In 1966 this All-Star player became the first African-American head coach in the NBA.
  • Bill Russell.
  • 2: Astronomers Henry Russell and Ejnar Hertzsprung devised a diagram displaying the luminosity of these.
  • stars.
  • 3: "The Analysis of Mind" and "Marriage and Morals" are books by this thinker, grandson of a British prime minister.
  • Bertrand Russell.
  • 4: Until 1931 members of this religious movement founded by Charles Russell were known as Russellites.
  • Jehovah's Witnesses.
  • 5: A collection of this New York Times columnist's work was titled "Poor Russell's Almanac".
  • Russell Baker.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1033, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: In The Drugstore

  • 1: Leo Gerstenzang thought up this product when he saw his wife twirl cotton on a toothpick and use it as a swab.
  • Q-Tip.
  • 2: One of its former slogans called it "The Candy Mint With The Hole".
  • Life Savers.
  • 3: In 1907 he developed his first corn pad, probably right after he developed his first corn.
  • Dr. William Scholl.
  • 4: This tissue-shrinking compound is said to be one of the top 5 items stolen from drugstores.
  • Preparation H.
  • 5: Vince Staten's book "Do Pharmacists Sell Farms?" calls this product "The WD-40 of the Drugstore".
  • Vaseline Petroleum Jelly.

Round 2. Category: An UnCategory. With Un in quotation marks

  • 1: The husband of your mom's sister.
  • your uncle.
  • 2: The Eighth Amendment protects citizens against this kind of punishment.
  • unusual.
  • 3: A member of the Dalit caste in India, or Eliot Ness in Chicago.
  • the Untouchables.
  • 4: Technically passed on, but still animate, like a zombie.
  • undead.
  • 5: The framework that serves as the support for the body of a car.
  • the undercarriage.

Round 3. Category: Presidents And Cherries

  • 1: The story of him chopping down a cherry tree was first mentioned in a biography by Mason Weems.
  • George Washington.
  • 2: In 1994 this former President was the Grand Marshal of the Macon, Georgia cherry blossom festival.
  • jimmy Carter.
  • 3: His circular Presidential memorial stands among the cherry trees that line the Tidal Basin in D.C..
  • Thomas Jefferson.
  • 4: The cherry trees that line the Tidal Basin in our nation's capital were donated by Japan in 1912 when he was President.
  • William Howard Taft.
  • 5: The second President to die in office, he expired in 1850 after eating a dessert of cherries and milk.
  • Zachary Taylor.

Round 4. Category: Women'S Groups

  • 1: It's the group of wives, mistresses and female servants of a Turkish sultan, or their residence.
  • the harem.
  • 2: Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. is part of a 3-building complex owned and operated by this lineage society.
  • the Daughters of the American Revolution.
  • 3: MADD stands for "Mothers Against" this.
  • Drunk Driving.
  • 4: The first of these was founded in 1851 at Wesleyan Female College.
  • a sorority.
  • 5: Members of this group founded in 1890 are direct descendants of people who helped free the colonies.
  • the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution).

Round 5. Category: 1960s Television

  • 1: Its theme song begins, "Come 'n listen to my story 'bout a man name Jed".
  • The Beverly Hillbillies.
  • 2: For 4 seasons Dr. Kimble was pursued by Lt. Philip Gerard in this popular series.
  • The Fugitive.
  • 3: In 1965 this 26-year-old Canadian became the youngest to anchor a U.S. network newscast.
  • Peter Jennings.
  • 4: 4 commandos battled Rommel's Afrika Korps each week in this WWII drama starring Christopher George.
  • The Rat Patrol.
  • 5: In the Joe the Bartender sketches on Jackie Gleason's show, he played Crazy Guggenheim.
  • Frank Fontaine.

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Round 1. Category: Open And Shut. With Open" And "Shut in quotes

  • 1: A public showing of a residence that's for sale.
  • an open house.
  • 2: Someone who's stuck indoors.
  • a shut-in.
  • 3: 9 innings, 6 hits, no runs.
  • a shutout.
  • 4: A test where you're allowed to use notes.
  • an open book test.
  • 5: Public domain land in the 1800s where the buffalo and cattle roamed before the homesteaders fenced them in.
  • open range.

Round 2. Category: Name That Pope

  • 1: This second pope shares his name with a male friend of Charlie Brown (but not the blanket).
  • Linus.
  • 2: He was the first pope who wasn't born in Italy.
  • Saint Peter.
  • 3: This name taken by 8 popes means of or relating to a city.
  • Urban.
  • 4: His reign as pope, 34 days long, was the shortest in modern history.
  • John Paul I.
  • 5: In 1964 this pope canonized 22 Christian Ugandan martyrs killed in the 19th century.
  • Paul VI.

Round 3. Category: 3-Letter Responses

  • 1: In 2017 the parent company for QVC filled up its cart and acquired this longtime rival.
  • HSN.
  • 2: This network's original series have included "Monk", "Psych" and "Suits".
  • USA.
  • 3: George H.W. Bush was director of it from January 1976 to January 1977.
  • the CIA.
  • 4: Abu Dhabi is the largest of the states that make up the federation commonly known by these 3 letters.
  • the UAE.
  • 5: Timothy Leary was a leading advocate for the use of psychedelic drugs, this one in particular.
  • LSD.

Round 4. Category: Sounds Like An Irish County

  • 1: It's something "held" on sandwiches.
  • Mayo.
  • 2: "de Lune" or Danes.
  • Claire.
  • 3: Young doctor played by Lew Ayres and Richard Chamberlain.
  • Kildare.
  • 4: Route Julius Caesar took to France; too hard? Okay, flutist James.
  • Galway (or "Gaul way").
  • 5: You may be asked to sniff one of these removed by a sommelier.
  • Cork.

Round 5. Category: Body Facts And Figures

  • 1: The average person has some 18 square feet of this, making it the body's largest organ.
  • skin.
  • 2: If you want to count all the hairs on your head, hope you have this natural color; it has the fewest.
  • red.
  • 3: You have about 1 quart of this for every 30 pounds you weigh.
  • blood.
  • 4: You'll need 3 Trent Reznors to collect enough of this metal, Fe, from their bodies to make a nine-inch nail.
  • iron.
  • 5: These 2 of your 5 senses are connected; lose one and you lose most of the other.
  • taste and smell.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1031, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let'S Visit Cuba

  • 1: Disco Ayala in the city of Trinidad is located inside one of these, so you're always in the batroom.
  • Cave.
  • 2: Take note, hotels in Cuba rent by the night, most inns and posadas by this, hmmmmmm.
  • By the hour.
  • 3: Visit this site that Teddy did in 1898 and see small monuments marking the battle and a rusted ferris wheel.
  • San Juan Hill.
  • 4: The Cuban home of this "Snows of Kilimanjaro" author is preserved almost as he left it.
  • Ernest Hemingway.
  • 5: Diving and snorkeling are popular (between U.S. invasions) at Playa Giron on this bay.
  • Bay of Pigs.

Round 2. Category: Weird Al-Chemy

  • 1: "Like A Surgeon".
  • Madonna.
  • 2: "Eat It".
  • Michael Jackson.
  • 3: "Canadian Idiot".
  • Green Day.
  • 4: "I Love Rocky Road".
  • Joan Jett.
  • 5: "I Want A New Duck".
  • Huey Lewis (and The News).

Round 3. Category: State Of The Book

  • 1: "The Last Picture Show".
  • Texas.
  • 2: "Washington Square".
  • New York.
  • 3: "Centennial" by James Michener.
  • Colorado.
  • 4: "The Grapes of Wrath"--2 states please, where the story begins and ends.
  • Oklahoma and California.
  • 5: "The Help".
  • Mississippi.

Round 4. Category: Women In Power

  • 1: The Falkland Islands war tested the mettle of this "Iron Lady".
  • Margaret Thatcher.
  • 2: This tough-talking Miamian is the nation's No. 1 cop.
  • Janet Reno.
  • 3: The pineapple of Bob's eye, she returned to Red Cross leadership in 1997.
  • Liddy Dole.
  • 4: She was publisher of The Washington Post during Watergate.
  • Katharine Graham.
  • 5: This NFL team owner moved her team from California to Missouri.
  • Georgia Rosenbloom (Frontiere).

Round 5. Category: Women In Literature

  • 1: In "Pride and Prejudice", Mr. Bennet and this daughter discuss her possible engagement to Mr. Darcy.
  • Elizabeth.
  • 2: Charlotte Bronte wrote "Shirley" as well as this more famous novel with the heroine's name as the title.
  • Jane Eyre.
  • 3: Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which help Meg Murry and her brother in this 1962 novel by Madeleine L'Engle.
  • A Wrinkle in Time.
  • 4: This William Makepeace Thackeray novel deals with the interwoven fortunes of 2 women: the passive Amelia and the scheming Becky.
  • Vanity Fair.
  • 5: Rosalind from this comedy has the most lines of any of Shakespeare's women.
  • As You Like It.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1030, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: How Touching!

  • 1: It's the usual name for the kind of zoo where you can stroke--and sometimes even feed--young animals.
  • a petting zoo.
  • 2: Literally French for "touched", this expression indicates a hit in fencing.
  • touché.
  • 3: When Sir Walter Scott wrote, "Have I not licked the black stone of that ancient castle?" he meant this fabled object.
  • the Blarney Stone.
  • 4: It's been reported that the Elle Macpherson figure in this London museum was attracting gropers.
  • Madame Tussauds.
  • 5: It's good luck to touch a bronze statue of a turtle named Testudo at this East Coast school.
  • University of Maryland.

Round 2. Category: Willie Nelson

  • 1: For the past 3 years, Willie Nelson has put on charity concerts for the benefit of these workers.
  • farm workers.
  • 2: Willie Nelson's own recording studio and golf course, called "Cut and Putt", are in this Texas capital.
  • Austin.
  • 3: In 1 song Willie says they're his heroes; in another he urges "don't let your babies grow up to be" them.
  • cowboys.
  • 4: Willie's only Top-10 solo hit on the pop charts was in 1982 with the remake of this Elvis song.
  • "Always on My Mind".
  • 5: His "Red-Headed Stranger" album gave him his 1st crossover hit, this colorful, tearful tune.
  • "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain".

Round 3. Category: 3-Letter Spanish Words

  • 1: No bull, it's "Bravo!".
  • Ole!.
  • 2: In 1980 Roberto Duran said to Sugar Ray Leonard, "No" this, meaning "no more".
  • Mas.
  • 3: Old Mexican movies and telenovelas end with this 3-letter word.
  • Fin.
  • 4: Domingo, Lunes or Martes, for example.
  • Dia.
  • 5: In Spanish it means "with"; in English, "against".
  • Con.

Round 4. Category: Presidential Music?

  • 1: He had a string of No. 1 hits with his brothers, including "ABC", as well as solo No. 1s, like "Black Or White".
  • Michael Jackson.
  • 2: President Obama's got a friend in this "You've Got A Friend" singer who performed at Obama's second inaugural.
  • James Taylor.
  • 3: She co-wrote "Ring Of Fire" for future hubby Johnny Cash.
  • (June) Carter.
  • 4: "Atomic Dog" and "Nubian Nut" are solo hits by this giant of funk music.
  • George Clinton.
  • 5: Gavin Rossdale (Gwen Stefani's ex) is the lead singer of this British band.
  • Bush.

Round 5. Category: Historic America

  • 1: A fine collection of Haida and Tlingit totem poles was toted to Sitka National Historic Park in this state.
  • Alaska.
  • 2: This Washington, D.C. house, once the residence of Harry Truman, is named for the founder of the Washington Globe.
  • Blair House.
  • 3: Williamsburg and this last Revolutionary War battle site are part of Virginia's "Historic Triangle".
  • Yorktown.
  • 4: The Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. use this founder's Savannah, Georgia birthplace as a national program center.
  • Juliette Low.
  • 5: Splendors of the Gilded Age adorn the Lightner Museum, once a Gilded Age hotel in this oldest Florida city.
  • St. Augustine.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1029, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fair Fare

  • 1: This carnival treat is threads of spun sugar, often pink.
  • cotton candy.
  • 2: This fried treat is named for the cone-shaped utensil through which the batter is poured.
  • a funnel cake.
  • 3: These cheese semi-solids are supposed to squeak when you bite into them.
  • curds.
  • 4: Dusted with sugar and cinnamon, these slender pastries have a Spanish name that may refer to their place of origin.
  • churros.
  • 5: Roll a caramel apple in marshmallows, nuts and chocolate and you have this variation, also an ice cream flavor.
  • rocky road.

Round 2. Category: Transportation In Song

  • 1: In "The Christmas Song, "They know that Santa's on his way, he's loaded lots of toys and goodies on" this.
  • his sleigh.
  • 2: A hotel party inspired Steven Tyler to write, "Love In" one of these, "livin' it up when I'm goin' down".
  • an elevator.
  • 3: Day-o! This Harry Belafonte calypso favorite was featured in a raucous dinner scene in the film "Beetlejuice".
  • the "Banana Boat" (song).
  • 4: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis buy these vehicles that can be pedaled or driven with a gas engine and head "Downtown".
  • mopeds.
  • 5: On this, "You leave the Pennsylvania station 'bout a quarter to four, read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore".
  • the "Chattanooga Choo Choo".

Round 3. Category: Rock E. With E in quotes

  • 1: Earth joined Wind and Fire and he joined Lake and Palmer.
  • Keith Emerson.
  • 2: In titles it preceded Eddie Money's "Nights" and Richard Marx's "Summer Nights".
  • Endless.
  • 3: This botanical tune grew up to No. 1 in 1988.
  • "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" (by Poison).
  • 4: Though this Art Alexakis band was formed in Portland, its first hit was about Santa Monica.
  • Everclear.
  • 5: The Eurythmics were on the bill in 2000 at the grand opening celebration of this Seattle rock museum.
  • Experience Music Project.

Round 4. Category: Great Expectations. With Great in quotation marks

  • 1: In the newspaper, Marmaduke is a funny one.
  • Great Dane.
  • 2: Clingmans Dome is the highest peak in this Appalachian range.
  • Great Smoky Mountains.
  • 3: As it's the nickname of Greg Norman, you're gonna need a bigger -- golf cart.
  • "Great White Shark".
  • 4: A Montana city is named for these on the Missouri, which Meriwether Lewis called the grandest sight he'd ever beheld.
  • Great Falls.
  • 5: Now extinct, we know what these look like from ones mounted in museums and drawings like this by Audubon.
  • great auk.

Round 5. Category: Words Containing Silent Letters

  • 1: A land mass surrounded on all sides by water.
  • an island.
  • 2: It follows "Ash" in the name of the first day of Lent.
  • Wednesday.
  • 3: From the Greek for "soul", it's someone who can foresee the future or read minds.
  • a psychic.
  • 4: February 2013 has 672 of these units.
  • hours.
  • 5: A Bowie one is long and dangerous.
  • a knife.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1028, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Highest-Scoring Scrabble Word

  • 1: Hell,heavenor limbo.
  • heaven.
  • 2: Vow,knightor grail.
  • knight.
  • 3: Pickle,lettuce,onion.
  • pickle.
  • 4: Cozy,waxor quilt.
  • cozy.
  • 5: Butter, milk or cheese.
  • cheese.

Round 2. Category: Countries By Region

  • 1: Thessaly,Epirus,Peloponnesus.
  • Greece.
  • 2: Western Plateau,Great Victoria Desert,Great Artesian Basin.
  • Australia.
  • 3: Roraima,Maranhao,Amazonas.
  • Brazil.
  • 4: Namaqualand,Bushmanland,Zululand.
  • South Africa.
  • 5: Chaco Central,Pampa de las Salinas,Chaco Austral.
  • Argentina.

Round 3. Category: Would You Like Flies With That?

  • 1: The Hotlix company makes a green lollipop flavored like this fruit--appropriately, with a worm inside.
  • an apple.
  • 2: Crick-ettes (yep, they're made from crickets) come in several tangy flavors, including these breakfast strips and cheese.
  • bacon.
  • 3: These winged wood-eaters, aka white ants, are fried as a snack in Africa.
  • termites.
  • 4: edible.com sells ground beans for this hot beverage that have been regurgitated by weasels, cleaned and roasted.
  • coffee.
  • 5: The snack called Amber Insectnside features these stinging arachnids in amber-colored candy.
  • scorpions.

Round 4. Category: Nutmeggers

  • 1: This Connecticut Yankee invented the revolver in 1836, not ".45".
  • (Samuel) Colt.
  • 2: This showman, famed for saying "There's a sucker born every minute, was elected mayor of Bridgeport.
  • (P.T.) Barnum.
  • 3: In a film, Spencer Tracy said of this actress, "Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice".
  • Katharine Hepburn.
  • 4: After he died, the part of Plymouth Hollow where he had his clock factory was renamed Thomaston.
  • Seth Thomas.
  • 5: To safeguard his "Blue-Backed Speller" in the 1780s, he was a staunch advocate of copyright laws.
  • (Noah) Webster.

Round 5. Category: Millers Outpost

  • 1: For pioneering work in finance theory, Merton Miller won this prize in Economic Science for 1990.
  • Nobel Prize.
  • 2: 18th C. English comedian Josias Miller won lasting comic fame as first gravedigger in this play by Shakespeare.
  • "Hamlet".
  • 3: Born in Cromarty in this U.K. country in 1802, Hugh Miller did much to arouse public interest in geology.
  • Scotland.
  • 4: One of the most popular musical comedy actresses of the 1920s, Marilyn Miller appeared in these "follies" in 1918.
  • Ziegfeld Follies.
  • 5: In 1919 American lawyer David Hunter Miller helped compose the charter of this international organization.
  • League of Nations.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1027, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Finish The Terrible Rhyme

  • 1: "Diplomacy in action", which really does sound great / Is on the website of the cabinet department that we call....
  • State.
  • 2: Killing a dragon named python at Delphi, is that too much to swallow? / It wasn't odd for this Greek god, the one known as....
  • Apollo.
  • 3: To gather, rouse or summon / You better believe it, buster / It's this word that will be heard / This is the word you'll....
  • muster.
  • 4: "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" was not writ just to shame us / It is, however, right here now, from the Bible's book of....
  • Amos.
  • 5: "The best is the enemy of the good"--no dolt, there / It must be the enlightened author, Monsieur....
  • Voltaire.

Round 2. Category: Detroit: News Clues

  • 1: (I'm Kimberly Gill.) Detroit was often the last stop before freedom on this network, and the Second Baptist Church, still a vibrant house of worship, was an important station.
  • the Underground Railroad.
  • 2: (I'm Rhonda Walker.) Speaking in Tiger Stadium in 1990, four months after his release from prison, this man quoted Marvin Gaye, "Brother, brother, there's far too many of you dying".
  • Nelson Mandela.
  • 3: (I'm Devin Scillian.) On October 3, 1997, the International Hockey League's Detroit Vipers welcomed a new teammate playing in his sixth decade; this 69-year-old ex-Red Wing, Alex Trebek's hero, took a 46-second shift in his very last pro game.
  • Gordie Howe.
  • 4: (I'm Evrod Cassimy.) After GM's president told Detroit car executives, "We must outbuild Hitler", Ford's Willow Run plant churned out the B-24 Liberator, a 4-engine this type of warplane at an unbelievable rate of one per hour.
  • a bomber.
  • 5: (I'm Kimberly Gill.) December 10, 2014 was a bright day in a long saga as Detroit officially exited the largest municipal one of these in the history of the United States, and emergency manager Kevyn Orr's resignation took effect.
  • a bankruptcy.

Round 3. Category: You Can'T

  • 1: ...buy more of the golden Kellogg's cereal named for this "Star Wars" droid; it was discontinued years ago.
  • C-3PO.
  • 2: ...move this kind of big rock if it's on public property in the Colorado city of the same name; the municipal code says no.
  • a boulder.
  • 3: ...change gears in a manual transmission auto without first disengaging and then re-engaging this.
  • the clutch.
  • 4: ...go boating in Owens Lake near the California-Nevada border; it dried up in the 1920s after its water was sent to this city.
  • Los Angeles.
  • 5: ...visit Swaziland any more; in 2018 it changed its name to this.
  • Eswatini.

Round 4. Category: Friend Like Me

  • 1: Mary Lincoln said her "best living friend" was her dressmaker Lizzie Keckley, who'd bought her own way out of this.
  • slavery.
  • 2: This physicist wrote a foreword to the bio of his German pal Emanuel Lasker, world chess champ from 1896 to 1921.
  • Einstein.
  • 3: Marilyn Monroe adored this jazz great and helped her get a booking at a Hollywood hot spot.
  • Ella Fitzgerald.
  • 4: George Vancouver named the highest point in Washington state for his friend Pete, this British admiral.
  • (Peter) Rainier.
  • 5: Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote a celebratory poem for the 80th birthday of this "life-long friend" and fellow crusader.
  • Susan B. Anthony.

Round 5. Category: Flag 'Em Down

  • 1: The Alamo is located in this city and is depicted on its flag.
  • San Antonio.
  • 2: This descriptive nickname of the U.S. flag was coined by Francis Scott Key.
  • the Star-Spangled Banner.
  • 3: The

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1026, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Good Grooming

  • 1: Revlon's slant tip type of this implement is shaped to fit bushy brows.
  • tweezers.
  • 2: Try coconut oil on these pads of skin at the base of nails if they get ragged.
  • cuticles.
  • 3: The ASPCA says you can make this for your dog from baking soda and water.
  • toothpaste.
  • 4: The Army has style rules, like max 1/8" of skin between these, defined as "hair rolled or braided closely to the scalp".
  • cornrows.
  • 5: Rough elbows can benefit from this type of product that hydrates and softens, from the Latin for "soft".
  • emollient.

Round 2. Category: Movies In Minivans

  • 1: The minivan in front of me is playing this 2001 movie where Fiona turns into a somewhat attractive ogre.
  • Shrek.
  • 2: Hey, Minivan! Turn up this 2006 feature--I want to hear Larry the Cable Guy as a tow truck.
  • Cars.
  • 3: Through the tinted glass, I see Sulley and Mike in Monstropolis; it's this 2001 Pixar flick.
  • Monsters, Inc..
  • 4: Aw man, I love this movie's ending where the family fights Syndrome's robot; I'm gonna miss my exit.
  • The Incredibles.
  • 5: I'd love to watch more of this 1998 flick with Flik the Ant, but I'm in the guy's blind spot.
  • A Bug's Life.

Round 3. Category: The Animal In The Logo

  • 1: Twitter.
  • a bird.
  • 2: The WWF(the World Wildlife Fund).
  • a panda.
  • 3: MSN(the Microsoft Network).
  • a butterfly.
  • 4: Pocket Books,a division of Simon and Schuster.
  • a kangaroo.
  • 5: Swarovski,maker of crystals.
  • a swan.

Round 4. Category: European Travel

  • 1: This city's zoo, the largest in Finland, celebrates its 105th birthday in 1993.
  • Helsinki.
  • 2: Anchoiade, a specialty of Marseilles, is a paste made from olive oil and these little fish.
  • anchovies.
  • 3: The Dansk Statsbaner, this country's state railway, honors the Eurailpass.
  • Denmark.
  • 4: Birnbaum's says Albturist is the official tourist authority of this Balkan country.
  • Albania.
  • 5: Don't take your unused zlotys out of the country; you have to leave them at the border.
  • Poland.

Round 5. Category: Culinary Quotes

  • 1: Fran Lebowitz jokingly said, "My favorite animal is" this, but she didn't specify Porterhouse or T-bone.
  • steak.
  • 2: This breakfast goody has been described as "an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis".
  • a bagel.
  • 3: Mark Twain said that cauliflower "is nothing but" this vegetable "with a college education".
  • cabbage.
  • 4: Woody Allen says he won't eat this shellfish because "I want my food dead, not sick, not wounded, dead".
  • oysters.
  • 5: Thackeray's "Ballad of" this dish calls it "A sort of soup or broth... or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes".
  • bouillabaisse.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1025, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Salt

  • 1: In 1930 this Indian pacifist marched 200 miles to the sea to protest Britain's salt tax.
  • Gandhi.
  • 2: In 1914 the little girl with the umbrella began appearing on this company's salt packages.
  • Morton's.
  • 3: Throwing salt into the center of the ring to purify it is part of the ritual of this sport.
  • sumo wrestling.
  • 4: Opened in 1825, it was known as the "ditch that salt built" because its main cargo was salt from Syracuse, N.Y..
  • the Erie Canal.
  • 5: In Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper", an overturned salt cellar lies in front of him.
  • Judas.

Round 2. Category: When You Were Young

  • 1: Floods ravaged the Midwest in 1993 as the confluence of the Missouri and this river moved 19 miles upstream.
  • the Mississippi.
  • 2: Chechnya, a breakaway republic, was overrun by the army of this country in 1994.
  • Russia.
  • 3: In 1995 an ultranationalist assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of this country.
  • Israel.
  • 4: In 1996 British scientists successfully cloned this type of animal and named her Dolly.
  • a sheep.
  • 5: In 2000 Clinton became the first sitting president to visit this country since Nixon visited the troops in 1969.
  • Vietnam.

Round 3. Category: Sexy Stuff

  • 1: A queen ant of one species coats these with a pheromone that stops other ants from destroying them.
  • the eggs.
  • 2: "Warm" 4-letter word for a period of sexual receptiveness.
  • heat.
  • 3: In 1873 this U.S. president signed a bill banning anything obscene, lewd or lascivious from the mails.
  • Grant.
  • 4: Muskrat love includes the formation of these monogamous "bonds" for the duration of breeding season.
  • pair bonds.
  • 5: Vajrayana is another name for this type of Buddhism that's associated with sexuality.
  • Tantric.

Round 4. Category: Antropology

  • 1: The Spinifex people of Australia are among the few remaining societies of foragers, also called "hunter"- these.
  • gatherers.
  • 2: The light skin of northern peoples prevents rickets by turning limited sunlight into the maximum amount of this vitamin.
  • vitamin D.
  • 3: Rotund Venus figures made of this substance are common artworks of the age named for this substance.
  • stone.
  • 4: In some societies this type of "feud" is settled by paying this type of "money".
  • blood.
  • 5: This study of one society, from the Greek for "people", began with Bronislaw Malinowski's work in Melanesia.
  • ethnography.

Round 5. Category: Clocks

  • 1: The face of a watch or the soap you might use if you had time for a shower.
  • dial.
  • 2: Around 1400 B.C., Egyptians used this kind of clock that was supposed to leak.
  • a water clock.
  • 3: Oregon won the first NCAA men's basketball title by the anemic score of 46-33 in 1939, long before this 1985 innovation.
  • shot clock.
  • 4: It's a clock ⅔ the size of a grandfather clock.
  • a grandmother's clock.
  • 5: 1 of the 2 components powering a clock that can be replaced by electricity.
  • springs or weights.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1024, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: And In Other News...

  • 1: The Chicago Tribune reported this host country donated 230,000 Mars bars to our troops for Thanksgiving.
  • Saudi Arabia.
  • 2: Englishman Kim Philby was 1 of 5 top spies this country honored on stamps in 1990.
  • the Soviet Union.
  • 3: In November 1990 Bill Irwin became the first blind man to hike this entire 2,167-mile long trail.
  • the Appalachian Trail.
  • 4: Reuters reports China's Communist newspaper wants people to stop calling women "miss" and use this "friendly" title.
  • comrade.
  • 5: This author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" died in November 1990.
  • Roald Dahl.

Round 2. Category: Fast Food Choices

  • 1: Filet-O-Fish or a Quarter Pounder with Cheese.
  • McDonald's.
  • 2: Original Recipe or Extra Tasty Crispy.
  • KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken).
  • 3: A Butterfinger Blizzard or a Peanut Buster Parfait.
  • Dairy Queen.
  • 4: Biggie Fries or a Frosty.
  • Wendy's.
  • 5: Beef 'N Cheddar or a Jamocha Shake.
  • Arby's.

Round 3. Category: Colorful Albums

  • 1: The bestselling Beatles album in the U.S. is "The Beatles", better known by this colorful name.
  • the White Album.
  • 2: "99 Problems" is on this 2003 album that Jay-Z said would be his last (it wasn't).
  • The Black Album.
  • 3: This Elton John double album is full of great songs, including the original "Candle In The Wind".
  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
  • 4: The 2018 Grammy for Album of the Year went to Kacey Musgraves for this "Hour".
  • Golden Hour.
  • 5: Kelly Clarkson's holiday album "Wrapped in Red" includes this colorful Elvis song about a sad noel.
  • "Blue Christmas".

Round 4. Category: True Grime

  • 1: As a noun, it's earth for growing plants; as a verb, it means to stain.
  • soil.
  • 2: It can precede "of the earth", but a "Men in Black" tagline was "protecting the Earth from the" this "of the universe".
  • scum.
  • 3: It means boggy or swampy ground; as a verb it's what happened to the wagon that got stuck there.
  • a mire (mired).
  • 4: Stinking this is a type of disease caused by parasitic fungi on plants; an indecent magazine is said to contain it, too.
  • smut.
  • 5: A scandal may do this to your reputation; it's also a word for a discoloration caused by oxidation on some metals.
  • tarnish.

Round 5. Category: I'D Rather Have

  • 1: Instead of any current politician, I'd have lunch with this 16th president and hear about frontier life.
  • Lincoln.
  • 2: Instead of a fancy restaurant meal, I'd rather have a backyard cookout serving up grilled these, like brats and chorizos.
  • sausages.
  • 3: For a good guard dog, I'd pick from the AKC's list of them that includes the Doberman one of these, but not the miniature one.
  • A Pinscher.
  • 4: I'd rather see this epic 1962 movie biography set in the desert in a theater at 70mm projection than on a cell phone.
  • Lawrence of Arabia.
  • 5: Instead of a beer, I'd rather have this French wine that Food and Wine Mag calls "the world's most popular white".
  • chardonnay.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1023, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What Happened When?

  • 1: On December 17, 1992, this agreement was signed by the leaders of three countries.
  • NAFTA.
  • 2: On Halloween 2012 the New York Stock Exchange reopened after being closed for 2 days due to this weather event.
  • Hurricane Sandy.
  • 3: On February 8, 1587 it was off with her head at Fotheringhay Castle after 19 years of imprisonment.
  • Mary, Queen of Scots.
  • 4: In 1810 Napoleon, divorced from Josephine, married this archduchess with whom he would have a son.
  • Marie-Louise.
  • 5: Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, it got a big demotion in 2006.
  • Pluto.

Round 2. Category: State Capital Events

  • 1: On Jan. 29, 2016 in Baton Rouge, the Mystic Krewe of Artemis was the first parade in this annual event.
  • Mardi Gras.
  • 2: In March 2016 you could catch an Easter concert by this group live in Salt Lake City or on closed-circuit simulcast.
  • the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
  • 3: The 1850s are back as tons of dirt cover the streets of Old this state capital in its annual Gold Rush Days.
  • Sacramento.
  • 4: Cactus League spring training is held throughout the area of this capital.
  • Phoenix.
  • 5: Go to both the film and music parts of the SXSW festival in this capital and by all means, enjoy some BBQ.
  • Austin.

Round 3. Category: I Read It In A Book Once

  • 1: "'Some pig!' whispered Mr. Zuckerman. They stared and stared for a long time at Wilbur".
  • Charlotte's Web.
  • 2: "I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it".
  • The Silence of the Lambs.
  • 3: "His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears. 'Hey, Boo,' I said".
  • To Kill a Mockingbird.
  • 4: "'Is it safe to get my diamonds?'… Szell opened the black leather case. And took out a portable hand drill".
  • Marathon Man.
  • 5: "For him evidently Mr. Kurtz was not in his grave; I suspect that for him Mr. Kurtz was one of the immortals".
  • Heart of Darkness.

Round 4. Category: Festivals

  • 1: A Swine Festival in Georgia includes a greased pig chase and the eating of these, the cooked small intestines of pigs.
  • chitlins.
  • 2: This pop music festival is named for a town in southwestern England also said to be the burial site of King Arthur.
  • Glastonbury.
  • 3: Holi is a spring festival of colors in this religion.
  • Hindu.
  • 4: Each May this New Mexico city has a festival honoring Ralph Edwards, who brought the city much fame.
  • Truth or Consequences.
  • 5: A 5-day horseback ride named for this Tombstone lawman will take you to a ghost town and the gravesite of Johnny Ringo.
  • Wyatt Earp.

Round 5. Category: Hail, Caesar!

  • 1: This Canadian singer had huge successes with her multi-year residencies at Caesars Palace starting in 2003 and 2011.
  • Celine Dion.
  • 2: The character King Kaiser is based on Sid Caesar in this 1982 Peter O'Toole film set in the world of 1950s TV.
  • My Favorite Year.
  • 3: Built by Herod the Great and dedicated to Augustus, Caesarea is a coastal town in this country.
  • Israel.
  • 4: Scholars believe St. Paul made his appeal to Caesar of Acts 25 in 59 A.D., so the Caesar would have been him.
  • Nero.
  • 5: It's where fancy restaurants once served Caesar salad, tossed as you watch; Ken's makes a bottled version of the dressing.
  • tableside.

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Round 1. Category: Am I Your Type?

  • 1: Type 1 of this disease, in which the beta cells of the pancreas aren't doing their job, was formerly called "juvenile".
  • diabetes.
  • 2: You can get the 2007 S-Type of this cat starting at $49,000.
  • Jaguar.
  • 3: Meyer Friedman coined this term for an angry, driven personality type who Friedman thought had high heart attack risk.
  • Type A.
  • 4: Among blood types, this one has neither of the main letter antigens.
  • Type O.
  • 5: If you're only ever offered one kind of role, like a priest or a Nazi, you're being this.
  • typecast.

Round 2. Category: S, U Or V

  • 1: Compass direction.
  • S (for south).
  • 2: Roman numeral.
  • V.
  • 3: '80s sci-fi blockbuster miniseries concerning man-eating reptilian aliens.
  • V.
  • 4: Feel enriched if you know this symbol for the 92nd element of the periodic table.
  • U (for uranium).
  • 5: Also known as a transverse wave, this type of wave is found in an earthquake.
  • S (for shear wave).

Round 3. Category: Old Words

  • 1: Elflock was tangled this, perhaps mussed by mischievous sprites.
  • hair.
  • 2: A cordwainer made these paired leather items.
  • shoes.
  • 3: An expergefactor was someone or something that did this to you, like a rooster.
  • woke you up.
  • 4: A gossip was one of these, a sponsor at a child's baptism.
  • a godparent.
  • 5: To be pot valiant was to be brave when in this condition.
  • drunk.

Round 4. Category: Sport Ability

  • 1: Shooting 18 under at the 2015 Masters, Jordan Spieth tied this man for the tourney's all-time scoring record.
  • Tiger Woods.
  • 2: This team won back-to-back World Series titles in 1907 and 1908... things haven't gone that well since.
  • the Cubs.
  • 3: This swimmer's 8-for-8 Olympic performance in '08 included 4 individual world records.
  • (Michael) Phelps.
  • 4: In Super Bowl 50 the Broncos' Von Miller became the second man in 3 years to win MVP playing this defensive position.
  • a linebacker.
  • 5: In world team tennis in the 1970s, this 6-time Wimbledon singles champ was one of the first women to coach pro men.
  • Billie Jean King.

Round 5. Category: Math-Free Word Problems

  • 1: If Mo can eat 25 Twinkies in 30 minutes, how concerned was Mo when this maker of Twinkies went bankrupt in 2012?.
  • Hostess.
  • 2: If Becky has 13 half-dollars and 46 pennies, she's way short of the 2018-19 tuition of $49,330 at this N.J. Ivy League school.
  • Princeton.
  • 3: Sal hits .382 and Mal hits .392, so both lose the 1994 batting title to Tony Gwynn, who hit .394 for this western team.
  • the (San Diego) Padres.
  • 4: George II died at 76 in 1760, so maybe medicine improved by the time this great-great-granddaughter lived to be 81.
  • Victoria.
  • 5: If Carl's car exits Carlsbad Caverns at 60 MPH and Lou's leaves Louisville at 80, the 2 can meet in this Wyoming capital.
  • Cheyenne.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1034, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bogey Men

  • 1: 1942:Bogart as bitter Rick Blaine runs a bar in north Africa, sweetheart.
  • Casablanca.
  • 2: 1941:Private dick Sam Spade seeks a priceless statuette.
  • The Maltese Falcon.
  • 3: 1948:Prospector Fred C. Dobbs really digs Mexico while facing bandits and greed.
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
  • 4: 1954:Crazy Captain Queeg faces rebellious sailors aboard ship.
  • The Caine Mutiny.
  • 5: 1954:Linus Larrabee becomes interested in the chauffeur's daughter.
  • Sabrina.

Round 2. Category: Money Talk

  • 1: It's the regular payment made to support an ex-spouse.
  • Alimony.
  • 2: It's the money paid for the return of a kidnap victim.
  • Ransom.
  • 3: Of the 7 deadly sins, it's the one concerned with money.
  • Greed (Avarice).
  • 4: It's a formal gift of funds given by, for example, a government to a scientist to "cary" on with research.
  • Grant.
  • 5: From a Latin word for "booty", it's the payment you make to keep your booty insured.
  • Premium.

Round 3. Category: Spelling Casts

  • 1: Tori Spelling,Shannen Doherty,Jason Priestley.
  • Beverly Hills, 90210.
  • 2: Andrew Shue,Thomas Calabro,Heather Locklear.
  • Melrose Place.
  • 3: Catherine Hicks,Jessica Biel,Stephen Collins.
  • 7th Heaven.
  • 4: John Forsythe,Heather Locklear,Joan Collins.
  • Dynasty.
  • 5: John Forsythe,David Doyle,Kate Jackson.
  • Charlie's Angels.

Round 4. Category: Before Finals

  • 1: The final event in the Olympic decathlon is the 1,500 meters; right before that is throwing this spear.
  • the javelin.
  • 2: It was the next-to-last state to join the Union.
  • Alaska.
  • 3: It was the next-to-last Harry Potter novel.
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
  • 4: Alexander III, who reigned from 1881 to 1894, was the next-to-last man to hold this post.
  • the Czar of Russia.
  • 5: In the calendar year, it's the penultimate federal holiday.
  • Thanksgiving.

Round 5. Category: Russellmania

  • 1: In 1966 this All-Star player became the first African-American head coach in the NBA.
  • Bill Russell.
  • 2: Astronomers Henry Russell and Ejnar Hertzsprung devised a diagram displaying the luminosity of these.
  • stars.
  • 3: "The Analysis of Mind" and "Marriage and Morals" are books by this thinker, grandson of a British prime minister.
  • Bertrand Russell.
  • 4: Until 1931 members of this religious movement founded by Charles Russell were known as Russellites.
  • Jehovah's Witnesses.
  • 5: A collection of this New York Times columnist's work was titled "Poor Russell's Almanac".
  • Russell Baker.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1021, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Music CLass. With C in quotation marks

  • 1: It has 4 strings, 5 letters and 6 Bach solo suites written just for it.
  • cello.
  • 2: The Benedictine monks of Santo Domingo de Silos had a surprise 1994 international hit with an album of Gregorian these.
  • chants.
  • 3: Italian for "tail", this 4-letter word is a concluding part of a piece of music.
  • coda.
  • 4: A male alto voice is also known as this 12-letter word.
  • a countertenor.
  • 5: Joan Sutherland was one of these sopranos who decorated her arias with a "rainbow" of musical hues.
  • a coloratura.

Round 2. Category: The Roman God Or Goddess Of...

  • 1: The sea, earthquakes and horses, 3 things that obviously go together.
  • Neptune.
  • 2: Wine (women and song apparently went to other departments).
  • Bacchus.
  • 3: Wisdom, spinning and weaving; this goddess could do it all.
  • Minerva.
  • 4: Roads and travel, for that nifty messenger service of his.
  • Mercury.
  • 5: Fire and metalworking, but not logic.
  • Vulcan.

Round 3. Category: Facts And Numbers

  • 1: 3 is a common number for par in mini-this.
  • golf.
  • 2: There are 31,536,000 seconds in one of these time periods; and 52 weeks too.
  • a year.
  • 3: A typical adult has about 22 square feet and 8 pounds of this, the body's largest organ.
  • skin.
  • 4: In the open ocean, one of these catastrophic waves can sometimes travel as fast as a jet plane.
  • a tsunami.
  • 5: Sometimes called the world's driest place, the Atacama Desert on this continent gets less than 1 inch of rain a year.
  • South America.

Round 4. Category: You Make My Heart Sing

  • 1: Billy Ray Cyrus found disfavor with country purists for this song, a No. 4 crossover pop hit.
  • "Achy Breaky Heart".
  • 2: Celine Dion had to be convinced by her husband/manager to do a demo for this 1997 movie song; it worked out okay.
  • "My Heart Will Go On".
  • 3: In 2020 Dua Lipa sang "Break My Heart"; in 1996 she gave the impossible demand "Un-Break My Heart".
  • Toni Braxton.
  • 4: A 2015 song by her begins, "This is my heartbeat song and I'm gonna play it".
  • Kelly Clarkson.
  • 5: Heart, a group formed by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, had a hit in 1977 with this song named for a predatory fish.
  • "Barracuda".

Round 5. Category: A Little Food And Drink

  • 1: Though it triggered an E. coli scare in 2006, this leafy vegetable is generally safe to eat; ask Popeye.
  • spinach.
  • 2: This "city" sandwich consists of thin slices of beef, slices of American, and often sauteed onions on a roll.
  • a Philadelphia cheesesteak.
  • 3: Though often referred to as a wine, this Japanese alcohol is actually brewed more like a beer.
  • sake.
  • 4: This candy bar of chocolate, nougat, peanuts and caramel was named for a horse.
  • Snickers.
  • 5: This cereal once had a longer name; "oats" became "os".
  • Cheerios.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1020, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I'M Serving T. With T in quotation marks

  • 1: Hope you like fish:I'm serving the spotted, silver and speckled types of this--and I expect you to eat all of them.
  • trout.
  • 2: You fool! This hot drink was named for 2 characters in the novel "Life in London", not for a cartoon cat-and-mouse duo.
  • Tom and Jerry.
  • 3: Boring? You think this bean curd is boring? Try my Szechuan spiced version and you'll change your tune!.
  • tofu.
  • 4: Try some of this clear liqueur flavored with orange peel; its name makes me want to drink it 3 times.
  • triple sec.
  • 5: You look queasy; like most of my dinner guests, you need the Ultra 1000 version of this heartburn relief.
  • Tums.

Round 2. Category: Ballpark Cuisine

  • 1: Sheffield Corner at this stadium offers the Chick-ago sandwich.
  • Wrigley Field.
  • 2: For the 2018 season, Comerica Park in Detroit offered egg rolls filled with this hazelnut spread.
  • Nutella.
  • 3: Minute Maid Park has the meats: pulled pork, chopped beef and smoked sausage, all atop this deep-fried spiral cake.
  • a funnel cake.
  • 4: Head to ATandT Park for ahi tuna over rice, tortilla chips or fresh greens--this dish with a Hawaiian name that means "to slice".
  • poke.
  • 5: Some of the best things to eat at Chase Field, home of this team, are green tamales and the Sonoran dog.
  • the Diamondbacks.

Round 3. Category: Here Comes The Song Title!

  • 1: "You made me feel, yeah, you made me feel shiny and new... hoo!" this way.
  • "Like a Virgin".
  • 2: "Now we got problems, and I don't think we can solve 'em, you made a really deep cut, and baby, now we got" this.
  • "Bad Blood".
  • 3: "How does it feel to be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown...".
  • "Like A Rolling Stone".
  • 4: "Baby, I've been, I've been praying hard, said no more counting dollars, we'll be" this.
  • "Counting Stars".
  • 5: "And just when it hit me, somebody turned around and shouted" this.
  • "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)".

Round 4. Category: My Dad

  • 1: Anna, founder of child psychoanalysis, was the youngest daughter of this man, founder of a similar field.
  • Sigmund Freud.
  • 2: Mehli Mehta, conductor and founder of the American Youth Symphony, is the father of this famed conductor.
  • Zubin Mehta.
  • 3: This leader of the Argonauts was raised by Chiron, a Centaur.
  • Jason.
  • 4: (Hi, I'm Holly Robinson-Peete) My dad, Matt Robinson, played Gordon on this PBS series.
  • Sesame Street.
  • 5: This author's dad was a missionary in China; she was a teacher there in the 1920s.
  • Pearl S. Buck.

Round 5. Category: I'M Posting That On Telegram

  • 1: The death of this inventor of course brought telegrams, like Brigham Young's "My affections follow him to the spirit world".
  • Morse.
  • 2: In 1964 he wired MLK offering to "dispatch some of our brothers" to give the KKK "a taste of its own medicine".
  • Malcolm X.
  • 3: In April 1861 Robert Anderson cabled that, down to 4 barrels of powder and only pork to eat, he had surrendered this fort.
  • Sumter.
  • 4: A panicky telegram about Native Americans dancing in the snow brought an influx of troops and led to this 1890 massacre.
  • Wounded Knee.
  • 5: As World War II began, the Royal Navy was cheered up by a telegram saying this politician "is back".
  • Winston Churchill.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1019, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Literary Tourism

  • 1: This poet's birthplace in Alloway, Scotland is adjacent to a museum devoted to him.
  • Robert Burns.
  • 2: The home of this "Ivanhoe" author is a tourist attraction in Abbotsford, Scotland.
  • Sir Walter Scott.
  • 3: George Bernard Shaw's recently restored birthplace is a tourist attraction in this capital city.
  • Dublin.
  • 4: A St. Helena, California museum displays the toy soldiers he wrote about in "A Child's Garden of Verses".
  • Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • 5: The museum devoted to this playwright is a short walk from the National Theatre in Oslo.
  • Henrik Ibsen.

Round 2. Category: Prawnography

  • 1: The word "prawn" is used loosely for a large one of these shellfish.
  • a shrimp.
  • 2: The Muppet known as Pepe the Prawn did commercials for a restaurant chain named for this "Long" character.
  • Long John Silver.
  • 3: Like many insects, prawns also feature pairs of these long, thin sensory organs on their heads.
  • antennae.
  • 4: Prawns go through as many as 11 different metamorphoses during this stage of immaturity.
  • the larval stage.
  • 5: From the Latin for "having a shell", it's the subphylum to which all prawns belong.
  • crustacean.

Round 3. Category: Left, Right Or Center. With Left", "Right" Or "Center in quotes

  • 1: Current name of the branch of the U.S. Public Health Service charged with investigating and mitigating contagions.
  • the Centers for Disease Control.
  • 2: Traffic precedence of one vehicle over another.
  • right of way.
  • 3: Related to the sports world, it's a source for unexpected or strange insight.
  • left field.
  • 4: The point within an object where its entire weight is evenly balanced.
  • the center of gravity.
  • 5: Paris' Latin Quarter is found there.
  • the Left Bank.

Round 4. Category: Character Mashups

  • 1: Huckleberry Finch (1884 and 1960).
  • Huckleberry Finn and Scout Finch.
  • 2: Fredo Baggins(1969 and 1954).
  • Fredo Corleone and Bilbo Baggins.
  • 3: Holden Copperfield (1951 and 1850).
  • Holden Caulfield and David Copperfield.
  • 4: Rhett Smiley (1936 and 1961, '62, etc.).
  • Rhett Butler and George Smiley.
  • 5: Sansa Panza(1996 and 1605).
  • Sansa Stark and Sancho Panza.

Round 5. Category: Stupid Answers At The Movies

  • 1: This feel-good film starred Dennis Quaid as Jim Morris, a major league rookie at age 35.
  • The Rookie.
  • 2: Dustin Hoffman is the graduate who's seduced by a middle aged woman in this 1967 classic.
  • The Graduate.
  • 3: Kevin Costner was the bodyguard assigned to Whitney Houston in this 1992 romance.
  • The Bodyguard.
  • 4: John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale meet serendiptously and dine at NYC's Serendipity Cafe in this 2001 romance.
  • Serendipity.
  • 5: Dudley Moore thought Bo Derek was a perfect "10" in this 1979 romp.
  • 10.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1018, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: How To Marry A Millionaire

  • 1: Like Manilow's "Lola", Evelyn Nesbitt was one of these theater females; in 1906, her rich, crazy husband shot her ex-lover.
  • showgirl.
  • 2: In 2005, 1,000 champagne corks popped as a Brazilian equestrian married Athina of this clan.
  • Onassis.
  • 3: This "Sea of Love" actress had access to the finest of make-up when she married billionaire Ron Perelman.
  • Ellen Barkin.
  • 4: This singer didn't keep shipping magnate Arne Naess hanging on; she met him in May 1985 and married him in October.
  • Diana Ross.
  • 5: In 1895 this crusader married Robert Seaman, but after he died she had to return to reporting to make money.
  • Nellie Bly.

Round 2. Category: British Children'S Authors

  • 1: He first wrote about Christopher Robin in the verse book "When We Were Very Young".
  • A.A. Milne.
  • 2: He began his "Jabberwocky" poem, " 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves...".
  • Lewis Carroll.
  • 3: Richard Adams originally told this rabbit tale to amuse his young daughters.
  • Watership Down.
  • 4: This author famous for her Mary Poppins books passed away in 1996.
  • P.L. Travers.
  • 5: Though written in 1906, her story of "The Sly Old Cat" wasn't published until 1971.
  • Beatrix Potter.

Round 3. Category: Hittite Hodgepodge

  • 1: In Hittite myth, one of these insects is sent to find a missing god; sort of a game of "hive and seek".
  • a bee.
  • 2: After a 16-year war, a treaty was signed with this country and its king, Ramses II, married a Hittite princess.
  • Egypt.
  • 3: The army had 3-man crews and an elaborate system of horse training for these vehicles.
  • chariots.
  • 4: Following the Bronze Age, the Hittites helped initiate this metal's age.
  • the Iron Age.
  • 5: The Hittite language was written in this wedge-shaped system.
  • cuneiform.

Round 4. Category: Executive Privilege

  • 1: If you are forced out of the company, a golden this clause will make sure you are well taken care of.
  • parachute.
  • 2: For a good military "retreat", book an executive one at this service academy's Thayer Hotel in the Hudson Valley.
  • West Point.
  • 3: It's the anatomical nickname for executive search consultants.
  • headhunters.
  • 4: The Toyota Century is the limousine of choice for the person with this title (a new one took over in 2019).
  • emperor of Japan.
  • 5: This brand became synonymous with a private jet after it debuted in 1963--Bombardier makes them now.
  • Learjets.

Round 5. Category: Presidential Lifetimes

  • 1: 1732-1799.
  • George Washington.
  • 2: 1882-1945.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • 3: 1913-1994.
  • Richard M. Nixon.
  • 4: 1843-1901.
  • William McKinley.
  • 5: 1856-1924.
  • Woodrow Wilson.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1017, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I'Ll Have Thirds

  • 1: It says you can't be forced to let soldiers live in your house.
  • the Third Amendment.
  • 2: This annual observance that's on the third Sunday in June should seem familial to you.
  • Father's Day.
  • 3: This third book in the King James Bible says, "It shall be a perpetual statute... that ye eat neither fat nor blood".
  • Leviticus.
  • 4: This general who died late in 1945 led the U.S. Third Army on major campaigns of World War II including Normandy.
  • (George S.) Patton.
  • 5: In 1996 this Reform Party presidential candidate, a Texas businessman, got third place with 8 million votes.
  • Ross Perot.

Round 2. Category: What Sort Of Establishment Is This?

  • 1: The type of roadhouse called a this joint lent its name to a coin-operated music machine.
  • a juke joint.
  • 2: In Mexico, it's a bar; on Tatooine, it's also "an ideal spot to hire a starship's crew".
  • a cantina.
  • 3: If you encounter a meat and three establishment in the American South, the "three" refers to these.
  • the side dishes.
  • 4: Raw bars traditionally serve live, uncooked these.
  • oysters (shellfish, clams).
  • 5: There's an alloy in this word for a type of casual restaurant, French for "brewery".
  • a brasserie.

Round 3. Category: 1988

  • 1: The Thatcher government imposed a broadcast ban on this political wing of the IRA.
  • Sinn Fein.
  • 2: Bone, Crossbeak and Bonnet, or, as the Eskimos called them, Pontu, Siku and Kannick.
  • gray whales that were trapped.
  • 3: In August this Indiana senator was chosen as the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
  • Dan Quayle.
  • 4: In mid-March, Midway Island will be midway along the path of one of these.
  • a solar eclipse.
  • 5: Along with the Marcoses, this Saudi arms merchant was indicted in October on charges of racketeering.
  • Adnan Khashoggi.

Round 4. Category: Singers' Shared First Names

  • 1: Chesney and Loggins.
  • Kenny.
  • 2: Nicks and Wonder.
  • Stevie.
  • 3: Trevi and Gaynor.
  • Gloria.
  • 4: Bolton and Buble.
  • Michael.
  • 5: Maines and Merchant.
  • Natalie.

Round 5. Category: In Life

  • 1: In regard to benefits, ssa.gov says this period of your life begins at age 62.
  • retirement.
  • 2: In common law, the age of this, signaling adulthood, is presumed to be 14 in boys and 12 in girls.
  • puberty.
  • 3: In the Holmes-Rahe life stress inventory, the death of a spouse is tops, while this similar outcome is second.
  • divorce.
  • 4: In Catholicism this sacrament, administered on baptized persons at least age 7, allows you to take communion.
  • confirmation.
  • 5: "When age chills the blood", waxed Byron, "our sweetest memorial" will be the "first" this "of love".
  • kiss.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1016, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: After All. With All in quotes

  • 1: This unproved assertion or accusation.
  • an allegation.
  • 2: No longer used, the first verse of Germany's national anthem follows "Deutschland" with this phrase meaning "over all".
  • Uber Alles.
  • 3: "The Pilgrim's Progress" is an example of this symbolic literary form.
  • Allegory.
  • 4: This adjective means formed by sand, silt or mud left by flowing water, like a plain or a deposit.
  • Alluvial.
  • 5: This verb meaning to reduce in severity.
  • alleviate (or allay).

Round 2. Category: Biblical Police Blotter

  • 1: Seems this perp was the first murderer in the Bible and to top it off he iced his own brother.
  • Cain.
  • 2: When Herodias' burlesque-dancing daughter said she wanted to get ahead, she meant the head of this man.
  • John the Baptist.
  • 3: We admire his faith, but it seems this guy almost knocked off his own son in Genesis 22.
  • Abraham.
  • 4: Hey, we don't make the rules; this man's wife gazed back at Sodom against orders and was turned into a pillar of salt.
  • Lot.
  • 5: We don't have to worry about collaring Uzzah; he was killed for touching this object in violation of divine law.
  • The Ark of the Covenant.

Round 3. Category: Not No. 1

  • 1: As this, Abbie Rabine would become Miss America 2002 if Katie Harman throws in the sash.
  • first runner-up.
  • 2: A major Red Sea port, Jeddah is this country's second most populous city.
  • Saudi Arabia.
  • 3: For the Glen Campbell 45-rpm version of "Wichita Lineman", it was "True Grit".
  • flip side.
  • 4: K2, the world's second-highest mountain, is also called this, after a geographer.
  • Mount Godwin Austen.
  • 5: It's the position of the horse that comes in second.
  • place.

Round 4. Category: You Dy. With Dy in quotation marks

  • 1: Term for a sports team that wins several championships in a row, like the Bulls in the 1990s.
  • a dynasty.
  • 2: Implosion initiator for buildings past their prime.
  • dynamite.
  • 3: Oh, Rob... the Petries were the family on this sitcom.
  • The Dick Van Dyke Show.
  • 4: The DC41 Animal is a model from this manufacturer of high-tech bagless vacuum cleaners.
  • Dyson.
  • 5: This 4-word "fabric" phrase means someone is extreme or unwilling to change an opinion.
  • dyed in the wool.

Round 5. Category: Cathay Society

  • 1: What medieval Europeans knew of Cathay, or China, was largely from this Venetian's 1298 tales of his travels.
  • Marco Polo.
  • 2: The merit-based civil servants of old Cathay were called these, from the language they spoke.
  • Mandarins.
  • 3: One theory says this was created in China through accidental coagulation when curds formed in soybean soup.
  • tofu.
  • 4: Guangzhou, a boomtown in the 1200s, is known to westerners as this.
  • Canton.
  • 5: Ni Zan painted many landscapes featuring this grass, one of the "4 noble plants".
  • bamboo.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1015, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The 8 Days Of Hanukkah

  • 1: On the first day of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me / This candelabra--we don't have a tree.
  • a menorah.
  • 2: On the second day of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me / Some gelt, this sweet-tasting "money".
  • chocolate.
  • 3: On the third day of Hanuakkah, my true love gave to me / This seasonal toy that you see.
  • a dreidel.
  • 4: On the fourth day of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me / These spud pancakes from her bubbie.
  • latkes.
  • 5: On the fifth day of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me / A book about this greatest Maccabee.
  • Judas Maccabeus.

Round 2. Category: A Hammer Fest

  • 1: Rapper MC Hammer got his nickname from his resemblance to this hammerin' home run king.
  • Henry Aaron.
  • 2: In wrestling's hammerlock hold, this part of an opponent is pulled behind his back and twisted upward.
  • his arm.
  • 3: "Hammer and" this grasping device means with tremendous effort.
  • tongs.
  • 4: A UCLA museum named for this petroleum executive makes a good impressionist on visitors.
  • Armand Hammer.
  • 5: The Soviet constitution of 1918 said that the coat of arms should include these 2 items, handles down.
  • a hammer and sickle.

Round 3. Category: Great Beginnings

  • 1: In 1925 the first of these lodging places along highways and byways appeared in San Luis Obispo, California.
  • a motel.
  • 2: In 1998 this relationship guru began his rise to fame by appearing on Oprah's show every Tuesday.
  • Dr. Phil (McGraw).
  • 3: A donation of 120 pounds and 400 books helped the Mass. Bay Colony start a college in the 1600s, today known as this.
  • Harvard.
  • 4: The Space Age began October 4, 1957 with the launch of this satellite.
  • Sputnik.
  • 5: Following a crisis earlier in the decade, this cabinet department was created August 4, 1977.
  • Energy Department.

Round 4. Category: Angel Potpourri

  • 1: In "Hamlet" Horatio's 4 words preceding "and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!".
  • "Good night, sweet prince".
  • 2: Levels of the angelic hierarchy are called these, like groups of singers on Earth.
  • choirs.
  • 3: Title question asked by a song from "The Heights" that hit the heights on the charts in 1992.
  • "How Do You Talk To An Angel?".
  • 4: In the 1650s Rembrandt painted this biblical person "Wrestling with the Angel".
  • Jacob.
  • 5: She played Roma Downey's angel boss on "Touched by an Angel".
  • Della Reese.

Round 5. Category: DayS. With Day in quotation marks

  • 1: A convertible couch.
  • daybed.
  • 2: June 6, 1944.
  • D-Day.
  • 3: A Cincinnati nightclub owner changed this singer's name when she became famous locally for "Day by Day".
  • Doris Day.
  • 4: Her name before she married actor Christopher George.
  • Lynda Day.
  • 5: Title of the following, it was a hit for The Monkees in 1967 and for Anne Murray in 1980:.
  • "Daydream Believer".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1013, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Toy Story

  • 1: In 1999 this Hasbro action figure celebrated his 35th year in the service.
  • G.I. Joe.
  • 2: "Life in the Dreamhouse" is the subtitle of an online show named for this doll.
  • Barbie.
  • 3: There are actually world championships for the trading card game and video game featuring these "pocket monsters".
  • Pokémon.
  • 4: In the late '60s Mattel took on Matchbox with this line of toy cars; today it owns both.
  • Hot Wheels.
  • 5: Players stack and remove wooden blocks in this game whose name is from Swahili for "to build".
  • Jenga.

Round 2. Category: I Played A Real Person

  • 1: "Super Pumped" stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Travis Kalanick, founder of this rideshare service.
  • Uber.
  • 2: Jesse Eisenberg played this guy, still at Harvard, in "The Social Network".
  • Zuckerberg.
  • 3: This actor had his eyes glued shut daily to play Ray Charles in "Ray".
  • Jamie Foxx.
  • 4: Josh Gad and Seth Rogen have both played this electrical engineer --in "Jobs" and "Steve Jobs", respectively.
  • Steve Wozniak.
  • 5: Robert De Niro trained with the real Jake LaMotta for his portrayal of him in this 1980 film.
  • Raging Bull.

Round 3. Category: Cheesy Name Origins

  • 1: It's often made from ewe's milk: from the Modern Greek for "slice".
  • feta.
  • 2: It's made from goat's milk:French for "goat".
  • chevre.
  • 3: This yellow cheddar: the Oregon county where it is produced.
  • Tillamook.
  • 4: A soft, creamy cheese:Italian for "beautiful country".
  • Bel Paese.
  • 5: This one similar to cheddar:the town in Wisconsin where the Steinwand family created it.
  • colby cheese.

Round 4. Category: Hey, 4 Is!

  • 1: Anyone who thinks he's going to break up the United States needs to check out this word in the pledge of allegiance.
  • indivisible.
  • 2: If you say "to boldly go", you've "split" this grammatical term.
  • the infinitive.
  • 3: Inflammation of the gums.
  • gingivitis.
  • 4: The organization NORML advocates this 4-"I" process with marijuana.
  • decriminalization.
  • 5: One who enforces the rules in a strict manner is a stern this 14-letter word.
  • disciplinarian.

Round 5. Category: Bean There

  • 1: Illinois leads the U.S. in production of these sources of tofu.
  • soybeans.
  • 2: Chickpeas are also called these beans or just these, their usual name in Spain.
  • garbanzo beans.
  • 3: Navy beans and molasses are traditional ingredients in this baked "metropolitan" offering.
  • Boston baked beans.
  • 4: Native to India, mung beans are often used to grow these tender, edible seedlings.
  • bean sprouts.
  • 5: Minnesota's Otter Tail County is a center for growing this bean named for its shape.
  • a kidney bean.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1012, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: A Gusty Move

  • 1: Even the greatest golfers fear the notorious swirling wind at the 12th hole of this home course of The Masters.
  • Augusta.
  • 2: In a 2005 game at Soldier Field, wind blew a 49ers' field goal wide, and this team's Nathan Vasher returned it 108 yards.
  • the Bears.
  • 3: On a sailboat, an order to do this means it's time to lower sails to reduce the wind pressure, not time to run onto coral.
  • reef.
  • 4: In 1965 this MLB team was accused of using its new dome's air conditioning to blow balls out when the home team was batting.
  • the Astros.
  • 5: A 2016 bike race in Spain was called off after wind stopped this, the name for a group of riders, in its tracks and pushed some backwards.
  • peloton.

Round 2. Category: The Un Category. With Un in quotation marks

  • 1: In the mid 1800s its stops were "stations" and its workers were called "conductors".
  • the Underground Railroad.
  • 2: Among other places, "he" is buried under the Arc de Triomphe, in Westminster Abbey and at Arlington.
  • the Unknown Soldier.
  • 3: Though often misquoted, these are the kinds of "rights" the Declaration of Independence guarantees.
  • unalienable rights.
  • 4: They were called this because they used to write their names at the bottom of insurance contracts.
  • underwriters.
  • 5: Dylan Thomas' radio play about a day in the life of the Welsh villagers of Llareggub.
  • Under Milk Wood.

Round 3. Category: Indy 500

  • 1: In 1992, five years after his father won, this junior guy, Little Al, won the race by its closest margin, less than a car length.
  • Al Unser Jr..
  • 2: The first woman to lead a lap in the race was the 2005 Rookie of the Year, this driver.
  • (Danica) Patrick.
  • 3: After a scary 2017 crash, both men walked away, thanks in part to the HANS device; the acronym HANS refers to these two body parts.
  • head and neck.
  • 4: This nickname for the Speedway comes from the material on the track; most of it has been covered over.
  • the Brickyard.
  • 5: These famous four words that open the race were amended when Janet Guthrie became the first woman Indy driver.
  • Gentlemen, start your engines.

Round 4. Category: Who You Gonna Call?

  • 1: If you've lost this credit card, call 1-800-847-2911 (really the card's name followed by 911).
  • Visa.
  • 2: Sending flowers? Call 1-800-SEND-this 3-letter company founded in 1910.
  • FTD.
  • 3: A "colorful" low-cost airline has the phone number 1-800-JET-this.
  • BLUE.
  • 4: To reach this government service, call 1-800-829-1040.
  • the IRS.
  • 5: A "Fifth Avenue" store is also available at 1-877-551-this.
  • SAKS.

Round 5. Category: Works Of Art

  • 1: An 1871 painting of an old woman in a long black dress, sitting in a chair.
  • Whistler's Mother.
  • 2: A statue of the Madonna with the dead Christ in her arms.
  • Pietà.
  • 3: A 1920 painting of a grim-faced couple with a pitchfork, standing in front of a farmhouse.
  • American Gothic.
  • 4: An 1889 painting of a sky of blue and yellow swirling over a small village.
  • Starry Night.
  • 5: An 1880 statue of a naked man with his arm on his knee and his chin resting on his hand.
  • The Thinker.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1011, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: V Is For.... With V in quotes

  • 1: ...This male servant, or for an attendant who parks cars.
  • a valet.
  • 2: This large open porch popular in the south.
  • veranda.
  • 3: ...This mentholated product from Vicks that's used on the chest and throat to relieve coughing.
  • VapoRub.
  • 4: ...This cocktail ingredient, "sweet" or "dry", that's found in a Manhattan.
  • vermouth.
  • 5: ...These Scandinavian sea rovers who ravaged the coasts of Europe for about 300 years.
  • the Vikings.

Round 2. Category: Our Office Fantasy Football Team Names

  • 1: "Every Little Wheeze Seems to Whisper" this Saints QB who threw for 5,069 yards in 2008.
  • Drew Brees.
  • 2: Let's be "Fiddling While" this Cowboy QB "Burns"; he was hot when he won the D-1AA version of the Heisman.
  • Tony Romo.
  • 3: Darn, somebody beat us to this Hall of Fame 1970s Dolphin fullback "and the Chocolate Factory".
  • Larry Csonka.
  • 4: "I'm Just A" him, the Patriots head coach who won at least 10 games a season from 2003 to 2015.
  • Bill Belichick.
  • 5: We'll have this 2-time Super Bowl-winning starting QB for the Steelers "To Go"; enjoy the 240-pounder!.
  • Roethlisberger.

Round 3. Category: College Recommendations

  • 1: Don't walk on the brass "M" on the diag before your first test at this Ann Arbor school; legend says you'll flunk it if you do.
  • Michigan.
  • 2: Volunteer as a test subject at this Cornhusker school that created the first undergraduate psychology lab.
  • Nebraska.
  • 3: No bull! head to this Durham U. to see Cameron Indoor Stadium, conceived in 1935 on the back of a matchbook cover.
  • Duke (University).
  • 4: Know that this college in Boston was named for founding president Charles W., not writer Ralph W..
  • Emerson College.
  • 5: Be impressed that the $1 million given in 1873 to endow this U. was the Commodores only major philanthropy.
  • Vanderbilt.

Round 4. Category: Now That'S Comedy

  • 1: In "Take the Money and Run", this comedian bungles a bank robbery because no one can read his note.
  • Woody Allen.
  • 2: One of these David Letterman bits is "Least Popular Candy Bars"; No. 4 is "Good 'N' Linty".
  • the Top Ten List.
  • 3: Buxom women losing their clothes was a staple of this comic's show, on British TV until 1989.
  • Benny Hill.
  • 4: Danny Thomas was a master of this "Take" in which he'd get startling news while eating or drinking.
  • a spit take.
  • 5: (Hi, I'm Paula Poundstone.) In an early stand-up routine, Bob Newhart instructs drivers of these on pulling away just as drivers reach the doors.
  • buses.

Round 5. Category: Hollywood Quotes

  • 1: Vivien Leigh said of this role, "I knew it was a marvelous part, but I never cared for her".
  • Scarlett O'Hara.
  • 2: Otto Preminger claimed directing Marilyn Monroe "was like directing" this famous collie.
  • Lassie.
  • 3: Groucho said the only sure way to test a gag was to try it out on Zeppo, and if he liked it they did this.
  • threw it out.
  • 4: Star of "She Done Him Wrong" who said, "I'm a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.".
  • Mae West.
  • 5: This mustachioed comic quipped, "I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin".
  • Groucho Marx.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1010, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Asian Places

  • 1: Bandipur and Sanjay Gandhi are national parks in this nation.
  • India.
  • 2: It was a small town until the opening of foreign trade made it China's largest city.
  • Shanghai.
  • 3: We wonder if there's a village idiot in Moron, 350 miles west of Ulan Bator in this country.
  • Mongolia.
  • 4: The smallest nation on the Bay of Bengal, most of it is less than 50 feet above sea level.
  • Bangladesh.
  • 5: Not to be confused with Yakutsk, this region found on the Risk board lies just west of Lake Baikal.
  • Irkutsk.

Round 2. Category: Mnow Your Mnemonics

  • 1: "Roy G. Biv" is a mnemonic for the 7 colors of this.
  • the rainbow (or spectrum).
  • 2: "India's big, but Africa's bigger, the same as their" these animals, "easy to figure".
  • elephants.
  • 3: "R'n'B" will help you remember how to set up these pieces from left to right on a chessboard.
  • rooks, bishops and knights.
  • 4: "MMVENUSJ" is a mnemonic for the size of these, from smallest to largest (it recently lost its "P").
  • the planets.
  • 5: "The squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaws on the other 2 sides" is for this guy's theorem.
  • Pythagoras.

Round 3. Category: Sag. With Sag in quotes

  • 1: Michigan bay that's part of Lake Huron.
  • Saginaw Bay.
  • 2: It's the ninth astrological sign.
  • Sagittarius.
  • 3: It's purple in a popular Zane Grey title.
  • sage (Riders of the Purple Sage).
  • 4: Giant succulent of the American Southwest.
  • the saguaro cactus.
  • 5: Teddy Roosevelt's New York mansion.
  • Sagamore Hill.

Round 4. Category: Lesser-Known Superheroes

  • 1: He tried to wash away the bad guys' sins by immersing them in water.
  • Baptizer.
  • 2: He could put the bad guys in a trance with a swing of his pocket watch, which actually sounds pretty nifty.
  • Hypnotizer.
  • 3: This guy has a way of making any situation seem unimportant and trifling.
  • Minimizer (or Trivializer).
  • 4: When it comes to cutting expenses and finding deals to stay under budget, this superhero saves the day.
  • Economizer.
  • 5: He has a unique power--everything he touches turns to rust.
  • Oxidizer.

Round 5. Category: Saints' Days

  • 1: On April 23 dragons tend to tell him, "You slay me, you really slay me".
  • Saint George.
  • 2: Joseph of Arimathea shares this day with Patrick.
  • March 17.
  • 3: It's no mystery Christie and Sayers celebrated these 2 saints on February 5 and 6.
  • Agatha and Dorothy.
  • 4: She waltzes in with a March 14 date, mate.
  • Saint Matilda.
  • 5: December 1 is the day for this saint who was "Elsewhere" on TV.
  • Saint Eligius.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1009, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Decades Of No. 1-Rated Tv Shows

  • 1: So what's the deal with this stand-up comic having the No. 1 show in 1998? Guess he won the contest after all!.
  • Jerry Seinfeld.
  • 2: Wah! Ricky, I wanna be in the show!--Well, honey, this show of ours got a 67.3 rating in the 1952-53 season, so okay! You're in!.
  • I Love Lucy.
  • 3: In 2016 "Sunday Night Football" blitzed the competition as Cris Collinsworth and this play-by-play man led the league.
  • Al Michaels.
  • 4: Come and listen to my story 'bout a sitcom named this, No. 1 in 1963.
  • The Beverly Hillbillies.
  • 5: This actor and his "All in the Family" character Archie Bunker ruled from 1972 to '76.
  • Carroll O'Connor.

Round 2. Category: Toast

  • 1: StarKist's recipe for this grilled sandwich includes toast, onion, celery, mayo and cheese.
  • a tuna melt.
  • 2: "Everything's better with" this margarine brand on my toast.
  • Blue Bonnet.
  • 3: Cole's quality foods claims the 1970s introduction of this Italian restaurant bread in frozen form.
  • garlic bread.
  • 4: If you're ailing, your diet might be reduced to toast and this, such as Lady Grey.
  • tea.
  • 5: I like to spread the jelly of this tropical fruit on my muffin.
  • a guava.

Round 3. Category: Long-Running Tv Shows

  • 1: Decades of choices and wacky costumes on "Let's Make a Deal" began with Monty Hall as host; this guy got the job in 2009.
  • Wayne Brady.
  • 2: As a boy, this current host of "Meet the Press" watched the show with his father.
  • Tim Russert.
  • 3: When this talk show premiered nationally 67 years ago, it was hosted by Steve Allen and Willie Mays was one of the first guests.
  • The Tonight Show.
  • 4: The current theme music for this show around since 1947 was composed by John Williams and is titled "The Pulse Of Events".
  • Meet the Press.
  • 5: (Backstage at the Emmys: Hi, I'm Jay Leno, and the answer is:) My "Tonight Show" predecessor, Johnny Carson, became the full-time host after this man quit in March of 1962.
  • Jack Paar.

Round 4. Category: Complete The Opera Title

  • 1: Mozart: "The blank Flute".
  • Magic.
  • 2: Wagner: "blank und Isolde".
  • Tristan.
  • 3: Gluck: "Orfeo ed blank".
  • Euridice.
  • 4: Offenbach: "The Tales of blank".
  • Hoffmann.
  • 5: Donizetti: "Lucia di blank".
  • Lammermoor.

Round 5. Category: Software That Bytes

  • 1: A dangerous new virus is actually 2 files which share their names with these 2 Shakespearean lovers.
  • Romeo and Juliet.
  • 2: A virus was sent as a picture of this 20-year-old tennis star; needless to say it was a popular virus.
  • Anna Kournikova.
  • 3: Every March 6 your computer can be infected by this virus named for a Renaissance artist.
  • Michelangelo.
  • 4: This "pest" virus that originated in the Philippines was sent via an amorous attachment.
  • Love Bug Virus.
  • 5: A type of virus is named after this surreptitious instrument of war used by ancient Greeks.
  • Trojan Horse.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1008, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Theme Songs

  • 1: "Won't You Be My Neighbor?".
  • Mister Rogers.
  • 2: "Everybody Loves Somebody".
  • Dean Martin.
  • 3: "Love in Bloom".
  • Jack Benny.
  • 4: "When the Moon Comes over the Mountain".
  • Kate Smith.
  • 5: "The Fishin' Hole".
  • The Andy Griffith Show.

Round 2. Category: Official State Symbols

  • 1: Oregon picked the Chinook type of this as its state fish.
  • salmon.
  • 2: These, discovered in Arkansas in 1906, are the state gem; a state park is a Crater of them.
  • diamonds.
  • 3: South Dakota's nickname mentions this landmark.
  • Mount Rushmore.
  • 4: California's state motto is this Greek word that means "I have found it!".
  • eureka.
  • 5: This state rock of Iowa has a name derived from Greek for "earthlike".
  • geode.

Round 3. Category: The Twin Cities

  • 1: One of St. Paul's architectural highlights is this 1905 building with a marble dome.
  • Capitol Building.
  • 2: Ya sure, go to Minneapolis' Park Avenue to visit the institute devoted to this ethnic group.
  • Swedes.
  • 3: The Twins and Vikings play in the Metrodome, named for this politician.
  • Hubert H. Humphrey.
  • 4: Word for the pedestrian shopping area of Nicollet Avenue, less imposing than this nearby one "of America".
  • Mall.
  • 5: In Minneapolis' name, polis is Greek for "city" and minne is an Indian word meaning this substance.
  • Water.

Round 4. Category: Let'S Learn Some Semaphore

  • 1: At least one of us on stage has this name.
  • Alex.
  • 2: If you need to semaphore for help, these 3 letters here will do just fine.
  • SOS.
  • 3: This in the clue is much worse than its bite.
  • bark.
  • 4: Listen up, it's the body part semaphored here.
  • ear.
  • 5: Stop, yield, then go one way to this 4-letter term.
  • sign.

Round 5. Category: Olympic City Attractions

  • 1: The Theatre of Dionysus.
  • Athens.
  • 2: The Margaret Mitchell House and Museum.
  • Atlanta.
  • 3: The Anheuser-Busch Consumer Hospitality Center.
  • St. Louis.
  • 4: The House of Culture, designed by Alvar Aalto.
  • Helsinki.
  • 5: The Museu Picasso.
  • Barcelona.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1007, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Shake, Rattle And Roll With Science

  • 1: In these events Love waves shake the ground rather than rolling it.
  • earthquakes.
  • 2: Each time a rattlesnake does this, a new segment is added to its rattle.
  • sheds skin.
  • 3: Also meaning to upset someone, it's a fancy chemistry word for "shake", as in "Stopper the tube and blank the solution".
  • agitate.
  • 4: When you roll through a loop-de-loop on roller coasters, this 7-letter property keeps you in your seat.
  • inertia.
  • 5: Once the mace cover is removed, the seed is dried and this spice can be heard rattling inside and is now ready for harvest.
  • nutmeg.

Round 2. Category: Today'S Horoscope

  • 1: This "chaste" sixth sign of the Zodiac gets bold today! You're feminine, but you can play with the big boys!.
  • Virgo.
  • 2: This sign has carried the water for "ages"! You're positive! Make things happen today!.
  • Aquarius.
  • 3: (June 21 - July 22)Why so crabby?.
  • Cancer.
  • 4: This masculine, mutable air sign is ruled by Mercury and knows there are 2 sides to everything, so think twice today!.
  • Gemini.
  • 5: This December-January sign is negative and can be stubborn, but not today; relax and you'll respond.
  • Capricorn.

Round 3. Category: Muhammad Ali At 70

  • 1: Future heavyweight Muhammad Ali was born in Louisville Jan, 17, 1942 and named this.
  • Cassius (Marcellus) Clay.
  • 2: Ali won a light heavyweight boxing gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in this European capital.
  • Rome.
  • 3: Ali first took the heavyweight title with a 1964 upset win over this man.
  • Sonny Liston.
  • 4: In 2011 Ali said of this man, "the world has lost a great champion"; he had less kind things to say in the '70s.
  • (Joe) Frazier.
  • 5: For 8 years this actor insisted he wasn't up to playing Ali, but in the end Ali said, "I even thought he was me".
  • Will Smith.

Round 4. Category: Louisianians

  • 1: This fitness guru who grew up big in Louisiana now urges, "One should eat to live; not live to eat".
  • Richard Simmons.
  • 2: "My Favorite Martian" on TV, he's really from New Orleans.
  • Ray Walston.
  • 3: Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire! He hails from Ferriday.
  • Jerry Lee Lewis.
  • 4: This sportscaster and former QB from Shreveport led the Steelers to Super Bowl titles in '75, '76, '79 and '80.
  • Terry Bradshaw.
  • 5: This Texas doctor famous for his advances in heart surgery is a transplant from Lake Charles, LA.
  • Michael DeBakey.

Round 5. Category: Iron Man

  • 1: On Sept. 20, 1998 Ryan Minor replaced Cal Ripken Jr. of this team, ending Cal's incredible consecutive game streak.
  • the Orioles.
  • 2: From 1955 to 1962 Glenn Hall started an NHL record 502 consecutive games at this position, playing some of it on his knees.
  • goalkeeper.
  • 3: In 2018 bowler Alastair Cook broke a record by playing in his 154th straight test match in this sport.
  • cricket.
  • 4: Averaging 41.6 yards for each time he took the field, Jeff Feagles played in 352 straight NFL games at this position.
  • punter.
  • 5: Called the NBA's Iron Man, A.C. Green played 1,192 consecutive games and also collected 3 championship rings with this team.
  • the L.A. Lakers.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1006, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Obvious Answers

  • 1: This machine that produces printed letters on paper can be spelled using just letters on a typewriter's top row.
  • Typewriter.
  • 2: William Tyler Page, who wrote "The American's Creed" that the House adopted in 1918, had this job there in 1881.
  • Page.
  • 3: In an April 17, 1965 speech in Johnson City, Texas, this president rejected appeals to halt the bombing in Vietnam.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • 4: Millenios, a new cereal for the year 2000, contained 2 types of bits, little zeros and little these.
  • Twos.
  • 5: Milestones in this director's career include "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "A Walk in the Sun".
  • Lewis Milestone.

Round 2. Category: All You Need Is Ove. With Ove in quotation marks

  • 1: Bird of the Columbidae family.
  • a dove.
  • 2: A hitter wears them on his hands.
  • batting glove.
  • 3: To desire something that belongs to someone else.
  • covet.
  • 4: To linger around a particular place.
  • hover.
  • 5: To aim a gun directly at someone.
  • cover.

Round 3. Category: Dancing Stars

  • 1: He cut a rug with Cameron Diaz in "The Mask".
  • Jim Carrey.
  • 2: Tina Fey said acting with Alec Baldwin is like this man dancing with a hatrack--he makes the hatrack look good.
  • Fred Astaire.
  • 3: He danced with cartoon mouse Jerry (as in Tom and) in "Anchors Aweigh", the film that established him as a superstar.
  • Gene Kelly.
  • 4: She danced with the animated MC Skat Kat in the video to her 1990 no. 1 hit "Opposites Attract".
  • Paula Abdul.
  • 5: A lowlight of this Brat Packer's career: singing and dancing with Snow White at the Academy Awards in 1989.
  • Rob Lowe.

Round 4. Category: In Trouble With The Fcc

  • 1: A $550,000 fine on CBS for her revealing 2004 Super Bowl halftime show was later overturned.
  • Janet Jackson.
  • 2: A $500,000 hit for a discussion about Richard Gere was one of many fines for this shock jock; no wonder he went to satellite!.
  • Howard Stern.
  • 3: The FCC rebuked NBC for a 1937 radio skit about Adam and Eve by this suggestive "I'm No Angel" blonde.
  • Mae West.
  • 4: On May 17, 1972 this comedian recorded his "7 Dirty Words" bit and the FCC started dealing with that a year later.
  • George Carlin.
  • 5: In 1989 a station was fined $2,000 for playing "Erotic City" by this funky musician.
  • Prince.

Round 5. Category: The Carolinas

  • 1: North Carolina supplied 1/4 of the casualties to the losing side in this war.
  • Civil War.
  • 2: A 1971 Supreme Court case brought this mobile method of racial integration to Charlotte, N,C..
  • Busing.
  • 3: In 1902 "In The Good Old Summertime" was a hit and this current senator was born in Edgefield, S.C..
  • Strom Thurmond.
  • 4: During WWII the Army trained its first 2 airborne divisions at this N.C. fort.
  • Fort Bragg.
  • 5: It's about 200 miles between these 2 capital cities of the Carolinas.
  • Columbia and Raleigh.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1005, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Brazilian Geography

  • 1: 2 of this Brazilian city's most popular beaches are Flamengo and Ipanema.
  • Rio de Janeiro.
  • 2: The selva is this vast, ecologically important area where it sounds like you'll need your umbrella.
  • the rainforest.
  • 3: Brazil's tourism industry depends in part on these spectacular falls on the border with Argentina.
  • Iguazu Falls.
  • 4: Add two letters to the name of a river to get this state, so big it borders three countries.
  • Amazonas.
  • 5: This planned city in Brazil's vast interior has grown from being a construction project in 1956 to 2.6 million people today.
  • Brasilia.

Round 2. Category: They Still Make That?

  • 1: KTS Productions still makes these tapes perfect for your custom van--What? No Frampton?.
  • an 8-track.
  • 2: Put your hands together for this gizmo seen on TV since 1985--but don't turn me off while you're at it.
  • The Clapper.
  • 3: American Safety Razor /Still makes this stuff, dear /Give us your response /It goes here.
  • Burma-Shave.
  • 4: You can still get these CO2 candies introduced in 1975 (don't worry, that kid from the Life ad didn't really O.D. on 'em).
  • Pop Rocks.
  • 5: This "exclusive" fashion brand for which Anthony Geary did ads relaunched in 2008.
  • Members Only.

Round 3. Category: Geo, Dude

  • 1: We're gonna par-tay at this beach, 60 miles northeast of Orlando, and watch 500 miles of left turns at its intl. speedway!.
  • Daytona.
  • 2: Yo Broseph! We'll show respect in this capital as we visit the Peace Tower's Memorial Chamber honoring Canada's war dead.
  • Ottawa.
  • 3: Your period drama won Grand Prix at the film festival in this resort city in Alpes-Maritimes Département?! Way to go, bruh!.
  • Cannes.
  • 4: Lafitte's blacksmith shop...isn't one? It says it is "the oldest structure used as a bar in the U.S.", on this N.O. St.? We're so there!.
  • Bourbon Street.
  • 5: Come for some bro time and catch walleye on this Great Lake; my buddy in Sandusky, Ohio says we can crash at his place.
  • Lake Erie.

Round 4. Category: Give Us Z Answer!!!. With Z in quotation marks

  • 1: Castor and Pollux are the twin sons of this god.
  • Zeus.
  • 2: This Hungarian enjoyed a single day of wedded bliss with Felipe de Alba in 1982.
  • Zsa Zsa Gabor.
  • 3: Leader of the musical Mothers of Invention.
  • Frank Zappa.
  • 4: A compound of this element, atomic number 30, is used in lotions as a sunscreen.
  • zinc.
  • 5: It's home to the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • Zagreb.

Round 5. Category: Beatles Songs

  • 1: "Father McKenzie, writing the words/Of a sermon that no one will hear".
  • "Eleanor Rigby".
  • 2: "Well she was just seventeen/You know what I mean".
  • "I Saw Her Standing There".
  • 3: For Paul McCartney, this Beatles song title will become true on June 18, 2006.
  • "When I'm Sixty-Four".
  • 4: "Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out, come and keep your comrade warm" here, the title of a '68 song.
  • "Back in the U.S.S.R.".
  • 5: He's "as blind as he can be, just sees what he wants to see".
  • "Nowhere Man".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1004, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cold Words

  • 1: This cool admonition to calm down has been paired with Netflix.
  • chill.
  • 2: It's the geographic area above the circle of latitude at 66 1/2 degrees north.
  • the Arctic Circle.
  • 3: Meaning briskly cold, it's also a frozen dessert from Wendy's.
  • a Frosty.
  • 4: A poem by William Carlos Williams begins, "I have eaten the plums that were in" this, not the refrigerator--it was 1934.
  • the icebox.
  • 5: Originally a nautical term meaning closer to the wind, it means to be unfriendly or reserved, distant and uninvolved.
  • aloof.

Round 2. Category: The Voice Of God

  • 1: God promised Noah, "Neither shall there any more be" one of these "to destroy the Earth".
  • Flood.
  • 2: "The Lord said unto Moses, go in unto" this ruler: "for I have hardened his heart".
  • Pharaoh.
  • 3: Before setting a mark on him, the Lord promised, "Whoever slayeth" him, "vengeance shall be taken" sevenfold.
  • Cain.
  • 4: The Lord asked Satan if he had considered this servant, "A perfect and an upright man".
  • Job.
  • 5: At the start of this man's book, God tells him, "Moses my servant is dead: now therefore arise...".
  • Joshua.

Round 3. Category: Drive My Car

  • 1: Its Wrangler wrangled an award--2019 MotorTrend SUV of the Year.
  • Jeep.
  • 2: This brand dropped its famous second name to combine with Maybach for the $200,000 S 650.
  • Mercedes.
  • 3: Take a ride in this Asian automaker's Telluride, or in its sportier K5.
  • Kia.
  • 4: It's letter perfect with the i8, surprisingly not made by Apple.
  • BMW.
  • 5: Its 488 Pista Spider has 710 horses under your foot and no roof over your head.
  • Ferrari.

Round 4. Category: Which Document Came First?

  • 1: Hammurabi's Code,the Edict of Milan,the Koran.
  • Hammurabi's Code.
  • 2: The Treaties of Utrecht,the Magna Carta,the 95 Theses.
  • the Magna Carta.
  • 3: The Federalist Papers,the Articles of Confederation,the Declaration of Independence.
  • the Declaration of Independence.
  • 4: The Fourteen Points,the U.N. Charter,"Mein Kampf".
  • the Fourteen Points.
  • 5: NAFTA,the German Reunification Treaty,the Good Friday Agreement.
  • the German Reunification Treaty.

Round 5. Category: Name That Critter

  • 1: Panthera tigris.
  • a tiger.
  • 2: Ursus arctos horribilis.
  • a grizzly bear.
  • 3: Mus musculus.
  • a mouse.
  • 4: Gymnogyps californianus.
  • California condor.
  • 5: Loxodonta africana.
  • African elephant.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1003, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Toast Of...

  • 1: The toast of this city is the piled-high honey toast that originated around its Shibuya Station.
  • Tokyo.
  • 2: The toast of Sydney was spread with this in the '90s by restaurateur Bill Granger and the dish became trendy in America.
  • avocado.
  • 3: The toast of Barcelona is often pan con tomate, one of the infinite variety of these Spanish small plates.
  • tapas.
  • 4: The toast of London may be topped with these, especially from a Heinz can, in a favorite British dish.
  • beans.
  • 5: The toast of Rome is often mozzarella on these, Italian for "little toasts".
  • crostini.

Round 2. Category: It Bears My Name

  • 1: This one of the 13 colonies.
  • Pennsylvania.
  • 2: This landlocked South American country.
  • Bolivia.
  • 3: This home of the main campus of the University of Arkansas.
  • Fayetteville.
  • 4: This kingdom.
  • Saudi Arabia.
  • 5: These 2 states of Australia.
  • Victoria and Queensland.

Round 3. Category: Airborne

  • 1: It figures that Otto was the name of the autopilot in this 1980 movie comedy in the clouds.
  • Airplane!.
  • 2: Tom Hanks and several FedEx packages survive a particularly bumpy flight in this film.
  • Cast Away.
  • 3: Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a prisoner with a heart of gold, in this flighty film.
  • Con Air.
  • 4: One of the President's own men is a terrorist when the title plane gets hijacked in this 1997 actioner.
  • Air Force One.
  • 5: Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick were both nominated for Oscars for this 2009 film.
  • Up in the Air.

Round 4. Category: A Century Of Food

  • 1: A San Pedro, California packer first put this fish into cans in 1903; its casserole wasn't introduced until the '30s.
  • Tuna.
  • 2: George Bush vetoed this veggie 62 years after it was brought to the U.S. from Italy.
  • Broccoli.
  • 3: In 1949 Charles Lubin introduced a cheesecake with this name, his daughter's.
  • Sara Lee.
  • 4: Mr. Cardini's 1924 invention, it was called "The greatest recipe to originate from the Americas in 50 years".
  • Caesar salad.
  • 5: Reuben Mattus created this ice cream (and its Danish-sounding name) in the Bronx in 1961.
  • Haagen-Dazs.

Round 5. Category: Breakfast Time

  • 1: Enjoy that muesli--I'll be having this Quaker Oats cereal that debuted in 1963 along with its sailing man mascot.
  • Cap'n Crunch.
  • 2: Nothing better than one of these classic donuts that shares its name with a venerable whiskey cocktail.
  • an old-fashioned.
  • 3: A traditional Japanese breakfast might include this soup made with the same-named soybean paste as well as tofu and scallions.
  • miso.
  • 4: How about a spot of this? Espresso with a thin foam of steamed milk, from Italian for "spotted".
  • a macchiato.
  • 5: This Hawaiian dish with a rhyming name is white rice topped with hamburger, a fried egg and gravy.
  • loco moco.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1002, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Quick Moby-Dick

  • 1: Of the Monica, the Rachel or the Phoebe, the rescue ship at the tale's end.
  • the Rachel.
  • 2: Melville's subtitle for the first American edition.
  • The Whale.
  • 3: The harpooner from Kokovoko with the rad tats.
  • Queequeg.
  • 4: Salem, Massachusetts author to whom the 1851 novel is dedicated.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  • 5: The biblical prophet who's the subject of chapter 83.
  • Jonah.

Round 2. Category: Souvenirs

  • 1: This curved throwing club of the Aborigines is an excellent souvenir--it'll always come back to you.
  • a boomerang.
  • 2: A green foam crown with 7 points is a popular souvenir of this national monument.
  • the Statue of Liberty.
  • 3: Many snow globes feature this clock tower of London's Houses of Parliament.
  • Big Ben.
  • 4: Many souvenirs from Gibraltar feature these "apes" that call the peninsula home.
  • the Barbary apes.
  • 5: When you visit the country just south of Kenya, you can bring home some of this mineral named for it.
  • tanzanite.

Round 3. Category: Bible Book Shorthand

  • 1: Salacious serpent dispenses bad dietary advice.
  • Genesis.
  • 2: Big fish puts the bite on a reluctant prophet.
  • Jonah.
  • 3: Brother's bovine effigy bothers big boy.
  • Exodus.
  • 4: Writing on the wall breaks up party.
  • Daniel.
  • 5: Loyal daughter-in-law is betrothed in Bethlehem.
  • Ruth.

Round 4. Category: College Vocabulary

  • 1: Russet and tan are shades of this Ivy Leaguer.
  • Brown.
  • 2: A botanist might call this Houston school Oryza sativa.
  • Rice.
  • 3: In Britain this Southern school would have a peerage and rank just below prince.
  • Duke.
  • 4: In Wisconsin, it's a yellow cheese; in Maine, it's a 2,000-student college.
  • Colby.
  • 5: A Portland liberal arts college, or part of an oboe's mouthpiece.
  • a reed.

Round 5. Category: Movie By Song Lyrics

  • 1: "Springtime for Hitler, and Germany, Deutschland is happy and gay".
  • The Producers.
  • 2: "Big bottom drive me out of my mind, how could I leave this behind?".
  • This Is Spinal Tap.
  • 3: "I gave my love a chicken, that had no bones, I gave my love a story, that had no end, I gave..." (Bluto smashes guitar).
  • Animal House.
  • 4: 1979:"Always look on the bright side of life... for life is quite absurd, and death's the final word".
  • Monty Python's Life of Brian.
  • 5: "Blame Canada, blame Canada, it seems that everything's gone wrong since Canada came along".
  • South Park.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1001, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fits U To A T. With U" To A "T in quotation marks

  • 1: If you've wrecked someone's careful planning, you've done this to the applecart.
  • upset.
  • 2: The condition of an apple pie fresh out of the oven, it's also how I like my movies.
  • uncut.
  • 3: Apple pie is often rich, so it makes sense that this part of the pie is a synonym for "rich".
  • the upper crust.
  • 4: Saying that Dutch apple pie is just good is one of these, because it's the best dessert on Earth.
  • an understatement.
  • 5: If a bakery spends $12 producing 6 apple tarts, this cost is $2.
  • a unit.

Round 2. Category: This Website Uses Cookies

  • 1: "Wonderfilled" is a section of this sandwich cookie's website.
  • Oreo.
  • 2: snackworks.com has a recipe for fluffy banana pudding parfaits, which use 40 of this wafer brand.
  • Nilla wafers.
  • 3: Debra's Special Tin is part of the signature collection on the website of this cookie brand.
  • Mrs. Fields.
  • 4: The website of this Scottish brand says Scottish thistles adorn its shortbread rounds, packaged in a red tartan box.
  • Walkers Shortbread.
  • 5: "Homemade recipe, homemade taste", says this chocolate chip brand with a name that rhymes.
  • Famous Amos.

Round 3. Category: How Can We Miss You If You Never Leave?

  • 1: Pines, firs and spruces stay a certain color all year, as they are this type of tree.
  • an evergreen.
  • 2: This colonial observed, "Fish and visitors stink after three days".
  • Benjamin Franklin.
  • 3: This catastrophe that killed millions had recurrences in 1361, 1369, 1374, 1390 and 1400.
  • the plague.
  • 4: This element's isotope 235 has a half-life of about 700 million years.
  • uranium.
  • 5: Though this world leader left his country on Jan. 16, 1979, he did not abdicate; Sadat would later grant him asylum.
  • the Shah of Iran.

Round 4. Category: Readers

  • 1: Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" is read by this hunky "Legends of the Fall" star.
  • Brad Pitt.
  • 2: In "Still Me" he tells of his Memorial Day 1995 riding accident and the struggles since.
  • Christopher Reeve.
  • 3: Edward Herrmann, known for playing this president on TV, reads "No Ordinary Time", a book about him.
  • FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt).
  • 4: Hollywood is all ears for "The Kid Stays in the Picture" by this producer and ex-husband of Ali MacGraw.
  • Robert Evans.
  • 5: "Second Wind" has this mystery author jockeying for position in front of the microphone.
  • Dick Francis.

Round 5. Category: Word Rhymes

  • 1: A gathering of bison.
  • a herd.
  • 2: Postponed until a later date.
  • deferred.
  • 3: Just seeing the mountain variety of this creature brings me happiness.
  • a bluebird.
  • 4: Likely speech pattern for one extremely inebriated.
  • slurred.
  • 5: One from the Taurus Mountains of the Middle East.
  • a Kurd.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1000, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bills And Teds

  • 1: He's Massachusetts' senior senator.
  • Ted Kennedy.
  • 2: In 2005, after 25 years as its anchor, he said goodnight to "Nightline".
  • Ted Koppel.
  • 3: A decade after "Politically Incorrect", he launched "Real Time" on HBO.
  • Bill Maher.
  • 4: With some 2 million acres, much of it for his bison, he's America's largest private landowner.
  • Ted Turner.
  • 5: Sadly, in 1991 this concert promoter died when his helicopter crashed en route from a Huey Lewis concert.
  • Bill Graham.

Round 2. Category: GEography. With G in quotes

  • 1: The 42,000 square miles of this country are dotted with Mayan ruins.
  • Guatemala.
  • 2: Holmgren Way and Reggie White Way are streets in this city.
  • Green Bay.
  • 3: You'll find the Kelvingrove Art Galleries and Museum in this Scottish city.
  • Glasgow.
  • 4: Most of the Indians in this Central American country speak one of the Maya languages.
  • Guatemala.
  • 5: A country on the west coast of Africa used to be known as Spanish this; now it's Equatorial this.
  • Guinea.

Round 3. Category: Valentine'S Day Cuisine

  • 1: (Bam! Emeril Lagasse from the Food Network delivers the first clue.) Asparagus has long been thought to help in the romance department; for variety, try the European white type, grown in darkness so they lack this pigment.
  • chlorophyll.
  • 2: The two of you can nibble on this Spanish array of appetizers that may include mussels and artichokes.
  • tapas.
  • 3: (Emeril Lagasse reads.) Make the evening really special with a luxurious parfait prepared with champagne cream and caviar from this fish, historically associated with the Caspian Sea.
  • sturgeon.
  • 4: Top a steak with this eggy sauce named for an old province of southwestern France.
  • bearnaise.
  • 5: These seductive chocolate treats got their name because they looked like a certain fungus.
  • truffles.

Round 4. Category: Aerosmith

  • 1: In an interview, this Aerosmith frontman said, "Your kids never think of you as a rock god".
  • Steven Tyler.
  • 2: In 1986 rappers Run-D.M.C. remade this 1976 Aerosmith song.
  • "Walk This Way".
  • 3: "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing", Aerosmith's first No. 1 hit, was from this movie.
  • Armageddon.
  • 4: Aerosmith covered "Come Together" in this 1978 movie that starred Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees.
  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
  • 5: This 1987 hit says, "She had the body of a Venus, Lord imagine my surprise".
  • "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)".

Round 5. Category: The Comedy Stylings Of...

  • 1: His "Top Ten Rejected Batman Villains" included "The Ticketmaster", "Lactose Intolerant Man" and "Incontinento".
  • David Letterman.
  • 2: A listing for a '95 Pontiac "loaded with feathers" was among this late night host's "Headlines".
  • Jay Leno.
  • 3: "In the Year 2000", according to this host, Kathie Lee will convert and "annoy the world with her annual Ramadan special".
  • Conan O'Brien.
  • 4: This deadpan comic asked, "If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?".
  • Steven Wright.
  • 5: "If a bouncer gets drunk, who throws him out?" he wrote in his book "Brain Droppings".
  • George Carlin.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 998, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Vegas Films

  • 1: In "Casino" he played Ace Rothstein, the mobster who ran The Tangiers.
  • (Robert) De Niro.
  • 2: He directed the 2001 Vegas caper film "Ocean's Eleven".
  • (Steven) Soderbergh.
  • 3: The title of this 2008 Cameron Diaz-Ashton Kutcher film was inspired by a Sin City slogan.
  • What Happens in Vegas.
  • 4: One review said this 1995 Elizabeth Berkley film was "'42nd Street' meets 'All About Eve' meets soft-core porn".
  • Showgirls.
  • 5: In a 2003 film he played "The Cooler", a Vegas casino's gambling jinx.
  • William H. Macy.

Round 2. Category: Just A Sec!. With Sec in quotation marks

  • 1: To cut into 2 equal parts.
  • to bisect.
  • 2: A sacrilegious act; it may be done to a shrine.
  • a desecration.
  • 3: To cut apart a dead animal's body to examine the structure and relation of parts.
  • dissection.
  • 4: In a row, like Presidents Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan.
  • consecutive.
  • 5: To pursue with harassing treatment because of race or religious beliefs.
  • to persecute.

Round 3. Category: The Billboard Music Awards

  • 1: Performing in 2020 just after their family suffered a miscarriage, this piano maestro dedicated "Never Break" to his wife.
  • John Legend.
  • 2: "Straight Up" now name this woman who closed the 2019 show with a greatest hits medley.
  • (Paula) Abdul.
  • 3: We won't dance around it--this band! at the 2019 show made their ma proud and lived up to the chorus of a hit tune.
  • Panic! at the Disco.
  • 4: This genre-defying band that broke in 2014 with "Gooey" performed at the BBMAs in 2021.
  • Glass Animals.
  • 5: At the 2021 show, this letter-perfect indie pop trio gave a smokin' performance of "Bang!".
  • AJR.

Round 4. Category: Ice Cream Parlor Words

  • 1: A news story first revealed in a specific paper before others get it.
  • a scoop.
  • 2: Along with the rods, they're the other light-sensitive retinal cells.
  • cones.
  • 3: Light rains that may precede larger showers.
  • sprinkles.
  • 4: Large Mardi Gras craft.
  • a float.
  • 5: 3 of the 6 for quarks are up, down and strange.
  • flavors.

Round 5. Category: What Women In Film Want

  • 1: In "Grand Hotel", Greta Garbo had this 5-word desire, No. 30 on AFI's list of top 100 movie quotes.
  • "I want to be alone".
  • 2: In this '50s film, Natalie Wood tells James Dean that a girl wants a man who is gentle and sweet and who doesn't run away.
  • Rebel Without a Cause.
  • 3: Rob Reiner's mom, Estelle, uttered this memorable line in "When Harry Met Sally...".
  • "I'll have what she's having".
  • 4: Ilsa Laszlo had a request: "Play it, Sam. Play" this song.
  • "As Time Goes By".
  • 5: "I want the fairy tale", Julia Roberts says as Vivian in this movie.
  • Pretty Woman.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 997, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Deans List

  • 1: Much of this Rat Pack crooner's hard-drinking persona may have been just for the cameras.
  • Dean Martin.
  • 2: In the 1930s this "lightheaded" pitcher led the National League in strikeouts 4 times.
  • Dizzy Dean.
  • 3: The then-new fad of skateboarding was celebrated in this duo's 1964 hit song "Sidewalk Surfin'".
  • Jan and Dean.
  • 4: It doesn't take a sausage to know that this country singer took "Big Bad John" to No. 1 in 1961.
  • Jimmy Dean.
  • 5: This author's thrillers turned into films include "Phantoms" and "Demon Seed".
  • Dean Koontz.

Round 2. Category: Columbus, Ohio

  • 1: The Standard Oil Company opened the U.S.A.’s first drive-in one of these in Columbus around 1913.
  • a gas station.
  • 2: USA Today says this ice cream and tropical fruit dish was invented in 1904 at Foeller’s Drug Store.
  • a banana split.
  • 3: School in Columbus that’s home to the world’s largest all-brass marching band.
  • Ohio State University.
  • 4: On October 12, 1992 Columbus plans to have a replica of this flagship sitting in its Scioto River.
  • the Santa Maria.
  • 5: Columbus was the first U.S. city planned and built to be one of these.
  • a state capital (a capital city accepted).

Round 3. Category: Sinatra Hits In Other Words

  • 1: "Affection Plus Matrimony".
  • "Love And Marriage".
  • 2: "Elevated Expectations".
  • "High Hopes".
  • 3: "The Method Belonging To Me".
  • "My Way".
  • 4: "The Art Of Magic Powers".
  • "Witchcraft".
  • 5: "Unknown Newcomers Before Dawn".
  • "Strangers In The Night".

Round 4. Category: Founders

  • 1: This religion founder attained enlightenment under a bo tree and stayed near it 7 weeks to savor the experience.
  • Buddha.
  • 2: George Fox founded the religion nicknamed this because its followers trembled "at the word of the Lord".
  • the Quakers.
  • 3: Elizabeth Glaser, wife of actor Paul Michael, helped start a foundation to battle pediatric this disease.
  • AIDS.
  • 4: Tradition says this "great" rival of Julius Caesar founded a colony in Pamplona in 75 B.C.; the city's name honors him.
  • Pompey (the Great).
  • 5: To support the Bill of Rights, Roger Baldwin co-founded this group in NYC in 1920.
  • the ACLU (the American Civil Liberties Union).

Round 5. Category: Despicable Me. With Me in quotation marks

  • 1: She's just doing her alliterative job--it was you who parked too long.
  • a meter maid.
  • 2: John, Paul, George and Ringo battled blue ones of these bad guys.
  • Meanies.
  • 3: No one likes this ailment whose symptoms include Koplik's spots.
  • measles.
  • 4: Houdini tried to expose one of these who went by the name Margery.
  • a medium.
  • 5: The Assyrians despised this ancient people who destroyed their empire.
  • the Medes.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 999, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Buck Stops Here. With Buck in quotation marks

  • 1: Wild Bill Hickok's TV horse, or the large pellets contained in the shell of a 12 gauge gun.
  • Buckshot.
  • 2: While at Yale, this conservative writer taught Spanish and was chairman of the Yale Daily News.
  • William F. Buckley, Jr..
  • 3: This member of Fleetwood Mac had his own solo Top 10 hit in 1981 with "Trouble".
  • Lindsey Buckingham.
  • 4: It's plain to "see", it's also known as a horse chestnut.
  • a buckeye.
  • 5: Any Ohioan.
  • Buckeye.

Round 2. Category: Sports Stadiums

  • 1: Artificial grass named for the site of its 1st installation.
  • AstroTurf.
  • 2: In 1976, the name of this university's stadium was changed from Denny to Bryant-Denny.
  • Alabama.
  • 3: Three Rivers Stadium is located where 3 rivers meet in this city.
  • Pittsburgh.
  • 4: Major League Baseball's oldest stadium is this one in Chicago.
  • Comiskey Park.
  • 5: Sellouts have been the rule for years at this, the Washington Redskins' home stadium.
  • R.F.K. Stadium.

Round 3. Category: Pet Peeves

  • 1: This pet doesn't want a cracker -- she wants Kaytee's Perfect Choice, a mixture of seeds and grain.
  • parrot.
  • 2: My dog Rover says not to boil the knuckle type of these before giving them to him -- it may cause splintering.
  • bones.
  • 3: Until they were spayed and neutered your Angora pair of these were looking forward to proverbially breeding like them.
  • rabbits.
  • 4: Fido knows this skin disease caused by mites was bad, but was the lime-sulphur dip necessary?.
  • mange.
  • 5: Muffin's mad that you won't let him out to fight this type of cat, from the Latin for "wild" -- Muffin could take him!.
  • feral.

Round 4. Category: Movie Misses

  • 1: She's the miss in the title of the film that won "Best Picture" March 26, 1990.
  • Daisy.
  • 2: In a 1982 film she was Miss Mona, owner and operator of the Chicken Ranch.
  • Dolly Parton.
  • 3: In this 1969 film Maggie Smith held sway over a group of schoolgirls in Edinburgh.
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
  • 4: In a 1953 remake of "Rain", Rita Hayworth played this title "Miss".
  • Miss Sadie Thompson.
  • 5: In a 1989 film Holly Hunter entered a contest on the Fourth of July to try to win this title.
  • Miss Firecracker.

Round 5. Category: Yum Yum!

  • 1: Inspired by the Harry Potter books, these beans come in odd flavors like grass, sardine and earwax.
  • Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.
  • 2: Introduced in 2002, Slimy Ghoul is a glow-in-the-dark dispenser for this 3-letter candy.
  • Pez.
  • 3: York introduced these yummy "patties" in 1940, but they weren't distributed nationally until 1975.
  • peppermint patties.
  • 4: H.B. Reese made Johnny Bars and Lizzie Bars before coming up with these famous "Cups" in the 1930s.
  • Peanut Butter Cups.
  • 5: Pop Rocks pop in your mouth because they contain bubbles of this gas.
  • carbon dioxide.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 996, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: A Host Of Tv Hosts

  • 1: (I'm NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson.) I got a crash course in working with a teleprompter in 2013, when I became the first athlete to co-host this ESPN flagship program.
  • SportsCenter.
  • 2: Phil Keoghan hosts this show in which teams of 2 travel the globe to compete for cash.
  • The Amazing Race.
  • 3: In 2014 she not only co-hosted the Golden Globe Awards, she also won for "Parks and Recreation".
  • Amy Poehler.
  • 4: This Brit hosts "Last Week Tonight" on HBO.
  • John Oliver.
  • 5: This "redneck" comic hosts "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?".
  • (Jeff) Foxworthy.

Round 2. Category: Disney

  • 1: Thumper and Flower offer "comic relief" in this movie about man's disregard for nature.
  • Bambi.
  • 2: In "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", the sorcerer's name, "Yen Sid", is really this.
  • Disney backwards.
  • 3: In "Mickey's Christmas Carol", Mickey played Bob Cratchit and he played Cratchit's boss.
  • Scrooge McDuck.
  • 4: The only one of the Seven Dwarfs with a one-syllable name.
  • Doc.
  • 5: Pinocchio's boss at the puppet show.
  • Stromboli.

Round 3. Category: Books Of The Latin Vulgate Bible

  • 1: "Judicum".
  • Judges.
  • 2: "Canticum Canticorum".
  • Song of Songs.
  • 3: An old testament guy:"Abdias".
  • Obadiah.
  • 4: There's "I Regum", First Kings, "I Samuelis", First Samuel, and "I Paralipomenon", this.
  • Chronicles.
  • 5: A New Testament guy:"Jacobi".
  • James.

Round 4. Category: Tv Law

  • 1: Writer Erle Stanley Gardner had script approval of this series' episodes.
  • Perry Mason.
  • 2: In 1987 this Stephen Bochco series was named Outstanding Drama Series at the Emmys.
  • L.A. Law.
  • 3: This "Rifleman" star played attorney John Egan in the 90-minute series "Arrest and Trial".
  • Chuck Connors.
  • 4: When Michael Moriarty left this NBC series in 1994, he was replaced by Sam Waterston.
  • Law and Order.
  • 5: In 1961 Martin Sheen had his first major TV role on this series starring E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed.
  • The Defenders.

Round 5. Category: Video Game Villains

  • 1: King Pig is the lazy overlord of this game you can play on your smartphone.
  • Angry Birds.
  • 2: In "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic", the Sith lord Malak gets this 5-letter title in front of his name.
  • Darth.
  • 3: In "Donkey Kong Jr.", the roles have reversed and the title simian must rescue his father from this Italian.
  • Mario.
  • 4: A thief of epic proportions, she has a last name like the 8th-most populous U.S. city.
  • Carmen Sandiego.
  • 5: A comical A.I. helps you make holes you can move through to beat GLaDOS' tests in this Valve game's sequel.
  • Portal.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 995, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 4 Years

  • 1: In 1960 Abebe Bikila won this Olympic event barefoot; 4 years later he won it again, this time wearing shoes.
  • Marathon.
  • 2: He was the first U.S. president to serve just 4 years.
  • John Adams.
  • 3: His book "Daisy-Head Maysie" was published in 1995, 4 years after his death.
  • Dr. Seuss.
  • 4: Every 4 years the Boy Scouts hold international rallies known as these.
  • Jamborees.
  • 5: In Julius Caesar's time this month had 30 days once every 4 years.
  • February.

Round 2. Category: Discographies

  • 1: "Sonic Highways":This Dave Grohl band.
  • the Foo Fighters.
  • 2: "Private Dancer":This woman who can really move in high heels.
  • Tina Turner.
  • 3: "It's the Girls!":This divine singer.
  • Bette Midler.
  • 4: "Houses of the Holy":These rockers.
  • Led Zeppelin.
  • 5: "In the Lonely Hour":This neo-soul singer.
  • Sam Smith.

Round 3. Category: The Bronze Age

  • 1: Oliver Stone has one of these medals first created by executive order on February 4, 1944.
  • Bronze Star.
  • 2: Gymnast and native son Dimitrios Loundras was only 10 years old when he won a bronze in this city in 1896.
  • Athens.
  • 3: Pulp hero Doc who was "The Man of Bronze".
  • Doc Savage.
  • 4: In men's Olympic basketball, this Baltic team won bronze in 1992, 1996 and 2000.
  • Lithuania.
  • 5: On the medal stand, 200-meter bronze medalist John Carlos raised his fist in a black power salute in this year.
  • 1968.

Round 4. Category: One Of The 8 Planets

  • 1: Also a chemical element.
  • Mercury.
  • 2: She's a tennis superstar.
  • Venus.
  • 3: Popular chocolate bar made in England since 1933.
  • Mars.
  • 4: Lighthouse city near Palm Beach, Florida.
  • Jupiter.
  • 5: Husband to Gaea and father of the Titans.
  • Uranus.

Round 5. Category: In Disguise

  • 1: In the Perrault version, she's eaten by the wolf who's disguised as her grandmother.
  • Little Red Riding Hood.
  • 2: In 1924 Alexandra David-Neel disguised herself as a beggar to sneak into this capital of Tibet.
  • Lhasa.
  • 3: Some reports say this PLO head sometimes disguised himself as a woman in order to flee his enemies.
  • Yasser Arafat.
  • 4: According to the myth, his beggar disguise was so good, it even fooled his wife Penelope.
  • Odysseus.
  • 5: When Nathan Hale was captured in September 1776, he was disguised as one of these.
  • Schoolteacher.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 994, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Desperate Housewife Who...

  • 1: ...got an Oscar nomination in 2006.
  • Felicity Huffman.
  • 2: ...showered a little too much affection on Terrell Owens on "Monday Night Football".
  • Nicollette Sheridan.
  • 3: ...appeared on the cover of the April 2006 Vanity Fair.
  • Teri Hatcher.
  • 4: ...literally blew up "Melrose Place" as Dr. Kimberly Shaw.
  • Marcia Cross.
  • 5: ...has a B.S. in kinesiology and was No. 1 on Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100" list.
  • Eva Longoria.

Round 2. Category: The Hills Are Alive

  • 1: In 2011 the median home value in this southern Calif. city was around $1.9 million, with or without cee-ment ponds.
  • Beverly Hills.
  • 2: Encyclopedia Britannica says Wels, Austria is in these lower parts of the Eastern Alps.
  • the foothills.
  • 3: This range covers 6,000 square miles in southwestern South Dakota and eastern Wyoming.
  • the Black Hills.
  • 4: Wold, a Middle English geographical word, gave us the name of these hills, home to Bath and Cheltenham.
  • the Cotswolds.
  • 5: The 200' Chapultepec Hill boasts the castle where this Mexican emperor lived in the 1860s.
  • Maximilian.

Round 3. Category: Completes The Tony-Winning Play Title

  • 1: 1980:"blank of a Lesser God".
  • Children.
  • 2: 2008:"August: blank County".
  • Osage.
  • 3: 1951:Tennessee Williams'"The Rose blank".
  • Tattoo.
  • 4: 1973,by Jason Miller:"That blank Season".
  • Championship.
  • 5: 1995:"Love! Valour! blank!".
  • Compassion.

Round 4. Category: Quebec

  • 1: Quebec is the only province whose civil law is based on the Code Civile of this European country.
  • France.
  • 2: You can see Canadian soldiers in British uniforms march to French music in this city's Citadel.
  • Quebec City.
  • 3: 2-week event held in February that includes costume balls, dog-sled and ice-canoe races and parades.
  • Winter Carnival.
  • 4: Unlike most provinces, Quebec has a separate one of these, La Surete Provinciale Du Quebec.
  • Provincial/State Police.
  • 5: This explorer landed on what is now the Gaspe Peninsula in 1534 and claimed it for the French king.
  • Jacques Cartier.

Round 5. Category: Take Me To Your Liter

  • 1: Earthlust's 1-liter stainless steel bottles are part of its "mission to eliminate" single-use water bottles made of this.
  • plastic.
  • 2: Feels like I've waited forever to open my 1-liter bottle of Ancient Age "Kentucky straight" this.
  • bourbon.
  • 3: ezcap.net makes resealable 1-liter amber bottles specially designed to hold "micro" these.
  • brews.
  • 4: The 21st century generation can get 1-liter bottles of this soda with a red, white and blue circle logo.
  • Pepsi.
  • 5: Is this an IQ test? Amazon sells a 1-liter bottle of this "vapor distilled" glaceau brand for $1.90--plus $8.99 shipping.
  • Smartwater.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 993, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 5 Random Things

  • 1: A 2014 headline: "Florida family butt-dials" this no. "while planning their next meth cook"; a dispatcher listened for 30 min..
  • 911.
  • 2: Holy biloba! Here's a beautiful example of this tree at a Buddhist temple said to be planted by a Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
  • a ginkgo.
  • 3: Astronauts Scott, Worden and Irwin established a U. of Michigan alumni club on the Moon during this, the 4th mission to land.
  • Apollo 15.
  • 4: This book after Exodus: "All that have not fins and scales in the seas... be an abomination unto you", so eating lobster? A no-go.
  • Leviticus.
  • 5: Viewable from the U.N. in the East River, one of New York City's smallest islands is named for this secretary-general from Myanmar.
  • U Thant.

Round 2. Category: The Canary

  • 1: The 50-story Canary Wharf Tower on the Thames River is this capital city's tallest building.
  • London.
  • 2: The world's largest canary diamond, a vivid yellow gem from South Africa, bears the name of this NYC jeweler.
  • Tiffany.
  • 3: Harz Mountain and St. Andreasberg are 2 regions in this European country famous as canary breeding centers.
  • Germany.
  • 4: Better-known nickname of Wild West woman Martha Jane Canary.
  • Calamity Jane.
  • 5: Canaries take their name from the Canary Islands, which belong to this country.
  • Spain.

Round 3. Category: Presidential This And That

  • 1: Presidential brother Edgar Eisenhower was called "Big" this; Dwight was the "Little" version.
  • Ike.
  • 2: A long-shot compromise candidate in 1844, James Polk is considered the first of these "equine" winners.
  • a dark horse.
  • 3: He was a brigadier general when he demanded the "Unconditional Surrender" of Fort Donelson in February 1862.
  • Grant.
  • 4: 3 recent presidents--Bush I, Clinton and Obama--shared this trait common to only about 10% of Americans.
  • left-handedness.
  • 5: Before becoming president, he helped his wife Lou translate "De re metallica", a 1556 text that detailed copper mining.
  • Hoover.

Round 4. Category: Drop Out

  • 1: Known as "The Body", this pro wrestler-turned-governor dropped out of a Minnesota community college.
  • Jesse Ventura.
  • 2: Both named Steve, these 2 now fabulously wealthy college dropouts founded Apple Computer.
  • Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
  • 3: After dropping out of high school, he ran McDonald's and became a McMillionaire.
  • Kroc.
  • 4: This fur mogul and high school dropout has been called America's first multimillionaire.
  • (John Jacob) Astor.
  • 5: Arriving from Scotland in 1848 as an elementary school dropout, he sold his company in 1901 for $480 million.
  • Carnegie.

Round 5. Category: Social Studies

  • 1: This group is composed of those of your same age or social position; in a courtroom, you might face a jury of them.
  • peers.
  • 2: It's South America's most populous country.
  • Brazil.
  • 3: Also called citizenship education, it's the study of the rights and responsibilities of citizens.
  • civics.
  • 4: One of America's early social workers, her Hull House spearheaded the U.S. settlement house movement.
  • Jane Addams.
  • 5: In January 2019 this South American country's national assembly declared its president a "usurper" and named its own replacement.
  • Venezuela.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 992, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Brand Name Variations

  • 1: Hellmann's on the east coast and Best Foods out west are different brand names for this same product, around since 1920.
  • mayonnaise.
  • 2: In Australia, Hungry Jack's is home to the Whopper, found at this chain in America.
  • Burger King.
  • 3: In Canada, "It's not delivery, it's Delissio", what we know better in the U.S. as this frozen pizza brand.
  • DiGiorno.
  • 4: Part of the U.S. has Edy's and part has this brand name that honors Edy's ice cream-making partner.
  • Dreyer's.
  • 5: Around the world, what we call Diet Coke is known as Coca-Cola this 5-letter word.
  • light.

Round 2. Category: Indians

  • 1: After the Sioux began using these animals, they gave up permanent villages to follow the buffalo.
  • horses.
  • 2: The ghost dance was supposed to bring back dead Indian heroes and make them disappear.
  • the white men.
  • 3: These, carried over from Europe, killed more Indians than war did.
  • smallpox germs (diseases).
  • 4: It was a Mohawk leader named Hiawatha who put together this 5-nation league.
  • Iroquois League.
  • 5: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia called this crop "apooke".
  • tobacco.

Round 3. Category: Minimum Ages

  • 1: To legally buy alcohol across the U.S..
  • 21.
  • 2: To see an R-rated movie unaccompanied by an adult.
  • 17.
  • 3: To vote in Canadian national elections.
  • 18.
  • 4: To play on the Senior PGA Tour.
  • 50.
  • 5: To serve as a Congressman.
  • 25.

Round 4. Category: What'S The Sport?

  • 1: Touchback,forward progress.
  • football.
  • 2: Chip out,Nassau.
  • golf.
  • 3: Chukker,tail shot.
  • polo.
  • 4: Backcheck,delayed whistle.
  • hockey.
  • 5: Memphis attack,high post.
  • basketball.

Round 5. Category: Rhinoceros Now

  • 1: This object that projects from a rhino's nose is made from a protein called keratin.
  • horn.
  • 2: Like many health-conscious humans, rhinos have this type of diet.
  • vegetarian.
  • 3: The rhino is closely related to this animal, though we won't hear "My kingdom for a rhino" anytime soon.
  • horse.
  • 4: Except for the Sumatran type, rhinos don't have much of this, except at tail tips or the fringe on the ears.
  • hair.
  • 5: People turn into savage rhinos in this Romanian-born author's 1959 play.
  • Eugène Ionesco.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 991, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Jokers Are Wild

  • 1: This late funnyman, ever in search of respect: "I met the Surgeon General. He offered me a cigarette".
  • (Rodney) Dangerfield.
  • 2: By George, this standup comic said, "As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is".
  • George Carlin.
  • 3: Jack Handey: "Blow ye winds, like" this Miles Davis instrument "blows, but without that noise".
  • a trumpet.
  • 4: For "Blazing Saddles", this legendary black standup wrote the classic line "Mongo only pawn in game of life".
  • Richard Pryor.
  • 5: This extremely deadpan comic asked, "What's another word for thesaurus?".
  • Steven Wright.

Round 2. Category: J.J. Abrams, Busy Man

  • 1: In 2009 J.J. Abrams went where Leonard Nimoy had gone before and directed this film.
  • Star Trek.
  • 2: J.J. didn't write or direct, but produced 2011's "Mission: Impossible", subtitled this.
  • Ghost Protocol.
  • 3: J.J. co-created this ABC drama that was so intriguing, a man simply opening a hatch became a major event.
  • Lost.
  • 4: J.J. said he created this Jennifer Garner series by thinking, "What if Felicity was a spy?".
  • Alias.
  • 5: Say you write a script about a '70s train crash; if you're J.J., you call it this, direct it and have Spielberg produce.
  • Super 8.

Round 3. Category: Jeopardy! Drinking Games

  • 1: Like actress Sally, this last name of 19th century U.S. department store owner Marshall is singular; add an "S"--imbibe.
  • Field.
  • 2: When naming this member of the 2nd triumvirate, don't add an "H" to his last name or you're talking about J. Lo's hubby.
  • Mark Antony.
  • 3: If you add the incorrect "S" to this last book of the Bible that tells of the opening of 6 seals, down a whole cup.
  • Revelation.
  • 4: If you say the WCTU is the "Women's Christian" rather than the "Woman's Christian" this, take a non-alcoholic swig.
  • Temperance Union.
  • 5: Drink up if you say (incorrectly) this African-American author wrote "The Invisible Man"; he penned "Invisible Man".
  • Ralph Ellison.

Round 4. Category: 3 For The Show

  • 1: Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly and Mo brings plenty landed in Montana.
  • Yellowstone.
  • 2: CBS cops (or C.O.P.S.?) Lina Esco, David Lim and Alex Russell.
  • S.W.A.T..
  • 3: Ming-na Wen, Jennifer Beals and Temuera Morrison, who opens "The Book of" this mysterious title sci-fi guy.
  • Boba Fett.
  • 4: Kyle Richards, Lisa Rinna and Garcelle Beauvais get "Real".
  • The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
  • 5: John Cena (not exactly living up to the title), Danielle Brooks and Jennifer Holland.
  • Peacemaker.

Round 5. Category: Headgear

  • 1: This type of cap is part of a Brownie Girl Scout Uniform.
  • a beanie.
  • 2: To show off their curls, men turned up the brim 1st on 1 side, then both, then the back, making this hat.
  • a tricorn hat.
  • 3: Presidents wore silk toppers to inaugurations till Eisenhower broke tradition in '53 with this German design.
  • a homberg.
  • 4: Wearing one of these protectors is usually associated with someone a little out on the fringe.
  • a tinfoil hat.
  • 5: Ahoy! There's a mode of transport in the name of this straw hat with a flat crown and a ribbon band.
  • a boater.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 990, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Moses

  • 1: Born in 1860, this farmer's wife began painting her famous landscapes in her late 70s.
  • Grandma Moses.
  • 2: Before Moses died on Mount Pisgah, he scaled this mount to chat with Yahweh.
  • Mount Sinai.
  • 3: In 1956's "The Ten Commandments" this man's son Fraser played the baby Moses.
  • Charlton Heston.
  • 4: In 1976 and 1984 he won Olympic gold in the 400-meter hurdles.
  • Edwin Moses.
  • 5: The novel "A Woman Called Moses" recants the heroic struggles of this abolitionist.
  • Harriet Tubman.

Round 2. Category: Top Of The Bill

  • 1: "Saving Private Ryan", 1998: this actor, not Private Ryan.
  • Tom Hanks.
  • 2: "The Godfather Part II", 1974: this actor who could have been nicknamed Fredo himself.
  • Alfredo James Pacino.
  • 3: "Some Like It Hot", 1959: her.
  • Marilyn Monroe.
  • 4: "The Princess Bride", 1987: this leading man whose name was not Inigo Montoya.
  • Cary Elwes.
  • 5: "Enter the Dragon", 1973: this martial arts legend.
  • Bruce Lee.

Round 3. Category: Knots To You

  • 1: Kind of knot that sounds like its tied by your mother's mother.
  • a granny knot.
  • 2: Term for a knot used to fasten a rope to an object or "your wagon to a star".
  • hitch.
  • 3: This geometric knot is one of the oldest in use.
  • a square knot.
  • 4: Half a pair of pants, or the looseness in a knot.
  • slack.
  • 5: Not tightness per se, but this kinetic force gives knots their holding power.
  • friction.

Round 4. Category: Lemon Squeezy

  • 1: For a classic French 75, along with the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup, you have to break out a bottle of this sparkling wine.
  • champagne.
  • 2: Whisk yolks in the top of a double boiler and slowly add clarified butter and lemon juice to make this, 1 of cuisine's "mother sauces".
  • hollandaise.
  • 3: A classic pie is filled with tart lemon and topped with this, stiffly beaten egg whites and sugar.
  • meringue.
  • 4: This outermost layer of a lemon peel--just the skin and not the white pith--has aromatic oils that add flavor to food.
  • zest.
  • 5: Salt-preserved lemons can accompany this Moroccan stew made in an earthenware pot of the same name.
  • a tagine.

Round 5. Category: Double-Letter Geography

  • 1: The Arabic name of this Muslim nation in northwest Africa means "The Western Kingdom".
  • Morocco.
  • 2: This capital city was founded in 1840 on Lambton Harbour at the extreme south part of the North Island.
  • Wellington.
  • 3: Fort Peck Dam on this river in Montana provides irrigation and hydroelectric power for much of the region.
  • the Missouri.
  • 4: This Canadian provincial capital lies about halfway between Vancouver and Montreal.
  • Winnipeg(, Manitoba).
  • 5: The longest river originating in this mountain range is the Garonne, which flows northward through France.
  • the Pyrenees.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 989, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Communist Manifesto

  • 1: These 2 authors were both in their 20s when they wrote the pamphlet.
  • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
  • 2: The pamphlet ends, "Workers of the world," do this!.
  • unite.
  • 3: The proletarians "have nothing to lose but" these.
  • Their chains.
  • 4: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of" these.
  • class struggles.
  • 5: "The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of" this, an alliterative phrase.
  • private property.

Round 2. Category: From D To D

  • 1: Beastly cross-country transport in Arctic regions.
  • a dog sled.
  • 2: Adjective meaning you are so surprised by something that you do not know what to do or say.
  • dumbfounded.
  • 3: The name of these muscles comes from their triangular shape.
  • deltoids.
  • 4: A car battery brand, or someone loyal to particular ideas and unwilling to change.
  • Diehard.
  • 5: The plastic skin stretched tight over a snare or bass frame.
  • a drumhead.

Round 3. Category: Baltimore

  • 1: Begun in 1815, America's first large-scale monument to this man towers above Mount Vernon Place.
  • George Washington.
  • 2: The 1814 bombardment of this nearby site is commemorated on Defenders' Day.
  • Fort McHenry.
  • 3: "Liberty Heights" and "Diner" are among the Baltimore-set movies by this Baltimore-born writer and director.
  • Barry Levinson.
  • 4: Famous for its medical school, this university celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2001.
  • Johns Hopkins.
  • 5: Horse racing's Preakness Stakes runs each May at this racetrack.
  • Pimlico.

Round 4. Category: Plot

  • 1: Code name Valkyrie, the July plot was a 1944 attempt to assassinate this man.
  • Hitler.
  • 2: The gunpowder in the 1605 gunpowder plot was found under this building.
  • Parliament.
  • 3: A certain agency whose initials are C.I.A. helped plot the overthrow of this country's PM Mossadegh in 1953.
  • Iran.
  • 4: Khrushchev said in 1956 that this leader had created the trumped-up "Doctors' Plot".
  • Stalin.
  • 5: Yui Shosetsu failed in 1651 to oust the Tokugawa shogunate with an army of these "masterless warriors".
  • ronin.

Round 5. Category: Tv Narrators

  • 1: The finale of this sitcom was not narrated by Bob Saget but by Josh Radnor, who played the title pronoun.
  • How I Met Your Mother.
  • 2: Michael C. Hall played the titular serial killer and narrator of this Showtime series.
  • Dexter.
  • 3: (I'm Iain Armitage.) So you don't get us mixed up, on the show "Young Sheldon", I play young Sheldon Cooper, while this actor is the voice of older Sheldon.
  • Jim Parsons.
  • 4: Mary Alice Young is the omniscient dead narrator of this series about her neighbors on Wisteria Lane.
  • Desperate Housewives.
  • 5: As the narrator of "Arrested Development" he said, "Tobias was a never-nude, which is exactly what it sounds like".
  • Ron Howard.

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Round 1. Category: Movie Characters

  • 1: Igor,Frau Blucher,Dr. Frederick Frankenstein.
  • Young Frankenstein.
  • 2: Mother Abbess,Captain Von Trapp,Maria.
  • The Sound of Music.
  • 3: John Travolta played paint salesman and disco king Tony Manero in this 1977 film.
  • Saturday Night Fever.
  • 4: Dodge,Cornelius,Dr. Zira.
  • Planet of the Apes.
  • 5: Max Von Mayerling,Joe Gillis,Norma Desmond.
  • Sunset Boulevard.

Round 2. Category: Conventions

  • 1: On "Saturday Night Live", William Shatner told attendees at this type of convention, "Get a life!".
  • Star Trek.
  • 2: New England Federalists convened in Hartford in 1814 to denounce this war.
  • War of 1812.
  • 3: In the film "Chasing Amy", boy meets girl at a convention for artists and fans of these.
  • Comic books.
  • 4: The Annapolis Convention of 1786 did nothing but suggest holding this convention in Philadelphia.
  • Constitutional Convention.
  • 5: (Hi, I'm Paula Poundstone) I heard stories of Bob Dole in a towel at the 1996 Republican Convention in this California city.
  • San Diego.

Round 3. Category: Cool News

  • 1: 17-year-old Wolf Cukier discovered a planet just 3 days into his internship with this government agency.
  • NASA.
  • 2: M.I.T. researchers used a solar still, evaporation and condensation in this process to make ocean water drinkable.
  • desalinization.
  • 3: In 2020 this sports league and its players association reached a deal that will pay top centers and point guards in excess of $500,000 a year.
  • the WNBA.
  • 4: In 2019 Tunisia held its second straight election that was considered to meet the alliterative criterion "free and" this.
  • fair.
  • 5: A sort of "EpiPen" for spinal cord injuries could thwart paralysis by using these microscopic "particles".
  • nanoparticles.

Round 4. Category: AngelIc Songs. With Angel in quotes

  • 1: Marilee Rush and Juice Newton hit the Top Ten telling us about this angel.
  • "Angel of the Morning" (Angel in the Morning accepted).
  • 2: In 1955, both The Crew-Cuts and The Penguins asked her, "When will you be mine?".
  • "Earth Angel".
  • 3: In '62 Neil Sedaka called himself "The luckiest devil in the neighborhood" because he lived there.
  • "Next Door to an Angel".
  • 4: Charley Pride advised 1st to do this, then "Love her like the devil when you get back home".
  • "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'".
  • 5: Only Billboard Top 40 hit for Alan O'Day, it climbed all the way to No. 1:"Cryin' on my pillow, lonely in my bed /Then I heard a voice beside me, and she softly said /Wonder is your night light, magic is your dream...".
  • "Undercover Angel".

Round 5. Category: The 1990s

  • 1: In 1993 General Beg of this countrv said yes, we have nukes and we'll use them on India if we have to.
  • Pakistan.
  • 2: He hinted he'd run for president in March of 1992, withdrew in July, then re-entered in October.
  • H. Ross Perot.
  • 3: The world lost 2 of its greatest dancers: Margot Fonteyn in 1991 and this man, her partner, in 1993.
  • Rudolf Nureyev.
  • 4: This trade pact went into effect in January 1994 and by 2008, nearly all tariffs between its 3 participating nations were gone.
  • NAFTA.
  • 5: Queen Elizabeth II and Francois Mitterrand appeared together at the opening of this on May 6, 1994.
  • the opening of the "Chunnel" (the Channel tunnel).

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Round 1. Category: Tough-Pourri

  • 1: Students are allowed to bring a toad, a cat or an owl to this fictional boarding school.
  • Hogwarts.
  • 2: This last Ivy-League school to win this college football bowl game was Columbia University in 1934.
  • the Rose Bowl.
  • 3: When "Face The Nation" premiered in 1954, this first guest was grilled over comments he had been making about the Army.
  • Senator Joe McCarthy.
  • 4: In 1907, the first 4 groups in this org. started in England were the Bulls, the Wolves, the Curlews and the Ravens.
  • Boy Scouts.
  • 5: On this date in 1999, England's Guardian newspaper announced a coup in the nation of San Seriffe.
  • April 1st.

Round 2. Category: Nonmetals

  • 1: General Foods first introduced this nondairy dessert topping in 1966.
  • Cool Whip.
  • 2: Fake flowers Marie Osmond sang about in 1973.
  • "Paper Roses".
  • 3: Little Boy Blue slept under one.
  • haystack.
  • 4: The Hebrew name for this taboo meat is basar chazir.
  • pork.
  • 5: Encarta says clothes with a high content of this plastic fiber "became popular in the 1970s".
  • polyester.

Round 3. Category: Vice

  • 1: If you don't care if it's Godiva or a Clark Bar, you've got to have it, you're this, a word dating back at least to the 1960s.
  • a chocoholic.
  • 2: Ulysses S. Grant smoked these, including Cheroots, to the tune of 20 a day.
  • cigars.
  • 3: In this movie Paul Giamatti plays Miles, whose vice is wine, especially his prized 1961 Chateau Cheval Blanc.
  • Sideways.
  • 4: A 1998 study showed release of dopamine, a pleasure-bringing neurotransmitter, in subjects during a tank-driving one of these.
  • a video game.
  • 5: The book "Aristocratic Vice" examines the vices of the 18th century English nobility, including these "affairs of honor".
  • a duel.

Round 4. Category: Addresses

  • 1: This animated family lived at 201 Cobblestone Way in Bedrock.
  • the Flintstones.
  • 2: At night you'll have no trouble spotting this stadium at 1060 W. Addison St., Chicago--it's now lighted.
  • Wrigley Field.
  • 3: Whether travelling by land or sea, don't miss this attraction at 193 Salem St. in Boston.
  • the Old North Church.
  • 4: President Hoover was among those dedicating this NYC building at 350 Fifth Ave. on May 1, 1931.
  • the Empire State Building.
  • 5: You'd find this at 1313 S. Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim, CA.
  • Disneyland.

Round 5. Category: Eat Like A Horse

  • 1: Horses love this fruit of the genus Malus; does one a day keep the vet away?.
  • an apple.
  • 2: Though they're vegetarians, many male horses have 4 of these long "doglike" teeth used for tearing food.
  • canines.
  • 3: Whether crushed, rolled or cooked, these are a high-energy horse food; too much can cause horsie overexuberance.
  • oats.
  • 4: For joint health, some experts recommend giving horses this oil from fish of the genus Gadus--blecch!.
  • cod liver oil.
  • 5: This protein-rich plant of the pea family is like steak for horses; don't give the little rascals too much of it.
  • alfalfa.

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Round 1. Category: Frock Around The Clock

  • 1: If you want to wear a this length dress in the U.K., wear it around 4 P.M., when the steeped beverage is commonly served.
  • tea.
  • 2: This hyphenated style of dress containing 2 altitude extremes is perfect for noon or midnight.
  • a high-low.
  • 3: When it precedes "gown", this 4-letter undergarment is worn for bedtime; before "dress", not for bedtime.
  • slip.
  • 4: For 5 o'clock, maybe try this simple dress that has the same name as the key under "caps lock".
  • a shift.
  • 5: For the cocktail hour, perhaps this dress, that sounds like a good place to stash a dagger.
  • a sheath.

Round 2. Category: I Quit!

  • 1: When he left NASA to be a Univ. of Cincinnati prof., he took one giant leap into retirement from the public eye.
  • Neil Armstrong.
  • 2: His sudden retirement from the NBA on Nov. 7, 1991 shocked the sports world.
  • Earvin "Magic" Johnson.
  • 3: In 1974, frustrated with GM's management, he quit and with British funding, built a stainless steel luxury sports car.
  • John DeLorean.
  • 4: On Nov. 25, 1980 Roberto Duran said, "No mas" and quit in the eighth round against this fighter.
  • Sugar Ray Leonard.
  • 5: In March 1987 Bettino Craxi quit after a 3 1/2-year term in this post, a post-WWII record.
  • prime minister of Italy.

Round 3. Category: In A Minute

  • 1: Each minute 5 million of these are sent; how many of them are spam, we don't know.
  • E-mails.
  • 2: Men's Health magazine says the average guy can do 33 of these in a minute in his 20s, 21 in his 40s.
  • push-ups.
  • 3: In a June 2000 film Nicolas Cage played a guy who could do this in a minute.
  • Steal a car.
  • 4: Each minute it pumps about 5 quarts of blood.
  • The heart.
  • 5: Under the slogan "Real Estate for the Real World", this company claims on average to buy or sell a home every minute.
  • Century 21.

Round 4. Category: Last Line Of A Shakespeare Act

  • 1: Act II of this play ends, "My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm".
  • King Lear.
  • 2: Act I of this play concludes with, "The motion's good indeed and be it so, Petruchio, I shall be your Ben Venuto".
  • The Taming of the Shrew.
  • 3: Fortinbras ends act V and this play with "Go, bid the soldiers shoot".
  • Hamlet.
  • 4: Stephano tells him, "O brave monster! Lead the way".
  • Caliban.
  • 5: This title character declares, "He shall have every day a several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt".
  • Cleopatra.

Round 5. Category: Sitcom Characters

  • 1: This mailman on "Cheers" gleaned some of his knowledge from reading the magazines he delivered.
  • Cliff (Clavin).
  • 2: "The Days and Nights of" this divorcee moved from NBC to the Lifetime Network in 1989.
  • Molly Dodd.
  • 3: This character was a "lovely lady who was bringing up three very lovely girls".
  • Carol Brady.
  • 4: He plays assistant football coach Luther Van Dam on "Coach".
  • Jerry Van Dyke.
  • 5: Name of the writer played by Rose Marie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show".
  • Sally Rogers.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 985, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Recent Ballot Measures

  • 1: In 2018 Florida voted to return voting rights to ex-felons and to ban racing of dogs, specifically these.
  • greyhounds.
  • 2: Missouri amended its constitution to make it easier to run one of these games with a 5-letter name-o.
  • bingo.
  • 3: Per Prop 12, a calf raised for this meat in California must live in at least 43 square feet.
  • veal.
  • 4: It makes sense that this state passed the "right to live free from governmental intrusion" amendment.
  • New Hampshire.
  • 5: In 2018 6 states adopted this victims' rights law named for the late Ms. Nicholas.
  • Marsy's Law.

Round 2. Category: Mindblowers

  • 1: Decca Records rejected signing this band in 1962, saying, "we don't like their sound" and guitars are on the way out.
  • the Beatles.
  • 2: This San Antonio Spurs star originally trained to be an Olympic swimmer, but Hurricane Hugo wrecked the pool.
  • Tim Duncan.
  • 3: The wife of this "Give me liberty or give me death" speechmaker was confined at home due to mental illness.
  • Patrick Henry.
  • 4: There are about 4,000 species of mammals, 8,700 species of birds and 1 million known species of these creatures.
  • insects.
  • 5: In 2002 the Hormel corporation produced its 6 billionth can of this foodstuff.
  • Spam.

Round 3. Category: Also An Asteroid

  • 1: The son who flew too near the Sun.
  • Icarus.
  • 2: "Flowery" part of the eye.
  • the Iris.
  • 3: The greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan War.
  • Achilles.
  • 4: This voluptuous horror movie hostess who was more bare than scare.
  • Elvira.
  • 5: It's paired with Guadalupe in the name of a Mexico City neighborhood.
  • Hidalgo.

Round 4. Category: The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

  • 1: On April 25, 1865, 6-year-old Teddy watched from a window as this man's funeral procession moved through Manhattan.
  • Abraham Lincoln.
  • 2: Eleanor's triumph, passage of the UDHR, got her the first standing ovation for a single delegate in this organization's history.
  • the United Nations.
  • 3: On accepting the 1932 nomination for president, FDR said, "I pledge you, I pledge myself to a" this "for the American people".
  • a New Deal.
  • 4: Referring to this volunteer regiment and their victorious charge in Cuba, Teddy called it "the great day of my life".
  • the Rough Riders.
  • 5: Before her death in 1962, Eleanor made a final visit to the old family summer home on this Canadian island.
  • Campobello.

Round 5. Category: Tv Guide'S 50 Greatest Characters

  • 1: Weighing in at No. 6, this son of Sarek and Amanda is the only alien in the Top 10.
  • Mr. Spock.
  • 2: No. 3 on the list, this character was once pinned to a kitchen cabinet by a giant loaf of bread.
  • Lucy Ricardo.
  • 3: No. 11 on the list, this backstabbing, bed-hopping oil baron was once shot by a mysterious assailant.
  • J.R. Ewing.
  • 4: No. 46, this princess wears a leather and metal outift.
  • Xena.
  • 5: This cop ranked No. 18 is the only totally bald character on the list, baby.
  • Kojak.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 984, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Heart Of Rock And Roll. With Heart in quotes

  • 1: Blondie topped the charts with this song.
  • "Heart Of Glass".
  • 2: "Don't you mess around" with this, Pat Benatar's first hit.
  • "Heartbreaker".
  • 3: Adam Levine and Gym Class Heroes duetted on this 2011 No. 1; they must've sung into separate microphones.
  • "Stereo Hearts".
  • 4: In the title of a No. 1 hit, Bonnie Tyler suffered from this astronomical problem.
  • "Total Eclipse Of The Heart".
  • 5: "Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint" about this Nirvana song--there's no candy inside!.
  • "Heart-Shaped Box".

Round 2. Category: Questionable Dates Of Birth

  • 1: Born in 1927, late congressman Joe Moakley was among many who lied about their ages to do this.
  • enlist in the military.
  • 2: At one point this actress and future first lady took 2 years off her age.
  • Nancy Reagan.
  • 3: In 2001 a Bronx team was stripped of its third-place finish in this event for using an overage pitcher.
  • Little League World Series.
  • 4: A 32-year-old actress pretending to be 19 got a job writing for this WB TV show about a college girl.
  • Felicity.
  • 5: Research found Aug. 4, 2001 to be Louis Armstrong's centennial, though he said he was born on this big day in 1900.
  • Independence Day/Fourth of July.

Round 3. Category: Feathered Friends

  • 1: Almost 30% of the world's endangered bird species are on this island state.
  • Hawaii.
  • 2: The males of these largest flightless birds have black and white plumage; the females are brownish.
  • an ostrich.
  • 3: The pelican is distinguished by a long bill with a deep one of these hanging from the underside.
  • a pouch.
  • 4: This popular cage bird whose name starts with "bull" can learn simple tunes.
  • a finch (bullfinch).
  • 5: Some think this proud bird's feathers are unlucky because the spots on them resemble an evil eye.
  • a peacock.

Round 4. Category: Tech Company Names

  • 1: Groupon cofounder Andrew Mason explained, "It's short for" these 2 words.
  • group and coupon.
  • 2: This web-based e-mail service got its name by adding some vowels to "HTML".
  • Hotmail.
  • 3: A vendor for this Neil Clark Warren website suggested its name, reflecting its users' search online for compatibility.
  • eHarmony.
  • 4: The "PE" at the end of this service around since 2003 stands for peer-to-peer.
  • Skype.
  • 5: It got its name by removing the first 3 letters from the name of the horse that Bellerophon tried to fly to heaven.
  • Asus.

Round 5. Category: That'S Just Nuts!

  • 1: Mount Olympus was said to have many trees bearing this nut; no word if the gods had them "roasting on an open fire".
  • chestnuts.
  • 2: When shaken, the kernel of this 5-letter nut of the walnut family should not rattle but should go into a delicious pie.
  • pecan.
  • 3: Hawaii is the USA's largest exporter of these nuts native to Australia and crazy high in fat content.
  • macadamias.
  • 4: This kidney-shaped nut grows out from the bottom of the same-named apple...gesundheit!.
  • cashew.
  • 5: Cultivated in California and Iran, it has a hard, tan shell, enclosing a pale, green nut.
  • pistachios.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 983, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Killer Musicals

  • 1: As act one of this musical draws to a close, the lookout says, "Dear mother of God -- iceberg right ahead!".
  • Titanic.
  • 2: "The Capeman", this songwriter's musical about a killer, opened to protests, not to "Sounds of Silence".
  • Paul Simon.
  • 3: The Richard Rodgers musical "Rex" starred Nicol Williamson as this king who made some women lose their heads.
  • Henry VIII.
  • 4: In a 1966 musical, Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, husband of this title "Auntie", falls off an Alp.
  • Auntie Mame.
  • 5: The murder mystery musical "Something's Afoot" parodies the plot of this author's "Ten Little Indians".
  • Agatha Christie.

Round 2. Category: The White Stuff

  • 1: Peregrine White was born aboard this ship in November 1620, Pilgrim.
  • the Mayflower.
  • 2: For 21 minutes on June 3, 1965 astronaut Ed White achieved this American first as part of the Gemini 4 mission.
  • space walk.
  • 3: In the Grimm Brothers' version of the story. the evil queen uses a tight-fitting bodice to try and kill this woman.
  • Snow White.
  • 4: Get some color in your cheeks and ride a brown cow through the city of Whitehorse, the capital of this Canadian territory.
  • the Yukon.
  • 5: The glistening dunes of this New Mexico National Monument are actually miles and miles of gypsum.
  • White Sands.

Round 3. Category: 20Th Century America

  • 1: In July 1976 this mystery ailment killed 29 people at a Philadelphia convention.
  • Legionnaires' disease.
  • 2: The Wrigleys of chewing gum fame were stuck on this baseball team for over 60 years until selling it in 1981.
  • Chicago Cubs.
  • 3: On September 8, 1935 this Louisiana senator was shot by Dr. Carl Weiss in Baton Rouge.
  • Huey Long.
  • 4: Norman Bel Geddes, father of actress Barbara, created the Futurama exhibit for this event that began in 1939.
  • the New York World's Fair.
  • 5: Section 1 of the 18th amendment, the only one ever repealed, ends, "is hereby" this verb.
  • prohibited.

Round 4. Category: Play Adjectives

  • 1: Neil Simon's "blank in Yonkers".
  • Lost.
  • 2: Noel Coward's "blank Lives".
  • Private.
  • 3: Eugene O'Neill's "The blank Ape".
  • Hairy.
  • 4: Leonard Gershe's "Butterflies are blank".
  • Free.
  • 5: Edward Albee's "A blank Balance".
  • Delicate.

Round 5. Category: Non-Traditional Actors

  • 1: In 2016 Todd Bridges said the late Nancy Reagan's part on this show helped him through his own drug problems.
  • Diff'rent Strokes.
  • 2: This 2nd man on the Moon, after Homer Simpson caused a potato chip mess in space: "Careful! They're ruffled!".
  • Buzz Aldrin.
  • 3: We respect that in "Back to School", this comic didn't understand Vonnegut's books, so he had Kurt stop by in a cameo.
  • Rodney Dangerfield.
  • 4: Offscreen on "Futurama", this theoretical physicist says, "There he is. Seize him".
  • (Stephen) Hawking.
  • 5: (Hi, I'm Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan.) I made my acting debut in 2014, ordering Annie and Abed around as the host of a VCR game called "Pile of Bullets" on this NBC sitcom that also starred my old pal Jonathan Banks.
  • Community.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 982, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Anagram Zoo

  • 1: A MALL.
  • llama.
  • 2: Tall fellow:FIFE RAG.
  • giraffe.
  • 3: A mountain ape:LIAR LOG.
  • gorilla.
  • 4: Ocean mammal:PIN HOLD.
  • a dolphin.
  • 5: Asian snake fighter:EGO MOONS.
  • a mongoose.

Round 2. Category: Special Oscars

  • 1: In 1976, she was presented with a special Oscar at her home, Pickfair.
  • Mary Pickford.
  • 2: Appropriately, the statuette presented to Edgar Bergen was made out of this.
  • wood.
  • 3: "In recognition of his brilliant creativity", this Marx Brother won a special Oscar in 1973.
  • Groucho.
  • 4: In 1985, Cary Grant presented an honorary Oscar to this "Philadelphia Story" co-star.
  • James Stewart.
  • 5: The Academy's humanitarian award was named for this late character actor and former Academy pres..
  • Jean Hersholt.

Round 3. Category: 4-Letter Bands

  • 1: This hard-rockin' band was shown without make-up on the cover of 1983's "Lick It Up".
  • Kiss.
  • 2: This Aussie band had hits in the late '80s with "Devil Inside" and "Need You Tonight".
  • INXS.
  • 3: This duo had a 1984 No. 1 hit with "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go".
  • Wham!.
  • 4: 2 sets of brothers were in this "Whip It" group: Jerry and Bob Casale and Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh.
  • Devo.
  • 5: The musical "Mamma Mia!" features the music of this '70s pop powerhouse.
  • ABBA.

Round 4. Category: Geographic Meanings

  • 1: A Caribbean island:"Rich Port".
  • Puerto Rico.
  • 2: A big country:"Southern Land".
  • Australia.
  • 3: A North African city:"Three Towns".
  • Tripoli.
  • 4: A South African city:"Fountain of Flowers".
  • Bloemfontein.
  • 5: A country in the Balkans:"Black Mountain".
  • Montenegro.

Round 5. Category: Rock And Roll Songs. With Rock" And "Roll in quotation marks

  • 1: The 1st line of the chorus of the "Beer Barrel Polka".
  • Roll out the barrel.
  • 2: How love was for Ashford and Simpson in 1985.
  • "Solid".
  • 3: Chuck Berry's way of saying "Step aside, Ludwig".
  • "Roll Over Beethoven".
  • 4: To do this in '55, you had to "put your glad rags on".
  • "Rock Around The Clock".
  • 5: 1 of 2 Paul Simon hits that fit this category.
  • "I Am A Rock" (or "Loves Me Like A Rock").

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 981, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Most Downloaded Rock Songs

  • 1: Topping the list: "Radioactive" by these alt-rockers.
  • Imagine Dragons.
  • 2: Listeners continue to have faith in this anthem by Journey, No. 2 on the list.
  • "Don't Stop Believin'".
  • 3: Any way the wind blows, this operatic yet hard-rockin' tune by Queen is No. 10.
  • "Bohemian Rhapsody".
  • 4: No. 4 is this song by The Fray that actually is not about CPR.
  • "How To Save A Life".
  • 5: The title of this song from "Rocky III" came from a line of dialogue in the movie.
  • "Eye Of The Tiger".

Round 2. Category: Music For Your Cat

  • 1: Kitty loves this 1972 Elton John song that says, "Well, I quit those days and my redneck ways".
  • "Honky Cat".
  • 2: Naturally, "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" is Kitty's favorite track on his album "Let's Dance".
  • David Bowie.
  • 3: Kitty just swoons when she hears Tom Jones sing this title movie tune.
  • "What's New Pussycat?".
  • 4: Your cat's least favorite song? "Misty", because of the line "Look at me, I'm" this.
  • as helpless as a kitten up a tree.
  • 5: Your cat is not superstitious -- he loves crossing paths with her 1990 No. 1 hit "Black Cat".
  • Janet Jackson.

Round 3. Category: Eye, Eye Doctor

  • 1: It's the transparent part of the eyeball contact lenses are designed to come into contact with.
  • Cornea.
  • 2: It's not the opposite of youropia, but of hyperopia.
  • Myopia.
  • 3: From the Greek for "gray", this condition may cause blindness by increasing pressure on the optic nerve.
  • Glaucoma.
  • 4: Macular degeneration affects these parts that when detached may be reattached with a laser.
  • Retinas.
  • 5: Toric contact lenses are designed to correct this condition when it's moderate.
  • Astigmatism.

Round 4. Category: Attention, Space Cadets

  • 1: "Aren't you glad" Alan Shepard took this deodorant soap into space? Now it's in the Smithsonian.
  • Dial.
  • 2: '60s kids bought kits to send Mr. Potato Head to this heavenly body, with a cucumber as his spaceship.
  • the Moon.
  • 3: This candy got ahead by placing heads on its dispensers, and in 1955 "Space Trooper" was one of the first.
  • Pez.
  • 4: In 2005 this SW city's annual UFO Festival featured a parade with aircraft flying over it looking for alien invaders.
  • Roswell (New Mexico).
  • 5: Don't miss the Cosmic Pathway, a stroll through 13 billion years of cosmic evolution, when visiting this NYC planetarium.
  • the Hayden Planetarium.

Round 5. Category: National Portrait Gallery

  • 1: Gilbert Stuart's iconic paintings include one of this founding mother.
  • Martha Washington.
  • 2: This hunter and showman did much to popularize the myth of the American West.
  • Buffalo Bill Cody.
  • 3: The same year the photograph was taken, this high flyer disappeared.
  • Amelia Earhart.
  • 4: This Native American leader is depicted here along with a Cherokee writing system he devised.
  • Sequoyah.
  • 5: The portrait of this man and his bride was taken around 1863 by a photographer from Mathew Brady's studio.
  • (General) Tom Thumb.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 980, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Business Biggies

  • 1: Elliot Handler, the "el" in this toymaker, died at age 95 in 2011.
  • Mattel.
  • 2: (Alex gives the clue from an industry shop-floor in Dearborn, MI.) This is the only one of America's Big Three automakers that did not get a federal bailout in 2009.
  • Ford.
  • 3: This soap co. sponsors nationwide fireworks shows that include a "ring around the sky" display.
  • Lever Brothers.
  • 4: This cell phone company made the radio that relayed the first words from the moon.
  • Motorola.
  • 5: A statue of the god Mercury inspired the logo of this tire company.
  • Goodyear.

Round 2. Category: The Spin-Off Source

  • 1: of "Frasier".
  • Cheers.
  • 2: of "Better Call Saul".
  • Breaking Bad.
  • 3: of "Go, Diego, Go!".
  • Dora the Explorer.
  • 4: of "The Lone Gunmen".
  • The X-Files.
  • 5: of "Melrose Place".
  • Beverly Hills, 90210.

Round 3. Category: Meet My Exes

  • 1: Mimi Rogers andNicole Kidman.
  • Tom Cruise.
  • 2: Andre Previn andFrank Sinatra(she and Woody Allen never married).
  • Mia Farrow.
  • 3: Don Johnson,Steven Bauer,Don Johnson.
  • Melanie Griffith.
  • 4: Peter Allen,Jack Haley Jr.,Mark Gero,David Gest.
  • Liza Minnelli.
  • 5: John Lloyd andGreg Norman.
  • Chris Evert.

Round 4. Category: Get A ClUe!. With Cl in quotation marks

  • 1: This 4-letter word can precede steak, soda and sandwich.
  • club.
  • 2: A brood of chickens, or a strapless purse that a woman might keep a good grip on.
  • a clutch.
  • 3: This process of replication is routinely done to human cells, but not yet to whole human beings.
  • cloning.
  • 4: Scones are traditionally served with this thick cream, a specialty of Devonshire, England.
  • clotted cream.
  • 5: He became emperor of Rome after Caligula was murdered.
  • Claudius.

Round 5. Category: Mao, Mao, Mao, Mao

  • 1: The 1st U.S. president Mao received on an official state visit was this man in the 1970s.
  • Richard Nixon.
  • 2: In 1918 Mao worked briefly as a library assistant at the state university in this city.
  • Peking/Beijing.
  • 3: Mao's international status as a communist leader rose after the death of this Georgian in 1953.
  • Josef Stalin.
  • 4: Many of Mao's sayings and beliefs were collected in this diminutive book for easy dissemination.
  • The Little Red Book.
  • 5: In 1930 Mao married He Zizhen, who accompanied him on this famous trek.
  • The Long March.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 979, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: State The National Park

  • 1: Petrified Forest National Park.
  • Arizona.
  • 2: Biscayne.
  • Florida.
  • 3: North Cascades National Park.
  • Washington.
  • 4: Hot Springs National Park.
  • Arkansas.
  • 5: Lassen Volcanic National Park.
  • California.

Round 2. Category: What A Bunch Of Bologna

  • 1: The city of Bologna is at the foot of these mountains that form the backbone of Italy.
  • the Apennines.
  • 2: The Bologna stones found by Vicenzo Cascariolo were thought to turn base metals into this.
  • gold.
  • 3: Alums of the University of Bologna include this scientist aka Mikolaj Kopernik, who transferred from Krakow.
  • Copernicus.
  • 4: Hometown painter Vitale da Bologna created art for the city, like this saint slaying a dragon.
  • (Saint) George.
  • 5: As part of the drive toward unification, in 1860 Bologna voted to unite with this Italian island, then a separate kingdom.
  • Sardinia.

Round 3. Category: Cartoon Network

  • 1: Ranger Smith works in this park.
  • Jellystone Park.
  • 2: He was brought into "The Flintstones" to give Pebbles a playmate.
  • Bamm-Bamm.
  • 3: Daphne and Velma are the women in this dog's gang.
  • Scooby-Doo.
  • 4: This boy genius would prefer his sister Dee Dee stay out of his laboratory.
  • Dexter.
  • 5: The network's website has new adventures of this group made up of Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky.
  • the Banana Splits.

Round 4. Category: Ed Asner

  • 1: Show on which Ed delivered his classic statement "You've got spunk... I hate spunk".
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
  • 2: Ed brought this character to life in "Elf", "Olive, the Other Reindeer" and "The Ellen Show".
  • Santa Claus.
  • 3: Ed played this legendary politican in the TV movie "The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish".
  • Huey Long.
  • 4: Ed had the Axel Jordache look when he took home an Emmy for this 1976 Peter Strauss miniseries.
  • Rich Man, Poor Man.
  • 5: Emmy came calling again for Ed for his role as the villainous Capt. Thomas Davies in this 1977 miniseries.
  • Roots.

Round 5. Category: What The H. With H in quotation marks

  • 1: Feature shared by camels, Quasimodo and certain whales.
  • a hump.
  • 2: An ace in golf.
  • a hole in one.
  • 3: Break out the bagpipes; it's time for this lively Scottish folk dance.
  • the Highland Fling.
  • 4: This U.K. government "office" is responsible for domestic affairs.
  • the Home Office.
  • 5: Namaste is a greeting in this official language of India.
  • Hindi.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 978, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: North And South

  • 1: On April 14, 1865, General Robert Anderson raised the same flag he'd lowered over this port four years before.
  • Fort Sumter.
  • 2: On April 9, 1865, he told his troops, "I have done my best for you; my heart is too full to say more".
  • Robert E. Lee.
  • 3: About 75 miles due north of Liverpool is the British national park named for this watery district.
  • the Lake District.
  • 4: In December, 1864, the rank of vice-admiral was created for this hero of Mobile Bay.
  • David Farragut.
  • 5: The next country due north of Australia's northernmost point is this 3-named one.
  • Papua New Guinea.

Round 2. Category: Speak Of The Devil!

  • 1: When I speak of the "devil", I want this chocolate dessert, and I want it now!.
  • Devil's Food Cake.
  • 2: This mysterious geographical area is also known as the Devil's Triangle.
  • the Bermuda Triangle.
  • 3: This insect is sometimes called the Devil's Horse, even though it looks like it's "praying".
  • praying mantis.
  • 4: It's the pro sport played by the New Jersey Devils.
  • ice hockey.
  • 5: Ile du Diable is the French name for this place that was once a French penal colony.
  • Devil's Island.

Round 3. Category: Reference Books

  • 1: Latin for "treasure", it's a treasure-trove of related words for a writer to use.
  • thesaurus.
  • 2: Look up "goober" in the current Encyclopedia Britannica and you're referred to this entry.
  • peanuts.
  • 3: The Press of this university publishes "Companions to" English Lit, Art and the Theatre.
  • Oxford.
  • 4: "Beat the Odds", "Music Bingo" and "Fast Draw" are entries in an ency. of these by Schwartz, Ryan and Wostbrock.
  • game shows.
  • 5: In the preface to his 1747 dict., this British lexicographaer apologized to critics if he missed any words.
  • Samuel Johnson.

Round 4. Category: Spring Medley

  • 1: A Polish tradition on the first day of spring is saying goodbye to a doll representing this season.
  • winter.
  • 2: "The Wind in the Willows" opens with Mole doing this with brooms and dusters.
  • spring cleaning.
  • 3: A little fun for the season; in the movie "Mean Girls" it's the rhyming name of a school dance.
  • a spring fling.
  • 4: From the Italian, it means "spring" or "served with veggies".
  • primavera.
  • 5: Spring training baseball in Florida is known as this league.
  • the grapefruit league.

Round 5. Category: A Marriage In Ruins

  • 1: Board the Hiram Bingham train in Cuzco and have your ceremony near these ruins with a shaman as your officiant.
  • Machu Picchu.
  • 2: There's an idea to turn the ruins of this old metropolis S. of Baghdad into a wedding venue, but you may want to wait for calm.
  • Babylon.
  • 3: Chichen Itza may be a good site for your nuptials; it's located in this Mexican state with the same name as a peninsula.
  • the Yucatán.
  • 4: Come clean with your bride at a wedding in Rome's baths of this emperor, opened in 216 A.D..
  • Caracalla.
  • 5: Wed at the Talisay Ruins, once a sugar plantation on Negros Island, part of this Southeast Asian archipelago.
  • the Philippines.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 977, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Card Games

  • 1: In blackjack, it's the point value held by the most cards.
  • 10.
  • 2: When wild cards are used in straight poker, this replaces the royal flush as the highest type of hand.
  • five of a kind.
  • 3: Played by 2 sets of partners, it's the most popular form of bridge.
  • Contract Bridge.
  • 4: The bidding period of a card game; types of bridge and pinochle are named for it.
  • Auction.
  • 5: You could get a bird in the hand when you play this card game with a black bird on the box.
  • Rook.

Round 2. Category: You Are Very Subtractive

  • 1: You won my heart when you knew this is 85 minus 21.
  • 64.
  • 2: You drive me wild when you tell me it's 51 minus 14.
  • 37.
  • 3: Whisper in my ear this result of 253 minus 61.
  • 192.
  • 4: Tell me what I long to hear: 315 minus 213.
  • 102.
  • 5: We'll have a happy ending if you know it's what's subtracted from the minuend.
  • the subtrahend.

Round 3. Category: Do The Hits

  • 1: This rock pioneer's first and only No. 1 hit was 1957's "That'll Be The Day".
  • Buddy Holly.
  • 2: The Beatles had 20 No. 1 singles; this man had 18.
  • Elvis Presley.
  • 3: Her rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the 1991 Super Bowl took the song into the Top 40 for the first time.
  • Whitney Houston.
  • 4: On the U.S. Billboard Top 40 chart, this UB40 hit climbed to No. 34 in 1984 and to No. 1 in 1988.
  • "Red Red Wine".
  • 5: Bee smart and name this 1968 No. 1 hit for Bobby Goldsboro.
  • "Honey".

Round 4. Category: A Number Less Than 10

  • 1: Word that begins the Gettysburg Address.
  • 4.
  • 2: In cricket scoring, it's a duck's egg.
  • 0.
  • 3: Points in a perfect aircraft landing.
  • 3.
  • 4: The number of legs on a daddy longlegs, aka the harvestman.
  • 8.
  • 5: Nations in the Iroquois Confederacy, after the Tuscarora tribe joined.
  • 6.

Round 5. Category: Popular Names For Boys And Girls

  • 1: Colonial Americans invented this girls' name by combining Sam from Samuel with the Greek for flower.
  • Samantha.
  • 2: This Irish form of Katherine is currently one of the 100 most popular names for girls.
  • Katelyn.
  • 3: Mr. Frome might know it's from the Hebrew for "solid" or "firm".
  • Ethan.
  • 4: Leon means "lion" and this name means "lion bold".
  • Leonardo.
  • 5: It's from the Old Norse for "ruler", whether he has red hair or not.
  • Eric.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 976, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Starts With Feb, Trebek

  • 1: Tell your sweetie--this is St. Valentine's feast day.
  • February 14th.
  • 2: This date brings Punxsutawney Phil's big moment.
  • February 2nd.
  • 3: It's the latest date in February on which the first Sunday of the month can fall.
  • the 7th.
  • 4: Computer displays in some 2004 Pontiacs showed the wrong day of the week because engineers forgot about this date.
  • February 29th.
  • 5: Before a correction to the calendar in 1752, Washington's birthday was February 11; today it's this.
  • February 22nd.

Round 2. Category: Teen People

  • 1: Having jumped in a lake during their Orlando photo shoot, these "Boys" sported the wet look on a 1998 cover.
  • Backstreet Boys.
  • 2: These cover girls of the issue turned 18 on June 13, 2004.
  • Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
  • 3: This Yankees shortstop reveals he's "a big movie person"; "Seven" is his favorite.
  • Derek Jeter.
  • 4: 4 stars of this Fox drama shared a spot (we think the one who plays Seth is funny-looking, but whatever).
  • The O.C..
  • 5: Following Nelly, Chingy is the latest big star out of this city's rap scene.
  • St. Louis.

Round 3. Category: Your Teeth

  • 1: In the dentist's office, Procaine and Lidocaine are types of this.
  • anesthetics.
  • 2: Number of teeth typically found in the fully developed adult upper jaw.
  • 16.
  • 3: It's no fiction, it's the sensitive tissue at the center of a tooth consisting of nerves and blood vessels.
  • the pulp.
  • 4: These canines are so-named for their position under a body part.
  • eye teeth.
  • 5: If you wear this type of metal bling, remove it before eating and brush and floss so bacteria don't build up.
  • a grill.

Round 4. Category: World Facts

  • 1: The name of Wagga Wagga, a city in this country, is an Aboriginal word meaning "many crows".
  • Australia.
  • 2: A statue of the young Queen Victoria graces the Library of Parliament in this capital of Canada.
  • Ottawa.
  • 3: If you're driving in Mexico and see the word "alto" on a sign, don't sing; do this.
  • stop.
  • 4: This Belgian city is famous for its bridges and its name is Dutch for bridges.
  • Bruges.
  • 5: Over half the population of this Malaysian capital is of Chinese ethnicity.
  • Kuala Lumpur.

Round 5. Category: Females, Women And Ladies

  • 1: Though not a continuation of the series, 2001's "Quidditch Through the Ages" was a short book by this woman.
  • J.K. Rowling.
  • 2: She was the mother of Princesses Stephanie and Caroline.
  • Princess Grace.
  • 3: Check out this empress' 190-carat Orlov Diamond at Russia's Armory Museum.
  • Catherine the Great.
  • 4: This primatologist and author was murdered in 1985, probably by a vengeful poacher.
  • Dian Fossey.
  • 5: By the time this 1877 title woman realizes she's been looking at life and love wrong, she catches a train, literally.
  • Anna Karenina.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 975, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Solve For Ex. With Ex in quotation marks

  • 1: Pregnant.
  • expecting.
  • 2: The IRS is pleased to say that the value of each personal one of these has risen to $3,700.
  • an exemption.
  • 3: Fair market value for the owners of the little store of the route of our highway;2-4-6-8!Who do we this?.
  • expropriate.
  • 4: As well as meaning "lovely", this adjective can mean "perceptive and discriminating" and precede "taste".
  • exquisite.
  • 5: If the murderer had blood type A, finding that a suspect has type O is this kind of evidence.
  • exculpatory (exclusionary also accepted).

Round 2. Category: Taking A Position

  • 1: You can search far and wide or high and this.
  • low.
  • 2: If you're leeward, you're facing away from the source of this.
  • the wind.
  • 3: From the Latin citra, "on this side", it's nearby as opposed to yon.
  • hither.
  • 4: It's the compass position to the right of a person facing the rising sun.
  • south.
  • 5: 5-letter word for the place at which something is about to start, or the upper edge of a steep cliff.
  • the brink.

Round 3. Category: The Flintstones

  • 1: Apollo 7 commander Wally Schirra exclaimed this happy Fred Flintstone line from space in 1968.
  • yabba-dabba-doo.
  • 2: It's where Fred took the family in the opening of every show.
  • drive-in theater.
  • 3: Fred first met this purple creature while on a hunting trip and took him home as a pet.
  • Dino.
  • 4: The Flintstones celebrated this anniversary October 14, 1985.
  • 25th.
  • 5: Fred and Barney were lodge members of this "Loyal Order".
  • Water Buffaloes.

Round 4. Category: Words From Jeopardy!. With Jeopardy! in quotes

  • 1: Give someone enough of this and he'll hang himself with it.
  • rope.
  • 2: This term for a minute opening in the skin doesn't sound very rich.
  • pore.
  • 3: Whenever it precedes "vu" I feel like I've seen this word before.
  • deja.
  • 4: When talking about your kids, it pairs with "pride".
  • joy.
  • 5: Odd that this is the only one of Disney's 7 Dwarfs whose name is contained in "Jeopardy!".
  • Dopey.

Round 5. Category: F-Stops. With F in quotation marks

  • 1: Italian word for the last piece of an opera or concert.
  • finale.
  • 2: The outer limit of a field of science; the opening of "Star Trek" mentioned one.
  • frontier.
  • 3: Involving liquor and a match, this French verb is the last step in preparing Steak Diane.
  • flambé.
  • 4: The outer edge of something, or a spooky Fox TV show.
  • Fringe.
  • 5: Major League Baseball games that end this way are all scored 9-0.
  • forfeit.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 974, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: That 1870s Show

  • 1: This Norwegian's "Pillars of Society" debuted in Denmark in 1877.
  • Ibsen.
  • 2: "Yn Wyneb Y Nef" is one of the songs from 1878's "Blodwen", thought to be the first opera in this language.
  • Welsh.
  • 3: "Thespis", the first collaboration by this pair, opened in London in Dec. 1871 and ran for 2 months; they'd do better later.
  • Gilbert and Sullivan.
  • 4: This city just northeast of Nuremberg got on the opera map with the 1876 premiere of the full "Ring" cycle.
  • Bayreuth.
  • 5: Jacques Offenbach's 1875 operetta "Le Voyage Dans la Lune" was based on a novel by this man.
  • (Jules) Verne.

Round 2. Category: Send Me A Letter

  • 1: At Harvard, this letter grade indicates "satisfactory comprehension of the course material".
  • a C.
  • 2: Curl your little finger under your thumb and spread your other 3 fingers to make this letter in ASL.
  • a W.
  • 3: In Morse code it's 3 dots.
  • S.
  • 4: A 6-string guitar's low and high strings are typically tuned to this note.
  • E.
  • 5: It denotes the horizontal axis in a Cartesian coordinate system.
  • X.

Round 3. Category: Water You Saying?. With Water in quotes

  • 1: Scorpio or Pisces, for example.
  • a water sign.
  • 2: This was one of the sports Henry Winkler could do, so it's how Fonzie jumped the shark.
  • water skiing.
  • 3: Peppery salad vegetable.
  • watercress.
  • 4: Irish city famous for its crystal.
  • Waterford.
  • 5: Type of plain in Spain from which the rain mainly drains to one main vein.
  • a watershed.

Round 4. Category: French Class

  • 1: French for "evening", it now refers to a party held in the evening.
  • soirée.
  • 2: When the French cook with champignons, they're adding these to the dish.
  • mushrooms.
  • 3: From "chanter", to sing, it's a female singer.
  • chanteuse.
  • 4: When you ask someone to "Fermez la bouche", you want him to do this.
  • shut his mouth.
  • 5: The 2-word phrase meaning "by airplane" often found on int'l air mail envelopes.
  • par avion.

Round 5. Category: Oh, Witty Woman

  • 1: Lucille Ball once quipped, "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about" this.
  • your age.
  • 2: Funny lady Roseanne used to joke that she wouldn't do this chore "'til Sears makes one you can ride on".
  • Vacuum.
  • 3: This country singer said, "I was the first woman to burn my bra--it took the fire department 4 days to put it out".
  • Dolly Parton.
  • 4: Erma Bombeck advised, "Before you try to keep up with" them, "be sure they're not trying to keep up with you".
  • the Joneses.
  • 5: 1893-born wit who reportedly said, "The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue".
  • Dorothy Parker.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 973, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: For Me. With Me in quotes

  • 1: Usually occurring in children, this disease is caused by a morbillivirus.
  • measles.
  • 2: In the Sermon on the Mount, they are called blessed.
  • the meek.
  • 3: This reservoir was formed by Hoover Dam.
  • Lake Mead.
  • 4: From the Latin for "lean", it means deficient or barely adequate.
  • meager.
  • 5: A value below which 50% of subjects fall, or a strip down the middle of the road.
  • the median.

Round 2. Category: Chump Change

  • 1: Change a letter to get this big winner.
  • a champ.
  • 2: Drop a letter to get this dromedary dome.
  • a hump.
  • 3: Change 2 letters to get this bell sound.
  • a chime.
  • 4: Drop 2 letters to get this sports authority.
  • an ump.
  • 5: Change 2 letters to get this metal fastener.
  • a clamp.

Round 3. Category: Mr. Dwayne Johnson

  • 1: Channeling his Pacific island heritage, Dwayne was the voice of Maui in this animated movie.
  • Moana.
  • 2: In the last 4 films in this speedy franchise, Dwayne has played Luke Hobbs.
  • Fast and Furious.
  • 3: D.J. flew a rescue chopper and saved lives in this "fault"-y disaster film.
  • San Andreas.
  • 4: In "Central Intelligence", Dwayne teamed up to catch a spy with this actor of smaller stature.
  • Kevin Hart.
  • 5: Still billed as "The Rock" in his film debut "The Mummy Returns", Dwayne played this ruler restored to life by ancient magic.
  • the Scorpion King.

Round 4. Category: Novel Plots

  • 1: Life on the Mississippi with an orphan and a runaway slave.
  • Huckleberry Finn.
  • 2: After a shipwreck, an 18th c. adventurer gets tied down in Lilliput before he can return home.
  • Gulliver's Travels.
  • 3: A London physician discovers he's as different as night and day.
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
  • 4: Rudolf Rassendyll has a close shave when he's mistaken for the King of Ruritania.
  • The Prisoner of Zenda.
  • 5: Hostile aliens fall victim to germ warfare in England.
  • The War of the Worlds.

Round 5. Category: I Didn'T Expect. With I in quotes

  • 1: It precedes coffee, setter, whiskey and wolfhound.
  • Irish.
  • 2: Jacques Rogge was elected president of this governing body in July 2001.
  • the IOC, the International Olympic Committee.
  • 3: Ron Kovic could have called his book "Born on" this--it's the same thing.
  • Independence Day.
  • 4: This verb form makes the word a command.
  • imperative.
  • 5: The black, shiny crystals of this element are dissolved in alcohol to make an antiseptic.
  • iodine.

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Round 1. Category: Africa'S Official Languages

  • 1: In Benin:this.
  • French.
  • 2: In Gabon:this.
  • French.
  • 3: In Cameroon:English and this.
  • French.
  • 4: In Equatorial Guinea:Spanish and this.
  • French.
  • 5: In Rwanda:Kinyarwanda, French and this.
  • English.

Round 2. Category: Argentina

  • 1: The president of Argentina works at the Casa Rosada or Pink House in this city.
  • Buenos Aires.
  • 2: In September 1955 General Eduardo Lonardi succeeded this man as leader of Argentina.
  • (Juan) Peron.
  • 3: In March 1985, the annual rate for this stood at 850%.
  • inflation.
  • 4: Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city, lies on this island territory of Argentina.
  • Tierra del Fuego.
  • 5: Both Argentina and the Rio de la Plata derive their names from the Latin word for this.
  • silver.

Round 3. Category: Exotic Wildlife

  • 1: One happy girl on a Costa Rica expedition remarked that this animal "was a lot faster than I thought".
  • a sloth.
  • 2: Seals, beware of orcas working together in this 3-letter group--the orcas' strategies can be most effective.
  • a pod.
  • 3: Komodo dragons' tongues touch air, then touch chemoreceptors in the mouth as part of this smelling system.
  • the olfactory system.
  • 4: Polar bear cubs stay with Mom for two and a half years, ultimately going through this process of moving off her milk.
  • weaning.
  • 5: The calf of the Svalbard subspecies of this animal can be quite playful.
  • a caribou (or reindeer).

Round 4. Category: Musicals

  • 1: Title amusement park ride owned by Mrs. Mullin.
  • carousel.
  • 2: Richard Burton played this king in "Camelot"; Tim Curry has played him in "Spamalot".
  • King Arthur.
  • 3: Harve Presnell played Johnny Brown, the miner husband of this title character.
  • The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
  • 4: City The Boys" were from in musical based on "A Comedy of Errors".
  • Syracuse.
  • 5: "Illya, Darling" wasn't based on "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", but on this Melina Mercouri film.
  • Never on Sunday.

Round 5. Category: The Empire Strikes Plaque

  • 1: The British Dental Association says that most adults in the U.K. suffer from periodontal, aka this, disease.
  • gum.
  • 2: U.K. dentists recommend no less than 1,000 ppm of this in your 3-year-old's toothpaste.
  • fluoride.
  • 3: British dentistry has advanced since medieval barbers performed this procedure using a tool called the pelican.
  • an extraction.
  • 4: The British Dental Association says there is little danger from this element that's always present in amalgams.
  • mercury.
  • 5: Missing a molar in Manchester? Contact the NHS, short for this, and get a list of hospitals with a dentist on call.
  • the National Health Service.

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Round 1. Category: Key

  • 1: It's the fort over which Francis Scott Key observed "the rockets' red glare".
  • Fort McHenry.
  • 2: If you're shooting from the top of the key, you're trying to score in this sport.
  • basketball.
  • 3: His most famous work was completed in a Baltimore hotel room in 1814.
  • Francis Scott Key.
  • 4: This ornithologist visited Key West in the 1830s; here's the house that's now named in his honor.
  • Audubon.
  • 5: What the priest uses to lock doors after mass, or a slang term for a bottle opener.
  • a church key.

Round 2. Category: Sixth Sense

  • 1: Her predictions, including the JFK assassination, earned her the epithet "Seeress of Washington".
  • Jeane Dixon.
  • 2: French for "seeing clearly", it's the ability to "see" or envision images and events.
  • clairvoyance.
  • 3: Scientist Joseph Banks Rhine popularized this term for the sixth sense.
  • ESP (extrasensory perception).
  • 4: Also called mind-to-mind communication, it's the sending of thoughts from one person to another.
  • telepathy.
  • 5: This southern seer, who died in 1945, was famous for making medical diagnoses while in a trance.
  • Edgar Cayce.

Round 3. Category: Celebrity Biographies

  • 1: "Norma Jean".
  • Marilyn Monroe.
  • 2: "His Way".
  • Frank Sinatra.
  • 3: "A Rocky Life".
  • Sylvester Stallone.
  • 4: "Mr. Strangelove".
  • Peter Sellers.
  • 5: "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "Rebel".
  • James Dean.

Round 4. Category: Time To Re-Up. With Re in quotes

  • 1: To resurface a piece of furniture with some new varnish.
  • refinish.
  • 2: To increase your efforts--specifically twofold.
  • redouble.
  • 3: 6 letters: hairlines do this, get farther away into the distance.
  • recede.
  • 4: To follow the title command of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's biggest hit.
  • relax.
  • 5: Refusal to accept someone or something; in basketball, it's a blocked shot.
  • reject.

Round 5. Category: Twain

  • 1: Twain claimed it was easy to give up this habit, saying "I've done it a thousand times".
  • smoking.
  • 2: The grave of Laura H. Frazer, Twain's childhood friend, also bears the name of this character she inspired.
  • Becky Thatcher.
  • 3: As a teenager Twain, like Ben Franklin, was apprenticed to one of these.
  • printer.
  • 4: Mark Twain's grave is in Elmira in this state.
  • New York.
  • 5: Twain was on the staff of this Nevada town's Territorial Enterprise.
  • Virginia City.

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Round 1. Category: Let Me Be Perfectly Frank

  • 1: This Rat Packer gained prominence in the singing group The Hoboken Four.
  • Frank Sinatra.
  • 2: Unlike his brother, he surrendered to Missouri authorities in 1882.
  • Frank James.
  • 3: He was the subject of a book subtitled "The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman".
  • Barney Frank.
  • 4: You can see the preliminary sketches for the Panama Puente de Vida Museo on this architect's website.
  • Frank Gehry.
  • 5: Among this graphic novelist's revisions to the Batman story was making Robin a teenage girl.
  • Frank Miller.

Round 2. Category: 2005 Fiction Bestsellers

  • 1: As of July 17, 2005 this Dan Brown novel had spent 120 weeks on the N.Y. Times' list.
  • The Da Vinci Code.
  • 2: Appropriately, "A Salty Piece of Land" was penned by this "Margaritaville" singer.
  • (Jimmy) Buffett.
  • 3: The doctor was in, or rather on, the list with his environmentally themed "State of Fear".
  • Michael Crichton.
  • 4: This Tom Wolfe novel got the Presidential seal of approval when W. recommended it to friends.
  • I Am Charlotte Simmons.
  • 5: The CIA arranges a presidential pardon for mover and shaker Joel Backman in this John Grisham tale.
  • The Broker.

Round 3. Category: Oscars Since 2000

  • 1: In 2009 this supporting actor Oscar winner's award was accepted by his mother, father and sister.
  • Heath Ledger.
  • 2: The title of this best screenplay winner refers to the pregnant lead character, not a mythic queen of the heavens.
  • Juno.
  • 3: When Helen Mirren won in 2007 for playing "The Queen", he won best actor for "The Last King of Scotland".
  • Forest Whitaker.
  • 4: Cate Blanchett won an Oscar for playing this 4-time Oscar-winning actress in "The Aviator".
  • Katharine Hepburn.
  • 5: He followed up his 2003 Oscar for "Mystic River" with a best actor win for 2008.
  • Sean Penn.

Round 4. Category: The Tales Of Hoffman

  • 1: In this film Dustin Hoffman's character Raymond Babbitt habitually watches "Jeopardy!".
  • Rain Man.
  • 2: Frank Wills, the security guard who discovered the Watergate break-in, played himself in this Hoffman film.
  • All the President's Men.
  • 3: Posters for this 1982 film featured Hoffman in a red sequined dress.
  • Tootsie.
  • 4: "Everybody's Talkin'" served as the theme to this 1969 film in which Hoffman played street hustler Ratso Rizzo.
  • Midnight Cowboy.
  • 5: In this 1997 film a Washington spin doctor and a Hollywood producer team up to stage a phony war.
  • Wag the Dog.

Round 5. Category: Softball

  • 1: In 1900 the 1st softball league was organized in this largest Minnesota city.
  • Minneapolis.
  • 2: The 2 official types of softball.
  • slow pitch and fast pitch.
  • 3: In the '30s this newspaper mogul sponsored world championships and donated a gold trophy.
  • (William Randolph) Hearst.
  • 4: Any player can use a glove, but only these 2 positions can use a mitt.
  • catcher and first base.
  • 5: In men's softball, it's located 46 feet from home plate.
  • pitcher's mound.

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Round 1. Category: You'Re On A Roll

  • 1: A newspaper covering Congress since 1955, or the act of going down a list as you check class attendance.
  • Roll Call.
  • 2: Nicholas McKay invented this 4-letter roller using a toilet paper roll and tape to spruce up his suit for a dance.
  • a lint roller.
  • 3: "Roll Tide" is a trademarked phrase used by supporters of this state school... a lot.
  • the University of Alabama.
  • 4: Photographers and videographers set this "speed" to avoid the distorting effect called "rolling" this.
  • shutter.
  • 5: This appetizer got its name as it is traditionally served during a specific time of the year--the first day of Chinese New Year.
  • a spring roll.

Round 2. Category: Houses

  • 1: A small cottage, its name may come from a Hindi word meaning "of Bengal".
  • a bungalow.
  • 2: Chalets have low-pitched roofs to allow for the accumulation of this, which acts as an insulation.
  • snow.
  • 3: In May 1987 PTL auctioned off Jim and Tammy Bakker's air-conditioned one for $4,500.
  • a dog house.
  • 4: The house in which a Roman Catholic parish priest lives.
  • a rectory.
  • 5: In a song from 1933, it's the type of house I want to go back to in Kealakekua, Hawaii.
  • a little black shack.

Round 3. Category: Movie Theater Gimmicks

  • 1: The Odorama process added smells to movies using this 3-word process that involves a card and your fingernail.
  • scratch and sniff.
  • 2: In 1985 3 versions of this mystery comedy were released in theaters with 3 different people killing Mr. Boddy.
  • Clue.
  • 3: Psycho-Rama films used these, split-second hidden images or words, to unsettle the audience.
  • subliminal messages.
  • 4: Some theaters showed this 2019 Will Smith clone movie in 60 frames per second, which made the action look smoother.
  • Gemini Man.
  • 5: This director took his "Jay and Silent Bob Reboot" across the country on a roadshow.
  • Kevin Smith.

Round 4. Category: The Top Teen List

  • 1: At 16, he joined the soccer club Manchester United, but he didn't get his first goal for another 3 years.
  • Beckham.
  • 2: Miley Cyrus plays this TV teen.
  • Hannah Montana.
  • 3: This nationalist leader who used nonviolent techniques to help create a free India was married when he was 13.
  • Mohandas Gandhi.
  • 4: Legend says at 13, she saved Capt. John Smith from warriors of Powhatan, her father.
  • Pocahontas.
  • 5: At 17, this "Little Women" author wrote her first novel, "The Inheritence".
  • (Louisa May) Alcott.

Round 5. Category: What Had Happened Was

  • 1: In 2000 this man won the popular vote for U.S. president by 500,000 but did not get the job.
  • Al Gore.
  • 2: "Guests" of this fortress who checked out the hard way included Sir Thomas More, Edmund Dudley and Anne Boleyn.
  • the Tower of London.
  • 3: In 1687 the Ottomans found that storing gunpowder at this Acropolis building was a ridiculously terrible idea.
  • the Parthenon.
  • 4: In 1989 he succeeded his late father as emperor of Japan.
  • Akihito.
  • 5: On this mission Pete Conrad said, "Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me".
  • Apollo 12.

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Round 1. Category: On Ice

  • 1: Put this letter on "ice" and you get what Mickey and Minnie are.
  • M (mice).
  • 2: Put this letter on "ice" and you get gaming material that may be loaded.
  • D (dice).
  • 3: Put this letter on "ice" and you get the kind of "guys" who "finish last".
  • N (nice).
  • 4: Put this letter on "ice" and you get the type of crime Crockett and Tubbs fought.
  • V (vice).
  • 5: Put this letter on "ice" and you get a grain grown in paddies.
  • R (rice).

Round 2. Category: Classic Monopoly Tokens

  • 1: You wear one of these to protect your fingers when sewing.
  • a thimble.
  • 2: The one Lincoln wore to Ford's Theatre is in the Smithsonian.
  • a top hat.
  • 3: Awaiting the inevitable is like "waiting for the other" this "to drop".
  • the shoe.
  • 4: On May 30, 2010 Dario Franchitti claimed a big victory in one.
  • a racecar.
  • 5: It's also a classic combat game from Milton Bradley.
  • the battleship.

Round 3. Category: Althing

  • 1: Formed in 930 A.D., the Althing of this country is one of the oldest legislative assemblies in the world.
  • Iceland.
  • 2: There are this many members of the Althing--they'll always fall one short of filling an entire checkerboard.
  • sixty-three.
  • 3: This position that has the country's real power (and the cabinet) is appointed by the president with the Althing's approval.
  • the prime minister.
  • 4: In 1874 the king of this nearby Scandinavian country vested the Althing with legislative power in internal affairs.
  • Denmark.
  • 5: The Althing had an upper and lower house until 1991; now it's this type of legislature, meaning "one chamber".
  • unicameral.

Round 4. Category: Capitals At Statehood

  • 1: Augusta.
  • Georgia.
  • 2: San Jose.
  • California.
  • 3: Huntsville.
  • Alabama.
  • 4: Guthrie.
  • Oklahoma.
  • 5: Wheeling.
  • West Virginia.

Round 5. Category: Mayor Garcetti'S Los Angeles

  • 1: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) Just north of Hollywood and Vine, the studios at Capitol Records have been used by Frank Sinatra, Green Day, Sam Smith and this band, who recorded their "Surfin' Safari" album in the tower.
  • the Beach Boys.
  • 2: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) The Hollywood Sign was originally the Hollywoodland Sign, a $21,000 billboard in 1923, for this 2-word type of development owned by the publisher of the L.A. Times.
  • real estate.
  • 3: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) Using the term "California romanza" to mean "freedom to make one's own form", this 3-named architect's first L.A. project, Hollyhock House, was completed in 1921.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • 4: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) At L.A.'s Griffith Observatory, the Astronomers Monument features 6 giants of the field: Hipparchus, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Herschel and this Italian genius.
  • Galileo.
  • 5: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) Between 1921 and 1955 Italian immigrant Simon Rodia constructed a collection of 17 structures he called Nuestro Pueblo or "Our Town"; today, it's a National Historic Landmark known as this.
  • the Watts Towers.

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Round 1. Category: The Hudson

  • 1: A bridge named for this fictional snoozer crosses the Hudson at Catskill.
  • Rip Van Winkle.
  • 2: In 1802 a military academy was established at this site.
  • West Point.
  • 3: In 1807 the first practical steamboat, commonly known by this name, was launched on the Hudson.
  • Clermont.
  • 4: This interstate park on the Hudson features 300-500 foot high cliffs.
  • Palisades.
  • 5: It was on this ship that Henry Hudson was first sent up the river.
  • Half Moon.

Round 2. Category: Trade Names

  • 1: As Roosevelt was called Teddy, and motion pictures called movies, the new wheat flakes were named this.
  • Wheaties.
  • 2: Originally introduced as "Celluwipes", it's now a common brand of tissues.
  • Kleenex.
  • 3: White soap which got its name when Harvey Procter heard this word from a Psalm quoted in a sermon.
  • Ivory.
  • 4: This trade name for a fluorescent paint has come to be used for any bright, shocking color.
  • Day-Glo.
  • 5: Japanese for "three-diamond", this company's name can be seen in its symbol.
  • Mitsubishi.

Round 3. Category: If You Can'T Beat 'Em...

  • 1: At the Buick Invitational from 2005 to 2008, many were invited but no one was beating this golfer.
  • Tiger Woods.
  • 2: Many on our staff were sad to see the Astros invade Chavez Ravine and beat this team in Game 7 of the 2017 World Series.
  • the Dodgers.
  • 3: From 2005 to 2008 and again from 2010 to 2014, no man was beating this Spaniard for the French Open men's singles title.
  • (Rafael) Nadal.
  • 4: This storied franchise was the last north-of-the-border team to win the Stanley Cup, back in 1993.
  • the (Montreal) Canadiens.
  • 5: Over 4 straight Super Bowls, it was the rest of the NFL 139, this team 73.
  • the Buffalo Bills.

Round 4. Category: Double Double Letters

  • 1: He raises and tends the honey kind.
  • beekeeper.
  • 2: A gathering at which Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, or an owl and a goat might sing.
  • hootenanny.
  • 3: Quality of ice, eels, and banana peels.
  • slipperiness.
  • 4: Locusts are actually short-horned ones of these insects.
  • grasshoppers.
  • 5: It's another word for pirate, arrgh.
  • buccaneer.

Round 5. Category: Lost In Yonkers

  • 1: Ms. Levi, the matchmaker, has her eye on Mr. Vandergelder of Yonkers in this 1964 musical.
  • Hello, Dolly!.
  • 2: The city's website claims the USA's first game of this took place at Yonkers' St. Andrew's Club.
  • golf.
  • 3: You can get to Yonkers from NYC by taking the parkway named for this man, like the nearby river.
  • the Henry Hudson Parkway.
  • 4: The 85-mile-long Delaware one of these structures runs from a reservoir in the Catskills to one in Yonkers.
  • aqueduct.
  • 5: Like the adjacent Bronx, Yonkers was settled by people from this European nation in 1639.
  • Holland (the Netherlands).

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Round 1. Category: Solve For X

  • 1: 500 - X 1 = 381.
  • 120.
  • 2: 99 - x = the number of keys on a standard piano.
  • 11.
  • 3: 105/x = blackjack!.
  • 5.
  • 4: √25 3X = 29.
  • 8.
  • 5: 20 - x = days in a fortnight.
  • 6.

Round 2. Category: Take A Stab

  • 1: To protect Winona Ryder, Johnny Depp stabs Anthony Michael Hall with his "hands" in this Tim Burton film.
  • Edward Scissorhands.
  • 2: In this John Boorman film, Mordred pierces Arthur with his spear, but Arthur gets him anyway.
  • Excalibur.
  • 3: In a 1976 horror film, this telekinetic teen uses her powers to "throw" cutlery at her uber-religious mom.
  • Carrie.
  • 4: Lucy Liu looks great as a Yakuza leader, but gets a little off the top courtesy of "The Bride" in this movie.
  • Kill Bill.
  • 5: John Conner's foster father comes to a stabby, milky end in this 1991 sequel.
  • Terminator 2.

Round 3. Category: Punk'D

  • 1: This word for something bad or unfair is a homophone of what you do to a burrowing mammal in an arcade game.
  • wack.
  • 2: This 4-letter word for a journey or to stumble now means to overreact.
  • trip.
  • 3: If you fail to give someone proper deference, you do this 3-letter word to them.
  • dis.
  • 4: While a Betty is attractive, someone who's like this husband of Betty on "The Flintstones" is a dork.
  • Barney.
  • 5: A tree-hugger is a nature lover; a tree this, like what Butterfly Hill did in a redwood, is an extremist.
  • tree-sitter.

Round 4. Category: Big 4 Sports Team Names Irl

  • 1: In 2015 Iran's city of Bandar Mahshahr hit a near-record 165 on this index.
  • the heat index.
  • 2: Vermilion, burgundy,scarlet.
  • reds.
  • 3: Canada has 105 of these lawmakers.
  • senators.
  • 4: In song Gene Autry had these "that jingle jangle jingle".
  • spurs.
  • 5: Moyers,Nye,Pecos.
  • the Bills.

Round 5. Category: Presidential Wit

  • 1: Arriving at the hospital on March 30, 1981, he told one of his doctors, "I hope you're a Republican".
  • Ronald Reagan.
  • 2: In 1953 he told visitors, "There is one thing about being president--nobody can tell you when to sit down".
  • Eisenhower.
  • 3: In a January 6, 1947 diary entry, he called the White House the "great white jail".
  • Harry Truman.
  • 4: This 16th pres. said about a lawyer, "He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met".
  • Lincoln.
  • 5: He said he made his brother attorney general "to give him...experience before he goes out to practice law".
  • JFK.

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Round 1. Category: Movies' Main Cities

  • 1: "The Cooler" and"Ocean's Eleven".
  • Las Vegas.
  • 2: "Pretty Baby" and"A Streetcar Named Desire".
  • New Orleans.
  • 3: "Chinatown" and"Crash".
  • Los Angeles.
  • 4: "The Maltese Falcon" and"Dirty Harry".
  • San Francisco.
  • 5: "Avalon" and"Diner".
  • Baltimore.

Round 2. Category: Superlatives

  • 1: A traditional yearbook senior superlative is this alliterative "couple".
  • cutest.
  • 2: "I'm losin' you, I'm losin' you", sang U2, "ain't love the" this "thing".
  • sweetest.
  • 3: Nobody wants to be called this 5-letter superlative; change its only vowel to a "U" and it becomes a sausage.
  • the worst.
  • 4: A book of records came about after a Guinness executive wondered if among game birds, the one he had just missed shooting was this.
  • the fastest.
  • 5: In TV ads the Maytag repairman was the this "guy in town".
  • loneliest.

Round 3. Category: Not Quite Oscar-Nominated Films

  • 1: Keanu Reeves hopped off the bus and didn't board the ship for this "2: Cruise Control".
  • Speed.
  • 2: Calling it an "infamous failure", even one of the writers admitted this Halle Berry pic was not purr-fect.
  • Catwoman.
  • 3: His work as Casey Ryback in "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory" was overlooked by the Academy, as was the film itself.
  • Steven Seagal.
  • 4: Though The Rock gave his all as Mitch Buchannon, this film was not up for an Oscar; a Razzie or 4? Ohhh, yes.
  • Baywatch.
  • 5: Leonard Maltin, on No. 5 in this series about cops: "What can you say about a sequel... Steve Guttenberg won't even appear in?".
  • Police Academy.

Round 4. Category: Geek Holidays

  • 1: If you missed March 14, you can always wait until July 22 or 7/22, this number's approximation Day.
  • pi.
  • 2: There is much cosplay on FCBD, "Free" this kind of publication "Day" each May.
  • Free Comic Book Day.
  • 3: 2015 has come and gone, but you can still celebrate every October 21, the date from a sequel to this 1985 film.
  • Back to the Future.
  • 4: Leslie Knope of this show created the girls-only Galentine's Day (Feb. 13) and it's taken off in the real world.
  • Parks and Recreation.
  • 5: If it's October 23 between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM, it's Mole Day, on which chemists celebrate this man's number.
  • Avogadro.

Round 5. Category: Stocks, Symbolically

  • 1: MMM: that kind of says it all.
  • 3M.
  • 2: AFL: if it walks like a duck....
  • Aflac.
  • 3: SCHW: we're invested in your response.
  • Charles Schwab.
  • 4: CMCSA: your technician will arrive between 7 A.M. and 11 P.M. (We kid, there's a 2-hour window).
  • Comcast.
  • 5: GIS: Cheerios and Yoplait are on us!.
  • General Mills.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 964, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bottom Dwellers

  • 1: These porous creatures from the phylum Porifera go from the bottom of the Mediterranean to bathtubs.
  • sponges.
  • 2: One of the largest of these bewhiskered bottom-dwelling fish is the European Wels at 15'.
  • catfish.
  • 3: The crayfish found in this famous Kentucky landmark are blind.
  • Mammoth Cave.
  • 4: The American species of this bottom-dwelling crustacean is usually caught in a "pot".
  • lobster.
  • 5: Scientists have found 5' long ones near hydrothermal vents in the ocean.
  • tube worns.

Round 2. Category: Here Come The Monsters!

  • 1: This nickname of the demonic villain in the "Hellraiser" franchise is also a term for someone not so sharp.
  • a pinhead.
  • 2: In a 1998 movie the spawn of this reimagined monster hatched in Madison Square Garden.
  • Godzilla.
  • 3: In "The Host", something is living in the River Han and is set to wreak havoc on this capital city.
  • Seoul.
  • 4: In this Guillermo del Toro movie, Doug Jones played both "El Fauno" and "The Pale Man" who had eyes on his hands.
  • Pan's Labyrinth.
  • 5: This term for hatred or malice is also the beast kept in a pit by Jabba the Hutt and defeated by Luke.
  • Rancor.

Round 3. Category: State / Prison

  • 1: Attica! and Southport Correctional Facility!.
  • New York.
  • 2: You're off to the land of Lincoln Correctional Center and also Dixon (but no Mason).
  • Illinois.
  • 3: Hey! You! Get off of my correctional facility at St. Cloud! Rush City, too, for that matter!.
  • Minnesota.
  • 4: Cedar Junction and Framingham are wicked excellent prisons for the wicked.
  • Massachusetts.
  • 5: It's another Pleasant Valley State Prison Sunday, no one's flying out of Pelican Bay, either.
  • California.

Round 4. Category: Kid Stuff

  • 1: They were first allowed to play Little League ball in 1974.
  • girls.
  • 2: In Mexico kids take a whack at cracking open these, candy-filled papier-mache figures.
  • a piñata.
  • 3: "The Incredible Journey" described the incredible journey of 2 dogs and 1 of these.
  • Siamese cat.
  • 4: Military term for a living room structure with sofa-cushion walls.
  • fort.
  • 5: This game, also called jackstraws, is mentioned in they rhyme, "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe".
  • pick-up sticks.

Round 5. Category: My Movies

  • 1: A musical:"My blank Lady".
  • Fair.
  • 2: "My blank Foot ".
  • Left.
  • 3: "My blank blank Greek Wedding".
  • Big Fat.
  • 4: "My blank Is an Alien".
  • Stepmother.
  • 5: "My blank Laundrette".
  • Beautiful.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 963, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: States By City Trash-Talking

  • 1: "Truth or Consequences isn't a choice! and Los Alamos may be the bomb, but it's Roswell that ends well!".
  • New Mexico.
  • 2: "Sure, Ogden and Orem are nice, but I prefer Brigham City-- gee, I've really got to work on my trash-talking".
  • Utah.
  • 3: "I get no kick from Champaign! I'm not Havana a good time! I only play in Peoria!".
  • Illinois.
  • 4: "I'm not Spokane for, and I ain't putting on the Ritzville! Everybody loves Raymond!".
  • Washington.
  • 5: "Stick Three Forks in it, it's done! and kiss our Butte, Bozeman!".
  • Montana.

Round 2. Category: Financial Gobbledygook

  • 1: The most widely used interest rate in the world, LIBOR is this city's "interbank offered rate".
  • London.
  • 2: Don't get them mixed up: ETF means "exchange-traded" these; EFT means "electronic" these "transfer".
  • funds.
  • 3: An unregulated statement of profit, EBITDA stands for these before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization.
  • earnings.
  • 4: CAGR, short for an investment's compound annual this rate, basically just averages what it did over time.
  • growth.
  • 5: In the VIX index, "V" is for this measure of how much an investment's value fluctuates.
  • volatility.

Round 3. Category: Double Talk Names

  • 1: Neuwirth of "Cheers".
  • Bebe.
  • 2: Bean or Cool J.
  • L.L..
  • 3: Michelle Pfeiffer's sister who was in "Vamp" and "Falling Down".
  • Dedee.
  • 4: Poet cummings, whose first book of poetry, "Tulips and Chimneys", came out in 1923.
  • e.e..
  • 5: Singer Peniston or Winans.
  • CeCe.

Round 4. Category: Fly Countries

  • 1: Iberia Airlines.
  • Spain.
  • 2: Aer Lingus.
  • Ireland.
  • 3: Olympic Airlines.
  • Greece.
  • 4: Belavia (Its first terminal was in Minsk).
  • Belarus.
  • 5: KoninklijkeLuchtvaartMaatshappij(you might know it by its abbreviation).
  • The Netherlands (KLM).

Round 5. Category: Contrary To Popular Belief

  • 1: When Rome burned in 64 A.D., Nero was 35 miles away and couldn't have played this, as it wasn't invented until the 15th c..
  • a fiddle.
  • 2: This "ground lion" reptile rarely changes its color for camouflage: it's usually signifying its emotional state.
  • chameleon.
  • 3: By some measures, the largest organism isn't a blue whale, but a 2,385-acre Oregon mushroom, the "humongous" this.
  • fungus.
  • 4: Some argue there are 46 states, not 50, as Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts are all these.
  • Commonwealths.
  • 5: Some think America was named for Richard Ameryk, one of Cabot's investors, not for this Italian who died in 1512.
  • Amerigo Vespucci.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 962, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Religious Holidays

  • 1: On Shab-e-Barat, followers of this religion pray to Allah to give them a good year.
  • Islam.
  • 2: Shavuot, the Jewish Pentecost, celebrates the giving of this on Mount Sinai.
  • the Ten Commandments.
  • 3: In Latin America, Dia de la Cruz celebrates the day on which St. Helena is said to have found this.
  • the fragments of the true cross.
  • 4: The festival of Vesak commemorates the birth, enlightenment and death of this religious leader.
  • the Buddha.
  • 5: This church festival on August 15th celebrates the Virgin Mary's ascent into heaven.
  • the Assumption.

Round 2. Category: Extravaganza Eleganza

  • 1: Valued at $3.8 mil., the most expensive one of these is encrusted with 4,517 diamonds; it'll at least hold a lipstick.
  • a purse.
  • 2: A $69 hot dog (called a "haute dog") is grilled in white truffle oil and topped with this liver from a duck.
  • foie gras.
  • 3: Fetching $3.6 million at auction, the "Molitor" is a violin he made in 1697.
  • Stradivarius.
  • 4: Go ahead and splurge on a private island; Bird Cay is just $14 million and 30 minutes from Nassau in these islands.
  • the Bahamas.
  • 5: He had more than 300 field animals in his private zoo at his San Simeon estate.
  • (William Randolph) Hearst.

Round 3. Category: Family Television

  • 1: The 1996 Thanksgiving episode of this Tim Allen sitcom featured a claymation dream sequence.
  • Home Improvement.
  • 2: Judy and Elroy were (or is that will be) the kids on this visionary show.
  • The Jetsons.
  • 3: She played Kate Lawrence, mother of 4, on the '70s series "Family".
  • Sada Thompson.
  • 4: On "The Simpsons" she's Bart and Lisa's pacifier-equipped baby sister.
  • Maggie.
  • 5: Salinger was the last name of the siblings living without parents on this 1990s TV show.
  • Party of Five.

Round 4. Category: Rom Coms

  • 1: Vanity Fair called this film with Bill Murray as weatherman Phil Connors a "rom-com for curmudgeons".
  • Groundhog Day.
  • 2: Director Rob Reiner's mom delivered the immortal line "I'll have what she's having" in this rom com.
  • When Harry Met Sally....
  • 3: "Something's Gotta Give" is a ditty starring Jack and Diane, these 2 legendary actors.
  • Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton.
  • 4: In 2005 Will Smith played a "date doctor" who fell in love with Eva Mendes in this comedy.
  • Hitch.
  • 5: This movie had Julia Roberts tell Hugh Grant, "I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her".
  • Notting Hill.

Round 5. Category: Nonprofit Organizations

  • 1: This group that sends doctors and nurses to about 70 countries every year won the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Doctors Without Borders.
  • 2: (Hi, I'm Mark Kelly.) My wife Gabrielle Giffords and I founded Americans for Responsible Solutions in response to the 2012 Sandy Hook tragedy in this Connecticut community.
  • Newtown.
  • 3: You can adopt a bird to support the conservation society named for this ornithologist and painter of birds.
  • Audubon.
  • 4: Here's the logo of this foundation that works to give every baby a fighting chance.
  • the March of Dimes.
  • 5: This group was started in Britain in 1942 to feed starving women and children in Greece.
  • Oxfam.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 961, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Dealer'S Choice

  • 1: Wilhelm Roentgen won the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of these rays.
  • X-Rays.
  • 2: The Vulcans play for U.H. Hilo, this school with an active volcano next door.
  • the University of Hawaii.
  • 3: The 1932 Bela Lugosi classic "White Zombie" is set in this traditional Caribbean zombie homeland.
  • Haiti.
  • 4: Pablo Picasso said that "the genius of" this man "leads to Hiroshima".
  • (Albert) Einstein.
  • 5: A journalist's source who wants to remain anonymous may speak "on" this, or even "on deep" this.
  • background.

Round 2. Category: Politics And Current Affairs Books

  • 1: Longtime friend and coworker Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the foreword to a book of speeches by this late justice.
  • Scalia.
  • 2: "Escape from Camp 14" is the story of Shin Dong-Hyuk's escape to freedom from a prison in this country.
  • North Korea.
  • 3: This host of "Hardball" gives a behind-the-scenes portrait of a presidential brother in "Bobby Kennedy".
  • Chris Matthews.
  • 4: "The Weapon Wizards" is a study of the strategies that have helped make this Mideast nation a high-tech superpower.
  • Israel.
  • 5: "Kingfish" explores the life of this Louisiana governor some call a demagogue and some a visionary.
  • Huey Long.

Round 3. Category: Brain Strain

  • 1: The word monosyllable has this many syllables.
  • 5.
  • 2: This final board game maneuver comes from the Arabic phrase "Shah Mat"--the king is dead.
  • checkmate.
  • 3: A group of things of the same kind, or scenery constructed for a theatrical performance.
  • Set.
  • 4: Appropriately, this stadium has hosted the NFL Super Bowl more than any other.
  • Louisiana Superdome.
  • 5: Reassembled and rededicated in Arizona in 1971, it was the largest antique ever sold.
  • London Bridge.

Round 4. Category: Not Without My Daughter

  • 1: For many years, this "pretty baby" was inseparable from her manager mom Teri, an ex-model herself.
  • Brooke Shields.
  • 2: It's no rumor: her real daughter, Rumer, played her movie daughter in "Striptease".
  • Demi Moore.
  • 3: Mom Naomi kept performing as half of this duo for over a year after doctors advised her to quit.
  • the Judds.
  • 4: This current Dutch queen was a baby when she fled the Netherlands with her mother during WWII.
  • Beatrice (Beatrix).
  • 5: In 1986 she and her mother Nusrat were formally elected co-Chairwomen of the Pakistani People's Party.
  • (Benazir) Bhutto.

Round 5. Category: Go To The End. With Go in quotation marks

  • 1: In 2000 Ladies Home Journal ranked this North Dakota city among the Top 10 cities for women.
  • Fargo.
  • 2: A deep violet blue.
  • indigo.
  • 3: In "Othello", he delivers the line, "Beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey'd monster".
  • Iago.
  • 4: A pain in the back, the lower back.
  • lumbago.
  • 5: In mythology this ship on which Jason sailed contained magic wood from a sacred oak.
  • Argo.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 960, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Anagrammed 21St Century Leaders

  • 1: Germany: Meaner Gal Elk.
  • Angela Merkel.
  • 2: Venezuela: Ez Havoc Hug.
  • Hugo Chavez.
  • 3: Italy:Billion Sour Vices.
  • Silvio Berlusconi.
  • 4: The United Kingdom:Wrong Orb Nod.
  • Gordon Brown.
  • 5: Canada:Sharpen The Rep.
  • Stephen Harper.

Round 2. Category: Kids Rule!

  • 1: Henry VI was just 9 months old when he succeeded his dad, Henry V, as king of this in 1422.
  • England.
  • 2: This "boy king" was about 9 years old when he became a pharaoh around 1333 B.C..
  • Tutankhamen.
  • 3: Fyodor III was 14 in 1676 when he ascended to the throne of Russia and took this Russian title.
  • Tsar Fyodor.
  • 4: Jeanne de Navarre was 13 when she became this country's queen in 1285.
  • France.
  • 5: Isabella II, the daughter of Ferdinand VII, was just under 3 years old when she was proclaimed queen of this in 1833.
  • Spain.

Round 3. Category: The Nationals

  • 1: One of the most famous festivals in Bangladesh is Id al-Fitr, which comes at the end of this holy month.
  • Ramadan.
  • 2: Mount Jacques-Cartier is a fixture on the Gaspe Peninsula in this country.
  • Canada.
  • 3: The Ubangi River forms part of the northern boundary of this African country that's sometimes shortened to DRC.
  • Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • 4: A 1958 uprising in Algeria threatened this European nation with civil war.
  • France.
  • 5: Fittingly the shape of this kingdom is often compared to an elephant's head; the "trunk" extends into the Malay Peninsula.
  • Thailand.

Round 4. Category: On The Movie'S Soundtrack

  • 1: "Leaving Port", "My Heart Will Go On".
  • Titanic.
  • 2: A 2016 remake of a 1959 epic: "Galley Slaves", "Dear Messala".
  • Ben-Hur.
  • 3: "Lady Marmalade", Nicole Kidman doing "One Day I'll Fly Away".
  • Moulin Rouge!.
  • 4: From 1969 Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild".
  • Easy Rider.
  • 5: Adam Levine singing "Lost Stars", Keira Knightley doing "Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home".
  • Begin Again.

Round 5. Category: Tom Jones

  • 1: Singer Tom Jones is the son of one of these workers; Loretta Lynn is famous for being the daughter of one.
  • Coal miner.
  • 2: Tom hails from Pontypridd in this British Isles country.
  • Wales.
  • 3: Tom was born the son of a coal miner in Pontypridd in this U.K. country.
  • Wales.
  • 4: Tom played -- who else? -- himself on the "Marge Gets a Job" episode of this animated TV series in 1992.
  • The Simpsons.
  • 5: It's not odd that this 1965 song is heard in the 1998 film "Little Voice".
  • "It's Not Unusual".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 959, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fine Food

  • 1: At a raw bar, try the Lynnhaven type of this mollusk--it doesn't shuck.
  • oysters.
  • 2: Sushi lovers know a California roll contains this tree fruit aka the alligator pear.
  • the avocado.
  • 3: Sorbet is served to cleanse this, a term for a part of the mouth.
  • the palate.
  • 4: As you can see, this traditional roast beef accompaniment is not what we'd normally call a pudding.
  • Yorkshire pudding.
  • 5: Columbus was a fan of these, also a generic Italian term for cookies, because they resisted mold on voyages.
  • biscotti.

Round 2. Category: Treblemakers

  • 1: Chien Tan of the Oregon Symphony is one of the few masters of the smaller treble type of this string instrument.
  • the violin.
  • 2: Treble recorders are also called this, also a 4-letter female singing voice.
  • alto.
  • 3: The reeds and keys controlling the treble on the piano type of this flexible instrument are on the right side.
  • the accordion.
  • 4: Any birdbrain knows this name for the part of a stereo speaker that produces treble sounds.
  • the tweeter.
  • 5: This word found after "treble" comes from the French for "key".
  • clef.

Round 3. Category: Silent Letter But Deadly

  • 1: Proverbially, you go "under" it when you head into surgery.
  • under the knife.
  • 2: Mom might let you run with rock or paper, but never with these.
  • scissors.
  • 3: It's a tool and a deadly weapon in a game of Clue and can also mean to twist violently.
  • a wrench.
  • 4: This "d'etat", a sudden forced change in government, can get dangerous fast.
  • a coup.
  • 5: A silent "C" is the second letter of this agricultural implement, Death's symbolic tool of the trade.
  • a scythe.

Round 4. Category: Sporting Goods

  • 1: Ecologically minded golfers can get these golf ball supporters that are biodegradable.
  • tees.
  • 2: Young kids don't need them; for older skiers their grips should be at a level with arms bent and out-stretched.
  • poles.
  • 3: In baseball, this player's mitt cannot have a circumference of more than 38".
  • the catcher.
  • 4: Kevlar, used in bulletproof vests, is used by Wilson to make these balls that you may kick or head.
  • a soccer ball.
  • 5: Montreal's 2002 Jr Powerlam is a 51" long one of these with a synthetic blade.
  • a hockey stick.

Round 5. Category: Catching Some ZS. With Z in quotes

  • 1: Both NYC and Philadelphia claim the oldest of these in the U.S..
  • zoo.
  • 2: It's the hairy-stemmed flower named for Johann Zinn.
  • a Zinnia.
  • 3: Ahura Mazda is not a model of car, but the 1 true god of this religion.
  • Zoroastrianism.
  • 4: Wahoo! This movie mogul was born in Wahoo, Nebraska in 1902.
  • (Darryl) Zanuck.
  • 5: 2-word term for the weightlessness experienced by astronauts in orbit.
  • zero gravity.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 958, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Gadget

  • 1: Introduced in 1989, the GRiDPad was the first of these portable computers that are now smaller and slimmer than laptops.
  • a tablet.
  • 2: The fully automatic AT-LP60X one of these from Audio-Technica lists for less than $100; time to break out those old 45s.
  • a turntable.
  • 3: No more cords! These Pro earbuds from Apple are wireless, noise-cancelling and water resistant.
  • AirPod Pros.
  • 4: The Blunt XL one of these is able to withstand rain and winds of up to 60 mph thanks to its high-density fabric and tensioning system.
  • an umbrella.
  • 5: The V11 Torque Drive cordless vacuum from this company promises 60 minutes of use without needing to recharge.
  • Dyson.

Round 2. Category: Xs, Then Os

  • 1: "Black tie preferred" usually means this garment for men.
  • a tuxedo.
  • 2: This synonym for dictionary can also refer to a specialized vocabulary for a field of study.
  • a lexicon.
  • 3: Flash lamps are one use for this noble gas.
  • xenon.
  • 4: Nuts and bolt heads are commonly made in this shape because it's easy to tighten and loosen.
  • a hexagon.
  • 5: Also known as a postulate, it's a proposition regarded as established or self-evidently true.
  • an axiom.

Round 3. Category: How'D They Die?

  • 1: Nathan Hale.
  • hanging.
  • 2: The Wicked Witch of the East.
  • crushed by a house.
  • 3: Maximilien Robsepierre.
  • by guillotine.
  • 4: Yoda.
  • old age.
  • 5: Tennessee Williams.
  • by choking on a pill-bottle cap.

Round 4. Category: Odd Rock Words

  • 1: In the title of the Bobby Darin classic, this word preceded "Splash".
  • Splish.
  • 2: In a 1985 hit title, Aretha Franklin asked "Who's" doing this to "Who".
  • Zoomin'.
  • 3: Their album "Zenyatta Mondata" featured the single "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da".
  • The Police.
  • 4: In various titles, this word precedes "Judge", "Broadway", "Street", "Worm", "Town" and "Nassau".
  • Funky.
  • 5: Odd word which, when repeated, formed the title of a 1987 Billy Idol hit.
  • Mony.

Round 5. Category: Surrounded By Water

  • 1: Ile de la Cite.
  • the Seine (River).
  • 2: New Zealand is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the east and this sea to the west.
  • Tasman Sea.
  • 3: Venice--this sea.
  • the Adriatic.
  • 4: This peninsula that makes up over 15% of Greece's area is separated from the Greek mainland by a canal.
  • the Peloponnesus.
  • 5: More than 30 islands make up this small Arab nation surrounded by the waters of the Persian Gulf.
  • Bahrain.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 957, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Say Cheese!

  • 1: Add white wine to some shaved Gruyere and Emmentaler and then heat to make this dipping treat.
  • fondue.
  • 2: It's a long way to this Irish county famous for its Cashel blue cheese.
  • Tipperary.
  • 3: Napoleon III may have named this white, downy-rind cow's-milk cheese after the Norman village where he first sampled it.
  • Camembert.
  • 4: The name of this cheese of India follows saag in a spinach and cheese dish.
  • paneer.
  • 5: A favorite of Charlemagne, a true version of this cheese can be authenticated by a red sheep on the wrapper.
  • Roquefort.

Round 2. Category: Recycling

  • 1: Because a yellow dye has been found that washes out, some of these directories are now recyclable.
  • Yellow Pages (telephone book).
  • 2: Doing this to aluminum cans makes it easier to store and transport them.
  • crushing them.
  • 3: For some envelopes to be recyclable, this material must be removed from the address window.
  • cellophane (plastic).
  • 4: Some cities provide curbside pickup of leaves, which are then recycled into this for fertilizing gardens.
  • mulch (compost).
  • 5: To make this material, furnaces must run at 2800° F.; to recycle it, at lower temperatures.
  • glass.

Round 3. Category: Blank That Guy

  • 1: Connived his way to control of the New York City Treasury in the 1870s:William "blank" blank.
  • "Boss" Tweed.
  • 2: Alliterative SS chief:Heinrich blank.
  • Himmler.
  • 3: Ran a brutal gang in Prohibition-era NYC:Dutch blank.
  • Schultz.
  • 4: Shot near a Virginia farmhouse in April 1865:blank blank blank.
  • John Wilkes Booth.
  • 5: Took over in Cambodia in 1975:blank blank.
  • Pol Pot.

Round 4. Category: Business Men

  • 1: This company founded by Berry Gordy Jr. celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1998.
  • Motown Records.
  • 2: In 1998 he went to his first owners meeting since 1989, to try to stop rival Murdoch's Dodgers buy.
  • Ted Turner.
  • 3: It shouldn't take you overnight to deliver the name of this company Fred Smith founded in 1973.
  • Federal Express.
  • 4: With a yardstick and a piece of plywood, Edwin Shoemaker felt inclined to design this recliner in 1928.
  • La-Z-Boy.
  • 5: This inventor of vulcanization was sent to debtor's prison; maybe for bouncing checks?.
  • Charles Goodyear.

Round 5. Category: I Didn'T Expect. With I in quotes

  • 1: It precedes coffee, setter, whiskey and wolfhound.
  • Irish.
  • 2: Jacques Rogge was elected president of this governing body in July 2001.
  • the IOC, the International Olympic Committee.
  • 3: Ron Kovic could have called his book "Born on" this--it's the same thing.
  • Independence Day.
  • 4: This verb form makes the word a command.
  • imperative.
  • 5: The black, shiny crystals of this element are dissolved in alcohol to make an antiseptic.
  • iodine.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 956, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: it's "ok"

  • 1: It begins "You put your right foot in, you put your right foot out".
  • "The Hokey Pokey".
  • 2: It joins 2 oxen together.
  • yoke.
  • 3: You can sing like a star at one of these bars where you accompany pre-recorded tapes.
  • karaoke.
  • 4: According to Guinness, you'll find the world's highest sea cliffs on this "friendly island" of Hawaii.
  • Molokai.
  • 5: Gertrude Stein's constant companion.
  • Alice (B.) Toklas.

Round 2. Category: in a teacup

  • 1: Studies show that drinking an herbal tea made from this flower may have heart-healthy benefits.
  • hibiscus.
  • 2: In an idiom, a big to-do over a tiny matter is described as this "in a teacup" or "teapot".
  • a tempest.
  • 3: Yup, it's a teacup one of these terrier breeds in a teacup.
  • a Yorkshire Terrier.
  • 4: Reese Witherspoon pays homage to her grandmother and her southern heritage in the lifestyle book called this booze "in a Teacup".
  • whiskey.
  • 5: A house one of these birds enjoys some seeds and rest in a teacup bird feeder.
  • a finch.

Round 3. Category: thriller

  • 1: This author's techno-thriller "Rainbow Six" focuses on John Clark, also a hero in "Clear and Present Danger".
  • Tom Clancy.
  • 2: This author made a University of Virginia law professor the protagonist of his 2002 novel "The Summons".
  • (John) Grisham.
  • 3: You were born to identify this author of "The Bourne Identity".
  • (Robert) Ludlum.
  • 4: "The Numa Files" are paperback spin-offs of this writer's novels featuring Dirk Pitt.
  • Clive Cussler.
  • 5: "The Attorney" Paul Madriani appears in several legal thrillers by this lawyer-turned-author.
  • Steve Martini.

Round 4. Category: 1920s news flash!

  • 1: News flash! This less-than-yappy pappy is sixth veep to be nation's top dog after chief takes deep sleep!.
  • Calvin Coolidge.
  • 2: Aug. 3, 1927! Bay State gov says no to anarchy! Denies clemency to these 2 Italians! It's the chair for the pair!.
  • Sacco and Vanzetti.
  • 3: 1927! Gene Tunney takes a long count in the squared circle but rises to defeat this "Manassa Mauler"! Howzabout that!.
  • Jack Dempsey.
  • 4: 1922: It's the end of an empire! This empire, in fact! After 600 years, it's goodbye, this, hello, Turkish Republic!.
  • the Ottoman Empire.
  • 5: Nov. 28, 1929! This man and his chief pilot Bernt Balchen fly to South Pole! Yowza! You'll be an admirable admiral, sir!.
  • (Richard) Byrd.

Round 5. Category: author last name in common

  • 1: Novelist Henry and playwright Arthur, both Brooklyn boys.
  • Miller.
  • 2: Journalist Tom and novelist Thomas, both southern boys.
  • Wolfe.
  • 3: Jackie, Suzanne, Wilkie.
  • Collins.
  • 4: E.B., T.H. and Australian Nobelist Patrick.
  • White.
  • 5: Henry and Helen, who both wrote about title characters with the last name Jones.
  • Fielding.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 955, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I'Ll Have The Ham. With Ham in quotes

  • 1: A Cricetus cricetus with large cheek pouches.
  • hamster.
  • 2: This tendon is at the back of the thigh.
  • the hamstring.
  • 3: This man co-wrote several popular musicals including "The King and I".
  • Oscar Hammerstein.
  • 4: He wrote hard-boiled detective novels like "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man".
  • Dashiell Hammett.
  • 5: This county in southern England borders the English Channel.
  • Hampshire.

Round 2. Category: Muppet News

  • 1: Over to Elmo, who reports on the "Tickle Me Satchmo" doll honoring this "Hello, Dolly!" musician.
  • Louis Armstrong.
  • 2: Longtime roommates Bert and Ernie interview these 2 characters played by Lemmon and Matthau in 1968.
  • Felix Unger and Oscar Madison.
  • 3: Next, Cookie Monster gets up close and personal with the "Head Baker and Spokes-Elf" of this company.
  • Keebler.
  • 4: In "Gonzo's Book Corner", our blue man snoop reviews this gonzo journalist's "Great Shark Hunt".
  • Hunter S. Thompson.
  • 5: Hi ho, this CNN Finance host who replaced Willow Bay in 2001 here, sitting in for Kermit the anchorfrog.
  • Lou Dobbs.

Round 3. Category: The Brady Bunch

  • 1: The Brady Bill requires a 5-day waiting period on the purchase of these.
  • handguns.
  • 2: Because he was not well enough known, Gene Hackman lost the role of Mike Brady to this actor.
  • (Robert) Reed.
  • 3: In 2017 he released his first book, "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance".
  • Tom Brady.
  • 4: In the late 1890s its territorial gov. John Green Brady called for statehood; he died in Sitka before it happened.
  • Alaska.
  • 5: She died in April 2015 after 30 years of gun control activism.
  • Sarah Brady.

Round 4. Category: And The Fish Was This Big!

  • 1: Up to 15 feet long, this fish has no teeth as an adult but does have a weapon for a nose.
  • a swordfish.
  • 2: Don't struggle clumsily; identify the summer type of this, which can grow to almost three feet long.
  • a flounder.
  • 3: Gail Choy-Kaleiki wasn't an old man but she pulled an 1,800-pound blue one of these out of the sea in 1970.
  • a marlin.
  • 4: A general term for a small fish; most American ones are less than 6 inches, but one in the Colorado River can run 6 feet.
  • minnow.
  • 5: If you're doing this type of "Fishing in America", remember that New Jersey's record for a lake one is over 32 pounds.
  • trout.

Round 5. Category: Countries' Official Languages

  • 1: In Israel, Arabic and this.
  • Hebrew.
  • 2: In San Marino.
  • Italian.
  • 3: In Liechtenstein.
  • German.
  • 4: In Finland, Finnish and this.
  • Swedish.
  • 5: In Andorra, this language named for a region of Spain.
  • Catalan.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 954, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Good Dog!

  • 1: In the early 19th century Barry, a dog of this breed, saved more than 40 people in the Swiss Alps.
  • Saint Bernard.
  • 2: Dogs in B.A.R.K. (Baseball Aquatic Retrieval Korps) fetch homers hit from this team's park into San Francisco Bay.
  • San Francisco Giants.
  • 3: Wounded while flushing out a machine gun nest during WWII, Chips received the Silver Star for valor and this medal.
  • Purple Heart.
  • 4: In May 1805 Scannon, a black Newfoundland, saved several men from a charging buffalo on this pair's expedition.
  • Lewis and Clark.
  • 5: When he first sighted the Pacific in 1513, his only companion was his dog, Leoncico.
  • Vasco de Balboa.

Round 2. Category: Sitcom Characters

  • 1: This mailman on "Cheers" gleaned some of his knowledge from reading the magazines he delivered.
  • Cliff (Clavin).
  • 2: "The Days and Nights of" this divorcee moved from NBC to the Lifetime Network in 1989.
  • Molly Dodd.
  • 3: This character was a "lovely lady who was bringing up three very lovely girls".
  • Carol Brady.
  • 4: He plays assistant football coach Luther Van Dam on "Coach".
  • Jerry Van Dyke.
  • 5: Name of the writer played by Rose Marie on "The Dick Van Dyke Show".
  • Sally Rogers.

Round 3. Category: Food And Drink Retronyms

  • 1: The first vegetables called potatoes were actually what we now call these "potatoes".
  • sweet potatoes.
  • 2: When the kernels are not removed, corn is described with this 3-word prepositional phrase.
  • on the cob.
  • 3: Before "polishing" began, most of the rice people ate was this color variety; now the term is used for a "whole grain" type.
  • brown.
  • 4: Due to the emergence of the vodka type, the original martini now has this liquor in front.
  • gin.
  • 5: The black type of this is the original type made from a plant; the "black" part was added when candy like Twizzlers came along.
  • licorice.

Round 4. Category: Little Songs. With Little in quotes

  • 1: In 1978, Olivia Newton-John thought this would "make it right".
  • "A Little More Love".
  • 2: Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs told her, "You're everything a big bad wolf could want, owww".
  • "Little Red Riding Hood".
  • 3: It was Jan and Dean, not the Beach Boys, who made it a hit in 1964.
  • "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena".
  • 4: In 1958, the Elegants climbed high by asking it, "Where are you".
  • "Little Star".
  • 5: According to Burl Ives in 1962, this "got him down and spoiled his act like a clown".
  • "A Little Bitty Tear".

Round 5. Category: Kids' Books

  • 1: Huckleberry Finn first shows up in this novel.
  • Tom Sawyer.
  • 2: The title character of this classic by Eric Carle literally eats through the pages of the book.
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
  • 3: This stuffed bear with a fabric name goes searching for a missing button.
  • Corduroy.
  • 4: The title page of the first edition of this 1877 novel claims it was "translated from the original equine".
  • Black Beauty.
  • 5: This "harebrained" English author also wrote about a rat in "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers".
  • Beatrix Potter.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 953, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: fantastic tv

  • 1: This story of a leonine hero and his lady love is rerunning on the Family Channel.
  • Beauty and the Beast.
  • 2: On film David Naughton was an American werewolf; on TV Kate Hodge is a she-wolf of this city.
  • London.
  • 3: Though this FOX show based on a 1988 movie about refugees from another planet died, the comic book lives on.
  • Alien Nation.
  • 4: In 1990 these 2 totally awesome teenage time travelers were transported into a CBS cartoon series.
  • Bill and Ted.
  • 5: The voice of Duke Nukem in "Captain Planet", he plays Al on "Quantum Leap".
  • Dean Stockwell.

Round 2. Category: weapons of local destruction

  • 1: WWII types of these included the German Panther and Tiger, the Soviet T-34 and the U.S. Sherman.
  • tanks.
  • 2: Pineapple-shaped with a delay of about 4 seconds, the British Mills type of this was used in both World Wars.
  • a hand grenade.
  • 3: This heavy 19th century sheath knife was named for a Texas frontiersman killed at the Alamo.
  • a Bowie knife.
  • 4: If attacked, use this petrified tear gas spray, then the same-named armor-breaking weapon.
  • mace.
  • 5: It's an explosive mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur.
  • gunpowder.

Round 3. Category: english literature

  • 1: His works can be classified as "Hobbit" forming.
  • (John) Tolkien.
  • 2: The work that made this philosopher famous was an "Essay Concerning Human Understanding".
  • John Locke.
  • 3: Dickens novel in which Miss Havisham left everything in her house as it was the day she was jilted.
  • Great Expectations.
  • 4: The activities of a certain London club form the basis of this Dickens novel, his first.
  • The Pickwick Papers.
  • 5: This tale published in 1932 is set in the year 632 AF (After Ford).
  • Brave New World.

Round 4. Category: judge not

  • 1: A cutting criticism, or a violent closing of a door.
  • Slam.
  • 2: Proverbially, to express contempt, you "thumb" this body part.
  • Nose.
  • 3: As a verb, it's to disparage strongly; as a noun, it's rubbish or garbage.
  • Trash.
  • 4: From the Latin for "to scatter", these calumnious expressions are "cast" on others.
  • Aspersions.
  • 5: From old Norse for "grin scornfully", you may do it over your enemy's misfortunes.
  • Gloat.

Round 5. Category: celeb stuff

  • 1: On March 2, 1977 he made his first "Tonight Show" appearance; on May 25, 1992 he took over as host.
  • Jay Leno.
  • 2: People Magazine called his 1997 solo album "Destination Anywhere", "Tres Bon".
  • Jon Bon Jovi.
  • 3: In a 1997 issue of "George", he said his cousins Michael and Joseph were "poster boys for bad behavior".
  • John F. Kennedy, Jr..
  • 4: Her 1988 major label debut album was "Y Kant Tori Read".
  • Tori Amos.
  • 5: (Hi, I'm Bob Eubanks.) Tea Leoni ran into this "X-Files" star at the Golden Globes and soon they were newlyweds.
  • David Duchovny.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 952, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "r"ock music

  • 1: Title adjective describing Dion's "Sue".
  • Runaround.
  • 2: The subject of this 1973 Allman Brothers hit was "tryin' to make a livin' and doin' the best I can".
  • "Ramblin' Man".
  • 3: UB40 sang that this makes me "feel so fine, you keep me rocking all of the time".
  • Red Red Wine.
  • 4: This alternative rock band's "Stand" served as the theme song to the sitcom "Get a Life".
  • R.E.M..
  • 5: 4 of this Swedish pop duo's first Top 40 hits reached No. 1, including "It Must Have Been Love".
  • Roxette.

Round 2. Category: south park

  • 1: Everglades National Park in this Southern state is the USA's largest subtropical wilderness.
  • Florida.
  • 2: National parks in the south of this state include Sitka and Glacier Bay.
  • Alaska.
  • 3: S. Montana's Electric Peak, named for the electrical charge experienced by climbers in 1872, is in this natl. park.
  • Yellowstone.
  • 4: Southeast of Mt. Rushmore lies Badlands National Park in this state.
  • South Dakota.
  • 5: Eisenhower's home in southern Pennsylvania is next to this national military park, site of an 1863 battle.
  • Gettysburg.

Round 3. Category: snl on film

  • 1: Jake and Elwood are on a mission from God in this film.
  • Blues Brothers.
  • 2: 2 friends are on a mission with their Illinois public access show in this film.
  • Wayne's World.
  • 3: 2 aliens from the planet Remulak are on a mission to raise their teen daughter in this film.
  • Coneheads.
  • 4: Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan are on a mission to get into the best club in town and open their own in this film.
  • A Night at the Roxbury.
  • 5: Julia Sweeney is on a mission to have a relationship with Chris, a person of indeterminate sex in this film.
  • It's Pat.

Round 4. Category: quite the cast of tv characters

  • 1: This title doc is a lifesaver, but Drs. Lawrence Kutner and Amber Volakis both died after working for him.
  • House.
  • 2: Gil Grissom and Raymond Langston both went after the bad guys (with science!) on this show.
  • CSI.
  • 3: Jamie-Lynn Sigler (played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler) and Mrs. Ari were characters on this HBO show.
  • Entourage.
  • 4: Supporting roles on this show include Glenn Quagmire and Death, the latter voiced by Adam Carolla.
  • Family Guy.
  • 5: Lutz, Frank and Toofer help make a variety show on this TV show.
  • 30 Rock.

Round 5. Category: the "ss" word

  • 1: One who goes along for the ride.
  • Passenger.
  • 2: To study in minute detail or take apart; some people draw the line at doing it to frogs.
  • Dissect.
  • 3: It's the highest rank of diplomat.
  • Ambassador.
  • 4: The pressure is on to make this coffee, quick.
  • Espresso.
  • 5: The name of this thin, sheer fabric preceded condor and albatross in the names of pedal-driven planes.
  • Gossamer.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 951, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: playwrights

  • 1: Dustin Hoffman reincarnated his "Salesman" on Broadway in 1984.
  • Arthur Miller.
  • 2: Wrote "The Man in the Glass Booth" but acted in "Jaws" and "The Deep".
  • Robert Shaw.
  • 3: Robert Lopez, Trey Parker and Matt Stone won the Tony for Best Book of a Musical for penning this show.
  • The Book of Mormon.
  • 4: Won Tonys for "Torch Song Trilogy" and "La Cage aux Folles".
  • Harvey Fierstein.
  • 5: "You Never Can Tell", the initial literary work of this "Pygmalion" author, earned him less than 10 shillings a year.
  • George Bernard Shaw.

Round 2. Category: howdy, "buster"

  • 1: This video chain began in Dallas in 1985; it now has more than 4,000 U.S. stores and 2,000 overseas.
  • Blockbuster.
  • 2: Who ya gonna call? Well, in this 1984 film it was Bill Murray and his cohorts.
  • Ghostbusters.
  • 3: This commercial spokeskid of the 1950s lived in a shoe with his dog Tige, who lived there too.
  • Buster Brown.
  • 4: In 1964 Russell Long and other senators led one that lasted a record 74 days against a civil rights bill.
  • a filibuster.
  • 5: This 1895 sculpture was the first of 25 Western art bronzes by Frederic Remington.
  • Bronco Buster.

Round 3. Category: best picture oscar winners

  • 1: In this 1977 Woody Allen-Diane Keaton film, author Truman Capote had an uncredited bit as a Truman Capote look-alike.
  • Annie Hall.
  • 2: In this film, Clint Eastwood says, "Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Ya take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have".
  • Unforgiven.
  • 3: This Best Picture winner for 2006 is Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film to date.
  • The Departed.
  • 4: Mel Gibson won Oscars for producing and directing this 1995 Best Picture.
  • Braveheart.
  • 5: Temperance groups and the liquor industry both pleaded with Paramount not to release this 1945 Oscar winner.
  • The Lost Weekend.

Round 4. Category: nice "ab"s

  • 1: To give up the throne.
  • abdicate.
  • 2: A not so nice collection of pus caused by infection.
  • an abscess.
  • 3: Military term for a 180.
  • an about face.
  • 4: Servile or wretched, like poverty.
  • abject.
  • 5: A summary of a document or text.
  • an abridgment (or an abstract).

Round 5. Category: comparing

  • 1: A math axiom says a line is this superlative distance between 2 points on a flat surface.
  • shortest.
  • 2: This irregular comparative describes a wise, experienced "statesman".
  • elder.
  • 3: Superlative in the Queen's question to her mirror in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
  • fairest.
  • 4: Boxer Bob Fitzsimmons gets credit for the line that contains "bigger" and this other comparative.
  • harder.
  • 5: Toni Morrison titled a novel "The" this superlative "Eye".
  • Bluest.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 950, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: food science

  • 1: To combat hypothyroidism, iodine was first added in the 1920s to this common seasoning.
  • salt.
  • 2: One theory for why tomatoes were thought to be poisonous--their acidity leached this toxic metal out of pewter plates.
  • lead.
  • 3: 1 serving of this from Stonyfield contains 5 billion units of Lactobacillus rhamnosus bacteria.
  • yogurt.
  • 4: Mustard can act as one of these agents that allow oil and water to stay blended.
  • an emulsifier.
  • 5: From the French for "sour wine", this liquid will go bad over time, so it should be stored in a cool, dark place.
  • vinegar.

Round 2. Category: speaking words of wisdom

  • 1: This folk and rock troubadour's gems include the 1965 lyric "He not busy being born is busy dying".
  • (Bob) Dylan.
  • 2: This playwright penned the line "A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory".
  • (Arthur) Miller.
  • 3: In an encyclical he wrote, "Earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most... maltreated of our poor".
  • Pope Francis.
  • 4: Max Ehrmann's much-reprinted "Desiderata" says, "With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still" this kind of world.
  • a beautiful world.
  • 5: In 1934 this humorist said, "Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion".
  • Will Rogers.

Round 3. Category: the most popular netflix movies

  • 1: Sandra Bullock plays Leigh Anne Tuohy in this feel-good film that became the most popular to get from Netflix.
  • The Blind Side.
  • 2: One thing to do before dying is rent this 2007 Jack Nicholson-Morgan Freeman buddy movie.
  • The Bucket List.
  • 3: The title of this 2010 film refers to planting an idea in someone's subconscious during the dream state.
  • Inception.
  • 4: The popularity of this Coen Brothers film has nothing to do with Javier Bardem's bowl cut as killer Anton Chigurh.
  • No Country for Old Men.
  • 5: Jeff Bridges played the delightfully evil Obadiah Stane in this superhero film.
  • Iron Man.

Round 4. Category: a little reading

  • 1: First and last name of E.B. White's adventurous mouse-like boy from a 1945 story.
  • Stuart Little.
  • 2: 4-word rallying mantra repeated by the "Little Engine that Could" to inspire it to persevere.
  • I think I can.
  • 3: "Little Women" detailed the passage from childhood to womanhood of these 4 March sisters.
  • Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy.
  • 4: The first book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's series was "Little House in" this place with more shade than the prairie.
  • the Big Woods.
  • 5: This 1886 Frances Hodgson Burnett novel inspired a fad of dressing young boys in velvet suits.
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Round 5. Category: chop wood

  • 1: The History Channel show "Ax Men" centers on guys in this job, and they're OK.
  • lumberjacks.
  • 2: Shel Silverstein poetically waxed that you could hear this mythic logger's axe "ring for a mile and a half".
  • Paul Bunyan.
  • 3: In a quirky 2012 movie, this president chops wood and quite a few vampires.
  • Abraham Lincoln.
  • 4: The Wicked Witch of the East maliciously enchants his axe over his love for a munchkin maiden.
  • the Tin Man.
  • 5: Chopping down a tree starts with making this V-shaped cut; open-faced and Humboldt are 2 styles.
  • a notch.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 949, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: u.s. flags

  • 1: The last year the presidential flag was altered was 1960 when this was added.
  • a Hawaii star.
  • 2: This color standing for justice on the American flag is missing from the flag of Washington, D.C..
  • blue.
  • 3: This state's flag is yellow with the sun symbol of the Zia Indian Pueblo in red.
  • New Mexico.
  • 4: While he was vice president in 1975, the office's flag was redone, giving it a bolder bird.
  • Nelson Rockefeller.
  • 5: By exec. order the width of each stripe on the U.S. flag should be this fraction of the height of the flag.
  • 1/13th.

Round 2. Category: the tonys

  • 1: At a 1977 concert he stunned Dawn and the crowd by announcing his (short-lived) retirement:.
  • Tony Orlando.
  • 2: He's led the National League in batting 8 times, with averages like .394 in '94.
  • Tony Gwynn.
  • 3: This founder of a chain has been giving diners a good ribbing since 1972.
  • Tony Roma.
  • 4: Friends call Antonin Scalia Nino; this Supreme Court colleague appointed in 1988 is Tony.
  • (Anthony) Kennedy.
  • 5: In 1997 National Security Advisor Tony Lake got spooked and withdrew his nomination to head this agency.
  • the CIA.

Round 3. Category: the muppet name

  • 1: Architect of lyrics Hammerstein and man of architecture Niemeyer.
  • Oscar.
  • 2: Hello, Cleveland! and Hello, anti-tax activist Norquist too!.
  • Grover.
  • 3: Saldana and Kazan, acting the parts.
  • Zoe.
  • 4: Blyleven and Campaneris, because our writers absolutely love old-school baseball.
  • Bert.
  • 5: World War II journalist Pyle and "Ghostbuster" Hudson.
  • Ernie.

Round 4. Category: maybe some oscar winners

  • 1: After his win for "Wall Street", he thanked dad Kirk for helping him step out of Dad's shadow.
  • Michael Douglas.
  • 2: He won an Oscar for his turn as Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour".
  • Gary Oldman.
  • 3: Mahershala Ali won an Oscar for this 2016 film that won Best Picture...eventually.
  • Moonlight.
  • 4: This lyricist named Oscar won 2, for Best Song in "Lady Be Good" and "State Fair".
  • (Oscar) Hammerstein.
  • 5: For 1993 Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" won 3 technical Oscars and this other film of his won Best Picture.
  • Schindler's List.

Round 5. Category: domain extensions matter

  • 1: Visit this.gov and you get the current hour and minute; visit this.com and you get the current news.
  • time.
  • 2: this.com shows you the Navigator and Continental; this.org shows you tourist sites in a Midwest state capital.
  • Lincoln.
  • 3: these.gov takes you to Atlantic marine forecasts; these.com takes you to Carolina NHL action.
  • hurricanes.
  • 4: this.gov is an agency that polices Wall Street; this.org takes you to a college sports organization.
  • SEC.
  • 5: this.com is an outdoor clothing company; this.edu is an Ivy League school.
  • Columbia.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 948, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: atom

  • 1: The first atomic bomb to be dropped in warfare used an isotope of this element as its explosive.
  • uranium.
  • 2: Early atomic theorist Democritus said this color results from smooth, flat atoms that cast no shadow.
  • white.
  • 3: In a nice, stable early 1900s model, the atom was like a plum pudding with electrons distributed like these.
  • raisins.
  • 4: The atomic number refers to the number of these in an atom.
  • protons.
  • 5: An atom may become more stable by releasing this Greek letter particle, identical to a helium atom nucleus.
  • an alpha particle.

Round 2. Category: describing the sport

  • 1: Hit tiny spheroid into woods, curse, hit into lake, curse, score round of 120, go to clubhouse for needed beer.
  • Golf.
  • 2: Get 3/4 naked, use 12-ounce mittens to beat opponent senseless.
  • boxing.
  • 3: Run back and forth on 94 feet of wood, hit twine to score but don't choke coach when upset.
  • basketball.
  • 4: Throw spheroid called horsehide, but not always made of such, run 360 feet to score, get $252 million contract.
  • Baseball.
  • 5: Swat at disk of vulcanized rubber, hit twine to score, spend 5 minutes in the box for fighting, feel shame.
  • Ice hockey.

Round 3. Category: it's the end "fer" you!

  • 1: A pine, fir or spruce.
  • a conifer.
  • 2: Troy Aikman did this from Oklahoma to UCLA--good move.
  • transfer.
  • 3: A box or chest for valuables; fill it now!.
  • coffer.
  • 4: To steal, purloin or filch.
  • pilfer.
  • 5: A geological formation conducting ground water.
  • aquifer.

Round 4. Category: you can't fight

  • 1: Jesus' words "Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right" one, "turn to him the other" have been taken as a pacifist message.
  • cheek.
  • 2: His first major nonviolent satyagraha action was protesting salt taxes imposed by the British.
  • Gandhi.
  • 3: This religious group founded in the 1600s is dedicated to pacifism and to following the "inward light".
  • the Quakers (Society of Friends).
  • 4: 2-word military draft registration status that means you can serve, but without fighting.
  • conscientious objector.
  • 5: Last name of brothers Daniel and Philip, pacifist priests known for their opposition to the Vietnam War.
  • Berrigan.

Round 5. Category: running a marathon

  • 1: The modern marathon race was first held at the revival of the Olympic games in 1896 in this city.
  • Athens.
  • 2: This marathon runs from Hopkinton to the Back Bay.
  • the Boston Marathon.
  • 3: To the nearest minute, what you'll have to average per mile to run a 2:10 marathon like the champs.
  • 5 minutes.
  • 4: The last American man to win the Olympic marathon was Frank Shorter in 1972 in this city.
  • Munich.
  • 5: In Beijing in 2008, Sammy Wanjiru of this nation broke the Olympic record by almost 3 minutes.
  • Kenya.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 947, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: i made it through the reign

  • 1: For 164 years, 1610 to 1774, France was ruled by just 3 kings, all of this name.
  • Louis.
  • 2: Franz Joseph got plenty of new clothes when he ruled Austria for 68 years with this loftier title than king.
  • emperor.
  • 3: Fath Ali Shah ruled this country from 1797 to 1834 and led it in disastrous wars against Russia.
  • Iran.
  • 4: Averaging 23 years per reign, the last 5 Russian czars were named either Nicholas or this.
  • Alexander.
  • 5: Otto, who ruled Greece from 1832 to 1862, was the son of King Ludwig of this German state.
  • Bavaria.

Round 2. Category: behold the power of cheese

  • 1: "On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball, when" this happened.
  • somebody sneezed.
  • 2: Things concocted in 1915 include Corning's Pyrex and this company's processed cheese.
  • Kraft.
  • 3: Bearing the name of a Belgian province, it's a cheese with a really strong aroma.
  • Limburger.
  • 4: It's wonderful to do this to cheese, reducing it to fragments by rubbing it against an abrasive surface.
  • grating.
  • 5: Salata is the dense processed form of this "recooked" Italian cheese.
  • ricotta.

Round 3. Category: familial phrases

  • 1: Here's this figure personified.
  • Father Time.
  • 2: Enacting this 2-word phrase of concession can sometimes stop a tickle attack.
  • saying uncle.
  • 3: The stars of this reality series on TLC marched on the Utah capitol to protest a ban on polygamy.
  • Sister Wives.
  • 4: All of a computer's components and peripherals connect to this; ATX is the main design today.
  • a motherboard.
  • 5: Term for a ready target of criticism, or the female relative who wants to adopt Huck Finn.
  • Aunt Sally.

Round 4. Category: "tas"-mania

  • 1: Another word for disaster; in drama, it's a synonym for denouement.
  • catastrophe.
  • 2: Hypokalemia is a deficiency of this mineral.
  • potassium.
  • 3: It's the group of threadlike strings on the top of a stalk of corn.
  • tassel.
  • 4: This Mexican dish whose name means "little meats" is shredded pork.
  • carnitas.
  • 5: This lake is considered the main source of the Mississippi River.
  • Itasca.

Round 5. Category: geographical words and phrases

  • 1: A shade of grayish blue is named for this Danish capital.
  • Copenhagen.
  • 2: This nationality precedes onyx, hairless, and jumping bean.
  • Mexican.
  • 3: This nationality precedes uncle, treat, and elm disease.
  • Dutch.
  • 4: This tuber with a city in its name is also called a sunchoke.
  • Jerusalem Artichoke.
  • 5: This high quality black tea is named for a district in West Bengal.
  • Darjeeling.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 946, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: random house defines it as...

  • 1: "Strangle" or "to enrich the fuel mixture of".
  • choke.
  • 2: "Slang... a member of a crew for a traveling group of musicians".
  • roadie.
  • 3: "The withdrawal from the Union of 11 southern states in the period 1860-61".
  • secession.
  • 4: (2 words) "a deep...color" or "woolen cloth of this color, used esp. for U.S. Army uniforms".
  • olive drab.
  • 5: (2 words)"Goal achieved at too great a cost".
  • Pyrrhic victory.

Round 2. Category: them literature type facts

  • 1: In 1928 A.A. Milne published "House at" this title character's "Corner".
  • Pooh.
  • 2: You'll find "Time is now to be dreaded - since once he put that mark upon your throat" in this 1897 novel.
  • Dracula.
  • 3: The Knight's Tale, the Friar's Tale, and the Nun's Priest's Tale are part of this larger group.
  • The Canterbury Tales.
  • 4: It's no mystery that she was born in 1890 in Devon, England, wrote 67 novels under this name and 6 as Mary Westmacott.
  • Agatha Christie.
  • 5: In the 1830s he wrote, "'But he has nothing on at all,' said a little child at last".
  • Hans Christian Andersen.

Round 3. Category: unions online

  • 1: In any weather you can visit nalc.org, for the National Association of these Carriers.
  • letter carriers.
  • 2: ilwu.org is for the International Longshore and this type of storage facility Union.
  • warehouse.
  • 3: Go behind the scenes at iatse.net, the International Alliance of Theatrical these Employees.
  • stage employees.
  • 4: You can learn a lot at nea.org, NEA being short for this.
  • the National Education Association.
  • 5: afge.org belongs to the American Federation of these Employees, more than 700,000 of them.
  • government employees.

Round 4. Category: literary gems

  • 1: The Bible asks, "Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above" these red gems.
  • rubies.
  • 2: In Tennyson's "Idylls of the King", knights fight for diamonds at this king's diamond jousts.
  • King Arthur.
  • 3: The "ice, mast-high, came floating by, as green as emerald" in this Coleridge "Rime".
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
  • 4: Shakespearean teenager who "hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear".
  • Juliet.
  • 5: The title gem brings tragedy to a Mexican fisherman in this Steinbeck novelette.
  • The Pearl.

Round 5. Category: in case you're thirsty

  • 1: The logo of this sports drink is a capital "G" with an orange lightning bolt in it.
  • Gatorade.
  • 2: The name of this lemon-lime soda means an elf or a fairy.
  • Sprite.
  • 3: Created in Atlanta, this soft drink was being sold in every state and territory of the U.S. by 1895.
  • Coca-Cola.
  • 4: This brand known for its vegetable juices has a line of V-Fusion juices.
  • V8.
  • 5: Glaceau makes a bottled beverage called "Vitamin" this.
  • water.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 945, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: business abbrev.

  • 1: Getting a car loan? Check that APR, this.
  • annual percentage rate.
  • 2: The way sales of a product change in relation to its price is its P.E.D., or price elasticity of this.
  • demand.
  • 3: The C.T.O. is this officer who might deal with data and cloud storage.
  • the chief technical officer (chief technology officer).
  • 4: A company's profits divided by its outstanding units of stock are its E.P.S., this.
  • earnings per share.
  • 5: Corporate citizenship is also known as corporate this, CSR for short.
  • corporate social responsibility.

Round 2. Category: 30 something

  • 1: In the Gospels, Judas Iscariot receives this payoff for betraying Jesus.
  • 30 pieces of silver.
  • 2: This-millimeter film has long been a standard gauge for photography and motion pictures, but digital has made huge inroads.
  • 35-millimeter.
  • 3: There are this many months of the year with 31 days.
  • 7.
  • 4: Extending playing time to more than 20 minutes a side, Columbia Records released its first LP record at this speed in 1948.
  • 33 1/3.
  • 5: Youngest age at which you can be sworn in for the U.S. Senate.
  • 30.

Round 3. Category: food "e"

  • 1: Beginning sushi eaters often start out with unagi, this fish that's been cooked and basted with a sweetish sauce.
  • eel.
  • 2: All we need is some wine and crackers to go with this cheesy import.
  • Edam.
  • 3: A recipe for the world's largest one of these calls for 750 lbs. of ground corn for the tortilla and 175 lbs. of cheese.
  • an enchilada.
  • 4: Chambers Dictionary describes this cream-filled pastry as "long in shape but short in duration".
  • an eclair.
  • 5: This spicy Cajun stew is made with crayfish and served over rice.
  • étoufée.

Round 4. Category: fruits and veggies

  • 1: Broccoflower is a cross between these 2 veggies.
  • broccoli and cauliflower.
  • 2: The Santa Claus melon is so named because its peak season is in this month.
  • December.
  • 3: Jalapeno, habanero and bell are types of these.
  • peppers.
  • 4: Alphabetically, veggies run from acorn squash to this cucumber lookalike.
  • zucchini.
  • 5: In Latin a pirum is one of these fruits, not two.
  • a pear.

Round 5. Category: sams club

  • 1: In ads for Capital One, he has asked, "What's in your wallet?".
  • (Samuel L.) Jackson.
  • 2: He's the Sam who founded the Sam's Club retail chain.
  • Sam Walton.
  • 3: This funny lady left "The Daily Show" to host her own TV show.
  • Bee.
  • 4: In 2015, he took home four Grammys, including one for the song "Stay With Me".
  • Sam Smith.
  • 5: 3 years before his death in a car crash, he made the cover of Rolling Stone as "Comedy's Wild Thing".
  • Sam Kinison.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 944, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "me" tv * 1: From 1992 to 1999 you could visit this title "Place" on Fox. * Melrose Place. * 2: Chuck Todd hosts this longest-running show on network television. * Meet the Press. * 3: Rachael Ray began making them on Food Network in 2001. * 30-minute meals. * 4: This series starts with Linda Cardellini and Christina Applegate meeting in a grief support group and becoming friends. * Dead to Me. * 5: Flower and Mozart were 2 of the title "kats" of the manor on this docudrama. * Meerkat Manor.

Round 2. Category: taking a "bath" * 1: It attracts feathered friends. * Birdbath. * 2: It's what the baby shouldn't be thrown out with. * the bathwater. * 3: This vehicle can take you under the sea. * Bathyscape. * 4: Extreme sentimentality. * Bathos. * 5: It's the chemical rinse that keeps photographic film from overdeveloping. * Stop bath.

Round 3. Category: they planned their own funeral * 1: This "Cleopatra" actress requested that she arrive 15 minutes late for her own funeral. * Liz Taylor. * 2: Guests this First Lady invited to her own Simi Valley funeral included Wayne Newton and Mr. T. * Nancy Reagan. * 3: Known by this title, the royal who died aged 101 in 2002 had viewed rehearsals of her funeral and reportedly had 1 horse replaced. * the Queen Mum. * 4: At his request, everyone wore jeans as this Southern rocker was laid to rest near brother Duane in 2017. * Gregg Allman. * 5: Instructions by this American that his body was not to lie in state were found a few days too late in 1945. * Franklin Roosevelt.

Round 4. Category: which english monarch? * 1: Lost the 13 American colonies to independence. * George III. * 2: Crossed the English Channel in 1066. * William the Conqueror. * 3: Was the brother of Richard the Lionheart. * John. * 4: Was sometimes known as "Crookback". * Richard III. * 5: Ruled at the start of the English Reformation. * Henry VIII.

Round 5. Category: pulitzer-winning characters * 1: Angelica Schuyler and Aaron Burr (2016). * Hamilton. * 2: Mitch Mitchell and Blanche DuBois (1948). * A Streetcar Named Desire. * 3: Scoop Rosenbaum and Heidi Holland (1989). * The Heidi Chronicles. * 4: Corporate bigwig J.B. Biggley and former window washer J. Pierrepont Finch (1962). * How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. * 5: Aaronow and Moss, real estate salesmen (1984). * Glengarry Glen Ross.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 943, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 20th century campaign slogans * 1: Voters were told "He's the one". * Nixon. * 2: "Not just peanuts" and "A leader, for a change" for his 1976 campaign. * Carter. * 3: In 1988 this reverend and Democratic hopeful reminded us to "Keep hope alive". * (Jesse) Jackson. * 4: "Dew it with" him in 1948 did not lead to victory. * Dewey. * 5: His mid-century second term bid used the slogan "Peace, progress and prosperity". * Eisenhower.

Round 2. Category: chipping in * 1: Many donate to the United Way thanks to Nnamdi Asomugha, a player in this league. * the NFL. * 2: Help the Nature Conservancy by adopting one of these diverse offshore ecosystems off Palau. * coral reefs. * 3: The wife of the CEO of this company donated $90 million to the Salvation Army to start Kroc Centers. * McDonald's. * 4: You can donate to this charity mainstay, but when you shop at its retail stores, it sounds like that Affleck/Damon film. * Goodwill. * 5: Punning on a newsreel name, this charity that helped defeat polio made its first appeal in 1938. * March of Dimes.

Round 3. Category: ends in "u" * 1: This outdoor Hawaiian feast often features a roast pig. * a luau. * 2: Off-the-cuff, without preparation, such as a speech. * impromptu. * 3: From the Old French for "bundle", it's the bundle of clothing and linens a bride collects for her marriage. * a trousseau. * 4: This world capital is located about 180 miles southeast of Miami. * Nassau. * 5: These Bantu-speaking people make up the largest language group in the Republic of South Africa. * the Zulu.

Round 4. Category: "key" words * 1: The earliest authentic copy of his "Star-Spangled Banner" sold at public auction in 1934. * Francis Scott Key. * 2: The part of a door you spy through, or the Eta Carinae nebula you might spy in the sky. * a keyhole. * 3: Qwerty is a standard format for one of these. * a keyboard. * 4: Democrat Zell Miller of Georgia delivered this address at the 2004 Republican National Convention. * the keynote. * 5: In musical notation, it's the grouping of sharps and flats at the beginning of each staff. * the key signature.

Round 5. Category: mything in action * 1: Maori legend says the South Island of this country is the canoe of the Polynesian demi-god Maui. * New Zealand. * 2: The Irish word luchorpan, meaning "little body", gives us this word for a little mythical Irish creature. * leprechaun. * 3: This woman whose prophecies were disbelieved was one of Agamemnon's spoils after Troy fell. * Cassandra. * 4: In Incan myths from South America, this camel relative warns man of an impending great flood. * llama. * 5: This creature whose name means "round eye" may be inspired by workers with concentric circle forehead tattoos. * Cyclops.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 942, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: coastal communities * 1: Incorporated in 1901, there's no place like this Alaskan city on Norton Sound. * Nome. * 2: Yale University is this city's largest employer. * New Haven, Connecticut. * 3: Gloucester in this state has been a fishing center for over 3 centuries. * Massachusetts. * 4: Hey Jack, it was the capital of Alta California from 1775 to 1846. * Monterey. * 5: A whole lotta wood chips are shipped out of Coos Bay in this state. * Oregon.

Round 2. Category: st. augustine * 1: St. Augustine, Florida boasts a "farm" founded in 1893 for these reptiles with more than 20 related species. * alligators. * 2: Ending a long period of this country's rule, 1819's Adams-Onis treaty turned St. Augustine over to the U.S.. * Spain. * 3: Of course St. Augustine is home to this legendary spring sought by Ponce de Leon: okay, it's a tourist spot opened in 1901. * the Fountain of Youth. * 4: Believe it or not, this man's oldest Odditorium of weird stuff is located in St. Augustine. * Ripley. * 5: St. Augustine's Castillo de San Marcos is an old fort built from a form of limestone known as coquina, or "little" these. * shells.

Round 3. Category: 5 diamonds * 1: In 1993 and 1994 Mile High Stadium was this N.L. team's home field. * the Rockies. * 2: A red seat 502 feet from home plate in this ballpark marks the landing spot of a Ted Williams homer. * Fenway Park. * 3: Ogren Park, home diamond to this state's Missoula Osprey, has a live osprey nest beyond the outfield fence. * Montana. * 4: A huge apartment complex sits on the Brooklyn site that once housed this historic baseball field. * Ebbets Field. * 5: A scaled-down version of the one in Chicago, L.A.'s Wrigley Field was the first home of this American League team. * the Angels.

Round 4. Category: works of art * 1: An 1871 painting of an old woman in a long black dress, sitting in a chair. * Whistler's Mother. * 2: A statue of the Madonna with the dead Christ in her arms. * Pietà. * 3: A 1920 painting of a grim-faced couple with a pitchfork, standing in front of a farmhouse. * American Gothic. * 4: An 1889 painting of a sky of blue and yellow swirling over a small village. * Starry Night. * 5: An 1880 statue of a naked man with his arm on his knee and his chin resting on his hand. * The Thinker.

Round 5. Category: wine if you must * 1: Hock is a British term for the Rhine wines from this country. * Germany. * 2: When uncorked, a wine is said to begin to do this, something Faith Hill sang about. * breathe. * 3: Term for the juice of freshly crushed grapes (Hint: remember the category). * must. * 4: In the Bordeaux region this term refers to a vineyard rather than a castle. * chateau. * 5: The Asti region of Italy is known for this "foamy" or "sparkling" wine. * spumante.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 941, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: female superheroes * 1: Zoe Saldana teams up with Rocket and Groot as Gamora, the green-skinned member of this superhero team. * the Guardians of the Galaxy. * 2: This superhero's magical weapons include a lasso of truth and indestructible bracelets able to deflect bullets. * Wonder Woman. * 3: A member of the X-Men, Ororo Munroe is this weather-controlling mutant. * Storm. * 4: It's the superhero name of Natasha Romanova, a big screen butt-kicker played by Scarlett Johansson. * Black Widow. * 5: Being widowed by Yakuza began the journey of this Suicide Squad member whose name means a samurai sword. * Katana.

Round 2. Category: bio picks * 1: "Yesterday" and "Linda" are chapters in "Fab: An intimate life" of this man. * Paul McCartney. * 2: "Radioactive", subtitled "A Tale Of Love and Fallout", tells the romantic story of this scientific pair. * the Curies. * 3: A book subtitled "The Richest Man In The World" profiles Carlos Slim of this country. * Mexico. * 4: "Rebel From Main Street" tells the story of this American author and Nobel Prize winner. * Sinclair Lewis. * 5: "The Man Who Gave His Name To America" is the subtitle of a 2007 bio of this Italian. * (Amerigo) Vespucci.

Round 3. Category: new to the oxford english dictionary * 1: High-quality marbled beef, or an NBA MVP. * Kobe. * 2: This casual term for a beer comes from North American college slang, not Polish. * brewski. * 3: This, Spanish for "rice with chicken". * arroz con pollo. * 4: This painful verb--don't do it to me, bro!. * tase. * 5: This hyphenated term describing a political environment in which facts are less important than belief. * post-truth.

Round 4. Category: rock 'n' roll history * 1: It premiered on August 1, 1981 at 12:01 A.M. with John Lack saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll". * MTV. * 2: In August 1994 about 30,000 gathered in Bethel, New York to celebrate the 25th anniversary of this festival. * Woodstock. * 3: In 1967 this TV group became the only band other than The Beatles to have consecutive No. 1 albums. * The Monkees. * 4: In January 1995 he became probably the only singer with a No. 1 record to serve in Congress. * Sonny Bono. * 5: Kurt Cobain's suicide note quoted from this man's "My My, Hey Hey": "It's better to burn out than to fade away". * Neil Young.

Round 5. Category: playing professor * 1: This Harrison Ford character tells a class, "Forget any ideas you got about lost cities, exotic travel". * Indiana Jones. * 2: Russell Johnson was best known for playing the Professor on this series. * Gilligan's Island. * 3: On Netflix she's Ji-Yoon Kim, "The Chair" of a struggling English department. * Sandra Oh. * 4: On "How to Get Away with Murder", she played a professor at Middleton Law School. * Viola Davis. * 5: Judith Light is among those who have portrayed the professor stricken with cancer in this Pulitzer-winning play. * Wit.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 940, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: from the greek * 1: The name of this solid figure used to disperse light into a spectrum is from the Greek for "something sawed". * a prism. * 2: A preparation such as lipstick, skin cream or rouge, it's from the Greek for "order" or "arrangement". * cosmetic. * 3: A wound, or the psychological damage it causes. * a trauma. * 4: An absolute ruler; in ancient Greece it was one who seized power illegally. * a tyrant. * 5: This first name of poet Roethke means "gift of God". * Theodore.

Round 2. Category: i'm surprised * 1: Seeing the unexpectedly high price of a car can put you into the "sticker" type of this. * shock. * 2: This word for "speechless" can precede -struck or -founded. * dumb. * 3: Remarkable news may throw you for one of these, also the name of an aeronautical maneuver. * loop. * 4: Captain Kirk often ordered phasers set on this non-lethal surprising setting. * stun. * 5: On hearing a surprising affront, you may be "taken" this 5-letter way. * aback.

Round 3. Category: where you going? * 1: If you're going to Mecca, you know you're going to this country on the Red Sea. * Saudi Arabia. * 2: You're so vain, you're probably going to Halifax in this Canadian province to see that total eclipse of the sun. * Nova Scotia. * 3: Maybe braving this desert referred to as Dorsland or "Thirstland" by the Boers who trekked through it. * Kalahari. * 4: Are you meeting Captain Jean-Luc in this French region that recently merged with Nord-Pas-de-Calais?. * Picardy. * 5: Are you finally traversing the length of this mountain range that stretches from the Caspian to the Black Sea?. * the Caucasus.

Round 4. Category: a "kid" in * 1: Using care is treating something with these, as if you had delicate handwear. * kid gloves. * 2: This boy band began with a city-wide talent search in Boston. * the New Kids on the Block. * 3: Harry Longabaugh had this nickname as a member of the Wild Bunch. * the Sundance Kid. * 4: Parodying the Cabbage Patch Kids, these gross stickers were a sensation in the 1980s. * the Garbage Pail Kids. * 5: This term describes children who have to unlock the door when they come home to an empty house. * latchkey kids.

Round 5. Category: literary collaborators * 1: These brothers first published their "Fairy Tales" in 1812 as "Kinderund Hausmarchen". * the Brothers Grimm. * 2: She and her tres cher ami Jean-Paul Sartre collaborated on the political and literary journal Modern Times. * Simone de Beauvoir. * 3: For "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", Malcolm collaborated with this author. * Alex Haley. * 4: Sidney Howard helped this author dramatize "Dodsworth". * Sinclair Lewis. * 5: George S Kaufman died in June 1961; this man, his frequent collaborator, in December of that year. * Moss Hart.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 939, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: boy story * 1: What, were you raised by wolves? well, if you're this "Jungle Book" boy, then yes, you were. * Mowgli. * 2: Parzival is the avatar of a kid with an extremely good handle on '80s pop culture in this novel. * Ready Player One. * 3: The name "Pip" is mentioned 3 times in the first 2 sentences of this novel--we get it, the guy's name is Pip. * Great Expectations. * 4: R.J. Palacio said this bestseller about Auggie Pullman and his unique face was "a meditation on kindness". * Wonder. * 5: It's Nick Hornby's novel concerning a 12-year-old lad and a man in his 30s and how the 2 bond. * About a Boy.

Round 2. Category: of the tiger * 1: The Jersey boys who play sports for this university are the Tigers. * Princeton. * 2: First graders work to achieve tiger rank in this organization. * the Cub Scouts. * 3: Here's the story of a dog named Tiger who was a family pet on this TV show. * The Brady Bunch. * 4: "Tyger tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night", begins a poem in his 1794 collection "Songs of Experience". * (William) Blake. * 5: The largest carnivorous marsupial of modern times was the now-extinct thylacine, also known as this alliterative tiger. * Tasmanian.

Round 3. Category: logo a-gogo * 1: The dynamic ribbon device (AKA "the wave") is part of the logo of this soft drink. * Coca-Cola. * 2: Its red and white bullseye logo was born in 1962 along with this retailer's brand name. * Target. * 3: This purveyor of roast beef and other sandwiches wanted to be called Big Tex, so the stylized cowboy hat logo makes more sense. * Arby's. * 4: Larry, the white-haired gent on the label of steel-cut and other products of this brand, got a subtle makeover in 2012. * Quaker Oats. * 5: A black prancing horse on a canary yellow background, the color of Modena, is the logo of this Italian car. * Ferrari.

Round 4. Category: time for "t" * 1: These small pincers are used to remove splinters or hair. * tweezers. * 2: It's a newspaper concentrating on lurid news or whose pages are about half the standard size. * a tabloid. * 3: It's a set of kettledrums that's used in an orchestra. * a timpani. * 4: This plant belongs to the genus Nicotiana. * tobacco. * 5: It's the 11-letter word for an excessively fast heartbeat. * tachycardia.

Round 5. Category: russian literature * 1: The last words spoken in this novel are "Hurrah for Karamazov!". * The Brothers Karamazov. * 2: In this last Chekov play, the character Trofimov says, "All Russia is our orchard". * The Cherry Orchard. * 3: This 1957 Pasternak novel was finally published in the USSR in 1987. * Doctor Zhivago. * 4: His 1863 novel "The Cossacks" grew out of his service in the Russian Army in the Caucasus. * Tolstoy. * 5: He was expelled from the Soviet Writer's Union in 1969; in 1970 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. * Solzhenitsyn.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 938, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: new york, new york * 1: Completed in 1931, this structure required 10 million bricks; a true stairmaster would climb its 1,860 steps. * the Empire State Building. * 2: (Here's my good buddy Regis.) This man who died in Tucson in 1960 was largely responsible for this area(which includes a skating rink). * John D. Rockefeller. * 3: Fuhgedaboudit! Now a borough, it was incorporated as a village in 1816 with roughly 4,000 residents. * Brooklyn. * 4: This publication's classic headlines include "Headless Body in Topless Bar". * New York Post. * 5: In 1754 King's College was founded in New York City; today it's known as this Ivy League university. * Columbia.

Round 2. Category: "court" briefs * 1: A stenographer employed to transcribe an official verbatim record of legal proceedings. * a court reporter. * 2: Marsupial term for a self-appointed tribunal that parodies existing principles of law. * a kangaroo court. * 3: It's a special judicial assembly with power over the administration of estates and wills of deceased people. * probate court. * 4: AKA amicus curiae, it's someone not party to the litigation but who offers information pertinent to the case. * a friend of the court. * 5: Law students try mock hypothetical legal cases in this kind of court. * moot court.

Round 3. Category: psycho babble * 1: Norman Bates says that this person -- "What is the phrase? -- she isn't quite herself today". * His mother. * 2: At the end of the film, Norman thinks "They'll say, 'Why, she wouldn't even harm'" this insect. * Fly. * 3: Norman tells Marion Crane that the Bates Motel has "12 cabins, 12" these. * Vacancies. * 4: Though Norman wears women's clothing at times, Dr. Richard explains that he isn't one of these cross-dressers. * Transvestite. * 5: Norman says his hobby is this art, "Stuffing things" -- birds, mostly. * Taxidermy.

Round 4. Category: "pomp" it up! * 1: At a high school or college graduation, you might hear this popular Elgar composition. * "Pomp and Circumstance". * 2: An 18th century marquise popularized this hairstyle. * Pompadour. * 3: This ocean fish can also be known as a butterfish. * Pompano. * 4: He was premier of France from 1962 to 1968. * Georges Pompidou. * 5: In 45 B.C. at Munda in Spain, Julius Caesar defeated this man's sons. * Pompey the Great.

Round 5. Category: american organizations * 1: Millions of motorists belong to this travel organization founded in 1902. * Triple A (the American Automobile Association). * 2: It was founded in 1866 in N.Y., where its agents can carry guns and arrest an owner for mistreatment. * the American SPCA. * 3: It was founded in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. in 1878 to promote the study of jurisprudence. * the American Bar Association. * 4: Abbreviated AIM, it was founded in 1968 to promote the rights of Native Americans. * the American Indian Movement. * 5: It created controversy in 1978 when it supported the Am. Nazi Party's right to march in Skokie, Ill.. * the ACLU (the American Civil Liberties Union).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 937, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: lousy scrabble words * 1: The story says little George couldn't tell one of these; 3 letters, 3 points. * lie. * 2: This conjuction usually works with neither; 3 letters, 3 points. * nor. * 3: While it may be 2,000 pounds, it's only 3 letters, 3 points. * ton. * 4: Fall into one of these furrows made by wagon wheels and it's 3 letters, 3 points. * rut. * 5: Overexert your muscles or pour through a filter and it's 6 letters, 6 points. * strain.

Round 2. Category: states' men * 1: Jerry Seinfeld andJerry Stiller. * New York. * 2: Count Basie andBruce Springsteen. * New Jersey. * 3: Mark Twain andJesse James. * Missouri. * 4: Abraham Lincoln andJefferson Davis. * Kentucky. * 5: Andy Warhol andAndrew Wyeth. * Pennsylvania.

Round 3. Category: to the nines * 1: He's starred in "12 Monkeys", "Four Rooms", "The Fifth Element" and "The Whole Nine Yards". * Bruce Willis. * 2: In the U.S., it's a one followed by nine zeroes. * a billion. * 3: This popular poem begins, "It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville Nine that day". * "Casey at the Bat". * 4: Paintings in Herculaneum portray this group of 9 mythic female inspirers showing off their attributes. * the muses. * 5: This peninsula opposite Hong Kong island gets its name from the Chinese for "Nine Dragons". * Kowloon peninsula.

Round 4. Category: wealthy * 1: One of the world's wealthiest women, her great income is from the Privy Purse, the Civil List and her personal holdings. * Queen Elizabeth II. * 2: The Wonowidjojos and former president Suharto are among this country's wealthiest citizens. * Indonesia. * 3: Considered the world's wealthiest man when he died in 1976, this oil man's family is now buying Irish passports. * Jean Paul Getty. * 4: This flat pack furniture store chain has made Swede Ingvar Kamprad a very wealthy man. * IKEA. * 5: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal is the biggest individual shareholder in Apple Computer and this amusement park near Paris. * Euro Disney.

Round 5. Category: bodies in water * 1: Oceanographer James Snodgrass invented a gnathodynamometer to measure the force of this creature's bite. * Great white shark. * 2: The fin type, the second-largest species of this, can be 80 feet long and travel at ocean liner speed. * Whale. * 3: Free-floating algae that form a foul film are called the pond type of this. * Scum. * 4: These organisms cemented to ships and rocks are also called cirripedes, for their food-gathering cirri. * Barnacles. * 5: A creature that expels water through a siphon is called a "sea" one of these, like a pipsqueak kid. * Squirt.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 936, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: halls of fame * 1: It opened in Cooperstown, New York in 1939. * Baseball Hall of Fame. * 2: Wade Boggs, Satchel Paige. * baseball. * 3: This prodigy who won the U.S. Open at age 14 in 1957 was a charter member of the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. * Bobby Fischer. * 4: "King Me" if you know that Petal, Mississippi is home to the international hall of fame for this game. * checkers. * 5: Instead of just "standing on a corner in" this Arizona city, drop by an Astronaut Hall of Fame. * Winslow.

Round 2. Category: money superstitions * 1: When you give one of these to a man, a coin or bill should be in it so he'll never be out of money. * a wallet. * 2: If your left hand does this, money is coming. * itches. * 3: A groom may give a bride a penny to wear in this for good luck. * a shoe. * 4: Turn over a silver coin in your pocket when you see this heavenly body and your wish will come true. * the Moon. * 5: Carrying a coin with this year stamped on it is supposed to bring you good luck. * the year of your birth.

Round 3. Category: stringed instruments * 1: The OED says this word for a violin is "only in familiar or contemptuous use". * fiddle. * 2: The best classical guitars are this type named for a country, like the ones made by Alhambra. * Spanish guitars. * 3: Its name may come from the African "mbanza", which is a similar instrument. * Banjo. * 4: This instrument played by Manolis Hiotis is Greek to me (and everyone else, too). * Bouzouki. * 5: Jacqueline du Pre made an acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut May 14, 1965 playing Elgar's concerto for this instrument. * cello.

Round 4. Category: rock bands * 1: Steven Tyler of this group said the Grateful Dead "were worried about us, so that gives you some idea of how (messed) up and crazy we were". * Aerosmith. * 2: ("Heart of Glass"). * Blondie. * 3: ("Fight for Your Right"). * The Beastie Boys. * 4: The classic "Free Bird" by this southern rock group was a tribute to Duane Allman. * Lynyrd Skynyrd. * 5: Fans of this current band are known as Firebreathers. * Imagine Dragons.

Round 5. Category: high intelligence * 1: In 2004 he replaced George Tenet as the permanent head of the CIA. * Porter Goss. * 2: The name of this intelligence service established in 1951 is from the Hebrew for "institution". * Mossad. * 3: John Thurloe was this English leader's intelligence chief in the 1650s, gathering info on royalist plots. * (Oliver) Cromwell. * 4: During World War II Gen. Bill Donovan ran this forerunner of the CIA. * the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). * 5: Sanskrit for "learned man", this term was used for natives recruited into intelligence gathering in British India. * pundit.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 935, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the hollywood walk of fame * 1: Stars in front of this famous theater include Basil Rathbone's, William Shatner's and Billy Graham's. * Grauman's/Mann's Chinese Theater. * 2: Stars are awarded in five main categories--Recording, Live Performance, Motion Pictures, Television, and this, denoted by a microphone. * Radio. * 3: You don't have to "Imagine" that this musician's star is in front of Capitol Records... that's where it is. * John Lennon. * 4: In August 2019, flowers were placed on the star of this "Easy Rider" actor who passed away at age 79. * Peter Fonda. * 5: In 1958, Joanne Woodward married Paul Newman, got one of the first stars, and won an Oscar for playing all "Three Faces" of her. * Eve.

Round 2. Category: irish americans * 1: Kim Basinger and this actor named their daughter Ireland. * Alec Baldwin. * 2: This singer earned a 1995 Emmy nomination for appearing on "ER" opposite her nephew George. * Rosemary Clooney. * 3: The life of this coach has included stints with the Lakers, the Knicks, and the Miami Heat. * Pat Riley. * 4: Talk show O'Hosts include Rosie O'Donnell and this woman who's been seen "in person" on "Extra". * Maureen O'Boyle. * 5: This Republican senator from Florida is the grandson of a Philadelphia A's manager of the same name. * Connie Mack.

Round 3. Category: logo ladies * 1: This Minnesota-based butter maker uses an Indian maiden as its trademark. * Land O'Lakes. * 2: The symbol of this company got a makeover in 1993(it's paired with TriStar). * Columbia Pictures. * 3: Billboards for "Little Miss" this suntan lotion became Miami landmarks in the '50s. * Coppertone. * 4: In 1915 Lorraine Collett of Fresno became the original model for this brand of raisins. * Sun-Maid. * 5: Debra McKee, for whom these snack cakes were named, grew up to be a director of the company that makes them. * Little Debbie.

Round 4. Category: tv law * 1: Writer Erle Stanley Gardner had script approval of this series' episodes. * Perry Mason. * 2: In 1987 this Stephen Bochco series was named Outstanding Drama Series at the Emmys. * L.A. Law. * 3: This "Rifleman" star played attorney John Egan in the 90-minute series "Arrest and Trial". * Chuck Connors. * 4: When Michael Moriarty left this NBC series in 1994, he was replaced by Sam Waterston. * Law and Order. * 5: In 1961 Martin Sheen had his first major TV role on this series starring E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed. * The Defenders.

Round 5. Category: a "war and peace" quiz * 1: When it comes to "War And Peace", he wrote the book. * Leo Tolstoy. * 2: In Part XI we see "The grand and inevitable event of the abandonment and burning of" this city. * Moscow. * 3: First name of Ms. Pavlovna, at whose party the book opens; the author also used it for Ms. Karenina. * Anna. * 4: Pierre, a prisoner set to be executed facing one of these, watches 5 die before he is reprieved. * firing squad. * 5: Nikolay and Andrey Bolkonsky were princes; Ilya Rostov had this title, 2, 3, 4.... * Count.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 934, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: weather words and phrases * 1: Covering 2% of the Earth's surface, they're disappearing at the rate of several acres a minute. * rainforests. * 2: They sound soothing to some. * wind chimes. * 3: Onesies are a standard gift at this type of event. * a baby shower. * 4: In 2001 a S.F. Chronicle writer defended Pres. Bush's vacation by pointing out that W. has this type of job. * high pressure. * 5: To have another city as one's birthplace or residence. * to hail (from).

Round 2. Category: notable names * 1: You're on the money if you know she's the Native American guide depicted on the new gold-colored dollar coin. * Sacajawea. * 2: Before becoming Secretary of State in 1997, she was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. * (Madeleine) Albright. * 3: While a teen in Paris, he devised his raised dot reading system for the blind. * Louis Braille. * 4: This Italian tenor made his met debut in 1968 as Rodolfo in "La Boheme". * Pavarotti. * 5: In 2003 the son of this Libyan strongman joined the Italian soccer club Perugia. * Kaddafi.

Round 3. Category: nursery rhymes * 1: Hurdler who was nimble and quick. * Jack. * 2: Higgledy piggledy; it's the color of the hen that lays eggs for gentlemen. * black. * 3: What Little Tommy Tucker vocalizes for. * his supper. * 4: In "Ding, Dong, Bell", Little Johnny Green put pussy in the well, but this boy pulled her out. * Little Tommy Stout. * 5: This rhyming guy kissed the girls and made them cry. * Georgie Porgie.

Round 4. Category: a thanksgiving feast * 1: In cold water, changed often, turkey takes about 30 minutes per pound to do this (not drown). * thaw. * 2: The pineapple in this salad must be canned, not fresh, or the salad's main ingredient won't set. * Jell-O (gelatin) salad. * 3: You can make dessert the easy way by combining Libby's pumpkin pie mix with evaporated milk and these. * eggs. * 4: Breadcrumbs are often the basis of this Thanksgiving staple food. * stuffing. * 5: A simple method of doing this to sweet potatoes is to bake them with a mixture of butter and brown sugar. * candying.

Round 5. Category: european geography * 1: Lough Leane is the largest of this country's picturesque lakes of Killarney in County Kerry. * Ireland. * 2: The Hungarians call this "Beautiful Blue" river the Duna. * Danube. * 3: Islands located in this arm of the Mediterranean include the Cyclades and Dodecanese. * Aegean Sea. * 4: This Icelandic capital is located on a bay called Faxafloi. * Reykjavik. * 5: About a tenth of Estonia's land area consists of islands in this sea. * Baltic Sea.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 933, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: cars in song* 1: According to the Beach Boys, "She'll have fun, fun, fun 'til her daddy takes" this car "away". * a T-Bird. * 2: In the '50s, Dinah Shore always closed her show by singing "See The U.S.A." in this. * a Chevrolet. * 3: Pontiac model Ronnie and the Daytonas could have driven at Daytona. * a GTO. * 4: Johnny Cash got this car 1 piece at a time and it didn't cost him a dime. * a Cadillac. * 5: Person who drives the car described here"If you see her on the street, don't try to choose her / Go Granny, go Granny, go Granny, go". * The Little Old Lady From Pasadena.

Round 2. Category: '60s muscle cars* 1: Ronny and the Daytonas wanted to "turn it on, wind it up" and "blow it out". * GTO. * 2: This Plymouth named for a sharp-toothed fish really had some bite. * Barracuda. * 3: This Chevy was still going strong into the '90s with a Z-28 model. * Camaro. * 4: This Pontiac muscle car moves much faster than the Stravinsky ballet. * Firebird. * 5: Later maker of the Pacer, this automaker's Javelin hit the mark. * American Motors (AMC).

Round 3. Category: medical matters* 1: Hemicrania, literally "pain on one side of the head", gives us this word for a terrible pain in the head. * migraine. * 2: On the minus side, it's a type of food poisoning; on the plus, the toxin that causes it can be used to smooth wrinkles. * botulism. * 3: Until the 1940s and this test named for its creator, cervical cancer was killing more women than any other kind. * a Pap smear. * 4: Studying dementia and epilepsy are 2 common subspecialties within this ‑ology. * neurology. * 5: Because it mainly affects babies and children, this disease is also called infantile paralysis. * polio.

Round 4. Category: first lines 1: "Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh". * "Jingle Bells". * 2: "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream...". * The Old Man and the Sea. * 3: "Hey, there! Stella, baby!". * A Streetcar Named Desire. * 4: "There once lived in a sequestered part of...Devonshire, one Mr. Godfrey Nickleby...". * Nicholas Nickleby. * 5: "All children, except one, grow up.". * Peter Pan*.

Round 5. Category: summer songs* 1: This tune by the Percy Faith Orchestra was the biggest instrumental single of the past 30 years. * "Theme From a Summer Place". * 2: This girl group's "Cruel Summer" heated up the summer of 1984. * Bananarama. * 3: Only animals mentioned in George Gershwin's "Summertime (An; the Livin' is Easy)". * fish. * 4: Bryan Hyland hit which began, "Though we gotta say goodbye for the summer". * "Sealed with a Kiss". * 5: A song from this opera says, "Summertime and the livin' is easy, fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high". * "Porgy and Bess".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 932, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the quotable nixon* 1: 1973:"People have got to know whether or not their president is" one of these; "well I'm not" one of these. * a crook. * 2: 1970:This Asian nation is "A great and vital people who should not remain isolated...". * China. * 3: 1977:"When the president does it, that means that it is not" this. * illegal. * 4: 1969:"It's time for the great" this "of Americans to stand up and be counted". * the silent majority. * 5: 1962:"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last" of these. * press conference.

Round 2. Category: charmed, i'm sure* 1: The more important a person you meet in Japan, the lower and longer you do this. * bow. * 2: He may be addressed in conversation as "Most Holy Father". * the pope. * 3: Dr. Leo Buscaglia aside, Miss Manners says a gentleman shouldn't kiss or do this to a lady when first meeting. * hug her. * 4: It's the French equivalent of the English "charmed" or the Spanish "encantado". * enchante. * 5: Since Robert Rubin took over the Treasury Department, he's been addressed as Mr. this. * Mr. Secretary.

Round 3. Category: seasonal stuff* 1: Autumn is also called fall because it's when these fall. * leaves. * 2: Seasonal term for a week when college kids don't have class, like at Bakersfield College April 9-13, 2001. * spring break. * 3: In ancient times this spooky autumn holiday of ours marked the beginning of winter. * Halloween. * 4: In the U.S. winter ends on or about the 21st of this month. * March. * 5: Some animals estivate in summer; others practice this sleepy winter equivalent. * hibernating.

Round 4. Category: u.s. territories* 1: Visited by Columbus on his second voyage west in 1493, this commonwealth became part of the U.S. in 1898. * Puerto Rico. * 2: A Pacific island group is divided into the independent nation called this and a U.S. territory called "American" this. * Samoa. * 3: Their capital, Charlotte Amalie, was founded in 1672 and named for the Danish queen. * the Virgin Islands. * 4: U.S. ownership of Navassa Island in the Caribbean is disputed by this nation that traces its claims back to France. * Haiti. * 5: In 1927 the U.S.granted citizenship to residents of this territory in the West Indies whose 3 main islands all bear saintly names. * the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Round 5. Category: national historic parks* 1: Cumberland Gap Park contains parts of Tennessee, Virginia and this state. * Kentucky. * 2: Of Faneuil Hall, Bunker Hill or Fraunces Tavern, the one not part of Boston Park. * Fraunces Tavern. * 3: Hawthorne's home is in the Massachusetts park named for one of these ready-in-a-moment soldiers. * a Minuteman. * 4: Established in 1978, the War in the Pacific Park is on this island in the Marianas. * Guam. * 5: This park where the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers join was once home to an Army arsenal. * Harpers Ferry.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 931, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 1970s album covers 1: 1977:John Travolta strikes a pose and points his finger to the sky. * Saturday Night Fever. * 2: 1978:Mick, Keith and the boys smile and smirk in wig catalog ads. * Some Girls. * 3: 1973:Against a black background, a prism bends a beam of light into a colorful spectrum. * Dark Side of the Moon. * 4: 1973:Paul McCartney and 8 others including James Coburn and Christopher Lee are caught by a police spotlight. * Band on the Run. * 5: 1978:Billy Joel leans against an alley wall holding a trumpet. * 52nd Street*.

Round 2. Category: water sports 1: Cypress Gardens show done on water, not on snow. * water skiing. * 2: Fishing from a moving boat. * trolling. * 3: Competitor in this sport was the model for nude male torso atop L.A.'s Olympic gate. * water polo. * 4: Name of yacht immortalized after winning the 100-Guinea Cup away from England in 1851. * the America*. * 5: What an unlucky surfer has just experienced in this song. * wipeout.

Round 3. Category: music of the '60s* 1: In 1969 "Something" became the only No. 1 hit he composed for The Beatles. * George Harrison. * 2: In 1969 B.J. Thomas had the biggest hit of his career with this song from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". * "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head". * 3: In this 1965 hit, Roger Miller tells us that "Two hours of pushing broom buys a eight by twelve four-bit room". * "King of the Road". * 4: In 1968 his "Hurdy Gurdy Man" came singing songs of love. * Donovan. * 5: In the 1960s she reached the Top 20 3 times with duets: twice with Lee Hazelwood and once with her father. * Nancy Sinatra.

Round 4. Category: a "b" city* 1: You can cross this city's Francis Scott Key Bridge by the dawn's early light. * Baltimore. * 2: In 1937 the Loyalists in Spain made this city their capital. * Barcelona. * 3: Aurelia Aquensis in ancient times, you may want to take a "double" dip in this German city's baths. * Baden-Baden. * 4: Its first name was F-E-L-S-I-N-A, not O-S-C-A-R. * Bologna. * 5: The center of the Czech Republic's wool industry, it looks like it needs to buy a vowel. * Brno.

Round 5. Category: track and field* 1: Dutch Warmerdam, the 1st man to vault over 15', in 1940, used poles made of this natural substance. * bamboo. * 2: They're either 36" or 42" high, depending on the race. * a hurdle. * 3: In 1989 this country removed Imre Nagy's remains from a potter's field and reburied them with honors. * Hungary. * 4: In 1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee was named the amateur athlete of the year; this sister-in-law won in 1988. * Florence Griffith Joyner. * 5: This son of a Dutch immigrant had the first 15' pole vault--in fact, he had the first 43 15' pole vaults. * "Dutch" Warmerdam.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 929, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the northernmost capital city* 1: Rome,Copenhagen,Lisbon. * Copenhagen. * 2: Brasilia,Santiago,Caracas. * Caracas. * 3: New Delhi,Ottawa,Wellington. * Ottawa. * 4: Pyongyang,Tokyo,Taipei. * Pyongyang. * 5: Brasilia,Buenos Aires,Bogota,Belmopan. * Belmopan.

Round 2. Category: american indians* 1: Florida tribe which was famous for sheltering runaway slaves. * Seminoles. * 2: Only East Coast Indians originally used this word for money made of shells. * wampum. * 3: During the Revolutionary War, the Cherokee fought for this side. * the British. * 4: Spooky craze that swept the Plains and led to the death of Sitting Bull. * the Ghost Dance. * 5: A city near Detroit is named for this Ottawa chief who united the Great Lakes tribes in 1763. * Pontiac.

Round 3. Category: geology* 1: The movement of these rivers of ice carved the fjords. * glaciers. * 2: This earthquake measurement scale is open-ended though none has been recorded above 8.9. * a Richter scale. * 3: The meltwater from these is often grayish-white because of the powdered rock they contain. * glaciers. * 4: This "powdery" mineral is number 1 on the Mohs scale of hardness. * talc. * 5: Following the Mesozoic, it's the era of geological time in which we are now living. * Cenozoic.

Round 4. Category: party time!* 1: Sir John Soane had a 3-day party after buying Seti I's sarcophagus for his home in this British capital. * London. * 2: Active from the 1790s to the 1810s:This party of the second U.S. president. * the Federalists. * 3: A noisy mock serenade given for newlyweds, its name is an alteration of the French word charivari. * Shivaree. * 4: Active 1834-1854:This U.S. party that borrowed its name from a British party. * the Whigs. * 5: Dissolved in 1991:At its height, this party had about 19 million members. * the Communist Party.

Round 5. Category: norse mythology* 1: This god's hall is called Bilskirnir, which means "lightning". * Thor. * 2: Nidhogg, one of these mythical fire-breathers, gnaws at the roots of the cosmic tree. * a dragon. * 3: He could see everything in the 9 worlds from his high throne, Lidskjalf. * Odin. * 4: Odin rode an eight-legged one of these named Sleipnir. * a horse. * 5: A hideous giantess named Angerboda was the wife of this Norse trickster. * Loki.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 928, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: a czar is born* 1: Born 1530, died 1584, known for his extreme despotism. * Ivan the Terrible. * 2: Born 1868, died 1918, 'nuff said. * Nicholas II. * 3: Born 1551, died 1605, inspired a drama by Pushkin and an opera by Mussorgsky. * Boris Godunov. * 4: Born 1818, died 1881, freed the serfs and sold Alaska. * Alexander II. * 5: Born 1672, died 1725, built Russia's second-largest city. * Peter the Great.

Round 2. Category: elephant odds and ends* 1: For years an elephant of this color was on Thailand's flag; then we guess they finally unloaded it. * white. * 2: If you have hallucinations from drinking, you've seen these. * pink elephants. * 3: Better known as this, the aepyornis, like the dodo, is extinct. * elephant bird. * 4: The corms of elephant's ear, which is also called this, are the main ingredient in poi. * taro. * 5: In Hinduism, Ganesha is the elephant-headed son of Parvati and this destroyer. * Shiva.

Round 3. Category: films of the '90s 1: Meryl Streep as an Iowa farm wife finds a once-in-a-lifetime love with Clint Eastwood in this 1995 film. * The Bridges of Madison County. * 2: Gene Hackman played the commander of the USS Alabama, a nuclear sub, in this 1995 hit. * Crimson Tide. * 3: The tag line of this film was "A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins". * The Fugitive. * 4: In this highly acclaimed film, Oscar nominee Anjelica Huston played a professional con artist. * The Grifters*. * 5: Title Kansas City couple played by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in a 1990 film. * "Mr. And Mrs. Bridge".

Round 4. Category: stones* 1: Stone which vibrates at high speeds enabling your electronic watch to work. * quartz. * 2: It's divided into Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic. * the Stone Age. * 3: The heel stone, the slaughter stone and the station stones are among those found at this British landmark. * Stonehenge. * 4: Looking at these 3 ugly sisters got the ancient Greeks stoned. * the Gorgons. * 5: A heavy weight or burden around the neck, as mentioned in Luke 17. * millstone.

Round 5. Category: the inc.-uisition* 1: This Michigan company formerly had a 30-minute pizza delivery guarantee. * Domino's Pizza. * 2: The rhyming New England chain Stop and do this is mentioned in the classic song "Roadrunner". * Shop. * 3: Made for over a century by Hillerich and Bradsby Inc., it's the best-known brand of baseball bat. * Louisville Slugger. * 4: In the '90s this clothing retailer introduced a "Crewcuts" line for kids. * J. Crew. * 5: In 1989 the company called Corning these Works became simply Corning Inc.. * Corning Glass Works.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 927, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: this means war!* 1: The USA's began in 1861, Angola's in 1975. * Civil War. * 2: A cornerback or safety goes after the quarterback sack when sent in on this defensive option. * a blitz. * 3: (Hi, I'm Andy Summers.) The U.S. government called the Korean War this, which sounds like a lawsuit by my old band. * police action. * 4: Frederick the Great's invasion of Silesia in 1740 launched the war of this country's succession. * Austria. * 5: The French Revolution inspired a similar one in this Caribbean country in 1791. * Haiti.

Round 2. Category: an ancient lifetime ago* 1: The top choice for sweetening food or medicine, the Hymettus type from Attica was famous. * honey. * 2: The Roman gladiators only worked funerals until this leader instituted some games for them in 46 B.C.. * Julius Caesar. * 3: The monster Typhon, the giant Enceladus and the workshop of Vulcan have been called sources for its eruptions. * Mount Etna. * 4: Ptolemy X, a little short of funds, replaced this Macedonian's fancy gold coffin with an alabaster one. * Alexander the Great. * 5: At 15, Ovid's "Metamorphoses" topped the length of this poet's "Aeneid" by 3 books. * Virgil.

Round 3. Category: get real* 1: From a character in an 18th century play, to be genuine you're not Alvin-pure or Theodore-pure, but this. * Simon-pure. * 2: From the Latin for "in good faith", it's used to indicate authenticity. * bona fide. * 3: This phrase previously came from those referring to the true chief of a Scottish clan. * real McCoy. * 4: Aussie slang for genuine, it's "fair" this, mate. * dinkum. * 5: From the followers of Jesus comes this adjective for authoritative. * apostolic.

Round 4. Category: around the world book* 1: Mental illness or just too much coffee may cause this, the inability to sleep naturally. * insomnia. * 2: Full date mentioned in the first sentence of the article on the Millennium Bug. * January 1, 2000. * 3: As C is in 2 volumes, but J and K are in 1, volume 13 still covers this one letter. * M. * 4: These "have one advantage over most other pets. They can be left alone for a day or two without food". * fish. * 5: The World Book illustration for this occupation has a man with a cutlass, daggers, a pistol and a boarding ax. * pirate.

Round 5. Category: salem and the witch trials* 1: In a nod to the town's witchy past, the logo of Salem's police dept. depicts a witch riding one of these. * a broom(stick). * 2: Some blame the start of the witch hysteria on tales told by Tituba, a slave who came from an island in this sea. * the Caribbean. * 3: A newer theory lays partial blame on ergot, one of these organisms that grows on grain and causes hallucinations. * a fungus. * 4: Samuel Sewall was the only one of these officials who publicly admitted his guilt after the trials. * judge. * 5: This man who refused to stand trial was pressed to death 3 days before his wife Martha Corey was hanged. * Giles Corey.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 926, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: if they were musicals... 1: The musical version of this Ibsen play might be titled "Hedda Get Your Gun!". * "Hedda Gabler". * 2: Forget "Cats"; the musical of this Orwell book would feature jackbooted dancing pigs. * "Animal Farm". * 3: His play about Mrs. Warren could become "Best Little Whorehouse in Europe". * George Bernard Shaw ("Mrs. Warren's Profession"). * 4: A musical of this Hardy novel might include the song "Jude, Glorious Jude". * "Jude the Obscure". * 5: Songs from this TV show would highlight the adaptation "Shirley and the Amazing Technicolor School Bus". * The Partridge Family*.

Round 2. Category: fun with zip codes* 1: This Virginia suburb where famous dead are remembered has the easily remembered code 22222. * Arlington. * 2: 50010 is found in the heartland, Ames in this state. * Iowa. * 3: Remember the Alamo and this city whose ZIP Codes run from 78201 to 78299. * San Antonio. * 4: To promote the use of ZIP Codes, Ethel Merman recorded a jingle to the tune of this song from "Song of the South". * "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah". * 5: Manhattan buildings with their own ZIP Codes include the Postum and Metlife buildings, both on the avenue with this scenic name. * Park Avenue.

Round 3. Category: tree words* 1: We'll give you a hand--these are well read by fortune tellers. * palms. * 2: It's a brown color for eyes or a maid for the Baxters. * hazel. * 3: When talking feelings, it's a synonym for to long for something. * pine. * 4: A more aged influential member of a tribe, or a member of the Mormon priesthood. * elder. * 5: You wood wood like like this 1966 Neil Diamond hit if you heard it. * "Cherry Cherry".

Round 4. Category: devilish movies 1: A very sexy Satan, this supermodel tempts Brendan Fraser in 2000's "Bedazzled". * Elizabeth Hurley. * 2: Poor little Regan MacNeil is possessed by the devil in this 1973 classic. * The Exorcist. * 3: Max von Sydow was Leland Gaunt, AKA the Devil, in "Needful Things", based on one of this author's novels. * Stephen King. * 4: Could it be Satan who fathered Mia Farrow's child in this 1968 flick?. * Rosemary's Baby. * 5: Keanu Reeves works for Al Pacino, one hell of a lawyer, in this 1997 film. * The Devil's Advocate*.

Round 5. Category: historic homes* 1: The Martha Vick house in this Mississippi city was constructed in 1830 by the daughter of the city's founder. * Vicksburg. * 2: This Asheville, N.C. estate built by George Washington Vanderbilt has a 250-room house and its own winery. * Biltmore. * 3: The home this president lived in while he served on the Supreme Court is now the Syrian embassy. * Taft. * 4: You'll find this president's boyhood home in the Plymouth Notch Historic District of Plymouth, VT.. * Coolidge. * 5: This writer's home in Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived beginning in 1874, is often called Steamboat Gothic. * Mark Twain.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 925, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: note-able women 1: In 1999 this singer who once tore up the Pope's picture was ordained the first female priest in the Latin Tridentine Church. * Sinead O'Connor. * 2: Emily Watson earned an Oscar nomination for playing cellist Jacqueline du Pre in this 1998 film. * Hilary and Jackie. * 3: She sang on Broadway in "Damn Yankees" and "Bells Are Ringing" before playing TV's screechy-voiced Edith Bunker. * Jean Stapleton. * 4: The violin virtuoso known by the single name Midori was born in this country in 1971. * Japan. * 5: Patti Page played Sister Rachel in this Burt Lancaster film based on a Sinclair Lewis novel. * Elmer Gantry*.

Round 2. Category: art and artists* 1: This "American Gothic" artist was an asst. professor of fine arts at the Univ. of Iowa in 1934. * Grant Wood. * 2: This Spanish surrealist collaborated on 2 films with Luis Bunuel, "Un Chien Andalou" and "L'Age D'Or". * Salvador Dali. * 3: A Canaletto view of this square shows the Doge's palace and the Loggia of Sansovino. * Saint Mark's Square. * 4: Otto Dix did several of this type of portrait, including one "As a Soldier" and one as the war god Mars. * self-portrait. * 5: Though the Spanish court painter, he portrayed the vulgarity of the family of Charles IV. * Francisco Goya.

Round 3. Category: esoterica* 1: This Poe poem has a scholar seeking solace in ancient, esoteric writings, but he's disturbed by a "rapping at my chamber door". * "The Raven". * 2: The Pleistocene Epoch was the last time about 1/3 of the Earth's land surface was covered by these. * glaciers. * 3: Kukai, also known as Kobo Daishi, brought esoteric Shingon Buddhism to this country. * Japan. * 4: For Louis XV from 1769 to 1774 it was Marie DuBarry. * mistress. * 5: Pemba, one of the world's leading suppliers of clove oil, is an island near Zanzibar in this ocean. * Indian Ocean.

Round 4. Category: the world of lounge 1: Much lounging is done on this vinyl-covered fabric named for Naugatuck, Connecticut. * Naugahyde. * 2: The primo cocktail of the cocktail nation is this one favored by James Bond. * a martini. * 3: You can't go wrong if you make this man your model of style and demeanour:"The last thing I need is a dame around me who says she's my wife. You know how I operate.". * Dean Martin. * 4: 1996 film that popularized lines like "You're money, baby". * Swingers*. * 5: With hits like "Somewhere My Love", this bandleader brought a "Ray" of light to '60s lounge. * Ray Conniff.

Round 5. Category: "n"veloped* 1: The only word in "The Pledge of Allegiance" that starts and ends with "N". * nation. * 2: It's the first age you reach when you're surrounded by "N"s. * nineteen. * 3: This "Dance" by the Pointer Sisters was featured in the film "Beverly Hills Cop". * "The Neutron Dance". * 4: A black widow spider's venom is classified as this 10-letter type of poison. * a neurotoxin. * 5: A webcam on this university's School of Communications is pointed at Lake Michigan. * Northwestern.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 924, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "v" love it!* 1: With names like Michelangelo and Black Widow, they're designed to vandalize your computer system. * viruses. * 2: "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" was the classic tagline of these cigarettes. * Virginia Slims. * 3: It flows through Kazan and Saratov. * Volga River. * 4: God bless this author of "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". * Kurt Vonnegut. * 5: The third most populous city in Spain, it's known for its silks and its oranges. * Valencia.

Round 2. Category: history test* 1: The Spanish version of this judicial body was set up in 1478; the Roman one, in 1542. * the Inquisition. * 2: In 1848 this U.S.-Mexico peace treaty was signed not far from the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe. * Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. * 3: The Boxer Protocol, signed in September 1901, forced this country to pay about $330 million. * China. * 4: Vermeer's view of this city dates from a few years after its devastating powder magazine explosion. * Delft. * 5: This ship left Tahiti April 4, 1789, apparently to the regret of many of the crew. * the Bounty.

Round 3. Category: classic tv title roles 1: Dry cleaner Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford and their son. * The Jeffersons. * 2: Police captain Hal Linden. * Barney Miller. * 3: Alien life form voiced by Paul Fusco. * ALF. * 4: Waitress Linda Lavin. * Alice. * 5: Streetwise detective Robert Blake. * Baretta*.

Round 4. Category: "day" or "night"* 1: If you're habitually up and active late into the night you're one of these "bird"s. * Night owl. * 2: A trademark for luminous paints and colors like that of my "Rocket Red" underwear. * DayGlo. * 3: One of mine is being chased by a tyrannosaurus rex, one of yours may be "on Elm Street". * Nightmare. * 4: The goddess Eos knows it's another word for dawn. * Daybreak. * 5: On his 20th attempt, Dale Earnhardt won this grueling auto race February 15, 1998. * Daytona 500.

Round 5. Category: cnn 25: international news* 1: In 1989, one lone protestor halted a column of tanks as it advanced on this square. * Tiananmen Square. * 2: (Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN's 360.) In 2002 I reported from this capital that U.S. allies had liberated the previous November. * Kabul. * 3: In 1997, we said "hello" to this sheep as CNN reported on her cloning by Scottish scientists. * Dolly. * 4: Held hostage in Lebanon, this AP correspondant was finally freed in 1991, ending his 7-year ordeal. * Terry Anderson. * 5: Tragically in 1995, more than 200 people died in the country then called this during an outbreak of the Ebola virus. * Zaire.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 923, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: you know what they say...* 1: Guess correctly you've "hit" this "on the head". * nail. * 2: "He who laughs last, laughs best" and "He who" does this "is lost". * hesitates. * 3: They "come in threes", "must come to an end" and "come to those who wait". * good things. * 4: For centuries fraidy-cats have insisted that this "is the better part of valor". * discretion. * 5: It's an Oreo enthusiast's version of "That's the way the ball bounces". * That's the way the cookie crumbles.

Round 2. Category: begins and ends in "c"* 1: It's another name for a comedian. * comic. * 2: In names of golf tournaments, this word follows GTE Byron Nelson, Bob Hope Chrysler and Quad City. * Classic. * 3: A Greek philosopher who believed life is best when freed of possessions; Diogenes of Sinope was one. * cynic. * 4: This brandy is named for the town in western France where it is produced. * cognac. * 5: Cancer-causing. * carcinogenic.

Round 3. Category: name that board game* 1: "Go directly to jail". * Monopoly. * 2: "King me!". * Checkers. * 3: "Miss Scarlet in the library with the wrench". * Clue. * 4: "You sank my aircraft carrier!". * Battleship. * 5: "My wink is nearest the pot. I've won the squidge-off!". * tiddlywinks.

Round 4. Category: the french connection* 1: This relative is une tante. * Aunt. * 2: "Acceptez-vous les cartes de credit?" means "Do you accept" these. * credit cards. * 3: To figure out what "tete" means, use your tete. * Head. * 4: The French call this religious day La Toussaint. * All Saints Day. * 5: Cagney showed disdain for Mae Clarke with this, un pamplemousse. * Grapefruit.

Round 5. Category: caving* 1: Scientists who study these mammals in caves wear respirators to protect themselves from ammonia fumes. * Bats. * 2: Cavers use special dyes to track the flow of these. * (Underground) Rivers. * 3: Explorers enjoy cave systems inside these ice masses because they constantly change. * Glaciers. * 4: Cave diving combines spelunking with this other sport. * Scuba diving. * 5: In 1879 Marcelino de Sautuola discovered the Stone Age paintings in this country's Altamira Cave. * Spain.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 922, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: baseball managers* 1: IN '72 Ted Williams became the 1st manager of this team that plays its home games in Arlington, TX.. * the Texas Rangers. * 2: Since taking over the Yankees in 1996, he's guided the team to 6 World Series appearances, winning 4 times. * Joe Torre. * 3: After retiring as the Dodgers' manager, he guided the 2000 U.S. Olympic baseball team to the gold medal. * Tommy Lasorda. * 4: This San Francisco Giants manager has the same name as a 49ers running back. * Roger Craig. * 5: Hall of Fame manager George Anderson receved this nickname because of his scrappy determination. * "Sparky".

Round 2. Category: "union"s* 1: This country's breakup December 25, 1991 made headlines. * the Soviet Union. * 2: It's what ads for the International Ladies' Garment Workers want you to "Look for". * the union label. * 3: Nickname for the flag of Great Britain. * the Union Jack. * 4: It's a co-op banking association in which members pool their savings and lend to each other. * credit union. * 5: This company erected the first transcontinental telegraph line. * Western Union.

Round 3. Category: "i", "ay", "eye"* 1: Portugal's peninsula. * Iberian. * 2: Bart Simpson's foreign catch phrase. * "Ay Caramba!". * 3: Mr. Merchant's movie partner. * James Ivory. * 4: On the Cuban Missile Crisis, Dean Rusk said "We're" this "and the other fellow just blinked". * Eyeball to eyeball. * 5: Title for a scholar in Islamic law and religion; he may be a young up and "Khomeini". * Ayatollah.

Round 4. Category: beauty queens* 1: The Miss America Pageant stopped giving this award for friendliness in 1974. * Miss Congeniality Award. * 2: He was involved with 1972's Miss Tennessee, Linda Thompson, while he and Priscilla were divorcing. * Elvis Presley. * 3: She was Miss Mississippi and Miss America, and now she's Mrs. Gary Collins. * Mary Ann Mobley. * 4: A scandal involving her lover lost this ex-Miss America her job with Mayor Koch's office. * Bess Myerson. * 5: She won Miss World-USA in '73 --but the headband, bracelets and red, white and blue costume came later. * Lynda Carter.

Round 5. Category: hits of the '90s* 1: This 1996 dance hit was actually an English remix by the Bayside Boys using the Spanish chorus by Los Del Rio. * "The Macarena". * 2: TLC "don't want no" these; one of these "is a guy that can't get no love from me". * "Scrubs". * 3: In Spetember 1995 this artist's "You Are Not Alone" became the first single in history to enter the Hot 100 chart at No. 1. * Michael Jackson. * 4: Toni Braxton asked her lover to do this to "my heart, say you'll love me again". * un-break. * 5: The refrain of his hit "Lullaby" is "Everything's gonna be all right, rock-a-bye...". * Shawn Mullins.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 921, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "mm" bop * 1: If I can never die, I'm this. * Immortal. * 2: On the football field, this line separates the Lions from the Bears. * Line of scrimmage. * 3: IDG books "For" these people include ones on "Bird Watching", "Opera" and "Windows 98". * Dummies. * 4: "Tell me more" about this song from "Grease". * "Summer Nights". * 5: For 1/3 and 1/4, it's 12. * Lowest common denominator.

Round 2. Category: shrew-ed * 1: Continent where you'd find the shrews Crocidura nigeriae and Crocidura tansaniana. * Africa. * 2: Canadian province where you'll most likely spot Trowbridge's shrew, which enjoys Douglas fir seeds. * British Columbia. * 3: The Southeastern shrew inhabits the marshy U.S. region that got this uninviting name from Col. William Byrd. * the Great Dismal Swamp. * 4: The Mt. Malindang shrew and the Palawan tree shrew are native to this country. * the Philippines. * 5: It would be "serendip"itous to see a Kelaart's long-clawed shrew, as it lives only on this island. * Sri Lanka.

Round 3. Category: hurricane names * 1: 1985:Same as Steinem and Estefan. * Gloria. * 2: 1991:Same as Fosse and Barker. * Bob. * 3: 1955:Same as Reno and Jackson. * Janet. * 4: 1983:Same as Witt and Silverstone. * Alicia. * 5: 1979:Same as Remington and Chopin. * Frederic.

Round 4. Category: playwrights * 1: Known for his comedies, his "Chapter Two" told of his remarriage after his wife's death. * Neil Simon. * 2: This "Odd Couple" writer said, "if he did not take a big chance, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor". * Neil Simon. * 3: His "The Crucible" was produced in 1953; in 1956 he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. * Arthur Miller. * 4: Okay, you bleepin' bleepity bleep contestants! "Boston Marriage" is a 1999 comedy by this bleepin' playwright! Bleep!. * David Mamet. * 5: "You Never Can Tell", the initial literary work of this "Pygmalion" author, earned him less than 10 shillings a year. * George Bernard Shaw.

Round 5. Category: states by senators * 1: Akaka and Inouye. * Hawaii. * 2: Thurmond and Hollings. * South Carolina. * 3: Cochran and Lott. * Mississippi. * 4: Specter and Santorum. * Pennsylvania. * 5: Grassley and Harkin. * Iowa.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 920, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: certificates * 1: From 1950 to 1999 the most popular name on these certificates for newborn boys in the U.S. was Michael. * birth certificates. * 2: When Billie Jean King won her first Wimbledon singles title in 1966, the prize was one of these for tennis wear. * gift certificate. * 3: It is often signed by the last physician who attended the deceased. * death certificate. * 4: The ones Playboy Enterprises issued in 1971 included a nude image of Miss February Willi Rey. * stock certificates. * 5: As part of a 1930s act it was illegal for individuals to hold these from the Treasury; the restrictions were lifted in 1964. * gold certificates.

Round 2. Category: what's the alternative? * 1: You can get your chi balanced by either of these 2 ancient Chinese methods whose name both begin "acu". * acupuncture and acupressure. * 2: This "therapy" uses concentrated plant oils like rosemary or bergamot to relieve stress. * aroma therapy. * 3: Meaning "the science of prolonging life", it's a dietary regime of whole grains, vegetables and beans. * macrobiotic. * 4: By this alternative medicine's methods a quartz-powered watch should aid in carpal-tunnel syndrome relief; well, maybe. * crystal healing. * 5: Autosuggestion ("I am great, great") is classified as a form of "self" this ("I am getting sleepy, sleepy"). * self-hypnosis.

Round 3. Category: "love" songs * 1: In a Sinatra classic, these 2 things "go together like a horse and carriage". * love and marriage. * 2: In this title song from Elvis' first movie, The King declares "You have made my life complete, and I love you so". * "Love Me Tender". * 3: "When I kissed a cop down on 34th and Vine, he broke my little bottle of" this. * "Love Potion No. 9". * 4: In a 1964 Beatles hit, "She says" this, "and you know that can't be bad". * "She Loves You". * 5: Jack Jones sang that this vehicle "soon will be making another run". * the "Love Boat".

Round 4. Category: slavery * 1: In 1861 by imperial decree, Alexander II liberated 40 million serfs in this country. * Russia. * 2: This large Middle Eastern country did not abolish slavery until 1962. * Saudi Arabia. * 3: In 1865 this amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the U.S.. * 13th Amendment. * 4: The Compromise of 1850 banned the slave trade in Washington, D.C. and admitted this state as a free state. * California. * 5: 11-letter word meaning the formal emancipation of a slave by his owner. * Manumission.

Round 5. Category: ding dong * 1: In 1967 this company introduced its chocolate-covered Ding Dong snack cakes. * Hostess. * 2: The Fifth Estate had a 1967 Top 20 hit with this song from a 1939 movie. * "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead". * 3: 4-word title of the Barry Mann song that asks, "Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?". * "Who Put The Bomp". * 4: In a song from this musical, "We go together like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong". * Grease. * 5: Ding Dongs are individually wrapped chocolate cakes from this company. * Hostess.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 919, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: an "f" in history * 1: John Glenn's capsule on his famous 1962 flight was called this, which an old saying called the "best ship". * Friendship. * 2: From 1788 to 1790 Russia and Sweden fought over this country. * Finland. * 3: This 13th president's wife Abigail loved books and began a library at the White House around 1850. * (Millard) Fillmore. * 4: In 1918 Woodrow Wilson proposed this numbered set of principles, one being the removal of trade barriers between nations. * the Fourteen Points. * 5: On July 3, 1754 Fort Necessity was surrendered in one of the first battles in this 9-year war. * the French and Indian War.

Round 2. Category: toys and games * 1: Miss Scarlet and Professor Plum are suspects in this classic whodunit game. * Clue. * 2: This plump doll with a top knot got its name from a pet form of "Cupid". * Kewpie. * 3: Because of an allergy alert, one ingredient of this soft modeling compound that's not a secret is wheat. * Play-Doh. * 4: When this brand was introduced in 1970, it was billed as the "first official indoor ball". * Nerf. * 5: At the 1939 World's Fair, the Sawyer family introduced this stereo slide scope that gives 3-D views. * the View-Master.

Round 3. Category: half a nice day * 1: If you're a half pint, you've got this many ounces. * 8. * 2: In 2003 AMD introduced its 64-this chip; that's a lot of personal computing power and beats the standard 32. * bit. * 3: On the menu, "on the half shell" usually refers to a way of serving these, raw or Rockefeller. * oysters. * 4: If something is 50% gold, it has this many karats. * 12. * 5: We guess it would take 2 of this rapper's "Get Rich or Die Trying" CDs to equal 1 Buck Owens. * 50 Cent.

Round 4. Category: international shopping * 1: It's illegal to buy goods with foreign currency in this Asian country. * Red China. * 2: The Witches' Market in this Bolivian capital has been called a "glorious adventure" for children. * La Paz. * 3: The duty-free shop of this Irish airport is 1 of the most famous in Europe. * Shannon Airport. * 4: Brussels and Bruges are world famous for making this fabric which the Belgians call "dentelles". * lace. * 5: (Video Daily Double)Among the most popular Russian souvenirs are wooden matryoshka dolls, which have this unique feature:. * they fit within each other.

Round 5. Category: corn-ucopia * 1: The name of this brand of corn chips means "fried" in Spanish. * Fritos. * 2: This man who died in 1995 made the first significant genetic improvement in popcorn in more than 5,000 years. * Orville Redenbacher. * 3: Meat and vegetables are cooked with a masa dough and wrapped in a corn husk to make this Mexican dish. * tamales. * 4: These threadlike fibers that grow beneath the husk are used in herbal medicines and tea. * corn silk. * 5: Home to the Missouri Meerschaum Co., Washington, Missouri is hailed as this "capital of the world". * corn pipe.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 918, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: it's time for sports * 1: Maria Sharapova has had complaints about the loudness of her grunting while playing this. * tennis. * 2: In 2003 the Miami Hurricanes blew out of this conference to join the Atlantic Coast Conference. * the Big East. * 3: The first choice in the 2003 NBA draft, he already has a $90 million Nike deal and is only 18. * LeBron James. * 4: This surprise 2003 British Open winner said that Tiger Woods has "this aroma about him". * Ben Curtis. * 5: This horse's owners weren't laughing in 2003 when it failed to pick up the 3rd jewel of the Triple Crown. * Funny Cide.

Round 2. Category: formulas * 1: This soft drink's secret formula is stored in a safe deposit box at the Trust Company of Georgia. * Coca-Cola. * 2: Edison said, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99%" this. * Perspiration. * 3: 11/2 ounces vodka, chilled tomato juice, salt and pepper and other spices to taste. * Bloody Mary. * 4: The 3 witches in "Macbeth" brewed up a charm from such items as tooth of wolf and eye of this amphibian. * Newt. * 5: The Chinese did a bang-up job in discovering its formula as 75% saltpeter, 15% charcoal and 10% sulfur. * Gunpowder.

Round 3. Category: common bonds * 1: A doughnut,Swiss cheese,the ozone layer. * things with holes. * 2: A player at bat,your dog,the plank. * Things you walk. * 3: Peeling onions,watching Mel Gibson's film "Forever Young",missing Final Jeopardy!. * things that make you cry. * 4: Hair,Punch,A volleyball. * Things that are spiked. * 5: Arabian,Andalusian,Appaloosa. * breeds of horses.

Round 4. Category: rock 'n' roll facts * 1: In 1989 this band celebrated the 20th anniversary of "Tommy" with a series of special performances. * The Who. * 2: This group's 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon" spent over 14 years on the Billboard charts. * Pink Floyd. * 3: This Bruce Springsteen album produced seven top 10 singles. * Born in the U.S.A.. * 4: A descendant of the Duke of Wellington, Jeremy Clyde was one half of this famous duo. * Chad and Jeremy. * 5: Before joining forces with Crosby and Nash, Neil Young and Stephen Stills were members of this group. * Buffalo Springfield.

Round 5. Category: "finger" exercise * 1: Pinkie rinser at the table. * a finger bowl. * 2: A type of pitch where the ball drops sharply near home plate. * a split-finger. * 3: Tiny trout. * fingerlings. * 4: Alphabetic sign language. * fingerspelling. * 5: Numerical slang for shoplifting. * 5-finger discount.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 917, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: biblical numbers * 1: The number of days it took God to create the universe and everything in it (not resting). * 6. * 2: The number of days Jesus fasted in the desert. * 40. * 3: This many friends of Daniel were thrown into the fiery furnace but saved by God. * 3. * 4: The number of Hebrew Old Testament books named for specific women. * 2 (Ruth and Esther). * 5: In Genesis 35 Joseph had this many brothers (including half brothers). * 11.

Round 2. Category: the civil war years * 1: War was raging when this holiday was 1st observed nationally, on the last Thursday in November 1863. * Thanksgiving. * 2: This 4-word motto was first stamped on U.S. coins during the war, in 1864. * In God We Trust. * 3: U.S. diplomat Charles Francis Adams. this president's son, sought to keep the British neutral. * John Quincy Adams. * 4: In 1861 Army Surgeon Bernard Irwin earned the 1st Medal of Honor in Hostilities vs. Chiricahua Apaches in this future state. * Arizona. * 5: "Little Women" author who became famous when letters she wrote as a Civil War nurse were published in 1863. * Alcott.

Round 3. Category: 1959's bestsellers * 1: In a Paul Gallico title, "Mrs. 'arris Goes to" this European city. * Paris. * 2: At No. 1, this Leon Uris book left the other works of fiction behind. * Exodus. * 3: This book by Pasternak was No. 2 in the fiction bestseller rack. * Doctor Zhivago. * 4: "Twixt Twelve and Twenty" was an advice book by this "April Love" singer. * Pat Boone. * 5: Please "state" the name of this James Michener book, No. 3 on Publishers Weekly's list for the year. * Hawaii.

Round 4. Category: michelle * 1: Graceful skating champ Michelle Kwan was born in and trains in this state known more for surf than ice. * California. * 2: Get "Up Close and Personal" with this "Catwoman" who was Miss Orange County in 1978. * Michelle Pfeiffer. * 3: This actress whose middle name is Michelle slays me as TV's vampish Buffy. * Sarah Michelle Gellar. * 4: Wins at the Sara Lee Classic and the Oldsmobile Classic make Michelle McGann a seasoned pro in this sport. * Golf. * 5: The lovely and talented Michelle Forbes played Ensign Ro on this "Trek" incarnation. * Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Round 5. Category: "t"3 * 1: The Holy Bible is made up of the "Old" and "New" ones. * testaments. * 2: Gouverneur Morris was responsible for much of the wording of this in 1787. * the Constitution. * 3: It's the lever pilots use to control the power and speed of many planes. * throttle. * 4: To create an opera, you need a composer and this person who writes or adapts the text. * librettist. * 5: While not an M.D., this person can still diagnose eye problems and prescribe glasses. * optometrist.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 916, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: princeton * 1: Of 1769, 1869 or 1969, the year Princeton began to admit women as undergraduates. * 1969. * 2: Types of these that became popular starting in the 1940s included the Princeton, Crew and Butch. * haircuts. * 3: In 1974 this Princeton grad and PBS host wrote "How to Make Money in Wall Street". * Louis Rukeyser. * 4: The school song's line "Her sons shall give" became "Our hearts shall give" to reflect this change. * the admission of women. * 5: The Tiger, published since 1882, is Princeton's equivalent of this Harvard humor mag, established in 1876. * The Lampoon.

Round 2. Category: famous mounts * 1: Astride this steed the Lone Ranger led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. * Silver. * 2: Film cowboy who was "Trigger" happy. * Roy Rogers. * 3: Marengo and Copenhagen were their mounts at Waterloo. * Duke of Wellington and Napoleon. * 4: After this hero of Spain died in 1099 no one was allowed to ride his horse Babieca. * El Cid. * 5: White Surrey was the favorite horse of this king once quoted as saying he'd trade his kingdom for one. * Richard III.

Round 3. Category: what's for breakfast? * 1: Seriously, let go of this waffle from Kellogg's that comes in Nutri-Grain and blueberry styles. * Eggo. * 2: It's the 2-word Spanish name for tortillas topped with fried eggs and a layer of salsa. * Huevos rancheros. * 3: This fad is where it's at, successful enough to become part of an internet meme. * avocado toast. * 4: This brand named for a fictional relative offers pancake mix, pancake syrup and pancakes on the go. * Aunt Jemima. * 5: I'll cook some huevos rancheros, these served on tortillas and topped with salsa. * eggs.

Round 4. Category: high places * 1: In 1707 and 1708 this volcano showered Tokyo with ash and oh-oh, it's rumbling again. * Mount Fuji. * 2: Zermatt, Switzerland's Alpine Museum has several exhibits devoted to this adjacent peak. * Matterhorn. * 3: In 1947 renewed activity of this Sicilian volcano formed 2 new craters. * Mount Etna. * 4: Nanga Parbat in Jammu and Kashmir is considered the most dangerous peak for climbers in this range. * Himalayas. * 5: Mount Hikurangi, sacred to the Maoris, is the first place in this country to see the light of day. * New Zealand.

Round 5. Category: celebrity cheerleaders * 1: One of the L.A. stories this wild and crazy guy may tell is of cheerleading at Garden Grove High. * Steve Martin. * 2: We wonder what accent this "Sophie's Choice" star used when shouting her high school cheers. * Meryl Streep. * 3: This comedienne was a cheerleader at Cass Tech in Detroit, and that's the truth. * Lily Tomlin. * 4: This "Today" show host is as perky as a cheerleader because she was one. * Katie Couric. * 5: She went from cheerleading at Van Nuys High to the Laker Girls to the Top 40 charts. * Paula Abdul.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 915, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: also a gun manufacturer * 1: One might run in the Preakness. * a colt. * 2: This 19th century American artist and sculptor was known as "The Rembrandt of the West". * Remington. * 3: He's the guitarist who had a Top 40 hit with "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo". * Rick Derringer. * 4: Famous for its cathedral, this English city was the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. * Winchester. * 5: Fredric March portrayed this poet in "The Barrets of Wimpole Street". * (Robert) Browning.

Round 2. Category: 20th century art * 1: Grandma Moses ordered her first set of paints from this Chicago mail order company. * Sears, Roebuck. * 2: Primarily a movement in painting, this "square" trend also influenced sculpture. * cubism. * 3: Manhattan's MoMA stands on land once occupied by 2 mansions of this noted N.Y. family. * the Rockefellers. * 4: Famous for his Olympic and sports action paintings, he's appeared in 2 "Rocky" movies. * LeRoy Neiman. * 5: 1920 painting by George Grosz shows one of these machines Karel Capek named the next year. * a robot.

Round 3. Category: playbill * 1: It's been reigning over Broadway since 1997--long may it roar. * The Lion King. * 2: Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the "haunting" music for this show. * "Phantom of the Opera". * 3: "Madame Butterfly" is the basis for this musical. * Miss Saigon. * 4: Calling all swingers, you'll go ape over this musical. * Tarzan. * 5: This 2000 musical wasn't written in the stars, but by Linda Wolverton, Elton John and Tim Rice. * "Aida" (new version).

Round 4. Category: born in the '60s * 1: NYC minister Joseph Simmons is better known as "Run" of this rap group. * Run-D.M.C.. * 2: After the 1996 election, this 35-year-old Clinton adviser moved to ABC News. * George Stephanopoulos. * 3: In 1996, he beat a chess-playing IBM computer called Deep Blue; in 1997 the tables were turned. * Garry Kasparov. * 4: 1 of the 2 30-something female leads of "The English Patient". * Juliette Binoche and Kristin Scott Thomas. * 5: 29-year-old Melinda French, a manager at this company, married its chairman January 1, 1994. * Microsoft.

Round 5. Category: getting possessive * 1: Have a "grape" timeat this resort island about four miles off the coast. * Martha's Vineyard. * 2: They are painful contractions of hand muscles while utilizing your penmanship. * writer's cramp. * 3: This NYC church is the seat of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York; let's have a parade!. * St. Patrick. * 4: Part of a constellation, it's the keeper-upper indicated here. * Orion's belt. * 5: This song was written to tease a Civil War sergeant who had the same name as the abolitionist. * John Brown's Body.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 914, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: state trees * 1: Its state tree is the candlenut, but locals call it the Kukui. * Hawaii. * 2: Rhode Island picked the "red" type of this tree; Vermont got the "sugar" kind. * maple. * 3: Delaware chose a type of this tree that's paired with "the ivy" in a Christmas song. * holly. * 4: This state tree of Mississppi is famed for its fragrant flowers. * magnolia. * 5: The fan-shaped leaves of this South Carolina state tree are sometimes used to make baskets. * the palmetto.

Round 2. Category: african capitals * 1: A water hole called Enkare Nairobi, or "cold water", eventually became the capital of this country. * Kenya. * 2: This Senegal capital is the westernmost city on the African mainland. * Dakar. * 3: The Indian Ocean seaport of Mogadishu is the capital of this nation. * Somalia. * 4: Upon the independence of this nation in 1962, Kampala replaced Entebbe as its capital. * Uganda. * 5: The American Colonization Society founded this city that now neighbors Bushrod Island. * Monrovia.

Round 3. Category: men in black * 1: I know the men in black haunted Mulder on this TV show--I played one of them!. * The X-Files. * 2: Women in the "Men in Black" films include Lara Flynn Boyle and this "Last Seduction" star. * Linda Fiorentino. * 3: 19th century artist Hokusai is credited with the first image of these stealthy warriors wearing black. * a ninja. * 4: Josh Brolin played a younger version of this actor in "Men in Black 3". * Tommy Lee Jones. * 5: This Oscar-winning actor is all sorts of bad as the man in black in "The Dark Tower", based on the Stephen King novels. * Matthew McConaughey.

Round 4. Category: ordinary "world" * 1: In 1851 new products on display at the first one of these included the Colt revolver and a reaper. * world's fair. * 2: This satirical Aldous Huxley novel is set in the year 632 AF (After Ford). * Brave New World. * 3: It's the "aged" nickname for prostitution. * oldest profession in the world (world's oldest profession). * 4: Numerical term referring collectively to more than 100 countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. * third world. * 5: The "U.S.A." in "U.S.A. for Africa" stood for "United Support of Artists" when they recorded this '85 No. 1 Hit. * "We Are the World".

Round 5. Category: "moo" * 1: The song "That's Amore" is on the soundtrack to this 1987 Cher film. * Moonstruck. * 2: This adjective means "purely academic" or "irrelevant". * Moot. * 3: This stir-fried Chinese dish that contains shredded pork, scallions and egg is rolled in a thin pancake. * Moo shu pork. * 4: It's another name for a person born under the sign of Cancer. * Moonchild/moonchildren. * 5: This Cab Calloway song includes the lines "Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi!" and "Ho-De-Ho-De-Ho-De-Ho!". * "Minnie The Moocher".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 913, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: rudolph * 1: This grandson of Italian immigrants was elected the 107th mayor of New York City on November 2, 1993. * Rudolph Giuliani. * 2: You'll find this body of water in the eastern part of Kenya's Rift Valley. * Lake Rudolph. * 3: Bravo! This man was the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972. * Sir Rudolph Bing. * 4: This president took his stepdad's name while still an infant, including the middle name Rudolph. * Ford. * 5: Minnie Riperton's song "Lovin' You" began as a lullaby to her daughter, this future "SNL" comic actress. * Maya Rudolph.

Round 2. Category: bays and gulfs * 1: This country's Peter the Great Bay is an inlet of the Sea of Japan. * Russia. * 2: Tampa Bay is an arm of this gulf. * the Gulf of Mexico. * 3: It was the center of naval action in the 1991 Gulf War. * the Persian Gulf. * 4: Sugar Loaf Mountain in this country rises above Guanabara Bay. * Brazil. * 5: In 1994 the U.S. reopened a refugee processing center at the naval base on this Cuban bay. * Guantanamo Bay.

Round 3. Category: 4-letter clothes * 1: One may be wedding, prom or dressing. * Gown. * 2: Piece that turns a man's 2-piece suit into a 3-piece suit. * Vest. * 3: Ballet wear, perhaps for Desmond. * Tutu. * 4: After it comes back pink from the wash, you might use something similar to fire your laundress. * Slip. * 5: Piece of clothing in the title of the first feature film in Cinemascope. * The Robe.

Round 4. Category: shakespearean synopses * 1: "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", and then things really get bad. * Hamlet. * 2: Fairies fight and frolic in the forest. * A Midsummer Night's Dream. * 3: Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy takes poison. Girl stabs herself and dies.. * Romeo and Juliet. * 4: Moorish hanky-panky, with a real hanky. * Othello. * 5: Much ado about a pound of flesh. * The Merchant of Venice.

Round 5. Category: streets * 1: On Jan. 15, 1983 Santa Barbara Ave. in L.A. was renamed for this slain civil rights leader. * Martin Luther King, Jr.. * 2: In 2000 Tony Blair lived there. * Downing Street. * 3: This main street running through downtown San Francisco once featured 4 sets of streetcar tracks. * Market Street. * 4: It's said Saint Paul lived on a street called Straight in this present-day Syrian capital. * Damascus. * 5: Hurray for this boulevard with Veronica Lake's star. * Hollywood Boulevard.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 912, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: biblical quotes * 1: Eccles. 11:1 says cast this "upon the waters: For thou shalt find it after many days". * bread. * 2: "The serpent beguiled me and I did eat". * Eve. * 3: She said, "Thou hast mocked me these 3 times and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. * Delilah. * 4: These 3 friends of Daniel were bound and "cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace". * Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. * 5: Samson took hold of two pillars and said "Let me die with" these people. * Philistines.

Round 2. Category: jingles all the way * 1: "Double your pleasure, double your fun" with this gum. * Doublemint gum. * 2: "I don't wanna grow up, I'm a" this "kid, they got the best for so much less, you'll really flip your lid". * Toys"R"Us. * 3: They're "The dogs kids love to bite". * Armour hot dogs. * 4: This motorcycle company likes to "Let the good times roll". * Kawasaki. * 5: "Call" this service company, "that's the name, and away go troubles, down the drain". * Roto-Rooter.

Round 3. Category: gems * 1: Many samples of this fossilized resin come from sands that are 40 to 60 million years old. * amber. * 2: The word gem comes from Latin "gemma", meaning this stage of a flower. * a bud. * 3: Intaglio and cameo are principal forms of doing this to gemstones. * carving (or engraving). * 4: Australia's Lightning Ridge is known for its fine black ones. * opals. * 5: Opal and turquoise are found mostly in parts of world where there is little of this. * water (rainfall, moisture).

Round 4. Category: just us chickens * 1: The name of this enclosure where chickens are confined comes from a middle English word for "basket". * coop. * 2: New Hampshires and Rhode Island reds usually produce eggs of this color. * brown. * 3: Chickens are often given grit to replenish the supply of stones in this digestive organ. * gizzard. * 4: This term is used to refer to a miniature member of a standard chicken breed. * bantam. * 5: Tyson Foods could tell you that this state leads the USA in broiler production. * Arkansas.

Round 5. Category: born on the fourth of july * 1: 1826:Composed "Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair" and "Oh! Susanna". * Stephen Foster. * 2: P.T. Barnum's circus partner, he took his first bow on July 4, 1847. * (James) Bailey. * 3: Take our advice and name the columnists born in 1918 as Esther Pauline Friedman and Pauline Esther Friedman. * Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers. * 4: 1807:His Red Shirts captured Sicily and Naples in 1860. * Garibaldi. * 5: Pennsylvania-born in 1826, he penned "Swanee River" only 25 years later. * (Stephen) Foster.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 911, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "z" abbreviations * 1: Z.Hr.; it's time to go. * Zero. * 2: The Z in ZIP code is short for this. * Zone (Improvement Plan). * 3: Book of the Bible abbreviated Zech.. * Zechariah. * 4: You may answer with zeal that zl is short for this currency. * Zloty. * 5: The abbreviations for the 2 elements whose names begin with Z. * Zn and Zr (Zinc and Zirconium).

Round 2. Category: panda-monium * 1: Because they can't digest cellulose, pandas may eat 90 pounds a day of the shoots of this plant. * Bamboo. * 2: To aid in feeding, pandas have evolved an elongated wrist bone that functions like this digit in humans. * a thumb. * 3: In 2011 martial artist Po transitioned from the big screen to big-screen TVs in this title: "Legends of Awesomeness". * Kung Fu Panda. * 4: The red panda's funny walk is usually described as this 6-letter gait, due to its front legs being angled inward. * waddle. * 5: The first live giant panda to come to the west was Su-Lin, who in 1936 came to live at the Brookfield Zoo in this U.S. city. * Chicago.

Round 3. Category: zoology * 1: It's the spotted variety of this African carnivore, not the striped, that's known for its laugh. * a hyena. * 2: The term for a female rabbit, it can also refer to a female deer. * Doe. * 3: Many experts believe this dandy household pest may have been Earth's 1st flying creature. * cockroach. * 4: Named for the sound it makes, the dik-dik is the smallest member of this group in the bovid family. * antelope. * 5: North American porcupines who gnaw the bark off trees are part of this "gnawing" order. * rodents.

Round 4. Category: movie sportsmen * 1: 1942: Gary Cooper as this dependable New York Yankee. * Lou Gehrig. * 2: 1977: Muhammad Ali as this man he knows quite well. * Muhammad Ali. * 3: 1984: Dorian Harewood as this Olympic hero of 1936. * Jesse Owens. * 4: 1940: Pat O'Brien as this Norwegian-born coach. * Knute Rockne. * 5: 1999: Denzel Washington as this imprisoned pugilist. * Hurricane Carter.

Round 5. Category: entertaining critters * 1: Fred Flintstone's boisterous pet dinosaur. * Dino. * 2: This breakfast cereal ursine character hawked Super Sugar Crisps. * Sugar Bear. * 3: Featured in the Van Amburgh Circus of the 1850s, Hannibal was a giant one of these animals. * an elephant. * 4: Dr. Seuss put this animal "in Socks". * Fox. * 5: He voiced a dragon in "Mulan". * Eddie Murphy.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 910, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the nfl's star quarterbacks * 1: Steve Young. * San Francisco 49ers. * 2: Brett Favre. * Green Bay Packers. * 3: Dan Marino. * Miami Dolphins. * 4: Doug Flutie. * Buffalo Bills. * 5: Drew Bledsoe. * New England Patriots.

Round 2. Category: fruit * 1: Technically, a raspberry isn't a berry, but these common vineyard fruits are. * grape. * 2: They're called Mandarin oranges from their origin in China, or this from the port that shipped them. * tangerines. * 3: The Royal Ann type of this fruit is often canned or used to make maraschinos. * cherries. * 4: The Agen, one of these dried fruits, can be eaten out of hand or stewed. * a prune. * 5: This Japanese apple was created in part from the Ralls Janet, an antique apple that dates back to Thomas Jefferson. * the Fuji.

Round 3. Category: sounds like an irish county * 1: It's something "held" on sandwiches. * Mayo. * 2: "de Lune" or Danes. * Claire. * 3: Young doctor played by Lew Ayres and Richard Chamberlain. * Kildare. * 4: Route Julius Caesar took to France; too hard? Okay, flutist James. * Galway (or "Gaul way"). * 5: You may be asked to sniff one of these removed by a sommelier. * Cork.

Round 4. Category: thriller * 1: This author's techno-thriller "Rainbow Six" focuses on John Clark, also a hero in "Clear and Present Danger". * Tom Clancy. * 2: This author made a University of Virginia law professor the protagonist of his 2002 novel "The Summons". * (John) Grisham. * 3: You were born to identify this author of "The Bourne Identity". * (Robert) Ludlum. * 4: "The Numa Files" are paperback spin-offs of this writer's novels featuring Dirk Pitt. * Clive Cussler. * 5: "The Attorney" Paul Madriani appears in several legal thrillers by this lawyer-turned-author. * Steve Martini.

Round 5. Category: starts with a pronoun * 1: The laying on of hands is a key part of the practice of "faith" this. * healing. * 2: In this job, at a wedding, you'll be called upon to ask, "Friend of the bride or groom?". * usher. * 3: One who interlaces cloth, or an African bird that interlaces grass to make its elaborate nest. * a weaver. * 4: It can mean transparently thin, or perfectly vertical, like a cliff. * sheer. * 5: It's a printed-out schedule or outline of one's travel plans. * an itinerary.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 909, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the body bovine * 1: Cattle use this long body part to shoo away insects. * the tail. * 2: A cow has 32 of these but none in the front part of its upper jaw. * teeth. * 3: In beef cows this suspended milk-storing organ is smaller than in dairy cows. * udder. * 4: The rumen is the largest of the 4 compartments that make up this organ in cattle. * stomach. * 5: This breed whose ancestor is the Indian Zebu has a fleshy hump over its shoulders. * Brahma.

Round 2. Category: robert louis stevenson * 1: This title character was an "M.D., D.C.L., LL.D....". * Dr. Jekyll. * 2: (Hi Ho, Kermit the Frog here) As Captain Smollet, I followed the map to this Robert Louis Stevenson island. * "Treasure Island". * 3: "Deacon Brodie, or the Double Life", a play co-written by Stevenson, led to this 1886 novel. * Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. * 4: "The Silverado Squatters" was an 1883 tale about Stevenson's experiences in one of these camps in California. * mining camp. * 5: Around 1890 Stevenson bought 300 acres in what's now this country, where he was called tusitala, or "teller of tales". * Samoa.

Round 3. Category: movie classics * 1: 1941 classic in which Bogart tells Peter Lorre, "When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it". * The Maltese Falcon. * 2: The only Alfred Hitchcock film to win an Oscar as Best Picture, it was partially set in Monte Carlo. * Rebecca. * 3: In "Gentleman's Agreement", he played a writer posing as a Jew to expose anti-semitism. * Gregory Peck. * 4: Kirk Douglas dines with James Mason on sautee of unborn octopus in this Disney film. * 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. * 5: In "Gone with the Wind", these 2 relatives of Scarlett's died from falling off horses. * her daughter and her father (Gerald O'Hara and "Bonnie Blue" Butler).

Round 4. Category: "cat" egory * 1: Malcolm McDowell and Nastassja Kinski's "purr"fect roles in 1982. * cat people. * 2: It's not a bunch of cats, but a bunch of cows. * cattle. * 3: Ancient weapon kept a stone's throw from its target. * a catapult. * 4: It gets things going in a chemical reaction. * a catalyst. * 5: Elizabeth Taylor character that could have burnt her paws on a hot tin roof. * Maggie the Cat.

Round 5. Category: "j" walking * 1: Anatomically, an elbow or a knee. * a joint. * 2: The month of June is named for the Roman Goddess Juno, the wife of this other god. * Jupiter. * 3: Bartenders use this small cup or glass to measure 1 1/2 ounces of liquor. * a jigger. * 4: This group of 12 people is sworn to render a verdict. * a jury. * 5: On the eastern end of I-10 is this city, home to the Gator Bowl. * Jacksonville, Florida.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 908, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: submarines * 1: By the mid-1950s this country had about 375 subs in various oceans and seas. * the Soviet Union. * 2: After WWI the Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee developed this to detect subs. * sonar. * 3: Until this arrived in the 1950s, almost all subs used diesel-electric power. * nuclear power. * 4: Subs usually have 2 of these optical devices, 1 for general use, 1 for the attack. * periscopes. * 5: Air trapped in these tanks makes a sub float. * ballast tanks.

Round 2. Category: al gore rhythms * 1: His home state. * Tennessee. * 2: His job from 1985 to 1993. * U.S. Senator. * 3: His wife's most famous nickname. * Tipper. * 4: The East Coast school where he got his B.A. in 1969. * Harvard. * 5: The foreign country where he worked as a journalist from 1969 to 1971. * Vietnam.

Round 3. Category: veggies * 1: You don't have to know the language to know the Swedes call it a "baggy root". * a rutabaga. * 2: The name of this immature onion is from Ascalon, a port in Palestine. * a scallion. * 3: You'll often see a red variety of this vegetable used as a garnish and carved into "roses". * a radish. * 4: The more common name for colorful "flint" corn. * Indian corn. * 5: Carrots are rich in carotene, which the body uses to produce this vitamin. * vitamin A.

Round 4. Category: this is i country * 1: An island, it's the world's northernmost "I" country. * Iceland. * 2: They're the only 2 "I" countries to border each other. * Iran and Iraq. * 3: One of this country's driest regions is the Negev Desert, with an annual rainfall of usually less than 10 inches. * Israel. * 4: Its ethnic groups include the Dayaks on Borneo, the Toraja on Sulawesi and some Papuan groups on Irian Jaya. * Indonesia. * 5: Among its 26 counties are one famed for its cut glass and one known for its tweed cloth. * Ireland.

Round 5. Category: state nickname fun * 1: These 2 states with a precious metal in their nicknames border each other. * California and Nevada. * 2: The nickname of this state includes a greeting in a non-English language. * Hawaii. * 3: A ride at the Albuquerque Int'l Balloon Fiesta might show you why New Mexico is the "land of" this. * Enchantment. * 4: Minnesota may have gotten this nickname from a cartoon showing railroad organizers as tunneling mammals. * Gopher State. * 5: In 2004 a biologist caused great excitement when he photographed an actual wild one of these in Michigan. * a wolverine.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 907, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: home sweet home * 1: The house where she wrote "Silent Spring" is a National Historic Monument in Silver Spring, Maryland. * Rachel Carson. * 2: Spanish for "Sea to Lake" this Palm Beach estate was home to Donald Trump and earlier, Marjorie Merriweather Post. * Mar-a-Lago. * 3: Her Silver Spring, Maryland home where she wrote "Silent Spring", is now a national landmark. * Rachel Carson. * 4: Notables who have called this NYC apartment building home include Judy Garland, John Lennon and Lauren Bacall. * The Dakota. * 5: In 1839, this president bought Lindenwald, the estate he would retire to, in Kinderhook. * Van Buren.

Round 2. Category: world almanac 1868 * 1: The book lists 2 of these solar phenomena, including a total one. * an eclipse. * 2: It's the chief wool-producing state, and we're not pulling the wool over your buckeyes. * Ohio. * 3: On Nov. 14, 1867 there were meteor showers and this volcano near Naples erupted. * Vesuvius. * 4: There are about 1,250,000 free and accepted ones of these around the world, including 100,000 in Scotland. * Masons. * 5: This U.S. president earns a big $25,000 a year. * Andrew Johnson.

Round 3. Category: sculpture * 1: A prehistoric sculpture of a bison licking itself was found in this country's cave of La Madeleine. * France. * 2: After Degas' death, many of the statues he'd modeled in clay or wax were cast in this alloy. * bronze. * 3: Antoine Louis Barye became expert in sculpting wild animals through regular visits to this place in Paris. * the zoo. * 4: The Kamakura period, 1185-1338, is considered by many to be this country's great age of sculpture. * Japan. * 5: His famous sculpture "The Thinker" resulted from his unfinished "The Gates of Hell" project. * Auguste Rodin.

Round 4. Category: day time * 1: The first day of the week mentioned by name in "Robinson Crusoe" isn't Friday but this (1st day is a clue). * Sunday. * 2: In English, it's alphabetically the last day of the week. * Wednesday. * 3: J. Wellington Wimpy often said, "I will gladly pay you" this day "for a hamburger today". * Tuesday. * 4: Day of the week that's the English equivalent to the Latin Saturni dies. * Saturday. * 5: G.K. Chesterton wrote of a "Man Who Was" this day. * Thursday.

Round 5. Category: so. cal. * 1: Specialty of Rubin's Red Hots and Tail O' The Pup. * hot dogs. * 2: On the Warner Bros. lot tour you can see the water tower that this cartoon trio calls home. * the Animaniacs. * 3: In 1929 most of the canals Abbot Kinney added to this community were filled in. * Venice. * 4: The original and current homes of the Oscar ceremony are on opposite sides of this street. * Hollywood Blvd.. * 5: Every spring the Toyota Grand Prix races through the downtown streets of this city. * Long Beach.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 906, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: creepy crawly things * 1: A sailor's superstition says that these creatures desert a ship they know will sink. * rats. * 2: This creepy creature might be lug, inch or book. * worm. * 3: These pre-moth creatures eat constantly. * caterpillars. * 4: Related to the snail, these gastropods climb trees and lower themselves back down on a mucous thread. * slugs. * 5: Trying to humanize these big kitchen bugs, model Paulina Porizkova co-wrote a kids' book about them. * cockroaches.

Round 2. Category: cuba * 1: If you have a sweet tooth, you'll probably know that this is Cuba's most important crop. * sugarcane. * 2: This Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning novelist's home in pre-Castro Cuba was called "Finca Vigia". * Ernest Hemingway. * 3: The presidential palace last used by this dictator is now called The Museum of the Revolution. * Fulgencio Batista. * 4: In 1997 this magazine chose Cuba as one of its "50 Most Beautiful". * People. * 5: In a 1995 TV movie Cuba soared with this first squadron of black combat pilots. * the Tuskegee Airmen.

Round 3. Category: stage names * 1: In 2000 he ditched that weird symbol, so now he's the Artist Formerly Known as the Artist Formerly Known as this. * Prince. * 2: "Peyton Place" star Dorothy Eloise Maloney. * Dorothy Malone. * 3: Elliott Goldstein. * Elliott Gould. * 4: These "boys" go by the names King Ad-Rock, Mike D and MCA. * The Beastie Boys. * 5: Henry Montgomery Jr., Elizabeth's father. * Robert Montgomery.

Round 4. Category: rhyme right * 1: Horse-headed chess piece. * a knight. * 2: One set of stairs between floors. * a flight. * 3: A perceived snub or act of contempt. * a slight. * 4: It's a bend in a coastline that forms a bay. * a bight. * 5: Isle where Victoria shuffled off her mortal throne. * the Isle of Wight.

Round 5. Category: life of the party * 1: This party was named at a Michigan convention, 1854; still going strong. * the GOP (or Republican Party). * 2: In 2000 its 97,000 Florida votes left it at a Nader of popularity with Al Gore fans. * the Green Party. * 3: In 2006 this party, no longer "progressive", came back into power in Canada. * the Conservatives. * 4: Led by Begin and Sharon, among others. * the Likud Party. * 5: Formed to oppose "King Andrew" Jackson; named after the British party for limits on royal power. * the Whigs.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 905, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: homework * 1: For starters you can read the first entry, dated June 14, 1942, in this girl's diary. * Anne Frank. * 2: Continue working on your math problems and give us this square root of 121. * 11. * 3: For science, classify rocks according to their 3 main types: metamorphic, sedimentary and this. * igneous. * 4: Write one of these 3-line, 17-syllable Japanese poems; any subject. * a haiku. * 5: For week's end, brush up on your Spanish and translate "Gracias a Dios es viernes" for us. * Thank God it's Friday.

Round 2. Category: buy a vowel * 1: This "A" word means to relinquish power or give up the throne. * abdicate. * 2: We're looking for an "I"; it's an animal without any backbone. * invertebrate. * 3: This "O" is the medical branch that deals with the anatomy and treatment of the eye. * opthamology (optometry accepted). * 4: It's what the Greeks call the letter "E". * epsilon. * 5: "U" may not be aware that this Florentine palace was originally built for Cosimo I de Medici. * the Uffizi Palace.

Round 3. Category: it borders both * 1: Maine and Vermont: this state. * New Hampshire. * 2: Belgium and the Czech Republic. * Germany. * 3: Costa Rica and Colombia. * Panama. * 4: Kansas and South Dakota. * Nebraska. * 5: Missouri and Louisiana. * Arkansas.

Round 4. Category: "m"tv * 1: This long-running series centered on the adventures of mystery author Jessica Fletcher. * Murder, She Wrote. * 2: The title character of this series is "F.Y.I."'s veteran star reporter. * Murphy Brown. * 3: On this '80s cop show, Det. Sonny Crockett shared his boat with a pet alligator named Elvis. * Miami Vice. * 4: The 2 Paul Reiser sitcoms that fit the category. * Mad About You and My Two Dads. * 5: In 1993 Russell Baker took over as host of this PBS anthology series. * Masterpiece Theater.

Round 5. Category: dumb criminals * 1: While robbing a West Virginia home, a man logged into this social network site but did not log out. * Facebook. * 2: A vending machine thief had a hard time claiming innocence after paying $400 bail in this currency with Washington on it. * quarters. * 3: In 2009 a thief broke into an NBC news van; in failing to steal a bolted-down camera, he hit this button by mistake. * record. * 4: A Minnesota man got a DUI for driving not a car but a redesigned recliner from this hyphenated Co.; it could go 20 mph. * a La-Z-Boy. * 5: Robert Ligon got 15 months for repacking these as "low fat" when each had 530 calories--as Homer says, Mmm, these. * donuts.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 904, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: royal female nicknames * 1: Prime Minister Tony Blair dubbed her "The People's Princess". * Princess Diana. * 2: She was "The Untamed Heifer" and "The Virgin Queen". * Elizabeth I. * 3: Mark Antony called her "The Queen of Queens". * Cleopatra. * 4: The 19th century's "Widow of Windsor". * Queen Victoria. * 5: "The Catholic" of 15th century Spain. * Queen Isabella.

Round 2. Category: wine for dummies * 1: Though its name means "black pinot", Pinot noir is a wine of this color. * red. * 2: Devotees call this wine Zin for short. * Zinfandel. * 3: This country's wine regions include the Barossa Valley and the Adelaide Hills. * Australia. * 4: In 1973, after a 50-year battle with the French government, this baron got his Mouton graded first growth. * Rothschild. * 5: "Quack" open a bottle of this sweet, sparkling wine meant for people who were raised on soda pop. * Cold Duck.

Round 3. Category: the jep-tones world tour 2006 * 1: More popular than Regis, the Jeps play their last stadium gig in San Francisco, like this band did on Aug. 29, 1966. * The Beatles. * 2: After a stint with the Maharishi, the group tries Kaballah with this singer whose hits include "Beautiful Stranger". * Madonna. * 3: The Jeps cover this group's 1988 Top 10 hit "Welcome To The Jungle", until the inevitable cease-and-desist order. * Guns N' Roses. * 4: No way! The Jeps' "Potpourri" video isn't the 2005 VMA Viewer's Choice; this band's "American Idiot" is. * Green Day. * 5: Oops... the 'Tones hire Mensa's Angels as security at this speedway in California, site of a 1969 free concert by the Stones. * Altamont.

Round 4. Category: where is every "body"? * 1: A person who meddles or pries into the affairs of others. * Busybody. * 2: The process of developing human musculature especially for competitive exhibition. * Bodybuilding. * 3: To ride the waves to shore without a board. * Bodysurfing. * 4: One whose interests center on his dwelling place. * Homebody. * 5: A substance produced in the blood in response to a specific toxin. * Antibody.

Round 5. Category: macy's parade * 1: In '86 parade, the Chipmunks rode a "floloon", a combination of these 2 parade standards. * float and a balloon. * 2: The 1st time this group of toe-tapping women lined up and high kicked in a Macy's Parade was in 1958. * The Rockettes. * 3: A train rolled off this 50-year-old game's board and into the parade in 1985. * Monopoly. * 4: Other than humans, most live animals in the parade nowadays are these. * Horses. * 5: All floats are built so they can fit through this on the trip from N.J. to N.Y.. * Lincoln Tunnel.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 903, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: one word off * 1: Oh, to be in Yonkers,/now that April's there. * Yonkers (for England). * 2: Had we but world enough, and time,/This coyness, baby, were no crime. * baby (for lady). * 3: An earnest man's the noblest work of God. * earnest (for honest). * 4: I should have been a pair of ragged jaws/scuttling across the floors of silent seas. * jaws (for claws). * 5: Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/to strive, to seek, to dive and not to yield. * dive (for find).

Round 2. Category: hall of famer by position * 1: Joe Namath,Joe Montana. * quarterback. * 2: Bill Russell,Bill Walton. * center. * 3: Bob Feller,Bob Lemon,Bob Gibson. * pitcher. * 4: Jack Lambert,Jack Ham. * linebacker. * 5: Gump Worsley,Shrimp Worters,Rat Westwick. * hockey goalie.

Round 3. Category: a world of beer * 1: Foster's. * Australia. * 2: Beck's. * Germany. * 3: Asahi. * Japan. * 4: Moosehead. * Canada. * 5: Harp. * Ireland.

Round 4. Category: bobs and roberts * 1: Since 1960 this comedian's Desert Golf Classic has raised more than $20 million for charity. * Bob Hope. * 2: He's the national poet of Scotland. * Robert Burns. * 3: In June he captured a Tony Award for his performance in "Tru". * Robert Morse. * 4: The original Clarabell on "Howdy Doody", he later became "Captain Kangaroo". * Bob Keeshan. * 5: In 1986 he was elected Florida's first Hispanic governor. * Bob Martinez.

Round 5. Category: 18 years of leftovers * 1: From Season 3:This "Pretty Baby" once suggested wearing red mascara, because it's "perfect for the disco". * Brooke Shields. * 2: From Season 14:21-year-old Frances Folsom married 49-year-old Grover Cleveland in this "colorful" room. * the Blue Room. * 3: From Season 12:Horace's quote "Permitte divis cetera" means "Leave the rest to" these beings. * the gods. * 4: From Season 11:British nonsense poet who wrote the 1877 poem "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo". * Edward Lear. * 5: From Season 10:This count who commanded a French force at Yorktown had almost become a priest. * Rochambeau.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 902, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: see you in court * 1: Deaths in its Pinto made it the first U.S. corporation to face criminal charges over product design. * Ford. * 2: The government sued Frank Snepp over his 1977 book based on his years with this agency. * CIA. * 3: Perhaps because no one could figure out what he'd been trying to do, Aaron Burr was acquitted of this in 1807. * treason. * 4: Carol Burnett's suit against the National Enquirer for this hinged on whether the Enquirer was really a newspaper. * libel. * 5: In 1977 the Supreme Court ruled that John Bates, in this profession, had the right to advertise low fees. * lawyer/law.

Round 2. Category: secret service code names * 1: This vice president from Tenn. joked he was so dull, his code name was simply his name, but officially, he was "Sundance". * Al Gore. * 2: The Secret Service also protects foreign dignitaries; "Halo" was this late man's code name. * Pope John Paul II. * 3: A Baptist president:Deacon. * Carter. * 4: Eisenhower was Providence; oddly, this president was General. * President Harry Truman. * 5: A religious visitor:Halo. * Pope John Paul II.

Round 3. Category: noun to verb * 1: One state of water; as a verb, it can mean to decorate a cake or to ensure a victory. * ice. * 2: From the French for "to cut", it can mean a small piece or the whole or to do careful work on your car. * detail. * 3: Natural event sometimes used as a verb; there's a form of it in Prissy's famous line in "Gone with the Wind". * birth. * 4: "Relatively" speaking, it means to exempt someone already in business from new regulation. * grandfather. * 5: When launched in 1998, it was just a noun; now it's a verb meaning to check up on somebody online. * Google.

Round 4. Category: name the james * 1: "The Godfather of Soul". * James Brown. * 2: The fourth and fifth U.S. Presidents. * James Madison and James Monroe. * 3: Discovered the Hawaiian islands. * (James) Cook. * 4: Led the first bombing raid on Tokyo in World War II. * James Doolittle. * 5: Founded Savannah and the Georgia colony. * James Oglethorpe.

Round 5. Category: tv title pairs * 1: Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain. * "Lois and Clark". * 2: Susan Saint James and Jane Curtin. * "Kate and Allie". * 3: NBC rebooted this sitcom whose title characters have the surnames Truman and Adler. * Will and Grace. * 4: Cop Billy Gardell and teacher Melissa McCarthy. * Mike and Molly. * 5: Streetwise cops Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul. * Starsky and Hutch.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 901, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: music of the '60s * 1: In 1969 "Something" became the only No. 1 hit he composed for The Beatles. * George Harrison. * 2: In 1969 B.J. Thomas had the biggest hit of his career with this song from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". * "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head". * 3: In this 1965 hit, Roger Miller tells us that "Two hours of pushing broom buys a eight by twelve four-bit room". * "King of the Road". * 4: In 1968 his "Hurdy Gurdy Man" came singing songs of love. * Donovan. * 5: In the 1960s she reached the Top 20 3 times with duets: twice with Lee Hazelwood and once with her father. * Nancy Sinatra.

Round 2. Category: irish stars * 1: This Bond of "Die Another Day" was born in County Meath. * Pierce Brosnan. * 2: The youngest man to play Henry V for the Royal Shakespeare Company, he starred in the 1989 film, too. * Kenneth Branagh. * 3: This Irish star of "Michael Collins" stretched his acting abilities to play Scottish legend Rob Roy. * Liam Neeson. * 4: In July of 2001 he stunned the world when he announced he was putting out his "Feet of Flames" forever. * Michael Flatley. * 5: In 1976 he returned as John Morgan in "The Return of a Man Called Horse". * Richard Harris.

Round 3. Category: 1982 * 1: Spain joined NATO under the stipulation that none of these weapons would be based on its soil. * nuclear weapons. * 2: In August 1982 Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to be sent here by Russia. * Space. * 3: After 11 months of internment by the Polish government, this Solidarity leader went home in November. * Lech Wałęsa. * 4: By the time he died in 1982, he'd been top Soviet leader longer than anyone except Stalin. * Brezhnev. * 5: Family name of the father and daughter who created the following music:"I do not talk funny... /I'm sure (Valley Girl) /Whatsa matter with the way I talk? (Valley Girl)". * Zappa.

Round 4. Category: utter nonsense * 1: This Irish stone gives you the power of persuasion. * the Blarney Stone. * 2: Luncheon meat named for a city in Italy. * Bologna. * 3: A bed built on a shelf over another bed. * a bunk bed. * 4: A tower in Genesis 11:9. * (the Tower of) Babel. * 5: Helium or this can be used to raise a balloon from which a gondola is suspended. * hot air.

Round 5. Category: three cheers! * 1: It's the breakfast cereal pitched by the animated elves Snap, Crackle and Pop. * Rice Krispies. * 2: The 3 U.K. countries that make up the island of Great Britain. * England, Scotland and Wales. * 3: The 4-legged Omaha made the record books in 1935 with this 3-feat. * racing's Triple Crown. * 4: Since the 1979 incident at this location, no new nuclear reactors have been ordered in the U.S.. * Three-Mile Island. * 5: Mythical monstrosity manifested here. * Cerberus.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 900, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: monday night football * 1: He started as a play-by-play man in 1971 and became an analyst in 1986. * Frank Gifford. * 2: This Dallas quarterback was quite "Dandy". * Don Meredith. * 3: The current play-by-play commentator, he's remembered for calling the Olympic hockey games in the '80s. * Al Michaels. * 4: He played himself in the films "Bananas" and "The 500-Pound Jerk" and was a lawyer before becoming a sportscaster. * Howard Cosell. * 5: This quarterback's real first name is Norman and he was stormin' as an analyst during the 1998-99 season. * Boomer Esiason.

Round 2. Category: bill shakespeare, p.i. * 1: Tailed this title kid to a balcony, heard his chippie say, "Deny thy father and refuse thy name". * Romeo. * 2: This title guy thinks his wife's cheatin'; says "She with Cassio hath the act of shame a thousand times committed". * Othello. * 3: Investigating a possible regicide by this fella; got his address, Dunsinane, but his wacked-out wife worries me. * Macbeth. * 4: Something's rottin' in Denmark and it's the 2 corpses of these courtiers; an ambassador tells of their deaths in 5.2. * Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. * 5: Impressive trail of corpses in this title guy's wake: the Dukes of Clarence and York and the Prince of Wales. * Richard III.

Round 3. Category: first names * 1: This Irish name became popular for women after it was used as the name of Scarlett O'Hara's home. * Tara. * 2: Barack, related to the Hebrew Baruch, means this. * blessed. * 3: The name of this one of the 4 gospel writers means "gift of God". * Matthew. * 4: This first name, like that of the guy who married Medea, is from a Greek word for "healer". * Jason. * 5: This French name means "reborn", a reference to Christian baptism. * Renee.

Round 4. Category: science briefs * 1: "K" can stand for kelvin or for this type of energy, from the Greek for "to move". * kinetic. * 2: It's the international name for the Centigrade scale. * Celsius. * 3: In 1909 Soren Sorensen came up with this scale to measure acidity. * pH scale. * 4: The unit of magnetic flux density, abbreviated "T", is named for this scientist. * (Nikola) Tesla. * 5: This element's name is from the Latin for "charcoal". * carbon.

Round 5. Category: in the thesaurus * 1: If Jefferson had a thesaurus, he could have written of "The Pursuit of Oblectation" instead of this. * Happiness. * 2: This word or a "flight of" it is a common synonym for "imagination". * Fancy. * 3: On the road, it's on triangular signs; in the thesaurus, it's listed with "submit" and "kowtow". * Yield. * 4: "Cretaceous" and "lactescent" are fancy ways of describing this color. * White. * 5: 5-letter synonym for "maledict" or "swear". * Curse.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 899, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: pope-pourri * 1: Gerbert picked this name, not Tweety, when he became pope in 999. * Sylvester. * 2: In Manila on Jan. 15, 1995 the Pope honored World Youth Day by celebrating this with over 4 million people. * a mass. * 3: Around 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to decorate this room with frescoes. * the Sistine Chapel. * 4: Pope Urban II told the crusaders to fight not for honor or money but for this act of religious self-punishment. * penance. * 5: On Christmas 800 the III pope of this name "lionized" Charlemagne by crowning him emperor of the Romans. * Leo.

Round 2. Category: camels * 1: Alternate name of the Arabian camel or a brand of cake mix, dates or pimientos. * dromedary. * 2: 2 of the 4 New World relatives of the camel. * (2 of) the llama, the guanaco, the alpaca and the vicuña. * 3: Famous Egyptian leader whose 1st name meant "camel". * (Gamal Abdel) Nasser. * 4: Camel was one of 1st brands of cigarettes combining domestic tobacco w/tobacco from this country. * Turkey. * 5: This ethnic group, whose name is from the Arabic for "desert dwellers", uses camels for riding and racing. * Bedouins.

Round 3. Category: "z" abbreviations * 1: Z.Hr.; it's time to go. * Zero. * 2: The Z in ZIP code is short for this. * Zone (Improvement Plan). * 3: Book of the Bible abbreviated Zech.. * Zechariah. * 4: You may answer with zeal that zl is short for this currency. * Zloty. * 5: The abbreviations for the 2 elements whose names begin with Z. * Zn and Zr (Zinc and Zirconium).

Round 4. Category: "c" in shakespeare * 1: Juliet's maiden name. * Capulet. * 2: Tragic tramp who two-timed Troilus. * Cressida. * 3: Co-conspirator who says, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves...". * Cassius. * 4: In "Hamlet", he's the king of Denmark. * Claudius. * 5: This play about a king of Britain contains the famous poem "Hark, hark! the lark...". * Cymbeline.

Round 5. Category: seashore life * 1: An edible type of this seaweed seen at low tide grows up to 10 feet long on the Atlantic coast. * Kelp. * 2: Blubber and the tufts at the base of their densely packed feathers keep them warm while diving. * Penguins. * 3: The American species of this crustacean has a 6-segmented tail. * Lobster. * 4: They hang around in bars, feed on plankton and produce those famous little spheres of nacre. * Oysters. * 5: Scallops swim for their lives when they sense these 5-armed creatures approaching. * Starfish.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 898, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: men behaving badly * 1: In an 1804 duel Aaron Burr shot this man who had insulted him. * Hamilton. * 2: During a U.N. Assembly session in 1960 this Soviet premier banged his shoe on a desk. * Khrushchev. * 3: This public enemy No. 1 bragged that he had escaped from jail using a fake gun carved from wood. * (John) Dillinger. * 4: In 1868 George Hull had this fake "fossil" man buried on an upstate New York farm. * Cardiff Giant. * 5: [Video] Hi, I'm Rob Schneider. 2 outlaws who behaved badly were Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Longabaugh, better known as this pair. * Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.

Round 2. Category: paint it black * 1: It's the lucrative product referred to by the slang term "black gold". * oil. * 2: American feathery friend of the Icteridae family, such as the red-winged type. * a blackbird. * 3: The Black Hills are an isolated, eroded mountain region in the western part of this state. * South Dakota. * 4: Edward, the son of Edward III of England, was known by this dark sobriquet. * the Black Prince. * 5: This river forms the southern and western borders of Germany's Black Forest region. * the Rhine.

Round 3. Category: horton hears the who * 1: In 1969 The Who had a major hit with "Pinball Wizard", a track from this concept album. * "Tommy". * 2: "Let My Love Open The Door" was this artist's only Top 10 solo hit. * Pete Townshend. * 3: In 1990 The Who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by this group's Adam Clayton. * U2. * 4: In 1990 The Who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Adam Clayton and this Irish group. * U2. * 5: This 1970 live album contained extended versions of "Magic Bus" and "My Generation". * Live at Leeds.

Round 4. Category: union labels * 1: The DGA, this guild, gives awards for achievement in commercials as well as feature films. * Directors Guild of America. * 2: Arturo Rodriguez heads the UFW, this union once led by Cesar Chavez. * United Farm Workers. * 3: The NALC, National Association of these, says its members each deliver 41.5 tons of mail a year. * Letter Carriers. * 4: 1.3 million strong, the AFSCME is the American Federation of State, County and these employees. * Municipal. * 5: The ILA, the union of these "men", is headquartered near the Hudson on NYC's Battery Place. * Longshoremen.

Round 5. Category: reality shows of the past * 1: On the 1830s "Survivor: Texas", Susanna Dickinson and her child won the immunity challenge at this epic battle. * the Alamo. * 2: In 1944's version of "The Apprentice", Von Stauffenberg was fired by a squad after he tried to fire this leader. * Hitler. * 3: On the 1880s "The Osbournes", this author amused stepson Lloyd Osbourne with tales of a boy on the high seas. * Robert Louis Stevenson. * 4: On "American Idol", Creek and Cherokee Indians performed the Busk ceremony when this crop was ready for roasting. * maize (or corn). * 5: Indian Ocean "Big Brother" saw Kasyapa kill dad and build Sigiriya Fort as defense from his sibling on this island. * Sri Lanka.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 897, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: european cities * 1: This capital lies 5 miles from the Bay of Phaleron, an arm of the Aegean Sea. * Athens. * 2: This city is central to works by James Joyce; after all, he was born there. * Dublin. * 3: The World Health Organization is headquartered in this Swiss city. * Geneva. * 4: In Krakow, Poland you'll find the former factory, now a museum, of this righteous businessman. * (Oskar) Schindler. * 5: Signed in 1975, the accord named for this city was an effort to ease tensions between the Soviet Bloc and the West. * Helsinki.

Round 2. Category: literary relatives * 1: Their father, an Irish-born clergyman named Patrick Brunty, changed the spelling of the family name. * Brontandeuml; Sisters (The Brontandeuml;s). * 2: Sara Coleridge wrote children's verse but was best known for editing the works of this man, her father. * Samuel Coleridge. * 3: Her mother, feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft, died 11 days after her birth. * Mary Shelley. * 4: "Lord Jim" author whose father, Apollo Korzeniowski, was a Polish poet. * Joseph Conrad. * 5: Quaker novelist Jessamyn West was a second cousin of this Quaker president. * (Richard) Nixon.

Round 3. Category: howdy, partner! * 1: 19th century printing partner of Nathaniel Currier. * Ives. * 2: After his partner's death in 1809, he partnered with Nicholas Biddle to complete the expedition report. * (William) Clark. * 3: Born in 1895, this lyricist partnered with composers Friml, Romberg, Kern and Rodgers. * Hammerstein. * 4: He partnered with Edward Williams in 1866 to "Cover the Earth" with paint. * Sherwin. * 5: In 1673, he and his exploring partner Joliet became the first Europeans to visit the area of Chicago. * Marquette.

Round 4. Category: actual mlb announcer quotes * 1: "Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like" this king of beasts. * a lion. * 2: "Today is Father's Day, so everyone out there, Happy" this, a 1968 Beatles tune. * Birthday. * 3: "The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's" this 2-word term, "low and outside". * ball one. * 4: "Winfield goes back... He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling" to here, the usual position of Robbie Alomar. * second base. * 5: "If Don Mattingly isn't the American League MVP, something isn't kosher in" this Asian country. * China.

Round 5. Category: he was in that? * 1: He appeared fleet-ingly in "Sailor Beware" with Martin and Lewis before "East of Eden" made him a star. * James Dean. * 2: Kevin Spacey played a sleazy businessman in this Melanie Griffith film about an ambitious secretary. * Working Girl. * 3: This boxing champ played a bartender in "The Hustler", and that's no "Raging Bull". * (Jake) LaMotta. * 4: Wayne Knight, who played Newman on "Seinfeld", got to interrogate Sharon Stone in this revealing thriller. * Basic Instinct. * 5: Before "Starsky and Hutch", Paul Michael Glaser played Perchik in this movie musical (Hint: Topol got top billing). * Fiddler on the Roof.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 896, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: villages * 1: Washington Square Park is the hub of this area of New York City. * Greenwich Village. * 2: A famous hard cheese is named for this Somerset, England village in which it was first developed. * Cheddar. * 3: Jacques Cartier gave this name to the hill behind the village of Hochelaga. * Montreal (Mount Royal). * 4: At the start of the play, Macbeth is the thane of this Scottish village and lives in its castle. * Glams and Cawdor. * 5: The name of this California village near Monterey goes back to a group of monks, not a candy. * Carmel (Carmelite monks).

Round 2. Category: now that's inventive! * 1: Around 1862 this doctor invented a machine gun that could fire about 350 rounds per minute. * (Dr. Richard) Gatling. * 2: For astronomy, not hunting, William Gascoigne created the telescopic site with these strands. * crosshairs. * 3: In 1866 a physician invented one of these that took a few minutes to take a reading instead of the normal 20. * a thermometer. * 4: At the funeral of Sylvan Goldman, who invented this, there wasn't one wonky pallbearer who went in an odd direction. * the shopping cart. * 5: In the '40s ATandT used a radio with no conventional vacuum tubes to demonstrate this device invented in its lab. * a transistor.

Round 3. Category: when in scotland... * 1: Scots call this bird a hoolet; we hope you give a hoot. * Owl. * 2: A sporran is a large pouch with fur on it that highland men wear in front of this garment. * Kilt. * 3: In some parts of Scotland, this children's game with "Scotch" in its name is called peever. * Hopscotch. * 4: If you have this job, you're a flesher -- vegetarians need not apply. * Butcher. * 5: If a Scotsman tells you he's a Dundonian, you know he's from this city. * Dundee.

Round 4. Category: doc talk * 1: Meaning a feeding apparatus, IV stands for this. * Intravenously. * 2: Acute, meaning sudden and brief, is the opposite of this term that means persistent. * Chronic. * 3: A complaint of S.O.B. means shortness of this. * breath. * 4: It's not a backup for a farm machine, but a device to pull back tissue so a surgeon can look inside you. * Retractor. * 5: It's the C in a C-section. * Caesarean.

Round 5. Category: winnie-the-pooh's entourage * 1: His human friend. * Christopher Robin. * 2: His creator. * A.A. Milne. * 3: Tiny Pooh friend who went to school in a pocket. * Piglet. * 4: Mother and son marsupials. * Kanga and Roo. * 5: The imaginary creature who one night "set a trap" for Pooh. * Heffalump.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 895, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the 4th * 1: The 4th Gospel of the New Testament. * John. * 2: The 4th dimension according to the theory of relativity. * time. * 3: The 4th letter of the Greek alphabet. * delta. * 4: The 4th oldest college in the United States, it's found in New Jersey. * Princeton. * 5: The 4th most populous country in the world, it follows China, India and the U.S.. * Indonesia.

Round 2. Category: at the "y" * 1: When this song title American stuck a feather in his hat, he called it Macaroni. * Yankee Doodle. * 2: This type of boat's name is from a word meaning "hunting ship" and will take up your whole driveway if you park it there. * yacht. * 3: The jumble sale held in an English garden would be called one of these in an American suburb. * yard sale. * 4: The 1945 conference in this Crimean city determined that a defeated Germany would be divided into 4 zones. * Yalta. * 5: Incorporated as a city in 1970, this city is the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories. * Yellowknife.

Round 3. Category: classic ads and slogans * 1: "Look Ma, No Cavities". * Crest. * 2: "I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing". * Alka-Seltzer. * 3: It's "Two--Two--Two Mints in One". * Certs. * 4: "They Plump When You Cook 'Em". * Ball Park Franks. * 5: "We'll Leave the Light on for You". * Motel 6.

Round 4. Category: famous halls * 1: Founding brothers Joyce, Rollie and William Hall put their stamp on this greeting card company. * Hallmark. * 2: Time was on Jerry Hall's side in 1990 as she married this singer after a long romance. * Mick Jagger. * 3: In 1987 she testified to altering and shredding documents for her boss Oliver North. * Fawn Hall. * 4: As head of the National Theatre, Peter Hall oversaw its 1976 move out of this "old" home. * the Old Vic. * 5: The 1995 movie "Kids" was written by the grandson of Huntz Hall, one of these tough movie kids. * the Bowery Boys (or the Dead End Kids or the East Side Kids).

Round 5. Category: name that body part * 1: Dentine,Pulp,Crown. * Tooth. * 2: Calcaneus,Plantar arch, Sole. * Foot. * 3: Parietal lobe,Thalamus,Cerebellum. * Brain. * 4: Phagocytes,Alveoli,Bronchioles. * Lungs. * 5: Glomeruli,Nephron,Renal cortex. * Kidney.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 894, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: singers and their roles * 1: When Sonny gets blue, he can think of "Good Times", the film in which he and this partner played themselves. * Cher. * 2: She earned an Oscar nomination for starring in "The Rose" and an Emmy nomination for playing Mama Rose in "Gypsy". * Bette Midler. * 3: Reba McEntire hit her marks as this markswoman in the 1995 TV miniseries "Buffalo Girls". * Annie Oakley. * 4: He made 2 films, "Come September" and "That Funny Feeling", with his wife, Sandra Dee. * Bobby Darin. * 5: She acted and sang in "Pete Kelly's Blues" and provided the voices of the Siamese cats in "Lady and the Tramp". * Peggy Lee.

Round 2. Category: "pole"s * 1: Santa's ho-ho-home. * North Pole. * 2: Northwest Indians used to ridicule someone by carving that person's face upside-down on one of these. * totem pole. * 3: 2 scientists having completely opposite views about magnets may be described as this. * at opposite poles (poles apart). * 4: Each spring, women at Bryn Mawr College participate in a ritual dance around 5 of these. * maypoles. * 5: One of these might indicate the establishment operated by Sweeney Todd. * barber pole.

Round 3. Category: "the" movies * 1: Humphrey Bogart won his only Oscar for this film, but his co-star Kate Hepburn lost. * The African Queen. * 2: This 1963 Disney film got its title from the object Arthur removed to become king. * The Sword in the Stone. * 3: 1980 film in which Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi were "on a mission from God". * The Blues Brothers. * 4: This western was about Billy the Kid, but publicity centered on Jane Russell's cleavage. * The Outlaw. * 5: Tyrone Power and Billy Murray starred in films based on this Somerset Maugham novel. * The Razor's Edge.

Round 4. Category: '90s kids' names * 1: Proper etiquette says we "post" this girl's name, one of the most popular of the '90s. * Emily. * 2: Ms. Parker of "Sex and the City" sports both of these top names for girls. * Sarah and Jessica. * 3: One letter different from an Eric Clapton Top 40 hit, it's in the Top 20 among girls' names. * Kayla. * 4: Brian has morphed into this feminine name, one of the 10 most popular. * Brianna. * 5: Wat? This 10th president's last name was a top boy's name? I don't believe it. * Tyler.

Round 5. Category: reptiles * 1: The eastern diamondback species of this snake is the heaviest of all poisonous snakes. * Rattlesnake. * 2: The rhinoceros iguana of Haiti is so named because it has 3 of these on its face. * Horns. * 3: It's reported Capt. Cook gave one of these to the King of Tonga in the 1770s and it lived into the 1960s. * a tortoise. * 4: It's the only U.S. state where you'll find both alligators and crocodiles in their native habitats. * Florida. * 5: Though called a "toad", this North American desert creature is actually a lizard and subsists mainly on ants. * horned toad.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 891, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: kiss your lass goodbye * 1: In a 1965 epic this Omar Sharif character keeps getting separated from his beloved Lara. * Dr. Zhivago. * 2: In "Casablanca" this Bogart character reminds Ilsa as they part, "We'll always have Paris". * Rick Blaine. * 3: This actor keeps parting and getting back together with Andie MacDowell in "Four Weddings And A Funeral". * Hugh Grant. * 4: Lucy Westenra is the first English woman to fall victim to him in Bram Stoker's novel. * Count Dracula. * 5: In this film Monty Clift says goodbye to Donna Reed and returns to duty as Pearl Harbor is attacked. * "From Here To Eternity".

Round 2. Category: invisible men * 1: As Nick in "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", all he wants are his molecules back and Daryl Hannah. * Chevy Chase. * 2: These days Goldie Hawn sees a lot of this "Now You See Him, Now You Don't" star. * Kurt Russell. * 3: In a 1951 film this comedy pair joins forces with invisible man Arthur Franz. * Abbott and Costello. * 4: He wasn't seen very long on TV as "The Invisible Man"; his tenure as Illya Kuryakin lasted longer. * David McCallum. * 5: You may remember seeing him in "Cocoon" and "Police Academy" but not in "The Man Who Wasn't There". * Steve Guttenberg.

Round 3. Category: bob dylan * 1: Jenna Elfman played drums when Bob made an appearance on this ABC sitcom. * Dharma and Greg. * 2: In 1998 a man with "Soy Bomb" marked on his chest interrupted Bob's performance at this awards show. * Grammy Awards. * 3: In 1975 Bob spoke out for this imprisoned boxer; in 1999 Denzel Washington played him on film. * Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. * 4: When this Robbie Robertson group first backed Dylan in the '60s, it was known as The Hawks. * The Band. * 5: Bob's "Lay Lady Lay" was considered for this 1969 Jon Voight film, but didn't make the soundtrack. * Midnight Cowboy.

Round 4. Category: board games * 1: The L.A. Times called this the "sport of kings, queens and pawns". * chess. * 2: Guinness says Con McCarrick once played 154 games of this, also called draughts, simultaneously. * checkers. * 3: Shape of the windowed piece that players - or spirits - move around the Ouija board. * heart-shaped (triangular). * 4: Mia Farrow used the letters in this game to decipher a witchy anagram in "Rosemary's Baby". * Scrabble. * 5: In backgammon, each player starts out with this number of men on the board. * 15.

Round 5. Category: rock ‘n roll * 1: This rock group featuring Belinda Carlisle has now officially gone-gone. * The Go-Go's. * 2: Beatles song about purchasing affection that was 1st to hit #1 in U.S. and Britain at same time. * "Can’t Buy Me Love". * 3: Release of this Jacksons album was held up until “Thriller” sales peaked. * Victory. * 4: Van Morrison sang of “making love in the green grass, behind the stadium” with her. * "Brown Eyed Girl". * 5: In 1985, Tears for Fears said “everybody wants to” do this. * rule the world.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 871, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: rhythm and booze * 1: His beach bum anthem "Margaritaville" made its Top 40 debut in 1977. * Jimmy Buffett. * 2: This 1958 hit by The Champs with a liquor as its title has been covered by numerous artists. * "Tequila". * 3: "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" is a classic song by this First Lady of Country Music. * Loretta Lynn. * 4: This country legend recorded the hits "Fifteen Beers" and "Take This Job and Shove It". * Johnny Paycheck. * 5: Willie Nelson often begins his live shows with his 1979 hit about this alcoholic "River". * "Whiskey River".

Round 2. Category: 5-letter capitals * 1: 12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city. * Paris. * 2: Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a and El Giza. * Cairo. * 3: The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia. * Amman. * 4: In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital. * Quito. * 5: Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port. * Hanoi.

Round 3. Category: a heavenly category * 1: A Lerner and Lowe song lyric goes, "Thank heaven for" these people, "they grow up in the most delightful way". * little girls. * 2: The Indian game moksha-patamu (heaven and hell) gave us this Milton Bradley game that has its ups and downs. * Chutes and Ladders. * 3: The John Jakes novel "Heaven and Hell" takes place directly following this war. * the Civil War. * 4: In Genesis 1, God gave the name Heaven to this, from the Latin for "support". * the firmament. * 5: The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy, this film starred Hiep Thi Le and Tommy Lee Jones. * Heaven and Earth.

Round 4. Category: "bril"-liant! * 1: A rapid chaotic beating of the heart muscles in a nonsynchronous way. * fibrillation. * 2: 1964buildingblocksfor a wackyWarholwork. * Brillo. * 3: A crude cart used to carry the condemned to the guillotine during the French Revolution. * a tumbril. * 4: Miles Franklin was only a teenager when she penned this bestseller about growing up in Australia's outback. * My Brilliant Career. * 5: 12-letter word for an oily men's hair cream to keep hair in place and make it look glossy. * brilliantine.

Round 5. Category: warner bros. cartoons * 1: "Carnivorous vulgaris" is one of this Roadrunner-chasing rascal's "scientific" names. * the (Wile E.) Coyote. * 2: This "scent-imental" skunk was named after Charles Boyer's character in the film "Algiers". * Pepé Le Pew. * 3: This "fastest mouse" made his debut in 1953's "Cat-Tails for Two". * Speedy Gonzales. * 4: This "roughest, toughest he-man hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande" could never beat Bugs Bunny. * Yosemite Sam. * 5: This animal is the symbol of the new Warner Bros. network. * Michigan J. Frog.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 889, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: death sentences * 1: It was in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy that he wrote nothing is "Certain except death and taxes". * Benjamin Franklin. * 2: Filmmaker who said, "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens". * Woody Allen. * 3: In a June 1897 issue of the New York Journal he quipped, "The report of my death was an exaggeration". * Mark Twain. * 4: He was quoted by Plato as saying, "No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death". * Socrates. * 5: Emily Dickinson wrote, "Because I could not stop for death he kindly" did this. * stopped for me.

Round 2. Category: skunks * 1: With a favorable wind, skunks can do this for up to about 23 feet. * spray. * 2: The skunk lends its name to this foul-smelling "vegetable" found in swamps. * skunk cabbage. * 3: Name of zee skunk in zee popular Warner Brothers cartoons. * Pepé Le Pew. * 4: Skunks are the major carriers of this disease in the continental U.S.. * rabies. * 5: Condition of the skunk in the title of the following 1973 Top 20 hit:"Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose! /Roll up yer window and hold yer nose". * dead and in the middle of the road.

Round 3. Category: dance history * 1: In the 11th and 14th centuries it was the macabre place where a "danse macabre" was preformed. * cemetery. * 2: The record for one of these events is held by a couple who danced from August 29, 1930 to April 1, 1931. * dance marathon. * 3: With her husband, Ted Shawn, this modern dancer began the Denishaw Dance Company and School. * Ruth St. Denis. * 4: This courtly, elegant dance fell out of favor when the waltz hit the dance halls of Europe about 1769. * minuet. * 5: Latin chain dance introduced in the 1930s that goes like this: "1-2-3 kick, 1-2-3 kick...". * conga.

Round 4. Category: epitaphs and tributes * 1: Signer of the Dec. of Indep., framer of the Constitution of Mass., second President of the United States. * John Adams. * 2: "And away we go". * Jackie Gleason. * 3: Outlaw: "Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here". * Jesse James. * 4: Revolutionary War hero: "His spirit is in Vermont now". * Ethan Allen. * 5: 1939 Oscar winner: "...you are a credit to your craft, your race and to your family". * Hattie McDaniel (for her role in Gone with the Wind).

Round 5. Category: crayola crayons * 1: Shades of this color include Magic Mint and Granny Smith Apple. * green. * 2: You might use this shade of yellow to color the songbird of the same name. * Canary. * 3: What's up, Doc?--in 1990 Crayola dangled a new orange crayon called Neon this. * Carrot. * 4: Billy Crystal gets all "fired up" for this reddish-brown classic; it's the color he used as a kid to draw autumn in N.Y.. * Burnt Sienna. * 5: Simple, but not surprising--It's the favorite color of the current California governor. * gray.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 888, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: countries by college * 1: The University of Sunderland,the University of Sheffield,Oxford University. * England. * 2: The Emile Cohl School,the University of Toulouse,the University of Provence. * France. * 3: Chiba University,Waseda University,Fukuoka Junior College. * Japan. * 4: Menoufia University,Zagazig University,Alexandria University. * Egypt. * 5: McGill University,University College of the Cariboo,Alberta College of Art and Design. * Canada.

Round 2. Category: "long" songs * 1: At the 1984 Olympic closing, this Lionel Richie song came up hours short of its title promise. * "All Night Long". * 2: This comparative was the one-word title of a 1980 Dan Fogelberg hit. * "Longer". * 3: The Beatles' aptly named last # hit, since they'd reached the end of one by 1970. * "The Long And Winding Road". * 4: A 1979 hit by Supertramp gave you these directions for finding your way to your abode. * "Take The Long Way Home". * 5: In 1974 Neil Diamond scored a #5 hit with the following:"Ride, c'mon baby ride...". * "Longfellow Serenade".

Round 3. Category: taking a position * 1: You can search far and wide or high and this. * low. * 2: If you're leeward, you're facing away from the source of this. * the wind. * 3: From the Latin citra, "on this side", it's nearby as opposed to yon. * hither. * 4: It's the compass position to the right of a person facing the rising sun. * south. * 5: 5-letter word for the place at which something is about to start, or the upper edge of a steep cliff. * the brink.

Round 4. Category: blank of blank * 1: Bridal aide-de-camp. * Maid of honor. * 2: This astrological era is believed to bring increased harmony and spirituality on Earth. * the Age of Aquarius. * 3: An event, like a tornado or earthquake, that your insurance may not cover. * Act of God. * 4: A common but incorrect story traces this type of guideline to the permissible width of a wife-beating stick. * rule of thumb. * 5: A distribution of forces so no single nation is strong enough to dominate (and tip it). * balance of power.

Round 5. Category: the driving teacher * 1: You're 17, not 75! Turn this thing off--we made our right 4 blocks ago. * a turn signal. * 2: I'm gonna call you Noah, 'cause you'll do this if you keep pumping the gas like that. * flood the engine. * 3: Stop making me dizzy and find your way off this type of intersection New Englanders call a rotary. * a roundabout (or traffic circle). * 4: Hey leadfoot--at 60 mph on a wet road, this can be 140 yards--almost 1 1/2 football fields. * a stopping distance. * 5: Yes, even though a skateboarder's on wheels, he's still legally considered this, from a word meaning "foot". * a pedestrian.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 871, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: rhythm and booze * 1: His beach bum anthem "Margaritaville" made its Top 40 debut in 1977. * Jimmy Buffett. * 2: This 1958 hit by The Champs with a liquor as its title has been covered by numerous artists. * "Tequila". * 3: "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" is a classic song by this First Lady of Country Music. * Loretta Lynn. * 4: This country legend recorded the hits "Fifteen Beers" and "Take This Job and Shove It". * Johnny Paycheck. * 5: Willie Nelson often begins his live shows with his 1979 hit about this alcoholic "River". * "Whiskey River".

Round 2. Category: 5-letter capitals * 1: 12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city. * Paris. * 2: Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a and El Giza. * Cairo. * 3: The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia. * Amman. * 4: In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital. * Quito. * 5: Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port. * Hanoi.

Round 3. Category: a heavenly category * 1: A Lerner and Lowe song lyric goes, "Thank heaven for" these people, "they grow up in the most delightful way". * little girls. * 2: The Indian game moksha-patamu (heaven and hell) gave us this Milton Bradley game that has its ups and downs. * Chutes and Ladders. * 3: The John Jakes novel "Heaven and Hell" takes place directly following this war. * the Civil War. * 4: In Genesis 1, God gave the name Heaven to this, from the Latin for "support". * the firmament. * 5: The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy, this film starred Hiep Thi Le and Tommy Lee Jones. * Heaven and Earth.

Round 4. Category: "bril"-liant! * 1: A rapid chaotic beating of the heart muscles in a nonsynchronous way. * fibrillation. * 2: 1964buildingblocksfor a wackyWarholwork. * Brillo. * 3: A crude cart used to carry the condemned to the guillotine during the French Revolution. * a tumbril. * 4: Miles Franklin was only a teenager when she penned this bestseller about growing up in Australia's outback. * My Brilliant Career. * 5: 12-letter word for an oily men's hair cream to keep hair in place and make it look glossy. * brilliantine.

Round 5. Category: warner bros. cartoons * 1: "Carnivorous vulgaris" is one of this Roadrunner-chasing rascal's "scientific" names. * the (Wile E.) Coyote. * 2: This "scent-imental" skunk was named after Charles Boyer's character in the film "Algiers". * Pepé Le Pew. * 3: This "fastest mouse" made his debut in 1953's "Cat-Tails for Two". * Speedy Gonzales. * 4: This "roughest, toughest he-man hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande" could never beat Bugs Bunny. * Yosemite Sam. * 5: This animal is the symbol of the new Warner Bros. network. * Michigan J. Frog.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 886, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: a few good men * 1: This general announced the end of the Revolutionary War and disbanded the army in Newburgh, New York. * George Washington. * 2: The 1973 Nobel Peace Prize went to Le Duc Tho who declined it and this Secretary of State who accepted. * Henry Kissinger. * 3: In 1987 this outfielder for the Kansas City Royals was also a running back for the Los Angeles Raiders. * Bo Jackson. * 4: (Cheryl gives the clue from the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum.) In 1927 Babe Ruth and this fellow Yankee accounted for 107 home runs, one-quarter of the American League total. * Lou Gehrig. * 5: This pop artist created 1958's "Three Flags", a triple portrait of the American Flag. * Jasper Johns.

Round 2. Category: "king" of the world! * 1: Perhaps based on a real monarch, this nursery rhyme figure called for his bowl, his pipe and his fiddlers three. * Old King Cole. * 2: This long poisonous snake is also known as a hamadryad. * king cobra. * 3: If and when Prince Charles succeeds Elizabeth II, this will be Great Britain's national anthem. * "God Save the King". * 4: Before being imploded in 2000, it was home to the Seattle Mariners and the Seattle Seahawks. * the Kingdome. * 5: Found east of Bullhead City, this city of northwest Arizona has a population of only 20,000. * Kingman.

Round 3. Category: on the stage * 1: 2 actors play a townful of characters in the comedy "Stones in His Pockets", set in County Kerry in this country. * Ireland. * 2: Title of a Jonathan Larson musical, or what the East Village residents in it have trouble coming up with. * Rent. * 3: In 2002 this actress who plays Carmela Soprano hit Broadway in "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune". * Edie Falco. * 4: In the hit play "Madame Melville", he played a teen who was "Home Alone" with older woman Joely Richardson. * Macaulay Culkin. * 5: This playwright hit the right note with "Amadeus" and then horsed around with "Equus". * Peter Shaffer.

Round 4. Category: famous amys * 1: She guided fans through gracious living with etiquette books, columns and radio and TV shows. * Amy Vanderbilt. * 2: She married Barbra Streisand in "Yentl" and Steven Spielberg in real life. * Amy Irving. * 3: Her No. 1 hit "Baby Baby" was written for a real babe, her daughter Millie. * Amy Grant. * 4: Film director who captured teen America in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Clueless". * Amy Heckerling. * 5: (Hi, I'm Kirsten Dunst) In "Little Women" Amy is the youngest of 4 sisters with this last name. * March.

Round 5. Category: women's work * 1: This future Supreme Court justice hid her pregnancy for fear of losing her teaching job at Rutgers. * Ginsburg. * 2: In 1977 Kay Koplovitz founded what is now this cable network, now home to "La Femme Nikita". * the USA Network. * 3: "America's Sweetheart", she was just 24 in 1917 when she commanded $350,000 per film. * Mary Pickford. * 4: She was the leading financial columnist for the New York Post from 1935-1978. * Sylvia Porter. * 5: (Hi, I'm Jane Seymour.) This woman not only founded the 1st birth control clinic, she also pioneered the term. * (Margaret) Sanger.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 885, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: what's cooking, cowboy? * 1: After a good feed, it's time to settle down with a cup of arbuckle, or this. * coffee. * 2: If you know what kind of wagon it was served in, you'll know this old west word for food, chow, grub. * a chuckwagon. * 3: From genus prosopis, this western wood that started a cooking craze gives off a tangy smoke. * mesquite. * 4: The bone-in type of this steak with a double anatomical name is also called a cowboy steak. * ribeye. * 5: Trail cooks couldn't carry eggs and milk, so they used starter to make this type of biscuit called a "hot rock". * sourdough.

Round 2. Category: humor * 1: Only a groan man should attempt this "lowest form of wit". * Pun. * 2: The name of this comic imitation that lacks the moral aspect of satire also means a strip show. * Burlesque. * 3: It's defined as a tumble in which one lands on the buttocks. * Pratfall. * 4: Stout Shakespearean character "Not only witty myself; but the cause that wit is in other men". * Sir John Falstaff. * 5: Canine term for a long, drawn-out, complicated, overinvolved and even purposely irritating story. * "Shaggy Dog" story.

Round 3. Category: an "a" in history * 1: Built in the early 1700s, it was originally the chapel of the Mission San Antonio de Valero. * the Alamo. * 2: Henry Wirz, commander of this Confederate prison, was executed in November 1865. * Andersonville. * 3: In 1741 Vitus Bering discovered Unimak and Unalaska, the largest islands in this archipelago. * the Aleutian Islands. * 4: This sailor, a former slave, was one of 5 men killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre. * Crispus Attucks. * 5: In 1867 entrepreneur Joseph McCoy selected this Kansas town as the railhead for Tex. cattle drives. * Abilene.

Round 4. Category: entertaining at home * 1: Tulip-shaped glasses are good for champagne since the elongated shape preserves the life of these. * bubbles. * 2: Putting the liquor away, emptying ashtrays or openly stifling a yawn are 3 ways to encourage this. * getting people to leave. * 3: Of 3, 5 or 7, the maximum number of courses Emily Post says should be served at one meal. * 5. * 4: Nuts or shellfish in food should never be discussed for this health reason. * many people are allergic to them. * 5: Since red wines produce this, the bottle should stand upright for one day before opening. * sediment.

Round 5. Category: folklore * 1: Blind men examining different parts of this big animal thought it was a pillar, fan, broom, spear.... * an elephant. * 2: Lady Godiva's ride was a protest against these. * Taxes. * 3: Dragging his spiked lumberjack pole behind him he cut out the Grand Canyon. * Paul Bunyan. * 4: A small spirit that torments pilots, or a small car once made by American Motors. * Gremlin. * 5: In the folklore of flowers, the peony stands for this; gosh it's perfect for a Disney dwarf. * bashfulness.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 884, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: balls * 1: Perhaps, in the future, you'll see one of these divinatory aids. * a crystal ball. * 2: Francis Johnson of Darwin, Minn. holds the Guinness record for making a ball out of this. * string. * 3: Keene, New Hampshire is known for manufacturing miniature and precision ones. * Ball bearings. * 4: This racquet court sport was named after the sound the rubber ball made when it hit a wall. * Squash. * 5: The RAF began using this instrument in 1944 because it didn't leak at high altitudes. * ballpoint pen.

Round 2. Category: biblical seniors * 1: Genesis says he lived 350 years after the flood, which makes him 600 when it began. * Noah. * 2: He had 969 candles on his last cake; they must have had to call in the fire dept. to put it out. * Methuselah. * 3: As an old man he still told the tale of how he fought the battle of Jericho. * Joshua. * 4: Jacob spent the last 17 of his 147 years in this country, but didn't want to be buried there. * Egypt. * 5: Adam lived 800 years after he begat this third son, who lived 912 years. * Seth.

Round 3. Category: in the beginning * 1: It braces a runner's feet at the beginning of a race. * the starting block. * 2: At the start of a game of pool, there are this many balls on the table. * 16. * 3: Scientists have confirmed that HIV came from a similar virus in this African ape. * a chimpanzee. * 4: Some scholars believe this punctuation mark comes from the Latin word Io, a shout of joy. * an exclamation point. * 5: In 1939 a Montgomery Ward copywriter wrote this story that was handed out to children in the store for Xmas. * "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".

Round 4. Category: sports stadiums * 1: This Detroit stadium was formerly called Bennett Park, then Navin Field, then Briggs Stadium. * Tiger Stadium. * 2: In 1976, the name of this university's stadium was changed from Denny to Bryant-Denny. * Alabama. * 3: Three Rivers Stadium is located where 3 rivers meet in this city. * Pittsburgh. * 4: While Huskie Stadium(-skie) belongs to Northern Illinois University, Husky Stadium (-sky) is this school's home field. * Washington. * 5: 1 of 4 Major League ballparks named for the counties they're in. * the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (or the Kingdome, Milwaukee County Stadium, or the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum).

Round 5. Category: save room for dessert * 1: Usually yellow, this cake with a springy texture shares its name with something else found in your kitchen. * sponge cake. * 2: Type of cookie tortured by Lord Farquaad in "Shrek". * gingerbread (man). * 3: After assembling your Charlotte Russe, put it in this appliance for a few hours before serving. * refrigerator. * 4: As their name implies, these Italian crisp cookies are "twice-baked". * biscotti. * 5: This dessert won the top prize in a Dole recipe contest in 1925. * pineapple upside-down cake.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 883, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the cold war * 1: In the 1970s Linus Pauling advocated huge doses of this to battle the common cold. * vitamin C. * 2: By the end of the Cold War the population of this "sleeping giant" was over 1 billion. * China. * 3: The Red Scare of the 1950s destroyed many careers, including that of this father of the atomic bomb. * Robert Oppenheimer. * 4: "Dr. Mom" recommends this brand's cold and cough syrups. * Robitussin. * 5: Tool nickname for the Soviet flag, lowered for the last time over the Kremlin on December 25, 1991. * hammer and sickle.

Round 2. Category: the virgin mary * 1: This man was her husband. * Joseph. * 2: It's the crowded town Mary traveled to in order to record her name during the census. * Bethlehem. * 3: The angel who "announced" Mary's pregnancy to her. * Gabriel. * 4: Jesus entrusted Mary to the "Beloved Disciple", traditionally this author of the gospel that tells the story. * John. * 5: It's the town where Mary lived when Luke first mentions her. * Nazareth.

Round 3. Category: medical tests * 1: A finger stick is done to draw this. * blood. * 2: Patch and scratch tests can determine if you have one or more of these. * allergies. * 3: Not a soldier, the G.I. in an upper G.I. is this tract. * gastrointestinal. * 4: From the Latin for "life appearance", this procedure takes a sample of tissue, fluid or cells for study. * a biopsy. * 5: CTs and MRIs have largely replaced this procedure, also the name of a Nigel Tufnel group. * a spinal tap.

Round 4. Category: kings and queens * 1: The Old Testament says she visited King Solomon in order to test him by asking him to solve several riddles. * the Queen of Sheba. * 2: In 1992 this queen of England agreed to pay income tax. * Queen Elizabeth II. * 3: This 11th daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I was guillotined in 1793. * Marie Antoinette. * 4: King Bhumibol reigned for 70 years in this Asian nation once known as Siam. * Thailand. * 5: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia claimed descent from the Queen of Sheba and this Biblical king. * Solomon.

Round 5. Category: of madison * 1: James Madison was known as the "Father of" this document and was also it's last surviving signer. * the Constitution. * 2: The James Madison Building is the largest of the 3 Capitol Hill buildings that make up this library. * the Library of Congress. * 3: This family estate of James Madison shares its name with a Vermont city. * Montpelier. * 4: Madison made a lousy cabinet choice in John Armstrong, who didn't think D.C. needed defending in thi war. * the War of 1812. * 5: James Madison succeeded Thomas Jefferson as President of the U.S. and as rector of this university. * the University of Virginia.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 882, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: clubs * 1: It's the correct term for a member of a Rotary Club. * Rotarian. * 2: The Literary Club was founded in the 1760s by Sir Joshua Reynolds and this subject of a Boswell biography. * (Samuel) Johnson. * 3: This service organization sponsors Circle K International, a club for college students. * Kiwanis. * 4: In the early 1930s this Harlem nightclub made Cab Calloway the leader of its house orchestra. * the Cotton Club. * 5: "Prosperity and opportunity through economic freedom" is the motto of the anti-tax "Club for" this. * Growth.

Round 2. Category: washington's sports teams * 1: This team's logo is on champagne bottles commemorating the opening of Jack Kent Cooke Stadium. * Washington Redskins. * 2: On May 15, 1997 the NBA's Washington Bullets took this name. * Washington Wizards. * 3: Ron Wilson, the former head coach of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, now coaches this team. * Washington Capitals. * 4: The D.C. United plays this sport outside while the Warthogs play it indoors. * Soccer. * 5: Before moving, this baseball team was called, "First in War, First in Peace and Last in the American League". * Washington Senators.

Round 3. Category: new jersey * 1: New Jersey's executive mansion isn't in the capital but in this university town. * Princeton. * 2: Forming New Jersey's border with Pennsylvania, it's easier to cross than it was in 1776. * the Delaware River. * 3: For a day of fun and frolic, why not visit Campbell's Soup Museum in this city opposite Philadelphia. * Camden. * 4: Bell Labs in Holmdel designed and built this 1st communications satellite in 1962. * Telstar. * 5: Elected president in 1884 and 1892, he was the only U.S. president born in New Jersey. * Grover Cleveland.

Round 4. Category: country singers * 1: After "Achy Breaky Heart", his debut CD "Some Gave All" hit No.1 on the country and pop charts. * Billy Ray Cyrus. * 2: Tammy Wynette was born in Itawamba County in this state, not far from Elvis' birthplace, Tupelo. * Mississippi. * 3: A year before he recorded "By The Time I Get to Phoenix", he played guitar on the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations". * Glen Campbell. * 4: When Mary Chapin Carpenter sang "Shut Up And" do this to "me" on 1994's CMA Awards show, Little Richard complied. * Kiss me. * 5: In 1970 this Virginia family became the 1st group elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. * Carters.

Round 5. Category: that's so '90s * 1: Joe Brown, Greg Mathis and Mills Lane joined the ranks of these on TV. * TV judges. * 2: In 1994 a flaw found in this company's new Pentium processor cost it $475 million in a recall. * Intel. * 3: His 1997 meeting with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was the first for a British P.M. and an IRA leader in 76 years. * Tony Blair. * 4: Hello! In May 1999 scientists found this famous sheep might be susceptible to premature aging. * Dolly. * 5: Born Louis Eugene Walcott, he led a million man march in Washington, D.C. in 1995. * Louis Farrakhan.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 881, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: texas * 1: About 60% of Texas' foreign-born residents are from this country. * Mexico. * 2: In 1901 this was discovered at Spindletop. * oil. * 3: Big Bend National Park lies within the big bend of this river. * the Rio Grande. * 4: This city's Chronicle is the state's largest daily newspaper. * Houston. * 5: This university in College Station is the oldest public institution of higher education in Texas. * Texas AandM.

Round 2. Category: british spelling bee * 1: A book-like listing of a business' goods for sale; Sears and Roebuck used to put out a famous one. * C-A-T-A-L-O-G-U-E. * 2: Use this farm implement that breaks up soil to plant your leeks. * P-L-O-U-G-H. * 3: The equivalent of our own Donald Rumsfeld, the UK's Geoffrey Hoon is the minister of this. * D-E-F-E-N-C-E. * 4: In England Walt Disney would have had a "Wonderful World of" this. * C-O-L-O-U-R. * 5: Good Britons recycle this metal in their soft-drink cans. * A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M.

Round 3. Category: famous pairs * 1: This company has cleaned up with such products as Bold, Comet and Camay soap. * Procter and Gamble. * 2: First names of Babilonia and Gardner who recently re-formed their partnership on ice. * Tai and Randy. * 3: First names of childhood friends and ice cream makers Cohen and Greenfield. * Ben and Jerry. * 4: Their first map appeared in an 1872 issue of the "Railway Guide". * (William) Rand (Andrew) McNally. * 5: Congressional pair that sponsored the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947. * Sen. Robert Taft and Rep. Fred Hartley.

Round 4. Category: the "un"category * 1: A 1937 ransom note for Charles Ross demanded $50,000 in 20s, 10s and 5s, bank-run, non-consecutive and this. * unmarked. * 2: "Barbara: An Actress Who Sings" calls itself this type of book. * unauthorized. * 3: Zombies are an example of this group of beings that shouldn't be walking around but are. * undead. * 4: This company's No. 5 model was one of the most successful manual typewriters in history. * Underwood. * 5: In 1905 Freud cracked everyone up with "Jokes and Their Relation to" this. * the unconscious.

Round 5. Category: joe-pourri * 1: In '38 Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel created this guy who could fly but was somehow unrecognizable wearing glasses. * Superman. * 2: Though Grolier's Encyclopedia refers to him as "intellectually unimpressive", he ruled the USSR from 1929 to 1953. * Joseph Stalin. * 3: The middle name of this Hall of Fame Celtics player and ex-Pacers coach is not Joseph, just Joe. * Larry Bird. * 4: A song asks, "Where have you gone," this N.Y. Yankee, "a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo, woo, woo". * Joe DiMaggio. * 5: "Closing Time" was his 1994 sequel to "Catch-22". * Joseph Heller.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 880, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: sitcoms change * 1: On this sitcom in 1998, Tim Taylor's son Randy ran off to work in a Costa Rican rainforest. * Home Improvement. * 2: On her self-titled sitcom, she worked at a plastics factory and a beauty salon before opening her own diner. * Roseanne. * 3: On "The Cosby Show", daughter Denise left for Hillman College and this spin-off. * A Different World. * 4: In 1979 when its main setting moved to a bar, "All In The Family" took this new title. * Archie Bunker's Place. * 5: (Hi, I'm Jon Lovitz) In 1998 I joined the cast of this sitcom as Max Lewis, a man with a few insecurities. * NewsRadio.

Round 2. Category: street sense * 1: Hey, gimme an I-5, "I" being short for this. * Interstate. * 2: In the case of Piccadilly, it's 1-ring, not 3-ring. * Circus. * 3: Hey bud, it's "My way or" this. * The highway. * 4: A ring road surrounding an urban area; on a diet you may have to tighten it a notch. * Belt. * 5: Spanish for "road"; for Tennessee Williams it was the "real" thing. * Camino.

Round 3. Category: for the record * 1: It's the book in which a ship's speed, route and the events that affect them are recorded. * the log. * 2: A necrology is a record of people who've done this. * died. * 3: They're the official records of what went on at an organization's meeting. * the minutes. * 4: From the Latin for "daily allowance", it's a record of each day's events. * a diary. * 5: The name of this directory of famous people repeats an interrogative pronoun. * a Who's Who.

Round 4. Category: medical tests * 1: A finger stick is done to draw this. * blood. * 2: Patch and scratch tests can determine if you have one or more of these. * allergies. * 3: Not a soldier, the G.I. in an upper G.I. is this tract. * gastrointestinal. * 4: From the Latin for "life appearance", this procedure takes a sample of tissue, fluid or cells for study. * a biopsy. * 5: CTs and MRIs have largely replaced this procedure, also the name of a Nigel Tufnel group. * a spinal tap.

Round 5. Category: african-american firsts * 1: In 1989, aboard Discovery, Frederick D. Gregory became the first black commander of one of these missions. * a Space Shuttle mission. * 2: In October 1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American one of these. * Supreme Court justices. * 3: W.E.B. Du Bois was the first African-American to earn a doctorate from this prestigious Massachusetts university. * Harvard. * 4: In 1978 this escaped slave became the first African-American woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp. * Harriet Tubman. * 5: Robert Weaver, the first black Cabinet member, made himself at "home" in this department in 1966. * Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 879, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "house"s * 1: Abbreviated HUAC, it investigated communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government. * House Un-American Activities Commission. * 2: New York madam Polly Adler titled her memoirs this. * A House is Not a Home. * 3: The Animals made this traditional New Orleans folk song a No. 1 hit. * "The House of the Rising Sun". * 4: The only 1 of America's top 10 magazines in circulation to fit this category. * Good Housekeeping. * 5: Lincoln followed this saying with, "This government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free". * A house divided.

Round 2. Category: "old" rhymes * 1: In the movie, it's "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre". * gold. * 2: A story relegated to the bottom half of a newspaper page is "below" this. * the fold. * 3: We think THIS FACE should be familiar to you. * bold. * 4: It often follows "Going once, going twice...". * Sold!. * 5: To chide or reprimand, or a person who constantly does so. * scold.

Round 3. Category: films of the '30s * 1: 1936's "Modern Times" was the last film in which he appeared as the Little Tramp. * Charlie Chaplin. * 2: He played a priest in "San Francisco" in 1936 and again in 1938 for "Boys Town". * Spencer Tracy. * 3: In studio logos, MGM had a lion and Republic one of these birds. * an eagle. * 4: This classic 1931 Cagney film was based on the John Bright story "Beer and Blood". * Public Enemy. * 5: The 2 1939 films directed by Victor Fleming. * Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.

Round 4. Category: fits "u" to a "t" * 1: If you've wrecked someone's careful planning, you've done this to the applecart. * upset. * 2: The condition of an apple pie fresh out of the oven, it's also how I like my movies. * uncut. * 3: Apple pie is often rich, so it makes sense that this part of the pie is a synonym for "rich". * the upper crust. * 4: Saying that Dutch apple pie is just good is one of these, because it's the best dessert on Earth. * an understatement. * 5: If a bakery spends $12 producing 6 apple tarts, this cost is $2. * a unit.

Round 5. Category: noah * 1: Though it rained this many days, it took 150 days for the waters to subside. * 40. * 2: It was God's symbol to Noah that he'd never flood the earth again. * rainbow. * 3: According to Genesis 5, Noah is 10th in descent from this man. * Adam. * 4: Created in Genesis 1:20-22, they weren't on the list of things to be destroyed, nor were they on the ark. * fish. * 5: With the ark business over, Noah settled down and began to grow these. * vines (grapes).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 878, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: fix the malapropism * 1: "Salmon swim upstream to spoon". * spawn. * 2: To do well on "Jeopardy!", you must consecrate on the task at hand. * concentrate. * 3: "Certain areas of the desert are cultivated by irritation". * irrigation. * 4: "At ancient banquets, guests wore garlics in their hair". * garlands. * 5: By definition, countries right next to each other are contagious. * contiguous.

Round 2. Category: rotc * 1: Army ROTC produces 75% of these, represented by the second letter in ROTC. * officers. * 2: As well as leadership, ROTC teaches this "ship" that you learn with a rifle in your hands. * marksmanship. * 3: If you get an Army ROTC scholarship, you're committed to serve, either on active duty or in this group. * the Reserves or National Guard. * 4: In 1991 Gordon Sullivan was Army Chief of Staff; his boss was fellow ROTC man Colin Powell, in this post. * Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. * 5: Students in Navy ROTC, first launched at Yale and 5 other schools, are called these. * Midshipmen.

Round 3. Category: going national * 1: Cheese and army knife. * Swiss. * 2: Toast and twist. * French. * 3: Linen andpotato. * Ireland. * 4: Meatball and massage. * Swedish. * 5: Bean beetle andbeaded lizard. * Mexican.

Round 4. Category: julius caesar * 1: In his will, Caesar adopted this teenage future emperor as his heir. * Augustus. * 2: Julius invaded this "great" island twice: once in 55 B.C. and once in 54 B.C.. * Great Britain. * 3: 1 of Julius Caesar's 3 wives. * Calpurnia, Cornelia and Pompeia. * 4: In Shakespeare's" Julius Caesar", this man begins his eulogy of Caesar, "Friends, Romans, countrymen...". * Mark Antony. * 5: From 46 to 44 B.C. Julius Caesar literally ruled as one of these, having been appointed so by the Roman Senate. * dictator.

Round 5. Category: iowa * 1: Mrs. Olsen of Folger's coffee fame grew up in Stanton, where the world's largest one of these stands. * coffee pot. * 2: Though Iowa is 3rd to Texas and Nebraska in U.S. beef cattle, it leads in production of this animal. * hogs. * 3: Iowa's official rock, it may look plain on the outside, but inside there are crystals. * geode. * 4: This Iowa settlement lent its name to the company that makes the Radarange. * Amana. * 5: 1957 musical written by an Iowan from which the following comes:"Oh, there's nothing halfway /About the Iowa way to treat you /When we treat you /Which we may not do at all /There's an Iowa kind of special /Chip-on-the-shoulder attitude /We've never been without /That we recall /We can be cold /As our falling...". * The Music Man.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 877, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: clio hall of fame * 1: "Does She or Doesn't She?". * Miss Clairol. * 2: "In The Driver's Seat". * Hertz. * 3: "Mean Joe Greene" and "Buy The World". * Coca-Cola. * 4: "Three Brothers --- Mikey". * Life cereal. * 5: "Acapulco Diver" and "Watch On Propeller". * Timex.

Round 2. Category: the bull pen * 1: It's 10" high with a rubber on it. * the pitcher's mound. * 2: Of 3, 5, or 7, minimum # of innings a starting pitcher must pitch to earn a win. * 5. * 3: In a 1952 film he pitched as Grover Cleveland Alexander; today he pitches "Star Wars". * Ronald Reagan. * 4: "Pitching... is the art of instilling fear," says this Dodger Hall-of-Famer. * Sandy Koufax. * 5: Old Boston Braves pitching rotation was described as "Spahn and Sain, then pray for" this. * rain.

Round 3. Category: olympic gold medalists * 1: In addition to winning 4 gold medals, he set 3 Olympic records at the 1936 Olympics. * Jesse Owens. * 2: 1936:Men's Track and Field 100 Meters. * Jesse Owens. * 3: 1964, 1968 and 1976:Men's Basketball. * USA. * 4: 1972:Men's Basketball. * Soviet Union. * 5: 1968:Men's Heavyweight Boxing. * George Foreman.

Round 4. Category: trade names * 1: Specifically, it's the brand of tape made by 3M. * Scotch Tape. * 2: An Australian named this shoe polish, 1st sold in 1906, in honor of his wife, a New Zealander. * Kiwi. * 3: White soap which got its name when Harvey Procter heard this word from a Psalm quoted in a sermon. * Ivory. * 4: Japanese for "three-diamond", this company's name can be seen in its symbol. * Mitsubishi. * 5: This trade name for a fluorescent paint has come to be used for any bright, shocking color. * Day-Glo.

Round 5. Category: "b" your best * 1: Moon walker Aldrin's moniker. * Buzz. * 2: Whether he "did it" or not, he's the male head servant. * the butler. * 3: An athletic competition combining skiing and shooting. * a biathlon. * 4: Until 1973, it was known as British Honduras. * Belize. * 5: This country of southeastern Europe is outlined here. * Bulgaria.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 876, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: noun to verb * 1: One state of water; as a verb, it can mean to decorate a cake or to ensure a victory. * ice. * 2: From the French for "to cut", it can mean a small piece or the whole or to do careful work on your car. * detail. * 3: Natural event sometimes used as a verb; there's a form of it in Prissy's famous line in "Gone with the Wind". * birth. * 4: "Relatively" speaking, it means to exempt someone already in business from new regulation. * grandfather. * 5: When launched in 1998, it was just a noun; now it's a verb meaning to check up on somebody online. * Google.

Round 2. Category: "fee", "fi", "fo", "fum" * 1: Physically weak, or weak-"minded". * Feeble. * 2: Doing this as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles will lose possession for your team and get you booed. * a fumble. * 3: In the song "Charlie Brown", it precedes "I smell smoke in the auditorium". * "Fee Fee Fi Fi Fo Fo Fum". * 4: It's that Italian bread you're dipping into olive oil. * focaccia. * 5: To foster the seeds of a rebellion. * foment.

Round 3. Category: bits and pieces * 1: Bits on this appliance include a color selector, a lever and a bread guide. * toaster. * 2: This musical accessory includes a weighted pendulum and a graduated scale. * Metronome. * 3: Spankers, jiggers and jibs are types of these. * sails. * 4: If served this legal writ, you will be required to appear in court to give testimony. * subpoena. * 5: This part of a drill that tightens the jaw around the bit has a special key. * chuck.

Round 4. Category: brownsville * 1: This shade of brown is also a plant resin that'll hold a bug "forever". * amber. * 2: Animal shades of brown include mink, seal, fox and this "ship of the desert". * the camel. * 3: On your palette or in a mug, mix chocolate and coffee and you get this. * mocha. * 4: The umber pigment can be "raw" or this. * burnt. * 5: You'll find this shade of brown in the name Audrey Hepburn. * auburn.

Round 5. Category: film festivals * 1: Sacre Bleu! "Godzilla" was chosen as the 1998 closing-night attraction at this Riviera festival. * Cannes. * 2: The New York Film Festival is sponsored by this institution "centrally" located at 64th and Broadway. * Film Society of Lincoln Center. * 3: 2-word name for the grand prize at the Berlin Film Festival, or for golfer Jack Nicklaus. * Golden Bear. * 4: "The Crying Game" and "The Piano" had their U.S. premieres at the festival in this Colorado mining town. * Telluride. * 5: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Alicia Witt) In 1994 I won a special acting award at this festival supported by Robert Redford". * Sundance.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 875, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: music class * 1: When you reach this mark on a score you start the piece again; it's abbreviated D.C.. * Da Capo. * 2: Italian for "in chapel style", it's the term for singing without instrumental accompaniment. * a cappella. * 3: Notations for these on a score for a guitarist include C7 and D7. * chords. * 4: Due to his deafness, he last performed in public in 1814. * (Ludwig Van) Beethoven. * 5: Rachmaninoff wrote one "on a Theme of Paganini"; Gershwin wrote on "in Blue". * a rhapsody.

Round 2. Category: veggies' scientific names * 1: Allium cepa, and stop that crying right now!. * onion. * 2: Solanum tuberosum, we dig 'em!. * potato. * 3: Lactuca sativa, it's also a slang term for paper money. * lettuce. * 4: Brassica oleracea italica, it was once "banished" from the White House kitchen. * broccoli. * 5: Raphanus sativa, its giant white variety is known as a daikon in Japan. * radish.

Round 3. Category: crossword clues "h" * 1: Tights and stockings (7 letters). * hosiery. * 2: Jacket for corn(4). * Husk. * 3: A fraud or a fake(4). * hoax. * 4: God of the underworld (5 letters). * Hades. * 5: Shaggy-haired and bewhiskered (7 letters). * hirsute.

Round 4. Category: esquire's dubious achievements 2005 * 1: "You Know, Frank's Brother": he "announced that he will write, direct and star in Rocky VI". * Sylvester Stallone. * 2: This Russian president pocketed a Super Bowl ring being shown to him; Esquire speculated that he pawned it. * Putin. * 3: "Actually, We're Gonna Go With 'Mr. Spears'": "Back then they called me K-Fed, but you can call me Daddy instead", he rapped. * (Kevin) Federline. * 4: "If He's Not Careful, He's Going to Hurt His Reputation": this "Cinderella Man" threw a phone at a hotel worker. * Russell Crowe. * 5: "Awkward Moments of the Year": Mike Myers' Hurricane Relief Show appearance with this hip-hopper. * Kanye West.

Round 5. Category: children's books * 1: In "And Tango Makes Three", based on a true story, 2 of these male flightless birds are given a chick to raise at a zoo. * a penguin. * 2: The B. stands for Beatrice, a name this Barbara Park kindergartener can't stand. * Junie B. Jones. * 3: In a classic by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne is adopted by the Cuthberts and comes to live with them on this title farm. * Green Gables. * 4: Some of what this title character eats: "one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake" and a slice of watermelon. * The Very Hungry Caterpillar. * 5: A.A. Milne adapted this children's book for the stage and renamed it "Toad of Toad Hall". * The Wind in the Willows.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 874, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the u.s. president when... * 1: ...Hawaii gained statehood. * Eisenhower. * 2: ...the Hindenburg Zeppelin crashed. * F.D. Roosevelt. * 3: ...the U.S. extended full diplomatic recognition to Vietnam. * Clinton. * 4: ...Golda Meir became Prime Minister of Israel. * Nixon. * 5: ...the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. * Carter.

Round 2. Category: vocabulary test * 1: Of tardy, very happy, or full of hot air, what the word elated means. * very happy. * 2: Term for a female goat or for someone who takes care of kids. * nanny. * 3: In math the radius of a circle is half of the line called this. * diameter. * 4: It's what we call the northern or southern half of the Earth, as divided by the equator. * hemisphere. * 5: It's the Spanish term for any of the Spanish conquerors who came to the Americas in the 1500s. * the conquistadores.

Round 3. Category: hop, skip or jump * 1: The "ball" that starts a basketball game. * jump. * 2: To not attend an event on purpose. * skip. * 3: To start your friend's dead car. * jump. * 4: Flowers from this vine are used to make beer. * hops. * 5: The captain of a curling team. * the skip.

Round 4. Category: health and fitness * 1: Researchers claim that between 7 and 7.9 hours of this activity nightly correlates best with longevity. * sleep. * 2: You should visit your dentist right away if you notice these are swollen or bleed easily. * gums. * 3: In October 1986, she had 3 different fitness tapes on the top ten videocassette sales list. * Jane Fonda. * 4: Am. Heart Assn. says those doing this have 2-4 times the risk of sudden cardiac death as those who don't. * smoke. * 5: The "New Parent Fitness Plan" tells new mothers to work out using these as barbells. * their babies.

Round 5. Category: murder and mayhem * 1: In this 1987 film, after 1 of the main characters was killed, the word "Touchable" was written in his blood. * The Untouchables. * 2: Some say he shot himself in Bolivia after soldiers killed Sundance. * Butch Cassidy. * 3: Thousand of heretics were burned at the stake by order of this Catholic tribunal. * The Inquisition. * 4: John Billington, who arrived on this boat, is generally considered America's 1st murderer. * Mayflower. * 5: These young killers were nicknamed "Babe" and "Dickie", as C. Darrow could have told you. * Leopold and Loeb.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 873, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: zebras * 1: Only continent to which zebras are native. * Africa. * 2: TV sitcom on which the main character called his racially mixed daughter-in-law a zebra. * The Jeffersons. * 3: In England, a deer crossing is for deer, but a zebra crossing is for these. * pedestrians. * 4: Professional sport in which 7 "zebras" officiate. * football. * 5: In Simon and Garfunkel's 1967 song, "At the Zoo", zebras are said to have these political views. * reactionary.

Round 2. Category: baywatch beach safety * 1: (Hi, I'm David Hasselhoff.) For L.A. beaches, this list includes dogs, fireworks and tents. * things that are prohibited. * 2: (Hi, I'm Mitzi Kapture.) For your safety, always swim near one of these that's manned and open. * a lifeguard station. * 3: (Hi, I'm Michael Bergin.) To protect your head, neck and spine, don't do this into unfamiliar waters. * dive. * 4: (Hi, I'm Brooke Burns.) The Red Cross recommends everyone learn this; L.A. lifeguards have been using it since 1957. * CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). * 5: (Hi, I'm Michael Newman.) If you can't swim well, or at all, don't rely on these; you may lose them in the water. * life preservers (or floatation devices).

Round 3. Category: named for * 1: The company formerly called "Alonzo Richmond, Agents for Onondaga Salt" now bears his name. * Morton. * 2: While Asa Gray was known for his books on botany, Henry Gray was known for his books on this science. * anatomy. * 3: While John Bartlett put his name on a book of quotes, Enoch Bartlett put his name on this. * a pear. * 4: Textile manufacturer whose big donation got the N.Y. Institute of Musical Art named for him. * Augustus Juilliard. * 5: Captain Cook gave this name to a Pacific island group in honor of Earl John Montagu. * the Sandwich Islands.

Round 4. Category: world "p"s * 1: The "4 questions" asked on this occasion include wondering why we have to eat unleavened bread. * Passover. * 2: Malay or Sinai. * peninsula. * 3: Gunmen after this South American dictator in 1986 used rockets, bazookas, rifles and grenades--and missed!. * Pinochet. * 4: World Heritage sites in this nation include the Nasca Lines. * Peru. * 5: Named for an adviser to Catherine the Great, this type of "village" looks deceptively impressive. * a Potemkin village.

Round 5. Category: "junior" collage * 1: Student athletes know it's abbreviated JV. * junior varsity. * 2: James Welch named this popular movie theater candy in 1949. * Junior Mints. * 3: The All Stars backed up this rockin' frontman. * Junior Walker. * 4: It was founded in 1901 in New York City by a debutante wanting to help the less fortunate. * the Junior League. * 5: It was started in 1919 as a collection of small, after-school business clubs in Massachusetts. * Junior Achievement.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 872, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: college football 2000 * 1: In 2000 this conference had 3 teams win 10 or more games: Washington, Oregon and Oregon state. * the Pac-10. * 2: This school's Huskers set a college bowl record by scoring 66 points against Northwestern in the Alamo Bowl. * the University of Nebraska. * 3: The USA's only major undefeated team, it won the national title by beating Florida State in the Orange Bowl. * Oklahoma. * 4: Lou Holtz coached this school's Gamecocks to an 8-4 record after a winless season in 1999. * South Carolina. * 5: A sprained ankle forced this Virginia Tech QB (and Heisman hopeful) to miss 1 game and parts of 2 others during 2000. * Michael Vick.

Round 2. Category: let's mess with texas * 1: Educated at Phillips Academy, Yale and Harvard, this part-time Crawford resident was born in Connecticut in 1946. * George W. Bush. * 2: Since 1935 this agency that originated in the 1820s has operated as a branch of the Texas Dept. of Public Safety. * the Texas Rangers. * 3: This state bird of Texas belongs to the family Mimidae. * the mockingbird. * 4: From 1846 to 1859 this ex-Tennessee governor was a U.S. senator from Texas. * Sam Houston. * 5: Born in 1921, this Mission, Tex.-born senator served with Jack Kennedy, knew Jack Kennedy and hey! you're not Jack Kennedy!. * Lloyd Bentsen.

Round 3. Category: pitches * 1: In 1959 physicist Lyman Briggs determined that this pitch really does what its name says. * Curveball. * 2: It's the basic off-speed pitch, thrown at a slow speed to disrupt the batter's timing. * Changeup. * 3: This basic pitch is also the name of the group with the 1998 hit "The Way". * Fastball. * 4: The name of this ground-ball-inducing pitch is also slang for a doughnut. * Sinker. * 5: This pitch, which Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson called the fadeaway, is a type of '30s movie comedy. * Screwball.

Round 4. Category: japanese geography * 1: Many of Japan's highest peaks lie in this range which shares its name with a Swiss mountain range. * Alps. * 2: Japan's Disneyland theme park sits right on this bay. * Tokyo. * 3: Japan's Tsushima Island lies just about 60 miles from Pusan, a city in this country. * South Korea. * 4: The city originally called Koromo was renamed this, for a local auto manufacturer. * Toyota. * 5: This island where the U.S. maintains military bases is part of Japan's Ryukyu Islands. * Okinawa.

Round 5. Category: russian rulers * 1: This first leader of the Soviet Union was the son of a provincial director of elementary education. * Lenin. * 2: In the 1690s he recruited about 900 technicians on his tour of western Europe. * Peter the Great. * 3: Empress Elizabeth, who reigned 1741-1762, was an implacable enemy of this Prussian emperor. * Frederick the Great. * 4: In 1881 Alexander II was assassinated in this capital by bomb-throwing members of "People's Will". * St. Petersburg. * 5: This royal house began with the reign of Michael in 1613 and ended with Nicholas II in the revolution of 1917. * the Romanov.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 871, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: rhythm and booze * 1: His beach bum anthem "Margaritaville" made its Top 40 debut in 1977. * Jimmy Buffett. * 2: This 1958 hit by The Champs with a liquor as its title has been covered by numerous artists. * "Tequila". * 3: "Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" is a classic song by this First Lady of Country Music. * Loretta Lynn. * 4: This country legend recorded the hits "Fifteen Beers" and "Take This Job and Shove It". * Johnny Paycheck. * 5: Willie Nelson often begins his live shows with his 1979 hit about this alcoholic "River". * "Whiskey River".

Round 2. Category: 5-letter capitals * 1: 12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city. * Paris. * 2: Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a and El Giza. * Cairo. * 3: The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia. * Amman. * 4: In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital. * Quito. * 5: Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port. * Hanoi.

Round 3. Category: a heavenly category * 1: A Lerner and Lowe song lyric goes, "Thank heaven for" these people, "they grow up in the most delightful way". * little girls. * 2: The Indian game moksha-patamu (heaven and hell) gave us this Milton Bradley game that has its ups and downs. * Chutes and Ladders. * 3: The John Jakes novel "Heaven and Hell" takes place directly following this war. * the Civil War. * 4: In Genesis 1, God gave the name Heaven to this, from the Latin for "support". * the firmament. * 5: The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy, this film starred Hiep Thi Le and Tommy Lee Jones. * Heaven and Earth.

Round 4. Category: "bril"-liant! * 1: A rapid chaotic beating of the heart muscles in a nonsynchronous way. * fibrillation. * 2: 1964buildingblocksfor a wackyWarholwork. * Brillo. * 3: A crude cart used to carry the condemned to the guillotine during the French Revolution. * a tumbril. * 4: Miles Franklin was only a teenager when she penned this bestseller about growing up in Australia's outback. * My Brilliant Career. * 5: 12-letter word for an oily men's hair cream to keep hair in place and make it look glossy. * brilliantine.

Round 5. Category: warner bros. cartoons * 1: "Carnivorous vulgaris" is one of this Roadrunner-chasing rascal's "scientific" names. * the (Wile E.) Coyote. * 2: This "scent-imental" skunk was named after Charles Boyer's character in the film "Algiers". * Pepé Le Pew. * 3: This "fastest mouse" made his debut in 1953's "Cat-Tails for Two". * Speedy Gonzales. * 4: This "roughest, toughest he-man hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande" could never beat Bugs Bunny. * Yosemite Sam. * 5: This animal is the symbol of the new Warner Bros. network. * Michigan J. Frog.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 870, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: rhyme giver * 1: To make a speech or to give birth. * deliver. * 2: To shake from cold, or to shatter something, like "me timbers". * shiver. * 3: Body detox center. * liver. * 4: China's Hongshui or India's Tapi. * river. * 5: The goddess Diana is often depicted holding this container. * quiver.

Round 2. Category: watch your tongue * 1: The standard form of this language is based on the Central dialect, the speech in and around Moscow. * Russian. * 2: In the early 1500s Martin Luther translated the Bible into this language using a dialect of Saxony. * German. * 3: English began to absorb French words after this 1066 event. * the Battle of Hastings (the Norman Conquest). * 4: The poet Sappho wrote in the Aeolic dialect of this language. * Greek. * 5: This Scandinavian language has many dialects, especially in North Jutland and the island of Bornholm. * Danish.

Round 3. Category: "pu" * 1: It's the time of life when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of... sex. * puberty. * 2: Oscar De La Hoya or Evander Holyfield. * Pugilist. * 3: It's another name for the cougar or mountain lion. * Puma. * 4: It means downright rotten. * Putrid. * 5: The third of these wars wiped Carthage off the map, though it was later rebuilt. * The Punic Wars.

Round 4. Category: so great they need 2 nicknames * 1: Before he was Magic he was June Bug, because he's Earvin Junior. * "Magic" Johnson. * 2: George Herman Ruth was not just "Babe" but this Italian version, too. * The Bambino. * 3: By career's end Wayne Gretzky was "The Great One"; earlier he was this, also a Chaplin film title. * "The Kid". * 4: The Baseball Encyclopedia lists his nicknames as "The Franchise" and "Tom Terrific". * Tom Seaver. * 5: This carrot-topped running back built muscle working on an Illinois ice truck, becoming "The Wheaton Iceman". * "Red" Grange.

Round 5. Category: midnight reads * 1: He gave us the line "Listen my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere". * Longfellow. * 2: He won the 1981 Booker Prize for "Midnight's Children"; his 1988 novel won him a fatwa. * Salman Rushdie. * 3: This book is Billy Hayes' account of drug smuggling in Turkey and his subsequent imprisonment. * Midnight Express. * 4: This bestseller is subtitled "A Savannah Story". * Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. * 5: The book "Midnight Dreary" examines "The Mysterious Death" of this poet. * Edgar Allan Poe.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 869, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: apples * 1: The Tree Top Company's website has recipes for the Sour Cream and Dutch Kitchen types of this. * pie. * 2: Most apples come from trees grown not from seeds but by this process. * Grafting. * 3: Being packed with pectin makes apples an excellent source of this in the diet. * fiber. * 4: Unlike the tech version, there's no "A" in the name of this apple named for the finder of the1st seedling in 1811. * McIntosh. * 5: This preparation is a favorite accompaniment of foods from pork to latkes. * applesauce.

Round 2. Category: nursery rhyme time * 1: Quite contrary gardener's yellow birds. * Mary's canaries. * 2: Nonfat eating Jack's pet animals. * Sprat's cats. * 3: Little Bo's mighty jumps. * Peep's leaps. * 4: Little Jack's funeralgoers. * Horner's mourners. * 5: Fat-free Jack's pieces of neckwear. * Sprat's cravats.

Round 3. Category: strike! * 1: In bowling, a turkey is this many strikes. * 3. * 2: When you "strike" this fuel, natural gas mixed in with it can expand and propel it upward through the drill bore. * Oil. * 3: It strikes when electric potential in the atmosphere tops 10,000 volts per centimeter. * Lightning. * 4: Something that sounds familiar strikes one of these musical combinations. * Chord. * 5: For striking in 1981 in defiance of his orders, this man fired 11,345 members of the air traffic controllers' union. * Ronald Reagan.

Round 4. Category: comic strippers * 1: Ruff,Mr. Wilson,Dennis Mitchell. * Dennis the Menace. * 2: Mammy Yokum,Daisy Mae,Sadie Hawkins. * Li'l Abner. * 3: The King,Sir Rodney,The Spirit. * The Wizard of Id. * 4: Aunt May,Dr. Doom,J. Jonah Jameson. * Spider-Man. * 5: Elly, John, Michael, Elizabeth and April Patterson. * For Better or for Worse.

Round 5. Category: what brought that on? * 1: A 1990 Commons debate on closer ties with Europe brought on her famous shout of "No! No! No!". * Margaret Thatcher. * 2: In 1987 this anchor walked off, leaving CBS black for 6 minutes, because a tennis match cut into the news. * Dan Rather. * 3: Anita Hill's accusations led Clarence Thomas to call his confirmation process "a high-tech" this. * a lynching. * 4: Khrushchev's U.N. shoe-banging outburst came as Lorenzo Sumulong of this Asian country attacked Soviet policy. * the Philippines. * 5: The claim "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" was in response to an election loss to this man. * (Pat) Brown.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 883, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the cold war * 1: In the 1970s Linus Pauling advocated huge doses of this to battle the common cold. * vitamin C. * 2: By the end of the Cold War the population of this "sleeping giant" was over 1 billion. * China. * 3: The Red Scare of the 1950s destroyed many careers, including that of this father of the atomic bomb. * Robert Oppenheimer. * 4: "Dr. Mom" recommends this brand's cold and cough syrups. * Robitussin. * 5: Tool nickname for the Soviet flag, lowered for the last time over the Kremlin on December 25, 1991. * hammer and sickle.

Round 2. Category: the virgin mary * 1: This man was her husband. * Joseph. * 2: It's the crowded town Mary traveled to in order to record her name during the census. * Bethlehem. * 3: The angel who "announced" Mary's pregnancy to her. * Gabriel. * 4: Jesus entrusted Mary to the "Beloved Disciple", traditionally this author of the gospel that tells the story. * John. * 5: It's the town where Mary lived when Luke first mentions her. * Nazareth.

Round 3. Category: medical tests * 1: A finger stick is done to draw this. * blood. * 2: Patch and scratch tests can determine if you have one or more of these. * allergies. * 3: Not a soldier, the G.I. in an upper G.I. is this tract. * gastrointestinal. * 4: From the Latin for "life appearance", this procedure takes a sample of tissue, fluid or cells for study. * a biopsy. * 5: CTs and MRIs have largely replaced this procedure, also the name of a Nigel Tufnel group. * a spinal tap.

Round 4. Category: kings and queens * 1: The Old Testament says she visited King Solomon in order to test him by asking him to solve several riddles. * the Queen of Sheba. * 2: In 1992 this queen of England agreed to pay income tax. * Queen Elizabeth II. * 3: This 11th daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I was guillotined in 1793. * Marie Antoinette. * 4: King Bhumibol reigned for 70 years in this Asian nation once known as Siam. * Thailand. * 5: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia claimed descent from the Queen of Sheba and this Biblical king. * Solomon.

Round 5. Category: of madison * 1: James Madison was known as the "Father of" this document and was also it's last surviving signer. * the Constitution. * 2: The James Madison Building is the largest of the 3 Capitol Hill buildings that make up this library. * the Library of Congress. * 3: This family estate of James Madison shares its name with a Vermont city. * Montpelier. * 4: Madison made a lousy cabinet choice in John Armstrong, who didn't think D.C. needed defending in thi war. * the War of 1812. * 5: James Madison succeeded Thomas Jefferson as President of the U.S. and as rector of this university. * the University of Virginia.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 868, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: fictional indians * 1: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn watched him kill the town doctor and place the knife in Muff Potter's hand. * Injun Joe. * 2: Peter Pan saved her from the clutches of Captain Hook. * Tiger Lily. * 3: Buffalo Bob often said "Howdy" to this Indian princess. * Princess Summerfallwinterspring. * 4: This baseball team's mascot Chief Nokahoma lived in a teepee in the outfield stands. * Atlanta Braves. * 5: This future superstar played police lieutenant John Hawk, an Iroquois, on the mid 1960s TV series "Hawk". * Burt Reynolds.

Round 2. Category: bush * 1: ...who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. * George Herbert Walker Bush. * 2: ...born in Midland, Texas and earned a masters degree at the University of Texas. * Laura Bush. * 3: ...who was the first Republican reelected governor in his state's history. * Jeb Bush. * 4: ...who wrote a bestselling nonfiction book in 1990. * Barbara Bush. * 5: ...who served as an artillery captain in World War I. * Prescott Bush.

Round 3. Category: name that flick * 1: 1984:"All my life I've been waiting for someone, and when I find her, she's a fish". * Splash. * 2: 1946:"I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all". * It's A Wonderful Life. * 3: 1961:"Top of the day, officer Krupke". * West Side Story. * 4: 1968:"Will the dancing Hitlers please wait in the wings? We are only seeing singing Hitlers". * The Producers. * 5: 1977:"You only gave me books with the word 'death' in the title". * Annie Hall.

Round 4. Category: sports stats * 1: In 1997, his first full year on the PGA Tour, he became the first to exceed $2 million in earnings for a season. * Tiger Woods. * 2: In June 1998 he set a major league record by slugging 20 home runs in a month. * Sammy Sosa. * 3: From 1952 to 1955 this Phillie led the National League in wins, complete games and innings pitched. * Robin Roberts. * 4: In his 26 years in pro football, this quarterback-kicker scored a record 2,002 points. * George Blanda. * 5: In 1973 he became the first and only horse to break the 2-minute barrier in the Kentucky Derby. * Secretariat.

Round 5. Category: three * 1: Mother Goose rhyming line that follows "Rub-a-dub-dub". * Three men in a tub. * 2: Stalin, FDR and Churchill were known by this collective nickname when they met in Teheran in 1943. * "The Big Three". * 3: In 1979 this nuclear power plant near Harrisburg experienced a near meltdown. * Three Mile Island. * 4: Their motto was "All for one, one for all". * The Three Musketeers. * 5: It's been called "Chekhov's richest and greatest play". * The Three Sisters.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 867, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the roles of tom cruise * 1: Wannabe Ivy Leaguer Joel Goodson. * Risky Business. * 2: Young lawyer Mitch McDeere. * The Firm. * 3: Navy pilot Lt. Pete Mitchell. * Top Gun. * 4: Navy lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee. * A Few Good Men. * 5: Pool shark Vincent Lauria. * The Color of Money.

Round 2. Category: amusement parks * 1: In June 1991 this California theme park unveiled its new attraction, "E.T.'s Adventure". * Universal Studios. * 2: No matter how many hills a roller coaster has, this one is always the highest. * the first one. * 3: This California park, originally a fruit stand, is the oldest theme park in the nation. * Knott's Berry Farm. * 4: These fish parks in Florida, Texas and Ohio have added a monster marsh complete with dinosaurs. * SeaWorld. * 5: This park's theme is Pennsylvania's, German, Dutch and English heritage as well as chocolate. * Hersheypark.

Round 3. Category: albuquerque * 1: In population Albuquerque ranks in this position among New Mexico cities. * First. * 2: In 1926 this famous highway passed through the city's central business district. * U.S. Route 66. * 3: In 1975 Paul Allen and William Gates III founded this company in Albuquerque. * Microsoft. * 4: Located on this river, Albuquerque is the seat of Bernalillo County. * Rio Grande. * 5: Every October Albuquerque holds an international fiesta of these aircraft. * Hot air balloons.

Round 4. Category: california food festivals * 1: Carpinteria is home to this festival whose Internet home is avofest.com. * avocado festival. * 2: For 55 years Pismo Beach has been doing annual digs and chowder cook-offs to celebrate this food. * clams. * 3: A visit to Gilroy's celebration of this stinking rose wouldn't be complete without a scoop of ice cream flavored with it. * garlic. * 4: In northern California Half Moon Bay's October festival for these features a weigh-off with 900-pound ones. * pumpkins. * 5: At the "Spitway" at Sunland-Tujunga's celebration of this food, you can spit 3 seeds for a buck; longest in each age group wins. * watermelon.

Round 5. Category: the nose * 1: To stay sharp, "Keep your nose to" this sharpener. * the grindstone. * 2: It contains the payload of a missile. * the nose cone. * 3: Completes the catch phrase "Cut off one's nose to...". * spite one's face. * 4: It's the nerve that detects smells. * olfactory. * 5: The Statue of Liberty's nose is made of this metal. * copper.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 866, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: vampire lore * 1: One of the most widely used vampire repellents, its smell is detestable to them. * garlic. * 2: A child born with these already in its mouth may be destined to be a vampire. * teeth. * 3: One theory says it reflects the soul but vampires have no soul so they can't be seen in one. * a mirror. * 4: A vampire hunter's kit should include at least one of these, perhaps made of ash or hawthorn. * a stake. * 5: A bride can be carried over it, but a vampire must be invited in to cross it. * a threshold.

Round 2. Category: state nickname fun * 1: These 2 states with a precious metal in their nicknames border each other. * California and Nevada. * 2: The nickname of this state includes a greeting in a non-English language. * Hawaii. * 3: A ride at the Albuquerque Int'l Balloon Fiesta might show you why New Mexico is the "land of" this. * Enchantment. * 4: Minnesota may have gotten this nickname from a cartoon showing railroad organizers as tunneling mammals. * Gopher State. * 5: In 2004 a biologist caused great excitement when he photographed an actual wild one of these in Michigan. * a wolverine.

Round 3. Category: 5 letter words * 1: An assumed identity, or the type of letter that accompanies a resume. * a cover letter. * 2: Emily Post says in this kind of letter, don't call death "a blessing in disguise". * a condolence letter. * 3: Also a fruit, it should always be found in the heading of a letter. * a date. * 4: "Very truly yours" is a "complimentary" this, also something done to a door. * a closing. * 5: The garment worn here, it follows "ZIP" in something the Postal Service wants you to use. * plus-fours.

Round 4. Category: the tell-tale heart * 1: This largest artery begins in the lower left chamber and gives rise to the coronary arteries. * Aorta. * 2: In 1984, in the first surgery of its kind, Baby Fae received a heart transplant from this mammal. * Baboon. * 3: The heart has 4 of these to regulate the flow of blood, including the mitral. * Valves. * 4: This term for an irregular heartbeat is from the Greek for "without measure". * Arrhythmia. * 5: The atria make up the upper, smaller part of the heart and these chambers form the lower portion. * Ventricles.

Round 5. Category: fits "u" to a "t" * 1: If you've wrecked someone's careful planning, you've done this to the applecart. * upset. * 2: The condition of an apple pie fresh out of the oven, it's also how I like my movies. * uncut. * 3: Apple pie is often rich, so it makes sense that this part of the pie is a synonym for "rich". * the upper crust. * 4: Saying that Dutch apple pie is just good is one of these, because it's the best dessert on Earth. * an understatement. * 5: If a bakery spends $12 producing 6 apple tarts, this cost is $2. * a unit.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 865, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: let's talk turkey * 1: Be happy, the turkey's breastbone is also known by this more hopeful name. * Wishbone. * 2: Farmboys know a female turkey is a hen, a baby is a poult and a male is called this. * Tom. * 3: Of wiggin, snood or hackle, the one that's the fleshy growth hanging down over a male turkey's beak. * Snood. * 4: Pass him a drumstick; this president made Thanksgiving a national holiday in the 1860s. * Abraham Lincoln. * 5: Despite their name, turkeys originated on this continent. * North America.

Round 2. Category: donald trump * 1: A noted germophobe, Trump said, "I think" this form of greeting "is barbaric... you catch the flu". * handshaking. * 2: Trump owned the N.J. Generals, a team that featured Doug Flutie and Herschel Walker, in this league. * the USFL. * 3: This Trump family minister and author of "The Power of Positive Thinking" performed the Donald's marriage to Ivana. * Norman Vincent Peale. * 4: Heavily in debt in '91, Trump spotted a beggar and said to this woman, wife No. 2, "He's worth $900 million more than I am". * Marla Maples. * 5: The Donald graduated first in his class from this school of finance at U.Penn. in 1968. * Wharton.

Round 3. Category: old west dogs * 1: This cavalry leader left a pack of about 40 dogs behind when he went to the Little Bighorn. * George Custer. * 2: Catch dogs and heelers helped humans drive these animals along the Chisholm Trail. * cattle. * 3: In the novel Old Yeller catches this viral disease from a wolf's bite. * Rabies. * 4: In May 1805 Scannon, a Newfoundland, saved this expedition from a charging buffalo. * Lewis and Clark Expedition. * 5: Developed by Plains Indians, this device consisted of a frame on 2 poles dragged by a dog. * Travois.

Round 4. Category: a czar is born * 1: Born 1530, died 1584, known for his extreme despotism. * Ivan the Terrible. * 2: Born 1868, died 1918, 'nuff said. * Nicholas II. * 3: Born 1551, died 1605, inspired a drama by Pushkin and an opera by Mussorgsky. * Boris Godunov. * 4: Born 1818, died 1881, freed the serfs and sold Alaska. * Alexander II. * 5: Born 1672, died 1725, built Russia's second-largest city. * Peter the Great.

Round 5. Category: the golden age of radio * 1: All-American boy Jack Armstrong never tired of this "Breakfast of Champions". * Wheaties. * 2: He's the answer to the question posed in the following:"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?". * the Shadow. * 3: "Lux Radio Theatre" was brought to you by Lever Brothers, makers of the Lux brand of this product. * Soap. * 4: "Sorry Wrong Number", a popular episode of "Suspense", starred this "Bewitched" actress. * Agnes Moorehead. * 5: Robert Ripley hosted the 1930s radio adaptation of this newspaper feature. * "Ripley's Believe It or Not!".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 864, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: rock stars * 1: "Two Hearts" links his two careers: acting in the film "Buster", and singing with Genesis. * Phil Collins. * 2: In Oct. 1995 her "Jagged Little Pill" became the first album by a Canadian female to reach No. 1 in the U.S.. * Alanis Morissette. * 3: This Marilyn Monroe "wanna-be" was once a dancer with the Alvin Ailey Troupe. * Madonna. * 4: The New York Times called this headman of Talking Heads the "thinking man's rock star". * David Byrne. * 5: In the following duet, Michael Jackson blends so well with her, it's hard to tell them apart: "My life ain't worth living / If I can't be with you / I just can't stop loving you / I just can't stop loving you / And if I stop / Then tell me just what will I do...". * Siedah Garrett.

Round 2. Category: stripes * 1: Trying to locate this title character in books by illustrator Martin Handford? Look for his 2-toned striped shirt and hat. * Waldo. * 2: This form of pool is also known as stripes and solids. * 8-ball. * 3: Now in light and lemon varieties, Red Stripe beer was first brewed in this Caribbean nation in 1928. * Jamaica. * 4: He composed "The Stars and Stripes Forever", now the official march of the United States. * Sousa. * 5: This dark pigment gives a zebra its black stripes. * melanin.

Round 3. Category: dateline: 1903 * 1: This giant of automaking introduces his namesake automobile company. * Henry Ford. * 2: This President creates the Department of Commerce and Labor. * Theodore Roosevelt. * 3: With U.S. support, this nation declares its independence from Colombia. * Panama. * 4: Leo XIII dies and is replaced with the tenth Pope to bear this Papal name. * Pius. * 5: This man becomes head of the Bolsheviks at a summer socialist symposium in London. * Lenin.

Round 4. Category: india * 1: This classical Indian musical instrument is most closely associated with Ravi Shankar. * the sitar. * 2: This city has a population density of about 79,000 people per square mile, the country's highest. * Calcutta. * 3: The largest mosque in India is in this city, the site of a deadly 1984 gas leak. * Bhopal. * 4: The British jailed him 9 times between 1921 and 1945; in 1947 he became prime minister. * (Jawaharlal) Nehru. * 5: This capital of the state of West Bengal is India's largest city. * Calcutta.

Round 5. Category: crossword clues "l" * 1: Any new car that breaks down 60 times a day(5). * a lemon. * 2: A maze (9). * a labyrinth. * 3: Trees to "rest on" (7). * laurels. * 4: A lariat's shorter name(5). * a lasso. * 5: Mario, of movie musicals(5). * Lanza.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 893, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: hollywoodspeak * 1: The popular films of this genre can be known as "oaters" or "horse operas". * westerns. * 2: Also known as a "tenpercenter", a good one of these can open doors in Tinseltown. * agent. * 3: Erica Kane could tell you it's the dramatic form known as a "sudser" in Hollywood. * soap opera. * 4: In the lingo of Variety, a "diskery" is a company that produces these. * records. * 5: This TV network is "The Eye Web". * CBS.

Round 2. Category: east on the map * 1: This nation was once a province known as East Pakistan and before that, East Bengal. * Bangladesh. * 2: East Cape is the easternmost mainland point on this island, the world's second largest. * New Guinea. * 3: Walter Ulbricht had his fingers in this country's strudel for over 20 years. * East Germany. * 4: This city with a 2-word name grew around Michigan State University. * East Lansing. * 5: As a geopolitical term it was coined in 1902 by U.S. Naval Officer Alfred Mahan to describe an Asian-African area. * the Middle East.

Round 3. Category: art for art's sake! * 1: Dentist Byron McKeeby of Cedar Rapids, Iowa was immortalized in this 1930 painting along with the artist's sister. * American Gothic. * 2: In David's 1801 painting "Napoleon at the Great St. Bernard Pass", the general is crossing this mountain range. * the Alps. * 3: The crushing foot used in this TV show's opening is from Bronzino's 1545 painting, "An Allegory with Venus and Cupid". * Monty Python's Flying Circus. * 4: Titian portrayed Ariadne and this god of wine falling in love at first sight. * Dionysus (or Bacchus). * 5: Title of the 15th century work depicting the Virgin Mary and the angel Gabriel thought to be da Vinci's first completed work. * The Annunciation.

Round 4. Category: jeopardy! 101 * 1: From beautiful downtown Culver City, it's the name of the studios where "Jeopardy!" is taped. * Sony Pictures Studios. * 2: He was the host of the first version of "Jeopardy!" in the '60s. * Art Fleming. * 3: Of $183,000, $283,000 or $383,000, it's closest to the highest amount you can win in one regular game. * $283,000. * 4: Including Final Jeopardy!, it's the total number of possible questions in one game. * 61. * 5: Frequent viewers know my hometown of Sudbury is in this Canadian province. * Ontario.

Round 5. Category: montreal expose * 1: The Basilique Notre-Dame has one of the largest ones of these in North America; it weighs 12 tons. * bell. * 2: A bagpiper at Ogilvy's Department Store plays to announce this hour. * noon. * 3: Since 1984 over 37 million people have seen performances by this circus headquartered in Montreal. * Cirque du Soleil. * 4: Each summer Montreal hosts a Juste Pour Rire Festival, called "Just for" these in English. * Laughs. * 5: A street in Mount Royal Park is named for this great American landscape artist who designed NYC's Central Park. * (Frederick Law) Olmsted.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 863, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: skip to my "lu" * 1: WD-40 for example. * Lubricant. * 2: Clear or easily understood. * Lucid. * 3: The German Air Force. * Luftwaffe. * 4: First name of playwright Pirandello. * Luigi. * 5: It's the capital city of Zambia. * Lusaka.

Round 2. Category: british fashion * 1: David and Elizabeth Emanuel got the assignment to design this for Princess Diana to wear on July 29, 1981. * her wedding dress. * 2: 19th century Englishmen Thomas and William Bowler got their names in the dictionary by making these. * hats. * 3: This "Superwaif" model made news in 1993 when she went topless at a Vivienne Westwood show. * Kate Moss. * 4: Sharp suits and skinny ties typified the '60s look of the "squad" of these young Britishers. * the mod squad. * 5: With grenade loops added, the coat designed by Thomas Burberry got this new name during World War I. * trenchcoat.

Round 3. Category: birthday's the same * 1: This cartoonist might serve "Peanuts" at a Nov. 26 party for himself, Tina Turner and Robert Goulet. * Charles Schulz. * 2: Dan Rather, Jane Pauley and Dale Evans might enjoy bobbing for apples on this day, their birthday. * October 31st. * 3: This wife of Steve Allen could celebrate her Sept. 27 birthday with Shaun Cassidy and Meat Loaf. * Jayne Meadows. * 4: Heather Thomas, Jonathan Taylor Thomas and this Thomas who starred in'"E.T." were all born Sept. 8. * Henry Thomas. * 5: He could sing his Oscar-winning song "I'm Easy" to Mel Tillis and Connie Stevens on Aug. 8, their mutual birthday. * Keith Carradine.

Round 4. Category: ends in "ough" * 1: When it breaks, the cradle will fall. * the bough. * 2: A goon, a bruiser, a heavy, or a thug. * a tough. * 3: It's similar to batter, but it's too stiff to pour. * dough. * 4: To truly eat like a pig, put your food in one of these. * a trough. * 5: It's a political division of New York City; Queens is one. * a borough.

Round 5. Category: take in order * 1: Rough questioning. * the third degree. * 2: The Drifters sang about being on a blanket with their baby, down by the sea, in their hit song "Under" this. * "The Boardwalk". * 3: Egypt's hawk-headed sun god. * Ra. * 4: The Black Sea bass is a popular catch among fishermen off this Palmetto State. * South Carolina. * 5: In 1931 a federal jury convicted Al Capone, not of murder, mind you, but of evading this 2-word levy. * income tax.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 862, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: historic historians * 1: 2nd century B.C. historian Ssu-Ma Ch'ien put together the first comprehensive history of this country. * China. * 2: Christian Lange edited "Diplomatarium Norvegicum", a valuable source on this, his native land. * Norway. * 3: William Prescott's 2 big tales of the Conquistadors were about "The Conquest of Peru" and "The Conquest of" this country. * Mexico. * 4: This venerable saint's eccesiastical history of England goes up to 731; he died in 735. * the Venerable Bede. * 5: 6th century Roman historian Flavius Cassiodorus did a history of this group that split into Visi- and Ostro- halves. * the Goths.

Round 2. Category: who was the prez when... * 1: ...the Berlin airlift resupplied a Soviet-blocked West Berlin. * Harry Truman. * 2: ...the Beatles appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show". * Lyndon Johnson. * 3: ...Three Mile Island's nuclear reactor No. 2 went kerflooey. * Jimmy Carter. * 4: ...Neil and Buzz strolled across the Sea of Tranquility. * Richard Nixon. * 5: ...the War of 1812 was fought in the U.S.. * James Madison.

Round 3. Category: trail mix * 1: Popular with cyclists, the 18.5-mile Mount Vernon trail follows this river's shoreline. * the Potomac. * 2: Pompeys Pillar, a famous rock formation in Montana, lies along the trail named for this pair. * Lewis and Clark. * 3: Popular with backpackers, the Mantario Trail is located mostly in this Canadian province that borders Ontario. * Manitoba. * 4: You can still see wheel ruts along this 2,000-mile-long route used by pioneers heading west to the Willamette Valley. * the Oregon Trail. * 5: The complex of roads known as this Communist leader's trail was a major supply route for North Vietnam. * the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Round 4. Category: films of the '50s * 1: In 1958 he starred as a middle-aged Andy Hardy in "Andy Hardy Comes Home". * Mickey Rooney. * 2: "Cattle Queen of Montana" in 1954, she went on to run a ranch on "The Big Valley". * Barbara Stanwyck. * 3: He played Brick to ELizabeth Taylor's Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". * Paul Newman. * 4: Clare Boothe Luce protested the 1955 Venice showing of this Glenn Ford-Sidney Poitier high school film. * Blackboard Jungle. * 5: In this 1956 sci-fi classic, Leslie Nielsen found himself on Altair-4 with Anne Francis and Robby the Robot. * Forbidden Planet.

Round 5. Category: the desperate housewife who... * 1: ...got an Oscar nomination in 2006. * Felicity Huffman. * 2: ...showered a little too much affection on Terrell Owens on "Monday Night Football". * Nicollette Sheridan. * 3: ...appeared on the cover of the April 2006 Vanity Fair. * Teri Hatcher. * 4: ...literally blew up "Melrose Place" as Dr. Kimberly Shaw. * Marcia Cross. * 5: ...has a B.S. in kinesiology and was No. 1 on Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100" list. * Eva Longoria.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 861, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: colonial america * 1: A 1561 hurricane destroyed the Spanish settlement at what is now Pensacola in this state. * Florida. * 2: David Rittenhouse invented a device in 1767 showing the positions of several of these in the solar system. * planets. * 3: This style of architecture named for England's first 4 Hanoverian kings was quite popular. * Georgian. * 4: In May 1732 he founded the Philadelphische Zeitung, the first foreign-language newspaper in the English colonies. * Benjamin Franklin. * 5: In 1765 the Colonists burned Cadwallader Colden in effigy because he tried to administer and enforce this "act". * the Stamp Act.

Round 2. Category: fun with colors * 1: Possibly from the Latin for "sky", cerulean is a shade of this color. * blue. * 2: It can also mean a place that's extremely putt upon. * a green. * 3: The Cincinnati Bengals have used black, white and this as their team colors since 1968. * orange. * 4: A great horned owl has large eyes with irises of this color, which helps amplify incoming light. * yellow. * 5: Now illegal, this "contract" stipulates that a worker will not join a union during his course of employment. * "yellow dog" contract.

Round 3. 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 York Sun on this CBS sitcom. * Ink. * 4: It's the literary cafe where Joe Farrell, Audrey Penney and Ellen Morgan worked. * Buy the Book. * 5: Captain John Sheridan and ambassadors from all over the galaxy work at this space station. * Babylon 5.

Round 4. Category: by 2000 * 1: Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Nu are 2 of these that are trying to ban alcohol by 2000. * Fraternities. * 2: Computers that recognize 00 as this date have to be fixed by the year 2000. * 1900. * 3: British musicologist Jonathan Del Mar hopes to have fully restored this composer's 9 symphonies. * Ludwig van Beethoven. * 4: Ukraine has promised to close this nuclear plant by 2000. * Chernobyl. * 5: A 500-foot-tall one of these fair attractions is planned to be built across the Thames from Parliament. * Ferris wheel.

Round 5. Category: last name's the same * 1: Kurt,Rosalind,Nipsey. * Russell. * 2: Brenda,Michele,Spike. * Lee. * 3: Rapper Kanye and "Miss Lonelyhearts" writer Nathanael. * West. * 4: Vanessa,Treat,Anson. * Williams. * 5: Roy, Dick, Petula. * Clark.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 860, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: corporal punishment * 1: In 1994 Singapore's punishment for vandalism by U.S. citizen Michael Fay was flogging with a rattan one of these. * cane. * 2: This instrument of torture, a wooden frame with moveable bars, stretches the body until the bones separate. * a rack. * 3: One superstition says that a trinity of trinities would be more efficient, hence the number of lashes on this whip. * a cat-o-nine-tails. * 4: This device doesn't sound as ominous when it's called a thumbkin. * a thumbscrew. * 5: The name of this medieval instrument of torture is a translation of Eiserne Jungfrau. * iron maiden.

Round 2. Category: named for * 1: The company formerly called "Alonzo Richmond, Agents for Onondaga Salt" now bears his name. * Morton. * 2: While Asa Gray was known for his books on botany, Henry Gray was known for his books on this science. * anatomy. * 3: While John Bartlett put his name on a book of quotes, Enoch Bartlett put his name on this. * a pear. * 4: Textile manufacturer whose big donation got the N.Y. Institute of Musical Art named for him. * Augustus Juilliard. * 5: Captain Cook gave this name to a Pacific island group in honor of Earl John Montagu. * the Sandwich Islands.

Round 3. Category: lions, tigers and bears * 1: The 2 you'd find naturally in Siberia. * Bears and tigers. * 2: The website for this spokes-animal includes "Campfire Rules" and "Preventing Wildfires". * Smokey Bear (Smokey the Bear). * 3: This Ivy League university began using a tiger as its mascot in part because its school colors are orange and black. * Princeton. * 4: An early version of this Mississippi author's story "The Bear" was published under the title "Lion". * Faulkner. * 5: The Leone d'oro, or the Golden Lion, is the top prize awarded at this Italian city's film festival, the world's oldest. * Venice.

Round 4. Category: we love the theatre * 1: A '97 musical told the story of a kid who was half-boy and half-one of these bloodsucking flying animals. * bat. * 2: Plays written by teens are featured in HYPE, this "space"y Texas city's Young Playwrights Exchange Festival. * Houston. * 3: Written about teens for a teen audience, "Generation Why?" premiered in Costa Mesa in this West Coast state in 1999. * California. * 4: Son of a gun! Bernadette Peters won her second Tony in 1999, for playing Annie Oakley in this musical revival. * Annie Get Your Gun. * 5: The New York Times called the hero of this Disney musical "a cross between Quasimodo and a buffalo". * Beauty and the Beast.

Round 5. Category: paperback writer * 1: Sales of the paperback of Steinbeck's "East of Eden" skyrocketed when she picked it for her book club. * Oprah Winfrey. * 2: Crush your enemies and name this Robert E. Howard barbarian whose "Collected Adventures" are collected in paperback. * Conan. * 3: His bestselling paperback "The No Spin Zone" chronicles his confrontations with the powerful and the famous. * Bill O'Reilly. * 4: This crime novelist wrote the 1961 paperback Western classic "Hombre". * Elmore Leonard. * 5: This man who's given us "Goosebumps" has sold more than 400 million books. * (R.L.) Stine.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 859, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: it's my party * 1: "Honest Abe" was the first U.S. chief executive from this political party. * Republican Party. * 2: This country's controversial new prime minister Vajpayee is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. * India. * 3: A Conservative Party member in Canada or a loyalist during the American Revolution. * Tory. * 4: Strom Thurmond,1956. * Democrat. * 5: Strom Thurmond,November 1948. * Dixiecrat.

Round 2. Category: adjectives of the young and the restless * 1: "Abby, I hear The Naked Heiress is gonna be on Jeopardy! that's huge!""Mom, please. I am rich and famous." [Sighs]"Honey, don't you think you're being..."...this adjective that means "world-weary" and "cynical"--it doesn't mean "covered in green gemstones". * jaded. * 2: "Please, Lily, understand, everything I did was to keep you and the twins safe.""Cane, you pretended that you were dead and made me think that I was sleeping with a ghost. I ended up in an insane asylum. You're..."...this 10-letter adjective from the Latin for "look down on" (and favored by Daffy Duck on occasion). * despicable. * 3: ...this 3-word type of punishment outlawed by the 8th Amendment. * cruel and unusual. * 4: (Mishael Morgan and Bryton James give the clue as Hilary and Devon from The Young and the Restless.) "Devon, please! You're like a teenage boy, we have the whole night to ourselves""I know, Hilary. I'm sorry. It's just that my passion for you, sometimes it's so overwhelming, so undeniable. It's this adjective, from the Latin for 'devour'". * voracious. * 5: ...this passionate type of love named for the Greek god of love. * erotic.

Round 3. Category: "m"-brace me * 1: Funnel-shaped amplifying device that's an essential cheerleader accessory. * a megaphone. * 2: Where your name is if it's up in lights in front of a theater. * the marquee. * 3: 1 of these equals 39.97 inches. * meter. * 4: From the French, it's a group of wild animals on exhibit. * a menagerie. * 5: This state’s university has its main campus in College Park. * Maryland.

Round 4. Category: marine life * 1: The red algae pepper dulse and landlady's wig are types of this found in the North Atlantic. * seaweed. * 2: The green type of this reptile gained protection in the 20th century because of its popular use in soup. * the turtle. * 3: The last of many books by Jacques Cousteau was titled "The Human, the Orchid, and" this other "O" creature. * octopus. * 4: Term for the individual animals that make up coral; it also has a less benign medical meaning. * a polyp. * 5: Natl. Geographic says without this small shrimplike crustacean, most "life forms in the Antarctic would disappear". * krill.

Round 5. Category: name game * 1: Based on the 1990 census, this color is also the fifth most common last name in the U.S.. * Brown. * 2: Around the time of this war, Kimberley was a popular name for British boys. * the Boer War. * 3: This Russian form of George was in the headlines in 1961. * Yuri (as in Yuri Gagarin). * 4: The name of this villain in "Othello" is a Spanish version of James. * Iago. * 5: This presidential first name was originally used as a given name to honor Protestant reformer John. * Calvin.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 858, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the american west * 1: San Geronimo de Taos, an ancient Pueblo Indian village, lies north of the town of Taos in this state. * New Mexico. * 2: Part of the world's largest stand of Ponderosa pines is in Prescott National Forest in this state. * Arizona. * 3: If you have a "grain" of sense, you'll know the Navajo are noted for this art also known as dry painting. * sand painting. * 4: Utah was once known as the state of Deseret, a name that came from this book. * Book of Mormon. * 5: This Texas city of 935,000 is named for a saint of Padua. * San Antonio.

Round 2. Category: the big cats * 1: Of the order "Carnivora", it's presently the largest African carnivore. * lion. * 2: These, not khaki fatigues, provide the leopard camouflage. * spots. * 3: This New World big cat, Panthera onca, swims and climbs well but usually stalks prey on the ground. * jaguar. * 4: After a kill, this central organ is generally the only one a tiger will not eat. * the stomach. * 5: Unlike most big cats, this, also known as the hunting leopard, is active during the day. * cheetah.

Round 3. Category: "sour" * 1: An old prospector in Alaska or what he made his bread from. * sourdough. * 2: Concluding he couldn't get them, Aesop's fox disparaged what he originally wanted, calling them this. * sour grapes. * 3: A morose man or a fermented feline. * sourpuss. * 4: Grain beaten to a pulp to make bourbon scalded with fresh hot "slop" left over from previous distillation. * sour mash. * 5: Candy the British sometimes call acid drops. * sour balls.

Round 4. Category: broadway lyrics * 1: The song from "Fiddler on the Roof" that asks, "Is this the little girl I carried?". * Sunrise, Sunset. * 2: This song from "Fiddler on the Roof" begins, "Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play?". * "Sunrise, Sunset". * 3: "You make me smile with my heart, your looks are laughable, unphotographable". * "My Funny Valentine". * 4: In "A Chorus Line", Cassie sings "All I ever needed was the music and" this. * the mirror. * 5: "Isn't it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground, you in mid-air". Do this. * send in the clowns.

Round 5. Category: home improvement * 1: After tiling a floor, let the adhesive set before applying this between the tiles. * grout. * 2: When "hanging" this, be sure to draw a chalk plumb line so that the rolls align properly. * wallpaper. * 3: This type of paint whose resin was once rubber-based is the top choice for most home paint jobs. * latex. * 4: To prevent drafts around a door frame, install this; spring metal and rolled felt are popular types. * weather stripping. * 5: Tools needed to lay this include a knee kicker, power stretcher and trimmer. * rug (or carpeting).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 857, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: universal studios florida * 1: You'll find Universal Studios Florida in this city, not too far from Disney World. * Orlando. * 2: Watch out for the green slime geyser when you visit this "Nick at Nite" network's studio on the lot. * Nickelodeon. * 3: You'll careen through time and space on the thrill ride based on this trilogy of Michael J. Fox films. * Back to the Future. * 4: 4 stories tall, this ape, star of his own ride, is the largest computer-animated figure ever built. * King Kong. * 5: The ride based on this 1975 film starts out as peaceful tour of Amity Harbor but something is "fishy". * Jaws.

Round 2. Category: u.s place names * 1: Anne Arundel County in this state is named for the wife of the second Lord Baltimore. * Maryland. * 2: A city near L.A. is named for this novelist from New England; wonder how many "scarlet" women live there. * (Nathaniel) Hawthorne. * 3: This New Mexico city was named for a railroad paymaster, not for a pollster. * Gallup. * 4: Motley County in this state wasn't named for Motley Crue but for a man wounded in the Battle of San Jacinto. * Texas. * 5: A dozen U.S. counties are named for this 19th century politician, a "Little Giant" indeed. * (Stephen) Douglas.

Round 3. Category: bio hazard * 1: Roy Jenkins, a leader in the UK's Labour Party, wrote a bio of this great wartime Conservative leader. * Churchill. * 2: Ibn Ishaq scored in the 8th century with his biography of this Muslim leader. * Mohammed. * 3: 1922:"Seven Pillars of Wisdom". * T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia). * 4: 1991:"Lady Day". * Billie Holiday. * 5: 1975:"Why Not the Best?". * Jimmy Carter.

Round 4. Category: "o" no! * 1: These bivalves breed in beds. * oysters. * 2: The word that opens the Lord's Prayer. * our. * 3: The Greek word for "bird" gave us this word for the study of birds. * ornithology. * 4: A hospital attendant, even if he's not tidy. * an orderly. * 5: Founded in 1878, Lady Margaret Hall is this European university's oldest women's college. * Oxford.

Round 5. Category: bo, moe or po * 1: She had a sheep location problem. * Little Bo Peep. * 2: "Kid Gorgeous", "Kid Presentable", "Kid Gruesome" and finally "Kid" this were boxing nicknames of this "Simpsons" barkeep. * Moe (Szyslak). * 3: Italy's longest river. * Po. * 4: First name of the leader of a film trio of "Knuckleheads". * Moe (Howard of the Three Stooges). * 5: John Schneider first played this "Good Ol' Boy" in 1979. * Bo Duke.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 856, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: places for animals * 1: It can precede "anemone" or "cow". * sea. * 2: This leopard lives at nearly 20,000 feet in Central Asia. * a snow leopard. * 3: Over 1,500 species of worm are named for this habitat. * the earth. * 4: Grassy field that joins with "lark". * meadow. * 5: This word refers to extreme opposites or a type of bear. * polar.

Round 2. Category: russian heads of state * 1: 1985-1991. * Mikhail Gorbachev. * 2: 1894-1917. * Czar Nicholas II. * 3: 1917-1924. * Vladimir Lenin. * 4: 1958-1964. * Nikita Khrushchev. * 5: 1547-1584. * Ivan the Terrible.

Round 3. Category: eagle hodgepodge * 1: In 1782 the U.S. chose this eagle as its national bird. * Bald eagle. * 2: Young eagles are called eyases or these. * Eaglets. * 3: It's a synonym for sprawl. * Spreadeagle. * 4: The chapters of the Fraternal Order of Eagles are called these after the nests of eagles. * Aeries. * 5: Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards won the hearts of Englanders in 1988 competing in this Olympic event. * Ski jumping.

Round 4. Category: tv workplaces * 1: Vought International employs this show's ethically challenged superheroes. * The Boys. * 2: "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". * a (TV) newsroom. * 3: This drama was set at the firm of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak. * L.A. Law. * 4: "Alice" and her fellow waitresses worked at this eatery. * Mel's Diner. * 5: On this show, Mae Whitman works at Fine and Frugal, but helps rob it. * Good Girls.

Round 5. Category: magic * 1: In 2008 2 Italian magicians pulled 300 of these out of a hat. * rabbits. * 2: In the 1930s Harry Blackstone "improved" this trick by using a buzz saw. * cutting a lady in half. * 3: Sometimes heard in magical chants, this rhyming term now refers to deception or trickery of any kind. * hocus-pocus. * 4: "Magic Man" and "Street Magic" are TV specials featuring this young trickster. * David Blaine. * 5: Born in New Jersey in 1956, this magician has "A Christmas Carol" in his top 10 books list, not the 1850 book he's named for. * David Copperfield.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 855, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 3-letter abbreviations * 1: Your car's tachometer measures them. * RPM (revolutions per minute). * 2: If you're half an hour away at 2:47, your this is 3:17. * ETA (estimated time of arrival). * 3: This group had a Top 10 hit when it joined Olivia Newton-John for "Xanadu". * ELO (Electric Light Orchestra). * 4: Classic radio and TV messages of this type include "Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk". * PSA (Public Service Announcement). * 5: On June 24, 1996 it reintroduced the "Bucket" that's made many families' mouths water. * KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken).

Round 2. Category: college nicknames * 1: Longhorns. * Texas. * 2: Wolverines. * Michigan. * 3: Crimson Tide. * Alabama. * 4: Jayhawks. * Kansas. * 5: Ducks. * Oregon.

Round 3. Category: caribbean cuisine * 1: Grenadans love to eat ice cream made from this main guacamole ingredient. * Avocado. * 2: Puerto Ricans make mofongo by frying and mashing these "cooking bananas". * Plantains. * 3: In the Dominican Republic, la bandera ("the flag") is made with red beans, meat and this white grain. * Rice. * 4: In Haiti, lambi is this big spiral-shelled sea snail (If I eat it, can I hear the ocean?). * Conch. * 5: In Barbados, you'll go cuckoo for cou-coo, a mix of cornmeal and this essential gumbo veggie. * okra.

Round 4. Category: ye gods! * 1: Famous for enticing Amaterasu out of hiding, Uzume is a goddess of mirth and dancing from this Asian country. * Japan. * 2: 2 giants, Otus and Ephialties, once kept this Greek war god in a bronze jar for 13 months. * Ares. * 3: Depicted as both a cobra and a lioness, the goddess Wadjet protected royal authority in this ancient land. * Egypt. * 4: Invoked by seal hunters, Nerrivik is the mother of all sea creatures as a goddess of this North American people. * the Inuit. * 5: The forger of Achilles' armor, some accounts say this Greek god also created Pandora. * Hephaestus.

Round 5. Category: filthy rich * 1: In April 1999 his net worth hit $100 billion. * Bill Gates. * 2: Worth over $15 billion, Robson, son of Sam, runs this company, the USA's largest private employer. * Wal-Mart. * 3: The Sultan of Brunei has air-conditioned stables housing his 200 animals for this sport. * Polo. * 4: With $50,000 of his $30 or so billion, Paul Allen bought a guitar this "Purple Haze" star had shattered. * Jimi Hendrix. * 5: "Direct From" the Times of London is a quote calling him "The Avon Lady of the Microchip". * Michael Dell.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 854, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: chicken 〠la king shopping list * 1: You may want chicken described with these 2 words, meaning the bird lived relatively unconfined. * free range. * 2: This fortified wine you'll cook with is in a separate section from other Spanish wines. * sherry. * 3: Weighty name for a standard ingredient in the sauce. * heavy cream. * 4: For the mushrooms, try this type named for something found on a shirt. * button mushrooms. * 5: To catch the eyes of guests, use these peppers that can be spelled with 1 or 2 I's. * pimentos or pimientos.

Round 2. Category: world skyline tours * 1: This city has been a port since the Roman period. * London. * 2: This city has one of the world's largest single-span bridges across its harbor. * Sydney, Australia. * 3: This city was nearly destroyed twice in the 20th century by an earthquake and then by bombing. * Tokyo. * 4: The first mayor of this city led a rebellion against the Canadian governor after being unseated in Parliament. * Toronto. * 5: This South American city's name comes from early explorers who thought the bay was a river. * Rio de Janeiro.

Round 3. Category: "junior" collage * 1: Student athletes know it's abbreviated JV. * junior varsity. * 2: James Welch named this popular movie theater candy in 1949. * Junior Mints. * 3: The All Stars backed up this rockin' frontman. * Junior Walker. * 4: It was founded in 1901 in New York City by a debutante wanting to help the less fortunate. * the Junior League. * 5: It was started in 1919 as a collection of small, after-school business clubs in Massachusetts. * Junior Achievement.

Round 4. Category: here's "johnny" * 1: This former nightclub singer is the announcer on "Jeopardy!". * Johnny Gilbert. * 2: One who is on hand and ready to perform a service or respond to an emergency. * "Johnny-On-The-Spot". * 3: Jane Wyman won her only Oscar playing a young deaf-mute girl in this film. * Johnny Belinda. * 4: Because of its rapid rate of growth, the European pansy is also known by this name. * Johnny Jump-Up. * 5: In the '50s he set a high jump record in college and had his 3rd Top 10 hit with the following:"You asked how much I love you...". * Johnny Mathis.

Round 5. Category: freedom fighters * 1: Benito Juarez established land reforms and fought against French rule in this country. * Mexico. * 2: Mario Savio set off the free speech movement when political activities were banned on this U.C. campus in 1964. * U.C. Berkeley. * 3: In 1998 Fred Korematsu was given this highest civilian award for his resistance to being interned during WWII. * Medal of Freedom. * 4: Many consider Justin Dart Jr., who contracted polio as a child, to be the father of this 1990 federal law. * Americans with Disabilities Act. * 5: This NAACP lawyer won a landmark decision in 1946 overturning segregation in interstate transportation. * (Thurgood) Marshall.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 853, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: let's mess with texas * 1: Educated at Phillips Academy, Yale and Harvard, this part-time Crawford resident was born in Connecticut in 1946. * George W. Bush. * 2: Since 1935 this agency that originated in the 1820s has operated as a branch of the Texas Dept. of Public Safety. * the Texas Rangers. * 3: This state bird of Texas belongs to the family Mimidae. * the mockingbird. * 4: From 1846 to 1859 this ex-Tennessee governor was a U.S. senator from Texas. * Sam Houston. * 5: Born in 1921, this Mission, Tex.-born senator served with Jack Kennedy, knew Jack Kennedy and hey! you're not Jack Kennedy!. * Lloyd Bentsen.

Round 2. Category: breaking up * 1: The Doors recorded for 2 years after the death of this lead singer before calling it quits. * Jim Morrison. * 2: This duo fell apart after Annie Lennox went on sabbatical. * Eurythmics. * 3: This "Heart of Glass" group fronted by Debbie Harry shattered in 1982. * Blondie. * 4: The death of lead singer Kurt Cobain put an end to this band in 1994. * Nirvana. * 5: This "amphibious" Santa Barbara band that sang "All I Want" and "Walk On The Ocean" croaked in 1998. * Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Round 3. Category: blue and the gray * 1: Daniel Hough, the Civil War's first fatality, died not in battle but in an accident at this fort. * Fort Sumter. * 2: The siege of Vicksburg in 1863 gave the Union control of this river. * Mississippi River. * 3: Less than a month after graduating last in his class from West Point, he made his first stand at Bull Run. * George Custer. * 4: Though relieved as Union Army chief in March 1862, he continued to lead the Army of the Potomac until November. * George McClellan. * 5: Robert E. Lee lost nearly a quarter of his troops in this bloody Maryland battle of 1862. * Antietam (or Sharpsburg).

Round 4. Category: maltin on the movies * 1: (Leonard Maltin starts things off.) I once wrote that only a real-life Grumpy could fail to love this 1937 animated feature. * Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. * 2: Steve Martin's first starring feature, Maltin describes it as "The misadventures of a terminally stupid man". * The Jerk. * 3: (Leonard Maltin continues.) I've called this 1941 classic "A stunning film in every way" and Orson Welles was only 25 years old when he made it!. * Citizen Kane. * 4: Maltin tells us this 1951 classic was "gorgeously filmed on location in the Belgian Congo". * The African Queen. * 5: (Leonard Maltin wraps up the category for us.) What Hitchcock did with this 1960 film was brilliant. Imagine, killing off your major star in the first portion of the film. * Psycho.

Round 5. Category: in the bible * 1: Jesus cleansed the temple by casting out all that was sold within and said, "Ye have made it a den of" these. * thieves. * 2: "Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?" he asks in chapter 7 of his book. * Job. * 3: In the Book of Judges, his Nazirite vows brought him great power but his passions brought his downfall. * Samson. * 4: According to Deuteronomy 7:25, neither the silver nor gold of these shall be desired, for they are an abomination. * idols (or graven images). * 5: In I Kings 2, this man sat "upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly". * Solomon.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 852, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: talk show hosts * 1: TV Guide said, with an estimated worth of at least $250 million, she may be the richest woman on TV. * Oprah Winfrey. * 2: He recorded the album "Large and in Charge" as Chunky A, a 300-pound rapper. * Arsenio Hall. * 3: In 1989 this "Can we talk" comedienne took another shot at a talk show. * Joan Rivers. * 4: Before becoming talk show hosts, Pat Sajak and David Letterman did this on local newscasts. * weather. * 5: Kathie Lee Gifford spends her weekday mornings with this man, her co-host. * Regis Philbin.

Round 2. Category: i saw it in vogue * 1: A dermatologist warns beach bunnies that these lose effectiveness in 2-4 hours. * Sunscreens. * 2: Though she's posed in them, Elizabeth Hurley says "I never stand up in" this type of bathing suit. * Bikini. * 3: This "Working Girl" actress is wearing Revlon "Age Defying Makeup" (Psst! She's 41). * Melanie Griffith. * 4: Peter Fogg designed the "Lace Tuck" found on this part of your Nikes. * Tongue. * 5: Vogue's editor was turned off by the reactionary 1998 fall collections in these 2 European cities. * Milan and Paris.

Round 3. Category: martha my dear * 1: Her "Everyday" line is sold at K-Mart. * Martha Stewart. * 2: Her father, Col. John Dandridge, was a wealthy landowner. * Martha Washington. * 3: Backed by the Vandellas, she had hits with "Heat Wave" and "Dancing in the Street". * Martha Reeves. * 4: "The Dirty Duck" and "The Case Has Altered" are mysteries by this woman. * Martha Grimes. * 5: This woman depicted here by Al Hirschfeld "could have danced all night". * Martha Graham.

Round 4. Category: cities of new york * 1: It's "The Capital of the Empire State" and "The Edinburgh of America". * Albany. * 2: It's "The Bison City". * Buffalo. * 3: "The Birthplace of Baseball". * Cooperstown. * 4: "The Honeymoon City". * Niagara Falls. * 5: It's "The Kodak City" and "The Photo Capital of the World". * Rochester.

Round 5. Category: pro stadiums and arenas * 1: Fenway Park. * Boston Red Sox. * 2: Busch Stadium. * St. Louis Cardinals. * 3: Foxboro Stadium. * New England Patriots. * 4: Alamodome. * San Antonio Spurs. * 5: Molson Centre. * Montreal Canadiens.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 851, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: also a bar drink * 1: Flathead or Phillips head. * a screwdriver. * 2: With so much brainpower on stage today, this "Living Dead" movie monster wouldn't know where to start. * a zombie. * 3: It was last call for this Scottish outlaw on Dec. 28, 1734. * Rob Roy. * 4: Take a flying leap and name this type of reconnaissance plane or insect of the family Acrididae. * a grasshopper. * 5: G'day! This wooden weapon can also be a scheme that does injury to its originator. * a boomerang.

Round 2. Category: they all played hamlet * 1: Fans from around the world sped to Winnipeg to see this "Speed" star play Hamlet there in 1995. * Keanu Reeves. * 2: He's only 9 years younger than Glenn Close, but he called her Mom in Zeffirelli's 1990 version. * Mel Gibson. * 3: The role of Obi-Wan Kenobi was light-years away when he played Hamlet at the Old Vic in 1938. * Sir Alec Guinness. * 4: This star of "A Fish Called Wanda" not only starred in but directed a 1990 production of "Hamlet". * Kevin Kline. * 5: He played Hamlet at the New York Shakespeare Festival before he hammed it up as Mike Hammer:. * Stacy Keach.

Round 3. Category: tv bars and restaurants * 1: On this sitcom Duff Beer is on tap at Moe's Tavern where the clientele is always "animated". * "The Simpsons". * 2: Head north, far north, to visit The Brick, this show's restaurant. * "Northern Exposure". * 3: On this sitcom you could have seen Jay Thomas take a few "Potts" shots in the Blue Shamrock. * "Love And War". * 4: On this sitcom you may find the Crane brothers having coffee at Cafe Nervosa. * "Frasier". * 5: The Lunch Box in Lanford, Ill. is one of this sitcom's settings. * "Roseanne".

Round 4. Category: classic movies * 1: It's the first rule of Fight Club. * you do not talk about Fight Club. * 2: Crime film that features Gene Hackman as Buck Barrow. * Bonnie and Clyde. * 3: Charlie Chaplin befriends a millionaire and falls in love with a blind girl in this 1931 film. * City Lights. * 4: Film in which De Niro as Travis Bickle asks, "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?". * Taxi Driver. * 5: In it, reporter Rosalind Russell tells Cary Grant, "I wouldn't cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up". * His Girl Friday.

Round 5. Category: what a year! * 1: Dewaele won the Tour de France, Coco Chanel was the toast of Paris and Sacre Bleu!, the market crashed in this year. * 1929. * 2: The Titanic set off on maiden voyage. * 1912. * 3: In this year, Teddy became president, Eddie became king and Nicky became father of Anastasia. * 1901. * 4: Rosa Parks sat down for freedom. * 1955. * 5: (Hi, I'm Tyler Christopher of General Hospital.) In this year, ABC gave "G.H." a shot on TV, "He's So Fine" shot up to No. 1 and JFK visited the Berlin Wall. * 1963.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 850, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: -ologies * 1: Biology is generally divided into 2 branches: botany and this study of animals. * Zoology. * 2: A high school requirement for many, it's the scientific study of life. * biology. * 3: Buzz in if you know that apiology is the study of these. * bees. * 4: Although it sounds like it deals with oil, it's the study of rocks. * petrology. * 5: A book with a mix of various authors writing on various topics. * an anthology.

Round 2. Category: "r"t * 1: Born in Limoges in 1841, as a child this Impressionist worked in a porcelain factory painting china. * Renoir. * 2: He was the youngest of the 3 creators of the high Renaissance. * Raphael. * 3: Fragonard, painter of "The Swing", is considered one of the greatest artists of this ornate style. * Rococo. * 4: His house in the Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam is now a museum. * Rembrandt. * 5: An adjective meaning "voluptuous" comes from the name of this old master. * Rubens.

Round 3. Category: female athletes * 1: Cammi Granato played 205 games for the U.S. women's team in this sport and has been a rinkside reporter for NBC. * ice hockey. * 2: This track star was nicknamed "Flo-Jo". * Florence Griffith Joyner. * 3: In the 1980s Katarina Witt dominated women's figure skating competing for this country that no longer exists. * East Germany. * 4: This tennis player won women's singles titles at Wimbledon in 2000 and 2001, but lost to her little sister in 2002. * Venus Williams. * 5: On July 30, 2002 Lisa Leslie became the first woman to do this in a pro game. * a slam dunk.

Round 4. Category: leading "roll"s * 1: Some people use spray deodorants, but many conservationists prefer this non-aerosol kind. * roll-on. * 2: If you have lots of dough, you can buy a really nice one of these implements to smooth out your dough. * a rolling pin. * 3: Your supply of ready cash, or what a financial backer does when he provides funding for a film. * bank roll. * 4: Because of its name, we'd expect this hairstyle to be popular in Paris. * French roll. * 5: The kind of sandwich bread that's most appropriate for a German emperor. * Kaiser roll.

Round 5. Category: ballpark figures * 1: In 2004 he published "My Prison Without Bars". * Pete Rose. * 2: With the Yankees from 1923 to 1939, his No. 4 was the first number retired in either league. * Lou Gehrig. * 3: Baseball's "Mr. October", he generated headlines for his cantankerous personality and his athletic prowess. * Reggie Jackson. * 4: Famous nickname of Leon Goslin, who played in all 19 World Series games with the Washington Senators. * "Goose". * 5: Sadly, this lefty pitcher who coined the Mets' battle cry "You gotta believe" died in 2004. * Tug McGraw.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 849, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: what's my line? * 1: Mickey D's doesn't have a maitre d', which is short for this. * maitre d'hotel. * 2: In the Who song "My Generation", this line follows and rhymes with "Things they do look awful cold". * "Hope I die before I get old". * 3: Longfellow called this Italian city a "white phantom city whose untrodden streets are rivers". * Venice. * 4: Nelson Algren advised, "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called" this. * Mom's. * 5: As one of these, The Toledo Blade might feature a banner line. * a newspaper.

Round 2. Category: in a word * 1: It's how you play certain instruments, like a guitar. * strum (in instruments). * 2: In ligament you'll find this slang term for a woman's shapely leg. * a gam (in ligament). * 3: What she felt when she wasn't hired. * ire (in hired). * 4: Hidden in the chandelier is the name of this famous composer. * Handel (in chandelier). * 5: Take your medicine and tell us the name of this once powerful family of Florence, Italy. * Medici (in medicine).

Round 3. Category: the "west" is the best * 1: All Don Knotts' greatness lay ahead of him when he was born July 21, 1924 in Morgantown in this state. * West Virginia. * 2: Jim and Artie's most diabolical for on this TV show was the evil Dr. Loveless, played by Michael Dunn. * Wild Wild West. * 3: It's the southernmost city in the 48 contiguous states. * Key West, Florida. * 4: This large territory would make up the majority of a proposed Palestinian state. * the West Bank. * 5: Paul Baumer is the literary narrator of this classic novel of World War I. * All Quiet on the Western Front.

Round 4. Category: leftovers * 1: His remains lie in the main entrance of the original Smithsonian building. * (James) Smithson. * 2: Andy Warhol said of these, "Plastic's better than dirty, used money". * credit cards. * 3: Though it's usually called "deadly", this solanum plant is eaten as a vegetable in the West Indies. * nightshade. * 4: This has been the official name of the Mounties since 1920. * the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. * 5: In a church or cathedral, it's the main or central hall. * nave.

Round 5. Category: branded * 1: "I Am Stuck On" this brand and it's "Stuck On Me". * Band-Aid. * 2: In the classic ad jingle, these hot dogs are even enjoyed by kids with chickenpox. * Armour hot dogs. * 3: An ex-Dupont chemist from New Hampshire introduced this brand of popular food storage containers in 1946. * Tupperware. * 4: It's the nationality that follows "K" in the name of the sneaker brand founded by the Brunner Brothers. * Swiss. * 5: Toyota dropped this provocative name for its new Celica sports model days after a December 2004 natural disaster. * a Tsunami.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 848, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "hang" time * 1: It's a place to park your airplane. * a hangar. * 2: "Hair of the dog" is taken as a remedy for this. * a hangover. * 3: It's the type of look worn by a browbeaten or defeated person. * hang dog. * 4: To be completely candid in expressing one's feelings, or to live without inhibitions. * let it all hang out ("to hang loose" accepted). * 5: A contest in which the outcome is uncertain until the last moment. * a cliffhanger.

Round 2. Category: washington d.c. * 1: What the "D.C." stands for. * the District of Columbia. * 2: 287 miles long, it flows past Washington and induces "fever" in ambitious politicians. * the Potomac River. * 3: Though this mound rises only 88', it's synonymous with building which stands upon it. * Capitol Hill. * 4: This floral festival takes place in late March or early April, even if the trees aren't in bloom yet. * the Cherry Blossom. * 5: Former Secretary of State for whom Washington, D.C. International Airport is named. * John Foster Dulles.

Round 3. Category: happy new year! * 1: In 1998 November 1 is a Sunday; therefore, this date will be election day for Congress. * November 3 (the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday). * 2: Some believe 1998 signals the end of the world because 1998 is 3 times this number. * 666. * 3: May 14, 1998 marks the 50th anniversary of this nation's independence; Mazel Tov!. * Israel. * 4: This ex-president turns 74 on October 1, 1998. * Jimmy Carter. * 5: 1998 marks the centennial of this U.S. war. * Spanish-American War.

Round 4. Category: key stones * 1: A small round glass toy; don't lose yours!. * marble. * 2: It's also the field of play in baseball. * diamond. * 3: Bamm Bamm's baby babe. * Pebbles. * 4: A Michigan city of 130,000 that you can use to start a fire. * Flint. * 5: A list of political candidates that when swept clean signifies a new beginning. * slate.

Round 5. Category: virginia woolf * 1: Woolf was active in this cause which she wrote "roused in man an extraordinary desire for self-assertion". * women's suffrage. * 2: This gathering of artsy types that flourished between 1907 and 1930 sometimes met at Virginia's house. * the Bloomsbury Group. * 3: A 1931 novel ends with the line: these, also the novel's title, "Broke on the Shore". * Waves. * 4: This event claims the life of the title character of "Jacob's Room", as it did of millions of real-life young men. * World War I. * 5: First name of Virginia's husband; he survived her by 28 years. * Leonard.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 847, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "ling"o * 1: A sister or brother. * a sibling. * 2: If you can "spare" the time, try this, the USA's biggest participatory sport. * bowling. * 3: It can be a small savory lump of dough served in soup, or a baked treat filled with apples. * a dumpling. * 4: I've got a feeling you'll know it's a vague idea or notion. * an inkling. * 5: Fire starter. * kindling.

Round 2. Category: oceans and seas * 1: It's the invisible divider that creates the North Atlantic and the South Atlantic. * the equator. * 2: You cross this sea sailing from Tripoli to Napoli. * the Mediterranean. * 3: Principal ports of this sea include Port Sudan, Suez and Jiddah. * the Red Sea. * 4: Its greatest length, about 930 miles, is between Lubeck, Germany and Haparanda, Sweden. * the Baltic. * 5: The Bay of Bengal lies on the east side of India; this sea lies on the west side. * the Arabian Sea.

Round 3. Category: how about a revival? * 1: "Unchain The Dogs Of War" was a song featured in this March King's operetta "The Bride-Elect". * (John Philip) Sousa. * 2: In a song from 1930's "Simple Simon", it's the title rate of "A Dance". * Ten Cents (A Dance). * 3: The 1910 musical "Hans the Flute Player" was inspired by this legend. * the Pied Piper. * 4: With song like "And So He Died" and "A Cup Of Tea", 1950's "Happy as Larry"starred this man, later a penguin on TV. * Burgess Meredith. * 5: Producer George White's show called these "of 1925" included the song "Beware Of The Girl With A Fan". * The Scandals.

Round 4. Category: clubs * 1: AAA in the states and the R.A.C. in England helped promote safety regarding these, the "a" in the middle of their names. * automobile. * 2: It's the correct term for a member of a Rotary Club. * Rotarian. * 3: Wal-Mart opened the first one in 1983; today there are 47 million U.S. members. * Sam's Club. * 4: Fittingly, this organization was founded in 1892 for outings in "mountain regions of the Pacific coast". * the Sierra Club. * 5: In the early 1930s this Harlem nightclub made Cab Calloway the leader of its house orchestra. * the Cotton Club.

Round 5. Category: i dunno * 1: Alicia Silverstone's 1995 breakthrough film. * "Clueless". * 2: "To draw" this is said to have originally referred to a non-winning lottery ticket. * A blank. * 3: This phrase for a mind with no empirical knowledge is Latin for "scraped tablet". * Tabula rasa. * 4: Shakespeare wrote, "There is no darkness but" this; having it "of the law is no excuse". * Ignorance. * 5: In the Iran-Contra affair, George Bush was "out of" this, like a Chicago suburbanite. * The Loop.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 846, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: '60s british rock * 1: Herman's Hermits hit #1 telling Mrs. Brown she had a lovely one. * a daughter. * 2: Other category on this board which could be a group in this one. * ANIMALS. * 3: Group whose song titles included "Do The Freddie" and album titles, "Frantic Freddie". * Freddie and the Dreamers. * 4: Last names Stuart and Clyde, they were better known by their first. * Chad and Jeremy. * 5: Though they've done 30 albums, their biggest single in the U.S., "Tired Of Waiting For You" only made #6. * the Kinks.

Round 2. Category: in the news * 1: He called Mayor Clint Eastwood to ask "What's an actor who once played with a monkey doing in politics?". * Ronald Reagan. * 2: "The Last Brother", Joe McGinniss' book about this man, caused a controversy. * Ted Kennedy. * 3: This great composer has outlived his U.S. copyright on "Alexander's Ragtime Band". * Irving Berlin. * 4: This U.N. Secretary General negotiated a cease-fire between Iraq and Iran. * Javier Perez de Cuellar. * 5: An oil spill on this Pennsylvania river on Jan. 2, 1980 forced thousands to melt snow for drinking water. * Monongahela.

Round 3. Category: celebrity spouses * 1: Joanne Woodward. * Paul Newman. * 2: Lauren Holly. * Jim Carrey. * 3: Meg Ryan. * Dennis Quaid. * 4: Rita Wilson. * Tom Hanks. * 5: Iman. * David Bowie.

Round 4. Category: words of the '80s * 1: Divorce after which couple continue living together, it's named for an Aborigine's weapon. * a boomerang. * 2: Hip hop includes rapping, bombing--or spray graffiti--and this type of street dancing. * breakdancing. * 3: Street term for smokable cocaine, it describes what it can do to your wallet and your brain. * crack. * 4: It's a set of rules by a company's board of directors to ward off unwanted mergers, not "Jaws". * shark repellent. * 5: MIPS is a computer term meaning "millions of" these "per second". * instructions.

Round 5. Category: describing the sport * 1: Hit tiny spheroid into woods, curse, hit into lake, curse, score round of 120, go to clubhouse for needed beer. * Golf. * 2: Swat at disk of vulcanized rubber, hit twine to score, spend 5 minutes in the box for fighting, feel shame. * Ice hockey. * 3: Take 16-foot-long object, run 150 feet, pray object doesn't snap, utilize object. * pole vaulting. * 4: Bust butt learning the "triple salchow", hope Guam judge doesn't hate your costume and give you a 5. * figure skating. * 5: Go 500 miles but only turn left, score points for Winston Cup, be very prepared to talk about your sponsors. * Auto racing (NASCAR).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 845, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the bee * 1: Bees gather this flower secretion to make honey. * Nectar. * 2: Bees are found on every continent but this one. * Antarctica. * 3: Young bees are fed beebread, made from honey and this plant product. * Pollen. * 4: On their heads bees have 5 of these -- 2 compound and 3 simple. * Eyes. * 5: Karl von Frisch won a Nobel Prize for deciphering the circling and wagging types of this form of bee communication. * Dancing.

Round 2. Category: forestry * 1: It's the term for baby trees used to reforest areas. * seedlings. * 2: This president established the U.S. Forest Service. * Teddy Roosevelt. * 3: In forest management, it's a group of trees of the same age and type; Custer's last one is famous. * a stand. * 4: Fire, mostly man-made, diseases and these destroy as many trees each year as are cut down. * insects. * 5: Brazil is second to this country in total forest area. * the Soviet Union.

Round 3. Category: theatre history * 1: In 1904 Daphne du Maurier's father, Gerald, became the first actor to play this villain in "Peter Pan". * Captain Hook. * 2: Pisistratus established a tragedy contest as part of this city's Great Dionysia Festival around 534 B.C.. * Athens. * 3: Victorien Sardou wrote the 1882 play "Fedora" for this great French actress who triumphed in it. * Bernhardt. * 4: In the 1640s these supporters of Oliver Cromwell closed all the theatres in London. * the Roundheads (Puritans). * 5: London's Royal Coburg Theatre was renamed the Royal Victoria and affectionately nicknamed this. * the Old Vic.

Round 4. Category: cuba * 1: In the news in 1961, this bay in the Cuban province of Las Villas is also called Bahia de los Cochinos. * Bay of Pigs. * 2: This Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning novelist's home in pre-Castro Cuba was called "Finca Vigia". * Ernest Hemingway. * 3: Cuba's first big screen role was in this 1988 film starring Eddie Murphy as a transplanted African prince. * Coming to America. * 4: In 1997 this magazine chose Cuba as one of its "50 Most Beautiful". * People. * 5: In a 1995 TV movie Cuba soared with this first squadron of black combat pilots. * the Tuskegee Airmen.

Round 5. Category: entertaining canadians * 1: Last name of Canadian-born actress Meg, Jennifer's sister. * Tilly. * 2: Most know William Shatner is Canadian, but so is James Doohan, who played this "Star Trek" engineer. * Scotty. * 3: Joshua Jackson, a star of this Massachusetts-set WB series, is a Vancouver native. * Dawson's Creek. * 4: On screen he's been Studio 54 founder Steve Rubell and would-be world dominator Dr. Evil. * Mike Myers. * 5: It's no longer news that this current "60 Minutes" correspondent hails from north of the border. * Morley Safer.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 844, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: ecology * 1: CFCs, believed to damage the ozone layer, are commonly used in this kitchen appliance. * Refrigerator. * 2: Of insectivores, herbivores or carnivores, the group whose food source is most likely to live to be fed on again. * herbivores. * 3: The Environmental Defense Fund has proposed new forests be planted to absorb this gas. * Carbon dioxide. * 4: In a parasitic relationship, this organism doesn't put out chips and soda; it provides nourishment unwillingly. * a host. * 5: Fallen branches from these trees are key to nourishing marine ecosystems. * mangroves.

Round 2. Category: "down" * 1: This narrow London street runs from Whitehall to St. James Park. * Downing Street. * 2: A sensible, practical person is said to be this. * down-to-earth. * 3: According to the title of a 1986 film, Nick Nolte was this "in Beverly Hills". * Down and Out. * 4: A transmission path for data from a communications satellite to an Earth station. * a downlink. * 5: This Chicago-based music magazine was founded in 1934. * Downbeat.

Round 3. Category: wales * 1: Caernarvon Castle was the site of his 1969 investiture as Prince of Wales. * Prince Charles. * 2: The Welsh flag features this red beast with a forked tongue and tail. * a dragon. * 3: Despite a decline in production, it remains Wales' most important mineral resource. * coal. * 4: In Laugharne you can visit the grave of this famous poet, as well as his home, the "Boathouse". * Dylan Thomas. * 5: This largest city of Wales grew up around a Norman fortress. * Cardiff.

Round 4. Category: toys and games * 1: How you pay for your "stamps" in the game of post office. * kisses. * 2: Ruth Handler named this doll, introduced in 1959 as a teenage fashion model, for her daughter. * Barbie. * 3: This letter has the most tiles in Scrabble—12. * E. * 4: Liquid plastic used to make "Creepy Crawlers" in the 1960s. * Plasti-Goop. * 5: Alfred M. Butts called his game "Criss Cross", but it was redesigned in 1948 and sold under this name. * Scrabble.

Round 5. Category: salad days * 1: Salad nicoise contains the ripe, black Nice type of these. * olives. * 2: The German type of this salad is served hot and has bacon in its dressing. * potato salad. * 3: A traditional Waldorf salad contains cubes of this fruit. * apples. * 4: A Waldorf salad usually contains this type of nut. * walnut. * 5: This "Belgian" salad ingredient is also called witloof, meaning "white leaf". * endive.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 843, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: from here to maternity * 1: This French doctor called his childbirth preparation method psychoprophylaxis: mental prevention. * Fernand Lamaze. * 2: Doctors can assess an unborn baby's health by testing this fluid that surrounds the fetus. * amniotic fluid. * 3: Usually 16 to 24 inches long, this ropelike structure consists of 2 arteries and a vein surrounded by Wharton's jelly. * umbilical cord. * 4: This kind of scanning is often performed about 16 to 18 weeks into pregnancy. * ultrasound. * 5: A newborn given a 1-minute score of 7-10 on this scale is in excellent condition. * Apgar scale.

Round 2. Category: money songs * 1: "Every time it rains, it rains" these. * "Pennies From Heaven". * 2: What Teresa Brewer asked someone to do when she wanted "Music! Music! Music!". * put another nickel in, in the nickelodeon. * 3: Reason The Beatles said, "I don't care too much for money". * money can't buy me love. * 4: This Glen Campbell character had $1.00 and a subway token tucked in his shoe. * the "Rhinestone Cowboy". * 5: Lefty Frizzell said, "We'll go honky tonkin"', but only under these terms. * if you've got the money, honey, I've got the time.

Round 3. Category: hop, skip or jump * 1: The "ball" that starts a basketball game. * jump. * 2: To not attend an event on purpose. * skip. * 3: To start your friend's dead car. * jump. * 4: Flowers from this vine are used to make beer. * hops. * 5: The captain of a curling team. * the skip.

Round 4. Category: women * 1: For axing her stepdaughter, in 1899 Martha Place was 1st woman in U.S. executed in one of these. * an electric chair. * 2: On May 16, 1975 Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach its peak. * Mount Everest. * 3: Cindy Crawford is one of "The Most Unforgettable Women in the World" who wear this makeup brand. * Revlon. * 4: In 1940 Ida Fuller received the first government check in this program. * Social Security. * 5: Helen Gurley Brown has been the editor of this magazine since 1965. * Cosmopolitan.

Round 5. Category: mind your manners * 1: In this sport it's a common courtesy to replace the divots you create. * golf. * 2: If a birthday child acknowledges the giver of a gift at the time he opens it, there's no need to send this. * thank you note. * 3: "Etiquette for Dummies" says an index finger flat and firm against your upper lip may forestall one of these. * a sneeze. * 4: At a formal dinner, don't sit until the host, hostess or this person does. * the guest of honor. * 5: Acceptable "finger foods" include bacon, but only if it's crisp, and spears of this vegetable. * asparagus.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 842, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: i was a teenage... * 1: In 1979 at the age of 18, this "Great One" began playing in the NHL. * Wayne Gretzky. * 2: As a teenager and president-yet-to-be this man met JFK in 1963. * Bill Clinton. * 3: In his late teens, this "Top Gun" star played a loony military cadet in "Taps". * Tom Cruise. * 4: This unfortunate "Lady" was only 15 years old when she began her 9-day reign over England in 1553. * Lady Jane Grey. * 5: As a teenager, this current British PM shone as an actor and an athlete at Fettes College in Scotland. * Tony Blair.

Round 2. Category: tough geography * 1: Bangkok is the leading port on this gulf, an inlet of the South China Sea. * Gulf of Thailand. * 2: This European country's most populous province is Katowice in the south. * Poland. * 3: This south Pacific nation has over 800 islands and islets, but Viti Levu and Vanua Levu provide more than 85% of its area. * Fiji. * 4: It precedes "kush", which means "killer", in the name of a central Asian mountain range. * Hindu. * 5: This area that was created in 1960 and has oil companies licking their chops is dominated by the Brooks Range. * ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge).

Round 3. Category: in the backyard * 1: One of these devices stocked with thistle seeds may attract goldfinches. * a birdfeeder. * 2: It's a good idea to regularly test the pH and chlorine levels of the water in one of these. * a swimming pool. * 3: Children help spread this common lawn weed when they blow off its white, puffy seeds. * dandelion. * 4: A craze in the '50s, these bunkers were built in case of nuclear war. * fallout shelters. * 5: This game played across a net became a medal sport at the 1992 Olympics. * badminton.

Round 4. Category: balloons * 1: Propane-fueled burners provide this to lift balloons; politicians make their own. * Hot air. * 2: In 1984 Joe Kittinger in Rosie O' Grady's matched this Lindbergh feat in the Spirit of St. Louis. * Crossing the Atlantic, non-stop and solo. * 3: In 1783 Jacques Charles took flight No. 1 of a balloon filled with this gas, atomic No. 1. * Hydrogen. * 4: In one type of race the hare takes off first and is "dogged" by competing balloons called these. * Hounds. * 5: The basket a balloon carries and its contents are called this, like a rocket's cargo. * Payload.

Round 5. Category: things to do with carrots * 1: Have your mom cut your carrots into these for your lunchbox and you can play a "pick up" game with them. * sticks. * 2: A man named Mel Blanc crunched carrots while providing the voice of this carrot-loving rabbit. * Bugs Bunny. * 3: In February 1999 people in Bethel, Maine made one 113 feet tall with an 8-foot-long "carrot" nose. * a snowman. * 4: This popular dessert is usually topped with a cream cheese frosting. * carrot cake. * 5: Carrots go into one version of this side dish, shredded cabbage and a mayonnaise-based sauce. * cole slaw.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 841, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: club me * 1: To join England's venerable Carlton Club, Margaret Thatcher had to be made an honorary one of these. * a man. * 2: For many years, Henny Youngman received much of his fan mail at this comedy "club" found on NYC's East 55th Street. * the Friar's Club. * 3: It's the "happy" name for a group of college singers who perform short pieces of choral music. * a glee club. * 4: The Baum Bugle is the newsletter of the international club for fans of this tale. * The Wizard of Oz. * 5: Founded in 1795, this Harvard club is famed for its theatricals. * the Hasty Pudding Club.

Round 2. Category: jeopardy! place * 1: Teri, still on the run with Emily's baby, crossed the border into this country which elected Vicente Fox in 2000. * Mexico. * 2: Trent tells Drake he came to find his father and that he has a twin he never met (of this type, not identical). * Fraternal. * 3: Drake, walking through a field to Emily's, jumps to avoid a sidewinder, one of these, falls and cuts his head. * a rattlesnake. * 4: Teri, in Mexico with Emily's baby, hears on a gossip report Trent was at this TV "Friend"'s wedding July 29, 2000. * Jennifer Aniston. * 5: Spotting Misou, Teri grabbed the baby and hit the road in her Lincoln LS, this magazine's 2000 Car of the Year. * Motor Trend.

Round 3. Category: phonies * 1: This reclusive "2001" director has been successfully impersonated by a man who looks nothing like him. * Stanley Kubrick. * 2: "Girl You Know It's True" was the ironic title of a hit by this fraudulent duo. * Milli Vanilli. * 3: "The Education of" this Cherokee, billed as autobiography, was written by a white segregationist. * Little Tree. * 4: A medical syndrome is named for this baron famous for tall tales about his exploits. * Baron von Munchausen. * 5: Forger Hans Van Meegeren tried to increase the small number of works by this Dutch master, who died in 1675. * Jan Vermeer.

Round 4. Category: 20th century people * 1: He was born in Germany, worked in a shaving brush factory, was U.S. Secretary of State and got an hon. knighthood in 1995. * Henry Kissinger. * 2: This humorist and vaudevillian was fond of saying, "All I know is just what I read in the papers". * Will Rogers. * 3: In 1991 this founder of the Bolshevik Party had his name stripped from a city. * V.I. Lenin. * 4: This lover of Lillian Hellman is credited with creating the hard-boiled type of detective fiction. * Dashiell Hammett. * 5: This sister who inspired Eunice Shriver to found the Special Olympics died in 2005 at the age of 86. * Rosemary Kennedy.

Round 5. Category: ends with "ist" * 1: At the grocery store, one of these can help you remember what to buy. * (shopping) List. * 2: It connects the hand and the forearm. * Wrist. * 3: It's like fog but doesn't reduce visibility as much. * Mist. * 4: It's a person who travels for fun. * Tourist. * 5: Performer who can put you in a trancelike state that leaves you open to suggestion. * Hypnotist.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 840, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: i shot the sharif * 1: David Lean gave Omar Sharif a big-screen break when he shot this epic starring Peter O'Toole. * Lawrence of Arabia. * 2: Omar made a Russian house call in this classic shot by David Lean. * Doctor Zhivago. * 3: Director Richard Fleischer shot Omar getting shot as "Che!", with Jack Palance as this Cuban leader. * Fidel Castro. * 4: Sharif played Fanny Brice's husband Nicky Arnstein in this William Wyler-directed film. * Funny Girl. * 5: Omar makes a cameo in "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", shot by this man, Julie Andrews' husband. * Blake Edwards.

Round 2. Category: movie debuts * 1: "A Nightmare on Elm Street" introduced him on film before he jumped to "21 Jump Street" on TV. * Johnny Depp. * 2: She danced in the chorus of the film "Li'l Abner" long before she starred as TV's "Rhoda". * Valerie Harper. * 3: This Belgian first flexed his movie muscles in "Missing in Action" with Chuck Norris. * Jean-Claude Van Damme. * 4: At 13 this actress with a weekday in her name starred in the 1956 classic "Rock, Rock, Rock!". * Tuesday Weld. * 5: This young director made his feature film debut as an actor in his own movie "Reservoir Dogs". * Quentin Tarantino.

Round 3. Category: geographic phrases * 1: Its board is a 6-pointed star, on which each player starts with 10 marbles. * Chinese checkers. * 2: This breed is a popular hunting and show dog. * Irish setter. * 3: Beatles song that includes the line "And when I awoke I was alone, this bird had flown". * Norwegian Wood. * 4: In Chrysler ads, Ricardo Montalban extolled this rich upholstery material. * "Rich Corinthian Leather". * 5: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Janet Leigh) I romanced Frank Sinatra in this 1962 film about brainwashing, Communism and assassination". * The Manchurian Candidate.

Round 4. Category: famous napoleons * 1: Though he set it in 1901, Napoleon Lajoie still holds a Major League record in this sport. * baseball. * 2: A villain killed in Ian Fleming's "Goldfinger" shared this name with U.N.C.L.E.'s heroic Agent 11. * Napoleon Solo. * 3: The Napoleon who ended up taking power on Orwell's "Animal Farm" was this. * a pig. * 4: Napoleon gradually seizes power in this George Orwell story. * Animal Farm. * 5: In 1804, this man crowned Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of the French. * Napoleon Bonaparte.

Round 5. Category: weather * 1: If you walk on grass in early morning, you might step on these tiny waterdrops condensed from the air. * Dew. * 2: A listless depression, such as sailors feel in tropical areas of little or no wind. * the doldrums. * 3: This Italian's invention of the wind vane about 1500 changed the direction of forecasting. * Leonardo da Vinci. * 4: Trade winds blow from both the northeast and southeast toward this line. * the equator. * 5: North Central China has a climate like Kansas and also gets these choking "storms" in spring. * dust storms.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 839, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: blue jeans * 1: His first "jeans" made in 1853, were neither blue nor denim, but brown and canvas. * Levi Strauss. * 2: On the back of his 1984 album cover, he's wearing blue jeans with a red baseball cap in the right rear pocket. * Bruce Springsteen. * 3: A huge billboard in Italy parodied this artist's work with God offering a naked Adam a pair of jeans. * Michelangelo. * 4: Take a stab at the name of these blue jeans whose label is punctuated with a question mark. * Guess. * 5: Like 501s, this 1979 Top 20 hit is considered a classic: "Money talks / But it don't sing and dance and it don't walk / And long as I can have you here with me / I much rather be..."[The song was not played going into the break.]. * "Forever In Blue Jeans".

Round 2. Category: for good measure * 1: 640 acres equal a square this. * a mile. * 2: This metric unit of liquid measure is equal to approximately 1.057 quarts. * a liter. * 3: 1,728 cubic inches is equal to one of these. * a cubic foot. * 4: 33.8 fluid ounces equal one of these. * a liter. * 5: One of these "porcine" measures is equal to 63 gallons of liquid. * a hogshead.

Round 3. Category: gone tomorrow? * 1: The Oahu tree one of these gastropods is quickly, not slowly, disappearing. * a snail. * 2: The Hine's emerald species of this insect has a wingspan that can reach about 3.5 inches. * a dragonfly. * 3: The endangerment of the New Mexico ridge-nosed species of this snake was caused in part by collectors. * a rattlesnake. * 4: Picoides borealis is the red-cockaded species of this bird, still on the endangered list in 2004. * the woodpecker. * 5: Among the colorful mammals on the endangered list are the gray and the red ones of these predators. * a wolf.

Round 4. Category: spot the kitty * 1: The Wight,the Jersey,the Manx. * the Manx. * 2: The Iranian,the Persian,the Zoroastrian. * Persian. * 3: The Tonkinese,the Tajikistani,the Texarkanese. * the Tonkinese. * 4: The Delhi,the Bombay,the Madras. * the Bombay. * 5: The Himalayan,the Caucasian,the Uralian. * Himalayan.

Round 5. Category: pies * 1: Though a pie is served from its baking dish, this tiny cousin is removed from its dish. * tart. * 2: Shepherd's pie is actually an entree originally made with this meat. * lamb. * 3: If you want your pie crust to be flaky, choose this ingredient carefully. * shortening. * 4: This type of pie, like chocolate, can simply be pudding in a pie shell. * custard (cream pie). * 5: The earliest recipe for this pie filling of finely chopped apples, spices and suet dates from 1486. * mincemeat.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 838, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: all business* 1: Since going public in 2000, this Winston-Salem-based doughnut chain has made a lot of dough for investors. * Krispy Kreme. * 2: We predict you'll know that this computer software company has the stock symbol ORCL. * Oracle. * 3: It's true! This leader in wireless and local phone services was formed by a merger of GTE and Bell Atlantic. * Verizon. * 4: Well shiver me timbers! This is the nation's largest fast food seafood chain. * Long John Silver's. * 5: In October 2001 this company beat out Boeing for the largest defense contract in history, worth over $200 billion. * Lockheed.

Round 2. Category: when they were in college* 1: He made the dean's list at Queens College -- what would his TV neighbor Kramer think of that?. * Jerry Seinfeld. * 2: Jon Stewart got a "kick" out of this sport at William and Mary, and an award there is named in his honor. * soccer. * 3: This handsome hunk played basketball at USC long before “Magnum, P.I.†made him a star. * Tom Selleck. * 4: Katie Couric was an associate editor of The Cavalier Daily while at this Charlottesville school. * University of Virginia. * 5: Meryl Streep starred in a campus production of “Miss Julie†as an undergrad at this Poughkeepsie college. * Vassar.

Round 3. Category: reckless phrases* 1: You can put your head in its mouth or beard it in its den. * lion. * 2: "Stick" this body part "out" and you make it easy for the executioner. * your neck. * 3: You can "hover on the brink", "teeter on the edge" or "hang by" one of these sewing items. * a thread. * 4: Bag in which you're not supposed to "buy a pig". * poke. * 5: Don't "sail too near the wind" or "skate on" this. * thin ice.

Round 4. Category: the village smithy* 1: Our president likes to toss these blacksmith products. * horseshoes. * 2: It's where Longfellow's "village smithy stands". * under the spreading chestnut tree. * 3: It's the hand-operated, wind-making device the smithy uses to heat up his fire. * the bellows. * 4: Blacksmith equipment used for musical effects since 1528, it's most famous in Verdi's 1853 "Chorus". * the anvil. * 5: He was the patron god of ancient Roman smithys. * Vulcan.

Round 5. Category: not our constitution* 1: Denmark's constitution establishes a state one of these; our First Amendment forbids it. * a religion. * 2: Its constitution bans foreign ownership of beach land, so Americans have bought in Baja through trusts. * Mexico. * 3: The minimum age for Italy's president, it's 15 years older than our minimum. * 50. * 4: The Americas' only communist state, it doesn't have ;-) next to its guarantee of liberty and rights. * Cuba. * 5: Its 1947 constitution makes the emperor the symbol of the state and forever renounces war. * Japan.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 837, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: virginia woolf 1: Woolf was active in this cause which she wrote "roused in man an extraordinary desire for self-assertion". * women's suffrage. * 2: This gathering of artsy types that flourished between 1907 and 1930 sometimes met at Virginia's house. * the Bloomsbury Group. * 3: A 1931 novel ends with the line: these, also the novel's title, "Broke on the Shore". * Waves*. * 4: This event claims the life of the title character of "Jacob's Room", as it did of millions of real-life young men. * World War I. * 5: First name of Virginia's husband; he survived her by 28 years. * Leonard.

Round 2. Category: sauce* 1: Whether it's a fruit or vegetable, it's the basis of pomodoro and marinara sauces for pasta. * Tomato. * 2: The McIlhenny Company has been making this brand of hot sauce since 1868. * Tabasco. * 3: This Greek sauce is made with yogurt, cucumber and dill or mint. * tzatziki. * 4: Avery Island, Louisiana has shipped little bottles of this hot sauce to the world since 1868. * Tabasco sauce. * 5: Also called rooster sauce, this hot sauce is named for a town on the Gulf of Thailand. * sriracha.

Round 3. Category: capital* 1: Rainfall is rare in this capital of Peru. * Lima. * 2: Yokusuka and Yokohama lie on the same harbor as this capital. * Tokyo. * 3: When Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky in 1972 for the world chess title, they were in this world capital. * Reykjavik. * 4: This city's highest hill at almost 400 feet was built out of rubble collected after WWII. * Berlin. * 5: Now capital, Gaborone was the administrative seat of Bechuanaland, which became this country in 1966. * Botswana.

Round 4. Category: the wearin' of the green 1: Another name for a scallion. * a green onion. * 2: He was the good-natured and innovative farmer on Captain Kangaroo. * Mr. Green Jeans. * 3: Led by Ethan Allen, they helped capture Fort Ticonderoga in 1775. * The Green Mountain Boys. * 4: 6'5" ex-bodyguard Michael Clarke Duncan received an Oscar nomination for his role in this 1999 film. * The Green Mile*. * 5: The album "Dookie", this band's 1994 major-label debut, has sold more than 10 million copies. * Green Day.

Round 5. Category: "ace" in the hole* 1: Indiana's NBA team. * Indiana Pacers. * 2: A rhytidectomy; it's a nip and tuck done on the mug. * Facelift. * 3: Keyboard button that may have the following symbol: (arrow pointing toward left). * Backspace. * 4: One goes between the dinner plate and the dinner table. * Placemat. * 5: Whales, dolphins and porpoises. * Cetaceans.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 836, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: don knotts 1: Don won 5 Emmys in the '60s for playing this jittery comic sidekick. * Barney Fife. * 2: Jack and Chrissy could tell you Don slayed 'em as new landlord Ralph Furley on this sitcom. * Three's Company. * 3: Don played a magical TV repairman in this 1998 fantasy in black and white -- and color. * Pleasantville. * 4: In the classic "The Ghost And Mr. Chicken", Don sought a news scoop by spending the night in one of these. * Haunted house. * 5: Don remarked "I am cursed with an abnormal sexual magnetism" as bird watcher Abner Peacock in this epic. * The Love God?*.

Round 2. Category: film directors* 1: Tim Burton based this sharp title character on a sketch he'd drawn in school. * Edward Scissorhands. * 2: Perhaps tired of his old office job, in 2018 he branched out as the director of "A Quiet Place". * (John) Krasinski. * 3: Vittorio De Sica directed a classic 1948 film about Antonio, who steals one of these vehicles. * a bicycle. * 4: This actress/filmmaker got an Oscar nomination for her direction of the 2017 film "Lady Bird". * (Greta) Gerwig. * 5: This alliterative Italian won Best Director for his work on "The Last Emperor". * (Bernardo) Bertolucci.

Round 3. Category: twain tracts 1: In a 1904 essay Twain's subject was this French saint about whom he had written a book. * Joan of Arc. * 2: The Sacramento Union published Twain's running account of his visit to these islands. * Hawaiian Islands. * 3: Twain set down the "Personal Recollections of" this female French saint and warrior. * Joan of Arc. * 4: "I resk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog". * The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County*. * 5: A miner bets on his amphibian's leaping ability in "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of" this county. * Calaveras County.

Round 4. Category: 1990s television 1: This FOX drama follows the plight of the Salinger children, who were orphaned by a car wreck. * Party of Five. * 2: Roslyn, Washington represented Cicely, Alaska, the setting of this Rob Morrow series. * Northern Exposure. * 3: The quirky drama "Picket Fences" was set in this town in Wisconsin, not in Italy. * Rome. * 4: "Twin Peaks" was the first TV venture for this avant-garde filmmaker. * David Lynch. * 5: (Hi, I'm Arianna Huffington) Al Franken and I did a "Point-Counterpoint" segment called "Strange Bedfellows" for this Bill Maher show. * Politically Incorrect*.

Round 5. Category: anthropologists* 1: Hortense Powdermaker did fieldwork in this California place and wrote a book calling it "The Dream Factory". * Hollywood. * 2: Ruth Benedict's study of this country began at the behest of the U.S. Office of War Information in the 1940s. * Japan. * 3: Among the Ndembu, Victor Turner studied these transitional "rites", like isolation for young boys. * rites of passage. * 4: A debate raged between Sahlins and Obeyesekere over whether the Hawaiians really thought this man was a god. * (Capt.) Cook. * 5: Franz Boas organized the Jesup Expedition of 1902, exploring the relationship of people of these 2 continents. * Asia and North America.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 835, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: sporting words* 1: In golf, it denotes a tournament which can be entered by both amateur and professional players. * open. * 2: For a football team, it's being sent back 5 yards, for a hockey player, being put in a box. * penalty. * 3: A 40-40 tie in tennis. * deuce. * 4: Unless he's up 1st in an inning a baseball player is usually here just before he's "at bat". * on deck. * 5: Goalposts and bedposts are different nicknames for this in bowling. * 7-10 split.

Round 2. Category: advice from dr. joyce brothers 1: (Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.) Your daughter who's exhibiting this type of kleptomania at Wal-Mart may be trying to get attention. * shoplifting. * 2: (Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.) Many have overcome their fear of this; you can always start with the cliche, "unaccustomed as I am" to it. * speaking in public. * 3: (Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.) Make sure your kids know that this euphoria-inducing drug, also called MDMA, can do serious damage. * ecstasy. * 4: (Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.) Don't fear non-traditional gender roles, like a man keeping house as in this Michael Keaton film. * Mr. Mom*. * 5: (Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.) There's no need to be ashamed of this common mental illness, even if it's alternating with mania. * depression.

Round 3. Category: let's fool around!* 1: "Fool to Cry" was a Top 10 hit for this group in '76, which must have given them "Satisfaction". * The Rolling Stones. * 2: This swivel-hipped legend released "A Fool Such as I" in 1959 and just plain "Fool" in '73. * Elvis Presley. * 3: "Foolish Pride" gave him a Top 40 hit in 1986, without any help from John Oates. * Daryl Hall. * 4: In 1991 this sexy Welshman sang "Fool For Rock 'N' Roll" on his "Carrying a Torch" album. * Tom Jones. * 5: "A Fool in Love" was the first big hit for this couple known for their stormy marriage and their "Revue". * Ike and Tina Turner.

Round 4. Category: tv catchphrases 1: "Yabba Dabba Do!". * The Flintstones. * 2: "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds". * Mission: Impossible. * 3: "You bet your sweet bippy!". * Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. * 4: "This is the big one, Elizabeth! I'm coming to join you, honey!". * Sanford and Son. * 5: "Say Kids, what time is it?". * Howdy Doody*.

Round 5. Category: "ck"* 1: The "culture" type is emotional disruption caused by living in a society not one's own. * Shock. * 2: Edmund Bergler, credited with inventing the term "writer's" this, must not have felt it -- he wrote several books. * Block. * 3: A metal measuring rod that's poked into a car's crankcase. * Dipstick. * 4: They're barrel's 2 partners in an expression meaning "the whole thing". * Lock and stock. * 5: Athletic position in which the thighs are against the chest and the arms wrap around the shins. * Tuck.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 834, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: blank of blank* 1: Insurers may not compensate you for damages from these, like hurricanes or floods. * Acts of God. * 2: At your bank a CD isn't a compact disc, it's this. * Certificate of deposit. * 3: It was the "Holy Grail" for Ponce De Leon. * Fountain of Youth. * 4: A severe test, it's also a soldier's first time in battle. * Baptism of fire. * 5: In parliamentary procedure, it's a question raised to see if things are proceeding properly. * Point of Order.

Round 2. Category: insurance* 1: Actuaries compute rates for various risks and these decide if the company will take the risk and insure you. * underwriters. * 2: Basic types of life insurance are whole life, endowment and this. * term life. * 3: Insurers deal with this, the probability of loss; it's also the name of a Parker Brothers game. * Risk. * 4: The main job of this "act"ion hero is to assess risk that's used to calculate premiums. * an actuary. * 5: A life insurance clause paying twice the face value of the policy for an accidental death is called this, also a film title. * double indemnity.

Round 3. Category: famous understudies 1: Four years before "Laugh-In", Jo Anne Worley understudied Carol Channing in this smash hit musical. * Hello, Dolly!. * 2: Lainie Kazan not only played a showgirl in this show, she understudied Barbra Streisand. * Funny Girl. * 3: John Cullum of "Northern Exposure" understudied Richard Burton in this 1960 musical. * Camelot. * 4: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward understudied in the original 1953 production of this William Inge play. * Picnic. * 5: Richard Gere was an understudy in this musical set at Rydell High before he starred in it in London. * Grease*.

Round 4. Category: beans* 1: A certain military branch has served this bean as a staple since the mid-1800s, hence its name. * navy bean. * 2: It's the enumerative slang for an accountant or other financial exec. * beancounter. * 3: The name of this bean is Spanish for "painted". * pinto bean. * 4: These crisp edible shoots of germinated beans like mung are popular in Chinese cooking. * bean sprouts. * 5: Products made from this legume include tofu and miso. * soybeans.

Round 5. Category: size matters* 1: As a rule, the length of this item should be 3 times the thickness of the board being fastened with it. * Nail. * 2: For many airlines your luggage can be no larger than 22 x 14 x 9 inches to fit up here. * the overhead bins. * 3: To keep the ratios, for a 1:12 scale dollhouse buy a smaller dollhouse in this scale to put inside it. * 1:144. * 4: At 9 feet long and fit for Carnegie Hall, this is the largest musical instrument made by Baldwin. * a concert grand. * 5: The USDA recognizes egg sizes from peewee to this. * jumbo.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 832, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: beasts* 1: Battling stags can get in big trouble when these become hopelessly interlocked. * Antlers. * 2: The over 900 species of these mammals range from bumblebee size to others with a 5-foot wingspan. * Bats. * 3: This turtle named for its method of biting is more aggressive on land than in water. * Snapping turtle. * 4: Crocidura xantippe is a type of this mouselike animal; Xanthippe was Socrates' bad-tempered wife. * a shrew. * 5: It weighs up to 4 tons, over half as much as the beast it's named for. * an elephant seal.

Round 2. Category: the united states of advertising* 1: This "advanced medicine for pain" was the first nonprescription brand of ibuprofen in the U.S.. * Advil. * 2: Julie London sang, "Where there's a man there's" this brand of cigarette; I wonder if he was riding his horse?. * Marlboros. * 3: Caffeine and taurine are the main ingredients in this popular energy drink that "gives you wings". * Red Bull. * 4: Bausch and Lomb introduced the "Wayfarer" style of these in 1952. * sunglasses. * 5: This product gives you "speedy" relief the morning after. * Alka-Seltzer.

Round 3. Category: premiere 1: It was sporty of a posh fellow like Prince Charles to turn out for this singing group's first movie in 1997. * The Spice Girls. * 2: Disney didn't take this film's 1996 premiere to Paris, but to the French Quarter of New Orleans. * The Hunchback of Notre Dame. * 3: This Bruce Willis movie about a menacing asteroid had its premiere at the Kennedy Space Center. * Armageddon. * 4: Madonna said, "I feel like Cinderella" at the long-awaited premiere of this musical film. * Evita. * 5: Later to win multiple Oscars, this film premiered in November 1982 in New Delhi. * Gandhi*.

Round 4. Category: that's so '90s* 1: Joe Brown, Greg Mathis and Mills Lane joined the ranks of these on TV. * TV judges. * 2: In 1994 a flaw found in this company's new Pentium processor cost it $475 million in a recall. * Intel. * 3: His 1997 meeting with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was the first for a British P.M. and an IRA leader in 76 years. * Tony Blair. * 4: Hello! In May 1999 scientists found this famous sheep might be susceptible to premature aging. * Dolly. * 5: Born Louis Eugene Walcott, he led a million man march in Washington, D.C. in 1995. * Louis Farrakhan.

Round 5. Category: movie composers 1: This Beatle gave his music and regards to Broad Street. * Paul McCartney. * 2: There's something fishy about John Williams' score for this 1975 film. * Jaws. * 3: Bernard Hermann scored 1st with "Citizen Kane" and last with this '76 De Niro film about a cabbie. * Taxi Driver*. * 4: Appropriately, this diminutive singer wrote the score for "Bugsy Malone", an all-kids musical. * Paul Williams. * 5: His uncle Alfred won an Oscar for "Alexander's Ragtime Band" while he was nominated for "Ragtime". * Randy Newman.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 832, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: beasts* 1: Battling stags can get in big trouble when these become hopelessly interlocked. * Antlers. * 2: The over 900 species of these mammals range from bumblebee size to others with a 5-foot wingspan. * Bats. * 3: This turtle named for its method of biting is more aggressive on land than in water. * Snapping turtle. * 4: Crocidura xantippe is a type of this mouselike animal; Xanthippe was Socrates' bad-tempered wife. * a shrew. * 5: It weighs up to 4 tons, over half as much as the beast it's named for. * an elephant seal.

Round 2. Category: the united states of advertising* 1: This "advanced medicine for pain" was the first nonprescription brand of ibuprofen in the U.S.. * Advil. * 2: Julie London sang, "Where there's a man there's" this brand of cigarette; I wonder if he was riding his horse?. * Marlboros. * 3: Caffeine and taurine are the main ingredients in this popular energy drink that "gives you wings". * Red Bull. * 4: Bausch and Lomb introduced the "Wayfarer" style of these in 1952. * sunglasses. * 5: This product gives you "speedy" relief the morning after. * Alka-Seltzer.

Round 3. Category: premiere 1: It was sporty of a posh fellow like Prince Charles to turn out for this singing group's first movie in 1997. * The Spice Girls. * 2: Disney didn't take this film's 1996 premiere to Paris, but to the French Quarter of New Orleans. * The Hunchback of Notre Dame. * 3: This Bruce Willis movie about a menacing asteroid had its premiere at the Kennedy Space Center. * Armageddon. * 4: Madonna said, "I feel like Cinderella" at the long-awaited premiere of this musical film. * Evita. * 5: Later to win multiple Oscars, this film premiered in November 1982 in New Delhi. * Gandhi*.

Round 4. Category: that's so '90s* 1: Joe Brown, Greg Mathis and Mills Lane joined the ranks of these on TV. * TV judges. * 2: In 1994 a flaw found in this company's new Pentium processor cost it $475 million in a recall. * Intel. * 3: His 1997 meeting with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was the first for a British P.M. and an IRA leader in 76 years. * Tony Blair. * 4: Hello! In May 1999 scientists found this famous sheep might be susceptible to premature aging. * Dolly. * 5: Born Louis Eugene Walcott, he led a million man march in Washington, D.C. in 1995. * Louis Farrakhan.

Round 5. Category: movie composers 1: This Beatle gave his music and regards to Broad Street. * Paul McCartney. * 2: There's something fishy about John Williams' score for this 1975 film. * Jaws. * 3: Bernard Hermann scored 1st with "Citizen Kane" and last with this '76 De Niro film about a cabbie. * Taxi Driver*. * 4: Appropriately, this diminutive singer wrote the score for "Bugsy Malone", an all-kids musical. * Paul Williams. * 5: His uncle Alfred won an Oscar for "Alexander's Ragtime Band" while he was nominated for "Ragtime". * Randy Newman.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 831, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: kangaroo words* 1: It's just 1 letter shorter than rotund. * round. * 2: Precipitation is often just a fancy word for this. * rain. * 3: Within instructor you'll find this private instructor. * tutor. * 4: Cut Brobdingnagian down to size with this little 3-letter synonym. * big. * 5: If you salvage something, you also do this. * save.

Round 2. Category: alphabetic homophones* 1: To achieve the best flavor, this should steep for 3 to 5 minutes prior to being served. * tea. * 2: A vote in the affirmative. * aye (I). * 3: You can't play billiards without this stick. * cue. * 4: It comes before both Greco and Alamein. * El. * 5: At this social gathering people combine amusement and competition while making such things as quilts. * bee (B).

Round 3. Category: "up" songs* 1: After they fell asleep at the drive-in the Everly Brothers had this to say. * "Wake Up Little Susie". * 2: Where you'd be going "by the old mill run... in the noonday sun". * up the lazy river. * 3: In '80, Diana Ross was "inside out" with this #1 hit. * "Upside Down". * 4: Starsky and Hutch's David Soul made his recording debut with this soulful plea. * "Don't Give Up On Us". * 5: Waylon Jennings' maternal admonition. * "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys".

Round 4. Category: a day's calories in one meal* 1: Double Whopper with cheese, King fries, large vanilla shake, Dutch apple pie. * Burger King. * 2: Zesty Chicken Border Bowl, Fiesta Taco Salad, Nachos Bellgrande, apple empanada. * Taco Bell. * 3: Market Fresh Roast Beef and Swiss sandwich, large Jalapeno Bites, Jamocha shake. * Arby's. * 4: 2 large orders of popcorn chicken, 2 biscuits, potato wedges, BBQ beans, Lil' Bucket lemon creme, large Pepsi. * KFC. * 5: 2 Big Bacon Classics, great Biggie fries, Homestyle Chicken Strips Salad with ranch dressing, medium Frosty. * Wendy's.

Round 5. Category: it just sounds questionable* 1: This 4-letter word can mean "stop"; while pouring you a drink someone might ask you to "say" it. * when. * 2: "Going to the fair", Simple Simon asked the pieman, "Let me taste your" this. * ware. * 3: Term for a Buddhist temple, there's a big one in Angkor. * wat. * 4: In the American Revolution, last name of British admiral Richard and his brother, general William. * Howe. * 5: In Spanish, this letter is "I griega". * Y.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 830, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: see-attle* 1: Uh-oh! This 14,410-foot mountain that looms over Seattle is actually an active volcano. * Mount Rainier. * 2: A real high point of Seattle is this 1962 landmark where you can enjoy a meal along with a 360-degree view of the city. * the Space Needle. * 3: A museum on Main Street is named for this Klondike event that turned 1890s Seattle into a boom town. * Gold Rush. * 4: Grab some Joe at the original one of these, open since 1971 in the Pike Place market. * Starbucks. * 5: Appropriately, the building housing the EMP, short for this, looks like a smashed guitar. * Experience Music Project.

Round 2. Category: palindroming* 1: The palindromic ABBA had a 1975 hit with this palindromic song of distress. * "SOS". * 2: She and her siblings title a Woody Allen movie. * Hannah. * 3: This tranquilizer and anxiety suppressor is a brand name for Alprazolam. * Xanax. * 4: Epic Norse narratives. * Sagas. * 5: It means "Having been made a god". * Deified.

Round 3. Category: life of the party* 1: This party was named at a Michigan convention, 1854; still going strong. * the GOP (or Republican Party). * 2: In 2000 its 97,000 Florida votes left it at a Nader of popularity with Al Gore fans. * the Green Party. * 3: In 2006 this party, no longer "progressive", came back into power in Canada. * the Conservatives. * 4: Led by Begin and Sharon, among others. * the Likud Party. * 5: Formed to oppose "King Andrew" Jackson; named after the British party for limits on royal power. * the Whigs.

Round 4. Category: flex your "ab"s 1: Standing side by side and facing the front. * abreast. * 2: Half of a legendary comedy duo, he was born in New Jersey in 1895. * Bud Abbott. * 3: Burning strongly. * ablaze. * 4: Sin is in, sweetie, on this hilarious Brit-com starring Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley. * Ab Fab (Absolutely Fabulous*). * 5: Self-denial. * abstinence.

Round 5. Category: new to the inventors hall of fame* 1: Patsy Sherman and Sam Smith don't have any spots on the fabric of their record; they invented this 3M product. * Scotchgard. * 2: You can hunt and peck around the hall for the invention of Christopher Sholes known as this. * typewriter. * 3: Thomas Fogarty's embolectomy catheter has one of these on the tip and no, he can't make a giraffe out of it. * balloon. * 4: Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer combined their talents to splice fragments of this together from different species. * DNA. * 5: Elijah McCoy improved the productivity and life span of machines by automating this maintenance function. * lubrication.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 829, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: geographic spelling* 1: This island country was formerly called Ceylon. * S-R-I L-A-N-K-A. * 2: Panama adjoins South America at this country's border. * C-O-L-O-M-B-I-A. * 3: The capital of French Polynesia; it's also the largest city in Tahiti. * P-A-P-E-E-T-E. * 4: Once a walled Inca city, these ruins near Cuzco, Peru are a favorite tourist site. * M-A-C-H-U P-I-C-C-H-U. * 5: The capital of Iceland. * R-E-Y-K-J-A-V-I-K.

Round 2. Category: sergeant york* 1: WWI's famous Sgt. Alvin York was born on Dec. 13, 1887 in Pall Mall in this "Volunteer State". * Tennessee. * 2: Ironically, York didn't volunteer for service; he asked for a draft exemption as one of these, Latin for "peacemaking". * a pacifist. * 3: Solo, York killed over 20 of the enemy and captured 132 during the Argonne-Meuse Offensive in this country. * France. * 4: York's many medals included this, introduced in 1862, which he got for charging a machine gun nest. * Medal of Honor. * 5: One condition York demanded in selling the movie rights to his life was that this man would play him. * Gary Cooper.

Round 3. Category: name the rockers* 1: "Please Please Me","Rubber Soul","Help!". * The Beatles. * 2: "Another Brick In The Wall". * Pink Floyd. * 3: "Strange Days","L.A. Woman","Morrison Hotel". * The Doors. * 4: "Kashmir". * Led Zeppelin. * 5: "Colour by Numbers","Kissing to be Clever","From Luxury to Heartache". * Culture Club.

Round 4. Category: universal studios islands of adventure 1: If you like 3-D action, you'll love the amazing adventures of this webslinger. * Spider-Man. * 2: Sam-I-Am knows Universal has a cafe named for this "colorful" title breakfast. * "Green Eggs and Ham". * 3: A T-rex attacks just before you take an 85-foot plunge on the ride named for this 1993 film. * Jurassic Park*. * 4: Seuss Landing is home to a rollicking ride named for this famous feline. * The Cat in the Hat. * 5: On Marvel's Superhero Island you may turn green when you ride the roller coaster named for him. * The Incredible Hulk.

Round 5. Category: turn 1: Duke Emanuele Filberto brought it to Turin in 1578; it's now housed in the Cathedral of San Giovanni. * the Shroud of Turin. * 2: While touring Turin, stop into the Biblioteca Reale, and you'll be drawn to this artist's self-portrait. * da Vinci. * 3: This opera that made its debut in Turin in 1896 probably helped Puccini pay his "rent". * La Boheme*. * 4: Turin's Egyptian Museum has a well-known statue of this "Let my people go" pharaoh. * Ramses II (Ramses the Great). * 5: For most of the time, from 1720 to 1861, Turin was capital of this fishy-sounding kingdom. * Sardinia.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 828, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: tv planets 1: On "Star Trek" one of Mr. Spock's parents was from Earth, the other from this planet. * Vulcan. * 2: "Goodbye" in the native language of this planet is "nanu nanu". * Ork. * 3: In this show's second season in 1989, a second wave of aliens, from Mor-Tax, invaded the earth. * War of the Worlds*. * 4: On "Dr. Who", the Doctor is part of a race of these from the planet Gallifrey. * Time Lords. * 5: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE) Planet on which the alien in the following was born:. * Krypton.

Round 2. Category: etymology 1: This veggie's name is from the Italian for sprout, "brocco". * broccoli. * 2: Possibly shortened from "godfather", it first meant an elderly man of wisdom or skill; it's now a movie head electrician. * gaffer. * 3: The original definition of this 6-letter word was a criminal stripped of legal protection--anyone could kill them. * an outlaw. * 4: An old word for a bed's mosquito net gives us this term for a "roof" over a 4-post bed. * a canopy. * 5: This term for your setting or environment is French for "middle place". * milieu*.

Round 3. Category: sports rules* 1: In hockey this player can't go to the bench to replace a broken stick until a stop in play. * Goaltender. * 2: If a "lost ball" is called in this British favorite, 6 runs minimum are scored. * Cricket. * 3: In football you get 6 points for a touchdown and this many for a field goal. * 3. * 4: To get 3 strikeouts in an inning of baseball requires a minimum of this many pitches. * 9. * 5: In this sport, if a fault is committed by the serving team, a side-out is called. * Volleyball.

Round 4. Category: canadian born* 1: At age 9, this Canadian ABC News anchor hosted a weekly CBC music and news show for children. * Peter Jennings. * 2: This actress can make temperatures rise even on the coldest day of the year in Ladysmith, British Columbia, her birthplace. * Pamela Anderson Lee. * 3: 3 days after her death in 1991, this ex-wife of George C. Scott won an Emmy for playing Murphy Brown's mom. * Colleen Dewhurst. * 4: This pioneering pop-media theorist born in Edmonton, Alberta coined the phrase "The medium is the message". * Marshall McLuhan. * 5: (Hi, I'm David James Elliott of JAG.) I was born in this city founded in the 1700s and whose name comes from the Huron term meaning "meeting place". * Toronto.

Round 5. Category: state mottoes* 1: Small state, small motto:"Hope". * Rhode Island. * 2: In the Midwest: "Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice" ("if you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you"). * Michigan. * 3: Heavenly body mentioned in the mottoes of Kansas and Minnesota. * star. * 4: It's also "The Beehive State":"Industry". * Utah. * 5: "L'etoile du nord" ("star of the north"). * Minnesota.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 826, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: do "tell"

  • 1: Give us your best Marlon Brando with this famous 1-word howl from a classic 1951 film.
  • STELLA!.
  • 2: Bootes, Orion and Gemini, to name a few.
  • constellations.
  • 3: It's the governmental organization headed by George H.W. Bush from 1976 to 1977.
  • the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • 4: It's the flat, movable bone at the front of the knee.
  • the patella.
  • 5: Small rounds of meat-filled pasta that are shaped into rings and boiled.
  • tortellini.

Round 2. Category: "in" words

  • 1: In the pledge of allegiance, it precedes "with liberty and justice for all".
  • indivisible.
  • 2: A roof covering, or something a new lawyer might "hang out".
  • a shingle.
  • 3: Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941 "A date which will live in" this.
  • infamy.
  • 4: This woodwind instrument was invented by Johann Christoph Denner around 1700.
  • a clarinet.
  • 5: Apparatus in which you might find newborn chicks or premature babies.
  • an incubator.

Round 3. Category: german cities

  • 1: This capital's oldest church, older than the city itself, is the 800-year-old St. Nicholas Church.
  • Berlin.
  • 2: In 1923 Hitler staged his Beer Hall Putsch in this capital of Bavaria.
  • Munich.
  • 3: In German, it's Koln; in English, this.
  • Cologne.
  • 4: Europe's second-busiest port, it's said to have more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam combined.
  • Hamburg.
  • 5: A British royal house that ruled from 1714 to 1901 originated in this city from which it got its name.
  • Hanover.

Round 4. Category: give 'em a hand

  • 1: On Feb. 1, 1964 this song replaced Bobby Vinton's "There! I've Said It Again" at No. 1 and stayed there 7 weeks.
  • "I Want To Hold Your Hand".
  • 2: Nickname of the aces and eights held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his murder in Deadwood, S.D..
  • dead man's hand.
  • 3: In this 1967 film Paul Newman is sent to a prison chain gang for destroying parking meters.
  • Cool Hand Luke.
  • 4: In Matthew 27:24, he "took water, and washed his hands" of the responsibility for Christ's crucifixion.
  • Pontius Pilate.
  • 5: In this book Adam Smith created the economic principle of the invisible hand.
  • The Wealth of Nations.

Round 5. Category: the director's chair

  • 1: "Shadows and Fog","Deconstructing Harry","Radio Days".
  • Woody Allen.
  • 2: "The Mirror Has Two Faces","Yentl","The Prince of Tides".
  • Barbra Streisand.
  • 3: "Piranha II: The Spawning","The Terminator".
  • James Cameron.
  • 4: "Eraserhead","Blue Velvet".
  • David Lynch.
  • 5: "The Thing" is... as well as directing "Halloween" and "The Fog", he also composed their scores.
  • (John) Carpenter.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 826, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: do "tell"* 1: Give us your best Marlon Brando with this famous 1-word howl from a classic 1951 film. * STELLA!. * 2: Bootes, Orion and Gemini, to name a few. * constellations. * 3: It's the governmental organization headed by George H.W. Bush from 1976 to 1977. * the Central Intelligence Agency. * 4: It's the flat, movable bone at the front of the knee. * the patella. * 5: Small rounds of meat-filled pasta that are shaped into rings and boiled. * tortellini.

Round 2. Category: "in" words* 1: In the pledge of allegiance, it precedes "with liberty and justice for all". * indivisible. * 2: A roof covering, or something a new lawyer might "hang out". * a shingle. * 3: Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941 "A date which will live in" this. * infamy. * 4: This woodwind instrument was invented by Johann Christoph Denner around 1700. * a clarinet. * 5: Apparatus in which you might find newborn chicks or premature babies. * an incubator.

Round 3. Category: german cities* 1: This capital's oldest church, older than the city itself, is the 800-year-old St. Nicholas Church. * Berlin. * 2: In 1923 Hitler staged his Beer Hall Putsch in this capital of Bavaria. * Munich. * 3: In German, it's Koln; in English, this. * Cologne. * 4: Europe's second-busiest port, it's said to have more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam combined. * Hamburg. * 5: A British royal house that ruled from 1714 to 1901 originated in this city from which it got its name. * Hanover.

Round 4. Category: give 'em a hand 1: On Feb. 1, 1964 this song replaced Bobby Vinton's "There! I've Said It Again" at No. 1 and stayed there 7 weeks. * "I Want To Hold Your Hand". * 2: Nickname of the aces and eights held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his murder in Deadwood, S.D.. * dead man's hand. * 3: In this 1967 film Paul Newman is sent to a prison chain gang for destroying parking meters. * Cool Hand Luke. * 4: In Matthew 27:24, he "took water, and washed his hands" of the responsibility for Christ's crucifixion. * Pontius Pilate. * 5: In this book Adam Smith created the economic principle of the invisible hand. * The Wealth of Nations*.

Round 5. Category: the director's chair* 1: "Shadows and Fog","Deconstructing Harry","Radio Days". * Woody Allen. * 2: "The Mirror Has Two Faces","Yentl","The Prince of Tides". * Barbra Streisand. * 3: "Piranha II: The Spawning","The Terminator". * James Cameron. * 4: "Eraserhead","Blue Velvet". * David Lynch. * 5: "The Thing" is... as well as directing "Halloween" and "The Fog", he also composed their scores. * (John) Carpenter.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 825, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: u.s.a.* 1: =. * =. * 2: The public library of this Pennsylvania town is located at 701 Cocoa Avenue. * Hershey. * 3: Washington, D.C. residents did this for the 1st time in November, 1964. * vote for president. * 4: Montgomery C. Meigs, who was the first to suggest it to A. Lincoln as a cemetery site, is buried there. * Arlington National Cemetery. * 5: The Grand Teton Music Festival is an annual summer event in this state. * Wyoming.

Round 2. Category: "mother"s day* 1: She "went to the cupboard to fetch her poor dog a bone". * Old Mother Hubbard. * 2: Based on the number of commanders in chief born there, it's a nickname for the state of Virginia. * "Mother of Presidents". * 3: For miners, it's the main vein of ore in a region. * Mother lode. * 4: It's another name for your native language. * Mother tongue. * 5: This courageous Nobel Prize-winning nun was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910. * Mother Teresa.

Round 3. Category: baseball words* 1: Spiders catch them in their webs. * Flies. * 2: What a catcher might eat his dinner on. * Home plate. * 3: A highly prized form of carbon. * Diamond. * 4: People who used peroxide on their hair. * Bleachers. * 5: It's material from which flags are made, or decorations in the colors of a flag. * Bunting.

Round 4. Category: "mc" names* 1: He's paid to laugh at Johnny's jokes. * Ed McMahon. * 2: He "Wanted..." to get out of television and made "The Great Escape" to films. * Steve McQueen. * 3: The Smithsonian is now home to Candice Bergen's "brother". * Charlie McCarthy. * 4: His presidential campaign won him the electoral votes of only Mass. and Washington, D.C.. * George McGovern. * 5: The Roaring '20s foremost evangelist, she founded the Foursquare Gospel Church. * Aimee Semple McPherson.

Round 5. Category: stuck on you* 1: Sticky substance into which medieval lords usually inserted their signet rings. * Sealing wax. * 2: Also available in a "Silly" type, it's a mix of powdered chalk and linseed oil used to seal glass panes into frames. * Putty. * 3: From Old English for "grit", it's used to fill the joints between the tiles in your shower. * Grout. * 4: It's defined as a metal alloy melted with an iron and used to join 2 metal parts together. * Solder. * 5: This dark, sticky substance distilled from coal, wood tar or petroleum is used in paving and waterproofing. * Pitch.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 824, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: fairy tale birds* 1: The Grimms said this heroine got her beautiful clothes from a little white bird, not a fairy godmother. * Cinderella. * 2: He was so large and unattractive that the bird who hatched him wondered if he was a turkey. * the Ugly Duckling. * 3: Hans Christian Andersen wrote about a pond where babies wait for these birds to take them to their parents. * storks. * 4: The couldn't find their way home because some crummy birds ate their bread crumbs. * Hansel and Gretel. * 5: This extremely small girl, born in a flower, saves the life of a kind-hearted sparrow. * Thumbelina.

Round 2. Category: occupation hazards* 1: Chafing from chaps, rope burns from lassos and that saddle horn -- watch where you sit if you're one of these. * cowboy. * 2: If this is you're job you'd be fired if this clue go t by you uncorected. * proofreader. * 3: In this job aiding a medical professional, Angie might get a finger nipped by little Billy while X-raying his molar. * dental hygienist. * 4: He has to listen to his wheels going round, round, round all day and may get a paper cut from a transfer. * bus driver. * 5: If this is your job you might get brine in your eye after dropping the cucumber in the barrel. * pickler.

Round 3. Category: this land is their land* 1: Many people of this country's Xinjiang region speak a language similar to Turkish. * China. * 2: Punjabis are the largest group in this country just east of Afghanistan. * Pakistan. * 3: 5-syllable word for a resident of a Central American isthmus. * Panamanian. * 4: This tiny Swiss neighbor has about 30,000 people and a 25-person legislature. * Liechtenstein. * 5: 1 of the 3 former Soviet republics where the Balts live. * Latvia (Lithuania and Estonia).

Round 4. Category: the "iv" league* 1: Seemingly insignificant facts and info--but not on "Jeopardy!". * trivia. * 2: As a verb, it means to live together closely, like bees. * to hive. * 3: A competitor for the same object or goal. * a rival. * 4: From the Latin for "from a stream", it's the historical origin of a word. * derivation. * 5: The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species banned this trade in 1989. * ivory.

Round 5. Category: animal quotes* 1: Both Shakespeare and Clement Clarke Moore wrote about this creature not "stirring". * mouse. * 2: "I never saw a purple" one of these: "I never hope to see one, but I can tell you anyhow, I'd rather see than be one". * cow. * 3: "All right", said this animal: "and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail". * Cheshire Cat. * 4: Groucho Marx said, "One morning I shot" this "in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know". * an elephant. * 5: John Donne called it "Nature's great masterpiece ... the only harmless great thing; the giant of beasts". * an elephant.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 823, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: neo lingo* 1: A TV show that is an extended advertisement, like those used by Ross Perot in 1992 and 1996. * infomercial. * 2: It's the "game" played by parties telephoning back and forth trying to reach each other. * phone tag. * 3: To teach academic subjects to your children at your own house is called this. * home schooling. * 4: This kind of "novel" is a fictional story for adults presented in a comic book format. * graphic novel. * 5: It's the practice of visiting natural habitats on vacation in a manner that minimizes ecological impact. * Eco-tourism.

Round 2. Category: "fan"s* 1: Type of "voyage" Raquel Welch took in a 1966 film. * fantastic. * 2: A flourish of trumpets, or the cost of a cab for a sports enthusiast. * fanfare. * 3: It's not known if this Spanish dance is of Basque, Moorish or South American Indian origin. * fandango. * 4: In this "Chinese" card game, play begins when a 7 is laid on the table. * fantan. * 5: Someone breeding cats to bring out desired features might be called this. * fancier.

Round 3. Category: the 17th century* 1: The Durants said of this French king's reign, "It was an age of strict manners and loose morals". * Louis XIV. * 2: In 1689 this czar overthrew his half sister Sophie and forced her to enter a convent. * Peter the Great. * 3: 1667 saw the completion of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's great curving colonnade enclosing the piazza in front of this building. * St. Peter's Cathedral. * 4: Dutch optician Hans Lippershey invented this in 1608, supposedly after seeing one lens held in front of another. * the telescope. * 5: The Dutch East India Company sponsored his 1609 search for the Northwest Passage. * Henry Hudson.

Round 4. Category: lawn care* 1: This tillage tool has leaf and garden types, both suitable for stepping on and bashing yourself in the nose. * Rake. * 2: Fungicide may be needed when the "powdery" type of this appears in late summer. * Mildew. * 3: The grass with the name of this sunny island group is well suited to the Southern U.S.. * Bermuda grass. * 4: Henbit and Florida Pusley are among plants controlled by Ortho's product this type of plant "B-Gon". * a weed. * 5: When planting a new lawn, it's a good idea to add compost and this 4-letter combination of sand, silt and clay. * loam.

Round 5. Category: the cabinet* 1: The FBI is part of this cabinet department. * the Justice Department. * 2: The Comptroller of the Currency operates under the auspices of this cabinet department. * Treasury. * 3: This President, a former Navy man, appointed the first Secretary of Veterans' Affairs. * George H W. Bush. * 4: The "haunted" presidential room formerly used for cabinet meetings in the White House is now known as this. * the Lincoln Bedroom. * 5: So far, the list of Secretaries of this includes a Heckler, a Schweiker and a Shalala. * Health and Human Services.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 822, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: geograph"ia"* 1: Victoria is the capital of this Canadian province. * British Columbia. * 2: In 1976 Nadia Comaneci scored perfect 10s and Olympic gold for this country. * Romania. * 3: Lake Titicaca is on the border of Peru and this country. * Bolivia. * 4: This country is moving its capital to Dodoma from Dar es Salaam. * Tanzania. * 5: George Washington helped lay out the streets of this Virginia city. * Alexandria.

Round 2. Category: jingles and slogans* 1: "You Deserve a Break Today" at this chain. * McDonald's. * 2: It's slogan "The Milk Chocolate Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand" was introduced in 1954. * MandM's. * 3: "Like a Good Neighbor", this insurer "is There". * State Farm. * 4: It's "M'm! M'm! Good!". * Campbell's soup. * 5: According to the old jingle, he "Gets Rid of Dirt and Grime and Grease in Just a Minute". * Mr. Clean.

Round 3. Category: a time to be born* 1: Striae is the medical term for these silvery lines that sometimes appear on the skin during pregnancy. * stretch marks. * 2: The umbilical cord connects the baby to this organ, which is attached to the mom's uterus. * the placenta. * 3: Before this is done on a pregnant woman, she drinks a lot of water and gets a gel applied. * ultrasound. * 4: A 4- to 5-inch needle is used in this procedure that tests the fluid surrounding the fetus for genetic disorders. * amniocentesis. * 5: These contractions are known as "false labor". * Braxton Hicks.

Round 4. Category: poland* 1: After WWII, over 80% of the buildings in this capital were uninhabitable. * Warsaw. * 2: The 2 longest of these in Poland are the Oder and Vistula. * rivers. * 3: Lenin's name has been stripped from the shipyards in this city where the Solidarity union began. * Gdansk. * 4: Poland is among the world's largest producer of this fuel. * coal. * 5: These currency units come in notes of up to 2,000,000. * zlotys.

Round 5. Category: a short history of western union* 1: The 2006 New York Times headline on Western Union's last telegram used this word, telegrams' version of a period. * stop. * 2: Like the railroad would in 1869, the telegraph went transcontinental by linking up in this state, in 1861. * Utah. * 3: In 1866 Western Union had the "heart" to introduce the first of these stock-price reporting devices. * a ticker. * 4: Western Union introduced the first of these deferred-payment instruments in 1914; it was made of metal. * a credit card (or charge card). * 5: In 1964 Western Union began using these high-frequency beams transcontinentally to replace land lines. * microwaves.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 821, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: on- and off-screen romances* 1: This "Pretty Woman" fell for Dylan McDermott when she played his wife in "Steel Magnolias". * Julia Roberts. * 2: Laura Dern and this "Tall Guy" were linked romantically when they co-starred in "Jurassic Park". * Jeff Goldblum. * 3: Dennis Quaid found inner peace when he married this co-star of "Innerspace" in 1991. * Meg Ryan. * 4: Brad Pitt's break-up with this "Se7en" co-star made the June 30, 1997 cover of People. * Gwyneth Paltrow. * 5: Yves Montand and this blond sex symbol took the title of their 1960 film "Let's Make Love" literally. * Marilyn Monroe.

Round 2. Category: european museums* 1: The Richelieu wing of this Paris art museum houses the apartments of Napoleon III. * the Louvre. * 2: This city boasts a Byzantine museum and an Acropolis museum. * Athens. * 3: This Swiss city's Palais des Nations houses a stamp museum and the League of Nations Museum. * Geneva. * 4: A highlight of Berlin's Egyptian Museum is the 3300-year-old bust of this queen. * Nefertiti. * 5: A Prague museum devoted to this composer contains the rooms where he finished "Don Giovanni". * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Round 3. Category: funny pages* 1: "Sein Language". * Jerry Seinfeld. * 2: "Leading with my Chin". * Jay Leno. * 3: "Rock This". * Chris Rock. * 4: "I Rant, Therefore I Am". * Dennis Miller. * 5: "Enter Whining". * Fran Drescher.

Round 4. Category: underwear* 1: This Funky Bunch leader helped popularize the boxer short waistband sticking over the top of the pants look. * Marky Mark. * 2: For "Days of Thunder", Tom Cruise wore a pair of $100 long johns treated to be this. * fireproof. * 3: The Fruit of the Loom quartet has a fig leaf, an apple and 2 different types of this fruit. * grapes. * 4: In 2011 Madonna's black one of these one-piece garments, a bra and waist cincher combo, sold for $72,000 at auction. * a bustier. * 5: Common options for undershirts with sleeves are V-neck and the rounded one with this sporty name. * a crew neck.

Round 5. Category: "s.f."* 1: An oft-quoted cure for this is imagining your audience in their underwear. * Stage fright. * 2: If you're showing no sign of emotion, you're keeping one of these. * Straight face. * 3: This liquid's on tap, but only your doctor has backbone enough to get it. * Spinal fluid. * 4: This songwriter wrote the original version of the following:("O Susanna"). * Stephen Foster. * 5: It's in the either of the following:(people in a line, or a lone folder). * Single file.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 820, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: early america* 1: Carpenters in this colony's city of Savannah went on strike in 1746 for better working conditions. * Georgia. * 2: This colony of James Oglethorpe banned the importation of rum and brandy, and forbade slavery. * Georgia. * 3: In 1723 in Boston, construction began on this church, one of the first Georgian churches in the Northeast. * the Old North Church. * 4: The second of these legislatures drew up the Articles of Confederation. * the Continental Congress. * 5: Hot on the trail of 7 magnificent cities, Estevanico called the first one this, entered it and was killed there. * Cibola.

Round 2. Category: animal common bonds* 1: Angora,Flemish giant,cottontail. * rabbits. * 2: Schipperke,borzoi,bichon frise. * Dogs. * 3: Thresher,nurse,whale. * Sharks. * 4: Bufflehead,Eider,Teal. * ducks. * 5: Black,brown,spectacled. * bears.

Round 3. Category: jewel* 1: The Pinctada maxima, or silver-lip oyster, is the largest oyster capable of cultivating one of these. * pearl. * 2: The Aztecs showed their rank in society by wearing this bluish-green December birthstone. * turquoise. * 3: A variety of smoky quartz, cairngorm is a gemstone that comes from the Cairngorm Mountains of this country. * Scotland. * 4: The bulk of the world's peridot is mined from Peridot Mesa on the Apache Indian Reservation in this state. * Arizona. * 5: The American ruby and the Cape ruby are not rubies, but red varieties of this mineral. * garnet.

Round 4. Category: warner bros. cartoons* 1: "Carnivorous vulgaris" is one of this Roadrunner-chasing rascal's "scientific" names. * the (Wile E.) Coyote. * 2: This "scent-imental" skunk was named after Charles Boyer's character in the film "Algiers". * Pepé Le Pew. * 3: This "fastest mouse" made his debut in 1953's "Cat-Tails for Two". * Speedy Gonzales. * 4: This "roughest, toughest he-man hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande" could never beat Bugs Bunny. * Yosemite Sam. * 5: This animal is the symbol of the new Warner Bros. network. * Michigan J. Frog.

Round 5. Category: "down" the hatch* 1: This highly undesirable event can occur when a nuclear reactor's core overheats. * Meltdown. * 2: If you're hunting by scent, it's where you want to be, relative to your prey. * Downwind. * 3: The New England Primer popularized the bedtime prayer beginning with this line. * "Now I lay me down to sleep...". * 4: It describes the "trampled" masses. * Downtrodden. * 5: In 1902 Battling Nelson inflicted 42 of these on Christy Williams, who finally stayed on the canvas. * Knockdowns.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 819, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: eggs* 1: When hard boiling eggs, add a pinch of this to the water to keep the eggs from cracking. * salt. * 2: "Joy of Cooking" says not to use a bowl made of this metal when beating eggs, as it will cause the eggs to gray. * aluminum. * 3: If you buy a dozen eggs weighing 2 oz. each, they'll have this size designation. * large. * 4: Of all reptile eggs, it's the type most commonly eaten. * turtle eggs. * 5: Japanese savor the tiny eggs of this game bird and eat them raw on top of sushi. * quail.

Round 2. Category: pets* 1: Of the more than 25 Amazon species of these birds, most have green body feathers. * parrots. * 2: To impoverish his enemies, the king of Siam gave them elephants of this color, not allowed to work. * white. * 3: From Greek for "bloodlessness", this condition can affect cats suffering from too many fleas. * anemia. * 4: Basic obedience training makes a dog comfortable, because he sees you as the leader of this group. * a pack. * 5: William Howard Taft was the last prez to have one of these grazing at the White House; her name was Pauline Wayne. * a cow.

Round 3. Category: napoleon* 1: The cast-off mistress of revolutionary leader Paul Barras, she married Napoleon in 1796. * Josephine. * 2: As a child Napoleon Bonaparte hated France for its bloody conquest of this island of his birth. * Corsica. * 3: Napoleon was "The Little" this; hey, one more promotion and he makes little sergeant. * Corporal. * 4: In 1793 24-year-old Napoleon was seriously wounded in the thigh by one of these musket attachments. * a bayonet. * 5: In 1798 Napoleon struck at England by occupying this country, threatening trade routes to India. * Egypt.

Round 4. Category: international books and authors* 1: Explorer "of Arabia" who wrote "Seven Pillars of Wisdom". * T.E. Lawrence. * 2: Moses Isegawa's 2000 novel "Abyssinian Chronicles" is set partly in Kampala in this, his native country. * Uganda. * 3: Argentina's Manuel Puig gave us the "Kiss of" this "Woman"; I read about it on the "web". * "Kiss of the Spider Woman". * 4: This author of "Shogun" called himself a "half-Irish Englishman...born in Australia". * James Clavell. * 5: Former first lady Jehan Sadat called her moving memoir "A Woman of" this country. * Egypt.

Round 5. Category: people on the map* 1: He wrote the songs "There's No Business Like Show Business" and "White Christmas". * Irving Berlin. * 2: This Los Angeles Lakers star with 3 championship rings speaks fluent Italian. * Kobe Bryant. * 3: He was nominated for an Emmy for his role as Buddy Sorrell on "The Dick Van Dyke Show". * Morey Amsterdam. * 4: Among the many larger-than-life characters he created are Captain Wolf Larsen and Buck the sled dog. * Jack London. * 5: This British-born actor has starred in "Cabaret", Logan's Run" and "Austin Powers". * Michael York.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 818, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the inc.-uisition* 1: This Michigan company formerly had a 30-minute pizza delivery guarantee. * Domino's Pizza. * 2: The rhyming New England chain Stop and do this is mentioned in the classic song "Roadrunner". * Shop. * 3: Made for over a century by Hillerich and Bradsby Inc., it's the best-known brand of baseball bat. * Louisville Slugger. * 4: In the '90s this clothing retailer introduced a "Crewcuts" line for kids. * J. Crew. * 5: In 1989 the company called Corning these Works became simply Corning Inc.. * Corning Glass Works.

Round 2. Category: nations of africa* 1: Add 2 letters to Niger to get the name of this country just south of it. * Nigeria. * 2: In a song title, this country whose capital is Nairobi might come before "Feel the Love Tonight". * Kenya. * 3: In a song title, this country whose capital is Accra might come before "Fly Now". * Ghana. * 4: (Hi, I'm NBA All-Star Dikembe Mutombo) One of the many languages I speak is this official one of my birthplace, Congo. * French. * 5: Milton Obote, no bargain either, ran this country before and after Idi Amin. * Uganda.

Round 3. Category: movie princes 1: R. Chamberlain was charming as the prince in "The Slipper and the Rose", a movie based on this. * "Cinderella". * 2: In her last Hollywood film, "The Swan", she was engaged to a prince named Albert, not Prince Rainier. * Grace Kelly. * 3: Prince, the rock star, began his reign as a movie star in this, his 1st film. * Purple Rain. * 4: In 1954 Robert Wagner played this comic strip cutie. * Prince Valiant. * 5: Mario Lanza was fired from this movie operetta, but the songs he recorded are still in the film. * The Student Prince*.

Round 4. Category: brave words* 1: This song calls the U.S. "The land of the free and the home of the brave". * "Star-Spangled Banner". * 2: "A hero is brave in deeds as well as words" is the moral of one of his fables. * Aesop. * 3: "It is hard to be brave", said this friend of Winnie-The-Pooh, "when you're only a very small animal". * Piglet. * 4: In his "Plea For" this abolitionist, Thoreau asked, "When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?". * John Brown. * 5: This 20th century novelist defined "guts" as "grace under pressure". * Ernest Hemingway.

Round 5. Category: nyc street foods* 1: (Sofia is on Park Avenue, enjoying a pretzel, when....) Oops! I forgot to get a side of this traditional yellow condiment. * mustard. * 2: (Sofia is tasting a Mediterranean delicacy.) This pita contains little balls of this, a deep-fried Mideast treat made from chickpeas or fava beans. * falafel. * 3: (Sofia is enjoying a foreign potato product.) From the Ukranian for "dumpling", it's the name of the potato product I'm eating. * knish. * 4: (Sofia holds up a slice of thin-crust pizza.) You can get pizza New York-style or in this thicker style named for an Italian island. * Sicilian. * 5: (Sofia wraps up our taste of the Big Apple--with a stomache--and a bottle of a well-known product for curing such.) Fortunately, also available in New York is this Procter and Gamble tummy-soothing liquid. * Pepto-Bismol.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 817, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: ranks and measures* 1: In the U.S. this document is the highest law in the land. * the Constitution. * 2: Amplified rock music and a very close thunderclap hit 120 on this noise scale. * decibel scale. * 3: A low grade of copier paper, it's also the weight for a standard bowling ball. * 16 pounds. * 4: What the British call a billion, a 1 followed by 12 zeros, we call this. * trillion. * 5: In the old Hindu caste system the twice-born castes were the Vaisyas, the Kshatriyas and this, which included priests. * Brahmins.

Round 2. Category: variety pack 1: In 1956 this Brynner played King Mongkut on screen. * Yul Brynner. * 2: This log traditionally goes into the fireplace at Christmas. * yule log. * 3: In the '70s this Gibbons became the spokesman for the health benefits of Grape-Nuts cereals. * Euell Gibbons. * 4: It's the first word in the title of the original name of the show on which Phil Silvers played Sgt. Bilko. * You'll (Never Get Rich)*. * 5: Off Detroit, you'll find Belle this. * Isle.

Round 3. Category: legends* 1: The man whom Miles Standish asked to have a chat with Priscilla. * John Alden. * 2: This legendary outlaw was said to be an early name Robert Fitz-ooth, born in Nottinghamshire. * Robin Hood. * 3: Scottish water spirits called Kelpies take the shape of these animals and drown their riders. * horses. * 4: Calamity Jane boasted that she rode for this short-lived delivery service. * Pony Express. * 5: Container Mary Hays used to bring water to the troops at the Battle of Monmouth. * pitcher (hence the name "Molly Pitcher").

Round 4. Category: perils* 1: Jean Lussier and William Fitzgerald are among those who've gone over this landmark in a barrel and survived. * Niagara Falls. * 2: On April 13, 1970, this space mission turned perilous as Haise, Lovell and Swigert had to abandon the main ship. * Apollo 13. * 3: In the highest helicopter rescue ever, American Seaborne Weathers was plucked from this mountain in 1996. * Everest. * 4: In 1974 his chute released early, causing him to plunge into a river canyon, not rocket across it. * Evel Knievel. * 5: Aleksandr Pushkin, Stephen Decatur and Button Gwinnett all died from wounds received in one of these. * duel.

Round 5. Category: well, duh!* 1: The English word for this animal comes from the Greek "kamelos". * camel. * 2: Joan Embery reports that all birds have these, "A characteristic shared by no other type of animal". * Feathers. * 3: Waswahili are people who speak this language as their sole mother tongue. * Swahili. * 4: This brand of oats uses a man in Quaker garb in its logo. * Quaker Oats. * 5: The name of this fruit comes from its clusters' resemblance to a bunch of grapes. * grapefruit.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 816, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: what's your sign?* 1: I'm this sign; my constellation's brightest star is called Hamal, Arabic for "sheep". * Aries. * 2: Add an "N" to the end of this sign and you get a type of animal. * Scorpio. * 3: I'm this sign and my name is also an ancient Roman unit of weight. * Libra. * 4: December 1:Go ahead, take a shot. * Sagittarius. * 5: The name of this sign begins with the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. * Taurus.

Round 2. Category: anatomy* 1: The cones in the eye allow us to see colors and these light-sensitive cells allow us to see shades of gray. * rods. * 2: When fibrogen is converted to fibrin by thrombin, blood does this. * clot. * 3: A bone that vibrates when it hears "go horsey", or a place for your foot on a saddle. * a stirrup. * 4: When you toss a drink down the hatch, it goes down this tube to the stomach. * your esophagus. * 5: In osteoarthritis this tissue disintegrates and bones rub against one another. * the cartilage.

Round 3. Category: siegfrieds and roys* 1: In an 1870s ballet, Prince Siegfried falls in love with one of these graceful birds. * Swan. * 2: This singer took "Oh, Pretty Woman" to No. 1 in 1964. * Roy Orbison. * 3: This composer of the opera "Siegfried" also named his son Siegfried. * Richard Wagner. * 4: Before he became the "King of the Cowboys" on film, he formed the Sons of the Pioneers singing group. * Roy Rogers. * 5: In a Sir Walter Scott novel, this title character is an outlaw of the MacGregor clan. * Rob Roy.

Round 4. Category: things to do with carrots* 1: Have your mom cut your carrots into these for your lunchbox and you can play a "pick up" game with them. * sticks. * 2: A man named Mel Blanc crunched carrots while providing the voice of this carrot-loving rabbit. * Bugs Bunny. * 3: In February 1999 people in Bethel, Maine made one 113 feet tall with an 8-foot-long "carrot" nose. * a snowman. * 4: This popular dessert is usually topped with a cream cheese frosting. * carrot cake. * 5: Carrots go into one version of this side dish, shredded cabbage and a mayonnaise-based sauce. * cole slaw.

Round 5. Category: fads and fashions* 1: The bobbed hair style of this skater known for her camel was the rage in 1976. * Dorothy Hamill. * 2: To be fashionable, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice did it to her hair. * bobbed it. * 3: Striking a prayerful pose on one knee isn't called Timming but this. * Tebowing. * 4: The 1950s Davy Crockett craze sent the price of these pelts from 25 cents to $8 a pound. * raccoon pelts. * 5: In the 1920s folks got all fired up about sitting at the top of these, sometimes for weeks at a time. * flagpoles.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 815, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: like a lion* 1: People of this Zodiac sign represented by a lion can be brave, noble and ferocious. * Leo. * 2: This "Lion-Hearted" king was born in Oxford in 1157. * Richard. * 3: More than one lion has been the spokesroarer for this legendary motion picture company. * MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). * 4: This mythical hero wore the skin of the Nemean lion he had slain. * Hercules. * 5: One of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's titles was the "Conquering Lion of" this tribe. * Judah.

Round 2. Category: think twice* 1: At Mach 2, a plane is traveling at twice the speed of this. * sound. * 2: The Canary Islands were named after these animals. * Dogs. * 3: Proverbially, "once" this, "twice shy". * bitten. * 4: The 22nd Amendment puts a limit of twice on this. * presidential terms. * 5: Number of horses who have won the Kentucky Derby twice. * zero.

Round 3. Category: the four seasons 1: The fall guy in the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert Fall, was born November 26, 1861 in this season. * the fall. * 2: According to "You've Got A Friend", it's when you can call your "friend" James Taylor. * winter, spring, summer, or fall. * 3: According to the old song, it's when "she's your tootsey wootsey". * the good old summertime. * 4: The University of Cambridge's Michaelmas term takes place in this season. * the fall. * 5: In this 1973 film Joanne Woodward obsesses on her childhood. * Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams*.

Round 4. Category: earls* 1: Earl Browder, author of "Marx And America", was general secretary of this U.S. party from 1930 to 1944. * Communist Party. * 2: By the time he died in 1992, his "Any Car, Any Color" offer had risen from $29.95 to $119.95. * Earl Scheib. * 3: He narrated, no doubt resonantly, the 1972 documentary "Malcolm X". * James Earl Jones. * 4: This future chief justice was Dewey's running mate when he didn't defeat Truman. * Earl Warren. * 5: "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" wasn't recorded by Flatt and Sharp but by Flatt and him. * Earl Scruggs.

Round 5. Category: the daily show 1: The April 9, 2005 wedding of these 2 people was the topic of "Bride of Chucky". * Prince Charles and Camilla. * 2: Now in its 34th season, this show featuring Nancy O'Dell is still keeping tabs on celebs. * Entertainment Tonight. * 3: Mario Batali is a co-host of this ABC show about all things edible. * The Chew*. * 4: "Deconstructing Harriet" broke down her Supreme Court nomination (before it broke down). * Harriet Miers. * 5: She's hosted the Oscars twice, in 2007 and 2014, and her own daily talk show since 2003. * Ellen DeGeneres.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 814, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 1980s fads 1: Torn sweatshirts and legwarmers were all the rage after this 1983 Jennifer Beals movie. * Flashdance*. * 2: Sensitive men of the '70s were out; "Real Men" didn't eat this. * quiche. * 3: Androgeny was exemplified by Eurythmics' Annie Lennox, and by this lead singer of Culture Club. * Boy George. * 4: Based on Xavier Roberts' sculptures, these dolls were a popular item for adoption in 1983. * Cabbage Patch (Kids). * 5: Greed was good: Trump taught "The Art of the Deal", and she said, "Only the little people pay taxes". * (Leona) Helmsley.

Round 2. Category: well equipped* 1: Cars come with standard equipment, but you can add on these, from the Latin for "choice". * options. * 2: This piece of equipment was first worn by a future admiral playing in the 1893 Army-Navy Game. * football helmet. * 3: Corers, ballers, griddles and mousse rings are equipment used by these professionals. * chefs. * 4: Among the equipment in a well-stocked lab is this piece you grow your mold in. * petri dish. * 5: Hidden cameras, bugs and PC taps are classified as this type of equipment, from the French for "to watch over". * surveillance.

Round 3. Category: i've got supernatural powers* 1: Hanuman, a monkey god of this religion, sometimes has 5 heads. * Hinduism. * 2: A Scottish breed of cow shares its name with this Celtic god of love whose kisses become birds. * Angus. * 3: This Semitic mother goddess can make the heavens and earth tremble (and film critics wince). * Ishtar. * 4: The Greek goddess of justice, she can turn herself into animals and also be your worst enemy. * Nemesis. * 5: The Greek goddess of magic and Shakespeare's queen of the witches, she can make cows fat or skinny. * Hecate.

Round 4. Category: italian cinema* 1: His film "Life is Beautiful" was widely compared to Jerry Lewis' "The Day the Clown Cried". * Roberto Benigni. * 2: Literary classics Pasolini adapted for the screen include this one, as "I Racconti di Canterbury". * "The Canterbury Tales". * 3: "Miss Italia" was an early film by this beauty known as "La Lollo". * Gina Lollobrigida. * 4: It's the "Open City" in the title of Rossellini's film about the German occupation. * Rome. * 5: In "La Dolce Vita", Walter Santesso played the photographer who gave his name to this profession. * Paparazzi (named for Paparazzo).

Round 5. Category: the letter g* 1: A G-note is slang for this amount of money. * a $1,000. * 2: Item in common to a stripper and the guitarist in her band. * a G-string. * 3: The logo of this Cheerios maker is a big letter G. * General Mills. * 4: Of the U.S. presidents, the one whose middle name is usually shown as G.. * Harding. * 5: This fusion saxophonist's real last name is Gorelick. * Kenny G.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 813, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: march* 1: Touching off the "War of the Oranges", Spain declared war on this neighbor on March 2, 1801. * Portugal. * 2: March 19 is the traditional day the swallows return to this California mission. * San Juan Capistrano. * 3: On March 4, 1861, the Confederacy adopted its flag, exactly 72 years after this document had gone into effect. * Constitution. * 4: On St. Patrick's Day in 1940, the Brooklyn kill-for-hire gang later nicknamed this was exposed. * Murder Incorporated. * 5: Not a good sign: on March 11, 1824 this govt. bureau abbreviated B.I.A. began as a part of the War Department. * the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Round 2. Category: classic movies 1: Once upon a time Robin Wright played Buttercup in this film scripted by William Goldman. * The Princess Bride. * 2: "Road to Bali" has these 2 stars on an island with Dorothy Lamour, who's wearing a sarong, natch. * Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. * 3: In one of the original slasher films, Janet Leigh is killed off just 20 minutes into this 1960 thriller. * Psycho. * 4: In a 1967 film Charles Bronson and Jim Brown are among this title group of 12 who are trained by Lee Marvin for a war mission. * The Dirty Dozen. * 5: This Kurosawa film about a crime told from multiple points of view is credited with introducing Japanese cinema to the Western world. * Rashomon*.

Round 3. Category: '50s rock lyrics* 1: This 1957 Paul Anka hit begins, "I'm so young and you're so old. This my darling I've been told". * "Diana". * 2: 1959 Coasters hit which contains the line "Fee fee fi fi fo fo fum". * "Charlie Brown". * 3: In 1959 Ray Charles sang, "Tell your mama, tell your pa, I'm gonna ship you back to" this state. * Arkansas. * 4: In 1954 The Penguins asked her, "Will you be mine, my darling dear, love you all the time". * "Earth Angel". * 5: In 1958 the Crests told us these "make a lovely sight but not as bright as your eyes tonight". * "Sixteen Candles".

Round 4. Category: washingtonnage* 1: In 1998 Washington state processed 43,500 tons of grapes into white wine, about half of it this variety. * Chardonnay. * 2: With 13 offensive linemen totaling almost 2 tons, UW's football team lives up to this nickname. * the Huskies. * 3: The "freighter" type of this huge Boeing jetliner has a maximum takeoff weight of over 430 tons. * 747. * 4: Oddly, in 1997 state aquaculture produced 28 tons of the Pacific type of this fish but 6,326 tons of the Atlantic type. * salmon. * 5: This structure that created Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake weighs about 24 million tons. * the Grand Coulee Dam.

Round 5. Category: news of the '90s* 1: In 1991 he became the first popularly elected national leader in Russian history. * Boris Yeltsin. * 2: In 1990 George Bush took a firm stand against eating this vegetable. * broccoli. * 3: Common name of the U.N. conference on environment and development held in Rio in 1992. * the Earth Summit. * 4: On Jan. 17, 1991 Allied air forces began bombing this country in order to liberate it. * Kuwait. * 5: After her election as governor in 1990, she said, "In Texas, politics is a contact sport". * Ann Richards.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 812, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: from the french* 1: This word for a type of business like Quizno's comes from the French for "free". * a franchise. * 2: The name of the U.S. state is partly from the French word for "green". * Vermont. * 3: This 5-letter type of sticker refers to a French process of transferring an image from paper to wood or glass. * a decal. * 4: This elaborate sumptuous meal takes its name from the French for "little bench". * a banquet. * 5: French for "song for dancing" gives us this word for a type of sentimental or romantic song. * ballad.

Round 2. Category: south american cities* 1: This Uruguayan capital's name is Portuguese for "I see a hill". * Montevideo. * 2: This section of Rio is known as the birthplace of the bossa nova; there was a "Girl From" there in song. * Ipanema. * 3: Punta Arenas, the southernmost large city in the world, lies at the tip of Chile on this strait. * the Strait of Magellan. * 4: Cali, this country's 2nd-most populous city, is a center of paper production and the sugarcane industry. * Colombia. * 5: La Plata and Mar del Plata are cities in this country. * Argentina.

Round 3. Category: breakfast cereals 1: 1994 marked the 40th birthday of this fruity cereal for kids and not silly rabbits. * Trix. * 2: Of Singles, Doubles or Triples, the one that's a cereal by General Mills. * Triples. * 3: Disney Buzz Blasts was inspired by this movie. * Toy Story*. * 4: A third Olympic gold put Misty May-Treanor on boxes of this in 2012. * Wheaties. * 5: Items on drop-down menus at the website of this cereal include "Our honey", "Our oats" and "Healthy hearts". * Cheerios.

Round 4. Category: soccer* 1: =. * =. * 2: First held in Uruguay in 1930, it's the largest single-sport tournament in the world. * the World Cup. * 3: International competition for this trophy began in 1930. * World Cup. * 4: He led Brazil to 3 World Cup soccer titles and won an NASL title with the Cosmos. * Pelé. * 5: Also a term used in baseball, it's what the Brits call a soccer field. * a pitch.

Round 5. Category: female flyers* 1: On August 1, 1911 Harriet Quimby became the first American woman to get one of these. * Pilot's license. * 2: "Charlie", now in the Smithsonian, was the plane in which Flying Angel Geraldine Mock did this in 29 days in 1964. * Circumnavigate the globe. * 3: Anne Spencer Morrow's first date with this man, her future husband, was a flying lesson. * Charles Lindbergh. * 4: Some say Ruth Law was the first woman to perform this big circle trick, others say it was Katharine Stinson. * Loop-the-loop. * 5: Geraldyn Cobb began testing to get into this program in 1960; after besting many of the men, she wasn't allowed in. * Space/astronaut program.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 811, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: it happened on valentine's day* 1: In 1929 Al Capone's men massacred rival gangsters on St. Valentine's Day in this city. * Chicago. * 2: TV's Mrs. Brady, she was born on Feb. 14, 1934. * Florence Henderson. * 3: In 1995 Arthur Chaskalson, who defended Nelson Mandela in 1964, was sworn in as this country's chief justice. * South Africa. * 4: Americans fell in love with her when she gave a TV tour of the White House on Feb. 14, 1962. * Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. * 5: On Feb. 14, 1989 the Ayatollah Khomeini called for the death of this Indian-born British author. * Salman Rushdie.

Round 2. Category: "and" 1: We think it's a conspiracy that she hasn't won an Emmy every year she's played FBI agent Dana Scully. * Gillian Anderson. * 2: It's the first symbol in the censored word and$%!. * ampersand. * 3: He was the Roman slave who removed a thorn from a big cat's paw, and we ain't lion. * Androcles. * 4: Name of a princess of myth, a constellation and a new Gene Roddenberry sci-fi show. * Andromeda. * 5: He's the only man to win the Daytona 500, Indy 500 and a Formula One World Championship. * (Mario) Andretti.

Round 3. Category: planets on earth* 1: Drive through the village of Mercury in the Rhone-Alpes region of this country. * France. * 2: There is life in Mars, 30 miles from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers in this state. * Pennsylvania. * 3: If you're driving through Jupiter, catch a show at the maltz Jupiter theatre in this state. * Florida. * 4: The seas of Neptune are long gone, replaced by the prairies near its captital, Regina, in this Canadian province. * Saskatchewan. * 5: Though not large enough to be an official planet, Pluto resides on this largest Philippine Island. * Luzon.

Round 4. Category: films of the '40s 1: In 1943 Claude Rains played this title character who lived in the sewers under the Paris Opera House. * the Phantom of the Opera. * 2: While he didn't do one of his Road pictures in 1944, he did do "Going My Way". * Bing Crosby. * 3: In 1940 titles Brian Donlevy was "The Great McGinty" and Charlie Chaplin was "The Great" this. * dictator. * 4: This 1945 film, based on a novel by James M. Cain, earned Joan Crawford a career boost and her only Oscar. * Mildred Pierce*. * 5: He was a well-respected actor in England before taking his 1st U.S. role in "Anna and the King of Siam". * Rex Harrison.

Round 5. Category: archie-ology* 1: In the "Archie" comics, this is the nickname of Forsythe Pendleton Jones. * "Jughead". * 2: Betty's last name is Cooper; this character's is Lodge. * Veronica. * 3: Archie lives and attends high school in this town. * Riverdale. * 4: Midge's boyfriend, he suffers from dyslexia. * Moose. * 5: Archie will turn 60 in this, the 1st year of the 21st century. * 2001.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 810, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: oscar winning songs 1: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head". * Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. * 2: "Talk To The Animals". * Dr. Dolittle. * 3: "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life". * Dirty Dancing. * 4: "Let The River Run". * Working Girl. * 5: "White Christmas". * Holiday Inn*.

Round 2. Category: jefferson, lincoln or clinton* 1: A state capital is not named after him. * Clinton. * 2: Did not serve 2 full terms as President. * Lincoln. * 3: An accomplished violinist. * Jefferson. * 4: Married a Yale graduate. * Clinton. * 5: Once was a U.S. Congressman. * Lincoln.

Round 3. Category: pig lit 1: This 1995 film is based on the book "The Sheep-Pig". * Babe*. * 2: Piggy is one of the boys stranded on a desert island in his "Lord of the Flies". * William Golding. * 3: In "Charlotte's Web", Charlotte helps keep this pig from becoming Christmas dinner. * Wilbur. * 4: This author wrote about Piglet, a toy that had been a gift to his son from a neighbor. * A.A. Milne. * 5: Ferocious man-eating wild boars appear in this author's "Hannibal". * Thomas Harris.

Round 4. Category: vampire movies 1: George Hamilton's 1979 vampire spoof wasn't called "Love at First Sight", but this. * Love at First Bite. * 2: "The Fearless Vampire Killers" was subtitled "Pardon Me, but Your Teeth are in" this body part. * My Neck. * 3: Catherine Deneuve "hungered" for this Bull Durham beauty in "The Hunger". * Susan Sarandon. * 4: This Englishman played Dracula in "Horror of Dracula" in 1958, then rose from the grave for several sequels. * Christopher Lee. * 5: Some say the title character for this German silent film was the ugliest vampire in film history. * Nosferatu*.

Round 5. Category: colonies* 1: Over thousands of years, colonies of these marine polyps can become giant reefs. * Coral. * 2: In the mid-'60s this village in lower Manhattan was a hippie colony. * Greenwich Village. * 3: A colony of the Amazon species of this social insect may have a slave population. * ants. * 4: William Brewster and William Bradford were leaders of this colony. * Plymouth Colony. * 5: By 700 B.C. these people had established Mediterranean colonies at Utica and Carthage. * Phoenicians.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 809, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: who "m i"?* 1: During my long relationship with Woody Allen, I starred in 13 of his films. * Mia Farrow. * 2: From 1961 to 1964, I invited TV home viewers to "Sing Along With" me. * Mitch Miller. * 3: In 1505 I was summoned by Pope Julius II to create his tomb. * Michelangelo. * 4: Since leaving Czechoslovakia, I've directed films like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus". * Milos Forman. * 5: You can hear me doing what I did best in the following:(playing his trumpet). * Miles Davis.

Round 2. Category: make* 1: The Golf, the Jetta. * Volkswagen. * 2: The Bonneville, the GTO. * Pontiac. * 3: The Cordoba, the LeBaron. * Chrysler. * 4: The Monza, the Vega. * Chevy. * 5: The Gremlin, the Pacer. * AMC (American Motor Corp.).

Round 3. Category: what's new 1: In some jewelry departments, you can now buy a single one of these instead of a pair. * earring. * 2: Going for the soft drink crowd, researchers have come up with a way to do this to milk. * carbonate. * 3: Seventeen says a new fad is to wear sweatshirts on these limbs. * legs. * 4: After downing a 6-pack of soda, fold this so it looks like one circle, and wear it as a bracelet. * yoke that holds all six cans together (plastic holder). * 5: On "10 Classics in 10 Minutes", a new cassette, this novel is summed up by "Everybody dies but fish and Ish". * Moby Dick*.

Round 4. Category: '80s bestsellers* 1: His "Cosmos" was a bestseller in 1980; he made "Contact" again in 1985. * Carl Sagan. * 2: This worldly author brought us tales of "Texas", "Poland" and the "Caribbean". * James Michener. * 3: In 1981 weight-conscious readers feasted on "The Beverly Hills Diet" and his "Never-Say-Diet Book". * Richard Simmons. * 4: This comedienne left us with the touching memoir "It's Always Something". * Gilda Radner. * 5: His memoir "Gracie: A Love Story" made the bestseller list in 1988. * George Burns.

Round 5. Category: "e" dock* 1: Name shared by the fathers of Ethelred the Unready and Candice Bergen. * Edgar. * 2: This dark, hard wood family includes the persimmon. * Ebony. * 3: We recognize this senator from North Carolina who chaired the Watergate Committee. * Sam Ervin. * 4: Completes the sign P.T. Barnum used to steer foot traffic moving through his museum, "This Way to the....". * Egress. * 5: Meaning "universal", it's a type of council convoked by the Pope. * Ecumenical.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 808, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: military wives* 1: As both a military and a political wife, she was determined not to look "Dowd"y. * Mamie Eisenhower. * 2: This widow of a slain Israeli general and prime minister now speaks out on the need for Middle East peace. * Leah Rabin. * 3: In 1824 David Farragut married Susan Marchant of this Virginia city and made that port his home. * Norfolk. * 4: A few weeks before their 1864 wedding, his fiancee Elizabeth called him her "old fellow with the golden curls". * (George Armstrong) Custer. * 5: That's the former Beatrice Ayer, gazing up at this husband of hers. * General George Patton.

Round 2. Category: all kinds of red 1: "Casey would waltz" with this kind of blonde as "the band played on". * a strawberry blonde. * 2: The kind of pirate played by Burt Lancaster in 1952 film. * The Crimson Pirate*. * 3: The unmarried lady in the game of "Clue". * Miss Scarlet. * 4: A moron, the way Bugs Bunny usually pronounces it. * maroon. * 5: Cochineal treated with water and alum, or Eddie Mekka on "Laverne and Shirley". * Carmine.

Round 3. Category: royalty* 1: Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, was the nephew of this last czar of Russia. * Nicholas II. * 2: Prince Rainier served in this country's army during WWII; Monaco doesn't have an army. * France. * 3: Bohemond I was a great leader of the first of these expeditions, in the 1090s. * Crusades. * 4: In 1993 King Hussein celebrated his 40th anniversary as ruler of this country. * Jordan. * 5: Rurik is the semi-legendary founder of this country. * Russia.

Round 4. Category: la la 1: This hit song by Ritchie Valens was originally the B-side of "Donna". * "La Bamba". * 2: This region in south-central Spain is the setting for Cervantes' "Don Quixote". * La Mancha. * 3: Bolivia's largest city, it was founded in 1548 on the site of an Inca village. * La Paz. * 4: George Hearn won a 1984 Tony for his role as Albin opposite Gene Barry's Georges in this Broadway musical. * La Cage Aux Folles*. * 5: Before he was elected mayor of New York City in 1933, he served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. * Fiorello LaGuardia.

Round 5. Category: nautical terms* 1: Bird term for a small platform below the masthead light used as a lookout station. * crow's nest. * 2: A VLCC, very large crude carrier, is this type of ship. * supertanker. * 3: The helm of a small boat may just consist of a tiller and this in the water. * Rudder. * 4: An escutcheon is a board on the stern of a vessel that lists its port of registry and this. * it's name. * 5: This word can mean a vessel's national flag or the most junior commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy. * ensign.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 807, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: monday night football* 1: He started as a play-by-play man in 1971 and became an analyst in 1986. * Frank Gifford. * 2: This Dallas quarterback was quite "Dandy". * Don Meredith. * 3: The current play-by-play commentator, he's remembered for calling the Olympic hockey games in the '80s. * Al Michaels. * 4: He played himself in the films "Bananas" and "The 500-Pound Jerk" and was a lawyer before becoming a sportscaster. * Howard Cosell. * 5: This quarterback's real first name is Norman and he was stormin' as an analyst during the 1998-99 season. * Boomer Esiason.

Round 2. Category: coming soon... history!* 1: 1 man, 1 scientific mission... to tame the heavens... In 1752 he would invent the lightning rod... and electrify the world. * Benjamin Franklin. * 2: If you see only 1 19th c. author's final resting place this Xmas, make it this "Jungle Book" man's at Westminster Abbey. * Kipling. * 3: In 1860s England, he would change the rules of pugilism forever... by making them! This summer, Vin Diesel is.... * the Marquess of Queensbury. * 4: Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide... Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781... this gen.'s surrender would end a war... and birth a nation. * Cornwallis. * 5: In a world that cried out for a... map projection... only this Flemish cartographer would heed the call. * Mercator.

Round 3. Category: shanghai movies 1: Roland Winters played this detective in "The Shanghai Chest" ; Sidney Toler in "The Shanghai Cobra". * Charlie Chan. * 2: In "Footlight Parade", this dancer, Mrs. Al Jolson, used a Chinese accent to play Shanghai Lil. * Ruby Keeler. * 3: 1987 Steven Spielberg epic that opens in Shanghai on the eve of World War II. * Empire of the Sun. * 4: After dumping Loretta Young in "Shanghai", he waylaid Hedy Lamarr in the casbah in "Algiers". * Charles Boyer. * 5: This 1948 Orson Welles film features a shattering climax in a hall of mirrors. * The Lady from Shanghai*.

Round 4. Category: medical tests* 1: A finger stick is done to draw this. * blood. * 2: Patch and scratch tests can determine if you have one or more of these. * allergies. * 3: Not a soldier, the G.I. in an upper G.I. is this tract. * gastrointestinal. * 4: From the Latin for "life appearance", this procedure takes a sample of tissue, fluid or cells for study. * a biopsy. * 5: CTs and MRIs have largely replaced this procedure, also the name of a Nigel Tufnel group. * a spinal tap.

Round 5. Category: bankrupt* 1: Mark Twain went bankrupt investing in a typesetting machine instead of this man's new phone company. * (Alexander Graham) Bell. * 2: This county, home of Disneyland, in 1994 became the biggest U.S. municipality to file for bankruptcy. * Orange. * 3: After his family's business went bankrupt in 1818, he returned to writing tales like "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". * Washington Irving. * 4: This showman became a sucker when he lost over $500.000 in an 1855 clock company investment. * Barnum. * 5: In 1788, under this king, the French government went bankrupt. * Louis XVI.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 806, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: christopher columbus* 1: On his third voyage, Columbus discovered what we now know as this continent. * South America. * 2: Christopher's son Diego was a page in the house of Juan, the only son of this royal pair. * Isabella and Ferdinand. * 3: In 1862 this Italian city erected its big monument to the man. * Genoa. * 4: This Catskills author had a theory on where Columbus first landed: Cat Island. * (Washington) Irving. * 5: In the lawsuits that followed, a Columbus descendant got the title Duke of this, also Zorro's family. * de la Vega.

Round 2. Category: world lit* 1: In "Blessed By Thunder", Flor Fernandez Barrios describes growing up in this country during Castro's revolution. * Cuba. * 2: His 1999 memoir "'Tis" opens in 1949, when he emigrated from Ireland to America at age 19. * Frank McCourt. * 3: Euphrase Kezilahabi of Tanzania wrote his novel "Rosa Mistika" in this African language. * Swahili. * 4: Some find that reading this marquis' 18th century novel "Justine" is pure torture. * Marquis de Sade. * 5: This Canadian author of "The Handmaid's Tale" set her novel "Cat's Eye" in Toronto. * Margaret Atwood.

Round 3. Category: this category is gonna tank* 1: When air forces out the seawater in a sub's ballast tank, the sub will do this. * rise. * 2: The Firefly was one of these "General" tanks equipped with a 76.2-millimeter long-barreled gun. * Sherman tank. * 3: The University of Arizona warns never use matches when inspecting this home waste-water treater. * septic tank. * 4: Gouramis are kept in these. * fish tanks. * 5: He and Emile Gagnan perfected the tank of air with a pressure-regulating valve worn by divers. * Jacques Cousteau.

Round 4. Category: punchlines* 1: Character who utters the classic punchline, "What you mean we, Kemo Sabe?". * Tonto. * 2: Word that inevitably follows Henny Youngman's quip, "Take my wife". * Please. * 3: Different punchlines to this question have been "A newspaper" and "A wounded nun". * "What's black and white and {red/read} all over?". * 4: "I just flew in from the coast...". * "And boy are my arms tired!". * 5: When Rodney Dangerfield told his doctor he wanted a second opinion, the doc said this. * "You're ugly, too!".

Round 5. Category: philadelphia freedom* 1: From the Greek meaning of its name, Philadelphia is nicknamed "The City of" this. * Brotherly Love. * 2: It may ring a bell that it was in this building that the Articles of Confederation were ratified in 1781. * Independence Hall. * 3: Mount Pleasant, a colonial mansion in Fairmont Park, once belonged to this traitor. * Benedict Arnold. * 4: Here's a "Thinker": a Philadelphia museum houses the largest collection of his work outside of Paris. * Auguste Rodin. * 5: This place on 5th and Arch St. makes hundreds of millions of dollars each year. * the U.S. Mint.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 805, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: kiddie lit creatures* 1: For the magic beans that grew into the beanstalk, Jack traded one of these named Milky-White. * a cow. * 2: Austrian author Felix Salten created this en"deer"ing title character in 1923. * Bambi. * 3: Using a tar baby, he tried to catch Brer Rabbit. * Brer Fox. * 4: This author called his "Yertle the Turtle" a caricature of Adolf Hitler. * Dr. Seuss. * 5: [Video Daily Double]Seen here as drawn in a Chuck Jones cartoon, name of this Rudyard Kipling title creature. * Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.

Round 2. Category: presidential moms* 1: Hannah Milhous. * Richard Nixon. * 2: Abigail Smith. * John Quincy Adams. * 3: Dorothy Walker. * (George) Bush. * 4: Lillian Gordy. * Jimmy Carter. * 5: Hannah Simpson. * Ulysses S. Grant.

Round 3. Category: in a nutshell* 1: They make a tasty poultry stuffing and in a Christmas song, they're "roasting on an open fire". * Chestnuts. * 2: These large nuts from the Amazon River Valley can be used in cooking much the same way as coconut. * Brazil nuts. * 3: To make a traditional pesto sauce, you need these nuts. * Pine nuts. * 4: The Mauna Loa Corporation is the world's leading grower, processor and marketer of these nuts. * Macadamia nuts. * 5: These bright green nuts are said to have been a favorite of the Queen of Sheba. * Pistachios.

Round 4. Category: worn out* 1: It's a south-of-the-border wool blanket made with a slit opening for the head. * a poncho. * 2: British "braces" are the equivalent of these American trouser accessories. * suspenders. * 3: The soles of some footwear are made of this edible-sounding type of crinkly rubber. * crepe. * 4: The book "Let There Be Clothes" says the corset was replaced in the 1950s by the panty-style one of these. * a girdle. * 5: They were once measured in buttons; a one-button was wrist length, a 16-button, formal length. * gloves.

Round 5. Category: party time!* 1: Heloise suggests putting fortunes inside these inflatable items instead of in cookies; then let guests pop them. * Balloons. * 2: On a party invitation, the letters RSVP stand for the French phrase "Repondez" this. * S'il vous plait. * 3: Founded in 1973:This Israeli party to the right of Labor. * Likud. * 4: Active 1834-1854:This U.S. party that borrowed its name from a British party. * the Whigs. * 5: Dissolved in 1991:At its height, this party had about 19 million members. * the Communist Party.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 804, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the "un" category 1: In the mid 1800s its stops were "stations" and its workers were called "conductors". * the Underground Railroad. * 2: Among other places, "he" is buried under the Arc de Triomphe, in Westminster Abbey and at Arlington. * the Unknown Soldier. * 3: Though often misquoted, these are the kinds of "rights" the Declaration of Independence guarantees. * unalienable rights. * 4: They were called this because they used to write their names at the bottom of insurance contracts. * underwriters. * 5: Dylan Thomas' radio play about a day in the life of the Welsh villagers of Llareggub. * Under Milk Wood*.

Round 2. Category: forbes' fictional billionaires* 1: Topping the list is this North Pole resident with apparently unlimited, incalculable wealth. * Santa Claus. * 2: $1 billion is the total for this fictional billionaire, Homer Simpson's boss. * C. Montgomery Burns. * 3: This candy magnate from a Roald Dahl novel hoards a sweet $8 billion. * Willy Wonka. * 4: This "Gilligan's Island" tycoon washes ashore with $8 billion. * Thurston Howell III. * 5: A James Bond villain, he's worth an estimated $1.2 billion. * Auric Goldfinger.

Round 3. Category: famous sailors* 1: Most collections of "The Arabian Nights" include the tale of this "sailor". * Sinbad. * 2: The word odyssey, meaning a long, adventurous voyage, comes from the name of this sailor. * Odysseus. * 3: In 1947 he sailed the Kon-Tiki from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands in the South Pacific. * Thor Heyerdahl. * 4: This Atlanta media mogul is famous for riding the waves as well as the airwaves. * Ted Turner. * 5: In 1841 this American author signed on as a seaman aboard the whaler Acushnet. * Melville.

Round 4. Category: national landmarks* 1: The dome of this Washington, D.C. building was topped with the Statue of Freedom in 1863. * Capitol Building. * 2: The only mountain in Colorado that's been designated a national landmark. * Pikes Peak. * 3: Officially this St. Louis landmark's name is the Jefferson Nat'l Expansion Memorial. * the St. Louis Arch (Gateway Arch). * 4: Tho Washington took the oath of office there, this city's Federal Hall was sold for salvage in 1812. * New York. * 5: Much of this village, site of Lee's surrender to Grant, has been restored to its 1865 appearance. * Appomattox Court House.

Round 5. Category: salute to labor* 1: Promising more assertiveness, John Sweeney was elected president of this labor federation in 1995. * AFL-CIO. * 2: In 1969 the brakemen, firemen and switchmen on these were "tied" together in one union. * railroads. * 3: OCAW is the union of oil, chemical and these workers; let's hope Homer Simpson's not a member. * Nuclear/Atomic Workers. * 4: This worker may be found on an airplane or as a union representative on a shop floor. * Steward. * 5: In 1995 the Int'l Association of Machinists staged a 69-day strike against this Seattle-based company. * Boeing.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 803, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: pot cluck* 1: The dish of chicken wings in a hot sauce and blue cheese dressing was named for this city, not for an animal. * Buffalo, NY. * 2: Roy Harper of Van Camp Sea Food is credited with naming this brand of tuna. * Chicken of the Sea. * 3: It's the rock referred to in the name of the Rock Cornish game hen. * Plymouth Rock. * 4: An old person isn't one of these seasonal items anymore. * Spring Chicken. * 5: It's the part of a chicken in rumaki. * Liver.

Round 2. Category: facts and figures* 1: Experts say it takes an intake of 3500 extra calories to gain this much weight. * a pound. * 2: The framework of this statue weighs 125 tons; its 31 tons of copper are 3/32 of an inch thick. * the Statue of Liberty. * 3: A byword for fast reproduction, this animal can have a litter of 7, 5 times a year. * a rabbit. * 4: A "Money" magazine survey said people still think this is the best way to get rich. * hard work. * 5: In 1985-86, this character's dream accounted for 31 hours of television programming. * Pam Ewing.

Round 3. Category: acronyms* 1: The "E" in "CARE" no longer stands for Europe, but this. * Everywhere. * 2: Now headquartered in the Big Apple, "CORE" is the "Congress of" this. * Racial Equality. * 3: The North American Air Defense Command. * NORAD. * 4: In case of disaster:FEMA. * the Federal Emergency Management Agency. * 5: In your computer:ROM. * read-only memory.

Round 4. Category: presidential alma maters* 1: U.S. Military Academy,1843. * Ulysses S. Grant. * 2: Whittier,1934;Duke Law School,1937. * Richard Nixon. * 3: Eureka College. * Ronald Reagan. * 4: Southwest Texas state. * Lyndon Johnson. * 5: Princeton(class of 1879). * Woodrow Wilson.

Round 5. Category: old testament books* 1: The Song of Songs is also called the Song of him. * Solomon. * 2: It's the book abbreviated Is.. * Isaiah. * 3: In chapter 1 of this aptly named book, God orders that the first census of Israel be taken. * Numbers. * 4: It's sometimes referred to by the title "Sepher Tehillim", meaning "book of praises". * Psalms. * 5: Chapter 6 of this book begins, "Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel". * Joshua.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 802, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: current sitcoms 1: A Vermont innkeeper in his last series, this veteran comedian now plays cartoonist Bob McKay. * Bob Newhart. * 2: Now in its 7th season, this sitcom about the Bundys is Fox's longest-running series. * Married... with Children. * 3: On "Love and War", Jay Thomas wants this former "L.A. Law" star to warm up his nights. * Susan Dey. * 4: She's back, she's blonde and she has designs on becoming a country star on her new sitcom. * Delta Burke. * 5: It's the name of the newsmagazine show for which Murphy Brown works. * FYI*.

Round 2. Category: to serve* 1: You can serve your leftovers directly from this brand of tight-sealing food containers introduced in 1945. * Tupperware. * 2: According to their Buffalo, NY inventors, Buffalo wings should be served with celery and this dressing. * Blue cheese. * 3: According to Guinness, this sport's fastest serve was 142 MPH, in 1997. * Tennis. * 4: He served in the Dodger organization for 47 years, retired, and returned as GM in 1998. * Tommy Lasorda. * 5: The "To Serve Man" episode of this classic TV series involved aliens with a "taste" for humans. * "The Twilight Zone".

Round 3. Category: 1986* 1: In 1986 the songs "Soul Man", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", and "Blue Velvet" became titles of these. * movies. * 2: This American enjoyed the first of his 3 wins in the prestigious Tour de France bike race. * Greg LeMond. * 3: Month in 1986 during which both Duvalier and Marcos fled their countries. * February. * 4: This lawyer's book about the Von Bulow case "Reversal of Fortune", was published in 1986. * (Alan) Dershowitz. * 5: The beginning and ending cities of the Great Peace March for global nuclear disarmament. * Los Angeles, California and Washington, D.C..

Round 4. Category: pop-rock* 1: With the release of 1991's "Too Legit To Quit", he dropped the M.C. from his name. * Hammer. * 2: "Bohemian Rhapsody", one of this group's early hits, returned to the Top 10 in 1992. * Queen. * 3: In 1974 this singer had her first No. 1 hit with "I Honestly Love You". * Olivia Newton-John. * 4: In 1996 this 13-year-old became an overnight sensation with her country hit "Blue". * LeAnn Rimes. * 5: In the '80s this group had U.S. hits with "Lost In Love", "All Out Of Love" and "The One That You Love". * Air Supply.

Round 5. Category: '50s film facts 1: James Mason portrayed this general in the '50s films "The Desert Fox" and "The Desert Rat". * Rommel. * 2: Lana Turner earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for this film based on Grace Metalious' novel. * Peyton Place. * 3: This James Dean film featured Sal Mineo as Plato, Nick Adams as Moose and Dennis Hopper as Goon. * Rebel Without a Cause. * 4: Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden and Rod Steiger were all Oscar contenders for this 1954 Marlon Brando film. * On the Waterfront*. * 5: Little Richard sang the title tune for this blonde bombshell's 1956 comedy "The Girl Can't Help It". * Jayne Mansfield.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 801, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: revolutionary war heroes* 1: After the war, this marquis returned to France with enough American soil in which to be buried. * the Marquis de Lafayette. * 2: He fought well as a major general for the Americans and a brigadier-general for the British. * Benedict Arnold. * 3: Because he hadn't begun to fight, he continued his career in Russia's navy. * John Paul Jones. * 4: Ethan Allen led this fighting group in Vermont. * the Green Mountain Boys. * 5: He served as Washington's aide-de-camp for four years before leading New York troops at Yorktown. * Alexander Hamilton.

Round 2. Category: aces* 1: An ace is slang for this amount of U.S. money. * one dollar. * 2: The record for jet-to-jet kills is 16, accomplished by Capt. Joseph McConnell Jr. in his 1950s war. * the Korean Conflict. * 3: It's a hidden advantage, played when needed. * ace up one's sleeve (ace in the hole). * 4: This Marine Corps major led the Black Sheep squadron and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. * Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. * 5: He was the USA's leading air ace in World War I with 22 enemy planes and 4 balloons shot down. * Eddie Rickenbacker.

Round 3. Category: tangled up in "blue" 1: Legend has it Gershwin had to write this famous piece in 3 weeks because he forgot about a deadline. * Rhapsody in Blue*. * 2: Music-hating enemies of the denizens of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine". * the Blue Meanies. * 3: Murzim, Hadar and Acrux are these astronomical "behemoths". * blue giants. * 4: They're the geological formations mentioned in John Denver's "Take Me Home Country Roads". * the Blue Ridge Mountains. * 5: Legend has it that this breed descended from the royal cat of the czars. * the Russian blue.

Round 4. Category: capital city hotels* 1: The Hotel Zarya,the Hotel Sputnik. * Moscow. * 2: Isis Hotel,Ramses Hilton. * Cairo. * 3: Hotel Peter I,Hotel Soyuz. * Moscow. * 4: The Hotel Amiga,the Hotel Hyundai. * Seoul. * 5: Hotel Adlon Kempinski,Hotel California am Kurfurstendamm. * Berlin.

Round 5. Category: nonpotent potables* 1: In 1990 Coca-Cola introduced Powerade to compete with this No. 1-selling sports drink. * Gatorade. * 2: The milk substitute derived from these legumes is also curdled to make tofu. * Soybeans. * 3: This soft drink was first sold in 1929 as "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda". * 7 Up. * 4: An unfuzzy navel combines lemon juice, orange juice and this flavor fruit nectar. * peach. * 5: A cardboard cutout of Shakira comes to life and tangos with a grocery clerk in a commercial for this soda. * Pepsi.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 800, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: the u.n.* 1: In May 1994 the Security Council ended the arms embargo against this country due to the end of apartheid. * South Africa. * 2: In 1971 the General Assembly voted to oust this nation; the Beijing government replaced it. * Taiwan. * 3: One of the very 1st acts of the U.N. was establishing a commission to control this energy. * nuclear (atomic). * 4: To date he's the only Asian to have served as Secretary-General of the United Nations. * U Thant. * 5: U.S. president who was present at the signing of the U.N. Charter. * Harry Truman.

Round 2. Category: cleveland* 1: Cleveland is situated where the Cuyahoga River meets this Great Lake. * Erie. * 2: Abbreviated WCTU, this group that promoted abstinence from alcohol was founded in Cleveland in 1874. * Woman's Christian Temperance Union. * 3: The opening of this international waterway in 1959 allowed oceangoing ships to reach Cleveland. * St. Lawrence Seaway. * 4: The world's largest collection of manuscripts of this celibate religious sect is in Cleveland. * Shakers. * 5: In 1967 he became mayor, the first African American to hold that office in a major U.S. city. * Carl Stokes.

Round 3. Category: the four seasons 1: The fall guy in the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert Fall, was born November 26, 1861 in this season. * the fall. * 2: According to "You've Got A Friend", it's when you can call your "friend" James Taylor. * winter, spring, summer, or fall. * 3: According to the old song, it's when "she's your tootsey wootsey". * the good old summertime. * 4: The University of Cambridge's Michaelmas term takes place in this season. * the fall. * 5: In this 1973 film Joanne Woodward obsesses on her childhood. * Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams*.

Round 4. Category: veterinary medicine* 1: Most wounds to captive snakes are caused by these feed animals attacking the snake first. * mice or rats. * 2: Large dogs are especially vulnerable to dysplasia, dislocation of this. * the hips. * 3: Psittacosis, better known as fever of this bird, has been all but eliminated from caged birds. * parrots. * 4: Zoonosis is the term for a disease transmitted from these to these. * animals to people. * 5: Many early veterinarians were "farriers", those who dealt with this aspect of horse care. * the men who shoed horses.

Round 5. Category: let them eat cake* 1: For Christmas, you can make this 2-word chocolate roll cake while watching the same-named item burn on TV. * a yule log. * 2: Despite its name this state dessert of Massachusetts is really a custard-filled cake. * Boston cream pie. * 3: Pineapple is the main attraction in this kind of cake, inverted before serving so the glazed fruit goes from bottom to top. * a pineapple upside-down cake. * 4: Ricotta can be used to make this type of cake, part of a "factory" restaurant chain's name. * cheesecake. * 5: This 3-layered "feminine" white cake filled with fruit and nuts was created in South Carolina, not Maryland. * Lady Baltimore cake.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 799, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: exotic fruits and vegetables* 1: When sliced crosswise, a carambola resembles a 5-pointed one of these. * star. * 2: Feijoa fruit resembles this New Zealand product but has no fuzz. * kiwi. * 3: Laver, a type of seaweed eaten in Ireland and Wales, is called nori in this country. * Japan. * 4: In this Middle East country, the prickly pear is called sabra, like the country's native-born citizens. * Israel. * 5: This Chinese fruit, sometimes called a "nut" is related to the longan. * litchi.

Round 2. Category: sermonizing* 1: Today's text is from this biblical book: "With a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt. * Exodus. * 2: Take hope, friends, from Isaiah 35--this sandy area "shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose". * the desert. * 3: Perhaps life is unfair--John 4:37 tells us that one person sows and another does this. * reaps. * 4: Sometimes we all feel like Orpah, who stayed behind when this woman followed Naomi. * Ruth. * 5: We can learn from this man's epistle to Philemon, asking him to receive a slave as a brother. * St. Paul.

Round 3. Category: a piece of cake* 1: Daffodil cake is so named for its bursts of this color, from a mixture of egg yolks and orange rind. * Yellow. * 2: If you don't add raisins to this holiday baked good, you might be "as nutty as" one. * a fruitcake. * 3: Italian for "recooked", it's the key ingredient in the creamiest cheesecake. * Ricotta. * 4: A sponge cake without egg yolks or butter, it's fat free, pure white, and, as its name implies, a little piece of heaven. * angel food cake. * 5: A long twisted doughnut topped with sugar or glaze, its name is from the Dutch for "twisted cake". * a cruller.

Round 4. Category: file under "j"* 1: A deep shade of black, or a 747. * Jet. * 2: In 1882 Prof. Jigaro Kano opened the first school for this in Japan. * Judo. * 3: A dexterous person does it to balls, a devious person to books. * juggle. * 4: Slang for electric current. * Juice. * 5: To put together in a makeshift fashion is to jury-rig or to "build" this way. * Jerry-build.

Round 5. Category: camping* 1: I gotta have my trail mix, aka GORP, "good ol"' these 2 items. * raisins and peanuts. * 2: Time to turn in and hit the Everest mummy, this 2-word item that lives up to its name, covering your head and shoulders. * a sleeping bag. * 3: Mary, let John attach this from the side of the tent to a stake--"it's a" this "thing". * guy. * 4: I have a preposition for you; the clip-on mosquito repellent from this brand has a fan inside to circulate the stuff. * Off. * 5: Like some antiseptics, water purification products like Potable Aqua are based on this element. * iodine.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 798, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: faces in history* 1: Depicted here, he was the first vice president who never became president. * Aaron Burr. * 2: "Little Lady" depicted here who wrote the bestselling American novel of the 1850s. * Harriet Beecher Stowe ("Uncle Tom's Cabin"). * 3: This Tennessean is one of those we remember from the Alamo. * Davy Crockett. * 4: Towns and counties across America are named for this patriotic Pole. * Casimir Pulaski. * 5: Here's this 15th century French woman in happier times, at the coronation of Charles VII. * Joan of Arc.

Round 2. Category: come together* 1: It's a meeting with the pope, or a group of people attending a TV show taping. * audience. * 2: The name of this type of banquet that's often accompanied by entertainment is Hawaiian for "young taro tops". * a luau. * 3: It's the small hammer used to quiet disturbances at parliamentary functions. * gavel. * 4: A gathering of famous historical people, "Meeting of Minds" was an Emmy-winning creation of this comedian. * Steve Allen. * 5: This word for a religious festival devoted to a saint precedes Spain's "de San Fermin". * fiesta.

Round 3. Category: tv vehicles* 1: At first ABC would only let Fonzie wear a leather jacket when he was with this vehicle. * His motorcycle. * 2: Mr. T drove this title group around in a black GMC van with red trim. * The A-Team. * 3: The type of title automobile driven by Elaine Nardo, Tony Banta and Alex Reiger. * Taxi. * 4: Ernest Borgnine played this man, skipper of the U.S. Navy's PT73. * Quinton McHale. * 5: On "Knight Rider" William Daniels provided the voice of this talking Trans-Am. * KITT.

Round 4. Category: subatomic particles* 1: We're positive that an electron has this type of electric charge. * Negative. * 2: Bosons are named for Satyendra Bose, who with this German-American genius described their behavior. * Albert Einstein. * 3: Particle name of a 1984 Pointer Sisters "dance", or a bomb that destroys people and not buildings. * Neutron. * 4: In 1908 this German physicist "clicked" with his first device to count radioactive particles. * Hans Geiger. * 5: One proton makes up over 99% of the mass of an atom of this element, 2 of which are found in water. * Hydrogen.

Round 5. Category: department stores* 1: This NYC store has opened 2 mini stores at JFK Airport called Bloomie's Express. * Bloomingdale's. * 2: In the name of an upscale department store, it follows Bergdorf. * Goodman. * 3: 1 of 3 Western states where you might find a Goldwater's in the mall. * Arizona (or New Mexico or Nevada). * 4: The name of this chain tells you its flagship store is on Fifth Avenue. * Saks Fifth Avenue. * 5: London's largest department store, they claim to be Europe's largest. * Harrod's.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 797, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: measuring up* 1: There are 3 teaspoons in this unit of measure. * tablespoon. * 2: A short one of these equals 2,000 pounds. * ton. * 3: It's the number of feet (not including the runners') in a 60-yard dash. * 180. * 4: Of 6 miles, 16 miles or 60 miles, the one closest to the length in miles of a 10-kilometer run. * 6 miles. * 5: This unit can be 1/60 of a degree or 1/60 of an hour. * minute.

Round 2. Category: exports* 1: 90% of Qatar's income comes from the export of this product. * oil. * 2: The hills around San Jose are covered with trees growing this, Costa Rica's top export. * coffee. * 3: This crop is king in Mali; about 1/2 of its export income comes from it. * cotton. * 4: A big export for Tuvalu is copia, the dried meat of this. * coconut. * 5: In ancient times, the most famous export of the Phoenician town of Byblos to Greece was this material. * papyrus.

Round 3. Category: "un"* 1: It costs more per gallon than regular. * unleaded. * 2: Fugitive slaves booked passage to freedom on this "train". * underground railroad. * 3: How softballs are pitched or dirty deals made. * underhanded. * 4: Plato said, "The life that is" this "is not worth living". * unexamined. * 5: Name of this Dave Brubeck "country style" song in 7/4 time:. * "The Unsquare Dance".

Round 4. Category: the last half of the 20th century* 1: On October 26, 1972 this future U.S. Secretary of State declared that "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam. * Henry Kissinger. * 2: In 1990 Guillermo Endara became Panama's president after this strongman surrendered to U.S. officials. * Manuel Noriega. * 3: On March 1, 1954 5 Congressmen were wounded by supporters of independence for this commonwealth. * Puerto Rico. * 4: In 1961 military leaders killed this Caribbean nation's dictator Rafael Trujillo. * Dominican Republic. * 5: In the 1980s Bulgaria ordered this ethnic minority from a neighbor to the southeast to take Slavic names. * Turks.

Round 5. Category: drugstore* 1: This drug is the most widely sold of all over-the-counter medications. * aspirin. * 2: In the 13th c., Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II forbade druggists from making secret deals with them. * doctors. * 3: Top-selling toothpaste in the U.S., it was the 1st to contain fluoride. * Crest. * 4: Off! and Skram are examples of this. * insect repellent. * 5: You'll find their products in nearly every drug store, as they;re the top U.S. maker of health care items. * Johnson and Johnson.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 796, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: harrys and garys 1: Getting the role of Colonel Potter on "mash" was a bit of a demotion; he'd previosuly played a general on the show. * Harry Morgan. * 2: Gary "Big Hands" Johnson played defense for 10 seasons with this NFL team, the southernmost in California. * the San Diego Chargers. * 3: Bigfoot went domestic in this 1987 comedy with John Lithgow. * Harry and the Hendersons. * 4: Here's a Harry and a Gary: in 1995 this "Forrest Gump" actor played Harry Truman. * Gary Sinise. * 5: Harry Shearer has voiced at least 36 different characters, including Jebediah Springfield, on this show. * The Simpsons*.

Round 2. Category: compound words* 1: It provides the familiar flavor in a traditional candy cane. * peppermint. * 2: It's the term for the municipality where you were born and raised. * hometown. * 3: The monarch and the viceroy are both species of this arthropod. * butterfly. * 4: The 2012 London Paralympic Games included this type of basketball and fencing. * wheelchair. * 5: A buildup, as of munitions or weapons, amassed for future use, or to accumulate those weapons for future use. * a stockpile.

Round 3. Category: mathematics* 1: =. * =. * 2: In trigonometry sine is abbreviated sin and this is abbreviated cos. * cosine. * 3: This can be the third power of a number or, in geometry, a solid figure with 6 square faces. * cube. * 4: To divide one fraction by another you do this to the divisor, then multiply. * invert it. * 5: Number of zeros you need to write three hundred fifty thousand in numerals. * 4.

Round 4. Category: national symbols* 1: Congress "wants you" to know in 1961 it resolved that this symbol's origin was a Mr. Wilson of Troy, N.Y.. * Uncle Sam. * 2: The flag of each of the countries in this group contains the Dannebrog cross. * the Scandinavian countries. * 3: All day, all night, she's the personification of the French Republic and is now modeled on C. Deneuve. * Marianne. * 4: In 1712 Scottish scientist John Arbuthnot popularized him to satirize British politics. * John Bull. * 5: This, not the Star of David, is featured in the center of Israel's coat of arms. * the menorah.

Round 5. Category: oceania* 1: While the U.S. has many territories in Oceania, it has only one state there: this one. * Hawaii. * 2: When Gauguin arrived on this island in 1891, he was shocked at how modern it was. * Tahiti. * 3: Adamstown on Pitcairn Island sits on a bay named for this ship. * H.M.S. Bounty. * 4: In the Solomons, you can tour Olasana Island, where this future U.S. president was rescued in August 1943. * JFK. * 5: There's a museum on Tahiti devoted to this artist who spent 12 years there. * (Paul) Gauguin.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 795, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 4-letter stock market words* 1: A stock that's a low risk investment is a blue this. * a chip. * 2: You can get mauled when it's this market that features a lengthy period of price drops. * the bear. * 3: The flow of prices that appear on the boards of brokerage firms can be the "ticker" or this, or both together. * the tape. * 4: It's an option that lets you purchase a certain stock for a set price until a certain date. * a call. * 5: Being in this "position" indicates an expectation of rising share prices; it's also a hedge in futures. * long.

Round 2. Category: sprechen sie deutsch?* 1: You say it to a sneezer to wish him or her "good health". * gesundheit. * 2: As Wayne Newton could tell you, it means "thank you". * danke schoen. * 3: Brand of beer that means "lion's brew". * Lowenbrau. * 4: The name of this flower which grows in the Alps means "noble white". * edelweiss. * 5: In the name of a popular veal dish, Vienna style, it means "slice" or "shaving". * schnitzel.

Round 3. Category: the king 1: Walter Winchell and George M. Cohan have each been called the "King of" this thoroughfare. * Broadway. * 2: The King's concert was definitely over when this 5-word phrase followed "Ladies and gentlemen...". * Elvis has left the building. * 3: Fittingly, this 1960 film was Elvis' first after returning from the army. * G.I. Blues*. * 4: In 1714, the Brits told this king to "come on over". * George I. * 5: Once used as a church, this home established during the Civil War was named for the owner's daughter. * Graceland.

Round 4. Category: show biz siblings 1: This director's brother Ingo Preminger produced the film mash. * Otto Preminger. * 2: Her sister Michie Mader sings backup for her whether she's performing with Regis or without him. * Kathie Lee. * 3: Early in their careers, these brothers appeared on the TV series "Sea Hunt" with their father, Lloyd. * Jeff and Beau Bridges. * 4: He debuted in "King of the Gypsies" in 1978, 10 years before his sister Julia served a "Mystic Pizza". * Eric Roberts. * 5: "Drop Zone" director John Badham is the brother of Mary Badham, who played Scout in this 1962 film. * To Kill a Mockingbird*.

Round 5. Category: it's time for sports* 1: Maria Sharapova has had complaints about the loudness of her grunting while playing this. * tennis. * 2: In 2003 the Miami Hurricanes blew out of this conference to join the Atlantic Coast Conference. * the Big East. * 3: The first choice in the 2003 NBA draft, he already has a $90 million Nike deal and is only 18. * LeBron James. * 4: This surprise 2003 British Open winner said that Tiger Woods has "this aroma about him". * Ben Curtis. * 5: This horse's owners weren't laughing in 2003 when it failed to pick up the 3rd jewel of the Triple Crown. * Funny Cide.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 794, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: toys in the attic* 1: (Famous red-squared, shakeable drawing toy). * Etch-A-Sketch. * 2: ("Stereophonic" device used to watch pictures on reels). * View-Master. * 3: (Toy that's a "knockout"). * Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. * 4: (Remove an ailment carefully or you'll get buzzed). * Operation. * 5: (Tap your mallet carefully on the "frozen water blocks" and...). * Don't Break the Ice.

Round 2. Category: great "scott"* 1: Known for refusing an Oscar, he accepted an Emmy for role in Arthur Miller's "The Price". * George C. Scott. * 2: An infamous 1857 Supreme Court decision declared he could not claim U.S. citizenship. * Dred Scott. * 3: "B" western star who earned an "A" financial rating as one of Hollywood's richest men. * Randolph Scott. * 4: Ironically, by 1917, the year he died in a mental institution, ragtime was passe. * Scott Joplin. * 5: He went deep in space as 1 of first U.S. astronauts to become a navy deep sea diver. * Scott Carpenter.

Round 3. Category: tape* 1: For protection, these athletes tape both hands under their 6- to 12-ounce gloves. * Boxers. * 2: This type of tape is applied to bicycles and to children's clothing as a safety device. * Reflective tape. * 3: A popular calendar is titled "365 Days of" this often gray cloth tape. * Duct tape. * 4: As its name indicates, it's used especially to cover surfaces during painting. * Masking tape. * 5: Used to insulate electrical wires, it's named for the force that resists sliding objects. * Friction tape.

Round 4. Category: the company line* 1: In 1963, live on "The Art Linkletter Show", this company served its billionth burger. * McDonald's. * 2: This housewares store was named for the packaging its merchandise came in and was first displayed on. * Crate and Barrel. * 3: This company's Accutron watch, introduced in 1960, had a guarantee of accuracy to within one minute a month. * Bulova. * 4: Edward Teller and this man partnered in 1898 to sell high fashions to women. * (Paul) Bonwit. * 5: The Kirschner brothers, Don and Bill, named this ski company for themselves and the second-highest mountain. * K2.

Round 5. Category: space exploration* 1: In 2011 MESSENGER is scheduled to orbit this planet named for a messenger god. * Mercury. * 2: In June 1963 she orbited 48 times in 70 hours, 50 minutes. * Valentina Tereshkova. * 3: In 1958 Explorer I discovered these radiation bands surrounding the Earth. * Van Allen Belts. * 4: In 1998 a craft named for him photographed volcanic plumes on Io, a Jovian moon he discovered in 1610. * Galileo. * 5: In 2005 the Hubble Space Telescope found 2 more small moons orbiting this, making 3, including Charon. * Pluto.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 793, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: cheesy countries* 1: Fontina. * Italy. * 2: Provolone. * Italy. * 3: Oak-smoked Blarney Castle. * Ireland. * 4: Lubelski. * Poland. * 5: Brusselae Kaas. * Belgium.

Round 2. Category: the 7 wonders of the ancient world* 1: They were ancient even before the other 6 wonders were built. * Pyramids. * 2: Its flowers and trees were irrigated by slaves turning screws to lift water from the Euphrates River. * Hanging Gardens of Babylon. * 3: This ancient wonder is said to have worn a sun-ray crown and stand beside, not over, a harbor. * Colossus of Rhodes. * 4: Its light was created by fires of wood or oil intensified by several metal mirrors. * Lighthouse of Alexandria. * 5: In the 4th century, this ancient wonder was transported from Olympia to Constantinople. * Statue of Zeus at Olympia.

Round 3. Category: the abcs of the cdc* 1: In 1992 the CDC added this word to its name to reflect its broader role, but didn't add "P" to its initials. * Prevention. * 2: The CDC says this form of cancer, which includes melanoma, is the most common in the U.S.. * Skin cancer. * 3: At its inception in 1946, the CDC fought this mosquito-borne disease that was prevalent in the South at the time. * Malaria. * 4: In 1981 the first cases of this disease were published in the CDC's "Morbidity And Mortality Weekly Report". * AIDS. * 5: The CDC is an agency of this department of the federal government. * Health and Human Services.

Round 4. Category: i believe i can't fly* 1: This large bird was once found as far as the deserts of Arabia and Syria but is now confined to parts of Africa. * Ostrich. * 2: About the size of a chicken, it's strictly protected by New Zealand law. * Kiwi. * 3: The Adelie species of this bird is distinguished by the white spectacle-like ring around each eye. * Penguin. * 4: Native to Mauritius and now extinct, it's known mainly by early drawings and body fragments in museums. * Dodo. * 5: It's Australia's national bird. * Emu.

Round 5. Category: jesus* 1: All 4 gospels agree that Jesus died on this day of the week. * Friday. * 2: ...walked on the water of this large local lake. * the Sea of Galilee. * 3: This term for an artistic representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead Christ is from the Italian. * a pietà. * 4: Type of bread Jesus served at the Last Supper. * unleavened bread. * 5: ...ascended into heaven from atop this peak 40 days after his resurrection. * the Mount of Olives.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 792, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: global numbers* 1: The longitude in degrees of Greenwich, England. * 0. * 2: The latitude in degrees of the North Pole. * 90. * 3: Countries of the world that begin with X. * 0. * 4: Number of mountains over 29,000 feet above sea level. * 1 (Mount Everest). * 5: Number of continents completely south of the Equator. * 2 (Antarctica and Australia).

Round 2. Category: man in space* 1: This country called the 1st satellite it launched on its own the "Rising Sun I". * Japan. * 2: Type of animal that went up with Sputnik 2. * a dog. * 3: On 6/3/65, Ed White became 1st from U.S. to duplicate this feat Alexei Leonov performed in March. * walking in space. * 4: The space centers in Cape Canaveral and Houston are named after these 2 people. * Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. * 5: Apollo 11 astronaut who tells the history of U.S. manned spaceflight in the 1988 book "Liftoff". * Michael Collins.

Round 3. Category: measure for measure* 1: It's considered 1/60 of a teaspoon, so now you can figure out how much one "in a bucket" is. * a drop. * 2: Hey, half-pint, you're equal to this many quarts. * 1/4. * 3: I'll have the 64 oz. steak, please; what? 64 oz. is this many pounds? Better make my soda a diet one. * 4 pounds. * 4: A gallon is equal to 3.785 of these liquid metric units. * a liter. * 5: I fathom you can fathom that 50 fathoms is this many feet. * 300.

Round 4. Category: the emmy awards 1: This "Evening Shade" star joked that he was going to mount his Emmy on the hood of his Mercedes. * Burt Reynolds. * 2: In 1982 and 1983 the TV Academy "hailed" Carol Kane and Christopher Lloyd for their roles on this sitcom. * Taxi. * 3: Of Marion Lorne, Agnes Moorehead or Elizabeth Montgomery, the one who won an Emmy for "Bewitched". * Marion Lorne. * 4: Bebe Neuwirth, a 1986 Tony winner for "Sweet Charity", won 2 Emmys for playing Lilith on this sitcom. * Cheers*. * 5: This TV "Golden Girl" was nominated for the first "Best Actress" Emmy in 1950 but lost to Gertrude Berg. * Betty White.

Round 5. Category: file under "b"* 1: A chance spectator; one may be innocent. * Bystander. * 2: The Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans has a webcam aimed at this famous street. * Bourbon Street. * 3: This 1958 treaty created an economic union among the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. * Benelux. * 4: Bujumbura, on Lake Tanganyika, is the capital of this country. * Burundi. * 5: From the Latin for "projecting", it's a rich silk cloth with a raised pattern in gold or silver. * Brocade.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 791, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: jackie robinson* 1: Jackie's historic major league debut came April 15, 1947 at this Brooklyn Dodgers home park. * Ebbets Field. * 2: At age 28, Robinson won the very first of these awards for first-year players. * Rookie of the Year. * 3: Hall of Fame executive who went out on a "limb" to bring Robinson to the majors. * Branch Rickey. * 4: Jackie won the major leagues' first of these awards for first-year players. * Rookie of the Year. * 5: In 1956 Jackie was traded to this team, but retired rather than play for his old NYC rival. * the Giants.

Round 2. Category: begins and ends with "m"* 1: The next one officially begins January 1, 2001. * Millennium. * 2: "Psychic" size between small and large. * Medium. * 3: According to the title of a 1953 film, it's what Ethel Merman wanted to be called. * Madam. * 4: We're talking major whirlpool with this. * Maelstrom. * 5: In a special promotion, Rite Aid pharmacies have tied this medical test to Mother's Day. * Mammogram.

Round 3. Category: country facts and figures* 1: This third-largest country in area is home to over 1 1/4 billion people. * China. * 2: While Iran also exports fruit and nuts, this accounts for 80% of its exports. * oil. * 3: With a population density of about 7.0 per square mile, its people can easily duck Qaddafi. * Libya. * 4: .5% of the Greeks on this island live in the Turkish area and 1.3% of the Turks live in the Greek area. * Cyprus. * 5: The U.S. has the world's second-highest GDP per capita; this small nation next to Belgium beats it. * Luxembourg.

Round 4. Category: old business* 1: Original occupation of William Warner of Warner-Lambert and Charles Walgreen of Walgreens. * pharmacists. * 2: In 1911 the Supreme Court ordered this oil company to split, creating 33 new independent companies. * Standard Oil. * 3: In 1916 Charlie Soderstrom joined this company and picked the brown for its trucks. * UPS (United Parcel Service). * 4: You can be sure it was this man who paid Nikola Tesla a cool million for his AC patents. * George Westinghouse. * 5: In 1922 George Mecherle founded this insurance company for those in agriculture. * State Farm.

Round 5. Category: yes, i can* 1: No matter what you're canning, you need this space with no matter in it to seal the jar. * Vacuum. * 2: Keep canned fruit from darkening by adding ascorbic acid, better known nutritionally as this. * Vitamin C. * 3: Both these foods, the 2 main ingredients in succotash, should be packed loosely, as they expand. * Corn and lima beans. * 4: Quinces, rich in this thickening substance, can be added when jellying berries low in it. * Pectin. * 5: Add lemon juice to canned tomatoes to keep the level of this high enough to prevent botulism. * Acidity.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 790, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: barbra streisand movies 1: 2004:Barbra Streisand meets her potential in-laws. * Meet the Fockers. * 2: 1968:Babs rises from the slums to become a star in the Ziegfeld Follies. * Funny Girl. * 3: 1983:Barbra disguises herself as a boy to get an education. * Yentl. * 4: 1979:Babs is bankrupt and decides to manage a boxer. * The Main Event. * 5: 1991:Barbra counsels a troubled man with a mysterious family secret. * The Prince of Tides*.

Round 2. Category: pot - "por" - ri* 1: Food staple of Goldilocks. * porridge. * 2: These rodents are born with soft fur in addition to their quills, which harden within hours. * porcupines. * 3: Please, tell us this Spanish way of saying "Please". * por favor. * 4: He wrote, "You're the Nile, you're the Tower of Pisa, you're the smile on the Mona Lisa". * Cole Porter. * 5: The University of Haiti is located in this capital. * Port-au-Prince.

Round 3. Category: tv 3 of a kind* 1: On "Seinfeld" these characters were Jerry's 3 closest friends. * Elaine, George and Kramer. * 2: The 3 sisters on "The Brady Bunch". * Cindy, Jan and Marcia. * 3: The first names of the 3 sons on "Bonanza". * Adam, Hoss and Little Joe. * 4: The 3 occupants of 704 Hauser Street before Mike Stivic moved in. * Archie, Edith and Gloria Bunker. * 5: First and last names of the 3 bandmates of Peter Tork. * Micky Dolenz, David Jones and Michael Nesmith.

Round 4. Category: musical weather* 1: "The weather outside is frightful" and "we've no place to go" so allow this to happen. * "Let It Snow". * 2: The title of a Clash song says this happens "not once, but twice". * "Lightning Strikes". * 3: A Gershwin song says one of these "in London town had me low and had me down". * a foggy day. * 4: In this song, "The rain is gone" and "It's gonna be a bright... sunshiny day". * "I Can See Clearly Now". * 5: Rainy songs from this band include "Box Of Rain" and "Cold Rain And Snow". * The Grateful Dead.

Round 5. Category: freedom fighters* 1: Benito Juarez established land reforms and fought against French rule in this country. * Mexico. * 2: Mario Savio set off the free speech movement when political activities were banned on this U.C. campus in 1964. * U.C. Berkeley. * 3: In 1998 Fred Korematsu was given this highest civilian award for his resistance to being interned during WWII. * Medal of Freedom. * 4: Many consider Justin Dart Jr., who contracted polio as a child, to be the father of this 1990 federal law. * Americans with Disabilities Act. * 5: This NAACP lawyer won a landmark decision in 1946 overturning segregation in interstate transportation. * (Thurgood) Marshall.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 789, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: ladies in song* 1: Sounds like she's suing Michael Jackson for child support. * "Billie Jean". * 2: Salutation for Miss Parton of Nashville or Mrs. Levi of Yonkers. * "Hello, Dolly". * 3: She picked a fine time to leave. * Lucille. * 4: Stephen "Fostered" this dream about a lady with lovely tresses. * "Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair". * 5: Johnny Carson might ask "Kool and the Gang" not to sing this on "The Tonight Show":"I'm in love, and I won't lie /She's my girl and always on my mind /She gives me her love and a feeling that's right...". * "Joanna".

Round 2. Category: rochester* 1: In Rochester in this state, you might expect to find fans of the Fighting Irish, as it's just south of South Bend. * Indiana. * 2: Rochester in Plymouth County in this state is home to Witch Rock where witches were said to rise skyward. * Massachusetts. * 3: 9 miles east of Pontiac, the city of Rochester in this state is home to Oakland University. * Michigan. * 4: A port on the New York state barge canal, Rochester, New York is closest to this Great Lake. * Lake Ontario. * 5: Just up the turnpike from Portsmouth is the "Lilac City" of Rochester in this "New" state. * New Hampshire.

Round 3. Category: monkey business* 1: The title of this 1995 Bruce Willis film refers to a group that may have lauched a deadly plague. * "12 Monkeys". * 2: This title character of classic children's stories lived in Africa until he met the Man with the Yellow Hat. * Curious George. * 3: These aquatic creatures, types of brine shrimp, are "brought to life" by crystals. * Sea Monkeys. * 4: In 1996 this inquisitive monkey of children's lit turned 55. * Curious George. * 5: The Hanuman is a species of monkey and also the name of a monkey-like demigod of this religion who commands a monkey army. * Hinduism.

Round 4. Category: literary first lines 1: It contains the opposite of its title in "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills". * Out of Africa. * 2: "All children, except one, grow up". * Peter Pan. * 3: 1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a... fortune must be in want of a wife". * Pride and Prejudice. * 4: "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing". * A River Runs Through It. * 5: By E.M. Forster:"'The signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, '...she promised us south rooms...'". * A Room with a View*.

Round 5. Category: international authors* 1: Many say that Tufu was this country's greatest poet. * China. * 2: Steingrimur Thorsteinsson translated "The Arabian Nights" into this language spoken in Rekjavik. * Icelandic. * 3: The blind 19th c. poet Antonio Feliciano de Castilho was a leading literary figure in this European country. * Portugal. * 4: One of Maeve Binchy's first plays, "End of Term", premiered in this world capital, her birthplace. * Dublin. * 5: This man and his sister wrote the novel "A Year at Hartlebury" under pseudonyms in 1834, before he was Britain's P.M.. * Disraeli.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 788, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: a christmas carol* 1: City in which the story is set. * London. * 2: This bird Scrooge sent the Cratchits for Christmas dinner was "twice the size of Tiny Tim". * turkey. * 3: "A partridge in a pear tree". * "The Twelve Days of Christmas". * 4: "Good tidings we bring to you and your kin, we wish you good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year". * "We Wish You A Merry Christmas". * 5: "And heav'n and nature sing, and heav'n and nature sing, and heav'n and heav'n and nature sing". * "Joy to the World".

Round 2. Category: pins* 1: Louis Henry and Bruce Ancona hold a patent on one of these that'll hold your undies on the line. * clothespin. * 2: A dowel pin is used by these health professionals to support crowns. * dentists. * 3: Aye, matey, it's what's normally belayed on a belaying pin. * line/rope. * 4: In a gun, it strikes the cartridge, setting off the propelling charge. * firing pin. * 5: Ooh! Ooh! Horshack knows it has a split end that's spread after being put through a hole. * cotter pin.

Round 3. Category: school's out!* 1: This summer I might try to hike this scenic trail that runs about 2,100 miles from Maine to Georgia. * Appalachian Trail. * 2: Before my job interview, I'd better polish up and type up this document, from the French for "summarize". * Resume. * 3: I'm working on Dad's old Saab so I can drive it, and I just learned it's a car from this country. * Sweden. * 4: With classes in this field next term, on the break I'm reading books by Meisner and Stanislavsky. * Acting. * 5: Let's go! I'm heading to this popular spring break city in Florida that's home to "Bike Week". * Daytona Beach.

Round 4. Category: nashville 1: This president's home, the Hermitage, is located on Rachel's Lane. * Andrew Jackson. * 2: In 1873 Central University was renamed this for the "Commodore" who gave it a $1 million gift. * Vanderbilt. * 3: This singer's museum near Nashville has a section featuring the Carter family. * Johnny Cash. * 4: From 1943 to 1974, Ryman auditorium was the broadcast site of this radio program. * the Grand Ole Opry*. * 5: Nashville's Parthenon has a 42-foot replica of this goddess. * Athena.

Round 5. Category: car tunes* 1: Prince drove this tiny title auto to No. 6 in 1983. * "Little Red Corvette". * 2: This "Little" Beach Boys vehicle can "do a hundred and forty with the top end floored". * "Little Deuce Coupe". * 3: He had a 2-part request in the title of his 1988 No. 1 hit: "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car". * Billy Ocean. * 4: As a metaphor for her Southern childhood, Lucinda Williams sang of "Car Wheels On" this type of road. * a gravel road. * 5: In 1976 Rose Royce did the dirty work and went to No. 1 "employed" here (Whoa Whoa Whoa Whoa!). * "Car Wash".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 787, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: vocabulary* 1: As an adjective, it's slang for tipsy; in the name of a game, it precedes "winks". * tiddly. * 2: This dog's name may derive from a Chinese word for dog; it's dark tongue is its "mein" attraction. * a chow. * 3: Part of the body where a Scotsman wears his glengarry. * his head. * 4: Of polydactyl, polydipsic, or polydemic, what you'd be if you were stranded in the desert without water. * polydipsic. * 5: Technically, this adjective means "of, pertaining to, or located in a parish". * parochial.

Round 2. Category: 1977 1: Airing over 8 nights in January, it was the most watched miniseries in TV history. * Roots*. * 2: Egypt was planning a new town to be built near Cairo to be called the Tenth of this holy month. * Ramadan. * 3: The first woman governor in the U.S., Nellie Tayloe Ross, who held office in this state, died at 101. * Wyoming. * 4: The world lost 2 more Marx Brothers in 1977--Milton, aka Gummo, and Julius, aka this. * Groucho. * 5: In October 1977 terrorists from this U.S. commonwealth took the Statue of Liberty hostage for 9 hours. * Puerto Rico.

Round 3. Category: american food history 1: Originally costing 5¢ each, White Castle wanted you to "buy 'em by the sack". * a burger. * 2: In lunch counter lingo of days gone by, this all-American dessert was "Eve with a lid on". * apple pie. * 3: The name of this mix of vegetables and meat over rice comes from Chinese for "odds and ends". * chop suey*. * 4: His company had more than 57 varieties of food when he chose that number for his slogan. * Heinz. * 5: The name of this Hormel product introduced in 1937 was chosen in a contest; the winner received $100. * Spam.

Round 4. Category: world of food* 1: In a Mexican restaurant, you can get your choice of flour tortillas or this type. * corn. * 2: Basmati from India and jasmine from Thailand are aromatic types of this grain. * rice. * 3: This cool soup, a summertime specialty of Andalusia, is literally a "liquid salad". * gazpacho. * 4: Consisting of chunks of grilled lamb on skewers, it's the Greek version of shish kebab. * souvlaki. * 5: Colcannon is an Irish peasant dish of mashed potatoes and traditionally this green, finely chopped. * cabbage.

Round 5. Category: colonial america* 1: The oil of these mammals was used in lamps; their "bone", to stiffen women's clothing. * whales. * 2: David Rittenhouse invented a device in 1767 showing the positions of several of these in the solar system. * planets. * 3: In 1737 in Boston, the Charitable Irish Society held the first municipal celebration of this holiday. * St. Patrick's Day. * 4: On October 9, 1635 this minister was banished from Massachusetts; he headed south to Rhode Island. * (Roger) Williams. * 5: Lawbreakers were often punished by this 7-letter device that locked the head and arms between 2 wooden boards. * the pillory.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 786, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: kansas city here we come* 1: Because of its central location, Kansas City is nicknamed this body part of America. * the heart. * 2: Later to become U.S. President, this "man from Missouri" attended the Kansas City Law School in the 1920s. * Harry Truman. * 3: You can send a greeting card to your sweetie from this company HQ'ed in Kansas City and founded in 1910. * Hallmark. * 4: This author of "The Sun Also Rises" also worked on his craft as a news reporter for the Kansas City Star. * (Ernest) Hemingway. * 5: This jazz alto sax player nicknamed "Bird" was born in Kansas City, Kansas and became famous playing jazz in Kansas City, Missouri. * Charlie Parker.

Round 2. Category: festivus* 1: Days celebrating people going to heaven include Jesus' Ascension day and her Assumption day. * the Virgin Mary. * 2: Bitter herbs are featured on this holiday's Seder plate. * Passover. * 3: In 1939 FDR moved this holiday one week earlier in an attempt to please the retail industry. * Thanksgiving. * 4: In 1876 Montreal's Mount Royal Park was officially inaugurated on May 24, a Canadian holiday because it's her birthday. * Queen Victoria. * 5: In 1955 the Pope moved the service from this observance, including St. John's Passion, to the afternoon. * Good Friday.

Round 3. Category: all the glittering prizes 1: Abbreviated the ABA, this national organization hands out annual "Silver Gavel" awards. * the American Bar Association. * 2: In 1982 President Reagan awarded this "God Bless America" singer the Presidential Medal of Freedom. * Kate Smith. * 3: It's the only Nobel Prize that can be awarded to an organization or institution rather than an individual. * peace. * 4: In 1949 this automobile magazine began awarding its coveted "Car of the Year" award. * Motor Trend*. * 5: In 1999 J.M. Coetzee became the first 2-time winner of this major British fiction prize. * the Booker.

Round 4. Category: animals in mythology* 1: Ratatosk, a messenger of Norse myth, was one of these animals and ran up and down Yggdrasil, a giant tree. * Squirrel. * 2: If Romulus did a "Got Milk?" ad, he'd talk about this animal who suckled him and Remus. * Wolf. * 3: In Incan myth, it was this South American camel relative that warned man about the impending flood. * Llama. * 4: The Zuni believe that when the kachina Paiyatemu played the flute, these insects fluttered into existence. * Butterflies. * 5: Island on which Theseus slew the Minotaur. * Crete.

Round 5. Category: pigs* 1: In the classic folktale, this trio faces off against a huffing, puffing wolf. * The Three Little Pigs. * 2: Use this porcine anguagelay to confuse your iendsfray. * Pig Latin. * 3: This 4-letter word refers to a male pig, whether "wild" or not. * Boar. * 4: The phrase about "living" this way is from a Southern expression for the better off getting the better pork. * High on the hog. * 5: Cruel "sport" in which players on horseback hunt wild boar with spears. * pigsticking.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 785, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "pepper"* 1: Pizza lovers should know that this topping is actually a highly seasoned sausage made of pork and beef. * pepperoni. * 2: She first called Charlie Brown "Chuck" in a comic strip that appeared on August 24, 1966. * Peppermint Patty. * 3: In 1962 this baking company added Goldfish crackers to its product line. * Pepperidge Farm. * 4: In the 1967 hit "Jackson", Johnny Cash and June Carter sang, "We got married in a fever, hotter than" 1 of these. * a pepper sprout. * 5: On "Police Woman" Angie Dickinson played a cop with this name (which made her sound like a Beatles album). * Sgt. Pepper.

Round 2. Category: working without annette 1: Before teaming with Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon appeared in this 1960 John Wayne western (not as Davy). * The Alamo. * 2: With no help from Annette, Frankie Avalon was born in this year in which Germany invaded Poland. * 1939. * 3: With Annette nowhere in sight, Frankie Avalon played a 39-year-old Teen Angel in this 1978 musical film. * Grease. * 4: Annette Funicello did not do backing vocals on this 1959 Frankie Avalon hit song about a Roman goddess. * "Venus". * 5: Annette Funicello was not on board when Frankie starred in this 1961 sci-fi "voyage" directed by Irwin Allen. * Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea*.

Round 3. Category: 1999 films 1: In this film high school teacher Matthew Broderick gets involved with the campaign for student council. * Election*. * 2: A jazz guitarist is the subject of this director's "Sweet and Lowdown". * Woody Allen. * 3: What part did this Irishman play in "End of Days"? Could it be...Satan?. * Gabriel Byrne. * 4: "Music of the Heart" was directed by this man, more known for his nightmares. * Wes Craven. * 5: Once Mighty Joe Young's girlfriend, she played the wife in "The Astronaut's Wife". * Charlize Theron.

Round 4. Category: a category full of holes* 1: A par 3 golf course often has this many holes, half as many as a regular course. * 9. * 2: Beginning a series of strange adventures, a young girl follows a rabbit down a hole in this 1865 work. * "Alice in Wonderland". * 3: Known as "eyes", the holes in this "national" dairy product, such as Emmentaler, help determine its quality and taste. * Swiss cheese. * 4: It's where you would be if you dug a hole straight down 3,963 miles deep. * center of the Earth. * 5: The hole in this develops every spring over Antarctica and lasts for a few months. * ozone layer.

Round 5. Category: i played 'em on tv* 1: Captian James T. Kirk, Boston lawyer Denny Crane. * William Shatner. * 2: Jeannie Bueller, Rachel Green. * Jennifer Aniston. * 3: Dr. John Becker,Sam Malone. * Ted Danson. * 4: Stacey Colbert,Dr. Sloan Parker,Grace Adler. * Debra Messing. * 5: Samantha Micelli, Jennifer Mancini,Phoebe Halliwell. * Alyssa Milano.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 784, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 1998 1: In April this U.S. figure dropped to a 28-year low of 4.3%, leaving the devil without many idle hands. * Unemployment rate. * 2: This goofy comedy with Cameron Diaz in the title role was a big summertime hit. * There's Something About Mary*. * 3: With over $500 million in perks, the Big Apple kept this "Big Board" from moving to Jersey. * New York Stock Exchange. * 4: In 1998 it became a landing "strip" when the Palestinians opened their first airport there. * Gaza Strip. * 5: Bill Clinton's private secretary, she testified before a grand jury January 27. * Betty Currie.

Round 2. Category: tv drama 1: This is the longest-running medical drama and also the longest-running daytime drama still on television. * General Hospital. * 2: "La Reina del Sur", one of these Latin soap operas, ran 5 nights a week on Telemundo. * a telenovela. * 3: Season 1 of this HBO mystery series spans 17 years--season 3 doubles that and covers 35 years. * True Detective. * 4: Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok and Jon Voight play family members of this Showtime title character. * Ray Donovan. * 5: (Hi, I'm Ollie North, and) I've played a mysterious intelligence operative named Ollie on 2 episodes of this CBS series about naval lawyers. * JAG*.

Round 3. Category: movie series 1: John Gavin was signed to play him in "Diamonds Are Forever", but then Sean Connery was lured back. * James Bond. * 2: Films in this series include "Dream Warriors", "The Dream Master" and "Freddy's Revenge". * Nightmare on Elm Street*. * 3: In a series of 14 films in the 1930s and 1940s Nigel Bruce was Watson to his Sherlock Holmes. * Sir Basil Rathbone. * 4: William Boyd was 40 when he began playing this hero in a series of 66 low-budget westerns. * Hopalong Cassidy. * 5: Occupation of Andy Hardy's long-suffering father. * Judge.

Round 4. Category: things that happened* 1: In 622 Muhammad fled this city; in 630 he came back with 10,000 followers and captured it. * Mecca. * 2: The opening of this in 1869 cut 4,000 miles and weeks of sailing off trips. * the Suez Canal. * 3: Einhard's "Life of" this Frankish ruler says he almost doubled the size of the realm his father Pepin left him. * Charlemagne. * 4: He was the junker, or landowner, whom Prussia's Wilhelm I chose to be his prime minister in 1862. * (Otto von) Bismarck. * 5: It was under this czar that Russia went on the Julian calendar used in the West; he liked Western stuff. * Peter the Great.

Round 5. Category: shopping* 1: The National Consumer Council warns that on a credit card, beware of a high APR, which stands for this. * annual percentage rate. * 2: Savile Row in this city is known for its fine custom tailoring shops. * London. * 3: A Pea in the Pod specializes in fashions for these people, as you might "expect". * expectant mothers (pregnant people accepted). * 4: Zorba was the original name of this retailer that started in Spain; it stuck with a "Z" name. * Zara. * 5: A follow-up to "The Devil Wears Prada" is called "When Life Gives You" these yoga clothes. * Lululemons.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 783, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: there's a sucker...* 1: Blue Razz Berry and What A Melon are flavors of these bubble gum suckers from Charms. * Blow Pops. * 2: This company says it's answered over 25,000 letters asking how many licks it takes to get to the center of its famous pop. * Tootsie Roll. * 3: Topps says "Great Fun is Always at Hand" with these wearable suckers. * Ring Pops. * 4: These space age rocket ship-shaped suckers have cherry, watermelon and pineapple layers (or stages). * Astro Pops. * 5: Sound Bites Lollipops transmit sounds and radio signals into your head when you touch the pops to these. * teeth.

Round 2. Category: the caribbean* 1: Damballah is an important deity in this Haitian folk religion. * Voodoo. * 2: These areas not for the shy include parts of Jamaica's Seven Mile Beach and of course Booby Cay, just offshore. * nudist beaches. * 3: Caribbean islanders sometimes combine peas with this grain also found in arroz con pollo. * rice. * 4: You'll find the Museum of Dominican Man in this capital of the Dominican Republic. * Santo Domingo. * 5: You might see Oscar de la Renta around Punta Cana, on the eastern tip of Hispaniola in this country. * the Dominican Republic.

Round 3. Category: wales* 1: Caernarvon Castle was the site of his 1969 investiture as Prince of Wales. * Prince Charles. * 2: The Welsh flag features this red beast with a forked tongue and tail. * a dragon. * 3: Despite a decline in production, it remains Wales' most important mineral resource. * coal. * 4: In Laugharne you can visit the grave of this famous poet, as well as his home, the "Boathouse". * Dylan Thomas. * 5: This largest city of Wales grew up around a Norman fortress. * Cardiff.

Round 4. Category: hats* 1: Expression used when someone declares candidacy for political office. * throw your hat in the ring. * 2: Type of chapeau in song titles by Prince and by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler. * a beret. * 3: Unlike the haberdasher, this person makes women's hats. * milliner. * 4: This men's felt hat got its name from the West German town near Wiesbaden where it was 1st made. * homburg. * 5: Wearing Perseus' Helmet of Hades rendered you this. * invisible.

Round 5. Category: double d words* 1: Colby is a mild variety of this cheese. * cheddar. * 2: In 1908 it was proclaimed a national Jewish language. * Yiddish. * 3: His story in the Arabian Nights has the alternate title "Or The Wonderful Lamp". * Aladdin. * 4: It can mean the mean, or the waist. * the middle. * 5: This little bear of children's lit was named for the London locale in which he was found. * Paddington.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 782, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: to serve* 1: You can serve your leftovers directly from this brand of tight-sealing food containers introduced in 1945. * Tupperware. * 2: According to their Buffalo, NY inventors, Buffalo wings should be served with celery and this dressing. * Blue cheese. * 3: According to Guinness, this sport's fastest serve was 142 MPH, in 1997. * Tennis. * 4: He served in the Dodger organization for 47 years, retired, and returned as GM in 1998. * Tommy Lasorda. * 5: The "To Serve Man" episode of this classic TV series involved aliens with a "taste" for humans. * "The Twilight Zone".

Round 2. Category: gridiron greats* 1: AKA "Tom Terrific", he's won 4 Super Bowl MVP awards. * Tom Brady. * 2: Scandinavians Jan Stenerud and Morten Andersen have excelled in the NFL at this position. * placekicker. * 3: Alan Page of this team's Purple People Eaters defense is now a state supreme court justice. * the Minnesota Vikings. * 4: It was the feline nickname of Dallas Cowboy defensive lineman Bob Lilly, who was no Peter Pan. * Tiger Lilly. * 5: At his Hall of Fame induction in 2017, this Chargers RB known as LT compared America to a football team working together. * LaDainian Tomlinson.

Round 3. Category: the bad old days* 1: It wasn't a college football game, it was the Great Plains area racked by drought in the 1930s. * the Dust Bowl. * 2: 1950s college basketball was hit by scandal when players were "razor"-sharp at this activity. * shaving points. * 3: The scandals of his 1920s presidency included skimming by Veterans Bureau head Charles Forbes. * Warren G. Harding. * 4: The founding of this organization in 1909 was spurred by a Springfield, Ill. race riot the previous year. * NAACP. * 5: This Japanese term refers to second-generation Japanese-Americans, many of whom were interned during WWII. * Nisei.

Round 4. Category: international potpourri* 1: Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, lies on this "Beautiful Blue" river. * Danube. * 2: The railroads in Honduras were built mainly to transport this fruit that has a lot of ap"peel". * bananas. * 3: It's no sham: Aer Lingus is this country's national airline. * Ireland. * 4: It's the seductive ballroom dance most associated with Buenos Aires. * tango. * 5: Kiunguja, which is spoken in Zanzibar, is a dialect of this African Bantu language. * Swahili.

Round 5. Category: social studies* 1: It's South America's most populous country. * Brazil. * 2: This group is composed of those of your same age or social position; in a courtroom, you might face a jury of them. * peers. * 3: As opposed to latitude, these meridian lines run from the North Pole to the South Pole. * Longitude. * 4: The "Great Migration" from the south brought 120,000 African Americans to this "Windy City" in the 1920s. * Chicago. * 5: This social science focuses on the characteristics of human populations such as size, growth and distribution. * demography.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 781, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: bedtime* 1: According to a cliche, an irritable person has "gotten up" this way. * on the wrong side of the bed. * 2: "Driving pigs to market" is British slang for this noisy nocturnal behavior. * snoring. * 3: "Floral" phrase for a situation of luxury and ease. * a bed of roses. * 4: This baby bed with a 4-letter name often has high barred sides to keep the baby from falling out. * a crib. * 5: If you're spending the night in the famous Lincoln bedroom, you're sleeping in this mansion. * the White House.

Round 2. Category: foreign animal noises* 1: To the Germans and Vietnamese, these say wau wau when chasing a postman or a cat. * a dog. * 2: It will wake you up with kokekokko in Japan and kykeliky in Norway. * a rooster. * 3: Albanian ones say hunk hunk; maybe it's the smell that makes French ones say groin groin while truffle hunting. * pigs. * 4: In Argentina they berp; Swedish ones kvack while hopping. * frogs. * 5: They say piv while stealing havarti and squitt squitt if they get into the provolone. * mice.

Round 3. Category: shoot the moon* 1: This lunar "sea" was the landing site of Apollo 11's Eagle module. * Sea of Tranquility. * 2: This term used for an Apollo mission's return to Earth tells you it landed in water. * Splashdown. * 3: On the Apollo 14 mission, Alan Shepard introduced this sport to the moon. * Golf. * 4: A NASA doctor declined this president's dinner invitation to the Apollo 11 crew because of risk of infections. * Richard M. Nixon. * 5: Apollo 15, 16 and 17 used these 4-wheeled vehicles to fetch rock samples. * Lunar rovers.

Round 4. Category: claudias* 1: This man's wife, the former Claudia Alta Taylor, was the mother of Lynda Bird and Luci Baines. * Lyndon B. Johnson. * 2: The People Almanac reports this supermodel from Dusseldorf tripped during her runway debut in 1990. * Claudia Schiffer. * 3: Lacey Chabert plays Claudia Salinger on this FOX series. * "Party of Five". * 4: It's reporter Claudia Cohen's specialty. * Gossip columnist. * 5: In 1993's "Son of the Pink Panther", she played the mother of Clouseau's son. * Claudia Cardinale.

Round 5. Category: crustaceans* 1: Prawn and this word are used interchangeably to refer to the same creature. * a shrimp. * 2: The habit of eating these freshwater crustaceans came to Louisiana from France. * crawfish. * 3: Popular in the South, over 100 mil. lbs. of these freshwater cousins of lobsters are raised in the U.S.. * crayfish. * 4: If you had a fiddler on your roof, one of these would be clomping around. * a crab. * 5: These crustaceans, the main food of many baleen whales, can reach 2 inches in length. * krill.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 780, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: serving suggestions* 1: Baked oysters are sometimes served on a bed of the "rock" type of this seasoning. * salt. * 2: Spring-operated tongs are often used to hold the shells of these garden gastropods. * snails. * 3: Cocktail sausages wrapped in dough and baked are called "pigs in" these. * blankets. * 4: Chimichangas are often topped with this avocado mixture. * guacamole. * 5: Some people serve the Liptauer type of this with beer, other prefer it with white wine. * cheese.

Round 2. Category: secret service code names* 1: A rock and roll president:Eagle (not Elvis, as rumored). * Bill Clinton. * 2: Fittingly, Fraction is the Secret Service code name for this cabinet post. * Secretary of Education. * 3: A Baptist president:Deacon. * Carter. * 4: Eisenhower was Providence; oddly, this president was General. * President Harry Truman. * 5: A religious visitor:Halo. * Pope John Paul II.

Round 3. Category: 4-letter birds* 1: An elated person is sometimes said to be "as happy as" this songbird. * lark. * 2: This bird isn't biologically distinct from the pigeon, it's just smaller. * dove. * 3: The rook is the most common member of this bird family found in Europe. * crow. * 4: Ancient Egyptians believed this bird to be a representative of the god Thoth. * ibis. * 5: Species of this bird include the Caspian, South and Arctic. * tern.

Round 4. Category: let's take a little trip* 1: In 1995 one of these craft that began passenger service in 1976 flew around the world in less than 32 hours. * Concorde. * 2: In May 1932 she made a little flight from Newfoundland across the north Atlantic. * Amelia Earhart. * 3: On May 9, 1926 Byrd and Bennett left Norway with a plan to fly over this and they claimed they did. * North Pole. * 4: In 1889 she left New York and went around the world in less than 80 days. * Nellie Bly. * 5: In 1938 this rich aviator took 4 assistants on a little round-the-world flight. * Howard Hughes.

Round 5. Category: lights* 1: The hollowed, carved fruit of the "Cucurbita pepo" plant with a light inside. * jack-o'-lantern. * 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 the line "Who will change old lamps for new?". * "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp". * 5: Originally an explosion of gunpowder in a flintlock rifle that failed to set off the charge. * a flash in the pan.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 779, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: cruisin' the caribbean* 1: Princess Cruises shipped in tons of this to keep its private Caribbean island beach looking pristine. * sand. * 2: As you'd expect, it was the first company to launch a fleet exclusively in the Caribbean. * Royal Caribbean. * 3: Destiny and Liberty are 2 of this line's "Fun Ships". * Carnival. * 4: If you're cruising on the Royal Clipper, it will most likely be under this power. * wind. * 5: When you pull into Guadeloupe, you may have to change your dollars into this official currency. * euros.

Round 2. Category: readings from homer simpson* 1: Hero speaking here:"Nine days I drifted on the teeming sea... upon the tenth we came to the coastline of the lotus eaters... mmmm, lotus!". * Odysseus. * 2: He's the god hitting the hay here:"Going up to the bed he slept and Hera of the gold throne beside him". * Zeus. * 3: She's the subject of the following:"Surely there is no blame on Trojans... if for long time they suffer hardship for a woman like this one--va va va voom!". * Helen. * 4: Sorceress working her magic here:"Scarce had they drunk when she flew after them with her long stick, and shut them in a pigsty.". * Circe. * 5: Monster speaking here:"Can you be grieving over your master's eye? That carrion rogue and his accurst companions burnt it out.". * Cyclops.

Round 3. Category: ultra-lounge 1: The CD "On The Rocks Part One" includes Peggy Lee singing this title song of the first Beatles movie. * "A Hard Day's Night". * 2: The "Cha-Cha de Amor" album features Yma Sumac singing the "Gopher Mambo" and this Rat Pack hunk crooning "Sway". * Dean Martin. * 3: I'd return my "TV Town" CD if it didn't include the tune from this Mike Connors TV series. * Mannix*. * 4: This late, great singer's classic rendition of "Jump, Jive An' Wail" is on the "Fuzzy Sampler" CD. * Louis Prima. * 5: Sip a cocktail and listen to this co-star of TV's "Emergency!" on the "Bottoms Up!" CD. * Julie London.

Round 4. Category: 19th century business leaders* 1: On June 4, 1896 he completed assembly of his first auto, the quadricycle, in Detroit. * Henry Ford. * 2: In 1863 he, Maurice Clark and Samuel Andrews founded a Cleveland oil company: in 1870 it changed its named to Standard Oil. * John D. Rockefeller. * 3: In 1895 he introduced the first camera that would fit into a pocket. * George Eastman. * 4: In 1872 this 25-year-old Prussian bought a Denver bottling company and founded a brewery. * (Adolph) Coors. * 5: This man's name is on the can, but it was John Dorrance who developed condensed soup for his company. * (Joseph) Campbell.

Round 5. Category: classic literature 1: "The horror! The horror!" are Mr. Kurtz' dying words in this novella. * Heart of Darkness. * 2: He wrote such classics as "The Bostonians", "The Portrait of a Lady" and "The Wings of the Dove". * Henry James. * 3: Some early reviewers objected to the realistic depiction of Archdeacon Frollo's death in this classic. * The Hunchback of Notre Dame*. * 4: This character's squire was Sancho Panza. * Don Quixote. * 5: Part one of "Les Miserables" is "Fantine"; part two is named for this daughter of hers. * Cosette.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 778, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: starts with "q"* 1: Klugman's coroner. * Quincy. * 2: Annette Dionne, Emilie Dionne, Yvonne Dionne, Marie Dionne and Cecile Dionne, for example. * quintuplets. * 3: Hugo's hunchback. * Quasimodo. * 4: In the Bible it is said that "many waters cannot" do this to "love". * quench. * 5: Popular name of the Religious Society of Friends. * the Quakers.

Round 2. Category: flyboys* 1: In 1922 this "Lone Eagle" learned to fly at a Lincoln, Nebraska flying school. * Charles Lindbergh. * 2: During World War I, this German ace painted his plane red to make sure he'd be noticed. * Manfred Von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"). * 3: Charleston, West Virginia's booming airport is named for this pilot who first broke the sound barrier. * Chuck Yeager. * 4: In 1926 Floyd Bennett piloted the plane in which this admiral flew over the North Pole. * Richard Byrd. * 5: In 1935 Will Rogers and this pilot were killed in a plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska. * Wiley Post.

Round 3. Category: look out! 1: In one of these dangerous events, the dry, powdery snow is traveling at 100 mph straight downhill toward you. * an avalanche. * 2: Your sortie's getting dangerous--here comes some antiaircraft fire, better known by this 4-letter name. * flak. * 3: The 16-ton weight featured in this '70s comedy series is poised above somebody and ready to.... * Monty Python's Flying Circus*. * 4: Pilot error! Your flight path has you too close to a caravan turboprop from this Kansas company. * Cessna. * 5: A herd of these animals, loxodonta africana, is stampeding your way in a wall of gray. * elephants.

Round 4. Category: william and mary* 1: A century before the French one, William and Mary came to power in the "Glorious" or "Bloodless" one. * Revolution. * 2: The Glencoe Massacre in this country, of those supposedly late in swearing loyalty, was a stain on William's reign. * Scotland. * 3: Soon after ascending to the throne, William and Mary commissioned him to rebuild Hampton Court in a Baroque style. * Sir Christopher Wren. * 4: William took a fatal spill when his horse tripped over one of these hills created by a mammal. * a molehill. * 5: This revolution of 1688 that ousted James II and brought William and Mary to the throne is aka the Bloodless Revolution. * the Glorious Revolution.

Round 5. Category: texas* 1: About 60% of Texas' foreign-born residents are from this country. * Mexico. * 2: In addition to the city, a national forest and a fort in Texas are named for him. * Sam Houston. * 3: In 1901 this was discovered at Spindletop. * oil. * 4: It was said they "can ride like a Mexican, trail like an Indian... and fight like a very devil". * the Texas Rangers. * 5: The third largest city in Texas is named after this saint of Padua, Italy. * San Antonio.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 777, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: mixed drinks* 1: DEMON ALE. * lemonade. * 2: A DECEIT. * iced tea. * 3: ERE TO ROB. * root beer. * 4: I CAN COP CUP. * cappuccino. * 5: WARN ME RETAIL. * mineral water.

Round 2. Category: the hollywood stock exchange 1: One of the hottest stocks of summer 2000 was for this nautical action film starring George Clooney. * The Perfect Storm. * 2: With the release of "Me, Myself, and Irene", this actor's HSX stock shot up $125. * Jim Carrey. * 3: Millions of HSX shares of this scary movie "project" were traded a full year before it was released. * The Blair Witch Project. * 4: "RBRIDE" was the HSX designation for this hot-performing stock and movie. * Runaway Bride*. * 5: At $4,147 a share, this star of "Firestarter" is one of the highest-valued actresses listed on HSX. * Drew Barrymore.

Round 3. Category: official documents* 1: It grants a title of real estate; a villain might want the one to the ranch. * the deed. * 2: For most states the minimum age to get one of these without parental consent is 18, male or female. * a marriage license. * 3: An agreement between persons; the men on the Mayflower made a famous one. * a compact. * 4: It's a command to come to court and testify. * a subpoena. * 5: A decree, commandment or public act from the pope; it's marked with a lead seal. * a bull.

Round 4. Category: are you game? 1: This popular playground hopping game may have begun in the Roman Empire as a military training exercise. * hopscotch. * 2: One of the 2 utilities you can purchase in Monopoly. * Water Works (or Electric Company). * 3: There are 43 quintillion possible wrong solutions and 1 correct one for this cube. * a Rubik's Cube. * 4: If you want to be a Guardian of the last city on Earth, you have "a date with" this game from the creators of Halo. * Destiny*. * 5: An early version of this game in India was called Chaturanga and used elephants, horses, chariots and foot soldiers. * chess.

Round 5. Category: business and industry* 1: Give a toast to this Kellogg's frozen breakfast brand originally called "Froffles". * Eggo. * 2: It precedes "XM" in the name of an entertainment company--ooh, I love this song! Turn it up!. * Sirius. * 3: The 2018 spokesbaby of this baby food brand is the first with Down Syndrome. * Gerber. * 4: The face on the torch lady who represents this film company is that of muralist Jennifer Joseph. * Columbia Pictures. * 5: Until 2010 the New York Knicks and Rangers were directly owned by this company that brings them to TV viewers on MSG. * Cablevision.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 776, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "bea"s 1: Paul's group before Wings. * The Beatles. * 2: A lighthouse, or a radio transmitter that guides aircraft. * Beacon. * 3: Interesting things are often found off this "path". * The Beaten Path. * 4: This ship's 5-year mission: to boldly take Darwin where he hadn't been before. * the Beagle*. * 5: Among the Muppets, he's Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's assistant. * Beaker.

Round 2. Category: congressional districts* 1: Of Colorado's 7 congressional districts, 3 are partly within this metropolis and its suburbs. * Denver. * 2: Limiting immigration is one of the main causes of Rep. Lamar Smith, from this state's 21st district. * Texas. * 3: Represented by John Mica, the 7th district in this state is home to St. Augustine, the USA's oldest city. * Florida. * 4: Charlie Melancon represents Houma, New Iberia and Chalmette for this state's 3rd, y'all. * Louisiana. * 5: It's the main city in Ohio's 14th district, once a rubber center and now called "Polymer Valley". * Akron.

Round 3. Category: mysteries* 1: As you might expect, this continent is the setting for Elspeth Huxley's "Murder on Safari". * Africa. * 2: 1st cousins Dannay and Lee wrote the Ellery Queen stories under this pen name. * Ellery Queen. * 3: This agency's symbol of an unblinking eye gave birth to the phrase "private eye". * the Pinkerton agency. * 4: No one knows how "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" ends since this author died while writing the book. * Charles Dickens. * 5: Tony Hillerman writes novels about Jim Chee, a detective on this Indian tribe's police force. * the Navajo.

Round 4. Category: 1982* 1: Yasir Arafat met with this Jordanian king to discuss the possibility of a Palestinian confederation. * King Hussein. * 2: For this north African country's support of terrorism, the U.S. barred imports of its oil. * Libya. * 3: Newsweek said this '82 strike forced husbands to talk to their wives for 8 consecutive Sundays. * pro football strike. * 4: After Alexander Haig resigned, he was named secretary of state. * George P. Shultz. * 5: On May 1, 1982, President Reagan officially opened the World's Fair in this Southern city. * Knoxville, Tennessee.

Round 5. Category: 1902* 1: In 1902 he published his newest Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Hound of the Baskervilles". * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. * 2: He and Matthew Henson made their first serious attempt to reach the North Pole, but it would take 7 more years. * Robert Peary. * 3: After 3 years of fighting, this South African war came to an end. * the Boer War. * 4: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet and essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court. * Oliver Wendell Holmes. * 5: When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school. * Oxford University.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 775, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: in the "pink"* 1: The little finger. * pinky. * 2: One who is dismissed from a job is said to have received this. * pink slip. * 3: Since 1980 Owens-Corning Fiberglass has used this cartoon character in its advertising. * the Pink Panther. * 4: In sewing this tool is used to give a zigzag edge to cloth. * pinking shears. * 5: "Another Brick in the Wall" in 1980 was this group's only No. 1 single. * Pink Floyd.

Round 2. Category: game shows 1: 1 of the 2 games you could watch in 1965 whose name began with "Let's". * Let's Make a Deal (or Let's Play Post Office). * 2: The theme to this game that premiered on TV October 5, 1950 was "Hooray for Captain Spaulding". * You Bet Your Life. * 3: Rounds on this show included "Melody Roulette" and "Bid-A-Note". * Name That Tune. * 4: Last names of the Burt and Bert who created "Win, Lose or Draw". * Burt Reynolds and Bert Convy. * 5: The pop group Kabah sang the theme for the Mexican version of this 106-day long game that put 12 people in a house. * Big Brother*.

Round 3. Category: clowning around* 1: Weatherman Willard Scott was the first actor to don the clown makeup of this fast food funnyman. * Ronald McDonald. * 2: Tonio, a misshapen clown, delivers the prologue in this Leoncavallo opera. * "I Pagliacci". * 3: In "It", he wrote about a monster disguised as a demonic clown named Pennywise. * Stephen King. * 4: Judy Collins hit the pop charts with this song in 1975 and again in 1977. * "Send In The Clowns". * 5: On TV Damon Wayans played this irascible clown who "don't play that". * Homey.

Round 4. Category: americans in paris* 1: While in Paris, poet and critic Ezra Pound helped little-known talent T.S. Eliot edit this 1922 poem. * "The Waste Land". * 2: Familiar with France from experimenting there, in 1779 he became our first ambassador to France. * Benjamin Franklin. * 3: Sadly, this dancer's 2 children drowned in the Seine years before that scarf cut her own life short. * Isadora Duncan. * 4: During his self-exile, he voiced the strife of black Americans in books like 1961's "Nobody Knows My Name". * James Baldwin. * 5: Alexander Calder made one of his first wire sculptures in the image of this expatriate singer/dancer. * Josephine Baker.

Round 5. Category: meat and potatoes* 1: The original version of this toy included facial pieces to attach to a real spud. * Mr. Potato Head. * 2: Your standard potato is 80 percent this common compound. * water. * 3: The fungus phytophthora infesting caused this historic Irish tragedy. * Irish potato famine. * 4: In 1853 chef George Crum invented this snack as a joke when a customer said his fries were too thick. * potato chips. * 5: This traditional cured meat is often served with cabbage on St. Patrick's Day. * corned beef.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 774, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: a bunch of "great" leaders* 1: His forces defeated the Persian Army under Darius III in 333 B.C.. * Alexander the Great. * 2: In the 18th century she founded a medical college and the first Russian school for girls. * Catherine the Great. * 3: From 1682 to 1689 he shared the throne with his half-brother Ivan V. * Peter the Great. * 4: During the Seven Years' War, this king gained great military prestige and land for Prussia. * Frederick the Great. * 5: This 9th century king of Wessex repeatedly repelled the Danes with great success. * Alfred the Great.

Round 2. Category: north america* 1: The smallest carnivore on the continent is a member of this family, Pop. * the weasel. * 2: Popocatepetl and Ixtacihutatl peaks, both more than 17,000 feet high, tower above this capital city. * Mexico City. * 3: The Field Museum of Natural History in this city is one of the largest of its kind. * Chicago. * 4: The highest motor-traffic tunnel in the world is just west of this city. * Denver, Colorado. * 5: These mountains extend from Alaska into Mexico where they're called the Sierra Madre Oriental. * the Rocky Mountains.

Round 3. Category: charles darwin 1: Charles and this American president were born on the same day, February 12, 1809; Charles lived much longer. * Abraham Lincoln. * 2: Darwin used "descent with modification" before warming to this 9-letter word for biological changes over time. * evolution. * 3: It was Darwin's favorite professor who recommended him for the naturalist post aboard this ship. * the HMS Beagle*. * 4: Darwin is known for finches, but his passion at home were these urban birds--he amassed more than 90 of them. * pigeons. * 5: The Royal Society awarded its medal to Charles in 1853 for his writings on these crustaceans found on rocks and ships' hulls. * barnacles.

Round 4. Category: city food* 1: Buffalo wings don't come from a bison, but from this bird (and from the city in New York). * chicken. * 2: You don't have to live in Philly to spread your bagel with Philly, which is this. * cream cheese. * 3: It's traditional to serve this city's steamed brown bread with its world-famous baked beans. * Boston. * 4: A typical Denver sandwich contains egg cooked with bits of ham, onion and this chopped green veggie. * green peppers. * 5: (Richard Simmons reads the clue.) Bananas Foster and Oysters Rockefeller are 2 yummy dishes created in this Southern city, my birthplace. * New Orleans.

Round 5. Category: spring* 1: In spring, 1848, ice in Lake Erie blocked the river feeding these famous falls, shutting them off for a day. * Niagara Falls. * 2: In the U.S., it's the only legal federal holiday that's observed in spring. * Memorial Day. * 3: This organization held its final session in Geneva in the spring of 1946. * the League of Nations. * 4: Completes the Shelley line, "If Winter comes...". * can Spring be far behind?. * 5: On April 3, 1860 the Pony Express began with riders leaving these 2 cities. * St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 773, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: parents are people too* 1: Also a home for hummingbirds, it becomes "empty" when the last child leaves home. * Nest. * 2: It's what a lonely dad may want to be to you, or the name of the one on the left(President Clinton's dog). * Buddy. * 3: At least this restriction dad put on you isn't a dusk-to-dawn one, as in Warri, Nigeria. * Curfew. * 4: If you get one of these in your nose or navel, parents may let out the same kind of "shriek". * Piercing. * 5: This term for a right that divorcing parents may fight over comes from Latin for "guardian". * Custody.

Round 2. Category: studying abroad* 1: Congratulations! You're a Rhodes Scholar! Now pack your bags because you'll be studying at this university. * Oxford. * 2: Soak up the Bohemian culture in Prague when you study at Charles University in this country. * the Czech Republic. * 3: LSE doesn't mean "Let's See Europe"; it's this city's school of economics & political science. * London. * 4: Your time in Greece would of course include a visit to this ancient temple. * the Parthenon. * 5: Students can work with leading physicists at this center near Geneva that studies subatomic particles. * CERN.

Round 3. Category: sam i am* 1: A cousin of this telegraph & code inventor set up the famous Pebble Beach golf course. * Samuel Morse. * 2: Samuel Chase, Samuel Nelson, Samuel Miller & Samuel Blatchford all served on this august body. * the Supreme Court. * 3: This man who had just a cameo in 1990’s “The Return of Superfly†became “Shaft†in 2000. * Samuel L. Jackson. * 4: During this 1846-48 war, the U.S. Army bought 1,000 of Samuel Colt’s revolvers. * Mexican War. * 5: In 1865 this man set John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg. * Samuel Mudd.

Round 4. Category: communism* 1: The policies of a group of Communists, or the phone connection of a group of households. * party line. * 2: "The Communist Manifesto" declares that the history of all society is the history of these struggles. * class struggles. * 3: 2-word name for the Communist army that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s. * Khmer Rouge. * 4: Elected with both Communist & Socialist support, he was Chile's president from 1970-1973. * Salvador Allende. * 5: Shortened from 2 Russian words, it was the supreme policy-making body in the USSR. * Politburo.

Round 5. Category: winters 1: The aptly named Jonathan Winters narrated the cartoon special this snowman "Returns". * Frosty. * 2: In a 1985 TV version of this classic tale, Jonathan played Humpty Dumpty. * Alice in Wonderland*. * 3: In 1999 the Kennedy Center awarded Jonathan Winters the prize named after this humorist. * Mark Twain. * 4: Last name of Winters' character known as Maude or Maudie. * Frickert. * 5: This comic who claims Winters as his mentor had Jonathan play his son on TV in 1981. * Robin Williams.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 772, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: curtains 1: The appearance of a performer at the end of a show in response to applause. * Curtain Call. * 2: On this game show, Wayne Brady may ask if you want to trade what you have for what's behind the curtain. * Let\'s Make a Deal. * 3: Game show that asked "Would you like the box or what's behind the curtain Carol's pointing to?". * Let\'s Make A Deal. * 4: Similar to the Iron Curtain, it was the ideological barrier between Communist China & other countries. * Bamboo Curtain. * 5: In one scene of this film, a small dog pulls at a shiny green curtain, revealing the white-haired man hidden behind it. * The Wizard of Oz*.

Round 2. Category: biblical rhyme time* 1: Fisherman-apostle's high-frequency hi-fi speakers. * Peter\'s tweeters. * 2: A gospel writer's small songbirds. * Mark\'s larks. * 3: Long-suffering man's dressing gowns. * Job\'s robes. * 4: Pillar of salt's hubby's collapsible beds. * Lot\'s cots. * 5: Precious stones belonging to Noah's oldest son. * Shem\'s gems.

Round 3. Category: say it in english* 1: Buenas noches. * Good night. * 2: Ankthay ouyay. * Thank you. * 3: Silenzio!. * Silence/be quiet. * 4: Entrez!. * Enter/come in. * 5: Auf wiedersehen. * Good bye.

Round 4. Category: the continents* 1: From west to east, this continent's major language groups are Romance, Germanic & Slavic. * Europe. * 2: The world's largest desert fills nearly all of this continent's northern part. * Africa. * 3: Of the 7, number of continents that lie both north & south of the equator. * 3 (Asia, Africa & South America). * 4: The world's lowest point is on this continent. * Asia. * 5: Continent which, after Africa, has recorded the highest temperature, 134 degrees. * North America.

Round 5. Category: road movies 1: Freddy Krueger was introduced in this 1984 scarefest. * A Nightmare on Elm Street. * 2: Classic 1950 film that includes the line "All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up". * Sunset Boulevard. * 3: Michael Douglas won an Oscar for assuring us that "Greed... is good" in this 1987 film. * Wall Street. * 4: Naomi Watts & Laura Elena Harring starred in this 2001 Hollywood noir film directed by David Lynch. * Mulholland Drive. * 5: College professor Jeff Bridges begins to suspect that his neighbor Tim Robbins is a terrorist in this 1999 thriller. * Arlington Road*.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 771, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cool, Dude!. With Cool in quotes

  • 1: Paul Newman refuses to conform to rural prison life in this movie.
  • Cool Hand Luke.
  • 2: In the late 19-teens, he was the governor of Massachusetts.
  • Calvin Coolidge.
  • 3: In the 1980s Ernest and Julio Gallo introduced these beverages under the Bartles and Jaymes label.
  • wine coolers.
  • 4: Rapper born Artis Ivey Jr..
  • Coolio.
  • 5: Nickname of ballplayer James Bell, said to be so fast that a ball he hit struck him as he slid into second.
  • "Cool Papa".

Round 2. Category: Tanks!

  • 1: Reportedly this British prime minister once termed the English Channel the world's best tank trap.
  • Churchill.
  • 2: This large U.S. tank bearing the name of a Civil War general was the most widely produced tank of World War II.
  • Sherman.
  • 3: In 1942 British forces were pushed from Libya into Egypt by this general's Afrika Korps tank units.
  • Rommel.
  • 4: This country's T-34 tank played a large part in fighting off German invasion in 1941.
  • Soviet Union.
  • 5: "War As I Knew It" was the memoir of this fierce tank commander who participated in the invasion of Sicily.
  • Patton.

Round 3. Category: Army, Navy, Air Force Or Marines

  • 1: Future president John F. Kennedy.
  • Navy.
  • 2: "The Right Stuff" guy Chuck Yeager after 1947.
  • Air Force.
  • 3: The Civil War's David Glasgow Farragut.
  • Navy.
  • 4: Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
  • Marines.
  • 5: Cold War figure Francis Gary Powers.
  • Air Force.

Round 4. Category: Hundreds

  • 1: Scrape together 100 pence and trade it into the Bank of England for 1 of these.
  • Pound.
  • 2: Richard Dawson hosted this show that featured surveys of 100 people.
  • Family Feud.
  • 3: In 2000 a roll or "coil" of 100 first-class stamps set you back this much at the post office.
  • $33.
  • 4: This movie about the Battle of Thermopylae was based on a Frank Miller graphic novel.
  • 300.
  • 5: The Dewey decimal system puts history and geography in the group starting with this 3-digit number.
  • the 900s.

Round 5. Category: Film Noir

  • 1: Jack Nicholson played L.A. private eye J.J. Gittes in this 1974 classic.
  • Chinatown.
  • 2: David Mamet wrote the screenplay for the 1981 remake of this noir classic based on a novel by James M. Cain.
  • The Postman Always Rings Twice.
  • 3: Emma Thompson and this actor each had 2 roles in the 1991 noir thriller "Dead Again".
  • Kenneth Branagh.
  • 4: He made his directorial debut with 1981's "Body Heat".
  • Lawrence Kasdan.
  • 5: The Coen Brothers paid homage to film noir with this 1984 movie about a private eye hired to kill a cheating wife.
  • Blood Simple.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 770, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Location, Location, Location

  • 1: Suisse is the French name for this mountainous country.
  • Switzerland.
  • 2: Washington Irving gave New York City this nickname in 1807.
  • Gotham.
  • 3: There are only 31 states and 1 federal district in this North American country.
  • Mexico.
  • 4: The Tasman Sea separates Australia and this nation.
  • New Zealand.
  • 5: Robin Hood's nemesis was the sheriff of this district.
  • Nottingham.

Round 2. Category: Have Fun

  • 1: It's what you're doing when you're "cutting a rug".
  • dancing.
  • 2: Ecclesiastes says, "A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to drink and to be" this.
  • merry.
  • 3: You've let loose when this animal precedes "around" or "play".
  • horse.
  • 4: Spelled one way, it's to have casino fun; spelled another, it's delightful skipping.
  • gamble/gambol.
  • 5: Fancy, as in what's tickled when you are amused, is a shortened form of this word.
  • fantasy.

Round 3. Category: Hoop-La

  • 1: In 1981 Houston's Calvin Murphy sank 95.8 % of these shots, an all-time NBA record.
  • free throws.
  • 2: (Hi, I'm Julius Erving) During its final season in 1975-76 I led this league in scoring and won its slam dunk competition.
  • the ABA.
  • 3: In 1990 this Nevada school's team became the first in history to score over 100 points in the NCAA championship game.
  • UNLV.
  • 4: ( Hi, I'm Malik Rose of the NBA.) I attended the same Philadelphia high school as this late, great 7 foot 1 center.
  • Wilt Chamberlain.
  • 5: In 1979 the NBA's New Orleans Jazz moved to this state less well known for its jazz.
  • Utah.

Round 4. Category: This Land Is Your Land

  • 1: The Golden Gate Bridge is found in this state.
  • California.
  • 2: You'll find this "Great" 1,700-square-mile body of water in northwest Utah.
  • the Great Salt Lake.
  • 3: Of the 4 presidents pictured here [rest of clue unavailable].
  • -----------------------------------.
  • 4: Of Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit, the city that's farthest east.
  • Pittsburgh.
  • 5: This U.S. island of the north Pacific with a 4-letter name is only about 30 miles long and 8 miles wide.
  • Guam.

Round 5. Category: Adventure Movies. With Adventure in quotation marks

  • 1: Elementary, my dear Watson! It's a 1939 movie starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
  • 2: In the 1960 version, Jim the runaway slave was played by boxer Archie Moore.
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
  • 3: Yup, in this film Gary Cooper played the explorer whose name gets shouted out in pools worldwide.
  • The Adventures of Marco Polo.
  • 4: 1948 film about a legendary lover played by legendary lover Errol Flynn.
  • The Adventures of Don Juan.
  • 5: The title character of this 1984 movie was a rock star, brain surgeon, and nuclear physicist.
  • The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 769, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Musical Rhyme Time* 1: Completes the title of Little Richard's 1958 song "Good Golly...". * Miss Molly. * 2: Brian Hyland hit #1 in 1960 singing about this type of "yellow, polka-dot bikini". * itsy bitsy teenie weenie. * 3: In his first big hit, Roy Orbison claimed "Only" they "know how I feel". * "The Lonely". * 4: Freddy Cannon had a 1959 hit singing about this "Lassie". * "Tallahassee Lassie". * 5: Janis Joplin's only #1 song. * "Me and Bobby McGee".

Round 2. Category: Books On Sports* 1: In "Deep Water Passage", Ann Linnea describes kayaking all the way around this largest Great Lake. * Lake Superior. * 2: This tennis star's memoir "Days of Grace" was published shortly after his death in February 1993. * Arthur Ashe. * 3: "Sir Charles" collects the wit and wisdom of this 1993 NBA MVP. * Charles Barkley. * 4: He wrote "The Tao of Jeet Kune Do" and starred in "Fists of Fury". * Bruce Lee. * 5: This one-time coach of the New England Patriots discusses leadership in "Finding a Way to Win". * Bill Parcells.

Round 3. Category: Famous Ships* 1: Remember this ship that blew up in 1898? One inquiry said the cause of the explosion was a submarine mine. * the Maine. * 2: After striking a reef in 1989 it caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history. * Exxon Valdez. * 3: The Pearl Harbor memorial built above this sunken battleship was dedicated in 1962. * the Arizona. * 4: The ramains of this ship were found off Pitcairn Island in 1957. * the Bounty. * 5: Name shared by the 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic and the 1st nuclear-powered merchant ship. * the Savannah.

Round 4. Category: Bear Feat* 1: At about 9 feet and 1,700 pounds, this large bear shares its name with an Alaskan island. * Kodiak. * 2: The Asiatic black bear also bears the beary nice name of these Indian mountains where it dwells. * Himalayas. * 3: Often named Bruin, this species is the most likely to be found in children's stories of Europe and Asia. * Brown bear. * 4: This smallest bear species bears the name of a heavenly object. * Sun bear. * 5: Spectacled bears are the only species found on this continent. * South America.

Round 5. Category: Unauthorized Biographies* 1: A bio of Ms. Hewitt has this title, like an Erich Segal novel. * "Love Story". * 2: "Mmmbop to the Top" was the subtitle of a 1997 book on this group. * Hanson. * 3: This actor's life gets plenty of space in "Captain Quirk". * William Shatner. * 4: An unauthorized bio of Mark Wahlberg is titled "Don't Call Me" this. * Marky Mark. * 5: A bio of this producer of Broadway shows like "Hello, Dolly!" calls him "The Abominable Showman". * David Merrick.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 768, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Pen" Pals* 1: In 1955 this group had its only Top 40 hit with the following song:("Earth Angel, Earth Angel, will you be mine..."). * The Penguins. * 2: The 2 words preceding "Pound foolish". * Penny Wise. * 3: Without government authorization, Andrew Jackson seized this Fla. city from Spain on Nov. 7, 1817. * Pensacola. * 4: In Greek mythology, she was the daughter of Icarius and the wife of Odysseus. * Penelope. * 5: Next to last. * Penultimate.

Round 2. Category: State Facts* 1: Mormons make up about 70% of this state's population. * Utah. * 2: Only 3 cities in this state have more than 50,000 people--Billings, Missoula and Great Falls. * Montana. * 3: Until surpassed by California and Texas, it was the most populous state. * New York. * 4: Methinks an annual gathering held in Florence is Alabama's official faire of this type. * a Renaissance Faire. * 5: In 1786 South Carolina's assembly met in Charleston to say let's blow this joint and move the capital here. * Columbia.

Round 3. Category: Truth Or Dare* 1: Dare: Imitate Kikazaru, the monkey who illustrates this phrase that goes with "see no evil" and "speak no evil". * "hear no evil". * 2: Breakdance in the middle of stage, or identify this dancing pair who starred in "Top Hat". * Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. * 3: Truth: This "Common Sense" pamphleteer later turned to inventing, trying to come up with a smokeless candle. * Thomas Paine. * 4: Dare: Respond with an imitation of this radio therapist whose "Sexually Speaking" program began in 1980. * Ruth Westheimer. * 5: Truth: This fight promoter said "There was a spontaneous combustion of love" at the Trump wedding. * Don King.

Round 4. Category: Retailers' Home States* 1: CompUSA,Tandy,Southland. * Texas. * 2: Walgreen,Spiegel,Sears. * Illinois. * 3: Woolworth,Barnes and Noble,Saks. * New York. * 4: Safeway,Ralphs,Vons. * California. * 5: A and P,Toys "R" Us,Pathmark. * New Jersey.

Round 5. Category: First Aid* 1: Shock is a major hazard of this type of injury, especially a severe or third-degree one. * a burn. * 2: A seriously injured person usually suffers from this condition of very low blood pressure. * shock. * 3: The displacement at the end of a bone from its joint; it often happens to the shoulder. * dislocation. * 4: A pinch of this should be added to the water given to a victim of heat exhaustion. * salt. * 5: Rattlesnake bites cause immediate pain, then the wounded area does this and becomes discolored. * swells up.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 767, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bear Feat* 1: At about 9 feet and 1,700 pounds, this large bear shares its name with an Alaskan island. * Kodiak. * 2: The Asiatic black bear also bears the beary nice name of these Indian mountains where it dwells. * Himalayas. * 3: Often named Bruin, this species is the most likely to be found in children's stories of Europe and Asia. * Brown bear. * 4: This smallest bear species bears the name of a heavenly object. * Sun bear. * 5: Spectacled bears are the only species found on this continent. * South America.

Round 2. Category: River Cities* 1: The sacred Hindu city of Benares is located on the left bank of this river. * Ganges. * 2: This large and commercially important U.S. river begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. * Ohio. * 3: This international river flows past Alamosa, Colorado and Brownsville, Texas on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. * Rio Grande. * 4: Baghdad, Iraq lies on this Fertile Crescent river. * Tigris. * 5: 1 of the 2 rivers at whose confluence the city of Montreal lies. * Ottawa or St. Lawrence.

Round 3. Category: Skin Deep* 1: Wrinkles at the corner of the eye, perhaps caused by squinting while bird watching. * Crow's feet. * 2: Contact dermatitis can be the result of contact with this plant, Rhus radicans. * Poison Ivy. * 3: The little sections of dead epidermis around your fingernails. * Cuticles. * 4: This term for a balm for the skin or the conscience goes back to the Sanskrit sarpis, "melted butter". * Salve. * 5: The skin's 2 exocrine types of glands are sweat and these, which produce oils. * Sebaceous glands.

Round 4. Category: Magic And Magicians* 1: In 1942 this "Citizen Kane" director created the "Mercury Wonder Show", a magic show for servicemen. * Orson Welles. * 2: Haruo Shimoda and Lance Burton are famous for acts featuring these birds. * doves. * 3: This star of TV's "Dave's World" once did an act featuring the dangerous bullet catch trick. * Harry Anderson. * 4: Lynette Chappell appears as the evil queen in this duo's show at Las Vegas' Mirage Hotel. * Siegfried and Roy. * 5: Hardeen, born Theodore Weiss, briefly performed with this famous escape artist, his brother. * Harry Houdini.

Round 5. Category: Pits Burg* 1: Head to this state's peach festival in Fort Valley if you want to help make the world's largest peach cobbler. * Georgia. * 2: Any pilgrimage to find the best olives will lead you through Kalamata in this country. * Greece. * 3: This country's Murcia and Valencia regions produce many of the world's apricots. * Spain. * 4: 76 years old, the original Hass avocado tree died in 2002 in La Habra Heights in this state. * California. * 5: In 1852 cherries were planted on Old Mission Peninsula in this Midwest state; it now grows 75% of the tart type. * Michigan.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 766, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Palindromic Words* 1: Slang adjective for someone you think is not what they seem, especially if they might be the impostor in the game "Among Us". * sus. * 2: It comes before "tube" in a term of which we disapprove. * boob. * 3: Instead of "Hey, pal" or "mister", you can say "Hey", this word made popular by the character Wolverine. * bub. * 4: An island city near Montreal, or French WWII traitor Pierre. * Laval. * 5: It's the raised structure at the back of a sailing ship. * the poop.

Round 2. Category: The "Temp"-Ist* 1: Japanese dish of battered, deep-fried veggies or seafood. * tempura. * 2: Oscar Wilde once quipped, "I can resist everything except" this. * temptation. * 3: Total abstinence from alcohol. * temperance. * 4: A prevailing or predominant quality of mind. * a temperament. * 5: A mechanical pattern used in manufacturing. * a template.

Round 3. Category: Australia* 1: Australia lies completely within these 2 hemispheres. * Southern and Eastern Hemispheres. * 2: This flightless bird is featured on Australia's coat of arms. * the emu. * 3: It's what the "diggers" were digging for in the 1850s. * gold. * 4: 1 of the 2 animals featured on Australia's coat of arms. * (1 of) the kangaroo (emu). * 5: Person next in line to be monarch of Australia. * Prince Charles.

Round 4. Category: Would You Like A Beverage?* 1: A left hook, or a fruit juice beverage. * punch. * 2: Combine root beer and ice cream and you've created one of these beverages. * root beer float. * 3: The first Pilsner varieties of this were brewed in 1842 in the Czech kingdom of Bohemia. * beer. * 4: In Racine, Wisconsin, pay your respects to William Horlick, who invented this grain-flavored drink. * malted milk. * 5: Add peach-flavored schnapps to orange juice to create this "fuzzy" potent potable. * Fuzzy Navel.

Round 5. Category: Salt* 1: In Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper", an overturned salt cellar lies in front of him. * Judas. * 2: In 1930 this Indian pacifist marched 200 miles to the sea to protest Britain's salt tax. * Gandhi. * 3: In 1914 the little girl with the umbrella began appearing on this company's salt packages. * Morton's. * 4: Throwing salt into the center of the ring to purify it is part of the ritual of this sport. * sumo wrestling. * 5: Opened in 1825, it was known as the "ditch that salt built" because its main cargo was salt from Syracuse, N.Y.. * the Erie Canal.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 765, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Warthogs* 1: A young warthog's canine teeth eventually grow into a pair of these formidable defensive weapons. * tusks. * 2: Warthogs stick this long, thin, tufted body part straight up in the air when they run. * their tails. * 3: A warthog's enemies include these 2 predators that begin with the same "L"etter. * lions and leopards. * 4: In a movie he's the warthog who befriends young Simba. * Pumbaa. * 5: For warthogs, home is often an adopted den of one of these insectivores AKA an ant bear. * an aardvark.

Round 2. Category: Oh, Witty Woman* 1: 1893-born wit who reportedly said, "The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue". * Dorothy Parker. * 2: Lucille Ball once quipped, "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about" this. * your age. * 3: Funny lady Roseanne used to joke that she wouldn't do this chore "'til Sears makes one you can ride on". * Vacuum. * 4: This country singer said, "I was the first woman to burn my bra--it took the fire department 4 days to put it out". * Dolly Parton. * 5: Erma Bombeck advised, "Before you try to keep up with" them, "be sure they're not trying to keep up with you". * the Joneses.

Round 3. Category: Iraq* 1: It's the country Iraqi nationalists call Iraq's 19th province. * Kuwait. * 2: Iraq's old name, Mesopotamia, was derived from its location between these 2 rivers. * the Tigris and Euphrates. * 3: Roughly 75 percent of Iraq's people are Arabs and 20 percent are of this ethnic group. * Kurds. * 4: After this country's 1948 independence, the armies of Transjordan and Iraq invaded. * Israel. * 5: Initially set up as a monarchy, Iraq became this type of political order in 1958 as its ensuing "Guard" could attest. * a republic.

Round 4. Category: "Lock"S* 1: Tetanus. * lockjaw. * 2: This small ornamental case for a keepsake is often worn as a pendant. * a locket. * 3: Hairstyle popular among Rastafarians. * dreadlocks. * 4: This phrase meaning the grave of all who perish at sea dates back about 200 years. * Davy Jones's locker. * 5: In 1690 this founder of empericism outlined his philosophical doctrine in "An Essay on Human Understanding". * John Locke.

Round 5. Category: They Named It For Me* 1: They named a poll after this man born in Iowa in 1901. * George Gallup. * 2: They named a knot for this Duke who was briefly king of England. * Duke of Windsor. * 3: She left her mark on Louis XV and her name on a big hair style. * Madame de Pompadour. * 4: They named a smear after a Greek-American doctor and shortened the name to this. * Pap. * 5: A territory in Africa and a scholarship in Oxford have borne this businessman's name. * Cecil Rhodes.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 764, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: You Weren't "There" 1: In a popular nursery rhyme, this line precedes "and he went a crooked mile". * There was a crooked man. * 2: Ben and Cameron headlined this 1998 film about a guy who never stopped loving his high school crush. * There's Something About Mary*. * 3: This Ethel Merman hit song is "like no business I know". * "There's No Business Like Show Business". * 4: P.T. Barnum made this pithy observation regarding suckers. * There's one born every minute.. * 5: Baby, this song was a top 10 hit for the Drifters in 1959. * "There Goes My Baby".

Round 2. Category: People With Peanuts Names* 1: In a Coasters hit song this title man asks, "Why's everybody always pickin' on me?". * "Charlie Brown". * 2: The doctor was in when this important hominid fossil was discovered in 1974. * Lucy. * 3: In 1973 this woman from Colorado began her 24-year tenure in the House. * Pat Schroeder. * 4: His blankets were very holy as Pope in 67 A.D.. * Linus. * 5: She took a 6-day shuttle ride in 1983. * Sally Ride.

Round 3. Category: Tv "O"S* 1: He played florist, er...Father Murphy. * (Merlin) Olsen. * 2: In the mid-'70s he could be found singing between Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson. * Tony Orlando. * 3: This Lord won Emmys in 1960, 1973, 1975, 1982 and 1984. * Lord Olivier. * 4: This "thirtysomething" star directed the 1992 TV movie "Doing Time on Maple Drive". * Ken Olin. * 5: Lt. Castillo on "Miami Vice", he helped clean up L.A. after the 1992 riots. * (Edward James) Olmos.

Round 4. Category: Fat Music* 1: He never had a No.1 hit; the closest he came was No. 2 with the following:"I found my thrill /On Blueberry Hill...". * Fats Domino. * 2: Hefty rappers who joined Chubby Checker for a new version of "The Twist" in 1988. * The Fat Boys. * 3: In "Creeque Alley", "No one's getting fat except" her. * Mama Cass. * 4: This singer took Michael Jackson's "Bad" and turned it into "Fat". * "Weird Al" Yankovic. * 5: In the polka, reason "I don't want her, you can have her". * she's too fat for me.

Round 5. Category: Food And Drink* 1: During the holidays you can buy this cool creamy Christmas drink in cartons, minus the liquor. * eggnog. * 2: They're the 2 things Little Miss Muffet was consuming while sitting on her tuffet. * curds and whey. * 3: This pizza with simple toppings of mozzarella, tomatoes and basil was named in honor of the queen of Savoy. * Margherita. * 4: Alliterative name for the classic French dish consisting of meat braised in red wine with onions and mushrooms. * beef bourguinon. * 5: Profession of the inventors of Pepsi and Coke. * pharmacists.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 763, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ohio* 1: This bar soap that floats was invented in Cincinnati. * Ivory soap. * 2: If this state insect is insulted, she just might "fly away home". * a ladybug. * 3: In 1918 Eugene Debs was arrested after speaking in this city, now home to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. * Canton. * 4: The only 1 of the Great Lakes bordering Ohio. * Lake Erie. * 5: This NHL team's name celebrates Ohio's contribution to the winning side in the Civil War. * Blue Jackets.

Round 2. Category: City* 1: Born in this Austrian city, Maximilian Schell directed a film of "Tale from" its "Woods". * Vienna. * 2: It was originally built on 7 hills and enclosed by the Servian Wall. * Rome. * 3: We have no beef with its being the capital of the Hyogo prefecture in Japan. * Kobe. * 4: After founding this city in 1535, Francisco Pizarro got his "Bean there, done that" t-shirt. * Lima. * 5: This suburb of Cairo is the third-largest city in Egypt. * Giza.

Round 3. Category: Let's Get Graphic* 1: It's a prototype layout of a graphic work, or one of the positions in bridge. * Dummy. * 2: During papermaking a dandy roll presses these into the paper and you can see them by holding the paper up to a light. * Watermark. * 3: This is not all good; in fact, it's colored aluminum: [video clue]. * Glitter. * 4: Kerning is the adjustment of the spaces between these; ours, as you can see, is just perfect. * Letters. * 5: Logo is short for this. * Logotype.

Round 4. Category: The List List* 1: Number of songs on the American top pop list hosted by Casey Kasem. * 40. * 2: Santa keeps a list of people who fall into these 2 "N" categories. * Naughty and nice. * 3: In 1988 Microsoft came in at No. 137 out of the 500 companies on this magazine's famous list. * Fortune. * 4: Supplying info that led to the arrest of everyone on this list in August 1998 could have netted you over $1,500,000. * FBI Ten Most Wanted List. * 5: Topping his first worst-dressed list in 1960 was Anna Magnani, who dressed like she was "wearing tramp clothes". * Mr. Blackwell.

Round 5. Category: Nonsense Poetry* 1: A.E. Housman wrote, "A tail behind, a trunk in front, complete the usual" one of these. * elephant. * 2: In this poem the borogoves were "all mimsy". * "Jabberwocky". * 3: Hilaire Belloc wrote, "When I'm dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were'" this. * read. * 4: A piggy-wig in a wood sold his nose ring to this Edward Lear pair. * the owl and the pussycat. * 5: He wrote, "Isn't it funny how a bear likes honey? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I wonder why he does?". * (A.A.) Milne.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 762, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Friends On Film* 1: "Ed". * Matt LeBlanc. * 2: "Scream","Ace Ventura: Pet Detective". * Courteney Cox. * 3: "Clockwatchers","Romy and Michele's High School Reunion". * Lisa Kudrow. * 4: "Kissing A Fool","The Pallbearer". * David Schwimmer. * 5: "Leprechaun","Picture Perfect". * Jennifer Aniston.

Round 2. Category: Rhymes With Eek* 1: Half a fortnight. * week. * 2: To look for. * seek. * 3: Eating this member of the lily family could make your breath reek. * leek. * 4: The state of vexation you might experience if you can't reach the top of a mountain. * pique. * 5: Donald Kent Slayton's nickname. * "Deke" (one of our original astronauts).

Round 3. Category: Brain Candy* 1: This Sir Arthur Conan Doyle character once remarked "A man's brain originally is like a little empty attic". * Sherlock Holmes. * 2: Examples of these pains in the brain include the cluster and tension varieties. * headaches. * 3: It does "matter" that you give us this colorful slang term for the brain. * gray matter. * 4: It's not cloudbursts in the skull, but shared problem solving in which everyone contributes ideas. * brainstorming. * 5: It's the name for the brain-wasting cattle infection that crippled the British beef industry in 1996. * mad cow disease.

Round 4. Category: Tv Teen Dramas 1: Its last episode had James Van Der Beek's character, now 25, producing a TV teen drama based on his life. * Dawson's Creek. * 2: The web site for this show includes "Rory's Book Club": log on and join. * Gilmore Girls. * 3: Smallville High School reporter Chloe has written for this big city newspaper. * The Daily Planet. * 4: In 2003 this Camden family entered its 8th season (but the title didn't change to reflect it). * 7th Heaven. * 5: This series began in 2003 with Lucas and Nathan discovering a terrible secret: they were half-brothers. * One Tree Hill*.

Round 5. Category: Driver Ed.* 1: By law you must have this piece of personal I.D. with you whenever you drive. * a driver's license. * 2: It's best to use these sparingly when driving downhill: they may get hot and lose power. * brakes. * 3: To alert other drivers, it's best to do this at least 5 seconds before changing lanes. * signal. * 4: A flashing red light means you must do this before proceeding. * stop. * 5: A solid double yellow line means you're not allowed to do this. * pass.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 761, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cathedrals And Churches* 1: The church of Trinita Del Monti soars high above the Spanish Steps in this city. * Rome. * 2: 6 golden domes were added to this capital's Annunciation Cathedral during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. * Moscow. * 3: You can see the Black Prince's knightwear, as well as his tomb, at this English cathedral and pilgrimage site. * Canterbury. * 4: St. Andrew's Church in this Ukranian city stands on a site where St. Andrew reputedly erected a cross. * Kiev. * 5: Many Polish kings are buried in Wawel Cathedral on Wawel Hill in this city, once the capital of Poland. * Krakow.

Round 2. Category: So Nice They Nicknamed Me Twice* 1: "The Chairman of the Board", "Ol' Blue Eyes". * Frank Sinatra. * 2: "America's Sweetheart", "Little Sure Shot". * Annie Oakley. * 3: "Conqueror of the World", "Macedonia's Madman". * Alexander the Great. * 4: "The Father of the H-Bomb", "Dr. Strangelove". * Edward Teller. * 5: "The Poet of the Commonplace", "The Children's Poet". * Longfellow.

Round 3. Category: On The "Go"* 1: Chronic or recurring pain in the lower back. * lumbago. * 2: Beastly highest awarded handed out at the Berlin Film Festival, not the Berlin Golf Tournament. * the Golden Bear. * 3: Another name for graphite, it's also the name of several garden plants. * plumbago. * 4: Ze plane, boss, ze plane--our faith in this kind of cult is being proved true!. * a cargo cult. * 5: A type of tortoise that's an accomplished excavator is named for this mammal. * a gopher.

Round 4. Category: Hot "Bun"S* 1: In a 1969 Sam Peckinpah film, William Holden and Ernest Borgnine were part of a "Wild" one. * Bunch. * 2: This folklore hero was so big, as a child he rocked in his cradle and caused a 75-foot tide in the Bay of Fundy. * Paul Bunyan. * 3: A con game, or the police squad that breaks it up. * bunko. * 4: A 221-foot-high obelisk commemorating this battle stands on Breed's Hill. * Bunker Hill. * 5: 2-word term for the 30,000-pound precision-guided bombs used to destroy underground command centers. * bunker busters.

Round 5. Category: Party Time!* 1: Sir John Soane had a 3-day party after buying Seti I's sarcophagus for his home in this British capital. * London. * 2: Heloise suggests putting fortunes inside these inflatable items instead of in cookies; then let guests pop them. * Balloons. * 3: Active from the 1790s to the 1810s:This party of the second U.S. president. * the Federalists. * 4: On a party invitation, the letters RSVP stand for the French phrase "Repondez" this. * S'il vous plait. * 5: Founded in 1973:This Israeli party to the right of Labor. * Likud.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 760, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: World Holidays And Observances* 1: At midnight on New Year's Eve, Spaniards eat one of these vine fruits with each chime of a clock bell. * a grape. * 2: His July 15 birthday is a holiday in Brunei. * the Sultan of Brunei. * 3: Tahiti celebrates this on July 14; it's that French connection. * Bastille Day. * 4: "The Folklore of World Holidays" gives instructions on how to make a turnip lantern for this observance. * Halloween. * 5: In Germany, Pfingsten is this observance, 50 days after Easter. * Pentecost.

Round 2. Category: "7" Movies 1: Marilyn Monroe's immortal billowing skirt photo is a still from this film. * The Seven Year Itch. * 2: This title refers to Sherlock Holmes' cocaine habit. * The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. * 3: Lina Wertmuller's 1976 film that fits this category. * Seven Beauties. * 4: James Cagney reprised his George M. Cohan role in this Bob Hope film. * Seven Little Foys. * 5: "The Magnificent 7" was based on this 1954 Japanese film. * Seven Samurai*.

Round 3. Category: Jimmy Jam* 1: He played Victor Sifuentes on "L.A. Law" before hitting the street as Det. Bobby Simone on "NYPD Blue". * Jimmy Smits. * 2: "Boats, Beaches, Bars and Ballads" is a 1992 box set retrospective by this singer. * Jimmy Buffett. * 3: From 1974 through 1978, he was ranked the No. 1 tennis player in the world. * Jimmy Connors. * 4: He was the lead guitarist for Led Zeppelin. * Jimmy Page. * 5: And now an update...this "Saturday Night Live" regular also appeared in HBO's "Band of Brothers". * Jimmy Fallon.

Round 4. Category: The Occult* 1: Yes, yes, this aid to mediums at large takes its name from the French and German words for "yes". * a Ouija board. * 2: In folklore of this religion "dybbuks" are evil spirits which take possession of the living. * Jewish. * 3: It's the ability to move an object using psychic powers. * telekinesis. * 4: A "Dictionary of the Occult" defines white this as consorting with spirits for a good or innocent purpose. * magic. * 5: In New Orleans jujus include these double-talk magick bags traditionally consecrated to the 4 elements. * gris-gris (bags).

Round 5. Category: Let's Get Married 1: On Sept. 12, 1953 Boston Archbishop Richard Cushing conducted the marriage between this famous pair. * JFK and Jackie. * 2: About his mother's remarriage, Hamlet disdainfully remarks, "Frailty thy name is" this. * woman. * 3: In the section on marriage in "The Prophet", he wrote "Let there be spaces in your togetherness". * Khalil Gibran. * 4: The first 2 acts of this 1938 play are titled "The Daily Life" and "Love and Marriage". * Our Town*. * 5: He must have liked the family; Thomas Seymour married this English king's widow and later tried to marry his daughter. * Henry VIII.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 759, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fictional Seniors 1: Bob Cratchit's boss. * Ebenezer Scrooge. * 2: This "Christmas Carol" curmudgeon is "secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster". * (Ebenezer) Scrooge. * 3: The devoted housekeeper Nelly Dean narrates much of the story of this Bronte title house. * Wuthering Heights. * 4: In this novel Hugh Conway finds out that the High Lama is about 250 years old. * Lost Horizon*. * 5: This amateur sleuth who likes to knit lives in the small English village of St. Mary Mead. * Miss Jane Marple.

Round 2. Category: Female Firsts* 1: She founded the Opera Company of Boston in 1957 and in 1976 became the first woman to conduct at the Met. * Sarah Caldwell. * 2: In 1678, Elena Cornaro, fluent in 7 languages, became the first woman to receive this advanced degree. * doctorate (of philosophy). * 3: Daisy Gordon, the niece of Juliette Gordon Low, became the first member of this organization when she joined in 1912. * the Girl Scouts. * 4: This author and wife of Time magazine's founder was the USA's first female ambassador to Italy. * Clare Boothe Luce. * 5: This UPI correspondent was the first woman to head the White House bureau of a major news service. * Helen Thomas.

Round 3. Category: Marine Biology* 1: Around 1905 it was discovered that the American eel spawns in this "sea" in the north Atlantic. * the Sargasso Sea. * 2: A species of this 10-armed animal is the largest invertebrate, reaching a length of over 50 feet. * squid. * 3: The animals that form atolls. * coral. * 4: When bivalves get scared, they pull these shut until the danger has passed. * their shells. * 5: You might be "As happy as" this mollusk that has a heart but no brain. * a clam.

Round 4. Category: Pennsylvanians* 1: "Little Women" was based on her own "poor but happy" family of mom, dad, 3 sisters and herself. * Louisa May Alcott. * 2: In 1869 Philadelphia's John Wanamaker founded one of the 1st of these in the U.S.. * the department store. * 3: An educator and writer of 19th century "Readers", he began teaching at age 13. * (William) McGuffey. * 4: His water colors are set almost entirely in the Brandywine Valley and Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. * (Andrew) Wyeth. * 5: Surnames of the philanthropists who founded 2 Pittsburgh institutes which merged into 1 univ. in 1967. * Carnegie (and) Mellon.

Round 5. Category: World Holidays And Observances* 1: Argentina honors this dance on Dec. 11, the birthday of 2 of its important figures, Carlos Gardel and Julio de Caro. * the tango. * 2: Tahiti celebrates this on July 14; it's that French connection. * Bastille Day. * 3: "The Folklore of World Holidays" gives instructions on how to make a turnip lantern for this observance. * Halloween. * 4: At each of the 12 strokes of midnight starting a new year, a Spaniard will traditionally eat one of these. * grape. * 5: Monaco's national day is November 19, the date in 1949 of his formal accession to the throne. * Prince Rainier.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 758, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "In" Cities* 1: This resort city in Austria's Tirol is the northern gateway to the Brenner Pass in the Alps. * Innsbruck. * 2: This Kansas City suburb was the starting point for the Oregon, Santa Fe and California Trails. * Independence. * 3: The headquarters for the American Legion is located in this state capital. * Indianapolis. * 4: This Swiss resort town is so named because it's located between 2 lakes. * Interlaken. * 5: Some say Macbeth murdered Duncan in a castle near this Scottish city. * Inverness.

Round 2. Category: Famous Cows* 1: Said to have started the Great Chicago Fire. * Mrs. O'Leary's cow. * 2: Wife of Elmer, she's the Borden cow. * Elsie. * 3: The emotional state of Carnation Company's cows. * contented. * 4: 1 of 2 breeds named for a British Channel island on which they were developed. * Guernsey (or Jersey). * 5: Cow seen in Mickey Mouse cartoons who shares her name with a male Howdy Doody character. * Clarabelle.

Round 3. Category: Book Sequels?* 1: Arthur Dimmesdale returns (difficult, as he died in the first book) in this 19th c. author's "The Chartreuse Number". * Hawthorne. * 2: Guy Montag is back, and those books are gonna pay in this author's "Celsius 232.78". * Ray Bradbury. * 3: Natty Bumppo discovers there's "The Penultimate Iroquois" in this man's 1820s sequel. * James Fenimore Cooper. * 4: Edmond Dantes gets a promotion in this author's 19th c. sequel "The Fresh Prince of Monte Cristo". * Alexandre Dumas. * 5: Jose Arcadio Buendia is back a-buildin' in this author's 1960s book "25 More Years of Me-Time". * Gabriel García Márquez.

Round 4. Category: Renaissance Men* 1: Unlike his predecessors, Maximilian I of this empire wasn't crowned by the Pope. * the Holy Roman Empire. * 2: "Being unarmed...causes you to be despised", he wrote in "The Prince". * Machiavelli. * 3: Pope Leo X was the second son of this "Magnificent" Medici. * Lorenzo. * 4: 1 of the first reliefs this great artist sculpted was the "Madonna of the Stairs". * Michelangelo. * 5: This Borgia was accused of murdering his brother Giovanni in 1497. * Cesare.

Round 5. Category: Words Of The '60s* 1: These 2 birds represented conciliatory and aggressive attitudes toward war. * Doves and hawks. * 2: To talk freely and frankly, or H. Brown's "middle name". * rap. * 3: Logically enough, it's the single word for a topless bikini. * Monokini. * 4: Term for those who rode buses to test integration in interstate travel. * "Freedom Riders". * 5: Precedes "wasted", "down" and "your act together". * get.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 757, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ends In "Th"* 1: A mass of bubbles on top of hot chocolate. * froth. * 2: Something enormous in size, such as the land animal mentioned in the book of Job. * a behemoth. * 3: A scarce supply, or a shortage of food. * dearth. * 4: Foam. * froth. * 5: This type of bomber is designed to prevent detection by radar. * stealth.

Round 2. Category: Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young* 1: "Woodstock", the group's first hit together, was written by this onetime gal pal of Graham Nash. * Joni Mitchell. * 2: Stills and Young came from Buffalo Springfield, Nash from The Hollies and Crosby flew off from this group. * The Byrds. * 3: In 1997 Crosby, Stills and Nash performed at this university to commemorate the 27th anniv. of the shootings there. * Kent State. * 4: David Crosby made big news when it was revealed that he fathered this rocker and Julie Cypher's 2 children. * Melissa Etheridge. * 5: (Hello everybody, I'm Graham Nash) With an eye on the new millennium, our 2000 tour was dubbed this. * "CSNY: 2K".

Round 3. Category: Musical Terms* 1: It's the kind of singing produced by an adult male in a higher than normal register. * falsetto. * 2: If you don't want to "mezz" around with the longer term, you can call these singers "mezzos" for short. * mezzo-soprano. * 3: From the old Provencal verb balar, meaning "to dance", it's a narrative poem of folk origin that is sung. * ballad. * 4: These Cuban gourd instruments can be made of Bakelite filled w/lead shot for a stronger sound. * maracas. * 5: In musical notation, this is a curved line grouping notes and indicating they're played together smoothly. * a slur.

Round 4. Category: File Under "T"* 1: On the night of April 14-15, 1912 this ship sank in the north Atlantic. * Titanic. * 2: It's the name of a national monument in the Salt River Valley in Arizona, kimosabe. * Tonto National Monument. * 3: In 1941 Congress reset the day on which this annual holiday is observed. * Thanksgiving. * 4: He was sent to bring Isolde to Cornwall to marry his uncle, King Mark. * Tristan. * 5: It's defined as a small, shallow drum with a single head and metallic jingles in its rim. * a tambourine.

Round 5. Category: 1962* 1: It topped the pop charts in the summer of '62:. * "The Stripper" (by David Rose). * 2: Rumors surfaced among Cubans in America that this premier had remarried, but they've never been confirmed. * Fidel Castro. * 3: Pope John XXIII opened this historic meeting in St. Peter's Basilica on October 11. * the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II). * 4: On July 3 Charles De Gaulle proclaimed the independence of this African country. * Algeria. * 5: There were requiems for this author of "Requiem for a Nun" after he died July 6. * William Faulkner.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 756, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Boo"!* 1: Word that can precede hatch, prize or trap. * booby. * 2: Pirate plunder. * booty. * 3: The NCAA calls them "representatives of the institution's athletic interests". * boosters. * 4: Grant me this gift or favor. * a boon. * 5: Well I'll be a monkey's uncle! -- the Hamadryas species of this was revered by the ancient Egyptians. * a baboon.

Round 2. Category: Praise The "Lord" 1: The upper chamber of the British parliament. * House of Lords. * 2: Hardly idle, this poet wrote over 10,000 lines of "Idylls Of The King". * Alfred Lord Tennyson. * 3: It's also called the Pater Noster. * The Lord's Prayer. * 4: As Steve McGarrett, he often finished off wrongdoers with the words "Book 'Em, Dano". * Jack Lord. * 5: Clive Barker's cinematic thriller about the evil resurrected magician Nix. * Lord of Illusions*.

Round 3. Category: About "Face" 1: "Elevating" cosmetic surgery people keep secret--except Phyllis Diller, Betty Ford, Mr. Blackwell.... * a face lift. * 2: The worth of a stamp or coin stated on it. * face value. * 3: Song sung and drawn by Dick Van Dyke in the film "Bye Bye Birdie". * "Put On A Happy Face". * 4: Maintaining one's reputation. * saving/keeping face. * 5: To deal with a pressing problem directly, or the name of a 1980 TV game show similar to "Name That Tune". * Face the Music*.

Round 4. Category: Autumn-Atic* 1: Each November this sporting event starts in Staten Island and ends hours later in Central Park. * New York City Marathon. * 2: Around Thanksgiving you start to see store ads reminding you that there are only about 28 of these "before Christmas". * Shopping days. * 3: In-ciders know October is the national month for this fruit. * Apples. * 4: Every October 19 this Virginia town remembers the last major battle of the American Revolution. * Yorktown. * 5: On October 12 many Latinos celebrate El Dia de la Raza, meaning "The Day of" this. * The Race/Community/People.

Round 5. Category: 1905* 1: June 7: Norway dissolves the union that had existed since 1814 with this country. * Sweden. * 2: July 16: This American commander sets off on his second expedition to the North Pole. * Peary. * 3: January 26:This largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found is unearthed in South Africa. * the Cullinan. * 4: November 28:Arthur Griffith forms this nationalist political party in Dublin. * Sinn Fein. * 5: June 13:Prime Minister Delyannis of this Mediterranean country is assassinated. * Greece.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 755, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tim, Tom, Tammy* 1: "This will be pure H-E double L for me, oh, I wish that we could stop this D-I-V-O-R-C-E", sang this woman. * Tammy Wynette. * 2: This classic 1843 story character was the child of a clerk. * Tiny Tim. * 3: It's a perennial grass of the family Poaceae, widely cultivated as a hay grass. * timothy. * 4: This native of Blowing Rock, N.C. penned "Still Life with Woodpecker". * Tom Robbins. * 5: The first collection of this author's short stories was 1898's "Der Kleine Herr Friedemann". * Thomas Mann.

Round 2. Category: Nyc Street Foods* 1: (Sofia is on Park Avenue, enjoying a pretzel, when....) Oops! I forgot to get a side of this traditional yellow condiment. * mustard. * 2: (Sofia is tasting a Mediterranean delicacy.) This pita contains little balls of this, a deep-fried Mideast treat made from chickpeas or fava beans. * falafel. * 3: (Sofia is enjoying a foreign potato product.) From the Ukranian for "dumpling", it's the name of the potato product I'm eating. * knish. * 4: (Sofia holds up a slice of thin-crust pizza.) You can get pizza New York-style or in this thicker style named for an Italian island. * Sicilian. * 5: (Sofia wraps up our taste of the Big Apple--with a stomache--and a bottle of a well-known product for curing such.) Fortunately, also available in New York is this Procter and Gamble tummy-soothing liquid. * Pepto-Bismol.

Round 3. Category: Hello, Bb* 1: Riding without a saddle. * bareback. * 2: The legal instrument to spring you after an arrest. * a bail bond. * 3: A menorah is the symbol of this international organization founded in 1843. * B'nai B'rith. * 4: In Internet domain names, this country of the West Indies. * Barbados. * 5: Friction reducers noted on technical drawings. * ball bearings.

Round 4. Category: Club Me 1: To join England's venerable Carlton Club, Margaret Thatcher had to be made an honorary one of these. * a man. * 2: For many years, Henny Youngman received much of his fan mail at this comedy "club" found on NYC's East 55th Street. * the Friar's Club. * 3: It's the "happy" name for a group of college singers who perform short pieces of choral music. * a glee club. * 4: The Baum Bugle is the newsletter of the international club for fans of this tale. * The Wizard of Oz*. * 5: Founded in 1795, this Harvard club is famed for its theatricals. * the Hasty Pudding Club.

Round 5. Category: Lightning Safety* 1: A website for this sport advises that if you play through a storm, your great round could be your last round. * golf. * 2: You're advised to seek a safe location if less than 30 seconds pass between a lightning flash and this. * a thunderclap. * 3: Lightning victims don't carry a charge; it's safe to use this heart-beat-restoring technique if you know how. * CPR. * 4: Panamax of San Rafael, California introduced this type of "protection" for PCs in 1981. * surge. * 5: Based on data gathered from 1959 to 1994, this hurricane-prone state also has the most lightning fatalities. * Florida.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 754, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The International Cineplex 1: We told you this film was called "Hot Babes" in Taiwan; in France, it was "Charlie and the Funny Women". * Charlie's Angels. * 2: C'mon; 1993 Taiwanese title "Who Freed the Super Whale"...what more do you need?. * Free Willy. * 3: In Japan this 2000 Cameron Crowe film was known as "Those Days with Penny Lane". * Almost Famous. * 4: In Taiwan this 1998 sequel to "The Fugitive" was known as "Execution with No Reasons". * U.S. Marshals. * 5: In Taiwan "You're Still Next" was this horror film's sequel; Pop Rocks killing Life cereal's Mikey is an example of one. * Urban Legend*.

Round 2. Category: The Hospital* 1: A temporary Civil War hospital was only one ever in New Orleans with this famous title:. * the St. James Infirmary. * 2: Although a general hospital for 250 years, it is commonly thought of as NYC's lunatic asylum. * Bellevue. * 3: A steam or gas autoclave is used for this process. * sterilization. * 4: An oncologist would treat you if you had one of these. * a tumor. * 5: In an emergency room, the triage nurse primarily decides this. * who should get treatment.

Round 3. Category: Middle English Class* 1: From the Middle English for "quarrel", this word often follows "bench-clearing". * a brawl. * 2: From the Middle English for "unconditioned", it precedes "zero" at about -459 F.. * absolute. * 3: This word from the Middle English means "nothing" to me and is often found after "come to". * naught. * 4: From Middle English for "to chop", it means to bargain over a price. * haggle. * 5: "Is this a" word from Middle English "which I see before me"?. * a dagger.

Round 4. Category: Pet Food* 1: Milk-Bone brand dog biscuits claim to clean teeth and freshen this naturally. * breath. * 2: A brand described as "just good cat food", or a stray feline who hangs out in passageways. * Alley Cat. * 3: A dog food "recommended by top breeders", or the ancestral line of a purebred canine. * Pedigree. * 4: The cat food known as "Kit 'N" this claims "It makes other meals seem downright mousy!". * Kaboodle. * 5: Something given in return for a good deed, or a dog food "for the very best dogs in the world". * Reward.

Round 5. Category: Wee Folk* 1: In a Grimm tale the Miller's daughter gave this little man a necklace and a ring for spinning straw into gold for her. * Rumpelstiltskin. * 2: The name of this type of wee supernatural being is from the Latin for "spirit". * a sprite. * 3: These Scandinavian beings often lurk under bridges; just ask the 3 Billy-Goats Gruff. * trolls. * 4: Treasure seekers can sometimes track down one of these Irish fairies by the sound of his shoemaker's hammer. * a leprechaun. * 5: This ugly guy "with eyes as big as saucers" wanted to eat the 3 billy goats that crossed over his bridge. * the troll.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 753, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: State Seals* 1: This state's seal shows a man with a gun standing on the state's Lower Peninsula. * Michigan. * 2: Its state seal has a reverse side that displays the 6 flags that have flown over it. * Texas. * 3: The Goddess of Liberty and this great king adorn Hawaii's state seal. * Kamehameha. * 4: 8 leaves of this poi-producing plant are on Hawaii's seal. * taro. * 5: The sun rising over the mountains on its seal shows that it was the first state west of the Alleghenies. * Ohio.

Round 2. Category: Sports Firsts On The First* 1: On January 1, 1935 Bucknell beat Miami 26-zip in the first playing of this bowl game. * Orange Bowl. * 2: On June 1, 1925, pinch hitting for Pee Wee Wanninger, he played his first of 2,130 games in a row. * Lou Gehrig. * 3: On February 1, 1970 Dave Balon pulled off his first one of these in his pro hockey career. * Hat trick. * 4: On April 1, 1990 he won the first tournament he played on the Senior PGA Tour by 4 strokes. * Jack Nicklaus. * 5: On March 1, 1941 Elmer Layden, once part of this legendary quartet, was named the first NFL commissioner. * Four Horsemen of Notre Dame.

Round 3. Category: Dem Bugs* 1: This insect, whose name is Spanish for "little fly", carries malaria, encephalitis and yellow fever. * the mosquito. * 2: Among bees, workers do all the work while their sole function is to mate with the queen. * the drones. * 3: Of a beetle, a spider or a grasshopper, the one that is not an insect. * a spider. * 4: An insect uses this appendage to smell and feel and in some instances to taste and hear. * antennae. * 5: These large bugs named for a monster are probably the fastest flying insects. * dragonflies.

Round 4. Category: Characters In Musicals 1: Sky Masterson. * Guys and Dolls. * 2: The forbidden love of Lun Tha and Tuptim inspires Anna to sing"Hello, Young Lovers" in this musical. * King and I. * 3: Lilli Vanessi,Lois Lane,"Taming of the Shrew" players. * Kiss Me, Kate. * 4: Lalume,the wazir of police,the Caliph of Baghdad. * Kismet. * 5: Lazar Wolf. * Fiddler on the Roof*.

Round 5. Category: Where 1: To vacation in this Caribbean paradise, you may fly into Sangster Intl. Airport in Montego Bay. * Jamaica. * 2: She's in Copenhagen, on a rock in the harbor just east of Kastellet Fortress. * The Little Mermaid*. * 3: In Portugal the area south of this river that bisects the country is much warmer than the area north of it. * Tagus. * 4: It's in Agra, India, on the banks of the Yamuna River between the Old Fort and the Protected Forest. * the Taj Mahal. * 5: In Paris, on 40 acres on the Seine, with a sculpture of slaves by Michelangelo. * the Louvre.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 752, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Street Smarts* 1: The Boston Common fronts on this street, also the name of a nearby hill. * Beacon Street. * 2: Folks from Oscar Wilde to Liza Minnelli have hit Jean Lafitte's Old Absinthe House at this street and Bienville, y'all. * Bourbon Street. * 3: It's the stately street where the U.S. president lives. * Pennsylvania Avenue. * 4: The Garden State Parkway passes by Paramus and Passaic in this state. * New Jersey. * 5: In "The Blues Brothers", Elwood gives his address as 1060 W. Addison, which turns out to be this sporting venue. * Wrigley Field.

Round 2. Category: Presidential Library Addresses* 1: 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, New York. * Franklin D. Roosevelt. * 2: 1000 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan. * Gerald Ford. * 3: Columbia Point, Boston, Massachusetts. * John F. Kennedy. * 4: 2313 Red River Street, Austin, Texas. * Lyndon B. Johnson. * 5: 210 Parkside Drive, West Branch, Iowa. * Herbert Hoover.

Round 3. Category: There Is No Place Like Nebraska* 1: The USA's emergency 911 system was developed and first used in this "presidential" city. * Lincoln. * 2: This man organized his famous "Wild West Show" in 1883 at his ranch near North Platte. * Buffalo Bill Cody. * 3: In 1948 Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base became home to SAC, which stood for this. * Strategic Air Command. * 4: The U. of N. College of Agriculture helped develop the technology for this McDonald's McPork sandwich. * McRib. * 5: The childhood home of Willa Cather, this colorfully named town inspired the setting for her 6 Nebraska novels. * Red Cloud.

Round 4. Category: During The '90s 1: While fighting Indians in the 1790s, he briefly served with his future exploring partner William Clark. * (Meriwether) Lewis. * 2: A top selling 1990s computer game was this one developed by the Miller brothers, set on a puzzling island. * Myst*. * 3: You should remember this island's war of independence was fought 1895 to 1898. * Cuba. * 4: During the 1590s English explorers were searching for this City of Gold in what's now Guyana. * El Dorado. * 5: In the 1490s he produced his first big statue; no, not David, it was of a drunken roman wine god. * Michelangelo.

Round 5. Category: Money And Finance* 1: When stocks are in an upward trend, it's a bull market; as they drop, it's called this. * Bear Market. * 2: A company that steadily produces profits is referred to by this bovine term. * Cash Cow. * 3: It's the type of tax paid on expensive items considered nonessential, such as yachts, furs and jewelry. * Luxury Tax. * 4: Despite its name, this type of insurance payout can be made monthly or quarterly as well as yearly. * Annuity. * 5: Similar to Ginnie Mae, the Student Loan Marketing Association is popularly called this. * Sallie Mae.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 750, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pour Me A Stiff One* 1: Nonpotent potable in common to a fuzzy navel and a screwdriver. * orange juice. * 2: Stolichanya, or stoli to its friends, is a brand of this. * vodka. * 3: Invented in Cuba, a mojito is made with lime juice, club soda, sugar, ice, mint leaves and this kind of alcohol. * rum. * 4: This brand of liqueur made its debut in Dublin on November 26, 1974. * Bailey's (Irish Cream). * 5: Mon dieu! This French liqueur was originally made at the Abbey of Fecamp by the monks for which it is named. * Benedictine.

Round 2. Category: Lost 1: TV show whose theme says, "The Minnow will be lost". * Gilligan's Island*. * 2: Lost in the forest, this pair happens upon a house made of bread, cake and sugar. * Hansel and Gretel. * 3: Presumably she was lost at sea after vanishing in the central Pacific in July 1937. * Amelia Earhart. * 4: It's said that this gem was cut from a stone called the French Blue, which was lost after a crown jewel heist in 1792. * Hope Diamond. * 5: Performed annually in North Carolina, "The Lost Colony" is an outdoor drama about this lost colony. * Roanoke Island.

Round 3. Category: Classic Comic Catchphrases* 1: "Well, excuuuuuse me!". * Steve Martin. * 2: "You look mahvelous!". * Billy Crystal. * 3: "Woo woo woo woo woo woo!". * Curly. * 4: "Here's another nice mess you've gotten us into". * Oliver Hardy. * 5: To Rochester: "Now cut that out!". * Jack Benny.

Round 4. Category: When You're Having Fun* 1: When you're having fun playing the strategy game "Richtofen's War", you'll be using planes from this war. * World War I. * 2: When you're having fun playing this party game, you could call it "Attach the terminal vertebrae to the jackass". * "Pin the tail on the donkey". * 3: When you're having fun playing this board game invented in 1948, you'll draw up to 7 letter tiles. * Scrabble. * 4: You might play 301, 501 or 1001 when you're playing when you're having fun playing this barroom favorite. * darts. * 5: When you're having fun in Japan playing this sport, you'll learn it's known there as besuboru. * baseball.

Round 5. Category: '60s Muscle Cars* 1: Ronny and the Daytonas wanted to "turn it on, wind it up" and "blow it out". * GTO. * 2: This Plymouth named for a sharp-toothed fish really had some bite. * Barracuda. * 3: This Chevy was still going strong into the '90s with a Z-28 model. * Camaro. * 4: This Pontiac muscle car moves much faster than the Stravinsky ballet. * Firebird. * 5: Later maker of the Pacer, this automaker's Javelin hit the mark. * American Motors (AMC).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 749, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: U.s Place Names* 1: Anne Arundel County in this state is named for the wife of the second Lord Baltimore. * Maryland. * 2: A city near L.A. is named for this novelist from New England; wonder how many "scarlet" women live there. * (Nathaniel) Hawthorne. * 3: This New Mexico city was named for a railroad paymaster, not for a pollster. * Gallup. * 4: Motley County in this state wasn't named for Motley Crue but for a man wounded in the Battle of San Jacinto. * Texas. * 5: A dozen U.S. counties are named for this 19th century politician, a "Little Giant" indeed. * (Stephen) Douglas.

Round 2. Category: Royal Houses 1: George I’s father was elector of this, hence its turnover into a house name. * Hanover. * 2: This dynasty’s last 3 monarchs, including Mary I, died childless. * Tudor. * 3: As a member of this house, it sounds like James I could have starred in “Harveyâ€Â. * Stuart. * 4: It could be called the house of Citrus sinensis. * Orange. * 5: This Shakespeare play sounds like it’s about the better halves of George V and George VI. * The Merry Wives of Windsor*.

Round 3. Category: File Under "E"* 1: The motto on the Great Seal of the U.S.: "Out of many, one". * "E Pluribus Unum". * 2: Gene Chandler is the Duke of Earl and Prince Philip is the duke of this city. * Edinburgh. * 3: Eritrea, now the northernmost province of this country, was an Italian colony from 1890-1941. * Ethiopia. * 4: 3-sided sword that's a familiar word to fencers and crossword puzzle enthusiasts. * epee. * 5: This ancient Greek city in Asia Minor was the site of the temple of Artemis. * Ephesus.

Round 4. Category: Chat Room Cliches* 1: FWIW:"For"this. * For what it's worth. * 2: BTW:"By"this. * By the way. * 3: LOL:"Laughing"this way. * Laughing out loud. * 4: IMHO:"In my"this. * In my humble opinion. * 5: HTH:"Hope this"does this. * Hope this helps.

Round 5. Category: Oscar-Winning Roles* 1: Mary Poppins. * Julie Andrews. * 2: Hannibal Lecter. * Anthony Hopkins. * 3: Rooster Cogburn. * John Wayne. * 4: Mexican cop Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez. * Benicio Del Toro. * 5: 2009:He was really good as Bad Blake. * Jeff Bridges.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 748, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Literary Title Characters* 1: 1851:A white whale. * "Moby Dick". * 2: 12-year-old nymphet Dolores Haze. * "Lolita". * 3: 1759:Dr. Pangloss' naive student. * "Candide". * 4: Poet and soldier who recites his "Nose Tirade" and composes a ballade whilst dueling. * "Cyrano de Bergerac". * 5: The ruddy gamekeeper of Sir Clifford's Wragby Estate. * "Lady Chatterley's Lover".

Round 2. Category: Mountain Time* 1: It's the highest mountain in Greece and that's no myth!. * Mount Olympus. * 2: Every summer it's time to rev your engines for a race to the top of this famous Colorado peak. * Pikes Peak. * 3: These mountains extend into 7 countries, including Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. * the Andes. * 4: Rip Van Winkle took his 20-year snooze in these mountains of New York. * the Catskills. * 5: Check your map book: these mountains extend more than 1,200 miles across Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. * the Atlas Mountains.

Round 3. Category: Who's Who In Sports* 1: He managed the Los Angeles Dodgers to World Series wins in 1981 and 1988. * Tommy Lasorda. * 2: With 20, this "Bear" of a golfer is the all-time leader in major tournament wins. * Jack Nicklaus. * 3: Born in 1956, this Swedish tennis player won 6 French Opens and 5 straight Wimbledons. * Bjorn Borg. * 4: Ali's 1974 fight against Foreman was the breakout event for this boxing promoter. * Don King. * 5: Nicknamed "The Admiral", this center helped lead the San Antonio Spurs to their first NBA title in 1999. * David Robinson.

Round 4. Category: Mythology* 1: 2 of their most important gods were Ra, the sun god and Osiris, the river god. * Egyptians. * 2: Shamu could tell you he's the Roman god of the sea world. * Neptune. * 3: She came to life after Pygmalion created her as a statue. * Galatea. * 4: This race of gods includes the 12 children of Uranus and Gaia. * the Titans. * 5: She wasn't just the Greek goddess of the rainbow--she personified it, too. * Iris.

Round 5. Category: Foods Of The World* 1: Some of this cheese named for Parma is cured for several years before it's grated over pasta. * Parmesan. * 2: The Sevruga type of this fishy treat is made of small, grayish eggs. * caviar. * 3: Cakes of this soybean curd should be stored in water, and the water should be changed daily. * tofu. * 4: Originally, this "modest" English pie was made with numbles, which are deer innards. * humble pie. * 5: Souvlaki, a Greek specialty similar to shish kebab is made with marinated chunks of this meat. * lamb.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 747, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Out Of The Microwave* 1: To cook this ballpark treat, put it in a bun, wrap it in a paper towel and microwave it for 30 seconds. * Hot dog. * 2: Betty Crocker sells this snack food under the name Pop Secret. * Microwave popcorn. * 3: Baking these russets in a regular oven can take 45-60 minutes, but the microwave can cook them in 5. * Potatoes. * 4: Dishes made of this type of material can damage a microwave and shouldn't be used. * metal. * 5: This brand of microwaveable dinners makes Lean Cuisine. * Stouffer's.

Round 2. Category: Metropolitan Opera* 1: A 1965 Met performance of "Il Trovatore" had to be cancelled due to this famous power problem. * the blackout in New York City. * 2: While on a 1906 West Coast tour, the company survived this legendary disaster. * San Francisco earthquake (and fire). * 3: In 1940, this "star-studded" oil co. began its Saturday sponsorship of Met radio broadcasts. * Texaco. * 4: Two great Italian tenors debuted at the Met on November 23, Pavarotti in 1968 and this singer in 1903. * Caruso. * 5: Including "Lohengrin", all Met operas in the 1st season were sung in these 2 Romance languages. * Italian and French.

Round 3. Category: Emily Post-Er Child* 1: These are meant to be used regularly during the meal (just in case you have a milk mustache or something...). * napkins. * 2: These "are still the 'magic' words they've always been", and you should insist your child use them. * please and thank you. * 3: Post goes on for over a page on the "the validity of" this 2-letter word, a kid's earliest must-learn concept. * no. * 4: Children should learn not to interrupt others' conversations except in the case of one of these. * an emergency. * 5: On formal correspondence, you may address a boy under 7 years old by this title. * Master.

Round 4. Category: See You In Court* 1: Deaths in its Pinto made it the first U.S. corporation to face criminal charges over product design. * Ford. * 2: The government sued Frank Snepp over his 1977 book based on his years with this agency. * CIA. * 3: Perhaps because no one could figure out what he'd been trying to do, Aaron Burr was acquitted of this in 1807. * treason. * 4: Carol Burnett's suit against the National Enquirer for this hinged on whether the Enquirer was really a newspaper. * libel. * 5: In 1977 the Supreme Court ruled that John Bates, in this profession, had the right to advertise low fees. * lawyer/law.

Round 5. Category: 4-Letter Magazines* 1: Henry Luce helped create these 2 magazines, one in 1923, the other in 1936. * Time and Life. * 2: It's how you say "She" in France and Korea and Romania and 29 other international editions. * Elle. * 3: People sure are saying things about this new magazine from Tina Brown. * Talk. * 4: Mary J. Blige got personal in the Sept. 1999 issue of this hip-hop music magazine founded by Quincy Jones. * Vibe. * 5: Carey Lowell wrote about Deepak Chopra for this Conde Nast magazine of personal well-being. * Self.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 746, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tape* 1: For protection, these athletes tape both hands under their 6- to 12-ounce gloves. * Boxers. * 2: This type of tape is applied to bicycles and to children's clothing as a safety device. * Reflective tape. * 3: A popular calendar is titled "365 Days of" this often gray cloth tape. * Duct tape. * 4: As its name indicates, it's used especially to cover surfaces during painting. * Masking tape. * 5: Used to insulate electrical wires, it's named for the force that resists sliding objects. * Friction tape.

Round 2. Category: Let's Get It "On"!* 1: The type of light associated with Vegas, its atomic number is 10. * neon. * 2: In astronomy, one billion years. * eon. * 3: A person of low social status, or a day laborer. * peon. * 4: Brand name for the chemical chiefly used as a refrigerant. * Freon. * 5: Feisty former White House Chief of Staff Panetta. * Leon.

Round 3. Category: Humor* 1: Only a groan man should attempt this "lowest form of wit". * Pun. * 2: The name of this comic imitation that lacks the moral aspect of satire also means a strip show. * Burlesque. * 3: It's defined as a tumble in which one lands on the buttocks. * Pratfall. * 4: Stout Shakespearean character "Not only witty myself; but the cause that wit is in other men". * Sir John Falstaff. * 5: Canine term for a long, drawn-out, complicated, overinvolved and even purposely irritating story. * "Shaggy Dog" story.

Round 4. Category: Aviation* 1: On its first day of operation, April 17, 1973, this company founded by Fred Smith flew 186 packages. * Federal Express. * 2: Not surprisingly, in 1939 this nation had the strongest air force in Europe. * Germany. * 3: Of 12, 24,or 36, # of hours it took a passenger to fly across U.S. in 1930. * 36. * 4: In May 1987 a plane built by this Wichita, Kansas company landed in Red Square. * Cessna. * 5: Used to train military pilots in WWI and later to carry the mail, the Curtiss JN-4 was known by this feminine nickname. * the Jenny.

Round 5. Category: Miss Universe 1: In 1952 Finland's Armi Kuuselan was crowned the first Miss Universe in this city, now home to the Queen Mary. * Long Beach, California. * 2: The pageant was first broadcast live in 1973 from the Parthenon in this city. * Athens. * 3: 1980's winner, Shawn Weatherly, was lifeguard Jill Watson on this TV show's first season. * Baywatch*. * 4: Crowned in Cyprus in May 2000, Bombay U. grad Lara Dutta represented this country. * India. * 5: 4 women have won representing this U.S. commonwealth, home to the 2001 pageant. * Puerto Rico.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 745, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Porgy-Pourri* 1: Sadly, "Porgy and Bess" was the only full-length opera this composer wrote; he passed away in 1937, at age 38. * George Gershwin. * 2: Now a famous poet, she played Ruby in the acclaimed European tour of "Porgy and Bess" in the mid-'50s. * Maya Angelou. * 3: In 1936 this city's National Theatre was briefly desegregated so African-Americans could see "Porgy and Bess" there. * Washington, D.C.. * 4: Bobby McFerrin's father dubbed the singing voice of Porgy when this leading man played him on film in 1959. * Sidney Poitier. * 5: The opera is based on a novel inspired by a real crime of passion committed in this Southern city. * Charleston, South Carolina.

Round 2. Category: "Un" Words* 1: Tom, Miltie, or $crooge. * uncles. * 2: If you ask the Miami operator for Don Johnson's phone number, she'll probably tell you it's this. * unlisted. * 3: An "unspeakable" euphemism for underwear. * unmentionables. * 4: Hades is also known as this, sure as hell. * the underworld. * 5: Ointment. * unguent (or unction).

Round 3. Category: I'm Having Contractions* 1: The Gadsden flag of the American Revolution featured a rattlesnake and this contraction. * Don't (Tread on Me). * 2: It's who the "Beverly Hillbillies" invited each week to "come back now". * y'all. * 3: The first contraction in the first verse of "Jingle Bells". * o'er (the hills we go). * 4: An American idler is a one of these-do-well. * ne'er-do-well. * 5: Contraction in the title of Marquis' popular book of biographies. * Who's (Who).

Round 4. Category: Hitchcock Movie Quotes 1: "Mother! O God, Mother! Blood! Blood!". * Psycho. * 2: "A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window". * Rear Window. * 3: "That's funny, that plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops". * North by Northwest. * 4: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again". * Rebecca. * 5: "Two fellows meet accidentally... each one has somebody they'd like to get rid of, so they swap murders". * Strangers on a Train*.

Round 5. Category: Film Facts 1: Jim Hanks doubled for brother Tom in some of the running scenes in this 1994 movie. * Forrest Gump. * 2: Paul Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and Elaine May all wrote songs for this 1987 comedy. * Ishtar*. * 3: This author appears briefly in "The Cider House Rules" as a train stationmaster, but he didn't give himself any lines. * John Irving. * 4: In "Casablanca", after Ingrid Bergman's plane takes off, he and Bogey walk into the misty night. * Claude Rains. * 5: Robert De Niro put on more than 50 pounds to play this boxer. * Jake La Motta (in "Raging Bull").

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 744, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Frank Sinatra* 1: It's the classic song in which Frank faced off against "the final curtain". * "My Way". * 2: She became Frank's wife in 1966, 2 years before starring in "Rosemary's Baby". * (Mia) Farrow. * 3: It was a very good 45 minutes it took for Ervin Drake to write this song that helped Frank make a comeback in the '60s. * "It Was A Very Good Year". * 4: Frank's last No. 1 hit was 1967's "Somethin' Stupid", a duet with her. * Nancy Sinatra. * 5: The first names of 2 of Frank's 4 wives. * (2 of) Nancy, Ava, Mia, and Barbara.

Round 2. Category: Crossword Clues "R"* 1: He spun straw into gold(15). * Rumpelstiltskin. * 2: Musical mass for the dead (7). * Requiem. * 3: Synthetic silk (5). * rayon. * 4: Meeting between lovers or spacecraft (10). * Rendezvous. * 5: Hebrew "teacher" (5). * rabbi.

Round 3. Category: "Finger" Exercise* 1: Pinkie rinser at the table. * a finger bowl. * 2: A type of pitch where the ball drops sharply near home plate. * a split-finger. * 3: Tiny trout. * fingerlings. * 4: Alphabetic sign language. * fingerspelling. * 5: Numerical slang for shoplifting. * 5-finger discount.

Round 4. Category: Take My Wife, Please* 1: Marie Sklodowska(1895-1906). * Pierre Curie. * 2: Anne Hathaway(1582-1616). * William Shakespeare. * 3: Robin Givens(1988-1989). * Mike Tyson. * 4: Winnie Nomzamo(1958-1996). * Nelson Mandela. * 5: Heather Mills(as of 2002). * Paul McCartney.

Round 5. Category: Biblical Rhyme Time* 1: Long-suffering man's dressing gowns. * Job's robes. * 2: Patient and faithful Old Testament figure's ear parts. * Job's lobes. * 3: Pillar of salt's hubby's collapsible beds. * Lot's cots. * 4: First woman's minor annoyances. * Eve's peeves. * 5: Naomi's daughter-in-law's tanning rooms. * Ruth's booths.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 743, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: When* 1: On Aug. 28, 1963 he told a crowd gathered in Washington, D.C. "I have a dream". * Martin Luther King, Jr.. * 2: An American hero on April 18, 1775, he was accused of cowardice in 1779, but a court-martial cleared him. * Paul Revere. * 3: On Sept. 15, 1862 Stonewall Jackson captured this town made famous by John Brown 3 years earlier. * Harpers Ferry. * 4: On June 11, 2004 this ex-British P.M. delivered a videotaped eulogy for Ronald Reagan at Washington's National Cathedral. * Margaret Thatcher. * 5: On Dec. 17, 1819 this "George Washington of South America" became Gran Colombia's first president. * Bolívar.

Round 2. Category: You're "Golden", Baby 1: The USA's tallest bridge towers are the 746-foot steel peaks of this structure. * the Golden Gate Bridge. * 2: This NBA team took the 1975 championship. * the Golden State Warriors. * 3: It's the second-most registered dog breed at the American Kennel Club. * a golden retriever. * 4: Jason stole it for his Uncle Pelias. * the Golden Fleece. * 5: Sir James Frazer compared mythologies and religions in this work. * The Golden Bough*.

Round 3. Category: Candles 1: Elton John's "Candle In The Wind" was originally written as a tribute to this actress. * Marilyn Monroe. * 2: Blowing out his birthday candles, a boy wishes for 24 hours of truth from his dad in this 1997 Jim Carrey film. * Liar Liar. * 3: Erle Stanley Gardner had this attorney take on "The Case Of The Crooked Candle". * Perry Mason. * 4: In the mid-19th century, candles were often made with this wax crystallized from petroleum. * Paraffin wax. * 5: This play contains the line "Out, out brief candle!". * Macbeth*.

Round 4. Category: Presidents And Cherries* 1: The story of him chopping down a cherry tree was first mentioned in a biography by Mason Weems. * George Washington. * 2: In 1994 this former President was the Grand Marshal of the Macon, Georgia cherry blossom festival. * jimmy Carter. * 3: His circular Presidential memorial stands among the cherry trees that line the Tidal Basin in D.C.. * Thomas Jefferson. * 4: The cherry trees that line the Tidal Basin in our nation's capital were donated by Japan in 1912 when he was President. * William Howard Taft. * 5: The second President to die in office, he expired in 1850 after eating a dessert of cherries and milk. * Zachary Taylor.

Round 5. Category: On The Beat With Andy Sipowicz* 1: (Hi. I'm Dennis Franz. I play Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue.) This guy, an M.E. for short, tells Sipowicz how and why a corpse got that way. * medical examiner. * 2: (Franz reads the clue.) Some cops use this soft powdery limestone to mark tires; homicide cops, like Andy, see it used more for outlines. * chalk. * 3: (Franz reads the clue.) Dating back to the 1700s, it's the court order that authorizes police to enter a home to look for evidence. * search warrant. * 4: (Franz reads the clue.) This "squad" investigates prostitution, gambling and other immoral activities; you know, the fun stuff. * the vice squad. * 5: (Franz reads the clue.) Because of this man's Supreme Court case, Sipowicz has to inform suspects of their right to a lawyer. * Miranda.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 742, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cook Me Up!* 1: With the rising sun beating down on me I was doing this, as if I was a genoise or a loaf of bread. * baking. * 2: I went on a diet to try to do this, like chateaubriand sauce when it's boiled down. * reduce. * 3: I thought the police just had a few questions--I didn't know I'd be this, like a Burger King hamburger. * grilled. * 4: In that heavy wool suit I was doing this, the process coffee beans go through before grinding. * roasting. * 5: I couldn't do anything until he finally showed up except sit there and do this, like slow-simmered meat. * stew.

Round 2. Category: Throwing The Book At You 1: "Alexey... was the third son of Fyodor... who became notorious... because of his tragic... death". * The Brothers Karamazov. * 2: "Dean was having his kicks; he put on a jazz record, grabbed Marylou... and bounced against her with the beat". * On the Road. * 3: "Like a leaden knell the words came back at him: War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength". * 1984. * 4: "40 years ago, certain persons went up to Laputa... and... came back with a very little smattering in mathematics". * Gulliver's Travels. * 5: "'Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin.'". * To Kill a Mockingbird*.

Round 3. Category: Beatles' Songs In Other Words* 1: "Jaundiced U-Boat". * "Yellow Submarine". * 2: "Softcover Author". * "Paperback Writer". * 3: "Shalom Aloha". * "Hello Goodbye". * 4: "A Lengthy, Meandering Boulevard". * "The Long and Winding Road". * 5: "24 Hour Traveler". * "Day Tripper".

Round 4. Category: Under Wood* 1: Of fife, flute, or flugelhorn, the one not listed under "woodwind" in Funk and Wagnalls. * flugelhorn. * 2: Honus Wagner signed a contract Sept. 1, 1905 making him the 1st to have his signature etched into these. * baseball bats. * 3: The state gemstone of Washington: it's no longer wood but a stony replica. * petrified wood. * 4: Listed under "wood" in Collier's Ency. index, early ones of these were called "Lucifers". * matches. * 5: Research center for marine science on Cape Cod; you could also list it under water. * Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute.

Round 5. Category: Presidential Vps* 1: George Bush. * Ronald Reagan. * 2: Richard Nixon. * Dwight D. Eisenhower. * 3: Harry Truman. * Franklin D. Roosevelt. * 4: Thomas Jefferson. * John Adams. * 5: Theodore Roosevelt. * William McKinley.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 741, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Sports Nicknames* 1: "Shaq". * Shaquille O'Neal. * 2: "The Brown Bomber" of boxing. * Louis. * 3: "Papa Bear". * George Halas. * 4: It's not really important, but the last player to be picked in the NFL draft is given this nickname. * Mr. Irrelevant. * 5: The Ice Manof 1970s tennis. * (Bjorn) Borg.

Round 2. Category: Mythellaneous* 1: The mythical Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big vessel at God's urging and thereby survived this catastrophe. * a flood. * 2: 2 offspring that Poseidon and Medusa may have produced are the giant Chrysaor and this winged horse. * Pegasus. * 3: The first 3 ports of call of this ship were Lemnos, Samothrace and Cyzicus. * Argo. * 4: In Zuni myth, a kachina named Paiyatemu attracted these colorfully winged insects when she played the flute. * butterflies. * 5: Riding this winged horse made it possible for Bellerophon to approach and kill the chimera. * Pegasus.

Round 3. Category: Games Of Chance* 1: In craps, it's a hardway roll of six. * double threes. * 2: Play Honeymoon In Vegas or anywhere and you're playing a variation of this card game. * Bridge. * 3: In blackjack you can only make an insurance bet if the dealer's up card is one of these. * Ace. * 4: Jimmy the Greek defined it as a place "where the windows clean you". * Racetrack. * 5: In bingo the "B" numbers run 1-15; the "O" numbers run from 61 to this. * 75.

Round 4. Category: Masks 1: This hero first donned his mask in the 1919 story "The Curse of Capistrano". * Zorro (Don Diego de la Vega). * 2: The Medico de la Peste mask was originally worn in the 17th century by a doctor treating victims of this bubonic contagion. * the Black Plague. * 3: Among the men who wore their own distinct styles of these were Rogatien Vachon and Tony Esposito. * hockey goalie masks. * 4: These 2 antonymic forms of theater are symbolically represented by masks. * comedy and tragedy. * 5: This Dumas novel suggests that the prisoner is actually the twin brother of Louis XIV. * The Man in the Iron Mask.*

Round 5. Category: Innovations* 1: This handheld lens is one of Mr. Wizard's 10 most significant inventions of the last millennium. * Magnifying glass. * 2: 1893:Fashion fastener. * a zipper. * 3: Rubber sink plugs and drainboard mats were innovations by this company with "Rubber" in its name. * Rubbermaid. * 4: Big construction projects often include Francois Hennebique's reinforced type of this building material. * Concrete. * 5: 1852: Otis' okay origination. * an elevator.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 740, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: All The Presidents' Children* 1: His daughter Patti has written several books including "Bondage" and "The Way I See It". * Ronald Reagan. * 2: (Hi, I'm Marvin Hamlisch, here at the Hollywood Bowl.) No mystery here, while her father was president, this soprano sang in concert at the Bowl. * Margaret Truman. * 3: It was the 3-letter nickname of Lincoln's youngest son Thomas. * Tad. * 4: In the 1970s Susan Ford, who became a photojournalist, studied with this landscape photographer. * Ansel Adams. * 5: "I can be President," Teddy Roosevelt said, "or I can control" this daughter, "I cannot possibly do both". * Alice.

Round 2. Category: Genesis* 1: Noah took clean beasts and fowls on the ark by sevens and unclean beasts by this amount. * Twos/pairs. * 2: The book of Genesis opens with these 3 words. * In the beginning. * 3: In Genesis 9:1, God told him and his sons to " Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth". * Noah. * 4: Chapter 1 says God placed the lights in this “of the heavenâ€Â. * the firmament. * 5: Genesis 2:25 says Adam and Eve were both this "and were not ashamed"-- and this was before Bally's or Jenny Craig!. * naked.

Round 3. Category: The Summer Olympics* 1: In 1976 Hungary's Miklos Nemeth threw this farther than any field apparatus in Olympic history -- 310' 4". * Javelin. * 2: You might have to get as high as 20 feet off the ground to win a medal in this "vaulting" Olympic event. * the pole vault. * 3: At 26.2 miles, it's the longest running event in the Summer Olympics. * the marathon. * 4: Then with the Phoenix Suns, he was a member of the USA's "Dream Team" in both 1992 and 1996. * Charles Barkley. * 5: In the Olympic 400-meter relay final, this many runners compete together as a team. * 4.

Round 4. Category: Business Biggies* 1: There's a glut of cola on the market, so this company's giving us more Kisses. * Hershey's. * 2: Elliot Handler, the "el" in this toymaker, died at age 95 in 2011. * Mattel. * 3: One version says the name of this product was inspired by a picture of William Penn. * Quaker Oats. * 4: Founded in 1857, this company makes Elsie Ice Cream and Elmer's Glue. * Borden's. * 5: A statue of the god Mercury inspired the logo of this tire company. * Goodyear.

Round 5. Category: History Problems* 1: Since Vermont entered the Union as State number 14 in 1891, this many more have followed it. * 36. * 2: If Newton had 1 apple drop on his head on Monday, 3 on Tuesday and 5 on Wednesday, he averaged this number a day. * 3. * 3: The Incan empire was split between 2 sons in 1525; if there had been 5 sons, each would have gotten this percent. * 20%. * 4: If Clyde the Chaldean turned out 3 cuneiform tablets an hour, and worked 8 hours a day for 5 days, he made this many. * 120. * 5: If the 15th C. Wars of the Roses had been fought with real roses, and each side had 48 roses, it totaled this many dozen. * 8.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 739, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Singers* 1: In 1957 both Steve Lawrence and Harry Belafonte sang about this type of ship. * banana boat. * 2: Current Biography called him the most famous British singer-drummer since Ringo Starr. * Phil Collins. * 3: Born Annie Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tenn., in 1976, she told Ike to take a hike. * Tina Turner. * 4: She was nominated for a 1962 Tony for her Broadway debut in "I Can Get It for You Wholesale". * Barbra Streisand. * 5: 1st husband Jack Webb co-starred her with 2nd husband Bobby Troup in TV's "Emergency!". * Julie London.

Round 2. Category: Rhyming Brands* 1: An Alpine village is on the label of this hot cocoa mix. * Swiss Miss. * 2: One slogan said, "Me-Hee for" this chocolate drink. * Yoo-Hoo. * 3: This line of healthier frozen entrees was introduced in 1981. * Lean Cuisine. * 4: This "gourmet" candy brand has flavors like buttered popcorn and has only 4 calories per bean. * Jelly Belly. * 5: Walter Deimer invented this pink chewing gum in 1928. * Dubble Bubble.

Round 3. Category: Pig-Out* 1: Anguagelay okenspay isthay ayway. * Pig Latin. * 2: In 1982 this Muppet was featured in her own "Great Lovers Of The Silver Screen" calendar. * Miss Piggy. * 3: This "Peanuts" character is usually illustrated enveloped in a cloud of dust. * Pig-Pen. * 4: This porcine "Green Acres" star was a real ham; he won 2 Patsy Awards as TV Animal Of The Year. * Arnold. * 5: The Walrus said it was time "To talk of many things", about "why the sea is boiling hot and whether" this. * Pigs have wings.

Round 4. Category: Product Placement* 1: Austin Powers' warning "Get your hands off my Heinie, baby" referred to this beer. * Heineken. * 2: In 2000's "Hamlet", Ethan Hawke soliloquizes in one of this chain's video stores. * Blockbuster. * 3: Sales for these candies rocketed after being featured in "E.T.". * Reese's Pieces. * 4: Business for these sunglasses wasn't risky after Tom Cruise wore them in "Risky Business". * Ray-Ban. * 5: This company's Powerbook helps Jeff Goldblum save the planet in "Independence Day". * Apple.

Round 5. Category: 1990s Fashion* 1: In 1995 fashion magazines Elle and Vogue claimed this bright color was moving from lipstick to dresses. * Red. * 2: This chain of stores received good PR when Sharon Stone wore one of its T-shirts to the Oscars. * The Gap. * 3: Because of Spike Lee's 1992 film, baseball caps bearing this letter were in vogue in 1993. * X (for Malcolm X). * 4: "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear" this was the slogan of a high-profile campaign by PETA. * Fur. * 5: These sexy yet "infantile" dresses have been worn over bicycle shorts. * babydolls.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 738, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cable Tv 1: A shout of approval to an actor, or the cable network of "Inside the Actors Studio". * Bravo. * 2: This acronym for American Christian Television System is a book of the Bible, too. * ACTS. * 3: This MTV show launched in 1991 has turned strangers into enemies in NYC, London and Hawaii. * The Real World*. * 4: Actress who started the "Faerie Tale Theatre". * Shelley Duvall. * 5: This "channel" went on in 1985 and the "networks" of that name now include Animal Planet and The Learning Channel. * The Discovery Channel.

Round 2. Category: 3Rd Rock From The Sun* 1: This outer part of the Earth shares its name with the outer part of a pie. * crust. * 2: From the Latin for "track", it's the path of the Earth around the Sun. * orbit. * 3: This satellite of the Earth is a whopping 2,160 miles in diameter--a lot bigger than it looks. * the Moon. * 4: The highest temperature ever recorded on earth was 136° F. at Al-Aziziyah on this continent. * Africa. * 5: Some theorize that the Earth once had just one of these, called Panthalassa. * ocean.

Round 3. Category: Aye Aye, Captain* 1: A national park on this country's South Island is named for Captain Abel Tasman. * New Zealand. * 2: In 1837 Captain Matthew Perry took command of the U.S. Navy's first ship powered by this. * steam. * 3: This New World settlement was founded May 14, 1607 by a group led by Captain Christopher Newport. * Jamestown. * 4: After his fleet took New Orleans in April 1862, this captain was promoted to rear admiral. * David Farragut. * 5: This British explorer of the Pacific Northwest has his own herb as well as an island. * George Vancouver.

Round 4. Category: On The Cover Of Sgt. Pepper* 1: He's an African explorer, "I presume". * Dr. Livingstone. * 2: Bob Dylan appears as does this poet from whom he may have taken his stage name. * Dylan Thomas. * 3: This actor is in costume from his film "The Wild One". * Marlon Brando. * 4: The Beatles' bass player before Paul took over. * Stu Sutcliffe. * 5: This "Das Kapital" author stands between comedian Oliver Hardy and H.G. Wells. * Karl Marx.

Round 5. Category: Coffee, Tea Or Mead?* 1: In 1904 Thomas Sullivan began the practice of putting tea in small ones of these; his were made of silk. * bags. * 2: It's the "Irish" ingredient in Irish coffee. * Irish whiskey. * 3: It's French for "coffee with milk". * cafe au lait. * 4: Mead is known as sima in this country that borders Norway and Sweden. * Finland. * 5: This mead ingredient is made by animals. * honey.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 737, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Harry Potter* 1: Harry Potter lives in this country. * England. * 2: The scar on Harry's forehead is in this shape. * a lightning bolt. * 3: For Christmas, Harry was given his father's cloak that allows him to become this. * invisible. * 4: Harry's 2 best friends are Hermione Granger and this red-headed boy. * Ronald Weasley. * 5: A library book at Hogwarts is called this sport "Through the Ages". * Quidditch.

Round 2. Category: Prime Numbers* 1: Dial this 3-digit prime number in L.A. only for emergencies. * 911. * 2: In the rhyme, it's the number of whacks Lizzie Borden gave her father. * 41. * 3: To get a brief respite, you "take" it. * five. * 4: Columbus' first voyage to the new world ended in this year. * 1493. * 5: The First Battle of Bull Run was in this year. * 1861.

Round 3. Category: American Food* 1: One of Elvis Presley's favorite dishes was a sandwich filled with mashed bananas and this spread. * peanut butter. * 2: In Cincinnati the "five-way" type of this dish includes spaghetti, cheese, onions and beans. * chili. * 3: Benny and Clovis Martin are credited with creating this New Orleans version of a hero or sub sandwich back in the 1920s. * a po' boy. * 4: This trademarked Louisville chocolate nut dessert derives its name from being served on the first Saturday in May. * Derby Pie. * 5: The steamed blue ones from Chesapeake Bay are served by the dozen in Baltimore restaurants. * crabs.

Round 4. Category: Playing The "Harp" 1: After hurling 1 of these, Captain Ahab dies tangled in its line. * a harpoon. * 2: It's smaller and lighter than a piano, with 1 to 3 keyboards called "manuals". * a harpsichord. * 3: Mark Twain and Booth Tarkington regularly contributed to this monthly. * Harper's (Harper's Magazine*). * 4: Eagle named for the mythical flying monster it resembles. * a harpy. * 5: She won a Pulitzer for her 1st novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird". * Harper Lee.

Round 5. Category: Horse And Rider* 1: Silver. * The Lone Ranger. * 2: Rocinante. * Don Quixote. * 3: Trigger's friend Buttermilk. * Dale Evans. * 4: Traveller. * Robert E. Lee. * 5: Bucephalus. * Alexander the Great.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 736, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Birthplaces* 1: Audrey Hepburn "sprouted" in this Belgian city. * Brussels. * 2: This legendary lawman’s birthplace wasn’t Dodge City or Tombstone, but Monmouth, Illinois. * Wyatt Earp. * 3: This "Pretty Woman" hails from Smyrna – Smyrna, Georgia, that is. * Julia Roberts. * 4: She was born in Tokyo on July 1, 1916; her sister Joan Fontaine was born there the following year. * Olivia de Havilland. * 5: Nijinsky made his first appearance in this capital of Ukraine in 1890. * Kiev.

Round 2. Category: Ukraine On The Brain* 1: The worst nuclear accident in history happened at this Ukrainian site in 1986. * Chernobyl. * 2: After conquering the region, this empress introduced serfdom to Ukraine in 1795. * Catherine the Great. * 3: Ukraine's capital lends its name to this poultry dish in which breasts are rolled up with butter, breaded and fried. * Chicken Kiev. * 4: Ukrainians call this body of water "Chorne More". * the Black Sea. * 5: This strategic peninsula became part of Ukraine in 1954. * the Crimea.

Round 3. Category: Of An Englishman* 1: Last name of the men whose firm is credited with creating the felt hat we call the derby. * Bowler. * 2: Prince Charles is the Duke of Cornwall and Prince Philip is the Duke of this. * Edinburgh. * 3: From Latin for "servant", it's a gentleman's gentleman. * Valet. * 4: Encarta calls it "the cue game most popular in Britain". * snooker. * 5: "Row" in Mayfair that's home to the finest British tailors. * Savile Row.

Round 4. Category: J.r.r. Tolkien 1: It's the third volume in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. * The Return of the King. * 2: Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein in 1892 in this country and lived there until he was 4. * South Africa. * 3: He's the title hobbit in "The Hobbit". * Bilbo Baggins. * 4: It's the university where Tolkien studied and later taught languages and literature. * Oxford. * 5: This prequel to "The Lord of the Rings" was published posthumously in 1977. * The Silmarillion*.

Round 5. Category: Ordinary "World" 1: In 1851 new products on display at the first one of these included the Colt revolver and a reaper. * world's fair. * 2: This satirical Aldous Huxley novel is set in the year 632 AF (After Ford). * Brave New World*. * 3: It's the "aged" nickname for prostitution. * oldest profession in the world (world's oldest profession). * 4: Numerical term referring collectively to more than 100 countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. * third world. * 5: The "U.S.A." in "U.S.A. for Africa" stood for "United Support of Artists" when they recorded this '85 No. 1 Hit. * "We Are the World".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 735, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Donald Duck* 1: The 1943 anti-Nazi release "Der Fuehrer's Face" was the only Donald Duck cartoon to win this award. * the Academy Award. * 2: Donald's girlfriend, she was first known as Donna Duck but was renamed in her second film, "Mr. Duck Steps Out". * Daisy Duck. * 3: Donald began his long romance with this vivacious girlfriend in the 1940 cartoon "Mr. Duck Steps Out". * Daisy. * 4: In the cartoon "Donald's Nephews", Donald's sister Dumbella sends these 3 to visit. * Huey, Louie and Dewey. * 5: In the opening of "The Mickey Mouse Club", Donald would strike this instrument, usually with disastrous results. * a gong.

Round 2. Category: Iceland Cometh* 1: Located in Faxa Bay, it was made the capital of Iceland in 1918. * Reykjavik. * 2: Iceland's nearest neighbor is this island, about 190 miles to the northwest. * Greenland. * 3: Iceland was the site of arms control talks between these 2 world leaders in October 1986. * Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan. * 4: 96% of the population is affiliated with the Church of Iceland, which is the evangelical type of this religion. * Lutheran. * 5: Like Sweden, Iceland uses currency called this. * Krona/kroners.

Round 3. Category: Bird Tv 1: This fast-moving bird got his own TV series in 1966 -- Beep! Beep!. * The Roadrunner. * 2: The Munsters had a pet one of these who was fond of saying, "Nevermore". * Raven. * 3: Waldo, who was murdered on "Twin Peaks", was a talkative one of these birds. * Mynah Bird. * 4: The title of this acclaimed miniseries referred to a frontier town, not to a solitary pigeon. * "Lonesome Dove". * 5: In 1981 creator Earl Hamner uncorked this series about a winery whose symbol was a bird of prey. * Falcon Crest*.

Round 4. Category: Children's Lit* 1: In Hans Christian Andersen's works, a wicked sea witch gave her a potion that changed her tail into 2 legs. * the Little Mermaid. * 2: In Robert Lawson's "Ben and Me", Ben is Benjamin Franklin and Me is Amos, one of these creatures who lives in Ben's cap. * a mouse. * 3: The Brothers Grimm wrote that Snow White was quieter and gentler than this sister. * Rose-Red. * 4: "A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver" is about 12th century queen Eleanor of this duchy. * Aquitaine. * 5: I can't always see "My Shadow" but I can always read about it in this Scotsman's "A Child's Garden of Verses". * Robert Louis Stevenson.

Round 5. Category: Street Smarts* 1: The Boston Common fronts on this street, also the name of a nearby hill. * Beacon Street. * 2: You'll find this lightly damaged historical object at 6th and Market in Philly. * the Liberty Bell. * 3: In this European city the locals call the Boulevard Saint-Michel the "Boul' Miche" for short. * Paris. * 4: It's a street without an exit, or a phrase commonly used of some jobs. * a dead end. * 5: A recessed area at the side of a road to carry off surface water; keep your mind out of it. * a gutter.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 734, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Great Things* 1: On the Great Seal of the U.S. there are 13 stripes, 13 stars and 13 of these weapons. * arrows. * 2: The Great Smokies are part of this larger system. * the Appalachians. * 3: Playwright who wrote, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em". * William Shakespeare. * 4: The marine life in this U.S. lake is pretty thin: Colonial Algae and Brine Shrimp. * the Great Salt Lake. * 5: Term for the Boer migration in the 1830s and 1840s, it comes from an Afrikaans term for a trip by ox wagon. * the Great Trek.

Round 2. Category: What's The Pitch* 1: "Like a rock". * Chevrolet. * 2: "Where's your mustache?". * milk. * 3: "Bo knows". * Nike. * 4: "Don't leave home without it". * American Express. * 5: "Mom's other little helper". * Shake 'n Bake.

Round 3. Category: Whatsits, Doohickeys, Thingamabobs* 1: A tailor's term, it's also the spiral part of a screw. * Thread. * 2: Also a body part, in plumbing it's the fitting used to connect the joints of 2 pipes that meet at an angle. * Elbow. * 3: To set up one of these in the Northern Hemisphere, point the gnomon on its face to the North Pole. * Sundial. * 4: A key is inserted into this part of a lock that contains the pins, springs and plug. * Cylinder. * 5: It's a trough used by "carriers" for carrying bricks. * Hod.

Round 4. Category: 50-50* 1: It's the only letter of the alphabet not used in the names of the 50 states. * Q. * 2: In Genesis 6, it's described as being 50 cubits wide. * Noah's Ark. * 3: Up to 50 yards of cloth may be used in one of these headdresses worn by Sikhs and Muslim men. * a turban. * 4: In exchange for more than 1,000 POWs, this country received about $50 million from the U.S. in December 1962. * Cuba. * 5: In some versions, this Hellenic hellhound has as many as 50 heads. * Cerberus.

Round 5. Category: Restaurants* 1: In 1993 this TV comedienne and her husband Tom opened their Big Food Diner near their farm in Eldon, Iowa. * Roseanne Arnold. * 2: Move over, Baskin-Robbins; NYC's Russian Tea Room serves 31 varieties of this potent potable. * vodka. * 3: Oprah Winfrey co-owns The Eccentric in this city, and Oprah's potatoes are featured on the menu. * Chicago. * 4: At a sushi bar, spice wimps should learn the word "sabinuki", or "no" this. * wasabi. * 5: When Hiltl opened in Zurich in 1898, its customers were called Grasfresser, as it's this kind of restaurant. * a vegetarian restaurant.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 734, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Everyday Inventions* 1: C. Latham Sholes invented this - - not Olivetti or Smith or even Corona. * a typewriter. * 2: Clarence Birdseye got the idea for frozen food after living among these people for 3 years. * Eskimos. * 3: Of Dunlop, Goodyear or Goodrich, the veterinarian who invented the pneumatic bike tire. * (John) Dunlop. * 4: This, not corn, was used to make the Kellogg brothers' 1st flakes. * wheat. * 5: The 1st lightweight one for home use consisted of a fan motor, a soap box, a broom handle and a pillowcase. * a vacuum

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 733, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Grains And Staples* 1: The name of this food, not a true grain, comes from the Dutch meaning "beech wheat". * buckwheat. * 2: The rolled form of this grain cooks in about 5 minutes; the steel-cut takes much longer. * oats. * 3: Basmati, an aromatic type of this grain, is grown in India. * rice. * 4: Millet seed, an important food for North Africans, is most often fed to these pets in the U.S.. * birds. * 5: The pot type of this grain retains more of the bran than the pearl type. * barley.

Round 2. Category: Names In Sports* 1: This legendary jockey was known as "The Shoe". * Willie Shoemaker. * 2: (Hi, I'm Tim Dwight.) At Iowa I was one of these, like the sneaky scout in "The Last of the Mohicans". * a Hawkeye. * 3: L.A. Ram defensive end David Jones was better known by this nickname. * "Deacon". * 4: (Hi, I'm James Worthy.) In the 1980s my L.A. Lakers got this "entertaining" nickname, also the name of a cable television network. * "Showtime". * 5: First name of Mr. Boyer, the Yankee 3B who played against his brother Ken in the 1964 World Series. * "Clete" (or Cletis).

Round 3. Category: Canadian Cities* 1: English is also widely spoken in this largest French-speaking city outside of Paris. * Montreal. * 2: The North Saskatchewan River divides this Albertan capital in half. * Edmonton. * 3: The CFL's B.C. Lions play their home games in this city. * Vancouver. * 4: Whitehorse replaced Dawson as capital of this territory in 1953. * Yukon Territory. * 5: This Ontario city's underground walkway system can get you from Eaton Centre to Union Station. * Toronto.

Round 4. Category: Teens At Work* 1: At 14, this fairy tale author worked for a director of the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. * Hans Christian Andersen. * 2: At 16, Tracy Austin beat Chris Evert to win this tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows. * U.S. Open. * 3: In the 1720s at age 16, this statesman and inventor wrote popular articles for the New England Courant newspaper. * Benjamin Franklin. * 4: At 13, this march composer became an apprentice with the U.S. Marine Band. * John Philip Sousa. * 5: At 16, Cornelius Vanderbilt started a ferry service between Staten Island and this famous 31-square-mile-island. * Manhattan.

Round 5. Category: Howdy Doody* 1: "He" was made up of dachshund, elephant, spaniel, duck, cat, giraffe, seal and pig. * Flub-a-dub. * 2: This 4 word question was asked at the top of every show, following the words "Say kids...". * What time is it?. * 3: Original number of Howdy's freckles, they equaled the number of U.S. states. * 48. * 4: Job held by Mr. Cobb in Doodyville; Mr. Hooper on "Sesame Street" did the same thing. * grocer (general store keeper). * 5: Last name of triplets Don Jose, Hector Hamhock and Phineas T.. * Bluster.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 732, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: My Kinda Town* 1: The oldest working theater in this U.K. country is in the town of Dumfries. * Scotland. * 2: Notre Dame is a town within the boundaries of this Indiana city. * South Bend. * 3: The first U.S. wireless station was set up in this New York town with a "talkative" biblical name. * Babylon. * 4: This suburb of Chicago, once home to Al Capone, was named for a Roman orator. * Cicero, Illinois. * 5: The town of Jasper is in Jasper National Park in this Canadian province. * Alberta.

Round 2. Category: Let's Put On An Opera!* 1: We hope our tardy cellists show up for this instrumental prelude to the opera. * Overture. * 2: We'll let Uncle Charlie be a "carrier" of one of these in the battle scene. * Spear carrier. * 3: Let's move the duel upstage so no one falls onto the musicians in this area. * Orchestra pit. * 4: We've got basses, we've got tenors, but we can't find one of these like the guy on the CD[audio clip]. * Baritone. * 5: From dealing with Betsy, I know why this 2-word Italian term can mean a diva or a real pain. * Prima donna.

Round 3. Category: Barber College* 1: Under Kansas law, this document shall be conspicuously posted in your primary work station. * your barber's license. * 2: That the American College of Hairstyling requires 60 hours of training in this shouldn't have you in a lather. * shaving. * 3: A barber in training might want to pick up a supply of styptic pencils; they help staunch this. * bleeding. * 4: Brands of these include Hask, Jerris and Lucky Tiger; and you don't mix them with gin. * (hair) tonic. * 5: Marvy's Model 55 one of these has a globe on top and runs about $500 (you might want one when you set up shop). * barber pole.

Round 4. Category: Phun With Phonics* 1: Labionasal sounds are produced by these and the nose. * Lips. * 2: When you speak with a burr you trill this letter. * R. * 3: Your tongue touching your hard or soft one of these in your mouth produces different sounds. * Palate. * 4: Meaning "single pitch", it's a speaking voice that lacks inflection. * Monotone. * 5: From the Latin meaning "to hiss", it describes the "ss" sound In "fricassee". * Sibilant.

Round 5. Category: Art-Podge* 1: This Chinese dynasty that reigned from 1368 to 1644 was known for beautiful vases. * Ming. * 2: "Lobster Trap and Fish Tail" is one of this artist's best-known mobiles. * Alexander Calder. * 3: The family of this often-depicted U.S. president said sculptor John Rogers created the best likeness of him. * Abraham Lincoln. * 4: Christianity and Aztec ritual inspired the thorn necklace worn by this Latina woman in a masochistic 1940 self-portrait. * Frida Kahlo. * 5: Painted in 1895, "Northeaster" is a well-known seascape by this American artist. * (Winslow) Homer.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 731, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Red* 1: Founded by Clara Barton, this organization provides help in emergencies. * the Red Cross. * 2: The name of this cosmetic that can turn your cheeks red mean "red". * rouge. * 3: The people who hold this office are addressed as "Your Eminence" and wear red hats. * cardinals. * 4: They make borscht red. * beets. * 5: In "Grimm's Fairy Tales", she's Snow White's sister. * Rose Red.

Round 2. Category: "A" "B" "C"S* 1: After a day of sunbathing, your mother might tell you you're as "red as" this vegetable. * a beet. * 2: This Oriental pain-relieving method will have you on pins and needles, so to speak. * acupuncture. * 3: The letters of this magic word were once worn on an amulet to ward off trouble. * abracadabra. * 4: It's probably the only element to have a whole branch of chemistry devoted to it: organic chemistry. * carbon. * 5: It's a synonym for beginning, or another term for a graduation ceremony. * commencement.

Round 3. Category: 20Th Century Inventions* 1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):Profession of Bob Burnside, who invented the following for his work:. * Lifeguard. * 2: In 1996 the FDA approved Renova, the 1st prescription drug that claims to remove these. * Wrinkles. * 3: In 1926 the 1st household pop-up one of these was marketed by the McGraw Electric Company. * Toaster. * 4: In 1916 Northam Warren created the first liquid type of this, Cutex. * Nail Polish. * 5: Dutch firm credited with inventing the compact audiocassette in 1963. * Phillips.

Round 4. Category: The Sweet Spot 1: 2-word term for benzosulfamide or aspartame, for example. * artificial sweetener. * 2: You'd be wrong, but not alone in calling these yams. * sweet potatoes. * 3: In "Peanuts" it's Sally's term of endearment for Linus. * "My Sweet Baboo". * 4: It's the title of the 1970 album on which you can hear the song "Fire and Rain". * "Sweet Baby James". * 5: In 1959 Elia Kazan directed this Tennessee Williams play. * Sweet Bird of Youth*.

Round 5. Category: Do You Come Here Often?* 1: Bring your pet to the USA's National Cathedral on Oct. 4 for "The Blessing of the Animals" for this saint's feast day. * St. Francis of Assisi. * 2: Parents and kids gather each year at the White House for this event held on the Monday after Easter. * the Easter Egg Roll. * 3: Hindi faithful make regular pilgrimages to and bathe in this 1,560-mile river of Northern India. * the Ganges. * 4: In the 1820s thirsty explorers found an oasis here, Spanish for "the meadows"; 30 million now visit every year. * Las Vegas. * 5: Traditionally, crowds gather in New Orleans and party hearty before this first day of Lent. * Ash Wednesday.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 730, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bear Feat* 1: At about 9 feet and 1,700 pounds, this large bear shares its name with an Alaskan island. * Kodiak. * 2: The Asiatic black bear also bears the beary nice name of these Indian mountains where it dwells. * Himalayas. * 3: Often named Bruin, this species is the most likely to be found in children's stories of Europe and Asia. * Brown bear. * 4: This smallest bear species bears the name of a heavenly object. * Sun bear. * 5: Spectacled bears are the only species found on this continent. * South America.

Round 2. Category: "Z" Abbreviations* 1: Z.Hr.; it's time to go. * Zero. * 2: The Z in ZIP code is short for this. * Zone (Improvement Plan). * 3: Book of the Bible abbreviated Zech.. * Zechariah. * 4: You may answer with zeal that zl is short for this currency. * Zloty. * 5: The abbreviations for the 2 elements whose names begin with Z. * Zn and Zr (Zinc and Zirconium).

Round 3. Category: Tv Occupations* 1: Cliff Huxtable, Richard Kimble and Galen Adams. * physicians (doctors). * 2: Benson DuBois, Giles French and Lurch. * butlers. * 3: Charlie Moore, Gabe Kotter and Robinson Peepers. * teachers. * 4: Jack Tripper, Wishbone and Hop Sing. * chefs. * 5: Leland McKenzie, Ben Matlock and Bentley Gregg. * lawyers.

Round 4. Category: The Contest* 1: 1984 Walter Mondale got his 13 electoral votes by winning D.C. and this state. * Minnesota. * 2: In 1998 Rabbit Hash, Kentucky elected Goofy, one of these, as mayor; sadly, the mayor had to be "put down" in 2001. * a dog. * 3: Peter Ueberroth finished sixth in a 2003 race for this state's highest office, just ahead of Larry Flynt. * California. * 4: This George W. Bush Cabinet member lost his 2000 Senate race to a man who died a month before the election. * John Ashcroft. * 5: In 1884 a booster's attack on democratic "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" backfired on this Down Easter. * James Blaine.

Round 5. Category: "Pun" Day* 1: A small hole or wound made by a sharp object. * a puncture. * 2: Strong smelling or strong tasting. * pungent. * 3: Lately this word has come to mean a TV talking head on political topics. * pundit. * 4: A young rebel, or something to light fireworks. * a punk. * 5: It precedes "Arenas" in the name of a Chilean city, one of the southernmost in the world. * Punta.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 729, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's "Split"* 1: A house with floors that differ by about half a story. * split-level. * 2: These singing and dancing animals hosted their own Saturday morning "Adventure Hour" from 1968 to 1970. * the Banana Splits. * 3: On May 25, 2000 Sony investors suddenly had twice as many shares thanks to one of these actions. * stock split. * 4: It could be slang for a town where divorced people live. * splitsville. * 5: In football, you'll find them outside the offensive tackles or when the quarterback has a bad hair day. * split ends.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 729, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bits And Pieces* 1: In addition to the cradle and handset, older ones of these included finger holes and a finger stop. * Telephones. * 2: A 1998 32-cent stamp shows a woman as this type of performer in an "Attitude Derriere" pose. * ballet dancer. * 3: Spankers, jiggers and jibs are types of these. * sails. * 4: The spells of the magician in this Johnny Hart comic strip usually backfire...if they work at all. * The Wizard of Id. * 5: In a compass, this swings on the pivot. * needle.

Round 2. Category: Name That Pope* 1: This second pope shares his name with a male friend of Charlie Brown (but not the blanket). * Linus. * 2: He was the first pope who wasn't born in Italy. * Saint Peter. * 3: This name taken by 8 popes means of or relating to a city. * Urban. * 4: His reign as pope, 34 days long, was the shortest in modern history. * John Paul I. * 5: In 1964 this pope canonized 22 Christian Ugandan martyrs killed in the 19th century. * Paul VI.

Round 3. Category: "Tt"S Me* 1: "Imitation is the sincerest form of" it. * Flattery. * 2: This rocker is the leader of the Heartbreakers. * Tom Petty. * 3: A diplomatic official, or his briefcase. * Attache. * 4: On a male North American turkey it's that long, loose piece of red flesh that hangs from its neck. * Wattle. * 5: It's the text of an opera, as opposed to the music. * Libretto.

Round 4. Category: Eat Your Veggies!* 1: In the 1970s horticulturists developed sugar snaps by crossing the snow and green varieties of this. * peas. * 2: If chives were chive talkin' they'd mention they were part of this veggie's family. * onions. * 3: If these are too hot, drink milk: casein in milk wipes away capsaicin, the fiery compound that gives them heat. * chilies (chili peppers). * 4: The French know this purple pear-shaped vegetable as an aubergine. * eggplant. * 5: Red globes are radishes; yellow and white globes are varieties of this veggie. * onion.

Round 5. Category: "Pop" Culture* 1: Fruit-flavored ice on one or 2 sticks. * popsicle. * 2: Easy infield out in a baseball game. * a pop fly. * 3: The Brits call it an ice lolly; we call it this. * a popsicle. * 4: You'll often find them sprinkled on top of kaiser rolls. * poppy seeds. * 5: It was the nickname of Eddie Egan, the cop whose life was the basis of "The French Connection". * "Popeye".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 728, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Put On An Opera!* 1: We hope our tardy cellists show up for this instrumental prelude to the opera. * Overture. * 2: We'll let Uncle Charlie be a "carrier" of one of these in the battle scene. * Spear carrier. * 3: Let's move the duel upstage so no one falls onto the musicians in this area. * Orchestra pit. * 4: We've got basses, we've got tenors, but we can't find one of these like the guy on the CD[audio clip]. * Baritone. * 5: From dealing with Betsy, I know why this 2-word Italian term can mean a diva or a real pain. * Prima donna.

Round 2. Category: Oscar Night 2005 1: Pulling no punches, it won awards for Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor and Director. * Million Dollar Baby. * 2: On accepting his award for Best Actor, Jamie Foxx thanked this man "for living". * Ray Charles. * 3: Sandy Powell must have been flying high after winning the Oscar for Costume Design for this film. * The Aviator. * 4: Original Screenplay honors went to... I can't remember... ah, yes, the writers of this Jim Carrey-Kate Winslet film. * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*. * 5: Acknowledged for making such great movies as "Equus", "The Verdict" and "12 Angry Men", he received an honorary award. * Sidney Lumet.

Round 3. Category: The Farmer In The Dell* 1: This bovine that's mentioned could star in "Farmer in the Dell: The Moovie". * Cow. * 2: At the end of the song, it "stands alone". * The cheese. * 3: The smallest creature in the rhyme; I'm beginning to smell one.... * Rat. * 4: Hi-ho the derry-o, it takes the cat. * Dog. * 5: Of a flat plain, a small valley or the morning, what "the dell" is. * A small valley.

Round 4. Category: Haiti* 1: This Haitian religion combines elements of Roman Catholicism and West African tribal religions. * Voodoo. * 2: The 1st European structure on Haiti was a fort built from timbers of his wrecked flagship. * Columbus. * 3: This South American liberator spent time as an exile in Haiti. * Simon Bolivar. * 4: Haiti's "royal" capital city. * Port-au-Prince. * 5: Made governor-general for life in January 1804, he declared himself emperor in September. * Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Jean Jacques I).

Round 5. Category: Put "It"* 1: This command tells your dog it's confined to hindquarters. * Sit. * 2: A homer, a murder or a visit to a World Wide Web site. * Hit. * 3: Look a gift horse in the mouth and you'll see this part of its bridle. * Bit. * 4: To move swiftly, like a butterfly, or a brand of insecticide. * Flit. * 5: A Monty Python sketch honored the "Upper-Class" one "Of The Year". * Twit.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 727, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Radio Heroes 1: Don Ameche's brother Jim was one of the 1st actors to play this "All-American Boy". * Jack Armstrong. * 2: On "Superman" Gary Merrill played this caped crusader. * Batman. * 3: This show "came on" with the sounds of sirens, machine gun fire and marching feet. * Gang Busters. * 4: Sergeant Preston's show was brought to you by this cereal "Shot from Guns". * (Quaker) Puffed Wheat. * 5: This show featured the adventures of a rancher/pilot and his niece Penny. * Sky King*.

Round 2. Category: Baseball In The '60s* 1: This Braves slugger hit 375 of his 755 career home runs in the 1960s. * Hank Aaron. * 2: On May 8, 1968 this "fishy" Oakland A's pitcher threw the only A.L. perfect game of the 1960s. * Catfish Hunter. * 3: In 1968 this Cincinnati Reds player became the first catcher ever named Rookie of the Year. * Johnny Bench. * 4: This St. Louis Cardinals pitcher was named MVP of the 1964 and 1967 World Series. * (Bob) Gibson. * 5: In 1967 this Red Sox outfielder became the last Major Leaguer to win hitting's Triple Crown. * Yastrzemski.

Round 3. Category: When Benjy Was Prez* 1: Toward the end of Benjamin Harrison's term, this man was elected president of the U.S. for a second time. * Grover Cleveland. * 2: On August 24, 1891 he filed a patent for his motion picture camera. * Thomas Edison. * 3: Founded by John D. Rockefeller, the university of this city opened in 1891 on land donated by Marshall Field. * University of Chicago. * 4: The federal government began construction on one of these in Fort Leavenworth. * federal penitentiary/prison. * 5: Paleontologist Eugene Dubois found fossil evidence of Pithecanthus erectus on this island. * Java (Java Man).

Round 4. Category: Paul Mccartney* 1: On meeting this man, Paul asked to join his band, the Quarrymen. * John Lennon. * 2: In January 1980 Paul was arrested for drug possession in this Asian capital. * Tokyo. * 3: Of John, James, Elvis or Ringo, Paul McCartney's real first name. * James. * 4: This superstar was Paul's duet partner for 1983's "Say Say Say". * Michael Jackson. * 5: In a No. 1 song by Wings, "With" this "we can help it out, we can make this whole damn thing work out". * a little luck.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 727, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I Want Candy!* 1: Invented in 1948, the first dispenser for this candy resembled a lighter, to encourage people to quit smoking. * Pez. * 2: These "tiny, tangy crunchy" candies from Wonka have a geeky name. * Nerds. * 3: This word, a synonym for chewy, is found before "worms" and "bears" in the names of candy. * gummy. * 4: Introduced in England in 1968, this candy bar is a caramel-coated shortbread cookie that's covered in chocolate. * Twix. * 5: This British chocolatier makes a dairy milk bar as well as a milk tray. * Cadbury.

Round 2. Category: Great People Of History* 1: Aristotle was a tutor of this world conqueror. * Alexander the Great. * 2: It's the more familiar way that Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Great is known. * Charlemagne. * 3: King Darius the Great of this empire sent an army into Greece in 490 B.C., but it was defeated at Marathon. * the Persian Empire. * 4: A prolific fighter and builder, he ruled Egypt from

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 726, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Nautical Trivia* 1: Sailors once believed tattoos of pigs and roosters would prevent this, since both hated water. * drowning. * 2: "Fiddler's Green" is where old sailors go after doing this. * dying. * 3: If you're on a "Nantucket sleigh ride", 1 of these is pulling your boat. * whale. * 4: A "crimp"s criminal specialty was doing this to sailors--even if they didn't end up in China. * Shanghaiing them. * 5: San Francisco's infamous harbor district, it was the setting and title of a 1975 William Shatner TV series. * Barbary Coast.

Round 2. Category: Loni, Donny Or Yanni* 1: Once married to Burt Reynolds. * Loni Anderson. * 2: Hit No. 1 on the charts with "Go Away Little Girl". * Donny Osmond. * 3: Wowed 'em at the Acropolis in September 1993. * Yanni. * 4: Receptionist for "WKRP in Cincinnati". * Loni Anderson. * 5: Born in Kalamata in 1954. * Yanni.

Round 3. Category: Biblical Zoo* 1: In Luke 13:32, Jesus likened sly King Herod to 1 of these animals. * a fox. * 2: It returned to Noah's ark with an olive leaf in its mouth. * dove. * 3: The book of Amos says this animal "hath roared, who will not fear?". * the lion. * 4: Symbolic animals in the KJV include the dragon and this single-horned animal mentioned in Numbers 23:22. * a unicorn. * 5: The curtains of the Tabernacle were made of the hair of this animal that Jesus separated from the sheep. * goats.

Round 4. Category: Club Hoppin'* 1: Are you ready to rumba? Head for the rumba room at this California theme park's Citywalk. * Universal Studios. * 2: Tongues are wagging that Tongue and Groove on Peachtree Rd. is one of this city's top nightspots. * Atlanta. * 3: For years you could find Pete Fountain playing the clarinet at his own club on Poydras St. in this Southern city. * New Orleans. * 4: Perhaps because of its wall of fire, Rumjungle in this "Bay" hotel has been called "the hottest club in Vegas". * Mandalay Bay. * 5: "Praise the Lord and pass the biscuits" at a Sunday gospel brunch at one of these clubs nicknamed HOB. * the House of Blues.

Round 5. Category: Music In "Black" And "White"* 1: Marty Robbins wore it with "a pink carnation". * a white sport coat. * 2: In a 1942 hit, this "has me in its spell". * that old black magic. * 3: In 1965, pianist Horst Jankowski took a walk up the charts with "A Walk In" this German location. * the Black Forest. * 4: Completes "The moon was all aglow and heaven was in your eyes, the night that you told me those...". * little white lies. * 5: 1966 order from the Rolling Stones to an artist. * paint it black.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 725, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 725, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Dance Fever* 1: When you swing your partner and do-si-do. * square dancing. * 2: '60s spud crusher. * the mashed potato. * 3: Travolta and Debra Wing-ed their way around Gilley's, popularizing this. * Western two-step (Texas two-step). * 4: B-boys do it, rappers rhyme to it, DJs control it. * break dancing. * 5: Original version of this dance was only record to hit #1 two different times, in 1960 and 1962. * "The Twist".

Round 2. Category: The Foot* 1: Your foot touches the ground only at the heel and the ball, unless this is "fallen". * arch. * 2: Named for a Greek warrior, it runs from the heel bone to the calf muscle. * Achilles tendon. * 3: Describing humans, it's from the Latin for "two-footed". * bipedal. * 4: A wedge-shaped bone in the foot, it's also the term for ancient wedge-shaped writing. * cuneiform. * 5: Like your thumb, an ape's big toe is this, meaning it can be moved toward the other digits. * opposable.

Round 3. Category: "Ck"* 1: The "culture" type is emotional disruption caused by living in a society not one's own. * Shock. * 2: Edmund Bergler, credited with inventing the term "writer's" this, must not have felt it -- he wrote several books. * Block. * 3: A metal measuring rod that's poked into a car's crankcase. * Dipstick. * 4: They're barrel's 2 partners in an expression meaning "the whole thing". * Lock and stock. * 5: Athletic position in which the thighs are against the chest and the arms wrap around the shins. * Tuck.

Round 4. Category: Animal Young 'Uns* 1: The zebra. * Colt. * 2: The kangaroo. * Joey. * 3: The rhinoceros. * Calf. * 4: The squirrel. * Babies/infants. * 5: The turkey. * Poult/chick.

Round 5. Category: You Know What They Say...* 1: It's an Oreo enthusiast's version of "That's the way the ball bounces". * That's the way the cookie crumbles. * 2: Guess correctly you've "hit" this "on the head". * nail. * 3: "He who laughs last, laughs best" and "He who" does this "is lost". * hesitates. * 4: They "come in threes", "must come to an end" and "come to those who wait". * good things. * 5: For centuries fraidy-cats have insisted that this "is the better part of valor". * discretion.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 724, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Things* 1: You throw down a gauntlet to issue a challenge and throw this in to concede defeat. * towel. * 2: After Eddie George won this football trophy in 1995, one of its fingers broke in an airport x-ray machine. * Heisman Trophy. * 3: That little square or triangular flag on a sailboat's mast indicates the direction of this. * the wind. * 4: This company's ThinkPad features a "butterfly" keyboard. * IBM. * 5: Pedal-equipped conveyance that's the specialty of circusdom's King Charles Troupe. * a unicycle.

Round 2. Category: Chldren's Literature 1: The name of these J.R.R. Tolkien Middle-earth dwellers may have been suggested by Lewis' "Babbitt". * hobbits. * 2: Her curiosity at seeing a rabbit with a waistcoat and pocket watch leads her down the rabbit hole. * Alice. * 3: She is taken by her Aunt Dete to live with her grandfather on a peak named the Alm. * Heidi. * 4: On an 1865 trip to Europe, she met a Polish youth on whom she modeled Laurie in "Little Women". * (Louisa May) Alcott. * 5: The little locomotive in this Watty Piper book says "I think I can-I think I can". * The Little Engine That Could*.

Round 3. Category: Starts With "E"* 1: Anything relating to "Good Queen Bess" is known by this adjective. * Elizabethan. * 2: The ES in ESP stands for this kind of perception, which we don't have to tell you if you have it. * Extra Sensory. * 3: The Greek god of erotic love. * Eros. * 4: Thousands of years ago in Egypt, "Cleopatra's Mines" were a source of these gems. * emeralds. * 5: International language known by the pseudonym of its inventor, L.L. Zamenhof. * Esperanto.

Round 4. Category: News 1991* 1: In April 1991 The Washington Post pointed out that this chief of staff seemed to fly free a lot. * John Sununu. * 2: In August 1991 Shannon Lucid became the first U.S. woman to spend more than 430 hours here. * Space. * 3: A 6,000-pound segment of this was put on display at the Reagan Library. * Berlin Wall. * 4: On August 9, 1991, General Joseph Hoar replaced this man as chief of the U.S. Central Command. * Norman Schwarzkopf. * 5: "60 Minutes" spent 14 of its minutes in a tribute to this newsman, August 11, 1991. * Harry Reasoner.

Round 5. Category: If You Can't Say Something Nice* 1: On April 4, 1940 Neville Chamberlain said that this dictator had "missed the bus". * Adolf Hitler. * 2: Margot Asquith said of Lloyd George, "He could not see" one of these "without hitting below it". * Belt. * 3: Bartletts quotes this comedian: "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception". * Groucho Marx. * 4: "I can sometimes deal with men as equals and therefore can afford to like them", she wrote in Ms.. * Gloria Steinem. * 5: Simon Cameron said "An honest" one of these "is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought". * Politician.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 723, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Food Phrases* 1: The saying "That's the way" this "crumbles" became popular in the fabulous '50s. * a cookie. * 2: If a Frenchman calls you "mon petit chou", meaning this, it might go to your head. * my little cabbage. * 3: A perfectly placid person is "as cool as" this member of gourd family. * a cucumber. * 4: If you're really "a la mode", you keep your house in this kind of order. * apple pie. * 5: Exodus 3:8 mentions "a land flowing with" these 2 things. * milk and honey.

Round 2. Category: Laws And Rules* 1: He systematized the rules for whist, then backgammon, then chess.... * Hoyle. * 2: Under the laws of physics, when raised to 100° C. at sea level, water will do this. * boil. * 3: His detective Holmes scrupulously followed the rules of deductive reasoning. * Arthur Conan Doyle. * 4: According to the rules of fencing, this sword's target area is only the torso. * foil. * 5: Under Jewish law, he is the person who performs the circumcision ritual. * mohel.

Round 3. Category: Oh, The Places You'll Go!* 1: It's the country where you'd find Wahoo Bay Beach, Barbancourt Rum Distillery and Blvd. Jean-Jacques Dessalines. * Haiti. * 2: Fairy tales can come true in Odense, Denmark when you visit the home and museum of this author. * Hans Christian Andersen. * 3: In this city you can visit a tattoo museum, a sex museum and the Rijksmuseum all in one day. * Amsterdam. * 4: The beautiful Butchart Gardens is one of the top draws in this capital of British Columbia. * Victoria. * 5: At the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, you can see these famous white horses perform. * Lipizzaner stallions.

Round 4. Category: "Oops"* 1: Kellogg's makes "Froot" ones. * Loops. * 2: Cries of a crane, or a cry when you drop something, butterfingers!. * Whoops. * 3: Soldiers trained to lead an attack are called shock these. * Troops. * 4: They keep a barrel's staves together. * Hoops. * 5: It's what Oliver Goldsmith's woman does "to conquer". * Stoops.

Round 5. Category: Sunken Ships 1: The anchor of this Civil War ironclad was recovered off the N. Carolina coast in 1983. * the Monitor. * 2: A monument above the final resting place of this battleship was dedicated at Pearl Harbor in 1962. * the Arizona. * 3: Germany justified the May 7, 1915 sinking of this ship by saying it carried munitions. * the Lusitania. * 4: The bow of the Stockholm, constructed to cut through ice, cut through the side of this liner in 1956. * the Andrea Doria*. * 5: The Mary Rose, a ship built for this king in 1510, sank in 1545 and was raised in 1982. * Henry VIII.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 722, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Communications* 1: KLAX, the top-rated radio station in Los Angeles for the 4th quarter of 1993, broadcasts in this language. * Spanish. * 2: The Sunset Strip Awards go to these big signs found all along the strip. * billboards. * 3: This former Tennessee senator is the administration's main promoter of the "Information Superhighway". * (Albert) Gore (Jr.). * 4: After an earlier one was severed by a fisherman, a cable to transmit these was laid under the English Channel in 1851. * telegrams. * 5: The C band for communication via these uplinks to them at 6 gigahertz and downlinks from them at 4. * satellites.

Round 2. Category: How Poetic* 1: The poet who penned the line, "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars". * Walt Whitman. * 2: Wordsworth wrote, "My" this "leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky". * Heart. * 3: "Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair!" wrote this poet in his "Ode on a Grecian Urn". * John Keats. * 4: American poet who wrote the following:("The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on."). * Carl Sandburg. * 5: Her Poem No. 1333 tells us: "A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for the king". * Emily Dickinson.

Round 3. Category: Our Avian Friends* 1: Only the extinct 10-foot-tall moas of New Zealand were taller than this 8-foot African bird. * Ostrich. * 2: The deepest diver among birds is the emperor species of this bird which may reach depths of 900 feet. * Penguin. * 3: This tiny bird drinks nectar at the rate of about 13 licks per second. * Hummingbird. * 4: The sapsucker, a group of birds in this family, drills holes in trees to stimulate the flow of sap. * Woodpeckers. * 5: The name of this black bird of Asia, a superb mimic of human speech, is from the Sanskrit for "passion". * Mynah bird.

Round 4. Category: Superstitions* 1: From the theory that "like produces like", it was thought you could get these by touching a toad. * warts. * 2: In pagan Ireland this plant was a symbol of the 3 aspects of this goddess. * the shamrock. * 3: Buy a car on this unlucky day and it'll spend most of its time with the mechanic. * Friday the 13th. * 4: The Carpenters sang about one of these "for luck and we're on our way". * a kiss. * 5: When birthday cake is served, it's what the birthday girl can do to make her wish come true. * blow out the candles.

Round 5. Category: American Rivers* 1: The entire northern boundary of this southern state is formed by the Ohio River. * Kentucky. * 2: It's California's "capital" waterway. * Sacramento River. * 3: Lake Powell was created by damming the waters of this river. * Colorado. * 4: Hells Canyon, deepest canyon in U.S. has been carved by the Snake River in this state. * Idaho. * 5: The research corridor along the upper Rio Grande gives this state one of our country's highest % of Ph.D.s. * New Mexico.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 721, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lose A Turn* 1: In 1991, after 8 years as the AKC's top dog, the cocker spaniel lost the No. 1 ranking to this dog called a lab. * a Labrador retriever. * 2: Chillicothe was this state's capital twice, losing out to Zanesville once and finally to Columbus. * Ohio. * 3: Only twice between 1949 and 1964 did this team fail to win the American League pennant. * the New York Yankees. * 4: After a 3-year ride at the top in U.S. sales, this Honda model lost its No. 1 position to the Taurus in 1992. * the Honda Accord. * 5: This orator was the Democrats' presidential nominee twice, lost a turn and was nominated again in 1908. * William Jennings Bryan.

Round 2. Category: The French Connection* 1: "Acceptez-vous les cartes de credit?" means "Do you accept" these. * credit cards. * 2: This relative is une tante. * Aunt. * 3: If you see a sign that says "Non-fumeurs", you're not supposed to do this. * smoke. * 4: To the French this sport is la natation. * swimming. * 5: The French call this religious day La Toussaint. * All Saints Day.

Round 3. Category: Catty Phrases* 1: =. * =. * 2: =. * =. * 3: =. * =. * 4: =. * =. * 5: =. * =.

Round 4. Category: 19Th Century Fashion 1: Part of the body around which a cravat is worn. * the neck. * 2: One of the tallest of the top hats; honest Abe was known for his. * stovepipe. * 3: He put the blue in blue jeans. * (Levi) Strauss. * 4: A crinoline was used to stretch these garments to about 5 feet wide. * skirts (a dress). * 5: Popular styles of these included Hessian, jockey and Wellington. * boots.

Round 5. Category: Warthogs* 1: Roots, grasses, berries, birds' eggs, and even small mammals. * eat. * 2: A young warthog's canine teeth eventually grow into a pair of these formidable defensive weapons. * tusks. * 3: Leopards, principally. * eats. * 4: Warthogs stick this long, thin, tufted body part straight up in the air when they run. * their tails. * 5: The Roslin Institute of Dolly the sheep fame is putting a warthog gene in domestic pigs to stop ASF, African this fever. * swine fever.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 720, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Movie Objects 1: In this holiday classic, Ralphie's dad's "leg lamp" causes quite a stir. * A Christmas Story. * 2: In "A Very Brady Sequel", Tim Matheson struggles to steal the Bradys' statue of one of these animals. * Horse. * 3: In "Cool Hand Luke", Paul Newman is put on a chain gang for vandalizing these mechanical devices. * Parking meters. * 4: At the beginning of "Close Encounters", a bunch of these, missing since 1945, are found in the Sonoran Desert. * airplanes. * 5: This shiny title object from a 2007 fantasy film is actually an alethiometer, which cryptically answers questions. * The Golden Compass*.

Round 2. Category: Memorials* 1: The national memorial that commemorates this 1889 disaster preserves what's left of the South Fork Dam. * the Johnstown flood. * 2: At its headquarters you can find Barbara Hepworth's Dag Hammarskjold Memorial. * United Nations. * 3: This memorial consists of 4 sculpted heads, each 60 feet tall. * Mount Rushmore. * 4: The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial stands near the north gate of this Virginia site. * Arlington National Cemetery. * 5: On April 15, 1962 memorials were held in remembrance of this tragic event's 50th anniversary. * sinking of the Titanic.

Round 3. Category: '90s Movies 1: This term for total nudity is the title of a 1997 film about male strippers. * The Full Monty. * 2: Matt Damon stars as a genius janitor from South Boston in this 1997 movie. * Good Will Hunting. * 3: Rob Lowe played the leader of a conservative religious group in this 1997 sci-fi film starring Jodie Foster. * Contact. * 4: Ethan Hawke and Robert De Niro starred in this film based on a Dickens novel. * Great Expectations. * 5: Whitney Houston played the spouse of a New York pastor in this 1996 film. * The Preacher's Wife*.

Round 4. Category: In The Cards* 1: It's the number of playing cards in a standard deck (not counting the jokers). * 52. * 2: These fortune telling cards include "The Lovers", "The Magician" and "The Wheel of Fortune". * tarot cards. * 3: The Donald knows one of these is a "key resource to be used at an opportune moment". * a trump card. * 4: If you're "carded" while buying cigarettes in Calif. it's because you don't look old enough to be this age. * 18. * 5: The most valuable of these is the T206 Honus Wagner. * a baseball card.

Round 5. Category: Colorful Idioms* 1: Elephant or lie. * white. * 2: Elephants or slip. * pink. * 3: Humor or market. * black. * 4: Blood or streak. * blue. * 5: Light or thumb. * green.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 719, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ole "Miss" 1: Someone who does church work abroad. * missionary. * 2: It's bordered by Tennessee, Arkansas and Oklahoma. * Missouri. * 3: Theoretical transitional evolutionary stage between apes and humans. * the Missing Link. * 4: This musical takes place in part during the last days of the Vietnam War. * Miss Saigon*. * 5: City that's home to the University of Montana. * Missoula.

Round 2. Category: 2-Letter Spelling* 1: To work this tool, you just have to take a whack, not at it, but with it. * A-X. * 2: Freud had the gaul to divide the mind into three parts: the ego, the superego and this. * I-D. * 3: It's how to agree in German. * J-A. * 4: A-M is the present, first person singular form of this. * B-E. * 5: In the funnies, he's Lois Flagston's hubby. * H-I.

Round 3. Category: Then We Can Dig It* 1: Finds at Whitehall Villa in Britain reveal that this ancient people ate dormice and really loved oysters. * the Romans. * 2: The neolithic folk of Catal Huyuk, Turkey exposed their dead to the vultures, then put these remains under their beds. * their bones. * 3: Ironically, an "aquatic civilization" has been unearthed in this area that covers much of North Africa. * the Sahara Desert. * 4: Some skulls from colonial America show wear on a tooth from sucking on the stem of this artifact. * a pipe. * 5: Homeric Troy was found to date from this age, the metal of the Trojans' weapons in the "Iliad". * the Bronze Age.

Round 4. Category: Movie Costumes 1: He got all dolled up in Chanel and Dior in "To Wong Foo...", a far cry from his "Dirty Dancing" duds. * Patrick Swayze. * 2: She slunk across a piano in a slinky red dress in "The Fabulous Baker Boys". * Michelle Pfeiffer. * 3: She wore dozens of trendy costumes in "Clueless" but says she looks goofy offscreen -- as if!. * Alicia Silverstone. * 4: Theodor Pistek won a Costume Design Oscar for this Tom Hulce film; Mozart was so well-dressed. * Amadeus. * 5: Theadora Van Runkle designed the gun moll getups Faye Dunaway wore in this 1967 film. * Bonnie and Clyde*.

Round 5. Category: Happy Birthday!* 1: Michael Douglas never forgets the birthday of this woman, his wife; it's September 25, the same as his. * Catherine Zeta-Jones. * 2: You're 21, so enjoy a $429 1996 bottle of this from Dom Perignon. * Champagne. * 3: The Girl Scouts celebrate Founders Day on October 31 because it was this woman's birthday. * Juliette Low. * 4: You're 100 and celebrating your 75th wedding anniversary, so here's this pricey stone that marks 75 years. * diamond. * 5: You're 16 and thrilled with your new Accent, from this car company that uses the voice of Jeff Bridges. * Hyundai.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 718, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Facts 1: Star of 1984's "The Duck Factory", you can't "Mask" the fact he went on to a "Dumb" film career. * Jim Carrey. * 2: Beginning in 1961 ABC's "Wide World of Sports" captured "The thrill of victory" and this. * the agony of defeat. * 3: This former Cosby kid is the Malcolm in "Malcolm and Eddie". * Malcolm-Jamal Warner. * 4: Adrian Paul stars as Duncan MacLeod, an immortal in the series based on this movie. * Highlander*. * 5: More than 20 years before Fran Drescher, she played a nanny in "Nanny and the Professor". * Juliet Mills.

Round 2. Category: February Datebook* 1: Feb. 4, 1929:Carrying mail from Miami to Belize, this famed aviator inaugurates air mail service to Central America. * Charles Lindbergh. * 2: Feb. 10, 1846:This religious group begins its exodus to the American west. * Mormons. * 3: Feb. 26, 1980:For the first time these 2 Mideast countries exchange ambassadors. * Egypt and Israel. * 4: Feb. 1, 1790:John Jay presides over the first meeting of this body. * U.S. Supreme Court. * 5: Feb. 23, 1633:This future English diarist and secretary to the admiralty makes his first "entry". * Samuel Pepys.

Round 3. Category: A Proverbial Mess* 1: What preach you practice. * Practice what you preach. * 2: At try don't you if again first try succeed. * At first if you don't succeed, try, try again. * 3: A is words picture a poem without. * A picture is a poem without words. * 4: The tune piper pays the he who calls. * he who pays the piper calls the tune. * 5: Never better than late. * Better late than never.

Round 4. Category: Can We Talk?* 1: When having a casual conversation, you do this to "the rag" or "the fat". * chew. * 2: Speak slowly with -- pauses; -- "He who" -- does it "is -- lost". * hesitates. * 3: Change one letter in yabber, Australian for "to talk foolishly", and you get this, "to talk rapidly". * jabber. * 4: Add this letter to "utter" to get a word meaning "to utter in low, unclear tones". * m (for "mutter"). * 5: It means "to speak pompously and dogmatically" or, a little better, "to speak like a pope". * pontificate.

Round 5. Category: Waxes* 1: It's thought that the ancient Egyptians used this insect wax as a cosmetic base. * honey bees. * 2: Spermaceti wax, an excellent lubricant, comes from a cavity in this animal's head. * a sperm whale. * 3: This white wax was once used to waterproof milk cartons. * paraffin. * 4: Derived from a Brazilian palm, this wax is an important ingredient in many auto waxes. * carnauba. * 5: Wool wax, which serves as a dressing for leather goods, is more commonly known by this name. * lanolin.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 717, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Titanic* 1: Unlike the Titanic, when sister ship the Britannic sank in 1916, it had enough of these for all aboard. * lifeboats. * 2: Frederick Fleet was here when he was first to spot the iceberg; he had a bird's eye view. * the crow's nest. * 3: The Titanic had 4 of these; 3 were functional, the fourth was mostly there for aesthetics. * smokestacks. * 4: The first warning of the iceberg came at 11:40 P.M. from Fred Fleet, the lookout in this platform high above the deck. * the crow's nest. * 5: The ship was so big, communication was by telegraph from this navigating area to the engine room. * the bridge.

Round 2. Category: In The Spirit 1: French for "a sitting", it's a meeting at which a medium tries to communicate with the dead. * Seance. * 2: This Sherlock Holmes creator became an advocate of spiritualism after his son died in WWI. * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. * 3: Constance Bennett and Cary Grant appeared and disappeared in this 1937 film classic. * Topper*. * 4: Roseanne and Madonna are among the stars who've studied this Jewish mystical tradition. * Kabbalah. * 5: Possibly inhabited by a piano-playing ghost, the Stanley Hotel in Colorado inspired this Stephen King tale. * "The Shining".

Round 3. Category: Isn't It Romantic?* 1: In 1993 Hershey's introduced these "snuggly" candies that go well with Kisses. * Hugs. * 2: www.princesspies.com specializes in cheesecakes in this romantic shape. * a heart. * 3: Young ladies once pinned bay leaves to these on the eve of Valentine's Day to see their future husbands in their dreams. * their pillows. * 4: By shooting arrows that made folks fall in love, this son of Venus made some people very, very happy. * Cupid. * 5: In a poem, this "Canterbury Tales" author wrote about birds choosing their mates on Valentine's Day. * Chaucer.

Round 4. Category: 4-Letter Verbs* 1: As a noun, it's the rear portion of an aircraft; as a verb, it means to follow and keep under surveillance. * tail. * 2: To heat and sweeten a beverage with spice. * mull. * 3: To plow the soil. * till. * 4: To rain in a fine shower, or moisturize with a fine spray of water. * mist. * 5: Itemize, or what a ship does when it tilts to one side. * list.

Round 5. Category: It's Australia, Mate* 1: For this holiday, schoolchildren in Australia receive a 6-week summer vacation. * Christmas. * 2: This Australian state reports it has lost the 1859 decree Victoria signed authorizing its name. * Queensland. * 3: The loud Australian bird known as a kookaburra is also known as this "laughing" equine. * jackass. * 4: The "Ground" for this sport in Melbourne, Australia has a capacity of about 100,000 spectators. * cricket. * 5: The Brisbane, the Murray and the Murrumbidgee are all famous ones of these in Australia. * rivers.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 716, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Comics 1: From 1913-45 Arthur "Pop" Momand drew a comic strip called "Keeping Up with" them. * the Joneses. * 2: For years Herb and Tootsie Woodley have been neighbors to this couple. * Dagwood and Blondie. * 3: A 1960 No. 1 hit song was based on this V.T. Hamlin cave man strip. * Alley Oop. * 4: A 1930s comic strip starring a woman named Fritzi Ritz introduced this 8-year-old girl. * Nancy. * 5: Patrick McDonnell's comic strip has this canine name even though Mooch the cat is often seen with Earl the dog. * Mutts*.

Round 2. Category: It's Our Turn To Sack Rome!!!* 1: 455 A.D.: These people, whose name is now synonymous with pillage and destruction, sack Rome. * the Vandals. * 2: 390 B.C.: These people usually associated with ancient France sack Rome. * the Gauls. * 3: 410 A.D.: Under Alaric, these "Westerners" sack Rome. * the Visigoths. * 4: 1084 A.D.: Having successfully invaded England 18 years before, they then sack Rome. * the Normans. * 5: 1527 A.D.: French and German troops working for this "Empire" end the High Renaissance by sacking Rome. * the Holy Roman Empire.

Round 3. Category: Stupid Geography* 1: This city on the Kankakee River is the seat of Kankakee County, Illinois. * Kankakee. * 2: The capital of Kuwait. * Kuwait City. * 3: When Quebec was called "Lower Canada", Ontario was called this. * Upper Canada. * 4: The main campus of the University of Mississippi is in this Mississippi town. * University, Mississippi. * 5: This nation used to be called Sukothai, meaning "dawn of happiness". * Thailand.

Round 4. Category: Wide World Of Trivia* 1: The first victim of this excavated mummy's curse may have been Lord Carnavon, a sponsor of the expedition. * King Tut. * 2: Also known as the "Bush", it's the Aussie term for the remote, rural areas of Australia. * the Outback. * 3: The lowest surface road in the world is more than 1,290 feet below sea level in this country. * Israel. * 4: When top Crayola Crayon maker Emerson Moser retired after 37 years, he revealed he suffered from this affliction. * colorblind. * 5: Home to the Temple of Buddha's Tooth, this Sri Lankan city's name sounds like it might cause a cavity in it. * Kandy.

Round 5. Category: Yum Yum!* 1: Inspired by the Harry Potter books, these beans come in odd flavors like grass, sardine and earwax. * Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. * 2: Introduced in 2002, Slimy Ghoul is a glow-in-the-dark dispenser for this 3-letter candy. * Pez. * 3: York introduced these yummy "patties" in 1940, but they weren't distributed nationally until 1975. * peppermint patties. * 4: H.B. Reese made Johnny Bars and Lizzie Bars before coming up with these famous "Cups" in the 1930s. * Peanut Butter Cups. * 5: Pop Rocks pop in your mouth because they contain bubbles of this gas. * carbon dioxide.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 715, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Talking Heads 1: (Hi, I'm Jodi Applegate) I was an anchor of the launch of this cable news network backed in part by a software company. * MSNBC. * 2: In an April 19, 1951 speech, he gave new life to the well-worn phrase "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away". * MacArthur. * 3: Dan Rather and Bob Simon are correspondents for the new Wednesday night version of this newsmagazine. * 60 Minutes*. * 4: This former lead singer for the Talking Heads is now the host of "Sessions at West 54th" on PBS. * David Byrne. * 5: This American Red Cross founder said she'd sometimes teach for free but if paid, "Never do a man's work for less than a man's pay". * Clara Barton.

Round 2. Category: Publish* 1: Hurd and Houghton became Houghton, Osgood and finally Houghton him. * Mifflin. * 2: These "books" named for 2 magazines include "Chickamauga" and "Chicken Breasts" as well as the Fix It Yourself series. * Time-Life Books. * 3: Charles Little's publishing partner, he's not the same man who sang "Licking Stick" and "Soul Power". * James Brown. * 4: In 1953 Henri Filipacchi launched the paperback series "Livre de Poche", literally this type of "book". * Pocket book. * 5: Name shared by the publisher of the Harry Potter books and a type of medieval philosopher. * Scholastic.

Round 3. Category: The Earth* 1: =. * =. * 2: =. * =. * 3: At this location, a freely suspended compass needle will point straight down. * the magnetic north pole. * 4: Triggered by earthquakes, these destructive sea waves have been known to travel at nearly 500 mph. * tsunami. * 5: Spanish for "beach", it's a dry desert lake bed. * playa.

Round 4. Category: On St. Paddy's Day* 1: Israel's fourth premier, she was sworn in March 17, 1969. * Golda Meir. * 2: A March 17, 1906 speech by this president popularized the term, "Muckrake". * Theodore Roosevelt. * 3: Good Grief! This comic strip star graced the cover of "Life" magazine on March 17, 1967. * Charlie Brown. * 4: No beans about it, the British made news when they evacuated this city March 17, 1776. * Boston. * 5: The first of these office machines by A.B. Dick went on sale March 17, 1887 March 17, 1887. * a mimeograph.

Round 5. Category: 2000* 1: Members of this family won women's singles and doubles titles at Wimbledon. * Williams. * 2: In June 2000 the top 3 finishers in this Scripps Howard-sponsored competition were home-schooled kids. * the (National) Spelling Bee. * 3: Following Ecuador's lead, El Salvador also decided to make this currency legal tender. * the (U.S.) dollar. * 4: This city opened Enron Field for its baseball team, broke ground on a new football stadium and OK'd a basketball arena. * Houston. * 5: Found under an old palace, the body of this last emperor of Ethiopia was moved to a tomb with a view. * Haile Selassie.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 714, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Musical Anagrams* 1: The king is dead, long "lives" the king. * Elvis. * 2: From 9-5, she's "no party doll". * Dolly Parton. * 3: His last name anagrams to "spent singer", though his 4-hour concerts prove otherwise. * Bruce Springsteen. * 4: The last name of this Canadian singer is an anagram of "tight fool". * Gordon Lightfoot. * 5: She can deliver a song as well as "Mormon ideas". * Marie Osmond.

Round 2. Category: A Young Actor's Life 1: Mackenzie Mauzy is a younger star on "Guiding Light", this type of show. * soap opera. * 2: 1 of the 3 names of the young star of "A.I." and "The Sixth Sense". * Haley Joel Osment. * 3: Seen here, he's the young starof "Stuart Little". * Jonathan Lipnicki. * 4: Laws limit babies' camera time, so producers love twin babies and these are even better, 50% better than twins. * triplets. * 5: Mackenzie Rosman has spent about half her life playing Ruthie Camden on this TV series. * 7th Heaven*.

Round 3. Category: The Wok Of Fame* 1: To eat Chinese food like a native, use 2 of these 10 1/2-inch wooden implements. * Chopsticks. * 2: The 4 main Chinese types of these strips of dried dough are soup, sauce, stir-fried and shallow-fried. * Noodles. * 3: Predigested seaweed formed into these avian homes is a treasured Chinese soup ingredient. * bird nests. * 4: Some people may have adverse reactions to this Chinese food flavor enhancer that's also called "Mei-Jing". * MSG (Monosodium glutamate). * 5: Meaning "heart's delight", it's a variety of snacks like fried dumplings and steamed buns. * Dim sum.

Round 4. Category: 3-Letter Anatomy* 1: Don't give the principal any of this mouth part that's used to form words. * lip. * 2: In a toast to your best bud it's where you say to put the mud. * eye. * 3: God took this body part from Adam to make woman. * a rib. * 4: Anyone cool knows this is a person's haunch. * hip. * 5: Listen to Mark Antony, who might borrow one from a friend, Roman, or countryman. * an ear.

Round 5. Category: "Jacks" Of All Trades* 1: He celebrated his 39th birthday 41 times. * Jack Benny. * 2: Between him and his wife, they licked the platter clean. * Jack Sprat. * 3: He didn't find gold in the Klondike, so he wrote "The Call of the Wild". * Jack London. * 4: His nickname was the "Manassa Mauler". * Jack Dempsey. * 5: 2nd generation pop singer, he's sung on every "Love Boat" voyage. * Jack Jones.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 713, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Initially Yours* 1: Fashion designer:YSL. * Yves Saint Laurent. * 2: Eccentric punctuator and typographer Edward Estlin. * E.E. Cummings. * 3: American artist and illustrator Newell Convers. * N.C. Wyeth. * 4: In 1972 this Texan became the first race car driver to win the Indy 500 for the fourth time. * A.J. Foyt. * 5: Via the White Star Line, the Titanic was owned by this U.S. banking tycoon, who had a private suite he never got to use. * J.P. Morgan.

Round 2. Category: Illinois* 1: This Illinois airport is the busiest commercial airfield in the world. * O'Hare. * 2: Chicago mayor who said, "They have vilified me...crucified me, yes...even criticized me". * Richard Daley. * 3: This Democratic nominee was Illinois governor 1st time he ran for President. * Adlai Stevenson. * 4: This Illinoisan was the Democratic candidate for president in 1952 and 1956. * Adlai Stevenson. * 5: Illinois' lowest point is 279 feet above sea level at the confluence of these 2 rivers. * the Mississippi and the Ohio.

Round 3. Category: In The Dictionary* 1: A Portuguese word for "silly" or "stupid" inspired the name of this extinct flightless bird. * the dodo. * 2: Laymen rarely use this word that means abnormally swollen unless they're referring to veins. * Varicose. * 3: As ursine refers to bears, taurine refers to these animals. * bulls. * 4: "To douse with a liquor (such as brandy, rum or cognac) and ignite". * flambé. * 5: The name of this corn and lima bean side dish is derived from an American Indian word for "boiled corn". * succotash.

Round 4. Category: New Video Games 1: You can download "Wheel of Fortune" onto the Nokia 3650, one of these devices. * a cell phone. * 2: Rolling Stone magazine's choice for Console Game of the Year 2002 is the third installment of this carjack game. * Grand Theft Auto. * 3: This 1982 cult film set in a computer was updated in 2003 with gameplay that includes the following. * Tron. * 4: A bright red Ford Torino and voice-overs by Antonio Fargas (aka Huggy Bear) are in the game of this '70s cop show. * Starsky and Hutch. * 5: In battles in the game based on this Oscar-winning film, you probably have to use the "Far East" button on your control. * Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*.

Round 5. Category: "Great" Geography* 1: Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. * the Greater Antilles. * 2: At over 84,000 square miles, it's Europe's largest island. * Great Britain. * 3: Lewis and Clark National Forest is headquartered in this west central Montana city. * Great Falls. * 4: This depression in Africa and the Middle East is the largest fault system on earth. * the Great Rift (Valley). * 5: 1 of 2 Australian deserts that fit the category. * the Great Sandy Desert (or the Great Victoria Desert).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 712, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Brit Speak* 1: It's what a Brit calls his raincoat (or his Apple computer). * a Mac. * 2: It's the 4-letter term Londoners use for the subway. * the Tube. * 3: Pedestrian crossings like one on Abbey Road are named for this animal. * a zebra. * 4: The OED's definitions for this 10-letter slang word include "flabbergasted" and "speechless". * gobsmacked. * 5: For sports and working out, you need a good pair of trainers, which are these. * (running) shoes.

Round 2. Category: The Garfield Era* 1: 9 days after Garfield's inauguration, Alexander II of this country was assassinated. * Russia. * 2: This institute in Alabama opened July 4, 1881 as a school to train black teachers. * Tuskegee Institute. * 3: Turkey ceded Thessaly to this country. * Greece. * 4: On April 5, 1881 the Treaty of Pretoria granted independence to this country. * South Africa. * 5: This British bacteriologist born August 6, 1881 "molded" the lives of future generations. * (Sir Alexander) Fleming.

Round 3. Category: Lightning* 1: In the 1931 film, he used lightning to bring his monster to life. * Dr. Frankenstein. * 2: Of 25, 50, or 100 miles, the longest length lightning strokes can reach. * 100 miles. * 3: Florida is a good place to find a fulgurite, most commonly formed when lightning hits this substance. * sand. * 4: Aided by lightning each year, 100 million tons of this gas washes into the soil and becomes fertilizer. * nitrogen. * 5: The saying that lightning doesn't do this is not strictly accurate; the Empire State Building gets at least 25 hits a year. * strike twice.

Round 4. Category: Holy Blank * 1: Bovine. * cow. * 2: City in Ohio. * Toledo. * 3: Fish of the genus Scomber. * mackerel. * 4: Son of Amram and Jochebed. * Moses. * 5: Last Supper chalice. * grail.

Round 5. Category: Famous Lasts 1: In 1936 Kentuckian Rainey Bethea was the condemned man in the USA's last public one of these. * Hanging/execution. * 2: Mary Kelly, whose body was found in London in November 1888, was his last victim. * Jack the Ripper. * 3: Last episode of this TV series was called "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" and ran 2 1/2 hours. * MASH. * 4: On May 26, 1927 the last Ford of this model rolled off the Highland Park, Michigan assembly line. * Model T. * 5: He married his 11th and last wife January 11, 1960. * Tommy Manville.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 712, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The World Of Lounge 1: Much lounging is done on this vinyl-covered fabric named for Naugatuck, Connecticut. * Naugahyde. * 2: The primo cocktail of the cocktail nation is this one favored by James Bond. * a martini. * 3: You can't go wrong if you make this man your model of style and demeanour:"The last thing I need is a dame around me who says she's my wife. You know how I operate.". * Dean Martin. * 4: 1996 film that popularized lines like "You're money, baby". * Swingers*. * 5: With hits like "Somewhere My Love", this bandleader brought a "Ray" of light to '60s lounge. * Ray Conniff.

Round 2. Category: South American Cities* 1: In this city's Plaza de Armas, you're walking in the footsteps of Francisco Pizarro. * Lima, Peru. * 2: Sou

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 711, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: June 1969* 1: J. Edgar Hoover said RFK authorized the FBI to tap this black leader's phone. * Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. * 2: Riots that followed games in this sport set off a war between El Salvador and Honduras. * soccer/football. * 3: The U.N. security council voted to keep peace-keeping forces on this island near Turkey another 6 months. * Cyprus. * 4: Nixon became the 1st president to address the Supreme Court when this chief justice was sworn in. * Warren Burger. * 5: This president emeritus of the United Mine Workers "kicked the coal bucket". * John L. Lewis.

Round 2. Category: Wed To The Idea* 1: The sacrament of marriage, it's "holy". * matrimony. * 2: "Marry in" this color "and you will always be true", hence the requirement for "something" of it. * blue. * 3: Apparel usually tied to the back of the newly-married couple's carriage. * (baby) shoes. * 4: Once, a groom paid a sum to the bride's family and she came with a collection of money and property known as this. * a dowry. * 5: A married couple may start off as a DINK couple, an acronym for this. * double income, no kids.

Round 3. Category: Name The Playwright* 1: "A Doll's House". * Henrik Ibsen. * 2: "Summer And Smoke". * Tennessee Williams. * 3: "The Sisters Rosensweig". * Wendy Wasserstein. * 4: "Rhinoceros". * Eugene Ionesco. * 5: "Murder In The Cathedral". * T.S. Eliot.

Round 4. Category: Red, White Or Blue 1: It's a synonym for Bolshevik. * Red. * 2: The largest living animal on earth has this color in its name. * a blue whale. * 3: The one that's not a label of Johnnie Walker. * White. * 4: It's the color of the flag that stops an auto race before the finish. * red. * 5: Jack London's follow-up doggie tale to "The Call of the Wild". * White Fang*.

Round 5. Category: What The "H" Is It?* 1: These phenomena are also known as tropical cyclones. * hurricanes. * 2: Hawaii favorite flowering here. * Hibiscus. * 3: Das kapital of das Keystone State. * Harrisburg (Pennsylvania). * 4: The pagan New Year festival of Samhain evolved into this current observance. * Halloween. * 5: The government departments, jurisdiction and authority associated with the Vatican. * the Holy See.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 710, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Gravesites* 1: This "Believe It or Not" creator is buried in an Odd Fellows cemetery in Santa Rosa, Calif.. * (Robert) Ripley. * 2: It's true; Sojourner Truth is buried in this Michigan cereal city. * Battle Creek. * 3: The grave of the creator of Poor RIchard's Almanack is at this city's Christ Church. * Philadelphia. * 4: This American Indian woman's gravesite is in Gravesend, England; she died there in 1617. * Pocohontas. * 5: This 1930s criminal pair is buried in Dallas, but he's in one cemetery, she's in another. * Bonnie and Clyde.

Round 2. Category: Warren G. Harding* 1: Some claim that Harding coined this alliterative phrase for the leaders of the American Revolution. * Founding Fathers. * 2: Harding's veep, he succeeded Harding as president. * Calvin Coolidge. * 3: In 1903 Warren was elected lieutenant governor of this state; later he was one of its U.S. senators. * Ohio. * 4: It's what Warren Harding's middle initial G. stood for. * Gamaliel. * 5: Albert Fall, Harding's secretary of this cabinet dept., took the fall for the Teapot Dome scandal. * Interior.

Round 3. Category: Our Avian Friends* 1: Only the extinct 10-foot-tall moas of New Zealand were taller than this 8-foot African bird. * Ostrich. * 2: The deepest diver among birds is the emperor species of this bird which may reach depths of 900 feet. * Penguin. * 3: This tiny bird drinks nectar at the rate of about 13 licks per second. * Hummingbird. * 4: The sapsucker, a group of birds in this family, drills holes in trees to stimulate the flow of sap. * Woodpeckers. * 5: The name of this black bird of Asia, a superb mimic of human speech, is from the Sanskrit for "passion". * Mynah bird.

Round 4. Category: The Dreaded Oprah Category* 1: Saleswoman Oprah has tote bags specially for the items you saw on this popular segment of her show. * Oprah's Book Club. * 2: Healthy Oprah lost 33 lbs. in one of these military-sounding programs with Sgt.--er, trainer Bob Greene. * a boot camp. * 3: Career woman Oprah has said marriage wouldn't work with this beau she calls "a traditional black man". * Stedman Graham. * 4: Educator Oprah taught a graduate course on leadership at this university based in Evanston. * Northwestern University. * 5: Mogul Oprah co-founded this media company, a breath of fresh air with its women's cable network. * Oxygen.

Round 5. Category: "My" Songs* 1: This theme from "Titanic" anchored itself to the top of the adult contemporary chart for 10 weeks. * "My Heart Will Go On". * 2: According to songwriters Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen, it's what Chicago is. * "My Kind Of Town". * 3: (Weird Al delivers the clue.) This parody of a Knack song, which I recorded in a bathroom, was introduced on the Dr. Demento Radio Show. * "My Bologna". * 4: Mary Martin became closely identified with this tune after singing it in Cole Porter's "Leave it to Me". * "My Heart Belongs To Daddy". * 5: 1991 hit that contains the lines, "I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing...". * "Losing My Religion".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 709, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Go To Florida* 1: You can see a miniature replica of this city's Forbidden City at Splendid China, a park in Kissimmee. * Peking/Beijing. * 2: The "Terrors of the Deep" attraction at this park might even scare Shamu. * Sea World. * 3: The Cypress Roots Museum traces the history of this famous floral site. * Cypress Gardens. * 4: For years Gomek the giant crocodile was the big attraction at this oldest Florida city's alligator farm. * St. Augustine. * 5: The Wallendas' poles, rigging and costumes are on view at the Circus Museum in this Florida city. * Sarasota.

Round 2. Category: Army, Navy Or Marines* 1: Chester Nimitz. * the Navy. * 2: World War I flying ace Frank Luke. * the Army. * 3: John Glenn. * the Marines. * 4: Roger Staubach. * the Navy. * 5: Comedian Drew Carey. * the Marines.

Round 3. Category: Bahrain* 1: This Iberian power occupied Bahrain from 1521 until the locals asked for Persian help in 1602. * Portugal. * 2: Bahrain is known as this "of the Arabian Gulf", although cultured ones are banned in the market of the same name. * the Pearl. * 3: The 5 triangular shapes on the Bahraini flag represent these "foundations" of Islam. * pillars. * 4: Bahrain's capital, it shares most of its letters with a Central American country. * Manama. * 5: In 1971 Bahrain joined this regional organization that was formed in Cairo in 1945. * the Arab League.

Round 4. Category: Approbation* 1: In 1982 Lenny Skutnick rescued a passenger on a crashed 737 from this D.C. river. * Potomac. * 2: Fittingly, CNN broke the news in 1997 when this man decided to give $1 billion to the U.N.. * Ted Turner. * 3: Jody Williams won a 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to ban these weapons. * land mines. * 4: In 1997, 5 decades late, 7 black soldiers received this highest award for bravery during WWII. * the Congressional Medal of Honor. * 5: Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara, who saved hundreds of Jews in WWII, bears the title "Righteous" this. * Gentile.

Round 5. Category: Handy Technology* 1: The Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra is a device which plays music in this alphanumeric format. * MP3. * 2: "N-Gage" with this company's cell phone, wihch is also a portable game. * Nokia. * 3: You can feel your way around a game using the Dualshock controller for this video game console. * PlayStation. * 4: This company that sells Dimension computers now sells a GPS system for the Axim PDAs. * Dell. * 5: With its Ofoto online service and Easyshare cameras, you'll never have to develop this company's film. * Kodak.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 708, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pugilistic Sobriquets 1: Once known as "The Louisville Lip", he later became "The Greatest". * Muhammad Ali. * 2: When asked about his future plans, this boxer known as "Iron Mike" said, "I don't know...I might just fade into Bolivian". * Mike Tyson. * 3: Lightweight champ Ray Mancini received this nickname that his father also used as a top contender. * "Boom Boom". * 4: This nickname of Oscar De La Hoya is the title of a 1939 film with William Holden as a boxer. * Golden Boy*. * 5: "Killer" nickname of Thomas Hearns, who held world titles in 4 different weight classes. * "Hit Man".

Round 2. Category: Did You Notice? 1: 1 of 3 American League teams with a mascot but no letters on its caps. * (1 of) the Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays or Baltimore Orioles). * 2: The 1st names of your 2 opponents. * Meg and Sue. * 3: To have a Friday the 13th, a month has to start on this day of the week. * Sunday. * 4: This album's cover was the 1st on which all 4 Beatles sported mustaches. * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band*. * 5: 6 of these animals are found on the Cadillac crest. * birds.

Round 3. Category: "Hat" Check* 1: Legendary feudin' enemies of the McCoys. * the Hatfields. * 2: Ms. McDaniel, an Oscar winner for 1939. * Hattie. * 3: Eastern North Carolina cape renowned for treacherous weather. * Hatteras. * 4: A car with a hinged rear door. * a hatchback. * 5: From Sanskrit, it's literally "force yoga". * hatha.

Round 4. Category: Mottos 1: Completes Kentucky's state motto, "United we stand...". * divided we fall. * 2: The surgical unit in this long-running CBS comedy series had the motto, "Best Care, Anywhere". * "MASH". * 3: Per its advertising motto, the insecticide Raid does this. * "Kills Bugs Dead". * 4: "All the news that fits" is the motto of this rock music magazine. * "Rolling Stone". * 5: The motto of this movie company is "Ars Gratia Artis", or Art for Art's Sake. * MGM.

Round 5. Category: "Ff"* 1: This Arizona city was named for an object created there in 1876 for a Fourth of July fair. * Flagstaff. * 2: You won't sleep soundly with this in your coffee. * Caffeine. * 3: Area bared here:. * Midriff. * 4: Variety might report this, abbreviated "B.O.", as boffo. * Box office. * 5: During threshing you separate the wheat from it. * Chaff.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 707, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cowboy Life* 1: Nickname given to orphaned calves, sometimes urged to git along. * dogie. * 2: To stop one of these, get ahead of the pack and force the cattle to mill in a tightening circle. * a stampede. * 3: For the New Book of Knowledge, Gene Autry wrote the article on this cowboy skill. * roping. * 4: He takes a green group of cowhands, prepares them for the drive and then leads it. * the trail boss. * 5: The spiked wheel on the back of this is called a rowel. * a spur.

Round 2. Category: Bo, Moe Or Po* 1: She had a sheep location problem. * Little Bo Peep. * 2: "Kid Gorgeous", "Kid Presentable", "Kid Gruesome" and finally "Kid" this were boxing nicknames of this "Simpsons" barkeep. * Moe (Szyslak). * 3: Italy's longest river. * Po. * 4: First name of the leader of a film trio of "Knuckleheads". * Moe (Howard of the Three Stooges). * 5: John Schneider first played this "Good Ol' Boy" in 1979. * Bo Duke.

Round 3. Category: Hammurabi's Code* 1: Rule 200 says if a man knocketh these out of an equal, his shall be knocked out, too. * Teeth. * 2: This number is missing from the code's 282 rules; Babylonians thought it was evil and unlucky. * 13. * 3: Rules 104-106 warn you to be sure to get one of these when dealing with a merchant. * Receipt. * 4: If a man hires a substitute to serve for him as one of these and doesn't pay, he's killed and the sub gets his house. * Soldier. * 5: If you hired one of these and broke a horn off or cut off its tail, you owe 1/4 of its value in money. * Cow, bull, ox....

Round 4. Category: "Summer" 1: The crookneck or the zucchini, for example. * summer squash. * 2: A heels-over-head body roll. * summersault. * 3: While it sounds like corporate shares traded in July, it's actually Strawhat Theater. * summer stock. * 4: Seals and Crofts had this hit in the fall of 1972. * "Summer Breeze". * 5: 1972 book by Roger Kahn about the Brooklyn Dodgers of the early 1950s. * The Boys of Summer*.

Round 5. Category: 4 Years* 1: In Julius Caesar's time this month had 30 days once every 4 years. * February. * 2: In 1960 Abebe Bikila won this Olympic event barefoot; 4 years later he won it again, this time wearing shoes. * Marathon. * 3: He was the first U.S. president to serve just 4 years. * John Adams. * 4: His book "Daisy-Head Maysie" was published in 1995, 4 years after his death. * Dr. Seuss. * 5: Every 4 years the Boy Scouts hold international rallies known as these. * Jamborees.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 706, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Yum Yum!* 1: Inspired by the Harry Potter books, these beans come in odd flavors like grass, sardine and earwax. * Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. * 2: Introduced in 2002, Slimy Ghoul is a glow-in-the-dark dispenser for this 3-letter candy. * Pez. * 3: York introduced these yummy "patties" in 1940, but they weren't distributed nationally until 1975. * peppermint patties. * 4: H.B. Reese made Johnny Bars and Lizzie Bars before coming up with these famous "Cups" in the 1930s. * Peanut Butter Cups. * 5: Pop Rocks pop in your mouth because they contain bubbles of this gas. * carbon dioxide.

Round 2. Category: Wild West* 1: After playing for Queen Victoria, his Wild West Show's billing read "From prairie to palace". * Buffalo Bill (Cody). * 2: He killed 21 men and was himself killed at age 21. * Billy the Kid. * 3: During the stagecoach era, these birds reportedly sprinted ahead of the coaches at 18 mph. * roadrunners. * 4: Slang word for cowboy, from Spanish "vaquero". * buckaroo. * 5: Once bigger than Delaware, the King Ranch, largest in the U.S., is located in this state. * Texas.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 706, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Religious Festivals* 1: Purim,Sukkot. * Judaism. * 2: Assumption,Ascension. * Roman Catholicism. * 3: Eid al-Fitr,Laylat al-Qadr. * Islam. * 4: Diwali,Holi. * Hinduism. * 5: Wesak,Navam. * Buddhism.

Round 2. Category: The Philadelphia Story* 1: The city's motto, "Philadelphia maneto", means "Let" this "continue". * Brotherly love. * 2: A statue of this film character once stood at the top of the Art Museum steps; now it's outside of the Spectrum. * Rocky Balboa. * 3: In the 1770s she lived on Arch Street in Philly, where she and husband John ran an upholstery business. * Betsy Ross. * 4: On Market Street, between 5th and 6th, you can see this, which bears an inscription from Leviticus 25:10. * the Liberty Bell. * 5: In 1774 this assembly met for the first time in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia. * the First Continental Congress.

Round 3. Category: This Land Is Your Land* 1: The Golden Gate Bridge is found in this state. * California. * 2: You'll find this "Great" 1,700-square-mile body of water in northwest Utah. * the Great Salt Lake. * 3: Of the 4 presidents pictured here [rest of clue unavailable]. * -----------------------------------. * 4: Of Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit, the city that's farthest east. * Pittsburgh. * 5: This U.S. island of the north Pacific with a 4-letter name is only about 30 miles long and 8 miles wide. * Guam.

Round 4. Category: The National Park System* 1: The former Julia Dent is buried in this memorial with her husband. * Grant's Tomb. * 2: To oversimplify, it's a really big hole in the ground in Arizona--1 mile deep and 277 river miles long. * the Grand Canyon. * 3: A natl. historic site, the Hubbell Trading Post in Arizona on this tribe's land has been in business since 1878. * the Navajo tribe. * 4: Check out the glistening dunes at White Sands National Monument in this state. * New Mexico. * 5: Idaho's Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument has several miles of fossil-bearing cliffs along this river. * the Snake River.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 705, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Pilgrims* 1: Prior to settling in America, the Pilgrims sought religious freedom in Leiden, in this country, in 1609. * Holland (or the Netherlands). * 2: He came over on the Mayflower with his wife, Rose, and worked with the Pilgrims; the courtship poem is fictional. * Myles Standish. * 3: This last surviving signer of the Mayflower Compact died in 1687; wife Priscilla is believed to have preceded him. * John Alden. * 4: This Pawtuxet Indian who taught the Pilgrims how to plant crops is said to have lived in England from 1605 to 1614. * Squanto. * 5: A war with the Indians that broke out in 1675 was named for the Wampanoag leader called King this. * Philip.

Round 2. Category: In A Word 1: It's how you play certain instruments, like a guitar. * strum (in instruments). * 2: In ligament you'll find this slang term for a woman's shapely leg. * a gam (in ligament). * 3: What she felt when she wasn't hired. * ire (in hired). * 4: Hidden in the chandelier is the name of this famous composer. * Handel (in chandelier). * 5: Take your medicine and tell us the name of this once powerful family of Florence, Italy. * Medici (in medici*ne).

Round 3. Category: -Isms* 1: Betty Friedan was frequently called "The Mother of" this 1960s and '70s movement. * feminism. * 2: To keep an industry safe from foreign competition, the government might impose quotas or tariffs, examples of this -ism. * protectionism. * 3: Novelist Israel Zangwill was an early leader of this back-to-Palestine movement. * Zionism. * 4: Saint-Simon was a founder of the "Christian" type of this, also a movement to redistribute property. * Socialism. * 5: Donald Judd and Robert Morris were important figures of this "scaled-down" art movement that began in the '60s. * Minimalism.

Round 4. Category: Salad Days* 1: A Waldorf salad usually contains this type of nut. * walnut. * 2: This type of lettuce is used to make a Caesar salad. * romaine. * 3: This "Belgian" salad ingredient is also called witloof, meaning "white leaf". * endive. * 4: Some say this salad of crabmeat on a bed of lettuce in a chili sauce was created at Seattle's Olympic Club. * Crab Louie. * 5: This type of orange adds a sweet tang to the classic Chinese chicken salad. * mandarin.

Round 5. Category: The Ends In "X" Files 1: Dude! It's a Keanu movie!. * The Matrix*. * 2: A 2-tenant dwelling with separate entrances. * duplex. * 3: Oh my gosh! It's the most exciting point in a dramatic narrative!. * Climax. * 4: This bacterial cattle disease whose name is from the Greek for "coal" can be transmitted to humans. * Anthrax. * 5: It can be the highest point in someone's career or the highest point of a building. * Apex.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 704, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: You Could Hurt Someone* 1: Roy Blunt of Missouri is the majority one in the House of Representatives. * a whip. * 2: Playing Lieutenant Howard Hunter, James B. Sikking led this team on "Hill Street Blues". * a SWAT team. * 3: A cord used on laundry day in sunny weather. * a clothesline. * 4: On a standard computer keyboard it shares a key with the question mark. * a slash. * 5: It precedes "Monaco" in this name of a brand owned by Ralph Lauren. * club.

Round 2. Category: Wine* 1: Vin Santo, a sweet specialty of this country's Tuscany region, is made with semi-dried grapes. * Italy. * 2: The Coonawarra is a top wine region in this down under country. * Australia. * 3: The Douro Valley in this country is an important port producer. * Portugal. * 4: Lacrima Christi, or "tears of Christ", is made from grapes grown on this Italian volcano. * Vesuvius. * 5: The area surrounding this seaport of SW France is the most important fine wine region in the world. * Bordeaux.

Round 3. Category: A "War And Peace" Quiz* 1: When it comes to "War And Peace", he wrote the book. * Leo Tolstoy. * 2: In Part XI we see "The grand and inevitable event of the abandonment and burning of" this city. * Moscow. * 3: First name of Ms. Pavlovna, at whose party the book opens; the author also used it for Ms. Karenina. * Anna. * 4: Pierre, a prisoner set to be executed facing one of these, watches 5 die before he is reprieved. * firing squad. * 5: Nikolay and Andrey Bolkonsky were princes; Ilya Rostov had this title, 2, 3, 4.... * Count.

Round 4. Category: Historic Trios* 1: In music history, they're known as "The Three B's". * Bach, Brahms and Beethoven. * 2: Crassus, Pompey and this guy made up the first Roman triumvirate. * Caesar. * 3: It was the slogan of the French Revolution. * "Liberte, egalite, fraternite". * 4: These three men who formed the first triumvirate in 60 B.C. had no official sanction. * Caesar, Crassus and Pompey. * 5: With Israel's Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, this man won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize. * (Yasser) Arafat.

Round 5. Category: Newspaper Towns* 1: The Arizona Republic. * Phoenix. * 2: Pravda,shut down in 1996. * Moscow. * 3: The Inquirer,founded 1829. * Philadelphia. * 4: Jornal do Brasil. * Rio de Janeiro. * 5: The Rocky Mountain News. * Denver.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 703, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Son Also Rises* 1: In 2000, after completing his studies at Eton, this heir headed for the jungles of Central America. * Prince William. * 2: He directed his dad Walter in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre". * John Huston. * 3: Her son Christopher set his first novel, "A Density of Souls", where else but New Orleans. * Anne Rice. * 4: This president's son Charles Francis was the third generation of his family serve as minister to Great Britain. * John Quincy Adams. * 5: His namesake became mayor of Chicago; another son, William, was Commerce Secretary in the '90s. * Richard Daley.

Round 2. Category: Retailers' Home States* 1: CompUSA,Tandy,Southland. * Texas. * 2: Walgreen,Spiegel,Sears. * Illinois. * 3: Woolworth,Barnes and Noble,Saks. * New York. * 4: Safeway,Ralphs,Vons. * California. * 5: A and P,Toys "R" Us,Pathmark. * New Jersey.

Round 3. Category: The University Of...* 1: Its logo shows the same tree as on the state flag. * South Carolina. * 2: Aside from this school's main campus, it has branches in Southhaven and Tupelo. * the University of Mississippi. * 3: The incoming freshmen of 2001 at this Philadelphia university had averaged 1,412 on their SATs. * the University of Pennsylvania. * 4: Pope Boniface VIII founded it in 1303. * the University of Rome. * 5: It has an Eastern Shore campus in the town of Princess Anne. * the University of Maryland.

Round 4. Category: "O" No!* 1: The word that opens the Lord's Prayer. * our. * 2: From Chinese for "black dragon", it's tea that's partly fermented before drying. * oolong. * 3: This London theatre was once known as the Royal Victoria. * the Old Vic. * 4: An overstuffed, armless sofa, whether or not you bought it in Turkey. * an ottoman. * 5: Last name of Ambrosio and Bernardo, father and son politicians of Chile. * O'Higgins.

Round 5. Category: The Civil War Years* 1: This 4-word motto was first stamped on U.S. coins during the war, in 1864. * In God We Trust. * 2: U.S. diplomat Charles Francis Adams. this president's son, sought to keep the British neutral. * John Quincy Adams. * 3: "Little Women" author who became famous when letters she wrote as a Civil War nurse were published in 1863. * Alcott. * 4: In 1861 the war ended his career as a steamboat pilot; he adopted his famous pseudonym 2 years later. * Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens). * 5: This county with a famous Court House hosted the main event of April 9, 1865 and is reenacting it in April 2015. * Appomattox.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 733, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Grains And Staples* 1: The name of this food, not a true grain, comes from the Dutch meaning "beech wheat". * buckwheat. * 2: The rolled form of this grain cooks in about 5 minutes; the steel-cut takes much longer. * oats. * 3: Basmati, an aromatic type of this grain, is grown in India. * rice. * 4: Millet seed, an important food for North Africans, is most often fed to these pets in the U.S.. * birds. * 5: The pot type of this grain retains more of the bran than the pearl type. * barley.

Round 2. Category: Names In Sports* 1: This legendary jockey was known as "The Shoe". * Willie Shoemaker. * 2: (Hi, I'm Tim Dwight.) At Iowa I was one of these, like the sneaky scout in "The Last of the Mohicans". * a Hawkeye. * 3: L.A. Ram defensive end David Jones was better known by this nickname. * "Deacon". * 4: (Hi, I'm James Worthy.) In the 1980s my L.A. Lakers got this "entertaining" nickname, also the name of a cable television network. * "Showtime". * 5: First name of Mr. Boyer, the Yankee 3B who played against his brother Ken in the 1964 World Series. * "Clete" (or Cletis).

Round 3. Category: Canadian Cities* 1: English is also widely spoken in this largest French-speaking city outside of Paris. * Montreal. * 2: The North Saskatchewan River divides this Albertan capital in half. * Edmonton. * 3: The CFL's B.C. Lions play their home games in this city. * Vancouver. * 4: Whitehorse replaced Dawson as capital of this territory in 1953. * Yukon Territory. * 5: This Ontario city's underground walkway system can get you from Eaton Centre to Union Station. * Toronto.

Round 4. Category: Teens At Work* 1: At 14, this fairy tale author worked for a director of the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. * Hans Christian Andersen. * 2: At 16, Tracy Austin beat Chris Evert to win this tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows. * U.S. Open. * 3: In the 1720s at age 16, this statesman and inventor wrote popular articles for the New England Courant newspaper. * Benjamin Franklin. * 4: At 13, this march composer became an apprentice with the U.S. Marine Band. * John Philip Sousa. * 5: At 16, Cornelius Vanderbilt started a ferry service between Staten Island and this famous 31-square-mile-island. * Manhattan.

Round 5. Category: Howdy Doody* 1: "He" was made up of dachshund, elephant, spaniel, duck, cat, giraffe, seal and pig. * Flub-a-dub. * 2: This 4 word question was asked at the top of every show, following the words "Say kids...". * What time is it?. * 3: Original number of Howdy's freckles, they equaled the number of U.S. states. * 48. * 4: Job held by Mr. Cobb in Doodyville; Mr. Hooper on "Sesame Street" did the same thing. * grocer (general store keeper). * 5: Last name of triplets Don Jose, Hector Hamhock and Phineas T.. * Bluster.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 702, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Try "Star"* 1: Overly awed and fascinated in the presence of celebrities. * starstruck. * 2: Structure from which the 3-year-olds fly forward at Churchill Downs. * starting gate. * 3: Banner carried by the attackers during Pickett's Charge. * "Stars and Bars". * 4: An asteroidean echinoderm found in tidepools. * starfish. * 5: It's composed mainly of amylose and amylopectin. * starch.

Round 2. Category: Smooching In Shakespeare 1: He claims that the sleeping Michael Cassio kissed him hard while dreaming of Desdemona. * Iago. * 2: He says, "Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft" while holding Yorick's skull. * Hamlet. * 3: "Love's Labour's Lost" and "Henry VI, Part III" both mention the kiss of this Biblical traitor. * Judas Iscariot. * 4: In this comedy Petruchio says, "Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday". * Taming of the Shrew. * 5: "We have kiss'd away kingdoms and provinces" says Scarus in the play about this title couple. * Antony and Cleopatra*.

Round 3. Category: Tubes* 1: Submarines have fixed tubes in the bow to shoot these underwater weapons. * torpedoes. * 2: If a surfer rides the tube in London, he's on this. * the subway. * 3: Every little breeze seems to whisper the name of this first test tube baby. * Louise (Brown). * 4: The gas-filled Geissler tube of the late 1850s was adapted for use in these advertising signs. * neon signs. * 5: Like you, a frog has this tube connecting the middle ear and the throat. * the Eustachian tube.

Round 4. Category: Famous Franks* 1: This "Wizard of Oz" author edited a trade magazine for store window decorators. * L. Frank Baum. * 2: Frank Fitzsimmons took control of this union when Jimmy Hoffa was imprisoned in 1967. * Teamsters. * 3: This musical satirist founded the Mothers of Invention in 1964. * Frank Zappa. * 4: In Gemini 7 he and Jim Lovell set a 14-day endurance record. * Frank Borman. * 5: This Idaho Democratic senator was active in investigating abuses by the CIA. * Frank Church.

Round 5. Category: Directors On Film* 1: He not only was "The Outlaw Josey Wales", he was the director, too. * Clint Eastwood. * 2: When you watch his direction of himself and Jack Nicholson, he hopes you "Hoffa" good time. * Danny DeVito. * 3: He's seen in John Landis' "The Blues Brothers" and Landis is seen in his "1941". * Steven Spielberg. * 4: He was Mookie the delivery boy in "Do the Right Thing". * Spike Lee. * 5: 1 of the 2 directors who play the 2 main husbands in "Husbands and Wives". * (1 of) Sydney Pollack (or Woody Allen).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 701, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: When I Was Your Age...* 1: People went out and bought records; why, in 1956, this man sold 10 million singles, proving he was "The King". * Elvis (Presley). * 2: These devices, like the Univac, took up whole rooms. * computers. * 3: Baseball players didn't go on strike; they pulled off feats like this one by pitcher Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series. * throwing a perfect game. * 4: We didn't have SUVs, we had cars like this company's Edsel. * Ford. * 5: The Russians weren't sending tourists into space, they were sending this first manmade satellite to orbit the Earth. * Sputnik.

Round 2. Category: Famous Seniors* 1: This retiree founded Kentucky Fried Chicken at age 66 and was an ambassador for the firm when he died at 90. * Colonel Sanders. * 2: Known as the "Ol' Perfesser", he became the 1st manager of the New York Mets in 1962 at age 70. * Casey Stengel. * 3: When she was 75, this educator of the blind published the book "Teacher" about Anne Sullivan. * Helen Keller. * 4: He wrote his last play, "Buoyant Billions", at age 91, 35 years after "Pygmalion". * George Bernard Shaw. * 5: He used his Nobel Prize winnings to improve his hospital in Gabon and set up a leper colony. * Albert Schweitzer.

Round 3. Category: "Sun"S And "Moon"S* 1: He's nicknamed the "father of modern China". * Sun Yat-sen. * 2: The name of this Unification Church leader fits the category. * Sun Myung Moon. * 3: She was TV's Punky Brewster. * Soleil Moon Frye. * 4: In The Who's Who's Who, he'd be listed under Late Drummer. * Keith Moon. * 5: We assume her brother Dweezil would be a Valley guy. * Moon Unit Zappa.

Round 4. Category: The Virtues* 1: It was the "T" in the 19th century's WCTU. * Temperance. * 2: It's paired with liberty in the Pledge of Allegiance. * justice. * 3: We assume that Bill Clinton was born with it; we know he was born in it. * Hope. * 4: You "Gotta Have" this virtue; at least according to George Michael. * Faith. * 5: This virtue is also a name of a Rhode Island island and of prim, cautious women. * Prudence.

Round 5. Category: Meet The Flintstones 1: "The Flintstones" was modeled on this Jackie Gleason series. * The Honeymooners*. * 2: In the 1993 primetime special "I Yabba-Dabba Do!", these 2 kids got married. * Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm. * 3: In 1996, after years of exclusion and a national vote, she joined the rest of the gang as a Flintstone vitamin. * Betty Rubble. * 4: "The Flintstones" theme is based on the chord changes of this song; "Who Could Ask for Anything More?". * "I Got Rhythm". * 5: 2 Stone Age movie heartthrobs were Stoney Curtis and this suave star, perhaps born Archiboulder Leach. * Cary Granite.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 700, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: New York* 1: The top of the Skylon Tower soars 775' above this natural landmark. * Niagara Falls. * 2: This building in Albany is bounded by Washington Avenue and Swan, State and Eagle Streets. * Capital building. * 3: Troy, New York was home to the meatpacker who inspired this national symbol. * "Uncle Sam". * 4: A N. Tarrytown bridge named for this Washington Irving rider once stood where US9 crosses the Pocantico River. * The Headless Horseman. * 5: Val-Kill in Hyde Park was this first lady's retreat. * Eleanor Roosevelt.

Round 2. Category: 14-Letter Words* 1: The American colonists complained to England about "taxation without" this. * representation. * 2: In arithmetic this operation yields a product. * multiplication. * 3: Passports and drivers' licenses are forms of this. * identification. * 4: It was a time of rebuilding after the Civil War, and before all the Confederate states were readmitted. * Reconstruction. * 5: In the 1950s, the RF-101 was the first supersonic aircraft built for this observation purpose. * reconnaissance.

Round 3. Category: Artists* 1: In July 1954 her coffin was draped with a hammer and sickle flag while lying in state in Mexico's Palace of Fine Arts. * Frida Kahlo. * 2: Eugene Delacroix wrote "The first virtue of painting is to be a feast for" these. * eyes. * 3: This Spanish surrealist once broke the window of a 5th Avenue gallery after it had rearranged a display of his art. * Salvador Dali. * 4: Edward Hicks, best known for "The Peaceable Kingdom", was a minister of this religion. * Friends (Society of Friends, Quakers). * 5: One of America's most noted illustrators, he was Andrew Wyeth's father. * N.C. Wyeth.

Round 4. Category: Webster's 3Rd P. 2004* 1: A cowboy might mosey into one of these bars. * a saloon. * 2: A sock in the eye hurts; a sockeye is this fish. * salmon. * 3: Meaning to leap or burst "forth", it's also the name of famous astronaut Ride. * sally. * 4: The living room of a fashionable French home, it's also a place your mom may go for a beauty treatment. * a salon. * 5: This genus of bacteria found on poultry and eggs can also be spread by pet turtles. * salmonella.

Round 5. Category: Famous Kims* 1: As photojournalist Vicki Vale, she got the scoop on Batman. * Kim Basinger. * 2: This "Picnic" star is known for the menagerie she keeps on her ranch in Carmel, California. * Kim Novak. * 3: This KGB mole in the British government fled to Moscow in 1963. * Kim Philby. * 4: This Kim was born in Detroit but she wound up on the "Planet of the Apes". * Kim Hunter. * 5: He's been head of the Communist Party in North Korea since the 1940s. * Kim Il-sung.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 699, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pick One* 1: Of hippo, rhino or croc, the one whose common name has the most letters. * hippopotamus. * 2: Of the Osmonds, the Osbournes or the Oswalds, the family that got MTV its highest ratings. * the Osbournes. * 3: Of Woolworth, Wordsworth or Wadsworth, the one who was a stamp distributor in Westmoreland County. * Wordsworth. * 4: Of Army, Navy or Marine, the one who began as a columnist for Variety in 1953. * Army (Archerd). * 5: Of Walter Chrysler, Louis Chevrolet or Ransom Olds, the one who raced in the Indy 500. * Chevrolet.

Round 2. Category: International Actors* 1: Her relative Sydney Kidman was a cattle baron who owned huge swaths of outback. * Nicole Kidman. * 2: Toshiro Mifune and this director with whom he made 16 films died less than a year apart. * Akira Kurosawa. * 3: This British veteran's films include "Tom Jones", "Under the Volcano" and "Erin Brockovich". * Albert Finney. * 4: This blonde beauty from South Africa gained notice when she grappled with Teri Hatcher in "2 Days in the Valley". * Charlize Theron. * 5: Seen here, she was born in Paris and starred in "An American Werewolf in Paris". * Julie Delpy.

Round 3. Category: Past Tense* 1: Before the fall, Humpty Dumpty did it "on a wall". * sat. * 2: Meaning "manufactured", it was in a famous telegraph message after "What hath God...". * wrought. * 3: If you missed the big day, go online; Blue Mountain has a whole section of this kind of birthday e-card. * belated. * 4: On pepper boxes, it means "milled". * cracked. * 5: This synonym for "haggard" is also past tense for having pulled out your weapon. * drawn.

Round 4. Category: Rodent, Marsupial Or Primate* 1: The Tasmanian Devil. * Marsupial. * 2: The kangaroo rat. * rodent. * 3: The chinchilla. * Rodent. * 4: The wombat. * Marsupial. * 5: The aye-aye. * primate.

Round 5. Category: Money* 1: The common U.S. coin that's named for the metal it contains. * Nickel. * 2: If you've still got these "jolly jolly" coins of England, they're no longer legal tender. * sixpence. * 3: Canadians as well as U.S. 10-cent pieces are called this. * dimes. * 4: The British called this now-obsolete coin a "bob". * the shilling. * 5: In 1909 he became the first U.S. president ever to appear on a coin. * Lincoln.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 698, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Name's The Same* 1: Writers Kilmer and Carol Oates. * Joyce. * 2: Fashion designer Lagerfeld and car designer Benz. * Karl. * 3: Ford who starred in "Gilda" and Close who starred in "Damages". * Glenn. * 4: Schnabel of the art world and civil rights leader Bond. * Julian. * 5: First Lady Coolidge and computer whiz Hopper. * Grace.

Round 2. Category: The Oscar-Winning Role* 1: 1987:Getting greedy as Gordon Gekko. * Michael Douglas. * 2: 2008:For his brilliant and deranged Joker. * Heath Ledger. * 3: 1982:Her as refugee Sophie. * Meryl Streep. * 4: 1996:As Rod Tidwell, he could've said, "Show me the Oscar!". * Cuba Gooding, Jr.. * 5: 1962:Atticus! Atticus! (Finch). * Gregory Peck.

Round 3. Category: Fruit And Vegetable Vendors?* 1: For the third quarter of fiscal 2013, this tech company posted revenue of $35.3 billion. * Apple. * 2: This Italian restaurant chain boasts a "never ending pasta bowl". * Olive Garden. * 3: HQ'd somewhat ominously in Waterloo, Canada, the company now known as this debuted its first smartphone in 2003. * BlackBerry. * 4: This yoga clothing company was founded in Vancouver in 1998--watch your step! the first one's a lulu!. * Lululemon. * 5: This clothing company wasn't monkeying around when it was founded in 1978 in Mill Valley. * Banana Republic.

Round 4. Category: There's No Place Like Home* 1: Steel titan Andrew Carnegie helped transform American industry but was born in this country. * Scotland. * 2: Architect Julia Morgan designed a home with 61 bathrooms for William Randolph Hearst at this Calif. town. * San Simeon. * 3: The Vandals conquered parts of Italy, Spain and Africa but their first home may have been this Danish peninsula. * Jutland. * 4: In 1926 Zane Grey built an elaborate home on this island off Los Angeles, where he spent most of the rest of his life. * Catalina. * 5: Henry Flagler's Palm Beach, Florida estate was named this, also the name of a "pale" London palace. * Whitehall.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 698, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Prime Numbers* 1: To get a brief respite, you "take" it. * five. * 2: This many diners attend da Vinci's "Last Supper". * 13. * 3: The First Battle of Bull Run was in this year. * 1861. * 4: It's the largest 3-digit prime. * 997. * 5: Number "Against Thebes" in a work by Aeschylus. * seven.

Round 2. Category: Cereal Characters* 1: This trio has been helping sell Rice Krispies since the 1930s. * Snap, Crackle, and Pop. * 2: For many years it's been this creature for Cocoa Puffs. * a cuckoo. * 3: The silly spokes-creature for Trix cereal is this type of animal. * a rabbit. * 4: Cornelius is one of these animals selling Kellogg's corn flakes. * a rooster. * 5: First name of the leprechaun mascot of a popular cereal. * Lucky.

Round 3. Category: Common Bonds* 1: Loving,measuring,sippy. * cup. * 2: Mediterranean,South Beach,paleo. * diets. * 3: All Soul's Day,Eat a Cranberry Day,The Great American Smokeout. * things in November. * 4: Accent,Adirondack,office. * types of chairs. * 5: A cat,a Scottie dog,a wheelbarrow. * Monopoly playing pieces.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 697, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: All Things Golden* 1: In a fable, a farmer discovers that this bird lays golden eggs. * a hen (or a goose). * 2: The American Society of Civil Engineers chose this landmark as one of the 7 wonders of the modern world. * the Golden Gate Bridge. * 3: Happy golden anniversary! Congratulations on this many years of marriage. * 50. * 4: According to the AKC, in 2013 it was the third most popular breed of dog. * golden retriever. * 5: In Exodus 32 he fashions a golden calf. * Aaron.

Round 2. Category: Beverages* 1: This brand's Cranberry Juice Cocktail first appeared in 1933. * Ocean Spray. * 2: Alpine mountains appear on the label of this ConAgra brand of hot cocoa. * Swiss Miss. * 3: Back in 1898 a guy named Edward created this biting "olde tyme" root beer. * Barq's. * 4: This juice brand calls itself "100% pure squeezed Florida sunshine". * Tropicana. * 5: This soft drink once used the slogan "It'll tickle yore innards". * Mountain Dew.

Round 3. Category: Lewis Or Clark* 1: In 1982 Barney Clark got the first permanent, completely artificial one of these organs, the Jarvik-7. * a heart. * 2: Between 1981 and 1991 he won 65 consecutive long jump competitions. * Carl Lewis. * 3: In 1994 James H. Clark co-founded this company known for its Navigator web browser. * Netscape. * 4: Chemist Gilbert Lewis suggested that a chemical bond involves 2 atoms sharing a pair of these, as in a covalent bond. * electrons. * 5: This pen name was made by Latinizing the author's 1st 2 names, reversing their order and then translating them back to English. * Lewis Carroll.

Round 4. Category: Quotes/ Magazines* 1: In a song by The Temptations: "Papa was a blank blank ". * rollin' stone. * 2: The movie "Network": "I'm as blank as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!". * mad. * 3: Ecclesiastes: "To every thing there is a season, and a blank to every purpose under heaven". * time. * 4: Alcuin: "The voice of the blank is the voice of God". * people. * 5: The mirror from Disney's "Snow White": "Lips red as the rose, hair black as blank ". * ebony.

Round 5. Category: Put On Your Disco Shoes* 1: This group with a construction worker, cop, G.I., cowboy and Indian sang "San Francisco (You've Got Me)". * The Village People. * 2: "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC and this group hit No. 1, but their "Boogie Shoes" could only dance to No. 35. * the Sunshine Band. * 3: To everything there is a season: the first Top 40 hit for this "Queen of Disco" was "Love To Love You Baby". * Donna Summer. * 4: The Trammps wanted to "burn that mother down" with this song from "Saturday Night Fever". * "Disco Inferno". * 5: Don't "Freak Out", but Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" has a bass line similar to "Good Times" by this "stylish" band. * Chic.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 696, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln 1: (Alex walks the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) Illustrating the difference in memories, some people said that Booth shouted this Latin phrase right from here, center stage; others said, "No, it was from the box"; Booth himself wrote that he spoke the words before shooting Lincoln; perhaps he said these words more than once. * Sic semper tyrannis. * 2: (Alex walks the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) President Lincoln arrived late at Ford's Theatre; the show was already under way, but when he was spotted walking down the stairs toward the presidential box, everything here stopped; then the orchestra struck up "Hail To The Chief", the audience gave him a thunderous round of applause, the president waved and bowed, and then the performance of this play continued. * Our American Cousin*. * 3: (Alex stands on the stage of Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.) Police work in those days could be a little bit shoddy: hours after the murder, a man named William Kent came back to the presidential box looking for his keys; what he found was the murder weapon, the small .44-caliber single-shot pistol bearing the name of this Philadelphia gunsmith who invented it. * Henry Deringer. * 4: (Alex reports from the Petersen House in Washington, D.C.) While Mrs. Lincoln and her friends sat vigil here in the front parlor, in the back parlor, this energetic Secretary of War took charge of the investigation and worked tirelessly through the night, coordinating the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices. * Edwin Stanton. * 5: (Alex reports from the Petersen House in Washington, D.C.) At 7:22 on the morning of April 15, 1865, President Lincoln died in this small bedroom; a prayer was said, and then, according to tradition, Edwin Stanton uttered these six famous words. * "Now he belongs to the ages".

Round 2. Category: Science Timeline* 1: Around 480 B.C.:Anaxagoras explains the cause of these events, one of which darkened Greece in 478 B.C.. * eclipses. * 2: 1600:William Gilbert concludes that the Earth is a huge lodestone that acts as a bar one of these. * a magnet. * 3: 1608:Hans Lippershey applies for a patent for this, which he calls a "looker"; Galileo is all eyes. * a telescope. * 4: Around 450 B.C.:Empedocles posits that all matter is made of these 4 classical elements. * earth, fire, air and water. * 5: 1842:This Austrian physicist relates the observed frequency of a wave to the motion of its source. * Doppler.

Round 3. Category: Metal* 1: Psalm 135 describes the idols of the heathen as not of God and merely made from these 2 metals. * silver and gold. * 2: The so-called tinfoil you buy at the supermarket is probably made from this metal. * aluminum. * 3: Legend says that the metal used to make these highest British military awards came from cannons captured in the Crimean War. * the Victoria Cross. * 4: Noted for its natural magnetism, magnetite is an important ore of this metal. * iron. * 5: In 1252 in Kamakura, Japan, all 93 tons of the Daibutsu, or Great Buddha, was cast in this alloy. * bronze.

Round 4. Category: The Steaks* 1: This steak sauce was created in the 1820s by the chef to England's King George IV. * A.1.. * 2: Sometimes wrapped in bacon, this choice cut of boneless steak with a French name is from the end of the loin. * filet mignon. * 3: Found in the bottom sirloin and on the Sizzler's menu is this cut whose name comes from its geometry. * tri-tip.<

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 695, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ring Magazine's Greatest Title Fights* 1: No. 1:from 1975, the 3rd and final "thrilla" between these 2 heavyweights. * Ali and Frazier. * 2: Marvin Hagler's 1985 demolition of Thomas Hearns, nicknamed this 2-word synonym for "assassin". * "Hit Man". * 3: 155-lb. Rocky Graziano's 1947 defeat of 159-lb. Tony Zale for the world title in this weight class. * middleweight. * 4: Jack Dempsey's 1923 2nd-round thumping of Luis Firpo, the "Wild Bull of" these Argentine plains. * the Pampas. * 5: The 1941 bout between Billy Conn and this "Brown Bomber". * Joe Louis.

Round 2. Category: There's No Place Like Home* 1: Steel titan Andrew Carnegie helped transform American industry but was born in this country. * Scotland. * 2: Architect Julia Morgan designed a home with 61 bathrooms for William Randolph Hearst at this Calif. town. * San Simeon. * 3: The Vandals conquered parts of Italy, Spain and Africa but their first home may have been this Danish peninsula. * Jutland. * 4: In 1926 Zane Grey built an elaborate home on this island off Los Angeles, where he spent most of the rest of his life. * Catalina. * 5: Henry Flagler's Palm Beach, Florida estate was named this, also the name of a "pale" London palace. * Whitehall.

Round 3. Category: On Broadway 1: This mane event of all musicals that opened in 1997 is Disney's longest-running show on Broadway. * The Lion King. * 2: (Hi, I'm Josh Gad.) I played Elder Cunningham, who had a strange trip to Uganda, in this Tony Award-winning musical. * The Book of Mormon. * 3: This musical about a silent screen star eager for a comeback was based on a Billy Wilder film. * Sunset Boulevard. * 4: Bradley Cooper won rave reviews for his recent portrayal of the severely deformed John Merrick in this drama. * The Elephant Man. * 5: Ruth Gordon played Nora Helmer in this play in 1938; Liv Ullmann played her in 1975. * A Doll's House*.

Round 4. Category: Nfl Team Mascots* 1: Sir Purr, who vacations at Kitty Hawk. * the Carolina Panthers. * 2: Gumbo the Dog. * the New Orleans Saints. * 3: Staley da Mascot. * the Chicago Bears. * 4: A big bird named Big Red. * the Arizona Cardinals. * 5: Captain Fear. * the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Round 5. Category: File Under "Q"* 1: It's the piece that plucks a harpsichord; good luck plucking one from a porcupine. * a quill. * 2: Its density exceeds that of the human body, so you can't really sink below its surface--but it can still be dangerous. * quicksand. * 3: Founded in 1920, it was named Queensland and Northern Territorial Aerial Services. * Qantas. * 4: This fruit's name can be traced back to the name of an ancient city on Crete. * a quince. * 5: It's the familiar name of the tremulous American aspen. * the quaking aspen.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 694, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: His 'Do* 1: This promoter who staged seven of Muhammad Ali's title bouts says God designed his hairstyle. * Don King. * 2: Hair-wise, Steven Seagal is famous for this, which has its own Facebook page. * his ponytail. * 3: The slick look of this movie-great lover inspired many imitators, who were known as "Vaselinos". * Rudolph Valentino. * 4: The name of this cut is also the sound of electric clippers; in 2012 Robert Pattinson made news when he got one. * a buzz cut. * 5: In the rediscovered Leonardo work "Salvator Mundi", Jesus has the long, spiraling curls called these. * ringlets.

Round 2. Category: Bomb* 1: In 1970 anti-war radicals attempted to blow up a U.S. Army Mathematics Research Center at this college in Madison. * the University of Wisconsin. * 2: Seen here, one of these was tested on Eniwetok Atoll in 1952. * a hydrogen bomb. * 3: Early grenades took their name from the French word for this exotic fruit they resembled. * the pomegranate. * 4: The Stuka, a key German weapon of World War II, was this type of aircraft that releases its bombs at low altitude. * a dive bomber. * 5: The expression hoisted on your own one of these refers to a type of ordnance once used to knock down walls. * a petard.

Round 3. Category: Let's Visit Scotland* 1: The staid Encyclopedia Britannica says this lake "is said to be inhabited by an aquatic monster". * Loch Ness. * 2: This town 7 miles west of Glasgow gave its name to a curved textile pattern created there. * Paisley. * 3: Edinburgh lies on the southern shore of this arm of the North Sea. * the Firth of Forth. * 4: Tossing the caber is an event at these games; the British royal family traditionally attends in Braemar. * the Highland Games. * 5: Prince Albert bought this estate in Aberdeenshire for Queen Victoria and helped design the castle himself. * Balmoral.

Round 4. Category: "X"S And "O"S* 1: "Horst Q. Limpit died aged 97 of athlete's foot", begins this type of article. * obituary. * 2: Let there be light with this element discovered in 1898. * xenon. * 3: This French word refers to the works of an artist taken as a whole. * oeuvre. * 4: A university in Ohio, or the last name of a Spanish saint. * Xavier. * 5: It sounds like a big mode of transport, but it's a congressional bill dealing with a large number of items. * omnibus.

Round 5. Category: That Dress Needs Something* 1: A few of these, perhaps ostrich or golden pheasant. * feathers. * 2: Give it razzle dazzle with these shiny disks; they were sewn onto King Tut's garments. * sequins. * 3: Try the uneven hemline called this, short in front and long in back, just like the hairstyle of the same name. * mullet. * 4: These, whether on-seam or welt; women love dresses that have them. * pockets. * 5: To stiffen the bodice, use stays, also called this after its original source material. * whalebone.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 693, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Playing At The Casino* 1: Some say to split 2 8s you're dealt in this game, as 16 isn't so good, but don't split 10s!. * blackjack. * 2: Derniere douzaine, rouge and noir are part of European layouts on this wheel...! of...! fortune!. * roulette. * 3: The shooter must place at least one bet--pass or don't pass--before the first play in this game; get the point?. * craps. * 4: Change 1 letter in the name of a Nevada city to get this game where 20 balls are chosen among 80. * keno. * 5: A 5-card stud spin,off, this 3-word game sees the player getting dealt 3 cards; the dealer's 2 are community. * Let It Ride.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 693, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Constitutional Convention* 1: This oldest delegate declared that a carved sun on Washington's chair was "a rising and not a setting sun". * Benjamin Franklin. * 2: Sessions of the convention took place in the assembly room of this brick building in Philadelphia. * Independence Hall. * 3: This "Father of the Constitution" told delegates they "would decide forever the fate of republican government". * James Madison. * 4: The original intent of the convention was to revise this first constitution. * the Articles of Confederation. * 5: Elbridge Gerry from this state refused to sign the Constitution because in it "liberties... were not secured". * Massachusetts.

Round 2. Category: Like A G-6* 1: It's a flat, padded stretcher with legs and wheels for transporting patients. * a gurney. * 2: An evil, greedy type of creature in folklore, he also appears in "Dungeons and Dragons". * a goblin. * 3: A diver can perform a full or half this. * a gainer. * 4: To move in a circle, or around a fixed point. * gyrate. * 5: Crudely showy or tastelessly colorful. * garish.

Round 3. Category: Traditional Foods As National Flags* 1: The recipe for this country's flag--chorizo and arroz. * Spain. * 2: Curry chicken and cheera thoran make up the stripes of this country's flag. * India. * 3: Of course, the olives are interspersed with feta cheese stripes to make the flag of this country. * Greece. * 4: This Middle Eastern country got tomatoes, pita bread and , as a stand-in for a tree, a sprig of parsley. * Lebanon. * 5: This Asian nation serves up sweet chili sauce, shredded coconut and blue swimmer crab. * Thailand.

Round 4. Category: The Legislative Branch* 1: A Toronto bylaw says homeowners need permission to cut down a tree more than 1 foot in diameter unless it's 100% this. * dead. * 2: A California law grew out of the case of these tall trees blocking solar panels in Sunnyvale. * redwoods. * 3: In 1939 Oregon's legislature chose the fir named for this man as the state tree. * Douglas. * 4: Federal law protects all plants in this national park, including the "Biblical" tree the park's named for. * Joshua Tree. * 5: A Maryland law calls for the replanting of this conifer, such as the loblolly or shortleaf. * pine.

Round 5. Category: I'm The King Of The World* 1: In 1747 this Prussian king presented a musical theme to Bach, who used it to develop his "Musical Offering". * Frederick the Great. * 2: In the 1490s the pope gave this Spanish king the title "the Catholic". * Ferdinand. * 3: This Shakespeare king says he's "a very fooli

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 692, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Title Pairs 1: Best friends Eric McCormack and Debra Messing. * Will and Grace. * 2: 2 adolescents, both voiced by Mike Judge. * Beavis and Butthead. * 3: Cop Billy Gardell and teacher Melissa McCarthy. * Mike and Molly. * 4: Streetwise cops Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul. * Starsky and Hutch. * 5: Lawyers Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar. * Franklin and Bash*.

Round 2. Category: Tv Violence 1: Titus Welliver's finger being detached was featured on this show, the CW's most "super". * Supernatural. * 2: "Random Acts of Violence", a 2003 episode of this William Petersen show, could have been the title of several. * CSI. * 3: On "NYPD Blue" Detective Andy Sipowicz, played by this actor, was not above getting physical to get a confession. * Dennis Franz. * 4: Tara is drowned and forked to death by her mother-in-law on the Season 6 finale of this motorcycle club drama. * Sons of Anarchy. * 5: This P.I. show was violent for its time--1967-1975--with Mike Connors, by one count, being knocked cold 55 times. * Mannix*.

Round 3. Category: Chief Justices Of The U.s.* 1: This Chief Justice once wrote, "I don't remember that I ever was President". * (William Howard) Taft. * 2: In 2005 he became Chief Justice without ever being an associate justice. * (John) Roberts. * 3: Before becoming Chief Justice in 1953, he was the only California governor elected to 3 consecutive terms. * (Earl) Warren. * 4: In 1986 he replaced Warren Burger as Chief Justice. * Rehnquist. * 5: Portland was the middle name of this Chief Justice who sought the presidency in 1868 and 1872 while serving on the court. * (Salmon P.) Chase.

Round 4. Category: Fairly Recent News* 1: After this leader's death in 2013, Citgo facilities across the U.S. flew their flags at half-staff. * Hugo Chávez. * 2: Here's the official portrait of the christening of this little fella. * (Prince) George. * 3: In 2014 he returned for a second stint heading the NYPD; he headed the LAPD in between. * William Bratton. * 4: When not saving constituents from burning buildings (literally!), this ex-Newark mayor found time to win a Senate seat. * Cory Booker. * 5: In offstage drama, a member of this Russian cultural institution was convicted for an acid attack on the artistic director. * Bolshoi.

Round 5. Category: "Toasts" 1: Sauteed egg-dipped bread. * French toast. * 2: Campfire confection. * toasted marshmallows. * 3: Original name of "The Ed Sullivan Show". * Toast of the Town*. * 4: "Rank" of George Jessel. * Toastmaster General. * 5: Named for an Australian soprano, it's thin, crisp bread. * Melba toast.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 691, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Whatchamacallit* 1: On a pencil, the ferrule is the metal ring that holds this. * the eraser. * 2: A witch could tell you a besom is one of these with a cluster of brush or twigs on the end. * a broom. * 3: You're ready for a home project with a whole set of this tool that includes a trademark name. * Allen wrenches. * 4: Traditionally in India, a riding seat called a howdah is howdah person rides on the back of this animal. * an elephant. * 5: Hey cowboy! This term for the small spiked wheel on the end of a spur is from the Latin for "wheel". * a rowel.

Round 2. Category: The Cookie Aisle* 1: Nabisco had the technology to make a Mega Stuf version of this cookie. * Oreos. * 2: This brand's E.L. Fudge cookies come in an elfin shape. * Keebler. * 3: These nautical cookies come in chunky as well as chewy varieties. * Chips Ahoy!. * 4: This Italian-named cookie from Pepperidge Farm comes in mint, orange and raspberry. * Milanos. * 5: This shortbread cookie has a literary heritage--it's named for a 19th century novel heroine. * Lorna Doone.

Round 3. Category: Beastly Movie Titles* 1: Starring Jane Fonda:" blank Ballou". * Cat. * 2: A movie with "true grit":" blank Cogburn". * Rooster. * 3: Technology tracks and controls Shia LaBeouf:" blank Eye". * Eagle. * 4: A fantasy film by Tim Burton:"Big blank ". * Fish. * 5: Based on a true Australian story:" blank -Proof Fence". * Rabbit.

Round 4. Category: What's That On Your Head? 1: This Russian word for "grandmother" has come to mean a headscarf. * a babushka*. * 2: The name of this piece of headwear comes from the French for "tuft of hair". * a toupée. * 3: Oleg Cassini dressed Jackie for JFK's inauguration while Halston put this style of hat on her head. * a pillbox. * 4: Boniface VIII is seen wearing this papal headgear, also a term for a princess's crown. * a tiara. * 5: Philip Treacy made the hats with this name that tells you that they capture and hold your attention. * a fascinator.

Round 5. Category: First Ladies* 1: One of her early suitors was her husband's arch rival, Stephen A. Douglas. * Mary Todd Lincoln. * 2: (Hi, I'm Bellamy Young, and I play First Lady Mellie Grant on Scandal.) In 1962 millions of Americans tuned in as this First Lady took viewers on a televised "Tour of the White House". * Jackie Kennedy. * 3: Virginia Governor Charles Robb's mother-in-law. * Lady Bird Johnson. * 4: Her tough Texas husband preferred her nickname to calling her Claudia Alta. * Lady Bird Johnson. * 5: Only wife of 1 president and mother of another. * Abigail Adams.

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Round 1. Category: Spot The Canadian* 1: Neil Diamond,Neil Sedaka,Neil Young. * Neil Young. * 2: James Franco,Seth Rogen,Jason Segel. * Seth Rogen. * 3: Pavel Bure,Dino Ciccarelli,Jari Kurri. * Dino Ciccarelli. * 4: Kelly Ayotte,Kim Campbell,Kirsten Gillibrand. * Kim Campbell. * 5: Milton Friedman,John Kenneth Galbraith,John Maynard Keynes. * John Kenneth Galbraith.

Round 2. Category: Spot The Im‑Pasta* 1: Conchiglie,consigliere,cappelletti. * consigliere. * 2: Manicotti,mineola,mostaccioli. * Mineola. * 3: Farando

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 690, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Speaking In Code* 1: It's what is asked for here in Morse code. * help. * 2: In 1942 the Marines recruited 29 men from this Native American tribe to develop a code, one the Japanese never broke. * Navajo. * 3: urbandictionary.com on this 3-letter code: "Never drink the last beer, unless you have... specific permission that it is OK", guys. * the bro code. * 4: If your wife got sick, it was cool to re-wed, but you had to take care of your sick wife until she passed, said his 1700s B.C. code. * Hammurabi. * 5: Military code name for the plant-killing Vietnam War chemical that was linked to 3 kinds of cancer in 1993. * Agent Orange.

Round 2. Category: From The British Monarchy's Website* 1: A ceremony dating from the 12th century, Swan Upping is an annual census of the swans on parts of this river. * the Thames. * 2: Its second verse begins, "Thy choicest gifts in store on her be pleased to pour, long may she reign". * "God Save The Queen". * 3: The second son born to Queen Elizabeth II, he was the first child born to a reigning monarch in 103 years. * Andrew. * 4: These islands are grouped into the 2 main bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey. * the Channel Islands. * 5: Elizabeth I was the last of the 5 sovereigns from this royal house. * the Tudors.

Round 3. Category: "Toasts" 1: Sauteed egg-dipped bread. * French toast. * 2: Campfire confection. * toasted marshmallows. * 3: Original name of "The Ed Sullivan Show". * Toast of the Town*. * 4: "Rank" of George Jessel. * Toastmaster General. * 5: Named for an Australian soprano, it's thin, crisp bread. * Melba toast.

Round 4. Category: Books Of The Latin Vulgate Bible* 1: A New Testament guy:"Jacobi". * James. * 2: "Judicum". * Judges. * 3: "Canticum Canticorum". * Song of Songs. * 4: An old testament guy:"Abdias". * Obadiah. * 5: There's "I Regum", First Kings, "I Samuelis", First Samuel, and "I Paralipomenon", this. * Chronicles.

Round 5. Category: Fatherly Tv 1: Tywin Lannister's 3 scheming offspring on "Games of Thrones" are Jaime, Cersei and this one. * Tyrion. * 2: Lamont was the responsible son to his wild and wacky father played by Redd Foxx on this sitcom. * Sanford and Son. * 3: On this '90s show Manhattanite Maxwell Sheffield had help with his kids from Fran Fine of Queens. * The Nanny. * 4: Ward was the first name of the father portrayed by Hugh Beaumont on this TV show. * Leave It to Beaver. * 5: Corey Stoll plays Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, raising his son and fighting a vampire plague on this FX show. * The Strain*.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 689, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Thump!* 1: Slump to the floor "like a bag of wet" this, a mix of clay and limestone, and you're not likely getting up soon. * cement. * 2: You "hit" these when you walk the streets; if something hits you like a ton of 'em, you're shocked. * bricks. * 3: Jimmy Page got this band name from Keith Moon's description of bad gigs going down like one. * Led Zeppelin. * 4: In 1964 a researcher wanted to count the rings of a bristlecone type of this tree, so he felled it and oops, it was 4,900. * a pine tree. * 5: The eastern gray species of this thumps the ground with its big feet to signal others of danger. * a kangaroo.

Round 2. Category: The "Class" Struggle* 1: When the CIA does this to a formerly secret document, you and I may read it. * declassify. * 2: Lawsuit type representing the common interests of a large group. * class action. * 3: On Emirates Airlines, the seats in this section between first and economy recline into beds. * business class. * 4: U.S. Army rank just below specialist. * private first class. * 5: Term for a senior or a junior compared to a freshman. * an upperclassman.

Round 3. Category: Blogs* 1: American Papist bills itself as "not your average" blog for those of this faith. * Catholic. * 2: With sections devoted to "OLTL" and "B and B", Daytime Confidential is loaded with news about this type of show. * soap opera. * 3: The popular mommy blogosphere includes Katherine Stone's site named for this new-mom sadness. * post-partum depression. * 4: Add one letter to the last name of the director of "The Last Picture Show" and you get this, his movie commentary site. * Blogdanovich. * 5: lunchinabox.net is a blog devoted to these Japanese meals. * bento.

Round 4. Category: Terms With Greek Letters 1: A and B in this multiple star system are 4.4 light years from Earth. * Alpha Centauri. * 2: Inderal is one of this class of drugs that can lower blood pressure. * a beta-blocker. * 3: It was a No. 1 hit song for Helen Reddy. * "Delta Dawn". * 4: The Mayo Clinic says these fatty acids from fish oil reduce blood triglyceride levels. * omega-3 acids. * 5: A boy crosses the Pacific in a lifeboat (oh yeah, with a tiger!) in this 2001 Yann Martel novel. * Life of Pi*.

Round 5. Category: I Can't Stop This Feeling 1: I have a craving for this unleavened bread traditionally eaten during Passover. * matza. * 2: I'm really in the mood to play this board game that features the Chocolate Swamp and Gumdrop Mountain. * Candy Land*. * 3: For a pet, I want this marsupial named for an island state, but its diet of roadkill and dead sheep ain't at Petco. * a Tasmanian devil. * 4: I have to visit this world capital, though its name is Malay for "muddy estuary". * Kuala Lumpur. * 5: I gotta wear this brand of pants--the stripes are slimming, right?. * Zubaz.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 688, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I Predict You're Wrong 1: This man, in 1860:"I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock... religious feelings". * Charles Darwin. * 2: Show biz' Variety, referring to this style of music in 1955:"It will be gone by June". * rock 'n' roll. * 3: Rockefeller's partner John Archbold sold at a loss in 1885, saying he'd drink all of this produced west of the Mississippi. * oil. * 4: In 1969 she said ("iron"‑ically), "No woman in my time will be prime minister". * (Margaret) Thatcher. * 5: In 1966 this magazine founded by Henry Luce told us, "Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop". * Time*.

Round 2. Category: Bible "B" Boys* 1: This Babylonian is slain the same night as his feast at which Daniel reads the writing on the wall. * Belshazzar. * 2: By crowd vote, this convict was released instead of Jesus. * Barabbas. * 3: This youngest son of Rachel fathered one of the 12 tribes of Israel. * Benjamin. * 4: One of the 12 apostles, he's called Nathanael in John's gospel. * Bartholomew. * 5: Son of Rahab, great-granddad of David and husband of Ruth. * Boaz.

Round 3. Category: American Movie Idol* 1: In March 2012 he celebrated his 75th birthday and 20 years of marriage to Annette Bening. * Warren Beatty. * 2: In 1989 he had a hat trick of great roles, with "Lean On Me", "Glory" and "Driving Miss Daisy". * Morgan Freeman. * 3: In 2012 he launched the London version of his Sundance Film Festival. * (Robert) Redford. * 4: Twice named People's "Sexiest Man Alive", he got his big break when he appeared in "Thelma and Louise". * Brad Pitt. * 5: He became an idol after starring in only 3 movies, his life and career cut short in 1955 at age 24. * James Dean.

Round 4. Category: Number 12 1: Number 4 of the 12 steps of this organization founded in 1935: "A searching and fearless moral inventory". * Alcoholics Anonymous. * 2: This Jazz man who wore No. 12 for Utah led the NBA in assists for 9 straight seasons. * John Stockton. * 3: A cost analysis of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" said these 12 12th day items would set you back $2,854.80. * 12 drummers drumming. * 4: A free black man works as a violin player in 1840s America in this 2013 film, then horrifically and suddenly does not. * 12 Years a Slave. * 5: In 1671 John Milton revised this epic poem into 12 books featuring God and Satan. * Paradise Lost*.

Round 5. Category: Tv Title Pairs 1: Best friends Eric McCormack and Debra Messing. * Will and Grace. * 2: 2 adolescents, both voiced by Mike Judge. * Beavis and Butthead. * 3: Cop Billy Gardell and teacher Melissa McCarthy. * Mike and Molly. * 4: Streetwise cops Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul. * Starsky and Hutch. * 5: Lawyers Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar. * Franklin and Bash*.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 687, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Nba Finals Mvps* 1: 1983:This big man lived up to his name and led the Sixers to the promised land. * Moses Malone. * 2: 1988:This Tar Heel proved his merit for the Lakers. * (James) Worthy. * 3: 2007:He was the first European-born MVP. * Tony Parker. * 4: 1969:This Laker had a few logo-worthy performances. * (Jerry) West. * 5: 1976:He thought he was a loner but got back as the finals MVP. * Jo Jo White.

Round 2. Category: Operatic Adjectives* 1: By Wagner:"The blank Dutchman". * Flying. * 2: With Papageno:"The blank Flute". * Magic. * 3: A comic opera by Smetana:"The blank Bride". * Bartered. * 4: Lehar's title refers to Hanna:"The blank Widow". * Merry. * 5: Set in California:"The Girl of the blank West". * Golden.

Round 3. Category: 19Th Century* 1: In 1869, professional players of this sport earned maximum of $1400 a year and didn't strike. * baseball. * 2: Holiday begun 4/22/1875 because J.S. Morton thought Nebraskans should plant trees. * Arbor Day. * 3: Company set up by American Express in 1852 to speed up gold shipments from California. * Wells Fargo. * 4: Effective May 16, 1870, the Central and Union Pacific RR's said you could do it in 6 days, 20 hours. * go across the country. * 5: For a promotional stunt in 1889, this newspaper publisher sent Nellie Bly around the world. * (Joseph) Pulitzer.

Round 4. Category: Crossword Clues "S"* 1: A bunch of pigs (5). * swine. * 2: Irish water or English springer(7). * spaniel. * 3: Surgeon's stitch (6). * suture. * 4: Dear sir or madam (10). * salutation. * 5: Sawbones(7). * surgeon.

Round 5. Category: Skydiving 1: This electric term is used for the sudden jolt felt by a jumper when the chute opens. * shock. * 2: The auxiliary parachute is also called this, a word found on bottles of fine wine. * reserve. * 3: To exit and clear the plane and then activate the chute right away is rhymingly called hop and this. * pop. * 4: It's the 2-word term for the fastest speed a body can reach falling through the air. * terminal velocity. * 5: 2-word specified area where skydivers plan to land, or a Gary Busey film about skydiving crooks. * Drop Zone*.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 686, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Mountain / Man* 1: Why ask about this mountain named for a British surveyor in 1865? Because it's there. * Everest. * 2: A 16,000-foot Venezuelan mountain is known as Pico this last name, honoring a noted liberator. * Bolívar. * 3: In 1792 George Vancouver named this mountain, the tallest in Wash., after a British navy man who never even saw it. * Rainier. * 4: In 1792 William Broughton named this mountain, the tallest in Oregon, after a British navy man who never even saw it. * Mount Hood. * 5: Around 1890 I.C. Russell named this mountain, the tallest in Canada, for a geologist. * Logan.

Round 2. Category: Lifescript.com 1: Devin Alexander, a chef for this NBC weight-trimming show, offers low-cal dessert recipes. * The Biggest Loser*. * 2: Online you can "choose your condition"; maybe osteoarthritis, which inflames the lining of these, such as the knee. * joints. * 3: Cynthia Nixon told lifescript readers how she beat rosacea, which causes these under the skin to swell. * capillaries. * 4: Lifescript has an online test to gauge your BMR, which measures this fat-burning rate. * metabolism (base metabolic rate). * 5: It's important for women to have a healthy ratio of waist to this area of the body; pear-shaped is better than apple. * the hips.

Round 3. Category: Those Are My Initials, Too* 1: Skinner,Goodrich. * B.F.. * 2: Milne,TV's Ron Balakay. * A.A.. * 3: Griffin,Du Bois. * W.E.B.. * 4: Woolworth,De Klerk. * F.W.. * 5: Hunley,Mencken. * H.L..

Round 4. Category: Up In The Attic* 1: Grandpa never played this sport, but we found a bat used for it. * cricket. * 2: From a bygone vacation comes this hat; its name is from Spanish for "shade". * sombrero. * 3: We found this medal, awarded to all U.S. service personnel who suffer a wound requiring a medical officer. * a Purple Heart. * 4: Joseph is missing an ear, but otherwise this nativity scene, a word from the French, is in pretty good shape. * a crèche. * 5: Way out of tune, there's this stringed instrument for which John Dowland mainly composed. * the lute.

Round 5. Category: Cartoons* 1: He was the original voice of Mickey Mouse. * Walt Disney. * 2: Bullwinkle's "arch" enemy with a name derived from Russian czar, Boris Godunov. * Boris Badenov. * 3: Tweetie Pie "t'awt" he "taw" this "puddy tat". * Sylvester. * 4: In "Mouse Musketeers" this cat and mouse speak with French accents. * Tom and Jerry. * 5: Though he never married, Paramount's Popeye had this many "nephews" who all looked just like him. * 4.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 685, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Random Facts* 1: (Hi, I'm Penn Jillette.) When a magician dies, a wand is sometimes broken at his funeral to symbolize his loss of magical power; the first broken wand ceremony was performed by the Society of American Magicians in 1926 at the memorial service for this famous escapologist. * (Harry) Houdini. * 2: Like tobacco, eggplants and potatoes belong to the nightshade family and contain small amounts of this addictive drug. * nicotine. * 3: Of the traditional birthstones, this June one is the only organic one. * a pearl. * 4: The only Nobel Prize whose name includes 2 fields is named this or Medicine. * Physiology. * 5: The name of Libreville, capital of Gabon, means the same in French as this Sierra Leone capital does in English. * Freetown.

Round 2. Category: Chicken Dishes* 1: The Anchor Bar in New York State says it created this appetizer, deep-fried chicken wings in a spicy sauce. * Buffalo wings. * 2: Named for the oven it's baked in, this dish gets its unique coloring from a special paste that's applied before cooking. * tandoori. * 3: The exciting part of chicken Kiev: a jet of this is supposed to spurt out when you cut into the dish. * butter. * 4: Tomatoes, onions and mushrooms go into this chicken dish whose name means "hunter's style" in Italian. * cacciatore. * 5: Doro wat, a spicy chicken stew, is considered a national dish of this African country. * Ethiopia.

Round 3. Category: Classical Music Adjectives 1: An 1804 symphony is "heroic" or this in Italian. * Eroica*. * 2: There's this much "Night Music" in a 1787 work. * a little. * 3: Schubert's 8th Sympho. * Unfinished Symphony. * 4: Aaron Copland wrote a "Fanfare for" this "Man". * the Common Man. * 5: Handel wrote "Music for" these "Fireworks". * Royal.

Round 4. Category: On Facebook And Twitter 1: In 2012 she surpassed Eminem, her "Love The Way You Lie" duet partner, as the celeb with the most likes on Facebook. * Rihanna. * 2: On Facebook, Cristiano Ronaldo, a star in this sport, likes Real Madrid (his team) and Pepe (his teammate). * soccer. * 3: She tweeted, "Can't sleep again tonight! Maybe it's because my baby" Kanye West "isn't here to cuddle". * Kim Kardashian. * 4: George Takei, who played Sulu on this '60s TV show, often posts about marriage equality and his book "Oh Myyy!". * Star Trek*. * 5: In 2012 she posted on Facebook in English and in Spanish that she was becoming a mom and a coach on "The Voice". * Shakira.

Round 5. Category: It's A Big World 1: The saguaro is an often 5-story-tall type of this plant. * a cactus. * 2: In 2010 Guinness said a Turkish man sported the longest this body part, 3.46 inches from bridge to tip. * the nose. * 3: This "tyrant lizard" could take his 5-foot skull and rear up to a height of 18 feet. * Tyrannosaurus rex*. * 4: 23,000 people in its 6.6 million square feet keep Americans safe. * the Pentagon. * 5: East to west, the greatest distance across this country is 6,000 miles; north to south, 2,800. * Russia.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 684, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fictional Females 1: Syrena is a mermaid in "On Stranger Tides" in this movie series. * Pirates of the Caribbean. * 2: Lydia is a housecarl given by Jarl Balgruuf the Greater in this "Elder Scrolls" game. * Skyrim. * 3: Appropriately, Victoria Justice stars as aspiring singer Tori Vega on this Nickelodeon show. * Victorious. * 4: Cortana makes A.I. sexy in this video game series. * Halo*. * 5: That's the young Sarah Jessica Parker as this optimistic little orphan girl. * Annie.

Round 2. Category: Describing The Recent Movie 1: There's no queen like snow queen; Sven the non-red-nosed reindeer. * Frozen. * 2: Alabama at sea; makes me rethink a trip to Somalia. * Captain Phillips. * 3: Tina Fey: "Clooney would rather float away... and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age". * Gravity. * 4: Lee Daniels' White House film; Lee Daniels' look at U.S. history; "Lee Daniels"' this. * The Butler. * 5: J.J. Abrams, an enterprise-ing director; Pike's Peak; Khaaaaaaaaan!. * Star Trek Into Darkness*.

Round 3. Category: Fashionable Common Bonds* 1: Relaxed fit,boot cut,skinny. * jeans. * 2: Cowboy,combat,waders. * boots. * 3: Cap,Kimono,3/4. * sleeves. * 4: Knee high,crew,peds. * socks. * 5: Fisherman's,Aran Isle,shrug. * sweaters.

Round 4. Category: Happy Birthday! 1: You're 2! Here's a video called "Learning About Letters", made in 1969 for this show and co-directed by Jim Henson. * Sesame Street*. * 2: You're 21, so enjoy a $429 1996 bottle of this from Dom Perignon. * Champagne. * 3: You're 40; that's old enough to get the cake you want, and you want this layered one whose name means "refrigerator"!. * icebox cake. * 4: You're 100 and celebrating your 75th wedding anniversary, so here's this pricey stone that marks 75 years. * diamond. * 5: You're 16 and thrilled with your new Accent, from this car company that uses the voice of Jeff Bridges. * Hyundai.

Round 5. Category: Double Talk* 1: In his hit song, "Spanish Eyes", what Al Martino wanted the girl to say. * Please say "si, si". * 2: This breed was kept by fierce Asian tribes for hunting and guarding. * the chow chow. * 3: From Chinese, this piece of double talk can be a toast or casual, light chatter. * chin-chin. * 4: At foodnetwork.com recipes for this fish include Macadamia Nut Crusted and Grilled Tacos. * mahimahi. * 5: Done around 1640, the painting here may be one of the last illustrations made of a live one of these. * a dodo.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 683, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: A First Name Basis* 1: "I didn't know him from" this name (except for you, of course, Mr. Sandler). * Adam. * 2: A flat, springlike metal hairpin. * a bobby pin. * 3: Meaning people in general, the phrase with these 3 male names dates back to the 1700s. * Tom, Dick and Harry. * 4: This name is found in a painful leg muscle cramp. * Charley. * 5: Lyndon Johnson called some folks uncomfortable with his Vietnam policy these nervous types. * Nervous Nellies.

Round 2. Category: Bring It* 1: To school:A mechanical one of these, like the Paper Mate Sharpwriter with a yellow barrel. * a pencil. * 2: On a picnic:This sweet gourd fruit that comes in Desert King and Dixie Queen varieties. * a watermelon. * 3: To a Little League game:A Nokona Alpha Select one of these, made with buffalo leather. * a glove. * 4: On a hike:An Odwalla "Monster" drink with 20 grams of this muscle-building amino-acid-based stuff. * protein. * 5: To band practice: oOne of these small flutes with a name that's Italian for "small". * a piccolo.

Round 3. Category: Musical Geography* 1: Roger Miller says it "swings like a pendulum do". * England. * 2: Though "the Midwest farmers' daughters...make you feel alright", The Beach Boys prefer these. * California girls. * 3: It's where "Matilda run" after "she took me money". * Venezuela. * 4: In "Arthur's Theme", "The best that you can do is fall in love" when caught between the moon and here. * New York City. * 5: In 1977, Glen Campbell asked, "Have you ever felt" these, y'all. * "Southern Nights".

Round 4. Category: Paging All Primates 1: In the books not Cheetah the chimp but Nikma the monkey was the companion of this man. * Tarzan. * 2: In book titles this monkey "Goes Camping" and hangs "at the Aquarium"; what could possibly go wrong?. * Curious George. * 3: Shift the ape convinces a donkey to don a lion's skin so as to be Aslan in "The Last Battle" of this series. * The Chronicles of Narnia*. * 4: Chee-Chee was an organ grinder's monkey rescued by this doctor. * Doctor Dolittle. * 5: A gorilla kept at a mall narrates "The One and Only" him. * Ivan.

Round 5. Category: Other Great Decades* 1: The Suez Canal is opened and the Emancipation Proclamation is issued. * the 1860s. * 2: The first successful human heart transplant and the invention of 8-track tapes. * the 1960s. * 3: Ray Kroc opens the first franchised McDonald's. * the 1950s. * 4: Conan Doyle introduces Sherlock Holmes. * the 1880s. * 5: Leonardo da Vinci paints "The Last Supper". * the 1490s.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 682, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Thanks For The Kind Words* 1: You do this delicate word to your resignation as you offer it. * tender. * 2: Meaning courteous, it's a bit oxymoronic when it refers to a type of "war". * civil. * 3: This 8-letter word meaning friendly and agreeable often precedes "divorce". * amicable. * 4: Meaning merciful, it describes good weather; in a kind words category, we need it without the "in" at the start. * clement. * 5: Before "society", it denotes sympathy for animals and their treatment. * humane.

Round 2. Category: Notre Dame* 1: More than 30 statues housed in Notre Dame hail this woman to whom the cathedral is dedicated. * Mary. * 2: Hanging in the south tower is "Emmanuel", one of these weighing more than 13 tons. * a bell. * 3: Notre Dame is home to the shrine for this holy relic forced upon the head of Jesus. * the crown of thorns. * 4: The 2 main towers are connected by the Grand Gallery, which could be called the Grand Gallery of these "G" beasts. * gargoyles. * 5: Botanical name for this masterpiece more than 30 feet across and still containing 13th century glass. * a rose window.

Round 3. Category: Presidential Middle Names* 1: Baines. * Lyndon Johnson. * 2: Earl. * Jimmy Carter. * 3: His actual first name was Hiram while his middle name was Ulysses. * Ulysses Grant. * 4: Howard. * Taft. * 5: Abram. * (James Abram) Garfield.

Round 4. Category: Everything's Ok* 1: This nickname for Oklahomans stems from those who jumped the homesteading starting gun in 1889. * Sooners. * 2: It's Oklahoma's leading crop and is especially big in the north, near the Kansas border. * wheat. * 3: Tahlequah, Oklahoma is the tribal capital of this Native American nation. * the Cherokee. * 4: This humorist and native son lends his name to Oklahoma City's main airport. * (Will) Rogers. * 5: The National Weather Service's storm prediction center is in this city, also home to the University of Oklahoma. * Norman.

Round 5. Category: Tv Eateries 1: Monk's Cafe, home of "The Big Salad". * Seinfeld. * 2: The Williamsburg Diner in Brooklyn. * 2 Broke Girls. * 3: The Peach Pit, where Brandon worked. * Beverly Hills, 90210. * 4: Mel's Diner in Phoenix, where you could kiss Flo's grits. * Alice. * 5: The Minuteman Cafe and Gift Shop, next door to the Stratford Inn in Vermont. * Newhart*.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 681, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Official State Mottoes* 1: Michigan's motto mentions this type of land area. * a peninsula. * 2: This 6-word phrase about sticking together is Kentucky's state motto. * "United we stand, divided we fall". * 3: Sic semper tyrannis, "Thus always to tyrants", is the motto of this state. * Virginia. * 4: South Carolina's motto is "Dum spiro spero", or "While I" do this, "I hope". * breathe. * 5: This 3-word motto of Indiana refers to its place as a hub of highways. * "Crossroads of America".

Round 2. Category: Who Makes It?* 1: Doublemint gum. * Wrigley's. * 2: Post-it notes. * 3M. * 3: Classic Yellow Mustard. * French's. * 4: 420 Series Backhoe Loaders. * Caterpillar. * 5: Preference hair color. * L'Oreal.

Round 3. Category: The New York Public Library* 1: The library's Manhattan location is at 42nd Street and this famous thoroughfare. * 5th Avenue. * 2: To enter the main branch, you can pass between 2 statues of these named patience and fortitude. * lions. * 3: Among portraits on display is one of John Jacob Astor IV, probably the richest victim of this early 20th century disaster. * the Titanic. * 4: In 1901 this steel baron donated millions to the library to help establish 39 branches around the city. * (Andrew) Carnegie. * 5: The library's holdings include this female author's walking stick; do they keep it in "A Room of One's Own"?. * Virginia Woolf.

Round 4. Category: The Vice Presidency* 1: (Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) The vice president is a member of the Board of Regents of this, "America's Attic". * The Smithsonian. * 2: (Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) In 1789, as this man became the first VP, he said that he was more used to engaging in debates than presiding over them. * John Adams. * 3: (Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) The first VP to become president on the death of the incumbent, this man shocked many by insisting on wielding the full presidential powers. * John Tyler. * 4: (Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) Since 1974 the official residence of the vice president has been on the grounds of this astronomical agency of the United States. * the Naval Observatory. * 5: (Vice President Biden delivers the clue.) In 1832, after ticking off President Jackson and defending a state's right to nullify an act of the Congress, this proud Southerner became the first vice president to resign. * (John C.) Calhoun.

Round 5. Category: From Page To Musical 1: Damon Runyon's story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" rolled the dice as this musical. * Guys and Dolls. * 2: It was a 75-year journey, but "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" stepped out as this musical with an all-black cast. * The Wiz. * 3: The Tony-winning musical "Big River" was based on this Mark Twain classic. * The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. * 4: Welcome, old chum, to this musical based on Christopher Isherwood's "Berlin Stories". * Cabaret. * 5: Lerner and Loewe adapted this musical from T.H. White's "The Once and Future King". * Camelot*.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 680, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Fire"* 1: The oldest portable one, invented about 1837, used soda-acid. * fire extinguisher. * 2: It's as old as the code of Hammurabi, which didn't mention what the rates were. * fire insurance. * 3: Term for a meteor brighter than Venus in the morning or evening sky. * a fireball. * 4: A British fighter plane of WWII, or a fierce-tempered woman. * a Spitfire. * 5: This 3-word phrase means taking a risk while engaging in what seems like a game. * playing with fire.

Round 2. Category: Secret Service Code Names* 1: This vice president from Tenn. joked he was so dull, his code name was simply his name, but officially, he was "Sundance". * Al Gore. * 2: The Secret Service also protects foreign dignitaries; "Halo" was this late man's code name. * Pope John Paul II. * 3: Fittingly, Fraction is the Secret Service code name for this cabinet post. * Secretary of Education. * 4: This late Massachusetts senator was "Sunburn"; his mom, "Coppertone". * Ted Kennedy. * 5: Sarah Palin was assigned this code name, the native name of the tallest mountain in her state. * Denali.

Round 3. Category: Former Occupation* 1: Former N.Y. lawyer who stated his case on Monday Night Football for 13 years. * Howard Cosell. * 2: Our last president without a bachelor's degree, once a Kansas City haberdasher. * Harry Truman. * 3: Altar boy and seminarian who became infamous Soviet dictator. * Stalin. * 4: Former Washington Senators' pitching prospect, now long-time Caribbean dictator. * Fidel Castro. * 5: While observing "God and Man at Yale", this conservative spokesman taught Spanish there. * (William F.) Buckley (Jr.).

Round 4. Category: Politicians* 1: Here's this representative handing off a cherished item in 2011; we think she wants it back. * (Nancy) Pelosi. * 2: John Nance Garner held this job 1933-1941 and said it isn't worth "a bucket of warm spit" (or something else, in other sources). * vice president. * 3: (I'm George Stephanopoulos.) After seeing Bill Clinton speak for the first time, I thought, this is the guy who can bring blacks and whites together the way that this senator promised to do back in 1968. * RFK (Bobby Kennedy). * 4: As a senator from this state, 1985-2015, Jay Rockefeller pushed for health and safety measures for coal miners. * West Virginia. * 5: In 2006 Deval Patrick was elected to succeed this man as governor of Massachusetts. * Mitt Romney.

Round 5. Category: Fire!* 1: On Oct. 10, 1871, after 2 days, unbuilt lots, rainfall and Lake Michigan quelled a huge fire in this city. * Chicago. * 2: On March 18, 1925 this woman's house of wax in London went up in smoke; the models within could be heard sizzling. * Madame Tussaud. * 3: This general was blamed for the fire that destroyed Columbia, South Carolina, but he denied setting it and tried to put it out. * (William Tecumseh) Sherman. * 4: Genesis 19 says, "the Lord rained upon" these 2 cities "brimstone and fire ...out of heaven". * Sodom and Gomorrah. * 5: The 1911 fire in the NYC shirtwaist factory with this geometric name led to improvements in working conditions. * the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 679, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Professors* 1: In 2010 the U. of Idaho celebrated the 100th birthday of chemist Malcolm Renfrew, holder of this type of professorship. * emeritus. * 2: Professor Asaph Hall, who discovered Deimos and Phobos, taught math and this at Harvard. * astronomy. * 3: This "Do the Right Thing" filmmaker teaches directing at NYU. * Spike Lee. * 4: As Bill Ayers was in a '60s radical group called this, maybe he forecast later being an Illinois education professor. * the Weathermen. * 5: This radical professor and "People's" historian died aged 87 in 2010. * Howard Zinn.

Round 2. Category: Anagrandma* 1: When grandma's looking for these, sometimes they're on top of her head: sag less. * glasses. * 2: If the lumbago comes back, grandma's grateful for this program: ice dream. * Medicare. * 3: Grandma had a mania for this singer in the '60s: my nuclear pact. * Paul McCartney. * 4: Hoping to meet her friend Juan from college, grandma's taking a cruise to this city: canal robe. * Barcelona. * 5: Once a Democrat, and once a Republican, grandma leans this way now: retail brain. * libertarian.

Round 3. Category: Not Exactly Human* 1: Per Bram Stoker, they cast no shadow; it's not that big a help in recognizing them, as they don't come out in daylight. * vampires. * 2: Amazingly lifelike, Repliee Q2 is this type of robot that shares its name with a popular mobile platform. * android. * 3: You could think a Roman satyr is human if he's wearing pants to hide the part that's this animal. * a goat. * 4: A Haitian named Clairvius Narcisse said he was turned into a real-life one of these resuscitated terrors. * a zombie. * 5: Stephenie Meyer says this werewolf "was my first experience with a character taking over". * Jacob Black.

Round 4. Category: People Of Faith* 1: In their youth Rick Santorum and Antonin Scalia each served as this, helping a priest celebrate mass. * an altar boy. * 2: In this major branch of Islam, an Ayatollah is an important teacher or leader. * Shiite. * 3: The Gideons say these last an average of 6 years. * Bibles. * 4: In a synagogue this person also called a hazzan leads the congregation in chanting and singing. * the cantor. * 5: Another term for a heathen, originally it meant a follower of ancient religions. * a pagan.

Round 5. Category: Second Book In The Series 1: "The Two Towers". * The Fellowship of the Ring. * 2: "Force 10 from Navarone". * The Guns of Navarone. * 3: "Insurgent". * Divergent. * 4: "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. * 5: "Prince Caspian". * The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 678, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 678, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: For The Sole* 1: The name of these soft leather loafers comes from an Algonquin word for "shoes". * moccasins. * 2: The Kyrie 2 and the Kobe XI are basketball shoes from this company. * Nike. * 3: "Digital" name for a ballerina's slippers that can take her to the ends of her feet. * toe shoes. * 4: Part of this online retailer's logo looks like a shoe with a "Z" in the sole. * Zappos. * 5: In 1989 Reebok introduced this hot-selling inflatable sports shoe. * Pumps.

Round 2. Category: Fruits And Vegetables* 1: A veggie that comes in spears, or the genus it belongs to. * asparagus. * 2: In most U.S. grocery stores, you should assume you are purchasing these, even if the sign says "yams". * sweet potatoes. * 3: The fruit sold under this name, from that of an Italian estate, is a muskmelon. * cantaloupe. * 4: Almost all California raisins are produced from this seedless grape named for an English immigrant. * Thompson seedless grapes. * 5: Pickled pods of this have been called "a standard hors d'oeuvre at... every Southern cocktail party". * okra.

Round 3. Category: Name The Faith* 1: The Shema, recited morning and night. * Judaism. * 2: The Church of Norway. * Lutheran. * 3: Speaking in tongues (it's named for a festival). * Pentecostalism. * 4: The learned class called ulama. * Islam. * 5: St. Gregory Palamas. * Greek Orthodox.

Round 4. Category: African Cities* 1: The name of this largest Moroccan city combines 2 Spanish words. * Casablanca. * 2: Several bridges, including El Tahrir, cross the Nile in this capital. * Cairo. * 3: This port is the southernmost of South Africa's 3 capitals. * Cape Town. * 4: Wooden 2-story verandas in this Liberian capital are an architectural link to the U.S. south. * Monrovia. * 5: Named for a 19th century queen, this capital of the Seychelles has fewer than 30,000 people. * Victoria.

Round 5. Category: Women In History* 1: She said of refusing to give up her seat, "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in". * Rosa Parks. * 2: This 18th-century Russian ruler hinted that none of her three children was fathered by her hubby--ouch. * Catherine the Great. * 3: Lucrezia Borgia was the daughter of a corrupt man who got this title in 1492. * pope. * 4: Elizabeth Kennycame up with a method seen in use here to treat this disease. * polio. * 5: (Hi, I'm Ken Burns.) My documentary "Not for Ourselves Alone" explored the lives of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 2 of our country's greatest these, from the Latin for "voting tablet". * suffragettes.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 677, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 19Th Century Literature 1: Essays making up this 1854 work include "Reading", "Solitude" and "The Pond in Winter". * Walden; or, Life in the Woods. * 2: Akela the wolf and Baloo the brown bear are 2 of the animals featured in this collection of stories. * The Jungle Book. * 3: Early in this Jules Verne tale, professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew and a guide descend into a volcano. * Journey to the Center of the Earth*. * 4: Wordsworth began a poem, "I wandered lonely as" this "that floats on high o'er vales and hills". * a cloud. * 5: 2 expatriates come to Boston to visit relatives in his 1878 novel "The Europeans". * Henry James.

Round 2. Category: General Food* 1: A term for grain from grass, it follows "breakfast" in your morning routine. * cereal. * 2: General term for the edible kernel of a one-seeded fruit. * a nut. * 3: Food in the Old West, perhaps from the wagon of the same name. * chuck. * 4: Despite its name, this storeroom similar to a pantry is not specifically for keeping hog fat. * a larder. * 5: Sometimes "K" or "C", they're food supplies for soldiers. * rations.

Round 3. Category: Ernie* 1: On "Sesame Street", Ernie sang of his great affection for this bathtub accessory. * the rubber ducky. * 2: As Stinky, Ernie Weckbaugh was a cast member of this group that also included Spanky and Alfalfa. * the Little Rascals (or Our Gang). * 3: Famous Ernie's in State College, Pennsylvania is famous for the sandwiches "wit or witout onions". * a cheesesteak. * 4: In 1961 Ernie Davis of Syracuse won this trophy; no African American had before, not even Ernie's idol Jim Brown. * the Heisman. * 5: Cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller created this mischievous young girl. * Nancy.

Round 4. Category: Living At The Watergate* 1: This Kansas senator was head of the RNC and living at the Watergate during the '72 break-in but was in Chicago that night. * Bob Dole. * 2: Ironically, in 1969 Rose Mary Woods, this man's secretary, was the victim of one of the Watergate's first burglaries. * Richard Nixon. * 3: In 1996 this Supreme Court justice from N.Y. and Watergate resident had her purse snatched outside the building. * Ruth Bader Ginsburg. * 4: At the center of a pres. scandal herself, she left neighbors apology notes for the fuss she brought to the building in the '90s. * Monica Lewinsky. * 5: This Secretary of State often played chamber music piano accompanied by 4 friends in her apartment. * Condoleezza Rice.

Round 5. Category: Tv Is Really Cooking 1: Tortellini with Bolognese sauce and pizza Margherita were featured in "Mario Eats Italy", Mario being this guy. * Mario Batali. * 2: Bam! In 1990 he opened his first restaurant; bam! Later that decade, Food Network gave us the "Essence of" him. * Emeril. * 3: Chairman Kaga oversaw culinary "battles" that were held in Kitchen Stadium on this show. * Iron Chef. * 4: On this Fox show where you best not mess up the risotto, cooks vied to be the new head chef at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant. * Hell's Kitchen. * 5: Adam Richman hit New Orleans to eat 180 oysters in under an hour in a challenge on this Travel Channel show. * Man v. Food*.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 676, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Blank Um* 1: It's the course of study at a college. * curriculum. * 2: To feign sleep or death is "to play" this marsupial. * possum. * 3: This ancient Roman amphitheater was built on the grounds of Nero's Golden House. * the Colosseum. * 4: It's this state of balance when a chemical reaction and its reverse reaction proceed at the same rate. * equilibrium. * 5: Here are a variety of these Chinese dumplings. * dim sum.

Round 2. Category: Rock Group Names* 1: This band's name was inspired by gym teacher Leonard Skinner, who disliked long-haired students. * Lynyrd Skynyrd. * 2: One story says Jerry Garcia found this band's name in a dictionary. * The Grateful Dead. * 3: This "Up All Night" British boy band chose its name because it would sound good when announced on "The X Factor". * One Direction. * 4: The concept that mankind is regressing gave this new wave "Whip It" band its name. * Devo. * 5: This British synth rock band took its name from a French fashion magazine. * Depeche Mode.

Round 3. Category: Flashback Friday* 1: This man who didn't have "no quarrel with them Viet Cong" refused military induction on Friday, April 28, 1967. * Muhammad Ali. * 2: On Friday, Dec. 27, 1935, he issued a manifesto calling for an alliance of the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang. * Mao (Tse-tung). * 3: An uprising in Bogota on Friday, July 20, 1810 is celebrated as this country's independence day. * Colombia. * 4: On Friday, March 6, 1953 Georgy Malenkov took over for this man, who'd died on Thursday. * Stalin. * 5: The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 at least for a time ended Northern Ireland's period of strife known as these. * the Troubles.

Round 4. Category: Alphabet Soup* 1: Served with or without matzo balls, C is for this soup "for the Soul". * chicken soup. * 2: T is for this soup that's paired with grilled cheese on the Campbell's Kitchen website. * tomato. * 3: "F" is for this soup with a little cheesy goodness on top. * French onion soup. * 4: B is for this thick 6-letter soup, perhaps lobster or mushroom. * bisque. * 5: A is for this spicy Mexican soup whose name is Spanish for "meatball". * albóndigas.

Round 5. Category: How Odd* 1: The little known and bloodless "Pork and Beans War" was a border dispute between the U.S. and this neighbor. * Canada. * 2: Though it sounds like it should be the norm, it's now only in place for a third of the year, November to March. * standard time. * 3: All 50 states have a designated state this 4-letter word; for Kansas, it's Harney silt loam. * soil. * 4: This bank was originally called the Bank of Italy, as it helped immigrants who couldn't get loans elsewhere. * Bank of America. * 5: The classes of this kind of ship relate to their length, not height; class A is over 40 meters. * tall ships.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 675, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 2 Kinds Of "Esque"* 1: A variety of bawdy stage show, or reminding one of Mr. Ives. * burlesque. * 2: Pertaining to an Italian Renaissance painter, or in a very different mood, to TV's Sally Jessy. * Raphaelesque. * 3: "Goddess" term meaning stately, or something a lot like that Ellen Page film. * Junoesque. * 4: Solid term suggesting massive, majestic beauty, or referring to Christ the Redemer. * statuesque. * 5: It refers specifically to an author who died in 1924, or broadly to senseless, menacing complexity. * Kafkaesque.

Round 2. Category: Dad Tv 1: Ricky Ricardo. * I Love Lucy. * 2: Howard Cunningham. * Happy Days. * 3: Charles Ingalls. * Little House on the Prairie. * 4: Ponderosa rancher Ben Cartwright. * Bonanza. * 5: Tim Taylor. * Home Improvement*.

Round 3. Category: Fitness And Exercise* 1: Drop and give me 2,220 of these, like world record holder Carlton Williams did in one hour in 2015. * push-ups. * 2: Keep your knees bent and your lower back on the floor while doing this exercise that isolates your abs, cap'n. * a crunch. * 3: NFL prospects run this dash, roughly the distance they'd have to run to cover an average punt. * 40 yards. * 4: This workout regimen that has trademarked "sport of fitness" calls its gyms "boxes". * CrossFit. * 5: Wood you like to hold this abdominal exercise position for 4 hours and 26 mins. like Mao Weidong did in 2014?. * the plank.

Round 4. Category: U.s News And World Report Best Of 2014* 1: The best "elementary particles/fields/string theory" grad school? This New Jersey Ivy League school. * Princeton. * 2: For part-time law programs, think D.C.; George Washington U. was No. 2 and this university topped the list. * Georgetown. * 3: On 2014's hospital "Honor Roll", the Mayo Clinic was No. 3, Mass. General No. 2 and this Baltimore facility the leader. * Johns Hopkins. * 4: Let's get down to business--for undergrads, this City of Brotherly Love university was tops. * the University of Pennsylvania. * 5: When it comes to a computer science Ph.D. program, this university in Pittsburgh leads the field. * Carnegie Mellon.

Round 5. Category: Science Update* 1: A single "leap" of this time unit was added to June 30, 2015; we hope you used it well. * second. * 2: A 2016 report says the world's food supply is in trouble with the decline of bees and others who do this important job. * pollinators. * 3: Boo! The 2012 Chem. Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of how cells respond to this "emergency hormone" and others. * adrenalin. * 4: in 2015 a team of Harvard scientists announced a breakthrough using anti-malarial drugs to treat this neuron disease. * Parkinson's. * 5: In 2015 the earliest known case of this blood cancer was identified in a 7,000-year-old skeleton from Germany. * leukemia.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 674, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Et"Ymology 1: Mind your manners and tell us this word from French for "prescribed behavior". * etiquette. * 2: There's no beginning or end of this adjective from Latin for "age". * eternal. * 3: This type of engraving using a corrosive on a surface is from old German for "to be eaten". * etching. * 4: Darn you if you can't come up with the Latin-derived name of this ancient people of Italy. * the Etruscans. * 5: If you studied Chopin, you'll probably come up with this word, French for "study". * étude*.

Round 2. Category: Parts Of The Whole* 1: Bait pedal,locking bar,spring. * a mouse trap. * 2: Crown, cementum, root. * a tooth. * 3: Agitator, tub, drain hose. * a washing machine. * 4: Reservoir, filter basket, carafe. * a coffeemaker. * 5: Idea balloon,panel,signature. * a comic strip (or cartoon).

Round 3. Category: The Civil War Years* 1: During his 1864 re-election bid, Lincoln said "It was not best to swap" these "while crossing the stream". * horses. * 2: In 1861 Army Surgeon Bernard Irwin earned the 1st Medal of Honor in Hostilities vs. Chiricahua Apaches in this future state. * Arizona. * 3: In 1863 the Statue of Freedom designed by Thomas Crawford was placed atop this Washington, D.C. building. * the Capitol building. * 4: In the fall of 1861 this service delivered its last piece of mail. * the Pony Express. * 5: This county with a famous Court House hosted the main event of April 9, 1865 and is reenacting it in April 2015. * Appomattox.

Round 4. Category: There's A Bug In My Book Title* 1: A classic with a big appetite:"The Very Hungry blank ". * Caterpillar. * 2: Set in South Carolina in 1964:"The Secret Life of blank ". * Bees. * 3: Claire Randall is still an outlander:" blank in Amber". * Dragonfly. * 4: Even bugs move to the city:"The blank in Times Square". * Cricket. * 5: Set in Hollywood during the Great Depression:"The Day of the blank ". * Locust.

Round 5. Category: This Side "Up"* 1: Dude, you're way too this word, nervous and easily annoyed. * uptight. * 2: This "Saturday Night Live" newscast title has been used since a weekend in 1975. * Weekend Update. * 3: "Casablanca" begins with an order to do this to "all suspicious characters and search them". * round up. * 4: In summer 2013 shares of Pandora stock surged after Goldman Sachs did this to it from "neutral" to "buy". * upgrade. * 5: Hang gliders ride these rising currents of air to stay aloft. * updrafts.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 673, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Prefixes* 1: This thoroughly modern prefix means "one thousandth". * milli-. * 2: Meaning "between", it comes before "section" and "galactic". * inter-. * 3: A prefix meaning "after" is found in this word meaning an after-death examination. * postmortem. * 4: "Pharyngo" and "laryngo" both refer to this part of the body. * the throat. * 5: Meaning "height", it comes before "phobia" and "polis". * acro-.

Round 2. Category: Comedic Tv Partners* 1: Conan O'Brien. * Andy Richter. * 2: Carrie Brownstein. * Fred Armisen. * 3: (Keegan-Michael) Key. * Peele. * 4: (Dan) Rowan. * (Dick) Martin. * 5: Cindy Williams, from 1976 to 1982. * Penny Marshall.

Round 3. Category: Cold World Out There* 1: In July 1968 Plateau Station on this continent averaged -99.8 degrees; bottom of the world, Ma!. * Antarctica. * 2: You can freeze your Aspen off in Fraser in this state, with a year-round average of 32.5 degrees. * Colorado. * 3: You've been sent to Oymyakon in this 7-letter region of Russia, where it was a brisk -96 in January 1926. * Siberia. * 4: Snag, in this Canadian territory, had a population of about 10 on a -81 day in February 1947. * the Yukon. * 5: Located in Lewis and Clark County, Rogers Pass in this large western state chilled out at -70 on Jan. 20, 1954. * Montana.

Round 4. Category: The Old Sod* 1: There once was a king named Richard I, who granted a charter to this Irish port city in 1197. * Limerick. * 2: Ireland is divided into 32 of these political and geographic units; 6 of them belong to the U.K.. * counties. * 3: The uachtaran is the Irish president; the taoiseach is this head of government. * the prime minister. * 4: Ireland has no local police; the island is patrolled by An Garda Siochana, the Guardians of this. * peace. * 5: Ireland's hospitals were largely funded by this horse-racing lottery that ran from 1930 to 1987. * the Irish Sweepstakes.

Round 5. Category: Cry* 1: Aesop knows that one who raises a false alarm is said to "cry" this creature. * wolf. * 2: In a text message, "FCOL" is short for this exasperated phrase. * "for crying out loud". * 3: If you've given up, "cry" this generic relative. * uncle. * 4: Justin Timerlake sang "cry me" one of these, perhaps the Irrawaddy. * a river. * 5: "Cry" this "and let slip the dogs of war". * havoc.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 672, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Celebrity Ailments* 1: In the 1960s Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with a disease named for this famous athlete. * Lou Gehrig. * 2: (I'm Jerome Bettis of the NFL.) As a sufferer from this condition, I've testified on Capitol Hill about the need to keep inhalers on the market. * asthma. * 3: Hepatitis C is not named for this sufferer, the C in the singing group CSN. * David Crosby. * 4: Musician Michael Wolff suffers from this, inspiring his wife Polly Draper to write the film "The Tic Code". * Tourette's syndrome. * 5: Kathleen Turner is a sufferer of and spokesperson about R.A., short for this. * rheumatoid arthritis.

Round 2. Category: File Under "S"* 1: Head and Shoulders, Agree, and Pert Plus are leading types of these. * Shampoos. * 2: It's a heavy, single-edged cavalry sword with a blade less curved than a scimitar. * Saber. * 3: This disease caused by the lack of ascorbic acid is called Barlow's Disease in infants. * Scurvy. * 4: This Middle Eastern dog is also called a gazelle hound because it was once trained to hunt gazelles. * Saluki. * 5: Known as "Old Fuss N' Feathers", he wrote the Army's first complete manual of drill regulations. * Winfield Scott.

Round 3. Category: Zeus* 1: In honor of Zeus, these were held by the Greeks every 4 years. * Olympics. * 2: Zeus' counterpart in Roman mythology. * Jupiter. * 3: Hera was not only Zeus' wife but also related to him this way. * his sister. * 4: Zeus' father Cronus was part of this group whom Zeus and his brothers overthrew. * Titans. * 5: The 9 kids Zeus had with Mnemosyne all girls, are known collectively as these. * Muses.

Round 4. Category: "G" Whiz* 1: This astronomer had a brother named Michelangelo who was a musician, not an artist. * Galileo. * 2: From Japanese for "art person", she's trained in the art of entertaining men. * geisha. * 3: A Soviet republic, or a U.S. state. * Georgia. * 4: A voracious eater, or someone with an enormous capacity "for work" or "for punishment". * a glutton. * 5: In a 1960s ad jingle, Mr. Clean was supposed to get rid of these 2 "G"s in just a minute. * grease and grime.

Round 5. Category: "Nothing" Doing* 1: What a magician says to the audience as he pushes up his shirt cuffs. * "Nothing up my sleeve". * 2: Little, unimportant things that you'd whisper in your beloved's ear. * Sweet Nothings. * 3: Completes the line from "Macbeth", "... A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury...". * "Signifying Nothing". * 4: According to "Me and Bobby McGee", "Freedom's just another word for" this. * "Nothing left to lose". * 5: In 1856 Millard Fillmore was its candidate for president. * Know-Nothing Party.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 671, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fishing For Vocabulary* 1: It might be a social blunder to use one of these long poles with a hook on the end to land a large fish. * a gaff. * 2: Tell the theater troupe it's a single toss of a fisherman's line and bait. * a cast. * 3: You might be enticed by this general name for any artificial bait used to attract fish. * a lure. * 4: By gum, it's a fishing spear with a 3-pronged point. * a trident. * 5: Hey, good buddy, it's ground-up bits of bait discarded into the water to attract game fish. * chum.

Round 2. Category: "U" Who* 1: When the new "Love Boat" set sail in 1998, this "Vega$" star was in the captain's seat. * Robert Urich. * 2: This "Exodus" author returned in 1999 with a new political novel, "A God In Ruins". * Leon Uris. * 3: In 1987 he outraced his son to win his fourth Indianapolis 500. * Al Unser. * 4: This Norwegian star of such movies as "Autumn Sonata" was actually born in Japan. * Liv Ullman. * 5: Once a staff writer for The New Yorker, this "Rabbit, Run" author still contributes regularly. * John Updike.

Round 3. Category: Central America* 1: This Central American country's name means "the savior". * El Salvador. * 2: A 1972 earthquake destroyed just about all of this Nicaraguan capital's downtown. * Managua. * 3: The second-largest one of these is found off Belize; the largest is the "Great" one off Australia. * a barrier reef. * 4: Nicaraguan dictator Somoza never rebuilt downtown Managua after this 1972 disaster. * earthquake. * 5: Guatemala's 37 of these tempt some climbers; be careful on the one fittingly named Fuego. * a volcano.

Round 4. Category: A Christmas Carol* 1: "Round yon virgin mother and child, holy infant so tender and mild". * "Silent Night". * 2: City in which the story is set. * London. * 3: As the 1st paragraph states, "Old Marley was dead as" this. * doornail. * 4: "Good tidings we bring to you and your kin, we wish you good tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year". * "We Wish You A Merry Christmas". * 5: "And heav'n and nature sing, and heav'n and nature sing, and heav'n and heav'n and nature sing". * "Joy to the World".

Round 5. Category: You're "Golden", Baby 1: The USA's tallest bridge towers are the 746-foot steel peaks of this structure. * the Golden Gate Bridge. * 2: This NBA team took the 1975 championship. * the Golden State Warriors. * 3: It's the second-most registered dog breed at the American Kennel Club. * a golden retriever. * 4: Jason stole it for his Uncle Pelias. * the Golden Fleece. * 5: Sir James Frazer compared mythologies and religions in this work. * The Golden Bough*.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 670, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Myth And Magic* 1: Unlike in the U.S., if one of these crosses your path in England, it means good luck. * a black cat. * 2: Cloves of this are sometimes placed in a bridal bouquet for good luck. * garlic. * 3: This card deck's Minor Arcana has 14 cards in each suit; a page is between the 10 and jack. * tarot. * 4: Not feeling well? You may want to cleanse this field surrounding your body, from the Greek for "breath" or "breeze". * an aura. * 5: This plant yields a hair dye as well as as tint used in magical hand and foot tattoos. * henna.

Round 2. Category: Athletic Cups* 1: Pele scored 12 career goals in helping Brazil win this trophy 3 times: 1958, 1962 and 1970. * the World Cup (in soccer). * 2: Previously known as the Winston Cup, the Sprint Cup is awarded to champions in this stock-car racing organization. * NASCAR. * 3: First awarded in 1851 by England's Royal Yacht Squadron, it's now named for the winner of that year's race. * The America's Cup. * 4: This tennis trophy that weighs 231 pounds was first awarded in 1900. * The Davis Cup. * 5: I cheered when my Hamilton (Ontario) Tiger-Cats won this league's Grey Cup in 1999. * Canadian Football League (CFL).

Round 3. Category: Starts With "J"* 1: This name can precede Reb, cake or -on-the-spot. * Johnny. * 2: It's a shade of green or a green gemstone that's often carved. * Jade. * 3: Swing was the most popular style of this music in the 1930s. * Jazz. * 4: World Book says that licenses were issued to these professional fools in the 1600s -- no fooling. * a jester. * 5: The sea wasp variety of these is so venomous its sting can cause death within a few minutes. * a jellyfish.

Round 4. Category: "D" Day* 1: The Iron Gates Gorge between Serbia and Romania was carved by this river. * the Danube. * 2: When you have skin problems, this is the type of doctor you should seek out. * Dermatologist. * 3: In August 2003 this cable TV network aired the popular documentary "Nefertiti Resurrected". * the Discovery Channel. * 4: He won a Purple Heart in World War II and was a major party presidential nominee in 1996. * Bob Dole. * 5: From the Latin for "to lead", it's a pipe or passage that can carry body fluids or air. * a duct.

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Round 1. Category: They Named It For Me* 1: Last name of John and Henry, who leased the land for a Louisville racetrack to their nephew. * Churchill. * 2: They named a fort near Dallas for this hero of the Mexican War. * William Worth. * 3: She left her mark on Louis XV and her name on a big hair style. * Madame de Pompadour. * 4: A territory in Africa and a scholarship in Oxford have borne this businessman's name. * Cecil Rhodes. * 5: Though famous for his red-shirted followers, he has an orange fish named for him. * Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Round 2. Category: Letter Perfect* 1: In describing measurements, it represents the word "by", as in 3' by 5'. * X. * 2: Add this letter to the front of "possum" and you still have the same animal. * O. * 3: The only letter that stands for a musical note, a Roman numeral and a baseball position. * C. * 4: Before the euro, this letter was the Parisian equivalent of a dollar sign. * F (franc). * 5: In st

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 669, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 19Th Century America* 1: On February 28, the first of the Forty-Niners to arrive by ship docked at this California port city. * San Francisco. * 2: In 1870 he published his "National Photographic Collection of War Views and Portraits....". * Mathew Brady. * 3: Savannah's antebellum Green-Meldrim House was built for a wealthy dealer in this "king"ly crop. * Cotton. * 4: On August 2, 1826 Daniel Webster delivered a eulogy on these 2 men at Faneuil Hall in Boston. * John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. * 5: Longfellow's 1858 "The Courtship of" him sold over 10,000 copies in 1 day in London. * Miles Standish.

Round 2. Category: Nothin' But "A"S* 1: It was hard to escape from this island prison located in San Francisco Bay. * Alcatraz. * 2: Okay, we're at $400 for the clue, $400, do I hear 6...? No, still at $400 and I'm talking like a guy at this event... sold, for $400. * an auction. * 3: It's a type of ant or a large mythical female warrior. * an Amazon. * 4: Astronomically, this first Greek letter precedes "Centauri". * Alpha. * 5: You could say we sent this Greek god to the Moon in 1969. * Apollo.

Round 3. Category: Horse Racing* 1: In 1711 Queen Anne saw the potential for this racecourse; its royal enclosure still has a formal dress code. * Ascot. * 2: This racetrack is home to the Kentucky Derby. * Churchill Downs. * 3: The bettor selects the first 3 finishers in the correct sequence in this type of bet also called a triple. * a trifecta. * 4: The name of this champion of the 1930s is a synonym for Hard Tack, his sire's name. * Seabiscuit. * 5: In 1977 this horse "killed" the competition by winning 6 straight races, including the Triple Crown. * Seattle Slew.

Round 4. Category: Harry Potter* 1: Harry Potter lives in this country. * England. * 2: The scar on Harry's forehead is in this shape. * a lightning bolt. * 3: For Christmas, Harry was given his father's cloak that allows him to become this. * invisible. * 4: Harry's 2 best friends are Hermione Granger and this red-headed boy. * Ronald Weasley. * 5: A library book at Hogwarts is called this sport "Through the Ages". * Quidditch.

Round 5. Category: Scrambled Veeps* 1: OGRE. * (Al) Gore. * 2: WE NAG. * (Spiro) Agnew. * 3: LEMON AD. * (Walter) Mondale. * 4: FLOCK REELER. * (Nelson) Rockefeller. * 5: CLAW ALE. * (Henry A.) Wallace.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 668, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Oz* 1: This character gets a ride (likely to his home in Omaha) in the balloon meant to take Dorothy to Kansas. * the Wizard. * 2: The Wicked Witch's golden cap allows her to summon these to do her bidding 3 times. * the flying monkeys. * 3: Dorothy followed the Yellow Brick Road to this place, the capital of Oz. * the Emerald City. * 4: One chapter is called "The Magic Art of the Great" this 6-letter word meaning a hoax or fraud. * humbug. * 5: In L. Frank Baum's original book, this, not ruby, is the color of Dorothy's slippers. * silver.

Round 2. Category: Classic Pop Groups* 1: When this group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Mike Love gave the acceptance speech. * The Beach Boys. * 2: In 1963, with "Walk Like a Man", this group became the first to score 3 straight No. 1 singles in the U.S.. * The Four Seasons. * 3: After Smokey Robinson left this group, they had a No. 1 hit in 1975 with "Love Machine (Part 1)". * The Miracles. * 4: This girl group followed up their No. 1 hit "Please Mr. Postman" with "Twistin' Postman". * The Marvelettes. * 5: "Nights In White Satin" appeared on their 1968 LP "Days of Future Passed" 4 years before the reissue hit the Top 10. * The Moody Blues.

Round 3. Category: God Save The British King Or Queen* 1: All 3 of the kings with this name died violently. * Richard. * 2: At her death, aged 81, she was the oldest British monarch ever. * Queen Victoria. * 3: It has been reported that he was once seen having a conversation with an oak tree. * George III. * 4: John Bradshaw presided over the high court that sentenced this British king to death in 1649. * Charles I. * 5: In 1603 he became the first British monarch of the House of Stuart. * James I.

Round 4. Category: A River Runs Through Them* 1: Georgetown and Alexandria. * the Potomac. * 2: Montreal and Quebec. * the St. Lawrence. * 3: Vientiane and Phnom Penh. * the Mekong River. * 4: Knoxville and Chattanooga. * the Tennessee River. * 5: Hyderabad and Sukkur. * the Indus River.

Round 5. Category: Bumps On The Globe* 1: If Montana invaded Idaho, its forces would cross the Bitterroot range of these mountains. * Rockies. * 2: This country's Cordillera Cantabrica is even tougher to get across than the nearby Pyrenees. * Spain. * 3: The Kjolen Mountains, on the Norway-Sweden border, extend north into this people's "land". * Lapps. * 4: Eastern Russia's Stanovoy Mountains form a watershed between the Pacific Ocean and this one. * Arctic Ocean. * 5: The Elburz Mountains, on the Caspian Sea's south shore in this country, rise to over 18,000 feet at Mt. Damavand. * Iran.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 667, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Dads 1: James B. Sikking of "Hill Street Blues" plays this teenage doctor's dad. * Doogie Howser. * 2: James Noble, who plays Larry's dad on "Perfect Strangers", was Governor Gatling on this sitcom. * Benson*. * 3: Higgins on "Magnum, P.I."; he went on to play Sandy Duncan's dad on "The Hogan Family". * John Hillerman. * 4: Darren McGavin's performance as her father won him an Emmy in 1990. * Murphy Brown (Candy Bergen). * 5: Formerly Gonzo Gates on "Trapper John, M.D.", in 1990 he became a dad on "Family Man". * Gregory Harrison.

Round 2. Category: Mags For Men* 1: This mag that could be called "Hunt and Fish" has an essay contest on "How Hunting/Fishing has Influenced my Life". * Field and Stream. * 2: Yeah, I'll take a quart of milk, 2 packs of gum, a Lotto ticket and , uh, this magazine that has a "Pet of the Month". * Penthouse. * 3: In 2001 you could take aim at the special 500th issue of "Guns and " this. * Ammo. * 4: The devil is in this magazine where racy columnist Anka Radakovich gained fame. * Details. * 5: Launched in 1997, it calls itself "The Best Thing to Happen to Men Since Women". * Maxim.

Round 3. Category: The Political Life* 1: Proverbially, to indicate one's candidacy is to throw one's hat here. * In the ring. * 2: An officeholder during the interval before a successor takes over is known as one of these limping birds. * Lame duck. * 3: From the Latin for "to be away", this type of ballot is a vote cast by mail, not at a polling place. * Absentee. * 4: Term for the speech at a convention that sets the tone and outlines the main issues. * Keynote speech. * 5: From the Latin for "grow together", it's an alliance of different groups for a specific cause. * Coalition.

Round 4. Category: What A Year!* 1: (Hi, I'm Tyler Christopher of General Hospital.) In this year, ABC gave "G.H." a shot on TV, "He's So Fine" shot up to No. 1 and JFK visited the Berlin Wall. * 1963. * 2: Dewaele won the Tour de France, Coco Chanel was the toast of Paris and Sacre Bleu!, the market crashed in this year. * 1929. * 3: The Berlin Wall came down. * 1989. * 4: In this year, "Rock Around The Clock" was recorded, Roger Bannister beat the clock and Henri Matisse clocked out. * 1954. * 5: The 21st Amendment scotched Prohibition. * 1933.

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Round 1. Category: 1900* 1: The U.S. Navy bought the first modern one of these, which used gasoline on the surface and electricity below. * a submarine. * 2: Unlike 2000, 1900 wasn't one of these, so Thursday, March 1 followed Wednesday, Feb. 28. * a leap year. * 3: One of these natural disasters killed 6,000 people on the Texas coast. * a hurricane. * 4: Victor Emmanuel began a 46-year rule over this country, whose people thought his name was Vittorio Emanuele. * Italy. * 5: Probably slapping and cursing, Walter Reed identified this insect as the cause of yellow fever. * a mosquito.

Round 2. Category: Celebrity Books* 1: This Oscar winner made her writing debut with a book for children called "Deaf Child Crossing". * Marlee Matlin. * 2: You might cry uncle -- Uncle Miltie, that is -- when you read his "Private Joke File". * Milton Berle. * 3: This "Diamond Lil" star called chapter 4 of her autobiogr

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Round 1. Category: College Team Nicknames* 1: (I'm Kurt Warner.) The team at my alma mater, Northern Iowa, is these big, fierce black cats. * Panthers. * 2: The Nittany Lions. * Penn State. * 3: Penn's peaceable players. * Quakers. * 4: The University of Maryland's reptilian representatives. * Terrapins. * 5: This University of Idaho nickname is from an old Germanic tribe whose name has come to mean troublemakers. * Vandals.

Round 2. Category: Hero Sandwich* 1: This hero of WWII was the "Lion of Luzon", but on Bataan he was known as "Dugout Doug". * MacArthur. * 2: For his leadership that resulted in final victory, General Ulysses S. Grant was known as "The Hero of" this location. * Appomattox. * 3: The parents of this mythological hero were told he'd live to a ripe old age as long as he never looked at himself. * Narcissus. * 4: This title swashbuckling hero rescues aristocrats during the French Revolution in an Orczy work. * the Scarlet Pimpernel. * 5: A 15th century poem by a guy known as Blind Harry is the main source for the life of this Scottish hero. * William Wallace.

Round 3. Category: Shabbat Shalom* 1: Traditionally, a married woman lights 2 candles for the sabbath just before this event on Friday. * sundown (or sunset). * 2: Observance of the sabbath appears on this do's- and -dont's list in Exodus 20. * the Ten Commandments. * 3: A portion of this scroll, whose name means "law", is read during the Saturday service. * Torah. * 4: 2 loaves are blessed; the 2nd one represents the extra portion of this God gave out on Fridays in the desert. * manna. * 5: Title of a Shabbat hymn, or pen name of the creator of Tevye the dairyman. * Sholom Aleichem.

Round 4. Category: Weather Gear* 1: To avoid the sun's glare at the beach, wear these tinted accessories. * sunglasses. * 2: A small cylinder of fur or cloth into which the hands are inserted for warmth. * Muff. * 3: A soft Eskimo boot made of reindeer or seal skin. * a mukluk. * 4: Its parts include ribs, stretchers and a crook handle. * an umbrella. * 5: These sunglasses were introduced in 1929; the "Who's that behind those..." ads began in the 1960s. * Foster Grants.

Round 5. Category: Stars Behind Bars* 1: His high school nickname "Bruno" stayed with him while he was a "Die Hard" bartender. * Bruce Willis. * 2: He tended bar and performed in coffeehouses before getting his break in "I Spy". * Bill Cosby. * 3: He was working as a bartender when he started performing with Dan Rowan. * Dick Martin. * 4: He's gone from jobs like tennis instructor and bartender to films like "Fletch" and "Foul Play". * Chevy Chase. * 5: Heard here, he tended bar to earn money while he wrote songs:. * Kris Kristofferson.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 665, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Springs" On The Map* 1: From 1988 - 1992 this Calif. town didn't work its mayor pro bono, it worked its mayor Sonny Bono. * Palm Springs. * 2: It's the chief town of the interior of Northern Territory, Australia. * Alice Springs. * 3: A residence in this western Georgia resort was known for a time as "The Little White House". * Warm Springs. * 4: Once known for its casinos and springs, this city in eastern New York is now home to Skidmore College. * Saratoga Springs. * 5: It's surrounded by the U.S. Air Force Academy, Fort Carson and Peterson Field Air Force Base. * Colorado Springs.

Round 2. Category: Historic Ships* 1: In August 1851 this schooner won the Hundred Guinea Cup and the cup was later renamed for it. * America. * 2: The Confederate ship the Virginia was also known by this name. * Merrimac. * 3: When Columbus left Spain August 3, 1492, he was aboard this ship. * Santa Maria. * 4: It was the flagship of the 5 commanded by Sir Francis Drake that set sail December 13, 1577. * The Golden Hind. * 5: In an 1872 race between these fast sailing ships, the Thermopylae beat the Cutty Sark. * Clipper ships.

Round 3. Category: Singers' First Films* 1: "Lady Sings The Blues". * Diana Ross. * 2: "The Bodyguard". * Whitney Houston. * 3: "9 To 5". * Dolly Parton. * 4: "Oh, God!". * John Denver. * 5: "The Electric Horseman". * Willie Nelson.

Round 4. Category: English Class* 1: When "do not" and "should not" are contracted, this mark of punctuation is used to show missing letters. * apostrophe. * 2: When writing, you do this to words you want the printer to italicize. * underline them. * 3: Capt. Kirk's mission was "to boldly go" where no man had gone before, but he split one of these along the way. * an infinitive. * 4: "City" is a common noun; Virginia City is this kind of noun. * proper noun. * 5: It's the third person plural objective case pronoun. * them.

Round 5. Category: Under The Sea* 1: The largest giant sea variety of this fish weighed over 563 lbs.; the largest striped one, over 78 lbs.. * a bass. * 2: These shellfish, all bottom-dwellers, are trapped in cages called pots. * lobsters. * 3: At different stages of its life this fish is a fry, a parr, a smolt, a grilse, a kelt and after death, a patty. * a salmon. * 4: 24,000 feet down and seismically active, the Java Trench is a major fault zone in this ocean. * the Indian Ocean. * 5: This undersea creature can change its gender if needed. * a clownfish.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 664, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Mild-Mannered Reporters* 1: (Hi, I'm Wolf Blitzer.) From 1990 to 1992 my beat for CNN was this building where I had to see all sides of an issue, not just 5. * Pentagon. * 2: Sportswriter Grantland Rice wrote that the "Great Scorer" marks "Not that you won or lost" but this. * How you played the game. * 3: His book "Another City, Not My Own" is based on his time covering the Simpson trial for Vanity Fair. * Dominick Dunne. * 4: Roscoe was the middle name of this man known for his calm radio reportage during WWII. * Edward R. Murrow. * 5: This king of gonzo journalism wrote of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and in the 1972 campaign. * Hunter S. Thompson.

Round 2. Category: I Represent* 1: Rep. Dick Gephardt. * Missouri. * 2: Sen. Joseph Biden. * Delaware. * 3: Rep. Dick Armey. * Texas. * 4: Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell. * Colorado. * 5: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.. * Illinois.

Round 3. Category: State Fish* 1: Though this "regal" salmon is Alaska's state fish, it doesn't wear a crown. * king salmon. * 2: A Massachusetts cape is named for this state fish, a valuable food source. * cod. * 3: Called a muskie for short, it's Wisconsin's state fish. * a muskellunge. * 4: 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. * 5: South Dakota chose the walleye, while North Dakota chose the northern type of this fish. * a pike.

Round 4. Category: Take Me Out To The Ballgame* 1: In 1968 the Kansas City A's moved to this city. * Oakland. * 2: This pitcher hurled the first of his record 7 no-hitters in 1973 and his last 18 years later. * Nolan Ryan. * 3: In 1941 this outfielder had a 56-game hitting streak, a Major League record. * Joe DiMaggio. * 4: Inn 1993 this player "Mr. October", was elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. * Reggie Jackson. * 5: This Boston Red Sox player won back-to-back titles 3 times:1941 and '42, 1947 and '48, and 1957 and '58. * Ted Williams.

Round 5. Category: Direct To Video 1: You can order a copy of this fitness guru's "Sweatin' To The Oldies" from his web site. * Richard Simmons. * 2: This singing group is featured on a video subtitled "One Hour Of Girl Power!". * The Spice Girls. * 3: This company offers a motivational tape for experienced users of its exercise ski machines. * NordicTrack. * 4: This talk show host's video of clips edited from his show is subtitled "Too Hot For TV". * Jerry Springer. * 5: This animated dinosaur film by Don Bluth spawned 4 video sequels. * The Land Before Time*.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 663, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Director Directory* 1: Profession of Joseph (of Christmas, not Halloween, fame). * Carpenter. * 2: What an angry mob might have done to David's "Blue Velvet". * Lynch. * 3: This castle in Brno used as a Hapsburg prison didn't make "Schindler's List". * Spielberg Castle. * 4: Tragic 1846-47 pioneer "party" that could have used "Superman" to rescue them. * Donner (as in Richard) Party. * 5: This popular stencil-bearing wood chair of 19th century America can make a cameo in your house. * Hitchcock chair.

Round 2. Category: Country Songs* 1: In "Coward of the County", these boys, tho not necessarily Larry, Steve and Rudy, did Becky wrong. * Gatlin brothers. * 2: In this song Roger Miller told us, "They oughta take a rope and hang me high from the highest tree". * "Dang Me". * 3: U.S. state that's the actual title of the Tanya Tucker song often called "When I Die". * Texas. * 4: A Top 20 country hit for Elvis in 1973, Willie Nelson took it to No. 1 in 1982. * "Always On My Mind". * 5: (Hi, I'm Joe Nichols.) It may sound "unlikely", but in 2003 this song earned me a Grammy nomination for Best Male Country Vocal. * "The Impossible".

Round 3. Category: Fragrances* 1: Her No. 5 perfume was later joined by Nos. 22 and 19. * Coco Chanel. * 2: C'mon, get this, the bestselling women's fragrance in the Clinique line. * Happy. * 3: Tattoo artist Kat von D has a scent called Saint as well as this alter ego. * Sinner. * 4: Eternity, Truth, Obsession: they're all fragrances from this designer. * Calvin Klein. * 5: You might say this man's cologne, introduced by Bijan in 1996, is a real slam dunk. * Michael Jordan.

Round 4. Category: 'Allo, Governor!* 1: Henry S. Thibodaux,P.B.S. Pinchback. * Louisiana. * 2: Al Smith,Mario Cuomo. * New York. * 3: Calvin Coolidge,Michael Dukakis. * Massachusetts. * 4: Beauford Jester,John B. Connally, Jr.. * Texas. * 5: Karl F. Rulvagg,Floyd Bjornsterne Olson,Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus. * Minnesota.

Round 5. Category: Proverbially Speaking* 1: "Laughter is the best" this. * medicine. * 2: It "makes the heart grow fonder". * absence. * 3: An Old English proverb says, "beauty is only" this, to which someone added, "ugly goes to the bone". * skin deep. * 4: "Where ignorance is" this, "'tis folly to be wise". * bliss. * 5: "A watched pot never" does this. * boils.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 662, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cities Of New York* 1: It's "The Capital of the Empire State" and "The Edinburgh of America". * Albany. * 2: It's "The Bison City". * Buffalo. * 3: "The Birthplace of Baseball". * Cooperstown. * 4: "The Honeymoon City". * Niagara Falls. * 5: It's "The Kodak City" and "The Photo Capital of the World". * Rochester.

Round 2. Category: Beloved Poems 1: "If I should die" wrote WWI poet Rupert Brooke, "... some corner of a foreign field ... is forever" this jolly old place. * England. * 2: Completes the final lines of a Longfellow poem: "Thy fate is the common fate of all, into each life some ...". * rain must fall. * 3: Auden's "Funeral Blues" became a favorite of mourners after it was featured in this Hugh Grant film. * Four Weddings and a Funeral*. * 4: "Breathes there the man, with" this "so dead, who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!". * soul. * 5: 19th century bard George Pope Morris wrote the poem urging, "Woodman", do this. * spare that tree.

Round 3. Category: Space Missions* 1: The U.S. Ranger spacecrafts were designed to crash-land on this heavenly body. * Moon. * 2: All the nicknames of the Mercury capsules ended in this number, honoring the first group of astronauts. * 7. * 3: In 2008 the Phoenix Mars lander found ice on this region of the planet. * the poles. * 4: The New Horizons mission was launched to explore this planet before it was downgraded to a dwarf. * Pluto. * 5: The Cassini project is exploring Titan and Enceladus, moons of this second-largest planet. * Saturn.

Round 4. Category: Russellmania* 1: In 1966 this All-Star player became the first African-American head coach in the NBA. * Bill Russell. * 2: Astronomers Henry Russell and Ejnar Hertzsprung devised a diagram displaying the luminosity of these. * stars. * 3: "The Analysis of Mind" and "Marriage and Morals" are books by this thinker, grandson of a British prime minister. * Bertrand Russell. * 4: Until 1931 members of this religious movement founded by Charles Russell were known as Russellites. * Jehovah's Witnesses. * 5: A collection of this New York Times columnist's work was titled "Poor Russell's Almanac". * Russell Baker.

Round 5. Category: Michelangelo 1: The left arm of this over 14-foot marble statue was broken in 1527 and not repaired until later. * David. * 2: Born in Caprese, Michelangelo was taken to this city while still an infant. * Florence. * 3: 'Bacchus", his first surviving large statue, led to a commission for this sculpture now in St. Peter's. * the Pieta*. * 4: Michelangelo's enormous statue of Pope Julius II in this metal was later recast into a cannon. * bronze. * 5: In 1489 Michelangelo enrolled at an art school established by this "Magnificent" Medici. * Lorenzo.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 661, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Invisible Men* 1: As Nick in "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", all he wants are his molecules back and Daryl Hannah. * Chevy Chase. * 2: These days Goldie Hawn sees a lot of this "Now You See Him, Now You Don't" star. * Kurt Russell. * 3: In a 1951 film this comedy pair joins forces with invisible man Arthur Franz. * Abbott and Costello. * 4: He wasn't seen very long on TV as "The Invisible Man"; his tenure as Illya Kuryakin lasted longer. * David McCallum. * 5: You may remember seeing him in "Cocoon" and "Police Academy" but not in "The Man Who Wasn't There". * Steve Guttenberg.

Round 2. Category: More Celebrity Rhyme Time* 1: Jagger's pranks. * Mick's tricks. * 2: Maher's medications. * Bill's pills. * 3: Carney's roles. * Art's parts. * 4: Blythe's flags. * Danner's banners. * 5: Kerri's embraces. * Strug's hugs.

Round 3. Category: "Andy" 1: The black and white bear of Walter Lantz cartoons. * Andy Panda. * 2: "A Family Affair" was the 1st of 15 films in this Mickey Rooney series. * the Andy Hardy series. * 3: Reg Smythe's pub-crawling comic strip husband of Flo. * Andy Capp. * 4: Donny Osmond made his debut at the age of 4 on his show. * The Andy Williams Show*. * 5: An 8-hour static film of the Empire State Building was done by this pop artist. * Andy Warhol.

Round 4. Category: Stained Glass* 1: In the 16th c., creation of a tool with this gem at the tip made cutting glass easier. * diamond. * 2: Traditionally, stained glass is joined by "cames", strips of this metal. * lead. * 3: This city's remarkable Sainte Chapelle, built in the 13th c., has walls almost entirely of stained glass. * Paris. * 4: Famed for pieces such as lampshades, this artist was born into a family of N.Y. jewelers. * (Louis) Tiffany. * 5: An animated short subject, or the term for a full-sized pattern of a stained glass window. * cartoon.

Round 5. Category: Impossible* 1: Lewis Carroll's White Queen said of this girl's age, she "believed as many as 6 impossible things before breakfast". * Alice. * 2: Jesus said, "If you have" this, "nothing will be impossible unto you". * Faith. * 3: "When you have excluded the impossible" Holmes said, "whatever remains, however improbable, must be" this. * The truth. * 4: The quote: "In two words: Im-possible" is attributed to this legendary Hollywood mogul. * Samuel Goldwyn. * 5: This suave Brit played a psychiatrist with a nubile young daughter in the 1968 farce "The Impossible Years". * David Niven.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 660, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Military Matters* 1: All 28 members of this international organization have sent troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. * NATO. * 2: Ready to fight at a moment's notice, the Minutemen were militia soldiers in this war. * the American Revolution. * 3: A broad area where explosive devices have been concealed; it can be in water as well as on land. * a minefield. * 4: Some in the military jokingly call this building "The Five-Sided Puzzle Palace". * the Pentagon. * 5: The three elements that make up the Marine Corps seal are a globe, an eagle holding a scroll and this naval symbol. * an anchor.

Round 2. Category: Tv Friends 1: (Hi, I'm Joseph Gordon-Levitt.) I used to play D.J. Connor's boring friend George on this sitcom. * Roseanne. * 2: Grant Show appeared as Dylan's friend Jake on this series before he was spun off to "Melrose Place". * Beverly Hills, 90210. * 3: In 1995 it was finally revealed that this kooky character does have a first name: it's Cosmo. * Kramer. * 4: He's the friend Matt LeBlanc plays on "Friends". * Joey Tribbiani. * 5: Claire Danes and A.J. Langer played teenage friends Angela and Rayanne on this acclaimed series. * My So-Called Life*.

Round 3. Category: Ends In "Ff"* 1: It's commonly found at the end of a sleeve. * a cuff. * 2: The use of this word as a slang term for a corpse dates back to the mid-19th century. * stiff. * 3: At Cape Canaveral, it follows a countdown. * blast/lift/takeoff. * 4: From the Middle English for "mockery", it means to express derision or scorn. * scoff. * 5: This annual cooking contest first took place in 1949 at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. * Pillsbury Bake-Off.

Round 4. Category: Movie Themes 1: [audio]. * Love Story. * 2: [This time, the clue is this music (identify the film):]"When you get caught between the Moon and New York City...". * Arthur. * 3: [audio]. * The Great Escape. * 4: [audio]. * Valley of the Dolls. * 5: [The last clue in that column is this piece of music--listen:]. * Lawrence of Arabia*.

Round 5. Category: This Should Sound Familiar* 1: In 1975, using her grandkids' ages, a Pennsylvania woman won about $28,000 with this alliterative racetrack bet. * a daily double. * 2: Anything that gives you a solution to a mystery, or a Parker Brothers board game. * a clue. * 3: 5-letter term used to show feelings of regret, or a Parker Brothers board game; ooo.... * sorry. * 4: From the French for "rotten pot", it's any mixture of unrelated objects. * potpourri. * 5: Don't look now, but from the Latin for "balcony", it's a small platform for a public speaker. * a podium.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 659, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Are You Addressing Me?* 1: The personal pronoun of the second person in the nominative case; people often act holier than it. * thou. * 2: A surgeon in England is simply addressed as this, not Dr.. * Mr.. * 3: Miss came from the first syllable of this word and mrs. is a shortened form of it. * mistress. * 4: From the Arabic for "old man", it's the head of a family, tribe or village. * sheik. * 5: As tovarishch means this, we guess you could be a tovarishch-in-arms. * comrade.

Round 2. Category: Florida 1: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's this teen of steel, the 1st TV series made at the Disney-MGM Florida Studios. * Superboy*. * 2: Interstate 10 enters Florida at the west end of the Panhandle from this adjacent state. * Alabama. * 3: In the movie "Where the Boys Are", it's the city where the boys are. * Fort Lauderdale. * 4: A revolving platform called Kodak's Island in the Sky provides panoramic views of these gardens near Winter Haven. * Cypress Gardens. * 5: The Sunshine Skyway crosses this bay to connect St. Petersburg to the Tamiami Trail. * Tampa Bay.

Round 3. Category: Bear Facts* 1: In song, Davy Crockett was said to have "Kil't him a bar when he was only" this age. * three. * 2: The original Smokey the Bear became a popular attraction at this city's zoo. * Washington, D.C.. * 3: The constellation Ursa Major, meaning the "great bear", is better known by this name. * Big Dipper. * 4: In their structure and tooth formation, bears are most closely related to this family of animals. * dogs. * 5: Few Americans got to see this mascot at the 1980 Olympics. * Misha.

Round 4. Category: Cinematic Title Pairs* 1: 1958:"...and the Dead". * The Naked. * 2: 1971:"...and Maude". * Harold. * 3: 1989:"...and Hooch". * Turner. * 4: 1945:"...and the Amazons". * Tarzan. * 5: 1976:"...and the Dirtwater Fox". * The Duchess.

Round 5. Category: Striking* 1: Abbreviated the WGA, this entertainment union went on strike in 1981, 1985 and 1988. * Writers Guild of America. * 2: A major 1970 strike by federal employees in this "service" helped change it to an independent gov't agency. * U.S. Postal Service. * 3: International Women's Day on March 8 honors a famous 1857 strike began by textile workers in this city. * New York City. * 4: In 1892 a workers' strike at this steel magnate's Homestead, Penn. plant led to several injuries and deaths. * Andrew Carnegie. * 5: In May of 1926, unions in this nation banded together and quit work in support of striking coal miners. * Great Britain.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 658, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Thomas Aquinas, Advice Columnist * 1: Dear Uncertain:Christ didn't break the laws against working on this day; they apply to human, not divine work. * the sabbath. * 2: Dear Worried:It's a slippery slope -- a venial one of these disposes you to a mortal one. * sin. * 3: Dear Struggling:Sorry, but the poor must pay these, whether the traditional tenth of income or more. * tithes. * 4: Dear Confused:Baptism is the sacrament of faith; the sacrament of charity is this, the Lord's supper. * the eucharist. * 5: Dear Baffled:As St. Augustine says, the image of this in man is in the 3 parts mind, knowledge and love. * the trinity.

Round 2. Category: I Won * 1: Pitted against Clarence Darrow, this man won his case on July 21, 1925 and then died 5 days later. * William Jennings Bryan. * 2: One of the few victories the Romans ever won against this Carthaginian general was at Zuma in 202 B.C.. * Hannibal. * 3: As the Dixiecrat nominee, this South Carolina senator, then governor, won 39 electoral votes in 1948. * Strom Thurmond. * 4: The author of "A Beggar In Jerusalem", this concentration camp survivor won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. * Elie Wiesel. * 5: This "hazardous" naval officer won the decisive 1813 Battle of Lake Erie over the British. * Oliver Hazard Perry.

Round 3. Category: It's Always About "U" * 1: In 1949 Harry Truman traveled to New York to help lay a cornerstone for this body. * the United Nations. * 2: Seats are reserved in the Indian parliament for this group that falls outside of the caste system. * the Untouchables. * 3: Now a democratic republic of central Asia, in 1992 it ratified its first post-Soviet constitution. * Uzbekistan. * 4: Its atomic weight is 238. * uranium. * 5: The language known as Hindi is very close to this official language of Pakistan. * Urdu.

Round 4. Category: Location, Location, Location * 1: Suisse is the French name for this mountainous country. * Switzerland. * 2: Washington Irving gave New York City this nickname in 1807. * Gotham. * 3: There are only 31 states and 1 federal district in this North American country. * Mexico. * 4: The Tasman Sea separates Australia and this nation. * New Zealand. * 5: Robin Hood's nemesis was the sheriff of this district. * Nottingham.

Round 5. Category: Cooking Terms * 1: To brush melted butter on the Thanksgiving turkey at regular intervals. * baste. * 2: Adding hot or tangy seasonings to food, it's Satan's favorite method of cooking ham or eggs. * deviled. * 3: This term refers to making sugar brown by heating in a skillet over low heat until melted and golden. * caramelizing. * 4: This term for vegetables cut into long, thin strips to accompany a salad comes from a French first name. * julienne. * 5: To do this to herring or salmon, you must split, salt and smoke it. * kipper.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 657, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "K" Mart * 1: In 1883 more than 36,000 died following an explosion on this volcanic Indonesian island. * Krakatoa. * 2: The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet. * kappa. * 3: After criminal activities by this secret society, Oklahoma was placed under martial law in September 1923. * Ku Klux Klan. * 4: These tiny shrimp-like crustaceans are the primary food of baleen whales. * krill. * 5: It's the structure where you'll find the black stone, a revered object believed to have been given to man by God. * the Kaaba.

Round 2. Category: City Nicknames * 1: "The Golden Gate City". * San Francisco. * 2: Though Motown Records is now in L.A., "Motown" itself refers to this city. * Detroit. * 3: "The Big Apple". * New York City. * 4: "Big D". * Dallas. * 5: "Kodak City". * Rochester, New York.

Round 3. Category: Poland * 1: After WWII, over 80% of the buildings in this capital were uninhabitable. * Warsaw. * 2: The 2 longest of these in Poland are the Oder and Vistula. * rivers. * 3: The city of Torun is famous for its honey cakes and as the birthplace of this astronomer. * Copernicus. * 4: Of 1 out of 5, 1 out of 15, or 1 out of 50, approximate ratio of Polish families who own cars. * 1 out of 50. * 5: These currency units come in notes of up to 2,000,000. * zlotys.

Round 4. Category: Gangster Movies * 1: In gangster gab, they're "choppers", "rods" and "gats". * guns. * 2: Shelley Winters' "Bloody Mama". * Ma Barker. * 3: "Asphalt Jungle's" gorgeous golden-haired gun moll. * Marilyn Monroe. * 4: Color of the "Heat" that Jimmy Cagney felt in classic '49 flick. * White. * 5: His gangster characters terrorized "The Petrified Forest" and "High Sierra". * Humphrey Bogart.

Round 5. Category: Blank Of The Blank * 1: Hannibal Lecter is supposed to help the FBI find a serial killer nicknamed Buffalo Bill in this bestseller. * Silence of the Lambs. * 2: To make a favorable judgment when you're uncertain is to give someone this. * benefit of the doubt. * 3: This local public officer with judicial powers may accept payment for your speeding ticket. * a justice of the peace. * 4: Here's an illustration from this mortuary text. * the Book of the Dead. * 5: In 1961 British critic Martin Esslin used this phrase to describe the plays of Beckett and Ionesco. * theatre of the absurd.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 656, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: African Americans * 1: Crispus Attucks, called the first American to die for independence, was killed in this 1770 incident. * the Boston Massacre. * 2: This Harlem-born singer-dancer-actor was a member of the 1960s "Rat Pack" with Frank and Dino. * Sammy Davis, Jr.. * 3: An award for African-American authors and illustrators is named for this wife of Martin Luther King Jr.. * Coretta Scott King. * 4: "I cannot offer you money, position or fame", he said when he offered George Washington Carver a job at Tuskegee. * Booker T. Washington. * 5: 8 years before she won Olympic gold, this gymnast was a 2004 Virginia State champion. * Gabby Douglas.

Round 2. Category: 4-Letter Words * 1: Bacall's last word on how to whistle. * blow. * 2: From Greek for "single", a single man who lives in a monastery. * monk. * 3: This word commonly follows cuff or missing. * link. * 4: A boy who bears a bride's train, or a bellboy calling out a name. * page. * 5: A collection of tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne were "Twice" this. * Told.

Round 3. Category: Authors' Native Lands * 1: Godot waiter Samuel Beckett. * Ireland. * 2: "The Remains of the Day" novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. * Japan. * 3: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, chronicler of a death foretold. * Colombia. * 4: Celebrator of imperialism Rudyard Kipling. * India. * 5: Deptford trilogist Robertson Davies. * Canada.

Round 4. Category: Let's Eat Italian! * 1: Served before the pasta, it's an appetizer plate of meats, cheese, fish and vegetables. * antipasto. * 2: Long, very thin pasta called capellini is also known by this "divine" name. * angel hair pasta. * 3: This blue-veined cheese is named for a suburb of Milan, not a snake-haired monster. * Gorgonzola. * 4: From the Italian for "knot of wood", these potato dumplings may have cheese or spinach in them. * gnocchi. * 5: It's a layered ice cream dessert usually containing chopped fruits and nuts. * spumoni.

Round 5. Category: Sports 2004 * 1: These big cats gave the Patriots all they could handle in Super Bowl XXXVIII. * the (Carolina) Panthers. * 2: All "Hale" this 58-year-old who won his fourth Senior PGA championship by a str--a shot. * Hale Irwin. * 3: He was the winning pitcher in the clinching game of all 3 series in the Red Sox' magical run. * Derek Lowe. * 4: Women from this country won tennis' Wimbledon and French and U.S. Opens. * Russia. * 5: This team's Chauncey Billups was MVP of the NBA Finals. * the Detroit Pistons.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 655, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Presidential Demises * 1: He preferred to be buried at West Point, but thought his wife couldn't be buried there, so NYC became his final resting place. * Ulysses S. Grant. * 2: At 46 years, 177 days, he died at the youngest age of any president. * John F. Kennedy. * 3: At his death on October 20, 1964, he had survived his presidency longer than any other president: 31 years, 231 days. * Herbert Hoover. * 4: In March 1930, a month after he retired from the Supreme Court, his funeral was one of the first heard on radio. * William Howard Taft. * 5: Abraham Lincoln was assassinated during Act 3, Scene 2 of this stage comedy starring Laura Keene. * "Our American Cousin".

Round 2. Category: Henry * 1: Nominated for 18 Oscars, one of his first jobs was composing music for an Abbott and Costello movie. * Mancini. * 2: In 1957 he produced and starred in the landmark drama "12 Angry Men". * Henry Fonda. * 3: Flowery poems by Henry Gibson were often featured on this wacky 1960s sketch-comedy show. * Laugh-In. * 4: King Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn's head chopped off so he could take up with this lady-in-waiting, his next wife. * Jane Seymour. * 5: Henry Pu Yi's last years as the ruler of China were the basis of this 1987 film. * The Last Emperor.

Round 3. Category: The "Lightning" Round * 1: It's another name for moonshine, cousin. * White lightning. * 2: A substance called Luciferin helps these creatures light up for their mates. * Lightning bugs. * 3: Blitzkrieg!. * "Lightning war". * 4: It's the full name of the only NHL team that fits the category. * Tampa Bay Lightning. * 5: Richard Pryor played race car driver Wendell Scott in this "fast" 1977 biopic. * "Greased Lightning".

Round 4. Category: The Beatles * 1: Tommy Smothers, Timothy Leary and others joined this Beatle and his new wife in the following 1969 hit:Ev'rybody's talking aboutBagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, TagismThis-ism, that-ism, ism, ism, ismAll we are saying is give peace a chance. * John Lennon. * 2: This 1964 film is a fictional account of 2 days in the life of The Beatles. * A Hard Day's Night. * 3: It's "waiting...", "hoping...", "coming...", and "dying to take you away". * "The Magical Mystery Tour". * 4: Since "Sgt. Pepper" was released in 1967, this was the year Pepper taught the band to play. * 1947. * 5: The girl of his dreams "called herself Lil, but everyone knew her as Nancy". * Rocky Raccoon.

Round 5. Category: Actresses' Middle Names * 1: Mary Moore. * Tyler. * 2: Mary Place. * Kay. * 3: Mary Mobley. * Ann. * 4: Mary Hurt. * Beth. * 5: Mary Mastrantonio. * Elizabeth.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 654, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Austria * 1: Some 71% of Austria is covered by this mountain range compared to 62% of Switzerland. * Alps. * 2: Austria's basic unit of currency, it sounds just like an obsolete coin in Britain. * Schilling. * 3: For over 6 centuries until 1918, this family ruled Austria. * Hapsburgs. * 4: This city that twice hosted the Olympics was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire under Maximilian I. * Innsbruck. * 5: The Bundesrat and the Nationalrat aren't Austria's mascots but these. * Houses of Parliament.

Round 2. Category: Bald Is Beautiful * 1: Shaven-headed fighter who legally changed his name to include "Marvelous". * Marvin Hagler. * 2: Charles Middleton wore a bald pate to portray this Flash Gordon villain. * Ming from Mongo (Ming the Merciless). * 3: One of her newsworthy exploits was shaving her head in 2007, the year of her album "Blackout". * Britney Spears. * 4: The thing is, one of this TV and movie actor's roles was as "The Thing". * (Michael) Chiklis. * 5: Famous for playing a Siamese king, he also played a royal on film in "Solomon and Sheba"--he had hair in that one. * Yul Brynner.

Round 3. Category: Anagrammed U.s. Cities * 1: SAY CURSE,New York. * Syracuse. * 2: LONG LEASES,California. * Los Angeles, California. * 3: SAVE SLAG, Nevada. * Las Vegas (for Save Slag). * 4: NO BRAG,Maine. * Bangor. * 5: JAVELIN LOCKS,Florida. * Jacksonville.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 654, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Record Album Covers * 1: The cover of this Beatles album boasts pictures of Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe and W.C. Fields. * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. * 2: He sang with Barbra Streisand on her "'Til I Loved You" album, but he's not pictured on the cover. * Don Johnson. * 3: For no apparent reason, Michael Jackson wore 46 of these for the cover of his "Bad" album. * buckles. * 4: This redhead wore blue lipstick and a skirt made of newspaper on her "True Colors" album. * Cyndi Lauper. * 5: A woman covered with whipped cream graced the cover of his album "Whipped Cream and Other Delights". * Herb Alpert.

Round 2. Category: Poetry Fill In The Blank * 1: Poe: "Once upon a midnight dreary, / while I pondered, weak and blank ". * weary. * 2: "In a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of blank blank ". * Annabel Lee. * 3: Nash: "Behold the duck. / It does not cluck. / A cluck it lacks. It blank ". * quacks. * 4: "Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me--The carriage held but just Ourselves and blank ". * immortality. * 5: Angelou: "You may cut me with your eye, / you may kill me with your hatefulness, / but still, like air, I'll blank ". * rise.

Round 3. Category: Film Directors * 1: John Wayne spends years looking for his niece in this western often called director John Ford's masterpiece. * The Searchers. * 2: The recent film from Mira Nair, the director of "Salaam Bombay!", takes its title from this Hindu love manual. * the "Kama Sutra". * 3: Vittorio De Sica directed a classic 1948 film about Antonio, who steals one of these vehicles. * a bicycle. * 4: This actress/filmmaker got an Oscar nomination for her direction of the 2017 film "Lady Bird". * (Greta) Gerwig.

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Round 1. Category: James K. Polk Me * 1: Throughout his career Polk remained an ardent member of the Jacksonian wing of this political party. * Democrats. * 2: Running for president as a relative unknown, Polk is considered the first of these swarthy animals. * Dark horse. * 3: During Polk's administration, the U.S. waged this war of expansion from 1846 to 1848. * Mexican-American War. * 4: After John Quincy Adams' disputed election, Polk called for an end to the electoral system and for this type of vote. * a popular vote. * 5: Before winning the White House, Polk served in this state's assembly and as its governor. * Tennessee.

Round 2. Category: Disney Film Voices * 1: Oscar-winner Linda Hunt was a real "tree"t as the voice of Grandmother Willow in this 1995 film. * Pocahontas. * 2: After turning down Deanna Durbin, Disney chose Adriana Caselotti to play this "pristine" heroine. * Snow White. * 3: This talk show host supplied the singing voice of Prince Charming in "Cinderella". * Mike Douglas. * 4: Later an opera star, Mary Costa was a young unknown when Disney picked her to play this somnolent heroine. * Sleeping Beauty. * 5: Eddie Murphy was dragon around as a dragon named Mushu in this 1998 release. * Mulan.

Round 3. Category: Desert Life * 1: The name of these Arabs means "dwellers in the desert". * Bedouins. * 2: These can carry 1,000-pound loads and go for 10 days without water. * Camels. * 3: Although this cuckoo can fly with ease, it prefers to speed across the desert on foot, reaching 20 miles per hour. * the roadrunner. * 4: This large yucca plant of the Mojave has a national park named for it. * Joshua Tree. * 5: The people of Victorville, California and Boulder City, Nevada are part of the life of this desert. * the Mojave Desert.

Round 4. Category: The State I'm In * 1: Snowflake,Bullhead City,Scottsdale. * Arizona. * 2: Anaconda,Billings,Helena. * Montana. * 3: Corvallis,Coos Bay,Klamath Falls. * Oregon. * 4: Clarksdale,Oxford,Natchez. * Mississippi. * 5: Rome,Dublin,Athens. * Georgia.

Round 5. Category: On The Cover Of Rolling Stone * 1: The stars of this sitcom, including Jason Alexander, hit the yellow brick road for the 1998 30th anniversary cover. * Seinfeld. * 2: Anthony Kiedis went solo for a 1994 cover and appeared with this group on a '95 cover. * Red Hot Chili Peppers. * 3: "Nothing Compares" to this singer seen on covers in 1990 and '91, and with even less hair in '92. * Sinead O'Connor. * 4: This Academy Award-winning actress from Kentucky was "America's Kick-Ass Sweetheart" in 2012. * Jennifer Lawrence. * 5: She was on the cover as a "Manic Diva" and inside she discussed her verse on Kanye's "Monster". * Nicki Minaj.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 652, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fun With Country Names * 1: It's the only country in the world with the name of its ruling family in the name of the country. * Saudi Arabia (the House of Saud). * 2: Besides East Timor, 2 of the 3 independent countries with compass directions in their English names. * South Africa and/or North Korea and South Korea. * 3: They're the 2 western European island countries whose names differ by only one letter. * Iceland and Ireland. * 4: Of the countries named for saints, the one that's completely surrounded by Italy. * San Marino. * 5: It's the only nation in the world with "name" in its English name. * Suriname.

Round 2. Category: Meat And Potatoes * 1: The original version of this toy included facial pieces to attach to a real spud. * Mr. Potato Head. * 2: The fungus phytophthora infestans caused this historic Irish tragedy. * Irish potato famine. * 3: In Genesis, God told this man "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you". * Noah. * 4: A 23-inch by 14 1/2-inch one of these was produced in 1990 by a Pringle's plant in Tennessee. * potato chip. * 5: At 19, this future potato breeder read Darwin's "Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication". * Luther Burbank.

Round 3. Category: Be Afraid... * 1: These items terrify pternophobics, so give them a pillow with artificial filling. * feathers. * 2: It's not a fear of actress Rene (unless she's from Moscow). * russophobia. * 3: Lucrezia Borgia may not be a good choice as a dinner guest if you're toxiphobic, afraid of this. * poison. * 4: Anthophobia is a fear of these, but don't let it vase you. * flowers. * 5: You won't feel the need for this, if you're tachophobic. * speed.

Round 4. Category: The Solar System * 1: Using Newton's laws of motion, astronomer Edmund Halley determined that these travel in elliptical orbits. * comets. * 2: In the 1600s his findings like the phases of Venus made this Italian think maybe the sun is what stuff revolves around. * Galileo. * 3: In December 2006 NASA announced that water may have flowed on this planet's surface within the past decade. * Mars. * 4: Its moon Triton was first seen in 1846; a second satellite around this planet wasn't found until 1949. * Neptune. * 5: These solar discharges consisting of light, heat and cosmic rays may last up to an hour. * solar flares.

Round 5. Category: Denmark * 1: As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark lost this country to Sweden in 1814. * Norway. * 2: Main farming activity of Danish-owned Greenland is not growing plants but raising these animals. * sheep. * 3: While Great Dane dogs originated in Germany, this pianist called "The Great Dane" is from Copenhagen. * Victor Borge. * 4: Between 1513 and 1972, all Danish kings were alternately name Frederik and this pious name. * Christian. * 5: Helle Thorning-Schmidt holds this post in Denmark; her father-in-law, Kinnock, once hoped to hold it in the United Kingdom. * prime minister.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 651, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Peru * 1: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Iquitos was a major shipping port on this river during the rubber boom. * the Amazon. * 2: Lima's Palacio de Gobierno was built in 1938 on the site of this Spanish conquistador's palace. * Pizarro. * 3: He served as Peru's first ambassador to the Soviet Union before moving his diplomatic skills to the U.N.. * (Javier) Perez de Cuellar. * 4: Several Indian languages are spoken in Peru, including this one that's now an official language. * Quechua. * 5: This lake that's 12,500 feet above sea level is on the border of Peru and Bolivia. * Lake Titicaca.

Round 2. Category: The Grateful Dead * 1: A childhood woodchopping mishap claimed half of this lead guitarist's right middle finger. * (Jerry) Garcia. * 2: Slotted between The Who and Hendrix, The Dead was No. 6 to play at this city's 1967 Pop Festival. * Monterey. * 3: The Dead was scheduled to play at this group's ill-fated 1969 show at Altamont Speedway but refused to go on. * The Rolling Stones. * 4: In 1978 the last of 3 Dead shows near this Wonder of the Ancient World was timed to coincide with a lunar eclipse. * the Pyramids. * 5: In 1991 The Dead played a memorial concert in Golden Gate Park for this promoter before an estimated 300,000 people. * Bill Graham.

Round 3. Category: They Were Expelled * 1: This star of "Casablanca" was booted out of Phillips Academy for uncontrollably high spirits. * Humphrey Bogart. * 2: Perhaps responding "nevermore", this poet was expelled from West Point in 1831 for refusing to attend drills. * Edgar Allan Poe. * 3: Once publisher of the USA's largest newspaper chain, he was expelled from Harvard in 1885 for insulting his professors. * William Randolph Hearst. * 4: Assassinated in August 1940, this Russian Communist leader was expelled in his youth for howling at his teacher. * Trotsky. * 5: The leading actress of her time, in 1860 she was expelled from a Paris convent school for making fun of a bishop. * (Sarah) Bernhardt.

Round 4. Category: Olympic Boxers * 1: With this name, Muhammad Ali won 1960 light-heavyweight gold. * Cassius Clay. * 2: You'd be chillin' and grillin' if you knew that he won the heavyweight gold medal in 1968. * (George) Foreman. * 3: Teofilo Stevenson of this country impressively won heavyweight gold in 1972, 1976 and 1980. * Cuba. * 4: Both the 1972 and 1976 Olympic light-welterwight gold medalists had this "sweet" nickname. * Sugar Ray. * 5: Last name of the brotherly pair who both won gold medals in Montreal. * Spinks.

Round 5. Category: Starts With "A" * 1: Excuse you should have if Kojak asks where you were at 11 last night. * an alibi. * 2: In names of holidays, this word precedes Saints' Day and Souls' Day. * All. * 3: Formerly the sixth month, it was originally called Sextilis. * August. * 4: Founded in NYC, this sporting goods chain is noted for its exotic assortment of equipment. * Abercrombie and Fitch. * 5: From the Latin word for "tree", it's a place where many kinds of trees and plants are exhibited. * arboretum.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 650, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Forbes' Fictional Billionaires * 1: Topping the list is this North Pole resident with apparently unlimited, incalculable wealth. * Santa Claus. * 2: $1 billion is the total for this fictional billionaire, Homer Simpson's boss. * C. Montgomery Burns. * 3: This candy magnate from a Roald Dahl novel hoards a sweet $8 billion. * Willy Wonka. * 4: This "Gilligan's Island" tycoon washes ashore with $8 billion. * Thurston Howell III. * 5: A James Bond villain, he's worth an estimated $1.2 billion. * Auric Goldfinger.

Round 2. Category: Food Trivia * 1: This song, with a food in the title, made No. 2 on the pop charts in 1968:"Oh, I wake up in the morning, with my hair down in my eyes, and she says Hi!, and I stumble to the breakfast table while the kids are off to school...". * "Little Green Apples". * 2: You can spread it on your hot dog or put a plaster of it on your chest when you have a cold. * Mustard. * 3: Fresh sturgeon roe has to be processed to become this. * Caviar. * 4: These bivalves are wrapped in bacon, grilled and served on toast to make "Angels on Horseback". * Oysters. * 5: "Poivre" is French for this, which is sprinkled generously on steak au poivre. * Pepper.

Round 3. Category: Outdoor Sports * 1: In the 'Odyssey", Homer hit the bullseye describing competition in this sport. * archery. * 2: In 1974, Ruth Hangen tossed a woman's record of 42 straight ringers in a single game of this. * horseshoes. * 3: In 1981, this Dodger rookie's 13 wins included 8 shutouts. * Fernando Valenzuela. * 4: An orchestra conductor or a relay runner had better keep this firmly in hand. * baton. * 5: In 1978, this teenager rode Affirmed to a triple crown title. * Steve Cauthen.

Round 4. Category: Vitamins And Minerals * 1: The livers of chickens and these gilled animals are good sources of vitamin A. * fish. * 2: Parsley, turnip greens, and guava have a much higher content of this vitamin than oranges do. * vitamin C. * 3: A sunscreen when applied externally, B vit. para-amino benzoic-acid is better known as this. * PABA. * 4: A lack of protein and this mineral contribute to anemia. * iron. * 5: Lack or this B vitamin causes pellagra in humans and black-tongue in dogs. * niacin.

Round 5. Category: What's Up, Duck? * 1: Like a duck, this monotreme has webbed feet and its snout looks like a duck's too. * the duck-billed platypus. * 2: This team's official colors and logo were unveiled June 7, 1993. * the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. * 3: Head to L.A.'s Chinatown to eat this classic dish named for a capital city. * Peking duck. * 4: To prepare this Chinese dish, first force air between the skin and the flesh. * Peking duck. * 5: This controversial social drama by Henrik Ibsen premiered in Norway in 1885. * The Wild Duck.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 649, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hollywood Queens * 1: Von Stroheim directed this star in "Queen Kelly", but she bossed him around in "Sunset Boulevard". * Gloria Swanson. * 2: When Gable was named King of the Movies, this "Thin Man" star was voted queen. * Myrna Loy. * 3: This sheep queen of "The Thorn Birds" was "Cattle Queen of Montana" in the 1954 film. * Barbara Stanwyck. * 4: This Oscar-winner had had 4 husbands by the time she starred in "The Virgin Queen". * Bette Davis. * 5: Carol Channing was the White Queen and Ann Jillian the Red in the TV movie of this classic. * Alice in Wonderland.

Round 2. Category: Swimming * 1: Marty Hull invented Zoomers, a shorter, speedier type of this foot gear. * Flippers/fins. * 2: In this stroke, not seen in competition, the head rests on the arm while the legs scissors-kick. * Sidestroke. * 3: It's the only major racing stroke where the swimmers start in the pool. * Backstroke. * 4: Krisztina Egerszegi of this eastern European country has won gold at the last 3 Olympics. * Hungary. * 5: It's the individual race in which 4 different strokes are used. * Individual medley.

Round 3. Category: Packaging * 1: In 1938 Clicquot Club Ginger Ale was the first soft drink sold in these. * cans. * 2: "Peanuts" of this plastic are found in boxes of variously-shaped products, and then in your hair, shoes, etc.. * Styrofoam. * 3: In honor of Abe Lincoln, P.J. Towle began selling his maple syrup in a container shaped like one of these structures in 1887. * a log cabin. * 4: Term for a type of "bomb" or a spray can that contains gas under pressure. * Aerosol. * 5: At the end of TV's "Adventures of Rin Tin Tin", kids were told how to send in these from Shredded Wheat to get prizes. * box tops.

Round 4. Category: Connections * 1: It's the term for the unknown evolutionary connection between man and apes. * the missing link. * 2: He's the husband "shared" by Connie Stevens, Liz Taylor and Debbie Reynolds. * Eddie Fisher. * 3: Before you were born, this cord connected you and your mommy for about 9 months. * the umbilical cord. * 4: The land bridge that connected Asia and North America is now covered by this strait. * the Bering Strait. * 5: It's the capital city shared by the Ottoman and the Byzantine Empires. * Constantinople (Istanbul).

Round 5. Category: Beastly Quotes * 1: To say someone is mad, people once said he had this "in his bonnet". * bee. * 2: The Bible:"As a shepherd divideth his sheep from" these. * goats. * 3: Who "sleepeth with dogges, shall rise with" these. * fleas. * 4: Twain opined, "I believe...our heavenly father invented man because he was disappointed in" this. * monkey. * 5: Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Curious Incident of" this "in the Nighttime"--it "did nothing". * the dog.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 648, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Next Stop, Venus * 1: Contributing to its high temperature, Venus' atmosphere is predominantly made up of this gas. * carbon dioxide. * 2: It's the planet that's closest to Venus. * Earth. * 3: In 1610 this Italian discovered that Venus has phases like the moon. * Galileo. * 4: With few exceptions all specified surface features of Venus are appropriately named after these. * women. * 5: Similar to an eclipse, it's the term for the rare passing in front of the sun that Venus did on June 8, 2004. * a transit.

Round 2. Category: Hitchcock's Cattle * 1: A good guy as Perry Mason, he played the bad guy Jimmy Stewart spied on in "Rear Window". * Raymond Burr. * 2: In a "monumental" death scene in "North By Northwest", Martin Landau fell off this famous landmark. * Mount Rushmore. * 3: Before he played Ted Baxter, Ted Knight had a bit role as a cop guarding Norman Bates in this 1960 film. * Psycho. * 4: Suzanne Pleshette is found pecked to death in this 1963 classic. * The Birds. * 5: Diane Ladd knows this actor, her ex-husband, appeared as a sailor in "Marnie". * Bruce Dern.

Round 3. Category: Coffee Break * 1: The Swiss water process is a popular way to remove this bitter stimulant from coffee. * Caffeine. * 2: The Kona district of this U.S. island produces a prized variety of coffee. * Hawaii. * 3: There are more than 600 coffee farms on the Kona coast of this U.S. island. * Hawaii. * 4: Sumatra Mandehling, one of the world's finest full-bodied coffees, comes from this country. * Indonesia. * 5: Type of instant made by turning brewed coffee to ice and drawing off the crystals. * freeze-dried.

Round 4. Category: Up In The Sky! * 1: In a poem by Ann and Jane Taylor, it's "Like a diamond in the sky". * "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". * 2: Soaring object in the title of the following:. * a kite. * 3: The name of these electric lines doesn't mean they're tight, but have great voltage. * High-tension lines. * 4: This troubled space station, built 12 years ago, was only supposed to be in use for 5 years. * Mir. * 5: Usually reaching its peak on August 12, it's been called the "Old Faithful" of meteor showers. * a perseid.

Round 5. Category: Puzzles And Games * 1: The largest of these was over 50,000 square feet; a much smaller one had the most pieces, 204,484. * a jigsaw puzzle (*picture puzzle). * 2: An example of one of these is "flit on cheering angel" for Florence Nightingale. * an anagram. * 3: These are the foundation cards in regular or Klondike solitaire. * aces. * 4: This game has 108 suit tiles, 28 honor tiles and 8 flower tiles. * mahjong. * 5: It's Elizabeth Kingsley's puzzle creation in which the letters of defined words form a quote in a grid. * a double-crostic.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 647, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Famous Feuds * 1: From the Latin for "to avenge", these family feuds are associated with the island of Corsica. * Vendettas. * 2: George Steinbrenner fired him 4 times as manager of the Yankees. * Billy Martin. * 3: In the 1949 movie "Roseanna McCoy", Roseanna runs off with a member of this enemy family. * Hatfield. * 4: There was no love lost between these 2 men, JFK's vice president and his attorney general. * Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy. * 5: The future Louis XI feuded with his father while holding this French title as heir apparent. * Dauphin.

Round 2. Category: Adjectives Of The Young And The Restless * 1: "Abby, I hear The Naked Heiress is gonna be on Jeopardy! that's huge!""Mom, please. I am rich and famous." [Sighs]"Honey, don't you think you're being..."...this adjective that means "world-weary" and "cynical"--it doesn't mean "covered in green gemstones". * jaded. * 2: (Gina Tognoni gives the clue as Phyllis from The Young and the Restless.) I will never forgive Sharon for pushing me down those stairs; no matter what she claims, it wasn't this adjective, like the tourist in the title of an Anne Tyler bestseller. * accidental. * 3: "We can never do this again. Nobody, and I mean nobody, can know about it.""Tres romantic, Nick. What are you implying, that I'm not..."...this 11-letter adjective meaning reliable and responsible like a Boy Scout. * trustworthy. * 4: ...this passionate type of love named for the Greek god of love. * erotic. * 5: ...adjective from the name of a mid-16th century Florentine writer. * Machiavellian.

Round 3. Category: The Prez Sez * 1: On Jan. 14, 1963 he said, "The mere absence of war is not peace". * John F. Kennedy. * 2: He told America, "To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body". * Richard Nixon. * 3: He once said, "I'm just a politician from Missouri and proud of it". * Harry S. Truman. * 4: "The release of atomic energy (is) a new force too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas". * Truman. * 5: "2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas". * Wilson.

Round 4. Category: Let's Put On An Opera! * 1: We hope our tardy cellists show up for this instrumental prelude to the opera. * Overture. * 2: We'll let Uncle Charlie be a "carrier" of one of these in the battle scene. * Spear carrier. * 3: Let's move the duel upstage so no one falls onto the musicians in this area. * Orchestra pit. * 4: We've got basses, we've got tenors, but we can't find one of these like the guy on the CD[audio clip]. * Baritone. * 5: From dealing with Betsy, I know why this 2-word Italian term can mean a diva or a real pain. * Prima donna.

Round 5. Category: Turn * 1: Duke Emanuele Filberto brought it to Turin in 1578; it's now housed in the Cathedral of San Giovanni. * the Shroud of Turin. * 2: While touring Turin, stop into the Biblioteca Reale, and you'll be drawn to this artist's self-portrait. * da Vinci. * 3: This opera that made its debut in Turin in 1896 probably helped Puccini pay his "rent". * La Boheme. * 4: Turin's Egyptian Museum has a well-known statue of this "Let my people go" pharaoh. * Ramses II (Ramses the Great). * 5: For most of the time, from 1720 to 1861, Turin was capital of this fishy-sounding kingdom. * Sardinia.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 646, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: To The Nearest... * 1: To the nearest minute, it's how long it took Secretariat to run the Kentucky Derby in 1973. * 2 minutes. * 2: According to the USDA food guide pyramid, to the nearest ounce, the serving size for ready-to-eat cereal. * 1 ounce. * 3: To the nearest 50, number of years Harper's Magazine has been in existence. * 150 (founded in 1850). * 4: To the nearest 10, the number of states in the Union during our centennial year. * 40 (37 or 38). * 5: To the nearest mile, the height of Mount McKinley. * 4 (20,000 feet and change).

Round 2. Category: News Of The '80s * 1: This trade union outlawed in Poland in 1982 was restored to legal status in 1989. * Solidarity. * 2: An estimated half of the 1.4 million illegal aliens who applied for amnesty in 1988 lived in this state. * California. * 3: In Feb. 1988 this Central American leader was indicted by a U.S. grand jury on drug trafficking charges. * Manuel Noriega (Panama). * 4: In September 1989 Vietnam completed its withdrawal of military forces from this country. * Cambodia. * 5: On May 4, 1989 he was found guilty of accepting an illegal gratuity, a home security system. * Oliver North.

Round 3. Category: The Communist Manifesto * 1: The proletarians "have nothing to lose but" these. * Their chains. * 2: The pamphlet ends, "Workers of the world," do this!. * unite. * 3: One of the authors figured they'd do for history what this man did for biology. * Charles Darwin. * 4: Marx and Engels wrote the manifesto for a society of German emigrants that met in this capital. * London. * 5: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of" these. * class struggles.

Round 4. Category: New York City Songs * 1: In "I Am...I Said", he sang, "I'm New York City born and raised". * Neil Diamond. * 2: A 1941 song asked, "I like New York in" this month, "how about you?". * June. * 3: "Come and meet those dancing feet on the avenue I'm taking you to..." this one. * 42nd Street. * 4: A show tune says, "Come and meet those dancing feet, on the avenue I'm taking you to"--this title one. * "42nd Street". * 5: Christopher Cross sang, "If you get caught between" this and NYC, "the best that you can do is fall in love". * the Moon.

Round 5. Category: Dawn * 1: Dawn Special Care is a type of this that's good for hands. * Dishwashing liquid. * 2: This film with Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey was about a Communist invasion. * Red Dawn. * 3: In 1969 the Fifth Dimension sang about "The Dawning Of" this and hit No. 1. * "The Age Of Aquarius". * 4: On the Medici tomb he designed, he had nudes representing dawn and dusk under the seated Lorenzo. * Michelangelo. * 5: "Dusk Of Dawn" was a 1940 autobiography of this first black American to get a doctoral degree from Harvard. * W.E.B. Du Bois.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 645, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: File Under "S" * 1: Head and Shoulders, Agree, and Pert Plus are leading types of these. * Shampoos. * 2: It's a heavy, single-edged cavalry sword with a blade less curved than a scimitar. * Saber. * 3: This disease caused by the lack of ascorbic acid is called Barlow's Disease in infants. * Scurvy. * 4: This Middle Eastern dog is also called a gazelle hound because it was once trained to hunt gazelles. * Saluki. * 5: Known as "Old Fuss N' Feathers", he wrote the Army's first complete manual of drill regulations. * Winfield Scott.

Round 2. Category: Hooked On Phoenix * 1: This NBA team plays its home games at the America West Arena, a veritable sports palace. * Phoenix Suns. * 2: Diners at the Rustler's Rooste chow down on this "noisy" pit viper, served as an appetizer. * Rattlesnake. * 3: Phoenix's firefighting museum isn't called the Hall of Fame but the Hall of this. * Flame. * 4: In 1967 he had his first Top 40 pop hit with "By the Time I Get to Phoenix". * Glen Campbell. * 5: Born in Phoenix in 1909, he ran for president in 1964. * Barry Goldwater.

Round 3. Category: Feline Follies * 1: This Warner Bros. cartoon cat who starred in "Tweetie Pie" never seems to get his bird. * Sylvester. * 2: Dr. Seuss wrote about this famous title feline in 5 books. * "The Cat in the Hat". * 3: The magical and grinning Cheshire Cat was invented by this author. * Lewis Carroll. * 4: This comic strip boy has a dog named Ruff and a cat named Hot Dog. * Dennis the Menace. * 5: A cat stepping over his piano keys may have inspired this Polish-French composer to pen his "Cat's Waltz". * Frederic Chopin.

Round 4. Category: Earnings From The Crypt * 1: With $37 million in 1 year, the "King" of the world's top-earning late celebrities is this man. * Elvis Presley. * 2: Of the 2 Beatles who qualify for the Forbes list, this man made more with a total of $20 million. * John Lennon. * 3: The highest-earning late female celebrity is this sex symbol who pulled in $7 million. * Marilyn Monroe. * 4: With $28 million, the number 2-earning late celebrity in the world is this cartoonist. * Charles Schulz. * 5: At $10 million made in a year, this man is certainly the highest-earning late Jamaican on the list. * Bob Marley.

Round 5. Category: Movie Nostalgia * 1: This queen of the rink played an ice skating refugee in the 1941 film "Sun Valley Serenade". * Sonja Henie. * 2: Lee Remick made her film debut as this actor's wife in "A Face in the Crowd" before he moved to Mayberry. * Andy Griffith. * 3: Ads for "Viva Las Vegas" called her "That 'bye-bye' gal", a reference to "Bye Bye Birdie". * Ann-Margret. * 4: John Wayne and Montgomery Clift hit the Chisholm Trail and each other in this western named for a river. * Red River. * 5: Bela Lugosi portrayed a Soviet commissar in this 1939 comedy promoted with the slogan "Garbo Laughs!". * Ninotchka.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 644, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fabrics And Textiles * 1: Gauze is named for this Palestinian city where it's thought to have originated. * Gaza. * 2: In 552 Emperor Justinian sent 2 monks to China to discover the secret of this fabric. * Silk. * 3: The chief hair fiber used in textiles today comes from this kind of animal. * Sheep. * 4: A true Donegal type of this fabric will have flecks of many colors in the weave. * Tweed. * 5: Count Hilaire de Chardonnet is considered the father of this regenerated cellulose fiber. * Rayon.

Round 2. Category: Mountains * 1: Air Force photos from 1949 show what some believe are the ruins of Noah's Ark on this Turkish mountain. * Mount Ararat. * 2: Though only 3 degrees south of the equator, this African mt.'s Kibu Peak is permanently covered in snow. * Mount Kilamanjaro. * 3: This Sicilian volcano has over 200 subsidiary cones. * Etna. * 4: This country's highest peak, Mount Elbrus, lies in the Caucasus Mountains on the Georgian border. * Russia. * 5: An Austrian and Italian portion of this system is called the Tyrol. * the Alps.

Round 3. 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 president was assassinated while reviewing a military parade October 6, 1981. * Anwar Sadat. * 5: On October 21, 1520 this sailor entered the Chilean strait that today bears his name. * Ferdinand Magellan.

Round 4. Category: I Did It! * 1: Florence Chadwick was the first woman to swim this in both directions; Gertrude Ederle swam it one way. * the English Channel. * 2: 13-year-old Rebecca Sealfon won it in 1997 by knowing euonym,E-U-O-N-Y-M. * the National Spelling Bee. * 3: Check it out! In 1972 he became the first American chess player to win the world championship. * Bobby Fischer. * 4: In 1957 this future astronaut set a speed record flying from L.A. to NYC in 3 hrs., 23 min., 8.4 sec.. * John Glenn. * 5: In 1884, the year of his death, he published the memoir "30 Years a Detective". * (Allan) Pinkerton.

Round 5. Category: The Computer Age * 1: According to Moore's Law, named for a founder of Intel, these double in power roughly every 18 months. * computer chips. * 2: Dan Bricklin developed VISICALC, the first of these programs, similar to an accounting ledger. * spreadsheet. * 3: Coherent and Xenix are 2 of these, part of the abbreviation in the better-known MS-DOS. * operating systems. * 4: This programming language was named for calculating-machine inventor Blaise. * PASCAL. * 5: Among Internet users, the World Wide Web has surpassed the system named for this burrowing rodent. * gopher.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 643, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Made In Japan * 1: This sport whose name means "the way of softness" was added to the Olympics at the 1964 games in Tokyo. * judo. * 2: A rin is 1/10 of a sen, which is 1/100 of one of these. * Yen. * 3: On the Shizuoka-Yamanashi border, it's still classified as active, though dormant since 1707. * Mount Fuji. * 4: In the early 20th century, Arthur Groom introduced this sport to Japan and boy, were they teed off. * golf. * 5: A tanka is a short one of 31 syllables. * a poem.

Round 2. Category: Watch Out For Alligators! * 1: While an alligator has about 80 of these at any one time, they wear down and are eventually replaced. * teeth. * 2: On this largest Louisiana city's seal, the alligator represents the city's marshes and swamps. * New Orleans. * 3: The Alligator River of Australia actually contains these related reptiles, not alligators. * crocodiles. * 4: This "Alligator State" made the alligator its official state reptile in 1987. * Florida. * 5: The alligator snapper isn't an alligator but one of these reptiles. * turtle.

Round 3. Category: Can't Smile Without You * 1: An adjunct to a toothbrush, it can be nylon or silk thread, waxed or unwaxed. * floss. * 2: It's the hard outer layer of a tooth. * enamel. * 3: Bacteria, saliva and food debris make up this rough, sticky coating on teeth which can harden into tartar. * plaque. * 4: These teeth usually erupt between the ages of 17 and 25, hence their popular name. * wisdom teeth. * 5: This branch of dentistry treats the diseases that affect the structures that surround and support the teeth. * periodontics.

Round 4. Category: Golf Talk * 1: This traditional warning that a shot is about to be taken is an Old English word for "in front". * "Fore!". * 2: An ace is another term for this prodigious feat. * a hole-in-one. * 3: "Stretcher Bearer" is a slang expression for one of these golf helpers. * a caddy. * 4: Hey Verne! An around the world is a round of golf played in this many strokes. * 80. * 5: An undertaker is one who is "lethal" at this part of the game; he can really "bury" the ball. * putting.

Round 5. Category: "Baby" Songs * 1: A former lead singer with the Limelighters, Glenn Yarborough had this solo Top 20 hit:. * "Baby, The Rain Must Fall". * 2: A 1920s standard proclaims, "You've got the cutest little" one of these. * Baby Face. * 3: In a 1965 hit by Herman's Hermits, it's the line that follows "Every time I see you lookin' my way". * "Ooh, baby, baby can't you hear my heart beat". * 4: After Mac Davis wrote a few Top 10 hits for Elvis, he wrote this song for himself that reached No. 1. * "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me". * 5: It precedes, "I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely St. at Heartbreak Hotel". * "Since my baby left me".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 642, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Could You Translate That For Me? * 1: It's the all-American way of saying "Rouge, blanc et bleu". * red, white and blue. * 2: It's the English translation of the German word in the lyric "Let me call you liebchen, I'm in love with you". * sweetheart. * 3: "Benevolenza", you can give old clothes to it or you can have it "toward men". * goodwill. * 4: Meaning "counselor", it's the Italian word describing Robert Duvall's role in the service of "The Godfather". * consigliere. * 5: Literally "God out of a machine", it's the Latin phrase for an unlikely and providential intervention. * Deus ex machina.

Round 2. Category: Indians * 1: The "three sisters of the Iroquois" were beans, squash and this food. * corn (maize). * 2: In 1867 this nation built its capitol in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. * Cherokee. * 3: In his later years, this Apache warrior was a popular celebrity at many U.S. fairs. * Geronimo. * 4: Today no one is allowed to day hike in the Canyon de Chelly in Arizona without this tribe's permission. * Navajo. * 5: A hogan is a type of dwelling associated with this tribe. * Navajo.

Round 3. Category: Heloise's Hints For Teens * 1: Gum stuck to your shirt? Stick the shirt in this to harden the gum, then use a credit card to scrape it off. * the freezer. * 2: Get decorative by gluing stray buttons on these items that hold things to your bulletin board. * pushpins (or tacks). * 3: Brewed bags of the chamomile type of this can soothe skin that's been irritated by the sun, but cool them first. * tea. * 4: The cider type of this salad dressing ingredient is a perfect addition to a soothing bath. * vinegar. * 5: Hey, pet owners; this clay-based product can help soak up grease spots in the garage. * kitty litter.

Round 4. Category: Tv Trivia * 1: MTV game show hosted by Ken Ober, or a device to turn off an MTV game show hosted by Ken Ober. * Remote Control. * 2: The "Mary Tyler Moore Show" character whose wife's name was Edie. * Lou Grant. * 3: A Bulova watch ticking on the screen in 1941 on NBC. * the first television commercial. * 4: From the Swahili word for "doctor", the show featured a cross-eyed lion. * Daktari. * 5: This actress, who has a home in Kenya, played Kenya bush pilot Beryl Markham on TV. * Stefanie Powers.

Round 5. Category: Dance Partners * 1: In movie musicals of the '50s, her name preceded " and Gower Champion". * Marge. * 2: He was Cyd Charisse's dance partner in "On an Island with You" before he escaped to "Fantasy Island". * Ricardo Montalbán. * 3: In Lear's poem, "...hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon". * the Owl and the Pussycat. * 4: Born Vernon Blythe and Irene Foote, they were famous for their fancy footwork. * the Castles. * 5: In the 1947 film "Good News", Peter Lawford did "The Varsity Drag" with this tiny blonde. * June Allyson.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 641, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: File Under "D" * 1: A 1932 song asked, "Brother, Can You Spare" one of these. * a dime. * 2: The "bones" in this game are pulled out of the "boneyard". * Dominoes. * 3: French for "relaxation", it was the easing of tensions between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. in the '70s. * détente. * 4: A blend of 2 vowel sounds in 1 syllable, such as the "oi" in "coil". * a diphthong. * 5: It's the art of decorating with shellacked paper cutouts. * Decoupage.

Round 2. Category: Star Trek, Star Wars Or Lord Of The Rings * 1: A council that takes place at Rivendell is central to its plot. * Lord of the Rings. * 2: In its lore, a Bajoran wormhole leads to the Gamma Quadrant. * Star Trek. * 3: This one lent its name to a defensive weapons system that many felt was a pie-in-the-sky fantasy. * Star Wars. * 4: A race called the Andorians causes trouble for the humans in this one. * Star Trek. * 5: Its creator was born in South Africa. * Lord of the Rings.

Round 3. Category: '60s Songs * 1: In a 1962 hit, Neil Sedaka said this "is hard to do". * breaking up. * 2: We won't spell it out for you, but this was Aretha Franklin's 1st #1 hit on the pop charts. * "Respect". * 3: Singer-composer who wore wire-rimmed glasses and played the autoharp for the Lovin' Spoonful. * John Sebastian. * 4: In July 1963, they hit #1 with "Surf City" a year before the Beach Boys had their 1st #1 hit. * Jan and Dean. * 5: This song asks, "Each night before you go to bed, my baby, whisper a little prayer for me, my baby". * "This Is Dedicated To The One I Love".

Round 4. Category: The Universe * 1: This planet's atmosphere is 99% nitrogen and oxygen. * Earth. * 2: William Herschel thought he saw these around Uranus in 1787; in 1977 they were really seen. * Rings. * 3: Louis the Pious is said to be the only emperor to die of fright due to this solar phenomenon. * eclipse. * 4: Also known as the minor planets, the 1st and largest of these rocky bodies discovered was Ceres. * asteroids. * 5: This outermost part of the solar atmosphere can easily be seen during total solar eclipses. * Corona.

Round 5. Category: Etymology * 1: This term for your setting or environment is French for "middle place". * milieu. * 2: Washington made one of the first uses of this verb form of "reconnaissance" in English and ended it with an "re" like the British do. * reconnoiter. * 3: Jeremy Bentham coined the terms maximize and minimize as well as this 13-letter word meaning "of many countries". * international. * 4: Possibly shortened from "godfather", it first meant an elderly man of wisdom or skill; it's now a movie head electrician. * gaffer. * 5: This word is an abbreviation of "stammlager", meaning main camp. * stalag.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 640, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Words From "Jeopardy!" * 1: Give someone enough of this and he'll hang himself with it. * rope. * 2: This term for a minute opening in the skin doesn't sound very rich. * pore. * 3: Whenever it precedes "vu" I feel like I've seen this word before. * deja. * 4: When talking about your kids, it pairs with "pride". * joy. * 5: Odd that this is the only one of Disney's 7 Dwarfs whose name is contained in "Jeopardy!". * Dopey.

Round 2. Category: The Addams Family * 1: In 1977 the original cast was reunited in a TV special celebrating this holiday. * Halloween. * 2: She also played Morticia's sister Ophelia Frump. * Carolyn Jones. * 3: In order to perform the theme properly, you should do this twice after the "da-da-da-dum". * snap your fingers. * 4: The show was based on cartoons by Charles Addams that appeared regularly in this magazine. * The New Yorker. * 5: Jeanette MacDonald's sister, she played Grandma. * Blossom Rock.

Round 3. Category: Language Of Flowers * 1: Shrinking or not, this flower symbolizes modesty. * Violet. * 2: A white one of these says "silence"; a red one says "I love you". * Rose. * 3: Not only do some say it means "welcome", this yellow flower is one of the first to welcome spring. * daffodil. * 4: Used in chains, these field flowers mean "I will think of it"; give me your question, do. * Daisies. * 5: This flower means both "faithfulness" and "loneliness" because no one will pick it to dance. * wallflower.

Round 4. Category: Dutch Treats * 1: One of Louis Pasteur's pupils developed a fermenting agent for this famous beer. * Heineken. * 2: A Dutch treat is kaasdoop, a fondue usually made with this type of Dutch cheese. * Gouda. * 3: Day or night you can buy ( and eat) these fish, raw or pickled, served with gherkins and onions. * Herring. * 4: The Dutch are famous for genever, this type of liquor. * Gin. * 5: The Rijsttafel ("Rice Table") is a feast that was imported from this former Dutch colony. * Indonesia.

Round 5. Category: That's So '90s * 1: Joe Brown, Greg Mathis and Mills Lane joined the ranks of these on TV. * TV judges. * 2: In 1994 a flaw found in this company's new Pentium processor cost it $475 million in a recall. * Intel. * 3: His 1997 meeting with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was the first for a British P.M. and an IRA leader in 76 years. * Tony Blair. * 4: Hello! In May 1999 scientists found this famous sheep might be susceptible to premature aging. * Dolly. * 5: Born Louis Eugene Walcott, he led a million man march in Washington, D.C. in 1995. * Louis Farrakhan.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 639, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Stage Names * 1: "Peyton Place" star Dorothy Eloise Maloney. * Dorothy Malone. * 2: Marshall Mathers is the real name of the rapper who performs using this 1-word nickname. * Eminem. * 3: Elliott Goldstein. * Elliott Gould. * 4: Henry Montgomery Jr., Elizabeth's father. * Robert Montgomery. * 5: Riley is the first name of this guitarist whose stage initials stand for "Blues Boy". * B.B. King.

Round 2. Category: Food Proverbs * 1: "It's no use crying over" this. * spilled milk. * 2: "The proof of" this "is in the the eating". * the pudding. * 3: One bad one "can spoil the whole barrel". * an apple. * 4: "Honey catches more flies than" this. * vinegar. * 5: "You can't make" one of these "without breaking eggs". * an omelet.

Round 3. Category: Boston * 1: This fashionable neighborhood was the site of a lighted signal in the 1600s, hence its name. * Beacon Hill. * 2: This document got its first reading in Boston July 18, 1776 at the Old State House. * the Declaration of Independence. * 3: Benjamin Franklin once grazed his cow in this, the nation's oldest public park. * Boston Common. * 4: This stadium has been the home of football's Patriots as well as baseball's Red Sox. * Fenway Park. * 5: The Boston Pops orchestra plays outdoor concerts at Hatch Shell on the banks of this river. * the Charles.

Round 4. Category: Takes The Cake * 1: Angel food cake uses only this part of an egg. * the white. * 2: Light and dark batters combined give this cake the appearance of the rock it's named for. * marble cake. * 3: This classic Viennese torte is filled with apricot jam. * Sachertorte. * 4: Trademarked name for a fluted tube pan or the cake baked in it. * a Bundt. * 5: A Baba is most commonly flavored with this potent potable. * rum.

Round 5. Category: New Video Games * 1: In Microids' "Ben Hur" you race these vehicles. * chariots. * 2: Rolling Stone magazine's choice for Console Game of the Year 2002 is the third installment of this carjack game. * Grand Theft Auto. * 3: A bright red Ford Torino and voice-overs by Antonio Fargas (aka Huggy Bear) are in the game of this '70s cop show. * Starsky and Hutch. * 4: "The Angel of Darkness" takes this Eidos heroine in a new, darker direction and ups her polygons from 500 to 5,000!. * Lara Croft. * 5: In battles in the game based on this Oscar-winning film, you probably have to use the "Far East" button on your control. * Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 638, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Literary Heroines * 1: "Anne of Avonlea" is a 1909 sequel to this 1908 classic. * "Anne of Green Gables". * 2: Thorny problems beset this Bronte heroine when she's hired as a governess at Thornfield Hall. * Jane Eyre. * 3: Countess Olenska is the not-so-innocent heroine of this Edith Wharton novel. * "The Age of Innocence". * 4: Maggie, the daughter of a miller, falls for her cousin's fiance in this George Eliot novel. * "The Mill on the Floss". * 5: Temple Drake is a college student in this Southerner's controversial 1931 novel "Sanctuary". * William Faulkner.

Round 2. Category: Tv Uncles * 1: On the series whose theme was the following, Paul Lynde popped in periodically as this uncle. * Uncle Arthur. * 2: Uncle Fester's TV "family". * The Addams Family". * 3: The 2 '60s TV series that featured the United Network command for Law and Enforcement. * The Man and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.. * 4: Lucy Ewing had a fling with this ranchhand on "Dallas" before she found out he was her uncle. * Ray Krebbs. * 5: He played Danny Thomas' wacky Uncle Tonoose on "Make Room for Daddy". * Hans Conried.

Round 3. Category: Junk Food * 1: The main ingredient of a "Coney Island". * a hot dog. * 2: Substance which makes up about 46% of Froot Loops and 3.5% of Cheerios. * sugar. * 3: Faced with a problem of 5 billion of these, China urges new uses for them- as food, for example. * rats. * 4: Jolt Cola in N.Y. uses real sugar and adds about twice as much of this substance as Coke or Pepsi. * caffeine. * 5: While a bar of Dove is made out of soap, a Dove Bar is made out of this. * ice cream and chocolate.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 638, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Prime Number, Please * 1: Of V, X, L, D or C, the prime number. * V (5). * 2: In 1943 a young JFK was given command of the PT this. * 109. * 3: Like Rome, Edinburgh and Istanbul are known as cities of this many hills. * 7. * 4: Idiomatically, it precedes "skidoo". * 23. * 5: These are the 3 prime numbers in the 40s. * 41, 43 and 47.

Round 2. Category: Tv Westerns * 1: He owned the Double R Bar Ranch. * Roy Rogers. * 2: The theme to "Have Gun, Will Travel" called this character "a knight without armor in a savage land". * Paladin. * 3: This TV western was set on the Barkley Ranch in the 1870s. * The Big Valley. * 4: In this series, Lucas McCain fought the desperadoes in North Fork with a modified .44 Winchester. * The Rifleman. * 5: This sidekick of the Cisco Kid was played by Leo Carrillo, who was in his 70s when he began the role. * Pancho.

Round 3. Category: Field Of "Dream"S * 1: Someone considered very good-looking is said to be one of these "ships". * Dreamboat. * 2: Collective name for the 1992 U.S. men's Olympic basketball squad. * "The Dream Team". * 3: In 1983 Eurythmics hit No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts with this song. * "Sweet Dreams". * 4: This popular musical was supposedly based in part on the lives and careers of the Supremes. * Dreamgirls. * 5: Freud published this landmark study in 1899. * The Interpretation Of Dreams.

Round 4. Category: "Gold" * 1: A miner, or a Broadway baby who marries for money. * gold

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 637, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Going "Bust" * 1: Able or likely to catch fire and burn. * Combustible. * 2: In 1927 he deadpanned his way through the silent classic "The General". * Buster Keaton. * 3: It was a pad used in a pre-20th century skirt to fill out the back. * Bustle. * 4: Strong, healthy and hardy in constitution. * Robust. * 5: An attempt to stop legislation from being passed by making long speeches. * Fillibuster.

Round 2. Category: Rock Bands * 1: ["Rock Around the Clock"]. * Bill Haley and The Comets. * 2: [audio clue]. * Sex Pistols. * 3: Steven Tyler of this group said the Grateful Dead "were worried about us, so that gives you some idea of how (messed) up and crazy we were". * Aerosmith. * 4: [audio clue]. * Metallica. * 5: Fans of this current band are known as Firebreathers. * Imagine Dragons.

Round 3. Category: Workplaces * 1: Usual workplace of a saucier, a poissonier and a garde-manger. * restaurant. * 2: The traditional entry-level area of a talent agency; Michael Ovitz started there at William Morris. * mailroom. * 3: A triage nurse is the first person who will tend to you if you go to this part of a hospital. * emergency room. * 4: In the U.S. the FBI has about 60 of the local offices usually called these. * field offices. * 5: 3-letter word paired with 'tool" in a type of manufacturer of precision products. * die.

Round 4. Category: Emmy-Winning Roles * 1: For 2000-2001:James Gandolfini. * Tony Soprano. * 2: For 1976-77:Lindsay Wagner. * the Bionic Woman (Jaime Sommers). * 3: For 1960-61:Raymond Burr. * Perry Mason. * 4: For 1983-84:John Ritter. * Jack Tripper. * 5: For 1967-68:Werner Klemperer. * Colonel Klink.

Round 5. Category: The Age Of Aquariums * 1: The Great Lake Aquarium featured fish that live in this kind of water, as opposed to saltwater. * freshwater. * 2: It's fun to ride the riverboat from the Audubon Zoo to the Aquarium of the Americas in this Louisiana city. * New Orleans. * 3: These "tuxedoed" birds are a highlight of the Splash Zone at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. * penguins. * 4: Seen here, the beluga type of this mammal is one of the main attractions at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium. * a whale. * 5: On April 13, 2001 a bottlenose one of these mammals was born at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. * a dolphin.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 636, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Iowans * 1: Born in Iowa in 1907, he starred in "Rio Lobo", "Rio Bravo" and "Rio Grande". * John Wayne. * 2: Prior to marrying Roseanne, this man from Ottumwa worked as a ham packer at a Hormel plant. * Tom Arnold. * 3: Des Moines' Marilyn Maye sang 76 times, more than anyone else on the talk show of this man born in Corning. * Johnny Carson. * 4: Iowan Meredith Willson wrote this 1957 musical set in River City, Iowa. * The Music Man. * 5: Burlingtonian best remembered for playing TV's Fred Mertz. * William "Bub" Frawley.

Round 2. Category: Pan-America * 1: In Brazil all of this river's 2,000 miles are navigable. * the Amazon. * 2: Pikes Peak is located in this U.S. mountain chain. * the Rockies. * 3: It's over 40 miles long, opened in 1914 and ships take about 8 hours to pass through it. * the Panama Canal. * 4: Colombia's No. 1 agricultural export goes into this drink. * coffee. * 5: In August 1993 Pope John Paul II visited Merida on this Mexican peninsula. * the Yucatan Peninsula.

Round 3. Category: Presidential Final Resting Places * 1: Springfield, Illinois. * Abraham Lincoln. * 2: Stonewall, Texas. * Lyndon Johnson. * 3: Manhattan, New York (the one who's still there). * Ulysses Grant. * 4: Yorba Linda, California. * Richard Nixon. * 5: Canton, Ohio. * McKinley.

Round 4. Category: Chicago * 1: Some attribute this nickname of the city to its proud, boasting citizens, not its breeziness. * "The Windy City". * 2: Lake Shore Drive is on this lake's shore. * Lake Michigan. * 3: These 2 pro sports teams play their home games at United Center. * the Bulls and the Blackhawks. * 4: Stroll past the Art Institute of Chicago and the sculpture nicknamed "The Bean" on this avenue. * Michigan Avenue. * 5: Founded in 1930 by a successful Chicago businessman, this planetarium is America's oldest. * the Adler Planetarium.

Round 5. Category: Action Figures * 1: Paddy Doyle's fitness records include throwing 470 of these in 1 minute--that should win the round. * punches. * 2: In a tune by the Flaming Lips, Yoshimi battles some pink these; "she's a black belt in karate". * robots. * 3: In 2003 Paul Crake ran up the 1,576 steps of this NYC building in 9 minutes 33 seconds. * the Empire State Building. * 4: In 2006 Leyan Lo, a student at this Pasadena school, solved a Rubik's Cube puzzle in 11.13 seconds. * Caltech. * 5: In between epic fights, this Toronto hero of comics fame plays in a band called Sex Bob-omb. * Scott Pilgrim.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 635, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Here Pig * 1: It's not good when you "let the cat out of the bag" when you were expecting a "pig in" this. * a poke. * 2: In April 1961 a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles landed here in Cuba. * the Bay of Pigs. * 3: As these smell like male pigs, sows are used in the forests of France to root them out. * truffles. * 4: In the 2nd century Galen used pigs to show veins carried blood, not this as many believed. * air. * 5: In 1916 Clarence Saunders founded this grocery chain in Memphis. * Piggly Wiggly.

Round 2. Category: Silent "P" * 1: I'm somehow sensing you'll know this word for a medium, from the Greek for "of the soul". * psychic. * 2: An extinct flying reptile from the Cretaceous Period, it had a wingspan of about 25 feet. * a pteranodon. * 3: 11-letter term describing the era of Jimi Hendrix and Timothy Leary. * psychedelic (psychedelia accepted). * 4: Any of several grouses of the genus Lagopus, having feathered feet. * a ptarmigan. * 5: Also called parrot fever, it can be contracted by handling sick parrots, pigeons or poultry. * psittacosis.

Round 3. Category: Fun With Dick Or Jane * 1: For an astounding 3 decades, he youthfully hosted "American Bandstand". * Dick Clark. * 2: Traditionally, this name is given to a woman whose identity is unknown during legal proceedings. * Jane Doe. * 3: In 1990 Warren Beatty took on the role of this hawk-nosed, jut-jawed crime crusader. * Dick Tracy. * 4: (Former Jeopardy! college contestant, Maggie Bandur, who's now a writer on Malcolm in the Middle, delivers the clue.) On an episode of mine, Malcolm's mother, played by this actress, has to go to the funeral of an aunt she hated. * Jane Kaczmarek. * 5: In 1553 this monarch was a true "Nine Days' Wonder". * Lady Jane Grey.

Round 4. Category: Works Of Art * 1: An 1880 statue of a naked man with his arm on his knee and his chin resting on his hand. * The Thinker. * 2: An 1871 painting of an old woman in a long black dress, sitting in a chair. * Whistler's Mother. * 3: A statue of the Madonna with the dead Christ in her arms. * Pietà. * 4: A 1920 painting of a grim-faced couple with a pitchfork, standing in front of a farmhouse. * American Gothic. * 5: An 1889 painting of a sky of blue and yellow swirling over a small village. * Starry Night.

Round 5. Category: We're No Angels * 1: Before becoming a Bronco, Jake "The Snake" Plummer played for this university's Sun Devils. * Arizona State. * 2: Appropriately, this NHL team's mascot lists "Devil Inside" by INXS as one of his favorite songs. * the New Jersey Devils. * 3: New owner Stu Sternberg vowed to change this MLB nickname by '07; no word whether "Manta" is in the running. * the Devil Rays. * 4: David Beckham played for this posh British football club that features a little red devil on its logo. * Manchester (United). * 5: A Wake Forest win in its 1923 football season led a writer to term the team this 2-word name due to "devilish" play. * the Demon Deacons.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 634, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tell 'Em What They've Won, Johnny * 1: The first of these were awarded in 1901 and they are given out yearly for Physics, Chemistry, Peace and 3 other disciplines. * the Nobel Prizes. * 2: Walt Disney won a record 14 of these statuettes now given out in March. * Oscars. * 3: In the category Best Rock Album, The Rolling Stones' "Voodoo Lounge" won this award for 1994. * Grammy. * 4: A brave French soldier might receive the award known as the "Croix de Guerre", meaning "Cross of" this. * War. * 5: In 1921 Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Fiction prize named for this news publisher. * Pulitzer.

Round 2. Category: Tv's Supporting Actors * 1: (Hi, I'm Gordon Clapp of NYPD Blue.) I won the 1998 Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for playing this character. * Greg Medavoy. * 2: Her long-running variety show featured supporting actors Tim Conway and Harvey Korman. * Carol Burnett. * 3: The first 3 Supporting Actor Emmys went to this man, Jackie Gleason's comic foil. * Art Carney. * 4: On "The Waltons", Will Geer played Zeb, whom all the kids called this. * Grandpa. * 5: In 1986 John Malkovich played Biff Loman in a CBS production of this play. * "Death of a Salesman".

Round 3. Category: "Fire" * 1: In 2007 Marko Lisec of Slovenia built a 60,589-cubic foot one of these to celebrate Labor Day. * a bonfire. * 2: Most widespread type of this is performed on embers from a wood fire, as in India. * walking on fire. * 3: This software or hardware barrier is used to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing your computer. * a firewall. * 4: To contain a forest fire, it's created by clearing a strip of land ahead of the flames. * fire break. * 5: In this 1983 film, Nick Nolte played a journalist in Nicaragua during the 1979 revolution. * Under Fire.

Round 4. Category: Sams And Samuels * 1: In 1871 U.S. telegraphers honored him with a bronze statue in NYC's Central Park. * Samuel Morse. * 2: This playwright starred with girlfriend Jessica Lange in the movies "Country" and "Frances". * Sam Shepard. * 3: He wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" for a book of poetry co-written with William Wordsworth. * Samuel Taylor Coleridge. * 4: The main goal of Paul Revere's ride was to warn John Hancock and this patriot that the British were out to capture them. * Samuel Adams. * 5: He's Georgia's senior senator. * Sam Nunn.

Round 5. Category: The Male Of The Species * 1: You've taken him "by the horns" if you've faced a situation head on. * bull. * 2: Hey hen, it's kookie to ask this cock of the walk to lend you its comb. * a rooster. * 3: This name for a male turkey might make you think he's especially hungry. * gobbler. * 4: Doe, a rabbit, a female rabbit, and this, a male. * a buck. * 5: When male badgers and pigs get together, the females think they're a bunch of these. * boars.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 633, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Triple Talk * 1: Comes between "In the valley of the Jolly" and "Green Giant". * ho, ho, ho. * 2: You do it to your boat, gently down the stream. * row, row, row. * 3: In "The King and I", Yul Brynner's famous line that fits the category. * et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. * 4: According to The Teddy Bears' 1958 hit "To know, know, know him is" this. * To love, love, love him. * 5: While the trolley went "clang, clang, clang" my heartstrings went this. * zing, zing, zing.

Round 2. Category: Not A National Capital * 1: Rio de Janeiro,Buenos Aires,Asuncion. * Rio de Janeiro. * 2: Calcutta,Thimphu,Phnom Penh. * Calcutta. * 3: Port-au-Prince,Toronto,Nassau. * Toronto. * 4: Katmandu,Kabul,Karachi. * Karachi. * 5: Amman,Mecca,Damascus. * Mecca.

Round 3. Category: Early America * 1: The words spook, cruller, boss and crib were introduced to America from this language. * Dutch. * 2: In 1648 Margaret Jones from Charlestown, Mass., not Salem, was one of the first executed for this in America. * witchcraft. * 3: The land granted to Sir George Calvert's son Cecilius was named this after Queen Henrietta Maria. * Maryland. * 4: For "traducing the ministers", Anne Hutchinson was among the first to be "banned in" this capital. * Boston. * 5: On his second voyage over, Jacques Cartier thought this river was the best choice for a route to Asia. * St. Lawrence.

Round 4. Category: Famous Alma Maters * 1: Chester W. Nimitz(Class of '05). * U.S. Naval Academy. * 2: Steve Young(B.S. '83,J.D. '94). * Brigham Young University. * 3: James Meredith and Trent Lott. * Ole Miss (the University of Mississippi). * 4: Woody Allen(did not graduate). * New York University. * 5: Stephen Hawking(Ph.D., 1966). * Cambridge.

Round 5. Category: Hit Albums * 1: "I Would Die 4 U" and "When Doves Cry" are songs on this 1984 soundtrack. * "Purple Rain". * 2: (Hi, I'm Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray.) My band's album title "14:59" is a reference to this man's quote about 15 minutes of fame. * Andy Warhol. * 3: This girl group is waterskiing on the cover of 1982's "Vacation". * Go-Go's. * 4: This Trent Reznor band's album "The Downward Spiral" debuted at No. 2 on the charts in 1994. * Nine Inch Nails. * 5: "Learning to Crawl" was a hit album for this Chrissie Hynde group. * The Pretenders.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 632, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Mysteries * 1: 1st cousins Dannay and Lee wrote the Ellery Queen stories under this pen name. * Ellery Queen. * 2: It's the last name of Tom, the psychopath Patricia Highsmith created in 1955: believe it or not!. * Ripley. * 3: Although this former Pinkerton investigator only wrote 1 "Thin Man" novel, a series of 6 films was made. * Dashiell Hammett. * 4: This agency's symbol of an unblinking eye gave birth to the phrase "private eye". * the Pinkerton agency. * 5: Cousins Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee both used this pen name, the name of their fictional detective. * Ellery Queen.

Round 2. Category: Harrison Ford Movies * 1: "Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?". * Raiders of the Lost Ark. * 2: "Get off my plane!". * Air Force One. * 3: "I didn't kill my wife!". * The Fugitive. * 4: "Replicants are like any other machine -- they're either a benefit or a hazard". * Blade Runner. * 5: "Something wrong with buttons?...got anything against zippers?". * Witness.

Round 3. Category: New Olympic Sports * 1: In 2000, women will compete for the first time in this sport that uses a pool, 2 nets and an inflatable ball. * Water polo. * 2: The devices used in this new Olympic sport can propel somersaulting gymnasts up to 30 feet in the air. * Trampoline. * 3: The IOC recently granted provisional recognition to this ancient sport, one of Japan's most popular. * Sumo wrestling. * 4: At the 1998 Winter Olympics, the USA's Ross Powers won the bronze in the halfpipe event in this new Olympic sport. * Snowboarding. * 5: This new Olympic martial arts sport was founded in the 1950s by General Choi Hong Hi. * Taekwondo.

Round 4. Category: "Irish" Stew * 1: According to the classic tune, they steal your heart away. * Irish eyes. * 2: The St. George's Channel leads into this body of water. * Irish Sea. * 3: In 1972 Colgate introduced this deodorant soap -- manly, yes, but I like it too. * Irish Spring. * 4: In 1988 the Irish Lotto replaced this fund raiser. * Irish Hospital Sweepstakes. * 5: It's the tallest dog known. * Irish wolfhound.

Round 5. Category: Daytime Dramas * 1: Jack Wagner and K. Malandro, Frisco and Felicia, had one of these on "General Hospital" and in real life. * a child. * 2: Jensen Buchanan spent 2 days in a 4'x4' vat of oatmeal that "One Life o Live" used in place of this hazard. * quicksand. * 3: Soap Opera Update said in old photos this show's unlikely pair of Cruz and Eden looks like Barbie and G.I. Joe. * Santa Barbara. * 4: The 2 current soaps with "and" in their titles and they're both on CBS. * The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless. * 5: Debbi Morgan left her role on "All My Children" to join this NBC soap. * Generations.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 631, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: National Parks * 1: In this southern national park you can take a boat ride on the underground Echo River. * Mammoth Cave. * 2: Logs in this forest may be 150 million years old. * the Petrified Forest. * 3: Bridalveil Fall is usually the first waterfall seen by visitors to this California Park's valley. * Yosemite. * 4: The mailing address of this national park is Gatlinburg, Tennessee 37738. * Great Smoky Mountains National Park. * 5: Located in Oregon, this deepest U.S. lake is in a national park of the same name. * Crater.

Round 2. Category: Theme Park Fun * 1: The Slidewinder is a free-flow flume ride down a mountainside at her theme park, Dollywood. * Dolly Parton. * 2: You'll get wet when you ride the Grand Canyon Rapids at MGM Grand Adventures in this Nevada city. * Las Vegas. * 3: At Knott's Berry Farm, there's an area full of rides just for kids called Camp this, after Charlie Brown's beagle. * Snoopy. * 4: Get away to Holiday World in Indiana to ride the Gobbler Getaway in the area named for this holiday. * Thanksgiving. * 5: Ohio's Kings Island is the lair of "The Beast", the longest wooden one of these in the world. * a roller coaster.

Round 3. Category: Familiar Phrases * 1: A task that's nearly impossible is compared to "looking for a needle in" one of these. * a haystack. * 2: This "makes the heart grow fonder", though a dozen roses wouldn't hurt. * absence. * 3: Putting one's affairs in order is called getting these birds "in a row". * ducks. * 4: Something that provokes anger is said to "make this" fluid "boil". * your blood. * 5: Noblemen riding steeds taller than the average mounts gave us this phrase. * on their high horse.

Round 4. Category: That's A Crime! * 1: In a '90s NBC series title, this crime preceded "Life on the Streets". * Homicide. * 2: A jury is the group you're tried before; this is lying under oath to them. * perjury. * 3: This taking of a human life may be classified as "voluntary" or "involuntary". * manslaughter. * 4: It's extortion by threat--like you'll send the photos to the newspaper if you don't receive $2 million. * blackmail. * 5: Peculation is taking funds entrusted to you bit by bit through this fraudulent process. * embezzlement.

Round 5. Category: A Bad Mother * 1: In the movie "Gone with the Wind", Rhett Butler tells her, "A cat's a better mother than you". * Scarlett O'Hara. * 2: She fed her children "some broth without... bread" then "whipped them all soundly and put them to bed". * the old woman who lived in a shoe. * 3: She not only condoned the crimes committed by sons Herman, Lloyd, Arthur and Fred, she may have participated. * Ma Barker. * 4: In the 8th century Irene ruled alone over this empire after she had her son Constantine VI deposed and blinded. * the Byzantine Empire. * 5: In mythology, after Jason walked out on her, she murdered their children. * Medea.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 630, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Po" Pourri * 1: Its national anthem is "Jeszcze Polkska Nie Zginela". * Poland. * 2: Connemara, Dartmoor, Exmoor or Shetland. * ponies. * 3: Wm. Wordsworth accepted this honor on the understanding he would not have to write official verses. * Poet Laureate. * 4: Someone who steals a wild duck or cooks the duck's leg in boiling water. * poacher. * 5: Chiropody. * podiatry.

Round 2. Category: I Did My Time * 1: After more than 27 years in jail, I was released by the South African government on Feb. 11, 1990. * Nelson Mandela. * 2: I based my "Gulag Archipelago" in part on my own prison experience. * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. * 3: During my time in a Genoese prison in 1298, I dictated a detailed account of my Asian travels. * Marco Polo. * 4: Some thought I was Louis XIV's brother, some his son; either way I was locked up for 40 years. * The Man in the Iron Mask. * 5: Jawohl, I was Spandau Prison's lone inmate from 1966 to 1987. * Rudolf Hess.

Round 3. Category: Donald Duck * 1: The 1943 anti-Nazi release "Der Fuehrer's Face" was the only Donald Duck cartoon to win this award. * the Academy Award. * 2: Donald's girlfriend, she was first known as Donna Duck but was renamed in her second film, "Mr. Duck Steps Out". * Daisy Duck. * 3: In a 1938 cartoon, Donald's sister Dumbella sent these 3 nephews to visit him; chaos ensued. * Huey, Louie, and Dewey. * 4: Introduced on TV in 1961, this uncle of Donald was a professor who spoke with a European accent. * Ludwig Von Drake. * 5: In the opening of "The Mickey Mouse Club", Donald would strike this instrument, usually with disastrous results. * a gong.

Round 4. Category: The 76Th Academy Awards * 1: Dominance by "LOTR" caused this host to quip, "People are moving to New Zealand just to be thanked". * Billy Crystal. * 2: He took home the little bald guy for the first time in 4 tries, winning Best Actor for "Mystic River". * Sean Penn. * 3: She had a "Monster" night, taking home Best Actress Honors. * Charlize Theron. * 4: Part of this Best Animated Feature took place in an Australian dentist's office. * Finding Nemo. * 5: This Defense Secy.'s career was the subject of "The Fog of War", winner for Documentary Feature. * Robert McNamara.

Round 5. Category: Doohickeys * 1: It's a small swiveling wheel attached to the bottom of pieces of furniture. * a caster. * 2: They're the raised bars on the neck of a guitar. * a fret. * 3: The raised connector for the positive side of a car battery. * the terminal (or the cathode). * 4: The 3-letter mouthpiece of a horse's bridle. * the bit. * 5: That "CE" key on calculators... what's it stand for again?. * clear entry.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 629, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Times They Are A-Changin' * 1: Ian Astbury of The Cult joined Robbie Krieger and Ray Manzarek for the retooling of this band "of the 21st Century". * The Doors. * 2: In 2004 Veritas software's marketing dept. made news when it banned this type of communication on Fridays. * e-mail. * 3: Beepcard Inc. is developing a talking 1 of these, slightly thicker than normal, that asks for your password. * a credit card. * 4: Alison Bartlett, who plays Gina, a kindly vet on this PBS show, got overexposed with Steve Buscemi on "The Sopranos". * Sesame Street. * 5: As the "M" word indicate, TMS uses these to stimulate the brain and treat neuropsychiatric conditions in a non-intrusive way. * magnets.

Round 2. Category: Sean Connery Films * 1: He was a London publisher who loved a Russian girl in "The Russia House" and a Russian sub captain in this. * The Hunt for Red October. * 2: Connery caught the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this 1987 film. * The Untouchables. * 3: In this 1992 film, Connery finds and loses a cancer cure in a rainforest. * Medicine Man. * 4: As Danny to Michael Caine's Peachy, Connery was this title character in a 1975 John Huston film. * The Man Who Would Be King. * 5: Although he's Scottish, the luck of the Irish got Connery cast in this 1959 Disney film about the wee folk. * Darby O'Gill and the Little People.

Round 3. Category: That's So "Continental" * 1: It met for the first time in at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774. * Continental Congress. * 2: Its main hub cities are Newark, Cleveland and Houston. * Continental Airlines. * 3: Abbreviated CBA, it includes teams called the Yakima Sun Kings and the Gary Steelheads. * the Continental Basketball Association. * 4: The theory of the slow tectonic movement of plates across the Earth. * continental drift. * 5: To cartographers, it's known as CONUS. * the Continental United States.

Round 4. Category: You Hit Me In The Face! * 1: In a battle between this talk show host's nose and a chair, he got a "20/20" view of his nose being broken. * Geraldo Rivera. * 2: Beverly Hills cop Paul Kramer got a real slap in the face when she said no thanks, dahling, to a 1989 ticket. * Zsa Zsa Gabor. * 3: "She's my sister (slap); my daughter (slap)"; forget it, Jake, it's this 1974 film. * Chinatown. * 4: Love-struck in "Moonstruck", she struck Nicolas Cage to get him to "Snap out of it!". * Cher. * 5: In a 1994 boxing match, Danny Bonaduce bloodied this "Puppy Love" singer's nose and won a decision. * Donny Osmond.

Round 5. Category: Astrology * 1: The only sign of the zodiac that isn't represented by a living thing. * Libra. * 2: Venus rules this 7th sign of the zodiac, but don't let that unbalance you. * Libra. * 3: Perhaps appropriately, this quick-tempered sign is symbolized by an animal that stings it prey. * Scorpio. * 4: This sign is represented by a maiden carrying a sheaf of wheat. * Virgo. * 5: 2 of the 3 most important positions in any natal chart. * the sun, the moon, and your rising sign.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 628, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Sitcoms * 1: In the 1st episode of this series, Cliff gave Theo an economics lesson with Monopoly money. * The Cosby Show. * 2: A 1998 CD of music from this sitcom featured "Cleveland Rocks" and "Five O'Clock World". * The Drew Carey Show. * 3: This series is a spin-off of "The Big Bang Theory" and also a prequel to it. * Young Sheldon. * 4: He was the poor mountaineer who struck oil and became rich on "The Beverly Hillbillies". * Jed Clampett. * 5: Onetime vampire players Evan Rachel Wood, Tilda Swinton, Danny Trejo and Wesley Snipes all had cameos on "What We Do in" these. * the Shadows.

Round 2. Category: Geographical Words And Phrases * 1: A shade of grayish blue is named for this Danish capital. * Copenhagen. * 2: This nationality precedes onyx, hairless, and jumping bean. * Mexican. * 3: This nationality precedes uncle, treat, and elm disease. * Dutch. * 4: This tuber with a city in its name is also called a sunchoke. * Jerusalem Artichoke. * 5: This high quality black tea is named for a district in West Bengal. * Darjeeling.

Round 3. Category: Around The Studio With Lou * 1: Lou cut down on the sex and violence in "Jewel of the Jungle" to avoid this rating that replaced X in 1990. * NC-17. * 2: Lou treats his star well; he has a stand-in for lighting and one of these for the dangerous feats. * Stunt double. * 3: When Lou reads the call sheet for the shoot, he knows "A.D." means assistant director and "MU" means this. * Make-up. * 4: After "Jewel of the Jungle" wraps, Lou goes into this process of editing, dubbing, mixing and printing. * Post-production. * 5: Lou's picked out the best scenes of "Jewel of the Jungle" to include in this pre-release ad in theaters. * Trailer.

Round 4. Category: Large Equipment * 1: A hoisting machine, or a somewhat similar-looking wading bird. * a crane. * 2: It's the most popular type of Tonka truck. * a dump truck. * 3: For smooth travel, ballast tampers and ballast regulators keep the gravel at the right level among these. * railroad tracks. * 4: To a farmer, it's a reaper that gathers crops; in forestry, it's a machine that turns a tree into a pile of logs. * a harvester. * 5: A Middle English word for "pulley" gave us this term for a hoisting machine with a rope around a drum. * a winch.

Round 5. Category: Illinois Me * 1: 14-year-old Orion Howe, a Civil War drummer boy from Waukegan, was awarded this high "honor" during that war. * Medal of Honor. * 2: Before 1992, the last time Illinois voted for a Democrat in the presidential election was for this man in 1964. * Lyndon Johnson. * 3: This Illinois event lasted 27 hours, killed 250 people and destroyed 17,450 buildings. * The Great Chicago Fire. * 4: Kaskaskia Island may be the only part of Illinois that lies west of this river. * Mississippi River. * 5: Known as the "Second City", Chicago actually ranks in this position by population in the U.S.. * Third.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 627, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: It's A Girl! * 1: This 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is set in a small Alabama town and narrated by a young girl. * To Kill a Mockingbird. * 2: Short story shorter: "Grimm" girl, loves power colors and older relatives, has problems with wolf. * (Little) Red Riding Hood. * 3: In this 1900 book a farm girl encounters some rough weather and ends up, well, not in Kansas anymore. * The Wizard of Oz. * 4: Proving once again that pig's blood and proms just don't mix, this Stephen King title girl puts mind over matter. * Carrie. * 5: This 9-year-old novel heroine has superhuman strength and lives in Sweden in her house, Villa Villekulla. * Pippi Longstocking.

Round 2. Category: Kids' Songs * 1: "I'm a little" one of these "short and stout, here is my handle, here is my spout". * a teapot. * 2: According to the song title, it "helps the medicine go down, in a most delightful way". * a spoonful of sugar. * 3: He "lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee". * Puff the Magic Dragon. * 4: It includes the lines "Dinah, won't you blow, Dinah, won't you blow, Dinah, won't you blow your horn?". * "Working On The Railroad". * 5: It's the question that precedes "do they wobble to and fro, can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow". * "Do your ears hang low?".

Round 3. Category: Steven Spielberg * 1: As a child, the first film Steven ever saw was this Cecil B. DeMille circus extravaganza. * The Greatest Show on Earth. * 2: Vilmos Zsigmond won an Oscar as Steven's cinematographer on this 1977 sci-fi hit. * Close Encounters of the Third Kind. * 3: A critic once compared the panic on the beach scene in "Jaws" to this film's "Odessa Steps" sequence. * Battleship Potemkin. * 4: Steven directed Joan Crawford in the pilot for this innovative Rod Serling anthology. * Night Gallery. * 5: This 22-minute Spielberg film about 2 people who hitchhike west lends its name to one of his companies. * Amblin'.

Round 4. Category: Shakespeare's Tragic Cast * 1: Duncan, Banquo, Macduff. * Macbeth. * 2: Bianca, Iago, Desdemona. * Othello. * 3: Cinna, Cassius, Cicero. * Julius Caesar. * 4: Goneril, Regan, Cordelia. * King Lear. * 5: Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt. * Romeo and Juliet.

Round 5. Category: Colorful Geography * 1: Contrary to name, this world's largest island is primarily icecap. * Greenland. * 2: The city of Santa Ana is the seat of this southern California county. * Orange County. * 3: No rivers flow into this sea between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. * Red Sea. * 4: A 1951 agreement with Denmark gave the U.S. rights to military bases on this island. * Greenland. * 5: Dijon is the largest city in this historic French region famous for its grapes and wine. * Burgundy.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fountains * 1: Architect Nicola Salvi designed this, often called the last great baroque monument in Rome. * Trevi Fountain. * 2: A fountain in front of this kids' cable network's studios in Orlando spurts out green slime. * Nickelodeon. * 3: Andrea Del Verrocchio sculpted his bronze "Boy With" this sea creature for a Medici villa. * Dolphin. * 4: This statue in the Louvre once stood in a fountain on the Greek isle of Samothrace. * Winged Victory. * 5: King Matyas Corvinus and his beloved Ilonka adorn the Matyas Fountain at this Hungarian city's Royal Palace. * Budapest.

Round 2. Category: Day Time * 1: The first day of the week mentioned by name in "Robinson Crusoe" isn't Friday but this (1st day is a clue). * Sunday. * 2: In English, it's alphabetically the last day of the week. * Wednesday. * 3: J. Wellington Wimpy often said, "I will gladly pay you" this day "for a hamburger today". * Tuesday. * 4: Day of the week that's the English equivalent to the Latin Saturni dies. * Saturday. * 5: G.K. Chesterton wrote of a "Man Who Was" this day. * Thursday.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 626, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 1902 * 1: When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune went to establishing scholarships to this school. * Oxford University. * 2: In 1902 he published his newest Sherlock Holmes tale, "The Hound of the Baskervilles". * Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. * 3: He and Matthew Henson made their first serious attempt to reach the North Pole, but it would take 7 more years. * Robert Peary. * 4: After 3 years of fighting, this South African war came to an end. * the Boer War. * 5: In August this "Junior", son of a physician, poet and essayist, was appointed to the Supreme Court. * Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Round 2. Category: French Menu * 1: Canard aux mangues is duck served with this tropical fruit. * mango. * 2: I crave some sauce moutarde, named for this ingredient; I'll put in on everything. * mustard. * 3: We know these squashes by an Italian name, but to the French they're courgettes. * zucchini. * 4: In France this huge melon, called a pasteque, may be filled with wine before it's served. * watermelon. * 5: Bifteck. * Steak.

Round 3. Category: Where It's "At" * 1: Goldthwait's moniker. * Bobcat. * 2: It's his political party. * Democrat. * 3: Omar Khayyam's handiwork. * "The Rubaiyat". * 4: This neck scarf is named for its resemblance to one worn by Croatian soldiers. * Cravat. * 5: The Captain and Tennille sang of this kind of beastly love. * "Muskrat Love".

Round 4. Category: "X" Rated * 1: The narration that opened this TV show began, "A mighty princess forged in the heat of battle...". * Xena: Warrior Princess. * 2: Located in Cincinnati, it's one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. * Xavier. * 3: The horizontal number line in a Cartesian plane coordinate system. * the x-axis. * 4: William B. Davis played the mysterious Cigarette-Smoking Man on this Fox show. * The X-Files. * 5: From the Greek, it's literally someone who likes foreigners and foreign things. * a xenophile.

Round 5. Category: Throwing The Book At You * 1: "Alexey... was the

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 625, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Blank The Blank * 1: Written the night before it was recorded in 1962, it was Ray Stevens' 1st major hit. * "Ahab The Arab". * 2: Look after a military installation while the troops are out. * guard the fort (hold the fort). * 3: Obama told this Ohio blue-collar guy spreading the wealth was good; he became part of the McCain campaign. * Joe the Plumber. * 4: This spokesbovine for Borden began extolling the virtues of milk back in the 1930s. * Elsie the Cow. * 5: In "Portrait of a Killer", Patricia Cornwell contends that this killer was actor and artist Walter Sickert. * Jack the Ripper.

Round 2. Category: The Kids' Table * 1: Don't have a cow, man, a baby elephant walks away with this term, too. * a calf. * 2: For young horses, a colt is a male, this is a female. * a filly. * 3: If this animal category aged a few years, we'd retitle it this. * the goats table. * 4: As the ugly duckling was really a swan, he was in truth the beautiful this. * cygnet. * 5: In its youth this "holy" fish can be a tinker or a blinker, or even a spike (if Mr. Lee doesn't sue it). * a mackerel.

Round 3. Category: The Brady Bunch * 1: In 2017 he released his first book, "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance". * Tom Brady. * 2: In a 1917 movie Alice Brady played this flag maker, with lines like "There can be no reward so great as the honor". * Betsy Ross. * 3: A little jealous, this middle daughter bemoaned, "All I ever hear is 'Marcia, Marcia, Marcia'!". * Jan. * 4: In 1999 Barry Williams released a CD, "The Return of" this pop star, his alter ego on the show. * Johnny Bravo. * 5: When the 1993 bill named for him became law, it instituted background checks for gun purchases. * (James) Jim Brady.

Round 4. Category: She's Canadian, Eh? * 1: This Windsor native's 2002 CD "Up!" offers pop and country versions of the same 19 songs. * Shania Twain. * 2: We've got a hankering for this singer from Consort, Alberta. * k.d. lang. * 3: As a kid, this angry alt-rocker from Ottawa starred on Nickelodeon's "You Can't Do That on Television". * Alanis Morissette. * 4: This jazz vocalist from British Columbia lists Carmen McRae and Nat King Cole as her biggest influences. * Diana Krall. * 5: This teen from Ontario sang about a "Sk8er Boi". * Avril Lavigne.

Round 5. Category: British Potpourri * 1: When the British Crown Jewels aren't on the queen's head, they're on display here. * the Tower of London. * 2: The daughter of an earl uses this title in front of her name, as Diana Spencer did. * Lady. * 3: The 2 sphinxes at the base of this famous ancient obelisk were added during the Victorian Era. * Cleopatra's Needle. * 4: The ancient baths in Bath, England were built by these people soon after they invaded Britain. * the Romans. * 5: In England it is appropriate to fly the Union Jack on April 23, this saint's day. * Saint George.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 624, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Un" Words * 1: Tom, Miltie, or $crooge. * uncles. * 2: If you ask the Miami operator for Don Johnson's phone number, she'll probably tell you it's this. * unlisted. * 3: An "unspeakable" euphemism for underwear. * unmentionables. * 4: Hades is also known as this, sure as hell. * the underworld. * 5: Ointment. * unguent (or unction).

Round 2. Category: Star Trek: Ds9 * 1: This Ferengi runs the bar on the promenade. * Quark. * 2: The show is set in this century at the same time as "Star Trek: The Next Generation". * 24th. * 3: The station is located next to the first stable one of these quadrant-to-quadrant short-cuts ever known. * wormhole. * 4: Rene Auberjonois plays this shape-shifting security officer. * Odo. * 5: The symbiont in the body of this Terry Farrell character was previously in a man's body. * Dax.

Round 3. Category: Skiing * 1: The T-bar, the chair and the gondola are 3 types of these devices that transport skiers. * a lift. * 2: Skiers wear these in part to reduce glare and prevent eyestrain. * sunglasses. * 3: "Cosmetic" name of the light, dry snow that's ideal for skiing. * powder. * 4: In the snowplow method of stopping, a skier brings the tips of the skis together to form this letter. * a V. * 5: The most basic movement in this type of skiing is the diagonal stride. * cross-country skiing.

Round 4. Category: Weather * 1: This storm's name is derived from Spanish tronada, meaning "thunderstorm". * tornado. * 2: If the air is ½ saturated, this is the relative humidity. * 50%. * 3: During a storm this can occur in a cloud, between clouds or from a cloud to the ground. * lightning. * 4: Season of the year when Arizona has its "monsoons". * Summer. * 5: This Italian's invention of the wind vane about 1500 changed the direction of forecasting. * Leonardo da Vinci.

Round 5. Category: The "Rh" Factor * 1: Scarlett O'Hara's favorite Butler. * Rhett. * 2: While the reddish stalks of this plant may be eaten, the leaves are highly poisonous. * Rhubarb. * 3: These 2 important European rivers differ by only one letter. * Rhine and Rhone. * 4: This parallelogram with 4 equal sides resembles a slanted square. * Rhombus. * 5: In mythology she's the wife of Cronus and the mother of Zeus. * Rhea.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 623, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Davis Cup * 1: Kim Carnes sang about her eyes. * Bette Davis. * 2: In 1861 he resigned from the U.S. Senate. * Jefferson Davis. * 3: He's moved his Raiders all over California. * Al Davis. * 4: In 1978 this cartoonist introduced his character Garfield to the world. * Jim Davis. * 5: This black activist ran for vice president on the 1980 Communist Party ticket. * Angela Davis.

Round 2. Category: Salad * 1: The name of this salad comes from the Dutch for "cabbage salad". * coleslaw. * 2: The ever-popular salad made from this elbow-shaped pasta often contains celery, olives and chopped pimiento. * Macaroni salad. * 3: There's a kitchen honcho in the name of this classic salad with egg, cheese and meat. * a chef salad. * 4: This salad of tomatoes and mozzarella gets its name from an island near the Bay of Naples. * caprese. * 5: This salad with chopped turkey, bacon, tomatoes and hard-boiled eggs is named for the owner of the Brown Derby. * a Cobb salad.

Round 3. Category: Movie Locations * 1: 1972:Brando prefers anonymity in "Last Tango in blank ". * Paris. * 2: 2002:Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones get away with murder in " blank ". * Chicago. * 3: 2004:Don Cheadle managed "Hotel blank ". * Rwanda. * 4: L.A.'s Biltmore played the Sedgewick Hotel, where guests got slimed in this 1984 comedy. * Ghostbusters. * 5: 1985:Jeff Daniels steps out of "The Purple Rose of blank ". * Cairo.

Round 4. Category: "Sea" Ya * 1: The First Daughter. * Chelsea Clinton. * 2: This company's V.O. whisky had a gold and black ribbon signifying the horse racing colors of its founder. * Seagram's. * 3: This city's annual Seafair features various water sports and a hydroplane race on Lake Washington. * Seattle. * 4: This fish of the genus Hippocampus has the ability to change its color to conform to its background. * Seahorse. * 5: In this Bobby Darin tune, "My lover stands on golden sands and watches the ships that go sailing". * "Beyond the Sea".

Round 5. Category: Which U.s. Cabinet Department? * 1: The Food Safety and Inspection Service. * the Department of Agriculture. * 2: The Federal Railroad Administration. * Transportation. * 3: The National Park Service. * Department of Interior. * 4: The U.S. Parole Commission. * the Justice Department. * 5: The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. * Department of Health and Human Services.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 622, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: When * 1: On Aug. 28, 1963 he told a crowd gathered in Washington, D.C. "I have a dream". * Martin Luther King, Jr.. * 2: An American hero on April 18, 1775, he was accused of cowardice in 1779, but a court-martial cleared him. * Paul Revere. * 3: As of April 7, 1984 it surpassed Chicago as the nation's second most populous city. * Los Angeles. * 4: These Americans got the right to vote on August 26, 1920. * Women. * 5: On June 11, 2004 this ex-British P.M. delivered a videotaped eulogy for Ronald Reagan at Washington's National Cathedral. * Margaret Thatcher.

Round 2. Category: Chimpanzees * 1: Song that includes the line "Chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee". * "Talk To The Animals". * 2: He was introduced in the first Tarzan sound feature. * Cheeta. * 3: In 1989 Deborah Norville replaced Jane Pauley on the Today show; in 1957 Mr. Kokomo replaced him. * J. Fred Muggs. * 4: Scientists at the University of Nevada taught Washoe the chimp some ASL, which is this. * American Sign Language. * 5: She wrote "The Chimpanzees of Gombe". * Jane Goodall.

Round 3. Category: What's The Matter...yellow?? * 1: Call it crazy, but unlike other types of these birds, the yellow-billed one builds its own nest instead of invading. * Cuckoo. * 2: Appropriately, you can see the yellow-bellied marmot in this Wyoming-Montana-Idaho national park. * Yellowstone. * 3: The yellow-winged type of this mammal hopes insects don't see its yellow wings coming. * Bat. * 4: Narcissus pseudonarcissus is the scientific name of this garden flower. * Daffodil. * 5: East Africa is home to the yellow species of these large monkeys known for their colorful bottoms. * Baboons.

Round 4. Category: "Go"Ing * 1: Transportation for kids. * go-karts. * 2: From a Persian word for "snake-eater", a markhor is a wild type of this bearded ruminant. * goat. * 3: This 1965 record was Shirley Bassey's biggest hit in the U.S.. * "Goldfinger". * 4: A word for mining haphazardly in irregular holes comes from the name of this burrowing rodent. * gopher. * 5: Biblical name shared by the oldest son of Japheth and a TV Marine. * Gomer.

Round 5. Category: Company Symbols * 1: This black-and-white flightless bird is the symbol of a British-American book company. * a penguin. * 2: In 1946 Chicago maitre d' Frank Brown posed for this rice brand's trademark picture. * Uncle Ben's. * 3: McDonald's are "golden". * the Arches. * 4: This Swiss wristwatch company uses a white cross on a red square as its symbol. * Swatch. * 5: In the '30s Sinclair Oil used this Brontosaurus in its ads; inflatable toys and other promotions followed. * Dino.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 621, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Animal Offspring * 1: A general term for the young of most fish, or how you cook them after you catch them. * fry. * 2: A young kangaroo, or a musical pal. * a joey. * 3: The male young of these are called cockerels; the female young, pullets. * chickens. * 4: A young rat, seal, or, so we're told, dragon. * a pup. * 5: A hinny is the offspring of these 2 animals. * a horse and a donkey.

Round 2. Category: Doohickeys * 1: It's a small swiveling wheel attached to the bottom of pieces of furniture. * a caster. * 2: Also one of the senses, it's that little metal notch on a rifle barrel that helps you aim. * sight. * 3: It hangs inside a bell and strikes the sides to produce ringing. * a clapper. * 4: The raised connector for the positive side of a car battery. * the terminal (or the cathode). * 5: That "CE" key on calculators... what's it stand for again?. * clear entry.

Round 3. Category: Driving Don'ts * 1: "Piggish" term for an aggressive driver who invades the lanes of other drivers. * "Road Hog". * 2: This phrase describes an accident in which the driver flees the scene. * Hit-and-run. * 3: Don't gun the engine and pop this pedal. * Clutch. * 4: To make your tires squeak and leave blackmarks is called "burning" this. * Rubber. * 5: It's the term for what you're doing if you can read an "If you can read this you're too close" bumper sticker. * Tailgating.

Round 4. Category: A Day's Calories In One Meal * 1: Double Whopper with cheese, King fries, large vanilla shake, Dutch apple pie. * Burger King. * 2: Zesty Chicken Border Bowl, Fiesta Taco Salad, Nachos Bellgrande, apple empanada. * Taco Bell. * 3: Market Fresh Roast Beef and Swiss sandwich, large Jalapeno Bites, Jamocha shake. * Arby's. * 4: 2 large orders of popcorn chicken, 2 biscuits, potato wedges, BBQ beans, Lil' Bucket lemon creme, large Pepsi. * KFC. * 5: 2 Big Bacon Classics, great Biggie fries, Homestyle Chicken Strips Salad with ranch dressing, medium Frosty. * Wendy's.

Round 5. Category: Bad Hair Days * 1: It was hair today, gone tomorrow for this Biblical hero when he fell asleep on Delilah's knees. * Samson. * 2: When this fairy tale maiden let down her hair, a handsome prince climbed up it -- must have hurt!. * Rapunzel. * 3: We loved this Little Rascal, even though he never had a good hair day in his life. * Alfalfa. * 4: In a 1903 opera, this queen strangles herself with her own hair after she's caught with Lancelot. * Guinevere. * 5: This Irish singer had more than a bad hair day when she tore the pope's picture on "Saturday Night Live". * Sinead O'Connor.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 620, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Definitions * 1: It's a "comfy" covering for your teapot. * a tea cozy. * 2: This word means to speak pompously or to officiate as a pontiff. * pontificate. * 3: Any place of great spiritual suffering, named for the garden in Mark 14. * Gethsemane. * 4: Of a little lamb, a fugitive from the law, or a lady hamster, what a "lamster" is. * a fugitive from the law. * 5: A "philhellenist" admires this. * Greek civilization.

Round 2. Category: Asian Places * 1: Bandipur and Sanjay Gandhi are national parks in this nation. * India. * 2: It was a small town until the opening of foreign trade made it China's largest city. * Shanghai. * 3: We wonder if there's a village idiot in Moron, 350 miles west of Ulan Bator in this country. * Mongolia. * 4: The smallest nation on the Bay of Bengal, most of it is less than 50 feet above sea level. * Bangladesh. * 5: Not to be confused with Yakutsk, this region found on the Risk board lies just west of Lake Baikal. * Irkutsk.

Round 3. Category: Anatomic Quotes * 1: Edmond Rostand work that includes the line "Enorme, mon nez!" -- "My nose is huge!". * "Cyrano de Bergerac". * 2: The Latin proverb "Ubi amor, ibi oculus" is translated as "Where love is, there" this "wanders". * Eye. * 3: Ben Franklin advised, "Keep your mouth wet" and these "dry". * Feet. * 4: Jonathan Swift wrote, "I am as old as my tongue, and a little older than" these. * Teeth. * 5: Shelley penned, "Worse than a bloody hand is a hard" one of these. * Heart.

Round 4. Category: Y-R * 1: An astronomer may speak of a solar, lunar, equinoctial or sidereal one. * a year. * 2: A short war between Israel and Egypt and Syria in October 1973 was named for this high holiday. * Yom Kippur. * 3: In October 2002 he made another supersonic flight, 55 years after his first. * Chuck Yeager. * 4: This Cole was a known associate of Jesse James. * Younger. * 5: "Savage Sam" is a sequel to the Fred Gipson book called "Old" this. * Yeller.

Round 5. Category: It's Miller Time * 1: This writer has been married to Ingeborg Morath and Marilyn Monroe. * Arthur Miller. * 2: Pardon me boy, this bandleader's plane was reported missing December 15, 1944. * Glenn Miller. * 3: Now a hot-shooting guard with the Indiana Pacers, he majored in history and played ball at UCLA. * Reggie Miller. * 4: This Tony Award winner had hits with "Do-Wacka-Do" and "King of the Road". * Roger Miller. * 5: The works of this writer, born in 1891, have been banned numerous times for their sexual content. * Henry Miller.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 619, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Female Flyers * 1: On August 1, 1911 Harriet Quimby became the first American woman to get one of these. * Pilot's license. * 2: "Charlie", now in the Smithsonian, was the plane in which Flying Angel Geraldine Mock did this in 29 days in 1964. * Circumnavigate the globe. * 3: Anne Spencer Morrow's first date with this man, her future husband, was a flying lesson. * Charles Lindbergh. * 4: Some say Ruth Law was the first woman to perform this big circle trick, others say it was Katharine Stinson. * Loop-the-loop. * 5: Geraldyn Cobb began testing to get into this program in 1960; after besting many of the men, she wasn't allowed in. * Space/astronaut program.

Round 2. Category: The Circulatory System * 1: Carbon dioxide is swapped for oxygen in the alveoli of these organs. * lungs. * 2: Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of this poisonous metal. * mercury. * 3: When the heart's atria contract, blood flows from the right atrium into the right this. * ventricle. * 4: The plasma globulin called transferrin transports this ferric material. * iron. * 5: These tiny bits of cytoplasm lacking nuclei are there to gang up in clots. * platelets.

Round 3. Category: It's A Living * 1: Donna Karan,Mossimo. * a fashion designer. * 2: Aka custodians, they may use the supplies of the Cintas Corp., which sponsors an award for the one of the year. * janitors. * 3: A specialized job in a police force, CSI stands for this, just like on TV. * crime scene investigator ("crime scene investigation" accepted). * 4: In 1968 a U.S. craft with this name, also George Washington's pre-military occupation, landed on the moon. * Surveyor. * 5: 2-word term for one who studies the plant and animal life of the oceans. * marine biologist.

Round 4. Category: Money, Money, Money * 1: In 1792 Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized construction of a mint in this city. * Philadelphia. * 2: In 1994 a portrait of this author whose father went to debtor's prison was put on the British 10-pound note. * Charles Dickens. * 3: From 1792 to 1873 the U.S. issued silver 5-cent coins called not nickels but "half" these. * dimes. * 4: Iraq's 25-dinar note features Saddam Hussein on the front and this ancient city's Ishtar Gate on the back. * Babylon. * 5: Unit of currency used by the greatest number of Arab countries. * dinar.

Round 5. Category: House Standing Committees * 1: There's a committee for this size of business. * a small business. * 2: Transportation and Infrastructure is one committee; this and Means, another. * Ways. * 3: There's a Permanent Select Committee on this headed by Porter Goss; how smart!. * Intelligence. * 4: The name of a small committee says it covers the "standards of official" this for House members. * conduct. * 5: C.W. Bill Young has a tendency to pass out (money) as chairman of this committee. * Appropriations.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 618, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Rockin' Stupid Answers * 1: It's the band that had a hit with "Up on Cripple Creek". * The Band. * 2: It's the nickname of the Beatles album that has a stark white cover. * "The White Album". * 3: In a 1978 song, this group asked, "Who Are You?". * The Who. * 4: A song by this group says, "Everybody have fun tonight, everybody Wang Chung tonight". * Wang Chung. * 5: This double album by Kiss was certified platinum. * "Double Platinum".

Round 2. Category: Snowy Songs * 1: This guy "knew that the sun was out that day, so he said, 'let's run and have some fun now before I melt away'". * Frosty the Snowman. * 2: Title that follows "the fire is slowly dying, and, my dear, we're still goodbye-ing, but as long as you love me so...". * "Let It Snow (Let It Snow, Let It Snow)". * 3: He "looked out on the feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even". * Good King Wenceslas. * 4: "In the lane snow is glistening, a beautiful sight, we're happy tonight" in this place. * a winter wonderland. * 5: In "I'll Be Home For Christmas", "please have" these 2 rhyming items "and presents on the tree". * snow and mistletoe.

Round 3. Category: 7-Letter Cities * 1: The stevedores here, in West Germany's busiest port, must be really beefy. * Hamburg. * 2: This city didn't rise from its ashes like its namesake, but from the Salt River Valley. * Phoenix. * 3: The name of this Scottish city, 3rd largest in Great Britain, is said to be from the Celtic for "dear green spot". * Glasgow. * 4: This city in Nova Scotia is the Atlantic terminus of Canada's 2 major railways. * Halifax. * 5: As Iran and Iraq have 4 letters, these cities, their capitals, both have 7, as usually spelled in English. * Teheran and Baghdad.

Round 4. Category: Kiddy Lit Creatures * 1: In "The 3 Little Pigs", the wolf huffed and puffed in order to do this. * blow the door (house) down. * 2: Kipling's "Just So Stories" include the one which explains "How the Leopard Got" these. * his spots. * 3: Some versions say Henny-Penny 1st said "The sky's a-going to fall"; some say it was this fowl creature. * Chicken Little. * 4: This 1923 Felix Salten novel was originally intended for adults as well as children. * Bambi. * 5: The mischievous, black Scotty dog who was curious about the ducks. * Angus.

Round 5. Category: Book Reviews * 1: One review called this Robert James Waller tale of a photographer's affair with a farmwife "Yuppie women's porn". * "The Bridges of Madison County". * 2: The N.Y. Times said his "Ragtime" "reflects all that is most significant and dramatic in America's last hundred years". * E.L. Doctorow. * 3: It "is remembered as a stomach-turning expose of unsanitary conditions...in the meat-packing industry". * The Jungle. * 4: One reviewer said "Wondrous beasts and scientific possibilities" made this Michael Crichton novel "alluring". * "Jurassic Park". * 5: This 1925 classic "captures all the romance and glitter of the Jazz Age". * The Great Gatsby.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 617, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: My Favorite Films * 1: William Holden leads this 1969 title group of robbers and killers with a sense of honor. * The Wild Bunch. * 2: Cathy, Cathy, Cathy! A 1939 classic... amour on the moors... need we say moor?. * Wuthering Heights. * 3: The hero of this 1962 epic is worshiped by the men he leads, though they do call him "Orens". * Lawrence of Arabia. * 4: Paul Newman played a white man raised by Apaches in this '67 Western-- and you'll notice that "man" is your big clue. * Hombre. * 5: At one point, John Huston wanted Gable and Bogart to star in this film about 2 schemers who want to rule Kafiristan. * The Man Who Would Be King.

Round 2. Category: Cow * 1: At the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, the Borden exhibit featured a live version of this trademarked cow. * Elsie. * 2: To prevent the bovine inflammation known as mastitis, practice good hygiene when doing this to your cows. * milking. * 3: A cow's stomach has this many compartments. * 4. * 4: The 600-pound cow made by Sarah Pratt each year for the Iowa state fair is made from this dairy product. * butter. * 5: A young and calfless cow is known as one of these. * a heifer.

Round 3. Category: Franks And Franklins * 1: He's the man on the bill that's the value of this answer. * Benjamin Franklin. * 2: He wanted to study architecture at the University of Wisconsin in the 1880s, but it wasn't offered. * Frank Lloyd Wright. * 3: In 1882 there was a $10,000 dead or alive reward for him and his brother. * Frank James. * 4: 1 of the 3 Franks in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. * (1 of) Frank Gifford (Frank Kinard, Frank Gatski). * 5: He went up in Gemini 7 and Apollo 8. * Frank Borman.

Round 4. Category: Test Your Snow How * 1: One of these Inuit dwellings can be made out of sod or wood, as well as snow. * an igloo. * 2: For a snowstorm to be called one of these, it must have winds higher than 32 mph for 3 hours or longer. * a blizzard. * 3: Around 1800 Barry, a dog of this breed, saved more than 40 people trapped in the snow in the Swiss Alps. * St. Bernard. * 4: (Video of Sofia in Squaw Valley, CA) Most snowflakes are basically symmetrical, and have this many sides. * 6. * 5: This hare with a white winter coat is named for its large feet that help it get around in winter snow. * the snowshoe hare.

Round 5. Category: Khomeini, Khamenei Or Khatami * 1: Exiled from Iran in 1964. * Khomeini. * 2: Died in 1989. * Khomeini. * 3: Elected president in 1997. * Khatami. * 4: Supreme religious and political leader since 1990. * Khamenei. * 5: Published "Fear of the Wave" in 1993. * Khatami.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 616, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 1995 * 1: France drew worldwide protests in September by doing this at the Mururoa Atoll. * detonating an atomic bomb. * 2: This city's subway was hit by a nerve gas attack March 20, 1995. * Tokyo. * 3: In January, Camilla Parker Bowles announced that she was getting a divorce, and this prince claimed that he wasn't. * Prince Charles. * 4: Imelda Marcos' son "Bong Bong" lost his bid for a seat in this country's senate-- and was convicted of tax evasion. * the Philippines. * 5: The Nobel prize went to 3 men for their studies on the depletion of this layer of the atmosphere. * the ozone.

Round 2. Category: Gene Wilder * 1: In 1984 Gene married this woman with whom he later had a "Haunted Honeymoon". * Gilda Radner. * 2: In his first movie, Gene played a mortician kidnapped by Warren Beatty in this 1967 film. * Bonnie and Clyde. * 3: This man directed Gene in "The Producers" and "Blazing Saddles". * Mel Brooks. * 4: Gene was nominated for a Screenwriting Oscar for this film that also starred Marty Feldman as Igor. * Young Frankenstein. * 5: Gene's first movie pairing with Richard Pryor came in this 1976 comedy thriller about a murder plot on a train. * Silver Streak.

Round 3. Category: Proverbial Anatomy * 1: Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote", "A bird" here "is worth two in the bush". * a hand. * 2: Ovid said, "Ugly is a field without grass, a plant without leaves, or" this without hair. * the head. * 3: This is the mirror of the soul. * eyes. * 4: Livy claimed, "Let a fool hold this and he will pass for a sage". * tongue. * 5: A gluttonous man may dig his grave with these. * teeth.

Round 4. Category: The Ming Dynasty * 1: The folding type of this cooling device became accepted in China during the Ming dynasty. * Fan. * 2: Its use as a defensive barrier fell with the fall of the Ming dynasty, and it fell into disrepair. * Great Wall of China. * 3: In 1421, the emperor Yung-Lo got gung-ho and moved the capital to this city where he built an imperial palace. * Peking/Beijing. * 4: A housepet during the Ming dynasty was this Lhasa Apso relative, whose name is Chinese for "lion". * Shih Tzu. * 5: In 1368 the Ming dynasty replaced this one founded by Kublai Khan. * Yuan (Mongol).

Round 5. Category: Desserts * 1: This "frozen" fermented dairy product resembles soft-serve ice cream in texture. * Frozen yogurt. * 2: It's said the Prince of Wales asked the chef to name this crepe dessert after a little girl. * Cr and ecirc;pe Suzette. * 3: This old-fashioned cake made in a tube pan is made by alternating light and dark batter. * marble cake. * 4: This cream named for a German region is a mix of eggs, whipped cream, flavorings and gelatin. * bavarois (Bavarian). * 5: The earl never had this dessert of which a 1900 newspaper article said, "thin wafers...modify the coolness". * ice cream sandwich.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 615, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Olympic Events * 1: Downhill and slalom. * Skiing. * 2: 100-meter butterfly and 100-meter freestyle. * Swimming. * 3: 10,000 meters and javelin. * Track and field. * 4: Individual epee and individual foil. * Fencing. * 5: Trap and skeet. * Shooting.

Round 2. Category: Radio Stars * 1: This conservative icon describes himself as having "talent on loan from God". * Rush Limbaugh. * 2: He took over from Red Barber and has been the voice of the Dodgers for almost 50 years. * Vin Scully. * 3: Kyle Cantrell, operations manager at Nashville's WSM-AM, is the Saturday night announcer for this show. * Grand Ole Opry. * 4: Heard here, he's been the voice of the U.S. heartland for decades("Now you know the rest of the story"). * Paul Harvey. * 5: This shock jock rival of Howard Stern is heard "in the Morning" on about 100 stations. * Don Imus.

Round 3. Category: The Bahamas * 1: On July 10, 1973, Prince Charles represented Queen Elizabeth at ceremonies celebrating this. * the independence of the Bahamas. * 2: With international banking #2, this is the leading industry of the Bahamas. * tourism. * 3: Although considered part of the region, the Bahamas are not located in this sea. * the Caribbean. * 4: Of Bimini, New Providence, or Grand Bahama, the island on which you would visit the capital, Nassau. * New Providence. * 5: To prevent the Germans from kidnapping this ex-king, Churchill sent him to govern the Bahamas. * the Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII).

Round 4. Category: Nobel Peace Prize Winners * 1: 1979: A nun like none other. * Mother Teresa. * 2: 1990:A Communist party head. * Mikhail Gorbachev. * 3: 1964: An American clergyman. * Martin Luther King, Jr.. * 4: 1978: An Israeli and an Egyptian. * Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. * 5: 1961:A U.N. Secretary-General. * Dag Hammarskjold.

Round 5. Category: Green "T" * 1: You wouldn't want to meet this scary, royal, supposedly green creature in a dark alley. * a Tyrannosaurus rex. * 2: Artificial green grass used on a playing field. * turf. * 3: It's the art of trimming your green bushes and hedges into geometric shapes and animals. * topiary. * 4: The main ingredient in salsa verde, this small green vegetable, is native to Mexico. * the tomatillo. * 5: This republic of West Africa with a 4-letter name has 3 green stripes on its flag representing its natural resources. * Togo.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 614, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Show Biz Siblings * 1: This director's brother Ingo Preminger produced the film MASH. * Otto Preminger. * 2: Her sister Michie Mader sings backup for her whether she's performing with Regis or without him. * Kathie Lee. * 3: Early in their careers, these brothers appeared on the TV series "Sea Hunt" with their father, Lloyd. * Jeff and Beau Bridges. * 4: He debuted in "King of the Gypsies" in 1978, 10 years before his sister Julia served a "Mystic Pizza". * Eric Roberts. * 5: "Drop Zone" director John Badham is the brother of Mary Badham, who played Scout in this 1962 film. * To Kill a Mockingbird*.

Round 2. Category: Nuke It! * 1: This company, which sold its 20 billionth can of condensed tomato soup in 1990, introduced "Soup to Go" in 1998. * Campbell's. * 2: Act II claims it sells more bags of this microwavable snack than any other company in the world. * Popcorn. * 3: This hot dog brand hit a home run with its new "Singles", which are individually wrapped and ready to microwave. * Ball Park. * 4: Chef America makes this brand of crisp and flaky microwavable crust-enclosed pepperoni pizza. * Hot Pockets. * 5: Dieters know that this company's "Smart Ones" entrees are 99% fat free. * Weight Watchers.

Round 3. Category: The Navy * 1: One-word term for an authorized leave from duty; to a sailor it means freedom for 48 hours or less. * liberty. * 2: Little damaged in its many battles, it was nicknamed "Old Ironsides". * the USS Constitution. * 3: Bartlett's says this naval motto is actually a misquote of Capt. James Lawrence's dying command. * "Don't give up the ship". * 4: They are the 2 official colors of the U.S. Navy. * blue and gold. * 5: Navy detail drawn by Jack Nicholson in "The Last Detail". * shore patrol.

Round 4. Category: This Does Not Compute * 1: You'll get this many crumpets when you receive a baker's dozen. * 13. * 2: In the 14th and 15th centuries this Anglo-French conflict actually lasted 116 years. * Hundred Years' War. * 3: Proverbially, if you eat like one of these avians you might eat over half your body weight everyday!. * Bird. * 4: The standard dimensions of one of these lumber units are 1 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches. * 2 X 4. * 5: These long-snozzed animals of the family Myrmecophagidae may actually prefer termites. * Anteaters.

Round 5. Category: Having Babies * 1: A baby born before the 37th week of pregnancy, and about 10% of them are, is considered this. * Premature. * 2: If a sperm with an X chromosome fertilizes the egg, the baby will be this sex. * Female. * 3: To have a full-term Christmas baby, you should conceive on or about the 20th of this month. * March. * 4: The Dick-Read labor method encourages you to do this, also the title of a Frankie Goes to Hollywood hit. * Relax. * 5: Braxton-Hicks are a type of these; the mother may not even notice them. * contractions.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 613, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pavlovian Jeopardy! * 1: "Bell Jar".Dead.. * (Sylvia) Plath. * 2: Apple.First law guy.. * Newton. * 3: Nobel Prize.Wrote Okie story.. * Steinbeck. * 4: Speech.32 days. Dead.. * William Henry Harrison. * 5: Scottish.Steel guy.. * (Andrew) Carnegie.

Round 2. Category: Saucey! * 1: The name of this seasoned tomato sauce comes from the Italian word for "seafaring". * marinara. * 2: Basil and pine nuts go into this classic sauce from Genoa. * pesto sauce. * 3: Restaurateur Signore di Lello is credited with creating this sauce named for him and served over fettucine. * Alfredo. * 4: This chicken topper whose name is from the Aztec for "chili sauce" has a bit of chocolate in it. * mole. * 5: This hot creamy sauce made with tarragon and vinegar is traditionally served with chateaubriand. * bearnaise.

Round 3. Category: Paintings * 1: "Deer's Horns, Near Cameron" was the original title of her 1937 painting "From the Faraway, Nearby". * Georgia O'Keeffe. * 2: His Wheatfield with Crows was painted in 1890, the last year of his life. * Van Gogh. * 3: In this 1942 painting Edward Hopper modeled the face of the redhead at the counter after his wife. * the Nighthawks. * 4: This monochrome portrait of a woman is actually titled "Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1". * Whistler's Mother. * 5: A portrait of fellow artist Francis Bacon is one of the best-known works by this grandson of Sigmund Freud. * Lucian Freud.

Round 4. Category: Write On, Girl! * 1: Under the name of A.M. Barnard, this "Little Women" author published Gothic tales like "The Abbot's Ghost". * Louisa May Alcott. * 2: She wrote "American Star" and "Rock Star"; her actress-sister Joan wrote "Star Quality". * Jackie Collins. * 3: Mine eyes have seen the glory of her being the first woman in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. * Julia Ward Howe. * 4: Kit Carson turns up in her 1927 novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop". * Willa Cather. * 5: Writing the 1927 opera "The King's Henchmen" and also her poetry, she was burning her candle at both ends. * Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Round 5. Category: Oscar-Losing Songs * 1: Celestial songs losing '36 Oscars included "A Melody from the Sky", "When Did You Leave Heaven" and this: [Piano instrumental plays]. * "Pennies from Heaven". * 2: After she sang "True Love" in "High Society", the song lost an Oscar but then she won a crown. * Grace Kelly. * 3: Though it lost the 1963 Oscar, this "Theme from Mondo Cane" became BMI's all-time 2nd most played song. * "More". * 4: 1934 nominees "Love in Bloom" and "The Carioca" are the only 2 songs which share this distinction. * first 2 nominees and did not win. * 5: 1954 holiday film which produced the Oscar-losing "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep". * White Christmas.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 612, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tool Time * 1: Henry F. Phillips invented a popular type of this hand tool. * Screwdriver. * 2: Toothed tool that's half a teeter-totter, see?. * a saw. * 3: Things on the up and up are "on" this tool, honest. * the level (or the square). * 4: This volcanic material was used by primitive humans in the making of tools. * obsidian. * 5: It's Hurst's trademark name for the heavy duty tool used to free people from car wrecks. * the Jaws of Life.

Round 2. Category: "Bar"S * 1: A Venetian boat song, or this duet from Offenbach's "Tales of Hoffmann":. * barcarolle. * 2: Dog talk. * barking. * 3: Examples are the Goths, the Vandals and Conan. * barbarians. * 4: A bass, a baritone, a tenor and a lead getting a haircut. * barbershop quartet. * 5: A tsetse that's taken to frequenting taverns. * barfly.

Round 3. Category: The Roaring '20s * 1: After his return from Europe in June of 1927, he received a hero's welcome and a ticker tape parade. * Charles Lindbergh. * 2: This radio show starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll joined the NBC network in 1929. * Amos 'n' Andy. * 3: In 1925 Clarence Birdseye applied for a patent on a process for doing this to food. * freezing. * 4: In 1922 Margaret Gorman was retroactively crowned this for winning 1921's "Inter-City Beauty Pageant". * Miss America. * 5: On Sept. 24, 1929, 13 years before raiding Tokyo, he made the first instruments-only airplane flight. * Doolittle.

Round 4. Category: It's Imaginary * 1: It's a figure of menace, especially to children, not a guy who loves to dance. * Boogieman. * 2: 1962 would have followed 1914 and 1939 in the sequence if this had resulted from the Cuban Missile Crisis. * World War III. * 3: Imaginary thought in the title of the following show tune. * "The Impossible Dream". * 4: Seen here under a Seattle bridge is a depiction of one of these creatures. * Troll. * 5: A type of musical pitch or baseball game you hear about, or a type of crime you wouldn't. * Perfect.

Round 5. Category: Global Kitchen * 1: Shrimp cooked with garlic, butter and lemon are known by this Italian term. * scampi. * 2: Ivory-colored shoots of this plant of the Genus Arundinaria are often used as a complement in Asian cooking. * bamboo shoots. * 3: "No dinner without bread" goes a Russian saying and usually it is bread made from this grain,secale cereale. * rye. * 4: The crust of this traditional English "pie" is made with mashed potatoes. * shepherd's pie. * 5: Rice and ground meat wrapped in these leaves make up Dolma, a traditional Greek dish. * grape leaves.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 611, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Boris Yeltsin File * 1: 1931:Boris Yeltsin is born in Sverdlovsk, an industrial region in these mountains. * the Ural Mountains. * 2: 1985:This new General Secretary of the Communist Party brings Yeltsin to Moscow. * Gorbachev. * 3: 1986:Yeltsin is inducted into this national executive and policymaking committee. * the Politburo. * 4: 1994:Yeltsin orders Russian troops into this rebellious republic. * Chechnya. * 5: 1999:Yeltsin names this 15-year KGB veteran his successor. * Putin.

Round 2. Category: I Read The Articles, Too * 1: "When they eat your dog, they're not so cute" was the headline on a USA Today article on these from Miami. * alligators. * 2: Scottish-born John Muir wrote the 1902 Ency. Britannica article on this valley in the Sierra Nevada of California. * Yosemite. * 3: In the 1945 magazine article "Extra-Terrestrial Relays", Arthur C. Clarke suggested these devices be used. * satellites. * 4: You can't escape the fact that the 1926 Encyclopedia Britannica article on conjuring was done by him. * Houdini. * 5: In an 1850 article, Dickens described his visit to this "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street". * the Bank of England.

Round 3. Category: Name The Musical * 1: "Let the Sunshine in". * Hair. * 2: King Arthur,Merlin,Morgan Le Fey. * Camelot. * 3: Magaldi,Peron's mistress,People of Argentina. * Evita. * 4: "The Music of the Night". * Phantom of the Opera. * 5: "Luck Be a Lady". * Guys and Dolls.

Round 4. Category: Countries * 1: North American mainland country which straddles the Tropic of Cancer. * Mexico. * 2: In the famous play, "Charlie's Aunt" was from this country "where the nuts come from". * Brazil. * 3: This food crop, Burma's most important, is pictured on its flag. * rice. * 4: You can say just Bosnia or Bosnia and this, the southern part of the country. * Herzegovina. * 5: Ras Dashen, this African country's highest peak, has been translated as "General Who Fights in Front of the Emperor". * Ethiopia.

Round 5. Category: Smooching In Shakespeare * 1: He claims that the sleeping Michael Cassio kissed him hard while dreaming of Desdemona. * Iago. * 2: He says, "Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft" while holding Yorick's skull. * Hamlet. * 3: "Love's Labour's Lost" and "Henry VI, Part III" both mention the kiss of this Biblical traitor. * Judas Iscariot. * 4: In this comedy Petruchio says, "Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday". * Taming of the Shrew. * 5: "We have kiss'd away kingdoms and provinces" says Scarus in the play about this title couple. * Antony and Cleopatra.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 610, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "C" Of Love * 1: The title of a 1958 Connie Francis song calls this love god "stupid". * Cupid. * 2: If you didn't show up for a blind date, you have these kind of "feet". * cold feet. * 3: From an old word for "cape", it's an older person who, for propriety's sake, accompanies young unmarrieds. * a chaperone. * 4: The youngest daughter of King Lear; the only one who really loved him. * Cordelia. * 5: Italian for "with love", it's the musical direction to play or sing lovingly. * con amore.

Round 2. Category: "H"Odgepodge * 1: This word is often followed by food, spa and insurance. * health. * 2: This popular green-fleshed winter melon is a good source of vitamin C. * watermelon. * 3: The "B" type of this disease is caused by a virus that has a core of DNA. * hepatitis. * 4: Most types of this fluid food granulate, but the Tupelo type seldom does. * honey. * 5: The lempira is the basic unit of currency in this Central American country. * Honduras.

Round 3. Category: Ancient Life * 1: To make these lighter and more efficient, the Mesopotamians added spokes. * Wheels. * 2: Homo habilis is considered the first of our ancestors to fashion these items. * Tools. * 3: The first of these contests, held in 776 B.C., consisted only of a 200-yard foot race. * Olympic games. * 4: The Phoenicians were famous for hair dye of this color. * Red/purple. * 5: The chew stick of ancient Egypt was a primitive form of this modern hygienic implement. * Toothbrush.

Round 4. Category: Self-Defense * 1: In some states, it's a misdemeanor to use this chemical spray without a permit. * mace. * 2: Of yelling "help", "rape", or "fire", 1 that generally brings help more readily than the other 2. * fire. * 3: In India circa 400 B.C., monks of this religion used a form of karate. * Buddhism. * 4: Because it can go in several directions and is hard to block, this joint is the best upper body weapon. * elbow. * 5: Kodokan judo was introduced to the U.S. by this President who studied it. * Theodore Roosevelt.

Round 5. Category: Presidential Pets * 1: In 1989 this springer spaniel made the cover of Life magazine along with her new puppies and Barbara Bush. * Millie. * 2: Jeff Davis, a horse he acquired during the Civil War, later accompanied him to the White House. * Ulysses S. Grant. * 3: Thomas Jefferson's pet grizzly bears were a present from this pair of travelers. * Lewis and Clark. * 4: Barney, George W. Bush's Scottish terrier, was a gift from this New Jersey governor, now head of the EPA. * Christine Todd Whitman. * 5: He kept some of his favorite racing fillies at the White House, including Emily and Lady Nashville. * Andrew Jackson.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 609, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Juan * 1: Days out of prison in 1945, he married Maria Eva Duarte; we now know her as Evita. * Juan Peron. * 2: While trying to colonize what's now this state, Juan Ponce de Leon received a mortal wound from the natives. * Florida. * 3: Juan Belmonte is considered the founder of the modern version of this sport, ole!. * Bullfighting. * 4: 1998's MVP in the American League was outfielder Juan Gonzalez, then with this team. * Texas Rangers (now with the Tigers). * 5: In 1995 he was named ASCAP's Latin Songwriter of the Year and in 1996, sang a duet with Paul Anka. * Juan Gabriel.

Round 2. Category: "Out Of " * 1: Sign for a broken soda machine. * Out of order. * 2: Al Fresco. * Out of doors. * 3: According to the proverb, something "out of sight" is this. * Out of mind. * 4: Taboo, or beyond the basketball sidelines. * Out of bounds. * 5: 1985's "Best Picture". * "Out Of Africa".

Round 3. Category: Swimmers * 1: This other name of the ocean's devil ray comes from the Spanish for "blanket" or "cloak". * manta ray. * 2: Ichthyosaurs swam by undulating; plesiosaurs, mainly by moving these. * fins. * 3: These fish that sound like players of a pub game are named for the way they zip around the stream bottom. * darters. * 4: Qualified Navy submariners wear these creatures on their uniforms; sonar operators sometimes hear them in the deep. * dolphins. * 5: The crabeater type of this aquatic mammal doesn't eat crabs but mainly krill. * a seal.

Round 4. Category: Been There * 1: ZIP codes beginning 007 won't get mail to James Bond but to this Caribbean commonwealth. * Puerto Rico. * 2: This South Dakota city settled in 1876 got its name from the fast-running creek it's on. * Rapid City. * 3: St. Louis, Missouri is on the Mississippi; Saint-Louis, Senegal is a port on this ocean. * Atlantic. * 4: You can survey Rio from Pao de Acucar, "Sugarloaf", and Quito from Panecillo, meaning this kind of roll. * Bread roll. * 5: In the 1700s Vientiane, now capital of this Asian country, was capital of its own kingdom. * Laos.

Round 5. Category: Smart Choices * 1: After hitting .202 in the minors in '94, he went back to his day job of all-universe NBA star. * (Michael) Jordan. * 2: When God told him to get a-buildin' in Genesis 6:14, he was smart enough to say yes. * Noah. * 3: In 1989 the people at Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts were smart cookies to acquire RJR this. * Nabisco. * 4: He married Catherine Zeta-Jones. * Michael Douglas. * 5: In a prudent move, he ran for the vice presidency and his Senate seat in 2000. * Joe Lieberman.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 608, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: State Dept. Travel Warnings * 1: The U.S. uses the Swiss embassy in Iran to conduct business and the Polish embassy in this neighboring country. * Iraq. * 2: Say so long to Sarajevo; the U.S. has been warning people about visiting this country since 1992. * Bosnia. * 3: In June 1997 the U.S. closed its embassy in Brazzaville in this country and advises you not to visit. * The Congo. * 4: If you decide to go to this country (against U.S. wishes), really avoid the city of Cali. * Colombia. * 5: With tensions between Ethiopia and this country mounting, the State Dept. warned Americans to get out. * Eritrea.

Round 2. Category: Musical Memories * 1: This bandleader said "No 1-nighter is complete without" the following. * Benny Goodman. * 2: According to the song, it's why "I'm In The Mood For Love". * simply because you're near me. * 3: According to Sammy Cahn, it's when "Love Is Lovelier". * the second time around. * 4: Of "Dancing In The Dark", "Apple Blossom Time" or "Amapola" the 1 that's a waltz. * "Apple Blossom Time". * 5: "That's An Irish Lullaby" is usually referred to by this title, the song's 1st line. * "Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral".

Round 3. Category: Ode To England * 1: Edward IV called off this invasion after Louis XI tendered some financial persuasion. * invading France. * 2: Chiefs and rajahs were there to see, in 1897, her diamond jubilee. * Queen Victoria. * 3: These Londoners turned the simple word "wife" into the rhyming "trouble-and-strife". * Cockneys. * 4: Headquarters was needed for Peel's new police force and this place was chosen as a matter of course. * Scotland Yard. * 5: A Westminster court with the power to seize was in a chamber whose ceiling was covered in these. * stars.

Round 4. Category: Stop The Presses! * 1: A kids magazine survey found out this fairy tends to leave girls about 25 cents more than boys. * the tooth fairy. * 2: A British paper claimed Prince Charles puts toothpaste in his nose to prevent this nocturnal noise. * snoring. * 3: People Magazine reported that Clint Black wears size 7 1/4 while Garth Brooks' is 7 5/8. * a cowboy hat. * 4: In 1992 she not only left her ministry but divorced her jailed husband. * Tammy Faye Bakker. * 5: The 4th annual International Leisure Suit Convention drew 1500 polyester lovers to this Iowa capital. * Des Moines.

Round 5. Category: Biblical Military Men * 1: This Philistine had a "helmet of brass" and a coat of mail weighing 5,000 shekels. * Goliath. * 2: The Roman centurion Cornelius, possibly the first Gentile Christian, was converted by this fisherman. * Peter. * 3: Moses designated him to defend Israel against Amalek; he later brought down the walls of Jericho. * Joshua. * 4: Benaiah was commander of this wise king's army. * Solomon. * 5: This Hittite soldier was sent to the front lines of battle so that David could take his wife Bathsheba. * Uriah.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 607, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: At "Ease" * 1: What Monet used to hold up this work while he painted it. * an easel. * 2: A military agreement to stop fighting for a limited time. * ceasefire. * 3: The otter is an aquatic member of this animal family. * weasel. * 4: The political strategy of pacifying a hostile nation in the hope of avoiding war. * appeasement. * 5: Waxy, colored makeup used by actors. * greasepaint.

Round 2. Category: Capital * 1: Rainfall is rare in this capital of Peru. * Lima. * 2: Yokusuka and Yokohama lie on the same harbor as this capital. * Tokyo. * 3: When Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky in 1972 for the world chess title, they were in this world capital. * Reykjavik. * 4: This city's highest hill at almost 400 feet was built out of rubble collected after WWII. * Berlin. * 5: Now capital, Gaborone was the administrative seat of Bechuanaland, which became this country in 1966. * Botswana.

Round 3. Category: Royal Nicknames * 1: According to a TV theme song, it's Davy Crockett's royal nickname. * "King of the Wild Frontier". * 2: Michael Jackson bestowed this royal nickname upon himself, but many agree it is accurate. * "King of Pop". * 3: Nickname of the jazzman portrayed here by Al Hirschfeld:(Benny Goodman). * "King of Swing". * 4: Aretha Franklin is the Queen of Soul, Donna Summer is this. * "Queen of Disco". * 5: George M. Cohan reigned as the Prince of the American Theater, but was the king of this place. * Broadway.

Round 4. Category: The Library Of Congress * 1: This second U.S. president approved the first appropriation for the library. * (John) Adams. * 2: The library contains the first drawing he made of his invention, the telephone. * (Alexander Graham) Bell. * 3: A glass negative recording their first powered flight is part of the library's collection. * the Wright brothers. * 4: The Library building named for this "Father of the Constitution" is the USA's official memorial to him. * James Madison. * 5: Consulting poets to the Library of Congress have included Gwendolyn Brooks and this "Road Not Taken" poet. * Robert Frost.

Round 5. Category: "B" Cities * 1: A monumental arch called the Gateway of India graces this bustling port city. * Bombay. * 2: The cathedral in this South American planned capital is designed to resemble Jesus' crown of thorns. * Brasília. * 3: Stratford-upon-Avon is about 22 miles south of this city, Britain's second largest. * Birmingham. * 4: Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula, is buried at Snagov Monastery on an island near this capital city. * Bucharest. * 5: Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, one of Queensland's most popular attractions, is 7 miles outside this city. * Brisbane.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 606, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 606, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The 18Th Century * 1: This man was hanged for murder and piracy May 23, 1701. * Captain Kidd. * 2: Name of 3 French kings in the century, and of a gold French coin of the time. * Louis. * 3: Sweden's major power status ended with defeat by this czar in the 1709 battle of Poltava. * Peter the Great. * 4: Tiradentes, or "tooth puller", lead a revolt against Portugal in this South America colony. * Brazil. * 5: 1787 Mozart work often called a serenade; the "New Oxford Companion to Music" says it's, aptly, a nocturne. * "A Little Night Music" ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik").

Round 2. Category: All Stars * 1: This Cardinal slugger hit his 500th career homer in 1999. * Mark McGwire. * 2: Nicknamed "The Rocket", this pitcher won 3 Cy Young Awards with the Red Sox and 2 with the Blue Jays. * Roger Clemens. * 3: Flags at Dodger Stadium flew at half-staff after this '50s all-star died Aug. 14, 1999. * Pee Wee Reese. * 4: One of the 2 all-stars who reached the 3,000-hit mark in 1999. * Wade Boggs or Tony Gwynn. * 5: This Minnesota Twin inspired the Kirby Bear, a stuffed doll wearing his No. 34 jersey. * Kirby Puckett.

Round 3. Category: The League Of Nations * 1: Of the 63 members the league had over the years, this was the only one expelled, for attacking Finland. * Soviet Union/USSR/Russia. * 2: After Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, this emperor made a vain plea for the league's help. * Haile Selassie. * 3: The committee that drafted the league's covenant included this U.S. president. * Woodrow Wilson. * 4: On September 5, 1929 Aristide Briand presented a plan to create a "United States Of" this. * Europe. * 5: In March 1920 the U.S. Senate did not ratify this treaty that created the League of Nations. * the Treaty of Versailles.

Round 4. Category: "A.m." * 1: When Phonemate introduced the first commercially successful one in 1971, it weighed 10 pounds. * Answering machine. * 2: At age 9 Ben Stiller made his TV acting debut on "Kate McShane" starring this actress, his mom. * Anne Meara. * 3: Hail Schubert who came up with this composition so "full of grace" in 1825. * "Ave Maria". * 4: Marilyn Monroe's last movie, "The Misfits", was written by this playwright, her then-husband. * Arthur Miller. * 5: Once home to the Hittites, today this region is occupied by Turkey. * Asia Minor.

Round 5. Category: Russian Literature * 1: The last words spoken in this novel are "Hurrah for Karamazov!". * The Brothers Karamazov. * 2: In this last Chekov play, the character Trofimov says, "All Russia is our orchard". * The Cherry Orchard. * 3: This 1957 Pasternak novel was finally published in the USSR in 1987. * Doctor Zhivago. * 4: His 1863 novel "The Cossacks" grew out of his service in the Russian Army in the Caucasus. * Tolstoy. * 5: He was expelled from the Soviet Writer's Union in 1969; in 1970 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. * Solzhenitsyn.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 605, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Simply Simon * 1: This CBS private eye series starred Jameson Parker and Gerald McRaney. * Simon and Simon. * 2: simonsays.com is the web address of this publishing company founded in 1924. * Simon and Schuster. * 3: Her first Top Ten hit was "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" in 1971. * Carly Simon. * 4: This character has Uncle Tom beaten to death in "Uncle Tom's Cabin". * Simon Legree. * 5: In 1812 he penned the "Cartagena Manifesto". * Simon Bolivar.

Round 2. Category: Rock Collecting * 1: The crack, chisel and sledge types of these tools are useful in the field. * hammers. * 2: It's the canine nickname for an amateur geologist. * rockhound. * 3: Diluted in water, this chemical, HCI, can be used to dissolve calcite deposits on specimens. * hydrochloric acid. * 4: This finishing process can be done by hand with silicon carbide or with a tumbling machine. * polishing. * 5: A mineral has this property if it glows under ultraviolet light. * fluorescence.

Round 3. Category: Cream * 1: Your basic all-American baked potato often comes with this "cream" and chives. * sour. * 2: One type is made with chocolate and cream; another with damp soil, mostly by children. * a mud pie. * 3: Captain Parker's in Yarmouth is a 2-time winner of Boston Harborfest's competition in this creamy soup. * clam chowder. * 4: This Kraft Foods dessert topping comes in an extra creamy version. * Cool Whip. * 5: Teutonic name for a mousse made with whipped cream and set in a towering mold. * Bavarian cream.

Round 4. Category: Nation"Z" * 1: This country has numerous national parks including Fiordland, Tongariro and Abel Tasman. * New Zealand. * 2: South America's largest known petroleum deposits lie in this country's Maracaibo Basin. * Venezuela. * 3: Its Latin name, Helvetia, appears on its coins and stamps. * Switzerland. * 4: It was once known as Portuguese East Africa. * Mozambique. * 5: The Baykonur Cosmodrome, Russia's space-launch facility, is actually in this nation. * Kazakhstan.

Round 5. Category: Ends With "Oof" * 1: As a noun it's the horny sheath covering the toes of certain mammals; as a verb, it means "to dance". * hoof. * 2: To complain bitterly and loudly is to "raise" this. * the roof. * 3: This can be a careless mistake or a foolish person who might make one. * goof. * 4: Standoffish. * aloof. * 5: Accidental poisonings of kids under 5 have declined since this type of closure was introduced. * childproof.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 604, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: British Trivia * 1: King Richard II is credited with this invention, which is something to sneeze at. * the handkerchief. * 2: He's the British equivalent of Santa Claus. * Father Christmas. * 3: 1 of 4 royal family members who took part in a '87 celebrity version of the game show "It's a Knockout". * Prince Andrew (or Prince Edward, Princess Anne, or Fergie, the Duchess of York). * 4: June 1987 event referred to in British tabloid headline "Super Mag Wins Her Hat Trick". * Thatcher winning her third national election. * 5: The governor of a harbor town was called a portreeve and the governor of a county, this. * shire reeve.

Round 2. Category: Red Shoes * 1: He flies over Metropolis in his red high-tops. * Superman. * 2: Tom Hanks, in a 1985 film. * The Man with One Red Shoe. * 3: Bespectacled British rocker who sang, "The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes". * Elvis Costello. * 4: In the 1948 film, she danced in "The Red Shoes". * Moira Shearer. * 5: "Wicked Witch of the West" who finally wore the ruby slippers in 1971's "Brewster McCloud". * Margaret Hamilton.

Round 3. Category: Origins * 1: This fuzzy-skinned cousin of the nectarine seems to have originated in China, not Georgia. * Peach. * 2: Pope Gregory the Great is credited with starting the custom of saying "God bless you" after one of these. * a sneeze. * 3: In modern times it originated as a way to teach geography; kids put together cut-up maps. * Jigsaw puzzles. * 4: Bast, an Egyptian goddess with a cat's head, had this many lives. * 9. * 5: Thought barbaric by Roman nobles, this item of clothing came from Asian nomads who rode a lot. * pants.

Round 4. Category: Insert Coin * 1: A porcelain or plastic porker with a slot in its back. * piggy bank. * 2: A slip-on shoe with a slot for a coin in the vamp. * penny loafer. * 3: On July 16, 1935 these were 1st installed on the streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma. * parking meters. * 4: Inserting a coin in a fruit machine in England is the equivalent of doing this in the U.S.. * putting a coin in a slot machine. * 5: The Greeks put a coin in the mouth of the dead so they could pay the fare for his boat ride. * Charon.

Round 5. Category: Myth * 1: For Remus looking at him must have been like looking in a mirror. * Romulus. * 2: This group led by Jason sailed on a ship with 50 oars. * Argonauts. * 3: Amalthea was the nurse who secretly brought up this kid so his father Cronus wouldn't eat him. * Zeus. * 4: Iris, the daughter of Thaumas and Electra, was the goddess of this colorful effect. * rainbow. * 5: One version says she got the gift of prophecy after her ears were licked by a serpent in Apollo's temple. * Cassandra.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 603, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Venture "A" * 1: Him, her, him, him, her...doesn't matter who. * anyone. * 2: It's also called a postmortem. * autopsy. * 3: Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" is described as this, as it's partially based on incidents in her own life. * autobiography. * 4: Get mad, get really mad -- it's alphabetically the first of the 7 Deadly Sins. * anger. * 5: Bartolomeo Eustachio is considered a founder of the modern version of this science. * anatomy.

Round 2. Category: Hotels By City * 1: The Marriott Riverwalk, The Hilton Palacio Del Rio,The Holiday Inn Crockett Hotel. * San Antonio. * 2: The Inn at the Opera,The Nob Hill Lambourne,The Hyatt Fisherman's Wharf. * San Francisco. * 3: The Mirage,Excalibur,Caesar's Palace. * Las Vegas. * 4: The Golden Nugget,The Flamingo Hilton,The Mirage. * Las Vegas. * 5: The Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel,Penn's View Inn,The Penn Tower Hotel. * Philadelphia.

Round 3. Category: Cards And Dice * 1: Card game that's the equivalent of the French "vingt-et-un". * blackjack. * 2: Instead of pips, poker dice have 6 card values on them that run 9 through this. * Ace. * 3: Of the numbers you can throw on your 1st roll in craps to win, it's the harder to hit. * 11. * 4: The 4 players in bridge are given these directional titles. * North, South, East and West. * 5: If you roll a die and the 1 is on top, this number is on the bottom. * 6.

Round 4. Category: Bob Dylan * 1: Jenna Elfman played drums when Bob made an appearance on this ABC sitcom. * Dharma and Greg. * 2: In 1998 a man with "Soy Bomb" marked on his chest interrupted Bob's performance at this awards show. * Grammy Awards. * 3: In 1975 Bob spoke out for this imprisoned boxer; in 1999 Denzel Washington played him on film. * Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. * 4: When this Robbie Robertson group first backed Dylan in the '60s, it was known as The Hawks. * The Band. * 5: Bob's "Lay Lady Lay" was considered for this 1969 Jon Voight film, but didn't make the soundtrack. * Midnight Cowboy.

Round 5. Category: Saucey! * 1: The name of this seasoned tomato sauce comes from the Italian word for "seafaring". * marinara. * 2: Basil and pine nuts go into this classic sauce from Genoa. * pesto sauce. * 3: Restaurateur Signore di Lello is credited with creating this sauce named for him and served over fettucine. * Alfredo. * 4: This chicken topper whose name is from the Aztec for "chili sauce" has a bit of chocolate in it. * mole. * 5: This hot creamy sauce made with tarragon and vinegar is traditionally served with chateaubriand. * bearnaise.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 602, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "California" Songs * 1: "Though East Coast girls are hip," the Beach Boys wished "'they all could be" these. * "California Girls". * 2: The Eagles' top-selling single that begins "on a dark desert highway". * "Hotel California". * 3: "All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray," it is 1966, and the Mamas and the Papas are doing this. * "California Dreamin'". * 4: Albert Hammond's sadly inaccurate weather presumption: 'cause "it pours, man. It pours". * "It Never Rains In Southern California". * 5: In this 1924 song, Al Jolson, born in Russia, claimed the West Coast was "right back where I started from". * "California, Here I Come".

Round 2. Category: "Little" * 1: We're never told what this "good boy" did with his thumb or the plum once he pulled them from the pie. * Little Jack Horner. * 2: Ursa Minor. * little bear. * 3: If your wife is a member of N.O.W., you'd probably never introduce her as this. * the little woman. * 4: Now a Los Angeles newscaster, she was Miss America in 1976. * Tawny Little. * 5: A young quahog suitable for eating raw. * littleneck clam.

Round 3. Category: Battles * 1: The American Revolution began in April 1775 with the battles of these 2 Massachusetts towns. * Lexington and Concord. * 2: This battle fought in Maryland in 1862 was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War. * Antietam. * 3: England's King Harold II lost the all-important Battle of Hastings in this year. * 1066. * 4: The Battles of Missolonghi and Navarino helped win this country its independence from Turkey. * Greece. * 5: "2 ships, 2 brigs, 1 schooner and 1 sloop" were the fleet defeated in this battle in the War of 1812. * the Battle of Lake Erie.

Round 4. Category: Movie Crossword Clues "G" * 1: Steve and Ali made one, before Kim and Alec(7). * Getaway. * 2: They "Prefer Blondes"(9). * Gentlemen. * 3: It precedes "Canyon", "Hotel" and "Theft Auto"(5). * Grand. * 4: "Luminous" Boyer and Bergman classic(8). * Gaslight. * 5: Oddjob's master (10). * Goldfinger.

Round 5. Category: Native Americana * 1: The well-meant Dawes Act of 1887 divided these Indian areas into individual parcels of land. * Reservations. * 2: Mahicans lived along the Hudson; Mohegans lived in Connecticut; Mohicans were created by this author. * James Fenimore Cooper. * 3: The name of this soft leather Native American shoe comes from an Algonquin word. * a moccasin. * 4: This English word comes from a Delaware name for a turtle. * Terrapin. * 5: The Crow are known for their ceremonial costumes with unique beadwork and dyed quills from these. * porcupines.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 601, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Shopping U.s.a. * 1: In 1996 Graceland Gifts in this city sold a limited edition Elvis Cabbage Patch Kid in a gold lame suit. * Memphis. * 2: Elvis Presley Enterprises owns several gift shops in this city; they're all close to Graceland. * Memphis. * 3: Rumors on Royal Street in this city specializes in hand-crafted Mardi Gras masks. * New Orleans. * 4: Browsing for baubles? Tiffany, Cartier and Van Cleef and Arpels all have shops on this chic Beverly Hills street. * Rodeo Drive. * 5: This L.A. street noted for its Mexican handicrafts is named for Los Angeles' first county judge. * Olvera Street.

Round 2. Category: Character Study * 1: Freddy Eynsford Hill,Col. Pickering,Henry Higgins. * Pygmalion (or My Fair Lady). * 2: Natasha Rostova,Pierre Bezuhov,Napoleon. * War and Peace. * 3: Rusty Trawler,Sally Tomato,Holly Golightly. * Breakfast at Tiffany's. * 4: Bertha Mason,Grace Poole,Mr. Rochester. * Jane Eyre. * 5: Amelia Sedley,George Osborne,Becky Sharp. * Vanity Fair.

Round 3. Category: "C" In Shakespeare * 1: Juliet's maiden name. * Capulet. * 2: Tragic tramp who two-timed Troilus. * Cressida. * 3: Co-conspirator who says, "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves...". * Cassius. * 4: In "Hamlet", he's the king of Denmark. * Claudius. * 5: This play about a king of Britain contains the famous poem "Hark, hark! the lark...". * Cymbeline.

Round 4. Category: Around The Horn * 1: The southernmost point in South America, Cape Horn is part of this country. * Chile. * 2: SE of Cape Horn is the "South" version of this Scottish island group that shares its name with dogs and ponies. * the Shetlands. * 3: This strait that separates the Pacific and Atlantic oceans is named for a Portuguese guy. * Magellan. * 4: Cape Horn is the southern extremity of this fiery archipelago. * Tierra del Fuego. * 5: The largest desert in the Americas is in this Argentinean region visited by Darwin on his Beagle trips. * Patagonia.

Round 5. Category: Flops * 1: Ford, '57, flop, 'nuf said. * Edsel. * 2: This former NFL linebacker's show "Lawless" was sacked in March 1997 after one airing. * Brian Bosworth. * 3: With teams including the Florida Blazers, this football league lasted for 1 1/2 seasons in '74-'75. * WFL (World Football League). * 4: Roger Ebert called this 1980 Michael Cimino film "Painful and unpleasant to look at". * Heaven's Gate. * 5: "La Traviata", his modern-dress opera version of "La Dame Aux Camelias", flopped in its 1853 premiere. * Giuseppe Verdi.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 600, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Musical Genres * 1: Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power" and Motörhead's "No Remorse" made Rolling Stone's Top 100 Albums of this genre. * (heavy) metal. * 2: The book of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. * Gospel. * 3: In 2020 "Contigo" by Alejandro Sanz won Record of the Year at these Grammys. * the Latin Grammys. * 4: Electronic style that can precede -logical, -babble or -crat. * techno. * 5: This subgenre of metal can also mean "to beat savagely". * thrash.

Round 2. Category: Lesser-Known Names * 1: Most famous son of the man born Alois Schicklgruber in 1837. * Adolf Hitler. * 2: Sadly, Army nurse Clara Maass died in 1901 after she volunteered to be bitten by a mosquito carrying this. * yellow fever. * 3: Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief, is credited with the look of this music player introduced in 2001. * an iPod. * 4: Rock and roller Ernest Evans, his stage name is a "twisted" version of Fats Domino's. * Chubby Checker. * 5: George Archer joined this man's company in 1903; the "Midland" comes from a linseed products company. * John Daniels.

Round 3. Category: The Arts * 1: In August 1988 the Getty Museum announced one of its prized pieces, the head of Achilles, was this. * fake. * 2: Nearly 10 feet long, "Lavender Mist" from 1950 is one of his drip paintings. * Jackson Pollock. * 3: "The Lady with the Unicorn" is a medieval example of this textile art form. * tapestry. * 4: A Michael Smuin work was the first full-length ballet shown on "Dance in America", part of this "great" PBS series. * Performances. * 5: Perhaps the greatest composer of German songs, he died the year after his hero Beethoven. * (Franz) Schubert.

Round 4. Category: Hurricane Names * 1: 1985:Same as Steinem and Estefan. * Gloria. * 2: 1991:Same as Fosse and Barker. * Bob. * 3: 1955:Same as Reno and Jackson. * Janet. * 4: 1983:Same as Witt and Silverstone. * Alicia. * 5: 1979:Same as Remington and Chopin. * Frederic.

Round 5. Category: Initialed Authors * 1: In 2001 she wrote 2 of Harry Potter's school books under 2 different pseudonyms. * J.K. Rowling. * 2: "Women in Love" was the sequel to "The Rainbow" by this British author. * D.H. Lawrence. * 3: The struggle between good and evil forces over a magic ring is at the cnter of his epic trilogy. * J.R.R. Tolkien. * 4: His published work: one novel and about 15 short stories, including "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters". * J.D. Salinger. * 5: He wrote the "Chronicles of Narnia" for his goddaughter Lucy, who shares her name with a character in them. * C.S. Lewis.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 599, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: A Lovely Port * 1: This Australian city was given its name by a former HMS Beagle sailor. * Darwin. * 2: Built for Spanish trade with Asia, this Mexican city is now famous for the cliff divers of La Quebrada. * Acapulco. * 3: La Libertad is a port supplying this alliterative capital of El Salvador. * San Salvador. * 4: If you take the last train to this Tennessee port, you'll be at the junction of the Red and Cumberland Rivers. * Clarksville. * 5: 5 years as an unsold slave in this north African capital inspired Cervantes' play "El Trato de Angel". * Algiers.

Round 2. Category: 1930s Aviation * 1: In the 1930s he moved the Wright Bros.' home and bicycle workshop to Dearborn, Michigan. * Henry Ford. * 2: The Mitsubishi flown from Japan for George VI's coronation was named this, Japanese for "divine wind". * Kamikaze. * 3: On January 8, 1930 Walter Mittelholzer took off from the Serengeti plain to fly in a plane over this mount. * Mount Kilimanjaro. * 4: In 1932 and '33 one of these airships made a total of 18 trips between Germany and Brazil. * Zeppelin. * 5: In 1931 Boeing, National, Pacific and Varney Airlines joined forces under this new name. * United Airlines.

Round 3. Category: In A Minute * 1: Each minute 5 million of these are sent; how many of them are spam, we don't know. * E-mails. * 2: Men's Health magazine says the average guy can do 33 of these in a minute in his 20s, 21 in his 40s. * push-ups. * 3: In a June 2000 film Nicolas Cage played a guy who could do this in a minute. * Steal a car. * 4: Each minute it pumps about 5 quarts of blood. * The heart. * 5: Under the slogan "Real Estate for the Real World", this company claims on average to buy or sell a home every minute. * Century 21.

Round 4. Category: California Cities * 1: This city near the U.S.-Mexico border is home to a naval base and a world famous zoo. * San Diego. * 2: This city's zoo, located in Balboa Park, is one of the largest in the world. * San Diego. * 3: This upscale community was founded in 1906 by the Rodeo Land and Water Company. * Beverly Hills. * 4: Its name comes from the Santa Ana River and the German word for home. * Anaheim. * 5: This Silicon Valley city served as California's first capital from 1849 to 1851. * San Jose.

Round 5. Category: State Borders * 1: Kansas and Utah. * Colorado. * 2: Oklahoma and Arkansas. * Texas. * 3: New York and Ohio. * Pennsylvania. * 4: Montana and Oregon. * Idaho. * 5: Alabama and Louisiana. * Mississippi.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 598, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: America's Most Want Ads * 1: Wanted: Mass quantities of this hardest natural substance on Earth. * diamonds. * 2: Wanted: Any one of the remaining ones of this vintage toy in its original box from 1959. * Barbie. * 3: Wanted: Any living specimens of the Schaus Swallowtail, one of the rarest species of this insect. * the butterfly. * 4: Wanted: Street maps of this lost continent first described by a priest to the philosopher Solon. * Atlantis. * 5: Wanted: Recent photos of this reclusive author and creator of Holden Caulfield. * J.D. Salinger.

Round 2. Category: Mythological Relatives * 1: Some say Penelope played around with Hermes and produced this god known for playing the pipes. * Pan. * 2: Eris, the personification of discord, accompanies this Greek war god, her brother, into battle. * Ares. * 3: This king of Crete was Phaedra's father. * Minos. * 4: The Graeae, or "gray women", are gray-haired sisters of this gruesome group that includes Medusa. * Gorgons. * 5: Typhon, who had a hundred heads, was the father of this multi-headed serpent. * the Hydra.

Round 3. Category: Candles * 1: Elton John's "Candle In The Wind" was originally written as a tribute to this actress. * Marilyn Monroe. * 2: Blowing out his birthday candles, a boy wishes for 24 hours of truth from his dad in this 1997 Jim Carrey film. * Liar Liar. * 3: Erle Stanley Gardner had this attorney take on "The Case Of The Crooked Candle". * Perry Mason. * 4: In the mid-19th century, candles were often made with this wax crystallized from petroleum. * Paraffin wax. * 5: This play contains the line "Out, out brief candle!". * Macbeth.

Round 4. Category: 20Th Century Poetry * 1: Frank O'Hara's "The Day Lady Died" is a tribute to this black singer. * Billie Holiday. * 2: In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", it's the color of the wood two roads diverged in. * yellow. * 3: It's the first name of Edwin Arlington Robinson's morose Mr. Cheevy. * Miniver. * 4: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", he "howled". * Allen Ginsberg. * 5: He went from laboring in a Siberian camp to becoming a US citizen to winning the 1987 Nobel Literature Prize. * Josef Brodsky.

Round 5. Category: It's All A Plant * 1: Arkansas has made the pink variety of this its state fruit and its state vegetable, just in case. * a tomato. * 2: Scientifically Hamamelis virginiana, this "bewitching" plant is used to make a soothing astringent. * witch hazel. * 3: In Dutch, these tuber vegetables are known as aardappelen. * potatoes. * 4: Arctic alpine plants include the saxifrage, whose roots manage to grow into these to anchor themselves. * rocks. * 5: The Great Basin bristlecone species of this tree can live for more than 4,000 years. * a pine.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 597, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Also A Baseball Team * 1: Raphael, Michael, Gabriel and Uriel. * angels. * 2: Don Quixote thought the windmills were these. * giants. * 3: Numbers like 1, 2 and 7012. * cardinals. * 4: Split zygotes. * twins. * 5: Icterus galbula songbirds. * orioles.

Round 2. Category: "Black" And "White" * 1: This Bing Crosby hit is the best-selling record of all time. * White Christmas. * 2: It's the more familiar name for Ursus americanus. * Black bear. * 3: 1 oz Kahlua, 2 oz. vodka and some milk or cream. * White Russian. * 4: It's another name for a termite. * white ant. * 5: The fastest-moving land snake is believed to be this venomous snake. * black mamba.

Round 3. Category: Little Birdies * 1: Snoopy's best little buddy, in the comics he talks in "scratches". * Woodstock. * 2: These little yellow birds were once carried into coal mines because of their sensitivity to poisonous gas. * Canaries. * 3: A wise parrot named Polynesia taught him how to talk to the animals. * Dr. Dolittle. * 4: A clock invented in the Black Forest around 1775 introduced this little birdie to timekeeping. * Cuckoo. * 5: It's the symbol of happiness Shirley Temple went looking for in a 1940 film. * Bluebird.

Round 4. Category: 1979 * 1: Acronym used to refer to the treaty signed by Brezhnev and Carter in Vienna in June. * SALT II. * 2: 1,000 Chinese protested the privileges of high officials in this square, more famous 10 years later. * Tiananmen Square. * 3: This Boston outfielder became the first American League player to get both 3,000 hits and 400 home runs. * Carl Yastrzemski. * 4: No longer a Sex Pistol, he was facing murder charges when he died in February. * Sid Vicious. * 5: On April 3 she was elected mayor of Chicago with 82.5% of the vote. * Jane Byrne.

Round 5. Category: Adam Sandler * 1: In the new movie "Click" I have a slight disagreement with this actor who gained fame as a lifeguard on the TV. * David Hasselhoff. * 2: In "Happy Gilmore", I had enough and decked this long-time CBS game show host--you up for the sequel, Alex?. * Bob Barker. * 3: In the new movie "Click", this "Deer Hunter" actor plays Morty; he also was The Continental on "SNL" many times. * Christopher Walken. * 4: I had a recurring role as Theo's friend Smitty in this 1980s No. 1-rated sitcom"What was it?". * The Cosby Show. * 5: I played tackling machine and H2O enthusiast in this 1998 film. * The Waterboy.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 596, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hummingbirds * 1: The largest hummingbird is the 8 1/2-inch Patagona gigas, native to this mountain range. * the Andes. * 2: Of 50, 100 or 200, the number of wingbeats per second for the smallest hummingbirds during courtship. * 200. * 3: Although it's true that hummingbirds prefer flowers of this color, the shape of the flower is equally important. * red. * 4: When migrating, the ruby-throated hummingbird flies more than 500 miles nonstop over this body of water to reach the Yucatan. * the Gulf of Mexico. * 5: Part of a male's courtship is this maneuver in which he reaches 50 mph and experiences 9G forces when pulling out of it. * a mating dive.

Round 2. Category: Singers' First Films * 1: "Lady Sings The Blues". * Diana Ross. * 2: "The Bodyguard". * Whitney Houston. * 3: "9 To 5". * Dolly Parton. * 4: "Oh, God!". * John Denver. * 5: "The Electric Horseman". * Willie Nelson.

Round 3. Category: "Down" Words * 1: Othello's was jealousy. * his fatal downfall. * 2: According to Petula Clark, "The lights are much brighter there". * "Downtown". * 3: Word describing a period when computers can't compute. * downtime. * 4: On a PBS series, Hudson, Rose and Mrs. Bridges resided there. * Downstairs. * 5: Description of someone who is practical. * down-to-earth.

Round 4. Category: Southernmost Points * 1: Willem Schouten was the first to sail around this cape, South America's southernmost point. * Cape Horn. * 2: Cape Tainaron on the Peloponnesus is the southernmost mainland point of this country. * Greece. * 3: Mexico's southernmost point lies on its Pacific coast border with this country. * Guatemala. * 4: Asia's southernmost mainland point, Cape Piai, lies in this country just north of Singapore. * Malaysia. * 5: Cape Sarych, Ukraine's southernmost point, lies on this peninsula that juts into the Black Sea. * the Crimean Peninsula.

Round 5. Category: Approbation * 1: In 1982 Lenny Skutnick rescued a passenger on a crashed 737 from this D.C. river. * Potomac. * 2: Fittingly, CNN broke the news in 1997 when this man decided to give $1 billion to the U.N.. * Ted Turner. * 3: Jody Williams won a 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to ban these weapons. * land mines. * 4: In 1997, 5 decades late, 7 black soldiers received this highest award for bravery during WWII. * the Congressional Medal of Honor. * 5: Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara, who saved hundreds of Jews in WWII, bears the title "Righteous" this. * Gentile.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 595, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pigs On Film * 1: He made his debut in 1935's "I Haven't Got a Hat" and is famous for the line "That's all folks". * Porky (Pig). * 2: Roger Ebert describes her water ballet number in "The Great Muppet Caper" as Busby Berkeley-like. * Miss Piggy. * 3: This 1995 film tells the tale of a piglet who dreams of being a sheepdog. * Babe. * 4: Maurice Denham voiced barnyard revolt leader Napoleon the Pig in a 1955 version of this Orwell classic. * Animal Farm. * 5: The 1973 cartoon adaptation of this E.B. White book featured the number "Zuckerman's Famous Pig". * Charlotte's Web.

Round 2. Category: World Skyline Tours * 1: This city has been a port since the Roman period. * London. * 2: This city has one of the world's largest single-span bridges across its harbor. * Sydney, Australia. * 3: This city was nearly destroyed twice in the 20th century by an earthquake and then by bombing. * Tokyo. * 4: The first mayor of this city led a rebellion against the Canadian governor after being unseated in Parliament. * Toronto. * 5: This South American city's name comes from early explorers who thought the bay was a river. * Rio de Janeiro.

Round 3. Category: Favorite Pastimes * 1: Conductor Zubin Mehta points a foil, not a baton, in this sport. * fencing. * 2: In a 1936 cartoon, Mickey, Goofy, and Donald played this equine sport, just as their boss Walt did. * polo. * 3: Rough and tumble sport that was often played at Kennedy clan gatherings. * touch football. * 4: Jose Feliciano enjoys this speedy aquatic sport but rarely drives the boat for others. * water skiing. * 5: An avid bowler, he was the "1st Protestant". * Martin Luther.

Round 4. Category: American Museums * 1: The Winterthur Museum in this state displays Henry Francis DuPont's collection of American antiques. * Delaware. * 2: You can ride a real trolley at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport in this state. * Maine. * 3: Lemont, Illinois has a museum of these jars that never stay full when there are children around. * Cookie jars. * 4: Except for the entrance area, the National Museum of African Art in this city is completely underground. * Washington, D.C.. * 5: A visit to this soft drink's Waco, Texas museum will answer the question about the origin of its "10, 2, and 4" ads. * Dr Pepper.

Round 5. Category: Breaking Up * 1: The Doors recorded for 2 years after the death of this lead singer before calling it quits. * Jim Morrison. * 2: This duo fell apart after Annie Lennox went on sabbatical. * Eurythmics. * 3: This "Heart of Glass" group fronted by Debbie Harry shattered in 1982. * Blondie. * 4: The death of lead singer Kurt Cobain put an end to this band in 1994. * Nirvana. * 5: This "amphibious" Santa Barbara band that sang "All I Want" and "Walk On The Ocean" croaked in 1998. * Toad the Wet Sprocket.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 594, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Oscar-Losing Songs * 1: Celestial songs losing '36 Oscars included "A Melody from the Sky", "When Did You Leave Heaven" and this: [Piano instrumental plays]. * "Pennies from Heaven". * 2: After she sang "True Love" in "High Society", the song lost an Oscar but then she won a crown. * Grace Kelly. * 3: Though it lost the 1963 Oscar, this "Theme from Mondo Cane" became BMI's all-time 2nd most played song. * "More". * 4: 1934 nominees "Love in Bloom" and "The Carioca" are the only 2 songs which share this distinction. * first 2 nominees and did not win. * 5: 1954 holiday film which produced the Oscar-losing "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep". * White Christmas.

Round 2. Category: Nyc Movies * 1: 1984 Francis Coppola film set in Harlem's hottest hangout. * The Cotton Club. * 2: 1 of the 2 parks in "Barefoot in the Park". * Central Park (or Washington Square Park). * 3: In the Paul Newman film, this title "Fort" is in the Bronx. * Fort Apache. * 4: In 1975, Jack Lemmon was "The Prisoner of" this thoroughfare. * Second Avenue. * 5: 1975 film based on a true story in which Al Pacino robs a Brooklyn bank to finance a sex change. * Dog Day Afternoon.

Round 3. Category: Carnivores * 1: The name of this reptile is from the Spanish el lagarto, "the lizard". * an alligator. * 2: Weighing up to 1700 pounds, the Alaskan brown species of this animal is the world's largest land carnivore. * a bear. * 3: The thresher type of this aquatic carnivore uses its long tail to herd and stun fish before it eats them. * a shark. * 4: Although confined mostly to Africa, this fastest land animal can also be found in Iran and Afghanistan. * the cheetah. * 5: As this tusked pinniped grows older, the male becomes nearly hairless. * a walrus.

Round 4. Category: Generals * 1: Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was the only general to land with the first wave of troops on this day. * D-Day. * 2: William Westmoreland served in these three wars; the last two as a general. * World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. * 3: During the last seven years of his life, John J. Pershing lived in a special suite in this D.C. hospital. * Walter Reed Hospital. * 4: US general who in 1945 told his wife "Peace is going to be hell on me!". * George Patton. * 5: This Civil War general wrote "Ben-Hur". * Lew Wallace.

Round 5. Category: Jail * 1: Title of the following prison song, the 2nd-biggest hit of its singer's career:. * "Chain Gang" (by Sam Cooke). * 2: Calling it "Most Secure Prison", Guinness says tho 23 attempted to escape from Alcatraz, this many succeeded. * none. * 3: This country's Kharkov Prison is said to be world's largest, accommodating 40,000 prisoners. * Soviet Union. * 4: Unlucky Col. Klink was in charge of this prison camp housing "Hogan's Heroes". * Stalag 13. * 5: In "Monopoly", if you pay to get out of jail, it costs this much. * $50.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 593, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: New Video Games * 1: In Microids' "Ben Hur" you race these vehicles. * chariots. * 2: You can download "Wheel of Fortune" onto the Nokia 3650, one of these devices. * a cell phone. * 3: X-2 isn't a Marvel super hero game, it's the sequel to the 10th game in this long-running Japanese RPG series. * Final Fantasy. * 4: In the game based on this TV series you take on the roles of detective and prosecutor. * Law and Order. * 5: "The Angel of Darkness" takes this Eidos heroine in a new, darker direction and ups her polygons from 500 to 5,000!. * Lara Croft.

Round 2. Category: Al Gore Rhythms * 1: His home state. * Tennessee. * 2: His job from 1985 to 1993. * U.S. Senator. * 3: His wife's most famous nickname. * Tipper. * 4: The East Coast school where he got his B.A. in 1969. * Harvard. * 5: The foreign country where he worked as a journalist from 1969 to 1971. * Vietnam.

Round 3. Category: "Pop" Culture * 1: Fruit-flavored ice on one or 2 sticks. * popsicle. * 2: 5,000-year-old remnants of this snack have been found in a cave in the Southwest. * popcorn. * 3: She's the high-flying nanny of Jane and Michael Banks. * Mary Poppins. * 4: You'll often find them sprinkled on top of kaiser rolls. * poppy seeds. * 5: An antiestablishment politician who speaks directly to the people. or an 1890s U.S. political party. * Populist.

Round 4. Category: Read Your Bible * 1: In the New Testament, Zacchaeus climbs a tree to get a better view of this man. * Jesus. * 2: In Matthew 27, this Roman washes his hands to ritually absolve himself of Jesus' conviction and execution. * Pilate. * 3: For strength to "resist" this, try James 1:12, "Blessed is the man that endureth" it. * temptation. * 4: This Old Testament king's name is the first one mentioned after Jesus' in the New Testament. * David. * 5: In Job 41, God compares Job's abilities with this monster of the sea. * Leviathan.

Round 5. Category: State Quarters * 1: The zia sun symbol over a topographical outline of the state. * New Mexico. * 2: This state raced into history as the 19th state. * Indiana. * 3: Kansas' quarter features a buffalo and this plant known for its seeds. * a sunflower. * 4: A grizzly bear emerging from the water with a salmon in its jaws and the motto "The Great Land". * Alaska. * 5: There's a keystone and an outline of the state on its quarter. * Pennsylvania.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 592, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cities In Literature * 1: "Gone with the Wind"'s Rhett Butler was a profiteer from this South Carolina port city. * Charleston. * 2: In Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", Hester Prynne did her sinning in this Puritan city. * Boston. * 3: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn's hometown, St. Petersburg, was based on this Missouri city. * Hannibal. * 4: James Joyce's "Ulysses" takes place on June 16, 1904 in this city. * Dublin. * 5: "Tom Brown's School Days" were spent at a British prep school in this town. * Rugby.

Round 2. Category: Minty Fresh * 1: White Mazda Miatas bear an uncanny resemblance to these "1 1/2 Calorie Breath Mints". * Tic-Tac. * 2: Pep‑O‑Mint and Wint‑O‑Green are flavors of this candy mint. * Life Savers. * 3: This Certs ingredient is a mix of partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, copper gluconate and flavoring. * Retsyn. * 4: These "Curiously Strong" mints are "So Strong, They Come in a Metal Box". * Altoids. * 5: "Fresh Goes Better in Life" with these mints, "Fresh and Full of Life". * Mentos.

Round 3. Category: Arthurian Legend * 1: Leodegrance, King of Cameliard, had Arthur as a son-in-law after this daughter's marriage. * Guinevere. * 2: Merlin didn't design this or buy it at Ikea--he copied it from Joseph of Arimathea. * the Round Table. * 3: This witch's name means she's a "fairy". * Morgan Le Fay. * 4: We learned more about this nephew of Arthur in the 14th century tale titled him "and the Green Knight". * Sir Gawain. * 5: Some accounts say Arthur still lives on this mythic island. * Avalon.

Round 4. Category: U.s. "O" Tour * 1: Since the opening of Walt Disney World, this city has become a booming metropolis. * Orlando. * 2: Thanks to a National Park Service webcam, you can see this famous geyser erupt live on your computer. * Old Faithful. * 3: Pearl Harbor and its memorials are a must-see when visiting this island. * Oahu. * 4: Every year during the Kentucky Derby Festival, the Belle and Delta Queen steamboats race each other down this river. * the Ohio River. * 5: Go way down upon the Suwannee River and you'll discover that it rises in this swamp. * Okefenokee Swamp.

Round 5. Category: Pop Music Trivia * 1: She was awarded her 1986 Female Pop Vocal Grammy Award by her cousin Dionne. * Whitney Houston. * 2: "Midnight Train to Georgia" was originally called "Midnight Plane to..." this Texas city. * Houston. * 3: In 1977 she spent a week on the top of the Top 40 chart with "Don't Leave Me That Way". * Thelma Houston. * 4: After his death in 1950, his recording of "September Song" became a big hit. * Walter Huston. * 5: After "Phoenix" and "Wichita", it was Glen Campbell's 3rd Top 40 hit with a city in the title. * "Galveston".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 591, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Hall"S * 1: What you do with your "boughs of holly". * deck the halls. * 2: Oklahoma City, OK., Canton, OH., and Cooperstown, N.Y. are each known for 1 of these. * hall of fame. * 3: During Mexican War, U.S. Marines raised the Amer. flag over Nat'l Palace in Mexico City, later called this. * Halls of Montezuma. * 4: Where you go in the Palace of Versailles to get a good look at yourself, 483 in fact. * Hall of Mirrors. * 5: Model who's produced 2 "model" children for Mick Jagger. * Jerry Hall.

Round 2. Category: Feminism * 1: The profession of Mary Prance in Henry James' 1886 "The Bostonians", it was about 1/5 female in Boston at the time. * a physician (or medicine or a doctor). * 2: Reformer Lucy Stone is perhaps best remembered for refusing to do this when she got married in 1855. * changing her last name to her husband's. * 3: Giving her 1989 book its title, Arlie Hochschild noted, "Most women work one shift at" their jobs and a "second shift" here. * at home. * 4: A heralded 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" ended 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 in her favor. * Billie Jean King. * 5: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst were a mother-daughter team of these activists for the vote. * suffragettes.

Round 3. Category: "B" In Rock * 1: On a "Manic Monday", this group taught us to "Walk Like An Egyptian". * The Bangles. * 2: Soap star Katherine Kelly Lang was in many of this group's music videos, as the modern "California Girl". * The Beach Boys. * 3: Elvis' last Top 10 hit, it says, "I feel my temperature rising, help me I'm flaming I must be a hundred and nine". * "Burning Love". * 4: Adam Yauch and Michael Diamond are 2 of the 3 "Boys" in this group. * The Beastie Boys. * 5: Shawn Stockman, Nathan Morris, Michael McCary and Wanya Morris are this "Boy" group. * Boyz II Men.

Round 4. Category: Inventors And Inventions * 1: Dr. Rene Laennec invented this medical instrument, then just a hollow wooden tube. * the stethoscope. * 2: During World War I he directed the wireless service of Italy's army. * Marconi. * 3: During his lifetime this instant camera inventor received 533 U.S. patents. * (Edwin) Land. * 4: In 1947 Ed Lowe gave a neighbor absorbent clay for her feline's box; he soon packaged the clay under this name. * Kitty Litter. * 5: The sensation of the 1893 Chicago Exposition rose 250' and was named for its inventor. * the Ferris Wheel.

Round 5. Category: Lose A Turn * 1: In 1991, after 8 years as the AKC's top dog, the cocker spaniel lost the No. 1 ranking to this dog called a lab. * a Labrador retriever. * 2: Chillicothe was this state's capital twice, losing out to Zanesville once and finally to Columbus. * Ohio. * 3: Only twice between 1949 and 1964 did this team fail to win the American League pennant. * the New York Yankees. * 4: After a 3-year ride at the top in U.S. sales, this Honda model lost its No. 1 position to the Taurus in 1992. * the Honda Accord. * 5: This orator was the Democrats' presidential nominee twice, lost a turn and was nominated again in 1908. * William Jennings Bryan.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 590, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: All God's Creatures * 1: An owl cannot move these from side to side, so it must move its head. * its eyes. * 2: Grevy's, the largest species of this striped mammal, is named for former French president Francois Grevy. * a zebra. * 3: Called a "bamboo chicken" by locals in Belize, a male one of these lizards can reach over 6 feet. * an iguana. * 4: This 2-humped camel is probably named for the ancient country in central Asia where it originated. * the Bactrian camel. * 5: This "butterfly" dog was often represented in the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens and his followers. * papillon.

Round 2. Category: Basketball * 1: In 2000 this ex-Chicago Bull became president of the Wizards. * (Michael) Jordan. * 2: When these "clowns" once played in Greece the heat was so great the tar on the court melted. * Harlem Globetrotters. * 3: Before 1937, this game-opener was repeated after every score. * center jump (jump ball). * 4: In 1961-62 this Philadelphia Warrior became the only man in history to score over 4,000 points in a season. * Wilt Chamberlain. * 5: Though he didn't play organized hoops until 9th grade, this Spurs center is a 3-time NBA Finals MVP. * Tim Duncan.

Round 3. Category: Airport Codes * 1: SVO, also known as Sheremetyevo. * Moscow. * 2: When Bill the Cat says, "ACK!" , he may mean the airport on this Massachusetts island. * Nantucket. * 3: A capital place: IAD. * Dulles (Washington, D.C.). * 4: A friendly ghost town?:CPR. * Casper, Wyoming. * 5: RMG, REO and FCO all serve cities or towns with this name, in Georgia, Oregon and Italy. * Rome.

Round 4. Category: Communication * 1: In the early 1900s Congress allowed these with divided backs, half for the address and half for "Wish you were here". * postcards. * 2: In Sunday Dick Tracy comics it was always pointed out on Dick's wrist by an arrow. * a wrist radio (2-way radio). * 3: Fittingly, the Niagara Falls, N.Y. Public Library has a collection of these items that cost 23 cents to send. * postcards. * 4: 56' wide and 29' high, a digital billboard called the Broadway Spectacular is in the heart of this New York City area. * Times Square. * 5: To demonstrate this in 1877, Watson had to sing "Auld Lang Syne" and "Yankee Doodle". * a telephone.

Round 5. Category: Horrors! * 1: Despite its title, this 1980 film had enough box office luck to produce 7 sequels by 1989. * Friday the 13th. * 2: John Larroquette narrated this 1974 film in which lumbering tools are put to new use. * The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. * 3: Seen here is the not-so-horrific star of this "tasty" horror-comedy show. * Buffy the Vampire Slayer. * 4: This 1960 Hitchcock classic was partly based on real-life murderer Ed Gein, who skinned his victims. * Psycho. * 5: You won't find this hook-handed slasher of a 1992 film taking a sunrise and sprinkling it with dew. * The Candyman.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 589, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Island Countries * 1: It takes up an entire continent. * Australia. * 2: In 1998 Pope John Paul II concluded his visit to this country with a mass at the Plaza de la Revolucion. * Cuba. * 3: Its national anthem, "San-Min-Chu-I", was co-written by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. * Taiwan. * 4: "Please, Sir, I want" this Polynesian island that dropped "Western" from its name in 1997. * Samoa. * 5: The Mozambique Channel separates this island nation from the African mainland. * Madagascar.

Round 2. Category: Gone Too Soon * 1: Sadly, in 1997 this "Saturday Night Live" comic, like his idol, John Belushi, died at age 33. * Chris Farley. * 2: 2 of the 3 rock legends, aged 28, 22 and 17, who lost their lives February 3, 1959. * The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and /or Ritchie Valens. * 3: He ran off with a 1988 Oscar nomination for his role in "Running on Empty". * River Phoenix. * 4: At the 2000 U.S. Open in Pebble Beach, a memorial was held for this golfer and winner of the title in '99. * Payne Stewart. * 5: (Hi, I'm Katie Wagner) In 1996 I co-produced and narrated "An Intimate Portrait" of this actress, my stepmother, for Lifetime TV. * Natalie Wood.

Round 3. Category: Crossword Clues "Y" * 1: A tired response(4). * a yawn. * 2: Sing like an Alpine mountaineer(5). * yodel. * 3: Park Place(8). * Yosemite. * 4: A fungus for fermentation and leavening(5). * yeast. * 5: Brute in "Gulliver's Travels"(5). * a Yahoo.

Round 4. Category: There's No Business Like Business Business * 1: On its first night of continuous operation in 1973, this co. delivered 186 packages to 25 cities overnight using 14 jets. * FedEx. * 2: The first Blockbuster Video store opened during this decade in Dallas, Texas. * the '80s. * 3: Founded in Seattle's Pike Place Market, this company perks up about 33 million customers a week. * Starbucks. * 4: Though Phil Knight didn't love the Swoosh logo, he hoped it would grow on him after paying $35 for it for this company. * Nike. * 5: In 1963 the Tandy Corporation bought this company; in 1977 it marketed the TRS-80 personal computer. * RadioShack.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 589, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Countries By Region * 1: Oaxaca,Durango,Nayarit. * Mexico. * 2: Damietta,Suez,Gharbiya. * Egypt. * 3: Corse,Auvergne,Bretagne. * France. * 4: Western Plateau,Great Victoria Desert,Great Artesian Basin. * Australia. * 5: Ostergotland,Vasterbotten,Uppsala. * Sweden.

Round 2. Category: Classic Logos * 1: Metro's bird lost out to this animal to be the symbol of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. * Leo the Lion. * 2: Hands cupped together, holding a house and a car, was the classic symbol for this insurer. * Allstate. * 3: Piece of clothing worn by the Pillsbury Doughboy that has the Pillsbury logo on it. * Chef's hat. * 4: This automaking corporation got its Pentastar symbol in 1962. * Chrysler. * 5: It's the name given to that hooked line under the word Nike. * Swoosh.

Round 3. Category: Easy As "Pie" * 1: Little Jack Horner stuck his thumb in this and pulled out a plum. * Christmas pie. * 2: This No. 1 hit referred to the death of Buddy Holly as "The Day the Music Died". * "American Pie".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 588, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The 7 Wonders * 1: We sort of know what the Statue of Zeus looked like because it was reproduced on these of the realm. * coins. * 2: They were located on terraces that possibly rose some 300 feet. * The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. * 3: Made of bronze, it was destroyed by an earthquake in 224 B.C.. * Colossus of Rhodes. * 4: An earthquake in the 13th century signaled the loss of this -- signal. * Lighthouse at Alexandria. * 5: As always, invading Goths got the blame for destroying her temple at Ephesus. * Artemis/Diana.

Round 2. Category: Baseball Words * 1: Spiders catch them in their webs. * Flies. * 2: What a catcher might eat his dinner on. * Home plate. * 3: A highly prized form of carbon. * Diamond. * 4: People who used peroxide on their hair. * Bleachers. * 5: It's material from which flags are made, or decorations in the colors of a flag. * Bunting.

Round 3. Category: Political Parties * 1: Though party traces its origins to Jefferson, Andrew Jackson was 1st president to be called this. * Democrat. * 2: He was the last Federalist candidate to be elected president. * John Quincy Adams. * 3: Formed to oppose Andrew Jackson, this party's 1st program was Clay's "American System" favoring high tariffs. * Whigs. * 4: Whoopee! When he got 2 A.M. word of his reelection, he ordered bacon and eggs for himself, Colson and Haldeman. * Nixon. * 5: Jay Leno emceed the 2003 victory party at this man's campaign HQ; he had announced his candidacy on Jay's show. * Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Round 4. Category: Body Parts * 1: Phosphenes are the sensations of light you get when pressure is applied to these. * the eyes. * 2: The smallest human cell is this cell originating only in the male. * Sperm cell. * 3: Wamble is a term for the sound this organ can make. * stomach. * 4: To cure a cataract, this part of the eye is replaced with an artificial one. * lens. * 5: The talus bone meets these 2 leg bones at the ankle joint. * Tibia and fibula.

Round 5. Category: "Big" And "Little" * 1: British lawyer and horologist Edmund Beckett had a hand in designing this famous attraction. * Big Ben. * 2: At 8'2", he's over a foot taller than his best friend Snuffleupagus. * Big Bird. * 3: It sounds every hour on the hour outside London's houses of Parliament. * Big Ben. * 4: This baseball organization was founded in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, originally for boys aged 9 to 12. * Little League. * 5: "I think I can -- I think I can -- I think I can" name this classic children's tale by Watty Piper. * The Little Engine That Could.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 587, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lakes * 1: Leech Lake in Minnesota is the largest of this river's headwater lakes. * Mississippi River. * 2: Lake Titicaca is the largest lake on this continent. * South America. * 3: Named for a British king in 1755, this New York lake empties into Lake Champlain from the north. * Lake George. * 4: Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake, lies near Kyoto in the west central area of this island. * Honshu. * 5: The deepest point of this southeastern Siberian lake is about 3,800 feet below sea level. * Lake Baikal.

Round 2. Category: The Grammy Awards * 1: In 1974 this N.C. Democrat's spoken word recording, "Senator Sam at Home", received a Grammy nom.. * Sam Ervin. * 2: Of Inspirational, Country or Rock 'n" Roll, the type of music for which Elvis won his 3 Grammys. * Inspiration. * 3: His "Live on the Sunset Strip" album was 1982's "Best Comedy Recording". * Richard Pryor. * 4: Henry Mancini's music from this Craig Stevens TV series won "Album of the Year" in 1959. * Peter Gunn. * 5: This guitarist has won 7 Grammy Awards for "Best Country Instrumental Performance". * Chet Atkins.

Round 3. Category: Babysitting Tips * 1: Ask if the little darlings have any of the food type of these; milk, egg and peanut are among the most common. * allergies. * 2: Mom and Dad may restrict kids' TV to shows with this letter rating, the same as the blandest movies. * G. * 3: Learn diapering skills at sitter certification classes from this group whose "American" branch dates from 1881. * Red Cross. * 4: If little Cindy gets into the medicine cabinet, you can reach the closest of these centers at 800-222-1222. * poison control centers. * 5: Some kids won't go to sleep without this rhyming item, though a 1999 study suggests it may cause myopia. * night light.

Round 4. Category: Moving Around The Dial * 1: (Hi, I'm Ian Ziering) On "90210" the Walsh family moved to Beverly Hills from this state. * Minnesota. * 2: As the Fresh Prince, Will Smith moved from west Philly to this ritzy California enclave. * Bel-Air. * 3: Frasier left his Boston practice to host a radio show on this city's KACL. * Seattle. * 4: She left her troubled past in L.A. for not-so-sunny Sunnydale, mecca to demons and vampires. * Buffy. * 5: Lisa and Oliver Wendell Douglas left Manhattan life for a Hooterville farm on this '60s series. * Green Acres.

Round 5. Category: Traveling * 1: A cold beer is just the thing to quench your thirst when cruising along this river in the capital of the Netherlands. * the Amstel River. * 2: If you're a U.S. citizen, you'll need one of these to visit China and we don't mean the credit card. * a visa. * 3: Families enjoy the Boudewijn Park and Dolphinarium in this European low country. * Belgium. * 4: For her cabin on this type of Cunard vessel, a Victorian-era traveler packed this type of "trunk". * a steamer. * 5: Finding guidebooks of his time boring, this Hungarian started his own travel series with 1936's "On the Continent". * Eugene Fodor.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 586, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pop And Rock Music * 1: This "Hotel California" band first came together to back Linda Ronstadt at a concert at Disneyland. * the Eagles. * 2: Hit song title shared by Kris Kross and Van Halen. * "Jump". * 3: Oddly, female rapper Megan Pete calls herself "Megan Thee" this word for a male horse. * Stallion. * 4: Smells like this Seattle group was Spin Magazine's Artist of the Year for 1992. * Nirvana. * 5: In 2019 Madonna performed at but did not compete in this international song competition. * Eurovision.

Round 2. Category: Calamity Jane * 1: Jane had some "dark times" as a camp follower of an expedition to these South Dakota hills. * Black Hills. * 2: Jane's job title of bullwhacker indicates she drove cattle with one of these implements. * whip. * 3: General George, whose troops Jane rode with, had this last name that Nixon said didn't apply to him. * Crook. * 4: A woman surfaced in 1941 claiming to be the daughter of Jane and this man who played one poker hand too many. * Wild Bill Hickok. * 5: Jane's gig at the 1901 Pan-American Expo in this city was overshadowed by ths McKinley assassination there. * Buffalo.

Round 3. Category: We Love Broadway * 1: (Before the clue is given, Kate Reinders from the Broadway play Wicked helps with the clue.)"Popular /You're gonna be pop-u-lar /I'll teach you the proper ploys /When you talk to boys /Little ways to flirt and flounce--woww! /I'll show you what shoes to wear /How to fix your hair /Everything that really counts to be /Popular /I'll help you be pop-u-lar /You'll hang with the right cohorts /You'll be good at sports /Know the slang you gotta know /So let's start /'Cause you've got an awfully long way to go""Wicked" is based on a modern novel inspired by this classic L. Frank Baum book that took us "over the rainbow". * The Wizard of Oz. * 2: Alfre Woodard winged onto B'way in "Drowning Crow", an African-American version of this Chekhov classic. * The Seagull. * 3: Well, chim chim cher-ee! This musical about a flying nanny is flying onto Broadway. * Mary Poppins. * 4: In 2003 he was "dirty dancing" in "Chicago" on Broadway before embarking on the show's national tour. * Patrick Swayze. * 5: Hey, hey! This member of The Monkees took over the role of Zoser in "Aida" in 2004. * Micky Dolenz.

Round 4. Category: World Capitals * 1: Foreign embassies are located in Jiddah, some 500 miles from this country's capital, Riyadh. * Saudi Arabia. * 2: As its name implies, this Middle Eastern capital was once known for its damascened steel sword blades. * Damascus. * 3: Founded by famed conquistador Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada on Chibcha Indian site "Bacata". * Bogota. * 4: A revolving restaurant spins atop the hot water storage tanks on this northern capital's Oskjuhlid Hill. * Reykjavik. * 5: In this Arab capital Christians live mainly on the east side and Muslims mainly on the west side. * Beirut.

Round 5. Category: Classroom Films * 1: 1989:Robin Williams inspires his prep school students to discover Whitman and Tennyson. * Dead Poets Society. * 2: 1955: Idealistic Glenn Ford tries to reach troubled students like Sidney Poitier. * Blackboard Jungle. * 3: 1967:Idealistic Sidney Poitier teaches rough East Enders, earns respect and a song from Lulu. * To Sir, with Love. * 4: 1987:Edward James Olmos' students from the East L.A. barrio pass the A.P. calcul

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 585, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Third * 1: He was the last king of the House of York. * Richard III. * 2: Charles Conrad, Jr. was the third man to walk here. * The Moon. * 3: Our third president, for 4 years he had a Burr in his side. * Thomas Jefferson. * 4: The third reindeer named in "A Visit From St. Nicholas", he follows Dancer and precedes Vixen. * Prancer. * 5: Based on an Erich Maria Remarque novel, it was the third film to win a Best Picture Oscar. * All Quiet On The Western Front.

Round 2. Category: Star Trek 101 * 1: These hand weapons used by an Enterprise crew can be set from stun to disrupt. * phasers. * 2: (Hi, I'm Roxann Dawson.) As chief engineer, B'Elanna Torres is in charge of this drive that mixes matter and antimatter. * warp drive. * 3: Majel Barrett, the computer voice you hear in the TV shows and films, is the widow of this creator of "Star Trek". * Gene Roddenberry. * 4: (Hi I'm Robert Duncan McNeill.) Tom Paris' father is an admiral in this arm of the Federation. * Starfleet. * 5: (Hello, I'm Armin Shimerman.) A knowledgeable Ferengi knows there are 285 rules of this, the 1st one being "Once you have their money never give it back". * acquisition.

Round 3. Category: It's Australia, Mate * 1: This Australian state reports it has lost the 1859 decree Victoria signed authorizing its name. * Queensland. * 2: The "Ground" for this sport in Melbourne, Australia has a capacity of about 100,000 spectators. * cricket. * 3: Australia's botanists first bred these green-skinned apples in the late 19th century. * Granny Smith apples. * 4: Australia's smallest state, this island used to be called Van Diemen's Land. * Tasmania. * 5: It's "evolved" to become the largest city of Australia's Northern Territory. * Darwin.

Round 4. Category: Travel Texas * 1: Used in casting the Marine Corps Memorial, the original sculpture of this event can be seen in Harlingen. * Raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. * 2: When in San Antonio, remember to visit this famous fortress. * The Alamo. * 3: At this landmark you can see Davy Crockett's buckskin vest and a hunting knife like the one wielded by Jim Bowie. * the Alamo. * 4: In Parker, Texas you can tour the Southfork Ranch made famous by this TV series. * Dallas. * 5: Say howdy to 52-foot Big Tex at the state fair of Texas, a stone's throw from this college football stadium. * the Cotton Bowl.

Round 5. Category: Perhaps Some "Tea" * 1: What Helen Keller called Anne Sullivan. * Teacher. * 2: Hold hair at ends, comb toward scalp; cracking gum optional. * tease. * 3: Daniel Tobin headed this union from 1907 to 1952, bringing its membership from 40,000 to more than a million. * the Teamsters. * 4: It has about 40,000 people and it's right near Hackensack. * Teaneck. * 5: This great trombonist was part of Louis Armstrong's band from 1947 to 1951. * Jack Teagarden.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 584, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: First In Our Hearts * 1: The first U.S. coin with the likeness of a president was this coin based on a photo taken in Mathew Brady's studio. * (the Lincoln) penny. * 2: The first of these in the U.S. was for a potash process and was signed by Washington and Jefferson. * a patent. * 3: The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was made by this Italian-American physicist in 1942. * Fermi. * 4: The first of these cast for a woman was Roger MacBride's, going to 1972 Libertarian V.P. candidate Theodora Nathan. * an Electoral College vote. * 5: Having no reeds, pipes or vibrating parts, this man's 1935 organ was the first of its kind. * (Laurens) Hammond.

Round 2. Category: Valentine's Day * 1: On Feb. 14, 1985 the conservative Jewish movement announced its decision to accept women in this post. * Rabbi. * 2: He told the 20th Communist Party Congress Feb. 14, 1956 that war with capitalist imperialism was not inevitable. * Nikita Khrushchev. * 3: This partner of Bob Woodward was born Feb. 14, 1944 in Washington, D.C., the city that made him famous. * Carl Bernstein. * 4: New Mexico had been a state for almost 5 weeks when this neighbor joined the Union in 1912. * Arizona. * 5: A young girl received the first dual transplant of the heart and this organ Feb. 14, 1984. * Liver.

Round 3. Category: The Emmy Awards * 1: This "Evening Shade" star joked that he was going to mount his Emmy on the hood of his Mercedes. * Burt Reynolds. * 2: In 1982 and 1983 the TV Academy "hailed" Carol Kane and Christopher Lloyd for their roles on this sitcom. * Taxi. * 3: Of Marion Lorne, Agnes Moorehead or Elizabeth Montgomery, the one who won an Emmy for "Bewitched". * Marion Lorne. * 4: Bebe Neuwirth, a 1986 Tony winner for "Sweet Charity", won 2 Emmys for playing Lilith on this sitcom. * Cheers. * 5: This TV "Golden Girl" was nominated for the first "Best Actress" Emmy in 1950 but lost to Gertrude Berg. * Betty White.

Round 4. Category: Tv And Movie Robots * 1: This futuristic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series featured a robot named Rosie. * The Jetsons. * 2: She was Rhoda, Bob Cummings' robot, on "My Living Doll". * Julie Newmar. * 3: He played a gunslinging robot in both "Westworld" and its sequel, "Futureworld". * Yul Brynner. * 4: For 3 seasons Dick Gautier played this CONTROL robot on "Get Smart". * Hymie. * 5: This "Forbidden Planet" robot could speak over 180 languages, drive a vehicle and make all the booze you'd like. * Robby the Robot.

Round 5. Category: Tool Time * 1: A sharp twist of your muscle that might make a monkey out of you. * a wrench. * 2: If you know the correct procedure, you "know" this tool. * the drill. * 3: Seen here, this pair is just the thing for pounding or grinding. * a mortar and pestle. * 4: This volcanic material was used by primitive humans in the making of tools. * obsidian. * 5: The working tools of a blacksmith include a bellows, a hammer and one of these sturdy, iron hammering blocks. * an anvil.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 583, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Series Finales * 1: As many hoped, on the final episode of "Friends", these 2 characters finally got back together. * Ross and Rachel. * 2: Miss Ellie turned Southfork Ranch over to Bobby. * Dallas. * 3: This title serial killer became a lumberjack, because why not. * Dexter. * 4: Was it all a dream? On the last episode of "Newhart", Bob awoke with this former TV wife, not Mary Frann. * Suzanne Pleshette. * 5: Lois and Clark had a wedding; Clark finally got the Superman suit, which he donned to save Lois aboard Air Force One. * Smallville.

Round 2. Category: We Want Pisa! * 1: The Italian city of Pisa is located at the mouth of the Arno River, where it flows into this body of water. * the Mediterranean Sea. * 2: In Italian it's known as "La Torre Pendente". * the Leaning Tower. * 3: At the head of his own militia, this medieval author of "The Prince" helped conquer Pisa for Florence in 1509. * Machiavelli. * 4: Born in Pisa in the 16th century, he studied the laws of falling bodies and the motions of projectiles. * Galileo. * 5: This island off the Italian coast where Napoleon was first exiled was controlled for many years by Pisa. * Elba.

Round 3. Category: Baseball * 1: If you don't mind the abuse, you can earn $40-100,000 a year doing this job in the majors. * umpire. * 2: Courts have upheld local ordinances banning night games in this team's ball park. * the Chicago Cubs. * 3: To baseball players, stripper Morganna Roberts is better known by this nickname. * Kissing Bandit. * 4: Nicknamed the "Georgia Peach", he has the all-time highest career batting average, .367. * Ty Cobb. * 5: The Cubs' Hack Wilson holds the record for the most of these in 1 season, 190. * RBIs.

Round 4. Category: National Airlines * 1: El Al. * Israel. * 2: Iberia. * the airline of Spain. * 3: Luxair Airlines. * Luxembourg. * 4: Aeroflot. * the Soviet Union's airline. * 5: SABENA. * Belgium.

Round 5. Category: Design * 1: The "Maltese" one of these Christian symbols has eight points. * a cross. * 2: A rood screen, which separates the chancel from the nave, can be found in this type of building. * church. * 3: Used in decorative tableware, the opaque glass named for this liquid is usually white. * milk. * 4: Frederick Law Olmsted began his career as landscape architect of this Manhattan park. * Central Park. * 5: Carriage clocks had these on top because they were designed to be carried on carriages. * Handles.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 582, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 1990s Business * 1: In 1992 Hughes Aircraft Co., a division of this automaker, agreed to buy part of General Dynamics. * General Motors. * 2: This company's 1st restaurant in China served nearly 40,000 people the day it opened April 23, 1992. * McDonald's. * 3: In 1995 this apparel company reintroduced "The Fruits" who'd starred in its ads in the 1970s. * Fruit of the Loom. * 4: In 1995 NBC and this giant software company announced plans for an all-news television channel. * Microsoft. * 5: This Colorado-based brewer introduced Zima Clearmalt in 1992. * Coors.

Round 2. Category: They Were Expelled * 1: This star of "Casablanca" was booted out of Phillips Academy for uncontrollably high spirits. * Humphrey Bogart. * 2: Perhaps responding "nevermore", this poet was expelled from West Point in 1831 for refusing to attend drills. * Edgar Allan Poe. * 3: Once publisher of the USA's largest newspaper chain, he was expelled from Harvard in 1885 for insulting his professors. * William Randolph Hearst. * 4: Assassinated in August 1940, this Russian Communist leader was expelled in his youth for howling at his teacher. * Trotsky. * 5: The leading actress of her time, in 1860 she was expelled from a Paris convent school for making fun of a bishop. * (Sarah) Bernhardt.

Round 3. Category: Working Without Annette * 1: Before teaming with Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon appeared in this 1960 John Wayne western (not as Davy). * The Alamo. * 2: With no help from Annette, Frankie Avalon was born in this year in which Germany invaded Poland. * 1939. * 3: With Annette nowhere in sight, Frankie Avalon played a 39-year-old Teen Angel in this 1978 musical film. * Grease. * 4: Annette Funicello did not do backing vocals on this 1959 Frankie Avalon hit song about a Roman goddess. * "Venus". * 5: Annette Funicello was not on board when Frankie starred in this 1961 sci-fi "voyage" directed by Irwin Allen. * Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Round 4. Category: National Monuments * 1: The USA's largest national monument, this state's Misty Fjords, consists of glaciers and long, deep fjords. * Alaska. * 2: This Wyoming formation has a base diameter of about 1,000 feet and a summit diameter of about 275 feet. * Devils Tower. * 3: This Wyoming monument contains an 865-foot-high fluted column of igneous rock. * Devils Tower. * 4: Castillo de San Marcos in this Florida city is the oldest masonry fort in the continental U.S.. * St. Augustine. * 5: Arizona's Tuzigoot National Monument is one of these villages defined as consisting of multilevel adobe dwellings. * a pueblo.

Round 5. Category: Boys In The Band * 1: Mick Jagger,Keith Richards.Mick Taylor. * The Rolling Stones. * 2: Pete Townshend,Roger Daltrey,John Entwistle. * The Who. * 3: Roger Waters,David Gilmour,Nick Mason. * Pink Floyd. * 4: Michael McDonald,Patrick Simmons,Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. * The Doobie Brothers. * 5: Walter Becker,Donald Fagen,Jeff "Skunk" Baxter. * Steely Dan.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 581, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ants * 1: In a famous fable, the ant is portrayed as hard working while this insect just has a good time. * grasshopper. * 2: The echidna, pangolin, and aardvark, for example. * anteaters. * 3: Ants protect themselves from their enemies by stinging or doing this to them. * biting. * 4: After mating in the air, the queen ant lands and tears these off. * wings. * 5: Unlike termites, these ants don't eat wood, only chew out holes big enough to "build" their nests. * carpenter ants.

Round 2. Category: A Brief History Of Thyme * 1: Thyme honey from the Iblei Mtns. on this large Mediterranean isle has been a delicacy for centuries. * Sicily. * 2: Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme figure prominently in this hit by Simon and Garfunkel. * "Scarborough Fair". * 3: This "elder" Roman encyclopedist referred to thyme as a fumigant. * Pliny. * 4: Monks know that thyme is an ingredient in this popular upscale French liquor, one of the "B"s in B and B. * benedictine. * 5: Thyme contains about 1% this type of "oil" used in fragrances and pharmaceuticals. * essential oil.

Round 3. Category: La Langue Francaise * 1: It's "one", "two", "three", mon ami. * Un, deux, trois. * 2: What the French call Janvier and Fevrier, we call these months. * January and February. * 3: 4-word phrase for the best of the best, you might say it rises to the top. * Creme de la creme. * 4: French for "puffed out", it describes a hairstyle popular in the '60s. * Bouffant. * 5: This 2-word phrase gives a person complete freedom to act at will. * Carte blanche.

Round 4. Category: The '70s * 1: The 2 reporters at the Washington Post who blew the whistle on Watergate. * Woodward and Bernstein. * 2: In a 1976 article in New York Magazine, Tom Wolfe dubbed the '70s this decade. * the "Me Decade". * 3: On January 1, 1978 he was sworn in as the 105th mayor of New York City. * Ed Koch. * 4: In the 1970s many studied ESP, short for this awareness beyond the normal senses (but you already knew that). * extrasensory perception. * 5: She went to court in 1972 to get an injunction to keep photographer Ron Galella away from her. * Jackie Onassis.

Round 5. Category: There Is No Place Like Nebraska * 1: The USA's emergency 911 system was developed and first used in this "presidential" city. * Lincoln. * 2: This man organized his famous "Wild West Show" in 1883 at his ranch near North Platte. * Buffalo Bill Cody. * 3: In 1948 Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base became home to SAC, which stood for this. * Strategic Air Command. * 4: The U. of N. College of Agriculture helped develop the technology for this McDonald's McPork sandwich. * McRib. * 5: The childhood home of Willa Cather, this colorfully named town inspired the setting for her 6 Nebraska novels. * Red Cloud.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 580, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 580, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Wow! My Own Label! * 1: In the 1970s this "Rocket Man" founded Rocket Records. * Elton John. * 2: The 3 double CDs of the Beatle "Anthology" series are on this label founded by the Beatles. * Apple. * 3: He do be the founder of Reprise, yes he do be do be do. * Frank Sinatra. * 4: Alanis Morissette's "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" is on Maverick, this Material Girl's label. * Madonna. * 5: He's the best seller of all the artists in his own Paisley Park stable. * Prince.

Round 2. Category: Historical Text Messaging * 1: 323 B.C.:chrgd w/impiety. nt ltng thm sin 2x vs. phlsphy. off 2 chalcis. lyceum ltr. * Aristotle. * 2: 1989:stk @ embassy.u.s. blsting vh @ me.:(ttyl. * (Manuel) Noriega. * 3: 1670s:dsgnd st. bride's chrch.englnd 4evr!. * Christopher Wren. * 4: 1981:am canada's pm. dont no zonker r b.d. u kp txtng me abt. pls stp. * Pierre Trudeau. * 5: 1890:wilhelm ii mkng me quit chnclr gig. off 2 est8s @ friedrichsruh, wch is impsbl 2 abbrv and b undrstd. * (Otto von) Bismarck.

Round 3. Category: Alloys * 1: An alloy called babbitt metal is used to line bearings and bushings to reduce this. * friction. * 2: Simple carbon steels are just a little carbon and manganese and a lot of this. * iron. * 3: For this alloy, mix your zinc and copper in a crucible and work with your ingots after they cool. * brass. * 4: Adding platinum to gold turns it from yellow gold to this. * white gold. * 5: Osmiridium is, you guessed it, an alloy of this and iridium. * osmium.

Round 4. Category: Ladies Home Journal * 1: It's the detachable part of an advertisement that entitles you to a discount at the supermarket. * Coupon. * 2: Examples of these include Dr. Atkins, the Macrobiotic and the Scarsdale. * Diets. * 3: This mild antiseptic with the formula H2O2 can also be used to bleach hair and fabrics. * Hydrogen peroxide. * 4: From the Latin for "entering", they're the listed things you need to prepare food from a recipe. * Ingredients. * 5: A housewife is also known as a homemaker or one of these "engineers". * Domestic engineer.

Round 5. Category: Corporate America * 1: Selling "Little Dot" perfume door-to-door in 1886, Mrs. Albee is considered the 1st of these saleswomen. * Avon lady. * 2: This bookstore chain founded by Larry Hoyt in 1933 was named for an inspirational pond. * Waldenbooks. * 3: The "Al" in Alcoa stands for this. * aluminum. * 4: Automaker whose ad campaign centers around "The heartbeat of America". * Chevrolet. * 5: This company holds the patent on marking the sweetener Aspartame until 1992. * NutraSweet.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 579, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Where There's A Will... * 1: This "Sultan of Swat" left 10% of his estate to a foundation he created for needy children. * Babe Ruth. * 2: He appointed "Beloved Wife, Yoko Ono" to act as executor of his last will and testament. * John Lennon. * 3: In his will he called himself a "printer" and "late minister plenipotentiary" to the court of France. * Benjamin Franklin. * 4: She bequeathed a friend a copy of her husband's inaugural address signed by Robert Frost. * Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. * 5: This former Chief Justice's self-written will of 1994 made no provisions for estate taxes. * Warren Burger.

Round 2. Category: Celebrity Jeopardy! * 1: I'm Dylan on "90210" and I have a pet pig named Jerry Lee. * Luke Perry. * 2: I'm the architect of rock and roll and the originator--Good golly, Miss Molly!. * Little Richard. * 3: Sugar Babe's husband on "The Real McCoys", Sylvester Stallone rescued me in "Rambo III". * Richard Crenna. * 4: I'm 2 meters tall, host 2 1/2 hours of "Entertainment Tonight" a week and have 4 music Emmys. * John Tesh. * 5: I've been hosting and producing the nationally syndicated dance show "Soul Train" for 2 decades. * Don Cornelius.

Round 3. Category: Gauges * 1: It's pulled out of the crankcase, wiped, reinserted, pulled out again, and then read. * dipstick. * 2: Both Webster's and American Heritage say "caliper" is an alteration of this word. * calibration. * 3: Number at the top of a protractor. * 90 (degrees). * 4: On a plane, these gauges which measure in feet may be barometric or radio. * an altimeter. * 5: On a pressure gauge, "psi" stands for this. * pounds per square inch.

Round 4. Category: Shrew-Ed * 1: Continent where you'd find the shrews Crocidura nigeriae and Crocidura tansaniana. * Africa. * 2: Canadian province where you'll most likely spot Trowbridge's shrew, which enjoys Douglas fir seeds. * British Columbia. * 3: The Southeastern shrew inhabits the marshy U.S. region that got this uninviting name from Col. William Byrd. * the Great Dismal Swamp. * 4: The Mt. Malindang shrew and the Palawan tree shrew are native to this country. * the Philippines. * 5: It would be "serendip"itous to see a Kelaart's long-clawed shrew, as it lives only on this island. * Sri Lanka.

Round 5. Category: Sex Changes * 1: After 1979 some of these powerful Atlantic storms were given male names too. * hurricanes. * 2: Not far from Roanoke, this military school broke a 158 year tradition and admitted women in 1997. * VMI (Virginia Military Institute). * 3: In the 1950s she was the outcome of the world's first publicized sex change. * Christine Jorgensen. * 4: Don't let the pearls fool you, these lady bivalves can change into males when it suits them. * oysters. * 5: She continued the tennis career begun by Richard Raskind. * Renee Richards.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 578, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hello, Newton! * 1: Newton designed one of these that used mirrors in addition to lenses. * telescope. * 2: A student of this university's Trinity College, Newton graduated in 1665 without honors or distinction. * Cambridge. * 3: A falling apple gave Newton some ideas about what type of force could hold this heavenly body in its path. * moon. * 4: In the 1690s Newton was the bane of counterfeiters, introducing newly milled edges while working here. * mint. * 5: This English astronomer paid for the publication of Newton's masterwork, the "Principia". * Edmond Halley.

Round 2. Category: Sounds All Around * 1: It can be a continuous low humming sound or a male bee. * drone. * 2: If you listen to your heart using a stethoscope, you'll hear the sound of these flaps opening and closing. * valves. * 3: In part of the Capitol dome, you can clearly hear distant sounds, making it this kind of "gallery". * a whispering gallery. * 4: The name of this instrument comes from the Italian for "little goose". * an ocarina. * 5: This rude noise is the last name of Toby, a character in "Twelfth Night". * Belch.

Round 3. Category: American Sign Language * 1: It's the phenomenon being signed here. * a rainbow. * 2: This bulb is related to the lily. * an onion. * 3: The Beatles' Rocky knows the sign for this animal. * a raccoon. * 4: This area of land with a specific use is of grave importance. * graveyard (cemetery). * 5: Here is the sign for this geometry term. * a perpendicular.

Round 4. Category: Ding Dong * 1: In 1967 this company introduced its chocolate-covered Ding Dong snack cakes. * Hostess. * 2: Continuing the alliteration, it follows "ding-dong" in a kid's prank that involves ringing a doorbell and running away. * dash (ditch). * 3: "Ding dong", it's this company "calling"; how about some lipstick or other cosmetic?. * Avon. * 4: 4-word title of the Barry Mann song that asks, "Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?". * "Who Put The Bomp". * 5: Judy Garland's "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" surged on U.K. iTunes after this former prime minister passed away. * Margaret Thatcher.

Round 5. Category: Sinners * 1: In 1988 this popular evangelist tearfully admitted on his national TV show that "I have sinned against you". * Jimmy Swaggart. * 2: Holiday in 1929 on which Chicago gangster Bugs Moran lost several members of his gang. * St. Valentine's Day. * 3: "I sin every single day", said this 2008 presidential candidate whose indiscretions keep coming to light. * (John) Edwards. * 4: Despite the nickname, this man said to have coined the term "G-men" reportedly never fired a shot during a crime. * "Machine Gun" Kelly. * 5: In a 1741 Jonathan Edwards sermon title, sinners were "in the hands of" this. * an angry god.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 577, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: This 'N' That * 1: Although born in Florida, Missouri, Mark Twain grew up in this city on the Mississippi River. * Hannibal. * 2: This reddish spice can be sold in both ground and stick form. * Cinnamon. * 3: In England the unit of volume roughly equivalent to a quart is spelled this way. * Litre. * 4: Legend says the Dannebrog, now this country's flag, dropped from heaven during a 1219 battle. * Denmark. * 5: "It Pays To Enrich Your Word Power" is a feature in this monthly magazine. * Reader's Digest.

Round 2. Category: Julia Child Says * 1: They're easily peeled and the whites are tender when done in a pressure cooker. * eggs. * 2: "Pain Francais", it goes well with a salad nicoise. * French bread. * 3: People on diets can cook with wine since this which "carries the calories", gets cooked out. * alcohol. * 4: If a turkey breast is tough, this was probably done too soon after slaughter. * freezing. * 5: This French term translates as "high-class cooking". * haute cuisine.

Round 3. Category: Nyc Street Foods * 1: (Sofia is on Park Avenue, enjoying a pretzel, when....) Oops! I forgot to get a side of this traditional yellow condiment. * mustard. * 2: (Sofia is tasting a Mediterranean delicacy.) This pita contains little balls of this, a deep-fried Mideast treat made from chickpeas or fava beans. * falafel. * 3: (Sofia is enjoying a foreign potato product.) From the Ukranian for "dumpling", it's the name of the potato product I'm eating. * knish. * 4: (Sofia holds up a slice of thin-crust pizza.) You can get pizza New York-style or in this thicker style named for an Italian island. * Sicilian. * 5: (Sofia wraps up our taste of the Big Apple--with a stomache--and a bottle of a well-known product for curing such.) Fortunately, also available in New York is this Procter and Gamble tummy-soothing liquid. * Pepto-Bismol.

Round 4. Category: The Fall 2001 Tv Season * 1: "Criminal intent" is NBC's latest spin-off of this series. * Law and Order. * 2: The agency in CBS's "The Agency" and behind ABC's "Alias". * the Central Intelligence Agency. * 3: This actress "Blue" off "NYPD" and headed to "Philly". * Kim Delaney. * 4: Mr. Holland on film, he became Max Bickford on TV. * Richard Dreyfuss. * 5: Rose McGowan is the new Halliwell sister on this WB series. * Charmed.

Round 5. Category: Dynasties * 1: "New Yorker" humorist Robert begat novelist Nathaniel, who begat "Jaws" author Peter. * Benchleys. * 2: Oil magnate John D. begat philanthropist John D., Jr., who begat N.Y. Gov. Nelson, Ark. Gov. Winthrop, etc.. * the Rockefellers. * 3: Movie producer Darryl begat movie producer Richard. * Zanuck. * 4: Oscar-winner Ed begat frequent Emmy nominee Ed Jr.. * Begley. * 5: Louisiana Governor Huey P. begat Louisiana Senator Russell B.. * the Longs.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 577, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: This 'N' That * 1: Although born in Florida, Missouri, Mark Twain grew up in this city on the Mississippi River. * Hannibal. * 2: This reddish spice can be sold in both ground and stick form. * Cinnamon. * 3: In England the unit of volume roughly equivalent to a quart is spelled this way. * Litre. * 4: Legend says the Dannebrog, now this country's flag, dropped from heaven during a 1219 battle. * Denmark. * 5: "It Pays To Enrich Your Word Power" is a feature in this monthly magazine. * Reader's Digest.

Round 2. Category: Julia Child Says * 1: They're easily peeled and the whites are tender when done in a pressure cooker. * eggs. * 2: "Pain Francais", it goes well with a salad nicoise. * French bread. * 3: People on diets can cook with wine since this which "carries the calories", gets cooked out. * alcohol. * 4: If a turkey breast is tough, this was probably done too soon after slaughter. * freezing. * 5: This French term translates as "high-class cooking". * haute cuisine.

Round 3. Category: Nyc Street Foods * 1: (Sofia is on Park Avenue, enjoying a pretzel, when....) Oops! I forgot to get a side of this traditional yellow condiment. * mustard. * 2: (Sofia is tasting a Mediterranean delicacy.) This pita contains little balls of this, a deep-fried Mideast treat made from chickpeas or fava beans. * falafel. * 3: (Sofia is enjoying a foreign potato product.) From the Ukranian for "dumpling", it's the name of the potato product I'm eating. * knish. * 4: (Sofia holds up a slice of thin-crust pizza.) You can get pizza New York-style or in this thicker style named for an Italian island. * Sicilian. * 5: (Sofia wraps up our taste of the Big Apple--with a stomache--and a bottle of a well-known product for curing such.) Fortunately, also available in New York is this Procter and Gamble tummy-soothing liquid. * Pepto-Bismol.

Round 4. Category: The Fall 2001 Tv Season * 1: "Criminal intent" is NBC's latest spin-off of this series. * Law and Order. * 2: The agency in CBS's "The Agency" and behind ABC's "Alias". * the Central Intelligence Agency. * 3: This actress "Blue" off "NYPD" and headed to "Philly". * Kim Delaney. * 4: Mr. Holland on film, he became Max Bickford on TV. * Richard Dreyfuss. * 5: Rose McGowan is the new Halliwell sister on this WB series. * Charmed.

Round 5. Category: Dynasties * 1: "New Yorker" humorist Robert begat novelist Nathaniel, who begat "Jaws" author Peter. * Benchleys. * 2: Oil magnate John D. begat philanthropist John D., Jr., who begat N.Y. Gov. Nelson, Ark. Gov. Winthrop, etc.. * the Rockefellers. * 3: Movie producer Darryl begat movie producer Richard. * Zanuck. * 4: Oscar-winner Ed begat frequent Emmy nominee Ed Jr.. * Begley. * 5: Louisiana Governor Huey P. begat Louisiana Senator Russell B.. * the Longs.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 576, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: May Days * 1: On May 22, 1992 an era in late-night television ended when he hosted his last "Tonight Show". * Johnny Carson. * 2: He and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay conquered Mount Everest May 29, 1953. * Sir Edmund Hillary. * 3: Partly to e

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 575, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Jim-Boree * 1: Wherever she was, Mrs. Calabash knew he was the schnozzola. * Jimmy Durante. * 2: Seen here he won the Best Actor Oscar for 1940s "The Philadelphia Story". * Jimmy Stewart. * 3: In 1976 he said, "I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times". * Jimmy Carter. * 4: He's the only man who's been the head coach of both the Dallas Cowboys and the Miami Dolphins. * Jimmy Johnson. * 5: This baseball player hit a literary home run with his memoir "Ball Four". * Jim Bouton.

Round 2. Category: 10, 11 Or 12 * 1: Number of biblical commandments revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai. * 10. * 2: November is this number month of the year in the modern calendar. * 11. * 3: The highest roll possible using a pair of standard dice. * 12. * 4: X is the Roman numeral for this number. * 10. * 5: Total number of the labors of the mythological Hercules. * 12.

Round 3. Category: Anagrammed Hitchcock Films * 1: "PORE". * Rope. * 2: "TO ZAP". * Topaz. * 3: "ZEN FRY". * Frenzy. * 4: "POUND BELLS". * Spellbound. * 5: "BOIL FATE". * Lifeboat.

Round 4. Category: "B" * 1: Appropriately, the stock ticker symbol for Sotheby's is this 3-letter word. * BID. * 2: Let's hear it for this capital of Idaho. * Boise. * 3: "Streetwise" nickname of the Super Bowl III MVP. * "Broadway Joe" Namath. * 4: Oh, you can call it Istanbul, or you can call it Constantinople, or you can call it this. * Byzantium. * 5: A carillon is a set of 23 or more of these. * Bells.

Round 5. Category: Veterinary Affairs * 1: Contrary to myth, this part of a dog doesn't need to be cold, but should usually be moist. * nose. * 2: It's another common name for foot-and-mouth disease. * hoof-and-mouth disease. * 3: Vets use antibiotics on fish suffering from "rot" of this, whether dorsal or caudal. * fin. * 4: The Association of Avian Veterinarians says that to protect other birds, do this to a new bird for at least 6 weeks. * isolate it. * 5: In 1987 researchers found a new virus in cats, known by this 3-letter abbreviation. * FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 574, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "House" And "Home" * 1: It's the part of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. * Homestretch. * 2: On Nov. 8, 1972 this subscription cable TV service began transmitting. * Home Box Office. * 3: This 1862 act gave ownership of 160 acres to anyone who lived and worked on them for 5 years. * The Homestead Act. * 4: It's an insubstantial plan subject to imminent collapse. * House of Cards. * 5: In 1960 James Agee's book "A Death In The Family" was dramatized into this Pulitzer-winning play. * "All The Way Home".

Round 2. Category: Martha My Dear * 1: Her "Everyday" line is sold at K-Mart. * Martha Stewart. * 2: Her father, Col. John Dandridge, was a wealthy landowner. * Martha Washington. * 3: Backed by the Vandellas, she had hits with "Heat Wave" and "Dancing in the Street". * Martha Reeves. * 4: "The Dirty Duck" and "The Case Has Altered" are mysteries by this woman. * Martha Grimes. * 5: This woman depicted here by Al Hirschfeld "could have danced all night". * Martha Graham.

Round 3. Category: A Walk In The Park * 1: This London park was named for the position held by the future King George IV. * Regent's Park. * 2: In 1989 George Bush had the DEA buy drugs in a park across from this building to show on TV. * The White House. * 3: You can follow streets named for King George V and King David to Independence Park in this city. * Jerusalem. * 4: A giant ferris wheel graces this city's Prater, opened to the public by Joseph II in 1766. * Vienna. * 5: 30-mile Wildwood Trail is in this northwest city's Forest Park; William Clark visited when it was just forest. * Portland, Oregon.

Round 4. Category: Murder And Mayhem * 1: In this 1987 film, after 1 of the main characters was killed, the word "Touchable" was written in his blood. * The Untouchables. * 2: Some say he shot himself in Bolivia after soldiers killed Sundance. * Butch Cassidy. * 3: Thousand of heretics were burned at the stake by order of this Catholic tribunal. * The Inquisition. * 4: John Billington, who arrived on this boat, is generally considered America's 1st murderer. * Mayflower. * 5: These young killers were nicknamed "Babe" and "Dickie", as C. Darrow could have told you. * Leopold and Loeb.

Round 5. Category: French Words And Phrases * 1: "Le silence est d'or" is the French version of this proverb. * silence is golden. * 2: What the French abbreviate ap. J.-C., meaning apres Jesus-Christ is abbreviated this way in Latin. * A.D. (Anno Domini). * 3: This phrase meaning ahead of one's time is often used to describe modern artists. * Avant-Garde. * 4: It means "pen name" or pseudonym, and is used as such. * nom de plume. * 5: It's the French word for kitchen; we use it to mean a manner of preparing food or the food prepared. * cuisine.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 573, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Dualists * 1: Barnaby Jones,Uncle Jed Clampett. * Buddy Ebsen. * 2: Tom Corbett,Dr. David Banner. * Bill Bixby. * 3: Sophie Berger,Mrs. Cunningham. * Marion Ross. * 4: Officer Bill Gannon,Col. Sherman Potter. * Harry Morgan. * 5: Judge Bone,Uncle Martin. * Ray Walston.

Round 2. Category: Sports Trivia * 1: The 1988 winner of this April marathon beat the 2nd place finisher by only 1 second. * Boston Marathon. * 2: The Orangemen of Syracuse were NCAA champs in '88 and '89 in this Native American sport. * Lacrosse. * 3: At age 18, he was youngest ever to defend a Wimbledon singles title. * Boris Becker. * 4: In July 1987, this wife of baseball star Ray Knight was inducted in the LPGA Hall of Fame. * Nancy Lopez. * 5: Number worn by Sandy Koufax, O.J. Simpson, and Magic Johnson. * 32.

Round 3. Category: I Feel Like Such An Idiom * 1: To find a reasonable compromise. * strike a happy medium. * 2: This idiom, meaning to show extreme modesty, has its origin in the Bible's book of Matthew. * hiding your light under a bushel (keeping your light underneath a bushel accepted). * 3: You can "beat" this 1987 Bond title "out of" someone. * The Living Daylights. * 4: To not spend more than absolutely necessary. * to pinch pennies. * 5: It means to be physically overdeveloped to the point of hindrance. * to be muscle-bound.

Round 4. Category: Tv Sports * 1: He was "The Mouth" of "Monday Night Football" until he retired in 1984. * Howard Cosell. * 2: Jim McKay ABC series that shows "the thrill of victory" and "the agony of defeat". * Wide World of Sports. * 3: "TODAY" he's a host, but his "Baseball World" show won a Peabody Award in 1973. * Joe Garagiola. * 4: Sport you'll see if you watch NBC's late-night specials, "Saturday Night's Main Event". * wrestling. * 5: Thousands protested in 1968 when NBC left a Jets-Raiders game to telecast this kids' special. * Heidi.

Round 5. Category: Tv Title References * 1: Matthew Fox and 47 others survive a plane crash but are stranded on a mysterious Pacific island. * Lost. * 2: On a primetime ABC soap, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman and their neighbors on Wisteria Lane. * Desperate Housewives. * 3: The Kansas hamlet that's home to the Kents. * Smallville. * 4: Patricia Arquette, who sees dead people. * The Medium. * 5: The McCallister brothers, one of whom becomes president in 2040. * Jack and Bobby.

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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 "Silver Bears" and you'll see this "Tonight Show" host playing a mafioso's son. * Jay Leno. * 4: Her 6-minute role as Queen Elizabeth in "Shakespeare in Love" was the shortest Oscar-winning role. * Judi Dench. * 5: Schwarzenegger is a Soviet cop teamed with James Belushi's Chicago cop in this action movie. * Red Heat.

Round 2. Category: Notorious Women * 1: An FBI press release said that she also went by the names Mrs. Roy Thornton and Mrs. Clyde Barrow. * Bonnie Parker. * 2: In 1954, Lolita Lebron and other nationalists from this island wounded 5 congressmen on the house floor. * Puerto Rico. * 3: It was ambitious Kathryn Kelly who bought and forced her husband George to use this weapon. * machine gun. * 4: In 19th c. London, Mrs. Mary Pearcey disposed of victims' bodies by wheeling them off in this vehicle. * baby carriage. * 5: She served 7 years for the attempted murder of Mary Jo Buttafuoco and then became a columnist for the Long Island Press. * Amy Fisher.

Round 3. Category: It's A Breeze * 1: These steady winds of the tropics are so named because they aid commerce. * Trade winds. * 2: From the Arabic for "50", the Khamsin can blow for 50 days across the north of this continent. * Africa. * 3: Kona winds from the southwest can bring bad weather to this state. * Hawaii. * 4: Also called the snow eater, this strong Rocky Mountain wind shares its name with a type of salmon. * Chinook. * 5: Dry and cold, the Mistral blows through this river valley in southern France. * Rhone.

Round 4. Category: Veggies' Scientific Names * 1: Allium cepa, and stop that crying right now!. * onion. * 2: Solanum tuberosum, we dig 'em!. * potato. * 3: Lactuca sativa, it's also a slang term for paper money. * lettuce. * 4: Brassica oleracea italica, it was once "banished" from the White House kitchen. * broccoli. * 5: Raphanus sativa, its giant white variety is known as a daikon in Japan. * radish.

Round 5. Category: I Know What You Did Last Summer * 1: A rocket scientist in training, you interned at this lab, JPL for short. * the Jet Propulsion Lab. * 2: You worked with this group founded by Millard Fuller to help build homes for low-income families. * Habitat for Humanity. * 3: You worked as a "blended beverage technician" at this chain that started as The Juice Club in 1990. * Jamba Juice. * 4: You went to summer school to take this branch of science that deals specifically with compounds of carbon. * organic chemistry. * 5: You slept til noon every day and read novels like "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Bergdorf" these. * Blondes.

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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, runner beans should have none of these attached; remove them before cooking. * Strings. * 5: Also known as a broad bean, it should be de-podded and skinned before cooking. * Fava bean.

Round 2. Category: Famous Hardys * 1: =. * =. * 2: =. * =. * 3: =. * =. * 4: =. * =. * 5: =. * =.

Round 3. Category: Shakespearean Actors * 1: Roger Rees tried to domesticate Bebe Neuwirth (Good luck!) in a 1999 production of this comedy. * The Taming of the Shrew. * 2: Helen Mirren was only about 20 when she played this Egyptian at the Old Vic in 1965. * Cleopatra. * 3: In 1988 Val Kilmer was doomed to play this Dane at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Boulder. * Hamlet. * 4: Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans co-starred in a 1940 production of this play named for a holiday. * "Twelfth Night". * 5: A 1955 production of this play featured Roddy McDowall as Ariel, Jerry Stiller as Trinculo and Jack Palance as Caliban. * "The Tempest".

Round 4. Category: Foreign Festivals * 1: His "Day" is celebrated in Spain, Mexico and some Central and South American countries on October 12. * Christopher Columbus. * 2: Country whose Confederation Day marks the freeing of 3 cantons from Hapsburg rule in 1291. * Switzerland. * 3: Highly decorated elephants wearing bells march in this large country's Republic day parade's. * India. * 4: Every March 25 Greece celebrates its winning of independence from this country. * Turkey. * 5: A week-long carnival in July marks the 1953 revolt led by this communist. * Fidel Castro.

Round 5. Category: Mixed Dog Breeds * 1: Low to the ground:DADS HUNCH. * dachshund. * 2: DADS HUNCH. * dachshund. * 3: A hunter:PROTEIN. * a pointer. * 4: A lap dog: EEL MAST. * a Maltese. * 5: A sled dog: TEAM ALUM. * malamute.

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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. * "Sick And Tired". * 5: Compartment in ship used as dispensary and hospital. * sick bay.

Round 2. Category: "Cut" Once * 1: Dining utensils. * Cutlery. * 2: Someone known for telling jokes or playing pranks. * Cut-Up. * 3: A flat, boneless piece of veal, for example. * Cutlet. * 4: A murderer, or an aggressively dangerous person. * Cutthroat. * 5: A small, lightly armed patrol boat. * Cutter.

Round 3. Category: That's So "Continental" * 1: It met for the first time in at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774. * Continental Congress. * 2: Its main hub cities are Newark, Cleveland and Houston. * Continental Airlines. * 3: Abbreviated CBA, it includes teams called the Yakima Sun Kings and the Gary Steelheads. * the Continental Basketball Association. * 4: The theory of the slow tectonic movement of plates across the Earth. * continental drift. * 5: To cartographers, it's known as CONUS. * the Continental United States.

Round 4. Category: Military Wives * 1: Her married life began in military housing in San Antonio in 1916; 37 years and 22 moves brought her to the White House. * Mamie Eisenhower. * 2: This widow of a slain Israeli general and prime minister now speaks out on the need for Middle East peace. * Leah Rabin. * 3: In 1998 activist Doris Mozley testified on pensions before the House committee on these "Affairs". * Veterans Affairs. * 4: A few weeks before their 1864 wedding, his fiancee Elizabeth called him her "old fellow with the golden curls". * (George Armstrong) Custer. * 5: That's the former Beatrice Ayer, gazing up at this husband of hers. * General George Patton.

Round 5. Category: Grimm Fairy Tales * 1: His fee the first time was a necklace, the second, a ring, the third, the firstborn child. * Rumpelstiltskin. * 2: In the story "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids" the kids were these animals. * goats. * 3: She pushed the witch who lived in the edible abode into the oven. * Gretel. * 4: Her punishment for letting a prince into the tower was a haircut and a one-way ticket to the desert. * Rapunzel. * 5: When the king's daughter dropped her golden ball down the well, this animal retrieved it. * the frog.

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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 is popularly served with a bacon strip wrap around it. * filet mignon. * 4: Named for a French region, it's a brunch dish of eggs, crumbled bacon and often Swiss cheese in a pastry shell. * Quiche Lorraine. * 5: Wrap bacon around a water chestnut and a piece of chicken liver and you've got this Asian-style appetizer. * rumaki.

Round 2. Category: Paris * 1: Unless flooding occurs, you can tour the Paris underground by way of les egouts, which are these. * the sewers. * 2: This Paris subway system opened in July 1900. * Metro. * 3: It's 1 of 2 international airports serving Paris. * (1 of) Charles de Gaulle ( or Orly). * 4: This avenue, once a marshland, was created as a fashionable carriage-drive by Marie de Medicis in 1616. * Champs- and Eacute;lys and eacute;es. * 5: Charles de Gaulle Airport was opened in 1974 to relieve traffic at this airport south of Paris. * Orly.

Round 3. Category: Striking * 1: Abbreviated the WGA, this entertainment union went on strike in 1981, 1985 and 1988. * Writers Guild of America. * 2: A major 1970 strike by federal employees in this "service" helped change it to an independent gov't agency. * U.S. Postal Service. * 3: International Women's Day on March 8 honors a famous 1857 strike began by textile workers in this city. * New York City. * 4: In 1892 a workers' strike at this steel magnate's Homestead, Penn. plant led to several injuries and deaths. * Andrew Carnegie. * 5: In May of 1926, unions in this nation banded together and quit work in support of striking coal miners. * Great Britain.

Round 4. Category: "Wind" Words * 1: The largest one is in Hawaii, not Holland. * a windmill. * 2: This knot usually is wider than the 4-in-hand. * a windsor knot. * 3: The tractor to convey Saturn rockets at Cape Canaveral has largest set of these squeegees. * windshield wipers. * 4: President Carter proposed that oil companies would have to pay taxes on these. * windfall profits. * 5: The British call them windcheaters. * windbreakers.

Round 5. Category: The Regina Monologues * 1: In 1882 the city then known as "Pile O' Bones" was renamed Regina in this person's honor. * Queen Victoria. * 2: Regina is the capital of this Canadian province. * Saskatchewan. * 3: Regina is home to a training center and museum for this group, the RCMP. * the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. * 4: Until 1905 Regina was the capital of these "Territories". * the Northwest Territories. * 5: Regina is home to one of the world's largest rinks for this sport of sliding stones on ice. * curling.

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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 spicy cuisine. * Szechuan. * 4: Native to the Yangtze river valley, this fruit is also known as a Chinese gooseberry. * a kiwi. * 5: This dam, one of the world's largest when completed, is being built on the Yangtze to control flooding. * the Three Gorges Dam.

Round 2. Category: Men And Women Of Science * 1: In the 1930s this California transplant posthumously received plant patents No. 12-16. * Luther Burbank. * 2: In 1925 this American anthropologist first visited Samoa; she wrote a book about it 3 years later. * Margaret Mead. * 3: In 1909, after 7 years with the Swiss Patent Office, he became a professor at the University of Zurich. * Albert Einstein. * 4: In the 1870s this French chemist demonstrated that anthrax was caused by a particular bacillus. * Pasteur. * 5: The "Hans"-on work of this biochemist born in 1900 unraveled the mystery of the citric acid cycle. * Hans Krebs.

Round 3. Category: Medical Milestones * 1: Louise Brown, the first human conceived by in vitro fertilization, is better known as the 1st this "baby". * test tube baby. * 2: In 1853 Charles Gerhardt buffered salicylic acid, creating acetylsalicylic acid, later marketed as this. * aspirin. * 3: This type of surgery introduced in 1961 uses extreme cold to perform a "bloodless" operation. * cryogenic (or cryosurgery). * 4: In 1977 the balloon type of this procedure was used for the first time to unblock clogged heart arteries. * angioplasty. * 5: In 1866 Dr. Thomas Allbutt was all brain when he invented a 6-inch one of these; safer fluids have replaced mercury. * a thermometer.

Round 4. Category: Music Of The '70s * 1: In 1973 Bette Midler revived this Andrews Sisters hit, reaching the Top 10. * Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. * 2: This "Diana" singer wrote Tom Jones' 1971 hit "She's A Lady". * Paul Anka. * 3: His "52nd Street" was the No. 1 album of 1979. * Billy Joel. * 4: This James Taylor hit is subtitled "To Be Loved by You". * How Sweet It Is. * 5: In 1973 he won a Grammy for Best Country Song for "Behind Closed Doors". * Charlie Rich.

Round 5. Category: Politics * 1: Cities as big as L.A. and Dallas have this kind of mayoral election where there's no "D"' or "R" after the candidates' names. * nonpartisan. * 2: In 1913 James Hamilton Lewis became the first senator in this job of counting votes and rounding up members. * whip. * 3: Military-sounding term for a local leader who oversees a political party's activities in one precinct. * a captain. * 4: The rooster was symbol of this party before Thomas Nast drew their new one in 1870. * the Democrats. * 5: A contraction of "procuracy", it's a person you authorize to vote in your place. * proxy.

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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 the nene. * a goose.

Round 2. Category: "B" In Rock * 1: On a "Manic Monday", this group taught us to "Walk Like An Egyptian". * The Bangles. * 2: Soap star Katherine Kelly Lang was in many of this group's music videos, as the modern "California Girl". * The Beach Boys. * 3: Elvis' last Top 10 hit, it says, "I feel my temperature rising, help me I'm flaming I must be a hundred and nine". * "Burning Love". * 4: Adam Yauch and Michael Diamond are 2 of the 3 "Boys" in this group. * The Beastie Boys. * 5: Shawn Stockman, Nathan Morris, Michael McCary and Wanya Morris are this "Boy" group. * Boyz II Men.

Round 3. Category: Clio Hall Of Fame * 1: "Does She or Doesn't She?". * Miss Clairol. * 2: "In The Driver's Seat". * Hertz. * 3: "Mean Joe Greene" and "Buy The World". * Coca-Cola. * 4: "Three Brothers --- Mikey". * Life cereal. * 5: "Acapulco Diver" and "Watch On Propeller". * Timex.

Round 4. Category: June 1969 * 1: J. Edgar Hoover said RFK authorized the FBI to tap this black leader's phone. * Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. * 2: Riots that followed games in this sport set off a war between El Salvador and Honduras. * soccer/football. * 3: The U.N. security council voted to keep peace-keeping forces on this island near Turkey another 6 months. * Cyprus. * 4: Nixon became the 1st president to address the Supreme Court when this chief justice was sworn in. * Warren Burger. * 5: This president emeritus of the United Mine Workers "kicked the coal bucket". * John L. Lewis.

Round 5. Category: Straw * 1: Proverbially, this animal keeps getting its back broken by one straw too many. * the camel. * 2: Water, clay and a little straw combine to make this type of brick common in the Southwest. * adobe. * 3: Skimmers, boaters and sailors are types of these made of straw. * hats. * 4: Politically speaking, O. Henry wrote, "A straw" one of these "only shows which way the hot air blows". * a poll. * 5: Sacrificial tokens in ancient Asia; Sam Peckinpah extinguished a few in 1971. * straw dogs.

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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 that this make of Ford runs best from April 20 to May 20. * Taurus. * 4: Once living near the Great Lakes but defeated by the Iroquois, this tribe moved to the Southeast (but not in Jeeps). * Cherokee. * 5: It orbits the sun at a mean distance of about 888 million miles, though we're not sure what kind of MPG it gets. * Saturn.

Round 2. Category: Bones * 1: This framework of bones supporting the lower abdomen includes the Ilium and pubis bones. * the pelvis. * 2: Also called the kneecap, it's an example of a sesamoid bone because it's encased in tendons. * the patella. * 3: Ligaments link bone to bone while these link bone to muscle. * tendons. * 4: Infection-fighting white blood cells called neutrophils are produced in this part of the bone. * the marrow. * 5: Though its name is shorter, this forearm bone is slightly longer than the radius. * the ulna.

Round 3. Category: I Dunno * 1: Alicia Silverstone's 1995 breakthrough film. * "Clueless". * 2: "To draw" this is said to have originally referred to a non-winning lottery ticket. * A blank. * 3: This phrase for a mind with no empirical knowledge is Latin for "scraped tablet". * Tabula rasa. * 4: Shakespeare wrote, "There is no darkness but" this; having it "of the law is no excuse". * Ignorance. * 5: In the Iran-Contra affair, George Bush was "out of" this, like a Chicago suburbanite. * The Loop.

Round 4. Category: The Sandbox * 1: This American won 2 Pulitzer Prizes: one for his poetry and one for his 4-volume biography of Lincoln. * Carl Sandburg. * 2: In folklore, he makes children sleepy. * the Sandman. * 3: It completes the intro to a popular TV soap opera, "Like sands through the hourglass, so are" these. * the Days of our Lives. * 4: In 1945 the first atomic bomb explosion occurred at this "colorful" New Mexico missile range. * White Sands. * 5: Related to the sea urchin, this flat, disklike invertebrate lives in shallow coastal waters. * sand dollar.

Round 5. Category: I Feel Like Such An Idiom * 1: It means to be daring or risky. * throw caution to the wind. * 2: When you're fully prepared for action, you're like a hunter with a heavy charge of ammo who's "loaded for" this. * bear. * 3: This idiom, meaning to show extreme modesty, has its origin in the Bible's book of Matthew. * hiding your light under a bushel (keeping your light underneath a bushel accepted). * 4: To not spend more than absolutely necessary. * to pinch pennies. * 5: You can do this "through the ranks", "to the bait" or "to the occasion". * rise.

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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 right angles and parallel lines. * a T-square. * 5: The T in T.S. Eliot stands for this name. * Thomas.

Round 2. Category: The Main Ingredient * 1: It tops the other 7 juices in V-8. * tomato juice. * 2: This main ingredient in S.O.S. pads helps you scour out scum. * steel wool. * 3: It tops the list on the Fritos bag. * corn. * 4: In Jell-O, it's sugar, but in sugar-free Jell-O, the main ingredient is this. * gelatin. * 5: It's the #1 ingredient in A.1. steak sauce and Johnson's baby shampoo, too. * water.

Round 3. Category: Tv Teen Dramas * 1: Its last episode had James Van Der Beek's character, now 25, producing a TV teen drama based on his life. * Dawson's Creek. * 2: The web site for this show includes "Rory's Book Club": log on and join. * Gilmore Girls. * 3: Smallville High School reporter Chloe has written for this big city newspaper. * The Daily Planet. * 4: In 2003 this Camden family entered its 8th season (but the title didn't change to reflect it). * 7th Heaven. * 5: This series began in 2003 with Lucas and Nathan discovering a terrible secret: they were half-brothers. * One Tree Hill.

Round 4. Category: Truman Speaks * 1: Despite his 1945 decisions, he warned in 1946 that "civilization cannot survive" this kind of war. * a nuclear war. * 2: "I never sit on" this, Truman affirmed, "I am on either one side or the other". * a fence. * 3: He told Congress this organization is "a mirror in which the state of world affairs is reflected". * the United Nations. * 4: Truman regretted saying that Ike "had the capacity to serve ably as" this. * president. * 5: Truman believed this animal, his favorite, had "more horse sense than a horse". * a mule.

Round 5. Category: The Stones * 1: He and Keith Richards enjoyed the satisfaction of writing "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". * Mick Jagger. * 2: On the 1978 album "Some Girls" the Stones really worked things with "Beast of" this. * Burden. * 3: Interest in diamonds in this color soared when Ben gave Jen a big one set in her engagement ring. * pink. * 4: Alaska's state gem (since 1968) or Mick Jagger's gem of a daughter (since 1971). * Jade. * 5: A stunning 330-carat star sapphire called the "Star of" this continent is on display at the Smithsonian. * Asia.

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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 eat 8. * pizza. * 4: Yogi warned that "You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not" do this. * get there. * 5: Yogi once reflected that it was this psychological term "all over again". * deja vu.

Round 2. Category: Places To Go Before You Die * 1: On the Greek isle of Aegina, at the orchards full of these nuts, you can see them before they're dyed red. * pistachios. * 2: This Canadian city's Bata Shoe Museum has Pierre Trudeau's sandals; now that's worth "CN". * Toronto. * 3: The Museumboot will take you through this city's canals with stops near the Rembrandt House and Rijksmuseum. * Amsterdam. * 4: Though this city encircled by Hebei province is China's second-largest, it's the one you think of first. * Peking (Beijing). * 5: In its native tongue, this Himalayan kingdom is called Drukyul. * Bhutan.

Round 3. Category: Guys Named Gary * 1: Now semi-retired, this odd cartoonist got his start at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1979. * Gary Larson. * 2: He appeared with Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump" and "Apollo 13", and with Nicolas Cage in "Snake Eyes". * Gary Sinise. * 3: This South African won golf's Masters Tournament in 1961. * Gary Player. * 4: This South Dakota native was the golden-toned voice of TV's "Laugh-In". * Gary Owens. * 5: A Russian chess grandmaster, this man lost to a computer in 1997. * Garry Kasparov.

Round 4. Category: Earls * 1: Earl Browder, author of "Marx And America", was general secretary of this U.S. party from 1930 to 1944. * Communist Party. * 2: By the time he died in 1992, his "Any Car, Any Color" offer had risen from $29.95 to $119.95. * Earl Scheib. * 3: He narrated, no doubt resonantly, the 1972 documentary "Malcolm X". * James Earl Jones. * 4: This future chief justice was Dewey's running mate when he didn't defeat Truman. * Earl Warren. * 5: "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" wasn't recorded by Flatt and Sharp but by Flatt and him. * Earl Scruggs.

Round 5. Category: "Angel"Ic Songs * 1: Only Billboard Top 40 hit for Alan O'Day, it climbed all the way to No. 1:"Cryin' on my pillow, lonely in my bed /Then I heard a voice beside me, and she softly said /Wonder is your night light, magic is your dream...". * "Undercover Angel". * 2: Marilee Rush and Juice Newton hit the Top Ten telling us about this angel. * "Angel of the Morning" (Angel in the Morning accepted). * 3: In 1955, both The Crew-Cuts and The Penguins asked her, "When will you be mine?". * "Earth Angel". * 4: In '62 Neil Sedaka called himself "The luckiest devil in the neighborhood" because he lived there. * "Next Door to an Angel". * 5: Charley Pride advised 1st to do this, then "Love her like the devil when you get back home". * "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'".

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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, the kidnappers pay the father $250 to take the kid back. * "The Ransom of Red Chief". * 4: He called his third collection of short stories "The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million". * O. Henry (William Sydney Porter). * 5: The character Jesse B. Semple figures prominently in many of this "Harlem" poet's short stories. * (Langston) Hughes.

Round 2. Category: Jokers * 1: He claims he gets mail that says "You may already be a loser"; now that's getting no respect. * Rodney Dangerfield. * 2: Her, as Liz Lemon: "I took one of those 'Which Gossip Girl Are You?' quizzes, and it said I was the dad's guitar". * (Tina) Fey. * 3: Ali Wong learned "In order to be a" this "wife, you have to be a" this. "I am more of a commemorative plaque". * a trophy. * 4: George Carlin and Lily Tomlin were featured in the 1995 special "20 Years of Comedy on" this cable network. * HBO. * 5: In a 1984 film Rob Reiner said they "earned a distinguished place in rock history as one of England's loudest bands". * Spinal Tap.

Round 3. Category: Lakes And Rivers * 1: Because of their salt water, the Caspian and Aral, 1st and 4th largest lakes in the world, are called these. * Seas. * 2: About 70% of China's rice crop is grown in this river's basin. * Yangtze River. * 3: Sam Rayburn Reservoir is this state's largest lake. * Texas. * 4: The Irrawaddy is a river road to Mandalay in this country. * Myanmar or Burma. * 5: World's largest lake, nearly 5 times as big as Superior. * the Caspian Sea.

Round 4. Category: Robert Louis Stevenson * 1: The place where Stevenson and his wife spent their honeymoon in 1880 is now a state park in this state's Napa Valley. * California. * 2: This title character was an "M.D., D.C.L., LL.D....". * Dr. Jekyll. * 3: (Hi Ho, Kermit the Frog here) As Captain Smollet, I followed the map to this Robert Louis Stevenson island. * "Treasure Island". * 4: "The Silverado Squatters" was an 1883 tale about Stevenson's experiences in one of these camps in California. * mining camp. * 5: Around 1890 Stevenson bought 300 acres in what's now this country, where he was called tusitala, or "teller of tales". * Samoa.

Round 5. Category: Howdy, Partner! * 1: 19th century printing partner of Nathaniel Currier. * Ives. * 2: After his partner's death in 1809, he partnered with Nicholas Biddle to complete the expedition report. * (William) Clark. * 3: Born in 1895, this lyricist partnered with composers Friml, Romberg, Kern and Rodgers. * Hammerstein. * 4: He partnered with Edward Williams in 1866 to "Cover the Earth" with paint. * Sherwin. * 5: In 1673, he and his exploring partner Joliet became the first Europeans to visit the area of Chicago. * Marquette.

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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 stoned or brickworked, and maybe even teach you a secret handshake. * a mason. * 5: A teacher could handle this, the moving of earth to form a smooth surface for a roadway. * a grader.

Round 2. Category: Rodents * 1: When threatened, it will stamp its feet and rattle its quills in warning. * a porcupine. * 2: This striped squirrel can gather more than 150 acorns in a day and enough in several days to last the winter. * a chipmunk. * 3: The common name of mus musculus, it fits into a Rhyme Time category. * a house mouse. * 4: In the U.S. there are 2 genera of this rodent: Geomys, or Eastern pocket, and Thomomys, or Western pocket. * a gopher. * 5: A S. Am. delicacy, this water-dwelling herbivore was declared a fish by the Vatican so it could be eaten during Lent. * a capybara.

Round 3. Category: Taking Stock * 1: BA isn't Bank of America but this plane-making company. * Boeing. * 2: The Nikkei Index tracks the top 225 stocks on this city's stock exchange. * Tokyo. * 3: Athletically, it's a shoe-in:FL. * Foot Locker. * 4: If you enjoy squeezing its Charmin, you can thank this company, "PG". * Procter and Gamble. * 5: IBM (stock symbol IBM) is short for this. * International Business Machines.

Round 4. Category: The Post Office * 1: The little mailman shown here helped the Post Office advertisee this 1963 innovation:. * the ZIP code. * 2: In April 1988 the cost of a 1st class stamp rose to 25 cents from this previous rate. * 22 cents. * 3: =. * =. * 4: =. * =. * 5: In 1680 William Dockwra's firm would deliver a letter anywhere in London for this price. * a penny.

Round 5. Category: Kenny Rogers * 1: 1 of 3 female artists with whom Kenny Rogers has had a top 10 pop hit. * (1 of) Dolly Parton (Kim Carnes and Sheena Easton). * 2: Home base for Kenny and family is a ranch in this "peachy" state. * Georgia. * 3: His wife Marianne was once a regular on this country comedy TV show. * Hee Haw. * 4: His only #1 pop hit as a solo artist was this 1-word title song of 1980 written by Lionel Richie. * "Lady". * 5: With the First Edition in 1967, Kenny "Just dropped in to see" this. * what condition his condition is in.

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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 the genus Tilia, TV actor Hal might be found under one. * linden. * 5: The annual Berkshire Summer Music Festival is held on this estate in Lenox, Mass.. * Tanglewood.

Round 2. Category: Multi-Million Selling Albums * 1: With over 25 million sold, 1 in every 11 Americans has this 1982 Michael Jackson album. * "Thriller". * 2: This group's "1962-1966" album has sold 13 million copies, its "1967-1970" album, 14 million. * The Beatles. * 3: At 10 million, the top-selling "Unplugged" album is this guitarist's. * Eric Clapton. * 4: His 1993 "Doggystyle" has been scooped up by 4 million buyers. * Snoop Doggy Dogg. * 5: She's the only woman in country music to have 2 albums sell over 10 million copies each. * Shania Twain.

Round 3. Category: Tell It To The Marines * 1: In the Mexican War the Marines raised the flag over the National Palace, known by this phrase in their hymn. * "From The Halls of Montezuma". * 2: The Marine Corps motto, it means "Always Faithful". * Semper Fidelis. * 3: Ground troops are based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and this camp near San Diego. * Camp Pendleton. * 4: During the Spanish-American War, the Marines were the first Americans to land in Cuba, seizing this bay. * Guantanamo Bay. * 5: The conquest of this Pacific island in February and March 1945 was the largest all-Marine battle in U.S. history. * Iwo Jima.

Round 4. Category: George Bush * 1: George met her at a 1941 Christmas dance, became engaged to her in 1943 and married her in 1945. * Barbara Pierce. * 2: He chose Bush as his running mate though they disagreed on cutting taxes, abortion and the E.R.A.. * Ronald Reagan. * 3: As U.S. ambassador to this organization in 1971, Bush worked to keep Nationalist China from expulsion. * United Nations. * 4: As president, Bush sent troops into Panama to overthrow this dictator. * Manuel Noriega. * 5: Bush's father, Prescott, represented this state in the U.S. Senate from 1952 to 1963. * Connecticut.

Round 5. Category: Noble Nicknames * 1: The Red,the Great,the Terrible. * Ivan. * 2: Rufus,the Silent,the Conqueror,of Orange. * William. * 3: The Mad,the Cruel,the Great. * Peter. * 4: The Fowler,the Wrangler,the Navigator. * Henry. * 5: The Simple,the Bald,the Fat,the Bold. * Charles.

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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 players whose positions are behind the line of scrimmage; they may go into "motion". * backfield. * 5: When your movie's been shot, it's in this container. * the can.

Round 2. Category: Underwater * 1: This legendary spirit of the sea keeps dead sailors, not gym shoes, in his "locker". * Davy Jones. * 2: These fabled creatures who are part fish lure men to live with them underwater. * mermaids. * 3: You have to use this sporting equipment to get to your room at Jules' Undersea Lodge in Key Largo. * scuba diving gear. * 4: After WWII this man and Philippe Taillez co-founded the Undersea Research Group at Toulon. * Jacques Cousteau. * 5: In "Le Morte d'Arthur" a mysterious arm hands this to King Arthur, then disappears underwater. * Excalibur.

Round 3. Category: Oscar Songs * 1: As Dr. Dolittle, Rex Harrison sang this 1967 Oscar-winner to people too. * "Talk To The Animals". * 2: Only Oscar winner sung by a cricket, it's Disney's theme. * "When You Wish Upon a Star". * 3: 1942 Irving Berlin classic that's sold more records than any other. * "White Christmas". * 4: '38 winner that became Bob Hope's theme song. * "Thanks for the Memory". * 5: This 1st winner, from "Gay Divorcee", is also a luxury car. * The Continental.

Round 4. Category: Folk Singers * 1: During a brief stint at the university of Minnesota, Robert Zimmerman began using this name. * Bob Dylan. * 2: In Steve Goodman's song, "The City Of New Orleans" was one of these. * a train. * 3: More formally, this trio could be called Yarrow, Stookey and Travers. * Peter, Paul and Mary. * 4: Her rendition of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" went to No. 3 on the pop charts in 1971. * Joan Baez. * 5: Lee Hays wrote "If I Had A Hammer" with this other member of the Weavers. * Pete Seeger.

Round 5. Category: Noted Pussycats * 1: When talking about Sylvester, this character calls him a "Puddy Tat". * Tweety Bird. * 2: In the 1970 hit comedy "The Owl and the Pussycat", she was the title feline to George Segal's owl. * Barbra Streisand. * 3: Tom Jones' 1965 hit single "What's New Pussycat" was written by Hal David and this partner. * Burt Bacharach. * 4: Some Mother Goose scholars believe that this was the real queen visited by "Pussycat, Pussycat". * Queen Elizabeth. * 5: 3 years after playing "A Kitten With A Whip", she grew up as the title kitty in "The Tiger and the Pussycat". * Ann-Margret.

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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: In 1550 he completed his last fresco, "The Crucifixion of St. Peter". * Michelangelo. * 5: The last NASA astronaut to fly in space alone was Ronald Evans as a part of this 1972 Apollo mission. * Apollo 17.

Round 2. Category: Queens * 1: This queen was the mother of France's Louis XVII. * Marie Antoinette. * 2: Maria I, queen of this Iberian nation for 39 years, died in Brazil following Napoleon's invasion of her homeland. * Portugal. * 3: Britain's beloved Queen Mum, who died in 2002 at age 101, was this queen's mum. * Queen Elizabeth II. * 4: In 1654 Queen Christina of this Scandinavian nation shocked Europe by abdicating and moving to Rome. * Sweden. * 5: Not just a queen, but an archduchess, and and empress, she was the mother of another queen--Marie Antoinette. * Maria Theresa.

Round 3. Category: Continental Congressmen * 1: The Conway Cabal, a New England congressional group, plotted to oust this man as commander-in-chief. * George Washington. * 2: Samuel Chase tried to corner the market on this mill product using congressional inside information. * Flour. * 3: 2 of the 4 great documents of the Continental Congress; Roger Sherman was the only man to sign all 4. * (2 of) Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Articles of Association and The Constitution. * 4: Francis Hopkinson claimed he designed this U.S. symbol; in 1781 Congress denied him sole credit. * the U.S. flag. * 5: Josiah Bartlett represented this colony; later he became governor and Dartmouth gave him an honorary M.D. degree. * New Hampshire.

Round 4. Category: Latin Lovers * 1: It's Latin for "O Come, All Ye Faithful". * "Adeste Fideles". * 2: "Dictum sapient sat est" translates as "A word to" these people. * The wise. * 3: We've probably asked "Nil novi sub sole" before, as there's "Nothing new under" this. * The sun. * 4: It's what's no excuse in "Ignorantia legis neminem excusat". * Ignorance of the law is no excuse. * 5: Ancient Romans put great stock in "Ars moriendi", "The art" of doing this. * Dying.

Round 5. Category: Ranch Dressing * 1: Somehow, shoppin' at Neiman Marcus for these trousers with a bib and shoulder straps don't feel right, but y'all can. * overalls. * 2: These "jingle jangle jingle as I go riding merrily along". * spurs. * 3: Parts of this metal item include the yoke, which wraps around the heel, and the rowel, a revolving wheel. * a spur. * 4: A bandito could wear this handkerchief as a scarf, a neckerchief or a mask. * a bandana. * 5: Ranch hands get protection from the brush by wearing these seatless leather items over their pants. * chaps.

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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 invented the Fig Leibniz; James Henry Mitchell came up with this better seller. * Fig Newton. * 4: My 1947 TV show "Read the Proust" bombed against this NBC show that's still running. * Meet the Press. * 5: My camera could only take shots of bald people, so I called it Kojak, but it didn't do as well as his Kodak. * George Eastman.

Round 2. Category: Presidential Alma Maters * 1: Whittier,1934;Duke Law School,1937. * Richard Nixon. * 2: Georgetown University. * Clinton. * 3: Georgetown(class of 1968). * (Bill) Clinton. * 4: Eureka College(class of 1932). * Ronald Reagan. * 5: Princeton(class of 1879). * Woodrow Wilson.

Round 3. Category: Tough Geography * 1: Bangkok is the leading port on this gulf, an inlet of the South China Sea. * Gulf of Thailand. * 2: This European country's most populous province is Katowice in the south. * Poland. * 3: This south Pacific nation has over 800 islands and islets, but Viti Levu and Vanua Levu provide more than 85% of its area. * Fiji. * 4: It precedes "kush", which means "killer", in the name of a central Asian mountain range. * Hindu. * 5: This area that was created in 1960 and has oil companies licking their chops is dominated by the Brooks Range. * ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge).

Round 4. Category: "C" Here * 1: Fear, Horn and Cod are 3 of these. * capes. * 2: Other names for it are dutch cheese and pot cheese. * cottage cheese. * 3: Boston cream pie isn't technically a pie, it's one of these. * custard (cake). * 4: The water moccasin has a white lining inside its mouth, so it's also known by this name. * cottonmouth. * 5: "Equine" park ride whose name came from a tournament game that involved throwing balls of clay. * carousel.

Round 5. Category: Men's Cologne * 1: Guy Laroche's Drakkor Noir cologne comes in a bottle of this color. * black. * 2: Ralph Lauren makes Chaps and this "sporty" scent--they're both perfect for horsing around. * Polo. * 3: It's the cologne for men who "play to win", as J.R. Ewing could tell you. * Dallas. * 4: 1/3 of a famous Dumas trio, or his cologne. * Aramis. * 5: This company makes Habit Rouge and Vetiver for men and Shalimar for women. * Guerlain.

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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 his luxury dining and sleeping cars. * George Pullman. * 4: The Tokaido Shinkansen, known by this "weapon" name, can hit 185 mph. * the bullet train. * 5: In 1903 this long line opened using the gauge George Whistler chose earlier for Russia's first main route. * Trans-Siberia/Siberian Railway.

Round 2. Category: Fictional Servants * 1: After losing her job at a bridal shop, this Fran Drescher character found work in the home of a widower. * The Nanny (Fran Fine). * 2: This zombie butler on "The Addams Family" often played the harpsichord. * Lurch. * 3: He was Jack Benny's gravel-voiced valet on radio and tv. * Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. * 4: In "The Sound of Music", it's the first name of the Von Trapp family governess. * Maria. * 5: He's Bruce Wayne's butler. * Alfred Pennyworth.

Round 3. Category: Nursery Rhyme Time * 1: Old king's desired outcomes. * Cole's goals. * 2: Nonfat eating Jack's pet animals. * Sprat's cats. * 3: Reckless acts of the one who put the kettle on. * Polly's follies. * 4: Fat-free Jack's pieces of neckwear. * Sprat's cravats. * 5: Little Jack's funeralgoers. * Horner's mourners.

Round 4. Category: China Town * 1: This city lends its name to the most well-known Chinese beer in the world. * Qingdao. * 2: Prince Charles was on hand when China took control of this territory on July 1, 1997. * Hong Kong. * 3: The name of this largest city in China is synonymous with kidnapping for naval servitude. * Shanghai. * 4: After about 8 months, Chinese authorities ended martial law in his city in January 1990. * Beijing. * 5: This old name of the city now called Guangzhou is also an Ohio city famous for a sports hall of fame. * Canton.

Round 5. Category: In Other Words That's Nifty! * 1: Simply "mallardlike", darling!. * Ducky. * 2: They're the "apian leg joints", sweetie!. * Bee's knees. * 3: It's the "feline utterance", daddy-o!. * Cat's meow. * 4: That's "channeled like a record", baby!. * Groovy. * 5: It's "not liquid or gaseous", bro!. * Solid.

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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.. * 37.9%. * 5: At $500,000, most expensive custom car was this make and model, made in 1968 for Secret Service. * Lincoln Continental.

Round 2. Category: What's "Nu" * 1: In law, when you're doing something that's offensive to the community, you're a public this. * nuisance. * 2: NBA team that makes its home at 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver, Colorado. * Denver Nuggets. * 3: Referring to the things going on at a marriage ceremony, they may be impending. * nuptials. * 4: Meaning "stupid", it's how Moe referred to Larry or Curly. * numbskull. * 5: It's a family group of a father, mother and children (not necessarily radioactive). * nuclear family.

Round 3. Category: Classic Tv Catchphrases * 1: "Good night, John-Boy". * The Waltons. * 2: "Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it...". * Mission: Impossible. * 3: "The tribe has spoken" are words familiarly spoken by him. * Jeff Probst. * 4: In the early 60s, Maynard G. Krebs would say, "You rang?"; later this "Addams Family" character used it too. * Lurch. * 5: No one could say, "Jane, you ignorant slut" like this man who made it famous. * Dan Aykroyd.

Round 4. Category: Celebrities' Original Names * 1: Actor Nicholas Coppola. * Nicolas Cage. * 2: West Winger Ramon Estevez. * Martin Sheen. * 3: "Seinfeld" co-star Jay Greenspan. * Jason Alexander. * 4: Wrestler turned politician James Janos. * Jesse Ventura. * 5: Wrestler turned actor Dwayne Johnson. * The Rock.

Round 5. Category: Even-Toed Ungulates * 1: Its hump or humps, composed mainly of fat, may weigh 80 pounds or more. * camels. * 2: At birth this mammal is over 6 feet tall, about 30% of its full adult height. * a giraffe. * 3: The pygmy species of this "river horse" spends less time in the water and more time in the forest. * hippopotamus. * 4: Between 1850 and 1889, their number on the American plains decreased from 20,000,000 to 541. * buffalo (or bison). * 5: Sometimes called the ugliest animal in the world, this African pig has bumps below each eye. * a warthog.

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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 state flower is also called a yellow daisy. * Black-Eyed Susan. * 4: A species of this beautiful tropical flower is classified as vanilla planifolia. * the orchid. * 5: The term "perfect" refers to a flower that has both of these male and female reproductive organs. * Stamens and pistils.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 555, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Jackie Auction * 1: Can we talk? This comedienne snapped up a French painting, saying it was for her daughter Melissa. * Joan Rivers. * 2: A triple strand of these went for $211,500, even though they were fake. * pearls. * 3: Lyricist Carole Bayer Sager paid $453,500 for this piece of furniture JFK used in the White House. * a rocking chair. * 4: This husband of JFK's niece "terminated" the bidding for a set of Kennedy's golf clubs with $772,500. * Arnold Schwarzenegger. * 5: The decorator who bought this item for $48,875 said the first thing he measured with it was his sanity. * a tape measure.

Round 2. Category: In The News 2005 * 1: This country's new president Ahmadinejad may have minored in embassy hostage taking in the 1970s. * Iran. * 2: 12 years after approving NAFTA, Congress barely passed this trade deal opening southern markets. * CAFTA. * 3: On Sept. 28, 2005 he stepped down as House Majority Leader (at least temporarily) upon being indicted. * Tom DeLay. * 4: Napster's gone legit, but the Supreme Court ruled against this file-sharing company in MGM Studios v. it. * Grokster. * 5: (Hi, I'm Nancy Grace with CNN Headline News.) On a busy March 16, 2005, I reported on Scott Peterson's death sentence and this actor's murder acquittal. * Robert Blake.

Round 3. Category: Africana * 1: The southern part of Africa is often called "Sub-" this 3 1/2-million-square-mile area. * Sahara. * 2: The country's name is properly pronounced "Luh-Soo-Too", but is spelled this way. * L-E-S-O-T-H-O. * 3: In 2000 Durban in this country hosted the 13th International AIDS Conference and the first held on the continent. * South Africa. * 4: A lion subspecies shares its name with these nomadic people of Tanzania and Kenya. * Masai. * 5: Meaning "guided one", it was the title of the 1880s Sudanese leader whose forces defeated General Gordon. * The Mahdi.

Round 4. Category: The Rise Of The Machines * 1: This refrigerator introduced in 1918 was named for a scientist who created a temperature scale. * Kelvinator. * 2: Milestone machines using this type of energy include Clarence Kemp's 1891 water heater. * solar energy. * 3: The 880-ton Hulett ore unloaders were built for ports like Cleveland and Ashtabula along this lake. * Lake Erie. * 4: Barthelemy Thimmonier, an early maker of these machines, saw them smashed by a mob of angry tailors. * sewing machines. * 5: In computers, the ILLIAC IV pioneered the simultaneous processing of many operations, known by this geometric term. * parallel processing.

Round 5. Category: Washingtonians * 1: Since his death in 1970, some 100 albums of this guitarist's wo

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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 Bruce Springsteen are among artists who've taken a "leap of" this. * Faith. * 5: This "Leviathan" philosopher's last words concerned his "leap in the dark". * Thomas Hobbes.

Round 2. Category: Rock Trivia * 1: John Lennon insisted "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was inspired by a painting by this boy, his son. * Julian. * 2: The original title of this Buddy Holly hit was "Cindy Lou". * "Peggy Sue". * 3: The Stone Poneys' hit "Different Drum" was written by Mike Nesmith before he joined this group. * The Monkees. * 4: In 1956, Elvis' initial 2-week run at this famous resort city was shortened due to poor audience response. * Las Vegas. * 5: Their 1977 hit "We Are the Champions" was once the theme song of the N.Y. Cosmos soccer team. * Queen.

Round 3. Category: On Colonial Maps * 1: Lubumbashi in the Congo was founded as Elisabethville, after a queen of this country. * Belgium. * 2: Da Nang was called Tourane when the French controlled what's now this country. * Vietnam. * 3: Occupied by Morocco, the area now called "Western" this was formerly "Spanish" this. * Sahara. * 4: This independent state off the Malay Peninsula was once part of Britain's colony of the Straits Settlements. * Singapore. * 5: What was once Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, is today this capital. * Jakarta.

Round 4. Category: The 1955 Emmys * 1: =. * =. * 2: =. * =. * 3: Set in a Kansas army camp, this show won 4 Emmys: Writing, Comedy Series, Director and Comedian. * You'll Never Get Rich or the Sergeant Bilko show (The Phil Silvers Show). * 4: His current act could include mime of his picking up a "Best Specialty Act" Emmy. * Marcel Marceau. * 5: Choreographer Tony Charmoli waltzed away with an Emmy for this Lucky Strike music countdown show. * Your Hit Parade.

Round 5. Category: Peace * 1: In Dec. 1985, 2 drs. helped save a reporter's life at an Oslo news briefing about their winning this award. * Nobel Peace Prize. * 2: To join this group founded in 1961, you must commit to work in the host country for 2 years and learn its language. * the Peace Corps. * 3: Formed in the turbulent '60s, it nominated Eldridge Cleaver as its 1st presidential candidate. * Peace and Freedom Party. * 4: Long a prisoner, he said, "To make peace with an enemy one must work with that enemy", who then becomes a partner. * Mandela. * 5: 1648's peace of Westphalia ended this long conflict. * the Thirty Years' War.

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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's Houston-based tool company. * (Howard) Hughes. * 4: This first black heavyweight boxing champ claimed he lost deliberately to Jess Willard in 1915. * Jack Johnson. * 5: This "outlaw" singer topped the country charts in 1977 with "Luckenbach, Texas". * Waylon Jennings.

Round 2. Category: Hey, That's "Great"! * 1: Stretching over 4,000 miles, it's been called the largest engineering and building project ever made by man. * the Great Wall of China. * 2: Much of this 1925 novel takes place in the West Egg area of Long Island. * The Great Gatsby. * 3: This city in North-Central Montana is the seat of Cascade County. * Great Falls. * 4: In this classic movie, Charlie Chaplin played dual roles including that of Adenoid Hynkel of Tomania. * The Great Dictator. * 5: In 1417 Martin V was elected the sole pope, ending this division within the Catholic Church. * the Great Schism.

Round 3. Category: But Fear Itself * 1: Your only option may be to lie down if you have stasiphobia, a fear of standing, and thaasophobia, a fear of this. * sitting. * 2: Cryophobics won't add this to their glasses of whiskey. * ice. * 3: Fearing this, a linonophobe could never work a yo-yo. * string. * 4: Scared of these, a chromophobe probably liked NBC better before the peacock. * colors. * 5: A man suffering from gynophobia and gymnophobia would be doubly afraid of women who are this. * naked.

Round 4. Category: We "Love" Literature * 1: Despite war and outbreaks of disease, the love of Florentino for Fermina endures in this Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. * Love in the Time of Cholera. * 2: What can you say about a 33-year-old novel by Erich Segal? Perhaps just this, the book's title. * Love Story. * 3: (Video of Cheryl in Providence, RI.) This is the original 1920 manuscript of a horror story by this author, whose initials stood for Howard Phillips. * H.P. Lovecraft. * 4: Modern lit just wouldn't be the same without such seminal works as this 1969 Jacqueline Susann novel. * The Love Machine. * 5: It's the only Evelyn Waugh novel we know that became a film starring Jonathan Winters and Liberace. * The Loved One.

Round 5. Category: Stars In Music Videos * 1: Rebecca Gayheart plays one of these in Train's "Meet Virginia", but turns in her order pad at the end of the song. * Waitress. * 2: LFO's "Girl on TV" is this girl who has the time of her life in Neutrogena ads. * Jennifer Love Hewitt. * 3: Appearing in "Real Love" by Slaughter, she's been leading a "Charmed" life since "90210". * Shannen Doherty. * 4: "Halo" by Depeche Mode has good karma with this TV Dharma. * Jenna Elfman. * 5: You can see this actress, film's Wednesday Addams, any day in Moby's "Natural Blues". * Christina Ricci.

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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 Powell, who played him. * dick. * 4: You might "case" one of these to see if it's the "clip" type. * joint. * 5: Meaning small time con men, it's the title of a neo-noir film with Anjelica Huston and John Cusack. * Grifters.

Round 2. Category: It's A Drag (Movie) * 1: 1993, starring Robin Williams. * Mrs. Doubtfire. * 2: 1960, starring Anthony Perkins. * Psycho. * 3: 1959, starring Lemmon and Curtis. * Some Like It Hot. * 4: 1982, starring Dustin Hoffman. * Tootsie. * 5: 1992, starring Jaye Davidson. * The Crying Game.

Round 3. Category: Good Thinking * 1: With little wind resistance, these domes housed the radar equipment along the DEW line. * Geodesic Domes. * 2: Sales were slow for cellophane Scotch Tape until John Borden invented one of these for the roll. * a dispenser. * 3: After his 3-year-old was impatient to see the photo he'd taken, he set out to invent an "instant" camera. * Edwin Land. * 4: In 1892 Henry Perky invented a machine to shred this grain and form it into little pillow-shaped biscuits. * wheat. * 5: In 1949 he created a machine to shave an ice rink, scoop up debris and spread fresh water. * Frank Zamboni.

Round 4. Category: Back To The Hotel * 1: In 1975, Lyn Weiner opened the Kennelworth, a hotel in New York City for these pets. * dogs. * 2: The Celtic Lodge and Kelly's Hotel are famous hotels in this world capital. * Dublin. * 3: This large ocean liner that's been docked in Long Beach since 1967 is a hotel and tourist attraction. * Queen Mary. * 4: With canals, piazzas, and St. Mark's Square, this Vegas hotel sits on the old Sands Hotel site. * the Venetian. * 5: This "presidential" hotel was elected to host the first Academy Awards ceremony. * the Roosevelt.

Round 5. Category: Film Comedies * 1: This comic goes medieval as Jamal, who awakens to find himself in 14th century England in "Black Knight". * Martin Lawrence. * 2: Sandra Bullock got in touch with her feminine side in this 2000 comedy. * Miss Congeniality. * 3: (Hi, I'm Rob Schneider.) I played a fish tank cleaner who takes up a much older profession in this 1999 comedy. * Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. * 4: In "A Day at the Races", he tells the eager Esther Muir, "If I hold you any closer, I'll be in back of you". * Groucho Marx. * 5: Mel Brooks played Moses and Torquemada in this 1981 film. * History of the World, Part I.

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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 from Seattle accused of murder in Italy? Read her "Waiting to be Heard". * Amanda Knox. * 4: John Steinbeck chronicled his journey across America with his pet poodle in "Travels with" him. * Charley. * 5: Peter Matthiessen's memoir of hiking in the Himalayas has this title, also a rare feline of that region. * The Snow Leopard.

Round 2. Category: California Cities * 1: The world's largest known almond processing center as well as the governor's mansion are in this city. * Sacramento. * 2: This city's Moscone Center has over 500,000 square feet of exhibit and meeting space. * San Francisco. * 3: This city's zoo, located in Balboa Park, is one of the largest in the world. * San Diego. * 4: Its name comes from the Santa Ana River and the German word for home. * Anaheim. * 5: This upscale community was founded in 1906 by the Rodeo Land and Water Company. * Beverly Hills.

Round 3. Category: 4-Letter Verbs * 1: According to the title of a 1992 film "White Men Can't" do this. * Jump. * 2: TV game show host Martindale. * Wink. * 3: As a noun, it's the rear portion of an aircraft; as a verb, it means to follow and keep under surveillance. * tail. * 4: As a noun, it's the ridge on the fingerboard of a guitar; as a verb, it means to worry. * fret. * 5: A housewife might do it to the mantle; a forensic expert would do it to look for fingerprints. * Dust.

Round 4. Category: Padres * 1: Set in Australia, this 1983 miniseries centered on the doomed love of Meggie and Father de Bricassart. * The Thorn Birds. * 2: He received Best Actor Oscar nominations for 1944 and 1945 for playing the same role: Father Chuck O'Malley. * Bing Crosby. * 3: This "Happy Days" father later played a crime-solving priest in the "Father Dowling Mysteries". * Tom Bosley. * 4: On film, Henry II muses, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?", referring to him. * Thomas Becket. * 5: Gene Hackman's Rev. Frank Scott leads a band of survivors to safety aboard a capsized ship in this 1972 film. * The Poseidon Adventure.

Round 5. Category: Adventure Heroes * 1: In March 1997 he got a new costume: hot white and blue, no cape and an S like a lightning bolt. * Superman. * 2: Simon Templar's initials give you an abbreviation for this, his nickname. * The Saint. * 3: This Dumas hero who left home at age 16 to be a Musketeer was based on a real person. * d'Artagnan. * 4: Trapped by a cave-in after World War I, gases preserved him and he awoke in the 25th century. * Buck Rogers. * 5: First names of detective Fenton Hardy's adventurous sons. * Frank and Joe.

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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 Guild. * 5: The California city that's home to his presidential library and burial site. * Simi Valley.

Round 2. Category: Metallic Stars * 1: The year after her movie debut in "The Color Purple", she won a Grammy for Best Comedy Recording. * Whoopi Goldberg. * 2: At age 12 he was performing magic under the name "Davino, The Boy Magician". * David Copperfield. * 3: He wrote "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" for his group Queen. * Freddie Mercury. * 4: He played defendant Claus von Bulow in "Reversal of Fortune". * Jeremy Irons. * 5: He played lawyer Alan Dershowitz in "Reversal of Fortune". * Ron Silver.

Round 3. Category: Silly Similes * 1: Being as blind as this animal isn't so bad; it isn't really blind. * Bat. * 2: With exercise, you can become as fit as this musical instrument. * Fiddle. * 3: You could wind up in this condition, the same as a dodo or a doornail. * Dead. * 4: You might be busy as a bee, a beaver or a one-armed one of these. * Paper hanger. * 5: Rich Mullins sings that faith without works is as useless as one of these on a submarine. * Screen door.

Round 4. Category: Medicinal Plants * 1: During the Civil War blockade, Southerners used dogwood bark tea instead of quinine in treating this. * Malaria. * 2: For a time parsley and sage were used as remedies for this; now Minoxidil is giving it a try. * baldness. * 3: Oil from this pickle "weed" is a folk remedy for infant colic. * Dill. * 4: Span. missionaries in Peru found a substance in the bark of the Cinchona tree that treats this disease. * malaria. * 5: Many keep a pot of this succulent member of the lily family in the kitchen to treat minor burns. * Aloe.

Round 5. Category: "Light"S * 1: Famous ones include Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini and Roberto "Hands of Stone" Duran. * lightweights. * 2: To do this to someone's plight, you could trivialize it, or just take the P away. * make light of it. * 3: Ben Franklin invented this device and would have been shocked if it hadn't worked. * the lightning rod. * 4: A joking question asked about many groups is "How many does it take to" do this. * screw in a light bulb. * 5: "I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine". * this little light of mine.

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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 which this category's title is taken. * "Ring Around the Roses (Rosies)". * 5: Kim Zimmer fell down on her way to pick up one of these awards in 1986, Kathleen Noone in 1987. * Daytime Emmy.

Round 2. Category: Also A Candy * 1: A buoyant jacket used to keep a person afloat. * a life saver. * 2: "Cabaret" club. * Kit Kat. * 3: Giant lies. * whoppers. * 4: A tract of land covered in scrubby evergreen plants. * a heath bar. * 5: Ninepins. * skittles.

Round 3. Category: "B" Plus * 1: The alpha factor measures a stock's own volatility; this Greek letter compares it to the entire market. * beta. * 2: In this sport, the ball has 3 holes in which you put your fingers. * bowling. * 3: It speaks to Moses in Exodus 3. * the burning bush. * 4: Beginning in the 1970s, more than 1 million of these Indochinese refugees fled the Communist regmes where they lived. * boat people. * 5: This national variety of python can grow to 30 feet long. * the Burmese python.

Round 4. Category: Pox, Plague And Pestilence * 1: This man who found Livingstone also helped spread Congolese sleeping sickness while establishing trading stations. * Stanley. * 2: The first recorded epidemic of this salivary gland-swelling disease was described around 410 B.C. in Greece. * mumps. * 3: Causing thousands of deaths, abnormally high temperatures in 1803 led to Spanish outbreaks of this colorful fever. * yellow fever. * 4: Deadly outbreaks of cholera and typhus struck British, French and Russian soldiers equally in this 1853-56 war. * the Crimean War. * 5: A devastating 17th c. plague epidemic on this island 58 miles south of Sicily killed 1 in 7 people. * Malta.

Round 5. Category: Sports Superstitions * 1: For boxers, it's unlucky to be the first to enter this area. * The ring. * 2: It's bad luck in this sport for a dog to cross the diamond before the first pitch. * Baseball. * 3: Avoid faults by never holding more than 2 balls when serving in this sport. * Tennis. * 4: Hey hockey puck! Don't stack this piece of equipment crossing another player's; it's bad luck. * Hockey. * 5: Gone fishing? Don't reveal this until you are done for the day. * Your catch/number of fish you caught.

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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 examples of many decorative styles including this one, named for two types of handiwork. * arts and crafts. * 4: Denver supports two major morning papers: The Denver Post and this "News"paper founded in 1859. * the Rocky Mountain News. * 5: Lookout Mountain has a shrine dedicated to this first U.S. saint who founded a camp there for orphan kids. * (Mother) Cabrini.

Round 2. Category: Way Back In 1999 * 1: A 20-year-long restoration of this chapel, home to Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment", was wrapped up. * the Sistine Chapel. * 2: In August one of these, the size of Rhode Island, threatened ships between South America and Antarctica. * an iceberg. * 3: As part of a 10-year research project, the Atlanta Zoo got Lun-Lun and Yang-Yang, a pair of these. * pandas. * 4: The 100 jurors William Rehnquist swore in on January 7, 1999 were all members of this. * the Senate. * 5: This province's capital of Pristina wasn't so pristine; it was bombed by NATO. * Kosovo.

Round 3. Category: Talk Nonsense * 1: This partner of "goo goo" in baby talk also means "foolishly enthusiastic". * ga ga. * 2: Completes the immortal words of Little Richard, "A wop bop a loo bop a lop...". * bam boom. * 3: In the dictionary this triple-talk phrase meaning "and so on" comes after bladder and before blanch. * blah blah blah. * 4: Children's taunt once used by fugitive Deborah Ulrich in a letter to police. * nya, nya, nya. * 5: On '70s TV this was Charo's version of making whoopee. * cuchi cuchi.

Round 4. Category: "De" Arts * 1: The son of a surgeon, this director brought some gore to the screen in "Carrie" and "Scarface". * (Brian) De Palma. * 2: Seen here, the work of Tamara de Lempicka typifies this art style. * art deco. * 3: Now in his 70s, he designed Laura Bush's 2005 Inauguration Day wear. * Oscar de la Renta. * 4: His "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" is referred to as a tone poem. * Debussy. * 5: In 1964 LBJ gave this abstract expressionist the Medal of Freedom. * Willem de Kooning.

Round 5. Category: The Youngest * 1: Entering at age 10 and taking 1 month to graduate, William Thompson was youngest student in this type of school. * university. * 2: Tho he was not even in his teens, Italians called Benedict IX "Papa" when he assumed this office. * Pope. * 3: In 1979, Marcus Hooper of England, a 12-years-old, became youngest person to swim this body of water. * English Channel. * 4: Though youngest of Jesse's 8 sons, he was the only 1 to become King of Israel. * David. * 5: Though under the constitutionally-required age of 30, in 1806 Henry Clay took this office. * Senator.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 547, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: See The Usa * 1: The Hall of Fame devoted to these Texas lawmen in Waco has memorabilia belonging to Bonnie and Clyde. * Texas Rangers. * 2: Each year kids can compete in the National Fence Painting Contest in this Missouri town. * Hannibal. * 3: You can "Go Home Again" to see this author's boyhood home in Asheville, North Carolina. * Thomas Wolfe. * 4: The Appalachian National Scenic Trail runs all the way from Maine to this state. * Georgia. * 5: Highlights of New Orleans' Jackson Square include the cast iron balconies of the Pontalba Apts. and this cathedral. * Saint Louis Cathedral.

Round 2. Category: "Roll" Call * 1: This kitchen item with a short handle at each end could easily be the seventh clue murder weapon. * a rolling pin. * 2: You'll flip for this heavy steel transverse item in the form of an inverted U on a vehicle. * a roll bar. * 3: Random House defines it as "a small gravity railroad". * a roller coaster. * 4: A return to a lower level in prices. * a rollback. * 5: Appropriate 7-letter term for the first public showing of an aircraft. * rollout.

Round 3. Category: Finnish Lines * 1: It's what you should have in your hand when you say "Kippis!" or "Skal!". * Glass of alcohol. * 2: If your Finnish isn't up to snuff, you may ask "Puhutteko Englantia?", meaning this. * Do you speak English?. * 3: It's where Finns traditionally go to feel the loyly, "steam heat", and get hikinen, "sweaty". * Sauna. * 4: If you pull into the full service lane, you'll need to know "tankki tayteen", this phrase. * Fill it up!. * 5: Voileipapoyta, literally "buttered bread table", is the Finnish equivalent of this Swedish spread. * Smorgasbord.

Round 4. Category: Historic Greeting Cards * 1: It's the residence referred to here:Nov. 1800John and Abby -Best of luck in your new home! Can't wait to visit you there.. * the White House. * 2: This mobster got a card from wife Mae:Sweetheart,I'm glad your mind is on love instead of business.Happy Valentine's Day '29!. * Al Capone. * 3: Sailor who in 1500 got the Father's Day card:To a Great Dad,Someday you'll get your own day!Love,Diego. * Christopher Columbus. * 4: Author of the 1541 anniversary card:Catherine,I can't believe it's been a year. Wishing us many more happy months together.... * Henry VIII. * 5: 1840 graduate whose card came with a horse in a red bow:Cump,West Point made a fine young man. We're so proud.. * William Tecumseh Sherman.

Round 5. Category: Go With The Flow * 1: The Tigris flows into this gulf. * the Persian Gulf. * 2: The Brahmaputra River and the Krishna River both flow into this bay. * the Bay of Bengal. * 3: The Tagus flows into this ocean. * the Atlantic. * 4: The Seine reaches its end in this, also called La Manche. * the English Channel. * 5: The Purus and the Putumayo both pour into this river. * the Amazon.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 546, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Truckin' * 1: Instead of "truck", the British use this other 5-letter word. * Lorry. * 2: You could drive this automaker's Silverado through an avalanche. * Chevrolet. * 3: This company's F-Series pickup, the USA's bestselling car or truck since 1981, turned 50 in 1998. * Ford. * 4: This maker of heavy duty trucks was founded by T.A. Peterman, who needed rigs to haul his lumber. * Peterbilt. * 5: This company gives its trucks an "F":150, 250 and 350. * Ford.

Round 2. Category: Uncommon Words * 1: Your "funiculus" is usally called this, and it was cut right after your were born. * umbilical cord. * 2: A "monopode" has only 1 of these. * foot. * 3: What a "frugivorous" person eats. * fruit only. * 4: Of a little tree, a little barrel, or a little rodent, what a "firkin" is. * little barrel. * 5: The number of people who govern a "heptarchy". * 7.

Round 3. Category: The "Real" World * 1: A simulated 3-D environment that a user can experience and manipulate as if it were physical. * Virtual reality. * 2: Land, including all the natural resources and permanent buildings on it. * Real estate. * 3: It finishes the 1942 advertising slogan: "The Only Thing Like Coca-Cola is Coca-Cola Itself. It's...". * the Real Thing. * 4: A process viewed while it actually happens is viewed in this mode. * Real time. * 5: In mathematics, a quantity that can be expressed as a finite or infinite decimal expression. * Real number.

Round 4. Category: That I Love You * 1: He kicked into high gear with his 1999 marriage to Posh Spice-- on July 4, no less. * David Beckham. * 2: Kyra Sedgwick had a rasher of this actor ( and no degrees of separation) after their wedding on Sept. 4, 1988. * Kevin Bacon. * 3: He said "I want to father your children" as a line to Catherine Zeta-Jones-- it worked, they have 2. * Michael Douglas. * 4: In 1993 this "Fabulous Baker Boys" star ( and it wasn't Beau or Jeff Bridges) wed TV producer David E. Kelley. * Michelle Pfeiffer. * 5: Isla Fisher won Vince Vaughn's heart in "Wedding Crashers"; in real life, this "Borat" guy is glorious man type for her. * Sacha Baron Cohen.

Round 5. Category: Captains Courageous * 1: In an early account of Jamestown's first year, he made no mention of his rescue by Pocahontas. * John Smith. * 2: A city and island in British Columbia are named for this sea captain who explored the area in 1792. * Vancouver. * 3: It took him and his crew 37 days to traverse the South American strait now named for him. * Magellan. * 4: In 1642 and 1643 this Dutch captain circumnavigated Australia without seeing it. * (Abel) Tasman. * 5: King Louis XVI gave this American a gold sword and made him a chevalier of France. * John Paul Jones.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 545, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Oil" * 1: Petroleum as it comes to the surface is called this; that's why it has to be refined. * Crude oil. * 2: This Procter and Gamble product has nearly a third of the U.S. facial moisturizer market. * Oil of Olay. * 3: A long waterproof garment for sailors in sou'westers. * Oilskin. * 4: "Beds Are Burning" was a 1988 hit from this rock band led by Peter Garrett. * Midnight Oil. * 5: Familiar phrase meaning to calm a tense situation. * "Pouring oil on troubled waters".

Round 2. Category: Why Didn't I Think Of That? * 1: This invention began in 1951 as a bottle of white tempera waterbase paint and a small brush. * Wite-Out (or Liquid Paper). * 2: In 1888 Nikola Tesla came up with the first practical system for generating and transmitting this type of current. * A.C.. * 3: Hiram Percy Maxim invented the muffler for a car and this for a gun. * a silencer. * 4: Andrew Beard invented an improvement for the device that coupled 2 of these when they bumped together. * train cars. * 5: Garrett Morgan's "safety hood" was one of these used by World War I soldiers. * a gas mask.

Round 3. Category: Origin Of The Specious * 1: Forwarding an e-mail supposedly sent by this Microsoft chairman got you $1,000 and a free copy of Windows. * Gates. * 2: Altar-bound Jennifer Wilbanks' 2005 kidnapping proved to be less than true, so she was given this 2-word nickname. * the "Runaway Bride". * 3: This Caribbean leader's reported baseball tryouts for the Major Leagues in the '40s never happened. * Castro. * 4: Oprah Winfrey said that she was "deeply sorry" over the scandal that this man's "A Million Little Pieces" had caused. * (James) Frey. * 5: Words from Marianne Williamson's "A Return to Love" have been attributed to this African leader. * (Nelson) Mandela.

Round 4. Category: Tough Facts * 1: Throughout the Middle Ages, it was the principal, if not the only table utensil. * Knife. * 2: Former county of England known for a pudding and a terrier. * Yorkshire. * 3: Spanky was part of "Our Gang" and Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, was part of this gang. * The Gang of Four. * 4: Opposed to the Stamp Act, the Sons of Liberty formed committees of this to spread the word. * Committees of Correspondence. * 5: From Arabic for "authority", it's the title used by monarchs of the Seljuk and Ottoman Empires. * Sultan.

Round 5. Category: Let's "Split" * 1: A house with floors that differ by about half a story. * split-level. * 2: These singing and dancing animals hosted their own Saturday morning "Adventure Hour" from 1968 to 1970. * the Banana Splits. * 3: On May 25, 2000 Sony investors suddenly had twice as many shares thanks to one of these actions. * stock split. * 4: It could be slang for a town where divorced people live. * splitsville. * 5: In football, you'll find them outside the offensive tackles or when the quarterback has a bad hair day. * split ends.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 544, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: National Anthems * 1: "Land der Berge, Land am Strome". * Austria. * 2: This large Asian country's "Jana-Gana-Mana" means "Thou art the ruler of the minds of all the people". * India. * 3: Franz Erkel, a noted composer of this country, wrote its nat'l anthem, "Isten Aldd Meg A Magyart". * Hungary. * 4: "Towards the East, an eye looks to Zion". * Israel. * 5: "Beneath our radiant Southern Cross, we'll toil with hearts and hands". * Australia.

Round 2. Category: Let's Play Some Basketball * 1: In basketball, 2 types of these are personal and technical. * fouls. * 2: (Hi, I'm Allan Houston of the NBA.) I helped the U.S. bring home the men's basketball gold from the 2000 Summer Olympics held in this city. * Sydney. * 3: In the 2001 playoffs, Derek Fisher set a record, making 15 of these in 4 games against San Antonio. * three-pointers. * 4: (Hi, I'm Michael Finley.) As a Badger on this college basketball team, I became its all-time leading scorer with 2,147 points. * the University of Wisconsin. * 5: He coached the University of North Carolina men's college basketball team in 4 different decades. * Dean Smith.

Round 3. Category: Presidential Libraries * 1: Along with his papers, his library contains a large mural by Thomas Hart Benton. * Harry Truman. * 2: The war exhibit "Korea Plus 50: No Longer Forgotten" is a joint-access project between the libraries of these 2 presidents. * Truman and Eisenhower. * 3: His library has a desk that's an exact replica of the one that his son was photographed under in 1963. * John F. Kennedy. * 4: Ann Arbor, Michigan. * Gerald Ford. * 5: Abilene, Kansas. * Eisenhower.

Round 4. Category: Banana Republic * 1: Don't confuse this banana-producing nation whose name means "Sunday" with the country on Hispaniola. * Dominica. * 2: In 1998 the Cincinnati Enquirer apologized for stealing voice mails from this giant U.S. banana company. * Chiquita. * 3: In this country the Chapare region east of La Paz is fertile banana terrain. * Bolivia. * 4: Bananas are a culinary mainstay in Bahia, an Atlantic coast state in this South American country. * Brazil. * 5: This country bordering Kenya, Tanzania, Congo and Sudan is one of Africa's leading banana producers. * Uganda.

Round 5. Category: Famous Women * 1: Drinks definitely were not on this pro-Prohibition woman. * Carrie Nation. * 2: She received a doctorate from Cambridge in 1965 after doing a thesis on chimpanzee behavior. * Jane Goodall. * 3: This former representative from Colorado co-chaired Gary Hart's presidential campaign. * Pat Schroeder. * 4: She died just a few months after her only book, "Black Beauty", was published. * Anna Sewell. * 5: Freed from slavery in 1827, she went to court to get her son back from the South; "verify" her. * Sojourner Truth.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 574, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "House" And "Home" * 1: It's the part of a racetrack from the last turn to the finish line. * Homestretch. * 2: On Nov. 8, 1972 this subscription cable TV service began transmitting. * Home Box Office. * 3: This 1862 act gave ownership of 160 acres to anyone who lived and worked on them for 5 years. * The Homestead Act. * 4: It's an insubstantial plan subject to imminent collapse. * House of Cards. * 5: In 1960 James Agee's book "A Death In The Family" was dramatized into this Pulitzer-winning play. * "All The Way Home".

Round 2. Category: Martha My Dear * 1: Her "Everyday" line is sold at K-Mart. * Martha Stewart. * 2: Her father, Col. John Dandridge, was a wealthy landowner. * Martha Washington. * 3: Backed by the Vandellas, she had hits with "Heat Wave" and "Dancing in the Street". * Martha Reeves. * 4: "The Dirty Duck" and "The Case Has Altered" are mysteries by this woman. * Martha Grimes. * 5: This woman depicted here by Al Hirschfeld "could have danced all night". * Martha Graham.

Round 3. Category: A Walk In The Park * 1: This London park was named for the position held by the future King George IV. * Regent's Park. * 2: In 1989 George Bush had the DEA buy drugs in a park across from this building to show on TV. * The White House. * 3: You can follow streets named for King George V and King David to Independence Park in this city. * Jerusalem. * 4: A giant ferris wheel graces this city's Prater, opened to the public by Joseph II in 1766. * Vienna. * 5: 30-mile Wildwood Trail is in this northwest city's Forest Park; William Clark visited when it was just forest. * Portland, Oregon.

Round 4. Category: Murder And Mayhem * 1: In this 1987 film, after 1 of the main characters was killed, the word "Touchable" was written in his blood. * The Untouchables. * 2: Some say he shot himself in Bolivia after soldiers killed Sundance. * Butch Cassidy. * 3: Thousand of heretics were burned at the stake by order of this Catholic tribunal. * The Inquisition. * 4: John Billington, who arrived on this boat, is generally considered America's 1st murderer. * Mayflower. * 5: These young killers were nicknamed "Babe" and "Dickie", as C. Darrow could have told you. * Leopold and Loeb.

Round 5. Category: French Words And Phrases * 1: "Le silence est d'or" is the French version of this proverb. * silence is golden. * 2: What the French abbreviate ap. J.-C., meaning apres Jesus-Christ is abbreviated this way in Latin. * A.D. (Anno Domini). * 3: This phrase meaning ahead of one's time is often used to describe modern artists. * Avant-Garde. * 4: It means "pen name" or pseudonym, and is used as such. * nom de plume. * 5: It's the French word for kitchen; we use it to mean a manner of preparing food or the food prepared. * cuisine.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 543, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Africa's Official Languages * 1: In Benin:this. * French. * 2: In Gabon:this. * French. * 3: In Cameroon:English and this. * French. * 4: In Equatorial Guinea:Spanish and this. * French. * 5: In Rwanda:Kinyarwanda, French and this. * English.

Round 2. Category: Noms De Plume * 1: In French this graceful swimmer is un cygne. * a swan. * 2: This peaceful bird is une colombe. * a dove. * 3: Ask your "mother"-- this "silly" bird is une oie. * a goose. * 4: This nocturnal bird of prey is un hibou. * an owl. * 5: This small game bird is une caille. * a quail.

Round 3. Category: The Tool Shed * 1: Dremel makes a 14,000-rpm tool for cutting these, a traditional October activity. * pumpkins. * 2: Peter Gabriel sang about this long-handled smashing tool. * sledgehammer. * 3: Seen here is the tool called a cutter for this fastener. * a bolt. * 4: A group of different-sized attachments for a ratchet-style wrench is called this set. * a socket wrench (or socket set). * 5: A group of different-sized attachments for a ratchet-style wrench is called this set. * a socket wrench (or socket set).

Round 4. Category: 23 Skidoo * 1: National Handwriting Day is celebrated on January 23, the birthday of this man born in 1737. * Hancock. * 2: She was shot 23 times on May 23, 1934. * Bonnie Parker. * 3: Traditionally, the swallows begin leaving here on October 23rd. * (San Juan) Capistrano. * 4: She was married to Henry VIII for 23 years. * Catherine of Aragon. * 5: In July the U.S. Open golf tournament was won by this amateur in a playoff. * Bobby Jones.

Round 5. Category: Tv The Kids Love * 1: Keri Russell plays a 17-year-old who's a college freshman on this WB drama. * Felicity. * 2: James Van Der Beek and Katie Holmes play residents of Capeside on this drama filled with teen angst. * Dawson's Creek. * 3: Glenn Close was the voice of Marge's long-lost mother-in-law on this show. * The Simpsons. * 4: David Boreanaz plays this sensitive and tormented vampire who's in love with a vampire slayer. * Angel. * 5: As Cory Matthews, Ben Savage is smitten with Topanga Lawrence on this show. * Boy Meets World.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 542, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Going National * 1: Heel and cigar. * Cuban. * 2: Guard and chard. * Swiss. * 3: Toast and twist. * French. * 4: Linen and potato. * Ireland. * 5: Linen and potato. * Ireland.

Round 2. Category: Double D Words * 1: Colby is a mild variety of this cheese. * cheddar. * 2: It follows step-, corporate and Jacob's. * ladder. * 3: Siddhartha Gautama's title. * Buddha. * 4: It can mean the mean, or the waist. * the middle. * 5: Pamper a person, or cook eggs gently in water without boiling. * coddle.

Round 3. Category: Nfl Home Stadiums * 1: The Superdome. * New Orleans Saints. * 2: Heinz Field. * the Pittsburgh Steelers. * 3: Sun Devil Stadium. * Arizona Cardinals. * 4: Monster Park. * the San Francisco 49ers. * 5: The Edward Jones Dome. * the Rams.

Round 4. Category: In Your Cabinet * 1: It's the "nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep you ever got with a cold... medicine". * NyQuil. * 2: For stomach pain, this brand now comes in cherry flavor and says, "pink tastes better than you think!". * Pepto-Bismol. * 3: This mouthwash company says there are "millions of reasons to rinse". * Listerine. * 4: For athlete's foot, boom! John Madden recommends "tough actin'" this; boom!. * Tinactin. * 5: OK, picture the sailor walking around...now, hear that whistling in the ads for this men's scent?. * Old Spice.

Round 5. Category: Exclamations! * 1: Divine bovine!. * Holy cow!. * 2: It precedes "whillikers" and "whiz" and will cause your horse to turn right. * Gee. * 3: It can be an interjection by itself or be tacked onto the end of "gad". * Zooks. * 4: An appearance as if by magic may be accompanied by this, French for "see there". * Voila!. * 5: From the Dutch for "hold fast", it's a pirate's order to stop. * Avast!.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 541, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Taunt "O" * 1: By its isolated nature, your last original thought might be considered one of these children without parents. * an orphan. * 2: Being around you has completely killed my sense of this, the tendency to expect the best of life. * optimism. * 3: At your place of work, it might behoove us to replace you with one of these Pongo pygmaeus apes of Borneo. * an orangutan. * 4: When you try to make a point, you flail around like one of these mollusks with 8 limbs. * an octopus. * 5: After a wrong response, we may need to use one of these cathode-ray "scopes" to check for brain activity. * an oscilloscope.

Round 2. Category: Villages * 1: The name of this California village near Monterey goes back to a group of monks, not a candy. * Carmel (Carmelite monks). * 2: Washington Square Park is the hub of this area of New York City. * Greenwich Village. * 3: A famous hard cheese is named for this Somerset, England village in which it was first developed. * Cheddar. * 4: Jacques Cartier gave this name to the hill behind the village of Hochelaga. * Montreal (Mount Royal). * 5: At the start of the play, Macbeth is the thane of this Scottish village and lives in its castle. * Glams and Cawdor.

Round 3. Category: I'm An Animal * 1: Before each shuttle landing at the KSC, workers have to remove these reptiles that like to sun on the runway. * alligators. * 2: This insect's sound as he rubs his wings together is a courtship song. * a cricket. * 3: The most abundant species of bear, these "colorful" ones can live for more than 30 years in the wild. * black bears. * 4: A baboon's diet can include rodents, birds and even fawns of this "g"raceful small antelope. * a gazelle. * 5: Boeing has named a military aircraft after this bird that's showing off its flight capabilities. * an osprey.

Round 4. Category: Weird Nature * 1: These ungulates have a third eyelid to protect their eyes from blowing sand. * Camels. * 2: A giraffe can clean its ears with this up to 18-inch-long appendage. * Tongue. * 3: Named for the Welsh for "white head", this bird can swim, but not fly. * Penguin. * 4: Call a cop! You're born with 300 of these, but by the time you grow up you only have 206. * Bones. * 5: A fungus gets mighty cozy when it teams up with one of these organisms to live symbiotically as a lichen. * Algae.

Round 5. Category: Asian-American Firsts * 1: In 1993 this person became the first Asian American to anchor a major network TV newscast. * Connie Chung. * 2: The first Asian-American U.S. senator was Hiram Fong, who began representing this state in 1959. * Hawaii. * 3: The first Asian American to command a U.S. combat battalion was Young Oak Kim during this war. * WW II. * 4: The first Asian to win an acting Oscar was Haing Ngor, Best Supporting Actor for this 1984 film. * The Killing Fields. * 5: Sadly Ellison Onizuka, the first Asian American in space, was on this 1986 shuttle flight. * Challenger.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 540, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Benny * 1: In the 1790s astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker compiled an annual one of these. * almanac. * 2: In 1785 Thomas Jefferson succeeded him as minister to France. * Benjamin Franklin. * 3: While in office, he admitted 6 states, more than any other U.S. president. * Benjamin Harrison. * 4: In addition to his "Baby and Child Care" book, he wrote "Caring for Your Disabled Child". * Dr. Benjamin Spock. * 5: In 1954 he turned Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" into an opera. * Benjamin Britten.

Round 2. Category: Going Cuckoo * 1: Sonny is the bird who's "cuckoo for" this cereal. * Cocoa Puffs. * 2: Edmund Spenser called "The Merry Cuckoo" the "messenger of" this season. * Spring. * 3: This term for the husband of an adulterous wife is derived from cuckoo. * Cuckold. * 4: In this 1962 novel, McMurphy takes on Nurse Ratched. * "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". * 5: In this film, Harry Lime says Switzerland's 500 years of democracy and peace produced--the cuckoo clock. * The Third Man.

Round 3. Category: Plagues On Egypt * 1: Plague No. 4, they were everywhere, including in my soup! Waiter!. * flies. * 2: In plague No. 2 these went a-pharaoh courtin', uh-huh. * frogs. * 3: This plague, No. 8, occurs every 17 years in some places. * locusts. * 4: In 1991 Gloria Estefan was "Coming Out of" this, also plague No. 9. * the darkness. * 5: Pharaoh could have used a pediculicidal shampoo to get rid of these in plague No. 3. * lice.

Round 4. Category: Urban Myths * 1: It's not a croc, I heard it from a friend: these croc relatives are living in the New York City sewers. * Alligators. * 2: Because he's barefoot on the cover of "Abbey Road", I'm convinced this member of the Beatles is dead. * Paul McCartney. * 3: My cousin just told me that a man in a hotel room had this renal organ removed while he slept. * Kidney. * 4: Wow! A couple found this pirate prosthesis on their car door handle when they got home from a date. * Hook. * 5: Did you hear? This man had a congressional page fired for making a "Love Boat" joke. * Fred Grandy.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 540, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The High Cost Of Living * 1: According to DOE figures, it was 25 cents in 1919, and in 1980 broke through the dollar-a-gallon barrier nationally. * the cost of a gallon of gas. * 2: If something's irrelevant, you might ask what it has to do with the price of these ($5,000 from a fertile donor). * eggs. * 3: In 1931 New York was crowded with men selling these fruits for a nickel; today they're about 10 times that. * apples. * 4: This NYC water transport cost 5 cents in 1900, 50 cents in 1990 but (happy ending) now it's free. * the Staten Island Ferry. * 5: This company's first Superman comic book cost 10 cents; in 2004 its "Superman/Batman" No. 14 was $2.95. * DC Comics.

Round 2. Category: Victorian Verse * 1: "Beware" this, "my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the jubjub bird...". * the jabberwock. * 2: The last verse of the first version of this Tennyson poem begins, "When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!". * "The Charge of the Light Brigade". * 3: In his "Departmental Ditties", Kipling wrote, "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is" this.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 539, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Actor-Directors * 1: He directed himself, dad Lloyd and brother Jeff in the TV movie "The Thanksgiving Promise". * Beau Bridges. * 2: He cast Debbie Reynolds as his "mother" in a 1996 film. * Albert Brooks. * 3: "The Great Dictator" (1940). * Charlie Chaplin. * 4: "The Great Dictator" (1940). * Charlie Chaplin. * 5: As a divorce attorney, director Danny DeVito narrated this 1989 comedy. * The War of the Roses.

Round 2. Category: We Love Broadway * 1: (Before the clue is given, Kate Reinders from the Broadway play Wicked helps with the clue.)"Popular /You're gonna be pop-u-lar /I'll teach you the proper ploys /When you talk to boys /Little ways to flirt and flounce--woww! /I'll show you what shoes to wear /How to fix your hair /Everything that really counts to be /Popular /I'll help you be pop-u-lar /You'll hang with the right cohorts /You'll be good at sports /Know the slang you gotta know /So let's start /'Cause you've got an awfully long way to go""Wicked" is based on a modern novel inspired by this classic L. Frank Baum book that took us "over the rainbow". * The Wizard of Oz. * 2: Alfre Woodard winged onto B'way in "Drowning Crow", an African-American version of this Chekhov classic. * The Seagull. * 3: Well, chim chim cher-ee! This musical about a flying nanny is flying onto Broadway. * Mary Poppins. * 4: In 2003 he was "dirty dancing" in "Chicago" on Broadway before embarking on the show's national tour. * Patrick Swayze. * 5: Hey, hey! This member of the Monkees took over the role of Zoser in "Aida" in 2004. * Micky Dolenz.

Round 3. Category: G Is For Grafton * 1: Not guilty,"I is for...". * Innocent. * 2: It's murder,"H is for...". * Homicide. * 3: The deceased, "C is for...". * Corpse. * 4: It can be direct or circumstantial,"E is for...". * Evidence. * 5: One on the run,"F is for...". * Fugitive.

Round 4. Category: Advice From Dr. Joyce Brothers * 1: (Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.) Your daughter who's exhibiting this type of kleptomania at Wal-Mart may be trying to get attention. * shoplifting. * 2: (Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.) Many have overcome their fear of this; you can always start with the cliche, "unaccustomed as I am" to it. * speaking in public. * 3: (Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.) Make sure your kids know that this euphoria-inducing drug, also called MDMA, can do serious damage. * ecstasy. * 4: (Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.) Don't fear non-traditional gender roles, like a man keeping house as in this Michael Keaton film. * Mr. Mom. * 5: (Dr. Joyce Brothers reads the clue.) There's no need to be ashamed of this common mental illness, even if it's alternating with mania. * depression.

Round 5. Category: Tape * 1: For protection, these athletes tape both hands under their 6- to 12-ounce gloves. * Boxers. * 2: This type of tape is applied to bicycles and to children's clothing as a safety device. * Reflective tape. * 3: A popular calendar is titled "365 Days of" this often gray cloth tape. * Duct tape. * 4: As its name indicates, it's used especially to cover surfaces during painting. * Masking tape. * 5: Used to insulate electrical wires, it's named for the force that resists sliding objects. * Friction tape.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 538, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Quick Moby-Dick * 1: The biblical prophet who's the subject of chapter 83. * Jonah. * 2: Of the Monica, the Rachel or the Phoebe, the rescue ship at the tale's end. * the Rachel. * 3: Melville's subtitle for the first American edition. * The Whale. * 4: The harpooner from Kokovoko with the rad tats. * Queequeg. * 5: Salem, Massachusetts author to whom the 1851 novel is dedicated. * Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Round 2. Category: It's A Disaster! * 1: In 1917 an ammunition ship explosion in this Nova Scotia capital leveled 2 square miles and killed 1,600 people. * Halifax. * 2: This Pennsylvania city had more than $200 million in damage when it was flooded yet again in 1977. * Johnstown. * 3: In 1992 "He" hit the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana, causing about $22 billion in damage. * Hurricane Andrew. * 4: Egyptair flight 990 went down in the waters of Nantucket not far from where this Italian liner sank in 1956. * Andrea Doria. * 5: In the worst aviation disaster, nearly 600 people were killed when 2 jets collided on Tenerife in this island group. * Canary Islands.

Round 3. Category: Indy 500 Flags * 1: It means one lap left, not truce. * White flag. * 2: A red flag is a sure sign to do this. * Stop. * 3: A flag of this color doesn't tell the drivers to play chicken, it's just a caution flag. * Yellow. * 4: Get this flag and you have finished the race. * Checkered flag. * 5: When waved, a flag of this color lets you begin mile 1. * Green flag.

Round 4. Category: Only Small Actors * 1: As the coroner in this 1939 film, Meinhardt Raabe said, "She's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead". * The Wizard of Oz. * 2: In between "Austin Powers" movies, this actor played Griphook the Goblin in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". * Verne Troyer. * 3: This Parisian-born actor was once nominated for a Golden Globe for his work on "Fantasy Island". * Hervé Villechaize. * 4: Zelda Rubinstein appeared as clairvoyant Tangina Barrons in this spooky 1982 Tobe Hooper film. * Poltergeist. * 5: Peter Dinklage didn't play the title character in this holiday film; he did come to blows with Will Ferrell, though. * Elf.

Round 5. Category: Cowboys And Indians * 1: Bailey and Stetson are popular makers of this essential piece of a cowboy's outfit. * hats. * 2: A Nebraska brick was a square of prairie turf used to build this type of house. * a sod house. * 3: More than 80% of India's population practices this religion. * Hinduism. * 4: This leader of India's independence movement was known as "the Great Soul". * Gandhi. * 5: Cowboys collect roaming cattle for sorting and branding at these "circular" events. * a roundup.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 537, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The '40s * 1: The women for whom Walter Annenberg founded this magazine in 1944 are now on Social Security. * Seventeen. * 2: In 1942 RCA plated a master copy of Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo" this color to honor a million sold. * Gold. * 3: In his first speech as prime minister May 13, 1940 he delivered the blood, toil, tears and sweat line. * Winston Churchill. * 4: In 1942 an "A" ration card allowed you 3 gallons of this a week. * Gasoline. * 5: In June 1947 this general accepted Columbia University's offer to become its president. * Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Round 2. Category: Decades * 1: Last time a man walked on the moon. * 1970s (1972). * 2: Hurricane Andrew hits Florida. * 1990s. * 3: "I Love Lucy" premieres. * 1950s. * 4: Ferdinand Marcos leaves the Philippines for the last time. * 1980s. * 5: Chinese Nationalist government flees to Taiwan. * 1940s.

Round 3. Category: Ancient Greece * 1: Aristotle's prescription for women in this condition was to avoid too much salt and wine. * Pregnant. * 2: In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury of 500 men on a vote of 280 to 220. * Socrates. * 3: Hesiod said this group of nine goddesses met him on Mt. Helicon and breathed the gift of song into him. * the muses. * 4: Originally 6 obols equaled one of these coins. * Drachma. * 5: These federations included Achaean, Delian and Amphictyonic--no National or American. * leagues.

Round 4. Category: Who's The Boss * 1: The Kansas City political machine of Boss Tom Pendergast launched the career of this future president. * Truman. * 2: Kelly Garrett, Jill Munroe and Sabrina Duncan all went undercover for this mysterious boss. * Charlie Townsend. * 3: Tattoo labored for this man on "Fantasy Island". * Mr. Roarke. * 4: In 1931 Salvatore Maranzano took this Mafia title, Capo di Tutti Capi in Italian; 4 months later, it was so long, Sal. * Boss of Bosses. * 5: Named for founder Carlo, it's the crime family of which John Gotti was boss. * Gambino.

Round 5. Category: Tournament * 1: Tournament, as well as this 5-letter word, can be used to describe mounted combat between medieval knights. * joust. * 2: Geoffroi de Purelli wrote the first knights' tournament guidelines in this Norman Invasion year. * 1066. * 3: Sir Lionel is killed during a tournament in this musical but is later miraculously revived. * Camelot. * 4: From Old French for "to mix", this no-holds-barred medieval group combat contest was basically mob against mob. * a mêlée. * 5: Celebrated until the 17th c., the last knights' tournaments to survive involved "running at" these to spear them. * rings.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 536, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: In The Minority * 1: They're the largest minority group in Kyrgyzstan. * the Russians. * 2: People of this national ancestry form the majority, 67%, of the USA's Hispanic minority. * Mexican. * 3: Filipino Muslims are called Moros, the Spanish form of this English word. * Moor. * 4: Initially, Spanish officials said that a group representing this minority did the 2004 train bombings. * the Basques. * 5: Arabs make up 20% of this country; they vote, serve in the army and are represented in Parliament by the United Arab List. * Israel.

Round 2. Category: Smarties * 1: In 1800 William Nicholson managed to break water molecules into atoms of these 2 elements. * hydrogen and oxygen. * 2: The temperature scale that this Swede invented in 1742 is used pretty much everywhere except the U.S.. * Anders Celsius. * 3: We'd have much dirtier windows if Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau hadn't liquefied this gas in 1798. * ammonia. * 4: In 1996 Gary Hack discovered the sphenomandibularis, a previously unknown one of these in the face. * muscle. * 5: Last name of the French brothers who introduced the pneumatic tire for cars. * Michelin.

Round 3. Category: He Was In That? * 1: Before playing Cliff on "Cheers", John Ratzenberger appeared as Major Derlin in this second "Star Wars" film. * The Empire Strikes Back. * 2: In 1961 this future "Jeopardy!" announcer hit the big screen in "Gidget Goes Hawaiian". * Johnny Gilbert. * 3: Dennis Hopper played the son of Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor in this 1956 classic. * Giant. * 4: This boxing champ played a bartender in "The Hustler", and that's no "Raging Bull". * (Jake) LaMotta. * 5: Wayne Knight, who played Newman on "Seinfeld", got to interrogate Sharon Stone in this revealing thriller. * Basic Instinct.

Round 4. Category: Tv Guide's 50 Greatest Characters * 1: Weighing in at No. 6, this son of Sarek and Amanda is the only alien in the Top 10. * Mr. Spock. * 2: No. 3 on the list, this character was once pinned to a kitchen cabinet by a giant loaf of bread. * Lucy Ricardo. * 3: No. 11 on the list, this backstabbing, bed-hopping oil baron was once shot by a mysterious assailant. * J.R. Ewing. * 4: No. 46, this princess wears a leather and metal outift. * Xena. * 5: This cop ranked No. 18 is the only totally bald character on the list, baby. * Kojak.

Round 5. Category: I'm Just A Bill * 1: A hacker stole this billionaire's credit card number off the Internet and used it to order Viagra for him. * Bill Gates. * 2: He authored "Between Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century". * Bill Clinton. * 3: Seen here, this actor headed the drama department at Montana State University before his acting career took off. * Bill Pullman. * 4: TV journalist and producer of such PBS series as "Genesis: A Living Conversation". * Bill Moyers. * 5: (Here's Sofia having some fun at the San Diego Zoo.) This playful bird is not to be confused with the spoonbill, playbill or T-bill. * hornbill.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 535, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Questionable Songs * 1: Million seller in which Elvis Presley asks, "Are you sorry we drifted apart?". * "Are You Lonesome Tonight?". * 2: It's what Patti Page asked about "the one with the waggly tail". * "(How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window?". * 3: It followed Linda Ronstadt's lament "I've been cheated, been mistreated". * "When Will I Be Loved?". * 4: The Shirelles said, "Tonight you're mine completely" but weren't sure about this. * "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?". * 5: In her first top ten hit, Connie Francis asked this title question. * "Who's Sorry Now?".

Round 2. Category: Just Desserts * 1: In England, a biscuit can be a cracker or one of these sweet treats. * cookie. * 2: The original Toll House cookies were this type. * chocolate chip. * 3: Sharing its name with a French novel, this candy bar was originally 3 nougat bars. * Three Musketeers. * 4: Shhh! A chocolate one of these is just out of the oven. * soufflé. * 5: It's the 2-word French name for a custard dessert with a hard, caramelized sugar topping. * crème brûlée.

Round 3. Category: Name That Roman Emperor * 1: 54-68 A.D.:Presided during a big barbecue. * Nero. * 2: 117-138 A.D.:Had his own "wall" of fame. * Hadrian. * 3: 37-41 A.D.:Nutty guy who once "declared war" against the ocean. * Caligula. * 4: 306-337 A.D.:Converted to a non-Roman religion and moved the capital city. * Constantine. * 5: 27 B.C.-14 A.D.:His sister married Mark Antony and he defeated Mark Antony. * Augustus.

Round 4. Category: Eagle Hodgepodge * 1: In 1782 the U.S. chose this eagle as its national bird. * Bald eagle. * 2: Young eagles are called eyases or these. * Eaglets. * 3: It's a synonym for sprawl. * Spreadeagle. * 4: The chapters of the Fraternal Order of Eagles are called these after the nests of eagles. * Aeries. * 5: Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards won the hearts of Englanders in 1988 competing in this Olympic event. * Ski jumping.

Round 5. Category: Tough Potpourri * 1: Wow! This man bought Manhattan with trinkets worth about 60 guilders, usually quoted as $24. * (Peter) Minuit. * 2: It's the specific word for a person between 90 and 100 years old. * nonagenarian. * 3: If you've read "The Flame Trees of Thika" (or if you saw the miniseries) you know that Thika is in this country. * Kenya. * 4: She was the first African-American author to win a Pulitzer Prize; she won in 1950 for her poetry. * Gwendolyn Brooks. * 5: This explorer was the governor of the Louisiana territory when he died mysteriously at a Tennessee inn in 1809. * Meriwether Lewis.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 534, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Money Slang * 1: The shell of this mollusk is composed chiefly of calcium carbonate. * a clam. * 2: Cheap way off a rodeo bronco. * Buck. * 3: Proverbially, you can "break" this food, or "take (it) out of someone's mouth"; earn some dough. * bread. * 4: Bank notes that sing before fa-so-la. * Do-re-mi. * 5: When speaking of Messrs. Netanyahu or Britten, it's all about the first name, pluralized. * the Benjamins.

Round 2. Category: The Gridiron * 1: [Hi, I'm Franco Harris, Hall of Fame running back of the Pittsburgh Steelers] In the 1972 playoff game against the Oakland Raiders, I caught a miraculous, game-winning pass that's been nicknamed this. * "The Immaculate Reception". * 2: [Hi, I'm Dick Butkus, Hall of Fame linebacker of the Chicago Bears] Before moving to Soldier Field in 1971, the Bears played its home games for 50 seasons in this Cubs park. * Wrigley Field. * 3: [Hi, I'm Champ Bailey, college football's top defensive player of 1998] The award for top defensive player in college football is named for Bronislaw Nagurski, whose nickname was this. * Bronco. * 4: [Hi, I'm Raghib Ismail of the Dallas Cowboys] While at this school, I was named MVP of the Orange Bowl on the first day of the '90s. * Notre Dame. * 5: [Hi, I'm Shannon Sharpe of the Denver Broncos] In 1995 this Cowboys running back tied Jim Brown's record by scoring his 100th career TD in his 93rd NFL game. * Emmitt Smith.

Round 3. Category: Lunar Locales * 1: The Mare Frigoris is the Sea of this. * Cold. * 2: The Palus Somnii is the Marsh of Sleep and the Lacus Somnorium is the Lake of these. * Dreams. * 3: Not on my list of vacation spots is the Lacus Mortis, the Lake of this. * Death. * 4: The Sinus Iridum is the Bay of these, so start searching for those pots of gold. * Rainbows. * 5: The Mare Australe is the Southern Sea and the Mare Orientale is this. * the Eastern Sea.

Round 4. Category: Cry "Uncle" * 1: In his famous recruitment poster, James Montgomery Flagg modeled this figure on himself. * Uncle Sam. * 2: After Little Eva's death, he's sold to Simon Legree. * Uncle Tom. * 3: John Candy gets the third degree from his nephew, played by Macaulay Culkin, in this 1989 film. * "Uncle Buck". * 4: It was Jackie Coogan's character on "The Addams Family". * Uncle Fester. * 5: In a Chekhov play, this title character runs the estate of his brother-in-law, a pompous professor. * Uncle Vanya.

Round 5. Category: The Lou * 1: He partnered with straight man Joe Lyons before he teamed with Bud Abbott. * Lou Costello. * 2: The Cleveland Browns' Lou Groza was nicknamed "The Toe" for his accuracy at this. * Kicking field goals. * 3: She's teamed up with Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton on 2 albums. * Emmy Lou Harris. * 4: With 14, he shares the record for most stolen bases in the World Series. * Lou Brock. * 5: In 1929 she became First Lady. * Lou Henry Hoover.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 533, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Split! * 1: In 2000 Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that this computer company should be split in two. * Microsoft. * 2: Grammar alert: there's a split one of these in the phrase "He chose to wisely decline the invitation". * an infinitive. * 3: Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman got together long enough to split this in 1938. * the atom. * 4: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda share ownership of this body of water. * Lake Victoria. * 5: Name given to the period between 1378 and 1417 when the Catholic Church had 2 or 3 popes serving simultaneously. * the Great Schism.

Round 2. Category: Historic Women * 1: This 19th century woman boasted, "I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger". * Harriet Tubman. * 2: As one of these in ancient Egypt, Peseshet was maybe the world's first woman to say, "Turn your head and Khufu". * physician (or doctor). * 3: Some say this Scottish queen married the Earl of Bothwell only because he abducted her. * Mary, Queen of Scots. * 4: The proceeds from some of her souvenir hatchets helped fund a home for wives of alcoholics. * Carrie Nation. * 5: "Democracy and Social Ethics" is a 1902 book by this founder of Hull House. * (Jane) Addams.

Round 3. Category: International "K"Uisine * 1: In Australia, some people make a soup from the tail of this marsupial; Run, Skippy!. * a kangaroo. * 2: A steak made from this Japanese beef can set you back well over a hundred dollars. * Kobe beef. * 3: It's also known as a Polish sausage. * a Kielbasa. * 4: Chicken or shrimp go equally well with this Szechwan dish that's also packed with peanuts. * Kung Pao. * 5: (Alex tastes a South Korean delicacy.) Here in South Korea, almost every dish comes with this spicy pickled condiment; and let me tell you, it can be hot. * kimchi.

Round 4. Category: Tv Pioneers * 1: Michael Landon was the man of the Ingalls household on this family drama. * Little House on the Prairie. * 2: Fess Parker played the title pioneer and Ed Ames his friend Mingo on this '60s series set in Kentucky. * Daniel Boone. * 3: This Dan Haggerty character's companions included a Native American, a bear and Denver Pyle. * Grizzly Adams. * 4: This city was the Rocky Mountain setting of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman". * Colorado Springs. * 5: Ranching came second to ridding New Mexico of lawbreakers on this Chuck Connors series. * The Rifleman.

Round 5. Category: Before I Was Elected * 1: A regular rocket scientist, U.S. Representative Rush Holt of this "Garden State" was a nuclear physicist. * New Jersey. * 2: Congressman Tom Osborne used to coach a little football at this Big 12 school, going 255-49-3. * Nebraska. * 3: Don't "procrastinate"; tell us the name of this house majority leader and ex-exterminator from Houston. * Tom DeLay. * 4: Congressman Don Young of this state can list "Fort Yukon Riverboat Captain" on his resume. * Alaska. * 5: Senator Lincoln Chafee of this New England state spent 7 years as a blacksmith at racetracks in the U.S. and Canada. * Rhode Island.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 532, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Advertising Mascots * 1: He's the giraffe mascot for Toys 'R Us. * Geoffrey. * 2: It's the animal that's represented one of the major TV networks since 1956. * a peacock. * 3: One of these critters is the mascot of the Hartford Insurance Company. * an elk. * 4: Name of the bull terrier "party animal" who endorsed Budweiser. * Spuds MacKenzie. * 5: You can make a cup of Nesquik quick as one of these creatures--its mascot. * a rabbit (or a bunny).

Round 2. Category: Coffee Time * 1: The name of this drink is from Italian for "coffee with milk". * caffe latte. * 2: This company is named for a character in "Moby-Dick". * Starbucks. * 3: The 2 main coffee species are arabica and this hearty one that is grown mostly in Africa and thrives at lower altitudes. * robusta. * 4: Found in coffee, it's C8H10N4O2. * caffeine. * 5: T.S. Eliot wrote, "I have measured out my life with" these. * coffee spoons.

Round 3. Category: Women Of Country * 1: In 2004 this beauty made her movie debut as Sarah Sunderson in "The Stepford Wives". * Faith Hill. * 2: (Hi, I'm Carolyn Dawn Johnson) In 2002 I was named Best Country Artist by the Juno Awards, this country's equivalent of the Grammys. * Canada. * 3: With hits like "Jesus, Take The Wheel" and "Some Hearts", this country cutie has hardly been sitting "idol". * (Carrie) Underwood. * 4: Among her No. 1 hits over the last 23 years are "You Lie", "Somebody" and "The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter". * Reba McEntire. * 5: In 2005 this hot newcomer won 2 CMT awards for her videos "Redneck Woman" and "When I Think About Cheatin'". * Gretchen Wilson.

Round 4. Category: The Solomon Islands * 1: A blue triangle on the Solomon Islands' flag represents this surrounding body of water. * the Pacific. * 2: The main industries in the Solomons include mining, timber and fishing for this fish. * tuna. * 3: Due to historic ties, this person is traditionally still considered the sovereign of the Solomon Islands. * Queen Elizabeth II. * 4: The first European to visit the Solomons was Spanish explorer Alvaro de Mendana in this century. * the 16th century. * 5: The capital Honiara is on this isle that inspired a "diary" during World War II. * Guadalcanal.

Round 5. Category: No. 1 Hits * 1: In 1986 she topped the charts with "How Will I Know" and "The Greatest Love of All". * Whitney Houston. * 2: 1984s "The Reflex" was this band's first No. 1 song in the U.S.; "Hungry Like The Wolf" peaked at No. 3. * Duran Duran. * 3: This singer was habit-forming with his 1986 hit "Addicted To Love". * Robert Palmer. * 4: The movie "Buster" starred this singer and drummer, who hit No. 1 with "Two Hearts", the movie's theme. * Phil Collins. * 5: No. 1 songs from her "Forever Your Girl" album include the title track and "Cold Hearted". * Paula Abdul.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 531, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 3-Letter Animals * 1: The red species of this canine eats 'most anything, except perhaps sour grapes. * Fox. * 2: One can be barn or screech. * an owl. * 3: In ancient times this killer cobra was used to execute criminals. * Asp. * 4: In India the tail of this wild ox is used to swat flies. * Yak. * 5: It's an alternate name for the swift fox but is also used for any baby fox. * kit.

Round 2. Category: South American Cities * 1: Pachacamac, an ancient site for Incan and other Indian cultures, lies just outside this capital. * Lima, Peru. * 2: South America's most populous city, it was founded by Jesuit missionaries from Portugal in 1554. * Sao Paulo. * 3: La Boca, an area of this Argentine capital, is often called "Little Genoa" because of its large Italian community. * Buenos Aires. * 4: In the 1980s this city became the center for Colombia's most powerful cocaine cartel. * Medellin. * 5: At an altitude of 12,001 feet, it's the world's highest capital city; co-capital Sucre lies about 3,000 feet lower. * La Paz, Bolivia.

Round 3. Category: Hard Candy * 1: Cinnamon Imperials is a generic term for these hard candies; the ones from Ferrara Pan have this "fiery" name. * Red Hots. * 2: They're "The Mints That Neutralize Not Mask". * Breath Savers. * 3: These bite-sized "Rich and Creamy" hard candies from Nestle have a name that means "little bites". * Nips. * 4: This simple hard candy is concentrated sugar syrup that has turned into crystal chunks, often on a stick. * rock candy. * 5: This candy brand with a variety of hard candies introduced its "Pick-A-Mix" concept in 1958. * Brach's.

Round 4. Category: Computer Classes * 1: Title of the person who handles mail to a website; the U.S. has a "General" one. * Postmaster. * 2: SYSADMIN, one who maintains a computer network, is short for this. * System administrator. * 3: This 4-letter word from Sanskrit means someone who is a computer knowledge resource. * Guru. * 4: A stupid or inept internet user can be called this 3-digit number that means "File Not Found". * 404. * 5: Like a villain in darkness, one who reads others' words in a newsgroup but won't contribute is doing this. * Lurking.

Round 5. Category: Puppet-Pourri * 1: Every Who down in Who-ville knows puppets around in this 2006 Dr. Seuss Broadway musical. * How The Grinch Stole Christmas!. * 2: In the musical "Baker Street", this queen's Diamond Jubilee Parade was brought to life by marionettes. * Victoria. * 3: In Erik Sanko's puppet play "The Fortune Teller", Marionettes represent the 7 these, including wrath and gluttony. * the Deadly Sins. * 4: A puppet show called "Percy, the Poor Little Penguin" premiered at this store's Herald Square location in 2001. * Macy's. * 5: This late, great "Law and Order" star played the puppeteer who falls in love with Lili in the 1961 musical "Carnival". * Jerry Orbach.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 530, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Attle" Field * 1: Bovines. * Cattle. * 2: Snake tail tip. * Rattle. * 3: Disclose a secret. * Tattle. * 4: City between Puget Sound and Lake Washington. * Seattle. * 5: Childish talk. * Prattle.

Round 2. Category: Arnold Schwarzenegger * 1: Schwarzenegger, whose name means "black plowman" in German, was born in Graz in this country in 1947. * Austria. * 2: Jackie Onassis was on hand when Arnold married this TV journalist in 1986. * Maria Shriver. * 3: In "The Guinness Book of Film", this catchphrase ranks as the fourth best movie quote ever. * "I'll Be Back!". * 4: Arnold's film career took off after he played this sword-wielding comic book hero in 1982. * Conan the Barbarian. * 5: In a 1980 TV movie, Arnold played Mickey Hargitay, the bodybuilding husband of this late actress. * Jayne Mansfield.

Round 3. Category: Dynasties * 1: "New Yorker" humorist Robert begat novelist Nathaniel, who begat "Jaws" author Peter. * Benchleys. * 2: Father H.L., who made billions in oil, begat William, Bunker, and Lamar who declared bankruptcy in '86. * the Hunts. * 3: Oscar-winner Ed begat frequent Emmy nominee Ed Jr.. * Begley. * 4: Louisiana Governor Huey P. begat Louisiana Senator Russell B.. * the Longs. * 5: "All of Me" director Carl begat "Stand by Me" director Rob. * the Reiners.

Round 4. Category: Nasa Shuttle Names * 1: It's the capital of South Carolina, or a Sony-owned movie company. * Columbia. * 2: Some have said this lost island was in the Aegean; others, in the Mediterranean, or elsewhere. * Atlantis. * 3: This science, nature and exploration cable channel has its own stores in over 20 states. * Discovery. * 4: It's now the top U.S. car rental agency. * Enterprise. * 5: Make an effort to come up with this word; it's from Middle English for "to make an effort". * Endeavour.

Round 5. Category: "C.b." * 1: The ex-Mrs. Billy Joel. * Christie Brinkley. * 2: "Hellraiser" horror novelist and director. * Clive Barker. * 3: Author full of hot "Eyre". * Charlotte Bronte. * 4: '20s "It" girl. * Clara Bow. * 5: Bonnie Parker's partner in crime. * Clyde Barrow.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 529, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Real Ghosts? * 1: Not one but two of this king's six wives are said to haunt Hampton Court Palace. * Henry VIII. * 2: Glamis Castle in this U.K. country has several ghosts, including an earl who gambled with the devil, and lost. * Scotland. * 3: Screaming ghosts have been heard at the old Lalaurie House on Royal Street in this section of New Orleans. * the French Quarter. * 4: This magician who died on Halloween is said to haunt the ruins of his Hollywood Hills estate. * Houdini. * 5: A violent ghost called the Bell Witch allegedly murdered John Bell in this "Volunteer State" in 1820. * Tennessee.

Round 2. Category: Economics * 1: Economists say if the rate of this is 2 or 3% a year, it's normal; if it's "galloping", it's bad. * Inflation. * 2: It represents one-seventh of the U.S. economy; President Clinton tried to reform it in his first term. * Healthcare. * 3: Holders of this type of stock take precedence over common stock holders. * Preferred. * 4: It's a government takeover of a private industry, like steel in postwar Britain. * Nationalization. * 5: First American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, he's the author of a widely used college textbook. * Paul Samuelson.

Round 3. Category: 1893 * 1: U.S. interests deposed Queen Liliuokalani of this kingdom, paving the way for its annexation. * Hawaii. * 2: More than 100,000 rushed to the Cherokee Strip area of this territory to claim land. * Oklahoma. * 3: Lord Stanley of Preston gave a trophy to be awarded to the best Canadian team in this sport. * hockey. * 4: Laos was added to this French Southeast Asian dependency. * Indochina. * 5: This state's governor, John Peter Altgeld, pardoned the 3 surviving Haymarket Riot conspirators. * Illinois.

Round 4. Category: The Census * 1: The Census Bureau bought its first electronic one of these in 1951, the UNIVAC. * Computer. * 2: This large, untaxed group was counted for the first time in the 1860 census. * Indians. * 3: The cost of the last major U.S. census held in this year was $10.40 a head. * 1990. * 4: The Bureau of the Census is part of this cabinet department that also includes the Patent Office. * Commerce. * 5: 200 years ago it was near Chestertown, Md.; today it's 9.7 miles SE of Steelville, Mo.. * the population center of the U.S..

Round 5. Category: Amphibious Invasions * 1: In WWI, an Allied amphibious assault on this Dardanelles port city collapsed after the Turks counterattacked. * Gallipoli. * 2: Landing at Sussex, his forces invaded Britain by sea on September 28, 1066. * William the Conqueror. * 3: The 5-beach attack in this momentous operation was known as the Montgomery Plan. * D-Day (Normandy). * 4: Supported by catapults mounted on the invasion ships, he landed 2 legions of soldiers near Dover in 55 B.C.. * Julius Caesar. * 5: In 1759 Gen. James Wolfe sailed up the St. Lawrence River to capture this Canadian city. * Quebec.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 528, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 19Th Century Literature * 1: "Knitting", "Still Knitting" and "The Knitting Done" are chapters in this 1859 novel. * A Tale of Two Cities. * 2: It may ring a bell that he had "a huge head sprouting red hair; between the two shoulders an enormous hump". * the hunchback (of Notre Dame). * 3: The title wrongdoing in this novel is the murder of a pawnbroker and her sister by Raskolnikov. * Crime and Punishment. * 4: The year before her death, 29-year-old Emily Bronte published this, her only novel. * Wuthering Heights. * 5: Published in 1849, "Redburn: His FIrst Voyage" was based on this author's first voyage as a cabin boy. * Herman Melville.

Round 2. Category: Green Beers * 1: This Bremen beer's motto appropriately reads "Life beckons". * Beck's. * 2: Brittany Evans is the new icon for this beer that's named in honor of an old German monastery. * St. Pauli's. * 3: Dennis Hopper has a particular aversion to this Dutch beer in the movie "Blue Velvet". * Heineken. * 4: Brewed since 1615, this Dutch beer with a green bottle has a swingtop cap. * Grolsch. * 5: Tonight let it be this beer of Munich that's properly spelled with 2 umlauts. * Löwenbräu.

Round 3. Category: English Lit. * 1: He's the legendary king in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King". * King Arthur. * 2: Thomas Hardy, who gave us "The Return of the Native", also wrote of this girl "of the d'Urbervilles". * Tess. * 3: Last name shared by "Murder in the Cathedral" author T .S. and "Adam Bede" author George. * Eliot. * 4: This Miss Marple creator was one of the 1st authors to be published in a Penguin paperback. * Agatha Christie. * 5: The final version of his "Paradise Lost" was published in 1674. * Milton.

Round 4. Category: Down Under * 1: The ABA, Inc. in Sydney is an Australian association that gives lessons in how to throw these. * Boomerangs. * 2: It has webbed feet, no teeth or external ears, brown fur and a rubbery, duckbill-shaped muzzle. * Platypus. * 3: Walter Burley Griffin, an architect from Chicago, designed this capital city, site unseen. * Canberra. * 4: This now popular tourist attraction almost wrecked the Endeavour, Captain Cook's ship. * Great Barrier Reef. * 5: Over 309 of these are operating in the Barossa Valley, the Aussie equivalent of our Napa. * Wineries.

Round 5. Category: Documents * 1: The U.S. government encourages traveling citizens to smile for their photos in these booklets. * Passports. * 2: Colorful term for a document allowing aliens to legally work in the United States. * Green card. * 3: "To take" this often means to sign a document forswearing liquor. * The pledge. * 4: After this proceeding is complete, a court issues the child a new birth certificate. * Adoption. * 5: Once, this document disposed of personal effects, while property was covered in the "last will". * Testament.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 527, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Oahu * 1: Visitors learn how to make these floral necklaces at Senator Fong's plantation and gardens. * leis. * 2: The beachfront home used as Robin Masters' estate on this TV series lies on Oahu's east shore. * Magnum, P.I.. * 3: A tower topped by a giant pineapple stands atop this company's Cannery Square. * Dole. * 4: A chocolate replica of this Oahu volcano is a specialty of Honolulu's Bali by the Sea restaurant. * Diamond Head. * 5: Merisol created the statue of this Belgian missionary that stands in front of the state capitol building. * Father Damien.

Round 2. Category: Around The World Book * 1: Mental illness or just too much coffee may cause this, the inability to sleep naturally. * insomnia. * 2: Full date mentioned in the first sentence of the article on the Millennium Bug. * January 1, 2000. * 3: As C is in 2 volumes, but J and K are in 1, volume 13 still covers this one letter. * M. * 4: These "have one advantage over most other pets. They can be left alone for a day or two without food". * fish. * 5: The World Book illustration for this occupation has a man with a cutlass, daggers, a pistol and a boarding ax. * pirate.

Round 3. Category: The Female Of The Species * 1: This name for a female sheep comes from a Latin word for "sheep". * ewe. * 2: We bet you a buck you know this is a female deer. * a doe. * 3: If you be a female bee, you be one of these. * a queen. * 4: Female moose, whales and elephants are known by this "bovine" term. * a cow. * 5: A female red fox isn't a comedian, but one of these. * a vixen.

Round 4. Category: Jane * 1: To see if sororities are evil, Jane sent a reporter through this process of auditioning for several of them. * Rushing. * 2: Each month Jane sends 2 strangers on one of these. * Blind date. * 3: In May 1999 top new colors for these included Naive Rose and Iridescent Lilac -- no blacks or greens. * Nail polish. * 4: In the first issue, this "Gods and Monsters" and "Encino Man" actor was "Our Token Sex Symbol". * Brendan Fraser. * 5: A dress made of Good and Plenty wrappers was one of the D.I.Y. fashion tips, D.I.Y. standing for this. * Do It Yourself.

Round 5. Category: 'Member November? * 1: The first college football game took place between Rutgers and this other N.J. university on November 6, 1869. * Princeton. * 2: Abe Lincoln delivered it November 19, 1863. * The Gettysburg Address. * 3: Later a prime minister, she was born November 19, 1917 in Allahabad. * Indira Gandhi. * 4: This man abdicated the German throne on November 9, 1918. * Kaiser Wilhelm II. * 5: On November 7, 1917 this "majority" political faction toppled the provisional Russian government. * Bolsheviks.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 526, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hitchcock Movies In Other Words * 1: "Maniac". * Psycho. * 2: "Taxonomic Class Aves". * The Birds. * 3: "Rotarize No. 6 to Get Homicide". * Dial M for Murder. * 4: "Rescue Pod". * Lifeboat. * 5: "A Woman Disappears". * The Lady Vanishes.

Round 2. Category: Dirty 4-Letter Words * 1: It's the filmy covering soap may leave. * scum. * 2: On iron, it's mainly hydrated ferric oxide. * rust. * 3: Army dining hall before or after the meal. * mess. * 4: This term for a sticky, greasy substance came from the brand name of a cleaning solvent. * gunk. * 5: An anagram of whey's partner is this term for a crusty deposit. * crud.

Round 3. Category: What'll Ya Have? * 1: (Alex: We'll first have Sofia at the Plaza Hotel) This cocktail popular with a certain fictional spy can be shaken or stirred. * martini. * 2: Juice of 1/2 lime1/2 oz. triple sec1 oz. tequila in a salt-rimmed glass. * Margarita. * 3: Fresh mint1/2 tsp. sugarbourbon. * Mint julep. * 4: (Sofia) Don't operate heavy machinery after having one of these. * screwdriver. * 5: (Sofia) This "sanguine" cocktail shares its name with a 16th century English queen's nickname. * Bloody Mary.

Round 4. Category: Paint It "Black" * 1: In casinos it's another name for the card game twenty-one. * blackjack. * 2: It's a place or method for selling goods illegally. * the black market. * 3: It means to exclude socially, or a vote against a candidate. * blackball. * 4: It's military slang for coffee, or a thick, dark molasses. * blackstrap. * 5: During the War of 1812, this Sauk Indian chief and about 500 of his warriors fought for the British. * Black Hawk.

Round 5. Category: Prince * 1: In 1799 Canada's Isle St. John was renamed this in honor of the Duke of Kent. * Prince Edward Island. * 2: In a Stravinsky ballet, this title creature gives Prince Ivan a magic feather. * the Firebird. * 3: In a Victor Hugo novel, this tragic character is paraded through the streets of Paris as "The Prince of Fools". * Quasimodo. * 4: Royal family name of the prince in Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper". * Tudor. * 5: This member of the infamous Borgia family was the model for and was idealized in Machiavelli's "The Prince". * Cesare Borgia.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 525, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: When They Were In College * 1: Janet Reno was president, not attorney general of the women's student govt. at this Ithaca, N.Y. school. * Cornell. * 2: This supermodel from Somalia was discovered when she was a student at the University of Nairobi. * Iman. * 3: Martin Scorsese earned a B.S. and an M.A. from this Manhattan university's film school, and also taught there. * NYU (New York University). * 4: At Amherst this future TV dad graduated cum laude; he must have been in "7th Heaven". * Stephen Collins. * 5: At Vassar, Meryl Streep starred in this Swede's play "Miss Julie"; at Yale, she was in his play "The Father". * August Strindberg.

Round 2. Category: Woody Guthrie * 1: Woody was born in Okemah in this state, "Way down yonder in the Indian nation". * Oklahoma. * 2: Woody inscribed "This machine kills Fascists" on this instrument. * His guitar. * 3: A devoted fan, this rock star described himself in the early '60s as a "Woody Guthrie jukebox". * Bob Dylan. * 4: He's Woody's folk singer son, known for "Alice's Restaurant". * Arlo Guthrie. * 5: The title of this 1943 Woody autobiography is lifted from a song about a train. * "Bound For Glory".

Round 3. Category: A Day In June * 1: June 5, 1851:Later a novel, this serial begins a 10-month run in the National Era, an abolitionist newspaper. * Uncle Tom's Cabin. * 2: June 11, 2004:His funeral is held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.. * Reagan. * 3: June 1, 1533:This woman, Henry VIII's new wife, is crowned queen. * Anne Boleyn. * 4: June 17, 1579:This captain claims "Nova Albion" (possibly modern-day California) for England. * Sir Francis Drake. * 5: June 28, 1969:Riots at this Greenwich Village bar mark the beginning of the gay rights movement. * the Stonewall Inn.

Round 4. Category: Fraternal Societies * 1: Roman Catholic laymen can be members of the Knights of this, founded by Father McGivney in 1882. * Columbus. * 2: With its motto "We Serve", it got off to a "roaring" start in 1917. * the Lions Club. * 3: To become a Shriner, you must be a 32nd-degree one of these. * Mason. * 4: Its name is an Indian term meaning "We Make Ourselves Known" and it sponsors Key Clubs for high schoolers. * Kiwanis. * 5: The name of this Jewish fraternal organization founded in NYC in 1843 means "Children of the Covenant". * B'nai B'rith.

Round 5. Category: Where Is It? * 1: Gondor, Rivendell(a literary world). * Middle-earth. * 2: It's the country immediately west of Kenya and immediately north of Lake Victoria. * Uganda. * 3: The Great Barrier Reef: this ocean. * the Pacific. * 4: Lenin's tomb: in this 800,000-square-foot expanse. * Red Square. * 5: The Vegas hotel:Mon Ami Gabi Bistro and Le Rendezvous Lounge. * Paris.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 524, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Playbill * 1: Your quest is to name this musical, not an "Impossible Dream". * Man of La Mancha. * 2: It's been reigning over Broadway since 1997--long may it roar. * The Lion King. * 3: This long-running musical won 8 Tony Awards in 1987. * "Les Miserables". * 4: "There's No Business Like" this show. * Annie Get Your Gun. * 5: "Madame Butterfly" is the basis for this musical. * Miss Saigon.

Round 2. Category: Mixed Drinks * 1: DEMON ALE. * lemonade. * 2: A DECEIT. * iced tea. * 3: ERE TO ROB. * root beer. * 4: I CAN COP CUP. * cappuccino. * 5: WARN ME RETAIL. * mineral water.

Round 3. Category: Tv Hosts * 1: "Wonderful World of Color" 1961-1969. * Walt Disney. * 2: "You Bet Your Life" 1950-1961. * Groucho Marx. * 3: Nathan Sawaya createda life-sized, Lego-ized versionof this TV pundit, and that's "The Word". * Stephen Colbert. * 4: For the 11th season of her talk show, the double "L" in her first name was changed to the number 11. * Ellen DeGeneres. * 5: This star of "Community" hosts "The Soup". * Joel McHale.

Round 4. Category: The Ends In "X" Files * 1: Dude! It's a Keanu movie!. * The Matrix. * 2: A 2-tenant dwelling with separate entrances. * Duplex. * 3: Oh my gosh! It's the most exciting point in a dramatic narrative!. * Climax. * 4: This bacterial cattle disease whose name is from the Greek for "coal" can be transmitted to humans. * Anthrax. * 5: It can be the highest point in someone's career or the highest point of a building. * Apex.

Round 5. Category: The Ghost * 1: This ex-partner appears in chains to warn Scrooge to shape up. * Jacob Marley. * 2: Halloween brings tourists to the possibly haunted Baltimore house of this macabre writer. * Edgar Allan Poe. * 3: A ghost appeared to Brutus before the Battle of Philippi; according to Shakespeare, it was this man's. * Julius Caesar. * 4: Meryl Streep and Winona Ryder appeared in the movie version of this ghostly Isabel Allende novel. * "The House of the Spirits". * 5: This Methodist leader, a believer in the Holy Spirit, had a spirit in his home, Epworth Rectory. * John Wesley.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 523, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Excess Hollywood * 1: Her $2 million wedding to David Gest, with an 80-piece orchestra, was delayed because Liz Taylor forgot her shoes. * Liza Minelli. * 2: Promises in Malibu is one of these facilities providing celebrities luxury along with recovery. * a rehab facility. * 3: Punning on her name, she was known as "gimme more" for demands like a bigger private jet for all her bags. * Demi Moore. * 4: On Oscar night 2006, winners Three 6 Mafia sported these in gold and diamonds-- on their teeth, not their cars. * grills. * 5: The premiere of "The Reaping" was truly "the affair of" this for Hilary Swank, who wore a million-dollar diamond one. * necklace.

Round 2. Category: We Can Rebuild "Him" * 1: A small cap worn over the fingertip for protection. * a thimble. * 2: "Not with a bang, but with" this cry with low, plaintive, broken sounds. * a whimper. * 3: The name of this structure on a house also refers to the vent of a volcano. * a chimney. * 4: It's this Honshu seaport with a 1.1 million population, mon amour. * Hiroshima. * 5: Any time you are in the tub, you can see this Greek mathematician's principle at work. * Archimedes.

Round 3. Category: Inside Alex Trebek * 1: To loosen, as a grip, or just to take it easy. * relax. * 2: An 1852 Dickensian title "house". * bleak. * 3: This can be a large drinking vessel or a small lipped one used for science experiments. * beaker. * 4: Thai kings considered this a "royal tree" under strict protection. * teak. * 5: In the 1820s this British university's campus was a farm that served Devonshire cream to strollers. * Exeter.

Round 4. Category: A Thailand Fling * 1: The largest land mammal in Thailand, the shape of the country looks like its head, in profile. * Elephant. * 2: In Muay Thai, the Thai form of this western sport, kicking is allowed. * Boxing. * 3: At a Thai restaurant you may wimp out and say, "Mai phet, farang", meaning "Not" this, "I'm a foreigner". * Spicy. * 4: The tuk-tuk, a motorized transport, costs less than a taxi, maybe because it only has this many wheels. * 3. * 5: First name of the famous Western governess of King Rama IV's son. * Anna.

Round 5. Category: Making A List * 1: In 1995 he published a "Book Of Top Ten Lists And Zesty Lo-Cal Chicken Recipes". * David Letterman. * 2: In 1981 this duo topped the charts with "Kiss On My List". * Hall And Oates. * 3: A line from this 1993 movie is "The list is life". * Schindler's List. * 4: NOs. 1,3 and 77 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best 20th C. English-language novels are this Dubliner's works. * James Joyce. * 5: This 1941 film topped the AFI's much-debated 1998 list of the 100 greatest American films. * Citizen Kane.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 522, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hi Ya, Maya! * 1: Maya Angelou's "The Heart of a Woman" was the first nonfiction work selected for this woman's book club. * Oprah. * 2: For this president's inauguration, Maya wrote and recited the poem "On the Pulse of Morning". * Bill Clinton. * 3: In 1977 Maya played Nyo Boto on this acclaimed miniseries. * Roots. * 4: It's the avian title of the first volume of Maya Angelou's autobiographical works. * I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. * 5: Maya wrote all the original poems performed by this actress in the 1993 film "Poetic Justice". * Janet Jackson.

Round 2. Category: Faulkner Titles * 1: "Go Down...". * Moses. * 2: "Intruder in the...". * Dust. * 3: "Absalom...". * Absalom. * 4: "As I Lay...". * Dying. * 5: "Light in...". * August.

Round 3. Category: A "D" In History * 1: To keep Delaware's capital away from the invading British, it was moved to this city in 1777. * Dover. * 2: James Oglethorpe founded Georgia in 1733 as a haven for people in trouble for this back in Britain. * debt. * 3: In 1868 and again in 1880, he was succeeded as British Prime Minister by William Gladstone. * Disraeli. * 4: In 1952 the U.N. started a commission on this to make the world a less lethal place. * disarmament. * 5: In the 16th century these assemblies of German potentates took place at Speyer, Augsburg and (yummy!) Worms. * a diet.

Round 4. Category: The Waltz * 1: Waltzes are characterized by swift, gliding turns and music that has this many quarter notes to a measure. * 3. * 2: A dance in the 1786 opera "Una Cosa Rara" popularized this waltz style named for a city. * Viennese. * 3: Act III of this 1893 Engelbert Humerpdinck opera features the "Gingerbread Waltz". * Hansel and Gretel. * 4: Although known as the "Waltz King", he also composed many marches and well-known polkas. * (Johann) Strauss. * 5: Pee Wee King co-wrote this waltz and had a country hit with it in 1948; later it became a state song. * "The Tennessee Waltz".

Round 5. Category: English Lit * 1: The "Book of the Duchesse" is an elegy for the Duchess of Lancaster by this author of "The Canterbury Tales". * Geoffrey Chaucer. * 2: Chapters in this novel include "Wickfield and Heep" and "Mr. Micawber's Gauntlet". * David Copperfield. * 3: Published in 1590, "The Legend of the Red Cross Knight" is the first of 6 books in this poetic epic. * The Faerie Queene. * 4: Her title "Sonnets from the Portuguese" referred to her husband's nickname for her. * Elizabeth Barrett Browning. * 5: She's the heroine of the long-banned 18th century novel "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure". * Fanny Hill.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 519, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Around The Bible * 1: The first word in I Chronicles is this man first mentioned in Genesis 2:19. * Adam. * 2: The first word in I Chronicles is this man first mentioned in Genesis 2:19. * Adam. * 3: Upright man who moaned, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither". * Job. * 4: Upright man who moaned, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither". * Job. * 5: I Kings uses "slept with his fathers" as a euphemism for this. * death (or died).

Round 2. Category: "Two""Thousand" And "Eight" * 1: Be grateful for what you have, because "a bird in the hand is worth" this. * two in the bush. * 2: This book by Eliot Asinof is subtitled "The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series". * Eight Men Out. * 3: In effect from 1922 to 1944, it was the part of the army code that allowed them to kick you out for undesirable traits. * Section 8. * 4: Completes the 1940 song title "Beat Me Daddy...". * 8 To The Bar. * 5: This Jane Smiley farmland novel was adapted into a movie starring Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer. * A Thousand Acres.

Round 3. Category: Name That Autocrat * 1: Spain1939-1975. * Franco. * 2: Argentina1946-1955. * (Juan) Perón. * 3: Norway1942-1945. * Vidkun Quisling. * 4: Nicaragua1967-1972 and 1974-1979. * Somoza. * 5: The Soviet Union1964-1982. * Brezhnev.

Round 4. Category: A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose * 1: This World War II radio propagandist was born on the Fourth of July, 1916. * Tokyo Rose. * 2: Alliterative woman described in song here by Nat King Cole"Wild and wind-blown /That's how you've grown". * "Ramblin' Rose". * 3: In 1956 Aussie Murray Rose became the 1st male swimmer to win 2 solo Olympic golds since this man in 1924. * (Johnny) Weissmuller. * 4: In this Umberto Eco novel, William of Baskerville solves a murder like a medieval Sherlock Holmes. * The Name of the Rose. * 5: The 2 British royal houses of the Wars of the Roses. * York and Lancaster.

Round 5. Category: Says You * 1: He told Frank Gorshin, "I never said...'mmm you dirty rat!'". * James Cagney. * 2: Bartlett's list "Stop da music!" and "Dese are de conditions dat prevail" under this man's name. * Jimmy Durante. * 3: Abraham Lincoln said, "The ballot is stronger than" this. * The bullet. * 4: The most famous line from this author's "Sacred Emily" is "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose". * Gertrude Stein. * 5: Heraclitus noticed, "You cannot step twice into the same" one of these. * River.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 521, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: In A Musical Mood * 1: What have you been doing all day? This song. * "I've Been Working On The Railroad". * 2: Written for the movie "Chasing Rainbows", this hit became a campaign song in 1932. * "Happy Days Are Here Again". * 3: 1970 unearthed this no. 1 hit song for Kentucky native Loretta Lynn. * Coal Miner's Daughter. * 4: La. gov. Jimmie Davis bought the copyright to this song, then claimed authorship--it made him happy when skies were gray. * "You Are My Sunshine". * 5: This British band gave us "Creep", "High and Dry" and "Lotus Flower", one of Rolling Stone's Top 10 2011 singles. * Radiohead.

Round 2. Category: Tea Party * 1: Type of tea named for the titled Englishman who became prime minister in 1830. * Earl Grey. * 2: It's a silly, out-dated affectation to crook this when picking up a teacup. * Pinky finger. * 3: It's a "comfy" term for a teapot cover. * Cozy. * 4: From middle English for "curled-up" cake, it's a tea bread that resembles an English muffin. * Crumpet. * 5: N.Y. merchant Thomas Sullivan gets the credit for originating these in 1904; his were made of silk. * Tea bags.

Round 3. Category: December 1969 * 1: The Nobel prize in this category was awarded for the first time and was won by a Norwegian and a Dutchman. * economics. * 2: On December 15, 1969, this Israeli prime minister presented her new cabinet to the Knesset. * Golda Meir. * 3: Gen. Torrijos was removed as this country's strongman on Dec. 15th and was restored on the 16th. * Panama. * 4: On December 1, 1969 the U.S. held the first one of these since 1942; September 14 was drawn first. * a selective service lottery (or draft lottery). * 5: This rich Texan took 2 planes to N. Vietnam loaded with gifts for U.S. P.O.W.s but wasn't let in. * Ross Perot.

Round 4. Category: Story Problems * 1: If string licorice is 20 cents a foot, a yard costs this much. * 60 cents. * 2: The problem in this 1902 story is for Sherlock to find the beast (or man) that's been killing folks on the Devonshire moors. * The Hound of the Baskervilles. * 3: If 25% of the total U. S. Senate voted yea on a law, this many Senators voted nay. * 75. * 4: Number of kids you need to form 16 3-legged race teams. * 32. * 5: Porfiry's problem in this story is to get Raskolnikov to confess. * Crime and Punishment.

Round 5. Category: Tribes * 1: The Havasupai have been living in a branch of this canyon for over 600 years. * Grand Canyon. * 2: The Blackfeet lived in these structures and decorated them with paintings of real and mythical creatures. * Tepees. * 3: The Chinook religion was based around this fish's annual run. * Salmon. * 4: Their name, from a Sioux term for "People of Alien Speech", is shared by the largest city in Wyoming. * Cheyenne. * 5: As the Cherokee history includes the "Trail of Tears", this Southwest tribe has the "Long Walk". * Navajo.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 520, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Getting There * 1: Glasgow residents call this transport the "Clockwork Orange", and you follow the "U" signs to get to it. * the underground (or subway). * 2: By definition this type of automobile has a top that can be removed or folded back. * a convertible. * 3: A boat that transports passengers across a river, it's a homonym for a tiny imaginary creature. * a ferry. * 4: t's the country that gave us the term for a 3-horse-drawn sled known as a troika. * Russia. * 5: From the Dutch for "small, fast ship", the name of this type of frigate sounds like a popular sports car. * a corvette.

Round 2. Category: Of Your "Love" * 1: With Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Derek and the Dominos released the hit album "Layla and Other Assorted" these. * Love Songs. * 2: A small sofa for 2 people. * a loveseat. * 3: Small green African avian of the genus agapornis. * a lovebird. * 4: This N.Y. region was declared a disaster area due to toxic waste. * Love Canal. * 5: His literary output includes "The Thing on the Doorstep" and "The Dunwich Horror". * H.P. Lovecraft.

Round 3. Category: Alexander The Great * 1: Against an Indian army in 326 B.C., Alexander faced these beasts, including the one ridden by King Porus. * elephants. * 2: This Persian ruler offered Al 10,000 talents and all lands west of the Euphrates for the return of his family. * Darius. * 3: On March 30, 1981 he told the press, "As of now, I am in control here in the White House". * Alexander Haig. * 4: A pair of decrees Alexander made in 324 B.C. said that exiles could return home and that he was now this. * a god. * 5: Despite his conquests, glory was fleeting for Alexander, who died in Babylon at age 32 along the banks of this river. * the Euphrates.

Round 4. Category: Double "P" Words * 1: Kukla or Ollie, but not Fran. * Puppet. * 2: They blow in Flanders Fields. * Poppies. * 3: Fancy "cuppa" coffee. * Cappuccino. * 4: It "knocks but once" and Arkansas is the "Land Of" it. * Opportunity. * 5: Raiment. * Apparel.

Round 5. Category: Sporting Goods * 1: Ecologically minded golfers can get these golf ball supporters that are biodegradable. * tees. * 2: Young kids don't need them; for older skiers their grips should be at a level with arms bent and out-stretched. * poles. * 3: In baseball, this player's mitt cannot have a circumference of more than 38". * the catcher. * 4: Kevlar, used in bulletproof vests, is used by Wilson to make these balls that you may kick or head. * a soccer ball. * 5: Montreal's 2002 Jr Powerlam is a 51" long one of these with a synthetic blade. * a hockey stick.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 518, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Black America * 1: Ralph Bunche was the first black American to win the Nobel Peace Prize and this civil rights leader was second. * Martin Luther King, Jr.. * 2: This Supreme Court justice was chairman of the Federal Equal Opportunity Commission from 1982 to 1990. * Clarence Thomas. * 3: This state song of Virginia was written by black composer James A. Bland. * "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny". * 4: The Tony-winning musical "Raisin" was based on this play by Lorraine Hansberry. * "A Raisin in the Sun". * 5: In 1957 she became the first black American athlete to win the Wimbledon singles. * Althea Gibson.

Round 2. Category: Alexander The Great * 1: William Ivey was nominated to replace this woman as head of the National Endowment for the Arts. * Jane Alexander. * 2: In 1876 he was granted a patent for "The Method of, and Apparatus for Transmitting Vocal or Other Sounds". * Alexander Graham Bell. * 3: Alexander the Great was born in 356 B.C. to King Philip II and Queen Olympias of this kingdom. * Macedonia. * 4: Against an Indian army in 326 B.C., Alexander faced these beasts, including the one ridden by King Porus. * elephants. * 5: A pair of decrees Alexander made in 324 B.C. said that exiles could return home and that he was now this. * a god.

Round 3. Category: Ends In "Able" * 1: 1st "able" word in the song that ends with the following:"U--""--made my life complete,""V--""--means you're awful sweet... W-X-Y-Z...". * adorable. * 2: Make possible, or to supply the means to do something. * enable. * 3: Your income after deductions is this, according to the IRS. * taxable. * 4: Last name of Lisa Bonet's character on "A Different World". * Huxtable. * 5: Another term for telegram. * a cable.

Round 4. Category: 5-Letter Capitals * 1: Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port. * Hanoi. * 2: 12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city. * Paris. * 3: Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a and El Giza. * Cairo. * 4: The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia. * Amman. * 5: In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital. * Quito.

Round 5. Category: Official Alaskan State Stuff * 1: It was a "crowning" achievement in 1963 when this was named Alaska's state fish. * the king salmon. * 2: Knowing that this is Alaska's state mineral gives me a rush. * gold. * 3: Alaska's state land mammal is this antlered critter that can reach 7 feet tall and 2,000 pounds. * the moose. * 4: This ancient tusked beast is the state fossil. * the mammoth. * 5: Alaska's state bird is the willow variety of this grouse relative. * the ptarmigan.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 517, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Christmas Songs * 1: In Eddie Arnold's "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S", the "M" is for this place where Jesus lay. * Manger. * 2: The line "my true love gave to me five gold rings" comes from this song. * "The 12 Days of Christmas". * 3: Nonsense syllables that follow "See the blazing yule before us". * "Fa la la la la, la la la la". * 4: The only line from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" that contains the word "Christmas". * "Then one foggy Christmas Eve". * 5: In 1951 this "Music Man" wrote "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas". * Meredith Wilson.

Round 2. Category: Top O' The World, Ma! * 1: Satellite measurements in 1987 suggested that this peak reaches 29,108' -- 80' higher than thought. * Mount Everest. * 2: An ice cave at over 10,000 feet near Gangotri in the Himalayas is the source of this sacred Indian river. * Ganges. * 3: This shaggy-haired beast of Tibet is often called the grunting ox because of the sound it makes. * Yak. * 4: Some have suggested that this mythical Himalayan creature is a pre-human primate. * Yeti/Abominable Snowman. * 5: These Nepalese people are much sought after as porters for Himalayan climbing expeditions. * Sherpas.

Round 3. Category: People From India * 1: The international airport in New Delhi bears her name. * Indira Gandhi. * 2: As the first prime minister of independent India, he served from 1947 to 1964. * Nehru. * 3: This musician's album "In Celebration" was co-produced by George Harrison. * Ravi Shankar. * 4: In the 1950s he directed the landmark "Apu" triology of films. * Satyajit Ray. * 5: Born Prince Khurram in 1596, he built the Taj Mahal and ruled under this name. * Shah Jahan.

Round 4. Category: Rhyme Time Food * 1: Super-sized Creole stew with okra. * jumbo gumbo. * 2: A rippled sauce for meat, or a once popular Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor. * wavy gravy. * 3: It's one of the leaner types of chopped beef for hamburgers. * ground round. * 4: A throng of pumpkins or squash. * a gourd horde. * 5: A large Smyrna or mission fruit. * a big fig.

Round 5. Category: Getting There * 1: Glasgow residents call this transport the "Clockwork Orange", and you follow the "U" signs to get to it. * the underground (or subway). * 2: By definition this type of automobile has a top that can be removed or folded back. * a convertible. * 3: A boat that transports passengers across a river, it's a homonym for a tiny imaginary creature. * a ferry. * 4: t's the country that gave us the term for a 3-horse-drawn sled known as a troika. * Russia. * 5: From the Dutch for "small, fast ship", the name of this type of frigate sounds like a popular sports car. * a corvette.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 516, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The '40'S * 1: Though faster than a speeding bullet, he was ruled 4-F. * Superman. * 2: By war's end, they had banked over 13 million units of blood for plasma. * the Red Cross. * 3: Not his singing, but a lack of lunch caused fan to swoon at his Paramount Theater concert. * Frank Sinatra. * 4: Destination of MacArthur's "I shall return". * the Philippines. * 5: Wartime pseudonym of Mrs. I. Toguri D'Aquino. * Tokyo Rose.

Round 2. Category: "Ta" Ta For Now * 1: Head to Agra, India to see this famous marble mausoleum completed around 1643. * the Taj Mahal. * 2: Known for its aniselike flavor, this aromatic herb is widely used in cooking. * tarragon. * 3: In a Bobbie Gentry No. 1 hit song from 1967, Billie Joe MacAllister jumps off this. * Tallahatchie Bridge. * 4: (Hi. I'm Hal Sparks.) This former E! entertainment channel TV show helped further the careers of me, John Henson and Greg Kinnear. * Talk Soup. * 5: "Saucy" name for the crusty areas on your teeth made from mineral salts reacting with plaque and saliva. * tartar.

Round 3. Category: Historical Blogs. * 1: 1865: Everyone talks about my "march to the sea", but my trip through the Carolinas ain't no picnic, either. * William Sherman. * 2: Circa 8th c. B.C.: Writing the 2 epic poems that'll make me famous! Scholars would never doubt my existence... d'oh!. * Homer. * 3: 2005: After the wedding, wife will be Duchess of Cornwall. Retiring pickup line "you could be the next Duchess of Cornwall". * Prince Charles. * 4: 1945: I'm just a colonel.1946: Stand back, Buenos Aires! Call me Mr. President!. * Juan Peron. * 5: July 1, 1937: Fred and I are leaving New Guinea for Howland Island. 2,600 miles... wish us luck!. * Amelia Earhart.

Round 4. Category: From The Latin * 1: This lowly chess piece takes its name from the Latin for "foot soldier". * pawn. * 2: This adjective meaning shifty or deceptive is derived from "de via", meaning away from the road. * Devious. * 3: Of the 3 virtues mentioned in the King James Version of I Corinthians 13;13, the 2 that are from Latin. * faith and charity. * 4: This word for an official announcement, as in the emancipation one, comes from the Latin "to cry out". * a proclamation. * 5: The 4-letter Latinate word for "highest point" that ends in "X". * apex.

Round 5. Category: Go Jump In A Great Lake! * 1: On Nov. 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in this largest lake in the Western Hemisphere. * Superior. * 2: The smallest of the Great Lakes, it has a surface area of about 7,500 square miles. * Ontario. * 3: Named for the region's Indians, this second-largest Great Lake was the first one seen by Europeans. * Huron. * 4: Rivers draining into this lake include the Muskegon, Kalamazoo and St. Joseph in the East. * Michigan. * 5: It's the shallowest of the Great Lakes, with its greatest depth only 210 feet. * Erie.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 515, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "T"3 * 1: While not an M.D., this person can still diagnose eye problems and prescribe glasses. * optometrist. * 2: The Holy Bible is made up of the "Old" and "New" ones. * testaments. * 3: Gouverneur Morris was responsible for much of the wording of this in 1787. * the Constitution. * 4: It's the lever pilots use to control the power and speed of many planes. * throttle. * 5: To create an opera, you need a composer and this person who writes or adapts the text. * librettist.

Round 2. Category: Sporting Goods * 1: Ecologically minded golfers can get these golf ball supporters that are biodegradable. * tees. * 2: Young kids don't need them; for older skiers their grips should be at a level with arms bent and out-stretched. * poles. * 3: In baseball, this player's mitt cannot have a circumference of more than 38". * the catcher. * 4: Kevlar, used in bulletproof vests, is used by Wilson to make these balls that you may kick or head. * a soccer ball. * 5: Montreal's 2002 Jr Powerlam is a 51" long one of these with a synthetic blade. * a hockey stick.

Round 3. 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: The Oscar-winning actress and actor who fit the category. * Kevin Spacey and Sissy Spacek.

Round 4. Category: Ships * 1: These include Royal Caribbean, Princess and Holland America. * cruise ships. * 2: Merchant ship that made the trip in 1620 from Plymouth to Cape Cod. * the Mayflower. * 3: The ships of Columbus' first voyage were 2 caravels and this bigger ship, a type called a nao. * the Santa Maria. * 4: In 1960 Johnny Horton had a No. 3 hit with a song about the sinking of this German battleship. * the Bismarck. * 5: A book about this brig calls it "Survey Ship Extraordinary"; we're sure Charles Darwin would agree. * the Beagle.

Round 5. Category: Let's Talk About Six * 1: In American slang, to get rid of something by throwing it overboard is to give it this kind of six. * deep-six. * 2: His Sixth Symphony was termed the "Pastoral". * Beethoven. * 3: This group was originally made up of 6 members; in 1869 Congress changed its total to 9. * the Supreme Court. * 4: It's the horticultural name for the sixth Sunday in Lent. * Palm Sunday. * 5: Any solid figure having 6 faces; a cube, for example. * a hexahedron.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 514, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Animals In Mythology * 1: Ratatosk, a messenger of Norse myth, was one of these animals and ran up and down Yggdrasil, a giant tree. * Squirrel. * 2: If Romulus did a "Got Milk?" ad, he'd talk about this animal who suckled him and Remus. * Wolf. * 3: In Incan myth, it was this South American camel relative that warned man about the impending flood. * Llama. * 4: The Zuni believe that when the kachina Paiyatemu played the flute, these insects fluttered into existence. * Butterflies. * 5: Island on which Theseus slew the Minotaur. * Crete.

Round 2. Category: Historic Hbo * 1: Helen Mirren won acclaim in 2006 playing this daughter of Henry VIII who faced down the Spanish Armada. * Queen Elizabeth. * 2: "Mrs. Harris" details the life and death of Herman Tarnower, known for creating this diet named for an east New York village. * the Scarsdale Diet. * 3: On "Deadwood," Gerald McRaney played a vicious magnate whose son would become this real-life publishing mogul. * William Randolph Hearst. * 4: In "Warm Springs", Kathy Bates gives therapy to this politico seeking a miracle cure in 1920s Georgia. * FDR. * 5: In this role, Albert Finney tries to keep Clemmie happy and warns the British P.M. about "the gathering storm". * (Winston) Churchill.

Round 3. Category: I'll Be Your Waiter * 1: We have an international flavor for this "of the day"--Cuban black bean or French onion. * soup. * 2: Sir, some fresh ground this spice, from Malabar, India, on your salad? No? Too late. * pepper. * 3: Ah, the pouilly-fuisse, a lovely choice from this region also called Bourgogne. * Burgundy. * 4: Even if you're not all related, we serve our portions this "style", so get used to sharing. * family style. * 5: We serve only Angus beef, known for this quality of having white flecks of juicy fat. * marbling.

Round 4. Category: "Super" Words * 1: On TV John Haymes Newton and Gerard Christopher played this hero, a college lad. * Superboy. * 2: An apartment house or janitor or custodian. * a superintendent. * 3: From the Latin for "eyebrow", it's an adjective meaning showing haughty disdain. * supercilious. * 4: A character written above and immediately to the side of another; the "2" in x2, for example. * a superscript. * 5: Until 1995 this federal toxic clean-up program was financed with taxes on toxic chemical manufacturers. * Superfund.

Round 5. Category: Modern Quotations * 1: Bob Hope was quoted as saying this "is my profession. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees". * golf. * 2: In 1999, Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Badawi warned that "freedom of" this "must have restrictions". * the press. * 3: The "Little Red Book" of 1964 was filled with "Quotations from" this man. * Mao. * 4: In 1994, Richard Nixon quipped, "The American people don't believe anything until they see it" here. * on television. * 5: Deng Xiaoping said in a 1962 speech, "It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it" does this. * catches mice.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 513, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The New York Times Photography * 1: The Times photo of this man dates from sometime around 1870; he was dead by 1876. * Custer. * 2: This famed labor leader is seen demonstrating in 1969. * César Chávez. * 3: Seen here is a dramatic 1937 photo of a tragedy in this New Jersey town. * Lakehurst. * 4: Seen here is landmark in 1920; the dedication would not come until 2 years later. * the Lincoln Memorial. * 5: Seen here are these two artists who were married in 1929 in Coyocan. * Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

Round 2. Category: Have A Beer! * 1: The "King of Beers". * Budweiser. * 2: "It's Australian for beer". * Fosters. * 3: "La cerveza mas fina". * Corona. * 4: "The beer that made Milwaukee famous". * Schlitz. * 5: "From master brewers a master brew". * Meister Brau.

Round 3. Category: Tv Jailbirds * 1: Barney locks himself in jail after Gomer makes a "citizen's arrest!" on a classic episode of this series. * The Andy Griffith Show. * 2: November 21, 1980: Sue Ellen's fingerprints are on the gun, so she's mistakenly arrested for shooting this man. * J.R.. * 3: November 26, 2006: Mike the plumber is arrested for murder; Edie visits him in jail and tells him she's dumping him on this series. * Desperate Housewives. * 4: (Hi, I'm Christopher Meloni of Law and Order: SVU.) I've been on both sides of the law--I played devious serial killer Chris Keller on this HBO prison drama. * Oz. * 5: The inmates on this Fox series escaped from a jail called Fox River. * Prison Break.

Round 4. Category: First Year Of The Century * 1: In 1901 this inventor received the first radio signal across the Atlantic. * Guglielmo Marconi. * 2: In 1301 Edward I applied this title to the heir to the British throne. * Prince of Wales. * 3: In 1401 Tamerlane sacked this city that's now the capital of Iraq. * Baghdad. * 4: Spanish explorer Rodrigo de Bastidas discovered this isthmus in 1501. * Panama. * 5: In an 1801 sea battle, he put a telescope in his blind eye to avoid seeing the signal to withdraw. * Lord Nelson.

Round 5. Category: "Dd" Tea * 1: He has represented Connecticut in the U.S. Senate since 1981. * (Christopher) Dodd. * 2: Flat blade at the back of a boat used to steer it. * a rudder. * 3: This common viper is the only poisonous snake in the British Isles. * the adder. * 4: An enclosed field close to a stable for exercising horses. * a paddock. * 5: In 1874 Thomas Hardy took readers "far from" this 2-syllable "crowd". * madding.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 512, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Old School Thai * 1: Until 1939 Thailand was known by this name. * Siam. * 2: Known as the "Venice of the East", this Thai city was modernized by King Mongkut in the 1800s. * Bangkok. * 3: Thailand is an important source of these blue September birthstones. * sapphires. * 4: About 95% of Thais practice the Theravada form of this religion. * Buddhism. * 5: (Hi, I'm Jeff Probst [in Thailand]) Tarutao means "old, mysterious and primitive" in this language, also the name of a nearby peninsula. * Malay.

Round 2. Category: World Flags * 1: This Caribbean country adopted France's tricolor flag but removed the central white stripe. * Haiti. * 2: Libya's national flag is solid green and represents this religion. * Islam. * 3: In the middle of this country's flag, you'll find the Star of David. * Israel. * 4: During its modern history, this country has had several flags, most depicting the temple of Angkor Wat. * Cambodia. * 5: Its flag colors stand for Bohemia and Moravia. * the Czech Republic.

Round 3. Category: Iii * 1: This president's father was William Jefferson Blythe III, but he took office as President under this name. * Clinton. * 2: Ruling Muscovy from 1462 to 1505, he was "The Great"; it was the IV who was the terrible one. * Ivan (III). * 3: This rich guy was the first president of Lincoln Center. * John D. Rockefeller III. * 4: The first Hanoverian king born in England, he ruled for 60 years, from 1760 to 1820. * George III. * 5: In 1948 Marshall Field III merged II Chicago papers into this I. * the Sun-Times.

Round 4. Category: Fire! * 1: Though the 1871 Chicago fire began in this family's barn, their house suffered only minor damages. * the O'Learys. * 2: The first successful print of this future partner of James Ives was of a fire in Manhattan. * (Nathaniel) Currier. * 3: This general was blamed for the fire that destroyed Columbia, South Carolina, but he denied setting it and tried to put it out. * (William Tecumseh) Sherman. * 4: Genesis 19 says, "the Lord rained upon" these 2 cities "brimstone and fire ...out of heaven". * Sodom and Gomorrah. * 5: The 1911 fire in the NYC shirtwaist factory with this geometric name led to improvements in working conditions. * the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

Round 5. Category: "Amp" It Up * 1: It's the and in this clue. * an ampersand. * 2: Oval auditorium with tiers of seats around a central open area. * an amphitheater. * 3: Describes military forces trained to fight on both land and sea. * amphibious. * 4: By definition, your AM radio modulates it. * amplitude. * 5: Scientist who wrote "Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena". * (André-Marie) Ampère.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 511, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: How To Be A Bad Sport * 1: When keeping score in this sport, "forget" to add your opponent's next pin score to his spare. * Bowling. * 2: If you're playing midfield in this sport and the center is dribbling the ball towards you, kick at his shins. * Soccer. * 3: Get a leg up in this sport by stepping on your opponent's ball in the fairway. * Golf. * 4: If your opponent asks for the "3s" you really do have in your hand, tell him this, the name of the game. * Go fish. * 5: If you're cornered in Kamchatka, end this board game by bumping your opponent's armies off the board. * Risk.

Round 2. Category: The Killers * 1: In Genesis 4 he becomes the first killer; God isn't happy. * Cain. * 2: In one of the few documented one-on-one Old West gunfights, this "Wild" man killed Davis Tutt in 1865. * Wild Bill Hickok. * 3: This "insect" of a gangster was a real-life hit man for Murder Incorporated in the 1930s and '40s. * Bugsy Siegel. * 4: This Texan died in 1967 while waiting to be retried for the murder of an alleged murderer. * (Jack) Ruby. * 5: In 1924 these 2 Chicago intellectuals kidnapped and killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks. * Leopold and Loeb.

Round 3. Category: Phun With Phonics * 1: Labionasal sounds are produced by these and the nose. * Lips. * 2: When you speak with a burr you trill this letter. * R. * 3: Your tongue touching your hard or soft one of these in your mouth produces different sounds. * Palate. * 4: Meaning "single pitch", it's a speaking voice that lacks inflection. * Monotone. * 5: From the Latin meaning "to hiss", it describes the "ss" sound In "fricassee". * Sibilant.

Round 4. Category: Shortwave * 1: The shortwave band begins at about 1700 these units abbreviated kHz; below that you're in AM territory. * kilohertz. * 2: Mainly funded by the CIA, this broadcasting operation began transmitting behind the Iron Curtain in 1949. * Radio Free Europe. * 3: One book calls this 12-letter word the "arch-enemy of shortwave listeners"; I just call it annoying. * interference. * 4: This service that broadcasts from Abuja and Lagos has a name reflecting that of the USA's official radio service. * Voice of Nigeria. * 5: To catch the BBC at 1700 UTC, or Universal Time Coordinated, tune in at this morning hour Pacific Standard time. * 9:00 AM.

Round 5. Category: Household Hints * 1: To deal with a drippy candlestick, put it in this appliance; later, remove it and scrape off the hardened wax. * the freezer. * 2: Heavy starching of braided rugs will keep ends from doing this. * curling. * 3: If you accidentally super glued your fingers together, dab nail polish remover containing this solvent--it breaks the bond. * acetone. * 4: If you accidentally super glued your fingers together, dab nail polish remover containing this solvent--it breaks the bond. * acetone. * 5: To remove odor from shoes, add oil of this spice to a cotton ball and leave it in the shoes. * cloves.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 510, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Acts Of Congress * 1: 1930's Smoot-Hawley Act raised these to protect American farmers. * tariffs. * 2: (I'm Geoffrey Canada, President of the Harlem Children's Zone.) Setting standards and establishing measurable goals to improve individual outcomes in education was the objective of this 2001 congressional act that left many educators dismayed. * No Child Left Behind. * 3: This act of 1964 established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. * the Civil Rights Act. * 4: This act of 1964 established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. * the Civil Rights Act. * 5: An act passed March 3, 1863 established this, the subject of riots in New York that July. * drafts.

Round 2. Category: Animal Noises * 1: Mexican peninsula, or the sound of a sheep laughing. * Baja. * 2: To ingest your Thanksgiving turkey quickly. * gobble it up. * 3: Audio components whose job sound like they could be done by dogs and birds. * woofer and tweeters. * 4: The Pacific equivalent of Atlantis. * Mu. * 5: In "A Day at the Races", Hugo Hackenbush is one. * quack.

Round 3. Category: The 12 Days Of Christmas * 1: These 3 birds are the gifts for the first 3 days. * French hens, turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree. * 2: Of the song's 12 gifts, it's the only one you could melt down and not be charged with murder or animal cruelty. * five golden rings. * 3: We found this eighth day's gift quite moo-ving. * maids a-milking. * 4: On the 10th day, nobility abounded as my true love somehow thought I needed this gift. * lords a-leapin'. * 5: On the 12th day, my true love gave me this gift, something Charlie Watts could enjoy. * twelve drummers drumming.

Round 4. Category: Tv Puppets * 1: Mallory Tarcher has had a hand in continuing Lamb Chop, created by this woman, her mother. * Shari Lewis. * 2: Known as the Foster Imposters, a puppet pair of these animals want to be Foster Farms products. * chickens. * 3: In 1989 NBC had this alien help host the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. * ALF. * 4: Humans on this 2002 Fox puppet series include Sarah Silverman and Seth Green. * Greg the Bunny. * 5: On "Unhappily Ever After", he supplied the voice of Mr. Floppy. * Bobcat Goldthwait.

Round 5. Category: Education * 1: In 1955 Rudolph Flesch wrote "Why Johnny Can't" do this, attacking current teaching practices. * read. * 2: At the urging of this president, the Department of Education became a cabinet department in 1979. * (Jimmy) Carter. * 3: Back in 1987 Aspen College began offering an MBA degree online, MBA standing for this. * master's of business administration. * 4: Common term for the system that emerged in the '60s to teach more mathematical concepts and fewer times tables. * the New Math. * 5: In 1980 the Department of Education was created out of this now-defunct Cabinet department. * HEW.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 509, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Broadway Musicals By Characters * 1: Tevye,Golde,Yente. * Fiddler on the Roof. * 2: Fantine,Javert,Jean Valjean. * Les Miserables. * 3: Mrs. Potts,Belle,Gaston. * Beauty and the Beast. * 4: Bustopher Jones,Old Deuteronomy,Mistoffelees. * Cats. * 5: Velma Von Tussle,Tracy Turnblad,Corny Collins. * Hairspray.

Round 2. Category: Full House * 1: The show is set in this city; in the opening, you can see Fisherman's Wharf and Alcatraz. * San Francisco. * 2: Last name of Candace, who plays the eldest Tanner daughter; her brother Kirk has been a guest star. * Cameron. * 3: Lori Loughlin's character did this November 12, 1991, making the house a lot fuller. * had twins. * 4: Dave Coulier's character Joey Gladstone, who like Dave is a stand-up comic, went on this Ed McMahon show. * Star Search. * 5: "Full House" creator Jeff Franklin's first job as a producer was on this Penny Marshall series. * Laverne and Shirley.

Round 3. Category: The 1910s * 1: On December 10, 1915 this automaker's one millionth car rolled off the assembly line in Detroit. * Ford. * 2: In 1916 this company intorduced its All-Bran cereal as a source of dietary fiber. * Kellogg's. * 3: In the 1912 Olympics he won the decathlon with a then-record 8,412 points. * Jim Thorpe. * 4: On May 13, 1917 3 children reported a vision of the Virgin Mary near this Portuguese city. * Fatima. * 5: With the October 1911 death of this man, Frank Cobb became the editor of the New York World newspaper. * Joseph Pulitzer.

Round 4. Category: The Tell-Tale Heart * 1: This largest artery begins in the lower left chamber and gives rise to the coronary arteries. * Aorta. * 2: In 1984, in the first surgery of its kind, Baby Fae received a heart transplant from this mammal. * Baboon. * 3: The heart has 4 of these to regulate the flow of blood, including the mitral. * Valves. * 4: This term for an irregular heartbeat is from the Greek for "without measure". * Arrhythmia. * 5: The atria make up the upper, smaller part of the heart and these chambers form the lower portion. * Ventricles.

Round 5. Category: You Have The Rite * 1: Pass the poi! It's Hawaiian for "feast". * luau. * 2: This drink is used in the traditional Japanese ceremony of Chanoyu. * tea. * 3: In 1904 the U.S. government banned this Plains Indian ceremony, also the name of a Utah film festival. * Sundance. * 4: In the 1920s rabbi Mordecai Kaplan brought this ceremony for 12-year-old girls into the synagogue. * Bat Mitzvah. * 5: This ceremony at which school or college degrees are conferred is from the Latin for "beginning". * commencement.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 508, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Literature * 1: His famous story "The Tell-Tale Heart" tells us, "It was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye". * Edgar Allan Poe. * 2: Many of the Dublin locales he personally frequented are featured in his book "Ulysses". * James Joyce. * 3: The cheery first "Masterpiece Theatre" season included "Jude the Obscure" and this Russian's "The Possessed". * Dostoevsky. * 4: In the title of a 14th century work, Sir Gawain is paired with this "knight". * the Green Knight. * 5: Despite its title, this 1848 Charles Dickens novel is ultimately about a father and his daughter, not his son. * Dombey and Son.

Round 2. Category: Art History * 1: She vacationed in New Mexico and settled there after her husband Alfred Stieglitz died in 1946. * Georgia O'Keeffe. * 2: This ancient statue is also named the Aphrodite of Melos. * Venus de Milo. * 3: People of this nation AKA Nippon wrote with a brush, so painting became the preferred form of artistic expression. * Japan. * 4: A 231-foot band of linen, this medieval embroidery depicts the Norman Conquest of England. * The Bayeux Tapestry. * 5: Seen here, "The Dance", by this "wild man" of art, was painted during his Fauvist period. * Henri Matisse.

Round 3. Category: Where's My Car? * 1: In a 1964 movie this character was driving an Aston Martin DB5; in a 1995 movie, a BMW Z3. * James Bond. * 2: Seen here, it was introduced in 1908. * a Model T. * 3: In a 1965 expose, this man declared the Corvair "Unsafe at Any Speed". * Nader. * 4: This feline Mercury model was introduced in 1967 as a companion to the Mustang. * a Cougar. * 5: The precious metal that precedes "Ghost", "Dawn" and "Shadow" in the names of Rolls-Royce models. * Silver.

Round 4. Category: Coming Soon... History! * 1: 1 man, 1 scientific mission... to tame the heavens... In 1752 he would invent the lightning rod... and electrify the world. * Benjamin Franklin. * 2: If you see only 1 19th c. author's final resting place this Xmas, make it this "Jungle Book" man's at Westminster Abbey. * Kipling. * 3: In 1860s England, he would change the rules of pugilism forever... by making them! This summer, Vin Diesel is.... * the Marquess of Queensbury. * 4: Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide... Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781... this gen.'s surrender would end a war... and birth a nation. * Cornwallis. * 5: In a world that cried out for a... map projection... only this Flemish cartographer would heed the call. * Mercator.

Round 5. Category: Counties * 1: A British term for a county; Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest was in the one named for Nottingham. * shire. * 2: "G" is for this New Hampshire county near the Vermont border, or mystery writer Sue. * Grafton. * 3: Official names of two of New York City's five counties. * (two of) Queens, Kings, Bronx, New York, and Richmond. * 4: Named by Spanish missionaries, this California county near Riverside is the largest in area in the U.S.. * San Bernardino. * 5: Smallest in Virginia, it has no incorporated cities or towns, and was once part of Washington, D.C.. * Arlington.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 507, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Etiquette * 1: After a family meal, you may fold this item and place it back inside its ring. * a napkin. * 2: Miss Manners says that the only safe place to keep damaging love letters is in this place, "between burning logs". * the fireplace. * 3: If a prom date gives you one of these floral accessories, you must wear it or at least pin it to your purse. * Corsage. * 4: English speakers have been using this "magic word" since the 1300s, and when you ask for something, you should, too. * please. * 5: Emily Post says to think of this "as an aerosol spray of infection", so if there's no tissue, use the inside of your elbow. * a sneeze.

Round 2. Category: An Historic Occasion * 1: This organization was formally born Oct. 24, 1945 with Soviet ratification of the charter. * the United Nations. * 2: It's not Hillary, it's Rebecca Latimer Felton, who on Nov. 21, 1922 became the first woman to serve in this body. * the Senate. * 3: An act passed by Parliament July 2, 1767 allowed duty-free exports of this to America--Party!!. * tea. * 4: The April 17, 1722 inoculation of 2 daughters of the Prince of Wales against this made the practice widely accepted. * smallpox. * 5: On Jan. 1, 1993 this republic came into being, and some of its people sought citizenship in the neighboring Czech Republic. * Slovakia.

Round 3. Category: National Statuary Hall * 1: This cousin of John Adams represents Massachusetts in the collection. * Samuel Adams. * 2: Jefferson Davis represents this state in the hall. * Mississippi. * 3: This state is represented by a monarch. * Hawaii. * 4: This military officer and author of "Ben-Hur" represents Indiana. * Lew Wallace. * 5: This state is represented by a statue of Thomas Hart Benton. * Missouri.

Round 4. Category: Birdies * 1: This tiny bird gets its name from the noise produced by its rapid wingbeat. * Hummingbird. * 2: Corvus brachyrhynchos, this common bird annoys farmers by eating crops like wheat and corn. * Crow. * 3: "All the little birds on Jaybird Street love to hear" this bird "go tweet, tweet, tweet". * "Rockin' Robin". * 4: A rapacious bird called the jaeger is a type of this, chosen as an NFL nickname in 1975. * Seahawk. * 5: A member of the heron family, this long-legged wader can be common, great or snowy. * Egret.

Round 5. Category: I'm Just Wild About Harry * 1: "Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography" was co-written by Merle Miller and this man. * Harry S. Truman. * 2: Clint Eastwood played him 5 times on the big screen -- or was it six, punk? In all the excitement, I kind of forgot myself. * Harry Callahan. * 3: She sang lead on the No. 1 hit "Heart of Glass". * Debbie Harry. * 4: For more than a day-o he co-starred with Dorothy Dandridge in "Carmen Jones". * Harry Belafonte. * 5: This turn-of-the-century man began his career as a teenager doing card magic as "Eric The Great". * Harry Houdini.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 506, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Places In The News * 1: In October 2000 a bomb damaged the U.S.S. Cole in this Mideastern country. * Yemen. * 2: He wasn't an alien visitor, but Felix Baumgartner did come from 24 miles up when he landed in this Southwest state in 2012. * New Mexico. * 3: In May 2013 hearts rejoiced when 3 women missing for nearly a decade escaped to freedom in this city. * Cleveland. * 4: In August 2013 ex-president Pervez Musharraf of this country was charged with the murder of Benazir Bhutto. * Pakistan. * 5: In August 2013 ex-president Pervez Musharraf of this country was charged with the murder of Benazir Bhutto. * Pakistan.

Round 2. Category: Motown * 1: Beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go", this group has 12 No. 1 hits, more than any act on the Motown label. * the Supremes. * 2: "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" was the first of his 19 Grammys, a record for rock performers. * Stevie Wonder. * 3: This lead singer of the Miracles wrote "My Guy" for Mary Wells and "My Girl" for the Temptations. * Smokey Robinson. * 4: On one of his early albums, released in 1963, he was billed as a "12 year old genius". * Stevie Wonder. * 5: Renaldo Benson, Abdul Fakir, Levi Stubbs and Lawrence Payton performed under this name, starting in 1956. * the Four Tops.

Round 3. Category: Word To The Chef * 1: Roe is fish eggs; roebuck is this meat. * Deer/venison. * 2: Tybo and Tilsit are types of these. * Cheeses. * 3: To make small squares of food is to dice; to make them a little larger is to do this, the shape of dice. * Cube. * 4: This French term refers to food that has been strained and blended to a smooth consistency. * Puree. * 5: 5-letter word for a male chicken that's been "fixed". * Capon.

Round 4. Category: Texas * 1: David G. Burnet, Mirabeau B. Lamar, Anson Jones and Sam Houston were the only ones to hold this office. * president of the Republic of Texas. * 2: In 1972 adman Harve Chapman coined the term "Metroplex" for the area shared by these 2 cities. * Dallas and Fort Worth. * 3: It was said they "can ride like a Mexican, trail like an Indian... and fight like a very devil". * the Texas Rangers. * 4: This island off Corpus Christi is the largest in Texas, Dad. * Padre Island. * 5: Now a Republican, he began his career as an aide to freshman Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. * John Connolly.

Round 5. Category: (5,5) * 1: Very, very, very, very dark, like tar. * Pitch black. * 2: Mine are vibrating even as I speak. * Vocal cords. * 3: The best thing to win; it's blue ribbon level. * First place. * 4: Term for a periodical published by a business for its employees. * House organ. * 5: A person's temperature and pulse and respiration rates. * Vital signs.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 505, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hold It * 1: Gunny comes from the Sanskrit for this container, so it's redundant when followed by it. * Sack. * 2: A barrette. * hair. * 3: The container Arthur Miller would use to heat substances to a high temperature, or his 1953 play. * Crucible. * 4: A silo--but for this, only since the mid-20th century. * nuclear missiles. * 5: A jerrycan in WWII Britain (danger: flammable). * gasoline (or petrol).

Round 2. Category: We All Scream For Ice Cream * 1: It's the decade in which Baskin-Robbins introduced the flavor "Beatle Nut" and "Here Comes the Fudge". * the 1960s. * 2: Ben and Jerry's has made lots of dough with the ice cream named for this "Dough", its No. 2 seller in 2004. * Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. * 3: The exotic-sounding name of this Bronx-born brand is meant "to convey an aura of... Old-World traditions". * Häagen-Dazs. * 4: From the Italian for "foam", it's a molded ice cream dessert that often contains candied fruit. * spumoni. * 5: Bunny Tracks is a signature flavor from this "colorful" brand that makes folks feel "hoppy". * Blue Bunny.

Round 3. Category: Governors Of California * 1: Now mayor of Oakland, he ran for president 3 times and studied Zen Buddhism in Japan after serving as gov.. * Jerry Brown. * 2: Nicknamed "Pat", he defeated Richard Nixon in 1962 to win reelection. * Pat Brown. * 3: In his inaugural address of January 2, 1967, he pledged to "reduce the cost of government". * Reagan. * 4: A 3-time governor, as Chief Justice, he headed the official investigation into the assassination of JFK. * Earl Warren. * 5: The founder of a Pac-10 school named for his son, he was Pres. of the Central Pacific R.R. and governor in the Civil War. * (Leland) Stanford.

Round 4. Category: Turkey, The Bird * 1: Turkey carving step 1: Cut the band of skin holding the legs which are known as these. * Drumsticks. * 2: This 19th C. British author is credited with making the turkey a popular choice for Christmas dinners. * Charles Dickens. * 3: A male turkey's snood hangs directly over this part of its body. * Beak/nose. * 4: Turkey that joined Henny-Penny's "Sky is Falling" campaign. * Turkey-Lurkey. * 5: This top-selling U.S. turkey brand turned 45 in 1999. * Butterball.

Round 5. Category: That Is So "P.c." * 1: In a popular children's song, this fuzzy guy is "hoppin' down the bunny trail". * Peter Cottontail. * 2: In 1928 A.A. Milne published "The House at" this location. * Pooh Corner. * 3: In 1977 the U.S. signed a treaty to return control of this to its home country in 1999. * the Panama Canal. * 4: Hits by this female country singer who sadly died in a plane crash included "Walkin' After Midnight". * Patsy Cline. * 5: This author penned the immortal line "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!". * Paddy Chayefsky.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 504, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bein' Green * 1: The shape left when it leaves is a "polygon":. * Parrot. * 2: A mini matador may take it on:. * Bullfrog. * 3: Watch it "snatch the pebble from my hand":. * Grasshopper. * 4: If one of these rides up on you at your wedding, have the bridegroom throw it away:. * Garter snake. * 5: This lizard's not just happy to meet you, he's this:. * "Frilled" to meet you.

Round 2. Category: 1945 * 1: He was preparing for the U.N. conference in San Francisco when he died in Warm Springs, Ga. on April 12. * Franklin D. Roosevelt. * 2: Truman's state or battleship site of Japan's surrender. * Missouri. * 3: Since "It's the Real Thing", this 4-letter name was registered as a trademark in 1945. * Coke. * 4: Developed from radar research, it was first marketed for fast food preparation in '45. * microwave creation. * 5: In a surprise coup, he overthrew Argentina's new government and set up his own cabinet. * Juan Peron.

Round 3. Category: Howard's End * 1: Upon leaving the White House, this president with the middle name Howard told his successor, "I'm glad to be going". * Taft. * 2: For $500 million, this comedian got Sirius and ended his terrestrial radio career. * Howard Stern. * 3: At the end of the day, you can bunk at one of this chain's more than 400 hotels in 18 countries. * Howard Johnson. * 4: Reports have this billionaire's fingernails ending somewhere between 2 to 12 inches in length, at their peak. * Howard Hughes. * 5: This failed 2004 presidential candidate once got an "A" rating from the NRA. * Howard Dean.

Round 4. Category: The '97 World Almanac * 1: In 1983 only 7% of U.S. homes had one of these; in 1996 40%, 18% with modems. * Computers. * 2: This red planet will be visible in the sky all year long; keep an eye on it if you're worried about invasions. * Mars. * 3: Born Feb. 27, 1980, this White House resident is among the "Widely Known Americans of the Present". * Chelsea Clinton. * 4: According to the U.S. treasury, as of March 1996 there were 6,046,024,130 of these in circulation. * U.S. Dollars. * 5: Among the top stories is the flare-up of violence over a tunnel entrance in this Mideast city. * Jerusalem.

Round 5. Category: Biblical Military Men * 1: This Philistine had a "helmet of brass" and a coat of mail weighing 5,000 shekels. * Goliath. * 2: The Roman centurion Cornelius, possibly the first Gentile Christian, was converted by this fisherman. * Peter. * 3: Moses designated him to defend Israel against Amalek; he later brought down the walls of Jericho. * Joshua. * 4: Benaiah was commander of this wise king's army. * Solomon. * 5: This Hittite soldier was sent to the front lines of battle so that David could take his wife Bathsheba. * Uriah.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 503, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Date Night * 1: Estee Lauder's Uncircle is a treatment for dark circles under these. * Eyes. * 2: Marilyn Monroe said she slept in nothing but this famed Chanel perfume; splash some on. * Chanel No. 5. * 3: When asked where this female floral accessory looks best, Miss Manners replied, "In the refrigerator". * Corsage. * 4: Prepare pesto sauce for your date the classic way, with fresh leaves of this herb, a main ingredient. * Basil. * 5: These foil-wrapped after-dinner chocolate mints have the name of a South American mountain range. * Andes.

Round 2. Category: Silent "K" * 1: A finger joint. * a knuckle. * 2: To fold and stretch bread dough into a smooth, uniform mass. * knead. * 3: It's a British term for women's underwear. * knickers. * 4: The sound of a bell rung ominously. * knell. * 5: A backpack for a hiker. * a knapsack.

Round 3. Category: You're Scaring Me * 1: Little Miss Muffet couldn't tough it out and one of these scared her away. * spider. * 2: A literary character named Brom Bones may have been the one who scared this schoolmaster out of town. * Ichabod Crane. * 3: Matthew 14 tells that this disciple also walked on water until he got scared and started to sink like a stone. * Simon Peter. * 4: This captain scared the locals in Jamaica in 1504 when he predicted an eclipse and it happened. * Christopher Columbus. * 5: Jonathan Edwards literally scared the hell out of New England with this "angry" 1741 sermon. * "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".

Round 4. Category: Soft News 2003 * 1: In 2003 this young L.A. Laker became the third NBA player to average 40 points per game for a month. * Kobe Bryant. * 2: On Sept. 9, 2003 Snapple was announced as the official beverage of this American metropolis. * New York City. * 3: Billy Bush, a first cousin to W., hosted a 2003 revival of this classic Monty Hall game show. * Let's Make a Deal. * 4: Oprah made news reviving her book club in June 2003; the new pick was this Steinbeck classic from 1952. * East of Eden. * 5: This soccer midfielder for Manchester United signed with Real Madrid on July 1, 2003. * David Beckham.

Round 5. Category: Writers At Rest * 1: She and Alice B. Toklas are buried next to each other at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. * Gertrude Stein. * 2: Ray Bradbury's headstone calls him the author of this 1953 classic. * Fahrenheit 451. * 3: Ray Bradbury's headstone calls him the author of this 1953 classic. * Fahrenheit 451. * 4: In Asheville his gravestone bears the line "The last voyage, the longest, the best" from "Look Homeward, Angel". * Thomas Wolfe. * 5: This author of "Light In August" was laid to rest in Saint Peter's cemetery in Oxford, Mississippi. * (William) Faulkner.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 502, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Swimming And Diving * 1: In 1940 John Sigmund swam 292 miles down this river from St. Louis. * Mississippi River. * 2: In this event swimmers perform acrobatic movements to music. * synchronized swimming. * 3: Because it is most tiring, this stroke is 1st in individual medley races. * the butterfly. * 4: The silver medal in high diving in 1920 Olympics was won by a 13-year-old, Nils Skoglund of this country. * Sweden. * 5: Of the 4 strokes used in competition, this one produces the slowest times. * breaststroke.

Round 2. Category: Spot The Kitty * 1: The Wight,the Jersey,the Manx. * the Manx. * 2: The Iranian,the Persian,the Zoroastrian. * Persian. * 3: The British Straighthair,the British Shorthair,the British Nohair. * the British Shorthair. * 4: The Barbie,the Ragdoll,the Chatty. * the Ragdoll. * 5: The Himalayan,the Caucasian,the Uralian. * Himalayan.

Round 3. Category: Advertising * 1: January 1, 1971 was the last day these could be advertised on U.S. TV. * cigarettes. * 2: The L.A. Times called this "original party animal" "a canine cross between Bruce Willis and John Belushi". * Spuds MacKenzie. * 3: Spike Lee, Britney Spears and yours truly have sported these in advertisements for milk. * mustaches. * 4: In 1888 this company's new camera was advertised with the slogan "You press the button--we do the rest". * Kodak. * 5: In a classic series of commercials, this company "puts you in the driver's seat". * Hertz.

Round 4. Category: "Ock" Du Lieber * 1: Fred Flintstone's hometown. * Bedrock. * 2: A dialect from the east end of London. * Cockney. * 3: This bird known for its mimicry is the state bird of 5 southern U.S. states. * the mockingbird. * 4: An ankle-length garment worn by a priest. * cassock. * 5: A mythological serpent that hatches from an egg. * cockatrice.

Round 5. Category: The Times They Are A-Changin' * 1: Ian Astbury of The Cult joined Robbie Krieger and Ray Manzarek for the retooling of this band "of the 21st Century". * The Doors. * 2: In 2004 Veritas software's marketing dept. made news when it banned this type of communication on Fridays. * e-mail. * 3: Beepcard Inc. is developing a talking 1 of these, slightly thicker than normal, that asks for your password. * a credit card. * 4: Alison Bartlett, who plays Gina, a kindly vet on this PBS show, got overexposed with Steve Buscemi on "The Sopranos". * Sesame Street. * 5: As the "M" word indicate, TMS uses these to stimulate the brain and treat neuropsychiatric conditions in a non-intrusive way. * magnets.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 501, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Peru * 1: Peru's national drink is pisco sour, a blend of lime juice, syrup, bitters and a heady brandy made from this vine fruit. * Grapes. * 2: The Uro Archipelago in this lake consists of about 40 inhabitable islands made of woven totora reeds. * Lake Titicaca. * 3: Lima's Palacio de Gobierno was built in 1938 on the site of this Spanish conquistador's palace. * Pizarro. * 4: He served as Peru's first ambassador to the Soviet Union before moving his diplomatic skills to the U.N.. * (Javier) Perez de Cuellar. * 5: Several Indian languages are spoken in Peru, including this one that's now an official language. * Quechua.

Round 2. Category: Math And Science * 1: On the centigrade scale, it's the melting point of ice. * 0 (zero). * 2: 1 volt times 1 amp equals this unit. * watt. * 3: Forces like gravity are measured in units abbreviated N., named for this scientist. * Isaac Newton. * 4: To convert kilograms into grams, multiply by this. * 1000. * 5: Musical instruments are tuned to 440 cycles per second, this note on a piano. * A.

Round 3. Category: Book Knowledge * 1: A book's backstrip covers the part that has this anatomical name. * the spine. * 2: Shakespeare wrote, "What's past is" this introductory part of a book. * prologue. * 3: Mulvany, Nancy, 177;birth of, 28;education of, 213;as expert in creating these, 326-331. * an index. * 4: A colophon is a section at the end of a book that often names this, like 10-point Baskerville. * the font. * 5: Entomological name for a blank page at the start of a book, suitable for inscriptions. * the fly (or the fly leaf).

Round 4. Category: Proverbs By Initials * 1: "Blood is T.T.W.". * thicker than water. * 2: "Look B.Y.L.". * before you leap. * 3: "T.H.A. better than one". * two heads are (two hands are accepted). * 4: "A watched P.N.B.". * pot never boils. * 5: "T.I.S.T. fiction". * truth is stranger than.

Round 5. Category: "Sh" * 1: It's another term for stenography. * Shorthand. * 2: Resembling a large scarf, this garment, when folded in a triangle, may be worn in place of a sweater. * Shawl. * 3: Slate is commonly formed by the metamorphism of this rock. * Shale. * 4: Tecumseh was chief of this Indian tribe. * Shawnee. * 5: Found in some Indian tribes, it's a medicine man with special healing powers. * shaman.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 500, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Color My World * 1: Skelton or Buttons. * Red. * 2: Bing was first "dreaming of" this kind of holiday in the 1942 film "Holiday Inn". * White Christmas. * 3: Hit songs in this style of music include "Wicked Path Of Sin" and "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett". * Bluegrass. * 4: Jaundice and liver degeneration mark the second stage of this viral disease. * Yellow fever. * 5: For adults, the U.S. Judo Federation has this rank directly below a black belt. * brown.

Round 2. Category: Let's Go Cruising * 1: Princess Cruises now offer scuba and volleyball as well as this beloved game that uses cues to push disks. * shuffleboard. * 2: The person who handles passengers' accounts; Gopher on "The Love Boat" was an assistant one. * a purser. * 3: This Virgin Island with its city of Charlotte Amalie is among the most popular Caribbean ports of call. * St. Thomas. * 4: You can sail from Southampton on this Cunard liner that has covered 5.3 mil. nautical miles, a record for any ship. * the QE2. * 5: Term for a woman who christens a cruise ship, like Kim Cattral for Norwegian Dawn and Judi Dench for Carnival Legend. * the godmother.

Round 3. Category: Around The House * 1: The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture says this by-product of sugar will last 2 years on the shelf. * Molasses. * 2: Because of power draw, extension cords should not be used to connect this storage appliance. * refrigerator. * 3: The amount of wall between 2 of these is called an interfenestration. * windows. * 4: Tray, parsons and coffee are types of these. * tables. * 5: Also called a breast wall, this type of wall is built to resist lateral pressure and to hold back soil. * a retaining wall.

Round 4. Category: Anagrams * 1: Female found amid the household staff. * Maid (amid). * 2: Chemical element: coil sin. * silicon. * 3: Bob taught himself this low country language. * Flemish (himself). * 4: The name of this Canadian province is an anagram of "main boat". * Manitoba. * 5: This character in mythology amused me more than she scared me. * Medusa (for amused).

Round 5. Category: College Crossword Clues "C" * 1: Holiday yule have off (9). * Christmas. * 2: Grounds for a college (6). * campus. * 3: Element-ary subject (9). * chemistry. * 4: 2-year college (9). * community. * 5: Degree ceremony (12). * commencement.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 499, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lesser-Known Ancient Romans * 1: This little-known Roman was exactly half as wide as his Greek friend Diameter. * Radius. * 2: This ancient Roman had trouble understanding others because of the ringing in his ears. * Tinnitus. * 3: Everything this Roman did was counterfeit or fake. * Bogus. * 4: He was difficult to understand because his jaw muscles were always locking up. * Tetanus. * 5: This Roman was always interrupting his projects for an extended break, especially over the summer. * Hiatus.

Round 2. Category: Pc Magazine * 1: In 1984 this company's laser printer won raves and , at $3,495, also cost a third less than the competitors'. * HP (Hewlett-Packard). * 2: The cover of the first PC Magazine featured this company's new desktop computer, which helped launch an industry. * IBM. * 3: For 16 years this computer maker put an ad on the back page of PC Mag to promote and pioneer its direct PC sales. * Dell. * 4: In 1999, when it wasn't even a year old, this website won a PC Mag award for its PageRank technology. * Google. * 5: id Software got kudos for letting gamers construct worlds in this 4-letter shooter, set on Mars and featuring demons. * Doom.

Round 3. Category: Astrology * 1: The two signs of the Zodiac symbolized by arthropods. * Scorpio and Cancer. * 2: Some astrologers call people born under this sign Arians. * Aries. * 3: Aries is ruled by this warlike planet named for the Roman god of war. * Mars. * 4: This water sign is symbolized by 2 fish swimming in opposite directions. * Pisces. * 5: Sometimes Sagittarius is considered a human sign, but usually they're Virgo, Aquarius, Libra and this. * Gemini.

Round 4. Category: From "A" To "E" * 1: Slang for a guy from Sydney. * an Aussie. * 2: A fighter pilot has to shoot down 5 or more enemy aircraft to earn this nickname. * ace. * 3: A proverb. * an adage. * 4: Usually built on a cliff or other high place, it's an eagle's home. * aerie. * 5: The special mood or atmosphere created by a particular environment. * ambience.

Round 5. Category: City Flags * 1: Its flag features a pioneer family, a covered wagon and 2 sea gulls. * Salt Lake City. * 2: This Spanish mission and a star are depicted on San Antonio's flag. * The Alamo. * 3: The 4 stars appearing on this city's flag stand for Fort Dearborn, a fire and 2 World's Fairs. * Chicago. * 4: The Y-shaped design on this city's flag represents the convergence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. * St. Louis. * 5: A steamboat and a cotton plant appear on this Tennessee's city flag. * Memphis.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 498, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Johnny Gilbert, This Is Your Life * 1: Johnny was born in this Southern state, as were 8 U.S. presidents. * Virginia. * 2: Johnny lent his skills to both the 1950s version and the current Bob Barker version of this show. * The Price Is Right. * 3: Johnny played a nightclub emcee in the 1961 film where this title female teenager "Goes Hawaiian". * Gidget. * 4: In 1995 Johnny appeared as himself in an episode of this drama series with a zip code in its name. * Beverly Hills, 90210. * 5: The Dayton, Ohio TV studio used for "The Johnny Gilbert Show" was taken over in 1970 by this daytime talk show host. * Phil Donahue.

Round 2. Category: Mov"Ing" Pictures * 1: Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! It's the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever". * Staying Alive. * 2: Director Susan Seidelman followed this Madonna-Rosanna Arquette comedy with "Making Mr. Right". * Desperately Seeking Susan. * 3: 1988 film based on the 1964 disappearance of 3 civil rights workers in the South. * Mississippi Burning. * 4: Thriller director Costa-Gavras went for some quieter moments in this 1982 film. * Missing. * 5: Fred and Ginger do the carioca in this, their first movie together. * Flying Down to Rio.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 498, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Canadian Potpourri * 1: If you studied Latin, you'll know that Nova Scotia's name is Latin for this. * New Scotland. * 2: Afternoon tea at the Empress Hotel is a treasured tradition in this "regal" British Columbia city. * Victoria. * 3: This world-famous Montreal comedy festival is known in French as "Juste Pour Rire". * "Just For Laughs". * 4: Wawa is Ojibwa for this wild bird and the town of Wawa, Ontario, a migration stop, boasts a giant statue of one. * (Canada) Goose. * 5: When the province of Saskatchewan was created in 1905, this city became its capital. * Regina.

Round 2. Category: Pbs' Electric Company * 1: He played Easy Reader and Mel Mound the DJ; in 2003 he was God "Almighty". * Morgan Freeman. * 2: "Hey you guys!" Born Rosita Dolores Alverio, her acting resume goes from "West Side Story" to "E.C." to HBO's "Oz". * Rita Moreno. * 3: He played Al the Milkman in 1972 and 14 years later had the No. 1 TV show in America. * Bill Cosby. * 4: This composer of "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" penned the songs "Silent E" and "L-Y" for the show. * Tom Lehrer. * 5: She's gonna live forever as an "E.C." short circus member and an Oscar winner for a song from "Flashdance". * (Irene) Cara.

Round 3. Category: "I" Mean It * 1: This is it--actually, it's Latin for "it", and 1/3 of your psyche. * the id. * 2: In October 2005 this country's historic new constitution was adopted by voters. * Iraq. * 3: It's a narrow strip of land, with water on both sides, that connects 2 larger bodies of land. * an isthmus. * 4: Addressing Congress, FDR referred to December 7, 1941 as "a date which will live in" this. * infamy. * 5: In mythology, this goddess of the rainbow sometimes delivered messages for Hera. * Iris.

Round 4. Category: Starts With "J" * 1: It's a shade of green or a green gemstone that's often carved. * Jade. * 2: A metallic sound made by a sleigh bell, or a catchy tune in a commercial. * a jingle. * 3: Swing was the most popu

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 497, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Journalism 101 * 1: Types of these with specific names include op-ed and front. * pages. * 2: Teasers and screamers are types of these. * headlines. * 3: The author's name printed with the story. * a byline. * 4: The top news item of the day, or the first sentence in the story about it. * the lead. * 5: It's at this "desk" that the local news is put together. * the city desk.

Round 2. Category: Sounds Like An Army Unit * 1: Best Picture Oscar winner for 1986. * Platoon. * 2: Proverbially 2 is this and 3's a crowd. * a company. * 3: One of the 4 fundamental operations in arithmetic. * division. * 4: An infamous group of Italian urban terrorists called themselves "the Red" these. * Brigade. * 5: Homonym for the center of a Granny Smith or a Jonathan. * corps.

Round 3. Category: Dead Language * 1: A person or thing about to fail is said to be one of these terminal water birds. * Dead duck. * 2: This colorful 2-word term is synonymous with morbid comedy often relating to death. * Black comedy/humor. * 3: It's the combustible heap for burning a dead body as part of a funeral rite. * Pyre. * 4: Using cryogenics, this shorter word is the freezing of recently deceased bodies in hopes of future resuscitation. * Cryonics. * 5: From the Latin for "to fall", it's a dead body, especially one prepared for dissection. * Cadaver.

Round 4. Category: Giant * 1: The giant ones of these mammals live in the bamboo forests of China. * pandas. * 2: Completes Neil Armstrong's July 20,1969 statement "That's one small step for man...". * one giant leap for mankind. * 3: Giant tortoises and marine iguanas were featured in an IMAX film about these islands that Darwin visited in 1835. * the Galapagos Islands. * 4: The giant type of this seaweed, a form of leafy brown algae, can be 200 feet long. * kelp. * 5: In Greek mythology, this group of primeval gigantic beings includes Cronus and Rhea. * the Titans.

Round 5. Category: What Century Are You Living In? * 1: Generals George Meade and P.G.T. Beauregard. * 19th century. * 2: Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg. * 20th century. * 3: Christopher Marlowe (assuming he didn't fake his own death, move to France and write Shakespeare's plays). * 16th century. * 4: Rembrandt. * 17th century. * 5: Frederick the Great of Prussia. * 18th century.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 496, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Anagrammed West Wing Stars * 1: Hail to the chief:ART MEN SHINE. * Martin Sheen. * 2: She "presses" on:SOLE JAIL NANNY. * Allison Janney. * 3: We're still "laugh-in" at her:O MY ILL LINT. * Lily Tomlin. * 4: Quite a "lady":DANCING CART HONKS. * Stockard Channing. * 5: He's Toby Z:HARD CHIC RIFFS. * Richard Schiff.

Round 2. Category: Aviation Firsts * 1: In 1909 Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly a plane across this body of water between the U.K. and France. * the English Channel. * 2: In 1909 Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly a plane across this body of water between the U.K. and France. * the English Channel. * 3: The first successful all-metal U.S. transport plane was this auto pioneer's 1926 tri-motor. * (Henry) Ford. * 4: On January 22, 1970 this first jumbo jet took flight with 324 passengers from New York City to London. * a 747. * 5: The first major flight over water was by Glenn Curtiss, who flew over this lake from Cleveland to Sandusky in 1910. * Lake Erie.

Round 3. Category: 1917 * 1: Impeached as governor of this big state in 1917, James Ferguson later got his wife to run and she won. * Texas. * 2: On Dec. 7 1 U.S. representative voted against declaring war on this dual monarchy. * Austria-Hungary. * 3: On Dec. 17 128 U.S. representatives voted against this number amendment prohibiting liquor. * the 18th. * 4: "Jerry of the Islands" by this "White Fang" author was published a year after his death. * Jack London. * 5: This revolutionary leader returned to Guangzhou to launch a new movement against the premier of China. * Sun Yat-sen.

Round 4. Category: Noun To Verb * 1: When launched in 1998, it was just a noun; now it's a verb meaning to check up on somebody online. * Google. * 2: One state of water; as a verb, it can mean to decorate a cake or to ensure a victory. * ice. * 3: From the French for "to cut", it can mean a small piece or the whole or to do careful work on your car. * detail. * 4: Natural event sometimes used as a verb; there's a form of it in Prissy's famous line in "Gone with the Wind". * birth. * 5: "Relatively" speaking, it means to exempt someone already in business from new regulation. * grandfather.

Round 5. Category: 18Th Century Europe * 1: In 1745 she became the mistress of Louis XV, serving as his executive secretary for about 20 years. * Madame du Pompadour. * 2: On Nov.1, 1755 an earthquake devastated this Portuguese capital, killing tens of thousands. * Lisbon. * 3: In 1717 Danes settled on St. John in this Caribbean island group; 16 years later Denmark bought St. Croix. * Virgin Islands. * 4: As early as the 1730s cuckoo clocks were made in this "woodsy" region of southwest Germany. * Black Forest. * 5: In 1719 this small principality was formed by consolidating the counties of Vaduz and Schellenberg. * Liechtenstein.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 495, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Keystone State * 1: Overlooking the Susquehanna River, the Pennsylvania governor's mansion is found in this city. * Harrisburg. * 2: This "cat" is the only variety of wild feline found in Pennsylvania. * Bobcat. * 3: It's the Pennsylvania city where the Ohio river begins. * Pittsburgh. * 4: This baseball team has the oldest team name in the National League. * Philadelphia Phillies. * 5: During this 1794 uprising, President Washington sent troops into western Penn. to restore order. * Whiskey Rebellion.

Round 2. Category: The Nfl * 1: After finishing the 2005 season with a 3-13 record, this team bounced back in 2006 to win the NFC South. * the New Orleans Saints. * 2: During the '70s this team's lineup included Terry Bradshaw, Lynn Swann and Mean Joe Greene. * Pittsburgh Steelers. * 3: Only 3 players have rushed for more than 2,000 yards in a season: O.J. Simpson, Eric Dickerson and this Lion in 1997. * Barry Sanders. * 4: The website for this team has a section for "Finatics". * (Miami) Dolphins. * 5: The winning entry to name this S.E. team said, "it never drops its prey... and has a great sporting tradition". * (Altanta) Falcons.

Round 3. Category: Dough! * 1: Some suggest eliminating this coin; the mint spends $134 million a year to produce $80 million worth. * the penny. * 2: Until the euro debuted there in 2002, a builder would spend guilders to buy girders in this country. * the Netherlands. * 3: When Mike Wallace asked, "How much did you lose from AOL Time Warner?", he said, "$7 billion or $8 billion", but who's counting?. * Ted Turner. * 4: From the 1970s, some quarters commemorating this featured a Colonial drummer. * the Bicentennial. * 5: Playing polo may not make you a billionaire, but Polo shirts might; just ask him, No. 67 on Forbes' 2005 list. * Ralph Lauren.

Round 4. Category: Around The Colony With Prudence * 1: Prue made these out of beeswax and bayberry wax as well as tallow. * Candles. * 2: Prue brought the family's one of these to every fire in town and passed it down the line to the fire. * Bucket. * 3: Prue liked the way these meeting-house benches folded up for hymn singing. * Pews. * 4: Prue liked going up to the mill on the hill to get a free glass of this pressed apple drink; any traveller would. * Cider. * 5: Prue's husband Sherman had to register the design he used for earmarks on these, which he calls "kine". * Cattle/cows.

Round 5. Category: Government And Politics * 1: This date is written at the top of the Declaration of Independence. * July 4, 1776. * 2: The annual term of the Supreme Court usually ends in June and begins on the second Monday in this month. * October. * 3: This Cabinet department is nicknamed "Foggy Bottom". * the Department of State. * 4: Article I of the U.S. Constitution deals with this branch of government. * Legislative. * 5: The states with more than 30 electoral votes are California, New York and this. * Texas.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 494, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Stupid Show Biz Answers * 1: It's the role Danny Bonaduce played on "The Partridge Family". * Danny. * 2: Mike Myers flexed his powers to play Studio 54 owner Steve Rubell in this 1998 film. * 54. * 3: Andrea McArdle, who starred in a production of "Annie Get Your Gun" in 2006, first became famous playing this role. * Annie. * 4: Greer Garson became the Mrs. of actor Richard Ney after he played her son Vin Miniver in this 1942 film. * Mrs. Miniver. * 5: It was the title of the last big-screen remake of "Beau Geste", released in 1977. * The Last Remake of Beau Geste.

Round 2. Category: History Of The Jewish People * 1: 1290:The Jews are expelled from this nation by King Edward I. * England. * 2: 1818:The first synagogue of this branch of Judaism opens in Hamburg. * Reform. * 3: 1897:Theodor Herzl holds the first congress of this group; in one year it would have 800 chapters in Europe. * the World Zionist Congress. * 4: 1909:This 1st modern Jewish city is founded; today it's the financial and cultural center of Israel. * Tel Aviv. * 5: 1993:This prime minister agrees to the Oslo Peace Accords along with Yasser Arafat. * (Yitzhak) Rabin.

Round 3. Category: Auto Shop * 1: What the "U" in U-joint stands for. * universal. * 2: In newer cars it has generally replaced the generator for keeping the battery charged. * an alternator. * 3: You might throw a fit if you "throw" this part joining the crankshaft and piston. * a connecting rod. * 4: Part that is capped after putting in points and a condenser. * the distributor. * 5: Used to open and close points and valves, they come in single or double overhead, if you're cool. * a cam.

Round 4. Category: Named After Jfk * 1: There is a John F. Kennedy prep school in this world capital where JFK made a famous visit in 1963. * Berlin. * 2: Opened in 1971, the JFK Center for the Performing Arts stretches along this river. * the Potomac River. * 3: The John F. Kennedy National Historic Site, JFK's birthplace, is in Brookline, a suburb of this city. * Boston. * 4: Located in Queens, it first opened to commercial traffic in July 1948. * JFK Airport. * 5: The Florida promontory now called this was named after JFK from 1963 to 1973. * Cape Canaveral.

Round 5. Category: Reprise * 1: Andre Braugher and Daniel Baldwin were among the cast members who returned for a 2000 TV movie of this cop show. * Homicide: Life on the Street. * 2: On film she reprised the role of action hero Ellen Ripley in 1986, 1992, and 1997. * Sigourney Weaver. * 3: He played Max Klinger on "AfterMash" as well as on "MAS*H". * Jamie Farr. * 4: She played Sissy in the Broadway and film versions of "Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean". * Cher. * 5: He reprised his role of Joe Mannix for an episode of "Diagnosis Murder" in 1997. * Mike Connors.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 493, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "M"Enagerie * 1: As adults, these lepidoptera are harmless, but the caterpillars love to feast on your clothes. * moths. * 2: Though its voice is shrill, this small monkey's name is derived from Old French "marmouser", to murmur. * a marmoset. * 3: It's said ancient Romans not only ate these eels but fed their disobedient slaves to them. * a moray eel. * 4: The tiny eyes of this insectivore are hidden in its fur. * a mole. * 5: These crow relatives got their name from a girl's name, Margaret. * magpie.

Round 2. Category: In A Pickle * 1: To make your standard pickle, pickle this veggie. * cucumber. * 2: This pickle maker introduced its spokesstork in 1974. * Vlasic. * 3: Common name of Anethum graveolens, a plant in the parsley family used in a popular pickle. * dill. * 4: In 1900 this company built the first electric advertising sign in New York City, a 40-foot-long pickle. * H.J. Heinz. * 5: This noted pickle dealer of 15th century Seville has 2 continents named for him. * Amerigo Vespucci.

Round 3. Category: Four * 1: Naismith sport played by the men on the "Road to the Final Four". * Basketball. * 2: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse appear in the book of Revelation, written by this "divine" saint. * Saint John the Divine. * 3: His third wife was a member of the Gang of Four. * Mao Tse-tung. * 4: Suffering is the substance of all of the Four Noble Truths of this religion. * Buddhism. * 5: In a 1939 article for National Geographic, Lincoln Ellsworth described his 4 expeditions to this continent. * Antarctica.

Round 4. Category: Triangles * 1: Body part in the triangle atop the pyramid in the Great Seal of the United States. * Eye. * 2: In the "Steel City" of Pittsburgh, the downtown area is known as this triangle. * the Golden Triangle. * 3: To get into this city's Golden Triangle you can use the Fort Pitt Bridge. * Pittsburgh. * 4: The east side of this large, triangular citadel faces Red Square. * the Kremlin. * 5: In 1911 a devastating fire at this company's factory in New York City killed 146 garment workers. * the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

Round 5. Category: Summertime * 1: This object is the "S" in SPF, which should be at least 30 in the stuff mom slathers onto you. * the sun. * 2: On warm days the mind turns to this rhyming word that precedes "basket" and "table". * picnic. * 3: In the northern hemisphere, Vega, Altair and Deneb, 3 of these, make up the "summer triangle". * stars. * 4: Are you smarter than a fifth grader? Not a fifth grader who's at SIG, summer institute for them. * the gifted. * 5: In Houston in the summer, this averages over 90% for the morning. * humidity.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 492, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Independent Films * 1: This Coen Brothers tale from 1996 is "A homespun murder story". * Fargo. * 2: Reverse in told was film Nolan Christopher 2001 this. * Memento. * 3: Robert Duvall wrote, directed and played a preacher in this 1997 film. * The Apostle. * 4: Title job of Dante and Randal in a 1994 Kevin Smith film. * clerks. * 5: An Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature went to this '50s-style melodrama with Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid. * Far from Heaven.

Round 2. Category: Neil Down * 1: Neil Patrick Harris will always be remembered for playing this title teen on TV. * Doogie Howser. * 2: He's been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo performer and as a member of Buffalo Springfield. * Neil Young. * 3: In 1983 a Broadway theater was renamed for this man, the first time a living playwright was so honored. * Neil Simon. * 4: Neil Tennant is half of this British duo whose '80s hits include "West End Girls". * Pet Shop Boys. * 5: He had a No. 1 hit with "Laughter In The Rain". * Neil Sedaka.

Round 3. Category: Skywatch * 1: From the ground you only see half of this colorful effect; from a plane it is often seen as a full circle. * Rainbow. * 2: The winds in this part of a hurricane may be less than 15 miles an hour. * Eye. * 3: Known to farmers as "white plague", they travel to Earth at up to 100 miles per hour, damaging crops. * Hailstones. * 4: This is the term for a large group of meteors, or of bees. * Swarm. * 5: Normally, the trade winds blow in this direction. * West.

Round 4. Category: Padres * 1: Set in Australia, this 1983 miniseries centered on the doomed love of Meggie and Father de Bricassart. * The Thorn Birds. * 2: He received Best Actor Oscar nominations for 1944 and 1945 for playing the same role: Father Chuck O'Malley. * Bing Crosby. * 3: This "Happy Days" father later played a crime-solving priest in the "Father Dowling Mysteries". * Tom Bosley. * 4: On film, Henry II muses, "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?", referring to him. * Thomas Becket. * 5: Gene Hackman's Rev. Frank Scott leads a band of survivors to safety aboard a capsized ship in this 1972 film. * The Poseidon Adventure.

Round 5. Category: Hey, Tiger! * 1: Name shared by a talking flower in "Through the Looking Glass" and an Indian princess in "Peter Pan". * Tiger Lily. * 2: In 1973 he won his second Oscar, for his role in "Save the Tiger". * Jack Lemmon. * 3: This mogul, whose name means "tiger", not "cartoon elephant", established India's Mogul dynasty. * Babar. * 4: In this comedy "Le Tigre" is one of model Ben Stiller's arsenal of devastating looks. * Zoolander. * 5: The beastly villain in this classic collection is the tiger Shere Khan. * Jungle Book.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 491, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What's Up, Tv Doc? * 1: Neurologist Sean Kenniff was voted off this show on episode 12. * Survivor. * 2: After announcing he was hanging up his stethoscope as Dr. Sloan on "Diagnosis Murder", he took it back. * Dick Van Dyke. * 3: The top show of each season from 1985 to 1989 was a sitcom starring this man as a Brooklyn obstetrician. * Bill Cosby. * 4: He was Jim Anderson, insurance agent, for 13 years; he was Marcus Welby, M.D. for only 7. * Robert Young. * 5: In 1976 "The Practice" was a medical sitcom with this "Make Room for Daddy" star. * Danny Thomas.

Round 2. Category: Chapters In 19Th Century Lit * 1: "Becky in a Dilemma" and "Lost in the Cave" are found in "The Adventures of" him. * Tom Sawyer. * 2: "The Pequod meets the Virgin" is chapter 81 of this novel. * Moby Dick. * 3: "I Am Born","I Observe" and "I Have a Change"are the first 3 chapters of this Dickens classic. * David Copperfield. * 4: You'll find "What Happened at Portsmouth on 25 August 1628" and "Porthos' Mistress" in this 1844 novel. * The Three Musketeers. * 5: Chapters 1-4 of this classic start with "Jonathan Harker's Journal"; later we also get a peek at "Dr. Seward's Diary". * Dracula.

Round 3. Category: Wood-Pourri * 1: In March 2002 he became the first PGA player to win 3 different events 3 consecutive times. * Tiger Woods. * 2: In 1994 and 1999 this rock festival celebrated its 25th and 30th anniversaries with new concerts. * Woodstock. * 3: "Knock Knock" Guess Who? It's this bird that made his cartoon debut in "Knock Knock" in 1940. * Woody Woodpecker. * 4: You certainly will go down to da-feet knowing sabots are these. * wooden shoes. * 5: In 1855 one of this notorious hall's leaders, Fernando Wood, became mayor of New York City. * Tammany Hall.

Round 4. Category: World Cup '98 * 1: There were an average of 2.67 of these a game, not enough for some bored U.S. viewers. * Goals. * 2: This country's win over the "Great Satan" knocked the U.S. out of contention for the second round. * Iran. * 3: Argentina didn't "kick" about this controversial tie-breaking method after using it to beat England. * Penalty kicks/shootout. * 4: Only in France: the pre-game show at the final was a tribute to this "saint"ly fashion designer. * Yves Saint Laurent. * 5: It was a good July for this country: they reached the World Cup semis and Goran Ivanisevic made the Wimbledon final. * Croatia.

Round 5. Category: Life Science * 1: This vital organ is the largest gland in the human body. * Liver. * 2: A Mr. Whipple shared the 1934 Nobel Prize for showing daily eating of this raw organ meat helps cure anemia. * liver. * 3: Artificial body organ which includes a dialyzer. * a kidney. * 4: Chinese restaurant syndrome is a short-lived illness caused by eating this flavor enhancer. * MSG. * 5: It's the branch of biology dealing with heredity. * genetics.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 490, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Going Bananas * 1: Recipes for this cake-like loaf call for 2 or 3 ripe bananas, mashed. * Banana bread. * 2: This term for the leading comedian in a show originated in a burlesque routine involving bananas. * Top banana. * 3: A traditional banana daiquiri contains the light type of this liquor. * Rum. * 4: While singing with The Tarriers, Alan Arkin had a hit with this song one month before Harry Belafonte. * "The Banana-Boat Song". * 5: The documentary film subtitled "Bananas Is My Business" profiles this movie star of the '30s and '40s. * Carmen Miranda.

Round 2. Category: Old Hickory * 1: With no $7 bill, seventh president Andrew Jackson is honored on this currency denomination. * $20 bill. * 2: In 1787 Jackson set up his office to practice this in McLeansville, North Carolina. * Law. * 3: On June 6, 1833 Jackson became the first sitting president to take a ride on one of these. * Train. * 4: Waightstill Avery in 1787 and Charles Dickinson in 1806 are 2 of about 100 men Jackson faced in these. * Duels. * 5: This 6th president wouldn't attend Jackson's inauguration or his honorary degree ceremony at Harvard. * John Quincy Adams.

Round 3. Category: 2-Word Capitals * 1: This Asian capital was built between 1912 and '29 and designed by the British architect Lutyens. * New Delhi. * 2: The name of this capital of El Salvador is similar to the name of the country. * San Salvador. * 3: Of the capitals of South Africa, it's the only one that fits the category. * Cape Town. * 4: Do you know the way to this capital of Costa Rica?. * San José. * 5: This Ethiopian capital whose name means "new flower" was founded by Emperor Menelik II in 1887. * Addis Ababa.

Round 4. Category: Warner Bros. * 1: In May 1999 her Warners talk show was hit with a $2.5 million judgment after one guest killed another. * Jenny Jones. * 2: You can tour the Warner Bros. lot online, or in person in this San Fernando Valley city. * Burbank. * 3: Former mortuary entrepreneur Steve Ross negotiated Warners' 1989 merger with this publisher. * Time. * 4: Movies found their voice in this 1927 Warner Bros. film. * The Jazz Singer. * 5: He outlasted his brothers Sam, Albert and Harry in the company, finally selling out in 1967. * Jack Warner.

Round 5. Category: Famous Joes And Josephs * 1: 1 of the 3 heavyweight boxing champs to fit this category. * Joe Frazier, Joe Louis and "Jersey Joe" Walcott. * 2: This Delaware senator chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. * Joseph Biden. * 3: This world leader's real name was Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. * Joseph Stalin. * 4: In 1982 this British singer paired with Jennifer Warnes in the No. 1 hit "Up Where We Belong". * Joe Cocker. * 5: Late charismatic scholar seen on a PBS series in 1988 conversing with Bill Moyers on "The Power Of Myth". * Joseph Campbell.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 489, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Zo" Far So Good * 1: The Chinese version of this astrological cycle covers 12 years. * the zodiac. * 2: Title Greek character of a 1946 bestseller. * Zorba. * 3: A scientist who studies clams or camels. * a zoologist. * 4: In 1902 Alfred Dreyfus attended this author's funeral. * Zola. * 5: This prophet and religion founder was born around 630 B.C. in what's now Iran. * Zoroaster.

Round 2. Category: College Hodgepodge * 1: Check it out: in 2000, 17-year-old M.I.T. freshman Elina Groverman was the U.S. women's co-champ in this board game. * chess. * 2: (Hi, I'm Margaret Bickers, a contestant in the 1992 "Jeopardy!" College Tournament, now a pilot in Iowa) This government agency runs a center for aviation systems reliability at Iowa State. * FAA (Federal Aviation Administration). * 3: 30% of Bryn Mawr students spend at least one semester abroad during this year of study. * Junior year. * 4: This adjective for a second-year student is defined as "intellectually pretentious", "conceited" and "immature". * sophomoric. * 5: (Hi. I'm Keith Olberman.) I started when I was 16 and I graduated at 20 with a B.S. in communications at this Ivy League school in Ithaca. * Cornell.

Round 3. Category: Religious Festivals * 1: Purim,Sukkot. * Judaism. * 2: Assumption,Ascension. * Roman Catholicism. * 3: Eid al-Fitr,Laylat al-Qadr. * Islam. * 4: Diwali,Holi. * Hinduism. * 5: Wesak,Navam. * Buddhism.

Round 4. Category: Adverbs * 1: It followed "absolutely" and preceded "has to be there overnight" in a memorable FedEx ad. * positively. * 2: Gently or mildly, it describes how he's "killing me" with his Top 40 song. * softly. * 3: It precedes "ineligible" to describe a college athlete who can't play because of lousy grades. * academically. * 4: By definition, this adverb describes something that happens every 3 years. * triannually (or triennially). * 5: Actually, in the strict sense without inaccuacy or exaggeration, it's this 9-letter adverb. * literally.

Round 5. Category: '90s Fiction * 1: In 1997 Ira Levin delivered "Son of Rosemary", the sequel to this novel. * "Rosemary's Baby". * 2: "This kind of certainty comes only once", Robert tells Francesca in this bestselling love story. * "The Bridges of Madison County". * 3: In "The Fourth K", Mario Puzo put a new member of this political family in the White House. * Kennedy. * 4: This 1993 James Redfield book has been described as "An adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery". * "The Celestine Prophecy". * 5: This "Beloved" author set her latest novel "Paradise" in the fictional all-black town of Ruby, Oklahoma. * Toni Morrison.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 488, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hitchcock's Cattle * 1: A good guy as Perry Mason, he played the bad guy Jimmy Stewart spied on in "Rear Window". * Raymond Burr. * 2: In a "monumental" death scene in "North By Northwest", Martin Landau fell off this famous landmark. * Mount Rushmore. * 3: Before he played Ted Baxter, Ted Knight had a bit role as a cop guarding Norman Bates in this 1960 film. * Psycho. * 4: Suzanne Pleshette is found pecked to death in this 1963 classic. * The Birds. * 5: Diane Ladd knows this actor, her ex-husband, appeared as a sailor in "Marnie". * Bruce Dern.

Round 2. Category: Tv Blondes * 1: On this sitcom Lara Piper plays Viki, the new blonde student in the IHP. * Head of the Class. * 2: She was the third actress to play Chris Cagney, but she played the role the longest. * Sharon Gless. * 3: On this show Bud might say anywhere his blonde sister Kelly sits is an easy chair. * Married... with Children. * 4: As Jamie, young blonde Nicole Eggert has Scott Baio governing her life on this sitcom. * Charles In Charge. * 5: "Crocodile" Dundee's favorite girl, she played a ruthless press aide in "Favorite Son". * Linda Kozlowski.

Round 3. Category: Dumb Down The Simile * 1: Robust as a violin. * fit as a fiddle. * 2: Weightless as a plume. * light as a feather. * 3: Adorable as a blouse fastener. * cute as a button. * 4: As horizontal and thin as a crepe. * flat as a pancake. * 5: Abstemious as an adjudicator. * sober as a judge.

Round 4. Category: Celebrity Alma Maters * 1: She dropped out of Sarah Lawrence College in 1957 and married John Lennon in 1969. * Yoko Ono. * 2: This "ramblin' kind of guy" pulled straight A's in philosophy at Long Beach State. * Steve Martin. * 3: His wife Jane, who he met at the U. of MD., was his 1st partner in puppetry, or shall we say muppetry. * Jim Henson. * 4: Child star who appeared in her 1st film in 1972 and graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 1985. * Jodie Foster. * 5: In 1903 future president F. Roosevelt was elected editor of this school paper at Harvard. * "The Crimson".

Round 5. Category: Head North * 1: Nevada's northern border is shared with these 2 states. * Idaho and Oregon. * 2: Nebraska is north of Kansas and directly south of this state. * South Dakota. * 3: All of Connecticut's almost 100-mile northern border is with this state. * Massachusetts. * 4: They're the 2 states you could be entering is you're crossing Florida's northern border. * Georgia and Alabama. * 5: Part of Tennessee's northern border is with Missouri and Virginia, but the longest section is with this state. * Kentucky.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 487, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Temptations * 1: This potato chip brand changed its slogan from "Betcha Can't Eat Just One" to "Too Good to Eat Just One". * Lay's. * 2: These Nabisco sandwich cookies are 29% creme and 71% cookie; 7.5 billion are eaten annually. * Oreos. * 3: Cherry Garcia and Phish Food are 2 of this ice cream duo's most popular flavors. * Ben and Jerry's. * 4: The top-selling Girl Scout cookies are these refreshing and crisp cocoa wafers. * Thin Mints. * 5: "Nobody Doesn't Like" her cheesecake; her bakery is No. 1 in frozen baked goods. * Sara Lee.

Round 2. Category: Fandemonium * 1: Many Deadheads' lives revolved around the live concerts performed by this band. * Grateful Dead. * 2: Jack Nicholson is a courtside fixture at this NBA team's home games. * Los Angeles Lakers. * 3: Fans of this high-flying sport involving lots of string may know it's Thailand's most popular. * Kite flying. * 4: Male fans of this football team's "Hogs" dress as women and are called "Hogettes". * Washington Redskins. * 5: The band Simply Red took their name in part from their love of this northern English soccer team. * Manchester United.

Round 3. Category: Thomas Paine * 1: With letters of introduction from Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine arrived in this city on Nov. 30, 1774. * Philadelphia. * 2: Paine said "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even its best state, is but a necessary" this. * evil. * 3: It was published on Jan. 10, 1776 as an anonymous 2-shilling pamphlet of 47 pages. * Common Sense. * 4: This seasonal warrior "and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country". * the summer soldier. * 5: The title of this 1791 pamphlet referred to liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression. * The Rights of Man.

Round 4. Category: Nixon's The One * 1: In this year, Nixon faced off against JFK in the first presidential debates ever. * 1960. * 2: Herbert Hoover and Nixon were the only 2 presidents of this religious group. * Quakers. * 3: It was Richard Nixon's mother's maiden name. * Milhous. * 4: These 2 men served under Nixon as vice president. * Gerald Ford and Spiro Agnew. * 5: This daughter of Nixon married Edward Cox at the White House in 1971. * Tricia.

Round 5. Category: Financial Planning * 1: A type of bank account, or the accumulated simoleons you've put aside. * a savings. * 2: With a 529 plan, you can give up to $270,000 to a beneficiary for this purpose. * a college education. * 3: These U.S. Government securities whose term is 30 years are risk free, but they also pay the least interest. * treasury bonds (savings bonds accepted). * 4: Sounds like an auto mishap, but it's a type of IRA whose funds come from another retirement plan. * rollover. * 5: Also called a unit trust, it's an entity that invests the money of a pool of people in various securities. * a mutual fund.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 486, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Whip"S And "Chain"S * 1: It's a series of positions in which each one has direct authority over the one immediately below. * Chain of command. * 2: It's Nevada Democrat Harry Reid's position in the Senate. * Minority Whip. * 3: This North American bird is named for its odd call, which it may repeat several hundred times without stopping. * Whippoorwill. * 4: Tool preferred by Leatherface in a 1974 horror classic. * Chain saw. * 5: "A Sandwich Just Isn't A Sandwich Without" the "tangy zip" of this Kraft salad dressing. * Miracle Whip.

Round 2. Category: Castles * 1: Now a national monument, the Alhambra in this European country was begun by Moorish rulers around 1238. * Spain. * 2: Do this at Blarney Castle and you'll receive a lovely parting gift -- the gift of gab. * Kiss the Blarney stone. * 3: This English castle, badly damaged by fire in November 1992, reopened to the public in December 1997. * Windsor Castle. * 4: You can see the royal crown of Scotland in a castle in this Scottish city, but you can't try it on. * Edinburgh. * 5: Neuschwanstein Castle, often described as a magical setting, is found in this country. * Germany.

Round 3. Category: Games * 1: Spelling game where player who adds a letter that completes a word becomes a fraction of this. * Ghost. * 2: In some versions of this game a crowned piece becomes a "queen", not a king. * Checkers. * 3: When you're playing this board game trademarked in 1948, you'll draw up to 7 letter tiles. * Scrabble. * 4: In gin rummy, a hand ends when one player calls "Gin" or does this. * Knock. * 5: In 1931 architect Alfred M. Butts developed this board- and -tile game, calling it Crisscrosswords. * Scrabble.

Round 4. Category: Haulin' "Oat"S * 1: A German submarine. * U-boat. * 2: It contains the pharynx and the larynx. * Throat. * 3: To move slowly and lightly through the air. * Float. * 4: To become swollen or inflated. * Bloat. * 5: AKA an ermine. * Stoat.

Round 5. Category: The Weasel Family * 1: This mammal, Mustela vison, has been raised on ranches at least since WWI because of its valuable pelt. * mink. * 2: This critter that lives in the North Pacific Ocean often sleeps in masses of floating kelp. * sea otter. * 3: Ironically, this creature had been unseen in Michigan for 200 years until one was photographed in 2004. * wolverine. * 4: It's also called foul marten due to its odor, but it probably prefers this partly feline name. * polecat. * 5: As a verb its name means "to drive out" or "uncover"; it's used in Europe to drive rats out of tunnels. * ferret.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 485, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Comic Strips * 1: Jim Davis named this cat after his grandfather, not the 20th president. * Garfield. * 2: Aaugh! This comic strip character was torn between a summer camp flame named Peggy Jean and the little red-haired girl. * Charlie Brown. * 3: John Steinbeck wrote the preface of a book about this Al Capp character. * Li'l Abner. * 4: Aaugh! This comic strip character was torn between a summer camp flame named Peggy Jean and the little red-haired girl. * Charlie Brown. * 5: On December 8, 1980 Berkeley Breathed began his magnum opus with the debut of this strip. * Bloom County.

Round 2. Category: Six Million-Dollar Men * 1: In 1939 he and Bill Hewlett started a business in his garage with $538. * (David) Packard. * 2: John N., of this R.I. university-endowing family, was known as "The World's Richest Baby" when his uncle died in 1900. * the Brown family. * 3: He moved into Las Vegas' Desert Inn in 1966 and bought the whole hotel a short time later. * Howard Hughes. * 4: Kemmons Wilson had already made a pile with his jukebox franchise when he founded this "festive" family hotel chain. * Holiday Inn. * 5: Decorated with marble brought from India, the London home of tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has this punning name. * the Taj Mittal.

Round 3. Category: Goin' Monaco A Monaco * 1: A 1918 treaty said if the royal family produced no male heirs, Monaco would come under this country's rule. * France. * 2: Of roughly 1, 5 or 10 square miles, it's the country's area. * 1. * 3: Rich foreigners like to make Monaco home as it doesn't have this, begun in the U.S. in 1913 via the 16th Amendment. * an income tax. * 4: Citizens of Monaco are not admitted to the casino founded in 1856 in this district. * Monte Carlo. * 5: Taking bodyguarding to a new level, 2 of this royal's protectors have fathered her 3 kids. * Princess Stephanie.

Round 4. Category: Movie Title Translations * 1: In Malaysia Tom Hanks was the "Boy Wearing Man's Body" for this film. * Big. * 2: In France, this unforgettable Adam Sandler film became "Love and Amnesia". * 50 First Dates. * 3: This Oscar-winning film set in Somalia became "Helicopter on Fire" in Poland. * Black Hawk Down. * 4: The censorship board in Malaysia damned this Ron Perlman film with the title "Super Sapiens". * Hellboy. * 5: Translating this title, the Czech Republic thought Eddie Murphy was in charge of a "Crazy Kindergarten". * Daddy Day Care.

Round 5. Category: Tv Shows On Tv Shows * 1: (Hi. I'm Debbe Dunning.) It's the name of the home improvement show that's featured on "Home Improvement". * Tool Time. * 2: Like "Meet the Press", Murphy Brown's fictional news show "F.Y.I." tapes in this city. * Washington, D.C.. * 3: This "Simpsons" TV clown has worked with Sideshow Bob, Sideshow Mel and Sideshow Luke Perry. * Krusty the Klown. * 4: He plays talk show host Larry Sanders on HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show". * Garry Shandling. * 5: The TV producer he plays on "The Tom Show" was dumped by Shannon Tweed, not Roseanne. * Tom Arnold.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 484, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I Know That Name * 1: The term "czar" came from the family name of this Roman, stabbed by Brutus and others in 44 B.C.. * Julius Caesar. * 2: Charles Lindbergh made all the papers in May 1927 when he flew solo over this ocean. * Atlantic Ocean. * 3: Hindu leader Mohandas Gandhi fought without the use of violence for this country's independence. * India. * 4: Over 2 million blocks went into building Khufu's Great one of these, and we're not talking Lego!. * pyramid. * 5: Montezuma II's reign over this civilization lasted 18 years. * the Aztecs.

Round 2. Category: Tournament * 1: Tournament, as well as this 5-letter word, can be used to describe mounted combat between medieval knights. * joust. * 2: Geoffroi de Purelli wrote the first knights' tournament guidelines in this Norman Invasion year. * 1066. * 3: Sir Lionel is killed during a tournament in this musical but is later miraculously revived. * Camelot. * 4: From Old French for "to mix", this no-holds-barred medieval group combat contest was basically mob against mob. * a mêlée. * 5: Celebrated until the 17th c., the last knights' tournaments to survive involved "running at" these to spear them. * rings.

Round 3. Category: National Spelling Bee * 1: This small racing sled has the distinction of being the National Spelling Bee's shortest winning word. * L-U-G-E. * 2: Now that you've got the hang of it, 1932's word was this, like the group that sang "My Sharona". * K-N-A-C-K. * 3: Put the bite on this word from 1975, any one of the front cutting teeth. * I-N-C-I-S-O-R. * 4: 1970's winning word was this French crescent-shaped roll. * C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T. * 5: A suicide pilot during WWII, it was 1993's winning word. * K-A-M-I-K-A-Z-E.

Round 4. Category: What A Gem! * 1: Chrysoberyl is also known by this name because it resembles the pupil of a feline. * cat's eye. * 2: Emeralds owe their beautiful green color to tiny amounts of this element, Cr, in their crystals. * chromium. * 3: The name of this ornamental stone is a combination of Latin and Persian for "azure stone". * lapis lazuli. * 4: This purple gem is associated with St. Matthias, who replaced Judas Iscariot as one of Jesus' apostles. * amethyst. * 5: This organic gem is a soft, dark brown to black piece of fossilized wood. * jet.

Round 5. Category: The Majestic Eagle * 1: Hogamous higamous, ostrich are polygamous; higamous hogamous, eagles are this. * monogamous. * 2: The bird's sharp binocular vision gave us this expression for someone with keen sight or alertness. * "eagle-eyed". * 3: The Latin rapere, "to carry off", gave us this 6-letter term for birds of prey, and for a type of dinosaur. * raptor. * 4: The Bald Eagle is the USA's symbol while this other North American type has been called the king of birds. * the Golden Eagle. * 5: Term for an eagle's nest, often found high in a tall tree. * an aerie.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 483, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Henry * 1: Nominated for 18 Oscars, one of his first jobs was composing music for an Abbott and Costello movie. * Mancini. * 2: In 1957 he produced and starred in the landmark drama "12 Angry Men". * Henry Fonda. * 3: Flowery poems by Henry Gibson were often featured on this wacky 1960s sketch-comedy show. * Laugh-In. * 4: King Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn's head chopped off so he could take up with this lady-in-waiting, his next wife. * Jane Seymour. * 5: Henry Pu Yi's last years as the ruler of China were the basis of this 1987 film. * The Last Emperor.

Round 2. Category: "Blue" Movies * 1: 1980 film in which 2 shipwrecked kids grow up to be Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins. * "The Blue Lagoon". * 2: The dark side of sunny suburbia comes to the surface for Kyle MacLachlan in this kinky 1986 film. * Blue Velvet. * 3: In this 1930 film Marlene Dietrich played Lola-Lola, a sultry cabaret singer. * "The Blue Angel". * 4: George Gershwin's songs were featured in this 1945 biographical film. * "Rhapsody In Blue". * 5: Isabella Rossellini sang the title song, an old Bobby Vinton hit, in this 1986 film. * "Blue Velvet".

Round 3. Category: Hello, Newman * 1: Paul Newman's character kicks western outlaw Harvey Logan where it really hurts in this 1969 classic. * Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. * 2: Told he was sexier than this "Top Gun" star, Newman quipped, "I'm lucky to have a pulse". * Tom Cruise. * 3: Newman's movie debut, "The Silver" this, also features Lorne Greene as St. Peter. * The Silver Chalice. * 4: Paul won an Oscar for this 1986 film in which he reprised his role of Fast Eddie Felsen. * The Color of Money. * 5: Try to spot Bruce Willis as a courtroom extra in this 1982 Newman film about an alcoholic lawyer. * The Verdict.

Round 4. Category: Colombia * 1: Unable to conclude a treaty with Colombia in 1903, the U.S. helped this country secede and made one with it. * Panama. * 2: Lying in a basin high in the Andes, it's Colombia's largest city. * Bogota. * 3: The Putomayo, a branch of this river, forms much of Colombia's border with Peru. * the Amazon. * 4: Colombia's coat of arms was adopted in 1834 and features this vulture perched on top. * the Andean Condor. * 5: In 1982 this Colombian who led Latin America's literary boom of the '60s won the Nobel Prize for Literature. * García Márquez.

Round 5. Category: Veggies * 1: The name of this dark green, elongated squash is from the Italian for "gourd". * Zucchini. * 2: This red-stalked vegetable is also called a pieplant because it's often used as a pie filling. * Rhubarb. * 3: Some researchers believe a half head of this cole slaw vegetable a day can prevent certain forms of cancer. * Cabbage. * 4: The name of this immature onion is from Ascalon, a port in Palestine. * Scallion. * 5: You'll often see a red variety of this vegetable used as a garnish and carved into "roses". * Radish.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 482, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Take A Wok On The Wild Side * 1: A crunchy treat commonly found in a Beijing vendor's stall is this arachnid and sign of the zodiac, skewered. * the scorpion. * 2: The feet are a prized delicacy from this bird that in China symbolizes the mythical phoenix. * the chicken. * 3: Despite their name, these pungent Chinese eggs are preserved in lime, ash and salt underground for about 100 days. * hundred-year-old eggs (or thousand-year-old eggs). * 4: After they've done their time spinning fine fiber, fry up some of these moth larvae for a Chinese midnight snack. * silkworms. * 5: If you're really hungry, stir fry some vegetables and buttered meat from this high Himalayan bovine. * a yak.

Round 2. Category: Like Show Business * 1: In the '70s Jon Landau wrote he saw rock and roll's future and its name was this Jersey guy; guess he was right. * (Bruce) Springsteen. * 2: 1930's "Anna Christie" was advertised with the line "Garbo" does this. * talks. * 3: Opening at No. 1 at the box office in 2004, a prequel to this 1973 horror flick really "turned some heads". * The Exorcist. * 4: Imitation gruel and "Non-Toxic Kologne" are endorsed by this "Simpsons" "k"lown. * Krusty. * 5: In 1992 Rene Echevarria wrote the classic "I, Borg" episode of this Patrick Stewart series. * Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Round 3. Category: Gospel Truth * 1: Mark 10 says a man shall "cleave to" this person "...so they are no more twain, but one flesh". * his wife. * 2: While eating at the Pharisee's house, Jesus had these washed, wiped with hair, then anointed with ointment. * His feet. * 3: He'd been dead 4 days before Jesus raised him back to life. * Lazarus. * 4: Call Greenpeace! In Matthew 4 Peter and Andrew left these in the sea when Jesus called them. * their nets. * 5: In Mark 1 Jesus "healed many that were sick... and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to" do this. * speak.

Round 4. Category: Bird Verbs * 1: Pass food or drink through the mouth and throat. * swallow. * 2: One who peddles goods by yelling out to potential customers is said to do this. * hawk. * 3: A long-necked wading bird gave us this verb meaning to stretch one's neck for a better view. * crane. * 4: Figuratively, to prod someone into action. * goose. * 5: Flutter, as in a candle. * flicker.

Round 5. Category: Giant * 1: The giant ones of these mammals live in the bamboo forests of China. * pandas. * 2: Completes Neil Armstrong's July 20,1969 statement "That's one small step for man...". * one giant leap for mankind. * 3: Giant tortoises and marine iguanas were featured in an IMAX film about these islands that Darwin visited in 1835. * the Galapagos Islands. * 4: The giant type of this seaweed, a form of leafy brown algae, can be 200 feet long. * kelp. * 5: In Greek mythology, this group of primeval gigantic beings includes Cronus and Rhea. * the Titans.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 481, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Familiar Phrases In Other Words * 1: Entomb a tomahawk. * bury the hatchet. * 2: One Panthera pardus will never be able to modify the markings he has. * a leopard can't change his spots. * 3: To flip within one's crypt. * to turn over in one's grave. * 4: Cinch up thy mid-body drawstring. * tighten your belt. * 5: Refrain from enumerating poultry until each is postnatal. * don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

Round 2. Category: Last Wills And Testaments * 1: This "commodore" willed $90 million to his son William, $7.5 million to his 4 grandsons, and to his 8 daughters... well, not as much. * (Cornelius) Vanderbilt. * 2: After his 1616 death, his will stipulated that his "second best bed" go to his wife, Anne, which does beg a question.... * Shakespeare. * 3: Item 6 in his will:"I give... unto my wife, Zelda... in the event she regain her sanity all of my household and kitchen furniture". * F. Scott Fitzgerald. * 4: This Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986 left a self-written 176-word will with no provisions for estate taxes; oops. * Warren Burger. * 5: His will called for a "secret society" to take back the U.S. for Britain (his "scholarship" gets much more press). * (Cecil) Rhodes.

Round 3. Category: Nfl Coaches * 1: He won 112 games as coach of the Raiders and has since won over a dozen Emmys for his football commentating. * John Madden. * 2: (Hi, I'm Joey Galloway of the NFL) Since the beginnings in 1960, the Dallas Cowboys have had only 6 coaches, including this man for 29 years. * Tom Landry. * 3: In 2004 LSU coach Nick Saban was tapped to be the new head coach for this team. * the Miami Dolphins. * 4: Of current head coaches, this reigning Super Bowl champ has the longest consecutive tenure with 1 team. * Bill Cowher. * 5: The Raiders rehired this man in 2006, 17 years after making him the first black head coach in the modern NFL. * Art Shell.

Round 4. Category: Battles * 1: In the 490 B.C. battle of this plain, the Greeks ran up their first important victory over the Persians. * Marathon. * 2: The defeat of this city's invasion force at Syracuse in 413 B.C. was the beginning of its end and the start of Sparta's rise. * Athens. * 3: This foolhardy "charge" took place at 1854's Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War. * the Charge of the Light Brigade. * 4: England's King Harold II lost the all-important Battle of Hastings in this year. * 1066. * 5: "2 ships, 2 brigs, 1 schooner and 1 sloop" were the fleet defeated in this battle in the War of 1812. * the Battle of Lake Erie.

Round 5. Category: Latin American History * 1: In 1502, on his fourth voyage, he landed at what is now Trujillo, Honduras. * Columbus. * 2: In 1889 this country became a republic when Pedro II gave up his throne. * Brazil. * 3: In 1970 he became the first democratically elected Marxist to head a nation in the Western Hemisphere. * Salvador Allende. * 4: General Alfredo Stroessner ruled this South American country with an iron hand for 35 years, 1954-1989. * Paraguay. * 5: In 1519, when Cortes entered the capital then called this, many believed he was a god. * Tenochtitlán.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 480, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Who's The Man * 1: Spartacus. * Kirk Douglas. * 2: Patch Adams. * Robin Williams. * 3: Texas Ranger J.J. McQuade. * Chuck Norris. * 4: Lieutenant Frank Drebin. * Leslie Nielsen. * 5: Sergeant Tom Sharky. * Burt Reynolds.

Round 2. Category: Dead, Conscious Or In Between * 1: "Braveheart":William Wallace. * dead. * 2: "Casablanca":Victor Laszlo. * conscious. * 3: "The Empire Strikes Back":Han Solo. * in between. * 4: "The Matrix Reloaded":Neo. * in between. * 5: "American Beauty":Lester Burnham. * dead.

Round 3. Category: An "F" In History * 1: The Third Republic was this nation's government from 1870 to 1940. * France. * 2: A group of these gold seekers reached San Francisco on the steamer California 13 months after gold was found. * the Forty-Niners. * 3: John Glenn's capsule on his famous 1962 flight was called this, which an old saying called the "best ship". * Friendship. * 4: In 2000 Tarja Halonen became the first female president of this nation. * Finland. * 5: From 1788 to 1790 Russia and Sweden fought over this country. * Finland.

Round 4. Category: It Happened In '99 * 1: On July 15, 1099 this city fell to the Crusaders. * Jerusalem. * 2: In 1799 he overthrew the Directory and became first consul. * Napoleon. * 3: This famous theatre was built in London's Bankside in 1599. * Globe Theatre. * 4: 1499's Peace of Basel helped lead to the independence of the cantons that became this modern nation. * Switzerland. * 5: Construction of the world-famous Palazzo Vecchio began in 1299 in this Italian city. * Florence.

Round 5. Category: Military Astrology * 1: Cancerians might feel like marching sideways because Cancer is the sign of this animal. * crab. * 2: General Patton had a "stinging" slap, so you can figure out that this was his sign. * Scorpio. * 3: Harsh criticism is characteristic of this "chaste" sign (Hmm...maybe your drill sergeant was born under it). * Virgo. * 4: Admiral George Dewey was born under this sign, but we bet no one dared call him an "old goat". * Capricorn. * 5: Purple is a harmonious color for this "centaur" sign, so a purple uniform would look great on you. * Sagittarius.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 479, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Around The Horn * 1: The southernmost point in South America, Cape Horn is part of this country. * Chile. * 2: SE of Cape Horn is the "South" version of this Scottish island group that shares its name with dogs and ponies. * the Shetlands. * 3: This strait that separates the Pacific and Atlantic oceans is named for a Portuguese guy. * Magellan. * 4: Cape Horn is the southern extremity of this fiery archipelago. * Tierra del Fuego. * 5: The largest desert in the Americas is in this Argentinean region visited by Darwin on his Beagle trips. * Patagonia.

Round 2. Category: Singing The "Blue"S * 1: According to Elton John, "Baby's got" these. * Blue eyes. * 2: Before Elvis sang this song in a 1961 movie, Bing sang it in 1937's "Waikiki Wedding". * Blue Hawaii. * 3: Back in 1984, David Bowie had just met a girl named this. * Blue Jean. * 4: In 1977 Linda Ronstadt had a hit with this Roy Orbison tune. * Blue Bayou. * 5: In a song from the '20s, "Just Mollie and me, and baby makes three, we're happy in" this place. * My Blue Heaven.

Round 3. Category: The Crusades * 1: At the Council of Clermont in 1095 Urban II proclaimed the 1st Crusade against this group of infidels. * Saracens//Muslims. * 2: The deadly rivals of the Hospitalers, these knights lent their name to a fictional "saint". * Knights Templar. * 3: Leading the third Crusade, this English king captured Cyprus. * Richard the Lionhearted. * 4: During the third Crusade, Saladin, sultan of Egypt and Syria, made this Syrian city his headquarters. * Damascus. * 5: Walter the Penniless and this Peter led early groups of poor peasants into the fray. * Peter the Hermit.

Round 4. Category: Canadian Songbirds * 1: In December 2007 this chanteuse gave her last performance of the Vegas spectacular "A New Day". * Celine Dion. * 2: This singer from Halifax, Nova Scotia had hits with "Adia" and "Sweet Surrender". * Sarah McLachlan. * 3: She must be a Keith Jackson fan, as she titled one of her albums "Whoa, Nelly!". * Nelly Furtado. * 4: She put her initials on duets of "Crying" with Roy Orbison and "What A Wonderful World" with Tony Bennett. * k.d. lang. * 5: Leslie is the first name of this "1234" singer who was a dancer at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. * Feist.

Round 5. Category: Gopher The Gusto * 1: Genesis 6 says it was made out of gopher wood and was 300 cubits long. * the ark. * 2: Bill Murray fights troublesome golf course gophers in this comedy classic. * Caddyshack. * 3: It's where the small rodent known as a pocket gopher has its pockets. * its cheeks. * 4: Gopher is a document delivery system to retrieve information from this system that dates back to the 1960s. * the Internet. * 5: Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street" takes place in Gopher Prairie in this state. * Minnesota.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 478, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Toon Up * 1: In the 1944 Warner Bros. cartoon "Birdy and the Beast", it was the birdy. * Tweety. * 2: Zoinks! This TV cartoon dog celebrated his 35th anniversary in 2004 (that's his 245th in dog years). * Scooby-Doo. * 3: Jean Vander Pyl was the voice of Rosie the Robot maid on this futuristic cartoon series. * The Jetsons. * 4: Originally, Nickelodeon aired episodes of this Wallaby's "Modern Life". * Rocko. * 5: Hey, mama! This smooth-talkin', biceps-bulgin', self-obessin' guy premiered on the Cartoon Network in '97. * Johnny Bravo.

Round 2. 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 spicy cuisine. * Szechuan. * 4: Native to the Yangtze river valley, this fruit is also known as a Chinese gooseberry. * a kiwi. * 5: This dam, one of the world's largest when completed, is being built on the Yangtze to control flooding. * the Three Gorges Dam.

Round 3. Category: Hoods * 1: She remarked on her "Grandmother's" tooth size. * Little Red Riding Hood. * 2: The English name of this hooded snake is from Portuguese for "snake with a hood". * Cobra. * 3: According to his TV theme, he's "feared by the bad, loved by the good". * Robin Hood. * 4: It's the British term for the hood of a car; hopefully there are no bees in it. * Bonnet. * 5: Hoodman blind is another name for this game. * Blind Man's Bluff.

Round 4. Category: Let's Put On An Opera! * 1: We hope our tardy cellists show up for this instrumental prelude to the opera. * Overture. * 2: We'll let Uncle Charlie be a "carrier" of one of these in the battle scene. * Spear carrier. * 3: Let's move the duel upstage so no one falls onto the musicians in this area. * Orchestra pit. * 4: We've got basses, we've got tenors, but we can't find one of these like the guy on the CD[audio clip]. * Baritone. * 5: From dealing with Betsy, I know why this 2-word Italian term can mean a diva or a real pain. * Prima donna.

Round 5. Category: Classic Pop Groups * 1: When this group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Mike Love gave the acceptance speech. * The Beach Boys. * 2: In 1963, with "Walk Like a Man", this group became the first to score 3 straight No. 1 singles in the U.S.. * The Four Seasons. * 3: After Smokey Robinson left this group, they had a No. 1 hit in 1975 with "Love Machine (Part 1)". * The Miracles. * 4: This girl group followed up their No. 1 hit "Please Mr. Postman" with "Twistin' Postman". * The Marvelettes. * 5: "Nights In White Satin" appeared on their 1968 LP "Days of Future Passed" 4 years before the reissue hit the Top 10. * The Moody Blues.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 477, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lost In Laos * 1: In the 14th C. Laos was united into the kingdom Lan Xang, the "land of a million" of these large animals. * elephants. * 2: Much of Laotian social life centers on the festivals and holidays of this religion. * Buddhism. * 3: This country made Laos a protectorate in the late 1800s and ruled it for over 50 years as part of Indochina. * France. * 4: During the Vietnam War, North Vietnam used this famous trail through Laos to move supplies to the south. * Ho Chi Minh Trail. * 5: This river and its tributaries are the chief means of transportation in Laos. * Mekong.

Round 2. Category: State Songs * 1: "They say home is where the heart is, these green mountains are my home". * Vermont. * 2: In this Connecticut state song with a 2-word title, "Macaroni" refers to Londoners in fancy clothes. * "Yankee Doodle". * 3: Bet you a buckeye knows that his state song is "Beautiful" this. * Ohio. * 4: "Grand old badger state!". * Wisconsin. * 5: "Oh the moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash". * Indiana.

Round 3. Category: "Ta" Ta For Now * 1: Bernie Moeller of Pennsylvania has had his skin covered with over 14,000 of these. * tattoos. * 2: Head to Agra, India to see this famous marble mausoleum completed around 1643. * the Taj Mahal. * 3: (Hi. I'm Hal Sparks.) This former E! entertainment channel TV show helped further the careers of me, John Henson and Greg Kinnear. * Talk Soup. * 4: This Asian country's capital city is Dushanbe. * Tajikistan. * 5: "Saucy" name for the crusty areas on your teeth made from mineral salts reacting with plaque and saliva. * tartar.

Round 4. Category: Top 40 Last Names * 1: Paul, Tyrone, Mac, Spencer, Skeeter. * Davis. * 2: Jude, Cozy, Natalie, Paula. * Cole. * 3: Dave, Roy, Petula. * Clark. * 4: Raspy singer Bonnie, rowdy singer Steven. * Tyler. * 5: Bootsy. * Collins.

Round 5. Category: Santa Claus * 1: Part of Lapland north of the Arctic Circle has been proclaimed "Santa Claus Land" in this country. * Finland. * 2: In this song, Santa Claus is "making a list and checking it twice; gonna find out who's naughty and nice". * "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town". * 3: For Belgian children, Santa Claus comes from Spain by boat on the night of Dec. 5 and leaves gifts in these. * their shoes. * 4: The mythology of Santa Claus came to the Americas with this ethnic group as "Sinter Klaas" in the 17th century. * the Dutch. * 5: 2-word name that British children use for Santa; J.R.R. Tolkien wrote his kids a series of "Letters" from him. * Father Christmas.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 476, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Do You Smell Something? * 1: This distinctive aroma of a wine can also mean a group of cut flowers. * Bouquet. * 2: Often a "Jeopardy!" category, it's a fragrant mixture of dried flower petals and spices. * Potpourri. * 3: A strong, earthy smell, or the type of music George Clinton plays. * Funk. * 4: 3-word French term for perfumed bath water. * Eau de toilette. * 5: From the old French for "small bag", it's a small bag of powder used for scenting clothes or linens. * Sachet.

Round 2. Category: Earls * 1: Earl Browder, author of "Marx And America", was general secretary of this U.S. party from 1930 to 1944. * Communist Party. * 2: By the time he died in 1992, his "Any Car, Any Color" offer had risen from $29.95 to $119.95. * Earl Scheib. * 3: He narrated, no doubt resonantly, the 1972 documentary "Malcolm X". * James Earl Jones. * 4: This future chief justice was Dewey's running mate when he didn't defeat Truman. * Earl Warren. * 5: "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" wasn't recorded by Flatt and Sharp but by Flatt and him. * Earl Scruggs.

Round 3. Category: Beastly Geography * 1: Cities in this nation include Iskenderun, Islahiye and Istanbul. * Turkey. * 2: By population, it's the second-largest city in New York. * Buffalo. * 3: In 1903 Wilbur and Orville flew to new heights near this city. * Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. * 4: Saddle up! These high pressure belts are located on either side of the Doldrums. * Horse Latitudes. * 5: These Spanish islands were named for a breed of large dog Romans found there, not a yellow songbird. * Canary Islands.

Round 4. Category: Japan's Next Top Model * 1: The MX-5. * Mazda. * 2: The Sienna. * Toyota. * 3: The Ridgeline. * Honda. * 4: The Murano. * Nissan. * 5: The Grand Vitara. * Suzuki.

Round 5. Category: Soap * 1: Company that's America's biggest soapmaker. * Procter and Gamble. * 2: Some toilet soaps contain surfacants to prevent formation of this when you use it. * bathtub rings or scum. * 3: Now you can be glad you used this brand's liquid or mountain fresh versions too. * Dial. * 4: Lever Brothers brand whose name is Latin for "light". * Lux. * 5: It calls itself "the body bar with bath oil". * Caress.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 475, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Rolling "Stone" * 1: Characterized by the use of primitive tools, it's the earliest known period of human culture. * Stone Age. * 2: Menippe mercenaria, this large edible crustacean, is found widely along the U.S. Atlantic coast. * Stone crab. * 3: In other words, a short distance away. * Stone's throw. * 4: This large granite memorial near Atlanta was dedicated in 1970. * Stone Mountain. * 5: Edward I brought this Scottish coronation fixture to England in 1296. * Stone of Scone (Stone of Destiny).

Round 2. Category: Internet History * 1: It's believed that in 1994 WXYC in Chapel Hill in this state became the 1st radio station to webcast. * North Carolina. * 2: On May 3, 1978 Gary Thuerk sent the first of this irritating type of communication to 600 users. * spam. * 3: Hacker Robert Morris' 1988 program with the name of this slithery creature crashed a tenth of the Internet. * worm. * 4: The first search engine had this comic book name; the original "Archives" was too long of a filename. * Archie. * 5: The 411 is that this 4-letter domain name went live in late 2001. * info.

Round 3. Category: Fruits And Vegetables * 1: This Italian summer squash is also called a small marrow. * zucchini. * 2: It's said that Christopher Columbus introduced this "cool" veggie to the New World. * Cucumber. * 3: The plantain member of this fruit family, musaceae, is also called Adam's fig. * Banana. * 4: For cooking, popular ones of these include the Gravenstein and the Greening. * apples. * 5: To improve his singing voice, the emperor Nero ate large quantities of this mild onion relative and symbol of Wales. * leek.

Round 4. Category: Spelling Casts * 1: Tori Spelling,Shannen Doherty,Jason Priestley. * Beverly Hills, 90210. * 2: Andrew Shue,Thomas Calabro,Heather Locklear. * Melrose Place. * 3: Catherine Hicks,Jessica Biel,Stephen Collins. * 7th Heaven. * 4: John Forsythe,Heather Locklear,Joan Collins. * Dynasty. * 5: John Forsythe,David Doyle,Kate Jackson. * Charlie's Angels.

Round 5. Category: It's A "Dog"S Life * 1: Aerial combat between planes. * dogfight. * 2: To be here is to be in great disfavor or trouble. * the doghouse. * 3: A swimming stroke often used by beginners. * dog paddle. * 4: Someone expected to lose a contest or struggle. * underdog. * 5: Crudely fashioned verse, often of a humorous nature. * doggerel.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 474, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Barcelona * 1: (Hello, I'm Jay Leno) In this year, Barcelona hosted the Olympics and I became the permanent host of "The Tonight Show". * 1992. * 2: On Sundays, in front of the Gothic Cathedral, people perform the Sardana, one of these. * Dance. * 3: A statue of this explorer points to the sea from atop a 167' column near Barcelona's harbor. * Christopher Columbus. * 4: The women of Barcelona's Carrer Avinyo inspired this cubist's "Les Demoiselles D'Avignon". * Pablo Picasso. * 5: Once suppressed under Franco, this native language is again widely used in Barcelona. * Catalan/Catalonian.

Round 2. Category: Thriller * 1: This author's techno-thriller "Rainbow Six" focuses on John Clark, also a hero in "Clear and Present Danger". * Tom Clancy. * 2: This author made a University of Virginia law professor the protagonist of his 2002 novel "The Summons". * (John) Grisham. * 3: You were born to identify this author of "The Bourne Identity". * (Robert) Ludlum. * 4: "The Numa Files" are paperback spin-offs of this writer's novels featuring Dirk Pitt. * Clive Cussler. * 5: "The Attorney" Paul Madriani appears in several legal thrillers by this lawyer-turned-author. * Steve Martini.

Round 3. Category: About "Face" * 1: Cosmetic surgery to pull the skin back and up to remove wrinkles. * facelift. * 2: The worth of a stamp or coin stated on it. * face value. * 3: Maintaining one's reputation. * saving/keeping face. * 4: To deal with a pressing problem directly, or the name of a 1980 TV game show similar to "Name That Tune". * Face the Music. * 5: Andy Griffith starred as a bumpkin turned TV star in this 1957 movie drama penned by Budd Schulberg. * A Face in the Crowd.

Round 4. Category: Rx Marks The Spot * 1: The stimulant methylphenidate, used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is known by this trade name. * Ritalin. * 2: "Oxy" for short, this painkiller has been widely abused in poor rural areas in the U.S.. * Oxycontin. * 3: Also known as Alprazolam, you could say it is an "X" factor in anti-anxiety drugs. * Xanax. * 4: A compound of this lightest metal is used to treat bipolar disorder. * lithium. * 5: "Triazolam Days" just didn't sound quite right; maybe that's why the sleeping drug is known as this. * Halcion.

Round 5. Category: Parents Are People Too * 1: Also a home for hummingbirds, it becomes "empty" when the last child leaves home. * Nest. * 2: It's what a lonely dad may want to be to you, or the name of the one on the left(President Clinton's dog). * Buddy. * 3: At least this restriction dad put on you isn't a dusk-to-dawn one, as in Warri, Nigeria. * Curfew. * 4: If you get one of these in your nose or navel, parents may let out the same kind of "shriek". * Piercing. * 5: This term for a right that divorcing parents may fight over comes from Latin for "guardian". * Custody.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 473, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: That's The Spot * 1: This stickier version of "Jurassic Park" is at 5801 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. * La Brea Tar Pits. * 2: This patriot of few regrets was hanged in 1776 on what is now 66th and 3rd in New York City. * Nathan Hale. * 3: In 1993 Joe Carter hit a World Series-winning home run at 1 Blue Jays Way in this city. * Toronto. * 4: At 110 stories, see the taller side of Sears at 233 S. Wacker Dr, in this city. * Chicago. * 5: A sign that says "Get In Here" greets you at the Fog City Diner, located at 1300 Battery St. in this U.S. city. * San Francisco.

Round 2. Category: Robin * 1: He's starred in 2 "Good" movies: "Good Morning, Vietnam" and "Good Will Hunting". * Robin Williams. * 2: That old gang of his included Will, John and Tuck. * Robin Hood. * 3: He's the only Bee Gee who fits the category. * Robin Gibb. * 4: This former soap star is married to Sean Penn. * Robin Wright. * 5: Medical thriller writer who has given us "Coma" and "Vector". * Robin Cook.

Round 3. Category: Special "Ed" * 1: This city's name derives from the Celtic word meaning "Eiden's Fort". * Edinburgh. * 2: In our opinion, it's a newspaper article that represents the publisher's point of view. * editorial. * 3: At least the Antarctic range named for this Henry Ford descendant isn't considered a failure. * Edsel Ford. * 4: Hell-oooo, possums, "She's" the international star who took a "Royal Tour" in 2001. * Dame Edna Everage. * 5: This place, whose name means "place of pleasure", is often thought to have been in Mesopotamia. * Garden of Eden.

Round 4. Category: Broadway Roles * 1: In 1951 he was "The King"; Gertrude Lawrence was "I". * Yul Brynner. * 2: In 2002 this "Notes on a Scandal" dame went "Into the Woods" as Giant (well, her recorded voice did, anyway). * Judi Dench. * 3: In 1968, before the force was with him, he landed the lead in "The Great White Hope". * James Earl Jones. * 4: (Hi. I'm Bebe Neuwirth.)In 1997 I won my 2nd Tony Award for playing Velma Kelly in "Chicago"; in 2007 I appeared in a revival of the production playing this dancer, Velma's rival. * Roxie. * 5: In 1948 he was drafted to play "Mister Roberts". * Henry Fonda.

Round 5. Category: Also An Apple Variety * 1: Irish satirist Swift. * Jonathan. * 2: Acting brothers Alec, Billy and Stephen. * Baldwin. * 3: Broadway musical about Charlemagne's son. * Pippin. * 4: British royal house symbolized by a white rose. * York. * 5: Austere, like the people of an ancient Greek city. * Spartan.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 472, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Missives Of October * 1: Oct. 1, 1908: Dear Mom, this car's been introduced at $850 but I bet mass production can lower it to about $300 by 1926. * the Model T Ford. * 2: Oct. 15, 1965: Dear Dad, you won't believe it but at a peace rally today David Miller burned this, so the FBI's after him. * his draft card. * 3: Oct. 14, 1947: Dear Bro, I hear that today this man traveled over 662 MPH in a Bell X-1. * Chuck Yeager. * 4: Oct. 29, 1929: Sister Dear, things are gloomy in New York as this lost 31 points, or 12 percent; I need a stiff toddy. * the Dow Jones. * 5: Oct. 24, 1648: Dear Johann, I can't believe this long war is over now that the Peace of Westphalia has been concluded. * the Thirty Years' War.

Round 2. Category: The J. Lo Down * 1: Rich guy Ralph Fiennes falls in love with hotel employee Jennifer Lopez in this Cinderella story. * Maid in Manhattan. * 2: When asked what she got on this standardized college placement exam, Jen quipped, "Nail polish". * the SAT. * 3: Ben Affleck plays a lowly thug who falls for female gangster J. Lo. in this 2003 romantic comedy. * Gigli. * 4: When Jen wore that now-infamous green Versace dress to the 2000 Grammys, he was her date. * Puff Daddy. * 5: The video for this song pays homage to the movie "Flashdance", with Jen as the welder/dancer. * "I'm Glad".

Round 3. Category: "Year" * 1: It's an annual publication documenting the preceding months at a high school. * Yearbook. * 2: Climbing to No. 8 in 1977, it was Al Stewart's biggest hit. * Year of the Cat. * 3: Collaborating with Garth won her a 1997 Grammy. * Trisha Yearwood. * 4: Troubled 1965 Indonesia is at the heart of this Mel Gibson film. * The Year of Living Dangerously. * 5: This novel won 1939's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. * "The Yearling".

Round 4. Category: College Football * 1: (Hi, I'm Jake Plummer, quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals) Prior to joining the Pac-10 in 1978, Arizona and Arizona State had spent 16 years in the WAC, which stands for this. * Western Athletic Conference. * 2: Letter formations include the "T" and this one with the running backs in a line behind the quarterback. * I. * 3: USA Today called this current University of Alabama coach "tough, humorless and rich". * Nick Saban. * 4: This Provo, Utah school won 10 straight WAC football titles from 1976 to 1985. * Brigham Young. * 5: This school's football team is called the Black Knights. * Army.

Round 5. Category: "D" Day * 1: Nationality that precedes auction, oven and elm disease. * Dutch. * 2: When you have skin problems, this is the type of doctor you should seek out. * Dermatologist. * 3: It's the basic monetary unit of Greece. * Drachma. * 4: He won a Purple Heart in World War II and was a major party presidential nominee in 1996. * Bob Dole. * 5: From the Latin for "to lead", it's a pipe or passage that can carry body fluids or air. * a duct.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 471, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: High Coup * 1: A coup led by Colonel George Papadopoulos overthrew this country's government in 1967. * Greece. * 2: This man took the title first consul after a coup d'etat in Paris in 1799. * Napoleon. * 3: The last president of the Soviet Union, he was nearly overthrown in a 1991 coup attempted by his Communist rivals. * Mikhail Gorbachev. * 4: Count Grigory Orlov led the palace coup that placed this "Great" empress on the Russian throne in 1762. * Catherine the Great. * 5: The 1st commoner to rule England, he became lord protector following the overthrow of King Charles I. * Oliver Cromwell.

Round 2. Category: E-Commerce * 1: calwine.com is located "In the Heart of" this valley. * Napa Valley. * 2: At dunkindonuts.com you can't buy donuts, but you can get this traditional accompaniment by the pound. * coffee. * 3: You can click to hear a train whistle at the website of this model maker. * Lionel. * 4: vixenoffroad.com specializes in women's apparel for this biking sport abbreviated MX. * motocross. * 5: alzheimersupport.com is among sites offering this super-herb, the scientific name of the maidenhair tree. * Gingko biloba.

Round 3. Category: Of "Den"Mark * 1: The woman who runs a small group in a Cub Scout troop. * den mother. * 2: They won back-to-back Super Bowls in 1998 and 1999. * the Denver Broncos. * 3: False teeth that might take a bite out of your wallet. * dentures. * 4: Sometimes expressed in grams per cubic centimeter, it's mass divided by volume. * density. * 5: In English, the name of this 20,320-foot North American peak means "The Great One". * Denali.

Round 4. Category: 3 Of A Kind * 1: Draco,Lyra,Mensa. * constellations. * 2: Coddled,deviled,hard boiled. * eggs. * 3: George Lazenby,David Niven,Pierce Brosnan. * James Bonds. * 4: "The Searchers","The Shootist","The Quiet Man". * John Wayne movies. * 5: Sinhala,Xhosa,Novial. * languages.

Round 5. Category: Mind Your Manners * 1: Etiquette experts say it's okay between courses or after the meal to put these body parts on the table. * your elbows. * 2: "Etiquette for Dummies" says an index finger flat and firm against your upper lip may forestall one of these. * a sneeze. * 3: In the receiving line at a wedding reception this person is traditionally first. * the bride's mother. * 4: If you have ESP or your phone has this, it's okay to answer the phone greeting the person by name. * caller ID. * 5: Acceptable "finger foods" include bacon, but only if it's crisp, and spears of this vegetable. * asparagus.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 470, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Double Letter Perfect * 1: A street sign with this letter pair denotes a crossing that has the ties that bind. * RR. * 2: This suffix denotes a person who is a recipient of something. * ee (as in honoree). * 3: A little ball, 0.18 inches in diameter, fired from an air rifle or a special gun. * BB. * 4: Ask a Spaniard how to pronounce this double letter pair and he may say "y". * ll. * 5: For the ivory tickler it means "very softly". * pp (pianissimo).

Round 2. Category: Doubtful Downloads * 1: The Net spit up the false story that this baby food co. lost a lawsuit and was giving out $500 savings bonds. * Gerber. * 2: This pig film's Chinese title "The Happy Dumpling-to-be Who Talks and Solves Agricultural Problems" was a Web invention. * Babe. * 3: He wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five", but didn't write the MIT commencement speech circulated under his name. * Kurt Vonnegut. * 4: Fox News and online gossip-monger whose "report" on the president's love child turned out to be sludge. * Matt Drudge. * 5: Ian Goddard has retracted his online claims that the Navy brought down this airline's Flight 800. * TWA.

Round 3. Category: Former Place Names * 1: Siam. * Thailand. * 2: Leningrad. * St. Petersburg (Russia). * 3: East Pakistan. * Bangladesh. * 4: Burma. * Myanmar. * 5: British Honduras. * Belize.

Round 4. Category: 20Th Century World Leaders * 1: In 1986 this president crossed the Pacific and went into exile in Hawaii. * Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines. * 2: He led his troops on a 6,000-mile march that began in October 1934. * Mao Tse-tung. * 3: A 1952 coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser forced this king's abdication. * King Faruk. * 4: Swiss-educated and staunchly pro-Western, he ruled his Middle Eastern country from 1941 until his ouster in 1979. * the Shah of Iran. * 5: At age 84 in 1940 he was put in charge of the Vichy State in France. * Marshall Pétain.

Round 5. Category: The Upper Crust * 1: Athina Roussel, granddaughter of this Greek tycoon, inherited billions when she turned 18 in 2003. * Onassis. * 2: This prince was really in the swim when he was voted water polo captain at St. Andrews University. * Prince William. * 3: Ulysses Grant's granddaughter Julia married a prince from this country and had to flee its revolution in 1917. * Russia. * 4: Oralando Montagu is making a lot of "bread" selling this lunch item (he's descended from the Earl who invented it). * a sandwich. * 5: (Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN.) My great-great-great grandfather was this shipping and railroad magnate known as "The Commodore". * Cornelius Vanderbilt.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 469, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Would You Like To Be In The Movies? * 1: She was discovered while performing at the 1940 Aquacade in San Francisco. * Esther Williams. * 2: First brought to the big screen by D.W. Griffith in 1909, this hugely popular star was once known as "Little Mary". * Mary Pickford. * 3: Born in South Africa, this female star of "The Italian Job" was discovered in line at a Hollywood bank. * Charlize Theron. * 4: Sophia Loren was a struggling teenage model when she met this future husband and beauty contest judge. * Carlo Ponti. * 5: Jack Nicholson discovered this Arkansas native and 2 years later she won an Oscar for "Melvin and Howard". * Mary Steenburgen.

Round 2. Category: Ends In "Ook" * 1: It's cranny's partner, or a cozy corner for eating breakfast. * Nook. * 2: Gibberish, or mumbo jumbo. * Gobbledygook. * 3: For over 40 years this actor has brought Mark Twain to life in a one-man show. * Hal Holbrook. * 4: This one's a breeze: it's the largest of the Pacific salmons. * Chinook. * 5: As a result of this scandal, in 1992 H. Lawrence Garrett 3rd stepped down as Navy Secretary. * Tailhook.

Round 3. Category: There's No Business * 1: The power went out on this Houston company when it declared bankruptcy in December 2001. * Enron. * 2: This airline's "Friendly Skies" were darkened by its Dec. 2002 bankruptcy. * United Airlines. * 3: In Jan. 2002 this undersea fiber optic telecom co. founded by Gary Winnick sank beneath the bankruptcy waves. * Global Crossing. * 4: $11 billion in alleged fraud might've played a tiny part in this long-distance co.'s July 2002 bankruptcy. * WorldCom. * 5: Conspiracy and fraud led to a June 2002 "reorganization" of this cable co. led by the Rigas family. * Adelphia.

Round 4. Category: Benny * 1: In the 1790s astronomer and mathematician Benjamin Banneker compiled an annual one of these. * almanac. * 2: In 1785 Thomas Jefferson succeeded him as minister to France. * Benjamin Franklin. * 3: While in office, he admitted 6 states, more than any other U.S. president. * Benjamin Harrison. * 4: In addition to his "Baby and Child Care" book, he wrote "Caring for Your Disabled Child". * Dr. Benjamin Spock. * 5: In 1954 he turned Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" into an opera. * Benjamin Britten.

Round 5. Category: Word In Common * 1: One-word description of a "drummer boy" or an "engine that could". * Little. * 2: Adjective before Britain, Dane or "Gatsby". * Great. * 3: Term preceding Smokey, Faithful or "Yeller". * Old. * 4: TV's Simpson or football's Starr. * Bart. * 5: Judy's puppet partner, or a "Hawaiian" beverage. * Punch.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 468, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Beer Bash! * 1: This Bavarian city is famous for its pale lager and was the site of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. * Munich. * 2: The top-selling Mexican beer in the U.S., it became a yuppie trend in the 1980s. * Corona. * 3: Maccabee is one of this country's most popular beers. * Israel. * 4: The name of Germany's Hefe-Weizen beer means yeast and this grain, not barley. * Wheat. * 5: This brand's label says it's "From the glass lined tanks of old Latrobe" and includes a mysterious "33". * Rolling Rock.

Round 2. Category: Femmes Fatales * 1: So enraptured was Israel's King David with this woman, he deliberately sent her husband into battle where he died. * Bathsheba. * 2: In Greek legend, Paris was so enamored with this married woman, he stole her away, thus causing a war. * Helen of Troy. * 3: A legendary beautiful woman living on a rock in this river, Lorelei was said to lure sailors to their deaths. * the Rhine. * 4: Ludwig I's infatuation with the dancer Lola Montez helped ensure his loss of this German kingdom. * Bavaria. * 5: Daughter of the man who became Pope Alexander VI, she became infamous for intrigues and poisonings. * Lucrezia Borgia.

Round 3. Category: Sitcoms Change * 1: (Hi, I'm Jon Lovitz) In 1998 I joined the cast of this sitcom as Max Lewis, a man with a few insecurities. * NewsRadio. * 2: On this sitcom in 1998, Tim Taylor's son Randy ran off to work in a Costa Rican rainforest. * Home Improvement. * 3: On her self-titled sitcom, she worked at a plastics factory and a beauty salon before opening her own diner. * Roseanne. * 4: On "The Cosby Show", daughter Denise left for Hillman College and this spin-off. * A Different World. * 5: In 1979 when its main setting moved to a bar, "All In The Family" took this new title. * Archie Bunker's Place.

Round 4. Category: My Maine Man! * 1: Raised in Maine, this Bowdoin alumnus hired Matthew Henson in 1887 to assist a Nicaraguan survey. * (Admiral) Peary. * 2: In 1966 this Portland-born author published his first short story, "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber". * Stephen King. * 3: Listen, my children, and you shall hear, he was born Feb. 27, 1807 in Portland (hey, he was the poet, not me). * Longfellow. * 4: Born in Bar Harbor on July 8, 1908, he succeeded Gerald Ford as VP. * Rockefeller. * 5: The 1st Democrat elected to the Senate by Maine voters, he was Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter. * Edmund Muskie.

Round 5. Category: Olla Podrida * 1: People who daydream are said to be "Building" these "in Spain". * Castles. * 2: Don Quixote roamed across this plateau of central Spain. * La Mancha. * 3: Iced drink made of wine, soda water and fruit juice. * Sangria. * 4: Commanded by the Duke of Medina, this group of ships was thought to be invincible -- didn't work. * Spanish Armada. * 5: She hit the Top 10 in 1987 with "La Isla Bonita", her Spanish lullaby. * Madonna.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 467, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Wet And Wild * 1: Of a bird, a fish or an insect, what a water boatman is. * Insect. * 2: The American Water and Irish Water breeds of this dog are both noted for retrieving waterfowl. * Spaniel. * 3: Bubalus babalis is the scientific name of this animal also known as the water ox. * Water buffalo. * 4: Water hog is another name for this, the largest living rodent, that looks like a giant guinea pig. * Capybara. * 5: The water opossum is also called the yapok, in honor of this continent's Oyapok River. * South America.

Round 2. Category: Yale Drama School Alumni * 1: Going to school at Yale got her into films like "Sophie's Choice". * Meryl Streep. * 2: He had some "Happy Days" at Yale long before starring in "The Dinner Party" on Broadway in 2000. * Henry Winkler. * 3: That her acceptance to Yale was addressed to a "Mr." was a bit "Alien". * Sigourney Weaver. * 4: This "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" star attended Yale on a scholarship. * Angela Bassett. * 5: In 2000 this Yale grad was TV's "DAG". * David Alan Grier.

Round 3. Category: I Am A Crook * 1: Ralph, nicknamed "Bottles", was the brother of this gangster, nicknamed "Scarface". * Al Capone. * 2: Sheriff Pat Garrett said this crook's "face always wore a smile". * Billy the Kid. * 3: In 1868 the Reno Brothers robbed one of these in Indiana, years before the James Gang did it out west. * train. * 4: The Queen Anne's Revenge was a ship of this pirate, whose whole known career lasted from 1716 to 1718. * Blackbeard. * 5: 2 months after Bonnie and Clyde were shot down in Louisiana, he got it outside the Biograph in Chicago. * John Dillinger.

Round 4. Category: Stuff * 1: The lawyer who made famous the line "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit". * Johnnie Cochran. * 2: The car part called an aerial across the pond is known as this here in the States. * an antenna. * 3: The two projectiles in Olympic track and field that weigh 16 pounds. * the shotput and the hammer. * 4: It's official state vegetables are the frijole pinto bean and the chile pepper. * New Mexico. * 5: Since 2002 this Lower Manhattan area has had its own film festival. * Tribeca.

Round 5. Category: Taking The Fifth * 1: Before he was president, Gerald Ford was a congressman from this state's Fifth District. * Michigan. * 2: Who, what, when, where and this are the 5 Ws that reporters should be concerned with. * why. * 3: This DJ on New York's WINS was nicknamed "The Fifth Beatle". * Murray "The K". * 4: AKA the "Father of the Military Academy", Col. Sylvanus Thayer was the fifth superintendent at this school. * West Point. * 5: On January 8, 1959 Charles de Gaulle took office as the first president of what was termed this French government. * the Fifth Republic.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 466, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: State Fish * 1: A Massachusetts cape is named for this state fish, a valuable food source. * cod. * 2: Though this "regal" salmon is Alaska's state fish, it doesn't wear a crown. * king salmon. * 3: Called a muskie for short, it's Wisconsin's state fish. * a muskellunge. * 4: 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. * 5: South Dakota chose the walleye, while North Dakota chose the northern type of this fish. * a pike.

Round 2. Category: The Bells * 1: This city's second-most famous bell was cast in 1926 for Wanamaker's Department Store. * Philadelphia. * 2: The bells in this 12th century Italian tower are no longer rung; we just hope they don't fall out. * Leaning Tower of Pisa. * 3: The world's largest bell, which has never rung, is in this walled area of Moscow. * The Kremlin. * 4: Big Ben hangs over Parliament and a rival, Great Tom, hangs over Christ Church College at this university. * Oxford. * 5: One of this city's Temple Bells, which Kipling heard calling him back, weighs 90 tons. * Mandalay.

Round 3. Category: Get Your Literary Facts Straight * 1: "Three Junes" is a novel by Julia Glass; this Chekhov play centers on the Prozorov family. * Three Sisters. * 2: Agatha Christie: "Death On The Nile";Thomas Mann:"Death In" this city. * Venice. * 3: "Brick House" is by the Commodores; this Dickens novel tells of the interminable suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. * Bleak House. * 4: "A Room of One's Own" is a feminist essay by Virginia Woolf; this E.M. Forster work tells of Lucy, on vacation in Italy. * A Room With a View. * 5: Ivan Turgenev wrote "A Month in the Country"; Alan Paton wrote this story of a South African pastor and his son. * Cry, the Beloved Country.

Round 4. Category: '90s Sitcoms * 1: The pals in this sitcom hang out and down a few brews at Cleveland's Warsaw Tavern. * The Drew Carey Show. * 2: Roz Doyle is his producer and call-screener at Seattle's KACL Radio. * Frasier Crane. * 3: Viewers finally got to see Wilson's face when the cast took their bows on this sitcom's last episode. * Home Improvement. * 4: MIchelangelo is the middle name of Lewis Kiniski, Ryan Stiles' character on this sitcom. * The Drew Carey Show. * 5: This sitcom was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning columns by humorist Dave Barry. * Dave's World.

Round 5. Category: Crazy Talk * 1: Crazy like a Christmas loaf. * nutty as a fruitcake. * 2: Nocturnal flying mammals enclosed by a church tower. * bats in the belfry. * 3: Enunciation of a Black Forest clock bird. * cuckoo, cuckoo. * 4: Hauling 999 baked and molded blocks of clay when you should have 1000. * not carrying a full load. * 5: The penthouse is unserviced by the lift. * the elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 465, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Yes Sir, That's My Scientist * 1: Sir Alexander Fleming took a shot in the dark and discovered this in 1928. * Penicillin. * 2: The special interest of Nobel Prize laureate Sir Cyril Hinshelwood was how oxygen and hydrogen combine to form this. * Water. * 3: Sir David Brewster invented the Dioptic system of illumination for these on the seaside. * Lighthouses. * 4: In a fly-by-night operation in Africa, Sir David Bruce found that sleeping sickness was spread by this. * Tsetse fly. * 5: Sir Godfrey Hounsfield helped develop this medical imaging technology introduced in the 1970s. * CAT Scan.

Round 2. Category: Tasmanian Tidbits * 1: Tasmania is this country's smallest state. * Australia. * 2: Discovering the island in 1642, he named it Van Diemen's Land. * Abel Tasman. * 3: Also called wolfram, this metal used in lamp filaments is a big source of income. * Tungsten. * 4: The island is home to the Tasmanian devil and this animal. * Wombat. * 5: The Derwent River in Tasmania has a concrete one of these floating bridges. * Pontoon bridge.

Round 3. Category: Lousy Scrabble Words * 1: The story says little George couldn't tell one of these; 3 letters, 3 points. * lie. * 2: This conjuction usually works with neither; 3 letters, 3 points. * nor. * 3: While it may be 2,000 pounds, it's only 3 letters, 3 points. * ton. * 4: Fall into one of these furrows made by wagon wheels and it's 3 letters, 3 points. * rut. * 5: Overexert your muscles or pour through a filter and it's 6 letters, 6 points. * strain.

Round 4. Category: That's My Royal Nickname * 1: Ottoman emperor styled "the Magnificent". * Suleiman. * 2: Bloody Romanian prince known as "the Impaler". * Vlad. * 3: He was "the Confessor" king of England in the 11th century. * Edward. * 4: Basil "the Bulgar-Slayer" was emperor of this, also called the Eastern Roman Empire. * the Byzantine Empire. * 5: Holy Roman emperor Charles II was known by this nickname; today we might call him "the Follicularly Challenged". * "the Bald".

Round 5. Category: Dr. No...guchi * 1: Famed medical examiner Dr. Noguchi was a model for this Jack Klugman TV character. * Quincy. * 2: Dr. Noguchi autopsied this actress whose death in August 1962 is still the subject of debate. * Marilyn Monroe. * 3: Criticized for flamboyance, in 1982 Noguchi issued a terse statement on the death of this "SNL" comedian. * John Belushi. * 4: The appropriate one-word title of Dr. Noguchi's 1983 bestseller. * "Coroner". * 5: Dr. Noguchi concluded that in 1981 this star lost her life less than 200 yards from shore. * Natalie Wood.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 464, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Airports * 1: A general aviation airport 12 miles south of Dayton, Ohio is named for these 2 men. * the Wright Brothers. * 2: In "Car 54, Where Are You?" theme, Khrushchev was due at NYC's JFK Airport, then known by this name. * Idlewild. * 3: World's busiest airport not named for someone serves this city. * Los Angeles (LAX). * 4: This U.S. airport uses the slogan "Where America greets the world'. * JFK. * 5: Kalamazoo, Michigan shares its airport with this "Cereal City". * Battle Creek.

Round 2. Category: Do "Tell" * 1: Give us your best Marlon Brando with this famous 1-word howl from a classic 1951 film. * STELLA!. * 2: Bootes, Orion and Gemini, to name a few. * constellations. * 3: It's the governmental organization headed by George H.W. Bush from 1976 to 1977. * the Central Intelligence Agency. * 4: It's the flat, movable bone at the front of the knee. * the patella. * 5: Small rounds of meat-filled pasta that are shaped into rings and boiled. * tortellini.

Round 3. Category: Let A Smile Be Your Umbria * 1: Running through Umbria are the Tiber and Nera Rivers and the Umbrian Range of this mountain system. * the Apennines. * 2: Umbrian painter Perugino helped decorate this (he got to do a wall fresco; Michelangelo did the ceiling). * the Sistine Chapel. * 3: This Umbrian town's claim to fame is that it was the birthplace of St. Francis. * Assisi. * 4: In 1990 this brand retired raw umber, a color whose name came from Umbria. * Crayola. * 5: Native to Umbria, the Sangiovese variety of these is grown to produce a popular Italian export. * grapes.

Round 4. Category: 2007 Bestsellers * 1: She is the subject of Carl Bernstein's "A Woman In Charge". * Hillary Clinton. * 2: This Robert Ludlum character returned to the list in 2007 with a "Betrayal". * Jason Bourne. * 3: This Tibetan, a noted big hitter, hit the list with "The Universe In A Single Atom". * the Dalai Lama. * 4: Walter Isaacson's biography of this scientist was based on the subject's personal letters. * Albert Einstein. * 5: "The Lost Files Of" this Carolyn Keene sleuth provide an interactive guide to her cases. * Nancy Drew.

Round 5. Category: Let's Get Married! * 1: There wasn't a traditional song for this pair to dance to at the reception until the following was written:"You filled my life /With so much joy /As I watched you grow /From that little boy". * the groom and his mom. * 2: It was once believed evil spirits hovered at this part of the house, so the bride is carried over it. * the threshold. * 3: A cap named for this Capulet adorns many a blushing bride. * Juliet. * 4: This queen wore English lace on her 1840 bridal gown to give the British lace-making industry a boost. * Victoria. * 5: Instead of throwing rice, some guests release these insects--painted ladies, for example. * butterflies.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 463, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Money Talk * 1: It's the regular payment made to support an ex-spouse. * Alimony. * 2: It's the money paid for the return of a kidnap victim. * Ransom. * 3: Of the 7 deadly sins, it's the one concerned with money. * Greed (Avarice). * 4: It's a formal gift of funds given by, for example, a government to a scientist to "cary" on with research. * Grant. * 5: From a Latin word for "booty", it's the payment you make to keep your booty insured. * Premium.

Round 2. Category: Multiple Meanings * 1: A long-billed game bird, or to shoot at something from a hidden position. * snipe. * 2: A spinning toy, or the location of this clue in the category. * Top. * 3: It can mean fixed, rapid or to abstain from food. * fast. * 4: To strike violently, or a song's drumming rhythm. * beat. * 5: A burial place, or fraught with danger or harm. * grave.

Round 3. Category: Poet-Tree * 1: This bird- and -feline pair "sailed away, for a year and a day, to the land where the bong-tree grows". * The Owl and the Pussycat. * 2: "The dead tree gives no shelter", he observed in "The Waste Land". * T.S. Eliot. * 3: "So was I once myself a swinger of birches; and so I dream of going back to be", wrote this New England poet. * Robert Frost. * 4: "Ah, droop not, my oak!" wrote this lord in "To an Oak at Newstead". * Lord Byron. * 5: Ogden Nash spoofed this poet by writing, "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree". * Joyce Kilmer (who wrote "Trees").

Round 4. Category: California Cities * 1: At 465 square miles, it's California's largest city in area. * Los Angeles. * 2: The oldest city in California that was founded by the Spanish; it's named for St. Joseph. * San Jose. * 3: This city's zoo, located in Balboa Park, is one of the largest in the world. * San Diego. * 4: This upscale community was founded in 1906 by the Rodeo Land and Water Company. * Beverly Hills. * 5: This Silicon Valley city served as California's first capital from 1849 to 1851. * San Jose.

Round 5. Category: Owls * 1: An owl stood for the phonogram "M" in this ancient Egyptian writing system. * Hieroglyphics. * 2: In 1973 this environmentalist got his own comic book. * Woodsy Owl. * 3: In this TV town (population 51,201), the owls are not what they seem. * "Twin Peaks". * 4: Venezuela's Caligo memnon species of this insect has owl-like eyes on its wings to scare enemies. * butterfly. * 5: The title of this 1973 novel by Margaret Craven concerns an Indian myth about death. * "I Heard the Owl Call My Name".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 462, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lesotho * 1: Continent of which Lesotho is a part. * Africa. * 2: While we have stars and stripes on ours, Lesotho has a straw hat. * its flag. * 3: Instead of money, a court in Lesotho might fine you so many head of these. * cattle. * 4: "Lesotho Fatse La Bo-Ntata Rona", "Lesotho Our Fatherland". * the national anthem. * 5: Until 1966, under the name Basutoland, Lesotho was a colony of this country. * Great Britain.

Round 2. Category: Jon Stewart's America * 1: "This follow-up to 'The Articles of Confederation' is the rare sequel that's more bicameral than the original!". * the Constitution. * 2: He was "quoted" as saying, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself...oh, and starvation. We might all starve". * Franklin Roosevelt. * 3: This D.C. building's rotunda "was made famous by the Stephen Baldwin/Pauly Shore vehicle Bio-Rotunda". * the Capitol. * 4: This 1215 document "served as a wake-up call that Europe would be forced to answer...in about 500 years". * the Magna Carta. * 5: This mascot "is like Uncle Sam, only shorter and fatter, clearly playing to the British infatuation with stoutness". * John Bull.

Round 3. Category: Universal Studios Islands Of Adventure * 1: If you like 3-D action, you'll love the amazing adventures of this webslinger. * Spider-Man. * 2: Sam-I-Am knows Universal has a cafe named for this "colorful" title breakfast. * "Green Eggs and Ham". * 3: A T-rex attacks just before you take an 85-foot plunge on the ride named for this 1993 film. * Jurassic Park. * 4: Seuss Landing is home to a rollicking ride named for this famous feline. * The Cat in the Hat. * 5: On Marvel's Superhero Island you may turn green when you ride the roller coaster named for him. * The Incredible Hulk.

Round 4. Category: Who Created Them? * 1: Edward Fairfax Rochester, the master of Thornfield Hall. * Charlotte Bronte. * 2: The beautiful Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway's cousin. * F. Scott Fitzgerald. * 3: Phillip Pirrip, of whom much is expected. * Charles Dickens. * 4: Genius architect Howard Roark. * Ayn Rand. * 5: Lady Brett Ashley. * Ernest Hemingway.

Round 5. Category: Let's Play Chicken * 1: This canned tuna company has been using a mermaid on its logo since 1952. * Chicken of the Sea. * 2: This fast food chain told us to "Save the Chickens...Eat a Whopper". * Burger King. * 3: The unofficial theme song of this Warner Brothers blabberbeak is "Camptown Races"...doo dah. * Foghorn Leghorn. * 4: It's often performed at wedding receptions. * Funky chicken. * 5: Created by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, his secret identity was Henry Cabot Henhaus III. * Super Chicken.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 461, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Missing Vowels * 1: Cold nation: RSS. * Russia. * 2: Arm bone: LN. * ulna. * 3: 1 of the 50:"DH". * Idaho. * 4: U. S. island territory: MRCN SM. * American Samoa. * 5: One of the elements:"DN". * iodine.

Round 2. Category: Hey, That Rhymes * 1: Oscar-winning actor Tom's practical jokes. * Hanks' pranks. * 2: Concentrate on the color coral or rose. * think pink. * 3: War between the Herefords and the Guernseys. * cattle battle. * 4: A poorly lit place to lift weights and do the treadmill. * dim gym. * 5: A messy duplicate or Xerox. * sloppy copy.

Round 3. Category: A Cat-Egory * 1: We envy the Egyptian mau cat, whose eyes are the gooseberry shade of this color. * green. * 2: The first Cornish Rex cat was the offspring of a tortie and a white barn cat in this part of SW England. * Cornwall. * 3: Shulamith, a stray discovered in 1981, was the first American curl cat, named for its perky-looking pair of these. * ears. * 4: A relatively new breed of cat with very short legs bears the name of these little beings introduced in a 1900 book. * Munchkins. * 5: The Balinese is basically a long-haired version of this other Asian cat. * a Siamese.

Round 4. Category: Tv Title Pairs * 1: Best friends Eric McCormack and Debra Messing. * Will and Grace. * 2: 2 adolescents, both voiced by Mike Judge. * Beavis and Butthead. * 3: Cop Billy Gardell and teacher Melissa McCarthy. * Mike and Molly. * 4: Streetwise cops Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul. * Starsky and Hutch. * 5: Streetwise cops Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul. * Starsky and Hutch.

Round 5. Category: Silly Similes * 1: Being as blind as this animal isn't so bad; it isn't really blind. * Bat. * 2: With exercise, you can become as fit as this musical instrument. * Fiddle. * 3: You could wind up in this condition, the same as a dodo or a doornail. * Dead. * 4: You might be busy as a bee, a beaver or a one-armed one of these. * Paper hanger. * 5: Rich Mullins sings that faith without works is as useless as one of these on a submarine. * Screen door.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 460, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Nickelodeon * 1: Summer Sanders is the host of this game show. * Figure It Out. * 2: These 2 guys were on Nickelodeon's "All That" before getting their own show. * Kenan and Kel. * 3: This character got her secret powers after being doused with a chemical in a freak accident. * Alex Mack. * 4: Henry and June live inside a comic book filled with mind-scrambling cartoons on this show. * KaBlam!. * 5: Hey! This cartoon boy has a football-shaped head and is bullied by Helga. * Arnold.

Round 2. Category: State Dept. Travel Warnings * 1: The U.S. uses the Swiss embassy in Iran to conduct business and the Polish embassy in this neighboring country. * Iraq. * 2: Say so long to Sarajevo; the U.S. has been warning people about visiting this country since 1992. * Bosnia. * 3: In June 1997 the U.S. closed its embassy in Brazzaville in this country and advises you not to visit. * The Congo. * 4: If you decide to go to this country (against U.S. wishes), really avoid the city of Cali. * Colombia. * 5: With tensions between Ethiopia and this country mounting, the State Dept. warned Americans to get out. * Eritrea.

Round 3. Category: Airlines * 1: Icarus is the frequent-flyer program of this international airline. * Olympic Airlines. * 2: In 1973 there was "Something Special in the Air": this airline's first female pilot, Bonnie Tiburzi. * American Airlines. * 3: Richard Branson has called this airline "My baby...and...something I am enormously proud of". * Virgin Atlantic. * 4: Not surprisingly, in 1988 it was the official carrier of the Seoul Olympic games. * Korean Airlines. * 5: Pilot Sully Sullenberger performed the "Miracle on the Hudson" while flying for this airline. * U.S. Airways.

Round 4. Category: Computer History * 1: This removable item used for data storage was introduced in 1971; the first one was 8 inches square. * floppy disk. * 2: This computer was introduced in 1984 and came with a MacWrite text program and a MacPaint program for graphics. * Apple Macintosh. * 3: This company whose name is synonymous with copying introduced the first hand-held mouse in 1973. * Xerox. * 4: Even before all the polls closed, CBS used this huge computer to predict the result of the 1952 presidential election. * UNIVAC. * 5: In 1993 Intel introduced this new chip, which had 3.1 million transistors. * Pentium.

Round 5. Category: The 1860s * 1: In an 1867 article, this English physician wrote, "The first ojject must be the destruction of any septic germs". * Joseph Lister. * 2: In 1865 this city succeeded Auckland as capital of New Zealand. * Wellington. * 3: On October 4, 1861 the U.S. Navy authorized the construction of this ironclad ship; it was launched 118 days later. * Monitor. * 4: In 1986 this 23-year-old from Cleveland invested $4000 in an oil refining business; he became very, very rich. * John D.) Rockefeller. * 5: In 1868 this lodge, the B.P.O.E., was founded in New York City by 15 entertainers. * Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 459, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Noted Pussycats * 1: When talking about Sylvester, this character calls him a "Puddy Tat". * Tweety Bird. * 2: In the 1970 hit comedy "The Owl and the Pussycat", she was the title feline to George Segal's owl. * Barbra Streisand. * 3: Tom Jones' 1965 hit single "What's New Pussycat" was written by Hal David and this partner. * Burt Bacharach. * 4: Some Mother Goose scholars believe that this was the real queen visited by "Pussycat, Pussycat". * Queen Elizabeth. * 5: 3 years after playing "A Kitten With A Whip", she grew up as the title kitty in "The Tiger and the Pussycat". * Ann-Margret.

Round 2. Category: Life After Appomattox * 1: No longer Confederate raiders, he and his brother Frank began robbing banks out west. * Jesse James. * 2: In 1877 this former President retired to an estate near Biloxi to write "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government". * Jefferson Davis. * 3: Late in life this "Uncle Tom's Cabin" writer invested in Florida real estate. * Harriet Beecher Stowe. * 4: Nicknamed "Yellow Hair", he was court-martialed for going AWOL in 1867 but rejoined the 7th Cavalry in 1868. * George Armstrong Custer. * 5: In 1865 this general accepted the presidency of Washington College in Virginia. * Robert E. Lee.

Round 3. Category: Baseball Words * 1: Spiders catch them in their webs. * Flies. * 2: What a catcher might eat his dinner on. * Home plate. * 3: A highly prized form of carbon. * Diamond. * 4: People who used peroxide on their hair. * Bleachers. * 5: It's material from which flags are made, or decorations in the colors of a flag. * Bunting.

Round 4. Category: Go On A Diet * 1: The company named for this woman, co-founder with her husband Sid, urges a balanced food, body and mind approach. * Jenny Craig. * 2: All foods have a point value and you're given an assigned daily point total at a meeting in this Heinz-owned plan. * Weight Watchers. * 3: Whoopi Goldberg's a big loser on this "shake"y product and diet. * Slim·Fast. * 4: Eating the proper balance of low-fat proteins, carbs and good fat is the key to this Dr. Sears diet. * The Zone. * 5: This geographic diet's name comes from the Greek and Southern Italian consumption of grain, fruit, veggies and fish. * the Mediterranean Diet.

Round 5. Category: Muhammad Ali's Greatest Hits * 1: In '74 in Zaire, Ali KO'd this heavy hitter, long before he started selling us BBQ equipment. * George Foreman. * 2: Ali TKO'd this Philly man who had a smokin' left hook after the 14th round in the "Thrilla in Manila". * (Joe) Frazier. * 3: Ali "shocked the world" in '64 with his TKO upset of this champ, who died mysteriously in Vegas in 1970. * Sonny Liston. * 4: There were fewer teeth than usual for Ali to knock out when he decisioned this man in '78 to regain the title. * Leon Spinks. * 5: This man whose son played LB for the 49ers broke Ali's jaw in the 12th round (or possibly the first) of their '73 fight. * Ken Norton.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 458, 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 can drive by, but not across. * Red Square. * 3: High degree Freemasons know it can be hard to drive by this L.A. auditorium on Jefferson Blvd. on Oscar night. * the Shrine Auditorium. * 4: You'll reach the president's office in this country driving to the union buildings on Government Ave. in Pretoria. * South Africa. * 5: Drive down Obala Vojvode Stepe in this city and relive the street's most famous moment of June 28, 1914. * Sarajevo.

Round 2. Category: Art School * 1: The most common one used by artists is probably the X-acto. * a knife. * 2: Turning tools are used to shape the clay on one of these. * a potter's wheel. * 3: A halftone screen breaks up a sold image into a pattern of these. * dots. * 4: Traditionally in drypoint, you use a steel needle to scratch your drawing into a plate of this metal. * copper. * 5: When a sculptor is doing this he isn't fishing, but using the lost wax method to make a mold. * casting.

Round 3. Category: Clues Past Their Freshness Date * 1: Time's 1980 Man of the Year cover showed him in a western shirt, jeans and a tooled belt with silver buckle. * Ronald Reagan. * 2: To get into this event at the White House March 31, 1997 you had to have a 3-to-6-year-old kid with you. * the Easter Egg Hunt. * 3: In 1992 United began flying the Latin American routes purchased from this airline that folded in 1991. * Pan American. * 4: This brand's jingle called it "That Heavenly Coffee". * Chock full o'Nuts. * 5: In 1996 Chevy reintroduced this model first seen in 1964, also the name of a version of Barbie. * Malibu.

Round 4. Category: Workplaces * 1: Usual workplace of a saucier, a poissonier and a garde-manger. * restaurant. * 2: The traditional entry-level area of a talent agency; Michael Ovitz started there at William Morris. * mailroom. * 3: A triage nurse is the first person who will tend to you if you go to this part of a hospital. * emergency room. * 4: In the U.S. the FBI has about 60 of the local offices usually called these. * field offices. * 5: 3-letter word paired with 'tool" in a type of manufacturer of precision products. * die.

Round 5. Category: Toys And Games * 1: The name of this game that uses 144 small tiles comes from a word meaning "sparrows". * Mah Jongg. * 2: Term for the hoops that croquet balls are driven through. * wickets. * 3: Bionicle is one of the lines from this brand of building blocks. * Lego. * 4: These cute, cuddly plush toys were introduced in 2005 along with a code allowing kids access to an online community. * Webkinz. * 5: Betty James named a classic toy this, a word meaning "stealthy, sleek and sinuous". * Slinky.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 457, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Livin' La Vida Lobster * 1: Lovable "Larry the Lobster" is the official mascot of this seafood restaurant chain. * Red Lobster. * 2: A variety lacking enlarged pincers, this 5-letter "prickly" type of lobster is also known as a sea crayfish. * a spiny lobster. * 3: One of a lobstering crew is called this man, not because he's grim but for standing in the back of the boat. * a stern man. * 4: Water fleas, shrimp and lobsters are all members of this arthropod class. * crustaceans. * 5: The outer supporting shell of a lobster is known as one of these protective coverings. * an exoskeleton.

Round 2. Category: Better Known As.... * 1: "Stardust" man David Jones. * David Bowie. * 2: "Home"y heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Weiss. * Jonathan Taylor Thomas. * 3: Late sportscaster Howard Cohen. * Howard Cosell. * 4: Singer Helen Folasade Adu. * Sade. * 5: Older brother Lloyd Vernet Bridges III. * Beau Bridges.

Round 3. Category: Scientists * 1: He wondered if the force that pulled an apple to the ground could also pull the moon into the earth's orbit. * Newton. * 2: In 1661 Isaac Newton entered this university's Trinity College as a subsizar, a student with domestic duties. * Cambridge. * 3: In 1609 and 1619 this German astronomer published his 3 laws of planetary motion. * (Johannes) Kepler. * 4: His 1543 "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" was the most accurate book on human anatomy to that date. * Andreas Vesalius. * 5: In 1856 this monk began his experiments that led to the discovery of the basic laws of heredity. * (Gregor) Mendel.

Round 4. Category: The "B"Ible * 1: When Moses's mother could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of these marsh plants. * bulrushes. * 2: The Lord broke this, saying "Take, eat: this is my body which is broken for you". * bread. * 3: Jesus told the disciples to do this "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost". * baptize. * 4: "And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to him 'What have I done unto thee?'". * Balaam. * 5: The name of this son of Jacob means "Son of the right hand". * Benjamin.

Round 5. Category: Let's Go To Florida * 1: You can see a miniature replica of this city's Forbidden City at Splendid China, a park in Kissimmee. * Peking/Beijing. * 2: The "Terrors of the Deep" attraction at this park might even scare Shamu. * Sea World. * 3: The Cypress Roots Museum traces the history of this famous floral site. * Cypress Gardens. * 4: For years Gomek the giant crocodile was the big attraction at this oldest Florida city's alligator farm. * St. Augustine. * 5: The Wallendas' poles, rigging and costumes are on view at the Circus Museum in this Florida city. * Sarasota.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 456, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Presidential Elections * 1: Some historians call the election in which this man beat John Breckinridge the most important in U.S. history. * (Abraham) Lincoln. * 2: This 1968 candidate reportedly urged South Vietnam's President Thieu to scuttle possible peace talks. * (Richard) Nixon. * 3: William Henry Harrison really had lived in one of these, his symbol in the 1840 campaign, but he added 12 rooms. * a log cabin. * 4: In early October 1992 he was spending $2 million a day, most of it his own money. * (Ross) Perot. * 5: In the Gore Vidal novel set in this election year, the hero pins his hopes on Tilden. * 1876.

Round 2. Category: "J" Whiz * 1: It's a trip taken by a public official at public expense, ostensibly for official business. * junket. * 2: It's not a type of fruit spread, but a large extended campout for several Boy Scout troops together. * jamboree. * 3: It's believed that the Virgin Mary died in this Middle Eastern city. * Jerusalem. * 4: This 1847 novel takes place mainly at Lowood Orphan Asylum and Thornfield Hall. * "Jane Eyre". * 5: The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was one of the many churches built by this 6th century Byzantine emperor. * Justinian I.

Round 3. Category: Eyes On The Prize * 1: Winners of the Templeton Prize for Understanding of this include Baba Amte, Rabbi Jakobovits and the Rev. Peacocke. * Religion. * 2: (Lech Walesa delivers the clue, speaking in Polish: I'm Lech Walesa,) In 1983 I was picking mushrooms near Gdansk when it was announced I had won this prize. * the Nobel Peace Prize. * 3: In April 2002 at the age of 88, Henry Brant won this prize, also given to journalists, for music. * the Pulitzer Prize. * 4: The $100,000 Potamkin Prize is for research in this aging disease that afflicted Mrs. Potamkin. * Alzheimer's disease. * 5: This famous British gallery that has lots of J.M.W. Turner works gives the Turner Prize for Contemporary Art. * the Tate Gallery.

Round 4. Category: Scary Movies * 1: Max von Sydow played Father Merrin, the title character of this devilish 1973 scarefest. * The Exorcist. * 2: Critic L. Maltin say this "unlucky" '80 film as a "clue to why S.A.T. scores continue to decline". * Friday the 13th. * 3: When Kate Hudson unlocks a hidden attic room that has a terrifying secret, she uses the title object of this 2005 film. * The Skeleton Key. * 4: In the 1982 film, Adrienne Barbeau was the object of his affection; in 1989 it's Heather Locklear. * the Swamp Thing. * 5: At about 40, Barbra Streisand played this title girl who disguises herself as a yeshiva boy and sings. * Yentl.

Round 5. Category: Nation"Z" * 1: This country has numerous national parks including Fiordland, Tongariro and Abel Tasman. * New Zealand. * 2: South America's largest known petroleum deposits lie in this country's Maracaibo Basin. * Venezuela. * 3: Its Latin name, Helvetia, appears on its coins and stamps. * Switzerland. * 4: It was once known as Portuguese East Africa. * Mozambique. * 5: The Baykonur Cosmodrome, Russia's space-launch facility, is actually in this nation. * Kazakhstan.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 455, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Universal Studios Islands Of Adventure * 1: If you like 3-D action, you'll love the amazing adventures of this webslinger. * Spider-Man. * 2: Sam-I-Am knows Universal has a cafe named for this "colorful" title breakfast. * "Green Eggs and Ham". * 3: A T-rex attacks just before you take an 85-foot plunge on the ride named for this 1993 film. * Jurassic Park. * 4: Seuss Landing is home to a rollicking ride named for this famous feline. * The Cat in the Hat. * 5: On Marvel's Superhero Island you may turn green when you ride the roller coaster named for him. * The Incredible Hulk.

Round 2. Category: Teen Book Scene * 1: Amazon.com allows you to add this "Fudge" author's "Forever" to your "Wedding Registry" list. * Judy Blume. * 2: "Troy" by Adele Geras is a young adult novel reworking of this Homer epic. * "The Iliad". * 3: There's now a series of books based on this WB series about Lorelai and Rory. * Gilmore Girls. * 4: This Meg Cabot book is the first in her series about royal-in-training Mia Thermopolis. * "The Princess Diaries". * 5: "They murdered him" begins this Robert Cormier novel. * "The Chocolate War".

Round 3. Category: "Bag" 'Em Up * 1: It's where Tiger can keep his irons and drivers and tees, oh my!. * a golf bag. * 2: Bellowing Highland instrument. * a bagpipe. * 3: It's a Middle East capital. * Baghdad. * 4: Derived from the Italian for "little stick", it's a long, narrow loaf of French bread. * a baguette. * 5: A trifle, or a short piece of music. * a bagatelle.

Round 4. Category: This Means War! * 1: The French Revolution inspired a similar one in this Caribbean country in 1791. * Haiti. * 2: The USA's began in 1861, Angola's in 1975. * Civil War. * 3: The Pequot, Pontiac's and the Nez Perce were 3 of these "wars". * Indian wars. * 4: (Hi, I'm Andy Summers.) The U.S. government called the Korean War this, which sounds like a lawsuit by my old band. * police action. * 5: Frederick the Great's invasion of Silesia in 1740 launched the war of this country's succession. * Austria.

Round 5. Category: Humpty Dumpty * 1: Humpty Dumpty's perch. * a wall. * 2: After Humpty's fall, they tried to put him together again. * all the king's horses and all the king's men. * 3: "Cornflake Girl" who wrote a song in which "Humpty Dumpty and Betty Louise... stole a Sony and some Camembert cheese". * Tori Amos. * 4: This comedian played Humpty Dumpty in the 1933 Paramount film "Alice in Wonderland". * W.C. Fields. * 5: Alice had some of the unusual words in this Lewis Carroll poem explained to her by Humpty. * "Jabberwocky".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 454, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Instant Messaging Shorthand * 1: TTFN:This way of saying I'll chat with you at a later time. * ta ta for now. * 2: RUMORF:"Are you" this "or" this. * are you male or female. * 3: POS:This person "over my shoulder". * a parent. * 4: RTBS:"Reason to be" this. * single. * 5: SSEWBA:"Someday soon, everything will be" these. * acronyms.

Round 2. Category: Science Fair * 1: Janice's project on the layers of this included the mesosphere and the thermosphere. * Atmosphere. * 2: Dennis recreated a 1995 test and confirmed this product is 68% air. * Twinkies. * 3: Viki's samples from the locker room floor showed how the trichophyton fungi caused this "sporty" condition. * Athlete's foot. * 4: Darlene's exhibit on minerals in the human body included iron nails, copper tubing and a 1943 penny for this. * Zinc. * 5: Arvid's diorama on the history of these included the following symbols(V, for example). * Numbers.

Round 3. Category: We're Not In Kansas Anymore * 1: We're attending the Strings in the Mountains chamber music festival in Steamboat Springs in this state. * Colorado. * 2: We left Abilene and drove straight north on Highway 15 to Fairbury in this state. * Nebraska. * 3: We're in the Ozarks seeing a show at Andy Williams' Moon River Theatre in this bordering state. * Missouri. * 4: We're visiting the Will Rogers Memorial in this state where the humorist is buried. * Oklahoma. * 5: We've left Lawrence, Kansas for Lawrence in this state, Leonard Bernstein's birthplace. * Massachusetts.

Round 4. Category: Getting Hungary? * 1: Called the "Queen of the Danube", this city is home to about one-fifth of the country's population. * Budapest. * 2: More than two-thirds of Hungarians are of this Christian denomination. * Roman Catholic. * 3: When it was known as Pannonia, Hungary was incorporated into this empire around 14 A.D.. * the Roman Empire. * 4: In March of 1867, Hungary was joined with this country in a dual monarchy. * Austria. * 5: A devastating invasion by these Asian warriors in 1241 killed half of Hungary's population. * the Mongols.

Round 5. Category: Sax And The City * 1: As one of these Jim Henson creations, Zoot played the sax in Dr. Teeth's band. * a Muppet. * 2: This president went to band camp in the Ozarks. * Clinton. * 3: This animated kid is voiced by Yeardley Smith, but when she plays sax, you're hearing Terry Harrington. * Lisa Simpson. * 4: Wynton's older brother, he knows how to blow his own tenor horn. * Branford Marsalis. * 5: Born David Jones, this rock legend worked as a saxophonist and a mime before battling Martian spiders. * David Bowie.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 453, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Phonies * 1: This reclusive "2001" director has been successfully impersonated by a man who looks nothing like him. * Stanley Kubrick. * 2: "Girl You Know It's True" was the ironic title of a hit by this fraudulent duo. * Milli Vanilli. * 3: "The Education of" this Cherokee, billed as autobiography, was written by a white segregationist. * Little Tree. * 4: A medical syndrome is named for this baron famous for tall tales about his exploits. * Baron von Munchausen. * 5: Forger Hans Van Meegeren tried to increase the small number of works by this Dutch master, who died in 1675. * Jan Vermeer.

Round 2. Category: Let's Not Spread 'Em Around * 1: A fatal form of blood poisoning in cattle, or the group that recorded the 1985 album "Spreading the Disease". * anthrax. * 2: Isolated in 1983, the virus that causes AIDS is known today by this acronym. * HIV. * 3: Seeing Koplik's spots on the inside of your cheeks is a sign you've "spotted" this viral infection. * measles. * 4: It's the B form of this inflammation of the liver that's spread by some kinds of personal contact. * hepatitis. * 5: This lung disease, isolated in 1882, has been found in an ancient mummy, so there should be hieroglyphic Christmas Seals. * tuberculosis.

Round 3. Category: Heir Conditioning * 1: Since 1301, it's been the geographic title for the male heir to the British throne. * Prince of Wales. * 2: 37-year-old Reza Pahlevi is the exiled heir to this country's "Peacock Throne". * Iran. * 3: The assassination of this Austro-Hungarian heir triggered WWI. * Archduke Franz Ferdinand. * 4: He was Hirohito's heir; now he's the emperor. * Akihito. * 5: In 1536, with only a female heir, she was first of Henry VIII's wives to go on the chopping block. * Anne Boleyn.

Round 4. Category: "C" Is For Cookie * 1: Created by Ruth Wakefield in the 1930s, the original toll house cookie is this favorite. * a chocolate chip. * 2: This veggie can be used to make cookies, similar to the spicy, moist cake. * carrot. * 3: Macaroons are often made from almond paste or this, shredded or flaked. * coconut. * 4: You can frost cookies with this, sugar that's been cooked until it melts and turns golden brown. * caramel. * 5: Classic oatmeal cookies are made with nutmeg and this age-old spice that comes in Cassia and Ceylon varieties. * cinnamon.

Round 5. Category: Political Scientists * 1: Charles Beard claimed the framers of this 1787 document were motivated by economic self-interests. * The Constitution. * 2: Zbigniew Brzezinski was born in this capital city in 1928. * Warsaw. * 3: Before becoming U.N. Ambassador, she was a foreign policy advisor to the 1980 Reagan campaign. * Jeanne Kirkpatrick. * 4: Raymond Aron was a contributor to this Paris daily from 1947-1977. * Le Figaro. * 5: Rexford G. Tugwell was part of this president's "Brain Trust". * Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 452, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Scrambled Sayings * 1: Sorry safe than better. * "Better safe than sorry". * 2: Can't join them if you beat them. * "If you can't beat them, join them". * 3: A hard rock and a place between. * "Between a rock and a hard place". * 4: New dog tricks you an old teach can't. * "You can't teach an old dog new tricks". * 5: The young wasted youth is on. * "Youth is wasted on the young".

Round 2. Category: Pre-Civil War America * 1: In the 1790s, Robert Carter, like Thomas Jefferson a planter in this state, freed hundreds of his own slaves. * Virginia. * 2: James, brother of this Philadelphian, began publishing Rhode Island's first newspaper in 1732. * Ben Franklin. * 3: On Dec. 5, 1776 this fraternity for students of academic distinction was founded at William and Mary. * Phi Beta Kappa. * 4: In 1813, 2 years after defeating Tecumseh at Tippecanoe, this general fought and killed him at the Thames River. * William Henry Harrison. * 5: This colony's charter was hidden in a large oak tree from 1687 to 1689. * Connecticut.

Round 3. Category: What They Wore * 1: Patrick Singleton, this country's only man in the 2002 winter games, aptly wore shorts to the opening ceremonies. * Bermuda. * 2: On Jan. 3, 2004 this pop star walked down the aisle at Las Vegas' Little White Wedding Chapel in jeans and a baseball cap. * Britney Spears. * 3: At LBJ's swearing-in, she was still wearing the pink suit she had worn in Dallas. * Jackie Kennedy. * 4: She aced the competition at the 2002 U.S. Open wearing a slinky catsuit. * Serena Williams. * 5: Jean Paul Gaultier designed the "Night Spider" dress she wore when she won her Best Actress Oscar in 2003. * Nicole Kidman.

Round 4. Category: Ur In Uruguay * 1: Uruguay's only large city, this capital contains about 40% of the country's population. * Montevideo. * 2: A top sport in the country, Uruguay has won the World Cup in this twice, in 1930 and 1950. * Soccer (Futbol). * 3: Long romanticized in literature, these cowboys tend ranches called estancias. * Gauchos. * 4: The 2 traditional political parties are named for their colors: Blancos for white and Colorados for this color. * Red. * 5: Uruguay's birdlife ranges from small parakeets to this 5-foot-tall flightless bird. * Rhea.

Round 5. Category: Saintly Women * 1: St. Barbara's evil father was struck by this, and she now protects people from it. * Lightning. * 2: In one story, St. Margaret was swallowed by Satan in the form of this beast; she should have called St. George. * Dragon. * 3: St. Ann is the mother of this very famous mother. * Virgin Mary. * 4: A French saint of this name founded the Sisters of Charity in 1799, but no one makes movies about her. * Joan. * 5: Her emblem is a lamb because her name sounds like it comes before "Dei". * St. Agnes.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 451, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Dynasty * 1: Drink up! This family ruled France off and on until 1848. * Bourbon. * 2: Drink up! This family ruled France off and on until 1848. * Bourbon. * 3: In the 13th century the Marinids, a Berber dynasty, ruled what is now this country with Fez as their capital. * Morocco. * 4: The Sabah dynasty rules this kingdom bordering Iraq. * Kuwait. * 5: The Sabah dynasty rules this kingdom bordering Iraq. * Kuwait.

Round 2. Category: Play Your Cards Right * 1: In bridge, if east is the dummy that means the declarer is this position. * West (opposites). * 2: In the "Black Lady" version of this game, the queen of spades is to be dreaded also. * Hearts. * 3: It's a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug. * a jack. * 4: In the poker variation Spit in the Ocean, each player is initially dealt this many cards. * 4. * 5: Phish musician Ernest Joseph Anastasio III, like many guys with III in their names, goes by this. * Trey.

Round 3. Category: George Orwell * 1: Orwell's classic 1945 satire on the Stalinist dictatorship; 4 publishers turned it down. * Animal Farm. * 2: Orwell was born Eric Blair in this country in 1903; Kipling, whom Orwell later wrote about, was born there in 1865. * India. * 3: In this book England is known as Airstrip One and is part of Oceania. * 1984. * 4: According to the title of a 1933 work, 1 of the 2 cities in which Orwell was "Down and Out". * London or Paris. * 5: In 1936 Orwell headed south to fight in and write about this war; he got shot in the throat and wrote a book. * the Spanish Civil War.

Round 4. Category: Action! * 1: This hero made his comic book debut in and on the cover of Action Comics No. 1. * Superman. * 2: In a 1965 speech this president put out a call for "affirmative action" in hiring by federal contractors. * Johnson. * 3: You may not give a fig, but according to Newton, there's one of these for every action. * an equal and opposite reaction. * 4: The action of a boy can ring a girl's bell, and the action of these can ring a buoy's bell. * a wave. * 5: Dutch-American artist about whose work the term "action painting" was coined. * Willem de Kooning.

Round 5. Category: Thanks, Guys * 1: Jim Cole, who keeps us posted on fruit imports and exports, works for this cabinet dept.. * Dept. of Agriculture. * 2: When we have a question about this, the "Breakfast of Champions", we call Kathryn Newton. * Wheaties. * 3: Richard Arnold, researcher for this Paramount "Enterprise", told us about Vulcan mating customs. * "Star Trek". * 4: When we need to know about this, the King of Beers, we call Mary McHugh. * Budweiser. * 5: Mr. Otha Day of this bandleader's archive told about the 1st performance of "Rhapsody In Blue". * Paul Whiteman.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 450, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Musical Duos * 1: In 1990 this "Bridge Over Troubled Water" duo was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. * Simon and Garfunkel. * 2: Dan Seals was part of England Dan and John Ford Coley and his brother Jim Seals was part of this duo. * Seals and Crofts. * 3: It seems like "Only Yesterday" that they were on "Top of the World" with hits like "For All We Know". * The Carpenters. * 4: In the early '90s, these twins, Matthew and Gunnar, had a string of hits, including "After the Rain". * Nelson. * 5: "My Maria" could tell you Kix and Ronnie are the first names of this top country duo. * Brooks and Dunn.

Round 2. Category: Animal Similes * 1: Hot dam! You're "as busy as" this flat-tailed rodent. * a beaver. * 2: "Quiet as" this animal of the family Muridae. * a mouse (a church mouse accepted). * 3: Plastered, blotto, "drunk as" this mammal, Mephitis mephitis. * a skunk. * 4: Alice knows you're "mad as a March" this. * a hare. * 5: "Happy as" this Old World oscine bird of the family Alaudidae. * a lark.

Round 3. Category: Books By Tv Newspeople * 1: In 1997's "A Reporter's Life" he covered his 31 years at CBS News. * Walter Cronkite. * 2: This NBC anchor's "The Greatest Generation" pays tribute to those who came of age during World War II. * Tom Brokaw. * 3: In 1998 this ABC anchor, along with Todd Brewster, took on "The Century". * Peter Jennings. * 4: He and Kyle Gibson wrote "Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television". * Ted Koppel. * 5: "Everyone is Entitled to My Opinion" collects his commentaries from "This Week". * David Brinkley.

Round 4. Category: Self-Titled Albums * 1: This 1999 album contains "Livin' La Vida Loca" and "Shake Your Bon-Bon". * "Ricky Martin". * 2: No. 1 songs from this 1990 album included "Vision Of Love" and "Someday". * Mariah Carey. * 3: "Sailing" sailed off this 1980 album. * "Christopher Cross". * 4: "That's The Way Love Goes" is on this album, period. * "Janet". * 5: "Dimelo (I Need To Know)" the title of this album that includes that song. * "Marc Anthony".

Round 5. Category: Geographic Cocktails * 1: Title of the following, it's also a cocktail made of Scotch whisky, sugar, and bitters:"Well you take the high road, and I'll take the low road""But I'll be in be in Scotland before ya /For me and my true love may never meet again...". * Loch Lomond. * 2: The juice of this fruit makes up to â…“ of a Valencia cocktail. * an orange. * 3: It's not "a long way to" this drink, if you've got Irish whiskey, chartreuse and vermouth. * Tipperary. * 4: If you order this cold drink on "Long Island", you're apt to get 5 distilled spirits, not brewed leaves. * (a Long Island) iced tea. * 5: You're off to the races in Upstate N.Y. with this drink of ginger ale, sugar, bitters and lemon juice. * a Saratoga.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 449, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: From The French * 1: This word for a type of business like Quizno's comes from the French for "free". * a franchise. * 2: The name of the U.S. state is partly from the French word for "green". * Vermont. * 3: The name of this rodent that hibernates nearly half the year may come from the French for "sleep". * a dormouse. * 4: The name of this type of vehicle is a shortened version of the French for "walking hospital". * ambulance. * 5: This word for an alpine cottage comes from the Swiss French for "shelter". * a chalet.

Round 2. Category: Aesop A.s.a.p. * 1: One of these creatures talks a lion out of eating him, later saves the lion from a trap. * mouse. * 2: Farmer proves strength in unity to sons by showing a bundle of these that can't be broken all at once. * sticks. * 3: Fox can't reach these, decides they are sour. * grapes. * 4: Wolf disguised as one of these gets killed by shepherd wanting dinner. * sheep. * 5: Hungry, lazy grasshopper tries to talk these insects out of food in winter. * ants.

Round 3. Category: Whatever * 1: Unlike most birds, which have 4, ostriches have this many toes on each foot, adapted to aid in running. * 2. * 2: This is how he looked in high school; today he's a talented actor and director as well. * Ben Affleck. * 3: For one brief shining moment, the Kennedys were said to live in this mythic kingdom. * Camelot. * 4: The name of this physicist is used to describe measurements of supersonic speed. * (Ernst) Mach. * 5: In "A Psalm of Life", Longfellow wrote of leaving "behind us" these "on the sands of time". * footprints.

Round 4. Category: Movie Stars * 1: In "Apollo 13" he played astronaut Jim Lovell, who was much smarter than Forrest Gump. * Tom Hanks. * 2: Robert Duvall felt Sally Kellerman's "hot lips" when he played Major Frank Burns in this 1970 film. * MASH. * 3: Teri Garr played Dustin Hoffman's neglected girlfriend in this 1982 comedy; what a "drag"!. * Tootsie*. * 4: In 1997 he was named best actor at Cannes for "She's So Lovely", which co-starred his lovely wife Robin Wright. * Sean Penn. * 5: He gave Lauren Bacall a gold bracelet with her name engraved on one side and "The Whistler" on the other. * Humphrey Bogart (her husband).

Round 5. Category: Sunday School * 1: Chipping in for charity will show us the truth of Jesus' words "it is more blessed" to do this "than to receive". * to give. * 2: Timmy, here's an old shirt to wear; we'll act out the scene where Saul's robe is cut by this future king. * David. * 3: Today we'll learn about this agreement God makes with man; Deuteronomy 10 talks about the "ark of" it. * the Covenant. * 4: No, the ladder is not for changing a light bulb--it's supposed to be the one from Genesis that this patriarch dreamed about. * Jacob. * 5: No, the ladder is not for changing a light bulb--it's supposed to be the one from Genesis that this patriarch dreamed about. * Jacob.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 448, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Army, Navy Or Marines * 1: Chester Nimitz. * the Navy. * 2: World War I flying ace Frank Luke. * the Army. * 3: John Glenn. * the Marines. * 4: Roger Staubach. * the Navy. * 5: Comedian Drew Carey. * the Marines.

Round 2. Category: 20Th Century Poetry * 1: Frank O' Hara's "The Day Lady Died" is a tribute to this black singer. * Billie Holiday. * 2: In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", it's the color of the wood two roads diverged in. * yellow. * 3: It's the first name of Edwin Arlington Robinson's morose Mr. Cheevy. * Miniver. * 4: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", he "howled". * Allen Ginsberg. * 5: He went from laboring in a Siberian camp to becoming a US citizen to winning the 1987 Nobel Literature Prize. * Josef Brodsky.

Round 3. Category: They're History! * 1: This "Scourge of God" was a real Hun-y; he had his brother Bleda killed in 445. * Attila. * 2: Having lost about half his troops whil crossing the Alps, he recruited about 15,000 Gauls. * Hannibal. * 3: Known for his long wall, he also built Rome's magnificent Athenaeum. * Hadrian. * 4: During his long reign, this Egyptian king built temples at many sites, including Abu Simbel. * Ramses II (or Ramses the Great). * 5: A little birdie "ptold" me: after Alexander the Great's death, this general took control of Egypt. * Ptolemy.

Round 4. Category: Paying Tribute * 1: War ensued when in 1801 this Barbary state, now part of Libya, tried to jack up the tribute the U.S. was paying. * Tripoli. * 2: In 434 this group led by Attila doubled the tribute they demanded from Roman Emperor Theodosius II. * the Huns. * 3: In 1004 the Chinese Song emperor pledged to pay the Khitan people 100,000 yearly oz. of silver and 200,000 bolts of this. * silk. * 4: Before repelling these invaders in 896, Alfred the Great of England tried to buy them off. * the Vikings (or the Danes). * 5: In the 790s this Frankish king forced the Slavs and Avars to pay him tribute. * Charlemagne.

Round 5. Category: Diamonds Are Forever * 1: If you were born in this month, the diamond is your traditional birthstone -- no foolin'. * April. * 2: One of the plane surfaces of a cut diamond; the brilliant cut has 58. * Facet. * 3: Sanguinary term for a diamond sold to finance military operations. * a blood diamond. * 4: A 41.94 carat diamond is named for this emperor; we assume his wife Carlotta was mad about it. * Maximilian. * 5: The slogan "A diamond is forever" was coined in 1947 by an ad exec for this South African commercial giant. * De Beers.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 447, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Jimmy * 1: The Kentucky Derby-winning jockey in 1878, or the president of the U.S. in 1978. * Jimmy Carter. * 2: He's won the U.S Open on 3 surfaces: grass (1974), clay (1976) and hard courts (1978, 1982, 1983). * JImmy Connors. * 3: He helped bring down Jim and Tammy Bakker, then got knocked off his own pulpit. * Jimmy Swaggart. * 4: Bobby Kennedy was chief council of the Senate committee investigating David Beck and this man. * Jimmy Hoffa. * 5: He was dyn-o-mite as mayor of New York from 1926 to 1932. * Jimmy Walker.

Round 2. Category: The 3 Bs * 1: Beethoven tried all the latest scientific methods including sulphur vapors to cure this. * Deafness. * 2: Of the three B's, he's the one who composed the following:. * Brahms. * 3: Bach's 1721 "Concerts a Plusieurs Instruments" are popularly known as these "Concertos". * "The Brandenburg Concertos". * 4: The 2 who called Vienna home. * Beethoven and Brahms. * 5: Beethoven's only opera, based on J.N. Bouilly's "Leonore", it premiered in 1805. * "Fidelio".

Round 3. Category: Crossword Clues "I" * 1: Titanic sinker(7). * Iceberg. * 2: Dante's Hell(7). * Inferno. * 3: Pianists tickle them(7). * Ivories. * 4: "Aha!", e.g.(12). * Interjection. * 5: A store's stock(9). * Inventory.

Round 4. Category: Cultured Celebrities * 1: This "X-Files" star has expressed his admiration for the complex modern poetry of John Ashbery. * David Duchovny. * 2: TV's Felix Unger, he founded the National Actors Theatre to educate Americans in the classic plays. * Tony Randall. * 3: Yo, Adrian! This actor says that what "separates us from being totally bestial is...a sense of the aesthetic". * Sylvester Stallone. * 4: This crooner whose career was renewed on MTV in the '90s is also a painter influenced by the Impressionists. * Tony Bennett. * 5: This actress and sister of actress Jennifer made her debut as a novelist with 1994's "Singing Songs". * Meg Tilly.

Round 5. Category: Memoirs * 1: He gets right to the point, the ear point, in "I Am Spock". * Leonard Nimoy. * 2: She tells of life before and after Burt in "My Life in High Heels". * Loni Anderson. * 3: Her book is "After All", after all, her show's theme song ended "You're gonna make it after all". * Mary Tyler Moore. * 4: "Palimpsest" is "A Memoir" by this "Burr" author. * Gore Vidal. * 5: "A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures" is by this former Washington Post editor. * Ben Bradlee.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 446, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Celebrity Spouses * 1: Joanne Woodward. * Paul Newman. * 2: Lauren Holly. * Jim Carrey. * 3: Meg Ryan. * Dennis Quaid. * 4: Rita Wilson. * Tom Hanks. * 5: Iman. * David Bowie.

Round 2. Category: Where Are You "At"? * 1: You ran the light and are liable for causing the accident, so you're said to be this. * at fault. * 2: You're no longer at attention, and are now permitted to scratch yourself. * at ease. * 3: You're out of patience, or in the position of a lassoed steer. * at the end of your rope/at your rope's end. * 4: You're being sold below cost, or you're perplexed. * at a loss. * 5: You're helpless before someone; in his power. * at his/her mercy.

Round 3. Category: Tv Catch Phrases * 1: "Nanu, Nanu" and "Shazbat" were Orkan words frequently heard on this sitcom. * Mork and Mindy. * 2: On "The Addams Family", he would enter and croak, "You rang?". * Lurch. * 3: On this game show, answers were checked against what the "Survey Says!". * Family Feud. * 4: As Arnold Jackson on "Diff'rent Strokes", he asked, "What you talkin' about, Willis?". * Gary Coleman. * 5: She signed off "NBC News Overnight" with "And so it goes". * Linda Ellerbee.

Round 4. Category: Best Picture Oscar Winners * 1: Riff and Bernardo lead 2 warring gangs in New York City in this 1961 musical. * West Side Story. * 2: This Oscar winner starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert was based on a cosmopolitan short story titled "Night Bus". * It Happened One Night. * 3: Mel Gibson won Oscars for producing and directing this 1995 Best Picture. * Braveheart. * 4: This Best Picture winner for 2006 is Martin Scorsese's highest-grossing film to date. * The Departed. * 5: Inmates at the Oregon State Mental Hospital played extras in this 1975 Oscar winner. * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Round 5. Category: Snowy Songs * 1: This guy "knew that the sun was out that day, so he said, 'let's run and have some fun now before I melt away'". * Frosty the Snowman. * 2: Title that follows "the fire is slowly dying, and, my dear, we're still goodbye-ing, but as long as you love me so...". * "Let It Snow (Let It Snow, Let It Snow)". * 3: He "looked out on the feast of Stephen, when the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even". * Good King Wenceslas. * 4: "In the lane snow is glistening, a beautiful sight, we're happy tonight" in this place. * a winter wonderland. * 5: In "I'll be home for Christmas", "please have" these 2 rhyming items "and presents on the tree". * snow and mistletoe.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 445, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Giants * 1: I Samuel says the metal head of his spear weighed 600 shekels, or about 15 pounds. * Goliath. * 2: Cormoran, a Cornish giant, was felled by this famous giant killer. * Jack. * 3: In "Jack and the Beanstalk", Jack stole from the giant a little brown hen that laid these. * golden eggs. * 4: This Ted Hughes kids' book creation loves eating barbed wire and rusty chains. * the Iron Giant. * 5: After Hermes slew this 100-eyed giant, the 100 eyes were placed on the tail of the peacock. * Argus.

Round 2. Category: Crosses * 1: A crusader's white cross on a field of red, used by a canton in the 13th century, became this country's flag. * Switzerland. * 2: In England this game is called noughts and crosses. * tic-tac-toe. * 3: The Chi-Rho cross is formed from the first 2 letters of his title in Greek. * Jesus. * 4: The St. Andrew's cross resembles this math sign. * multiplication. * 5: The Crux Ansata, a tau cross with a loop on top, is known as this to Egyptians. * ankh.

Round 3. Category: A World Of Pirates * 1: The costumes for this 1991 Steven Spielberg film included 350 pirate outfits for the extras alone. * Hook. * 2: Later dictator, this Roman was kidnapped by pirates while on a journey to Rhodes around 75 B.C.. * Julius Caesar. * 3: In 1815 Washington Irving planned to join Stephen Decatur on an expedition against these north African pirates. * Barbary Pirates. * 4: Born around 1645, this pirate captain was sent to England for trial and hanged in 1701. * Captain Kidd. * 5: Kevin Kline won a Tony Award for his role in this swashbuckling Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. * The Pirates of Penzance.

Round 4. Category: The "End" * 1: It means to make a change to something, especially to the Constitution. * amend. * 2: It's to grasp mentally; understand?. * comprehend. * 3: This Indiana city is home to the College Football Hall of Fame. * South Bend. * 4: It's a bonus paid by a company to its stockholders, often on a quarterly basis. * dividend. * 5: Take a suspect into custody. * apprehend.

Round 5. Category: Hit Tunes * 1: "Where The Streets Have No Name","With Or Without You". * U2. * 2: "Angel","Building A Mystery". * Sarah McLachlan. * 3: This Bob Carlisle ballad about watching his daughter grow was a surprise hit in 1997. * "Butterfly Kisses". * 4: "How's It Going to Be","Semi-Charmed Life". * Third Eye Blind. * 5: On the sound track of "Nothing to Lose", it's when Coolio will "C U". * When U Get There.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 444, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "B"Eople * 1: On June 1, 2000 this governor stayed an execution for the first time; he had let over 130 go off normally. * George W. Bush (when he was governor of Texas). * 2: He joined "60 Minutes" during the 1981-'82 season. * Ed Bradley. * 3: Former NFL great Esiason. * Boomer. * 4: Seen here, he's a Democrat and the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. * Joe Biden. * 5: With 82% of the vote, she was elected Chicago's first female mayor in 1979 and led the city for 4 years. * Jane Byrne.

Round 2. Category: "Short" Stuff * 1: Raspberry Tart, Apple Dumplin' and Lemon Meringue are characters in this line of dolls. * Strawberry Shortcake. * 2: "Hams" broadcast via this. * shortwave radio. * 3: In this 1995 film in which John Travolta played mob enforcer Chili Palmer, the real Palmer had a cameo. * Get Shorty. * 4: Myopic. * short-sighted. * 5: In 1927 court reporter Martin Dupraw used this to take testimony at the rate of 282 words per minute. * shorthand.

Round 3. Category: Iowans * 1: Born in Iowa in 1907, he starred in "Rio Lobo", "Rio Bravo" and "Rio Grande". * John Wayne. * 2: Prior to marrying Roseanne, this man from Ottumwa worked as a ham packer at a Hormel plant. * Tom Arnold. * 3: Des Moines' Marilyn Maye sang 76 times, more than anyone else on the talk show of this man born in Corning. * Johnny Carson. * 4: Iowan Meredith Willson wrote this 1957 musical set in River City, Iowa. * The Music Man. * 5: Burlingtonian best remembered for playing TV's Fred Mertz. * William "Bub" Frawley.

Round 4. Category: If You're Going To Do It... * 1: As a Swiss Guard, today you are responsible for the safety of this one person. * John Paul II (the Pope). * 2: To score 2 points at once in pro football the offense has a 2-point conversion and the defense has this. * a safety. * 3: To know the truth of the Matrix, take this color pill. * the red pill. * 4: You mix, then heat, lime, silica, alumina and iron oxide with gypsum to create the Portland type of this. * cement. * 5: To read the Mahabharata in its original language you have to know this one. * Sanskrit.

Round 5. Category: Say It "Aint" So * 1: To lose consciousness abruptly is to do this. * Faint. * 2: It covers the walls. * Paint. * 3: An extremely virtuous person, especially after canonization. * Saint. * 4: To contaminate or morally corrupt is to do this. * Taint. * 5: In other words, odd in an old-fashioned sort of way. * Quaint.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 443, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Singers And Their Roles

  • 1: When Sonny gets blue, he can think of "Good Times", the film in which he and this partner played themselves.
  • Cher.
  • 2: On stage, he was Ziggy Stardust, the king of space rock, and on film, an alien in "The Man Who Fell to Earth".
  • David Bowie.
  • 3: She earned an Oscar nomination for starring in "The Rose" and an Emmy nomination for playing Mama Rose in "Gypsy".
  • Bette Midler.
  • 4: She was the Acid Queen in "Tommy" and Auntie Entity in "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome".
  • Tina Turner.
  • 5: He made 2 films, "Come September" and "That Funny Feeling", with his wife, Sandra Dee.
  • Bobby Darin.

Round 2. Category: Right On The Money

  • 1: The current $2 bill features Thomas Jefferson on the front and the signing of this document on the back.
  • the Declaration of Independence.
  • 2: The 2004 silver dollar honoring Thomas Edison was inscribed on the reverse side, "125th anniversary of" this invention.
  • the light bulb.
  • 3: This cabinet department's seal appears on all U.S. paper currency.
  • Treasury.
  • 4: Federal Reserve notes bear the statement "This note is legal tender for all" these, "public and private".
  • debts.
  • 5: Bills printed in 2008 bear the signatures of Anna Cabral, U.S. Treasurer, and Henry Paulson, this official.
  • Secretary of the Treasury.

Round 3. Category: Group Therapy

  • 1: A group of students at the same grade level.
  • Class.
  • 2: A group that meets for a common purpose; Groucho wouldn't join one that would have him as a member.
  • Club.
  • 3: The Mistick Krewe of Comus has been participating in parades in this city since 1857.
  • New Orleans.
  • 4: alt.tv.game-shows is one of these "groups" in which you may find comments on this clue tomorrow.
  • Newsgroup.
  • 5: Wolfe and over 999 others are part of this group in the St. Lawrence.
  • Thousand Islands.

Round 4. Category: Musical Matters

  • 1: At age 14 Wynton Marsalis performed Haydn's concerto for this instrument.
  • trumpet.
  • 2: The Dixie Chicks' first CD had the rhyming title "Thank Heavens for" this TV cowgirl.
  • Dale Evans.
  • 3: It sounds like a small trench around a castle, but it was the major type of late medieval composition.
  • motet.
  • 4: The 19th century composer of the following, he basically wrote for only one instrument.
  • Frederic Chopin.
  • 5: James Blake, who wrote the song "I'm Just Wild About Harry", was better known by this nickname.
  • Eubie.

Round 5. Category: Kenya Feel The Love

  • 1: Kenya's official languages are English and this one, whose name means "people of the coast".
  • Swahili.
  • 2: Traditionally, the nomadic Masai of Kenya live almost entirely on their herds of these.
  • cattle.
  • 3: At over 17,000 feet, Mount Kenya is eclipsed by only this other peak as the highest in Africa.
  • Kilimanjaro.
  • 4: To the southwest, Kenya borders this 27,000-square-mile body of water.
  • Lake Victoria.
  • 5: Now the chief port of Kenya, Mombasa was visited by this Portuguese explorer in 1498.
  • (Vasco) da Gama.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 442, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Mystery Meat * 1: Tournedos. * beef. * 2: A specially trained butcher known as a shochet is required to prepare meat to this religious standard. * kosher. * 3: Scrapple. * pork. * 4: Scrapple. * pork. * 5: Hasenpfeffer. * rabbit.

Round 2. Category: My Fantasy Football Team * 1: You should have heard my "boo-yah!" in 2004 when Shaun Alexander scored his NFL-leading 20th of these. * a touchdown. * 2: Straight-up swap at this position, Roethlisberger for Culpepper... what do you say?. * quarterback. * 3: I'm glad I traded for this flamboyant receiver who went from Frisco to Philly in 2004. * Terrell Owens. * 4: I'm expecting a few long ones from the well-named Ryan Longwell, a regular at this position. * kicker. * 5: Letting go of this Rams back with almost 12,000 career rushing yards could come back to haunt me. * Marshall Faulk.

Round 3. Category: Celebrity Roommates * 1: Robert Duvall, Gene Hackman and this "Graduate" all lived together and all later won Oscars -- must've been the water. * Dustin Hoffman. * 2: Until Henry Fonda got married, he lived with this actor -- what a "Wonderful Life". * Jimmy Stewart. * 3: TV's "Mr. Peepers", he was one of tough guy Marlon Brando's roommates. * Wally Cox. * 4: Seen here, this actor got his stage name when college roomie Stanley Tucci said, "You don't look like an Irving". * Ving Rhames. * 5: The Coens wrote "Raising Arizona" for Holly Hunter after this roommate of hers got the lead in "Blood Simple". * Frances McDormand.

Round 4. Category: The Abcs Of The Cdc * 1: In 1992 the CDC added this word to its name to reflect its broader role, but didn't add "P" to its initials. * Prevention. * 2: The CDC says this form of cancer, which includes melanoma, is the most common in the U.S.. * Skin cancer. * 3: At its inception in 1946, the CDC fought this mosquito-borne disease that was prevalent in the South at the time. * Malaria. * 4: In 1981 the first cases of this disease were published in the CDC's "Morbidity And Mortality Weekly Report". * AIDS. * 5: The CDC is an agency of this department of the federal government. * Health and Human Services.

Round 5. Category: No. 1 Hits * 1: In 1986 she topped the charts with "How Will I Know" and "The Greatest Love of All". * Whitney Houston. * 2: 1984s "The Reflex" was this band's first No. 1 song in the U.S.; "Hungry Like The Wolf" peaked at No. 3. * Duran Duran. * 3: This singer was habit-forming with his 1986 hit "Addicted To Love". * Robert Palmer. * 4: The movie "Buster" starred this singer and drummer, who hit No. 1 with "Two Hearts", the movie's theme. * Phil Collins. * 5: No. 1 songs from her "Forever Your Girl" album include the title track and "Cold Hearted". * Paula Abdul.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 441, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Crusades * 1: Peter the Hermit, like Sancho Panza, rode one of these animals through France rousing the peasants. * Donkey. * 2: Some orders of these were Teutonic, Templar and of St. John. * Knights. * 3: This king of England was a leader of the Third Crusade. * Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted). * 4: Kings Baldwin I and II were Christian rulers of this holy Mideastern city. * Jerusalem. * 5: During the third Crusade, Saladin, sultan of Egypt and Syria, made this Syrian city his headquarters. * Damascus.

Round 2. Category: Colleges And Universities * 1: The Museum of Art at Bowdoin College in this state has works by Winslow Homer and related memorabilia. * Maine. * 2: This state university's medical center has campuses in New Orleans and Shreveport. * LSU (Louisiana State). * 3: Florida Institute of Technology is sometimes called "Countdown College" from its proximity to this site. * Cape Canaveral. * 4: This college has 3 representatives in the Irish senate. * Trinity College. * 5: This Low Country's oldest university is the State University of Leiden, founded in 1575. * the Netherlands.

Round 3. Category: He Was In That? * 1: Before playing Cliff on "Cheers", John Ratzenberger appeared as Major Derlin in this second "Star Wars" film. * The Empire Strikes Back. * 2: In 1961 this future "Jeopardy!" announcer hit the big screen in "Gidget Goes Hawaiian". * Johnny Gilbert. * 3: Mr. C on "Happy Days", he played the man Natalie Wood's parents want her to marry in "Love with the Proper Stranger". * Tom Bosley. * 4: This boxing champ played a bartender in "The Hustler", and that's no "Raging Bull". * (Jake) LaMotta. * 5: Before "Starsky and Hutch", Paul Michael Glaser played Perchik in this movie musical (Hint: Topol got top billing). * Fiddler on the Roof.

Round 4. Category: The Ocean Blue * 1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Michael Newman of "Baywatch") It's the Japanese term for seismic sea waves, sometimes 100 feet high, that can bring lots of tsuris". * Tsunami. * 2: It may go plankton-crustacean-herring-haddock and be only as strong as its weakest link. * Food chain. * 3: The extension of a land mass to about 500' underwater; it gives way to the Continental Slope. * Continental Shelf. * 4: The photic zone is the upper ocean layer, with enough sunlight to allow this plant process. * Photosynthesis. * 5: As you'd expect, they're the 2 most abundant chemical elements in the dissolved solids found in seawater. * Sodium and chlorine.

Round 5. Category: 1980 * 1: In "Swanson On Swanson", Gloria claimed she had a love affair with this father of a president. * Joseph Kennedy. * 2: Pres. Carter signed a bill granting $1.5 billion in loan guarantees to this company. * Chrysler. * 3: The IRS said the cost of maintaining a cat trained to alert these people to possible dangers is tax deductible. * the deaf. * 4: FBI agents posed as foreign businessmen in this investigation that implicated 8 congressmen. * ABSCAM. * 5: Due to their unpopularity the U.S. Mint stopped making them, temporarily, less than a year after their introduction. * the Susan B. Anthony dollar coins.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 440, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tough Nursery Rhymes * 1: An early version had 4 and 20 naughty boys in a pie; it was changed to these feathered friends. * Blackbirds. * 2: According to the rhyme, she had a little crook. * Little Bo Peep. * 3: Webster's defines this 6-letter word as a low seat; Chambers' defines it as a mound. * Tuffet. * 4: "These two fruits, say the bells of St. Clemon's". * Oranges and Lemons. * 5: Completes "As your bright and tiny spark lights the traveler in the dark, though I know not what you are". * "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star".

Round 2. Category: Hold It * 1: Gunny comes from the Sanskrit for this container, so it's redundant when followed by it. * Sack. * 2: A small box to hold tea leaves, or a person who carries another container, a golf bag. * Caddy. * 3: A silo--but for this, only since the mid-20th century. * nuclear missiles. * 4: A metal scuttle. * coal. * 5: A jerrycan in WWII Britain (danger: flammable). * gasoline (or petrol).

Round 3. Category: Architecture * 1: Italian high-tech architect Renzo Piano co-designed this city's celebrated Pompidou Center. * Paris. * 2: A flight is a series of these unbroken by a landing. * stairs. * 3: At each end, a pitched roof has one of these triangles, from an Old English word meaning "fork". * a gable. * 4: Some living rooms feature these high ceilings named for a type of church. * cathedral. * 5: This Swiss man who used a pseudonym was known for houses on stilts like the Savoye house in Poissy. * Le Corbusier.

Round 4. Category: Flinchius The Gladiator * 1: Because he speaks Latin, Flinchius knows that "gladiator" means a "man of" this weapon. * sword. * 2: Flinchius covers his eyes when the crowd determines his fate by displaying this digit. * a thumb. * 3: Flinchius calls it his office, but it's the better known name for the Flavian amphitheater where he fights. * the Colosseum. * 4: Flinchius never quite got a handle on this 3-pronged weapon that was a favorite of the god Neptune. * the trident. * 5: With his chariot payments, Flinchius is glad this first Christian emperor failed to ban gladiator bouts. * Constantine.

Round 5. Category: Executive Perks * 1: From 1997 to 2001 Tyson Foods paid 84,000 of green to care for this area at the homes of its chairman. * the lawn. * 2: In "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?", Tony Randall's goal is to get the key to this executive sanctum. * the executive washroom. * 3: An exec might be kept happy with a membership in one of these, like Winged Foot. * a country club (or a golf club). * 4: A book helping women get ahead is called "Nice Girls Don't Get" this desirably positioned workspace. * the corner office. * 5: The right to buy a certain number of shares of the company you work for for a certain price at a certain time. * a stock option.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 439, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Language Of Sport * 1: Full-court press. * basketball. * 2: No holds barred. * wrestling. * 3: To be stumped, sticky wicket. * cricket. * 4: Down and out. * boxing. * 5: Ground rules. * baseball.

Round 2. Category: History * 1: In 1493 he reached Montserrat in the West Indies and named it for a Spanish mountain. * Christopher Columbus. * 2: The U.S. arsenal at this Shenandoah Valley location was raided October 16, 1859. * Harper's Ferry. * 3: Mode of protest used by Emmeline Pankhurst and Mohandas Gandhi while in jail. * hunger strike. * 4: WWII ended when Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945 in a ceremony presided over by this general. * Douglas MacArthur. * 5: In 1858, the Brittish government took over the rule of India from this company. * the East India Company.

Round 3. Category: Continental Congress Presidents * 1: He was president from May 24, 1775 to October 29, 1777. * John Hancock. * 2: Peyton Randolph, the first president, brought the meetings to order in this city. * Philadelphia. * 3: While still a delegate, Richard Henry Lee offered the June 7, 1776 resolution that led to this document. * Declaration of Independence. * 4: Cyrus Griffin, the last president, went on to be one of the judges at this man's treason trial. * Aaron Burr. * 5: John Hanson is considered by some the first U.S. president, as he was the first to serve under these. * Articles of Confederation.

Round 4. Category: "D" Facto * 1: A scandal about a necklace made from these was disastrous for the popularity of Marie Antoinette. * diamonds. * 2: This member of the Rat Pack became a Vaudeville performer at age 3. * Sammy Davis, Jr.. * 3: In January 1959 he assumed the presidency of France's Fifth Republic. * De Gaulle. * 4: You can drive past the grassy knoll in this Dallas, Texas plaza. * Dealey Plaza. * 5: American forces crossed this on Christmas Night 1776 to launch their surprise attack on the Hessians. * the Delaware River.

Round 5. Category: Super Heroes * 1: His theme was the following:. * Mighty Mouse. * 2: He's been played by Reeves and Reeve. * Superman. * 3: Still seen in Thanksgiving parades, Wally Cox gave this hero his voice. * Underdog. * 4: His archenemy, Dr. Sivana, nicknamed him "The Big Red Cheese". * Captain Marvel. * 5: Originally Reed Richards, his wife Sue, The Human Torch and The Thing. * The Fantastic Four.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 438, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The New York Times Crossword Clues

  • 1: 55 down:Flying mammals(4).
  • bats.
  • 2: 47 down:Indian prince(5).
  • rajah.
  • 3: 64 across:Gardener's need(4).
  • hose.
  • 4: 43 down:Big citrus fruit(6).
  • pomelo.
  • 5: 52 across:What the queasy rodeo rider didn't feel like(1,7,5).
  • a million bucks.

Round 2. Category: All About Teeth

  • 1: People are often willing to "give" these for something they greatly desire.
  • your eye teeth.
  • 2: It's the 3-word term for fighting or going at something with great ferocity.
  • tooth-and-nail.
  • 3: From the Greek for "straight teeth" it's the dental specialty that makes them that way.
  • orthodontics.
  • 4: These teeth have 3-5 cusps and 2 or 3 roots.
  • the molars.
  • 5: From the Latin for "to cut", it's a tooth adapted for cutting.
  • the incisor.

Round 3. Category: Familiar Numbers

  • 1: A popular board game instructs, "Do not pass Go. Do not collect" this amount of money.
  • $200.
  • 2: Title number of "Blows" in a 1959 Jean-Pierre Leaud film.
  • 400.
  • 3: "Boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell" rode this Tennyson number.
  • the 600.
  • 4: Call toll-free to name this No. of Norse warriors that could pass side-by-side through a door in mythical Valhalla.
  • 800.
  • 5: In a recurring sketch, Conan O'Brien predicts the future "In the year" this.
  • 2000.

Round 4. Category: Fruit Bowl

  • 1: Casaba,Cantaloupe,Honeydew.
  • Melons.
  • 2: Asian and Anjou.
  • pears.
  • 3: Bosc,Comice,Asian.
  • Pears.
  • 4: Lambert,Amarelle,Duke.
  • Cherries.
  • 5: Donut and Elberta.
  • peaches.

Round 5. Category: Ends In "Ook"

  • 1: It's cranny's partner, or a cozy corner for eating breakfast.
  • Nook.
  • 2: Gibberish, or mumbo jumbo.
  • Gobbledygook.
  • 3: For over 40 years this actor has brought Mark Twain to life in a one-man show.
  • Hal Holbrook.
  • 4: This one's a breeze: it's the largest of the Pacific salmons.
  • Chinook.
  • 5: As a result of this scandal, in 1992 H. Lawrence Garrett 3rd stepped down as Navy Secretary.
  • Tailhook.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 437, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: In The Thesaurus * 1: If Jefferson had a thesaurus, he could have written of "The Pursuit of Oblectation" instead of this. * Happiness. * 2: This word or a "flight of" it is a common synonym for "imagination". * Fancy. * 3: On the road, it's on triangular signs; in the thesaurus, it's listed with "submit" and "kowtow". * Yield. * 4: "Cretaceous" and "lactescent" are fancy ways of describing this color. * White. * 5: 5-letter synonym for "maledict" or "swear". * Curse.

Round 2. Category: "Sea" Duty * 1: To get these is to gain the ability to walk around on a moving ship. * sea legs. * 2: Aquatic critter of the genus Hippocampus. * seahorse. * 3: Hardtack. * seabiscuit. * 4: U.S. Navy construction battalion. * the Seabees. * 5: In "The Tempest", Ariel sings of this type of substantial transformation. * a sea-change.

Round 3. Category: They Do Good Work * 1: It's the small independent state that's headquarters to the aid group Caritas Internationalis. * the Vatican. * 2: In 2004 Pitt alumna Wangari Maathai became the first woman from this continent to win the Nobel Peace Prize. * Africa. * 3: The Louisville-based factory named for these tries to make them come true for very ill children. * dreams. * 4: It's not just doctors--there are now groups called teachers, builders and clowns "without" these. * borders. * 5: Charles Dole helped create the Army's 10th Mountain Division and this "National" winter rescue organization. * the National Ski Patrol.

Round 4. Category: Colors En Español * 1: To be "en numeros rojos" means to be in this color. * red. * 2: In kids' drawings el sol is amarillo, this color. * yellow. * 3: As its name says, salsa verde is made with chiles and tomatillos that are this color. * green. * 4: Azul, this color, can be marino or celeste. * blue. * 5: Spanish painter Juan Gris has a last name that means this color. * gray.

Round 5. Category: How Touching! * 1: It's good luck to touch a bronze statue of a turtle named Testudo at this East Coast school. * University of Maryland. * 2: It's the usual name for the kind of zoo where you can stroke-- and sometimes even feed--young animals. * a petting zoo. * 3: Literally French for "touched", this expression indicates a hit in fencing. * touché. * 4: When Sir Walter Scott wrote, "Have I not licked the black stone of that ancient castle?" he meant this fabled object. * the Blarney Stone. * 5: It's been reported that the Elle Macpherson figure in this London museum was attracting gropers. * Madame Tussauds.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 436, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cinema * 1: A clause in Orson Welles' RKO contract prevents Ted Turner from colorizing this 1941 film. * "Citizen Kane". * 2: It was the 2nd film in the "Star Wars" trilogy. * "The Empire Strikes Back". * 3: Vangelis' theme from this 1981 British film took a record 21 weeks on the charts to reach No. 1. * "Chariots of Fire". * 4: Herbert Marshall played this author in "The Moon and Sixpence" and "The Razor's Edge". * Somerset Maugham. * 5: It completes the title of the 1973 film "No Sex Please,...". * "We're British".

Round 2. Category: While John Paul I Was Pope * 1: Sadat sat down to begin talks with Begin and Carter at this U.S. site September 6, 1978. * Camp David. * 2: He regained the heavyweight title from the man he had lost it to in February -- Leon Spinks. * Muhammad Ali. * 3: In an Aug. 30, 1978 press conference he said the Chevy Vega's gas tanks were just as dangerous as the Ford Pinto's. * Ralph Nader. * 4: For 1978 tennis' U.S. Open moved from Forest Hills to a new home at this "meadow". * Flushing Meadow. * 5: Olafur Johannesson became this island's P.M. and promptly devalued its currency. * Iceland.

Round 3. Category: Ends In An F Sound * 1: Walter Reed's is "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever". * Epitaph. * 2: Golfers who hit the ball outside of the fairway land in this area of higher grass. * Rough. * 3: In "The Merchant of Venice", Shylock asks, "If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not" do this. * Laugh. * 4: A naiad was one of these mythological creatures who prophesied and watched over rivers and streams. * Nymph. * 5: Home to the Welsh Folk Museum, it was once known as the "Coal Metropolis of the World". * Cardiff.

Round 4. Category: There's No Business * 1: The power went out on this Houston company when it declared bankruptcy in December 2001. * Enron. * 2: This airline's "Friendly Skies" were darkened by its Dec. 2002 bankruptcy. * United Airlines. * 3: In Jan. 2002 this undersea fiber optic telecom co. founded by Gary Winnick sank beneath the bankruptcy waves. * Global Crossing. * 4: $11 billion in alleged fraud might've played a tiny part in this long-distance co.'s July 2002 bankruptcy. * WorldCom. * 5: Conspiracy and fraud led to a June 2002 "reorganization" of this cable co. led by the Rigas family. * Adelphia.

Round 5. Category: Tv Guide * 1: (Hi, I'm Renee Jones from "Days of our Lives") I made my acting debut on this TV series about a white basketball coach at a tough inner-city school. * The White Shadow. * 2: Nancy Cartwright is over 30 years older than this animated son of Marge she voices. * Bart Simpson. * 3: This animated series based on a Scott Adams comic strip premiered on UPN in 1999. * Dilbert. * 4: The February 27, 1965 issue featured the womenfolk of this series. * The Beverly Hillbillies. * 5: In the 1970s, a lot of viewers were suckers for this crime series whose stars are pictured here. * Kojak.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 435, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Pepper" * 1: Pizza lovers should know that this topping is actually a highly seasoned sausage made of pork and beef. * pepperoni. * 2: She first called Charlie Brown "Chuck" in a comic strip that appeared on August 24, 1966. * Peppermint Patty. * 3: In 1962 this baking company added Goldfish crackers to its product line. * Pepperidge Farm. * 4: In the 1967 hit "Jackson", Johnny Cash and June Carter sang, "We got married in a fever, hotter than" 1 of these. * a pepper sprout. * 5: On "Police Woman" Angie Dickinson played a cop with this name (which made her sound like a Beatles album). * Sgt. Pepper.

Round 2. Category: Tv Demises * 1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Dan Cortese) As Jess Hanson on this series, I fell to my death in a scuffle with my brother, Grant Show". * "Melrose Place". * 2: This series' Det. Chin Ho Kelly was killed off in 1978, vainly waiting to hear "Book 'em, Chin Ho!". * Hawaii Five-O. * 3: In a 1980 revamping, the sands ran through the hourglass for 3 characters on this soap. * "Days Of Our Lives". * 4: Sitcom character whose fiancee Susan died from licking toxic envelope glue. * George Costanza ("Seinfeld"). * 5: This McLean Stevenson character perished in the last "MAS*H" of the 1974-75 season. * Henry Blake.

Round 3. Category: South American Geography * 1: Punta Pariñas, South America's westernmost mainland point, lies in this Country's Talara province. * Peru. * 2: Among these natural features in Bolivia, Poopo lies southeast of Titicaca. * Lakes. * 3: This country has coastlines on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. * Colombia. * 4: The area between the Uruguay and Parana Rivers, or the ancient region between the Tigris and Euphrates. * Mesopotamia. * 5: Parinas Point on Peru's Pacific coast is this geographic extreme of South America. * Westernmost point.

Round 4. Category: Tv Sidekicks * 1: Tonto. * the Lone Ranger. * 2: Pokey. * Gumby. * 3: Squiggy. * Lenny. * 4: Maynard G. Krebs. * Dobie Gillis. * 5: Gabrielle, a young peasant girl and wannabe warrior. * Xena, the Warrior Princess.

Round 5. Category: Little Rock * 1: Little Rock is this state's capital. * Arkansas. * 2: In 1979, at age 32, he moved into the governor's mansion in Little Rock. * Bill Clinton. * 3: In 1957 Gov. Faubus tried to prevent this in Little Rock's Central High. * Integration. * 4: This national frozen yogurt chain was founded in Little Rock and has a big tower there. * TCBY (The Country's Best Yogurt). * 5: The old mill at Lakeshore Dr. and Fairway Ave. was used in the opening of this 1939 film. * Gone With The Wind.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 434, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Political Life * 1: Proverbially, to indicate one's candidacy is to throw one's hat here. * In the ring. * 2: An officeholder during the interval before a successor takes over is known as one of these limping birds. * Lame duck. * 3: From the Latin for "to be away", this type of ballot is a vote cast by mail, not at a polling place. * Absentee. * 4: Term for the speech at a convention that sets the tone and outlines the main issues. * Keynote speech. * 5: From the Latin for "grow together", it's an alliance of different groups for a specific cause. * Coalition.

Round 2. Category: Hospitals * 1: This Rochester, Minnesota clinic is around 15 million square feet, about 3 times the size of the Mall of America. * the Mayo Clinic. * 2: Sylvia Plath worked as a secretary at this hospital, MGH for short. * Massachusetts General Hospital. * 3: This city's Johns Hopkins hospital opened on May 7, 1889; today, it's part of a $5 billion medical system. * Baltimore. * 4: This city's Johns Hopkins hospital opened on May 7, 1889; today, it's part of a $5 billion medical system. * Baltimore. * 5: Known for its mental health facilities, this NYC hospital was founded in 1736, 4 years after George Washington's birth. * Bellevue.

Round 3. Category: Drunk On Words * 1: Strangely, Ben Franklin's list of over 200 synonyms for "drunk" omits "As high as" one of these. * Kite. * 2: This 2-word expression is often followed by "Like a Christmas tree". * Lit up. * 3: Now meaning "sleepy", this term once described sailors knocked out on watered-down rum. * Groggy. * 4: This term compares a tipsy person to a recently stuccoed wall. * Plastered. * 5: "Bombed" came into slang usage for drunk before this other adjective inspired by the Luftwaffe. * Blitzed.

Round 4. Category: "Show" * 1: Each child brings something to school and informs the other kids about it in this activity. * show and tell. * 2: A judicial proceeding with a predetermined outcome held for propaganda purposes. * show trial. * 3: A part of a performance receiving so much prolonged applause it interrupts the program. * show stopper. * 4: A producer of a TV show who supervises most of the aspects of production. * show runner. * 5: Official nickname of the entity that joined the United States on August 10, 1821. * "Show-Me State" (Missouri).

Round 5. Category: Striking * 1: Abbreviated the WGA, this entertainment union went on strike in 1981, 1985 and 1988. * Writers Guild of America. * 2: A major 1970 strike by federal employees in this "service" helped change it to an independent gov't agency. * U.S. Postal Service. * 3: International Women's Day on March 8 honors a famous 1857 strike began by textile workers in this city. * New York City. * 4: In 1892 a workers' strike at this steel magnate's Homestead, Penn. plant led to several injuries and deaths. * Andrew Carnegie. * 5: In May of 1926, unions in this nation banded together and quit work in support of striking coal miners. * Great Britain.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 433, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: It Happened In Texas * 1: Uh-oh! In 1878 outlaw Sam Bass was betrayed by one of his own men to this group. * the Texas Rangers. * 2: Founded as a Franciscan mission in 1718, Mission San Antonio de Valero became better-known in history under this name. * the Alamo. * 3: On Nov. 25, 1981, she gave birth to twins in Dallas. * Laura Bush. * 4: He was deposed as Governor of Texas in 1861 because he wouldn't swear allegiance to the Confederacy. * (Sam) Houston. * 5: In March 1929 this pilot inaugurated the airmail service between Brownsville, Texas and Mexico. * Charles Lindbergh.

Round 2. Category: Rock And Roll Jeopardy! * 1: David Keith, Kurt Russell and Don Johnson have all portrayed this singer on film. * Elvis Presley. * 2: The 1976 concert film "The Song Remains the Same" starred this "Stairway to Heaven" group. * Led Zeppelin. * 3: This 1982 Michael Jackson album has sold 25 million copies. * Thriller. * 4: This Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist plays on Mick Jagger's "Wandering Spirit". * Flea. * 5: Acclaimed playwright Israel Horovitz is the father of Adam Horovitz, AKA this group's King Ad-Rock. * The Beastie Boys.

Round 3. Category: Planets On Earth * 1: Drive through the village of Mercury in the Rhone-Alpes region of this country. * France. * 2: There is life in Mars, 30 miles from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers in this state. * Pennsylvania. * 3: If you're driving through Jupiter, catch a show at the maltz Jupiter theatre in this state. * Florida. * 4: The seas of Neptune are long gone, replaced by the prairies near its captital, Regina, in this Canadian province. * Saskatchewan. * 5: Though not large enough to be an official planet, Pluto resides on this largest Philippine Island. * Luzon.

Round 4. Category: March Of Time * 1: Once home to Al Capone and a birdman, it closed its cell doors March 21, 1963. * Alcatraz. * 2: On March 25, 1957 6 countries signed the Treaty of Rome to form this, the EEC. * European Economic Community. * 3: This city's Bakerloo subway line opened March 10, 1906. * London. * 4: The U.S. voted against joining this organization March 19, 1920; today we're here and it isn't. * League of Nations. * 5: On March 1, 1954 the U.S. conducted the first of a series of hydrogen bomb tests on this Pacific atoll. * Bikini Atoll.

Round 5. Category: "Oo" 7-Letter Words * 1: Head and ShouldersorPrell. * shampoo. * 2: Frank Sinatra was often described as this type of smooth-singing balladeer. * a crooner. * 3: In this billiards game, players have 15 red balls to shoot as well as 6 balls of other colors. * snooker. * 4: It's the scientific study of animals. * zoology. * 5: This slang word meaning "scat!" or "leave quickly" comes from the Spanish for "let us go". * vamoose.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 432, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Art And Artists * 1: This term for a painting of inanimate objects is from the Dutch "stilleven". * Still life. * 2: In 1956 Time magazine dubbed this abstract expressionist "Jack the Dripper". * Pollock. * 3: Masterpieces in this Manhattan museum include "Starry Night" and "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". * Museum of Modern Art. * 4: Known for his religious art, Sebastien Bourdon served as court painter to this queen of Sweden in the 1650s. * Christina. * 5: This Romanian known for his "Endless Column" also sculpted the scandalous "Princess X". * (Constantin) Brancusi.

Round 2. Category: Washington State * 1: This dam on the Columbia River has a generating capacity of nearly 6.5 million kilowatts. * Grand Coulee Dam. * 2: Whidbey Island is the largest of the many islands in this inlet. * Puget Sound. * 3: The portrait of Washington on the state seal is from a portrait by this artist. * (Gilbert) Stuart. * 4: In 1962 Seattle got one of the first elevated ones of these in a U.S. city; it carried people to the World's Fair. * a monorail. * 5: An 1846 treaty set Washington's northern boundary at the 49th parallel; but Britain got to keep this island. * Vancouver.

Round 3. Category: Double D Words * 1: Colby is a mild variety of this cheese. * cheddar. * 2: It follows step-, corporate and Jacob's. * ladder. * 3: Siddhartha Gautama's title. * Buddha. * 4: It can mean the mean, or the waist. * the middle. * 5: This little bear of children's lit was named for the London locale in which he was found. * Paddington.

Round 4. Category: Celebrities' Favorite Books * 1: (I'm Jack Ford.) I couldn't choose just one; my favorite books are "Trinity", Leon Uris' novel of Ireland, and this Margaret Mitchell novel with an Irish-American heroine. * Gone with the Wind. * 2: (Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) John Kennedy Toole committed suicide, unable to find a publisher for this satiric novel that later won a Pulitzer Prize. * A Confederacy of Dunces. * 3: Lauren Bacall said his "All The Pretty Horses" was "the most beautiful writing I have read in years". * Cormac McCarthy. * 4: A fan of history books and bios, Lucille Ball said one of her favorites was James Boswell's "Life of" this man. * (Samuel) Johnson. * 5: (Former President Clinton presents the clue.) My favorite work of nonfiction is the "Meditations" of this Roman emperor who used his stoic philosophy to face the troubles of his reign in his own life. * Marcus Aurelius.

Round 5. Category: The Starting Infield * 1: In 1977 Chambliss, Randolph, Dent and Nettles took the field for this team. * the Yankees. * 2: From 1974 through 1981 the Dodgers fielded Garvey, Lopes, Russell and this third baseman, "The Penguin". * Ron Cey. * 3: The 1908 Chicago Cubs featured Harry Steinfeldt and these 3 guys of yore. * Tinker, Evers and Chance. * 4: The 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers sent out Hodges, Gilliam, Reese and this groundbreaking infielder. * Jackie Robinson. * 5: The 1975 Reds fielded Rose, Concepcion, Perez and this Hall of Fame second sacker, now a broadcaster. * Joe Morgan.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 431, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Celebrity Books * 1: This Oscar winner mader her writing debut with a book for children called "Deaf Child Crossing". * Marlee Matlin. * 2: This "Mad About You" star offered his witty views on marriage and living together in "Couplehood". * Paul Reiser. * 3: His "Roasting in Hell's Kitchen" has been called "the essential autobiography for foodies". * Gordon Ramsay. * 4: She chronicled her journey through postpartum depression in 2005's "Down Came the Rain". * Brooke Shields. * 5: In "My Word is My Bond", he talks about some of his memorable roles from The Saint to Beau Maverick to 007. * Roger Moore.

Round 2. Category: Box Office Bombs * 1: There wasn't much repeat business for this 1997 Kevin Costner film; nobody rang twice. * The Postman. * 2: Playboy worked it out; this Kevin Costner (yes, him again) soggy cinema tale cost $1.3 million a minute to make. * Waterworld. * 3: This 1997 Sandra Bullock sequel sank like a stone. * Speed 2. * 4: This 1986 Lea Thompson flop didn't have the audience quacking up. * Howard The Duck. * 5: Melanie Griffith cried Tom Wolfe in this 1990 story of high society. * Bonfire Of The Vanities.

Round 3. Category: Presidential Burial Places * 1: Independence, Missouri. * Harry S. Truman. * 2: Quincy, Massachusetts. * John Quincy Adams. * 3: West Branch, Iowa. * Herbert Hoover. * 4: Plymouth Notch, Vermont. * Calvin Coolidge. * 5: Greeneville, Tennessee. * Andrew Johnson.

Round 4. Category: Mini-Countries * 1: If its royal family has no male heir, Monaco will become part of this country. * France. * 2: Discoverers of these South Sea islands named them for wise Biblical king whose wealth they sought. * the Solomon Islands. * 3: As co-sovereign of this Pyrenees land, the Bishop of Urgel, Spain is paid about $6.87 semi-annually. * Andorra. * 4: A problem for this African country is that much of its mail is mistakenly sent to Switzerland. * Swaziland. * 5: 80% of San Marino's gross national product comes from tourism and the sale of these. * postage stamps.

Round 5. Category: It's All Greek To Me * 1: This branch of medicine is from the Greek for "mind cure". * psychiatry. * 2: Spread it around--it goes back to a Greek word for "cow cheese". * butter. * 3: The name of these sometimes nasty microscopic life forms is from the Greek for "little rod". * bacteria (bacilla later accpted). * 4: This elevated Athens area appropriately comes from 2 Greek words meaning "highest city". * the Acropolis. * 5: One of the sacraments established by Christ; its "holy" name is from the Greek for "grateful". * Eucharist.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 430, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Classic American Music * 1: He got an Oscar for "White Christmas" and a Medal of Honor for songs like "God Bless America". * Irving Berlin. * 2: He was 23 in 1849 when his "Oh! Susanna" became a hit. * Stephen Foster. * 3: Based on a Scottish melody, this song of arrival was first used offically around 1845. * "Hail To The Chief". * 4: He toured with the Texas Medley Quartette before going solo and becoming the king of ragtime. * Scott Joplin. * 5: Heard here, the tune to this military service's "Hymn" is from Offenbach's comic opera "Genevieve de Brabant". * the Marines.

Round 2. Category: A Georgia Tour * 1: If you hear Fort Valley called a pit, it's only because it's the seat of this county named for a fruit. * Peach County. * 2: A song says, "She's the polar bear's pajamas...hard hearted Hannah, the vamp of" this city. * Savannah. * 3: Baxley is the historic "Capital of the World" for this paint solvent from pine trees. * turpentine. * 4: This Japanese company produces 65 kinds of power tools at a plant in Buford, Georgia. * Makita. * 5: Its website says, "Warm Town, Warm People..." this "Home to One of Georgia's Seven Natural Wonders". * Warm Springs.

Round 3. Category: Celebrate July * 1: National Country Music Day falls on this Yankee Doodle Dandy day. * July 4. * 2: Appropriately, this ice cream treat is celebrated on a weekend day, the third weekend in July. * ice cream sundae. * 3: The Naturist Society sponsors this type of recreation week, a chance for you to let it all hang out. * nude. * 4: The American Meat Institute has dubbed July National this food Month. * hot dog. * 5: Ecuador's and Venezuela's celebrations of this man's day July 24 are very liberating. * Simon Bolivar.

Round 4. Category: Washington, D.c. * 1: The National Archives displays a copy of the Magna Carta on loan from this Dallas businessman. * H. Ross Perot. * 2: The Smithsonian museums are along the National this, "America's Front Lawn". * the Washington Mall. * 3: The Old Ebbitt Grill, billed as "Washington's Oldest Saloon", is just 2 blocks from this famous residence. * the White House. * 4: This neighborhood is named for the traffic circle where Mass., Connecticut and New Hampshire Aves. intersect. * DuPont Circle. * 5: This neighborhood is named for the traffic circle where Mass., Connecticut and New Hampshire Aves. intersect. * DuPont Circle.

Round 5. Category: U.s. Stamps * 1: Artist Tom Engeman created an image of this symbol of American freedom, to "ring out" on forever stamps. * Liberty Bell. * 2: The Kansas Statehood stamp from 1961 featured what else but this state flower. * a sunflower. * 3: A pink love stamp perfect for wedding invitations shows a stream of hearts behind this type of bicycle. * a tandem bicycle. * 4: A series of postcards stamps depicts these garments whose Hawaiian name conveys a friendly spirit. * aloha shirts. * 5: A 2012 series of stamps honored these roof toppers that tell which way the wind is blowing. * a weather vane.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 429, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I Quit! * 1: When he left NASA to be a Univ. of Cincinnati prof., he took one giant leap into retirement from the public eye. * Neil Armstrong. * 2: His sudden retirement from the NBA on Nov. 7, 1991 shocked the sports world. * Earvin "Magic" Johnson. * 3: In 1974, frustrated with GM's management, he quit and with British funding, built a stainless steel luxury sports car. * John DeLorean. * 4: On Nov. 25, 1980 Roberto Duran said, "No mas" and quit in the eighth round against this fighter. * Sugar Ray Leonard. * 5: In March 1987 Bettino Craxi quit after a 3 1/2-year term in this post, a post-WWII record. * prime minister of Italy.

Round 2. Category: Skyscrapers By City * 1: New York-New York Hotel and Casino. * Las Vegas. * 2: Cadillac Tower. * Detroit. * 3: Transamerica Pyramid. * San Francisco. * 4: Pillsbury Building. * Minneapolis. * 5: James K. Polk State Office Building. * Nashville.

Round 3. Category: Mag-Nificent * 1: This illustrated mag had a shake start in 1954 with unpopular coverage of snooty events like yacht races. * Sports Illustrated. * 2: This news magazine was started in 1923 so that "busy men" could stay informed. * Time. * 3: Articles in the first edition of this magazine, in 1936, featured ratings of cereal, soap and stockings. * Consumer Reports. * 4: Bell, Edison and Pasteur wrote for this mag, founded in 1872, that also devoted early attention to evolution theory. * Popular Science. * 5: This urbane magazine wrote in its 1925 start that "it is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque". * The New Yorker.

Round 4. Category: Pour Me A Stiff One * 1: Nonpotent potable in common to a fuzzy navel and a screwdriver. * orange juice. * 2: Stolichanya, or stoli to its friends, is a brand of this. * vodka. * 3: Invented in Cuba, a mojito is made with lime juice, club soda, sugar, ice, mint leaves and this kind of alcohol. * rum. * 4: This brand of liqueur made its debut in Dublin on November 26, 1974. * Bailey's (Irish Cream). * 5: Mon Dieu! This French liqueur was originally made at the Abbey of Fecamp by the monks for which it is named. * Benedictine.

Round 5. Category: Verb First Names * 1: To cut oneself slightly while shaving. * Nick. * 2: To send a statement for money owed for goods or services. * Bill. * 3: To suffer or tolerate. * Brook. * 4: To pry open a door, as with a crowbar. * Jimmy. * 5: When followed by "down", to frisk someone, as for concealed weapons. * Pat.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 428, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Fabulous '50s * 1: This evangelist known for his "crusades" said he believed there is life on other planets and that the Bible hints at it. * Billy Graham. * 2: Nickname given to Eisenhower's theory that if one Asian country falls to Communism, others will follow. * Domino Theory/Principle. * 3: Yum! The peanut version of these letter-perfect candies debuted in 1954. * M and M's. * 4: What's in a name? The Corsair, Citation Ranger and Pacer were all models of this Ford flop of the '50s. * the Edsel. * 5: In 1954, she became the first recipient of the literary award named for her; perhaps she kept it in a "Little House". * Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Round 2. Category: Hockey * 1: (Alex and Tie Domi of the Toronto Maple Leafs are both suited up and on the ice to play some hockey.) If Tie Domi crosses the blue line before I get the puck to him, we'll be guilty of this infraction. * offsides. * 2: A winged wheel is the logo of this franchise. * the Red Wings. * 3: He won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in 1967 playing with great conviction, or is it conjunction?. * (Bobby) Orr. * 4: Bryan Trottier sparked this team to 4 Stanley Cup championships from 1980 through 1983. * the New York Islanders. * 5: (Alex shuffles his hockey stick back and forth on the ice.) It's the 13 letter word for the skill I was just demonstrating (Mario Lemieux doesn't have to worry). * stickhandling.

Round 3. Category: Dancers * 1: He wore his trademark top hat and tails in his very 1st film, "Dancing Lady", with Joan Crawford. * Fred Astaire. * 2: Once a female impersonator, this Broadway hoofer played a Broadway hoofer in "Yankee Doodle Dandy". * (James) Cagney. * 3: This 1983 film focused on a steelworker named Alex who wanted to be a ballerina. * Flashdance. * 4: Carole Bishop, Sammy Williams and Donna McKechnie all won Tony Awards for playing dancers in this musical. * (A) Chorus Line. * 5: Though born in Bombay, Juliet Prowse grew up in this country. * South Africa.

Round 4. Category: American Food And Drink * 1: 5600-year-old samples of this "movie treat" have been found in New Mexico caves. * popcorn. * 2: Angel-food cake was supposedly created in the Missouri city. * St. Louis. * 3: Start by steeping, in a glass, crushed leaves in sugar syrup. * a mint julep. * 4: Small cornmeal fritters supposedly tossed to dogs to make them quiet. * hush puppies. * 5: Y'all can have these ground kernals boiled, baked, or fried for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. * grits.

Round 5. Category: Detective Fiction * 1: The original author's last story about this detective was "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place". * Sherlock Holmes. * 2: In "The Big Sleep" he says, "I'm 33 years old, went to college once and can still speak English if there's any demand for it". * Marlowe. * 3: In the April 1841 GrahamÂ's LadyÂ's and GentlemanÂ's Magazine, this editor published his new detective story. * Poe. * 4: She also created the detectives Tuppence and Tommy Beresford. * Agatha Christie. * 5: "A Taste for Death" is one of P.D. James' novels about this Scotland Yard detective and published poet. * Adam Dalgliesh.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 427, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Now That's Inventive! * 1: In the '40s AT and T used a radio with no conventional vacuum tubes to demonstrate this device invented in its lab. * a transistor. * 2: Developed by a German physicist, it measures radioactivity by "counting" ionizing particles like protons. * a Geiger counter. * 3: Famous for his jet, he also invented the automobile radio for the company that became Motorola. * (William) Lear. * 4: This 18th century seed drill inventor shares his name with the band that gave us "Aqualung". * Jethro Tull. * 5: At the funeral of Sylvan Goldman, who invented this, there wasn't one wonky pallbearer who went in an odd direction. * the shopping cart.

Round 2. Category: Pillow Talk * 1: In classic radio comedy, Dick Orkin turned this under-kids'-pillows cash provider into the Molar Marauder. * the Tooth Fairy. * 2: Legend has it that each night Alexander the Great put his sword and a book by this epic poet under his pillow. * Homer. * 3: Tradition says after a wedding a single girl puts this under her pillow so she'll dream of a future spouse. * a slice of wedding cake. * 4: Named for the variety of designs and stitches on it, this type of pillow can bear a homily or a homemade design. * sampler. * 5: He wrote his son Kermit from the White House in 1903 about his being ambushed in a pillow fight. * Theodore Roosevelt.

Round 3. Category: Harvard Degree Honorees * 1: 1982 recipients included Mother Teresa and this "Big Daddy" of Southern playwrights. * Tennessee Williams. * 2: In 1993 he got an honorary degree from Harvard and retired from the U.S. military; today he's a secretary. * Colin Powell. * 3: This Bostonian's name was on an honorary degree in 1792; today it's on a beer. * Samuel Adams. * 4: One of the special singularities in this British physicist's life is an honorary degree from Harvard in 1990. * Stephen Hawking. * 5: In 1968 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, better known by this title, received an honorary doctorate. * Shah of Iran.

Round 4. Category: American Counties * 1: Name shared by the counties in which you'll find Disneyland and Disney World. * Orange (County). * 2: All the letters in this state's name are found in the name of its Uintah County. * Utah. * 3: Ogemaw, Saginaw and Washtenaw are all counties in this state. * Michigan. * 4: This state's Norfolk County disappeared in 1963 when it became part of the city of Chesapeake. * Virginia. * 5: While many states have counties named Lincoln, this is the only state that has one named Snohomish. * Washington.

Round 5. Category: Make Way For Hemingway * 1: "Death in the Afternoon" is a treatise on this, which Hemingway considered a tragic spectacle, not a sport. * Bullfighting. * 2: Hemingway served as an ambulance driver during WWI, like Frederic Henry, the hero of this novel. * "A Farewell to Arms". * 3: The title of this Hemingway novel set during the Spanish Civil War comes from one of John Donne's "Devotions". * "For Whom the Bell Tolls". * 4: "In Our Time", a collection of short stories, features this character who is similar to Hemingway. * Nick Adams. * 5: This 1926 novel begins, "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton". * "The Sun Also Rises".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 426, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: May Day * 1: On May 1, 1996 this national railway passenger service celebrated its 25th anniversary. * Amtrak. * 2: This Palestinian leader's status was confirmed in 1996 when President Clinton met with him. * Yasser Arafat. * 3: On May 1, 1937, 5 days after the town was bombed, he began sketching "Guernica". * Pablo Picasso. * 4: The Croats opened fire again May 1, 1995 after the ceasefire negotiated by this ex-U.S. president expired. * Jimmy Carter. * 5: He was ready and he fired May 1, 1898. * Captain Charles Gridley.

Round 2. Category: Bird Words And Phrases * 1: Many a slugabed has been reminded that "The early bird catches" this. * The worm. * 2: Originally a place in which fowl fought, it now often refers to the pilot's compartment in an airplane. * Cockpit. * 3: In a famous 1962 film, Gregory Peck says it's "a sin to" do this. * kill a mockingbird. * 4: If you're completely undressed, you're as "naked as" this bird that's noisy and often bright blue. * Jaybird. * 5: It's a "homicidal" phrase for achieving 2 goals with a single effort. * Killing two birds with one stone.

Round 3. Category: Blank Of The Blank * 1: This expression meaning "the best part" mixes dairy and plant farming. * cream of the crop. * 2: This comparison of 2 boxers before a fight includes numbers for height, reach and chest size. * tale of the tape. * 3: Thomas Dixon wrote a play about Abe Lincoln titled this kind of guy with a common touch. * Man of the People. * 4: This local public officer with judicial powers may accept payment for your speeding ticket. * a justice of the peace. * 5: To make a favorable judgment when you're uncertain is to give someone this. * benefit of the doubt.

Round 4. Category: Clean 4-Letter Words * 1: Dial and Zest are 4-letter brands of this. * soap. * 2: The first appearance of daylight, or the dishwashing detergent that's tough on grease. * Dawn. * 3: How you feel when you're happy, or the joy of putting trash in this product's garbage bags, the first plastic ones sold. * Glad. * 4: The rise and fall of the ocean water, or a detergent that has cleaned clothes for more than 50 years. * Tide. * 5: The knob on a radio, or the antibacterial soap you'd use on your hands if the knob was dirty. * Dial.

Round 5. Category: Really Long Rivers * 1: While cruising down this river in 1542, Francisco de Orellana was attacked by female warriors; thus, its name. * Amazon. * 2: Ptolemy guessed the area of the source of this river almost 2,000 years before it was found. * Nile. * 3: This Chinese river is really "long" since its alternate name, Chang Jiang, means "long river". * Yangtze. * 4: During high water, this river was once navigable from Fort Benton, Montana to St. Louis. * Missouri. * 5: At Khone Falls on the Cambodia-Laos border, this river is 6 1/2 miles wide. * Mekong.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 425, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Seeing Red * 1: Moscow girls know it's where you go to hang out at the famous Gum Department Store. * Red Square. * 2: These horses of these symbolic figures are red, white, black and pale. * the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. * 3: In 1964 the new constitution of this nation on Hispaniola changed its flag's colors from red and blue to red and black. * Haiti. * 4: Shade for a Pimpernel or an O'Hara. * scarlet. * 5: Bugs Bunny's standard insult that fits the category. * (What a) maroon.

Round 2. Category: 5 Bands * 1: Appropriately, this '80s band sang, "You can't go on thinking, nothing's wrong, who's gonna drive you home tonight?". * The Cars. * 2: 2 members of this '70s "Ramblin' Man" band died in bike crashes, a year apart and within 3 blocks of each other. * The Allman Brothers Band. * 3: "Fun", "sleazy" and "raucous" are under "moods" at AllMusic.com for this metal band co-founded by Tommy Lee. * Mötley Crüe. * 4: "Remember when we traveled 'round the world, we met a lot of people and girls", sang this Joey McIntyre boy band. * New Kids on the Block. * 5: "Welcome to Paradise"; Tre Cool drums for this punk-pop band who performed at 2005's Live 8. * Green Day.

Round 3. Category: 1987 Obits * 1: ...And away he went June 24, 1987 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. * Jackie Gleason. * 2: In February, a heart attack following gallbladder surgery claimed the life of this pop artist. * Andy Warhol. * 3: In September it was goodbye, we'll miss you and "All That Jazz" to this choreographer and film director. * (Bob) Fosse. * 4: This 2-term governor of Kansas and 1936 Republican candidate for president passed away at age 100. * Alf Landon. * 5: Go tell it on the mountain that he passed away in St. Paul de Vence, France on December 1. * (James) Baldwin.

Round 4. Category: Size Matters * 1: As a rule, the length of this item should be 3 times the thickness of the board being fastened with it. * Nail. * 2: A 1.5-liter champagne bottle, or sometimes a .357 round of ammunition. * Magnum. * 3: Olive oil with oleic acid content under 1% is graded "Extra" this. * Extra Virgin. * 4: American ones are 53 to 57 inches long and hang to the top of the belt buckle; the longer British ones hang lower. * Ties. * 5: To keep the ratios, for a 1:12 scale dollhouse buy a smaller dollhouse in this scale to put inside it. * 1:144.

Round 5. Category: "Stick"S And "Stone"S * 1: A manually operated transmission for a car. * Stick shift. * 2: "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses" are songs from this Rolling Stones album. * "Sticky Fingers". * 3: Paired with "fire", it "rained" upon Sodom and Gomorrah. * Brimstone. * 4: 3' 9" high, 2' 4 1/2" across and nearly 1' thick, it was key to deciphering hieroglyphics. * The Rosetta Stone. * 5: The game of cricket gives us this phrase for a difficult situation. * Sticky wicket.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 424, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Journalism * 1: This CBS newsman once petitioned Churchill to let him broadcast outdoors so people could hear the Blitz. * Edward R. Murrow. * 2: "The Journalist's Bible" is the AP stylebook; AP is short for this oldest news-gathering agency in the United States. * Associated Press. * 3: UPI journalist who's the senior member of the White House press corps. * Helen Thomas. * 4: It's the area assigned to a reporter for regular coverage; policemen walk them, too. * a beat. * 5: (New York Times reporterAndrea Elliott delivers the clue.) Just 8 years after getting my degree from this university's graduate school of journalism, I won one of the Pulitzer Prizes that the school administers. * Columbia.

Round 2. Category: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington * 1: Fort Dix is in this state's 4th District, repped by Chris Smith, who was elected to Congress at age 27. * New Jersey. * 2: William French Smith, who held this post, 1981-1985, had a key role in putting the 1st woman on the Supreme Court. * Attorney General. * 3: In 1996 Gordon Smith lost to Ron Wyden to replace Bob Packwood as a Sen. from this state; now they serve together. * Oregon. * 4: Washington's 9th District is represented by this man, who has the same name as a certain economist. * Adam Smith. * 5: Parts of Comal, Hays and Travis Counties make up the 21st District of this state's Rep. Lamar Smith. * Texas.

Round 3. Category: Mob Hits * 1: Adriana La Cerva, Jimmy Altieri and Ralph Cifaretto all got whacked on this TV drama. * The Sopranos. * 2: Rotund name of "The Simpsons" head mobster who hangs out at "The Legitimate Businessman's Social Club". * Fat Tony. * 3: In the video game based on this film, players use violence and negotiation to become the next don. * The Godfather. * 4: "When I got into family therapy, this was not the 'family' I had in mind", says Billy Crystal in this '99 comedy. * Analyze This. * 5: "But I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh?" says Tommy de Vito in this 1990 film. * Goodfellas.

Round 4. Category: It's Jason's Bar Mitzvah * 1: Like most of his peers, Jason has his bar mitzvah on this day of the week. * Saturday. * 2: Jason was jealous when twin sister Jennifer had this equivalent ceremony at age 12. * Bat Mitzvah. * 3: This synagogue employee, also called a hazan, taught Jason how to chant his Torah portion. * Cantor. * 4: Jason's guests may dance to this type of Jewish folk music, from Hebrew for "musical instruments". * Klezmer music. * 5: Jason settled for his parents' temple but wanted to celebrate at this site on the Temple Mount. * Wailing/Western Wall.

Round 5. Category: Dirigibles, Blimps And Zeppelins * 1: L.A. and this N.J. city were the only U.S. stops the Graf Zeppelin made during its round-the-world trip in 1929. * Lakehurst. * 2: In 1925 this Ohio company unveiled its first blimp, the Pilgrim. * Goodyear. * 3: In 1925 Amundsen, Ellsworth and Nobile made news when they flew over this point in a blimp. * North Pole. * 4: The U.S. Navy's ZR1, Shenandoah, was its first filled with this gas. * helium. * 5: Of the Bucs, Broncos or Bills, the one whose NFL stadium you'll never see the Fujifilm blimp fly over. * Broncos (that blimp has an altitude limit of 5000 feet).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 423, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: They Took Debate * 1: This "League" has sponsored many political debates, including the Mondale/Reagan fisticuffs in 1984. * the League of Women Voters. * 2: In 1858 Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas had a series of debates over who should be senator from this state. * Illinois. * 3: In 1993 Vice President Al Gore and Ross Perot appeared on Larry King to debate this trade pact. * NAFTA. * 4: In the late 1970s conservative columnist James Kilpatrick debated liberal journalist Shana Alexander on this TV show. * 60 Minutes. * 5: "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" was a quip from the famous debate between these two men. * Quayle and Bentsen.

Round 2. Category: Foreign Animal Noises * 1: To the Germans and Vietnamese, these say wau wau when chasing a postman or a cat. * a dog. * 2: It will wake you up with kokekokko in Japan and kykeliky in Norway. * a rooster. * 3: Albanian ones say hunk hunk; maybe it's the smell that makes French ones say groin groin while truffle hunting. * pigs. * 4: In Argentina they berp; Swedish ones kvack while hopping. * frogs. * 5: They say piv while stealing havarti and squitt squitt if they get into the provolone. * mice.

Round 3. Category: Then We Can Dig It * 1: Finds at Whitehall Villa in Britain reveal that this ancient people ate dormice and really loved oysters. * the Romans. * 2: The neolithic folk of Catal Huyuk, Turkey exposed their dead to the vultures, then put these remains under their beds. * their bones. * 3: Ironically, an "aquatic civilization" has been unearthed in this area that covers much of North Africa. * the Sahara Desert. * 4: Some skulls from colonial America show wear on a tooth from sucking on the stem of this artifact. * a pipe. * 5: Homeric Troy was found to date from this age, the metal of the Trojans' weapons in the "Iliad". * the Bronze Age.

Round 4. Category: Constitutional Powers Of Congress * 1: Congress can do this, but by the 27th Amendment it can't take effect until after the next election. * give themsleves a raise. * 2: Article I, Section 8 says "Congress shall have the power to lay" these; the IRS agrees. * taxes. * 3: Congress has the right "to Constitutional tribunals inferior to this one". * the Supreme Court. * 4: Yo ho ho, Congress can "define and punish" these acts "and felonies committed on the high seas". * piracy. * 5: Article I, Section 8 says Congress can make this, regulate its value and punish people who copy it. * money.

Round 5. Category: Fruit Bowl * 1: Casaba,Cantaloupe,Honeydew. * Melons. * 2: Asian and Anjou. * pears. * 3: Flame Seedless and Red Globe. * grapes. * 4: Jonathan and Pink Lady. * apples. * 5: Donut and Elberta. * peaches.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 422, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Shows On Tv Shows * 1: (Hi. I'm Debbe Dunning.) It's the name of the home improvement show that's featured on "Home Improvement". * Tool Time. * 2: Like "Meet the Press", Murphy Brown's fictional news show "F.Y.I." tapes in this city. * Washington, D.C.. * 3: This "Simpsons" TV clown has worked with Sideshow Bob, Sideshow Mel and Sideshow Luke Perry. * Krusty the Klown. * 4: He plays talk show host Larry Sanders on HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show". * Garry Shandling. * 5: The TV producer he plays on "The Tom Show" was dumped by Shannon Tweed, not Roseanne. * Tom Arnold.

Round 2. Category: Patriots * 1: Thinking him conceited some added a "Y" to the last name of this Declaration signer born in 1737. * John Hancock. * 2: The day after he landed from England in 1775, Penn.'s assembly named him to the Continental Congress. * Benjamin Franklin. * 3: John Dickenson's "Fabius" letters helped make this state he represented the first to ratify the Constitution. * Delaware. * 4: 1 of the 2 "Federalist" authors whose lives were not ended by gunfire. * James Madison (or John Jay). * 5: (I'm John DeStefano, Mayor of New Haven, but) This man, our first mayor, was the only man to sign the 4 great U.S. founding documents, including the Constitution. * Roger Sherman.

Round 3. Category: The Day The Music Died * 1: August 16, 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee. * Elvis Presley. * 2: September 18, 1970 in London. * Jimi Hendrix. * 3: February 3, 1959, one of 3, in a cornfield in Iowa. * (Ritchie) Valens (or Buddy Holly or the Big Bopper). * 4: August 9, 1995 in Forest Knolls, California. * Jerry Garcia. * 5: July 3, 1971 in a bathtub in Paris. * Jim Morrison.

Round 4. Category: Neckwear * 1: The name of this long scarf made of feathers or fur is from the Latin for "water adder". * a boa. * 2: This 3-letter item tied around the necks of children protects their clothing while they eat. * a bib. * 3: In ancient Hawaii, this garland of flowers was used to signify a peace agreement between opposing tribes. * a lei. * 4: This long scarf sounds like it will keep you quiet as well as keep you warm. * a muffler. * 5: In WWI, it became mandatory that all U.S. soldiers wear these "canine" aluminum discs on neck chains. * dog tags.

Round 5. Category: U.s. Skyline Tours * 1: Many of the hills in this city were leveled in the early 1900s because it was feared they would hinder expansion. * Seattle. * 2: This city houses the nation's first city-owned opera house. * San Francisco. * 3: This city has served as a federal and as a state capital. * New York City. * 4: The first steel-framework skyscraper was built in this city. * Chicago. * 5: This Southern capital owes its location to a railroad, rather than a river. * Atlanta.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 421, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Undergarments * 1: They hold up hosiery and may be part of a belt. * Garter. * 2: Brand that has a "Her Way" label. * Hanes. * 3: An uplift brassiere is more commonly known as this, moving the "up" to the end of the word. * a push-up bra. * 4: An uplift brassiere is more commonly known as this, moving the "up" to the end of the word. * a push-up bra. * 5: Dress-length undergarment with shoulder straps for Anna, not Sigmund. * Freudian slip.

Round 2. Category: It Used To Be Illegal * 1: On July 10, 1991 sanctions imposed in this country were lifted, allowing legal U.S. trade. * South Africa. * 2: Cheers! This became legal again on December 5, 1933 when Utah ratified the 21st Amendment. * Alcohol. * 3: After a 1995 law change in most states you can legally exceed this 1974 limit. * 55 MPH. * 4: Troy Aikman is probably happy that this kind of football play is no longer illegal as of 1906. * Forward pass. * 5: In Norfolk, VA. it used to be illegal for women to go out without one of these tight-fitting garments. * Corset.

Round 3. Category: Nasa Shuttle Names * 1: It's the capital of South Carolina, or a Sony-owned movie company. * Columbia. * 2: Some have said this lost island was in the Aegean; others, in the Mediterranean, or elsewhere. * Atlantis. * 3: This science, nature and exploration cable channel has its own stores in over 20 states. * Discovery. * 4: It's now the top U.S. car rental agency. * Enterprise. * 5: Make an effort to come up with this word; it's from Middle English for "to make an effort". * Endeavour.

Round 4. Category: Wish Superstitions * 1: A wish made on the candles of one of these won't come true if you tell it aloud. * a birthday cake. * 2: This part of a bird is broken and the person who gets the larger part gets his wish. * wishbone. * 3: "I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight" is said upon seeing one of these. * a star. * 4: You can make a wish when you see 3 birds on a telephone wire or the first one of these birds in the spring. * a robin. * 5: A rhyme says "Touch" this color "and your wish will come true". * blue.

Round 5. Category: Libraries * 1: The Lincoln Center Library is a branch of this city's library. * New York City. * 2: The library of the university of this largest Scottish city has about 500 printed items from the 15th C.. * Glasgow. * 3: The Theodore M. Hesburgh Library is located at this university. * Notre Dame. * 4: Most of the books in the ancient library at Alexandria in Egypt were in this language. * Greek. * 5: Pope Clement VII commissioned him to design the Medicean-Laurentian Library in 1523. * Michelangelo.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 420, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What's Hot * 1: The most popular toy of the '96 Christmas season was this Sesame Street doll. * Tickle Me Elmo. * 2: This designer's cK be is "The New Fragrance for People", male or female. * Calvin Klein. * 3: This company created the Virtual Boy, a 3-D game system. * Nintendo. * 4: After The Sugarcubes dissolved in 1992, this Icelandic lead singer went solo. * Bjork. * 5: The introduction of Dolly the Sheep to the world kicked off a debate on the ethics of this in February 1997. * Cloning.

Round 2. Category: Money Problems * 1: If the 4 members of the band Moonpools and Caterpillars split a $2,000 royalty evenly, each gets this amount. * $500. * 2: John's jar had 300 pennies in it, but he lost 2/3 of them in a pitching contest with Bob, leaving this many. * 100. * 3: If I had a nickel for every time I said "I" in this answer, I would have this much money. * 20 cents (4 times). * 4: Change for a quarter in 4 coins. * 3 nickels and a dime. * 5: If Mary, a dime-a-dance girl, handles 10 partners an hour, she earns this amount in 4 hours. * $4.00.

Round 3. Category: Here Comes The "Sun" * 1: From the Middle English for "apart", this term tends to follow the words ripped or torn. * asunder. * 2: This medical term is also known as insolation or thermic fever. * sunstroke. * 3: This interjection is literally German for "health". * Gesundheit. * 4: Describes an egg fried without breaking the yolk or being turned over. * sunny side up. * 5: In tan-speak, it's what SPF stands for. * sun protection factor.

Round 4. 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 5. Category: Illegalities * 1: On Jan. 12, 1998 NYC mayor Giuliani announced he'd crack down on these pedestrian miscreants. * Jaywalkers. * 2: Anti-gang laws target this, defined as hanging around or moving too slowly. * Loitering. * 3: This adjective often found before "exposure" means the exposer knows others can see. * Indecent. * 4: From the same root as consecration, this opposite term is sometimes done to flags. * Desecration. * 5: In 1931 Al Capone got 11 years not for murder or bootlegging but for this. * Tax evasion.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 419, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: American Woman * 1: Florida's state attorney in 1978, she would add the rest of the country to her docket as U.S. Attorney General. * Janet Reno. * 2: Florida's state attorney in 1978, she would add the rest of the country to her docket as U.S. Attorney General. * Janet Reno. * 3: "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor", this future first lady wrote in 1780. * Abigail Adams. * 4: In 1934, after a nervous breakdown, this painter discovered N.M.'s ghost ranch, where she'd make her home. * Georgia O'Keeffe. * 5: This children's author wrote the 1980 sequel "Superfudge". * Judy Blume.

Round 2. Category: Bird, Reptile Or Feline * 1: The catamount. * feline. * 2: The auk. * bird. * 3: The caiman. * reptile. * 4: The adder. * reptile. * 5: The basilisk. * reptile.

Round 3. Category: The History Channel * 1: The program on this country " and Iraq" includes the 1997 election of moderate Mohammed Khatami as president. * Iran. * 2: Sparta provided Greece's toughest men and its most gorgeous woman, this one who later lived elsewhere. * Helen of Troy. * 3: On "Power Tools", this comedian muses, "There isn't a guy I know that doesn't say more horsepower would be better". * Tim Allen. * 4: The Spartans' region, Laconia, and their dislike of wasting words gave us this English adjective. * laconic. * 5: The show on the Transatlantic cable was subtitled "2500 Miles of" this elemental metal. * Copper.

Round 4. Category: Cards * 1: About 30 years ago, this South American game created the biggest fad in card history. * canasta. * 2: Bridge term for a set of three games or what a hot rod lays when it takes off. * rubber. * 3: The appropriate goal in authors is to form these. * books. * 4: A shutout in gin rummy, or Pat Harrington in "One Day at a Time". * Schneider. * 5: Variation of poker where the worst hand wins. * lo-ball.

Round 5. Category: Going Downtown * 1: I'll take the Loop and go to the Field Museum if it's not too windy in this city. * Chicago. * 2: I'll get some cash at the First Bank of the United States so I can buy a cheese steak in this city. * Philadelphia. * 3: I'll hum through the Motown Historical Museum in this city. * Detroit. * 4: At Nordstrom's flagship store, I'll buy shoes so I can walk the Pacific Science Center in this city. * Seattle. * 5: I'll stroll in Centennial Olympic Park in this city. * Atlanta.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 418, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Stars * 1: These spinning neutron stars were named for the bursts, or "pulses", of radio waves they emit. * pulsars. * 2: The star Spica marks a stalk of wheat in this maiden's hand. * Virgo. * 3: Although now fainter than Pollux, this star is designated the alpha star in Gemini. * Castor. * 4: The 3 stars of the Alpha Centauri system are Alpha, Beta and this, whose name means "the nearest". * Proxima. * 5: This star whose name sounds like a Michael Keaton character became the first whose surface was directly imaged. * Betelgeuse.

Round 2. Category: Social Types * 1: A fictional mutant monster gave us this term for a woman who's unbearable while planning her wedding. * Bridezilla. * 2: This 7-letter neologism describes someone who desires to emulate Madonna's or Britney's success. * wannabe. * 3: One who wields his power unofficially is this color eminence. * gray. * 4: After literati, men of letters become famous and wealthy, they get a couple letters more and become part of this group. * glitterati. * 5: Ms. Poole from accounting who's tough on expense accounts, is known by this leguminous 2-word term. * bean counter.

Round 3. Category: 1950s Song Lyrics * 1: It begins "Fee Fee Fi Fi Fo Fo Fum, I smell smoke in the au-di-tori-um!". * "Charlie Brown". * 2: This Paul Anka tune contains the lines "Put your lips next to mine, dear; won't you kiss me once, baby?". * "Put Your Head on My Shoulder". * 3: Fats Domino sang, "The moon stood still on" this, "and lingered until my dreams came true". * "Blueberry Hill". * 4: "When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother, what will I be?", and got this answer. * "Que Sera, Sera". * 5: "All day, all night", this woman, "down by the seashore, sifting sand". * "Mary Ann".

Round 4. Category: This 'N' That * 1: Although born in Florida, Missouri, Mark Twain grew up in this city on the Mississippi River. * Hannibal. * 2: This reddish spice can be sold in both ground and stick form. * Cinnamon. * 3: In England the unit of volume roughly equivalent to a quart is spelled this way. * Litre. * 4: Legend says the Dannebrog, now this country's flag, dropped from heaven during a 1219 battle. * Denmark. * 5: "It Pays To Enrich Your Word Power" is a feature in this monthly magazine. * Reader's Digest.

Round 5. Category: Also A Bar Drink * 1: Flathead or Phillips head. * a screwdriver. * 2: With so much brainpower on stage today, this "Living Dead" movie monster wouldn't know where to start. * a zombie. * 3: It was last call for this Scottish outlaw on Dec. 28, 1734. * Rob Roy. * 4: Take a flying leap and name this type of reconnaissance plane or insect of the family Acrididae. * a grasshopper. * 5: G'day! This wooden weapon can also be a scheme that does injury to its originator. * a boomerang.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 417, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Metropolitan Sobriquets * 1: "The Windy City",Illinois. * Chicago. * 2: "The City of Witches",Massachusetts. * Salem. * 3: "The Crescent City",Louisiana. * New Orleans. * 4: As in a Navy song, "Crabtown On The Bay",Maryland. * Annapolis. * 5: "The Emerald City",Washington. * Seattle.

Round 2. Category: Movie Catch Phrases * 1: 1992:"There's no crying in baseball!". * A League of Their Own. * 2: 1982:"They're here!". * Poltergeist. * 3: 1967:"What we've got here is failure to communicate". * Cool Hand Luke. * 4: 1950:"I am big! It's the pictures that got small". * Sunset Boulevard. * 5: 1927:"You ain't heard nothin' yet!". * The Jazz Singer.

Round 3. Category: Pugilists * 1: This boxer liked his nickname "Marvelous Marvin" so much that he had his name legally changed. * Marvin Hagler. * 2: In a 27-year ring career, Archie Moore set a record by winning the most bouts, 141, in this way. * a knockout. * 3: 3 Rays have won Olympic gold medals in boxing for the U.S.: Ray Mercer, Ray Seales and this "sweet" guy. * "Sugar" Ray Leonard. * 4: This bare-knuckles heavyweight champ was known as "The Great John L.". * Sullivan. * 5: 1 of 2 men to whom Floyd Patterson lost the World Heavyweight title. * Ingemar Johansson (or Sonny Liston).

Round 4. Category: 2-Letter Crossword Helper * 1: No--yes, no is a classic drama of this country. * Japan. * 2: Aa--basaltic lava having a rough surface, from this language that brought us the Lanai. * Hawaiian. * 3: Fo--Chinese name for this prince turned religious leader. * Buddha. * 4: Ti--a tropical plant in the agave family, or the symbol for this element. * titanium. * 5: Ai--this slow-moving arboreal South American animal; its laziness is debatable. * a sloth.

Round 5. Category: Bizarre Mlb Injuries * 1: Outfielder Rickey Henderson fell asleep with an ice pack on his ankle and ended up suffering from this (in August). * frostbite. * 2: Pitcher Dennis Martinez got hurt hefting a heavy one of these; a team rep quipped that he had Samsonitis. * a suitcase. * 3: Steve Sparks let his fingers do the walkin' and his shoulder do the dislocatin' when he tried to rip this item in half. * a phone book. * 4: A's pitcher Rich Harden strained his shoulder reaching for this vital alarm clock part. * the snooze button. * 5: Tony Gwynn of this team fractured his finger closing the door to his Porsche on the way to the bank. * the (San Diego) Padres.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 416, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: To Sir With Love * 1: He reached the South Pole by tractor January 4, 1958, 4 1/2 years after reaching the "height" of his career. * Sir Edmund Hillary. * 2: In 1999 he became Bond, knighted Bond. * Sean Connery. * 3: Between 1675 and 1710 he designed over 50 London churches, including St. Paul's Cathedral. * Sir Christopher Wren. * 4: In 1982 he produced and directed "Gandhi" and in 1993 he acted in "Jurassic Park". * Sir Richard Attenborough. * 5: In 1669 this physicist became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. * Sir Isaac Newton.

Round 2. Category: No Time To Talk * 1: "Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause, and be silent" is from Act III of this Shakespeare play. * Julius Caesar. * 2: In 1962 her "Silent Spring" launched the environmentalist movement. * Rachel Carson. * 3: During WWII, this mime changed his surname to that of a French revolutionary general. * Marcel Marceau. * 4: In the 1930 Hays Code, "pointed profanity... however used" was forbidden in this medium. * film. * 5: This Scottish author of "Kidnapped" wrote, "The cruelest lies are often told in silence". * Robert Louis Stevenson.

Round 3. Category: Cooking Class * 1: "Joy of Cooking" suggests using these Thanksgiving berries "in any recipes calling for red currants". * cranberries. * 2: The Chicken of the Sea website suggests making enchiladas with the albacore type of this. * tuna. * 3: The "key" type of this citrus fruit can be small; you may need a dozen to yield a half cup of juice. * limes. * 4: For the silver dollar type of these breakfast treats, drop the batter onto the griddle 1 tbsp. at a time. * pancakes. * 5: "Joy of Cooking" tells how to make relish and scones with this bog fruit, so let's all give thanks. * a cranberry.

Round 4. Category: "Young" People * 1: Amen to this leader whose statue represents Utah in Washington, D.C.'s Statuary Hall. * Brigham Young. * 2: On "Father Knows Best" he played dad to Betty, Bud and Kathy. * Robert Young. * 3: Of the 906 Major League Baseball games that he pitched, he won more than half; he deserves an award. * Cy Young. * 4: In 1992 he released "Harvest Moon", a sequel to his "Harvest" album from 1972. * Neil Young. * 5: In a revealing memoir, Judy Lewis claims to be the "love child" of Clark Gable and this actress. * Loretta Young.

Round 5. Category: Film And Tv Spaceships * 1: The Robinson family traveled aboard the Jupiter II, trying to find a way back to Earth on this show. * Lost in Space. * 2: The Atlantia and the Pacifica were 2 of the other Battlestars on this TV show bearing another spaceship's name. * Battlestar Galactica. * 3: In "Star Trek III" Christopher Lloyd as a villain from this race commanded a spaceship called the Bird of Prey. * the Klingons. * 4: The Discovery is the spaceship sent to investigate a mysterious monolith's signal in this film. * 2001: A Space Odyssey. * 5: In this 1979 film, the mining ship Nostromo lands on a distant planet to investigate a suspected S.O.S.. * Alien.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 415, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Get Syria-S * 1: Syrians enjoy a drink called Arak, a strong liquor made from anise and this vined fruit. * grapes. * 2: Cultural attractions in this city include the Umayyad Mosque and The Tomb of Saladin. * Damascus. * 3: In the 1967 6-day war, Israeli troops captured this southwestern corner of Syria. * the Golan Heights. * 4: In June 2000 he succeeded his father as Syria's president. * Bashar (Assad). * 5: In 1958 Syria joined this country in forming the United Arab Republic; the union disbanded 3 years later. * Egypt.

Round 2. Category: Famous Quotes * 1: "When the one great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks -- not that you won or lost -- but" this. * How you played the game. * 2: "Socrates is a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth...such is the charge", he reported in "Apology". * Plato. * 3: Complete's John Acton's line "Power tends to...". * corrupt. * 4: He said in 1970 of invasion of Cambodia, "We are all the President's men". * Henry Kissinger. * 5: In "The Picture of Dorian Gray" this author claimed, "All art is quite useless". * Oscar Wilde.

Round 3. Category: Political Caricatures * 1: This senator's U.S. Navy career lasted from 1958 to 1981. * John McCain. * 2: Her July 1, 2005 career decision sent shock waves across the country. * Sandra Day O'Connor. * 3: He was a U.S. Attorney for Manhattan from 1983-1989. * Rudy Giuliani. * 4: We raise a toast to this guy who in 1993 dissolved his country's parliament. * Boris Yeltsin. * 5: He was elected Senator from New Jersey in 1978, 1984 and 1990. * Bill Bradley.

Round 4. Category: The Calendar * 1: The Jewish calendar is now on the year 5765 counting from the date of this. * the Creation. * 2: In "Marmion" Sir Walter Scott wrote that this month's "sky is chill and drear" and its "leaf is red and sear". * November. * 3: The U.S. team almost arrived late to the 1896 Olympics because this host country still used the old style calendar. * Greece. * 4: Muslims began their calendar on the day Muhammad fled from Mecca to this city. * Medina. * 5: Number of days into the year on which you hit Groundhog Day. * 33.

Round 5. Category: Homonyms * 1: To switch, or the dimes and quarters in your pocket. * change. * 2: To throw a fishing net into the water, or the actors in a play. * cast. * 3: Part of the covering on a lizard, or the minimum wage fixed by a performer's contract. * scale. * 4: A heap, or the loops of yarn forming the surface of a carpet. * pile. * 5: The triangular blade on an anchor's arm, or an accidental stroke of good luck. * a fluke.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 414, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: American Indians * 1: A more accurate translation of his name would be "wild" or "unbroken" horse. * Crazy Horse. * 2: This Pawtuxet Indian who befriended the Pilgrims was also known as Tisquantum. * Squanto. * 3: Canadian Indians played 1st version of this sport with few rules and up to 1000 players in a game. * lacrosse. * 4: Side the Iroquois supported in the French and Indian War. * British (English side). * 5: Inter-tribal language of the North American Plains Indians. * sign language.

Round 2. Category: Pol Pot-Pourri * 1: This 1984 Oscar-winning film brought the genocidal horrors of Pol Pot and his regime to the eyes of the world. * The Killing Fields. * 2: In 1949 Pol Pot went to study radio electronics in this city where he ended up joining the French Communist Party. * Paris. * 3: In January 1979 Vietnamese troops took over this capital city and overthrew Pol Pot. * Phnom Penh. * 4: This colorful name for Pol Pot's political movement was given to it by Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk. * Khmer Rouge. * 5: Also the year of the U.S. pullout from Vietnam, it's the year Pol Pot seized dictatorial control of Cambodia. * 1975.

Round 3. Category: National Geographic * 1: Mount Vesuvius looms over this city. * Naples. * 2: 1 of the 2 landlocked countries of South America, its judicial capital is Sucre. * Bolivia. * 3: This nation is composed of 4 provinces: Sind, Baluchistan, the NW Frontier province and Punjab. * Pakistan. * 4: This Western Hemisphere nation of about 31 million has 10 provinces. * Canada. * 5: This West African country is semi-arid except for areas near its namesake river in the southwest. * Niger.

Round 4. Category: Historic Nicknames * 1: Washington Irving thought this nickname of Anthony Wayne's referred to daring, not insanity. * Mad. * 2: Actress Pauline Cushman's espionage work during this war made her the "Spy of the Cumberland". * Civil War. * 3: This animal phrase meaning "courageous" was Richard I of England's nickname. * the Lionhearted. * 4: He was the "Father of Texas", but the Indians called him "Big Drunk". * Sam Houston. * 5: "Juana the Mad" was the queen of these 2 united Spanish kingdoms. * Aragon and Castile.

Round 5. Category: Islands * 1: The Danes call this island dependency in the north Atlantic Gronland. * Greenland. * 2: There are more than 600 gigantic stone figures on this island. * Easter Island. * 3: In Canada the Northumberland Strait separates New Brunswick from this island province. * Prince Edward Island. * 4: Principal exports of this archipelago north of Scotland include wool and its famous ponies. * Shetland Islands. * 5: Amelia Earhart was lost near Howland Island after making her last stop at Lae on this Pacific island. * New Guinea.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 413, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The 2004 Elections * 1: On CNN's election map, it was the final color of Wyoming, Kansas and Alabama. * red. * 2: In this key state, Kerry's edge in Trumbull County up North couldn't overcome Bush's lead in Warren down South. * Ohio. * 3: Voters okayed California's Prop 71, a bond measure to fund medical research using these. * stem cells. * 4: In South Dakota, John Thune unseated this Senate leader whom he accused of obstructionism. * Tom Daschle. * 5: Illinois made this self-described "skinny kid with a funny name" the fifth black senator ever elected. * Barack Obama.

Round 2. Category: Ultra-Lounge * 1: The CD "On The Rocks Part One" includes Peggy Lee singing this title song of the first Beatles movie. * "A Hard Day's Night". * 2: The "Cha-Cha de Amor" album features Yma Sumac singing the "Gopher Mambo" and this Rat Pack hunk crooning "Sway". * Dean Martin. * 3: I'd return my "TV Town" CD if it didn't include the tune from this Mike Connors TV series. * Mannix. * 4: This late, great singer's classic rendition of "Jump, Jive An' Wail" is on the "Fuzzy Sampler" CD. * Louis Prima. * 5: Sip a cocktail and listen to this co-star of TV's "Emergency!" on the "Bottoms Up!" CD. * Julie London.

Round 3. Category: Food Glorious Food * 1: This "cocktail" ingredient, ranging in size from miniature to colossal, is the USA's favorite shellfish. * Shrimp. * 2: Usually roasted, squab is a young one of these birds. * a pigeon. * 3: This sauce made with butter, egg yolk and lemon juice embellishes Eggs Benedict. * Hollandaise sauce. * 4: Sheboygan, Wisconsin began its annual festival of this sausage in 1953. * bratwurst. * 5: A nutritious snack and fun to pop from their pods, green soybeans go by this Japanese name. * edamame.

Round 4. Category: "Adventure" Movies * 1: Elementary, my dear Watson! It's a 1939 movie starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. * The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. * 2: In the 1960 version, Jim the runaway slave was played by boxer Archie Moore. * The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. * 3: Yup, in this film Gary Cooper played the explorer whose name gets shouted out in pools worldwide. * The Adventures of Marco Polo. * 4: 1948 film about a legendary lover played by legendary lover Errol Flynn. * The Adventures of Don Juan. * 5: The title character of this 1984 movie was a rock star, brain surgeon, and nuclear physicist. * The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.

Round 5. Category: Food Facts * 1: The name of this meat is from the Latin "venatus", hunt. * Venison. * 2: At Stout's, this type of mill in Willcox, Arizona, you can also buy apple butter, cake and pie. * Cider mill. * 3: The "pearl" type of this is served as a vegetable or pickled and used as a condiment. * an onion. * 4: Olympia ones are often eaten on the half shell. * oysters. * 5: In "Yankee Doodle" the men and boys in the camp are as thick as this food. * hasty pudding.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 412, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Parts Of The Whole * 1: End zones,50-yard line,goalposts. * a football field. * 2: Cap,gills,stem. * a mushroom. * 3: Handrails,belt and flywheel,display console. * a treadmill. * 4: F holes,scroll,12-inch endpin. * a cello. * 5: F holes,scroll,12-inch endpin. * a cello.

Round 2. Category: Experiments * 1: NASA's passive seismic experiment detected thousands of lunar seismic events, called these. * moonquakes. * 2: Galen's neighbors heard the squeals of stuck pigs when he proved that veins carry this, not air. * blood. * 3: In 1952 Hershey and Chase used a Waring model of this machine to study bacteria-eating viruses. * blender. * 4: Josef Stefan heated up physics by showing that radiation from a glowing wire was proportional to this. * temperature. * 5: 1887's Michelson-Morley experiment demolished the idea of this medium that supposedly conducted light. * aether.

Round 3. Category: College Sports Films * 1: "Rudy" featured Jason Miller as this university's coach Ara Parseghian. * Notre Dame. * 2: Bear Bryant puts this speedy title character of a 1994 movie on the Crimson Tide. * Forrest Gump. * 3: Shot at University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Back to School" features Rodney Dangerfield competing in this aquatic sport. * high-diving. * 4: The premiere for this 2006 film featured a green carpet, to honor the Thundering Herd. * We Are Marshall. * 5: In "Glory Road", Jon Voight played this school's legendary coach Adolph Rupp. * University of Kentucky.

Round 4. Category: Rock Music * 1: In 1994 Pearl Jam complained to the U.S. Justice Dept. that this company held a monopoly on concert sales. * Ticketmaster. * 2: In her first top 10 hit, this singer-guitarist gave them "Something to Talk About". * Bonnie Raitt. * 3: 5 years after the release of his first album, he had his first top 10 hit with "Just The Way You Are". * Billy Joel. * 4: "Are we not men? We are" this New Wave group that gave us "Whip It". * Devo. * 5: He recorded his 1982 hit album, "Nebraska", as a series of demos on a 4-track machine at home. * Bruce Springsteen.

Round 5. Category: 1970s Tv * 1: The "M.E." in "Quincy, M.E." stood for this. * medical examiner. * 2: In 1973 Richard Thomas, M. Learned and Ellen Corby won Emmys for their performances in this CBS drama. * The Waltons. * 3: Esther Rolle played Florida Evans in "Maude" and then in this spin-off series. * Good Times. * 4: In the last episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" he was the only character at WJM who wasn't fired. * Ted Baxter. * 5: "Barney Miller"s 12th precinct police station was located in this part of New York City. * Greenwich Village.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 412, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Parts Of The Whole * 1: End zones,50-yard line,goalposts. * a football field. * 2: Cap,gills,stem. * a mushroom. * 3: Handrails,belt and flywheel,display console. * a treadmill. * 4: F holes,scroll,12-inch endpin. * a cello. * 5: F holes,scroll,12-inch endpin. * a cello.

Round 2. Category: Experiments * 1: NASA's passive seismic experiment detected thousands of lunar seismic events, called these. * moonquakes. * 2: Galen's neighbors heard the squeals of stuck pigs when he proved that veins carry this, not air. * blood. * 3: In 1952 Hershey and Chase used a Waring model of this machine to study bacteria-eating viruses. * blender. * 4: Josef Stefan heated up physics by showing that radiation from a glowing wire was proportional to this. * temperature. * 5: 1887's Michelson-Morley experiment demolished the idea of this medium that supposedly conducted light. * aether.

Round 3. Category: College Sports Films * 1: "Rudy" featured Jason Miller as this university's coach Ara Parseghian. * Notre Dame. * 2: Bear Bryant puts this speedy title character of a 1994 movie on the Crimson Tide. * Forrest Gump. * 3: Shot at University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Back to School" features Rodney Dangerfield competing in this aquatic sport. * high-diving. * 4: The premiere for this 2006 film featured a green carpet, to honor the Thundering Herd. * We Are Marshall. * 5: In "Glory Road", Jon Voight played this school's legendary coach Adolph Rupp. * University of Kentucky.

Round 4. Category: Rock Music * 1: In 1994 Pearl Jam complained to the U.S. Justice Dept. that this company held a monopoly on concert sales. * Ticketmaster. * 2: In her first top 10 hit, this singer-guitarist gave them "Something to Talk About". * Bonnie Raitt. * 3: 5 years after the release of his first album, he had his first top 10 hit with "Just The Way You Are". * Billy Joel. * 4: "Are we not men? We are" this New Wave group that gave us "Whip It". * Devo. * 5: He recorded his 1982 hit album, "Nebraska", as a series of demos on a 4-track machine at home. * Bruce Springsteen.

Round 5. Category: 1970s Tv * 1: The "M.E." in "Quincy, M.E." stood for this. * medical examiner. * 2: In 1973 Richard Thomas, M. Learned and Ellen Corby won Emmys for their performances in this CBS drama. * The Waltons. * 3: Esther Rolle played Florida Evans in "Maude" and then in this spin-off series. * Good Times. * 4: In the last episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" he was the only character at WJM who wasn't fired. * Ted Baxter. * 5: "Barney Miller"s 12th precinct police station was located in this part of New York City. * Greenwich Village.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 411, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Living Earth * 1: Earth's tides are affected primarily by these 2 heavenly bodies. * Sun and moon. * 2: On some trees and shrubs, this protective covering slowly peels off and is replaced. * Bark. * 3: From "calm" to "hurricane", the Beaufort scale measures the strength of this. * Wind. * 4: The only poisonous snake in Great Britain, the common adder belongs to this snake family. * Viper. * 5: These "laughing" scavengers will eat almost anything and will steal food even from lions. * Hyenas.

Round 2. Category: Critters * 1: It's the world's tallest animal whose young is known as a calf. * a giraffe. * 2: Like kangaroo, the young of the koala are referred to by this term. * Joeys. * 3: Ants detect odors with sensors on these. * Antennae. * 4: From their name it sounds like these ray relatives should travel "inline". * Skates. * 5: Unlike a human, a shark's skeleton is made of this elastic tissue, not bone. * cartilage.

Round 3. Category: Epitaphs * 1: "Quoth the raven nevermore". * Edgar Allan Poe. * 2: "Everybody loves somebody sometime". * Dean Martin. * 3: "Quoth the raven nevermore". * Edgar Allan Poe. * 4: "Man of 1000 Voices". * Mel Blanc. * 5: Died 1789:"His spirit is in Vermont now". * Ethan Allen.

Round 4. Category: Warren G. Harding * 1: Some claim that Harding coined this alliterative phrase for the leaders of the American Revolution. * Founding Fathers. * 2: Harding's veep, he succeeded Harding as president. * Calvin Coolidge. * 3: In 1903 Warren was elected lieutenant governor of this state; later he was one of its U.S. senators. * Ohio. * 4: It's what Warren Harding's middle initial G. stood for. * Gamaliel. * 5: Albert Fall, Harding's secretary of this cabinet dept., took the fall for the Teapot Dome scandal. * Interior.

Round 5. Category: Easter * 1: 1916's "Easter Rebellion" against British rule was centered in this capital city. * Dublin. * 2: The Sunday before Easter is commonly called this. * Palm Sunday. * 3: Animals associated with Easter are the egg-hiding rabbit and this one representing Jesus. * Lamb. * 4: The 40-day period before Easter is Lent; the 40th day after Easter is the feast of this. * Ascension. * 5: This location's first Easter Egg Roll was on April 22, 1878. * the White House.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 410, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Born First * 1: Dr. Jonas Salk,Dr. Louis Pasteur,Dr. Benjamin Spock. * Dr. Louis Pasteur. * 2: Ulysses Grant,Abraham Lincoln,Franklin Pierce. * Franklin Pierce. * 3: Harriet Beecher Stowe,James Fenimore Cooper,Ernest Hemingway. * James Fenimore Cooper. * 4: Ludwig van Beethoven,Johann Sebastian Bach,Johannes Brahms. * Bach. * 5: John Irving,James Michener,Arthur Miller. * James Michener.

Round 2. Category: Haunted Mansion * 1: Every Thursday after "Jeopardy!" we hold one of these "sittings" to receive messages from our late Uncle Wiggin. * Seance. * 2: Whenever we have a devilish problem, Father Gary helps us with one of these spirited expelling rites. * Exorcism. * 3: None of us got any sleep last night with one of these "noisy" ghosts wandering all about. * Poltergeist. * 4: Sometimes our phantoms leave behind this spectral stuff whose name comes from Greek for "outside mold". * Ectoplasm. * 5: Our ghosts are so troubled, they may have taken lessons from this title ghost in an Oscar Wilde work. * "The Canterville Ghost".

Round 3. Category: I Do Impressions * 1: This music legend penned hits like "Lay Lady Lay" and "Tangled Up In Blue". * Bob Dylan. * 2: Hello, my name this 2006 title movie film guy who say, "This suit is not black!"; very nice, high five. * Borat. * 3: "Here's Johnny!"; no, it's this actor known for his truth handling and a famous chicken salad sandwich request. * Jack Nicholson. * 4: I hear Darrell Hammond also does an impression of this "Finding Forrester" title guy, the filthy.... * Sean Connery. * 5: Watch me channel this 2'8" "Austin Powers" character. * Mini-Me.

Round 4. Category: What's Cooking? * 1: This basic tomato-based spaghetti sauce whose name means "in sailor's style". * marinara. * 2: The eggs in Eggs Benedict aren't fried or scrambled, but cooked this way. * poached. * 3: This basic tomato-based spaghetti sauce whose name means "in sailor's style". * marinara. * 4: In the Persian dish Dolmeh Sib, this fruit is stuffed with a mix of peas, onions and meat -- a little too much to give to a teacher. * apple. * 5: This salad green, a variety of Italian chicory, is usually reddish. * radicchio.

Round 5. Category: War * 1: "Operation Rolling Thunder" was the 1965 U.S. bombing campaign designed in part to stop men and supplies coming south on this road. * the Ho Chi Minh Trail. * 2: On June 25, 1950 fighting broke out on the 38th Parallel, thus beginning this war. * the Korean War. * 3: Of all the USA's wars, this one claimed the most American lives. * the Civil War. * 4: Meaning "little war", this term for a type of warfare originated during Napoleon's wars in Spain. * guerrilla warfare. * 5: This term for a member of Japan's powerful warrior class comes from the Japanese word meaning "guard". * samurai.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 409, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Countries Named After People * 1: The name of this Mideast country comes from the name of the royal family that rules it. * Saudi Arabia. * 2: This Latin American country is named for a man born in Genoa in 1451. * Colombia. * 3: It's named for the man who "liberated" it from Spain in 1824 and was its first president. * Bolivia. * 4: It takes its name from the mythological Kambu, from whom its kings claimed descent. * Cambodia. * 5: The Tswana are its largest ethnic group, and the country is named after them. * Botswana.

Round 2. Category: -Grams * 1: J. Crew and Lands' End allow you to add this type of personalization to some items. * monogram. * 2: A witty expression; Oscar Wilde had a flair for them. * epigram. * 3: The main cause of false-negative results with this type of imaging is breast tissue that is highly dense. * mammogram. * 4: In 2013 this image-sharing app said its 90 million users were posting 40 million photos per day. * Instagram. * 5: In 2013 this image-sharing app said its 90 million users were posting 40 million photos per day. * Instagram.

Round 3. Category: I've Got An "Itch" * 1: On TV, Sabrina is a "Teenage" one. * a witch. * 2: In this high-flying game, balls called bludgers can knock players off their brooms. * Quidditch. * 3: He's Lilo's mischievous alien pal. * Stitch. * 4: Throw a baseball, or set up a tent. * pitch. * 5: It diverts a train from one track to another. * a switch.

Round 4. Category: Europe On Film * 1: Life in this city was a "cabaret" for Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey. * Berlin, Germany. * 2: In a 1974 film, a melange of murderers took this famed train from Istanbul to Calais. * the Orient Express. * 3: This 1959 film set in Amsterdam won Shelley Winters herfirst Oscar as Mrs. Van Damme. * The Diary of Anne Frank. * 4: Country in which Hitchcock's "Jamaica Inn" was set. * Britain. * 5: Parts of this 1958 Kirk Douglas film about icy invaders were filmed on location in Norway. * The Vikings.

Round 5. Category: Sam Houston * 1: Sam Houston's Indian "wife" Tiana Rogers was related to this famous humorist. * Will Rogers. * 2: It took less than 20 minutes for Houston's forces to defeat this Mexican's troops at San Jacinto. * Santa Anna. * 3: The highest post Sam held in the Republic of Texas. * President. * 4: Of 10 years after his death, 1 year after or while he was alive, it's when Houston, Texas was named for him. * While he was alive. * 5: In 1861 Houston refused to swear allegiance to this government. * The Confederacy.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 408, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: To Riches * 1: Like his father before him, he's the longtime mayor of Chicago. * (Richard) Daley. * 2: In 1969 he began Virgin, a mail-order business for discount records. * (Richard) Branson. * 3: In the 1984 film version of "1984", this acclaimed British actor played the inquisitor O'Brien. * Richard Burton. * 4: The German stamp issued on the 50th anniversary of this composer's death depicted his opera "Salome". * Richard Strauss. * 5: This journalist's "diary" from Richard Tregaskis was a firsthand account of WWII in the Pacific. * Guadalcanal Diary.

Round 2. Category: Remember The '80s? * 1: On May 13, 1981 a Turkish assailant made an assassination attempt on this man in the Vatican. * Pope John Paul II. * 2: In this 1985 movie Michael J. Fox time-traveled from the 1980s to the 1950s to the 1980s. * Back to the Future. * 3: Many books offered step-by-step solutions to this 6-sided plastic puzzle. * Rubik's Cube. * 4: This 1997 movie starring Jodie Foster was based on Carl Sagan's bestselling 1985 book. * Contact. * 5: In 1986 Chris Van Allsburg won the Caldecott Medal with his book about this "Express". * "The Polar Express".

Round 3. Category: Next Stop, Venus * 1: Contributing to its high temperature, Venus' atmosphere is predominantly made up of this gas. * carbon dioxide. * 2: It's the planet that's closest to Venus. * Earth. * 3: In 1610 this Italian discovered that Venus has phases like the moon. * Galileo. * 4: With few exceptions all specified surface features of Venus are appropriately named after these. * women. * 5: Similar to an eclipse, it's the term for the rare passing in front of the sun that Venus did on June 8, 2004. * a transit.

Round 4. Category: Julius * 1: Sears president Julius Rosenwald donated millions to found this city's Museum of Science and Industry. * Chicago. * 2: You bet your life he was born Julius Henry Marx. * Groucho Marx. * 3: Dairy Queen owns this drink created by Julius Freed back in 1926. * Orange Julius. * 4: "Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home" is its first line. * Julius Caesar. * 5: The "J." in the name of this director of the A-bomb project at Los Alamos was short for, you guessed it, Julius. * J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Round 5. Category: "Eek" City * 1: The title of an Irving Berlin song, it's how a famous pair danced in the film "Top Hat". * "Cheek To Cheek". * 2: A shallow or intermittent tributary. * a creek. * 3: To give off a strong, unpleasant smell. * reek. * 4: Onion relative that's a symbol of Wales. * a leek. * 5: It's the word that means happening once a fortnight. * biweekly.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 407, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Movie Trivia * 1: Subtitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". * Dr. Strangelove. * 2: An invitation to waltz, a Rogers and Astaire film, or a musical question in "The King and I". * Shall We Dance?. * 3: The names of these two movie elephants differ by just one letter. * Dumbo and Jumbo. * 4: In 1949's "Beyond the Forest", B. Davis uttered this famous line about the condition of her home. * "What a dump!". * 5: Ads for this 1971 Woody Allen film called it "More moving than prunes". * Bananas.

Round 2. Category: Christianity * 1: The 7 virtues are temperance, fortitude, justice, prudence and this trio. * Faith, hope and charity. * 2: Often considered a "fallen angel", he leads his angels against Michael in Revelation. * Satan. * 3: Of 66, 166 or 666, the number of books in the King James Version of the Bible. * 66. * 4: In 1540 Pope Paul III approved this religious order begun by Ignatius Loyola. * the Jesuits. * 5: Born the son of slaves in 1760, Richard Allen became the first bishop and leader of this church, the AME, in 1816. * African Methodist Episcopal church.

Round 3. Category: Feel The "Burn" * 1: To be Elvis impersonator, you need to cultivate these whiskers. * sideburns. * 2: Discomfort produced by stomach acid touching the lining of the esophagus. * heartburn. * 3: This university began as East Alabama Male College in 1856. * Auburn. * 4: JFK's 1962 State of the Union Address eulogized this Congressional legend known as "Mr. Sam". * Rayburn. * 5: 1958 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition winner. * Van Cliburn.

Round 4. Category: Name The Sport * 1: One team member runs post patterns and buttonhooks. * football. * 2: 4 teammates, a safety zone, a 40 yard mark, goal posts. * polo. * 3: Scissors kick, corner kick, header. * soccer. * 4: 4 teammates, a house, a hog line, a tee line. * curling. * 5: Goal throw, sink, swim-off. * water polo.

Round 5. Category: Cool "Aid" * 1: To interweave 3 or more strands. * braid. * 2: A constant runner-up is said to be "always" one of these women. * a bridesmaid. * 3: Australian port city at the mouth of the Torrens River. * Adelaide. * 4: Purchased ahead of time, like some legal services. * prepaid. * 5: To have attacked from ambush in order to seize, rob, or slay. * waylaid.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 406, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: All My Xs * 1: In 1968 the MPAA rated a film adult by giving it this many Xs. * 1. * 2: In a 2002 film, number of Xs on Vin Diesel's neck tattoo. * 3. * 3: Claudia Silva starred in an L.A.-area theater production of "Cuatro Equis", this many. * 4. * 4: Without getting a tic-tac-toe on "Hollywood Squares" you could still win a game with this many Xs. * 5. * 5: Maximum number of Xs that can appear on one bowler's score sheet in one game. * 12.

Round 2. Category: Marvin Gardens * 1: I heard Marvin Gaye took this song to No. 1 in 1968. * "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". * 2: "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler was the world boxing champ in this weight class from 1980 to 1987. * middleweight. * 3: Oscar winner "Marvelous" Marvin Hamlisch began attending this prestigious NYC music school when he was 7!. * Juilliard. * 4: Michelle Triola's lawsuit against this actor introduced "palimony" to the English language. * Lee Marvin. * 5: Unless Bugs Bunny can stop him, this character wants to use his PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator to blow up Earth. * Marvin the Martian.

Round 3. Category: Pick One * 1: Of hippo, rhino or croc, the one whose common name has the most letters. * hippopotamus. * 2: Of the Osmonds, the Osbournes or the Oswalds, the family that got MTV its highest ratings. * the Osbournes. * 3: Of Woolworth, Wordsworth or Wadsworth, the one who was a stamp distributor in Westmoreland County. * Wordsworth. * 4: Of Army, Navy or Marine, the one who began as a columnist for Variety in 1953. * Army (Archerd). * 5: Of Walter Chrysler, Louis Chevrolet or Ransom Olds, the one who raced in the Indy 500. * Chevrolet.

Round 4. Category: Ka-"Pow"! * 1: He was the first African-American Secretary of State. * Colin Powell. * 2: 2-word term for a soft pad used to apply makeup. * powder puff. * 3: Electric drills, saws and other equipment, collectively. * power tools. * 4: A brazen political maneuver to gain advantage, or a period in hockey where one of the other team is in the penalty box. * power play. * 5: Pocahontas' papa. * Powhatan.

Round 5. Category: Cambodia, Cameroon Or Canada * 1: It's made up of 3 territories and 10 provinces. * Canada. * 2: The one ruled by a king. * Cambodia. * 3: The smallest in area. * Cambodia. * 4: Its national flag contains only 2 colors. * Canada. * 5: Uses the franc as its currency. * Cameroon.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 405, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The "Del"S * 1: Erase, erase, erase, perhaps with the touch of a button. * delete. * 2: Major party nominees for president are decided by these representatives. * delegates. * 3: These false beliefs might be of grandeur or of persecution. * delusions. * 4: It's another term for a flood, especially the biblical one. * a deluge. * 5: This Ancient Greek town on Mount Parnassus was the site of a famous oracle. * Delphi.

Round 2. Category: Yesterday * 1: An April 1971 visit by a team of players of this game was part of a thaw in U.S.-China relations. * Ping-pong (table tennis). * 2: In 1915 this Michigan industrialist chartered a "peace ship" and sailed off to stop WWI. * Henry Ford. * 3: This British naval hero lost an eye during the capture of Corsica in 1794. * Lord Nelson. * 4: Zulu Prince Shaka conquered much of southern Africa when he adapted this throwing weapon for stabbing. * Spear. * 5: He first led his red-shirted Italian legion in the 1840s, fighting for Uruguay against Argentina. * Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Round 3. Category: Born In The '60s * 1: NYC minister Joseph Simmons is better known as "Run" of this rap group. * Run-D.M.C.. * 2: After the 1996 election, this 35-year-old Clinton adviser moved to ABC News. * George Stephanopoulos. * 3: In 1996, he beat a chess-playing IBM computer called Deep Blue; in 1997 the tables were turned. * Garry Kasparov. * 4: 1 of the 2 30-something female leads of "The English Patient". * Juliette Binoche and Kristen Scott-Thomas. * 5: 29-year-old Melinda French, a manager at this company, married its chairman January 1, 1994. * Microsoft.

Round 4. Category: "B" Movies * 1: 1968:Steve McQueen fires on all cylinders as a San Francisco cop in search of a killer mobster. * Bullitt. * 2: Burt Lancaster film in which his only friends were feathered. * Birdman of Alcatraz. * 3: A dimwitted shut-in becomes the toast of Washington, D.C. society in this comedy starring Peter Sellers. * Being There. * 4: As Josef Mengele, Gregory Peck sets out to breed a new race of Hitlers in this thriller. * The Boys from Brazil. * 5: Stanley Kubrick's directorial style in this 1975 movie mimicked the detached manner of 18th century English painters. * Barry Lyndon.

Round 5. Category: Savants * 1: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere", he wrote in his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail". * Martin Luther King (Jr.). * 2: In January 1904 these 2 inventors issued a statement about their success at Kitty Hawk, but it got little attention. * the Wright Brothers. * 3: "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject", said this wartime British P.M.. * Churchill. * 4: This Austrian learned to play harpsichord at age 4, was composing at 5 and played for his Empress at 6. * Mozart. * 5: One of you will look like a savant when you I.D. this ancient Greek who used Socrates as a spokesman in his "Republic". * Plato.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 404, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "R"Rrrrrrrrr * 1: Sometimes it's necessary to do this, meaning to reload your computer's operating system. * reboot. * 2: 3 points on one throw in horseshoes. * ringer. * 3: The stems of these Asian palms are used to make wicker furniture. * rattan. * 4: In a memorable 1982 TV movie, Jean Stapleton played this first lady. * Eleanor Roosevelt. * 5: Ionesco play that ends, "I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end. I'm not capitulating!". * Rhinoceros.

Round 2. Category: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do * 1: In 1970 the world said "Hello, Goodbye" to this group whose film "Let It Be" documented their breakup. * The Beatles. * 2: After it broke up in 1991, 11 of its former republics joined the Commonwealth of Independent States. * Soviet Union/U.S.S.R.. * 3: In 1982 this communications giant agreed to divest itself of its Baby Bells. * AT and T. * 4: In 1938 2 Germans became the first to split this, producing barium and krypton from uranium. * an atom. * 5: Ancient supercontinent that many believe broke up, creating Laurasia and Gondwanaland. * Pangaea.

Round 3. Category: Gorilla My Dreams * 1: The first gorilla born in captivity was Colo, who debuted in 1956 in this Ohio capital. * Columbus. * 2: Gorillas belong to this order of mammals which also includes monkeys, lemurs and man. * Primates. * 3: There are 3 types of gorillas: eastern lowland, western lowland and this one that lives at altitudes up to 13,000 feet. * Mountain gorilla. * 4: This zoologist founded the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda where she studied gorillas for 18 years. * Dian Fossey. * 5: This fully adult male with a colorful name may weigh twice as much as the adult females in his group. * Silverback.

Round 4. Category: Actors Onstage * 1: In 1980 Jane Seymour played Mozart's wife on Broadway in this play. * Amadeus. * 2: In 1977 Anne Bancroft returned to Broadway to play this Mideast leader. * Golda Meir. * 3: Raquel Welch made her Broadway debut in this musical, replacing Lauren Bacall. * Woman of the Year. * 4: Jack Klugman sang with Ethel Merman in this musical, but he kept his clothes on. * Gypsy. * 5: Before "Roots" Levar Burton's only sizable role was as Ali Hakim in this musical at USC. * Oklahoma!.**

Round 5. Category: Car Names * 1: This wild horse is also called a cayuse or a bronco. * a Mustang. * 2: Quicksilver. * Mercury. * 3: An agreement. * an Accord. * 4: English seaport from which the Mayflower set sail in 1620. * the Plymouth. * 5: An insect of the order Coleoptera. * a Beetle.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 403, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Disneylands * 1: The original Disneyland opened to the public in this decade. * 1950s. * 2: This classic ride is based on the 1949 Disney film "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad". * Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. * 3: Though it was inspired by Mad King Ludwig's pad, it's her "Castle" you'll see in the Anaheim park. * Sleeping Beauty. * 4: Aye, matey, this popular ride has received a politically correct makeover. * Pirates of the Caribbean. * 5: They're the 2 countries where you'll find Disney theme parks outside the U.S.. * France and Japan.

Round 2. Category: State Of Mine * 1: This state's school of mines, based in Golden, has an experimental mine in Idaho Springs. * Colorado. * 2: This state's Wilkes-Barre district won a mine reclamation award for its Upper Lehigh site. * Pennsylvania. * 3: Historic mining centers in this state include Gallup for coal and Grants for uranium. * New Mexico. * 4: The documentary "Harlan County U.S.A." studies a miners' strike in this state. * Kentucky. * 5: A 1907 disaster killed some 360 coal miners near Fairmont in this state. * West Virginia.

Round 3. Category: New Reality Shows? * 1: Catherine, Anne, Jane, Anne No. 2, Catherine H. and Catherine P. try to avoid elimination in "Who Wants to Marry" this king. * Henry VIII. * 2: Not feeling so tolerant lately? Become Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's successor as this country's "Next Top Despot". * Iran. * 3: On "Dancing with Ex-George W. Bush Cabinet Members", this ex-Defense Sec. goes on the offensive--with a sizzling samba!. * Donald Rumsfeld. * 4: The fork's now in your hand in "So You Think You Can Eat an Entire" this make of auto, whether Cayenne or Boxster. * Porsche. * 5: Oops! Rex finds out the hard way this body part's neocortex is nowhere near the groin in "I Wanna Be a Surgeon!". * the brain.

Round 4. Category: The 20Th Century * 1: On August 1, 1975 35 nations signed accords on human rights in this city. * Helsinki. * 2: His bat's in the Baseball Hall of Fame, but this man nicknamed "Charlie Hustle" is ineligible for induction. * Pete Rose. * 3: This canal officially opened August 15, 1914. * the Panama Canal. * 4: This "wonder insecticide" developed by Swiss scientists in 1939 was later found less than wonderful. * DDT. * 5: A May 18, 1954 L.A. Times headline read "Supreme Court Outlaws" this "in Schools. * "Segregation".

Round 5. Category: 20Th Century Usa * 1: On Sept. 18, 1975 this fugitive heiress was captured by the FBI in a San Francisco apartment. * Patty Hearst. * 2: In 1984 this civil rights leader gained the release of 22 Americans and 26 Cubans detained in Cuban prisons. * Rev. Jesse Jackson. * 3: In 1952 this toy company founded by the Hassenfeld brothers introduced Mr. Potato Head. * Hasbro. * 4: On November 19,1919 the U.S. Senate failed to ratify this treaty which established the League of Nations. * Treaty of Versailles. * 5: In June 1934 this father of a future president was named chairman of the SEC. * Joseph Kennedy.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 402, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Geograph"E" * 1: This city was probably named for Edwin of Northumbria, who built a fort on the Firth of Forth in the 600s. * Edinburgh. * 2: Sicilians call this active volcano Mongibello. * Etna. * 3: The ruins of Babylon lie on the banks of this river, the longest in southwest Asia. * the Euphrates. * 4: Large oceangoing vessels can travel from the North Sea inland as far as Hamburg on this river. * the Elbe. * 5: In 1979 an airliner crashed on this Antarctic peak, killing all 257 aboard. * Erebus.

Round 2. Category: Geographical Songs * 1: "Hooray for" this city, where you're terrific if you're even good. * Hollywood. * 2: "If God didn't make little green apples, then it don't rain" here "in the summertime". * Indianapolis. * 3: "Me and Mamie O' Rourke tripped the light fantastic on" these. * "Sidewalks Of New York". * 4: Cole Porter wrote that this city "loves lovers, for lovers it's heaven above". * Paris. * 5: "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" was a "high-falutin' scootin', shootin' son-of-a-gun from" this state. * Arizona.

Round 3. Category: You Give Me The Willies * 1: "Say Hey" -- he was the National League's most valuable baseball player in 1954 and 1965. * Willie Mays. * 2: He duetted with Waylon Jennings on the No. 1 country hit "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys". * Willie Nelson. * 3: In 1996 he was sworn in as San Francisco's first African-American mayor. * Willie Brown. * 4: All clowning aside, originally Emmett Kelly created this mournful hobo as a cartoon character. * Weary Willie. * 5: This pocket billiards champ was an adviser for the movie "The Hustler". * Willie Mosconi.

Round 4. Category: Foreign Cuisine * 1: No matter how you slice it, it's "brot" in German. * bread. * 2: This "orange" fish, a favorite in New Zealand, might be less popular if known by its other name: slimehead. * roughy. * 3: Jewish crepe filled with cheese. * a blintz. * 4: City Wiener Schnitzel is named for. * Vienna. * 5: It's not a real "duck"; it's a bummalo fish impregnated with a safetida plant resin and served with curry. * bombega.

Round 5. Category: Made Up * 1: The name of this brand of cosmetics is a French word for a type of hospital. * Clinique. * 2: This makeup line that includes Great Lash mascara takes its name from its founder's sister Mabel. * Maybelline. * 3: In ads for Revlon's Colorstay liquid lip, this country diva sings "Man! I feel like a woman". * Shania Twain. * 4: This company introduced Vamp, a black-red nail polish and a matching lipstick also called Vamp. * Chanel. * 5: This brand known for its clear glycerin soap introduced Lip Plush lipsticks. * Neutrogena.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 401, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Time For A "Pi" * 1: This animal's name comes from the Middle French for "thorny pig". * porcupine. * 2: We love this winged, unclothed infant archer of mythology, the son of Venus. * Cupid. * 3: Uh oh! This outer nonvascular layer of your skin is showing. * epidermis. * 4: Wealth, or a city that the official seat of government in a state. * capital. * 5: A plant belonging to the genus Angallis, especially having scarlet flowers. * pimpernel.

Round 2. Category: The Beat Of The Tom * 1: In the 1957 group known as Tom and Jerry, Tom was Art Garfunkel and he was Jerry. * Paul Simon. * 2: Throw your panties at me if you know the name of this Welsh singer born Thomas Woodward. * Tom Jones. * 3: In 1993 he sang about "Mary Jane's Last Dance". * Tom Petty. * 4: "I Love" this country star who had the hit "I Like Beer"; it fits him to a "T.". * Tom T. Hall. * 5: This singer-actor had 2 songs on the "Dead Man Walking" soundtrack CD. * Tom Waits.

Round 3. Category: Firsts * 1: Dr. West's Miracle Tuft toothbrush of 1938 was the 1st to have bristles made of this. * Nylon/Plastic. * 2: Observance at which English colonists 1st ate popcorn. * Thanksgiving. * 3: They were the U.S. presidents when the 1st man went into space and the 1st man walked on the moon. * Kennedy and Nixon. * 4: The 8 contestants in the 1st Miss America pageant in 1921 represented these. * Cities. * 5: In 1981 Western Bancorporation was renamed this when it became the 1st bank to franchise its services. * First Interstate Bank.

Round 4. Category: Symbolic Rodents * 1: In December 1958 these speedy singers had the No. 1 single in the U.S.. * The Chipmunks ("The Chipmunk Song" ("Christmas Don't Be Late")). * 2: It's a domesticated cavy, or any person or thing used as the subject of an experiment. * Guinea pig. * 3: An informer. * Rat. * 4: (Hi, I'm NBA All-Star Gary Payton.) As a college student at Oregon State, I was one of these tree-cutting rodents. * Beavers. * 5: It "Roared" and "Saved The West" in novels about a tiny duchy called Grand Fenwick. * Mouse.

Round 5. Category: Alliteratives * 1: Feathered denizen of Sesame Street. * Big Bird. * 2: NBC tape editor Robert Rizzo uses this "Midnight Cowboy" nickname on "NBC News at Sunrise" credits. * Ratso Rizzo. * 3: 2 1/8" by 3 3/8" wafer of plastic that improperly used, can get you in debt beyond your wildest dreams. * credit card. * 4: Broadway's "one and only" 6' 6" dancer-choreographer-director. * Tommy Tune. * 5: The student short that gave him his start was called "Amblin'". * Steven Spielberg.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 400, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Islands * 1: Material for the giant statues on this Chilean island was quarried from a crater called Rano Raraku. * Easter Island. * 2: It's home to Europe's highest active volcano. * Sicily (Mt. Etna). * 3: West Indian island that's the home of the limbo dance and calypso music. * Trinidad. * 4: You'll find this island nation about 95 miles due south of Cuba, mon. * Jamaica. * 5: Largest of the Mariana Islands, we acquired it in 1898. * Guam.

Round 2. Category: Nicknames * 1: This nickname of Mrs. Gore comes from a song recorded by Jan August and The Harmonicats. * Tipper. * 2: "The Peanut President". * Jimmy Carter. * 3: Baseball player Jay Hanna Dean was known by this giddy moniker. * Dizzy Dean. * 4: "Dark" nickname shared by Jackie Onassis' father, John Bouvier, and General Pershing. * "Black Jack". * 5: Superstar Wilt Chamberlain was "The Big" one. * "Dipper".

Round 3. Category: Did You Notice? * 1: On a piano, the high-pitched keys are at this end of the keyboard. * right. * 2: The 1st names of your 2 opponents. * Meg and Sue. * 3: This album's cover was the 1st on which all 4 Beatles sported mustaches. * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. * 4: 6 of these animals are found on the Cadillac crest. * birds. * 5: Only current U.S. coin to have a "likeness" of the same man on both the face and back. * penny.

Round 4. Category: Nature * 1: Safes, a type of these desert formations, are often many miles long and several hundred feet high. * sand dunes. * 2: Some of the fanciest of these reptiles are beaded, horned, or frilled. * lizards. * 3: Although these smallest birds are known for drinking nectar, they eat insects as well. * hummingbirds. * 4: This cotton pest 1st reached the U.S. at Brownsville, TX around 1892. * boll weevil. * 5: Mor and mull are 2 types of this black decayed organic matter in soil. * humus.

Round 5. Category: "Teen" Scene * 1: Numerically speaking, read up on "Fun Stuff", "Fashion", "Health" and "Stars" at this magazine.com. * seventeen.com. * 2: If you're triskaidekaphobic, you're afraid of this number, and not just on a Friday. * thirteen. * 3: A holder for liquid, or a military base's general store. * a canteen. * 4: Golfing "hole" with a bar (where you can't go), or the amendment granting women's suffrage. * 19th. * 5: Number of lines in Shakespeare's poem that starts "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?". * 14.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 399, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Your Days Are Numbered * 1: Dies Martis is the Latin name for this day of the week. * Tuesday. * 2: Number of months with only 30 days. * four. * 3: Years that read the same upside down and right side up include 1881, 6009 and this year of the 1960s. * 1961. * 4: Title of the 1965 Beatles No. 1 hit song that is a calendrical impossiblity. * "Eight Days A Week". * 5: In the DD/MM/YYYY format, it was the most recent date in which all 3 were even numbers. * December 30, 2006.

Round 2. Category: A Spot Of "T" * 1: It's what was showered down upon Charles Lindbergh at a parade in NYC in June 1927. * ticker tape. * 2: To write down words, especially from audio to written form. * transcribe. * 3: In 1998 a $15 million production of this opera was staged in its actual setting, the Forbidden City. * Turandot. * 4: Middle Caicos is the largest island in this British dependency in the West Indies. * the Turks and Caicos. * 5: This general came to power in Panama in 1968 and led the drive to end U.S. control of the canal. * Omar Torrijos.

Round 3. Category: "In" Places * 1: In February 1994 an earthquake struck the island of Sumatra in this nation, killing 215 people. * Indonesia. * 2: Civilization in the valley of this Pakistani river dates back about 4500 years. * the Indus River. * 3: Technically, it comprises the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. * the West Indies. * 4: This capital of Tyrol has hosted 2 Winter Olympic games. * Innsbruck. * 5: This Missouri city is headquarters to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. * Independence.

Round 4. Category: Wham-O * 1: In 1997 Wham-O introduced a Max Flight version of this 1950s sensation that flew farther and was easy to catch. * the Frisbee. * 2: Wham-O owners heard about Australian kids using a bamboo ring for exercise; it became this 1958 fad. * a Hula hoop. * 3: Wham-O received its name from this first product; when a projectile hit its target, it made a "Wham-O" sound. * a slingshot. * 4: This 1962 Wham-O game named for a dance craze came with a moveable cross bar and 2 support stands. * limbo. * 5: Versions of this lawn toy to keep you cool in the summer include "Wave Rider" and "Bounce 'N Splash". * a Slip 'N Slide.

Round 5. Category: "Ez" Does It * 1: It's the crime of stealing money that has been entrusted to one's care. * embezzlement. * 2: In its 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, Israel was guaranteed unrestricted use of this waterway. * the Suez Canal. * 3: "And a Voice to Sing With" and "Daybreak" are autobiographies by this famous folk singer. * Joan Baez. * 4: He was ruler of the Aztecs at the time Cortes came a-calling. * Montezuma. * 5: The name of this Indian tribe that lives in Idaho is French for "pierced nose". * Nez Perce.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 398, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Iraq * 1: It's the country Iraqi nationalists call Iraq's 19th province. * Kuwait. * 2: Iraq's old name, Mesopotamia, was derived from its location between these 2 rivers. * the Tigris and Euphrates. * 3: Roughly 75 percent of Iraq's people are Arabs and 20 percent are of this ethnic group. * Kurds. * 4: After this country's 1948 independence, the armies of Transjordan and Iraq invaded. * Israel. * 5: It's the only one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World once found in Iraq. * The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Round 2. Category: The Wit And Wisdom Of Pudd'nhead Wilson * 1: "Man is the only animal that" does this, "or needs to". * blush. * 2: This man "did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden". * Adam. * 3: "Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others--his last" one of these. * breath. * 4: "Put all your eggs in the one basket and" then do this. * watch that basket. * 5: "When in doubt", do this. * tell the truth.

Round 3. Category: Country Music Tourism * 1: She opened Dollywood Boulevard, an $8 million addition to her Dollywood theme park in 1996. * Dolly Parton. * 2: This "Grand Ole" theme park is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1996. * Opryland USA. * 3: You can tour a simulated coal mine at this coal miner's daughter's home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. * Loretta Lynn. * 4: When visiting Disney World, line dancers head for the Neon Armadillo on this night club "island". * Pleasure Island. * 5: Alabama and the Gatlin Brothers are among the country stars who have theatres in this S.C. beach city. * Myrtle Beach.

Round 4. Category: Postal Abbreviation Spelling * 1: Colorado,Oklahoma. * cook. * 2: Virginia,Nebraska. * vane. * 3: Michigan,Maine. * mime. * 4: Pennsylvania,Connecticut. * pact. * 5: California,North Dakota,Oregon. * candor.

Round 5. Category: Movie Prequels And Sequels * 1: Angelina Jolie rocked as this sexy tomb raider in "The Cradle of Life". * Lara Croft. * 2: This prequel to a Farrelly Brothers movie was subtitled "When Harry Met Lloyd". * Dumb and Dumberer. * 3: In 2002 Anthony Hopkins starred in this "colorful" prequel to "Silence of the Lambs". * Red Dragon. * 4: Also known as episodes I and II, 1 of 2 "Star Wars" prequels to be released. * The Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones. * 5: In "Rocky II" Rocky becomes the world heavyweight champ after a rematch with this opponent. * Apollo Creed.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 397, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Printing * 1: A halftone print is really an optical illusion; it's actually lots and lots of these that seem to form an image. * dots. * 2: XBLD, short for this, designates a very heavy typeface. * extra bold. * 3: The group of songs a singer performs, or a set of available characters in a font. * a repertoire. * 4: A trademark of the A.B. Dick Co., this largely obsolete duplicator uses a stencil fitted on a cylinder. * a Mimeograph. * 5: These marks around the Jeopardy! logo are the crosses or angles printed to line up 2 or more colors in process printing. * register (or registration) marks.

Round 2. Category: 30-Something * 1: At age 33 in 1804, he started a new symphony, his 5th, with a Da-Da-Da-Duh. * Beethoven. * 2: These comedians were both in their 30th when paired by Hal Roach in the 1920s. * Laurel and Hardy. * 3: In need of money in 1835, this 30-year-old Dane published 4 fairy tales. * Hans Christian Andersen. * 4: Of the 4 regular hosts of "The Tonight Show", he's the only one who didn't start when he was 30-something. * Jay Leno. * 5: Madonna was 34 in 1992, when she published "Sex", and this actress was 34 in 1926, when she produced the play "Sex". * Mae West.

Round 3. Category: Cats And Dogs * 1: This dog's name refers to its impressive pedigree; it really should be called "blooded". * Bloodhound. * 2: One of the first of these cats in the United States was given to Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes by the consul in Bangkok. * Siamese. * 3: The 1st Cornish Rex was a mutant kitten named Kallibunker who was born in this English duchy in 1950. * Cornwall. * 4: It's a synonym for a domestic cat, or a coat pattern that may be classic, spotted, ticked or mackerel. * Tabby. * 5: The Akita, "natural dog" of this country, is said to have been brought to U.S. by Helen Keller. * Japan.

Round 4. Category: Either/Or * 1: On radio, Jack Benny responded to this question from a robber with a long pause and "I'm thinking". * Your money or your life?. * 2: This question about grocery bags could also apply to how you're paying for those groceries. * Paper or plastic?. * 3: It's the first choice the visiting team's captain always has at midfield right before kickoff of an NFL game. * Heads or tails?. * 4: It's the basic choice at KFC of what kind of chicken texture to have. * Original Recipe or Extra Crispy?. * 5: This title of an 1882 short story refers to a choice faced by a man before 2 doors. * "The Lady or the Tiger?".

Round 5. Category: 3-Letter Abbreviations * 1: On June 24, 1996 it reintroduced the "Bucket" that's made many families' mouths water. * KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken). * 2: Your car's tachometer measures them. * RPM (revolutions per minute). * 3: If you're half an hour away at 2:47, your this is 3:17. * ETA (estimated time of arrival). * 4: This group had a Top 10 hit when it joined Olivia Newton-John for "Xanadu". * ELO (Electric Light Orchestra). * 5: Classic radio and TV messages of this type include "Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk". * PSA (Public Service Announcement).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 396, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cradles * 1: These 2 rivers were the cradle of civilization in Mesopotamia. * Tigris and Euphrates. * 2: Incorporated in 1819, this current state capital was once the cradle of the Confederacy. * Montgomery, Alabama. * 3: In mythology this baby strangled 2 serpents placed in his cradle. * Hercules. * 4: In mythology this baby strangled 2 serpents placed in his cradle. * Hercules. * 5: In the 19th century William Ross Wallace wrote, "the hand that" does this "is the hand that rules the world". * "rocks the cradle".

Round 2. Category: 'Tis Time To Testify * 1: In 1947 playwright Bertolt Brecht returned to Europe after testifying before this House committee. * the House Un-American Activities Committee. * 2: In 1966 this consumer advocate gained national attention testifying before Congress on auto safety. * Ralph Nader. * 3: In 1991 the Senate testimony of law professor Anita Hill nearly derailed this man's Supreme Court nomination. * Clarence Thomas. * 4: In 1987 Fawn Hall testified that she had altered and shredded documents for this man, her boss. * Oliver North. * 5: On June 25, 1973 he testified before the Senate and revealed the existence of a White House "enemies list". * (John) Dean.

Round 3. Category: The "Lightning" Round * 1: It's another name for moonshine, cousin. * White lightning. * 2: A substance called Luciferin helps these creatures light up for their mates. * Lightning bugs. * 3: Blitzkrieg!. * "Lightning war". * 4: It's the full name of the only NHL team that fits the category. * Tampa Bay Lightning. * 5: Richard Pryor played race car driver Wendell Scott in this "fast" 1977 biopic. * "Greased Lightning".

Round 4. Category: 2003 Nobel Prize Winners * 1: Robert Engle and Clive Granger earned this prize for their new statistical models for financial data. * Economics. * 2: Of both Boer and English descent, J.M. Coetzee of this country won the Nobel for Literature. * South Africa. * 3: Abriskosov, Ginzburg and Leggett fielded this award for their work with quantum superconductivity. * Physics. * 4: John Paul II was the favorite, but Shirin Ebadi, a female Muslim from this country, took home the Peace Prize. * Iran. * 5: For their work leading to the MRI, American Paul Lauterbur and Briton Sir Peter Mansfield scanned this Nobel. * Medicine.

Round 5. Category: World Lit * 1: In "Blessed By Thunder", Flor Fernandez Barrios describes growing up in this country during Castro's revolution. * Cuba. * 2: His 1999 memoir "'Tis" opens in 1949, when he emigrated from Ireland to America at age 19. * Frank McCourt. * 3: Euphrase Kezilahabi of Tanzania wrote his novel "Rosa Mistika" in this African language. * Swahili. * 4: Some find that reading this marquis' 18th century novel "Justine" is pure torture. * Marquis de Sade. * 5: This Canadian author of "The Handmaid's Tale" set her novel "Cat's Eye" in Toronto. * Margaret Atwood.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 395, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Also A Weather Term * 1: To welcome, or to order a cab. * hail. * 2: Usual noun for what appears on a TV with bad reception. * snow. * 3: Trumpets, trombones and flutes are grouped as this type of instrument. * winds. * 4: If you're "on" one, you're in high spirits; if you're "under" one, you're in disgrace. * a cloud. * 5: If you "steal someone's" this, you've ruined the effect of a remark by anticipating it. * thunder.

Round 2. Category: People Eat That? * 1: The cheeks of this animal can be smoked, as its belly is smoked for bacon. * Pig. * 2: Mold gives this type of colorful cheese, like Roquefort, its flavor. * Blue cheese. * 3: These fleshy growths that top roosters' heads are blanched, dipped in batter and fried for use as a garnish. * combs. * 4: Secreted by sperm whales and found in perfume, this waxy substance is used as a spice in the East. * ambergris. * 5: Tripe is the lining of this digestive organ of cattle. * Stomach.

Round 3. Category: Science Stuff * 1: It's the only calendar month that can go without a full moon. * February. * 2: Ventifacts are rocks that are shaped by sand driven by this force of nature. * Wind. * 3: Prone to volcanoes and earthquakes, the "Ring of Fire" borders this ocean. * Pacific Ocean. * 4: Hematite is an important ore of this metal. * Iron. * 5: Unwelcome in basements, this radioactive element is the heaviest of the noble gases. * Radon.

Round 4. Category: Mergers And Acquisitions * 1: In an $80 billion deal these 2 oil companies joined forces in 1999 in the biggest merger up to that time. * Exxon and Mobil. * 2: In 2004 this Dutch airlines merged with Air France. * KLM. * 3: In 1999 Ford snatched up the auto unit of this company for 50 billion kronor. * Volvo. * 4: In 2004 FedEx acquired this chain of stores, and you can copy me on that!. * Kinko's. * 5: Despite opposition from the 2 founders' families, this company merged with Compaq in 2002. * Hewlett-Packard.

Round 5. Category: Don't Pick Me! * 1: The card you don't want to pick in this children's game is the odd queen. * Old Maid. * 2: A sign on the road to Carlsbad Caverns reads, "Do not pick up" these; "prison facilities in this area". * hitchhikers. * 3: It's the crust of fibrin and serum that forms on a wound and then dries. * a scab. * 4: After 5 Emmys, this "Murphy Brown" star took herself out of the running for 1996 to give others a chance. * Candice Bergen. * 5: The robber hopes his victim doesn't pick him out of this police parade of prisoners. * a lineup.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 394, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Presidential Quotations * 1: In 1865 he said, "Whenever I hear someone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally". * Lincoln. * 2: In a 1976 Playboy interview, he said, "I've committed adultery in my heart many times". * Jimmy Carter. * 3: On April 12, 1945 he asked Eleanor Roosevelt, "Is there anything I can do for you?". * Harry Truman. * 4: In his 1885 inaugural address he said that "Every voter... exercises a public trust". * Grover Cleveland. * 5: In this collection of essays, James Madison wrote, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary". * The Federalist Papers.

Round 2. Category: Bible Stories * 1: On this festival, Galileans could suddenly talk like Parthians and Medes. * Pentecost. * 2: In Mark 1, the Holy Spirit came to Jesus like this bird. * a dove. * 3: Lot fled this city as God burned it behind him. * Sodom. * 4: This king got angry and killed all the babies in Bethlehem. * King Herod. * 5: King Saul didn't let his people eat until they destroyed these enemies. * the Philistines.

Round 3. Category: Who's Afraid Of * 1: "Autophobia" could be the alternative title for Reba McEntire's hit "The Fear of Being" this. * Alone. * 2: Whether it passes too slowly or too quickly, chronophobia is a fear of this. * time. * 3: It's the opposite of agoraphobia. * claustrophobia. * 4: Erica Jong might know that aviophobia is this. * fear of flying. * 5: For someone with eosophobia, "it is always darkest" at this point of the day. * dawn.

Round 4. Category: Super Heroes * 1: His theme was the following:. * Mighty Mouse. * 2: He's been played by Reeves and Reeve. * Superman. * 3: Still seen in Thanksgiving parades, Wally Cox gave this hero his voice. * Underdog. * 4: His archenemy, Dr. Sivana, nicknamed him "The Big Red Cheese". * Captain Marvel. * 5: Originally Reed Richards, his wife Sue, The Human Torch and The Thing. * The Fantastic Four.

Round 5. Category: Brain Maul! * 1: Donald Duck's middle nephew alphabetically. * Huey. * 2: It's the tallest land mammal north of Antarctica. * Giraffe. * 3: He was Liz Taylor's first husband. * Nicky Hilton. * 4: Number of yards in a mile times the number of feet in a yard. * 5,280. * 5: The 4 U.S. states that begin with the word "New". * New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 393, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Andrew Johnson * 1: Andrew Johnson succeeded this man as president, having served as his vice president for only 6 weeks. * Abraham Lincoln. * 2: Johnson was the first president to whom the House of Representatives did this; the Senate acquitted him in May 1868. * impeached. * 3: With no formal education, Andrew didn't learn these 3 often-linked basic skills until he was a teenager. * reading, writing and arithmetic. * 4: A senator from this state, Andrew Johnson was the only Southern senator who refused to secede with his state. * Tennessee. * 5: Johnson's secretary of state, he negotiated the purchase of Alaska for a cool $7.2 million. * William Seward.

Round 2. Category: Crossword Clues "D" * 1: Bram Stoker novel you can "count" on(7). * Dracula. * 2: Samson's locks-smith(7). * Delilah. * 3: Greek gelt(8). * drachmas. * 4: Perry Mason's Street(5). * Della. * 5: "American Tragedian" Theodore(7). * Dreiser.

Round 3. Category: Silk * 1: Silkworms spin their cocoons by moving their heads in this numerical pattern figure skaters make on ice. * a figure eight. * 2: Before World War II, the biggest use for silk in the U.S. was to manufacture these for women. * stockings. * 3: During World War II, silk was used to make the canopies of these; today they're usually made of nylon. * parachutes. * 4: One silkworm is the larva of the Bombyx mori moth; "mori" comes from Morus multicalus, the scientific name of this tree. * the mulberry tree. * 5: In the 500s A.D. this Byzantine emperor known for his code sent 2 monks to China to learn the secret of silk. * Justinian.

Round 4. Category: Major Musical Works * 1: Opus 51 of this man portrayed in the movie "Impromptu" is an impromptu in G flat major. * Chopin. * 2: This first season of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" is in E major. * "Spring". * 3: Tchaikovsky called this work of his in E flat major "loud and noisy", and he never even heard it with fireworks. * "The 1812 Overture". * 4: "Scene by the brook" is the title of one movement of this Beethoven symphony in F major. * the 6th symphony. * 5: Bach to Bach works, Nos. 3 and 4 in this group of 6 concertos, are in G major. * the Brandenberg Concertos.

Round 5. Category: Elizabeth Taylor * 1: When asked what she wanted on her tombstone, she replied, "Here lies Elizabeth. She hated to be called" this. * Liz. * 2: This man married her in Montreal and then again in Botswana. * Richard Burton. * 3: Elizabeth Taylor was the first star to earn a million dollars for a film, for this 1963 title role. * Cleopatra. * 4: On January 15, 2001 this man who has been married 7 times interviewed Ms. Taylor on TV. * Larry King. * 5: On New Year's Eve 1999, Queen Elizabeth awarded her this title. * Dame.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 392, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Read American * 1: "O'Hara's Choice" is the final novel by this author who made his own exodus from this world in 2003. * Leon Uris. * 2: In 2003 he said he had completed the last 3 volumes of his "Dark Tower" series and had revised the first volume. * Stephen King. * 3: A werebeaver turns up in Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel on this famous pair of surveyors. * Mason and Dixon. * 4: He was all at sea with 1951's "The Caine Mutiny" and back on board 20 years later with "The Winds of War". * (Herman) Wouk. * 5: In "Dodsworth" by Sinclair Lewis, Sam Dodsworth is president of a car co. in this town that was "at its peak". * Zenith.

Round 2. Category: National Rhyme Time * 1: An unmarried young woman from Bern. * a Swiss miss. * 2: A live animal park in Lima. * a zoo Peru (or Peru zoo). * 3: A Havana horn. * a Cuba tuba. * 4: Central American ricotta. * Belize cheese. * 5: Southeast Asian country's ointment. * Vietnam balm.

Round 3. Category: Oh, Craps! * 1: The combo that totals one shy of "boxcars". * 5 and 6. * 2: Craps roll known as "ace-deuce". * 1 and 2. * 3: 4, easy. * 3 and 1. * 4: Hard 8. * 4 and 4. * 5: 10, easy. * 4 and 6.

Round 4. Category: Geographic Pairs * 1: Name of a famous hill in Cuba, or the Puerto Rican capital. * San Juan. * 2: You can chalk up the fact these towns in Delaware and England share the same name. * Dover. * 3: Nevada's oldest permanent white settlement, or the birthplace of Columbus. * Genoa. * 4: Name of the "twin cities" on the Arkansas-Texas border. * Texarkana. * 5: Island off New Jersey or Argentina, but Argentines call it "Isla de los Estados". * Staten Island.

Round 5. Category: Primary Colors * 1: Paul Bunyan's Babe was a giant ox of this color. * blue. * 2: Tom Clancy's first 2 novels had this color in their titles. * red. * 3: It's the color mentioned in the title of the following. * yellow. * 4: In the election of 1892, the Populist Party supported "free" this mineral (also a color). * silver. * 5: The group known as "Code" this calls itself a "women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement". * Code Pink.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 391, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lose A Turn * 1: In 1991, after 8 years as the AKC's top dog, the cocker spaniel lost the No. 1 ranking to this dog called a lab. * a Labrador retriever. * 2: Chillicothe was this state's capital twice, losing out to Zanesville once and finally to Columbus. * Ohio. * 3: Only twice between 1949 and 1964 did this team fail to win the American League pennant. * the New York Yankees. * 4: After a 3-year ride at the top in U.S. sales, this Honda model lost its No. 1 position to the Taurus in 1992. * the Honda Accord. * 5: This orator was the Democrats' presidential nominee twice, lost a turn and was nominated again in 1908. * William Jennings Bryan.

Round 2. Category: Fits "U" To A "T" * 1: If you've wrecked someone's careful planning, you've done this to the applecart. * upset. * 2: The condition of an apple pie fresh out of the oven, it's also how I like my movies. * uncut. * 3: Apple pie is often rich, so it makes sense that this part of the pie is a synonym for "rich". * the upper crust. * 4: Saying that Dutch apple pie is just good is one of these, because it's the best dessert on Earth. * an understatement. * 5: If a bakery spends $12 producing 6 apple tarts, this cost is $2. * a unit.

Round 3. Category: "Fer"Gie * 1: Adjective for an organism that can reproduce, or for an imagination full of ideas. * fertile. * 2: To consult together, or to bestow. * confer. * 3: If it contains iron, it's described as this, Bueller. * ferrous. * 4: This frozen-food company's slogan is "Every dinner should feel this good". * Stouffer's. * 5: A pine, a fir, or a spruce. * a conifer.

Round 4. Category: Over The River * 1: River crossed by the Allenby, or King Hussein, Bridge. * Jordan River. * 2: Before its completion in 1917, the Quebec railway bridge over this river collapsed twice. * St. Lawrence River. * 3: Clevelander Hart Crane's great poem "The Bridge" praises this one across NYC's East River. * Brooklyn Bridge. * 4: This type of movable bridge that protected castles is also used to permit river traffic. * Drawbridge. * 5: Puente de Piedras is a centuries-old bridge in this country where "The Bridge Of San Luis Rey" is set. * Peru.

Round 5. Category: It's A Monarchy * 1: Jordan,Israel,Egypt. * Jordan. * 2: Denmark,Ireland,France. * Denmark. * 3: Singapore,Indonesia,Malaysia. * Malaysia. * 4: Bhutan,Benin,Botswana. * Bhutan. * 5: Fiji,Samoa,Kiribati. * Samoa.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 390, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: You Bot It * 1: In 1961 the world's first production-line robot was used by this U.S. automaker. * General Motors. * 2: Started in 1997 to develop robotics and A.I., the Robocup features robots playing this competitive sport. * soccer. * 3: The humanoid robot Asimo performs some John Travolta dance moves in this Disneyland "land". * Tomorrowland. * 4: This toy company created Mindstorms for robots, with programmable bricks and sensors. * Lego. * 5: For this robot vacuum, the company iRobot uses technology developed to clear minefields. * Roomba.

Round 2. Category: Medical Matters * 1: Hemicrania, literally "pain on one side of the head", gives us this word for a terrible pain in the head. * migraine. * 2: Before becoming a resident, most medical college graduates spend a year in this capacity. * intern. * 3: Listen up! Teens and adults, as well as children, may have this disorder, ADD for short. * Attention Deficit Disorder. * 4: In 1997 dieters who'd taken this drug combination were advised to get checked for heart damage. * Fen-phen. * 5: Central vision is affected but peripheral vision is maintained in this degeneration. * macular degeneration.

Round 3. Category: Baseball Record Breakers * 1: On Sept. 26, 1981 he hurled his record-breaking 5th no-hit game; he went on to pitch 2 more in his career. * Nolan Ryan. * 2: This Cincinnati Red had more career at-bats than any other player, 14,053; that's one reason for all those hits. * Pete Rose. * 3: In 2004 this Seattle Mariner had 262 hits, breaking an 84-year-old record. * Ichiro. * 4: In 2003 this Atlanta Braves pitcher set a record by winning at least 15 games for the 16th straight season. * Greg Maddux. * 5: While with the Rockies, this outfielder became the first Canadian-born major leaguer to collect 2,000 hits. * Larry Walker.

Round 4. Category: Trees Company * 1: This timber tree of the genus Fraxinus sounds like what's left over after you burn some of it. * an ash. * 2: The yellow or silver type of this tree has peeling, papery bark when it's young. * birch. * 3: This tall tree can be lodgepole or ponderosa. * a pine. * 4: Trees of the genus Fraxinus are easily transplanted: these to these, dust to dust. * ash. * 5: It's the Asian tree-growing art represented here. * Bonsai.

Round 5. Category: The Company Line * 1: In 1963, live on "The Art Linkletter Show", this company served its billionth burger. * McDonald's. * 2: This housewares store was named for the packaging its merchandise came in and was first displayed on. * Crate and Barrel. * 3: This company's Accutron watch, introduced in 1960, had a guarantee of accuracy to within one minute a month. * Bulova. * 4: Edward Teller and this man partnered in 1898 to sell high fashions to women. * (Paul) Bonwit. * 5: The Kirschner brothers, Don and Bill, named this ski company for themselves and the second-highest mountain. * K2.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 389, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Geographic Saints * 1: After its 1980 eruption, this volcano in the American Northwest lost over 1,200 feet in height. * Mount St. Helens. * 2: This city's metro area includes Universal City, Castle Hills and Alamo Heights. * San Antonio. * 3: Exceeded only by the Mackenzie, it's Canada's second-longest river if you include the seaway. * the St. Lawrence. * 4: The Diavolezza and the Piz Corvatsch are famous ski areas near this Swiss resort. * St. Moritz. * 5: This largest island in the U.S. Virgin Islands was earlier owned by the Dutch, English, Spanish, French and Danes. * St. Croix.

Round 2. Category: Wit * 1: On the first episode of this sitcom, Jerry did a routine about socks escaping from the dryer. * Seinfeld. * 2: This director and star of "Deconstructing Harry" once said, "Eighty percent of success is showing up". * Woody Allen. * 3: On this sitcom, Niles understates, "We're an odd little family, aren't we?". * Frasier. * 4: This comedian ends his TV "rants" by saying, "Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong". * Dennis Miller. * 5: Oscar Wilde wrote that there are only 2 tragedies: not getting what you want and this. * Getting what you want.

Round 3. Category: Starts With "E" * 1: Anything relating to "Good Queen Bess" is known by this adjective. * Elizabethan. * 2: The ES in ESP stands for this kind of perception, which we don't have to tell you if you have it. * Extra Sensory. * 3: Dale Evans, Princess Anne, or any other horsewoman. * equestrienne. * 4: A smoldering coal. * an ember. * 5: The kind of letter you'd send to the Ephesians. * an epistle.

Round 4. Category: Science * 1: In breathing it's the gas you expel to the atmosphere. * Carbon Dioxide. * 2: The length of this on Jupiter is less than 10 hours. * the day. * 3: Of a quartan, joule, or kilocalorie, the one that is not a unit of energy. * a quartan. * 4: In biological classification this comes between family and species. * genus. * 5: Frenchman who discovered the Piezoelectric Effect, that certain crystals when stressed make electricity. * Pierre Curie.

Round 5. Category: Have A Whiskey * 1: The Maker's Mark bourbon distillery in Loretto in this state is a national historic landmark. * Kentucky. * 2: Whiskey is usually about 40% alcohol, which is equal to this number in proof. * 80. * 3: The world's most popular whiskey is this color Johnnie Walker. * Red. * 4: In the 1880s Ontario-brewed Club whiskey got this new national name. * Canadian Club. * 5: This "Regal" brand assures us it's "Without Question the Best of the Scottish Blends". * Chivas Regal.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 388, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Is So Dramatic * 1: Meredith had a near-death experience and Izzie decided to practice medicine again on this show. * Grey's Anatomy. * 2: Gabrielle and Susan have multiple man problems on this show. * Desperate Housewives. * 3: On this show an Internet stripper has unnatural abilities that would appeal to a genetics professor. * Heroes. * 4: A Vicodin-addicted doctor faked cancer to get experimental medicine on this show. * House. * 5: FBI profiler Mandy Patinkin gets into the heads of the villains he tracks down on this show. * Criminal Minds.

Round 2. Category: Skyscrapers By City * 1: New York-New York Hotel and Casino. * Las Vegas. * 2: Cadillac Tower. * Detroit. * 3: Transamerica Pyramid. * San Francisco. * 4: Pillsbury Building. * Minneapolis. * 5: James K. Polk State Office Building. * Nashville.

Round 3. Category: Hitchcock Movie Quotes * 1: "Mother! O God, Mother! Blood! Blood!". * Psycho. * 2: "A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window". * Rear Window. * 3: "That's funny, that plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops". * North by Northwest. * 4: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again". * Rebecca. * 5: "Two fellows meet accidentally... each one has somebody they'd like to get rid of, so they swap murders". * Strangers on a Train.

Round 4. Category: Historic Couples * 1: In his will, this playwright left his second-best bed to his wife; maybe the best one went to Gwyneth Paltrow. * William Shakespeare. * 2: Against all odds, Catherine Parr's marriage to this man who'd been wed 5 times before was surprisingly happy. * Henry VIII. * 3: Some say this Scottish queen only married the Earl of Bothwell because he abducted her. * Mary, Queen of Scots. * 4: This "Great" czar forced his first wife, Eudoxia, to become a nun, but she gave up the veil and romanced Stepan Glebov. * Peter the Great. * 5: This philandering U.S. pres. called his wife Florence "The Duchess"; we wonder if she had any choice nicknames for him. * Warren G. Harding.

Round 5. Category: "Emp" Tv * 1: Couples were separated and then surrounded by enticing singles on this FOX reality show. * Temptation Island. * 2: Richard Mulligan had to deal with his 2 grown daughters moving back home on this sitcom. * Empty Nest. * 3: Roger Moore was "The Saint" while playing this character. * Simon Templar. * 4: In a TV movie, Treat Williams played this Colorado boxer who knocked out more than half of this opponents. * Jack Dempsey. * 5: Alan Ball wrote the "Grace Under Fire" episode where they got "all shook up" in this Southern city. * Memphis.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 387, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What's On The Tube? * 1: Keith Carradine's role as Wild Bill Hickok on this series ended when Jack McCall killed Hickok. * Deadwood. * 2: This veteran Pulitzer-winning film critic trades reviews with Richard Roeper. * (Roger) Ebert. * 3: In one episode of this comedienne's Bravo Channel show "My Life on the D-List", she auctioned off a stay in her home. * Kathy Griffin. * 4: This cable channel's "Meerkat Manor" has been billed as "'All My Children' meets 'Wild Kingdom'". * Animal Planet. * 5: In June 2006 this movie channel premiered its first made-for-TV movie, "Broken Trail", starring Robert Duvall. * American Movie Classics (AMC).

Round 2. Category: Go On A Diet * 1: The company named for this woman, co-founder with her husband Sid, urges a balanced food, body and mind approach. * Jenny Craig. * 2: All foods have a point value and you're given an assigned daily point total at a meeting in this Heinz-owned plan. * Weight Watchers. * 3: Whoopi Goldberg's a big loser on this "shake"y product and diet. * Slim·Fast. * 4: Eating the proper balance of low-fat proteins, carbs and good fat is the key to this Dr. Sears diet. * The Zone. * 5: This geographic diet's name comes from the Greek and Southern Italian consumption of grain, fruit, veggies and fish. * the Mediterranean Diet.

Round 3. Category: Venus * 1: This lovely letter-turner got her turn at playing Venus in the 1988 TV movie "Goddess of Love". * Vanna White. * 2: In 1999 she and her sister Serena aced the women's doubles final at the French Open. * Venus Williams. * 3: In 1986 this female trio put "Venus" on top of the music charts. * Bananarama. * 4: Before residing at the Louvre, this famous Greek statue belonged to Louis XVIII. * Venus de Milo. * 5: It's John Gray's 1992 megaseller on relationships and the differences between the sexes. * Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

Round 4. Category: Magical History Tour * 1: This legendary magician was imprisoned in a thorn bush by a "watery" woman using magic he had taught her. * Merlin. * 2: He disappeared after just 3 weeks at Fordham; years later, he'd make the Statue of Liberty follow suit. * David Copperfield. * 3: This magician does the ultimate disappearing act and ends up on an enchanted island with Ariel and the brutish Caliban. * Prospero. * 4: Don't feel ripped off if you pay to see these 2 magicians at the Rio in Vegas and only one of them ever speaks. * Penn and Teller. * 5: Martin Luther believed this German magician and astrologer, a Goethe subject, had devilish powers. * Faust.

Round 5. Category: Fictional Detectives * 1: A Bret Harte tale parodied this detective as Hemlock Jones. * Sherlock Holmes. * 2: Big city that's home to Philip Marlowe. * Los Angeles. * 3: This stout Rex Stout detective was first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post. * Nero Wolfe. * 4: Desperate for money, he churned out "The Thin Man" in 1934, creating Nick and Nora Charles. * Dashiell Hammett. * 5: The first detective created by Agatha Christie. * Hercule Poirot.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 386, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: All The Rave * 1: You can camp overnight at the Global Gathering Weekend Rave near Stratford-upon-Avon in this country. * England. * 2: This Black Rock Desert event hasn't had an official rave since 1996, but nuzzle a speaker and feel the fire's glow. * Burning Man. * 3: In 1999 the Love Parade drew 1.5 million ravers to this once-divided European capital. * Berlin. * 4: Harvest is a faith-bass'd rave off the Andrew Johnson Highway in this state. * Tennessee. * 5: Find a mate in Victoria at the Earthcore Global Carnival in this country. * Australia.

Round 2. Category: Lawn Care * 1: Use the manure or fertilizer mixture called "top" this, even though it sounds like it goes on your salad. * "dressing". * 2: If your lawn has these protrusions, don't make mountains out of them:. * Molehills. * 3: Measuring alkalinity or acidity, test this 2-letter quality of your soil. * pH. * 4: Hunter Industries claims its PGP Rotor, this type of product, revolutionized the lawn irrigation industry. * Sprinkler. * 5: For healthy plant growth, consider an NPK fertilizer, standing for nitrogen, phosphorus and this element. * potassium.

Round 3. Category: Where The "H" Are We? * 1: Parker Ranch,Kilauea Volcano,Monument to Captain Cook. * Hawaii. * 2: Victoria Peak,Kai Tak Airport,Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel. * Hong Kong. * 3: Lake Balaton,Bela Bartok Memorial House,Buda Concert Hall. * Hungary. * 4: Senate Square,Mannerheim Museum,Sibelius Park. * Helsinki. * 5: The Malecon,Morro Castle,Revolution Square. * Havana.

Round 4. Category: Arachnids * 1: Insects have compound ones; arachnids have simple ones. * eyes. * 2: This arachnid with a "paternal" name emits a bad odor when disturbed. * daddy long-legs. * 3: As a group, spiders have 7 different types of glands to produce this fiber. * silk. * 4: This stinging arachnid has 6 pairs of jointed appendages: 1 pair of pincers, 1 pair of large claws and 4 pairs of legs. * scorpion. * 5: This parasite is a major transmitter of rabbit fever and some forms of encephalitis. * tick.

Round 5. Category: World Myths And Legends * 1: The Japanese pantheon includes Kagutsuchi, god of this, something to get your hibachi going. * fire. * 2: If you needed a railway tunnel dug, you could call on this American folk hero -- it was his job. * John Henry. * 3: Jewish legend says his first wife was Lilith, who created the need for a good divorce lawyer. * Adam. * 4: The life of this legendary king of Britain was fodder for a Shakespeare tragedy in 1605. * King Lear. * 5: When he fell for Helen, Paris was married to Oenone, one of these nature deities. * nymph.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 385, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 1970s Album Covers * 1: 1977:John Travolta strikes a pose and points his finger to the sky. * Saturday Night Fever. * 2: 1978:Mick, Keith and the boys smile and smirk in wig catalog ads. * Some Girls. * 3: 1973:Against a black background, a prism bends a beam of light into a colorful spectrum. * Dark Side of the Moon. * 4: 1973:Paul McCartney and 8 others including James Coburn and Christopher Lee are caught by a police spotlight. * Band on the Run. * 5: 1978:Billy Joel leans against an alley wall holding a trumpet. * 52nd Street.

Round 2. Category: Civil War Buffy * 1: On this spooky day in 1861, Buffy didn't fight demons but joined a skirmish at Morgantown, Kentucky. * Halloween (October 31). * 2: At Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863, Buffy joined the soldiers in this type of manual "combat". * Hand-to-hand. * 3: Like Buffy in Sunnydale, men in a Civil War poem fought "where the bullets fastest fell...at the very mouth of" here. * Hell. * 4: The only angel Civil War Buffy met was this "Angel of the Battlefield" with whom she tended the wounded. * Clara Barton. * 5: On May 12, 1864 Buffy saw vampires gather for a feast at the battle site known as this "angle". * Bloody Angle.

Round 3. Category: Crossword Clues "H" * 1: A Japanese-style grill(7). * hibachi. * 2: Jacket for corn(4). * Husk. * 3: A plant eater(9). * herbivore. * 4: A fraud or a fake(4). * hoax. * 5: Excessive arrogance or pride(6). * hubris.

Round 4. Category: A Man Called Harris * 1: One of Harris' last roles was as emperor Marcus Aurelius in this Oscar-winning epic. * Gladiator. * 2: Young fans know Richard Harris best for his role as headmaster Dumbledore in this film series. * Harry Potter. * 3: Since Harris was born in this Irish town, we assume he knew lots of saucy 5-line poems. * Limerick. * 4: Harris took the throne in the 1967 film version of this Lerner and Loewe musical and starred in a stage revival in the '80s. * Camelot. * 5: This Jimmy Webb song that Harris recorded in 1968 was such a hit it almost knocked "Hey Jude" out of the No. 1 spot. * "MacArthur Park".

Round 5. Category: The Women Of Baywatch * 1: Gena Lee Nolin traded in her swimsuit for a loincloth and became this "Queen Of The Jungle". * Sheena. * 2: For the 2000-01 season, the show dipped back into the pages of this magazine and pulled out Miss April, Brande Roderick. * Playboy. * 3: Lani in 1997, at the present time she may or may not be married to Dennis Rodman. * Carmen Electra. * 4: As C.J. Parker, she's been in the opening credits with several variations of her name. * Pamela Anderson Lee. * 5: Seen here, she played Caroline and has since appeared on "Nash Bridges". * Yasmine Bleeth.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 384, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: English Lit * 1: During his "Travels" , he visited the flying island of Laputa. * Gulliver. * 2: This Bronte sister died 1 year after the publication of her second novel, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". * Anne Bronte. * 3: She introduced Mr. and Mrs. Dalloway in her first novel, "The Voyage Out". * Virginia Woolf. * 4: On this fictional Sir Thomas More island, the interests of the individual are subordinate to those of society. * Utopia. * 5: This author of "The Forsyte Saga" published his first novel, "Jocelyn", under the pen name John Sinjohn. * John Galsworthy.

Round 2. Category: Ancient Vip's * 1: Books about him were written by Plato and Xenophon, both students of his. * Socrates. * 2: This Hebrew king taxed his people into rebellion, which may not have been too wise. * Solomon. * 3: The period during which he ruled is often referred to as "The Golden Age of Athens". * Pericles. * 4: Uncle of Caligula and stepfather of Nero, this Roman emperor was poisoned by his wife, Nero's mother. * Claudius. * 5: In the 6th century B.C., he conquered Babylon and made Persia the greatest empire in the world. * Cyrus the Great.

Round 3. Category: Beatles Songs * 1: Originally, this title woman was called Miss Daisy Hawkins, but that didn't sound lonely enough. * Eleanor Rigby. * 2: For Paul McCartney, this Beatles song title will become true on June 18, 2006. * "When I'm Sixty-Four". * 3: (Alex: Alright, let's go to Cheryl at the Santa Monica Pier for this) Today, we're all living in a yellow submarine; the Beatles found this colorful body of water in the song. * Sea of Green. * 4: "Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out, come and keep your comrade warm" here, the title of a '68 song. * "Back in the U.S.S.R.". * 5: He's "As blind as he can be, just sees what he wants to see". * "Nowhere Man".

Round 4. Category: Play This * 1: This "avian" skateboarding legend has produced several high-flying video games for Activision. * Tony Hawk. * 2: It's off to Skull Island for Peter Jackson's official video game adaptation of this ape movie. * King Kong. * 3: In New Super Mario Bros., Mario can go head-to-head against this brother of his. * Luigi. * 4: Advent Children and Chains of Promethia are just 2 of the many episodes in this popular role-playing game. * Final Fantasy. * 5: DDR for short, this groovy game can help keep you in shape. * Dance Dance Revolution.

Round 5. Category: Mtv Movie Awards: Best Kiss * 1: Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes won for this movie in 1999. * Shakespeare in Love. * 2: For a 2003 win, she locked lips with an upside-down Tobey Maguire in "Spider-Man". * Kirsten Dunst. * 3: (Hi, I'm Vivica Fox) In 1997 this actor and I won the MTV Movie Award for "Best Kiss" for the kiss we shared in "Independence Day". * Will Smith. * 4: 1998's winner's were Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore for this film. * The Wedding Singer. * 5: Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore won for this 1994 film. * Indecent Proposal.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 383, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Sinonyms * 1: "Sow" these and you may be sinning or just planting. * Wild oats. * 2: A bad habit that can have a grip on you, the police have a squad to fight it. * Vice. * 3: From a word meaning "uneven", you may find "a den of" one. * iniquity. * 4: If you're doing this you're sinning; if you "Ain't", you're a musical. * Misbehavin'. * 5: It can mean to sin or to sneak onto another's land, and you may be shot for doing it. * Trespassing.

Round 2. Category: S-S-Snakes-S-S * 1: Each time a rattlesnake does this, its rattle gets a little bigger. * Sheds its skin. * 2: These fluids are classified into 2 major groups: neurotoxic and hemotoxic. * Venom. * 3: This snake, subject of a 1997 film, is the largest in the Western Hemisphere. * Anaconda. * 4: The Naja Haje or Egyptian cobra is commonly known by this 3-letter name. * Asp. * 5: This snake's French name is from its head's resemblance to the tip of a knight's weapon. * Fer-de-lance.

Round 3. Category: Official State Things * 1: "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" is this state's official folk song. * Washington. * 2: Everyone hit the beach to enjoy this state's official sports: surfing and outrigger canoe paddling. * Hawaii. * 3: In 1973 North Carolina went dark green and designated this its official state precious stone. * an emerald. * 4: State tree:Black Hills Spruce. * South Dakota. * 5: We wonder whether the pheasant that's its state bird nests in the Black Hills Spruce, its state tree. * South Dakota.

Round 4. Category: Tv Jailbirds * 1: Barney locks himself in jail after Gomer makes a "citizen's arrest!" on a classic episode of this series. * The Andy Griffith Show. * 2: November 21, 1980: Sue Ellen's fingerprints are on the gun, so she's mistakenly arrested for shooting this man. * J.R.. * 3: November 26, 2006: Mike the plumber is arrested for murder; Edie visits him in jail and tells him she's dumping him on this series. * Desperate Housewives. * 4: (Hi, I'm Christopher Meloni of Law and Order: SVU.) I've been on both sides of the law--I played devious serial killer Chris Keller on this HBO prison drama. * Oz. * 5: The inmates on this Fox series escaped from a jail called Fox River. * Prison Break.

Round 5. Category: Easy As "Pie" * 1: Little Jack Horner stuck his thumb in this and pulled out a plum. * Christmas pie. * 2: This No. 1 hit referred to the death of Buddy Holly as "The Day the Music Died". * "American Pie". * 3: This phrase refers to the deceptively rosy prospect of future events. * Pie in the sky. * 4: It's a representation of facts presented as a circle divided into sectors of relative sizes. * Pie chart/graph. * 5: Created by Paul Terry, the fast-talking Heckle and Jeckle are 2 of these crow relatives. * Magpies.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 382, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hit Songs * 1: "Smoke on the Water" was a 1973 hit for this British band. * Deep Purple. * 2: In 1987 jazz vocalist Al Jarreau had a pop hit with the theme from this Cybill Shepherd-Bruce Willis series. * Moonlighting. * 3: This song by Christina Aguilera says, "You are" this, "no matter what they say" and "in every single way". * beautiful. * 4: This group's gold records include "After the Love has Gone", "Boogie Wonderland" and "Let's Groove". * Earth, Wind and Fire. * 5: "Uh Huh" and "Girlfriend" are hit songs by this foursome of Omarion, J Boog, Raz B and Lil Fizz. * B2K.

Round 2. Category: Sports Illustrated Almanac Listings * 1: "Stripped of title in 1967 because he refused to serve in the Vietnam War. Career record 56-5 with 37 KOs". * Muhammad Ali. * 2: "Baseball OF. 'Hammerin' Hank'...Career span 1954-76". * Hank Aaron. * 3: "'Mean Joe'...Selected for Pro Bowl 10 times. Played on four Super Bowl champions". * "Mean Joe" Greene. * 4: "First black man to win... Australian Open... and Wimbledon singles titles". * Arthur Ashe. * 5: "Soccer player...(She) debuted with national team against China on 8-3-87 as its youngest player ever, at age 15". * Mia Hamm.

Round 3. Category: Tv Catchphrases * 1: "The Truth Is Out There". * The X-Files. * 2: "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!". * South Park. * 3: "Suit up!". * How I Met Your Mother. * 4: "Suit up!". * How I Met Your Mother. * 5: "God'll get you for that, Walter". * Maude.

Round 4. Category: What A Year! * 1: (Hi, I'm Tyler Christopher of General Hospital.) In this year, ABC gave "G.H." a shot on TV, "He's So Fine" shot up to No. 1 and JFK visited the Berlin Wall. * 1963. * 2: Dewaele won the Tour de France, Coco Chanel was the toast of Paris and Sacre Bleu!, the market crashed in this year. * 1929. * 3: This year saw Hitler hit Moscow, Yamamoto hit Pearl Harbor and DiMaggio hit in 56 straight games. * 1941. * 4: In this year, "Rock Around The Clock" was recorded, Roger Bannister beat the clock and Henri Matisse clocked out. * 1954. * 5: In this year, Teddy became president, Eddie became king and Nicky became father of Anastasia. * 1901.

Round 5. Category: Mr. Businessman * 1: This stout fellow was the first lord mayor of Dublin. * (Sir Benjamin) Guinness. * 2: In 1945 he became president of a Dearborn, Michigan car company started by his grandfather. * Henry Ford II. * 3: Conrad Hilton started with a hotel in 1919; James Christie started with one of these houses in 1766. * auction house. * 4: He founded his pencil company in 1925 and in 1957 bought Occidental Petroleum. * Armand Hammer. * 5: Giovanni Agnelli made a pronouncement in 1899: he was founding this Italian auto company. * Fiat.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 381, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Snow Business Like Show Business * 1: A newsman's stuck in a snowy Penn. town in this 1993 film. A newsman's stuck in a snowy Penn. town in this 1993 film. * Groundhog Day. * 2: Heeeeere's Johnny! Jack Nicholson has crazy fun in a snow maze in this 1980 thriller. * The Shining. * 3: A man runs through the snowy streets of Bedford Falls shouting, "Merry Christmas!" in this 1946 classic. * It's a Wonderful Life. * 4: Oh dontcha know, Sheriff Marge Gunderson checks out a body in da snow in this 1996 film. * Fargo. * 5: "Why can't they call me the adorable snowman or the agreeable snowman... I'm a nice guy" is said in this 2001 Pixar film. * Monsters, Inc..

Round 2. Category: Superman * 1: He played Jesse James in 1943's "The Kansan" before donning the cape of Superman on TV in the 1950s. * George Reeves. * 2: (Hi, I'm Michael McKean.)My guest appearance as Perry White made this show successful; my wife, Annette O'Toole, may also have helped. * Smallville. * 3: In "Superman III" this comedian uses the "Salami Technique" to steal tiny sums of money from many bank accounts. * Richard Pryor. * 4: Kate Bosworth was Lois Lane in this 2006 man of steel movie. * Superman Returns. * 5: 1978's "Superman" was scripted by this New York author famous for mafia tomes. * Mario Puzo.

Round 3. Category: Health Matters * 1: Best to avoid dark chocolate before bed; 2 oz. contain about as much of this stimulant as a cup of black tea. * caffeine. * 2: Lyme disease is an inflammatory disorder caused by the bite of infected Western black-legged and deer these. * a tick. * 3: More accurate than a tine test, the Mantoux skin test is used for screening and diagnosing this infectious disease. * tuberculosis. * 4: Pray for a good anaesthetic when having this procedure in which the nerve and pulp of a tooth are removed. * root canal. * 5: Headache and nausea are symptoms of Chinese restaurant syndrome, a reaction to this flavor enhancer. * MSG.

Round 4. Category: "Z" Abbreviations * 1: Z.Hr.; it's time to go. * Zero. * 2: The Z in ZIP code is short for this. * Zone (Improvement Plan). * 3: Book of the Bible abbreviated Zech.. * Zechariah. * 4: You may answer with zeal that zl is short for this currency. * Zloty. * 5: The abbreviations for the 2 elements whose names begin with Z. * Zn and Zr (Zinc and Zirconium).

Round 5. Category: "O" My * 1: My bologna's first name. * O-S-C-A-R. * 2: Marine mollusk good at arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm combat. * octopus. * 3: Zeus' mount. * Olympus. * 4: Clinton can't be cornered in it. * the Oval Office. * 5: Branch of medicine concerned with "labor" relations... and babies. * obstetrics.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 380, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Sweet "Virginia" * 1: James Drury played the mysterious title character in this '60s drama, the first 90-minute western on TV. * The Virginian. * 2: In June 1996 the U.S. Supreme Court ordered this college to admit women and they did. * Virginia Military Institute (VMI). * 3: This noisy, soul-baring Edward Albee play premiered in 1962. * Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. * 4: It's the title of Francis P. Church's 1897 New York Sun editorial in response to a young girl's holiday query. * "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus". * 5: This university's sports teams are known as the Mountaineers. * West Virginia University.

Round 2. Category: Aesop's Fables * 1: Aesop knew these speak louder than words. * actions. * 2: "The Country" one of these rodents "and the Town" one. * Mouse. * 3: After unsuccessfully trying to reach grapes on a vine, he walked away concluding that they were sour. * the fox. * 4: "The Ant and" this leaping insect. * Grasshopper. * 5: "The Fox and" these fruits (later judged sour). * Grapes.

Round 3. Category: No. 1 Hits * 1: In 1986 she topped the charts with "How Will I Know" and "The Greatest Love of All". * Whitney Houston. * 2: 1984s "The Reflex" was this band's first No. 1 song in the U.S.; "Hungry Like The Wolf" peaked at No. 3. * Duran Duran. * 3: This singer was habit-forming with his 1986 hit "Addicted To Love". * Robert Palmer. * 4: The movie "Buster" starred this singer and drummer, who hit No. 1 with "Two Hearts", the movie's theme. * Phil Collins. * 5: No. 1 songs from her "Forever Your Girl" album include the title track and "Cold Hearted". * Paula Abdul.

Round 4. Category: Launch * 1: To find the new clothing line this singer launched in October 2001, look J-Hi and J-Lo. * Jennifer Lopez. * 2: The teen version of this magazine launched in 1999 dropped the "politain" for "girl". * Cosmopolitain. * 3: To help with the launch of the new sitcom, CBS had her host the 2001 Emmys. * Ellen Degeneres. * 4: 2001 saw the launch of Rockstarbaby, an infant wear line from Tico Torres, this group's drummer. * Bon Jovi. * 5: In fall 2001 this satellite radio service offering drivers an alternative to AM and FM was launched. * XM.

Round 5. Category: Perfume * 1: In a woman's perfume, this word precedes "secret"; in a man's cologne, it comes before "Copenhagen". * Royal. * 2: Though Niki de Saint Phalle's perfume shows 2 of these animals entwined on the bottle, people buy it anyway. * snakes. * 3: Castor, an ingredient in perfume, comes from this "busy" animal. * the beaver. * 4: This 4-letter word can refer to an opera singer or her Emanuel Ungaro perfume. * diva. * 5: Geoffrey Beane's perfume named for this color didn't succeed, but now Giorgio is selling 1 with the same name. * Red.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 379, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Purple Haze * 1: In 1893 Katharine Lee Bates wrote of "purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain" in this song. * "America The Beautiful". * 2: The current Purple Heart medal has a portrait of this man on it. * George Washington. * 3: This alliterative phrase refers to overly florid writing that tries to enlist a reader's sympathies. * purple prose. * 4: In the '60s and '70s, this football team's defensive line members were known as the Purple People Eaters. * the Vikings. * 5: A deficiency of this vitamin cuts down on your production of visual purple and may lead to night blindness. * vitamin A.

Round 2. Category: Take Me Home, Alex * 1: This PM had a swimming pool built at his home Chartwell, in Kent, where he spent the last 40 years of his life. * Churchill. * 2: This 1920s matinee idol is said to haunt Falcon Lair, his Hollywood home. * Valentino. * 3: Prefabricated and shipped by steamboat to Hannibal, Mo., Pilaster House is a childhood home of this author. * Mark Twain. * 4: After the deaths of his Uncle George and Aunt Martha, Bushrod Washington moved into this home. * Mount Vernon. * 5: Once home to a prosperous NYC merchant who went bankrupt, it's now the mayor's official residence. * Gracie Mansion.

Round 3. Category: Books On Audiotape * 1: Michael Black not only wrote this novel, he recorded it on tape for 7 Wolves Publishing. * "Dances with Wolves". * 2: This "All in the Family" co-star directed the film "The Princess Bride" and read the book on cassette. * Rob Reiner. * 3: David Ogden Stiers tells this author's tale "The Cardinal of the Kremlin". * Tom Clancy. * 4: Susannah York taped an audio version of his scary novella "The Turn of the Screw". * Henry James. * 5: You might take Roscoe Lee Browne's rendition of this author's "Caribbean" to the Caribbean. * James Michener.

Round 4. Category: Telephone History * 1: In 1991 this telephone company launched its Friends and Family promotion. * MCI. * 2: As of July 1, 1968 you could dial this 3-digit number in New York City and get the police. * 911. * 3: On Oct. 30, 1938 phone traffic peaked in cities all over America as people discussed this broadcast. * the "War of the Worlds". * 4: In 1980 Dial-It National Sports became the first service on this new area code. * 1-900. * 5: In 1880 he invented the photophone, a device that sent messages through the air on beams of light. * Alexander Graham Bell.

Round 5. Category: I Need A Snack * 1: I crave a Krispy Kreme chicken sandwich: a fried chicken breast served between these. * donuts. * 2: I think I'll dunk my Double Stuf version of this Nabisco cookie in milk. * Oreo. * 3: I'll refresh myself with tzatziki, a Greek dish made from yogurt and this green gourd. * cucumbers. * 4: I'm going to make Rice Krispies Treats; I've got butter, Rice Krispies and 4 cups of miniature these. * marshmallows. * 5: I'll have 2 of Chicken of the Sea's new Peel and Eat Cups: cajun tuna and skinless boneless pink this. * salmon.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 378, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Seashore Life * 1: An edible type of this seaweed seen at low tide grows up to 10 feet long on the Atlantic coast. * Kelp. * 2: Blubber and the tufts at the base of their densely packed feathers keep them warm while diving. * Penguins. * 3: The American species of this crustacean has a 6-segmented tail. * Lobster. * 4: They hang around in bars, feed on plankton and produce those famous little spheres of nacre. * Oysters. * 5: Scallops swim for their lives when they sense these 5-armed creatures approaching. * Starfish.

Round 2. Category: Of "Love" * 1: Fred Grandy popped up as Gopher on this cruisin' TV show. * The Love Boat. * 2: It's not a vixen's mitten, it's a traditional herb used in medicines and also known as figwort. * foxglove. * 3: Adjective for the hoof of a goat or a devil. * cloven. * 4: The title of this 1985 Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel should put you at disease. * Love in the Time of Cholera. * 5: The capital of this former Yugoslav Republic and now independent nation is Ljubljana. * Slovenia.

Round 3. Category: Tv "Love" * 1: "Love and the Pill" and "Love and a Couple of Couples" were a couple of the episodes in its 1st telecast. * Love, American Style. * 2: Chuck Woolery presides and the audience "decides" how couples should match up on this show. * Love Connection. * 3: After playing newlyweds on this 1972-3 show, David Birney and Meredith Baxter became real-life husband and wife. * Bridget Loves Bernie. * 4: Sitcom in which Tony Randall and Swoosie Kurtz formed an odd but loving couple. * Love,Sidney. * 5: It was the title for the original "Bob Cummings Show" in syndication. * Love That Bob.

Round 4. Category: Transportation * 1: The Oregon, California and Mormon trails followed this east-west River in Nebraska. * the Platte. * 2: Some of these vehicles survived a 1906 earthquake and are still in use on the Powell Street line today. * (San Francisco) cable cars. * 3: Type of auto engine, or a tomato cocktail. * V8. * 4: From the French for "to carry" it's what Lewis and Clark had to do a lot of with their canoes. * portage. * 5: The world's largest railway station, this U.S. landmark covers some 48 acres. * Grand Central Station.

Round 5. Category: The King James Bible Tells Me So * 1: John 20:"Then saith he to" this man, "...be not faithless, but believing". * (Doubting) Thomas. * 2: James 5:"Ye have heard of the patience of" this man. * Job. * 3: Luke 4, to this person:"Heal thyself". * physician. * 4: Genesis 4:"And the Lord set a mark upon" this man, "lest any finding him should kill him". * Cain. * 5: Matthew 14:"Give me here" this man's "head in a charger". * John the Baptist.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 377, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hugh Done It * 1: Marilyn Monroe graced his first centerfold back in 1953. * Hugh Hefner. * 2: This actor has played the befuddled Bertie Wooster and the curmudgeonly Dr. House. * Hugh Laurie. * 3: He's starred in "Mickey Blue Eyes" as well as "Lair of the White Worm". * Hugh Grant. * 4: In September 2005 this Aussie won an Emmy for hosting the Tony Awards. * Hugh Jackman. * 5: At one time a game-show host, he's known better as a host of "20/20". * Hugh Downs.

Round 2. Category: Toys And Games * 1: Miss Scarlet and Professor Plum are suspects in this classic whodunit game. * Clue. * 2: This plump doll with a top knot got its name from a pet form of "Cupid". * Kewpie. * 3: Because of an allergy alert, one ingredient of this soft modeling compound that's not a secret is wheat. * Play-Doh. * 4: When this brand was introduced in 1970, it was billed as the "first official indoor ball". * Nerf. * 5: At the 1939 World's Fair, the Sawyer family introduced this stereo slide scope that gives 3-D views. * the View-Master.

Round 3. Category: Hey, "Baby" * 1: Smallest form of a large piano. * a baby grand. * 2: Seen here with roses, it's popular as a bouquet filler. * baby's breath. * 3: Nickname of Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier. * "Baby Doc". * 4: This sticky figure of folklore gave its name to a Toni Morrison novel. * the tar baby. * 5: This tree-hopper of the Galagidae family spends a lot of time munching on insects and fruit. * a bush baby.

Round 4. Category: O Little Town Of Bethlehem, Pa. * 1: Est. in 1904 by Charles Schwab, this company bearing the city's name is the 2nd largest of its type in the U.S.. * Bethlehem Steel. * 2: Located on the Lehigh River, Bethlehem is 60 miles north of this larger city. * Philadelphia. * 3: A world famous Bethlehem choir performs works by this family fuguer every year at a festival in his honor. * J.S. Bach. * 4: Born in 1898, this Bethlehem, PA. native's works include "John Brown's Body" and "The Devil and Daniel Webster". * Stephen Vincent Benet. * 5: The Moravian Church, based in Bethlehem, is a Protestant group organized in the 15th C. in this current republic. * Czech Republic.

Round 5. Category: Go West * 1: In 1784 John Filson wrote an exciting bio of this pioneer to get people interested in buying land out west in Kentucky. * Daniel Boone. * 2: This wanderer in the West spread the word on Swedenborgism, as well as his famous fruit trees. * Johnny Appleseed. * 3: Stage robber Black Bart, known for leaving these behind at the scene of the crime, only really did it twice. * little poems. * 4: By 1845 the price of these pelts had dropped from a $6 high to $1; silk replaced it for men's hats. * beaver pelts. * 5: One of the reasons Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark out was to see if this Northwestern river connected to the Missouri. * the Columbia.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 376, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tossin' And Turnin' * 1: From the French for "to roast", it's a spit used to turn meat over a source of heat. * rotisserie. * 2: This tradition began because the bride fled crowds trying to take something from her for good luck. * tossing the bouquet. * 3: This portal has become a metaphor for frequent changes of personnel. * revolving door. * 4: On Guy Fawkes Day, grotesque stuffed figures called Guys are tossed onto these. * bonfires. * 5: In 1862 he patented his now famous gun with a hand crank for rapid firing of 250 or more rounds a minute. * Richard Gatling.

Round 2. Category: Classic Nicholson Movie Lines * 1: 1975:"I must be crazy to be in a looney bin like this". * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. * 2: 1980:"He-e-e-e-re's Johnny!". * The Shining. * 3: 1992: "You can't handle the truth!". * A Few Good Men. * 4: 1974:"What makes you certain that your husband is, um, involved with someone?". * Chinatown. * 5: 1994:"Just marking my territory". * Wolf.

Round 3. Category: All About Kazakhstan * 1: It's the largest country that borders Kazakhstan. * Russia. * 2: With about 47% of the population practicing it, this religion is Kazakhstan's most widespread. * Islam. * 3: In the 13th century, Kazakhstan was incorporated into the empire of this Mongol leader. * Genghis Khan. * 4: Over 400 feet below sea level, Kazakhstan's lowest point is just east of this large landlocked salt lake. * the Caspian Sea. * 5: In 1928 this rival of Joseph Stalin was banished to Kazakhstan. * Leon Trotsky.

Round 4. Category: Straits * 1: In 1588 the first serious check of the Spanish Armada took place in this strait between France and England. * the Strait of Dover. * 2: The Diomede Islands, one belonging to Russia, the other to Alaska, lie in this strait. * the Bering Strait. * 3: The Strait of Messina separates this island from Italy. * Sicily. * 4: Two huge rocks called the Pillars of Hercules flank the eastern entrance to this strait. * the Strait of Gibraltar. * 5: This 19-mile-long Turkish strait connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara. * the Bosporus.

Round 5. Category: Dude-Eronomy * 1: Totally cool! This dude wrote Deuteronomy as a way of reinforcing what he first learned on Mount Sinai. * Moses. * 2: Sweet! The fifth chapter of Deuteronomy raps out this list of dos and don'ts, just in case we spaced it. * the Ten Commandments. * 3: Awesome, dude! Deuteronomy says that all debts are to be canceled after this many years!. * seven. * 4: Grab your surfboard, rad boy! In Deuteronomy, this sea is referred to as the "salt sea". * Dead Sea. * 5: Party on, dude! This guy gets appointed to be the new leader of the Israelites!. * Joshua.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 375, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: A Royal Pain * 1: In 711 a large Muslim army crossed this strait and defeated Roderick, the last Visigoth king of Spain. * Strait of Gibraltar. * 2: It's the royal title held by Heliogabalus, assassinated in his bathroom by his own Praetorian Guard. * Emperor. * 3: In 1789 pesky revolutionaries imprisoned this king and his family in the Tuileries Palace. * Louis XVI. * 4: Bad report card? In the 1580s this royal Russian killed his son and heir in a fit of rage. * Ivan the Terrible. * 5: When assassinated in 1908, Carlos I of this Iberian country was in a virtual state of war with his subjects. * Portugal.

Round 2. Category: World Of Words * 1: From the Latin for "to lick", it's a ridiculing satire and a Harvard magazine. * Lampoon. * 2: Based on its etymology, it's the period in a human's life when you'd expect him or her to be speechless. * Infancy/infant. * 3: The spirit or outlook of a period or generation, it's German for "time spirit". * Zeitgeist. * 4: The 1980s program of reforms in the USSR included this, Russian for "restructuring". * perestroika. * 5: Probably the one Icelandic word everybody knows is this one for a spewing hot spring. * a geyser.

Round 3. Category: Corporate America * 1: In 1994 this company launched Winterfresh, its first sugar-based chewing gum in almost 20 years. * Wrigley. * 2: Nabisco is hounding the bad doggie breath problem by adding this flavor to its Milk-Bones. * Mint. * 3: This bookstore chain founded by Larry Hoyt in 1933 was named for an inspirational pond. * Waldenbooks. * 4: This media company's NYSE symbol is TWX. * Time Warner. * 5: Automaker whose ad campaign centers around "The heartbeat of America". * Chevrolet.

Round 4. Category: My Dear Watson * 1: On Jan. 25, 1915 the first transcontinental phone call was made by this man in NYC to Thomas Watson in S.F.. * (Alexander Graham) Bell. * 2: Diane Watson represents this state's 33rd district in the U.S. House of Representatives. * California. * 3: Now playing on golf's senior tour, he's won 5 British Opens and 2 Masters tournaments. * Tom Watson. * 4: English astronomer Frank Watson Dyson was director of this observatory from 1910 to 1933. * the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. * 5: English scholar Thomas Watson is best known today for his 1581 translation of "Antigone" by this Ancient Greek. * Sophocles.

Round 5. Category: If You Can't Say Something Nice * 1: On April 4, 1940 Neville Chamberlain said that this dictator had "missed the bus". * Adolf Hitler. * 2: Margot Asquith said of Lloyd George, "He could not see" one of these "without hitting below it". * Belt. * 3: Bartletts quotes this comedian: "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception". * Groucho Marx. * 4: "I can sometimes deal with men as equals and therefore can afford to like them", she wrote in Ms.. * Gloria Steinem. * 5: Simon Cameron said "An honest" one of these "is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought". * Politician.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 374, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Fort"S * 1: This N.C. fort has reason to boast since airborne U.S. Army combat units are stationed there. * Fort Bragg. * 2: On May 10, 1775 Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured this fort on Lake Champlain from the British. * Fort Ticonderoga. * 3: This celebrated Maryland fort overlooking the Patapsco River is named for a signer of the Constitution. * Fort McHanry. * 4: Troops are processes for overseas duty at this New Jersey army base. * Fort Dix. * 5: This Kentucky army post is known as the "Home of Armor". * Fort Knox.

Round 2. Category: "Fre"-Dom * 1: Wrigley's "extra" brand of cinnamon chewing gum bills itself as this on its wrapper. * sugar free. * 2: Lord Tennyson, or Batman's Butler. * Alfred. * 3: Elevun letr wurd fur the job thet wud b rezponzibl fir fiksin this clu's speling problims. * proofreader. * 4: Prestone makes one that provides protection down to -84 degrees. * antifreeze. * 5: It's the art of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water. * fresco.

Round 3. Category: Just Write * 1: "Valley of the Horses" is Jean Auel's sequel to the novel "The Clan of" this. * the Cave Bear. * 2: Like the title of a 1962 hit by Dion, they call an Old English poem about a homeless and kinless warrior this. * The Wanderer. * 3: "My First Days in the White House", by this Louisiana political legend, was published in 1935, affer his death. * Huey P. Long. * 4: He wrote "Torch Song Trilogy" and got torched by aliens in "Independence Day". * Harvey Fierstein. * 5: This comic play, written by British dramatist Tom Taylor in 1858, sadly gained lasting fame in April 1865. * Our American Cousin.

Round 4. Category: Tv-Podge * 1: It's the series that gave us the classic catch phrases "Yada, yada, yada" and "No soup for you!". * Seinfeld. * 2: Moon Unit Zappa and Wallace Langham co-starred on the TV series "Fast Times", based on this classic of teen cinema. * Fast Times at Ridgemont High. * 3: Mel Blanc supplied the voice of Cosmo Spacely when this cartoon debuted in prime time in 1962. * The Jetsons. * 4: (Hi, I'm Will Estes.) As "American Dreams" is based around "American Bandstand" in the 1960s, it's set in this city. * Philadelphia. * 5: Angus T. Jones, who plays Jake Harper, is the half-pint on this Charlie Sheen show. * Two and a Half Men.

Round 5. Category: Praise The "Lord" * 1: The upper chamber of the British parliament. * House of Lords. * 2: Hardly idle, this poet wrote over 10,000 lines of "Idylls Of The King". * Alfred Lord Tennyson. * 3: It's also called the Pater Noster. * The Lord's Prayer. * 4: As Steve McGarrett, he often finished off wrongdoers with the words "Book 'Em, Dano". * Jack Lord. * 5: Clive Barker's cinematic thriller about the evil resurrected magician Nix. * Lord Of Illusions.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 373, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Sleepyheads * 1: This Washington Irving character slept through the American Revolution. * Rip Van Winkle. * 2: The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn, and he's under the haystack fast asleep. * Little Boy Blue. * 3: This rodent couldn't stay awake through the Mad Hatter's tea party. * Dormouse. * 4: Dorothy, Toto, and the Cowardly Lion fell asleep in a field of these flowers. * poppies. * 5: He played a narcoleptic drifter in the 1991 film "My Own Private Idaho". * River Phoenix.

Round 2. Category: Facial Hair * 1: This symbol of America has a type of beard named for him. * Uncle Sam. * 2: Women have a special pencil for them. * Eyebrows. * 3: Wearing this kind of beard would turn a nanny into a billy. * Goatee. * 4: A soupstrainer moustache is also known by this aquatic mammal's name. * Walrus. * 5: This long moustache with ends that droop past the chin is named for a Sax Rohmer villain. * Fu Manchu.

Round 3. Category: To "Each" His Own * 1: It can precede "of contract", "of faith", "of promise" or "of trust". * breach. * 2: Try to convince someone who's already on yours side and you're doing this "to the choir". * preach. * 3: To challenge the credibility of a witness, or to accuse a public official of misconduct in office. * impeach. * 4: A person who lives by gathering saleable articles of jetsam, refuse and the like from the seashore. * beachcomber. * 5: This 11-letter adjective can mean untrustworthy or hazardous. * treacherous.

Round 4. Category: Playing With Fire * 1: Slang for a hot dog barbecue. * weenie roast. * 2: Prometheus stole fire from this heavenly body and gave it to mankind. * sun. * 3: Site on the stove of low-priority items. * back burner. * 4: A WWI song by Lena Ford said to "Keep" these "burning, while your hearts are yearning". * home-fires. * 5: The bon in bonfire is short for this, the substance originally burned in it. * bones.

Round 5. Category: Two * 1: In suds:Eberhard Anheuser and .... * Adolphus Busch. * 2: In pharmaceuticals:William Bristol and .... * John Myers. * 3: In advertising:Jay Chiat and .... * Guy Day. * 4: In engines:Stephen Briggs and .... * Harold Stratton. * 5: In fashion:Domenico Dolce and .... * Stefano Gabbana.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 372, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Andersonville * 1: Maxwell Anderson's play "Anne of the Thousand Days" concerned the tragic life of this woman. * Anne Boleyn. * 2: At one time the host of "The Mole", this CNN anchor is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt. * Anderson Cooper. * 3: In 1985, this AP news reporter was kidnapped in West Beirut as he was returning home from playing tennis. * Terry Anderson. * 4: In 1984 this 82-year-old singer became the first recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award. * Marian Anderson. * 5: After the death of Drew Pearson, this journalist took over his "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column. * Jack Anderson.

Round 2. Category: Civil War Times * 1: Of the 11 Confederate states, this one was the farthest north. * Virginia. * 2: On May 24, 1856 this abolitionist led a raid that killed 5 pro-slavery men in Pottawatomie. * John Brown. * 3: On June 26, 1864 near Atlanta, he said, "We have devoured the land and our animals eat up the wheat and corn fields". * (William Tecumseh) Sherman. * 4: At Bull Run, General Bee referred to Thomas Jackson by saying, "There stands Jackson like" one of these. * a stone wall. * 5: His "charge" was the Confederacy's last chance effort to win the Battle of Gettysburg--didn't work. * Pickett.

Round 3. Category: Stars On Flags * 1: Number of stars on the flag of Syria, or number of fingers in a peace sign. * 2. * 2: To guess this number of stars on the flag of Somalia, close your eyes and think of Texas. * 1. * 3: Hey! Gimme this number of stars on the flag of Singapore or the Solomon Islands. * 5. * 4: Tuvalu's flag has this many stars, enough to fill the Hollywood Squares. * 9. * 5: It's the greatest number of stars found on a national flag. * 50 (USA).

Round 4. Category: Let's Speak Japanese * 1: After the long flight to Tokyo, I better grab a cup of "kohhi", this, to stay awake for the kabuki show. * coffee. * 2: We're not sure if yelling "kaji", this, in a Japanese movie theater is illegal, but I still wouldn't do it. * fire. * 3: (I'm Harry Smith.) In January 2005 I covered the aftermath of one of these disasters whose name is from the Japanese for "harbor wave". * a tsunami. * 4: Parting is such sweet sorrow, my butterfly, but it's time we say this word, Japanese for "good-bye". * sayonara. * 5: You might want to sip the sake when it's served "atsui", meaning this has been done. * heated.

Round 5. Category: It's Jamaica * 1: Founded in 1693, this seaport became the capital nearly 200 years later. * Kingston. * 2: It's the official language of Jamaica. * English. * 3: This "colorful" brand of beer is one of Jamaica's most popular exports. * Red Stripe. * 4: Tourists can stay at GoldenEye, once the vacation home of this bestselling author. * Ian Fleming. * 5: Jamaica is the third largest of these "Greater" islands. * Greater Antilles.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 371, 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 their employers' wrongdoing. * Whistleblowers. * 5: Common name for deadly nighshade, a plant that's poisonous in all its parts. * Belladonna.

Round 2. Category: Remakes * 1: Neil Simon has recreated this 1965 play for the 21st century; he did it once before in 1986 for female stars. * The Odd Couple. * 2: In 1957 a recreation of this ship made a recreation of its 17th century trip from England to Massachusetts. * Mayflower. * 3: In 2000 Hasbro gave this dot-gobbling '80s arcade star a new 3-D look for a PC game. * Pac-Man. * 4: Released in 2002, "Today's New International Version" is a non-gender specific translation of this. * the Bible. * 5: A 1997 TV remake of this 1957 film featured Tony Danza as Juror No. 7. * 12 Angry Men.

Round 3. Category: National Coats Of Arms * 1: This country's coat of arms is framed by the Pillars of Hercules, which are topped by crowns. * Spain. * 2: Canada's coat of arms contains depictions of a Scottish unicorn, gold fleur-de-lis and sprig of these leaves. * a maple leaf. * 3: A banner reading "The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here" tops this West African nation's coat of arms. * Liberia. * 4: This country's coat of arms dates back to the 13th century, when an ax and the crown of St. Olaf were added to a lion. * Norway. * 5: The white lion with a double tail on its coat of arms was granted to Bohemia in the 1100s. * the Czech Republic.

Round 4. Category: Asia * 1: Indonesians call this third-largest island in the world Kalimantan, or "River of Diamonds". * Borneo. * 2: Go Ba Soup, a specialty of this country, makes a sizzling sound when poured over deep-fried rice patties. * China. * 3: The 2 houses of this large country's parliament are the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. * India. * 4: Most of this country's people live in hamlets called kampongs but about a million reside in Kuala Lumpur. * Malaysia. * 5: Sometimes this country is referred to as East Bengal. * Bangladesh.

Round 5. Category: A Trashery Of Ogden Nashery * 1: "The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo the other" this. * Milk. * 2: Nash coined the word "Cleopatricide" in his quatrain about this snake. * Asp. * 3: In "Reflections on Ice-Breaking", he wrote that "Candy is dandy but" this "is quicker". * Liquor. * 4: "God in his wisdom made" this insect "and then forgot to tell us why". * Fly. * 5: In his poem "The Baby", Nash remarked, "A bit of" this "is always walcum". * Talcum.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 370, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Chronicles * 1: You'll find the deeds of Emperor Jimmu in the "Nihon Shoki", or "Chronicle of" this country. * Japan. * 2: Here is the actual diary given to this girl on June 12, 1942. * Anne Frank. * 3: Jim Bouton, on Nov. 15, 1968 in this book:"I signed my contract today to play for the Seattle Pilots at a salary of $22,000". * Ball Four. * 4: Jim Bouton, on Nov. 15, 1968 in this book:"I signed my contract today to play for the Seattle Pilots at a salary of $22,000". * Ball Four. * 5: From his July 25, 1947 diary entry:"Ike and I think MacArthur expects to make a Roman triumphal return to the U.S.". * Harry Truman.

Round 2. Category: The Shape Of Things * 1: This 4-letter word for egg-shaped comes from the Latin word for "egg". * oval. * 2: In case you were wondering, yes, C and H still makes sugar in this shape. * cubes. * 3: It's the geometric shape with a circular base in one plane that tapers to a point in another plane. * a cone. * 4: Something pinnate is shaped like this (it's what "pinna" means in Latin). * feather. * 5: The Earth is this type of spheroid, meaning flattened at the poles. * oblate.

Round 3. Category: 4-Letter Verbs * 1: As a noun, it's the rear portion of an aircraft; as a verb, it means to follow and keep under surveillance. * tail. * 2: This animal verb means to down your food voraciously. * Wolf. * 3: What a barber does, or the "joint" in which he overcharges for the service. * Clip. * 4: A housewife might do it to the mantle; a forensic expert would do it to look for fingerprints. * Dust. * 5: (I'm NFL defensive end Kevin Carter) One of my favorite words, it means to tackle a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. * sack.

Round 4. Category: Phrases That Sell * 1: "Obey your thirst" and drink this. * Sprite. * 2: "Be all that you can be" in this military branch. * the Army. * 3: This network says it's "The most trusted name in news". * CNN. * 4: This shipping company asks, "What can Brown do for you?". * UPS. * 5: It's the popular query in Verizon's TV ads. * Can you hear me now?.

Round 5. Category: Recipes * 1: Blend mayonnaise, vinegar and sugar, then add shredded green and red cabbage to make this. * Cole slaw. * 2: To make this, combine butter, brown sugar and corn syrup and pour over popcorn. * Caramel corn. * 3: The main difference between recipes for white cake and yellow cake is the addition of these. * Egg yolks. * 4: This popular pigeon that may be broiled, grilled or roasted is farm-raised and hasn't yet learned how to fly. * Squab. * 5: There are 3 types of pork ribs you can barbecue: spareribs, country-style ribs and these, which include riblets. * Baby back ribs.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 369, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: If They Were Musicals... * 1: The musical version of this Ibsen play might be titled "Hedda Get Your Gun!". * "Hedda Gabler". * 2: Forget "Cats"; the musical of this Orwell book would feature jackbooted dancing pigs. * "Animal Farm". * 3: His play about Mrs. Warren could become "Best Little Whorehouse in Europe". * George Bernard Shaw ("Mrs. Warren's Profession"). * 4: A musical of this Hardy novel might include the song "Jude, Glorious Jude". * "Jude the Obscure". * 5: Songs from this TV show would highlight the adaptation "Shirley and the Amazing Technicolor School Bus". * The Partridge Family.

Round 2. Category: "Mum"S The Word * 1: This contagious viral disease can occasionally cause sterility in males. * Mumps. * 2: ....I said it's to utter something quietly and unclearly!. * Mumble. * 3: This 2-word term for confusing language may come from a Mande phrase for "ancestor wearing a pompom". * Mumbo-jumbo. * 4: Formerly called Bombay, it's in the top 5 cities in the world in population. * Mumbai. * 5: You'll see this group parading through Philly each New Year's Day. * Mummers.

Round 3. Category: Culinary Common Bonds * 1: Fore shank,short loin,brisket. * cuts of beef. * 2: Snow,sugar snap,chick. * peas. * 3: Hake, pollack,shad. * Fish. * 4: Westphalian,Bayonne,prosciutto. * hams. * 5: Arborio,medium-grain,brown. * Rice.

Round 4. Category: Drink It, Dance It Or Drive It * 1: Cabriolet. * drive it. * 2: Hambo. * dance it. * 3: Kirsch. * drink it. * 4: Trabant. * drive it. * 5: Huapala. * drink it.

Round 5. Category: Oscar Winners' Rhyme Time * 1: Eastwood's subtle verbal clues. * Clint's hints. * 2: Witherspoon's parts. * Reese's pieces. * 3: Nicholson's trousers. * Jack's slacks. * 4: Hilary's financial institutions. * Swank's banks. * 5: Landau's milk boxes. * Martin's cartons.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 368, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Drama * 1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):(Hi, I'm Ollie North, and)I've played a mysterious intelligence operative named Ollie on 2 episodes of this CBS series about naval lawyers. * "JAG". * 2: Della Reese has won 3 NAACP Image Awards as outstanding lead actress for playing Tess on this series. * "Touched By An Angel". * 3: In 1994-95 this medical series finished second in the ratings, the highest ever for a first-year drama series. * "ER". * 4: This NBC crime drama is the 1st TV drama series executive produced by film director Barry Levinson. * "Homicide: Life On The Street". * 5: Tom Hanks was the executive producer of this 1998 HBO miniseries about the Apollo space program. * "From The Earth To The Moon".

Round 2. Category: Presidential Nicknames * 1: "Elegant Arthur". * Chester A. Arthur. * 2: "The Little Magician", "Whiskey Van". * Martin van Buren. * 3: The "Wizard of Kinderhook". * (Martin) Van Buren. * 4: The "Kinderhook Fox". * Martin Van Buren. * 5: "Ten-Cent Jimmy", as well as "Old Buck". * James Buchanan.

Round 3. Category: Nation"Z" * 1: This country has numerous national parks including Fiordland, Tongariro and Abel Tasman. * New Zealand. * 2: South America's largest known petroleum deposits lie in this country's Maracaibo Basin. * Venezuela. * 3: Its Latin name, Helvetia, appears on its coins and stamps. * Switzerland. * 4: It was once known as Portuguese East Africa. * Mozambique. * 5: The Baykonur Cosmodrome, Russia's space-launch facility, is actually in this nation. * Kazakhstan.

Round 4. Category: Foods Of The World * 1: Some of this cheese named for Parma is cured for several years before it's grated over pasta. * Parmesan. * 2: The Sevruga type of this fishy treat is made of small, grayish eggs. * caviar. * 3: Cakes of this soybean curd should be stored in water, and the water should be changed daily. * tofu. * 4: Originally, this "modest" English pie was made with numbles, which are deer innards. * humble pie. * 5: Souvlaki, a Greek specialty similar to shish kebab is made with marinated chunks of this meat. * lamb.

Round 5. Category: Phone Numbers * 1: For tourist info on this state, call 1-800-BUCKEYE. * Ohio. * 2: On Jan.12, 1968, AT and T announced this would be the nationwide standard emergency phone number. * 911. * 3: Across the country, it's the most common 3 digit number you'd dial for phone repair service. * 611. * 4: When this Jeff Goldblum/Ed Begley Jr. horror spoof rang into theaters, nobody answered. * Transylvania 6-5000. * 5: Dialing WE 6-1212 in Baltimore, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh will get you this service. * weather.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 367, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Groovy * 1: In carpentry, this body part " and groove" form a joint between 2 boards. * tongue. * 2: Seen here are grooves in this Buckeye State scoured into limestone 18,000 years ago by the Great Ice Sheet. * Ohio. * 3: Much of the cortical surface of this is hidden in grooves called sulci. * the brain. * 4: This Simon and Garfunkel tune is also known as "The 59th Street Bridge Song". * "Feelin' Groovy". * 5: In this artistic process, printing is done by forcing ink into grooves made by acid. * copperplate etching.

Round 2. Category: Country Twosomes * 1: This mother and daughter duo plan to reunite for a special New Year's Eve 1999 concert in Phoenix. * The Judds. * 2: Before sailing off for "Islands in the Stream" with Kenny Rogers, she was "Making Plans" with Porter Wagoner. * Dolly Parton. * 3: In 1987 this legendary singer did a remake of his hit "Crying" as a duet with k.d. lang. * Roy Orbison. * 4: For his version of "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying", Toby Keith enlisted the aid of this former "Policeman". * Sting. * 5: Their love led them to record "It's Your Love" and "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me". * Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.

Round 3. Category: Third Party Presidential Candidates * 1: This billionaire Texan ran in 1992 and again in 1996. * Ross Perot. * 2: In 1968 this former Governor won 13.5% of the vote and carried 5 states. * George Wallace. * 3: This man's third party candidacy in 1912 allowed Woodrow Wilson to win. * Teddy Roosevelt. * 4: He followed Jackson into the Presidency in 1836 and 12 years later ran as a third party candidate. * Van Buren. * 5: In 1924 this Wisconsin senator ran on the Progressive Party ticket and on the Socialist Party ticket. * "Fightin'" Bob La Follette.

Round 4. Category: Astronomy * 1: The next time we'll be able to see this famous object from Earth is in 2134; reserve your seats now. * Halley's Comet. * 2: On Valentine's Day 2000, the Near spacecraft is due to begin orbiting this asteroid named for the Greek god of love. * Eros. * 3: Its "A" ring is a little over 9,000 miles wide. * Saturn. * 4: An early system classified stars as giants or these, of which our sun is one. * dwarves. * 5: The 200-inch mirror of the Hale Telescope on this California peak took some 10 months to cool after casting. * Mt. Palomar.

Round 5. Category: Columbus, Ohio * 1: Columbus was the first U.S. city planned and built to be one of these. * a state capital (a capital city accepted). * 2: The Standard Oil Company opened the U.S.A.Â's first drive-in one of these in Columbus around 1913. * a gas station. * 3: USA Today says this ice cream and tropical fruit dish was invented in 1904 at FoellerÂ's Drug Store. * a banana split. * 4: School in Columbus thatÂ's home to the worldÂ's largest all-brass marching band. * Ohio State University. * 5: On October 12, 1992 Columbus plans to have a replica of this flagship sitting in its Scioto River. * the Santa Maria.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 366, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Sports * 1: Because of WWII, these 2 NFL teams combined squads in '43 to become the "Stegles". * the Steelers and Eagles. * 2: Regret, Genuine Risk and Winning Colors are the only fillies to win this Triple Crown race. * Kentucky Derby. * 3: On September 19, 1992 Sergei Bubka broke the world record in this event for the 32nd time. * the pole vault. * 4: Sport in which you might leave a bucket, Christmas tree or picket fence. * bowling. * 5: Australian Rules, American and Association describe sports that are all named this. * Football.

Round 2. Category: Duncan * 1: "Funny Face" star who can certainly separate the wheat from the chaff. * Sandy Duncan. * 2: Cawder Castle, which claims to be the site of this man's killing of Duncan I, was built 400 years after the event. * Macbeth. * 3: Procter and Gamble really took the cake when it acquired this brand in 1956. * Duncan Hines. * 4: This No. 1 NBA draft pick signed with the San Antonio Spurs July 24, 1997. * Tim Duncan. * 5: Duncan Regehr played Zorro and Duncan Renaldo was famous for playing this Old West hero. * The Cisco Kid.

Round 3. Category: All Ears * 1: Nickname of the V-shaped indoor TV antenna. * rabbit ears. * 2: In the '70s she ended her TV variety show by tugging on her ear as a signal to grandma. * Carol Burnett. * 3: Made up of fat, it's the loosely hanging lower part of the auricle. * earlobe. * 4: According to folklore, if your ears are doing this, someone is talking about you. * burning. * 5: Of the five standard U.S. coins, the one on which you can see the right ear of a president. * (Lincoln) Penny.

Round 4. Category: Rock * 1: The Colonial Dames donated an elegant portico that was erected around this rock in 1920. * Plymouth Rock. * 2: For hundreds of years, the Barbary apes have rocked atop the world-famous Rock of this. * Gibraltar. * 3: In 2007 she won an Oscar for "I Need To Wake Up", a song she wrote for "An Inconvenient Truth". * Melissa Etheridge. * 4: Brownstone is a variety of this rock, formed when grains of quartz and other minerals are bound together. * sandstone. * 5: You'll find this geological attraction about 280 miles from Alice Springs. * Ayers Rock.

Round 5. Category: In Your Hearts * 1: AKA a myocardial infarction, it occurs when blood flow to the heart is blocked or stopped. * heart attack. * 2: A surgeon may implant one of these to steady an irregular heartbeat. * pacemaker. * 3: The number of chambers in the human heart. * 4. * 4: The main artery leaving the heart, its diameter can be as big as a garden hose. * aorta. * 5: While systole refers to the tightening of the heart, this is the period between contractions. * diastole.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 365, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Ock" Du Lieber * 1: Fred Flintstone's hometown. * Bedrock. * 2: A dialect from the east end of London. * Cockney. * 3: This bird known for its mimicry is the state bird of 5 southern U.S. states. * the mockingbird. * 4: An ankle-length garment worn by a priest. * cassock. * 5: A mythological serpent that hatches from an egg. * cockatrice.

Round 2. Category: Spelling * 1: In Gershwin song titles it follows "I Got" and "Fascinating". * R-H-Y-T-H-M. * 2: The plant whose name is pronounced "liken" is spelled this way. * L-I-C-H-E-N. * 3: This small Hawaiian guitar was derived from a Portuguese instument. * U-K-U-L-E-L-E. * 4: From Latin for "middle ages", it refers to the Middle Ages. * M-E-D-I-E-V-A-L. * 5: Japanese words for "port" and "wave" gave us this name for a huge, potentially devastating wave. * T-S-U-N-A-M-I.

Round 3. Category: By 2000 * 1: Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Nu are 2 of these that are trying to ban alcohol by 2000. * Fraternities. * 2: Computers that recognize 00 as this date have to be fixed by the year 2000. * 1900. * 3: British musicologist Jonathan Del Mar hopes to have fully restored this composer's 9 symphonies. * Ludwig van Beethoven. * 4: Ukraine has promised to close this nuclear plant by 2000. * Chernobyl. * 5: A 500-foot-tall one of these fair attractions is planned to be built across the Thames from Parliament. * Ferris wheel.

Round 4. Category: In The Air Up There * 1: Most of these are in the troposphere and there are over 100 different types, such as cumulonimbus. * clouds. * 2: Term for the moisture of the air, it's given in relative terms in forecasts. * humidity. * 3: In the 1970s it was discovered that CFCs may be affecting this layer of atmosphere. * the ozone layer. * 4: It's about .03% of the air; you breathe a little in and a lot out. * carbon dioxide. * 5: About 80% of this gas in the air comes from decomposition in rice paddies, swamps, and animal intestines. * methane.

Round 5. Category: '60s Sitcoms * 1: In 1968 "The Lucy Show" evolved into a new show titled this. * Here's Lucy. * 2: Senior counselor Spiffy at Camp Runamuck, Dave Ketchum was also Agent 13 on this show. * Get Smart. * 3: The 2 Williams who played O'Caseys on "My Three Sons". * Demarest and Frawley. * 4: On this show, souvenirs made by the Hekawi Indians were sold by O'Rourke Enterprises. * F Troop. * 5: Jackie Coogan's most famous TV role was this electrifying character on "The Addams Family". * Uncle Fester.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 364, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Student Loans * 1: I made the very long trip to the library to borrow this epic, Homer's sequel to the "Iliad". * The Odyssey. * 2: This Dostoyevsky novel about Alyosha, Dmitri and Ivan clocks in at about 900 pages, so I had to renew my copy. * The Brothers Karamazov. * 3: I checked out his "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn", but they weren't the travel books I thought they'd be. * Henry Miller. * 4: I borrowed a volume of his works that includes "Elmer Gantry" and "Dodsworth". * Sinclair Lewis. * 5: The library copy of his "Finnegans Wake" seems to be missing some text; the last sentence ends, "a long the". * (James) Joyce.

Round 2. Category: This Category Stinks! * 1: The strong odor of this semi-aquatic rodent gives it its name. * the muskrat. * 2: Proverbially, this pungent bulb "makes a man wink, drink and stink". * garlic. * 3: It's the Belgian province bordering the Netherlands that's famous for originating a smelly cheese. * Limburgh. * 4: This cartoon character's big screen credits include "For Scent-imental Reasons" and "Heaven Scent". * Pepé Le Pew. * 5: The only film ever released in "Odorama", it shares its name with a synthetic fabric popular in the 1970s. * Polyester.

Round 3. Category: Second Bananas * 1: On the "Tonight Show", it was McMahon's standard introduction for Carson. * "Here's Johnny!". * 2: He was Joey Bishop's sidekick long before he teamed up with Kathie Lee. * Regis Philbin. * 3: Once partnered with Tommy Chong, he now works with Don Johnson on "Nash Bridges". * Cheech Marin. * 4: He got first billing even though he played second banana to wife Gracie Allen. * George Burns. * 5: Mel Brooks and this second banana won a Spoken Comedy Grammy in 1999 for "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000". * Carl Reiner.

Round 4. Category: Bald Ambition * 1: This bald "Seinfeld" character hit on a woman by saying he lived with his parents and was unemployed. * George Costanza. * 2: Perhaps the improved aerodynamic design helped him become 1999's No. 1 ranked tennis player. * Andre Agassi. * 3: This follically-challenged animated man once sold his soul to the devil for a doughnut. * Homer Simpson. * 4: This Proctor and Gamble icon dresses in white, wears an earring and hates dirt. * Mr. Clean. * 5: This super-rich Little Orphan Annie benefactor never joined the Hair Club for Men. * Daddy Warbucks.

Round 5. Category: Mindblowers * 1: In 1875 the first swim across this waterway took about 22 hours; in 1994 it was accomplished in about 7. * the English Channel. * 2: This San Antonio Spurs star originally trained to be an Olympic swimmer, but Hurricane Hugo wrecked the pool. * Tim Duncan. * 3: There are about 4,000 species of mammals, 8,700 species of birds and 1 million known species of these creatures. * insects. * 4: In 2002 the Hormel corporation produced its 6 billionth can of this foodstuff. * Spam. * 5: Christianity Today said this animated TV dad is more associated with Christianity than the Pope or Mother Teresa. * Ned Flanders.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 363, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Metals * 1: Photography accounts for almost half the industrial use of this metal in the U.S.. * silver. * 2: This liquid metal is added to paints to make them mildew proof. * Mercury. * 3: Of the current penny, nickel, and dime the one which contains the most copper. * nickel. * 4: This liquid metal is 13.6 times heavier than an equal volume of water. * mercury. * 5: This alloy metal popular for bathroom rails gets softer as it includes more copper and less zinc. * brass.

Round 2. Category: The United States Of Advertising * 1: This "advanced medicine for pain" was the first nonprescription brand of ibuprofen in the U.S.. * Advil. * 2: Julie London sang, "Where there's a man there's" this brand of cigarette; I wonder if he was riding his horse?. * Marlboros. * 3: Caffeine and taurnine are the main ingredients in this popular energy drink that "gives you wings". * Red Bull. * 4: Bausch and Lomb introduced the "Wayfarer" style of these in 1952. * sunglasses. * 5: This product gives you "speedy" relief the morning after. * Alka-Seltzer.

Round 3. Category: Driving The Green * 1: "Because you've got better things to do than plug in and wait", the battery of this co.'s Civic Hybrid recharges itself. * Honda. * 2: At 55 MPG, you could get from L.A. to Vegas on a bout 5 gallons driving a Prius from this company. * Toyota. * 3: The Altra EV from this company that also makes the Altima can hit 75 MPH; what a (non) gas!. * Nissan. * 4: The Escape Hybrid from this company claims to have a "range of well over 400 miles on a single tank". * Ford. * 5: The EV1 got a fantastic 0 MPG, as it was a no-gas vehicle from this U.S. co. organized by William Durant in 1908. * General Motors.

Round 4. Category: World Theatre * 1: This "War and Peace" author's play "The Power of Darkness" was once banned in his native Russia. * Leo Tolstoy. * 2: Conor McPherson's haunting play "The Weir" is set in a pub in this country. * Ireland. * 3: Israeli playwright Nathan Alterman called his first play "Kineret, Kineret...", Kineret being Hebrew for the Sea of this. * Sea of Galilee. * 4: The "Chushingura", about a band of avenging Ronin, is one of the most famous plays in this form of Japanese drama. * Kabuki. * 5: Juliette Binoche starred in the 2000 Broadway revival of this British playwright's 1978 classic "Betrayal". * Harold Pinter.

Round 5. Category: Books Of The '70s * 1: In a 1972 book, Hunter S. Thompson sent Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo to this city to cover the Mint 400 race. * Las Vegas. * 2: This prolific British mystery writer's last published novel was 1976's "Sleeping Murder". * Agatha Christie. * 3: Victor Henry of the U.S. Navy and his family are at the center of this 1971 Herman Wouk epic. * Winds of War. * 4: A book by Flora Screiber says, Mary, Peggy Lou, Vicky and Vanessa were 4 of this title character's 16 personalities. * Sybil. * 5: A review said this 1979 William Styron novel "belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces". * Sophie's Choice.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 362, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 30 Years' War Call-In * 1: (Alex: To start us off in this category, here's a "caller" from Saxony) If Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II keeps trying to impose this religion on everyone, there'll be hell to pay. * Catholicism. * 2: (Alex: Ah, some strange news from Turin now) It's crazy -- the Citadel is under this, similar to a blockade, from an army that's also under this from another army. * siege. * 3: (Alex: Well, on the line right now is General Albrecht von Wallenstein) Hey, King Christian IV of this Scandinavian country give me your best shot, pal. You got nothing!. * Denmark. * 4: (Alex: Ah, a prediction from Antwerp.) I say the Dutch are going to stick it to this country's fleet just like England did back in 1588. * Spain. * 5: (Alex: For our last clue, we have a caller from Italy.) If you think this French cardinal really cares for Mantua's welfare, I have some land in Picardy to sell you. * Cardinal Richelieu.

Round 2. Category: George And Ringo * 1: Ringo and this Beatle joined George on the single "All Those Years Ago". * Paul McCartney. * 2: Ringo Starr was born with this name on July 7, 1940 in Liverpool. * Richard Starkey. * 3: George said this song was inspired by "O Happy Day", but others suggest "He's So Fine". * My Sweet Lord. * 4: For Ringo, it was Ring-O; for George, Dark Horse. * Names of their respective record labels. * 5: George and Ringo co-wrote this song that Ringo took to No. 1 in 1973. * Photograph.

Round 3. Category: Steven Spielberg * 1: As a child, the first film Steven ever saw was this Cecil B. DeMille circus extravaganza. * The Greatest Show on Earth. * 2: Vilmos Zsigmond won an Oscar as Steven's cinematographer on this 1977 sci-fi hit. * Close Encounters of the Third Kind. * 3: A critic once compared the panic on the beach scene in "Jaws" to this film's "Odessa Steps" sequence. * Battleship Potemkin. * 4: Steven directed Joan Crawford in the pilot for this innovative Rod Serling anthology. * Night Gallery. * 5: This 22-minute Spielberg film about 2 people who hitchhike west lends its name to one of his companies. * Amblin'.

Round 4. Category: Our Government * 1: This group that meets in the Capitol started in 1789 with 22 members and now has 100. * Senate. * 2: Instead of a president, each of the states has this chief executive. * Governor. * 3: The U.S. Constitution has 7 articles and 27 of these additions. * Amendments. * 4: NASA, which was created in 1958, stands for National Aeronautics and this Administration. * Space. * 5: Justice Department head Janet Reno isn't called the Secretary of Justice, but this. * Attorney General.

Round 5. Category: Steam * 1: They're the two chemical elements that make up steam. * hydrogen and oxygen. * 2: In central heating systems using steam, this is the equivalent of a furnace. * boiler. * 3: Steam well above the temperature where it condenses into liquid isn't just heated, it's this. * superheated. * 4: Most of the world's electriic power comes from steam turning the wheels of this type of machine. * turbine. * 5: One of this Scotsman's big ideas was using the expansion of steam to complete a piston stroke. * James Watt.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 361, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Go Bowling * 1: If you knock down all 10 pins on your first throw in a frame, you've scored one of these. * Strike. * 2: A perfect game is this score. * 300. * 3: When throwing your ball, don't cross this "line" that's 60 feet from the pins. * Foul line. * 4: The headpin is also known by this "royal" name. * Kingpin. * 5: This organization that sanctions tournaments is abbreviated the PBA. * Professional Bowlers Association.

Round 2. Category: The One I Love * 1: Shah Jahan built this complex in Agra, India to immortalize Mumtaz, his favorite wife. * the Taj Mahal. * 2: How modern--Queen Victoria proposed to him on Oct. 15, 1839. * Prince Albert. * 3: The first time Vivien Leigh saw him onstage, she said, "That's the man I'm going to marry" (she was right). * Laurence Olivier. * 4: Even after 29 years of marriage, he still thought of wife Linda as "my girlfriend". * Paul McCartney. * 5: In 1925 this 3-named British economist married Lydia Lopakova, one of Diaghilev's ballerinas. * John Maynard Keynes.

Round 3. Category: The Romanovs * 1: Alexander II added $7,200,000 to Russia's coffers by selling off what's now known as this. * Alaska. * 2: In 1695 he declared war on the Ottoman Empire, a great move. * Peter the Great. * 3: In 1956 Ingrid Bergman played this possible Romanov. * Anastasia. * 4: She and her lover, Count Orlov, overthrew her husband in a July 1762 palace coup. * Catherine the Great. * 5: In 1807 Alexander I allied himself with this country; in 1812 the alliance broke and the ex-ally invaded Russia. * France.

Round 4. Category: Quips * 1: After being named host of the 2001 Oscar broadcast, this "Roxanne" star cracked, "If you can't win 'em, join 'em". * Steve Martin. * 2: This oft-married Hungarian opined, "You never really know a man until you have divorced him". * Zsa Zsa Gabor. * 3: This N.Y. film director said he wasn't afraid of dying but "I don't want to be here when it happens". * Woody Allen. * 4: "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle", said this Ms. founder who married David Bale in 2000. * Gloria Steinem. * 5: Truman Capote reviewed this man's book "On the Road" by saying, "That's not writing. It's just typing". * Jack Kerouac.

Round 5. Category: Cliffsnotes * 1: Livestock successfully stage rebellion, pigs end up blowing it for everyone. * "Animal Farm". * 2: Title guy shipwrecks, ends up on 28-year island getaway, makes a friend, goes home. * "Robinson Crusoe". * 3: 2 guys dream of owning a farm, one kills the boss' daughter-in-law, then his pal kills him. * "Of Mice and Men". * 4: Frenchman swipes some bread, gets 19 years, gets out, gets pursued by a cop who dies. * "Les Miserables". * 5: Con man checks into mental hospital to avoid prison farm, meets nasty nurse, doesn't check out. * "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 360, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Beatlyrics * 1: This 1967 hit begins,"Love love love.Love love love.Love love love". * "All You Need Is Love". * 2: "I saw a film today, oh boy,The English Army had just won the war". * "A Day In The Life". * 3: "Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out,They leave the West behind". * "Back In The U.S.S.R.". * 4: "Let me tell you how it will be,There's one for you, 19 for me,'Cos I'm" this guy,"Yeah I'm" this guy. * the "Taxman". * 5: "Expert texpert choking smokersDon't you think the joker laughs at you?". * "I Am The Walrus".

Round 2. Category: Singer-Songwriters * 1: "Beat It". * Michael Jackson. * 2: "Put Your Head On My Shoulder". * Paul Anka. * 3: "That Don't Impress Me Much". * Shania Twain. * 4: "I Walk the Line". * Johnny Cash. * 5: "Short People". * Randy Newman.

Round 3. Category: Horror Films * 1: "Christine" was a car, "Carrie" a girl and "Cujo" one of these. * dog. * 2: Chucky, a killer doll, made his debut in this 1988 film. * Child's Play. * 3: In 1992 Gary Oldman sank his teeth into this title role, playing him both young and old. * Dracula. * 4: This star of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" made his directorial debut with "976-EVIL". * Robert Englund. * 5: Face it, this nickname really sticks on Clive Barker's main demon from the "Hellraiser" films. * Pinhead.

Round 4. Category: In Fashion * 1: This traditional garment of Japan is also available with fur trim from Fendi for $28,000. * a kimono. * 2: Hats in the shape of this food are a common sight at Wisconsin sporting events. * cheese. * 3: 70% of American men aged 25-45 own a pair of these Levi Strauss khakis. * Dockers. * 4: The ankle-high side-zipped boot named for this rock band was introduced in the '60s. * Beatle Boots. * 5: A men's stiff, formal white shirt is said to be this, like an egg or a lobster. * boiled.

Round 5. Category: What Have "V" Here * 1: Novels about this historic event include "Fortunate Son" and "The Green Berets". * the Vietnam War. * 2: A 1947 essayist said this, the dissection of living creatures, puts humans "on the animal level". * vivisection. * 3: Wang, Vague or Lynn. * Vera. * 4: This country officially designates itself a "Bolivarian Republic". * Venezuela. * 5: Said to have wiped the sweat from the face of Jesus, her veil is now a Vatican relic. * (St.) Veronica.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 359, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Behind The Zodiac * 1: When you cast your eyes on this constellation, know that half of it may represent Castor. * Gemini. * 2: Cancer is the crab that attacked this hero who was battling the Hydra. * Hercules. * 3: This device belongs to Astraea. * Libra (the scales). * 4: This constellation, Chiron, is the "centaur" of attention. * Sagittarius. * 5: Europa was carried off by Zeus who was in the shape of this constellation. * Taurus the bull.

Round 2. Category: 1802 * 1: In 1802, after he'd been in office for a year, the first article on his involvement with Sally Hemings was published. * Thomas Jefferson. * 2: Incorporated as a town in 1802; made capital of the Michigan Territory in 1805; burned down the same year. * Detroit. * 3: In his "Heiligenstadt Tastament", Beethoven lamented over his loss of this. * Hearing. * 4: French mining engineer Albert Matieu-Favier suggested building a tunnel under this. * English Channel. * 5: Napoleon established this "Legion" as an Order of Merit in 1802. * Legion of Honor (Legion d'honneur).

Round 3. Category: European Cities * 1: In 1986 Thessaloniki in this country celebrated its 2,300th birthday. * Greece. * 2: The World Health Organization is headquartered in this Swiss city. * Geneva. * 3: While Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands, this city is the seat of government. * The Hague. * 4: One of Norway's best-known resorts, it hosted the 1994 Winter Olympics. * Lillehammer. * 5: Signed in 1975, the accord named for this city was an effort to ease tensions between the Soviet Bloc and the West. * Helsinki.

Round 4. Category: Celebrity Books * 1: This talk show host and son Cody share some of their experiences in "Listen to My Heart". * Kathie Lee Gifford. * 2: "Call Me Crazy" is what this former companion of Ellen DeGeneres called her 2001 tell-all book. * Anne Heche. * 3: Title of disco queen Gloria Gaynor's 1997 autobiography, or the title of her biggest hit. * "I Will Survive". * 4: She chronicled her journey through postpartum depression in 2005's "Down Came the Rain". * Brooke Shields. * 5: This comedian's "shopgirl" was turned into a 2005 film staring himself and Claire Danes. * Steve Martin.

Round 5. Category: Put On Your Jamies * 1: She was Wanda in "A Fish Called Wanda" and Willa in the sort-of follow-up "Fierce Creatures". * Jamie Lee Curtis. * 2: Thaddaeus in the 1965 film "The Greatest Story Ever Told", he got his greatest role ever in 1972 as Max Klinger. * Jamie Farr. * 3: This comic was Bundini Brown in "Ali" and Steamin' Beamen in "Any Given Sunday". * Jamie Foxx. * 4: In a 2002 WB show people got to view his "experiments" with his hidden camera practical jokes. * Jamie Kennedy. * 5: Jamie in this family that includes N.C. and Andrew said, "Everybody in my family paints -- excluding possibly the dogs". * Wyeth.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 358, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: On Your "Own" * 1: Remember used cars? now dealers refer to those models as this type. * pre-owned. * 2: 9-letter term meaning produced in a particular region for local consumption. * homegrown. * 3: The Tomb of the American this, for a serviceman killed in WWI, was established in 1921. * the Unknown Soldier. * 4: To repudiate or renounce, especially one's heirs. * disown. * 5: An overheated engine can get this way; so can your mind, man, if you think how small we are, y'know, cosmically. * blown.

Round 2. Category: Hungary * 1: Paprika is an essential ingredient in this popular Hungarian stew, whose name is short for "herdsman's meat". * Goulash. * 2: In 1867 Hungary and this country established a dual monarchy that lasted until the end of World War I. * Austria. * 3: The Hungarians call this river the Duna. * Danube. * 4: In 1982 Hungary joined this organization, the IMF, which arranges economic aid to its members. * International Monetary Fund. * 5: This ethnic group makes up at least 95% of Hungary's population. * Magyars.

Round 3. Category: Meats * 1: This cut is a pig's hind leg above the hock. * ham. * 2: A long-standing tradition in France, hippophagy is the consumption of this. * horse. * 3: These gastropods are sometimes fed aromatic herbs to give them a special savor. * snail. * 4: One of the largest edible fish, these huge flatfish can measure over 5 X 10 feet and can exceed 700 pounds. * halibut. * 5: Used to cure many meats including bacon, its the creosote and formaldehyde in this that help preserve things. * smoke.

Round 4. Category: Prime Ministers * 1: This current French president served as prime minister under both Giscard d'Estaing and Mitterrand. * Jacques Chirac. * 2: Prior to becoming Britain's prime minister in 2007, he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. * (Gordon) Brown. * 3: This country's prime minister Nouri al-Maliki helped draft its new Constitution. * Iraq. * 4: He took power in 1993 when his Liberals won 177 of the 295 seats in Canada's House of Commons. * Jean Chretien. * 5: A devastating stroke in 2006 ended his tenure as prime minister of Israel. * (Ariel) Sharon.

Round 5. Category: Nv * 1: This current leader in the Senate became the youngest lt. governor in Nevada history at the age of 30. * Harry Reid. * 2: One of the largest artificial lakes in the world, it straddles the border between Arizona and Nevada. * Lake Mead. * 3: On Nevada's state flag, you can see 2 sprays of this wise-sounding state flower. * sagebrush. * 4: Lincoln saw Nevada's statehood as additional support for this amendment that outlawed slavery. * the 13th Amendment. * 5: In 1859 this "lode" of silver made Nevada's Virginia City one of the most famous Western mining towns. * the Comstock Lode.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 357, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: World Religions * 1: In this religion, the devil is called Iblis, or "al-Shaitaan". * Islam. * 2: His book "Dianetics" gave rise to the Church of Scientology. * L. Ron Hubbard. * 3: Xochiquetzal was the goddess of beauty of this Mexican civilization. * Aztec. * 4: Hawaii's second-largest island is named for this Polynesian demi-god. * Maui. * 5: Meaning "disciple", this is a follower of Guru Nanak and his successor gurus. * Sikh.

Round 2. Category: How Provincial! * 1: Hainan,Hunan,Yunnan. * China. * 2: Western Cape,Eastern Cape, Kwazulu-Natal. * South Africa. * 3: Limburg,Antwerp,West Flanders. * Belgium. * 4: Dong Nai, Dong Thap,Lam Dong. * Vietnam. * 5: Almeria,Salamanca,Cordoba. * Spain.

Round 3. Category: The "Wash" Room * 1: Use it for gargling. * mouthwash. * 2: An entry-level restaurant job or a labor-saving appliance that does the same thing. * a dishwasher. * 3: To cover up errors or wrongdoing; perhaps for Tom Sawyer?. * whitewash. * 4: Hyphenated term meaning lacking in decisiveness. * wishy-washy. * 5: Adventurous swordsman. * a swashbuckler.

Round 4. Category: Don't Do The Crime * 1: In Wyoming, this crime is fourth degree when property worth less than $200 is purposely burned. * arson. * 2: If the guy hired to throw unruly people out of bars writes a bad check, he's doubly one of these. * a bouncer. * 3: Term for a person who conceals himself on a ship to avoid paying for the passage. * stowaway. * 4: This phrase refers to an auto accident in which the driver probably at fault fails to stay and identify himself. * hit-and-run. * 5: From the Middle English for "to wander", it's the crime of a person without home or money wandering idly in public. * vagrancy.

Round 5. Category: Brain Maul! * 1: Donald Duck's middle nephew alphabetically. * Huey. * 2: It's the tallest land mammal north of Antarctica. * Giraffe. * 3: He was Liz Taylor's first husband. * Nicky Hilton. * 4: Number of yards in a mile times the number of feet in a yard. * 5,280. * 5: The 4 U.S. states that begin with the word "New". * New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 356, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Literary Mommas * 1: After arriving in California from Dust Bowl Oklahoma, she tells her son Tom, "They ain't gonna wipe us out". * Mother Joad. * 2: Jing-mei Woo takes the place of her deceased mother Suyuan at the weekly mah-jongg games in this 1989 novel. * The Joy Luck Club. * 3: In this 1868 novel Marmee takes care of her 4 girls while her husband is away serving as an army chaplain in the Civil War. * Little Women. * 4: This Dickens character returns home to find that his mother Clara has married the heartless Mr. Murdstone. * David Copperfield. * 5: After Beowulf kills this monster, the monster's mother ravages Heorot before she is also killed by Beowulf. * Grendel.

Round 2. Category: Noted Scribes * 1: Shortly after arriving in France in 1924, he completed "The Great Gatsby". * F. Scott Fitzgerald. * 2: While serving as an ambulance driver, he was injured at Fossalta di Piave, Italy on July 8, 1918. * Ernest Hemingway. * 3: He's written plays based on his works, including "Dandelion Wine" and "Fahrenheit 451". * Ray Bradbury. * 4: This essayist wrote 3 children's stories, the last being "The Trumpet of the Swan" in 1970. * E.B. White. * 5: From 1903 to 1905, American author Winston Churchill served in the legislature of this "Granite State". * New Hampshire.

Round 3. Category: The Movies: But Weight, There's More * 1: He took time off from filming "Raging Bull" in order to gain the weight he needed for the ending. * Robert De Niro. * 2: He gained as well as lost weight for his role in "Cast Away". * Tom Hanks. * 3: An Italian pasta job could have bulked her up for the 2003 film "Monster". * Charlize Theron. * 4: For his role as the hobbit Samwise, he packed on 30 pounds. * Sean Astin. * 5: The pounds he put on for "Cop Land" may have been from a lot of rocky road ice cream. * Sylvester Stallone.

Round 4. Category: Math Symbols * 1: ÷. * a division sign. * 2: √. * square root. * 3: ≠. * not equal. * 4: <. * less than. * 5: ≈. * approximately.

Round 5. Category: Corporate * 1: This car-repair chain founded in 1956 shares its name with a king of ancient Phrygia. * Midas. * 2: The Southland Corporation might say "Oh, thank heaven" for this chain of 30,000 convenience stores. * 7-11. * 3: In 1999 this shoe company named the largest building at its corporate headquarters after soccer great Mia Hamm. * Nike. * 4: Henry Ford called minority stockholders in his corporation these, like the ones that cause dysentery and malaria. * parasites. * 5: The discovery of oil in 1879 at Pico Canyon near Los Angeles was the start of what's now this petroleum corporation, stock symbol CVX. * Chevron.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 355, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Aussie Odds And Ends * 1: In 1993 Sydney beat out Beijing by 2 votes to get to host this, 7 years later. * Summer Olympic Games. * 2: Australia became a commonwealth in 1901, but this group didn't become citizens until 1967. * Aborigines. * 3: Nevil Shute's novel "A Town Like Alice" is set during this war. * World War II. * 4: Lindy Chamberlain, who claimed one of these carried off and killed her baby, was wrongly convicted of murder. * Dingo (wild dog). * 5: Group that had a 1982 No. 1 hit in the U.S. singing "I Come From A Land Down Under". * Men At Work.

Round 2. Category: Biblical Names * 1: When the following song went gold, so did the chains across this composer's chest:. * Isaac Hayes. * 2: According to the nursery rhyme, he was born on a Monday and buried on Sunday. * Solomon Grundy. * 3: At this man's inaugural, Mathew Brady took the first photo of a president being sworn in. * Abraham Lincoln. * 4: In 1818, she "gave birth" to the world's most famous monster. * Mary Shelley. * 5: Pro basketball's MVP in 1979, '82, + '83. * Moses Malone.

Round 3. Category: Bruce Willis * 1: This Bruce Willis film premiered in 1998 at the Kennedy Space Center. * Armageddon. * 2: Little Richard performed the ceremony when Bruce married this woman. * Demi Moore. * 3: The title of the third film in this series starring Bruce Willis as cop John McClane added "With A Vengeance". * Die Hard. * 4: Bruce thanked Al Pacino and The Three Stooges when he picked up an Emmy in 1987 for his work on this TV show. * Moonlighting. * 5: The first feature film Bruce starred in was this dating comedy that also starred Kim Basinger. * Blind Date.

Round 4. Category: Famous Last Words * 1: An unemployed soldier, 1821:"Josephine!". * Napoleon Bonaparte. * 2: A pilot, 1937:"Gas is running low...we are flying at 1,000 feet...". * Amelia Earhart. * 3: A social leader, 1965:"Let's cool it, brothers!". * Malcolm X. * 4: A monarch, 1603:"All my possessions for a moment of time". * Queen Elizabeth I. * 5: A poet, 1953:"I've had 18 straight whiskies, I think that's the record". * Dylan Thomas.

Round 5. Category: I Write The Songs * 1: He's the answer, my friend to who wrote Peter, Paul and Mary's "Blowin' In The Wind". * Bob Dylan. * 2: He wrote "Blinded By The Light" and "Fire", which were hits for Manfred Mann and the Pointer Sisters, respectively. * Bruce Springsteen. * 3: He co-wrote the songs "Copacabana" and "Could It Be Magic", but not "I Write the Songs". * Barry Manilow. * 4: We've got nothing but this for Otis Redding, who wrote the song, Aretha Franklin's first No. 1 hit. * Respect. * 5: This singer-songwriter of "Doctor My Eyes" had a highly publicized breakup with Daryl Hannah in the early '90s. * Jackson Browne.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 354, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Rodent, Marsupial Or Reptile * 1: The wallaby. * marsupial. * 2: The hamster. * rodent. * 3: The gecko. * reptile. * 4: The beaver. * rodent. * 5: The caiman. * reptile.

Round 2. Category: Suburbia * 1: The original "Drew Carey Show" theme song was "Moon Over Parma", a suburb of this city. * Cleveland. * 2: Long a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth, it shares its name with a suburb of Washington, D.C.. * Arlington. * 3: Whitefish Bay, on Lake Michigan, is a suburb of this Wisconsin city. * Milwaukee. * 4: As in an album title, a lotta rap came "Straight Outta" this L.A. suburb. * Compton. * 5: In 1814 steam ferry service made these NYC "Heights" the world's first commuter suburb. * Brooklyn Heights.

Round 3. Category: Rx Marks The Spot * 1: The stimulant methylphenidate, used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is known by this trade name. * Ritalin. * 2: "Oxy" for short, this painkiller has been widely abused in poor rural areas in the U.S.. * Oxycontin. * 3: Also known as Alprazolam, you could say it is an "X" factor in anti-anxiety drugs. * Xanax. * 4: A compound of this lightest metal is used to treat bipolar disorder. * lithium. * 5: "Triazolam Days" just didn't sound quite right; maybe that's why the sleeping drug is known as this. * Halcion.

Round 4. Category: Invented First * 1: Stereoscope,bifocal lens,x-ray tube. * bifocal lens. * 2: Microwave oven,fiberglass,frozen food. * frozen food. * 3: Gyroscope,stethoscope,telescope. * telescope. * 4: Linoleum,bakelite,aspartame. * linoleum (around 1860). * 5: Bunsen burner,Geiger counter,Leyden jar. * Leyden jar (1745).

Round 5. Category: Where In The World Is San Diego? * 1: San Diego stays classy with its Old Globe Theatre, built in 1935 to present abridged versions of his plays. * William Shakespeare. * 2: Check out the "Dolphin Discovery" and "Sea Lions Tonite" shows at this San Diego attraction. * Sea World. * 3: The San Diego stadium now named for this telecom company is known as "The Q". * Qualcomm. * 4: This venue opened in 1989 crawls with sandmen and Doctor Whos as the home of the annual Comic-Con. * the convention center. * 5: In Presidio Park, a museum named for this Franciscan missionary has exhibits on early San Diego history. * Junípero Serra.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 353, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: C In History * 1: This state's Gold Rush began in 1858, about 10 years after California's. * Colorado. * 2: Canada's Hamilton River was renamed in 1965 to honor this British statesman. * Winston Churchill. * 3: Originally, it was President Coolidge's middle name. * Calvin. * 4: In 1860 Abe Lincoln became the Republican presidential nominee at a convention held in this city. * Chicago. * 5: In 1594 France's King Henry IV was crowned in the Magnificent Cathedral in this city. * Chartres.

Round 2. Category: On The Old Quarter * 1: The sole verb. * trust. * 2: At 8 letters, it's the longest word (hint: it's Latin). * pluribus. * 3: The direction in which the figures are facing. * left. * 4: The single word at the top of the "heads" side. * Liberty. * 5: The leaves of this plant are depicted on the reverse of the quarter. * (the) olive (tree).

Round 3. Category: It'll Be A Cold Day In Helena * 1: Helena is the seat of a county named for these 2 men who passed through the area in 1805. * Lewis and Clark. * 2: Of 25,000, 250,000 or 500,000, the approximate population of Helena, Montana. * 25,000. * 3: Helena sprang up after 1864, when this was found in Last Chance Gulch; the gulch is now the main street of Helena. * gold. * 4: Royal "city" nickname of Helena... and Buffalo... and Seattle... and Cincinnati.... * the Queen City. * 5: 10 miles west of Helena is this 2-word geographic feature, the crestline of the Rockies. * the Continental Divide.

Round 4. Category: 2006 Commemorative Stamps * 1: In the American Motorcycles series, here's this type of bike named for the removal of some parts. * a chopper. * 2: Wonders of America: Land of Superlatives includes these oldest mountains that run from Canada to Alabama. * the Appalachians. * 3: 4 stamps feature aspects of Ben Franklin; here he is in this job. * Postmaster General. * 4: The longest arm of the law, he's part of a series on DC comics superheroes. * Plastic Man. * 5: Canada Post is a joint issuer of the stamp commemorating the 400th anniversary of this Frenchman's voyage. * Samuel de Champlain.

Round 5. Category: Play This * 1: This "avian" skateboarding legend has produced several high-flying video games for Activision. * Tony Hawk. * 2: It's off to Skull Island for Peter Jackson's official video game adaptation of this ape movie. * King Kong. * 3: In New Super Mario Bros., Mario can go head-to-head against this brother of his. * Luigi. * 4: Advent Children and Chains of Promethia are just 2 of the many episodes in this popular role-playing game. * Final Fantasy. * 5: DDR for short, this groovy game can help keep you in shape. * Dance Dance Revolution.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 352, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Classic Songs' First Lines * 1: A CCR title:"Left a good job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day". * "Proud Mary". * 2: It earned ours:"What you want, baby, I got it, what you need, do you know I got it?". * "Respect". * 3: A disco anthem:"First I was afraid, I was petrified". * "I Will Survive". * 4: "Deep down in Louisiana, close to New Orleans, way back up in the woods among the evergreens". * "Johnny B. Goode". * 5: Wayne and Garth rocked out to it:"Is this the real life, is this just fantasy". * "Bohemian Rhapsody".

Round 2. Category: Action Figures * 1: Paddy Doyle's fitness records include throwing 470 of these in 1 minute--that should win the round. * punches. * 2: In 2003 Paul Crake ran up the 1,576 steps of this NYC building in 9 minutes 33 seconds. * the Empire State Building. * 3: In 2006 Leyan Lo, a student at this Pasadena school, solved a Rubik's Cube puzzle in 11.13 seconds. * Caltech. * 4: A term for a tireless Soviet worker comes from the name of Alexei Stakhanov; he mined 102 tons of this in 6 hours. * coal. * 5: Ted Martin kept one of these fad items aloft with 63,326 consecutive kicks in just under 9 hours. * a Hacky Sack.

Round 3. Category: Country Music Hall Of Fame * 1: A popular exhibit at the Hall of Fame is the actual cornfield used on this "corny" TV show. * Hee Haw. * 2: Before getting "On The Road Again", he donated a blue bandana and a pair of sneakers to the Hall. * Willie Nelson. * 3: This inductee and one-time San Quentin inmate has his pardon from Governor Reagan displayed at the Hall. * Merle Haggard. * 4: The Country Music Hall of Fame has a dress made and worn by this Kentucky-born singer as a 14-year-old newlywed. * Loretta Lynn. * 5: This "Singing Brakeman" was in the first group of performers inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. * Jimmie Rodgers.

Round 4. Category: Grocery Shopping * 1: If in a hurry, grab a prewashed salad mix, perhaps with the red leaf and green leaf types of this. * lettuce. * 2: If you're buying a whole fish, these (on the fish) should be clear and not sunken. * eyes. * 3: Mom, not shredded wheat! Please can we get Tony's Cinnamon Krunchers from this company, can we please?. * Kellogg's. * 4: You'll get fresher milk from the bottom of your market's display case for this reason. * because it's colder at the bottom. * 5: Choose one of these with evenly distributed netting. * cantaloupe.

Round 5. Category: Biblical Quotations * 1: The "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" quotation concerned this crime. * adultery. * 2: Remember the proverb, this "goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall". * pride. * 3: Completes the line from Luke 11:23, "He that is not with me is...". * against me. * 4: In his short book, Jude describes this pair of cities as "suffering the vengeance of eternal fire". * Sodom and Gomorrah. * 5: The other 5 categories on the board all take their titles from chapter 3 of this book. * Ecclesiastes.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 351, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Full Service * 1: Performed to make you part of the Mormon Church, it needs a body of water large enough for total immersion. * baptism. * 2: They're the first 2 words in the Book of Common Prayer (1549 ed.) wedding service. * Dearly beloved. * 3: As used during the Last Supper they're the food and drink blessed during the eucharist. * bread and wine. * 4: Kol Nidre, which negates vows made between humans and God, is recited on the eve of this Jewish holiday. * Yom Kippur. * 5: This kind of mass has included a "Dies Irae"; Mozart wrote one late in his life. * requiem mass.

Round 2. Category: U. S. A. * 1: The 50 states touch these 3 oceans. * the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Arctic Ocean. * 2: There's a macadamia nut festival in this state every year. * Hawaii. * 3: In the 1870s there were "rushes into the South Dakota area for land and for this. * gold. * 4: Though it's widely cultivated, the Monterey cypress is native only to this state. * California. * 5: This "Tar Heel State" is also nicknamed "The Old North State". * North Carolina.

Round 3. Category: Elizabeth Taylor's Husbands * 1: He divorced Debbie Reynolds to marry Liz. * Eddie Fisher. * 2: He was born in south Wales in 1925. * Richard Burton. * 3: Liz married him when she was 18. * Nicky Hilton. * 4: He played "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" in 1965. * Richard Burton. * 5: For a while he was the world's most famous construction worker. * Larry Fortensky.

Round 4. Category: Bridges To The Future * 1: A bridge over this river will connect Vidin, Bulgaria with Calafat, Romania. * the Danube. * 2: The new Woodrow Wilson Bridge project will connect Maryland and Virginia across this river. * the Potomac. * 3: This 22 ½ mile Hangzhou bridge will cut 2 hours off the travel time from Ningbo to this city, China's largest. * Shanghai. * 4: The new Colorado River bridge downstream of Hoover Dam will connect these 2 adjacent states. * Nevada and Arizona. * 5: The Binh Bridge is being constructed for this Northern Vietnamese port city. * Hai Phong.

Round 5. Category: 1971 * 1: In 1971 this type of auto insurance became popular in the U.S.. * no-fault. * 2: Team that won U.S.-Chinese ping-pong match in Peking. * Chinese. * 3: While on the moon in February, astronaut Alan Shepard took a shot at this sport. * golf. * 4: Postage stamps from this country weren't accepted by some others who still considered it East Pakistan. * Bangladesh. * 5: He was the only officer found guilty at the court martial of those involved in the My Lai incident. * William Calley, Jr..

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 350, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Break Up * 1: To the surprise of many, she and Bruce Willis called it quits in 1998. * Demi Moore. * 2: In October 1999 he shocked radio listeners by announcing that he and wife Alison were splitting up. * Howard Stern. * 3: After his breakup with Brooke Shields, he found a love match with Steffi Graf. * Andre Agassi. * 4: Looks like he's going to be "Home Alone" since he and Rachel Miner called it quits. * Macaulay Culkin. * 5: Before becoming Mrs. Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith married and divorced this actor twice. * Don Johnson.

Round 2. Category: Swedish Actresses * 1: Born September 18, 1905, this glamorous Swede's real last name was Gustafsson. * Greta Garbo. * 2: She's the only Swedish actress to win 3 Oscars. * Ingrid Bergman. * 3: This multi-talented lovely from Valsjobyn received an Oscar nomination for her role in "Tommy". * Ann-Margret. * 4: Birgitta Andersson used this first name when acting in classics like "Wild Strawberries". * Bibi. * 5: This daughter of Swedish actor Stig Olin starred in "Havana" and "Enemies, A Love Story". * Lena Olin.

Round 3. Category: Names Of The 12 Apostles * 1: Most popular U.S. boy's name, 1920. * John. * 2: Last name of 2 19th c. brother teams, 1 of writers, 1 of robbers. * James. * 3: A popular English muffin brand. * Thomas. * 4: Shared with a 4th century B.C. king of Macedonia. * Philip. * 5: Has an accent over the O in Spanish. * Simon.

Round 4. Category: "Mum"S The Word * 1: This contagious viral disease can occasionally cause sterility in males. * Mumps. * 2: ....I said it's to utter something quietly and unclearly!. * Mumble. * 3: This 2-word term for confusing language may come from a Mande phrase for "ancestor wearing a pompom". * Mumbo-jumbo. * 4: Formerly called Bombay, it's in the top 5 cities in the world in population. * Mumbai. * 5: You'll see this group parading through Philly each New Year's Day. * Mummers.

Round 5. Category: Music Of The '90s * 1: Her video for "Constant Craving" was named MTV's Best Female Video of the Year in 1993. * k.d. lang. * 2: The first No. 1 hit of the '90s, "Another Day In Paradise" by this singer was originally titled "Homeless". * Phil Collins. * 3: John Williams received a 1991 Oscar nomination for "When You're Alone" from this Spielberg version of "Peter Pan". * Hook. * 4: In 1997 songwriter Bill Mack and singer LeAnn Rimes won Grammys for this "colorful" song. * Blue. * 5: In 1993 he sang, "I'd do anything for love, but I won't do that". * Meat Loaf.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 349, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Fit"Ness * 1: Greek mercenaries used a Cypriot dialect to put this on the Sphinx. * graffiti. * 2: It's where you try on clothes in a store. * a fitting room. * 3: This is the surplus left to an employer after deducting wages, rent and cost of raw materials. * profit. * 4: This legendary early film director had the given names David Wark. * D.W. Griffith. * 5: Duck or goose cooked and preserved in its own fat. * confit.

Round 2. Category: Colorful Geography * 1: The city of Santa Ana is the seat of this southern California county. * Orange County. * 2: A 1951 agreement with Denmark gave the U.S. rights to military bases on this island. * Greenland. * 3: At 5,729 feet, Mt. Rogers in this range is Virginia's highest point. * Blue Ridge Mountains. * 4: John Denver's country roads lead to these West Virginia mountains. * the Blue Ridge Mountains. * 5: This southern-most Texas city grew out of a fort whose establishment led to the Mexican War. * Brownsville.

Round 3. Category: Sunset Blvd. * 1: The naked truth is that the glamorous part of Sunset between Doheny and Crescent Heights is called this. * The Sunset Strip. * 2: Sprawling south from Sunset, you'll find this university where something's always "Bruin". * UCLA. * 3: Site of the former Filthy McNasty's, the Viper Room is now co-owned by this "Ed Wood" movie star. * Johnny Depp. * 4: A nasty bend at Sunset and Carolwood is often identified with this 1964 Jan and Dean hit. * "Dead Man's Curve". * 5: A mall stands on the site of this fabled drugstore and meeting place seen in the movie "Sunset Boulevard". * Schwab's.

Round 4. Category: Skyscraper Cities * 1: John Hancock Tower. * Boston. * 2: Westin Peachtree Plaza. * Atlanta. * 3: Chrysler Building. * New York City. * 4: USX Tower. * Pittsburgh. * 5: Pillsbury Center. * Minneapolis.

Round 5. Category: Double-Letter Geography * 1: The Arabic name of this Muslim nation in northwest Africa means "The Western Kingdom". * Morocco. * 2: This capital city was founded in 1840 on Lambton Harbour at the extreme south part of the North Island. * Wellington. * 3: Fort Peck Dam on this river in Montana provides irrigation and hydroelectric power for much of the region. * the Missouri. * 4: This Canadian provincial capital lies about halfway between Vancouver and Montreal. * Winnipeg(, Manitoba). * 5: The longest river originating in this mountain range is the Garonne, which flows northward through France. * the Pyrenees.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 348, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Three Cheers! * 1: It's the breakfast cereal pitched by the animated elves Snap, Crackle and Pop. * Rice Krispies. * 2: The 3 U.K. countries that make up the island of Great Britain. * England, Scotland and Wales. * 3: The 4-legged Omaha made the record books in 1935 with this 3-feat. * racing's Triple Crown. * 4: Since the 1979 incident at this location, no new nuclear reactors have been ordered in the U.S.. * Three-Mile Island. * 5: Mythical monstrosity manifested here. * Cerberus.

Round 2. Category: December 1St * 1: Dec. 1, 1969: the Selective Service conducts the first lottery for this since World War II. * the draft. * 2: 1959: 12 countries including the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. sign a treaty to keep this continent a scientific preserve. * Antarctica. * 3: 1952: the New York Daily News reports George Jorgensen is now her after a visit to Denmark. * Christine. * 4: 1822: Dom Pedro is crowned emperor of this Western Hemisphere nation. * Brazil. * 5: 1941: The C.A.P., this nonmilitary U.S. Air Force auxiliary, is created. * the Civil Air Patrol.

Round 3. Category: Assassins * 1: Ramon Mercader, who killed this man in 1940, was later awarded the Order of Lenin. * Trotsky. * 2: In May 1981 would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca shot this man in St. Peter's Square. * Pope John Paul II. * 3: Reginald Fitzurse was among the Knights who took Henry II's remark literally to rid him of this archbishop. * Thomas à Becket. * 4: In 1994, 31 years after the crime, Byron de la Beckwith was convicted of murdering this Civil Rights leader. * Medgar Evers. * 5: Yigal Amir, a student at Bar-Ilan University, is serving a life sentence for assassinating this leader in 1995. * Rabin.

Round 4. Category: Food-O And Drink-O * 1: With its Jigglers recipes and all the neat new molds, this dessert is more fun to eat than ever. * Jell-O. * 2: At Starbucks they dilute this strong coffee with water to make Caffe Americano. * espresso. * 3: On "Seinfeld", George's ATM password was this chocolate syrup. * Bosco. * 4: The taste of this tropical fruit has been described as a mix of peach and pineapple, only sweeter. * Mango. * 5: Yukon Gold is a type of this. * potato.

Round 5. Category: Out Of The Microwave * 1: To cook this ballpark treat, put it in a bun, wrap it in a paper towel and microwave it for 30 seconds. * Hot dog. * 2: Betty Crocker sells this snack food under the name Pop Secret. * Microwave popcorn. * 3: Baking these russets in a regular oven can take 45-60 minutes, but the microwave can cook them in 5. * Potatoes. * 4: Dishes made of this type of material can damage a microwave and shouldn't be used. * Metal. * 5: This brand of microwaveable dinners makes Lean Cuisine. * Stouffer's.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 347, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Name That Toon * 1: Because his view of Venus is obstructed, this Martian is going to blow up the Earth. * Marvin the Martian. * 2: In 1958 these 3 chipmunks had a No. 1 hit with "The Chipmunk Song". * Alvin, Simon and Theodore. * 3: He starred in 1948's "Symphony in Spinach". * Popeye (the Sailor Man). * 4: This show that debuted in 1993 featured siblings Dot, Yakko and Wakko (who sounds like Ringo Starr). * Animaniacs. * 5: 1948's "Magpie Madness" starred this Terrytoon pair. * Heckle and Jeckle.

Round 2. Category: Mini-Countries * 1: If its royal family has no male heir, Monaco will become part of this country. * France. * 2: Discoverers of these South Sea islands named them for wise Biblical king whose wealth they sought. * the Solomon Islands. * 3: As co-sovereign of this Pyrenees land, the Bishop of Urgel, Spain is paid about $6.87 semi-annually. * Andorra. * 4: A problem for this African country is that much of its mail is mistakenly sent to Switzerland. * Swaziland. * 5: 80% of San Marino's gross national product comes from tourism and the sale of these. * postage stamps.

Round 3. Category: Which Came First? * 1: The Rolling Stones,The Ink Spots,The Who,The The. * The Ink Spots. * 2: By birth:Richard Nixon,Ronald Reagan,John F. Kennedy. * Ronald Reagan. * 3: In Jane Austen novels:"Emma","Pride and Prejudice","Sense and Sensibility". * Sense and Sensibility. * 4: Velcro,safety pin,sewing machine. * a safety pin. * 5: Telephone,typewriter,home video recorder. * the typewriter.

Round 4. Category: By George, It's George * 1: According to Parson Weems, this man was incapable of being mendacious. * George Washington. * 2: This U.S. general who loved horses and studied at a cavalry school helped protect the Lipizzaners in WWII. * George Patton. * 3: His command of the 7th Cavalry ended on June 25, 1876. * General George Custer. * 4: In 1760 he became the last British monarch to be buried in Westminster Abbey. * George II. * 5: This South American capital was once known as Stabroek. * Georgetown.

Round 5. Category: The War Years * 1: In South Africa:1899-1902. * the Boer War. * 2: 1914-1918. * World War I. * 3: In the south Atlantic:1982. * the Falkland Islands War. * 4: In North America,1754-1763. * the French and Indian Wars. * 5: 264-241 B.C.. * the First Punic War.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 346, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Chi-Town Nicknames * 1: A New York editor gave Chicago this nickname to describe its politicians during its first World's Fair. * "The Windy City". * 2: In his poem "Chicago" Carl Sandburg called the city this "Butcher for the World". * Hog Butcher. * 3: Sandburg called Chicago the "City of Big" these. * Shoulders. * 4: That wry poet Carl came up with "Stacker of" this. * Wheat. * 5: Good-old Carl S. hammered home the fact that the city is a this "maker". * tool maker.

Round 2. Category: British Royal Dads * 1: He fathered the current Prince of Wales. * Prince Philip. * 2: He fathered 2 queens of England by 2 different women. * Henry VIII. * 3: He died from typhoid fever at age 42 in 1861, but not before he fathered King Edward VII. * Prince Albert. * 4: Born in what's now France, he fathered William Rufus and Henry I. * William the Conqueror. * 5: He fathered the current monarch. * George VI.

Round 3. Category: Oh, "Ic" * 1: There once was a clue from Nantucket, this kind of humorous 5-line Irish verse (sorry, that's it). * limerick. * 2: Kill a plant with a deadly substance and you could be accused of this, also describing the substance itself. * herbicide. * 3: Hey, baby, what's your zodiac sign? It's this, isn't it, the only that fits the category... Hey, where are you going?. * Capricorn. * 4: To renounce a throne, as Norodom Sihanouk did in 2004. * abdicate. * 5: From 1940 to 1942, this was the capital of unoccupied France. * Vichy.

Round 4. Category: Silent "K" * 1: A finger joint. * a knuckle. * 2: To fold and stretch bread dough into a smooth, uniform mass. * knead. * 3: It's a British term for women's underwear. * knickers. * 4: The sound of a bell rung ominously. * knell. * 5: A backpack for a hiker. * a knapsack.

Round 5. Category: "I" Pod * 1: On loans, it can be compound or simple. * interest. * 2: Sad to say, some people hunt walruses, as well as elephants, to get this valuable material. * ivory. * 3: From the Latin for "unable to speak", this 3-syllable word means extremely childish. * infantile. * 4: Meaning "beyond memory", this type of time originally referred to the period before 1189 A.D.. * immemorial. * 5: This Austrian city's name is German for "bridge over the Inn River". * Innsbruck.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 345, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Reality Shows Of The Past * 1: On the 1830s "Survivor: Texas", Susanna Dickinson and her child won the immunity challenge at this epic battle. * the Alamo. * 2: In 1944's version of "The Apprentice", Von Stauffenberg was fired by a squad after he tried to fire this leader. * Hitler. * 3: On the 1880s "The Osbournes", this author amused stepson Lloyd Osbourne with tales of a boy on the high seas. * Robert Louis Stevenson. * 4: On "American Idol", Creek and Cherokee Indians performed the Busk ceremony when this crop was ready for roasting. * maize (or corn). * 5: Indian Ocean "Big Brother" saw Kasyapa kill dad and build Sigiriya Fort as defense from his sibling on this island. * Sri Lanka.

Round 2. Category: Edible Homophones * 1: To leave one's home and roots is to "pull up" these. * stakes (steaks). * 2: I must have offended people to get this kind of reception when I arrived at the cookoff. * chilly (chili). * 3: Before the police could arrest him for his crimes with sheep, he "took it on" this. * the lam (lamb). * 4: Produced by mating. * bred (bread). * 5: It's noted for its huge antlers. * moose (mousse).

Round 3. Category: Also A Musical Instrument * 1: The breakup of AT and T created 7 Baby ones in 1984. * Bells. * 2: Legendary Chicago Bears running back Brian. * Piccolo. * 3: A 3-sided guide for drawing or drafting. * a triangle. * 4: To move your fingers or hands in a nervous fashion. * fiddle. * 5: A musical direction meaning to play softly. * piano.

Round 4. Category: You Tube * 1: This clock-wearing member of Public Enemy went from "The Surreal Life" to his own show on VH1. * Flavor Flav. * 2: Brian (the dog) is a surprisingly eloquent member of the Griffin household on this animated series. * Family Guy. * 3: Season 3 of this MTV reality series introduced us to Breanna, L.C.'s younger sister. * Laguna Beach. * 4: Emmitt Smith won the third installment of this show with a samba. * Dancing With the Stars. * 5: Ukrainian-born Mila Kunis played Jackie Burkhart on this Fox sitcom. * That '70s Show.

Round 5. Category: "Old" News * 1: It's Yellowstone National Park's most popular attraction. * Old Faithful. * 2: A silly story or superstitious belief is popularly referred to as this type of tale. * Old Wives Tale. * 3: It's a nickname for the Mississippi. * "Old Man River". * 4: Published every year since 1792, it's the oldest surviving almanac in the U.S.. * "Old Farmer's Almanac". * 5: "The Eddas", two collections of Scandinavian mythology, were written in this language. * Old Norse.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 344, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Grab Some Seafood * 1: The rock type of this is easily distinguishable from the Maine; all 10 of its legs are about the same size. * a lobster. * 2: There are over 4,000 varieties of this crustacean; tonight we recommend the stone, blue or Jonah types. * a crab. * 3: You'll be as rich as Rockefeller if you know Swift once penned, "He was a bold man that first ate" this bivalve. * an oyster. * 4: The quahog type of this is usually served on the half shell or minced in hot chowders. * a clam. * 5: This bivalve mollusk has 2 fan-shaped shells that can be used to serve dishes like coquilles St. Jacques. * scallops.

Round 2. Category: News Of 2005 * 1: Congratulations were in order on May 4 when this man was elected to a third term as British PM. * (Tony) Blair. * 2: To the relief of many, on August 8 this Space Shuttle returned safely to Earth following launch problems. * Discovery. * 3: In Sept. 2005 the Post Office assigned the ZIP code 77230 to this Texas arena so that people could again receive mail. * the Astrodome. * 4: One of the 2 major airlines that declared bankruptcy on September 14. * Delta (or Northwest). * 5: On Sept. 30 he was appointed U.N. Ambassador, bypassing Senate approval. * (John) Bolton.

Round 3. Category: Boston Legal * 1: British Army Captain Thomas Preston was tried and acquitted for his part in this 1770 slaughter. * the Boston Massacre. * 2: Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at this Cambridge, Mass. university. * Harvard. * 3: The 1950 robbery of this armored car co. came to grief when "Specs" O'Keefe ratted out the rest of the gang. * Brink's. * 4: In 2005 this association chose a Boston lawyer as president--Michael S. Greco, not Denny Crane. * the American Bar Association. * 5: In 1927 Nicola Sacco and this alleged anarchist accomplice were executed at a Charlestown prison. * (Bartolomeo) Vanzetti.

Round 4. Category: Tango * 1: Bernardo Bertolucci directed the controversial film "Last Tango In Paris", starring this American. * Marlon Brando. * 2: Drew Lachey and his partner Cheryl scored a perfect 30 doing the tango on this TV show. * Dancing with The Stars. * 3: The tango is the national dance of this South American country and its 40 million citizens. * Argentina. * 4: The tango is danced in either 2/4 time or this time. * 4/4. * 5: Last name of American dance instructors Vernon and Irene, who brought the tango to the U.S. around 1912. * Castle.

Round 5. Category: I'm Not Dead Yet * 1: In 1897 the illness of a relative with this last name led to Mark Twain's "The report of my death was an exaggeration". * Clemens. * 2: Contrary to reports, this actor didn't die in Vietnam; the Beaver's still around. * Jerry Mathers. * 3: Oops! A baseball announcer mourned the death of this actor when James Earl Ray died in 1998. * James Earl Jones. * 4: In 1998 the death of this 95-year-old comedian was announced in Congress; he actually lived to be 100. * Bob Hope. * 5: To a magazine that ran his obit, this "If" poet said, "Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers". * Rudyard Kipling.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 343, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: In Memoriam 2006 * 1: A host of "Hee Haw" for 17 years, he pioneered the Bakersfield sound of country music. * Buck Owens. * 2: Grandpa on "The Munsters", he once ran for governor of New York as a Green Party candidate. * Al Lewis. * 3: "The Midnight Hour" came calling for this R and B legend in January 2006. * Wilson Pickett. * 4: Long before "The X-Files", he stalked the night as Carl Kolchak, a savvy reporter of the weird and the horrific. * Darren McGavin. * 5: The winner of 13 Emmy Awards, this low-key TV sportscaster was a true "American Sportsman". * Curt Gowdy.

Round 2. Category: 2001 Cars * 1: The top-selling SUV in America, Ford didn't change it much for 2001. * Explorer. * 2: With its 2.8-liter engine upgraded to a 3.0, this company's 328i became the 330i. * BMW. * 3: Demand way exceeded production of this company's PT Cruiser, which premiered in March 2000. * Chrysler. * 4: This Japanese automaker's Prius has a hybrid gas-electric engine. * Toyota. * 5: Honda changed the Civic's double-wishbone front suspension to this strut system. * MacPherson front suspension system.

Round 3. Category: The 5Th Beatle * 1: This Beatles producer started out making comedy records with Peter Sellers. * George Martin. * 2: After being replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962, this man got a job in a bakery and then became a civil servant. * Pete Best. * 3: In "Backbeat" Stephen Dorff played this alliterative bassist who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1962. * (Stuart) Sutcliffe. * 4: This manager who died in 1967 was referred to as the "Fifth Beatle". * Brian Epstein. * 5: This keyboardist, who died in 2006, sat in with the Beatles often and also wrote Joe Cocker's hit "You Are So Beautiful". * Billy Preston.

Round 4. Category: Redundancy And Repetition * 1: The name of this, the world's largest desert, means "desert". * Sahara. * 2: The phrase "ATM machine" is redundant because ATM stands for this. * Automated/Automatic Teller Machine. * 3: We admit there's some redundancy in the "Jeopardy!" category title "U.S." these. * States. * 4: The name of this site includes the Spanish word for tar, so L.A. tourists are visiting the the tar tar pits. * La Brea Tar Pits. * 5: It's an opinion reached by a group as a whole; adding the word "general" is superfluous. * Consensus.

Round 5. Category: I Don't Give A Dam * 1: Located on the borders of Arizona and Nevada, this dam was finished in 1936 and got "presidential" in 1947. * Hoover Dam. * 2: The Grand Coulee Dam's reservoir, Roosevelt Lake in this state stretches 150 mi. toward Canada's border. * Washington. * 3: Construction of the Aswan High Dam, which holds back Lake Nasser in this country, cost $1 billion. * Egypt. * 4: First proposed by Sun Yat-sen, the Three Gorges Dam in this nation will be the world's largest when finished. * the People's Republic of China. * 5: Norris Dam on the Clinch River was the first major dam built by this New Deal agency. * TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 342, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: U.s. Presidential Election Winners * 1: 1968. * Richard Nixon. * 2: 1960. * John F. Kennedy. * 3: 1944. * Franklin D. Roosevelt. * 4: 1976. * Jimmy Carter. * 5: 1808. * James Madison.

Round 2. Category: Just For The "Hall" Of It * 1: It's a feature that distinguishes something from other things. * Hallmark. * 2: Ex-wife of Mick. * Jerry Hall. * 3: Literally it means "Praise ye the Lord" in Hebrew. * Hallelujah. * 4: This actor first gained attention as a likable geek in "Sixteen Candles". * Anthony Michael Hall. * 5: It's a false perception when no external stimulus exists. * Hallucination.

Round 3. Category: Don We Now Our Guy Apparel * 1: The 2 numbers on a man's dress shirt, 16/34 for example, are usually measurments of these 2 things. * neck size and sleeve length. * 2: Bunny Austin shocked the tennis world when he wore these competing at Forest Hills in 1932. * shorts. * 3: The name of this wide sash popular in men's formal wear comes from the Urdu for "waistband". * cummerbund. * 4: Popular as a fabric for men's pants, this ribbed fabric's name may derive from the French for "cloth of the king". * corduroy. * 5: (Hi, I'm Tucker Carlsen of CNN's Crossfire.) Among the many influential men to wear bow ties is this great Spanish poet and author of "The House of Bernarda Alba" . * (Frederic Garcia) Lorca.

Round 4. Category: Official Languages * 1: In Iceland:This. * Icelandic. * 2: Austria. * German. * 3: In New Zealand:English, New Zealand Sign Language and this native tongue. * Maori. * 4: In Chad:Arabic and this. * French. * 5: Haiti. * French.

Round 5. Category: Owned By Aol Time Warner * 1: In the U.S. People magazine is published in English and this. * Spanish. * 2: Seen in over 890,000 U.S. hotel rooms, it's the No. 1-distributed news network. * CNN (Cable News Network). * 3: HBO's sister channel, it shows over 1,600 films a year. * Cinemax. * 4: This company with its Navigator Internet browser was bought by AOL in 1999. * Netscape. * 5: Dikembe Mutombo no longer works for AOL Time Warner since this NBA team traded him in 2001. * Atlanta Hawks.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 341, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: He Did It! * 1: Brewed up a 1954 marriage to Marilyn Monroe and several TV coffee ads. * Joe DiMaggio. * 2: Went solo in 1985 and had a hit with the following["Just A Gigolo"]. * David Lee Roth. * 3: Graduated 21st of 39 from West Point in 1843, came out No. 1 at Appomattox in 1865. * Ulysses S. Grant. * 4: Born Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashivili in 1879, died suddenly under a different name in 1953. * Joseph Stalin. * 5: Mockingly suggested that poor children should be fed to rich people in his pamphlet "A Modest Proposal". * Jonathan Swift.

Round 2. Category: Grains And Staples * 1: The name of this food, not a true grain, comes from the Dutch meaning "beech wheat". * buckwheat. * 2: The rolled form of this grain cooks in about 5 minutes; the steel-cut takes much longer. * oats. * 3: Basmati, an aromatic type of this grain, is grown in India. * rice. * 4: Millet seed, an important food for North Africans, is most often fed to these pets in the U.S.. * birds. * 5: The pot type of this grain retains more of the bran than the pearl type. * barley.

Round 3. Category: Horsemen * 1: A baseball team is named for this noted group of riders that dates back to the 1830s. * Texas Rangers. * 2: Napoleon divided these troops into light and heavy forces. * Cavalry. * 3: It's the federal police force of Canada. * Royal Canadian Mounted Police. * 4: Argentine literature has a whole category of tales of these horsemen of the Pampas. * Gauchos. * 5: From a word meaning "adventurer" or "vagabond", they were the Russian army's elite horsemen. * Cossacks.

Round 4. Category: Termite Trivia * 1: Termites are found in every state except this one. * Alaska. * 2: The closest relative to the termite is this household pest. * Cockroach. * 3: Of 15 days, 15 months or 15 years, it's the approximate lifespan of a termite queen. * 15 years. * 4: The primary food of termites is this carbohydrate found in plants. * Cellulose. * 5: One form of termite communication is the production of trails of these chemicals. * Pheromones.

Round 5. Category: The Little Things In Life * 1: Maybe these smallest birds got their name because they just don't know the words. * Hummingbirds. * 2: As P.T. could tell you, this man's real name was Charles Sherwood Stratton. * Tom Thumb. * 3: Look out! These can fly around the nucleus at over 4 million MPH!. * Electrons. * 4: By carrying plague, this tiny insect killed 1/3 of the population of Europe in the 14th century. * Flea. * 5: This little girl hatches out of a flower in a Hans Christian Andersen tale. * Thumbelina.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 340, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Begins And Ends In "N" * 1: This word for a bedtime garment worn by women dates back to the 14th century. * nightgown. * 2: From the Middle English for name, it's a part of speech that can be a name, place or thing. * noun. * 3: Last name of "Boy Genius" Jimmy who starred in his own animated feature film in 2001. * Neutron. * 4: In the early 20th century, this kind of theatre charged 5 cents admission. * nickelodeon. * 5: This legal process by which one becomes a citizen of his adopted nation grants him the rights of a native-born citizen. * naturalization.

Round 2. Category: Scandals * 1: The office of Baseball Commisioner was established in 1920 due to this 1919 event. * Black Sox Scandal. * 2: This fugitive financier said, "I want my own !#^%* country!". * Robert Vesco. * 3: In 1859 a sensational trial followed when a jealous husband killed Philip Barton Key, son of this man. * Francis Scott Key. * 4: Though the financial scheme known as the "Mississippi Bubble"burst in 1720, it led tothe settlement of this city. * New Orleans. * 5: In 1976 this country's Prince Bernhard quit several posts due to his unseemly relationship with the Lockheed Co.. * The Netherlands/Holland.

Round 3. Category: Ends In "Ough" * 1: When it breaks, the cradle will fall. * the bough. * 2: A goon, a bruiser, a heavy, or a thug. * a tough. * 3: It's similar to batter, but it's too stiff to pour. * dough. * 4: To truly eat like a pig, put your food in one of these. * a trough. * 5: It's a political division of New York City; Queens is one. * a borough.

Round 4. Category: Brand "O" * 1: You can read "Story O's" about this cookie on its website. * Oreos. * 2: A line of beauty products once was called "Oil of" this; now it's just this. * Olay. * 3: The dad of TV's Matthew Perry was the sailor in commercials for this men's scent. * Old Spice. * 4: Boston lawyer Marcus Urann marketed cranberry sauce under this brand name way back in 1912. * Ocean Spray. * 5: This brand's catchy "Wiener Jingle", still used today, was written in 1963. * Oscar Mayer.

Round 5. Category: Where Things Happened * 1: This British prime minister gave a famous speech in Fulton, Missouri March 5, 1946. * Winston Churchill. * 2: This site of the Great Mosque and the Kaaba was the capital of the kingdom of Hejaz. * Mecca. * 3: California city where Father Junipero Serra is buried and Clint Eastwood once served as mayor. * Carmel. * 4: When Marco Polo reached this city in 1275 it was called Cambaluc. * Peking/Beijing. * 5: Edmund Halley had an observatory on this island 145 years before Napoleon was observed there. * Saint Helena.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 339, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Historical Quotes * 1: Mass. town where patriot John Parker supposedly said, "If they mean to have a war let it begin here". * Lexington. * 2: At the 1968 Dem. Convention, this mayor stumbled and said, "The police are here to preserve disorder". * Richard (J.) Daley. * 3: As reported by Hernan Cortes in a 1522 dispatch, these people said that "by no means would they give themselves up". * the Aztecs. * 4: In a 1959 American kitchen exhibit in Moscow, he told Khrushchev, "In America, we like to make life easier for women". * Nixon. * 5: In 1888 this Chancellor told the Reichstag, "we Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world". * (Otto von) Bismarck.

Round 2. Category: Fitness * 1: A runner's fatigue caused by glycogen depletion is called "hitting" this. * "The wall". * 2: For boys to win the top Presidential Physical Fitness award, they have to run this distance in 6:06. * a mile. * 3: These machines mimic the action of running up stadium bleachers, with much more convenience. * Stair machines. * 4: The West Point candidate fitness assessment is a basketball throw, 2 runs and these 3 exercises with "up" in their names. * push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups. * 5: The West Point candidate fitness assessment is a basketball throw, 2 runs and these 3 exercises with "up" in their names. * push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups.

Round 3. Category: The Dakotas * 1: In 1997 the Dakotas were declared disaster areas as the cold hit -80 degrees including this factor. * Wind chill factor. * 2: Hot Springs, South Dakota has one of North America's largest graveyards of these prehistoric elephants. * mammoths. * 3: A "Little" river and a "Big Muddy" river with this name flow through both states. * Missouri. * 4: Much of the Dakotas was once dominated by the Lakota and Nakota branches of this Indian tribe. * Sioux. * 5: Now a North Dakota city, this junction of 2 rivers was called "Les Grandes Fourches" by French traders. * Grand Forks.

Round 4. Category: Choreographers * 1: He conceived, directed and choreographed the musical which included the following:"Tonight, tonight, the world is wild and bright...". * Jerome Robbins. * 2: When Balanchine staged "Orpheus and Eurydice" at this U.S. opera house, he kept the singers in the pit. * the Met(ropolitan Opera House). * 3: This modern dancer created over 170 works; her career spanned the century. * Martha Graham. * 4: In a single year he choreographed "42nd Street", "Footlight Parade", and "Gold Diggers of 1933". * Busby Berkeley. * 5: In the original 1942 production of "Rodeo", she danced the role of the cowgirl. * Agnes de Mille.

Round 5. Category: Prison Life * 1: Federal prison camps, also called this level of security, may have no perimieter fencing. * minimum security. * 2: Convict priest John Geoghan was kept in this, abbreviated PC, but was killed by another inmate in PC. * protective custody. * 3: In 1995 Arizona banned this recreation, fearing that it produced stronger criminals. * weightlifting. * 4: Nazi imagery and ideas inspire this vicious "Brotherhood" that began in California prisons in the 1960s. * the Aryan Brotherhood. * 5: It can mean a single charge of which you were convicted, or a procedure conducted several times a day. * a count.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 338, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Personal Products * 1: The Ace bandage got its name in a contest: the winning entry used it as an acronym for "All Cotton" this. * Elastic. * 2: This company introduced its baby powder in 1893, its baby oil in 1935 and its baby shampoo in 1954. * Johnson and Johnson. * 3: Though its logo originally said "Since 1850", this brand of casual wear was introduced by Levi's in 1986. * Dockers. * 4: This clothes line introduced by Garan Inc. in 1972 had kids matching hippos and other creatures to make outfits. * Garanimals. * 5: In 1989 this underwear maker put Michael Jordan under contract. * Hanes.

Round 2. Category: The Old College Try * 1: Merton College was one of the first entities that become this famous British university. * Oxford. * 2: This Jesuit Washington, D.C. university is home to the Woodstock Theological Center. * Georgetown. * 3: Seen here is the sports team logo of this university, whose stars have included Sidney Moncrief and Lance Alworth. * Arkansas (Razorbacks). * 4: John Wayne attended this L.A. university in the 1920s and also played on its football team. * USC. * 5: Glass artist Dale Chihuly is a graduate of this design college abbreviated RISD. * Rhode Island School of Design.

Round 3. Category: A Billion Reasons * 1: Since 1909 his head has appeared on billions and billions of pennies. * Lincoln. * 2: According to its website, this chain serves more than a billion "finger lickin' good" chicken dinners annually. * Kentucky Fried Chicken. * 3: Forbes magazine has estimated that this comic book boy is "worth" $24.7 billion. * Richie Rich. * 4: The only event the Time Almanac has listed under 4.5 billion B.C. is this "formed". * Earth. * 5: This eccentric billionaire formed an aircraft company in 1934 to design racers. * Howard Hughes.

Round 4. Category: Quakes * 1: The Jan. 26, 2001 quake centered in this country was felt in Bangladesh, 1,200 miles across the Bay of Bengal. * India. * 2: In early 2001 L.A. got 14" of rain; this city got 5" of rain and a 6.8 jolt that trapped people in its Space Needle. * Seattle. * 3: In December 2000 this country felt several small quakes around Popocatepetl. * Mexico. * 4: A 1964 quake in this state caused tsunamis as far away as Siberia, and Hawaii and California. * Alaska. * 5: On Jan. 13, 2001 a 7.6 temblor rocked this tiny Central American nation; a 6.6 quake hit exactly one month later. * El Salvador.

Round 5. Category: Rough Alternate Literary Endings * 1: Kitty and Levin's marriage is great, she thought. My guy stinks. With that, she pushed Hubby under the train. Whoomp!. * Anna Karenina. * 2: Farmer Arable dabbed the napkin at his mouth. Mmm! That Wilbur... "Some pig", indeed!. * Charlotte's Web. * 3: Jenny told me "Love means never having to say you're sorry". But now she was gone, and that nurse was giving me the eye.. * Love Story. * 4: Enraged, Lemuel tore the ropes from his body. His captors were "not six inches high"! His boot rose ominously.. * Gulliver's Travels. * 5: "Hey, it's Dantes! He must've escaped in Abbe Faria's burial shroud!" shouted Villefort. So they hanged him. Fin.. * The Count of Monte Cristo.

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Round 1. Category: I'm Not A Doctor, But I Play One On Tv * 1: Dr. Benjamin Franklin Pierce. * Alan Alda. * 2: Dr. Michaela Quinn. * Jane Seymour. * 3: Dr. Doogie Howser. * Neil Patrick Harris. * 4: Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy. * DeForest Kelley. * 5: Dr. Joe Gannon. * Chad Everett.

Round 2. Category: Oscar, Grammy Or Both * 1: Cher. * Both. * 2: Meryl Streep. * Oscar. * 3: Shirley Jones. * Oscar (for "Elmer Gantry"). * 4: Bette Midler. * Grammy. * 5: Julie Andrews. * both.

Round 3. Category: Tv From The Next Room * 1: "The plane... the plane!". * Fantasy Island. * 2: [audio clue]. * Gilligan's Island. * 3: "Michael, all right, then promise me something: for today, for this 22nd anniversary, no fighting with Daddy, please!". * All in the Family. * 4: "Sweetie, can I say something: I grew up in this city, let me tell ya, here's what you do: from the time you're eight, you run, you just run... any way you look, there's someone who wants to hurt you...". * Mad About You. * 5: [audio clue]. * Good Times.

Round 4. Category: Teens At Work * 1: At 14, this fairy tale author worked for a director of the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. * Hans Christian Andersen. * 2: At 16, Tracy Austin beat Chris Evert to win this tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows. * U.S. Open. * 3: In the 1720s at age 16, this statesman and inventor wrote popular articles for the New England Courant newspaper. * Benjamin Franklin. * 4: At 13, this march composer became an apprentice with the U.S. Marine Band. * John Philip Sousa. * 5: At 16, Cornelius Vanderbilt started a ferry service between Staten Island and this famous 31-square-mile-island. * Manhattan.

Round 5. Category: Common Bonds * 1: Fife,Rubble,Miller. * Barney. * 2: Corn,cowards,business phone directory pages. * Things that are yellow. * 3: Love,hot,rumble. * Seats. * 4: Place,Floor,Door. * Mats. * 5: Book,inch,glow. * worms.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 336, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Prisoner * 1: Ahmed Ben Bella, first president of this country, was imprisoned in France from 1956-1962. * Algeria. * 2: On Dec. 8, 1992 a U.S. federal judge in Miami ruled this Panamanian a prisoner of war. * Manuel Noriega. * 3: His father, John, like his creation Mr. Pickwick, served time in debtor's prison. * Charles Dickens. * 4: In 1519 this leader of the Aztecs was taken prisoner without resistance. * Montezuma. * 5: He wrote what would become "Soul on Ice" while incarcerated in Folsom Prison. * Eldridge Cleaver.

Round 2. Category: Death And Texas * 1: Susanna Dickinson and her child were among the few Texan survivors of the 1836 battle at this site in San Antonio. * the Alamo. * 2: On January 22, 1973 this politician suffered a fatal heart attack near Johnson City, a town founded by an ancestor. * Lyndon B. Johnson. * 3: His death on Nov. 22, 1963 after riding through Dallas' Dealey Plaza shocked the world. * John F. Kennedy. * 4: Born in El Paso in 1921, this "Star Trek" creator crossed "the final frontier" in 1991. * Gene Roddenberry. * 5: J. Frank Dalton was buried in Granbury in 1951, after years of claiming to be this outlaw, who died in 1882. * Jesse James.

Round 3. Category: Tv Crossovers * 1: On April 1, 1997 this "Wheel of Fortune" host guest hosted "Jeopardy!". * Pat Sajak. * 2: Lara Flynn Boyle of "The Practice" guested on this show and suggested Calista Flockhart eat a cookie. * Ally McBeal. * 3: On May 3, 1999 Bill Cosby played Hilton Lucas on 4 consecutive sitcoms on this network. * CBS. * 4: (Hi, I'm Julie Pinson) On "Port Charles", Lynn Herring plays my nemesis Lucy Coe, a role she plays on this other soap. * General Hospital. * 5: A 1999 episode of "Early Edition" featured Sammo Hung, star of this kung fu cop show. * Martial Law.

Round 4. Category: Mary, Queen Of Scots, Playmate Of The Month * 1: Birth date: Dec. 8, 1542Birthplace: Linlithgow Palace, built by this royal house. * Stuart. * 2: Height: 5'11".Weight: None of your business, commoner!Hair: This color. * red. * 3: Ambition: To replace this second cousin on her throne. * Elizabeth I. * 4: Turn-ons: Poetry, needlework, this branch of Christianity. * Catholicism. * 5: Turn-offs: Rude subjects, labor pains, climbing this structure (one time only) Feb. 8, 1587. * the scaffold.

Round 5. Category: The New York Times Magazine * 1: Robin Marantz Henig's recent masterful essay on evolutionary biology was titled this 19th century scientist's "God". * Charles Darwin. * 2: Feb. 2007's "From 0 to 60 to World Domination" explored this Japanese auto company's rise to prominence. * Toyota. * 3: In March 2007's "Choosing a Sect", Noah Feldman studied the USA's feelings with these 2 main Iraqi Muslim sects. * Shi'ite and Sunni. * 4: Dec. 2006's "The Lives They Lived" covered the 2006 passings of such notables as this founder and namer of Pink Floyd. * Syd Barrett. * 5: A new one of these "super" nuclear physics accelerators was the subject of Jim Holt's "Where Protons Will Play". * supercollider.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 335, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "S"Tuff * 1: This term for the illegal selling of concert tickets sounds like a bad way to lose your hair. * scalping. * 2: Alphabetically, he's the last of Snow White's 7 dwarfs. * Sneezy. * 3: From the Latin for "salted", it's spicy, seasoned meat chopped and stuffed into a tube of intestine. * sausage. * 4: Attributed to Druids, Greeks and even Romans, this Neolithic site on Salisbury Plain was erected by unknown builders. * Stonehenge. * 5: In the Bible's Book of Judges, he carried the Gates of Gaza about 40 miles to a hilltop near Hebron. * Samson.

Round 2. Category: Sports Stadiums * 1: Artificial grass named for the site of its 1st installation. * AstroTurf. * 2: In 1976, the name of this university's stadium was changed from Denny to Bryant-Denny. * Alabama. * 3: N.Y. stadium that now seats 13000 fewer people than it did 15 years ago. * Yankee Stadium. * 4: Major League Baseball's oldest stadium is this one in Chicago. * Comiskey Park. * 5: While Huskie Stadium(-skie) belongs to Northern Illinois University, Husky Stadium (-sky) is this school's home field. * Washington.

Round 3. Category: "Foo" Finders * 1: It's a Chinese-American chopped goodies omelet with gravy. * egg foo young. * 2: Iron pyrite. * fool's gold. * 3: "Speedy" term for McDonald's, etc.. * fast food. * 4: From the Italian for "clowning", it's a 7-letter word for a person given to clowning and joking. * buffoon. * 5: "Essence of Emeril" is a favorite show on this cable TV channel. * the Food Network.

Round 4. Category: Fruit * 1: The name of this fruit contains the name of the drink of the gods. * nectarine. * 2: The Medjool type of this is the fruit of a certain palm tree. * a date. * 3: Raisins are rich in this, symbolized Fe. * iron. * 4: The Royal Ann type of this fruit is often canned or used to make maraschinos. * cherries. * 5: It's the most important fruit export of Costa Rica and Honduras. * bananas.

Round 5. Category: Ask The Audience * 1: Audiences were transfixed by an episode of her TV show in which she revealed she had lost 67 lbs. on a liquid diet. * Oprah Winfrey. * 2: Practice, practice, practice and you too can get to this 2,804-seat NYC venue at 57th and 7th. * Carnegie Hall. * 3: On Easter Sunday 1939, she sang before an audience of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial. * Marian Anderson. * 4: When this Stravinsky work premiered in Paris in 1913, the audience went nuts and began a riot. * The Rite of Spring. * 5: The Audience Research Institute was founded by this famous pollster in 1939 in Princeton, N.J.. * (George) Gallup.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 334, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Play Chicken * 1: This canned tuna company has been using a mermaid on its logo since 1952. * Chicken of the Sea. * 2: This fast food chain told us to "Save the Chickens...Eat a Whopper". * Burger King. * 3: The unofficial theme song of this Warner Brothers blabberbeak is "Camptown Races"...doo dah. * Foghorn Leghorn. * 4: It's often performed at wedding receptions. * Funky chicken. * 5: Created by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, his secret identity was Henry Cabot Henhaus III. * Super Chicken.

Round 2. Category: People Of The Month * 1: She was the "She-Wolf of London" on film before starring in TV's "Lassie" and "Lost in Space". * June Lockhart. * 2: This Spaniard's 1984 duet with Willie Nelson, "To All The Girls I've Loved Before", was a Top 10 hit. * Julio Iglesias. * 3: Mike Nichols' former comedy partner, she co-wrote the "Tootsie" screenplay but was uncredited. * Elaine May. * 4: In the 1980s this golfer was the leading money winner 3 times on the Senior PGA circuit. * Don January. * 5: This Swedish playwright represented himself as "The Stranger" in his trilogy "To Damascus". * August Strindberg.

Round 3. Category: Food For Thought * 1: These snack "nuts" bear the name of a vegetable that also grows in a pod. * peanuts. * 2: Too much of this, whether saturated or polyunsaturated, can permanently damage brain tissue. * fat. * 3: These seeds are crushed to a paste and mixed with sugar, verjuice and white wine by the people of Dijon. * mustard seeds. * 4: Whether laksa or soba, to use this is to think. * your noodle. * 5: This corn oil brand was first sold in 1911 in a can with a drawing of a corn cob forming the body of an Indian girl. * Mazola.

Round 4. Category: "Mid" Terms * 1: Cinderella's deadline. * midnight. * 2: A crop top is designed to leave this part of the body bare. * the midriff. * 3: This word completes the proverb "Don't change horses in...". * midstream. * 4: Even Rachel in the Bible had one of these women to help her deliver her baby. * a midwife. * 5: ItÂ's where your tympanic membrane is located. * the middle ear.

Round 5. Category: Chemistry Experiments * 1: You can use these, made by blowing soap film through a wand, to detect carbon dioxide. * bubbles. * 2: To learn about different types of molecules, note that salt will do this in water but flour won't. * dissolve. * 3: Wet steel wool in a jar helps demonstrate the formation of this; so does an old car. * rust. * 4: Use the dye from boiled red cabbage to tell alkalis apart from these, like lemon juice. * acids. * 5: By putting silver and aluminum together in a solution, you can remove tarnish, caused by this element with the symbol S. * sulfur.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 333, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: You Say Tomato * 1: Varieties of tomato include beefsteak and these small ones that bear the name of a fruit of the genus Prunus. * cherry tomatoes (a plum tomato accepted). * 2: The first tomatoes Europeans saw were yellow, hence the nickname of golden these. * apples. * 3: It's believed tomatoes were first eaten and cultivated on this continent before being introduced to Europe. * South America. * 4: The Italians call the tomato "pomodoro", meaning "golden" one of these fruits. * apple. * 5: Though nonpoisonous itself, the tomato is a member of this "deadly" plant family. * nightshade.

Round 2. Category: Going Wireless * 1: Thanks to firms like Pegaso and Telemex, this country now has more cellular users than fixed line customers. * Mexico. * 2: The Kyocera QCP 6035 Smartphone combines a cell phone with one of these multifunction organizers. * PDA (personal digital assistant). * 3: In 1946 this detective's 2-way wrist radio made its debut in the funnies. * Dick Tracy. * 4: 44 GM models offer this wireless service that now has over 2,000,000 members. * OnStar. * 5: Buying one of this company's DynaTAC models in 1984 could have set you back about $4,000. * Motorola.

Round 3. Category: European History * 1: In 1867 this dual monarchy was created under the rule of Francis Joseph I; it lasted until the end of World War I. * Austria-Hungary. * 2: The tribunal for war crimes in areas formerly part of this country held its first trial in 1996. * Yugoslavia. * 3: Except for a brief time, this birthplace of Christopher Columbus was ruled by a doge from 1339-1797. * Genoa. * 4: The demise of this monarch is depicted here. * Louis XVI. * 5: His courageous union leadership during the 1980s helped bring freedom to millions. * Lech Wa and #322; and #281;sa.

Round 4. Category: Quotable Recent Movies * 1: 2002:"Nice Greek girls who don't find a husband work in the family restaurant". * My Big Fat Greek Wedding. * 2: 2003:"I shall take you to the Black Pearl and your bonny lass". * Pirates of the Caribbean. * 3: 2001:"Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change". * Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. * 4: 2003:"God doesn't take vacations... does He?... Do Ye?". * Bruce Almighty. * 5: 2002:"There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?". * Signs.

Round 5. Category: Sound Technology * 1: This computer device slowly takes you online. * a modem. * 2: In 1859 Robert Fouls invented a steam-powered one of these to singal imperiled ships. * a foghorn. * 3: I'll bet Christmas 1996 was the last time you thought you'd hear this toy's sound. * Tickle Me Elmo. * 4: This phone company's walkie talkie service sounds promising. * Nextel. * 5: You'll hear it when making a season pass on this company's genius TV device. * TiVo.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 332, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Independent Films * 1: This Coen Brothers tale from 1996 is "A homespun murder story". * Fargo. * 2: Reverse in told was film Nolan Christopher 2001 this. * Memento. * 3: Robert Duvall wrote, directed and played a preacher in this 1997 film. * The Apostle. * 4: Title job of Dante and Randal in a 1994 Kevin Smith film. * clerks. * 5: An Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature went to this '50s-style melodrama with Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid. * Far from Heaven.

Round 2. Category: International Road Vehicle Stickers * 1: CZ. * the Czech Republic. * 2: The Portuguese were the first Europeans to enter this country. * Vietnam. * 3: Most of its people are Sunni Muslims. * Tajikistan. * 4: The most common language there, after Spanish, is Guarani. * Paraguay. * 5: PL. * Poland.

Round 3. Category: Women: Write On! * 1: Her early novel "The Lolly-Madonna War" isn't quite as popular as her alphabet murder mysteries. * Sue Grafton. * 2: It's the first name shared by novelists Michaels, Cartland and Taylor Bradford. * Barbara. * 3: After "Atlas Shrugged", she stopped writing fiction. * Ayn Rand. * 4: Like her "Thorn Birds", "The Ladies Of Missalonghi" is set in her native Australia. * Colleen McCullough. * 5: This Chilean author wrote her first novel, "The House of the Spirits", while living in exile. * Isabel Allende.

Round 4. Category: Welcome To My Country * 1: Leonardo Da Vinci International. * Italy. * 2: Ben-Gurion International. * Israel. * 3: Ninoy Aquino International. * the Philippines. * 4: Soekarno-Hatta International. * Indonesia. * 5: Augusto Cesar Sandino International. * Nicaragua.

Round 5. Category: A Windy Category * 1: The 1967 NFL "Ice Bowl" game was played in -46 degrees, if you include this factor. * wind chill. * 2: A typical warm winter wind of Switzerland is called Schneefresser, meaning "eater" of this. * snow. * 3: Like hurricanes, these pacific tropical cyclones get names; Omar devastated Guam in 1992. * typhoons. * 4: It's best to bring your boat in on this side of the dock, meaning the side the wind reaches last. * leeward. * 5: (Video clip from the Science Center of Minnesota) It's believed that tornadoes begin with a rising current of warm air called this, which eventually starts rotating. * updraft.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 331, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Coming Soon... History! * 1: 1 man, 1 scientific mission... to tame the heavens... In 1752 he would invent the lightning rod... and electrify the world. * Benjamin Franklin. * 2: If you see only 1 19th c. author's final resting place this Xmas, make it this "Jungle Book" man's at Westminster Abbey. * Kipling. * 3: In 1860s England, he would change the rules of pugilism forever... by making them! This summer, Vin Diesel is.... * the Marquess of Queensbury. * 4: Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide... Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1781... this gen.'s surrender would end a war... and birth a nation. * Cornwallis. * 5: In a world that cried out for a... map projection... only this Flemish cartographer would heed the call. * Mercator.

Round 2. Category: Balder-Dash! * 1: Sometimes called the father of the Norse gods, he was specifically the father of Balder. * Odin. * 2: Balder could have returned from the dead if every creature had done this, but Thokk remained dry-eyed. * Cried. * 3: The Balder story largely comes from Snorri Sturluson, writing on this island. * Iceland. * 4: A dwarf named Lit was burned up along with Balder in this funeral structure. * Pyre. * 5: This sneaky Norse god was responsible for the plot that led to Balder's death. * Loki.

Round 3. Category: "Roy"Alty * 1: During WWII, this mythical American soldier left the impression that he "Was Here". * Kilroy. * 2: The raised ribs on this fabric are also called wales. * Corduroy. * 3: He's George Jetson's boy. * Elroy. * 4: In a children's book, Cedric Errol of New York City becomes this little lord. * Fauntleroy. * 5: Title for an official who rules a colony in the name of a king. * Viceroy.

Round 4. Category: Pbs * 1: At the end of this show's 20th season, a baby named Gabriela was born to Luis and Maria. * "Sesame Street". * 2: "Billions and billions" of stars were presented to millions and millions of viewers by this astronomer. * Carl Sagan. * 3: PBS is taking "A Second Look" at some of the best programs made by this former LBJ press secretary. * Bill Moyers. * 4: Of 1.8, 2.5, or 3.7 hours per home, the average time PBS is viewed each week in U.S.. * 1.8. * 5: "Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow" and "Maurice Sendak: Mon Cher Papa" are segments of this PBS series. * "American Masters".

Round 5. Category: To Phrase A Coin * 1: Powerful brakes enable you to accomplish this idiomatic phrase. * stop on a dime. * 2: You'd have to be quite unobservant to need the warning "don't take any" of these false coins. * wooden nickels. * 3: From 1864 to 1873, if you wanted to put your this "in", you could use a U.S. coin of that amount. * two cents. * 4: Completes the beat associated with rock pioneer Bo Diddley, "shave and a haircut...". * two bits. * 5: Proverbially, it means careful about small sums and reckless with large ones. * penny wise and pound foolish.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 330, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 1980s Rock * 1: His 1985 hit "Raspberry Beret" was his first on his own label, Paisley Park. * Prince. * 2: The group that finished the '80s as Starship first took off in the '60s under this name. * Jefferson Airplane. * 3: "Brass Monkey" and "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" were songs on their hit 1986 debut album. * the Beastie Boys. * 4: In 1988 the Beach Boys had a No. 1 hit with this song from the Tom Cruise movie "Cocktail". * "Kokomo". * 5: This Aussie group brought a "New Sensation" to radio in 1988. * INXS.

Round 2. Category: We Have A Problem * 1: Michael's minute hand on his watch travels this many degrees if he waits for his date from noon until 12:30 PM. * 180. * 2: If Eric, Robert and Matt are 3 of the 12 men on a jury, they total this percentage of the jurors. * 25 percent. * 3: John has 30 Playboy magazines under his desk and this many National Geographics, 30% as many, on top. * 9. * 4: If the bathroom is 12 feet away and Ryan skips there and back each comm. break, he skips this many feet on a 5-break show. * 120. * 5: If Billy can swallow 4 goldfish in 2 1/2 minutes, he can swallow this many in 20 minutes. * 32.

Round 3. Category: Lesser-Known Musicals * 1: Elementary, my dear Watson: "Baker Street" was a musical about this detective. * Sherlock Holmes. * 2: "Comin' Uptown" moved this classic tale to Harlem; it starred Gregory Hines as a slumlord named Scrooge. * A Christmas Carol. * 3: Danny Kaye's career "ark" included this Biblical role in "Two By Two". * Noah. * 4: Bully for Len Cariou, who played this famous man in the musical "Teddy And Alice". * Theodore Roosevelt. * 5: Shaun Cassidy was 10 years old when these actors, his parents, starred in the 1968 musical "Maggie Flynn". * Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones.

Round 4. Category: African Cooking * 1: Made of beans and eggs, ful medames has been eaten in this country perhaps since the time of the pharaohs. * Egypt. * 2: In Ghana a dumpling called fufu is served with a soup made of the groundnut known here as this. * Peanut. * 3: Mtori, a Tanzanian plantain soup, can also be made with this similar fruit. * Banana. * 4: Almond milk is enjoyed in this country, where it is sold on the streets of Marrakesh. * Morocco. * 5: In Zimbabwe, bowara refers to the leaves of this large gourd that is carved in the U.S.. * Pumpkin.

Round 5. Category: Danger, Curves Ahead * 1: This Midwestern college town was named for its location on a curved part of the Saint Joseph River. * South Bend. * 2: To a batter, a curveball appears to do most of its curving in this ¼ of its trip to the plate. * its last quarter. * 3: In grammar, they're a pair of curved lines used to indicate interjected explanatory material. * parentheses. * 4: The 1978 movie "Deadman's Curve" told the story of this musical duo, one of whom passed away in 2004. * Jan and Dean. * 5: These caused a blurring of the image, so Newton replaced one of them with a curved mirror. * a telescope lens.

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Round 1. Category: Radio Cities * 1: On a TV sitcom, Jennifer, played by Loni Anderson, brightened up radio station WKRP in this city. * Cincinnati. * 2: WABC and WCBS-880 are radio stations based in this metropolis. * New York City. * 3

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Round 1. Category: Just For The "Hall" Of It * 1: It's a feature that distinguishes something from other things. * Hallmark. * 2: Ex-wife of Mick. * Jerry Hall. * 3: Literally it means "Praise ye the Lord" in Hebrew. * Hallelujah. * 4: This actor first gained attention as a likable geek in "Sixteen Candles". * Anthony Michael Hall. * 5: It's a false perception when no external stimulus exists. * Hallucination.

Round 2. Category: "King"S * 1: In 1973 she helped found, and also served as first president of, the Women's Tennis Association. * Billie Jean King. * 2: This comedian got his big break after appearing with Judy Garland at the Palace Theatre. * Alan King. * 3: He was the man behind such boxing events as the "Rumble in the Jungle" and the "Thrilla in Manila". * Don King. * 4: In addition to hosting a "Live" cable interview show on CNN, he also writes a newspaper column. * Larry King. * 5: In 1968 she called upon American women to unite and fight the evils of racism, poverty and war. * Coretta Scott King.

Round 3. Category: Pc Magazine * 1: In 1984 this company's laser printer won raves and , at $3,495, also cost a third less than the competitors'. * HP (Hewlett-Packard). * 2: The cover of the first PC Magazine featured this company's new desktop computer, which helped launch an industry. * IBM. * 3: For 16 years this computer maker put an ad on the back page of PC Mag to promote and pioneer its direct PC sales. * Dell. * 4: In 1999, when it wasn't even a year old, this website won a PC Mag award for its PageRank technology. * Google. * 5: id Software got kudos for letting gamers construct worlds in this 4-letter shooter, set on Mars and featuring demons. * Doom.

Round 4. Category: The Green Hornet * 1: Brit Reid was related to this masked crimefighter of the Old West. * Lone Ranger. * 2: The Green Hornet's car, it shares its name with an Anna Sewell horse. * Black Beauty. * 3: In the 1960s he played Kato on TV. * Bruce Lee. * 4: Buzz in and tell us that this Rimsky-Korsakov piece was the Green Hornet's theme. * "Flight of the Bumblebee". * 5: In the 1940 movie serial, Kato was played by Keye Luke, who alsp played this movie detective's number one son. * Charlie Chan.

Round 5. Category: Valleys * 1: A fungal infection common in this state's San Joaquin valley is now called Valley fever. * California. * 2: This poet called a valley outside Balaklava "The Valley of Death". * Alfred, Lord Tennyson. * 3: Come and sit by my side if you know this valley straddles the border of Texas and Oklahoma. * the Red River Valley. * 4: This "Great" valley runs from the Valley of the Jordan to Southern Africa. * the Great Rift Valley. * 5: In 1997 thousands left this river valley in Germany and Poland to avoid extensive floods. * the Oder.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 328, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Pow"! * 1: A synonym for a woman's restroom. * powder room. * 2: This multi-state lottery has risen to an almost $315 million winning total. * Powerball. * 3: 3-word term for the legal authority to act for another person in legal or business matters. * power of attorney. * 4: As the result of a 1614 wedding, he became John Rolfe's father-in-law. * Powhatan. * 5: He was Harlem's congressman from 1945 to 1971. * Adam Clayton Powell, Jr..

Round 2. Category: Cereals * 1: This cereal isn't named after the Flintstones' daughter but for the little bitty stones it resembles. * Pebbles. * 2: Hooray! This toasted oat cereal is made from the grain highest in protein. * Cheerios. * 3: Since 1984 this animal's been depicted on the front of the Kellogg's Corn Flakes box. * Cornelius the Rooster. * 4: After you've finished all of this doll's cereal, she can use the box as a coffee table. * Barbie. * 5: In addition to being teenage, mutant and ninja-trained, these animals have a cereal. * Turtles.

Round 3. Category: Algonquin Round Table Quotes * 1: Franklin P. Adams:"Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble: 'Tinker to Evers to'" him. * Chance. * 2: Dorothy Parker:"Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well" do this. * Live. * 3: George S. Kaufman:"I saw the play under bad conditions." This "was up". * The curtain. * 4: Harold Ross, upon founding this magazine:"(It) will not be edited for the old lady from Dubuque". * The New Yorker. * 5: Robert Benchley:"In America, there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with" these people. * Children.

Round 4. Category: Scandals * 1: She's doing commercials for No Excuses sportswear following her fling with Gary Hart. * Donna Rice. * 2: The office of Baseball Commisioner was established in 1920 due to this 1919 event. * Black Sox Scandal. * 3: His private secretary was linked to the Whiskey Ring, one of many scandals during his administration. * Ulysses S. Grant. * 4: In "The Affair of the Necklace", a film about a real pre-revolution scandal, Joely Richardson plays this French queen. * Marie Antoinette. * 5: This 19th century fighter for Irish home rule was scandalously involved with a married woman named Kitty O'Shea. * Charles Parnell.

Round 5. Category: By Halves * 1: After being made with a new metal in 1883, the U.S. coin known as the half dime became known as this. * nickel. * 2: Nickname of Melissa Gilbert's character on "Little House on the Prairie". * Half Pint. * 3: According to Tennyson, the Light Brigade moved into the Valley of Death by these increments. * half-leagues. * 4: A "half" this is a dive that includes a half backward somersault and ends facing the board. * kick. * 5: For thorium-234 it's about 25 days; for thorium-232, about 14 billion years. * half-life.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 327, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Z" End * 1: This company makes mealtime fun time with its EZ Squirt colored ketchups. * Heinz. * 2: Artificial or synthetic. * ersatz. * 3: What's the frequency, Kenneth?-- and make sure it's in this unit equal to one cycle per second. * hertz. * 4: In the Bible, Ruth was married to this man. * Boaz. * 5: Russia's third man-in-space program, it still continues more than 30 years after its inception. * the Soyuz.

Round 2. Category: The Lighter Side Of Life * 1: "Lion on the Links" is the subtitle of a biography of him. * Tiger Woods. * 2: The same firm did the beading on Dorothy's ruby slippers for "The Wizard of Oz" and this man's famous sequined glove. * Jacko (Michael Jackson). * 3: This Halloween favorite that has bands of white, orange and yellow dates back to the 1880s. * candy corn. * 4: The use of steel girders in construction inspired A.C. Gilbert to invent this classic toy. * an erector set. * 5: Sit-N-Snooze and Slack-Back were suggested names for what became this brand of reclining lounge chairs. * La-Z-Boy.

Round 3. Category: Let's Visit Springfield * 1: International Harvester was historically a major employer in Springfield, near Dayton in this state. * Ohio. * 2: Situated on the picturesque Sangamon River, Springfield in this state is served by Capital Airport. * Illinois. * 3: After seeing a show at Juanita K. Hammons Hall in Springfield in this state, you can head on to Branson. * Missouri. * 4: Springfield in this state is where the common spring clothespin was invented and a Green Mountain guide is published. * Vermont. * 5: If you hurt yourself in Springfield in this state, head over to the McKenzie-Willamette Hospital. * Oregon.

Round 4. Category: Sean Connery Films * 1: He was a London publisher who loved a Russian girl in "The Russia House" and a Russian sub captain in this. * The Hunt for Red October. * 2: Connery caught the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this 1987 film. * The Untouchables. * 3: In this 1992 film, Connery finds and loses a cancer cure in a rainforest. * Medicine Man. * 4: As Danny to Michael Caine's Peachy, Connery was this title character in a 1975 John Huston film. * The Man Who Would Be King. * 5: Although he's Scottish, the luck of the Irish got Connery cast in this 1959 Disney film about the wee folk. * Darby O' Gill and the Little People.

Round 5. Category: We're No Angels * 1: Before becoming a Bronco, Jake "The Snake" Plummer played for this university's Sun Devils. * Arizona State. * 2: Appropriately, this NHL team's mascot lists "Devil Inside" by INXS as one of his favorite songs. * the New Jersey Devils. * 3: New owner Stu Sternberg vowed to change this MLB nickname by '07; no word whether "Manta" is in the running. * the Devil Rays. * 4: David Beckham played for this posh British football club that features a little red devil on its logo. * Manchester (United). * 5: A Wake Forest win in its 1923 football season led a writer to term the team this 2-word name due to "devilish" play. * the Demon Deacons.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 326, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Musical Styles * 1: "Western" used to be a part of this musical style's name"I've been running from the law /Living in flashing lights /I've been...". * country. * 2: Encyclopedia Britannica calls it a "cultural movement" as well as "backing music"sample. * hip-hop. * 3: In the mid-1950s, this style got its name, combining a type of music and a rural fellow"Riding down Sunset /Santa Monica, too /Over to the Valley /To pick up Peggy Sue". * rockabilly. * 4: A Jamaican musical genre is part of the name of this Latin style"We got you jammin', /Eh /Oh, oh /Mamacita say /Oh, oh /Me amigos say /Oh, oh" . * reggaeton. * 5: The name of this style of music may come from an alteration of the French word for "beans""Shot below /Dig a hole". * zydeco.

Round 2. Category: Movie Songs * 1: "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space" (1986). * The Little Shop of Horrors. * 2: Cher sings "The Shoop Shoop Song" over this 1990 film's closing credits. * Mermaids. * 3: She only made it to No. 4 with "Fame", but topped the charts with "Flashdance...What a Feeling". * Irene Cara. * 4: Pat Boone sang that this "is for the very young, Ev'ry star's a wishing star that shines for you". * "April Love". * 5: The Oscar for Best Song of 2007 went to a tune from this film about 2 Dublin musicians. * Once.

Round 3. Category: Months * 1: Even in a leap year, it's still the shortest month. * February. * 2: The 2 months that fit in a 4-letter word category. * June and July. * 3: In English this month has a "p", in French it has a "v". * April (Avril). * 4: The next year this month will have five Sundays is 2004. * February. * 5: Leo and Virgo are both Zodiac signs for this month. * August.

Round 4. Category: A Pain In The "R"S * 1: The separation of the membrane from the choroids at the back of the eye is known as a detached one of these. * the retina. * 2: A lack of phosphate, vitamin D or calcium can cause this bone disease in children. * rickets. * 3: It's what the R in the MMR vaccine stands for. * rubella. * 4: Parents are advised not to give children aspirin because of its link to this potentially fatal syndrome. * Reye's syndrome. * 5: These viruses responsible for many respiratory infections share part of their name with a pachyderm. * a rhinovirus.

Round 5. Category: Of Your "Love" * 1: With Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Derek and the Dominos released the hit album "Layla and Other Assorted" these. * Love Songs. * 2: A small sofa for 2 people. * a loveseat. * 3: Small green African avian of the genus agapornis. * a lovebird. * 4: This N.Y. region was declared a disaster area due to toxic waste. * Love Canal. * 5: His literary output includes "The Thing on the Doorstep" and "The Dunwich Horror". * H.P. Lovecraft.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 325, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Celebrity Alma Maters * 1: She dropped out of Sarah Lawrence College in 1957 and married John Lennon in 1969. * Yoko Ono. * 2: This "ramblin' kind of guy" pulled straight A's in philosophy at Long Beach State. * Steve Martin. * 3: His wife Jane, who he met at the U. of MD., was his 1st partner in puppetry, or shall we say muppetry. * Jim Henson. * 4: Child star who appeared in her 1st film in 1972 and graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 1985. * Jodie Foster. * 5: In 1903 future president F. Roosevelt was elected editor of this school paper at Harvard. * "The Crimson".

Round 2. Category: The "Right" Stuff * 1: Cartoon mountie who could "do no wrong". * Dudley Do-Right. * 2: Opposing the "pro-choice" group, they're anti-abortion activists. * right to lifers. * 3: A 90° bend, or an appropriate sales technique. * right angle. * 4: It has only 10 amendments, since 2 on representatives' apportionment and compensation weren't ratified. * Bill of Rights. * 5: Position shared by Jesse Helms in the political spectrum and Tim Kerr at the Philadelphia Spectrum. * right wing.

Round 3. Category: Nfl Rules * 1: (Hi, I'm Brian Mitchell) A punt returner who waves his hand over his head isn't swatting for flies, he's signaling for this. * a fair catch. * 2: (I'm Dan Fouts, Hall of Famer) As it should be, there's an automatic 15-yard penalty for roughing the kicker or this person. * the quarterback. * 3: (Hi, I'm Keyshawn Johnson) This infraction includes but is not limited to hooking the receiver, grabbing my arm, etcetera. * pass interference. * 4: (Hi, I'm Hall of Famer Dan Hampton) Also a hockey penalty, it's called for using the hands illegally -- hey, it was the only way to stop me. * holding. * 5: (Hi, I'm Joey Galloway) Only one player at a time may do this, run parallel to the line to confuse the defense. * go in motion.

Round 4. Category: Merriam-Webster's New Words For 2007 * 1: This huge new entry is a blending of "gigantic" and "enormous". * ginormous. * 2: This packing material that's fun to pop is another new addition. * Bubble Wrap. * 3: Ready, set... It's an event where participants converse briefly with one another to find partners to go out with. * speed dating. * 4: Hooray for this popular term for India's motion picture industry. * Bollywood. * 5: Definitions for this compound word include a decisive defeat and a contest in entertainment wrestling. * smackdown.

Round 5. Category: Quotable Women * 1: In "You Learn By Living", this First Lady of the 1940s challenged, "You must do the thing you think you cannot do". * Eleanor Roosevelt. * 2: This Bronte sister revealed in an 1840s letter, "I am neither a man nor a woman but an author". * Charlotte Bronte. * 3: This country star said she's not offended by dumb blonde jokes: "I know...I'm not dumb...I also know I'm not blonde". * Dolly Parton. * 4: While San Francisco mayor, this Calif. senator remarked, "Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit". * Dianne Feinstein. * 5: In "The Second Sex", this French author declared, "One is not born a woman, one becomes one". * Simone de Beauvoir.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 324, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: On The "Q...t" * 1: In an appliqued type of this, cutout designs are sewed onto one large piece of cloth. * quilt. * 2: Containing 67.2 cubic inches, it's 1/32 of a bushel. * a quart. * 3: It's the quantity resulting from the division of one quantity by another. * a quotient. * 4: According to the title of a 1952 John Ford film, John Wayne's character was this type of "Man". * Quiet. * 5: In a throwing game, it's the name of the flat metal or rope ring tossed at a stake called a mot. * quoit.

Round 2. Category: Bronx Cheer * 1: Babe Ruth hit the first home run in this stadium when it opened April 18, 1923. * Yankee Stadium. * 2: This poet and author's last home was a cottage in the Bronx; you can "quoth" me on that. * Edgar Allan Poe. * 3: It's where you can explore Jungle World and the Himalayan Highlands without ever leaving New York. * Bronx Zoo. * 4: It's a small, but "Grand Old Flag" that adorns his mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. * George M. Cohan. * 5: In 1935 the convicts of Welfare Island were moved to this Bronx island and its new penitentiary. * Rikers Island.

Round 3. Category: Double "B"S * 1: How ya gonna keep 'em down on this farm after they've seen Tel Aviv. * Kibbutz. * 2: Talk "turkey", or wolf down a lot of turkey. * Gobble. * 3: Don't wolf down your turkey, but take these small quick bites. * Nibbles. * 4: A crusty old bootmaker, or a crusty old fruit dessert. * Cobbler. * 5: A "rouser" may rouse this low class of people. * Rabble.

Round 4. Category: 30-Something * 1: At age 33 in 1804, he started a new symphony, his 5th, with a Da-Da-Da-Duh. * Beethoven. * 2: These comedians were both in their 30th when paired by Hal Roach in the 1920s. * Laurel and Hardy. * 3: In need of money in 1835, this 30-year-old Dane published 4 fairy tales. * Hans Christian Andersen. * 4: Of the 4 regular hosts of "The Tonight Show", he's the only one who didn't start when he was 30-something. * Jay Leno. * 5: Madonna was 34 in 1992, when she published "Sex", and this actress was 34 in 1926, when she produced the play "Sex". * Mae West.

Round 5. Category: Magazine Debuts By Decade * 1: Mad,TV Guide,Playboy. * the 1950s. * 2: Rolling Stone,Psychology Today,New York. * the 1960s. * 3: Money,Ms.,Games. * the 1970s. * 4: Reader's Digest,Business Week,Time. * the 1920s. * 5: Newsweek,Esquire,Consumer Reports. * the 1930s.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 323, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I'd Rather "Not" * 1: According to tradition, Robin Hood was born in this English place. * Nottingham. * 2: Generic name for a lightweight laptop computer. * notebook (or notepad). * 3: South Bend school noted for its law school and sports teams. * Notre Dame. * 4: "Public" person authorized to authenticate contracts and other documents. * a notary (public). * 5: One of Jean-Paul Sartre's best-known works is "Being and" this. * Nothingness.

Round 2. Category: "Moon"S * 1: Title of the following, it can be performed by a big bandleader or a nighttime Romeo. * "Moonlight Serenade". * 2: Michael Jackson and Neil Armstrong are both experts at this. * the moonwalk. * 3: Every week Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis have been doing this on ABC. * Moonlighting. * 4: The French title of this 1865 Jules Verne classic is "De la Terre a la Lune". * From the Earth to the Moon. * 5: "Moon shots" referred to home runs hit by this Dodger over short left field screen in L.A. Coliseum. * Wally Moon.

Round 3. Category: Holy Blank * 1: Bovine. * cow. * 2: City in Ohio. * Toledo. * 3: Fish of the genus Scomber. * mackerel. * 4: Son of Amram and Jochebed. * Moses. * 5: Last Supper chalice. * grail.

Round 4. Category: Women * 1: (Hi, I'm Tara Lipinski ["World Class Skater"]) In 1998 I broke a 70-year-old record when I replaced her as the youngest Olympic figure skating champ ever. * Sonja Henie. * 2: She helped found the Rancho Mirage, California drug treatment center named for her. * Betty Ford. * 3: Cindy Crawford is one of "The Most Unforgettable Women in the World" who wear this makeup brand. * Revlon. * 4: On Dec. 2, 1994 this alleged "Hollywood Madam" was found guilty of pandering. * Heidi Fleiss. * 5: This modern dance pioneer lost her two children when they drowned in a 1913 auto accident. * Isadora Duncan.

Round 5. Category: A Jug Of Wine * 1: In the '90s the U.S. banned the once-common use of this metal in the foil over a bottle's neck. * Lead. * 2: As well as port and Madeira wines, Portugal produces half the world's supply of this stopper material. * Cork. * 3: It's a simple glass vessel for wine, or the glass pot of a drip coffeemaker. * Carafe. * 4: Until vintners learned to test sugar levels in the 19th C., half of the bottles of this French wine would explode. * Champagne. * 5: This indentation in the bottom strengthens the bottle, which is useful when putting your fourth down. * Punt.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 322, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Presidential Vps * 1: George Bush. * Ronald Reagan. * 2: Richard Nixon. * Dwight D. Eisenhower. * 3: Harry Truman. * Franklin D. Roosevelt. * 4: Thomas Jefferson. * John Adams. * 5: Theodore Roosevelt. * William McKinley.

Round 2. Category: "G"Eography * 1: The old section of this city full of Swiss misses lies south of the Rhone river, but we're neutral on the subject. * Geneva. * 2: The fourth-largest city in the United Kingdom, it lies on both sides of the River Clyde. * Glasgow. * 3: It's the suburb where you'd see the landmarks shown here. * Giza. * 4: This cheesy town in South Holland is also noted for its stained-glass windows. * Gouda. * 5: Upstream fromthe Grand Canyon lies the 710-foot-high dam named for this "g" canyon. * Glen Canyon.

Round 3. Category: "Pick" Me! * 1: Restaurant counter pick-me-up to dig that piece of broccoli out from between your incisors. * a toothpick. * 2: A person who separates a man from his wallet. * a pickpocket. * 3: Literally meaning to pluck lice eggs, it also means to complain about the smallest details. * a nitpick. * 4: Nickname of the following:. * a cherry picker. * 5: On the third day at Gettysburg, over 3,000 Confederate men lost their lives in this single assault. * Pickett's Charge.

Round 4. Category: The 1990s * 1: On August 28, 1990 he declared that Kuwait was now Iraq's 19th province. * Saddam Hussein. * 2: On Nov. 20, 1994 he beatified 5 individuals, including Franciscan sculptor Claudio Granzotto. * Pope John Paul II. * 3: While visiting Ethiopia in 1995, this Egyptian president escaped an attempt on his life. * Hosni Mubarak. * 4: Pierce Brosnan played this superspy for the first time in "GoldenEye". * James Bond. * 5: Jacques Chirac of the Rally for the Republic Party won a 7-year term as this country's president. * France.

Round 5. Category: 5-Letter Words * 1: Something known to be feasible is this "and true". * Tried. * 2: To skip school, or the furrow on the side of the road. * ditch. * 3: Historically it was the goods, money or property that a bride brought to her husband at marriage. * dowry. * 4: This word for a decorative sticker comes partly from calquer, meaning "to trace". * Decal. * 5: This diminutive of Bridget usually refers to a fussy old woman. * biddy.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 321, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Rocky"S * 1: [Audio Daily Double] Musical featuring "Dammit Janet" and the following: It's astounding Time is fleeting. * Rocky Horror (Picture) Show. * 2: In the 1930s William Dreyer mixed chocolate ice cream, almonds, and marshmallows to create this. * rocky road. * 3: He realized that "going the distance" would prove he "wasn't just another bum from the neighborhood". * Rocky Balboa. * 4: Sporting a pilot's helmet and June Foray's voice, he debuted in November, 1959 on ABC. * Rocket J. Squirrel (Rocky the Flying Squirrel). * 5: In a Beatles' song, he "checked into his room, only to find Gideon's Bible". * Rocky Raccoon.

Round 2. Category: Homophonic Duos * 1: 2 Bartletts make up this couple. * pear pair. * 2: Biblical killer's walking sticks. * Cain's canes. * 3: Consumed an octet. * ate eight. * 4: To forcefully grab small oceans. * seize seas. * 5: The stuff breathed by the designated successor to the king. * heir air.

Round 3. Category: Where The "H" Are We? * 1: Parker Ranch,Kilauea Volcano,Monument to Captain Cook. * Hawaii. * 2: Victoria Peak,Kai Tak Airport,Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel. * Hong Kong. * 3: Lake Balaton,Bela Bartok Memorial House,Buda Concert Hall. * Hungary. * 4: Senate Square,Mannerheim Museum,Sibelius Park. * Helsinki. * 5: The Malecon,Morro Castle,Revolution Square. * Havana.

Round 4. Category: The Titanic * 1: 2 of these towered over the deck and were used as flagpoles and to string the wireless aerial. * masts. * 2: The Titanic carried plenty of these, 3,560, but many passengers died wearing them in the 28-degree water. * lifejackets. * 3: This happened between the third and fourth funnel, a fact no one knew until the Titanic was found in 1985. * it broke in half. * 4: The first warning of the iceberg came at 11:40 P.M. from Fred Fleet, the lookout in this platform high above the deck. * the crow's nest. * 5: You can still see the crane to lower these; the starboard and port ones weighed 9 tons, the center one, 17 tons. * anchors.

Round 5. Category: The Twin Cities * 1: One of St. Paul's architectural highlights is this 1905 building with a marble dome. * Capitol Building. * 2: Ya sure, go to Minneapolis' Park Avenue to visit the institute devoted to this ethnic group. * Swedes. * 3: The Twins and Vikings play in the Metrodome, named for this politician. * Hubert H. Humphrey. * 4: Word for the pedestrian shopping area of Nicollet Avenue, less imposing than this nearby one "of America". * Mall. * 5: In Minneapolis' name, polis is Greek for "city" and minne is an Indian word meaning this substance. * Water.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 320, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Who Says * 1: Malignant melanoma, which is on the rise, is strongly related to one's history of this painful affliction. * sunburn. * 2: A variant of BSE, a disease of these animals, can be found in mink; we guess that would be mad mink disease. * cows. * 3: 90% of Argentina's supply of this comes from people donating to members of their own families. * blood. * 4: Research shows no increased risk of brain cancer from using these, but they do cause traffic accidents. * cell phones. * 5: In 2000 Rift Valley fever scared WHO by making its first appearance outside this continent. * Africa.

Round 2. Category: Weapons * 1: This barbed spear attached to a rope is used to kill or capture large fish and whales. * a harpoon. * 2: The word howitzer may go back to the Czech word houfnice, this weapon carried by Dennis the Menace. * Slingshot. * 3: Weapon Don Quixote used to tilt at the windmill. * lance. * 4: The weapon which killed this "1st murder victim" was never revealed. * Abel. * 5: Calcium permanganate once powered the V-2 type of this weapon; it's now available as a disinfectant. * a rocket.

Round 3. Category: Straight Men * 1: This partner of Stan Laurel was known for saying, "Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into". * Hardy. * 2: This Sesame Streeter and his pal Ernie debuted in 1969 and Carson, have Kyan help him with that unibrow!. * Bert. * 3: "My Friend Irma" was his 1949 film debut; he may have heard Jerry Lewis say, "Hey laaaaaaady!" a lot. * Dean Martin. * 4: Before he played God, he ended shows with "Say good night, Gracie". * George Burns. * 5: His name had top billing on "Laugh-In"; look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls. * (Dan) Rowan.

Round 4. Category: Keep On Truckin' * 1: In 2010 the D.O.T. issued rules banning this new form of communication by truckers while driving. * texting. * 2: This type of engine named for its 19th c. German inventor powers most large trucks. * Diesel. * 3: 5 brothers, one with the rhyming name Jack, started this company in the early 1900s. * Mack. * 4: In 1997 this company, known as Big Brown from the color of its trucks, was hit by a Teamsters strike. * UPS (United Parcel Service). * 5: Truckers know these have a range of about 25 miles in motor vehicles and federally limited power of 4 watts. * C.B. radios.

Round 5. Category: "M"Ythology * 1: As the god of merchants, this Roman counterpart of Hermes is sometimes shown carrying a purse. * Mercury. * 2: Thor could drink 3 barrels of this alcoholic honey beverage at a meal. * mead. * 3: This group of 9 sisters often sang at the gods' celebrations. * the Muses. * 4: The Capitoline Triad consisted of Juno, Jupiter and this goddess of wisdom. * Minerva. * 5: Taranga is the mother of this Polynesian trickster for whom Hawaii's 2nd-largest island is named. * Maui.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 319, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Nouns Or Verbs * 1: A cod, or to catch a cod. * Fish. * 2: What belongs to the victor, or what food does when left out. * spoils. * 3: A jester, or to hoodwink. * Fool. * 4: A jewelry setting, or to get on a horse. * Mount. * 5: Home to a smithy, or to make counterfeit bills. * Forge.

Round 2. Category: Kiss My Grits! * 1: Eaten for breakfast or as a side dish, hominy grits are made from this. * corn. * 2: Developed in Louisiana, praline is a sweet traditionally made with brown sugar and these nuts. * pecans. * 3: It's said that yapping dogs were fed these fried dumplings to keep quiet, hence their name. * hush puppies. * 4: This green pod, often a gumbo ingredient, is also called gumbo. * okra. * 5: This "colorful" Southern gravy is made from ham drippings, hot coffee and water. * redeye gravy.

Round 3. Category: "Roy"Alty * 1: During WWII, this mythical American soldier left the impression that he "Was Here". * Kilroy. * 2: The raised ribs on this fabric are also called wales. * Corduroy. * 3: He's George Jetson's boy. * Elroy. * 4: In a children's book, Cedric Errol of New York City becomes this little lord. * Fauntleroy. * 5: Title for an official who rules a colony in the name of a king. * Viceroy.

Round 4. Category: Dread Man Walking * 1: A lab assistant for Du Pont in 1966, he'd later set up his own Wailin' Soul music label and become a legend. * Bob Marley. * 2: The name of this disgraced dreadlocked '80s duo was purportedly Turkish for "positive energy". * Milli Vanilli. * 3: On "The Simpsons" this ex-Krusty the Clown sidekick tries to kill Bart on several occasions. * Sideshow Bob. * 4: Saying "It takes on energy and vibes and I needed to shed that", this "Let Love Rule" singer lopped off 10 years of 'locks. * Lenny Kravitz. * 5: Dreadlocked Adam Duritz fronts this band, Oscar-nominated for "Accidentally In Love" from "Shrek 2". * Counting Crows.

Round 5. Category: "A" Blank * 1: "All in the Family" became " blank Bunker's Place". * Archie. * 2: Drivin' from Mississippi to Georgia you're bound to drive through blank . * Alabama. * 3: Among the juices in Hawaiian Punch is blank ; there is also some apricot puree. * apple. * 4: On October 3, 1985 the space shuttle blank took off on its first mission. * Atlantis. * 5: blank is the name of a dog in Joyce's "Ulysses" and of a Musketeer partner of Dumas' Aramis. * Athos.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 318, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Days Of Birth * 1: If born on a Monday, you're fair of this, so you won't stop clocks. * Face. * 2: Have a Tuesday-born person say this before meals; they're full of it. * Grace. * 3: Saturday's child does it "for a living"; Donna Summer sang she did it "For The Money". * Work hard. * 4: Garrison Keillor might say be gone to Wednesday's child, who's full of this. * Woe. * 5: Among other qualities, Sunday's child is this, like the fair banks of Loch Lomond. * Bonnie.

Round 2. Category: Crossword Clues "C" * 1: "See ya," in Rome(4). * Ciao. * 2: Have a bawl(3). * cry. * 3: Number cruncher(10). * calculator. * 4: "Googly" sport(7). * cricket. * 5: A "Swiss" beet (5). * chard.

Round 3. Category: Historic Historians * 1: 6th century Roman historian Flavius Cassiodorus did a history of this group that split into Visi- and Ostro- halves. * the Goths. * 2: 2nd century B.C. historian Ssu-Ma Ch'ien put together the first comprehensive history of this country. * China. * 3: Christian Lange edited "Diplomatarium Norvegicum", a valuable source on this, his native land. * Norway. * 4: William Prescott's 2 big tales of the Conquistadors were about "The Conquest of Peru" and "The Conquest of" this country. * Mexico. * 5: This venerable saint's eccesiastical history of England goes up to 731; he died in 735. * the Venerable Bede.

Round 4. Category: 1997 * 1: Hosting the Oscars, he was pursued by pilot David Letterman in an "English Patient" parody. * Billy Crystal. * 2: The FDA approved a laser that could be used by dentists as long as the dentist and adult patient wear these. * Protective glasses. * 3: When this Chinese leader died February 19, 1997 it was noted he hadn't been seen in public since early 1994. * Deng Hsiao-Ping. * 4: 39 members of this doomsday cult in California committed suicide in March. * Heaven's Gate. * 5: Pioneer 10, which was launched in 1972 to study this planet, was retired in 1997. * Jupiter.

Round 5. Category: "Ph" Delights * 1: Traditional title of the kings who built the pyramids. * pharaoh. * 2: To see Van Gogh's "Vase with 12 Sunflowers", head out to this American city's Museum of Art. * Philadelphia. * 3: Light energy becomes organic energy through this plant process. * photosynthesis. * 4: From the Greek for "to appear", it's an unreal, ghostly being. * a phantom. * 5: Appropriately, Paul Nurse shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in this category. * Physiology.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 317, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: History * 1: In June 1987 she became the first British prime minister in the 20th c. elected to 3 straight terms. * Margaret Thatcher. * 2: Legend says an Etruscan family, the Tarquins, ruled this "Eternal City" from 616 to 510 B.C.. * Rome. * 3: The first 18 years of this French king's reign were managed by Cardinal Mazarin. * Louis XIV. * 4: Ponce de Leon's 1513 quest was to find this legendary spring; they didn't have facelifts back then. * Fountain of Youth. * 5: In 1942 he replaced Gandhi as leader of India's National Congress Party. * Nehru.

Round 2. Category: The Art Of War * 1: "Returning Fire", a painting by Bill McGrath, depicts these 2 Civil War ironclads in battle. * Monitor and Merrimac. * 2: It's the 1836 battle captured here by Kirk Stirnweis. * The Alamo. * 3: In 1899 E.S. Paxson completed his monumental painting of this June 1876 battle. * Little Bighorn. * 4: It's a nuclear power's capability of a preemptive attack, or one-third of an out in baseball. * First strike. * 5: Seen here, "Leave No One Behind", by Joe Klein, depicts a scene from this war. * Vietnam War.

Round 3. Category: Zoology * 1: Rodents native to this continent include the cavy, coypu and capybara. * South America. * 2: This group of large, hairy spiders gets its name from a wolf spider found around Tarranto, Italy. * tarantula. * 3: This behavior in gorillas can express exuberance or intimidate. * Chest-beating. * 4: The pocket gopher was named for the fur-lined pockets on this part of its body. * cheeks. * 5: The long flap of skin that hangs beneath the throat of this largest deer is called a bell. * Moose.

Round 4. Category: The "Rh" Factor * 1: Scarlett O'Hara's favorite Butler. * Rhett. * 2: While the reddish stalks of this plant may be eaten, the leaves are highly poisonous. * Rhubarb. * 3: These 2 important European rivers differ by only one letter. * Rhine and Rhone. * 4: This parallelogram with 4 equal sides resembles a slanted square. * Rhombus. * 5: In mythology she's the wife of Cronus and the mother of Zeus. * Rhea.

Round 5. Category: Cops * 1: These important pieces of evidence might contain loops, arches and whorls. * Fingerprints. * 2: It's the "unfashionable" name for officers who do not wear uniforms when on duty. * Plainclothes. * 3: A famous symbol of the Pinkerton Detective Agency is an eye and the slogan "We Never" do this. * Sleep. * 4: This "Buckaroo Banzai" was "RoboCop" twice. * Peter Weller. * 5: It's the numerical response that means "Message confirmed", good buddy. * 10-4.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 316, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bowls * 1: This nursery rhyme guy knew how to party; he called for his pipe, his bowl and 3 fiddlers for some tunes. * Old King Cole. * 2: After catching his wife with the mailman, this TV title man bought the Stuckey Bowl bowling alley; wouldn't you?. * Ed. * 3: This columnist who wrote "If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" died in 1996. * Erma Bombeck. * 4: "The Grapes of Wrath" showed the plight of Oklahoma migrants from this 1930s Midwest region. * the Dust Bowl. * 5: "The Golden Bowl" was the last novel by this "Daisy Miller" author. * Henry James.

Round 2. Category: "T" On The Map * 1: This is the largest and most important French island in the south Pacific. * Tahiti. * 2: Bay Street is the heart of this Canadian city's financial district. * Toronto. * 3: This lake on the California-Nevada border drains into Pyramid Lake via the Truckee River. * Lake Tahoe. * 4: This city became the seat of the Nationalist Chinese government in 1949. * Taipei (Taiwan). * 5: This North African city was officially international until integrated into Morocco in 1956. * Tangier.

Round 3. Category: Minty Fresh * 1: White Mazda Miatas bear an uncanny resemblance to these "1 1/2 Calorie Breath Mints". * Tic-Tac. * 2: Pep-O-Mint and Wint-O-Green are flavors of this candy mint. * Life Savers. * 3: This Certs ingredient is a mix of partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, copper gluconate and flavoring. * Retsyn. * 4: These "Curiously Strong" mints are "So Strong, They Come in a Metal Box". * Altoids. * 5: "Fresh Goes Better in Life" with these mints, "Fresh and Full of Life". * Mentos.

Round 4. Category: Tv's Comic Book Heroes * 1: Adam West. * Batman. * 2: George Reeves. * Superman. * 3: Lynda Carter. * Wonder Woman. * 4: Lou Ferrigno. * The Incredible Hulk. * 5: Gil Gerard. * Buck Rogers.

Round 5. Category: Classic Comic Catchphrases * 1: "Well, excuuuuuse me!". * Steve Martin. * 2: "You look mahvelous!". * Billy Crystal. * 3: "Woo woo woo woo woo woo!". * Curly. * 4: "Here's another nice mess you've gotten us into". * Oliver Hardy. * 5: To Rochester: "Now cut that out!". * Jack Benny.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 315, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Do You Come Here Often? * 1: Bring your pet to the USA's National Cathedral on Oct. 4 for "The Blessing of the Animals" for this saint's feast day. * St. Francis of Assisi. * 2: Parents and kids gather each year at the White House for this event held on the Monday after Easter. * the Easter Egg Roll. * 3: Hindi faithful make regular pilgrimages to and bathe in this 1,560-mile river of Northern India. * the Ganges. * 4: In the 1820s thirsty explorers found an oasis here, Spanish for "the meadows"; 30 million now visit every year. * Las Vegas. * 5: Traditionally, crowds gather in New Orleans and party hearty before this first day of Lent. * Ash Wednesday.

Round 2. Category: Silent "K" * 1: A finger joint. * a knuckle. * 2: To fold and stretch bread dough into a smooth, uniform mass. * knead. * 3: It's a British term for women's underwear. * knickers. * 4: The sound of a bell rung ominously. * knell. * 5: A backpack for a hiker. * a knapsack.

Round 3. Category: The Godfather * 1: For him, it was "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and hello, godfatherhood to John Lennon's son Sean. * Elton John. * 2: Michael Jackson can leave his son, Prince Michael, "Home Alone" with this godfather. * Macaulay Culkin. * 3: The godfather of Madonna's son Rocco is this Police man, who left that musical force in 1984. * Sting. * 4: In 2001 Barry Bonds joined his godfather, this "Say Hey Kid" and fellow S.F. Giant, in the 500-HR club. * Willie Mays. * 5: Winona Ryder could've learned to "turn on, tune in, drop out" from him. * Timothy Leary.

Round 4. Category: Wonders Of America Stamps * 1: City where you'll find the USA's tallest man-made monument. * St. Louis. * 2: Bigger than 10 states, it's our largest lake. * Superior. * 3: California has the tallest trees, tallest dam, and tallest waterfall, which shares its name with this national park. * Yosemite. * 4: The peregrine type of this is the fastest bird, reaching 200 mph while plunging after prey. * falcon. * 5: More than 350 miles of passages have been mapped in this longest cave. * Mammoth Cave.

Round 5. Category: Newspapers And Magazines * 1: This women's publication is known as LHJ for short. * Ladies' Home Journal. * 2: Leading dailies in this state include the Providence Journal-Bulletin and The Times in Pawtucket. * Rhode Island. * 3: This organization publishes Boys' Life. * Boy Scouts. * 4: This Gannett Company publication has been dubbed "McPaper". * USA Today. * 5: By their names, it's the frequency of the News in Dayton and the Mail in London. * daily.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 314, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Creation Stories * 1: According to the gospel of St. John, in the beginning was this and it was God. * The word. * 2: This scientific theory suggests everything goes back to a single primeval event. * Big Bang Theory. * 3: In Eskimo lore, this black bird is a trickster-creator. * Raven. * 4: The oldest Greek myths feature Gaia, as Mother this. * Earth. * 5: The creation myth of these people involves Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl tearing Coatlicue apart. * Aztecs.

Round 2. Category: It's A Mystery! * 1: The title of this 1939 mystery by Raymond Chandler is a slang term for death. * The Big Sleep. * 2: This detecting couple whom Dashiell Hammett introduced in "The Thin Man" had a dog named Asta. * Nick and Nora Charles. * 3: The V.I. in this hard-boiled detective's name stands for Victoria Iphigenia. * V.I. Warshawski. * 4: Some editions of this Dickens novel begin, "An ancient English cathedral town..."; others say "tower"--it's a "Mystery"!. * The Mystery of Edwin Drood. * 5: "The Mystery of" her is Poe's sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". * Marie Roget.

Round 3. Category: Cooking Equipment * 1: Waffles are made in an iron and muffins are made in an implement named for this metal. * tin. * 2: Used to keep food warm, this "dish" is a container with a pan of hot water beneath it. * a chafing dish. * 3: Special round cutters are made to slice these Italian pies. * pizzas. * 4: A double one of these is often used to melt chocolate. * boiler. * 5: The mandoline, resembling a washboard, eases this process of cutting potatoes into matchlike strips. * julienning.

Round 4. Category: We Predict The Future! * 1: On Jan. 20, 2009 this man will lose his $400,000-a-year (plus 50 grand in expenses) federal government job. * George W. Bush. * 2: On March 1, 2022 we'll be celebrating "Fat Tuesday", this celebration, y'all. * Mardi Gras. * 3: By Dec. 31, 2010 this Bureau will have submitted state population totals to the president (well, it better have). * the Census. * 4: On July 20, 2010 this S. American country will kick back with some good coffee to celebrate 200 years of indep.. * Colombia. * 5: On July 27, 2012 the Summer Olympics will open in this world capital. * London.

Round 5. Category: Let's Play A Game! * 1: You can apologize (as the name says) when you send someone back to the start in this Parker Brothers board game. * Sorry!. * 2: Boggle is a word search game; you make words using wood tiles in this classic board game. * Scrabble. * 3: Collect pieces of cheese and build a zany contraption to try to catch your opponents in this board game. * Mouse Trap. * 4: The name of this game in which you stack hardwood blocks into a tower comes from a Swahili word for "to build". * Jenga. * 5: Find out which of Mr. Boddy's guests murdered him in his own mansion and with what weapon in this classic mystery game. * Clue.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 313, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Actresses * 1: This "Dynasty" star's real name is Carol Diahann Johnson. * Diahann Carroll. * 2: In 1991 Bruce Willis rented Six Flags Magic Mountain for this actress's 29th birthday party. * Demi Moore. * 3: This Oscar winner has made several TV guest appearances as "Roseanne"'s grandmother Nana Mary. * Shelley Winters. * 4: She vampired it up in "Underworld" and "Van Helsing". * Kate Beckinsale. * 5: Zoe Saldana played the Na'vi Neytiri in this 2009 blockbuster. * Avatar.

Round 2. Category: Haydn * 1: Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 in Rohrau, 25 miles east of this world capital to which he moved in 1740. * Vienna. * 2: Let me pump... you up (with info)--Joseph Haydn's middle name; this was his first name. * Franz. * 3: In 1781 Haydn befriended this composer from Salzburg, 10 years before his all-too-premature death. * Mozart. * 4: Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony was written this period in his work that translates into "storm and stress". * Sturm und Drang. * 5: Symphony No. 94 is called this for its unexpected loud chord shortly after the soft beginning of the 2nd movement. * the "Surprise Symphony".

Round 3. Category: Words From 2 Letters * 1: Jennifer Aniston won one in September 2002; her husband Brad was nominated, but didn't win. * M-E/Emmy. * 2: I can name this Native American dwelling in 2 letters. * T-P/tepee. * 3: In 1978 Jackson Browne was "Running on" these 2 letters. * M-T/empty. * 4: These 2 letters can often be seen growing on the sides of college buildings. * I-V/ivy. * 5: These 2 letters give you an adjective meaning sordid and unkempt. * C-D/seedy.

Round 4. Category: John Grisham's Law Books * 1: Type of document concerned with pelicans. * The Pelican Brief. * 2: Specifically, Bendini, Lambert and Locke. * The Firm. * 3: For lawyer Reggie Love, it's young Mark Sway. * The Client. * 4: Group that was "Runaway". * The Jury. * 5: Its prequel might be "The Last Will". * The Testament.

Round 5. Category: Blank Off! * 1: "The Jeffersons" was "moving on up" as one of these from "All In The Family". * a spin-off. * 2: A theft, cheat or swindle; what a.,.. * a rip-off. * 3: 8-letter term for an unlicensed copy of fashion clothing or purses. * a knockoff. * 4: A cancellation from accountants as a loss. * a write-off. * 5: Rain flowing from land into a stream, or a final contest between 2 first-place contestants. * a runoff.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 312, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Title References * 1: Matthew Fox and 47 others survive a plane crash but are stranded on a mysterious Pacific island. * Lost. * 2: On a primetime ABC soap, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman and their neighbors on Wisteria Lane. * Desperate Housewives. * 3: The Kansas hamlet that's home to the Kents. * Smallville. * 4: Patricia Arquette, who sees dead people. * The Medium. * 5: The McCallister brothers, one of whom becomes president in 2040. * Jack and Bobby.

Round 2. Category: Kids In Books * 1: "The Sword in the Stone" is a book about a kid who grows up to be this king. * King Arthur. * 2: Based on a real child, a kid named Christopher Robin hangs out with this literary bear. * Winnie the Pooh. * 3: This collie was the faithful friend of a kid named Joe in a book by British novelist Eric Knight. * Lassie. * 4: Mowgli is the human kid hanging out in the woods with wolves and tigers in this Rudyard Kipling "Book". * "The Jungle Book". * 5: She's Beezus Quimby's pesky young sister. * Ramona.

Round 3. Category: Sounds Like Ig-Pay Atin-Lay * 1: Unverified gossip or rumor; it's often excluded from court. * hearsay. * 2: The 2000 Robert Mondavi one has nuances of hazelnut and goes well with salmon. * Chardonnay. * 3: December 26, when British servants traditionally get gifts. * Boxing Day. * 4: Maryland's Severn River is an inlet of it. * Chesapeake Bay. * 5: A stream of electrons from a negatively charged electrode. * cathode ray.

Round 4. Category: New Food Products * 1: Introduced in 1982, it used the slogan "Just for the taste of it". * Diet Coke. * 2: A syrup named for this "Mrs." was introduced in 1961; a pancake mix with her name on it came out in 1982. * Mrs. Butterworth. * 3: Frank Epperson created it in 1923 when he pulled lemonade frozen onto a spoon out of a glass. * Popsicle. * 4: In 1993 Hershey introduced these white and milk chocolate treats as a companion to its Kisses. * Hugs. * 5: In 1998 Frito-Lay introduced this line of olean-containing chips nationwide. * WOW Chips.

Round 5. Category: Tonight Show Hosts * 1: He also hosted the game shows "Earn Your Vacation" and "Who Do You Trust?". * Johnny Carson. * 2: He is scheduled to take over the hosting duties in 2009. * Conan O'Brien. * 3: He walked off in the middle of the telecast after the network censored his "water closet" joke. * Jack Paar. * 4: He was married to Jayne Meadows. * Steve Allen. * 5: This glum-faced comic born Joseph Gottlieb guest hosted the show more than 150 times in the '60s and '70s. * Joey Bishop.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 310, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Modern History * 1: A 1978 secession from India's Congress Party formed the Congress (I), with the I standing for her. * Indira Gandhi. * 2: This ex-British PM announced in 1963 he wouldn't run again for Parliament, to which he was first elected in 1900. * Winston Churchill. * 3: In 1945 he declared Indonesia's independence and became its first president. * Sukarno. * 4: In 1967 a launch pad fire claimed the lives of Edward White, Roger Chaffee and this astronaut. * Virgil "Gus" Grissom. * 5: From 1931-33 excavations in this country uncovered the palaces of Kings Darius and Xerxes. * Iran (Persia).

Round 2. Category: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington * 1: Fort Dix is in this state's 4th District, repped by Chris Smith, who was elected to Congress at age 27. * New Jersey. * 2: William French Smith, who held this post, 1981-1985, had a key role in putting the 1st woman on the Supreme Court. * Attorney General. * 3: In 1996 Gordon Smith lost to Ron Wyden to replace Bob Packwood as a Sen. from this state; now they serve together. * Oregon. * 4: Washington's 9th District is represented by this man, who has the same name as a certain economist. * Adam Smith. * 5: Parts of Comal, Hays and Travis Counties make up the 21st District of this state's Rep. Lamar Smith. * Texas.

Round 3. Category: Smack Dab In The Middle * 1: In Park County, 30 miles northwest of Pike's Peak. * Colorado. * 2: In Kent County, 11 miles south of Dover. * Delaware. * 3: In Yavapai County, 55 miles east-southeast of Prescott. * Arizona. * 4: In Story County, 5 miles northeast of Ames. * Iowa. * 5: In Wexford County, 5 miles north-northwest of Cadillac. * Michigan.

Round 4. Category: Actor-Directors * 1: This actor directed an animal onscreen and off in 1998's "The Horse Whisperer". * Robert Redford. * 2: Replacing Kubrick as the director of 1961's "One-Eyed Jacks" was an offer this actor could not refuse. * Marlon Brando. * 3: This daughter of director John made her own directing debut with the TV movie "Bastard Out of Carolina". * Anjelica Huston. * 4: "The Great Dictator" (1940). * Charlie Chaplin. * 5: "One-Eyed Jacks" (1961). * Marlon Brando.

Round 5. Category: "S.a."S * 1: Geographically, it's made up of 12 nations and 2 dependencies. * South America. * 2: In 1891 a crab pot in San Francisco became this organization's first "kettle" for Christmas donations. * Salvation Army. * 3: A founding member of OPEC. * Saudi Arabia. * 4: It's not my fault, it's a 600-mile geologic fault zone stretching from southern to northern California. * San Andreas Fault. * 5: General Augusto Pinochet led a military coup that overthrew this president in 1973. * Salvador Allende.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 309, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lightning * 1: Lightning causes over 10,000 of these a year and Smokey the Bear is getting mad!. * forest fires. * 2: In the 1931 film, he used lightning to bring his monster to life. * Dr. Frankenstein. * 3: Of 25, 50, or 100 miles, the longest length lightning strokes can reach. * 100 miles. * 4: Aided by lightning each year, 100 million tons of this gas washes into the soil and becomes fertilizer. * Nitrogen. * 5: Unpunished in the Maxwell Anderson play, Rhoda is roasted by lightning in this movie's finale. * The Bad Seed.

Round 2. Category: "G"Eography * 1: This sacred river flows through Bangladesh before emptying into the Bay of Bengal. * Ganges. * 2: Syros, Skyros and Skiathos are just 3 of this Balkan country's many islands. * Greece. * 3: It left the Union--of Soviet Socialist Republics--April 9, 1991. * Georgia. * 4: Most of the Indians in this Central American country speak one of the Maya languages. * Guatemala. * 5: There's a British colony on this southern Spanish peninsula. * Gibraltar.

Round 3. Category: Brands * 1: The No. 1 breakfast cereal in the U.S. is the "honey nut" variety of these. * Cheerios. * 2: This city precedes "Fog" in the name of a brand of raincoats. * London. * 3: Ironically, commercials using a toy bunny to advertise this brand weren't meant to "keep going". * Energizer. * 4: Entrepreneur Herman, not Enron's Kenneth, launched this potato chip brand in 1938. * Lay's. * 5: This company's first washing machines were "So simple, a child could do it". * Maytag.

Round 4. Category: The Other Side Of The Hyphen * 1: To betray:double-. * Cross. * 2: To throw overboard:deep-. * Six. * 3: Short-circuit the ignition:hot-. * Wire. * 4: A 4-dimensional continuum:space-. * Time. * 5: Rustic or homespun:cracker-. * Barrel.

Round 5. Category: 1960s Sitcoms * 1: Its theme song tells us it's "the place to be, farm livin' is the life for me". * Green Acres. * 2: Paul Lynde played Samantha's Uncle Arthur for 7 seasons on this ABC sitcom. * "Bewitched". * 3: In "Get Smart" the spies at CONTROL were dedicated to defeating this evil organization. * KAOS. * 4: On "The Beverly Hillbillies", her real name was Daisy Moses. * Granny. * 5: It was the occupation of Jerry Helper, Rob and Laura Petrie's next door neighbor. * Dentist.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 308, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: At Last Count * 1: Americans eat about 11 billion slices of pizza a year, with this as the favorite topping. * Pepperoni. * 2: It's the all-time top-grossing film. * Titanic. * 3: Undergrad tuition at this Cambridge "institute" is over $26,000; room, board and books add another $10,000. * MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). * 4: The 3 largest U.S. national parks, totaling about 20 million acres, are in this state. * Alaska. * 5: The life expectancy in the U.S. is 76 years; this country between Spain and France is tops with over 83 years. * Andorra.

Round 2. Category: They Hate L.a. * 1: S.J. Perelman had a lot to say about this "cinematic" boulevard, like "it's tawdriness is unspeakable". * Hollywood Boulevard. * 2: This comedian who moved here in 1913 called L.A. ugly, hot and oppressive; we'd rather he'd stayed silent. * Charlie Chaplin. * 3: This "Schindler's List" star called L.A. a fascist place where people think they're moral because they jog. * Liam Neeson. * 4: In this 1977 movie Woody Allen says L.A.'s "only cultural advantage" is a right turn on a red light. * Annie Hall. * 5: An Oscar-nominated screenwriter in the 1930s, this witty woman called L.A. "a horror to me". * Dorothy Parker.

Round 3. Category: Barbs From The Bard * 1: The queen calls him "That bottled spider, that foul bunch-backed toad!". * Richard III. * 2: Othello calls her a "lewd minx". * Desdemona. * 3: He calls Claudius "Treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!" -- but not to his face. * Hamlet. * 4: Called a wasp by her wooer she says, "If I be waspish, best beware my sting". * Kate. * 5: Beatrice calls him "A very dull fool", then agrees to marry him. * Benedick.

Round 4. Category: Health And Medicine * 1: In some instances, the treatment of leukemia may call for a transplant of this bone tissue. * marrow. * 2: New studies have found artemether as effective as quinine in treating this disease. * Malaria. * 3: Sadly, about one in 100 adolescent girls suffers from either bulimia or this related eating disorder. * anorexia. * 4: Alexia is word blindness; this is a reading disability in which letters are reversed and /or transposed. * Dyslexia. * 5: This medical specialist also takes care of your hair and nails. * dermatologist.

Round 5. Category: Albums * 1: This Who album's title refers to the double schizophrenia of Jimmy, its protagonist. * Quadrophenia. * 2: His 1973 album "Aloha From Hawaii Via Satellite" was from a televised concert said to have reached 1 billion people. * Elvis Presley. * 3: His 1989 album "The End of the Innocence" won him a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal. * Don Henley. * 4: The soundtrack of this 1988 U2 film included "Angel of Harlem", recorded at Memphis' famed Sun Studios. * Rattle and Hum. * 5: In 2001 their "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" CD was certified 9 times platinum. * Smashing Pumpkins.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 307, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Movie Reviews * 1: (Hi, I'm Garry Marshall.) I directed this 1990 movie that the New York Times said "Borrows a thing or two from Pygmalion....but has its own....wit". * Pretty Woman. * 2: Variety said expand the scene in "Annie Hall" where Woody visits Diane Keaton's family and you've got this Ben Stiller comedy. * Meet The Parents. * 3: The Buffalo News called this Tom Hanks drama "the celebrity Survivor" and "a one man Gilligan's Island". * Cast Away. * 4: The Sacramento Bee said this film, Cameron Crowe's saga of '70s rock, is "Almost Fabulous". * Almost Famous. * 5: Entertainment Weekly called this John Travolta-Lisa Kudrow flick "A Lotto Malarkey". * Lucky Numbers.

Round 2. Category: Auto Focus * 1: The Town Car from this car line was originally built as a car for Henry Ford. * Lincoln. * 2: Incorporated in 1915, it designed its cars to withstand Sweden's rough roads and cold temperatures. * Volvo. * 3: An ad agency gave this car company a name standing for feline qualities like grace, elegance, power and agility. * Jaguar. * 4: Datsun, which became this company, was changed from Datson because son meant "loss" in Japanese. * Nissan. * 5: This new division of Toyota aims for Generation XA and XB. * the Scion.

Round 3. Category: Bodily Fluids * 1: The condition kerato conjunctivitis sicca is associated with reduction in the flow of these. * teardrops. * 2: Literally meaning "a breathing through", it's the polite word for fluid produced to keep the body cool. * perspiration. * 3: Ptyalin is an enzyme in this bodily fluid that helps break down starches. * saliva. * 4: The pale liquid portion of your blood, it's about 90% water. * plasma. * 5: When a woman's "water breaks", the sac that contains this fluid has ruptured. * amniotic fluid.

Round 4. Category: Volcanoes * 1: Its May 18, 1980 eruption was the first in the lower 48 states since California's Lassen Peak in 1921. * Mount Saint Helens. * 2: About its eruption in 79 A.D., an observer wrote that "broad sheets of fire and leaping flames blazed at several points". * Vesuvius. * 3: Mount Erebus in this continent's Victoria Land region was discovered by Sir James Ross in 1841. * Antarctica. * 4: This island nation has more than 100 active volcanoes including Krakatoa. * Indonesia. * 5: A specific eruption style is named for this Caribbean volcano that erupted in 1902, killing thousands. * Mt. Pelée.

Round 5. Category: Rock Singers * 1: His "Men In Black" single topped the U.K. charts but wasn't available as a commercial U.S. release. * Will Smith. * 2: This group's Brian Wilson adapted Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen" as "Surfin' USA". * The Beach Boys. * 3: 11 years after his last Top 20 solo hit, this "Sweet Caroline" singer had the third top-grossing tour of 1993. * Neil Diamond. * 4: In 1990 her "Justify My Love" became the first video by a major star to be banned by MTV. * Madonna. * 5: In 1989 he re-recorded 8 of his classic hits for the film biography "Great Balls Of Fire!". * Jerry Lee Lewis.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 306, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "I" Mean It * 1: This is it--actually, it's Latin for "it", and 1/3 of your psyche. * the id. * 2: In October 2005 this country's historic new constitution was adopted by voters. * Iraq. * 3: It's a narrow strip of land, with water on both sides, that connects 2 larger bodies of land. * an isthmus. * 4: Addressing Congress, FDR referred to December 7, 1941 as "a date which will live in" this. * infamy. * 5: In mythology, this goddess of the rainbow sometimes delivered messages for Hera. * Iris.

Round 2. Category: Going Nucular * 1: On TV this Springfield safety inspector once corrected someone who said nuclear instead of "nucular". * Homer Simpson. * 2: This president who often said "nucular" proposed the "Atoms for Peace" plan at the U.N.. * Eisenhower. * 3: Speechwriters for this 38th president often used "atomic" so he wouldn't say "nucular". * Ford. * 4: The St. Petersburg Times reports this Florida senator, a 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, said, "It doesn't pronounce the way it looks". * (Bob) Graham. * 5: On the PBS Newshour, Les Aspin, this president's Secretary of Defense, shot off "nucular" weapons. * Clinton.

Round 3. Category: Stage Names * 1: In 2000 he ditched that weird symbol, so now he's the Artist Formerly Known as the Artist Formerly Known as this. * Prince. * 2: Marshall Mathers is the real name of the rapper who performs using this 1-word nickname. * Eminem. * 3: These "boys" go by the names King Ad-Rock, Mike D and MCA. * The Beastie Boys. * 4: Dick Clark's wife noticed that Ernest Evans looked like a teenage Fats Domino, hence this stage name. * Chubby Checker. * 5: Riley is the first name of this guitarist whose stage initials stand for "Blues Boy". * B.B. King.

Round 4. Category: Something's Fishy * 1: Holy mackerel! The northern bluefin, the largest species of this fish, may reach a length of 14 feet. * tuna. * 2: Varieties of this ornamental carp include lionhead and comet. * goldfish. * 3: It's the double talk name for the tropical food fish also known as the dolphinfish. * mahimahi. * 4: The most common species of this commercial fish is red; it doesn't turn orange until it's out of the water. * roughy. * 5: In England the dogfish species of this sea creature is often used in preparing fish and chips. * the shark.

Round 5. Category: The Cabinet * 1: On September 15, 1789 the Department of Foreign Affairs changed its name to this. * Department of State. * 2: The Comptroller of the Currency operates under the auspices of this cabinet department. * Treasury. * 3: When founded on May 15, 1862, it had only a commissioner, 4 clerks, 1 gardener and his aides. * Department of Agriculture. * 4: It's been described as "The custodian of the nation's natural resources". * Department of the Interior. * 5: In 1979 Health, Education and Welfare was split into the Dept. of Education and this department. * Health and Human Services.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 305, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Declaration Of Independence Signers * 1: We all know John Hancock signed it, but how many of you know he did it representing this state. * Massachusetts. * 2: He's the only signer the World Almanac lists with the occupation "printer, publisher". * Benjamin Franklin. * 3: Francis Lewis was the only signer born in this U.K. country--he was from Llandaff. * Wales. * 4: Before Benjamin Harrison landed the job of signer, he was getting his hands dirty in this occupation. * farmer. * 5: Elder statesman John Witherspoon was the only clergyman to sign; he was part of this church of "Elders". * Presbyterian.

Round 2. Category: A"Ha" * 1: Its nicknames include the "Paradise of the Pacific" and "The Pineapple State". * Hawaii. * 2: Well, Praise the Lord! It means "Praise the Lord". * Hallelujah. * 3: In 1640 Henry Dunster became this university's first president; he was also the entire faculty. * Harvard. * 4: Type of men's store once owned by Harry Truman. * Haberdashery. * 5: This king's reign has been referred to as the Golden Age of Babylon. * Hammurabi.

Round 3. Category: Nations Of Africa * 1: Add 2 letters to Niger to get the name of this country just south of it. * Nigeria. * 2: In a song title, this country whose capital is Nairobi might come before "Feel the Love Tonight". * Kenya. * 3: In a song title, this country whose capital is Accra might come before "Fly Now". * Ghana. * 4: (Hi, I'm NBA All-Star Dikembe Mutombo) One of the many languages I speak is this official one of my birthplace, Congo. * French. * 5: Milton Obote, no bargain either, ran this country before and after Idi Amin. * Uganda.

Round 4. Category: Jon Stewart's America * 1: "This follow-up to 'The Articles of Confederation' is the rare sequel that's more bicameral than the original!". * the Constitution. * 2: He was "quoted" as saying, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself...oh, and starvation. We might all starve". * Franklin Roosevelt. * 3: This D.C. building's rotunda "was made famous by the Stephen Baldwin/Pauly Shore vehicle Bio-Rotunda". * the Capitol. * 4: This 1215 document "served as a wake-up call that Europe would be forced to answer...in about 500 years". * the Magna Carta. * 5: This mascot "is like Uncle Sam, only shorter and fatter, clearly playing to the British infatuation with stoutness". * John Bull.

Round 5. Category: American Novelists * 1: Tired of whaling, he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in July 1842 and lived there for a month. * (Hermann) Melville. * 2: Having served on a mine-sweeper during World War II, he wrote about one in "The Caine Mutiny". * Herman Wouk. * 3: This author of "The Good Earth" wrote 5 books using the pseudonym John Sedges. * Pearl Buck. * 4: This "tasty" author bakes her novels a while: 1992's "The Secret History" was her 1st, and "The Goldfinch" from 2013 is her 3rd. * Donna Tartt. * 5: This "tasty" author bakes her novels a while: 1992's "The Secret History" was her 1st, and "The Goldfinch" from 2013 is her 3rd. * Donna Tartt.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 304, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: College Bowl * 1: When completed in 1923, this Ann Arbor school's Yost Field House was the first field house on a college campus. * the University of Michigan. * 2: The colors of Notre Dame's athletic teams are blue and this. * Gold. * 3: Sports teams from Grambling, Clemson and Auburn share this nickname. * Tigers. * 4: Following the Civil War, the University of Florida moved from Ocala to this city. * Gainesville. * 5: From 1953 to 1991 the University of Leipzig was named for this co-founder of scientific socialism. * Karl Marx.

Round 2. Category: Literary Pop * 1: Welsh singer Thomas John Woodward became this after his boss compared him to a Henry Fielding character. * Tom Jones. * 2: This techno musician got his name from a book about a big ocean mammal. * Moby. * 3: The band Veruca Salt took its name from the spoiled rich girl in this Roald Dahl children's book. * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. * 4: This band was born to be wild enough to take its name from a Herman Hesse novel. * Steppenwolf. * 5: These mega-cool rockers took their band name from an Aldous Huxley book about using mescaline. * the Doors.

Round 3. Category: Let's Go Cruising * 1: Princess Cruises now offer scuba and volleyball as well as this beloved game that uses cues to push disks. * shuffleboard. * 2: The person who handles passengers' accounts; Gopher on "The Love Boat" was an assistant one. * a purser. * 3: This Virgin Island with its city of Charlotte Amalie is among the most popular Caribbean ports of call. * St. Thomas. * 4: You can sail from Southampton on this Cunard liner that has covered 5.3 mil. nautical miles, a record for any ship. * the QE2. * 5: Term for a woman who christens a cruise ship, like Kim Cattral for Norwegian Dawn and Judi Dench for Carnival Legend. * the godmother.

Round 4. Category: It's Jason's Bar Mitzvah * 1: Like most of his peers, Jason has his bar mitzvah on this day of the week. * Saturday. * 2: Jason was jealous when twin sister Jennifer had this equivalent ceremony at age 12. * Bat Mitzvah. * 3: This synagogue employee, also called a hazan, taught Jason how to chant his Torah portion. * Cantor. * 4: Jason's guests may dance to this type of Jewish folk music, from Hebrew for "musical instruments". * Klezmer music. * 5: Jason settled for his parents' temple but wanted to celebrate at this site on the Temple Mount. * Wailing/Western Wall.

Round 5. Category: Bitter Battles * 1: The Confederate victory at Chancellorsville paved the way for this early July 1863 Pennsylvania battle. * Gettysburg. * 2: The 1824 battle of Ayacucho marked the end of this European country's power in South America. * Spain. * 3: The Battle of Austerlitz, one of his greatest victories, is sometimes called the Battle of the Three Emperors. * Napoleon. * 4: The Battle of the Argonne during this war was part of a general offensive against the Hindenburg line. * World War I. * 5: The recapture of Antwerp was a goal of this 1944-45 battle, Germany's last great offensive in the West. * Battle of the Bulge.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 303, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Band Names * 1: The name of this Houston trio honors Texas bluesman Z.Z. Hill. * ZZ Top. * 2: A road sign inspired the name of this band from the land "Down Under". * Men at Work. * 3: Debbie Harry had often been called this, so it was "a natural" for the name of her band. * Blondie. * 4: This "Money For Nothing" group was named for its sorry financial condition. * Dire Straits. * 5: The last name adopted by all members of this punk band was an alias used by Paul McCartney. * The Ramones (Ramone accepted).

Round 2. Category: Yum... Candy! * 1: Some of this company's fine chocolates are embossed with its naked lady on a horse logo. * Godiva. * 2: Chick-O-Sticks aren't chicken-flavored; they're made from peanut butter and this tropical treat. * coconut. * 3: In 1997 this candy introduced a female character who's green; she called her autobiography "I Melt For No One". * M and M's. * 4: The candy once marketed as "Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies" is sold under this brand name today. * Russell Stover. * 5: It was the last name of the brothers who perfected their now-famous English toffee bar back in 1928. * Heath.

Round 3. Category: "In" Places * 1: In February 1994 an earthquake struck the island of Sumatra in this nation, killing 215 people. * Indonesia. * 2: Civilization in the valley of this Pakistani river dates back about 4500 years. * the Indus River. * 3: Technically, it comprises the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. * the West Indies. * 4: This capital of Tyrol has hosted 2 Winter Olympic games. * Innsbruck. * 5: This Missouri city is headquarters to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. * Independence.

Round 4. Category: Pugilists * 1: This boxer liked his nickname "Marvelous Marvin" so much that he had his name legally changed. * Marvin Hagler. * 2: In a 27-year ring career, Archie Moore set a record by winning the most bouts, 141, in this way. * a knockout. * 3: 3 Rays have won Olympic gold medals in boxing for the U.S.: Ray Mercer, Ray Seales and this "sweet" guy. * "Sugar" Ray Leonard. * 4: This bare-knuckles heavyweight champ was known as "The Great John L.". * Sullivan. * 5: 1 of 2 men to whom Floyd Patterson lost the World Heavyweight title. * Ingemar Johansson (or Sonny Liston).

Round 5. Category: Hollywood Blvd. * 1: In June 1999 the Metro Rail opened a station named for this world-famous intersection. * Hollywood and Vine. * 2: In 1994 Schwarzenegger's size 12 boot prints were planted in its "Forecourt of the Stars". * Mann's Chinese Theatre (or Grauman's Chinese Theatre). * 3: These awards are slated to return to the boulevard at a new theatre in 2001. * Academy Awards (Oscars). * 4: June 16, 1999 was "Another Day In Paradise" when this composer got a star on the Walk of Fame. * Phil Collins. * 5: Cybill Shepherd has sung in this hotel's Cinegrill. * Roosevelt Hotel.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 302, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Line 'Em Up * 1: From largest in area to smallest:Australia, United States, Russia. * Russia, United States, Australia. * 2: From farthest away to closest to the Earth:Uranus, Mars, Pluto. * Pluto, Uranus, Mars. * 3: From earliest movie to most recent:"The Birds", "Birdman of Alcatraz", "The Birdcage". * Birdman of Alcatraz, The Birds, The Birdcage. * 4: From longest river to shortest:The Volga, The Nile, The Po. * Nile, Volga, Po. * 5: From north to south:Warsaw, Pretoria, Helsinki. * Helsinki, Warsaw, Pretoria.

Round 2. Category: Rhyme Quest * 1: A final, as in a final exam. * a test. * 2: Better than better. * best. * 3: Repose. * rest. * 4: A soiree invitee (if he shows up). * a guest. * 5: Gusto. * zest.

Round 3. Category: Novel Vocabulary * 1: Flaysome, a synonym for frightful, appears in this Emily Bronte novel. * "Wuthering Heights". * 2: In "Bleak House" this author used the word "swipes" for weak beer. * Dickens. * 3: In "Animal Farm" Major is a prize boar whose "tushes had never been cut" (tushes being these). * tusks. * 4: In "A Tale of Two Cities", Jerry Cruncher is a "resurrection-man"--defined as a person who steals and sells these. * corpses. * 5: In "Emma", Emma speaks of being in Broadway-lane when "it began to mizzle", which means this. * drizzle (mist accepted).

Round 4. Category: Classic Cartoon Characters * 1: ("Canadian Mountie"). * Dudley Do-Right. * 2: (alliterative Hanna-Barbera pooch). * Huckleberry Hound. * 3: ("Have no fear..."). * Underdog. * 4: Jay Ward and Bill Scott created this moose and squirrel. * Rocky and Bullwinkle. * 5: This cartoon character from Bedrock is a large purple-ish pet snorkasaurus. * Dino.

Round 5. Category: The Library * 1: On most reference books in your local library, you'll find this letter above the call number. * R. * 2: When a book has been checked out it's said to be "in" this. * circulation. * 3: Sethe, a former slave, is haunted by the ghost of her daughter, whom she killed, in this Toni Morrison novel. * Beloved. * 4: Shirley Jones played this part by the book in "The Music Man". * (Marion the) librarian. * 5: For some really deep reading, grab this ancient Greek philosopher's "Physics" or "Metaphysics". * Aristotle.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 301, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Recent Films * 1: Mud Island, a Memphis tourist attraction, and its monorail are featured in this 1993 Tom Cruise film. * "The Firm". * 2: Miami dentist Cuba Gooding Jr. inherits a team of sled-pullers in this 2002 film. * Snow Dogs. * 3: This pop sensation starred in 2002's "Crossroads", about some friends who take a road trip. * Britney Spears. * 4: As in the TV series, this actor provided the voice of Charlie, the Angels' unseen boss, in "Charlie's Angels". * John Forsythe. * 5: Part of this unusual epic based on a Virginia Woolf novel was shot in Uzbekistan. * Orlando.

Round 2. Category: Shakespearean Name Roundup * 1: This "King" of the Sitcom based Archie Bunker on his father and Maude on his wife. * Norman Lear. * 2: This chef was born one dreamy midsummer in Austria in 1949. * Wolfgang Puck. * 3: This modern dance pioneer lost her 2 children to a 1913 auto accident before dying in one herself. * Isadora Duncan. * 4: This prime minister left the Likud party in 2005 to form a new centrist party, Kadima. * Ariel Sharon. * 5: She went to medical school at Johns Hopkins before hosting a literary group and hanging out with Hemingway. * Gertude Stein.

Round 3. Category: "Black" Movies * 1: George Segal played Sam Spade Jr. in this 1975 film satirizing "The Maltese Falcon". * The Black Bird. * 2: Leonard Maltin described the 1971 British film version of this Anna Sewell tale as "average horse opera". * Black Beauty. * 3: In this film Theresa Russell played a young woman who seduced, married and then murdered wealthy men. * Black Widow. * 4: This 1929 Hitchcock movie, his and England's 1st talkie, was shot originally as a silent. * Blackmail. * 5: This 1979 Disney sci-fi film starring Maximilian Schell was nominated for an Oscar for Visual Effects. * The Black Hole.

Round 4. Category: Who Might Have Said It? * 1: A president in 1841: "Honey, did I talk too long when it was so cold? Ah-choo!". * William Henry Harrison. * 2: The leading man on "24": "I can't believe this cell phone works in this lead-lined bunker. Who's our carrier?". * Jack Bauer. * 3: From Homer's Iliad: "I know they all think I'm a hottie, but I can't believe they launched a thousand ships". * Helen of Troy. * 4: On "60 Minutes": "Have you ever wondered about Post-Its?". * Andy Rooney. * 5: From Shakespeare: "Enjoy the pies, Tamorra. I wish your sons were here. Oh, they are". * Titus Andronicus.

Round 5. Category: Manimals * 1: In 1883 he opened his Wild West Show in Omaha, Nebraska. * Buffalo Bill Cody. * 2: In 1997 he broke Jack Nicklaus' 32-year-old Masters record of 17 under par. * Tiger Woods. * 3: In the victory column, this Alabamian has 4 more than Pop Warner. * Bear Bryant. * 4: On "Another Saturday Night" you'll find him "Sitting" on a "Peace Train" until "Morning Has Broken". * Cat Stevens. * 5: This "Good Morning, Vietnam" star once studied drama with John Houseman. * Robin Williams.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 300, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Rhymes With Power * 1: A tall building or structure. * tower. * 2: One carnation or one buttercup. * a flower. * 3: A light rain. * a shower. * 4: 3,600 seconds. * an hour. * 5: To cringe in fear. * cower.

Round 2. Category: World Costume * 1: Meaning "leather shorts", they can be seen at German festivals like Oktoberfest. * Lederhosen. * 2: Zipperless pants called broadfalls are worn by this U.S. group named for Jacob Ammann. * Amish. * 3: From Spanish for cape, this garment, a cloak with a hole in the middle, is common among Bolivian countrymen. * Poncho. * 4: It's been popular in the U.S. since the '60s and is still worn in Africa. * Dashiki. * 5: Hats worn in this country, unlike those just named for it, are braided, not woven. * Panama.

Round 3. Category: Get The Vibe * 1: You'll use these vibrating organs in your throat to give your response. * vocal cords. * 2: Named for an American seismologist, this kind of "scale" keeps track of earthquake vibes. * Richter scale. * 3: Any vibe with sounds higher than 120 of these units can be painful to the human ear. * decibels. * 4: If you hear this venomous reptile vibrating its segmented tail end, back off!. * a rattlesnake. * 5: These animals studied in ichthyology have no external ears and use skull vibrations to hear. * fish.

Round 4. Category: Spanning The Globe * 1: Haiphong, Cam Ranh and Dong Hoi are all important cities in this country. * Vietnam. * 2: At an altitude of 12,000 feet, this Bolivian city is the highest national capital. * La Paz. * 3: Made from fermented cabbage, radishes, red peppers and spices, kimchi is the national dish of this land. * Korea. * 4: The Venus Beach Hotel is at Paphos on this Mediterranean isle where Venus is said to have come out of the sea. * Cyprus. * 5: This most populous African country's main ethnic groups are the Hausa, Fulani, Igbo and Yoruba. * Nigeria.

Round 5. Category: A Windy Category * 1: The 1967 NFL "Ice Bowl" game was played in -46 degrees, if you include this factor. * wind chill. * 2: A typical warm winter wind of Switzerland is called Schneefresser, meaning "eater" of this. * snow. * 3: Like hurricanes, these pacific tropical cyclones get names; Omar devastated Guam in 1992. * typhoons. * 4: It's best to bring your boat in on this side of the dock, meaning the side the wind reaches last. * leeward. * 5: (Video clip from the Science Center of Minnesota) It's believed that tornadoes begin with a rising current of warm air called this, which eventually starts rotating. * updraft.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 299, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Mm" Bop * 1: If I can never die, I'm this. * Immortal. * 2: On the football field, this line separates the Lions from the Bears. * Line of scrimmage. * 3: IDG books "For" these people include ones on "Bird Watching", "Opera" and "Windows 98". * Dummies. * 4: "Tell me more" about this song from "Grease". * "Summer Nights". * 5: For 1/3 and 1/4, it's 12. * Lowest common denominator.

Round 2. Category: Put Out The China * 1: This Chinese dictator was born December 26, 1893 in the city of Shaoshan. * Mao Tse-tung. * 2: After a 3,900-mile journey, this Chinese river flows into the East China Sea. * the Yangtze. * 3: The name of this Chinese-American stew of meat and vegetables translates into English as "mixed bits". * chop suey. * 4: Wushu is the Chinese word for martial arts; this term more familiar to TV watchers means any acquired skill. * kung fu. * 5: In Chinese, Wanli Changcheng is the name of this formidable construction. * the Great Wall of China.

Round 3. Category: The Art Of War * 1: This attack during the Battle of Balaklava inspired a painting by Richard Caton Woodville and a poem by Tennyson. * the Charge of the Light Brigade. * 2: Far from Trenton, Emanuel Leutze probably used the Rhine as a model for his painting of "Washington Crossing" this. * the Delaware. * 3: It's the 1836 battle captured here by Kirk Stirnweis. * The Alamo. * 4: Seen here, "Leave No One Behind", by Joe Klein, depicts a scene from this war. * Vietnam War. * 5: Archibald Willard first planned to call his painting of 2 Revolutionary War drummers and a fife player "Yankee Doodle". * "The Spirit of '76".

Round 4. Category: Oz * 1: This character gets a ride (likely to his home in Omaha) in the balloon meant to take Dorothy to Kansas. * the Wizard. * 2: The Wicked Witch's golden cap allows her to summon these to do her bidding 3 times. * the flying monkeys. * 3: Dorothy followed the Yellow Brick Road to this place, the capital of Oz. * the Emerald City. * 4: One chapter is called "The Magic Art of the Great" this 6-letter word meaning a hoax or fraud. * humbug. * 5: In L. Frank Baum's original book, this, not ruby, is the color of Dorothy's slippers. * silver.

Round 5. Category: Ordinal Number, Please * 1: (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):Street in the title of the following: (audio clue - instrumental). * "42nd Street". * 2: It's where Washington was in war, in peace and in the hearts of his countrymen. * First. * 3: "Nervous Breakdown" the Rolling Stones suffered in the '60s. * Nineteenth. * 4: Shakespeare's "night" to remember. * Twelfth. * 5: In "The Music Man", the penultimate trombonist in "The Big Parade". * 75th.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 298, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Premiere * 1: It was sporty of a posh fellow like Prince Charles to turn out for this singing group's first movie in 1997. * The Spice Girls. * 2: This Beatles film premiered in London on July 6, 1964. * A Hard Day's Night. * 3: Disney didn't take this film's 1996 premiere to Paris, but to the French Quarter of New Orleans. * The Hunchback of Notre Dame. * 4: When this 1995 film premiered in Scotland, director Mel Gibson wore a kilt and danced the Highland Fling. * Braveheart. * 5: Sadly, this late singer was unable to attend the Texas premiere of the movie about her, but husband Chris Perez did. * Selena.

Round 2. Category: Biblical Speakers Bureau * 1: "I am Esau thy first born". * Jacob. * 2: "The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat". * Eve. * 3: "Miserable comforters are ye all". * Job. * 4: "Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it". * Solomon. * 5: "I do not know the man". * Simon Peter.

Round 3. Category: Democrats * 1: This former Tennessee senator and current V.P. has been called "Prince Albert". * Al Gore. * 2: Initials in common to all members of Lyndon Johnson's family. * L.B.J.. * 3: Chrysler Corp. pres. considered by some Dems. as potential V.P. material. * Lee Iacocca. * 4: In 1998 Tom Harkin and this Tom, the Senate's Democratic leader, chaired a hearing on hog prices. * Tom Daschle. * 5: Hubert Humphrey's running mate in '68. * Edmund Muskie.

Round 4. Category: "Man"Ly Words And Phrases * 1: In the nursery rhyme, this line precedes "Bake me a cake as fast as you can". * "Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man". * 2: It follows "That's one small step for a man,...". * "One Giant Leap for Mankind". * 3: Term for an electorate's wishes that its representatives carry out a certain program. * Mandate. * 4: Tube pasta filled with meat and cheese and served with tomato sauce. * Manicotti. * 5: This dog named for its breeder originated in Apolda, Germany in the 1890s. * Doberman Pinscher.

Round 5. Category: Tv 3 Of A Kind * 1: On "Seinfeld" these characters were Jerry's 3 closest friends. * Elaine, George and Kramer. * 2: The 3 sisters on "The Brady Bunch". * Cindy, Jan and Marcia. * 3: The first names of the 3 sons on "Bonanza". * Adam, Hoss and Little Joe. * 4: The 3 occupants of 704 Hauser Street before Mike Stivic moved in. * Archie, Edith and Gloria Bunker. * 5: First and last names of the 3 bandmates of Peter Tork. * Micky Dolenz, David Jones and Michael Nesmith.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 297, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Been There... * 1: This country is in the east of a subcontinent. * Bangladesh. * 2: This nation sticks out like a sore thumb. * Denmark. * 3: It extends about 3,200 miles from east to west. * Indonesia. * 4: You don't hear so much about the East Bank where this country is. * Jordan. * 5: Formerly a British protectorate, it's the republic outlined here. * Zambia.

Round 2. Category: Storytellers * 1: "Call him" the narrator of "Moby Dick". * Ishmael. * 2: Some sources say it was Carnegie Hall; others say it was the '67 Newport Festival where he first sang "Alice's Restaurant". * Arlo Guthrie. * 3: In addition to her "Fairie Tale Theatre", she now has "Tall Tales and Legends" playing on cable. * Shelly Duvall. * 4: He wrote his first 2 novels, "A Time to Kill" and "The Firm", while serving in the Mississippi legislature. * John Grisham. * 5: His "True at First Light", about an African safari, was published in 1999, 38 years after his suicide. * Hemingway.

Round 3. Category: Beatle Wannabes? * 1: This prosecutor struck up the band for Bill Clinton's impeachment with his report. * (Kenneth) Starr. * 2: Known as a great orator, this president sang the praises for the Sherman Antitrust Act he signed into law. * Benjamin Harrison. * 3: Bill McCartney's harmony with Jesus led him to quit as football coach of this University's Buffaloes. * Colorado. * 4: Imagine Thomas Lennon's success with this Comedy Central show he co-created in which he plays Lt. Dangle. * Reno 911!. * 5: Son of Constantine I, Paul I became a solo act after succeeding George II as king of this country. * Greece.

Round 4. Category: Projectiles * 1: In this sport you carry your projectiles in a quiver. * archery. * 2: At the end of "The Dating Game", Jim Lange invited couples to throw these "projectiles" to the audience. * kisses. * 3: Star-shaped projectiles were in the arsenal of these feudal Japanese mercenaries similar to samurai. * ninjas. * 4: The projectiles fly at 150 mph and can kill in this fronton-based game. * jai alai. * 5: It's the discharge of several projectiles or a return tennis shot made before the ball hits the ground. * a volley.

Round 5. Category: Good Doggie * 1: The Pembroke variety of this breed is popular with royalty. * corgis. * 2: Lord Tweedsmuir bred some yellow these to produce the breed we know as golden these. * retrievers. * 3: This breed was originally raised by the Romans to fight lions. * a Rottweiler. * 4: The pharaohs bred this ancient dog, also called the gazelle hound. * salukis. * 5: The name of this breed comes from a Slavic word meaning "swift". * a Borzoi.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 296, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "W"Ords * 1: Walk like a duck. * Waddle. * 2: It can mean to exercise power, or to handle and use a weapon. * Wield. * 3: To hone or stimulate, like an appetite or one's curiosity. * to whet. * 4: Ah-one and ah-two, it's the marine snail in the photo looking at you. * Whelk. * 5: An intense desire to travel, or a best seller by Danielle Steel. * Wanderlust.

Round 2. Category: When You're "Hot" * 1: It's slang for the electric chair. * the hot seat. * 2: Empty, exaggerated talk is just a lot of this. * hot air. * 3: A little horse sense will tell you it means eager to race. * hot to trot. * 4: Hotheads know this phrase for "angry" comes from the blush of red they get around the neck. * hot under the collar. * 5: Their hit "Give It Away" won this alternative rock band a 1993 Grammy. * Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Round 3. Category: 4 Years * 1: In Julius Caesar's time this month had 30 days once every 4 years. * February. * 2: In 1960 Abebe Bikila won this Olympic event barefoot; 4 years later he won it again, this time wearing shoes. * Marathon. * 3: He was the first U.S. president to serve just 4 years. * John Adams. * 4: His book "Daisy-Head Maysie" was published in 1995, 4 years after his death. * Dr. Seuss. * 5: Every 4 years the Boy Scouts hold international rallies known as these. * Jamborees.

Round 4. Category: The European Past * 1: July 14, 1789 was the Marquis de Launay's last day as governor of this edifice. * the Bastille. * 2: While N. European sailors navigated by stars, Mediterraneans like Columbus relied mainly on this instrument. * the compass. * 3: This 5th emperor built baths with running sea- and sulphur water; he should have used them to put out the fire. * Nero. * 4: After World War II signs marking the entrance to East Berlin were usually in German and these 3 other languages. * English, French and Russian. * 5: In 1323 this current part of the Netherlands gained control of Zeeland. * Holland.

Round 5. Category: The Jep-Tones World Tour 2006 * 1: More popular than Regis, the Jeps play their last stadium gig in San Francisco, like this band did on Aug. 29, 1966. * The Beatles. * 2: After a stint with the Maharishi, the group tries Kaballah with this singer whose hits include "Beautiful Stranger". * Madonna. * 3: The Jeps cover this group's 1988 Top 10 hit "Welcome To The Jungle", until the inevitable cease- and -desist order. * Guns N' Roses. * 4: No way! The Jeps' "Potpourri" video isn't the 2005 VMA Viewer's Choice; this band's "American Idiot" is. * Green Day. * 5: Oops... the 'Tones hire Mensa's Angels as security at this speedway in California, site of a 1969 free concert by the Stones. * Altamont.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 295, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 295, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 295, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 295, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Sweet Ad Lines * 1: This product claims to be "Finger Lickin' Good". * Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). * 2: Teddy Roosevelt was the first to remark that this coffee was "Good to the Last Drop". * Maxwell House. * 3: This brand is "Everything You Always Wanted in a Beer....and Less". * Miller Lite. * 4: If you "Get A Piece of the Rock" you'll have this company's insurance. * Prudential. * 5: It's the answer to the advertising question "How Do You Spell Relief?". * "R-O-L-A-I-D-S" (Rolaids).

Round 2. Category: "Alley" Ways * 1: It's the feline equivalent of a stray mutt. * Alley cat. * 2: Classic comic strips include "Gasoline Alley" and this title caveman. * "Alley Oop". * 3: Type of venue in which you'd hear the terms turkey, strike and split being bandied about. * Bowling alley. * 4: On August 25, 1991 she took home an Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy Series. * Kirstie Alley. * 5: A mistaken course or direction may take you up one of these. * a blind alley.

Round 3. Category: Biblical Garden * 1: Moses saw one of these burning but not consumed. * a bush. * 2: Psalm 92 says, "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in" this country. * Lebanon. * 3: 1963 Sidney Poitier film whose title comes from the flowers Jesus referred to in Matthew 6:28. * Lilies of the Field. * 4: Isaiah predicted, "The desert shall rejoice and blossom as" this flower. * the rose. * 5: In Mark chapter 11, Jesus found 1 of these trees w/out fruit and said, "No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever". * the fig tree.

Round 4. Category: Symptoms Of Affluenza * 1: You get the sweats thinking about this car company's Silver Shadow, Silver Cloud or Phantom model. * Rolls-Royce. * 2: Shortness of breath ordering 2 boxes of Cohiba cigars, first made in this country. * Cuba. * 3: You get weak-kneed fondling a tournament mallet used during chukkers in this sport. * polo. * 4: Heart palpitations when mentioning the Carnegie Abbey Members Only Club at Narragansett Bay in this state. * Rhode Island. * 5: Shivers walking through 718 Fifth Ave., the jewelry house of this "King of Diamonds". * Harry Winston.

Round 5. Category: Milking Cows * 1: I think I could do a better job of milking a cow than Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton did on this reality series in 2003. * The Simple Life. * 2: A 1903 Broadway musical version of "The Wizard of Oz" featured this farm girl singing about milking cows. * Dorothy. * 3: Eleanor the cow swallowed Eb's radio on "Music to Milk By", a 1967 episode of this classic down-on-the-farm sitcom. * Green Acres. * 4: Possum Sweetheart was one contented cow, producing 37,381 lbs. of milk for this company in 1920 alone. * Carnation. * 5: A movie heartthrob turns out to be a natural at milking cows in the 2003 film called "Win a Date with" him. * Tad Hamilton.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 294, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Words For Two * 1: It's a musical composition for 2 voices or 2 instruments. * Duet. * 2: Word for 2 cards of the same value in a poker game. * Pair. * 3: They can be fraternal or identical. * Twins. * 4: In other words, "Similar as 2 legume fruits in a seed holder". * "Like two peas in a pod". * 5: On a riverboat, it's how you would "Mark" water that's 2 fathoms deep. * Twain.

Round 2. Category: Fdr * 1: Referring to the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR called December 7, 1941 "A date which will" do this. * "Live in Infamy". * 2: FDR gave the first of these talks March 12, 1933 from the White House diplomatic reception room. * Fireside Chats. * 3: While attending this school, FDR was editor of its newspaper, The Crimson. * Harvard. * 4: FDR was born and is now buried in this town on the Hudson River. * Hyde Park. * 5: During this 1932 campaign, FDR relied on a trusted group of advisers dubbed this --- pretty smart. * Brain Trust.

Round 3. Category: Colors En Espanol * 1: To be "en numeros rojos" means to be in this color. * red. * 2: In kids' drawings el sol is amarillo, this color. * yellow. * 3: As its name says, salsa verde is made with chiles and tomatillos that are this color. * green. * 4: Azul, this color, can be marino or celeste. * blue. * 5: Spanish painter Juan Gris has a last name that means this color. * gray.

Round 4. Category: Temple * 1: From the Greek for "assembly", it's a temple for Jewish religious worship. * Synagogue. * 2: Her last starring film performance was in 1949's "The Story of Seabiscuit". * Shirley Temple. * 3: Jachin and Boaz were the names of the 2 pillars at the entrance to this king's temple. * Solomon. * 4: The Reverend Jim Jones led this sect to its ultimate doom. * The People's Temple. * 5: In Amritsar, India Sikhs seek out this temple, the center of their faith. * Golden Temple.

Round 5. Category: Don't Bug Me! * 1: The spider species Argyroneta aquatica lives mostly in this environment. * water. * 2: In Africa, some nests of these wood-eating insects can reach a height of 20 feet. * termites. * 3: This large, hairy bee is one of the few insects that can control its body temperature. * bumblebee. * 4: Some scientists use the term hexapod in referring to insects; hexapod is Greek for this many legs. * 6. * 5: Also called loopers, spanworms and measuring worms, they are actually the caterpillars of moths. * inchworms.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 293, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ink * 1: If your business is losing money, you're awash in this color ink. * Red. * 2: Company that makes the Eraser Mate, a pen that has erasable ink. * Paper Mate. * 3: From Latin roots meaning "cannot be obliterated", it describes ink that's permanent. * Indelible. * 4: 1988 film that featured a will written in Acme disappearing and re-appearing ink. * "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". * 5: His test, developed in 1921, includes 5 multicolored inkblots. * Herman Rohrshach.

Round 2. Category: Teen People * 1: These cover girls of the issue turned 18 on June 13, 2004. * Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. * 2: In 1998 Brandy and this teen country diva were among the "Hottest Stars Under 21". * LeAnn Rimes. * 3: Talk about most embarrassing moments, she said hers was on "Jeopardy!":. * Kirsten Dunst. * 4: 4 stars of this Fox drama shared a spot (we think the one who plays Seth is funny-looking, but whatever). * The O.C.. * 5: Following Nelly, Chingy is the latest big star out of this city's rap scene. * St. Louis.

Round 3. Category: '50s Song Lyrics * 1: This Bill Haley hit told us to "Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans". * "Shake, Rattle And Roll". * 2: This Erroll Garner song begins, "Look at me, I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree". * "Misty". * 3: This Carl Perkins hit begins, "Well, it's one for the money, two for the show....". * "Blue Suede Shoes". * 4: This song's lyrics contain such names as "Sukey Tawdry, Jenny Diver, Polly Peachum, Lucy Brown". * "Mack The Knife". * 5: "I believe for ev'ry drop of rain that falls" this "grows". * A Flower.

Round 4. Category: The President's Dog * 1: This bestselling author died in May 1997 at age 12. * Millie (President Bush's dog). * 2: The press corps called this Scottie "The Informer"; when they saw him they knew FDR was near. * Fala. * 3: Edgar was the beagle named after this man, who gave him to LBJ. * J. Edgar Hoover. * 4: His golden retriever Liberty gave birth to 9 pups in the White House, giving him even more to trip over. * Gerald Ford. * 5: He gave the Kennedys Pushinka, a pup of Strelka, the first Soviet dog in space. * Nikita Khrushchev.

Round 5. Category: U.s. Government And Politics * 1: Members of the House of Representatives serve terms of this many years. * 2. * 2: He appointed more justices (9) to the Supreme Court than any other president in the 20th century. * FDR. * 3: You'll find its home page at www.uscg.mil. * the Coast Guard. * 4: This document served as our basic charter of government from 1781 until the Constitution in 1789. * the Articles of Confederation. * 5: It's the F in the outdoors-oriented agency known as FWS. * Fish.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 292, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Of Montezuma * 1: From 1502 to 1520 Montezuma II ruled these people. * Aztecs. * 2: One of these works entitled "Montezuma" was composed by Roger Sessions in 1964. * an opera. * 3: This defeater of Montezuma reached Mexico in 1519 and some historians believe he was mistaken for a god. * Hernando Cortez. * 4: Reputedly, Montezuma drank as many as 50 cups a day of this drink which the Spanish made sweeter. * chocolate. * 5: With some of the USA's best-preserved cliff dwellings, Montezuma Castle National Monument is in this state. * Arizona.

Round 2. Category: In The Air Up There * 1: Most of these are in the troposphere and there are over 100 different types, such as cumulonimbus. * clouds. * 2: Term for the moisture of the air, it's given in relative terms in forecasts. * humidity. * 3: In the 1970s it was discovered that CFCs may be affecting this layer of atmosphere. * the ozone layer. * 4: It's about .03% of the air; you breathe a little in and a lot out. * carbon dioxide. * 5: About 80% of this gas in the air comes from decomposition in rice paddies, swamps, and animal intestines. * methane.

Round 3. Category: Ellen * 1: She hosted the Emmys in 2001 and 2005 and was named to host the Oscars in 2007. * Ellen DeGeneres. * 2: On Thursday nights, she plays doctor; the title doctor of "Grey's Anatomy". * Ellen Pompeo. * 3: In 2005 British yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur set a new record by doing this solo in 71 days, 14 hours. * sailing around the world. * 4: This First Lady's efforts resulted in a 1914 law improving housing for African Americans in Washington, D.C.. * Ellen Wilson. * 5: Ellen of this publishing family co-founded a California institution of oceanography. * Scripps.

Round 4. Category: The Bill Of Rights * 1: Congress can pick a national dance or flower, but can't by the 1st Amendment, pick a national one of these. * Religion. * 2: This fourth president was largely responsible for drafting the Bill of Rights. * James Madison. * 3: 3 of the 13 original states did not ratify the Bill of Rights until 1939: Mass., Conn. and this "Peach State". * Georgia. * 4: The 4th Amendment guarantees the right of the people "against unreasonable searches and" these. * seizures. * 5: In 1787 Jefferson wrote to this "Father of the Bill of Rights", "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to". * Madison.

Round 5. Category: Take A Hike * 1: There's good hiking at several stops on this country's mountainous Chihuahua al Pacifico train. * Mexico. * 2: The Otter Trail on the coast of this country's Western Cape Province may be booked up a year ahead. * South Africa. * 3: In 1923 the first path designated part of this trail opened in New York's Bear Mountain State Park. * the Appalachian Trail. * 4: If this European country's mountains are forbidding, try hiking in its famed valley the Engadine. * Switzerland. * 5: Germany's 104-mile Rennsteig meanders through the Thuringer Wald, or Thuringian this. * Forest.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 291, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tell 'Em What They've Won, Johnny * 1: Walt Disney won a record 14 of these statuettes now given out in March. * Oscars. * 2: The first of these were awarded in 1901 and they are given out yearly for Physics, Chemistry, Peace and 3 other disciplines. * the Nobel Prizes. * 3: A brave French soldier might receive the award known as the "Croix de Guerre", meaning "Cross of" this. * War. * 4: The Borg-Warner Trophy is awarded every year to the winner of this epic auto race held on Memorial Day weekend. * the Indy 500. * 5: In 1921 Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Fiction prize named for this news publisher. * Pulitzer.

Round 2. Category: The Book Biz * 1: Unless we receive other instructions, we'll tell you the Literary Guild was among the first of these. * Book clubs. * 2: This trade magazine has been listing the nation's bestselling books since 1912. * Publisher's Weekly. * 3: Last name of Richard, who co-founded a publishing house in 1924 and fathered a singer named Carly in 1945. * Simon. * 4: In 1997 Harper Collins canceled 100 new titles but let the authors keep these up-front payments. * Advances. * 5: An unsold book left in the publisher's inventory, or a number left over in division. * Remainder.

Round 3. Category: Famous Franks * 1: This "Wizard of Oz" author edited a trade magazine for store window decorators. * L. Frank Baum. * 2: Frank Fitzsimmons took control of this union when Jimmy Hoffa was imprisoned in 1967. * Teamsters. * 3: This musical satirist founded the Mothers of Invention in 1964. * Frank Zappa. * 4: In Gemini 7 he and Jim Lovell set a 14-day endurance record. * Frank Borman. * 5: This Idaho Democratic senator was active in investigating abuses by the CIA. * Frank Church.

Round 4. Category: World's Oldest Man's Résumé * 1: Maker of racing saddles for these, like the Diplodocus and the Iguanandon. * dinosaurs. * 2: Legal aide for Judge Winthrop at these notorious trials in 1692. * the Salem Witch Trials. * 3: Ticket scalper fro Custer's 1876 "Last Stand" at the Little Bighorn in this state. * Montana. * 4: Was quite excited to proofread this ribald French author's "Justine" in the 1790s. * the Marquis de Sade. * 5: Torturer's apprentice to this Spanish Inquisitor General who lived from 1420 to 1498. * Torquemada.

Round 5. Category: World Of Islam * 1: Considered a prophet of Islam, this founder of another religion is known as Isa Ibn Maryam. * Jesus. * 2: Of 570, 1170 or 1570, the traditional year of the prophet Muhammad's birth. * 570. * 3: Qiblah is the term for the direction Muslims face when praying towards this city. * Mecca. * 4: Reflecting its origin in a pre-Islamic solar calendar, the name of this Muslim holy month means "great heat". * Ramadan. * 5: Referring to "The Sanctuary" of King Solomon's temple once found there, the Muslim name for this city is Al-Quds. * Jerusalem.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 290, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Friday The 13Th * 1: Friday October 13, 1944: Greek patriots retake Athens from this group after 3 1/2 years of occupation. * Germany (or the Nazis). * 2: Friday January 13, 1995: The first all-female crew wins a qualifying race for this contest. * the America's Cup. * 3: Friday October 13, 1967: This president signs an executive order banning sex discrimination in the U.S. govt.. * (Lyndon) Johnson. * 4: Friday, February 13, 1914:This 5-letter organization is set up to collect royalties when music is performed. * ASCAP. * 5: 1994: The first handover of a West Bank city from Israel to the Palestinians--this one where a battle was fit. * Jericho.

Round 2. Category: Also A Gun Manufacturer * 1: One might run in the Preakness. * a colt. * 2: This 19th century American artist and sculptor was known as "The Rembrandt of the West". * Remington. * 3: He's the guitarist who had a Top 40 hit with "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo". * Rick Derringer. * 4: Famous for its cathedral, this English city was the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. * Winchester. * 5: Fredric March portrayed this poet in "The Barrets of Wimpole Street". * (Robert) Browning.

Round 3. Category: "Oop"S! * 1: "Hawaiian" exercise ring introduced by Wham-O in the 1950s. * a hula hoop. * 2: This type of sailing vessel has a single mast with fore-and-aft rigging. * a sloop. * 3: One's tax burden can be lowered by exploiting these. * loopholes. * 4: Originally meaning a small opening, it's used figuratively to mean a way around a rule or regulation. * a loophole. * 5: A small warship of the American Revolutionary period, or a British escort vessel of WWII. * a sloop.

Round 4. Category: A Gamey Category * 1: In this game, the soda container stopped rotating and faces me...so kiss me already!. * Spin the Bottle. * 2: Careful! Don't make the man's nose buzz while removing his funny bone in this game. * Operation. * 3: An insignificant quest, or a game where you earn wedges in 6 categories. * Trivial Pursuit. * 4: Calling all armchair Napoleons, it's the "Game of World Conquest". * Risk. * 5: You go from career start or college start to Countryside Acres or Millionaire Estates in this game. * Life.

Round 5. Category: Famous "Baby"S * 1: 1 of 2 popular U.S. films released in late 1987 that had the word "Baby" in their titles. * Baby Boom or Three Men and a Baby. * 2: Nickname of Jean-Claude Duvalier, who succeeded his father, a physician, as Haitian leader. * "Baby Doc". * 3: Childhood stage name of the actress who played Sally Rogers on "The Dick Van Dyke Show". * Baby Rose Marie. * 4: Seen w/Casper the Friendly Ghost, this Harvey cartoon and comic character was an overgrown duckling. * Baby Huey. * 5: It's how the media referred to little Miss McClure, who, in 1987, fell down a well and was rescued 2 days later. * Baby Jessica.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 289, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Go Old West, Young Man * 1: Fort Bonneville in this "Cowboy State" was "Fort Nonsense" to scoffing trappers. * Wyoming. * 2: Wells, Fargo and Company opened in this California city in 1852 to offer miners express and banking services. * San Francisco. * 3: "Cowpuncher" was a term for a cowboy; this "puncher" was a preacher. * a Bible puncher. * 4: Thomas Moran's artwork helped influence Congress to make this America's first national park. * Yellowstone. * 5: A cowboy who "cut a man down" shot him; if he "cut the dust", he did this. * taking a drink.

Round 2. Category: Directional Diversions * 1: Steinbeck shows sadness in Salinas:" blank of Eden". * East. * 2: 1948 Pulitzer winner for Michener:"Tales of the blank Pacific". * South. * 3: Percy Bysshe Shelley:"Ode to the blank Wind". * West. * 4: Shared title of 2 tales, one by John Jakes and one by Elizabeth Gaskell:" blank and blank ". * North and South. * 5: Robert Frost's 1914 collection:" blank of Boston". * North.

Round 3. Category: Russian Cities * 1: This city is home to St. Basil's Cathedral and Red Square. * Moscow. * 2: Novosibirsk and Omsk are the 2 main cities in this large, cold Russian region. * Siberia. * 3: In 1712 the capital of Russia was moved to this city later named Leningrad. * St. Petersburg. * 4: The ancestral mother city of the Russian people is this capital of neighboring Ukraine. * Kiev. * 5: Grozny is the capital city of this region that has waged a struggle for independence since the mid-1990s. * Chechnya.

Round 4. Category: The "Naked" Truth * 1: A Leslie Nielsen comedy. * The Naked Gun. * 2: Unaided vision. * Naked eye. * 3: In other words, "dollar bill nude". * Buck naked. * 4: Boisterous beatnik Burroughs' book. * "Naked Lunch". * 5: Goya's girl. * "The Naked Maja".

Round 5. Category: "C" Me * 1: An evil prayer appealing for harm to come to another. * Curse. * 2: Adjective meaning curved inward, like the inside of a circle or sphere. * concave. * 3: A structure for venting gas or smoke. * Chimney. * 4: The state of sexual abstinence. * Celibacy. * 5: This Christian church is headed by The Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt. * the Coptic Church.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 288, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fools And Follies * 1: This country sold what's known as Seward's Folly. * Russia. * 2: A gowk is a person who is tricked on the Scottish equivalent of this U.S. observance. * April Fool's Day. * 3: Iron pyrite. * Fool's gold. * 4: Proper name of what's been called Fulton's Folly. * The Clermont. * 5: He wrote the songs for the 1971 musical "Follies". * Steven Sondheim.

Round 2. Category: Religion In Corporations * 1: This car company that promoted "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie" sponsored the "Come Together and Worship Tour". * Chevrolet. * 2: Clothing chain Forever 21 puts this biblical book and the chapter and verse 3:16 on the bottom of bags. * John. * 3: This Seattle-based airline puts prayer cards on the food trays. * Alaska Airlines. * 4: Starbucks began putting quotes on its cups by this author of "The Purpose-Driven Life". * Rick Warren. * 5: This national chicken sandwich restaurant stays closed on Sundays so employees can focus on faith and family. * Chick-fil-A.

Round 3. Category: Beach Boys * 1: Crockett and Tubbs were always cruising trendy beach hotspots on this influential '80s TV series. * Miami Vice. * 2: For awhile in "Beach Blanket Bingo" this actor romances Linda Evans, not Annette. * Frankie Avalon. * 3: A guest house on the beachfront estate of wealthy Robin Masters is the home of this title TV detective. * Magnum, P.I.. * 4: This actor rolls on the sand and in the surf with Deborah Kerr in "From Here to Eternity". * Burt Lancaster. * 5: Fred Astaire's first dramatic role was in this 1959 post-nuclear war Nevil Shute drama set partly in Australia. * On the Beach.

Round 4. Category: Play Your Cards Right * 1: A hole in one, or a skilled fighter pilot. * an ace. * 2: It's the lowest total that makes you go bust in blackjack. * 22. * 3: A hole in one, or a skilled fighter pilot. * an ace. * 4: Back in the 1850s this card was added to the deck to be the highest trump in the game of euchre. * Joker. * 5: Phish musician Ernest Joseph Anastasio III, like many guys with III in their names, goes by this. * Trey.

Round 5. Category: Spelling Bee * 1: This long river flows from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. * M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. * 2: Last name of the only California Governor to become U.S. President. * R-E-A-G-A-N. * 3: It's the country formerly known as Rhodesia. * Z-I-M-B-A-B-W-E. * 4: The name of this Philistine warrior to the Bible is now applied to any large object or person. * G-O-L-I-A-T-H. * 5: The name of the Greek goddess of vengeance, it now means an opponent or rival who can't be overcome. * N-E-M-E-S-I-S.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 287, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Forewords * 1: This 1955 novel's foreword says, "I have no intention to glorify 'H.H.'....he is a shining example of moral leprosy". * Lolita. * 2: This author said that he would have offered the savage a third alternative if he were to rewrite "Brave New World". * Aldous Huxley. * 3: "Conrad begins (and ends) Marlow's journey... on the Thames, on the yawl, Nellie", says the foreword to this novel. * Heart of Darkness. * 4: Part 2 "is Lilliput in reverse, but...also offers some of" his "fiercest assaults upon the behavior of" his countrymen. * Jonathan Swift. * 5: A translator's introduction to this novel says that Dostoyevsky was, "Like Raskolnikov, up to the neck in debt". * Crime and Punishment.

Round 2. Category: Biography * 1: She was one of the last stars in the studio system"The tobacco farmer's daughter from North Carolina was awed and intimidated by the luxury of the MGM system.". * Ava Gardner. * 2: Born in the West Indies in the 1750s, got involved in money matters, fatally wounded in a duel in 1804. * Alexander Hamilton. * 3: "Titan: The Life of" this 19th century oil baron gushes with the tale of history's first billionaire. * (John D.) Rockefeller. * 4: For many years our own Johnny Gilbert was her announcer. * Dinah Shore. * 5: Turned on in 1920, tuned in to LSD in the '60s, dropped out in 1996. * Dr. Timothy Leary.

Round 3. Category: Muscle Cars * 1: A Plymouth named for this Warner Bros. cartoon character even had the horn sound to match. * the Road Runner. * 2: The 1968 Dart GTS was a muscle car from this maker. * Dodge. * 3: In the '60s Ford named a fastback after this newly opened Alabama speedway. * Talladega. * 4: The E-type by this British company was one of the first to offer independent rear suspension. * Jaguar. * 5: V-8 engines with major displacement are alliteratively called "big" this. * big block.

Round 4. Category: Dude, Where's My Carb? * 1: This hormone secreted by the pancreas controls your carbohydrate metabolism. * insulin. * 2: A carbohydrate contains 4 of these energy units per gram, as opposed to 9 for a gram of fat. * a calorie. * 3: The main component of the cell walls of plants, this complex carbohydrate is what termites eat. * cellulose. * 4: The name of this variety of complex carbohydrate comes from an Old German word meaning "to be rigid". * starch. * 5: Carbohydrates are predominantly made up of these three elements. * carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.

Round 5. Category: Historical Paintings * 1: Guido Reni could have called his painting of this ruler "T and A", "A" standing for asp. * Cleopatra. * 2: Around 1814 Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes painted this catastrophic 79 A.D. event. * the eruption of Vesuvius. * 3: She's the woman depicted here at the coronation of Charles VII. * Joan of Arc. * 4: Using newspaper accounts of the event, Edouard Manet painted the "Execution of" this emperor in Mexico. * Maximilian. * 5: Jacob Lawrence's Toussaint L'Ouverture series is a pictorial history of this country's slave rebellion. * Haiti.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 286, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Irish Counties * 1: The name of this southeastern county sounds like what someone often does on "South Park". * Kilkenny. * 2: Ireland's most populous county, it shares its name with Ireland's most populous city. * Dublin. * 3: Like Harris in Scotland, Ireland's County Donegal produces a distinctive type of this cloth. * Tweed. * 4: County whose name is in the title of the following piece of music. * Tipperary. * 5: On Ireland's west coast, the estuary of this river separates County Clare from County Limerick. * Shannon.

Round 2. Category: Collegiate Lexicon * 1: From the Latin for "write over", it's your official college record, with grades and courses taken. * transcript. * 2: Not just for taxes, you can do this to a class to review material but not receive a grade. * audit. * 3: Many schools have this large, scenic area; from Lumpkin Hall at Eastern Illinois, gaze upon the south one. * quad. * 4: The Stafford type of this is the most popular and federally guaranteed. * student loan. * 5: From the Latin for "east", these campus workshops introduce new students to college life. * orientation.

Round 3. Category: A Country In Europe * 1: Major cities in this country include Marseilles, Orleans and Lyon. * France. * 2: Most ruins of the civilizations of the ancient Spartans and Athenians can be found in this European nation. * Greece. * 3: The Apennines mountain chain occupies the center of this European nation's boot-like peninsula. * Italy. * 4: The University of Limerick is a leading educational institution in this European nation. * Ireland. * 5: King Juan Carlos I is the reigning monarch of this European nation of about 40 million people. * Spain.

Round 4. Category: South American Cities * 1: In this city's Plaza de Armas, you're walking in the footsteps of Francisco Pizarro. * Lima, Peru. * 2: South America's most populous city, it was founded by Jesuit missionaries from Portugal in 1554. * Sao Paulo. * 3: At an altitude of 12,001 feet, it's the world's highest capital city; co-capital Sucre lies about 3,000 feet lower. * La Paz, Bolivia. * 4: This section of Rio is known as the birthplace of the bossa nova; there was a "Girl From" there in song. * Ipanema. * 5: Cali, this country's 2nd-most populous city, is a center of paper production and the sugarcane industry. * Colombia.

Round 5. Category: Crossword Clues "R" * 1: The first "R" in radar. * radio. * 2: Skating venue (4). * Rink. * 3: A Mackintosh(8). * raincoat. * 4: Musical mass for the dead (7). * Requiem. * 5: "Buyer's" guilt(7). * remorse.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 285, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Women In Song * 1: From 1965:"Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble". * Michelle. * 2: Neil Diamond:"Hands, touchin' hands, reachin' out, touchin' me, touchin' you...". * Sweet Caroline. * 3: Barry Manilow:"Well, you kissed me and stopped me from shaking and I need you today, oh" her. * Mandy. * 4: Tom Jones:"Why, why, why" her. * Delilah. * 5: Elvis Costello:"You can call me anything you like but my name is" this. * Veronica.

Round 2. Category: Unicef * 1: UNICEF is the world's largest buyer of these for poor countries, a shot in the arm for the survival of kids. * vaccinations. * 2: (Her Majesty delivers the clue again.) In 2007 UNICEF Canada supplied 33,000 insecticide-treated bednets to help children and pregnant women in Liberia to fight this disease. * malaria. * 3: Throughout October 2003 Katie Couric and the "Today" show promoted the UNICEF program called this. * Trick Or Treat for UNICEF. * 4: (Queen Rania delivers the clue again.) My 2007 visit to a community health center in the Chaoyang district in this world capital emphasized the continuing need for better migrant health care. * Beijing. * 5: (Queen Rania delivers the final clue.) As UNICEF's first Eminent Advocate for Children, I visited a school in Fez, in this country, that offers one-time child laborers a formal education. * Morocco.

Round 3. Category: Art Attack * 1: Laszlo Toth took a hammer to his Pieta and Pietro Cannata took one to his David. * Michelangelo. * 2: In January 1999 a man scribbled with a gray marker on a painting in Rome by this American drip master. * Jackson Pollock. * 3: In 1998 an art student in London painted a yellow pound sign on a self-portrait by this Dutchman. * Rembrandt. * 4: Students looking at "Fall of the Angels" in a Rome museum noticed this problem, as it didn't match the guidebook photo. * it was upside down. * 5: In 1999 an escaped mental patient in Amsterdam slashed this Spaniard's "Nude Woman in Front of the Garden". * Pablo Picasso.

Round 4. Category: American Revolution * 1: Ben Franklin was 70 years old when he signed this document in 1776. * Declaration of Independence. * 2: The battle that was fought the farthest north was the one at this Canadian city, December 31, 1775. * Quebec. * 3: While Kosciusko survived the war, this Polish count was mortally wounded at Savannah. * Casimir Pulaski. * 4: Now site of a military academy, Benedict Arnold plotted to turn over its fort to the British. * West Point. * 5: France entered the war on our side after this 1777 American victory in New York State. * Saratoga.

Round 5. Category: Presidential Campaign Slogan Years * 1: "Help hustle Harry home". * 1948. * 2: "I like Ike". * 1952. * 3: "All the way with LBJ". * 1964. * 4: "We're madly for Adlai". * 1952 (or 1956). * 5: "In Hoover we trusted, now we are busted". * 1932.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 284, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "R"T * 1: Born in Limoges in 1841, as a child this Impressionist worked in a porcelain factory painting china. * Renoir. * 2: He was the youngest of the 3 creators of the high Renaissance. * Raphael. * 3: Fragonard, painter of "The Swing", is considered one of the greatest artists of this ornate style. * Rococo. * 4: His house in the Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam is now a museum. * Rembrandt. * 5: An adjective meaning "voluptuous" comes from the name of this old master. * Rubens.

Round 2. Category: Car Parts * 1: Keep the cap and hoses of this coolant-holding device in good shape, or you may face a long hot walk. * the radiator. * 2: Cars can be slowed by these parts pressing on the brake drum; don't drag your own on the pavement. * shoes. * 3: This device turns energy into current, keeping the battery charged while the motor's on. * the alternator. * 4: An automatic transmission's version of this pedal is sometimes called a torque converter. * the clutch. * 5: In one steering system, a toothed bar called the rack is engaged by this gear. * the pinion.

Round 3. Category: The Garfield Era * 1: 9 days after Garfield's inauguration, Alexander II of this country was assassinated. * Russia. * 2: This institute in Alabama opened July 4, 1881 as a school to train black teachers. * Tuskegee Institute. * 3: Turkey ceded Thessaly to this country. * Greece. * 4: On April 5, 1881 the Treaty of Pretoria granted independence to this country. * South Africa. * 5: This British bacteriologist born August 6, 1881 "molded" the lives of future generations. * (Sir Alexander) Fleming.

Round 4. Category: Readers * 1: Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" is read by this hunky "Legends of the Fall" star. * Brad Pitt. * 2: In "Still Me" he tells of his Memorial Day 1995 riding accident and the struggles since. * Christopher Reeve. * 3: Edward Herrmann, known for playing this president on TV, reads "No Ordinary Time", a book about him. * FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt). * 4: Hollywood is all ears for "The Kid Stays in the Picture" by this producer and ex-husband of Ali MacGraw. * Robert Evans. * 5: "Second Wind" has this mystery author jockeying for position in front of the microphone. * Dick Francis.

Round 5. Category: The Job Interview * 1: A weakness? I can be too much of this kind of "player" and not standup of the individual credit I deserve. * a team player. * 2: I'm not only a go-getter but also this other alliterative term that means I don't need a push. * self-starter. * 3: I noticed in my regular reading of this Time Inc. business magazine that you're on its list of America's most admired Cos.. * Fortune. * 4: The pin? Industrial engineering studies at this university really prepared me to work here at Amalgamated Button. * Texas Tech. * 5: I am a people person, but still keep an appropriate distance as this, from the Latin for "over" and "see". * supervisor.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 283, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Duke * 1: In 1960's "The Alamo", John Wayne played this king of the wild frontier. * Davy Crockett. * 2: It's the type of transport in the title of John Wayne's 1939 breakout film. * Stagecoach. * 3: This 1969 film earned John Wayne an Oscar; must have been the eye patch. * True Grit. * 4: John Wayne introduced the first episode of this long-running TV western in 1955. * Gunsmoke. * 5: A sort of western "Mutiny on the Bounty", this "colorful" 1948 film starred John Wayne and Monty Clift. * Red River.

Round 2. Category: Space * 1: This is the largest of the terrestrial planets; it has one of the largest satellites as well. * Earth. * 2: The Ariane launch vehicle is used prominently by this organization, abbreviated the ESA. * European Space Agency. * 3: A bolide is a bright one of these that explodes during its descent through the atmosphere. * a meteor. * 4: Your "flare" for astronomy will help you name this solar feature that lasts longer than a solar flare. * Solar prominence. * 5: This planet has the fastest orbit around the Sun. * Mercury.

Round 3. Category: "Oo" 7-Letter Words * 1: Head and ShouldersorPrell. * shampoo. * 2: Frank Sinatra was often described as this type of smooth-singing balladeer. * a crooner. * 3: In this billiards game, players have 15 red balls to shoot as well as 6 balls of other colors. * snooker. * 4: It's the scientific study of animals. * zoology. * 5: This slang word meaning "scat!" or "leave quickly" comes from the Spanish for "let us go". * vamoose.

Round 4. Category: Minimum Ages * 1: To serve as a Congressman. * 25. * 2: To legally buy alcohol across the U.S.. * 21. * 3: To see an R-rated movie unaccompanied by an adult. * 17. * 4: To vote in Canadian national elections. * 18. * 5: To play on the Senior PGA Tour. * 50.

Round 5. Category: Action Stars * 1: He's starred in one series of action-adventure movies as Han Solo and in another as Indiana Jones. * Harrison Ford. * 2: "I'll be back!" was one of this Austrian-American's few lines in 1984's "The Terminator". * Arnold Schwarzenegger. * 3: He earned Oscar nominations for writing and acting in "Rocky". * Sylvester Stallone. * 4: Believe it or not, she's appeared as Ripley in 3 "Alien" films. * Sigourney Weaver. * 5: Star of films like "Kickboxer" and "Bloodsport", this karate champ is nicknamed "The Muscles from Brussels". * Jean Claude Van Damme.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 282, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Clean This Place Up! * 1: A bundle on a stick used for cleaning floors, or a similar-looking mass of hair. * a mop. * 2: Holystone, which may get its name from being used while kneeling, was used to clean these "floors" of ships. * decks. * 3: In a common appliance, a suction fan creates this, which outside air tries to fill, drawing in dirt. * a vacuum. * 4: It can mean to polish something to a shine, or be an adjective for a guy who lifts a lot of weights. * buff. * 5: This name of doctors' green suits comes from the cleaning action usually done while wearing them. * scrubs.

Round 2. Category: Tv Blondes * 1: Prior to Sawyer and Donaldson, Sam and Diane referred to characters played by Ted Danson and her. * Shelley Long. * 2: On this sitcom Lara Piper plays Viki, the new blonde student in the IHP. * Head of the Class. * 3: Of all the actresses on "Designing Women", she has the most "intelligent" name. * Jean Smart. * 4: As Jamie, young blonde Nicole Eggert has Scott Baio governing her life on this sitcom. * Charles In Charge. * 5: She's gone from Partridge to prosecutor. * Susan Dey.

Round 3. Category: Rice, Rice Baby * 1: In 1999 this "treat" sponsored the annual San Francisco cable car bell-ringing contest. * Rice-A-Roni. * 2: She's a member of George W. Bush's Cabinet. * Condoleezza Rice. * 3: Long grain rice is rich in amylose, a component of this carbohydrate, making it dry and fluffy when cooked. * Starch. * 4: As with wheat, a process known as this is done after harvesting to separate the grains from the plants. * threshing (or winnowing). * 5: In 1924 this sportswriter coined the term "The Four Horsemen" about Notre Dame football players. * Grantland Rice.

Round 4. Category: In The Bible * 1: and in this corner, standing "six cubits and a span", from Gath and I Samuel 17, "The Philistine Fist" ...him!. * Goliath. * 2: During the crucifixion, "This is the king of the Jews" was written in these 3 languages. * Latin, Hebrew and Greek. * 3: "Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?" he asks in chapter 7 of his book. * Job. * 4: In the Book of Judges, his Nazirite vows brought him great power but his passions brought his downfall. * Samson. * 5: According to Deuteronomy 7:25, neither the silver nor gold of these shall be desired, for they are an abomination. * idols (or graven images).

Round 5. Category: Hidden Dvd Treats * 1: A "Master of Your Domain" episode aired, but a script too hot even for this '90s sitcom is hidden on the DVD. * Seinfeld. * 2: Seen here is the sock puppet version of this film, hidden on the DVD. * The Incredibles. * 3: Tom Hanks, the producer of this hugely successful independent film, talks about Mediterranean food on the DVD. * My Big Fat Greek Wedding. * 4: You can see Tom Cruise as Vincent the killer being extra bad on hidden parts of this film's DVD. * Collateral. * 5: Press Enter every time Ben Stiller, as White Goodman, snaps his fingers in this pseudo-sports film and you'll see a treat. * Dodgeball.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 281, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Biblical Military Men * 1: This Philistine had a "helmet of brass" and a coat of mail weighing 5,000 shekels. * Goliath. * 2: The Roman centurion Cornelius, possibly the first Gentile Christian, was converted by this fisherman. * Peter. * 3: Moses designated him to defend Israel against Amalek; he later brought down the walls of Jericho. * Joshua. * 4: Benaiah was commander of this wise king's army. * Solomon. * 5: This Hittite soldier was sent to the front lines of battle so that David could take his wife Bathsheba. * Uriah.

Round 2. Category: Little-Read Books * 1: This early sci-fi writer tackled polar exploration (from his study) in the 1860s with "Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras". * Jules Verne. * 2: You might have to be on a desert island before you get around to his 1722 novel "Colonel Jack". * Daniel Defoe. * 3: This author of "An American Tragedy" also wrote a little-read treatise called "Tragic America". * Theodore Dreiser. * 4: Many readers don't get through the Slough of Despond in this 1678 John Bunyan work. * The Pilgrim's Progress. * 5: Kant strained brains with this type of analysis "Of Pure Reason" and "Of Judgement". * Critique.

Round 3. Category: "Oops" * 1: Kellogg's makes "Froot" ones. * Loops. * 2: Cries of a crane, or a cry when you drop something, butterfingers!. * Whoops. * 3: Soldiers trained to lead an attack are called shock these. * Troops. * 4: They keep a barrel's staves together. * Hoops. * 5: It's what Oliver Goldsmith's woman does "to conquer". * Stoops.

Round 4. Category: Last Wills And Testaments * 1: This "commodore" willed $90 million to his son William, $7.5 million to his 4 grandsons, and to his 8 daughters... well, not as much. * (Cornelius) Vanderbilt. * 2: After his 1616 death, his will stipulated that his "second best bed" go to his wife, Anne, which does beg a question.... * Shakespeare. * 3: Item 6 in his will:"I give... unto my wife, Zelda... in the event she regain her sanity all of my household and kitchen furniture". * F. Scott Fitzgerald. * 4: This Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986 left a self-written 176-word will with no provisions for estate taxes; oops. * Warren Burger. * 5: His will called for a "secret society" to take back the U.S. for Britain (his "scholarship" gets much more press). * (Cecil) Rhodes.

Round 5. Category: It Was The '60s * 1: A July 21, 1969 Wapakoneta, Ohio Daily News headline about a local boy read, "Neil steps on" this. * the Moon. * 2: This Argentine-born minister for Castro left Cuba in 1965, reappearing as a fighter in Bolivia. * Che Guevara. * 3: On July 3, 1962 this European president proclaimed the independence of Algeria. * De Gaulle. * 4: In "The Feminine Mystique", she wrote of the suburban wife "afraid to ask even of herself... 'Is this all?'". * Betty Friedan. * 5: Seen here, his attempt to enroll at Ole Miss in 1962 led to riots but was ultimately successful. * James Meredith.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 280, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Quick Moby-Dick * 1: The biblical prophet who's the subject of chapter 83. * Jonah. * 2: Of the Monica, the Rachel or the Phoebe, the rescue ship at the tale's end. * the Rachel. * 3: Melville's subtitle for the first American edition. * The Whale. * 4: The harpooner from Kokovoko with the rad tats. * Queequeg. * 5: Salem, Massachusetts author to whom the 1851 novel is dedicated. * Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Round 2. Category: The War Of 1812 * 1: He watched the 1814 bombardment of Fort McHenry from a British ship and wrote a poem about it. * Francis Scott Key. * 2: On Sept. 13-14, 1814, a British bombardment failed to capture this fort; "our flag was still there". * Fort McHenry. * 3: The most important U.S. naval victories were MacDonough's on Lake Champlain and his on Lake Erie. * Oliver Hazard Perry. * 4: In this last major battle of the war, the British suffered about 2,000 casualties, including General Edward Pakenham. * the Battle of New Orleans. * 5: In asking for a declaration of war, this president charged that Britain had stirred up Indian warfare in the Northwest. * James Madison.

Round 3. Category: Ike Speaks * 1: Of this man's contributions to major White House decisions, Ike said, "If you give me a week, I might think of one". * Nixon. * 2: Eisenhower said, "No treaty or international agreement can contravene" this document. * the Constitution. * 3: Ike telegrammed that the mission of "Allied force was fulfilled at 0241 hours local time" in this month, 1945. * May. * 4: In 1957 Ike used "the full power of the United States" to enforce integration at Central High in this city. * Little Rock. * 5: Eisenhower said appointing him to the Supreme Court was "the biggest damn-fool mistake I ever made". * Earl Warren.

Round 4. Category: Musical Matters * 1: At age 14 Wynton Marsalis performed Haydn's concerto for this instrument. * trumpet. * 2: The Dixie Chicks' first CD had the rhyming title "Thank Heavens for" this TV cowgirl. * Dale Evans. * 3: It sounds like a small trench around a castle, but it was the major type of late medieval composition. * motet. * 4: The 19th century composer of the following, he basically wrote for only one instrument. * Frederic Chopin. * 5: James Blake, who wrote the song "I'm Just Wild About Harry", was better known by this nickname. * Eubie.

Round 5. Category: Got Milk? * 1: AKA "AmericaÂ's Dairyland", itÂ's one of the leading U.S. states in milk production. * Wisconsin. * 2: 1 of this unit of milk weighs about 8 pounds. * a gallon. * 3: A Frenchman created this process that kills microorganisms in milk by heating it. * pasteurization. * 4: This type of sugar that's less sweet than sucrose is found only in milk. * lactose. * 5: In 1856 Gail Borden received a patent for his process to do this to milk. * condense it.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 279, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Honky "Cat" * 1: Tiffany published its first one of these in 1845 (online shopping came a little later). * catalog. * 2: This tough, thin cord is used to string musical instruments and tennis rackets. * catgut. * 3: It's a 2-hulled sailing boat. * catamaran. * 4: The name of this ancient war device is partly from the Greek for "hurl". * catapult. * 5: A book giving the basic principles of Christianity in Q- and -A form. * catechism.

Round 2. Category: "M"Enagerie * 1: Though its voice is shrill, this small monkey's name is derived from Old French "marmouser", to murmur. * a marmoset. * 2: It's said ancient Romans not only ate these eels but fed their disobedient slaves to them. * a moray eel. * 3: Of the musk ox, musk deer or musk turtle, the 1 that secretes the musk used in purfume. * the musk deer. * 4: The tiny eyes of this insectivore are hidden in its fur. * a mole. * 5: This ferretlike carnivore that has a bird in its name subsists on snakes and rodents. * a mongoose.

Round 3. Category: Nevada * 1: Built by the federal government, Boulder City is the only community in Nevada where this isn't legal. * Gambling. * 2: From 1870 to 1893, after a gold and silver boom, this state capital was home to a U.S. Mint. * Carson City. * 3: In 1973 this variety of sheep was designated Nevada's state animal. * a bighorn sheep. * 4: In 1973 this variety of sheep was designated Nevada's state animal. * a bighorn sheep. * 5: Just southeast of Las Vegas, it began as a WWII magnesium-supplying town and is now Nevada's 2nd-largest city. * Henderson.

Round 4. Category: Austin * 1: The Confederate Soldiers Monument on the State Capitol grounds has 5 bronze statues headed by this president. * Jefferson Davis. * 2: At dusk, April through October, millions of these mammals fly out from under the Congress Ave. Bridge to feed. * bats. * 3: At 30 years, this PBS series from the Austin music scene is the longest-running music showcase now on TV. * Austin City Limits. * 4: Austin's African-American history is chronicled in a museum named for this agricultural scientist. * George Washington Carver. * 5: This Old West cattle trail that ran from Texas to Kansas crossed the eastern part of Austin. * the Chisholm Trail.

Round 5. Category: File Under "S" * 1: Head and Shoulders, Agree, and Pert Plus are leading types of these. * Shampoos. * 2: It's a heavy, single-edged cavalry sword with a blade less curved than a scimitar. * Saber. * 3: This disease caused by the lack of ascorbic acid is called Barlow's Disease in infants. * Scurvy. * 4: This Middle Eastern dog is also called a gazelle hound because it was once trained to hunt gazelles. * Saluki. * 5: Known as "Old Fuss N' Feathers", he wrote the Army's first complete manual of drill regulations. * Winfield Scott.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 278, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: She's Canadian, Eh? * 1: This Windsor native's 2002 CD "Up!" offers pop and country versions of the same 19 songs. * Shania Twain. * 2: We've got a hankering for this singer from Consort, Alberta. * k.d. lang. * 3: As a kid, this angry alt-rocker from Ottawa starred on Nickelodeon's "You Can't Do That on Television". * Alanis Morissette. * 4: This jazz vocalist from British Columbia lists Carmen McRae and Nat King Cole as her biggest influences. * Diana Krall. * 5: This teen from Ontario sang about a "Sk8er Boi". * Avril Lavigne.

Round 2. Category: Next In Line, Please * 1: In the Catholic Church:bishop,archbishop,cardinal.... * Pope. * 2: In the history of France:Henry III,Henry IV,Louis XIII.... * Louis XIV. * 3: Beef:USDA standard,USDA select,USDA choice,USDA.... * Prime. * 4: In Roman numerals:I, V, X, L.... * C (100). * 5: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.... * Uranus.

Round 3. Category: King James Bible Beasts * 1: You'll "spot" this feline variety in Jeremiah 13:23. * a leopard. * 2: I Kings 10 tells us that these were imported from Egypt at 150 shekels each; the chariots were extra. * horses. * 3: In Exodus 29 God demands a rump roast from a male one of these as tribute. * a sheep. * 4: The Song of Solomon 2:15 tells of these "little" critters "that spoil the vines". * foxes. * 5: Since Leviticus 19:19 expressly forbids this, mules are not allowed. * crossbreeding.

Round 4. Category: Novels' First Lines * 1: Orwell: "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night...". * Animal Farm. * 2: Fitzgerald: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind...". * The Great Gatsby. * 3: Tolstoy: "'Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes'". * War and Peace. * 4: Golding: "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down...and began to pick his way toward the lagoon". * Lord of the Flies. * 5: Bronte: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day". * Jane Eyre.

Round 5. Category: Major League Baseball * 1: On Feb. 28, 2000 this Yankee received a one-year suspension for violating MLB's drug policy. * Darryl Strawberry. * 2: Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux won the NL's Cy Young Award in 1992; he won it the next 3 years with this new team. * Atlanta Braves. * 3: Alex Rodriguez has won 2 American League MVP Awards, with Texas in 2003 and this team in 2005. * the Yankees. * 4: After 36 seasons in Montreal, the Expos moved to this city in 2005 and were renamed the Nationals. * Washington, D.C.. * 5: This reliever with an intimidating fastball and mustache entered Cooperstown in 2008. * (Rich "Goose") Gossage.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 277, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: People In Entertainment * 1: Educated at L.A.'s Lycee Francais and on film sets, this star of "Taxi Driver" graduated from Yale in 1985. * Jodie Foster. * 2: TV's Ally McBeal, she had viewers concerned about her weight in '98. * Calista Flockhart. * 3: This country singer of "Shut Up And Kiss Me" and "Passionate Kisses" has kissed off the hyphen in her 1st name. * Mary Chapin Carpenter. * 4: In 1995 Edgar Bronfman Jr., president of this Canadian distiller, took over Universal Studios. * Seagrams. * 5: This director left a party at the American embassy in Paris in 1998 after being reminded that he could be arrested. * Roman Polanski.

Round 2. Category: Kelly Girls * 1: She could title her autobiography "I Married a Sweathog" as she is Mrs. John Travolta. * Kelly Preston. * 2: As runner-up in the first edition of this show, Kelly Wiglesworth won $100,000. * Survivor. * 3: Former "Baywatch" lifeguard Kelly Packard joined Dean Cain on this TBS series. * Ripley's Believe It or Not!. * 4: Hayley Vaughan Cortlandt McIntyre Santos Santos on "All My Children", she now has a talk show gig. * Kelly Ripa. * 5: She's best known for her role as Matt Dillon's wife in "Drugstore Cowboy". * Kelly Lynch.

Round 3. Category: Trails * 1: It's an assortment of nuts, seeds and dried fruits eaten by hikers. * Trail mix. * 2: You'd have to walk over 2,000 miles to go end to end on this east coast national scenic trail. * Appalachian Trail. * 3: The trail of Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road took it through this famous gap. * Cumberland Gap. * 4: From the Dutch for a "track", it's a trail left by an animal. * Spoor. * 5: The Wonderland Trail circles this Washington peak. * Mount Rainier.

Round 4. Category: The Atlantic Ocean * 1: This expensive treat may be the eggs of the north Atlantic lumpfish; read the label!. * Caviar. * 2: Of the Earth's oceans, the Atlantic ranks here in size. * Second. * 3: In 1932 she crossed the Atlantic alone in 13 hours, 30 minutes. * Amelia Earhart. * 4: In July 1866 one of these was laid across the Atlantic by the Great Eastern Steamer. * Cable. * 5: This "sea" that lies between the Azores and the West Indies is named for the brown gulfweed floating in it. * Sargasso Sea.

Round 5. Category: Acts Of Congress * 1: Britain couldn't afford to pay cash for war materials much longer, so FDR proposed this alliterative act in December 1940. * the Lend-Lease Act. * 2: Britain couldn't afford to pay cash for war materials much longer, so FDR proposed this alliterative act in December 1940. * the Lend-Lease Act. * 3: 1930's Smoot-Hawley Act raised these to protect American farmers. * tariffs. * 4: (I'm Geoffrey Canada, President of the Harlem Children's Zone.) Setting standards and establishing measurable goals to improve individual outcomes in education was the objective of this 2001 congressional act that left many educators dismayed. * No Child Left Behind. * 5: In 1893 the anti-mangling activism of Lorenzo Coffin got Congress to mandate the air type of these on railroad cars. * brakes.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 276, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Haulin' "Oat"S * 1: A German submarine. * U-boat. * 2: It contains the pharynx and the larynx. * Throat. * 3: To move slowly and lightly through the air. * Float. * 4: To become swollen or inflated. * Bloat. * 5: AKA an ermine. * Stoat.

Round 2. Category: "F" In Geography * 1: This Alaska town was founded by prospectors in 1902 and named for a U.S. vice president. * (Charles) Fairbanks. * 2: The name of this Japanese peak is said to be of Ainu origin meaning "everlasting life". * Mount Fuji. * 3: These long, narrow New York lakes were once rivers but glaciers caused them to be dammed up. * Finger Lakes. * 4: This country's highest point is Haltia, which rises 4,357 feet near its northwestern border with Norway. * Finland. * 5: The Lagting is the local parliament in this Danish island group. * Faroe Islands.

Round 3. Category: Animal Talk * 1: Darwin supporter T.H. Huxley said man shouldn't "be ashamed of having" this large animal "for his grandfather". * ape. * 2: To have one of these "in one's bonnet" means to be obsessed with an idea. * bee. * 3: In Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", "Out of the houses" these "came tumbling", great, small, lean, brawny.... * rats. * 4: An old proverb says, "If wishes were" these, "beggars would ride". * horses. * 5: Lord Dufferin wrote, "It is upon" this animal "that the Laplander is dependent for (almost) every comfort in life". * a reindeer.

Round 4. Category: Cinematic Siblings * 1: Janet Leigh was "showered" with more attention than Vera Miles, who played her sister in this suspense classic. * Psycho. * 2: Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet earned Oscar nominations for playing the Dashwood sisters in this 1995 film. * Sense and Sensibility. * 3: Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Samantha Mathis and Trini Alvarado played 19th C. sisters in this "novel" film. * Little Women. * 4: In "Two Much" Daryl Hannah and this actress played sisters two-timed by Antonio Banderas. * Melanie Griffith. * 5: Richard Davalos' screen debut in this 1955 film was overshadowed by James Dean, who played his brother. * East of Eden.

Round 5. Category: City Name Origins * 1: It's the place in England where the oxen forded the river Thames. * Oxford. * 2: The Spaniards turned the Indian village of Chuk Shon into this Arizona city. * Tucson. * 3: This Ohio city was named for a city in China. * Canton. * 4: In 1459 Rao Jodha established this city in India. * Jodhpur. * 5: The 3 cities of Oea, Leptis Magna and Sabrata merged to form this city in Libya. * Tripoli.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 275, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: How Provincial! * 1: Hainan,Hunan,Yunnan. * China. * 2: Western Cape,Eastern Cape, Kwazulu-Natal. * South Africa. * 3: Limburg,Antwerp,West Flanders. * Belgium. * 4: Dong Nai, Dong Thap,Lam Dong. * Vietnam. * 5: Almeria,Salamanca,Cordoba. * Spain.

Round 2. Category: Irish Eyes * 1: This Boomtown Rat organized Band Aid. * Bob Geldof. * 2: This man with a grandmother from Cork played an Irish-American boxer in 1952's "The Quiet Man". * John Wayne. * 3: Hey, 20 bucks says that you know this president's father was from County Antrim and his mother was Irish, too. * Andrew Jackson. * 4: The record says in 1759 he opened his brewery at St. James Gate. * Arthur Guinness. * 5: Everyone knew when it was windy, but not how windy until this Irishman came up with his scale in 1805. * Sir Francis Beaufort.

Round 3. Category: Hollywoodspeak * 1: This TV network is "The Eye Web". * CBS. * 2: The popular films of this genre can be known as "oaters" or "horse operas". * westerns. * 3: Also known as a "tenpercenter", a good one of these can open doors in Tinseltown. * agent. * 4: Erica Kane could tell you it's the dramatic form known as a "sudser" in Hollywood. * soap opera. * 5: In the lingo of Variety, a "diskery" is a company that produces these. * records.

Round 4. Category: The 7 Continents * 1: Population in summer: about 4,000; in winter, about 1,000. * Antarctica. * 2: At over 200 people per square mile, it has the highest population density. * Asia. * 3: This continent has the highest per capita GNP at about $20,000 a person. * North America. * 4: This continent is also a commonwealth. * Australia. * 5: Its mainland section is composed of 12 independent countries. * South America.

Round 5. Category: "Go"Ing * 1: Transportation for kids. * go karts. * 2: From a Persian word for "snake-eater", a markhor is a wild type of this bearded ruminant. * goat. * 3: This 1965 record was Shirley Bassey's biggest hit in the U.S.. * "Goldfinger". * 4: A word for mining haphazardly in irregular holes comes from the name of this burrowing rodent. * gopher. * 5: Biblical name shared by the oldest son of Japheth and a TV Marine. * Gomer.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 274, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Mama And Papaya * 1: While these look like caviar and are edible, Mama usually throws them out. * papaya seeds. * 2: Mama joked that this other name for the papaya makes it sound like little cat feet -- Mama wasn't funny. * pawpaw. * 3: Papaya plants are dioecious, meaning the plants are divided this way, like Mama and Papa. * by sex. * 4: When things get tough in the kitchen, Mama gets out the hammer or uses this with papain, an enzyme from papaya, in it. * meat tenderizer. * 5: When Mama's in the mood for Indian food, she makes papdi and , to top them, this relish with papaya. * chutney.

Round 2. Category: Says You * 1: He told Frank Gorshin, "I never said...'mmm you dirty rat!'". * James Cagney. * 2: Bartlett's list "Stop da music!" and "Dese are de conditions dat prevail" under this man's name. * Jimmy Durante. * 3: Abraham Lincoln said, "The ballot is stronger than" this. * The bullet. * 4: The most famous line from this author's "Sacred Emily" is "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose". * Gertrude Stein. * 5: Heraclitus noticed, "You cannot step twice into the same" one of these. * River.

Round 3. Category: Advertising Mascots * 1: He's the giraffe mascot for Toys 'R Us. * Geoffrey. * 2: It's the animal that's represented one of the major TV networks since 1956. * a peacock. * 3: One of these critters is the mascot of the Hartford Insurance Company. * an elk. * 4: Name of the bull terrier "party animal" who endorsed Budweiser. * Spuds MacKenzie. * 5: You can make a cup of Nesquik quick as one of these creatures--its mascot. * a rabbit (or a bunny).

Round 4. Category: "Pro"Nouns * 1: An introductory part in a novel. * Prologue. * 2: Gosh darn it! It's abusive, vulgar or irreverent language. * Profanity. * 3: The "dry" period in which the 18th Amendment was in force. * Prohibition. * 4: The working class. * Proletariat. * 5: The ceremonial etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state. * Protocol.

Round 5. Category: "Ff" * 1: This Arizona city was named for an object created there in 1876 for a Fourth of July fair. * Flagstaff. * 2: You won't sleep soundly with this in your coffee. * Caffeine. * 3: Area bared here:. * Midriff. * 4: Variety might report this, abbreviated "B.O.", as boffo. * Box office. * 5: During threshing you separate the wheat from it. * Chaff.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 273, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Go To A Museum * 1: You might find your invitation to her Deerfield, Illinois museum under your pillow, along with a dollar. * The Tooth Fairy. * 2: This Spanish museum's paintings are displayed in 2 buildings: The Villanueva Building and the Cason del Buen Retiro. * The Prado. * 3: Check into a motel in Plano in this state, then check out the Cockroach Hall of Fame and Museum. * Texas. * 4: The Ulster Museum in this capital city dates back to 1890. * Belfast. * 5: MOMA in N.Y. is the Museum of Modern Art and MOCA in L.A. is the museum of this. * Contemporary art.

Round 2. Category: Eat Your Veggies * 1: Green olives are traditionally stuffed with these red veggies. * pimientos. * 2: In the early 19th c. George Stephenson began growing these pickle veggies in glass tubes so they'd grow straight. * cucumbers. * 3: The Dutch type of this is white, as it's grown underground; the American is green, as the spears are grown above. * asparagus. * 4: Developed in Canada, the Yukon Gold variety of this tuber has yellow flesh. * potato. * 5: When making a pie with strawberries and this tart vegetable, just use its red stalks; the leaves are toxic. * rhubarb.

Round 3. Category: Women On Ice * 1: Training 6 days a week on her camels and other moves won her the Gold at the '76 Olympics. * Dorothy Hamill. * 2: At age 10 in 1924, she won the 1st of 6 straight Norwegian figure skating championships. * Sonja Henie. * 3: In 1984 she and partner Christopher Dean earned 6.0s for artistic impression across the Olympic board. * (Jane) Torvill. * 4: At the '94 Olympics, this German placed 7th in her attempt to win a 3rd Gold. * Katarina Witt. * 5: Though she fell on a triple loop in the 1992 Olympics, she still took the Gold. * Kristi Yamaguchi.

Round 4. Category: Advertising Slogans * 1: "When you care enough to send the very best", send one of these. * Hallmark Card. * 2: "Wouldn't you really rather have" one of these cars. * Buick. * 3: "I like" this lemon-lime soda "in you". * Sprite. * 4: This maker of pre-school toys says, "Our work is child's play". * Fisher-Price. * 5: "Always low prices. Always". * Wal-Mart.

Round 5. Category: 1993 Movies * 1: With a gross of over $330 million, this Steven Spielberg film was the big hit of 1993. * Jurassic Park. * 2: In his most recent film, this St. Bernard has a girlfriend named Missy and 4 puppies. * Beethoven. * 3: This Tim Burton movie was made using stop-motion animation. * The Nightmare Before Christmas. * 4: This sequel was subtitled "Back in the Habit". * Sister Act 2. * 5: Anthony Hopkins played the role of author C.S. Lewis in this Richard Attenborough film. * Shadowlands.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 272, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Can't Live With 'Em * 1: This folklore figure killed 6 wives who went against his orders and entered a room he kept locked. * Bluebeard. * 2: Ernie K-Doe sang about her, "Every time I open my mouth she steps in and tries to put me out". * "Mother-in-Law".

Round 2. Category: Pitches From The Crypt * 1: Known for introducing acts on his '50s variety show, he introduced the new Mercedes S.U.V. in 1997. * Ed Sullivan. * 2: The footage of Humphrey Bogart in this soda's commercial was shot decades before the soda's 1982 debut. * Diet Coke.

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Round 1. Category: Vilification * 1: Rossini said of this "Ring" leader, "He has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour". * Richard Wagner. * 2: Mario Puzo wrote that one of these men "with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns". * a lawyer. * 3: In 1984 Barbara Bush said of this woman, "I can't say it, but it rhymes with rich"; she later apologized. * Geraldine Ferraro. * 4: Dorothy Parker's comment on this actress, "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B", was a joke. * Katharine Hepburn. * 5: Herman Mankiewicz said of this director, "There, but for the grace of God, goes God". * Orson Welles.

Round 2. Category: Antarctic Explorers * 1: The last entry in this Briton's diary, dated March 29, 1912, ended, "For God's sake look after our people". * Robert Scott. * 2: His 1930 book "Little America" is an account of his flight to the South Pole. * Richard Byrd. * 3: On Dec. 17, 1911 he left the South Pole, leaving behind a tent and the Norwegian flag. * Roald Amundsen. * 4: An Antarctic sea and ice shelf are named for this man who discovered the North Magnetic Pole. * James Ross. * 5: In the 1950s this New Zealand mountaineer blazed a trail for Sir Vivian Fuchs, the first to cross Antarctica. * Sir Edmund Hillary.

Round 3. Category: Put Me In, Coach! * 1: He had 9 very productive years coaching the Bulls, winning 6 NBA titles, before moving to the Lakers in 1999. * Phil Jackson. * 2: 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. * 3: Bob Kersee coached this woman, his wife, to 4 world championships, 2 in the heptathlon and 2 in the long jump. * Jackie Joyner-Kersee. * 4: Coach, we need rebounds. I can lead us to the promised land like this Hall of Fame Rockets and Sixers center. * Moses Malone. * 5: Put me in at this soccer position also called halfback--I can help on both offense and defense. * midfielder.

Round 4. Category: All That Jazz * 1: This current "Tonight Show" bandleader appeared in the documentary "Bring on the Night" with Sting. * Branford Marsalis. * 2: At age 6, Wynton Marsalis received his first trumpet from this New Orleans trumpeter known for "Cotton Candy". * Al Hirt. * 3: His son Mercer played trumpet and E-flat horn in his band and once served as the band's tour manager. * Duke Ellington. * 4: This producer and composer has written the TV themes for "The Bill Cosby Show" and "Roots". * Quincy Jones. * 5: In 1977 this saxophonist for the Dave Brubeck Quartet was elected to the Downbeat Magazine hall of fame. * Paul Desmond.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 271, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Oman * 1: It's the principle natural resource of Oman. * oil. * 2: Oman waspart of the international force that defeated this country in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. * Iraq. * 3: A section of Oman, separated from the rest of the country by the UAE, juts into this important strait. * the Strait of Hormuz. * 4: With no constitution or legislature, Oman is governed by a ruler with this title. * the Sultan of Oman. * 5: This, the capital city, was formerly paired with Oman in the country's name. * Muscat.

Round 2. Category: Leading "Roll"S * 1: Some people use spray deodorants, but many conservationists prefer this non-aerosol kind. * roll-on. * 2: When it's time to go to sleep, campers unroll these. * a bed roll. * 3: If you have lots of dough, you can buy a really nice one of these implements to smooth out your dough. * a rolling pin. * 4: In the "Beer Barrel Polka", this line precedes "We'll have a barrel of fun". * roll out the barrel. * 5: Jazz great Morton, or his sweet snack. * jelly roll.

Round 3. Category: The Contest * 1: 1984 Walter Mondale got his 13 electoral votes by winning D.C. and this state. * Minnesota. * 2: In 1998 Rabbit Hash, Ky. elected Goofy, one of these, as mayor; sadly, the mayor had to be "put down" in 2001. * a dog. * 3: Peter Ueberroth finished sixth in a 2003 race for this state's highest office, just ahead of Larry Flynt. * California. * 4: This George W. Bush Cabinet member lost his 2000 Senate race to a man who died a month before the election. * John Ashcroft. * 5: In 1884 a booster's attack on democratic "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" backfired on this Down Easter. * James Blaine.

Round 4. Category: Broadway Debuts * 1: In 2009 this "Saturday Night Live" alum made his Broadway debut--not as moi, but as George W. Bush. * (Will) Ferrell. * 2: Tamyra Gray, who placed 4th in the 1st season of this TV singing contest, later joined the cast of "Bombay Dreams". * American Idol. * 3: Life is far from crummy for Max Crumm, who won the role of Danny Zuko in the revival on a reality TV show. * Grease. * 4: Uta Hagen flew onto Broadway in 1938, debuting as Nina in this Chekhov play. * The Seagull. * 5: Time flies: in 2007 this "Leave It To Beaver" star turned 59 and played Wilbur Turnblad in "Hairspray". * Jerry Mathers.

Round 5. Category: "C.c." Senor * 1: At this Florida site, the scientists are all out to launch. * Cape Canaveral. * 2: His name, pre-Muhammad Ali. * Cassius Clay. * 3: Research facilitator that includes the following:. * a card catalogue. * 4: Ernie Banks played all his Major League games with this team. * the Chicago Cubs. * 5: In 1968 this labor leader had a grape, er... gripe. * Caesar Chavez.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 270, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What's Falling? * 1: As Charles Lindbergh rode down Broadway June 13, 1927. * ticker tape (confetti accepted). * 2: As the Seventh Plague of Egypt. * hail. * 3: In the form of dust or sand after a volcanic eruption. * ash. * 4: By design, from a Tupolev Tu-26 "Backfire" or Petlyakov PE-2. * a bomb. * 5: Beneath a Frank Lloyd Wright house built for a Pittsburgh family. * water (a waterfall accepted).

Round 2. Category: The Play's The Thing * 1: Mary Chase play concerned with the sanity of one Elwood P. Dowd. * "Harvey". * 2: The characters in this O'Neill play aren't waiting for Godot, they're waiting for Hickey. * "The Iceman Cometh". * 3: In his Broadway debut in 2008, Terrence Howard was solid as brick in this Tennessee Williams play. * Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. * 4: In this 1949 Pulitzer-winning play, Willy and his 2 sons butt heads. * Death of a Salesman. * 5: A seedy NYC hotel-saloon and the pipe dreams of its inhabitants are elements of this "cool" 1946 Eugene O'Neill play. * The Iceman Cometh.

Round 3. Category: Live In Texas * 1: If you're on the road again in Texas, stop at Luck, this singer's world headquarters. * Willie Nelson. * 2: Check out the I.M. Pei-designed city hall at the south end of downtown in this city, cowboy; it's i-m-pressive. * Dallas. * 3: This world-famous cyclist named his home in Austin "Casa Linda" after his mother. * Lance Armstrong. * 4: From 2001 to 2009 this town was home to "the Western White House". * Crawford. * 5: Spain officially founded this city known for its Paseo del Rio (River Walk) in 1718... remember?. * San Antonio.

Round 4. Category: Dinner * 1: At Thanksgiving dinner, pass the gravy made with these turkey innards including the heart and gizzard. * Giblets. * 2: Tired of turkey? Why not serve the Smithfield or country-style type of this. * Ham. * 3: An English prime rib dinner isn't complete without this cross between a popover and a souffle. * Yorkshire pudding. * 4: We owe thanks to this country for sharing with us its Chicken Paprikash. * Hungary. * 5: For an elegant dinner, serve Coquilles St. Jacques, these shellfish in a wine sauce. * Scallops.

Round 5. Category: Bird Tv * 1: It's Big Bird's boulevard. * Sesame Street. * 2: This fast-moving bird got his own TV series in 1966 -- Beep! Beep!. * The Roadrunner. * 3: Waldo, who was murdered on "Twin Peaks", was a talkative one of these birds. * Mynah Bird. * 4: In 1981 creator Earl Hamner uncorked this series about a winery whose symbol was a bird of prey. * Falcon Crest. * 5: It's the bird name of the Emmy-winning actor who plays twins Adam and Stuart Chandler on "All My Children". * David Canary.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 269, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Explorers * 1: Francisco Pizarro was with him when he claimed the Pacific Ocean for Spain September 29, 1513. * Vasco de Balboa. * 2: He led the expedition that rescued Emin Pasha, as well as the one that found Livingstone. * Henry Stanley. * 3: His 1872 book was titled "How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa". * Stanley. * 4: Lincoln Ellsworth explored this region by airplane, dirigible, and submarine. * arctic. * 5: On April 17, 1524 he became the first European to sight New York Harbor; 440 years later a bridge named for him opened there. * Verrazano.

Round 2. Category: World Of Business * 1: Hilton's first hotel in this city opened in 1999; the earlier "Hilton" there was actually a prison. * Hanoi. * 2: The name of the oil additive STP stands for Scientifically Treated this. * Petroleum. * 3: (Hi, I'm Deidre Hall from "Days of Our Lives") This California company that began in 1945 turned Erica Kane and my character, Marlena Evans, into dolls. * Mattel. * 4: Headlines in January 2000 said of this company, "You've Got Time Warner"!. * America Online (AOL). * 5: This soap for "All Your...Parts" was introduced in 1990. * Lever 2000.

Round 3. Category: New Superheroes And Villains * 1: So strong an NBA Award is named for him, in a time of crisis, he's the first reserve off the bench; make way for the.... * Sixth Man. * 2: Called "Head Case" until his friends' laughter made him mad, he changed it to this, from the Greek for "skull"; beware the.... * Cranium. * 3: 11 letters of trouble, he introduces after-dinner speakers; raise a glass in fear to.... * Toastmaster. * 4: From the Latin for "judged", she's empowered to decide an issue; sitting mightily at the bargaining table, it's.... * Arbitrator. * 5: Uh oh! He just sold you a lemon of a car! "Let the buyer beware" this 2-word Latin phrase, it's.... * Caveat Emptor.

Round 4. Category: Animal Noises * 1: Mexican peninsula, or the sound of a sheep laughing. * Baja. * 2: To ingest your Thanksgiving turkey quickly. * gobble it up. * 3: Audio components whose job sound like they could be done by dogs and birds. * woofer and tweeters. * 4: The Pacific equivalent of Atlantis. * Mu. * 5: In "A Day at the Races", Hugo Hackenbush is one. * quack.

Round 5. Category: Colorful Idioms * 1: Elephant or lie. * white. * 2: Elephants or slip. * pink. * 3: Humor or market. * black. * 4: Blood or streak. * blue. * 5: Light or thumb. * green.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 268, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: That's Write! * 1: "Garabatos" in Spanish; Polly Wolly and a certain "Yankee" are dandy at these idle scribbles. * doodles. * 2: A preliminary version; the Brits spell it with a "ugh", we use an "f". * a draft. * 3: From the Latin for "to write across", it's making a written copy of dictated material. * transcribe. * 4: This type of will is written in your own hand; it sounds like it's in 3-D. * holographic. * 5: Pun alert! Oscar's illegibly written text of "Lady Windermere's Fan" would be this "of the Wilde". * Scrawl.

Round 2. Category: Symptoms Of Affluenza * 1: You get the sweats thinking about this car company's Silver Shadow, Silver Cloud or Phantom model. * Rolls-Royce. * 2: Shortness of breath ordering 2 boxes of Cohiba cigars, first made in this country. * Cuba. * 3: You get weak-kneed fondling a tournament mallet used during chukkers in this sport. * polo. * 4: Heart palpitations when mentioning the Carnegie Abbey Members Only Club at Narragansett Bay in this state. * Rhode Island. * 5: Shivers walking through 718 Fifth Ave., the jewelry house of this "King of Diamonds". * Harry Winston.

Round 3. Category: "B" Plus * 1: The alpha factor measures a stock's own volatility; this Greek letter compares it to the entire market. * beta. * 2: In this sport, the ball has 3 holes in which you put your fingers. * bowling. * 3: It's what Papa had in a 1965 James Brown hit. * "A Brand New Bag". * 4: Beginning in the 1970s, more than 1 million of these Indochinese refugees fled the Communist regmes where they lived. * boat people. * 5: This national variety of python can grow to 30 feet long. * the Burmese python.

Round 4. Category: 1992 Films * 1: [audio -- music playing in background]Film that features the following love song:. * The Bodyguard. * 2: The 1992 sequel to this hit comedy is subtitled "Lost in New York". * Home Alone. * 3: Daniel Day-Lewis trained to fight with a tomahawk for this epic film based on a James Fenimore Cooper novel. * The Last of the Mohicans. * 4: Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt play brothers with a passion for fly-fishing in this Robert Redford drama. * A River Runs Through It. * 5: Whoopi Goldberg plays a rebellious teacher in South Africa in this musical drama. * Sarafina!.

Round 5. Category: To Grandmother's House We Go * 1: Just because Grandma collects these shakers doesn't mean there's too much sodium in her diet. * Salt shakers. * 2: Grandma collects this man's albums and has read his memoir "The Kingdom Of Swing" 25 times. * Benny Goodman. * 3: On Grandma's wall there's a picture of this president from his Navy days on a PT boat. * John F. Kennedy. * 4: Grandma still has the diaries she wrote at this Poughkeepsie school before it went co-ed. * Vassar. * 5: Grandma loves the puppy pictures on the plates she collects from this "exchange". * The Bradford Exchange.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 267, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Amazon * 1: Beginning in Peru, the Amazon flows over 4,000 miles to this ocean. * Atlantic Ocean. * 2: Abundant in the Amazon River, this feared fish is also known as a caribe. * Piranha. * 3: The upper Amazon is known as the Solimoes River until it reaches this nation's city of Manaus. * Brazil. * 4: A 1542 attack by female warriors against explorers from this country led to the Amazon receiving its name. * Spain. * 5: These water boas of the Amazon region can grow to over 200 pounds and over 20 feet. * Anacondas.

Round 2. Category: Out West * 1: She joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show after meeting him at the Cotton Expo in New Orleans. * Annie Oakley. * 2: This 2nd largest Arizona city is called "The Astronomy Capital of the World" due to the many telescopes located nearby. * Tucson. * 3: In 1851 James Savage became the first white man to enter this Calif. valley, now the site of a national park. * Yosemite. * 4: Lt. Caspar W. Collins has a city named for him (spelled differently) on the North Platte River in this state. * Wyoming. * 5: Named for a British admiral, this inactive volcano in the Cascades last erupted in 1865. * Hood.

Round 3. Category: Hurricanes * 1: "My Fair Lady" tune with the line "In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly happen". * "The Rain in Spain". * 2: In 1995 Hurricane Peter McNeely was this boxer's first post-prison victim. * Mike Tyson. * 3: A chimney on a hurricane lamp is usually made out of this. * Glass. * 4: The Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane are types of these. * Airplanes. * 5: In 1984 this arachnid group had a Top 40 hit with "Rock You Like a Hurricane". * The Scorpions.

Round 4. Category: Big Screen Title Pairs * 1: 1971:"...and the Chocolate Factory". * Willy Wonka. * 2: 1994:"...and Present Danger". * Clear. * 3: 1966:"...and Mr. Chicken". * The Ghost. * 4: 1993:"...and Confused". * Dazed. * 5: 1975:"...and the Lion". * The Wind.

Round 5. Category: It's Elemental * 1: Its symbol Hg comes from the Latin hydrargyrum, "watery silver". * mercury. * 2: The Sanskrit juel, "to shine", was transmuted into this 4-letter element by Anglo-Saxons. * gold. * 3: With 1 as its atomic number, this gas heads up the periodic table. * hydrogen. * 4: In the electronics industry, this element symbolized Si, is made into N- and P-types of semiconductors. * silicon. * 5: Oxides of this silver-white metallic element are used in pigments to give some ceramics a vivid blue color. * cobalt.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 266, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Musical Architecture * 1: In "Royal Wedding" Fred Astaire gives a textbook demonstration of this, the title of a 1986 Lionel Richie hit. * Dancing On The Ceiling. * 2: The B-52's headed up the charts when they headed on down to this place. * Love Shack. * 3: The Dixie Cups sang, "Gee I really love you and we're gonna get married, goin' to" this place. * Chapel Of Love. * 4: Carole King co-wrote this song that was a No. 5 hit for the Drifters in 1962. * Up On The Roof. * 5: Melissa Etheridge's first Top 40 song, it says, "Crawl inside, wait by the light of the moon". * Come To My Window.

Round 2. Category: Remember The Titans * 1: Aeschylus wrote of this "bound" Titan who was a hero to humankind. * Prometheus. * 2: Mnemosyne, the Titan goddess of memory, was also the mother of these inspirational goddesses. * the Muses. * 3: Goddess of the Earth, was was the mother of the Titans. * Gaia. * 4: The youngest of the Titans, he found time to father the Olympians. * Cronos. * 5: A South American birdie told me this Titan was Zeus' mother and mother-in-law. * Rhea.

Round 3. Category: Around The Doghouse With Spot * 1: Spot has never managed to lie on top of his doghouse like this Peanuts character. * Snoopy. * 2: Spot's owner puts a special collar on Spot to keep these insects from jumping onto him. * Fleas. * 3: Always the picky eater, Spot will only eat this brand's "Dog Chow" and an occasional bird. * Purina. * 4: Spot's owner made up the word "Schnottish" for Spot, a mix of schnauzer and this type of terrier. * Scottish. * 5: The Post-Dispatch can be found in Spot's doghouse because he lives in this Midwestern city. * St. Louis.

Round 4. Category: "Eel" Of Fortune * 1: Fruit skin. * peel. * 2: Bread end. * heel. * 3: Boat bottom. * keel. * 4: Iron alloy. * steel. * 5: A fisherman's wicker basket. * creel.

Round 5. Category: German Science * 1: Around 1850 Helmholtz clocked impulses moving along these body parts at about 90 feet per second. * nerves. * 2: University prof Michael Mastlin sold young Johannes Kepler on this Copernican theory. * heliocentrism. * 3: Max Born taught this subject at the University of Gottingen and won a Nobel Prize in it. * physics. * 4: "Psychopathia Sexualis" author Krafft-Ebing found the link between this disease and the mental decay called paresis. * syphilis. * 5: Nicolaier produced this disease in animals by injecting then with soil, and maybe watching their little jaws lock. * tetanus.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 265, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Subway Stops * 1: Stops on this city's Line 1 include Carioca, Flamengo and Botafogo. * Rio de Janeiro. * 2: Kyobashi and Toranomon are stops on the Ginza Line cutting through this city. * Tokyo. * 3: You'll have to switch lines in this city to go from Chapultepec to Politecnico. * Mexico City. * 4: You can ride one line in this world capital from Kifissia to Pireas. * Athens. * 5: Going from Govan to Cowcaddens on this city's subway, you'll cross the Clyde and Kelvin Rivers. * Glasgow.

Round 2. Category: My Own Private Idaho * 1: Calling itself the birthplace of television, Rigby, Idaho was the boyhood home of this technology pioneer. * Philo Farnsworth. * 2: Idaho's license plates logically carry the slogan "Famous" these. * Potatoes. * 3: In the 1860s this precious metal was discovered at Owyhee, and today Idaho leads the U.S. in its production. * silver. * 4: The Idaho section of U.S. Highway 12 bears the name of these 2 men who passed through the area in the early 1800s. * Lewis and Clark. * 5: Idaho's Kamiah Valley is rich in the heritage and legends of this "nosy" Native American tribe. * Nez Perce.

Round 3. Category: Motown * 1: Beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go", this group has 12 No. 1 hits, more than any act on the Motown label. * the Supremes. * 2: "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" was the first of his 19 Grammys, a record for rock performers. * Stevie Wonder. * 3: This lead singer of the Miracles wrote "My Guy" for Mary Wells and "My Girl" for the Temptations. * Smokey Robinson. * 4: Renaldo Benson, Abdul Fakir, Levi Stubbs and Lawrence Payton performed under this name, starting in 1956. * the Four Tops. * 5: The Supremes had the most No. 1 hits of any U.S. group, beginning with this song in 1964: "Baby, baby...". * "Where Did Our Love Go".

Round 4. Category: Lotto Fever * 1: An illegal lottery, or the fourth book of the Old Testament. * Numbers. * 2: One of the USA's 500 largest businesses by revenue is this state's lottery, based in Schenectady. * New York. * 3: In 1980 Congress forbade the use of this for distribution of lottery materials. * the mails. * 4: 13 workers at one of this coffee chain's stores in California became stars when they won big bucks in 2000...$87 million. * Starbucks. * 5: 2000 saw a fight in England over running the lottery, with this Virgin king at the forefeont. * Richard Branson.

Round 5. Category: Irs Stuff * 1: The IRS now allows some deductions for treatments, not including the over-the-counter patch, to quit this. * Smoking. * 2: To deduct these, your new job must be over 50 miles farther from your former home than your old job was. * Moving expenses. * 3: If you've been selected for one of these, the IRS cheerfully informs you that many of them result in refunds. * Audit. * 4: Filing jointly, families with 2 or more kids and making under $34,178 a year may receive the EITC, this credit. * Earned Income Tax Credit. * 5: About 9% of the individual returns for 2000 checked the box to donate this much to the Presidential Election Fund. * $3.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 264, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Battles * 1: In the 490 B.C. battle of this plain, the Greeks ran up their first important victory over the Persians. * Marathon. * 2: The defeat of this city's invasion force at Syracuse in 413 B.C. was the beginning of its end and the start of Sparta's rise. * Athens. * 3: This foolhardy "charge" took place at 1854's Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War. * the Charge of the Light Brigade. * 4: England's King Harold II lost the all-important Battle of Hastings in this year. * 1066. * 5: "2 ships, 2 brigs, 1 schooner and 1 sloop" were the fleet defeated in this battle in the War of 1812. * the Battle of Lake Erie.

Round 2. Category: The Age Of Aquariums * 1: The Great Lake Aquarium featured fish that live in this kind of water, as opposed to saltwater. * freshwater. * 2: It's fun to ride the riverboat from the Audobon Zoo to the Aquarium of the Americas in this Louisiana city. * New Orleans. * 3: These "tuxedoed" birds are a highlight of the Splash Zone at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. * penguins. * 4: Seen here, the beluga type of this mammal is one of the main attractions at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium. * a whale. * 5: On April 13, 2001 a bottlenose one of these mammals was born at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. * a dolphin.

Round 3. Category: I'm In "Seventh" Heaven * 1: "...the right of trial by jury...". * the Seventh Amendment. * 2: The Davidians are a branch of this religion. * Seventh-day Adventists. * 3: One theory is this sports tradition began at Manhattan College in 1882 to control restless students in the stands. * the seventh inning stretch. * 4: Folklorically, this descendant will have occult powers; it's also an Iron Maiden album. * seventh son of a seventh son. * 5: Released in 1957, this film was based on the play "Tramalning" that had also been written by the director. * The Seventh Seal.

Round 4. Category: Location, Location, Location * 1: Suisse is the French name for this mountainous country. * Switzerland. * 2: Washington Irving gave New York City this nickname in 1807. * Gotham. * 3: There are only 31 states and 1 federal district in this North American country. * Mexico. * 4: The Tasman Sea separates Australia and this nation. * New Zealand. * 5: Robin Hood's nemesis was the sheriff of this district. * Nottingham.

Round 5. Category: Sports Stuff * 1: The opposing coaches at this Feb. 3, 2013 event were brothers Jim and John Harbaugh. * the Super Bowl. * 2: The opposing coaches at this Feb. 3, 2013 event were brothers Jim and John Harbaugh. * the Super Bowl. * 3: Burnie is the "scorching" mascot of this NBA team. * the Miami Heat. * 4: In an interview with Oprah, he finally admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France. * Lance Armstrong. * 5: In an interview with Oprah, he finally admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France. * Lance Armstrong.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 263, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The "Meth"Od * 1: This word begins a rhyme about what a bride needs on her wedding day. * something. * 2: Rice paddies release this greenhouse gas. * methane. * 3: Term originally applied to a mid-18th century religious society founded at Oxford. * the Methodists. * 4: His group won a Grammy in 1998 for "Imaginary Day". * Pat Metheny. * 5: In mythology, the husband of Pandora and brother of Prometheus; in astronomy, a moon of Saturn. * Epimetheus.

Round 2. Category: Anatomy * 1: The layers of the skin are the epi-this, the this and the hypo-this. * the dermis. * 2: The lowest 4 ribs, attached only to the backbone, are called by this buoyant name. * floating ribs. * 3: Name of the flap which closes over the trachea when you swallow. * the epiglottis. * 4: These blood vessels are so tiny that only 1 blood cell can pass through at a time. * capillaries. * 5: The name of this narrowest bone of the leg is Latin for "clasp". * the fibula.

Round 3. Category: Rhyme Quest * 1: A final, as in a final exam. * a test. * 2: Better than better. * best. * 3: Repose. * rest. * 4: A soiree invitee (if he shows up). * a guest. * 5: Gusto. * zest.

Round 4. Category: Books Of The Bible * 1: You'll find the quotation "To every thing there is a season" in Chapter 3 of this book. * Ecclesiastes. * 2: The flood and the birth of Isaac are covered in this book. * Genesis. * 3: "And God blessed them, saying, be fruitful, and multiply...". * Genesis. * 4: "And Moses said unto the people, remember this day in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage...". * Exodus. * 5: "He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved". * Psalms.

Round 5. Category: A Session With Dr. Joyce Brothers * 1: So he wants a divorce. Suggest a "trial" one of these -- maybe you'll find life better without the bum. * Separation. * 2: You make your boyfriend feel inadequate because no man ever loses his awe of this woman. * His mother. * 3: Hmm. You get to your job early, stay late, won't delegate and have no friends -- you may be this type of "holic". * Workaholic. * 4: My feeling is your boyfriend has this fetish called retifism - so see if you're missing any Ferragamos or Guccis. * Shoe fetish. * 5: One little change affects the rest of your life like a stone dropped in a pond - I call that this "effect". * Ripple effect.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 262, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fire! * 1: On Oct. 10, 1871, after 2 days, unbuilt lots, rainfall and Lake Michigan quelled a huge fire in this city. * Chicago. * 2: On March 18, 1925 this woman's house of wax in London went up in smoke; the models within could be heard sizzling. * Madame Tussaud. * 3: On March 18, 1925 this woman's house of wax in London went up in smoke; the models within could be heard sizzling. * Madame Tussaud. * 4: This general was blamed for the fire that destroyed Columbia, South Carolina, but he denied setting it and tried to put it out. * (William Tecumseh) Sherman. * 5: Genesis 19 says, "the Lord rained upon" these 2 cities "brimstone and fire ...out of heaven". * Sodom and Gomorrah.

Round 2. Category: World Cup '98 * 1: There were an average of 2.67 of these a game, not enough for some bored U.S. viewers. * Goals. * 2: This country's win over the "Great Satan" knocked the U.S. out of contention for the second round. * Iran. * 3: Argentina didn't "kick" about this controversial tie-breaking method after using it to beat England. * Penalty kicks/shootout. * 4: Only in France: the pre-game show at the final was a tribute to this "saint"ly fashion designer. * Yves Saint Laurent. * 5: It was a good July for this country: they reached the World Cup semis and Goran Ivanisevic made the Wimbledon final. * Croatia.

Round 3. Category: More First Ladies * 1: In 1987 she published the book "Betty: A Glad Awakening". * Betty Ford. * 2: In 1875, after 3 months in a mental institution, she was released in the custody of her sister in Springfield, Ill.. * Mary Todd Lincoln. * 3: Quincy was her mother's maiden name and the middle name of her son. * Abigail Adams. * 4: She married the future president at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Bexar County, Texas on November 17, 1934. * Lady Bird Johnson. * 5: This first lady was born in 1917 on the eve of St. Patrick's Day, hence her nickname. * Pat Nixon.

Round 4. Category: Forbes' Billionaires * 1: March was a great month for her: she made her debut on the Forbes list and got out of a West Virginia prison. * Martha Stewart. * 2: Corona beer helped crown Maria Aramburuzabala the wealthiest woman in this country. * Mexico. * 3: Michael Eisner is off the list, but this septuagenarian member of the Disney family is still on it. * Roy Disney. * 4: Guy Laliberte, founder of this circus, may be the only fire-breather on the list. * Cirque du Soleil. * 5: The youngest billionaire on the 2005 list is 21-year-old Albert von Thurn und Taxis, a prince from this country. * Germany.

Round 5. Category: Literary Second Bananas * 1: Robinson Crusoe had 24 years of solitude prior to rescuing this cannibal and teaching him English. * Friday. * 2: Charley Bates is the boisterous sidekick to this "Oliver Twist" pickpocket. * the Artful Dodger. * 3: Several Sherlock Holmes stories refer to Miss Mary Morstan, who marries this physician. * Dr. Watson. * 4: This simple peasant became Don Quixote's squire after being promised an island to rule. * Sancho Panza. * 5: In "Huckleberry Finn", Tom Sawyer says that he and Huck Finn "have knowed" this slave "all his life". * Jim.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 261, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Gray Matters * 1: "She ain't what she used to be". * the Old Gray Mare. * 2: Gore Vidal adapted this military-school novel for TV, 1st screenplay he's taken credit for since 1964. * Dress Gray. * 3: His career "Bud"ded as Princess and Kitten's brother "Father Knows Best". * Bill Gray. * 4: Though still alive at the time, Confederate raider John S. Mosby earned this nickname. * the "Gray Ghost". * 5: "Elegy..." poet who said he would no more accept the title of poet laureate than royal rat-catcher. * Thomas Gray.

Round 2. Category: "King" Of The World! * 1: Perhaps based on a real monarch, this nursery rhyme figure called for his bowl, his pipe and his fiddlers three. * Old King Cole. * 2: This long poisonous snake is also known as a hamadryad. * king cobra. * 3: If and when Prince Charles succeeds Elizabeth II, this will be Great Britain's national anthem. * "God Save the King". * 4: Before being imploded in 2000, it was home to the Seattle Mariners and the Seattle Seahawks. * the Kingdome. * 5: Found east of Bullhead City, this city of northwest Arizona has a population of only 20,000. * Kingman.

Round 3. Category: The "Meth"Od * 1: This word begins a rhyme about what a bride needs on her wedding day. * something. * 2: Rice paddies release this greenhouse gas. * methane. * 3: Term originally applied to a mid-18th century religious society founded at Oxford. * the Methodists. * 4: His group won a Grammy in 1998 for "Imaginary Day". * Pat Metheny. * 5: In mythology, the husband of Pandora and brother of Prometheus; in astronomy, a moon of Saturn. * Epimetheus.

Round 4. Category: Who's Afraid Of * 1: "Autophobia" could be the alternative title for Reba McEntire's hit "The Fear of Being" this. * Alone. * 2: Whether it passes too slowly or too quickly, chronophobia is a fear of this. * time. * 3: It's the opposite of agoraphobia. * claustrophobia. * 4: Erica Jong might know that aviophobia is this. * fear of flying. * 5: For someone with eosophobia, "it is always darkest" at this point of the day. * dawn.

Round 5. Category: On The "War"Path * 1: In response to NATO, Eastern European nations including Poland and the USSR signed this 1955 treaty. * the Warsaw Pact. * 2: Pop art poster boy who was famous much longer than 15 minutes. * Andy Warhol. * 3: Homeothermic, like mammals. * warm-blooded. * 4: In Super Bowl XXXIV, this Rams QB passed for a record 414 yards, beating Joe Montana's record by 57 yards. * Kurt Warner. * 5: The 14th Chief Justice of the United States. * Earl Warren.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 260, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Dream"Y Songs * 1: 1 of 2 "dream"y Top 20 songs recorded by Cass Elliott with The Mamas and The Papas. * "California Dreamin'" and "Dream a Little Dream of Me". * 2: Title that follows "When I want you in my arms, when I want you and all your charms, whenever I want you...". * "All I Have to Do Is Dream". * 3: "Cheer up sleepy Jean, oh what can it mean to" one of these "and a homecoming queen". * A daydream believer. * 4: In 1959 Bobby Darin wailed, "Every night I hope and pray", she "will come my way". * "Dream Lover". * 5: In the 1986 film "Blue Velvet", Dean Stockwell peerforms a lip-synched rendition of this Roy Orbison hit. * "In Dreams".

Round 2. Category: The Wizard Of "O"S * 1: Jack Ruby fatally shot him November 24, 1963. * Lee Harvey Oswald. * 2: It's Rhode Island's watery nickname. * "The Ocean State". * 3: It's the last name of NBA great Hakeem. * Olajuwon. * 4: These native North American people are also known as the Chippewa. * Ojibwa. * 5: He's best-known for his plays "Waiting for Lefty" and "Golden Boy". * Clifford Odets.

Round 3. Category: Scientific Discoveries * 1: A new industry in Europe began in 1747 when Andreas Marggraf discovered this in beets. * sugar. * 2: In 1835 Jan Purkinje noted animal tissues, like plant tissues, are made from these. * cells. * 3: In 1834 one of the projects this German had on the back burner was finding an antidote for arsenic poisoning. * (Robert) Bunsen. * 4: Elso Barghoorn found the remains of these acids in 3-billion-year-old rocks, exhibiting proof of very early life. * amino acids. * 5: In 1986 Williams and Dubner, with too much time on their hands, found that a number formed by 1,031 ones in a row was this. * prime.

Round 4. Category: The "A" List * 1: This largest artery carries blood away from the heart. * the aorta. * 2: You're this if you're from Adelaide. * Australian. * 3: You're this if you're from Innsbruck. * Austrian. * 4: Term for one who studies and collects state-of-the-art stereo equipment. * an audiophile. * 5: The name of this refractive defect of the eye comes from the Greek. * astigmatism.

Round 5. Category: Unusual Tv Characters * 1: As Jonathan on "Highway To Heaven", Michael Landon was one of these beings on probation. * Angel. * 2: As Jeannie she could blink you back to Baghdad in, well, the blink of an eye. * Barbara Eden. * 3: Jamie Sommers' bionic dog was Max, short for this, from the cost of 4 new bionic legs and a jaw. * Maximillion. * 4: Lisa is the computer-generated woman in the USA series based on this John Hughes film. * "Weird Science". * 5: Like Lysette Anthony on 1991's "Dark Shadows", Corinne Bohrer on 1989's "Free Spirit" was one of these. * Witch.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 259, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ballet In The '90s * 1: Of Jerome Robbins' ballet based on this musical, New York Magazine quipped, "When you're a Jete...". * West Side Story. * 2: Matthew Bourne set his innovative new production of "Cinderella" in this city during the Blitz. * London. * 3: We hope the Artist Formerly Known As this saw "Billboards", a rock ballet danced to his music. * Prince. * 4: The 18 vampire brides in the Houston Ballet's show about this count could be called the corpse de ballet. * Count Dracula. * 5: In just 2 months in 1993 the NYCB presented 73 works by this late Russian-American choreographer. * George Balanchine.

Round 2. Category: Celebrity Hodgepodge * 1: Verna Felton was the voice of the nice fairy godmother in "Cinderella" and the mean Queen of Hearts in this film. * Alice in Wonderland. * 2: This aunt of George Clooney divorced Jose Ferrer the same day Dinah Shore divorced George Montgomery. * Rosemary Clooney. * 3: Kenneth Branagh was born in this capital of Northern Ireland in 1960. * Belfast. * 4: This Roy Rogers co-star once stunned his fans by entering a NYC hotel lobby and signing the register himself. * Trigger. * 5: No wonder Kiri Te Kanawa became an opera singer; she's a descendant of this noted partner of W.S. Gilbert. * Arthur Sullivan.

Round 3. Category: Star Trek, Star Wars Or Lord Of The Rings * 1: A council that takes place at Rivendell is central to its plot. * Lord of the Rings. * 2: In its lore, a Bajoran wormhole leads to the Gamma Quadrant. * Star Trek. * 3: This one lent its name to a defensive weapons system that many felt was a pie-in-the-sky fantasy. * Star Wars. * 4: A race called the Andorians causes trouble for the humans in this one. * Star Trek. * 5: Its creator was born in South Africa. * Lord of the Rings.

Round 4. Category: The Quotable Franklin * 1: "In the world nothing is certain but" these 2 things. * Death and Taxes. * 2: These "fell great oaks". * Little Srokes. * 3: Completes his line on the death of Georgiana Shipley's squirrel, "Here Skugg lies snug...". * As a bug in a rug. * 4: "They are so grateful" was his 8th and last reason for preferring this type of mistress. * Older Women. * 5: Completes his maxim, "Some are weather-wise...". * "Some are other-wise".

Round 5. Category: Universal Studios Islands Of Adventure * 1: If you like 3-D action, you'll love the amazing adventures of this webslinger. * Spider-Man. * 2: Sam-I-Am knows Universal has a cafe named for this "colorful" title breakfast. * "Green Eggs and Ham". * 3: A T-rex attacks just before you take an 85-foot plunge on the ride named for this 1993 film. * Jurassic Park. * 4: Seuss Landing is home to a rollicking ride named for this famous feline. * The Cat in the Hat. * 5: On Marvel's Superhero Island you may turn green when you ride the roller coaster named for him. * The Incredible Hulk.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 258, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Doors Songs In Other Words * 1: "Ignite The Blaze Belonging To Me". * "Light My Fire". * 2: "Jockeys Of A Tornado". * "Riders On The Storm". * 3: "Greetings, Great Affection For Thee Wells Up Within Me". * "Hello, I Love You". * 4: "Humans Tend Toward Weirdness". * "People Are Strange". * 5: "Make Contact With Moi". * "Touch Me".

Round 2. Category: Family Films * 1: Steve Martin played hapless dad George Banks in this 1991 matrimonial comedy. * Father of the Bride. * 2: 1981 film that immortalized the line "No wire hangers -- ever!". * Mommie Dearest. * 3: Sissy Spacek did her own singing in this 1980 film bio. * Coal Miner's Daughter. * 4: Gaby Hoffmann and Macaulay Culkin play niece and nephew to John Candy in this 1989 comedy. * Uncle Buck. * 5: This film from Joel and Ethan Coen was partly based on Homer's "Odyssey". * O Brother, Where Art Thou?.

Round 3. Category: Signs And Signals * 1: It's waved to indicate a truce or surrender. * white flag. * 2: In this game, a tug on the ear means "sounds like", and a touch on the nose: "you're right". * charades. * 3: These noisy insects are a sign of good luck in China. * crickets/cicadas. * 4: The two types of these home-signaling devices are photoelectric and ionization. * smoke detectors. * 5: The ringing of the church bells on this holiday in 1572 was the signal to massacre Huguenots. * St. Bartholomew's Day.

Round 4. Category: Raccoon * 1: As it has this many toes on each foot, a raccoon's footprints have a human look. * 5. * 2: Allsands.com's "How to" section includes how to make these popular with the Davy Crockett wannabees. * coonskin caps. * 3: Newborn raccoons lack the familiar tail rings and this famous facial feature. * mask. * 4: After being "A Tramp Abroad", this author yearned for home-style foods like possum and 'coon. * Mark Twain. * 5: Keep it under your hat -- in the 1840s this U.S. political party used the raccoon as its emblem. * the Whig Party.

Round 5. Category: Words In Harry Potter Titles * 1: A non-reigning male member of a royal family who may prefer to drive a "little red corvette". * a prince. * 2: A person deprived of liberty (you didn't think we'd actually go for Azkaban, did you?). * prisoner. * 3: A southwest city founded in 1870, and remember, "Harry Potter and the Wonders of Yuma" was never written. * Phoenix. * 4: A private room in a house, or a John Grisham novel about a death row prisoner. * a chamber. * 5: Last name of U.S. Chief Justice Harlan or biographer Irving. * stone.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 257, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: They Wrote The Songs * 1: "Can't Buy Me Love" and Love Me Do". * John Lennon and Paul McCartney. * 2: "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Edelweiss". * Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. * 3: "Honky Cat" and "Crocodile Rock". * Elton John and Bernie Taupin. * 4: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" and "(They Long To Be) Close To You". * Burt Bacharach and Hal David. * 5: "I Don't Know How To Love Him" and "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina". * Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.

Round 2. Category: Dan Rather * 1: Dan Rather was co-editor of this TV show from 1975 to 1981. * 60 MInutes. * 2: Dan was born on October 31, 1931 in this U.S. state. * Texas. * 3: In 1981 Dan replaced this legendary longtime anchorman. * Walter Cronkite. * 4: Dan was upped to a national post by CBS after covering one of these natural disasters in September 1961. * Hurricane. * 5: The title of one of Dan's books on broadcast journalism states that "The Camera Never" does this. * Blinks.

Round 3. Category: 3-M * 1: The greatest quantity possible, perhaps in prison security. * maximum. * 2: About 10 feet high at the shoulder, this Pleistocene animal had complex molar teeth. * a mammoth. * 3: Porgy and Bess know this title is when "the livin' is easy". * "Summertime". * 4: On New Year's Day 1901, Philadelphia hosted the first annual this Parade. * Mummers. * 5: 11-letter term meaning to honor by some observance. * commemorate.

Round 4. Category: Go Tell It On The Mountain * 1: This major mountain range of the United States also runs through Canada between Montana and Alaska. * the Rockies. * 2: Africa's highest mountain, it's primarily made up of 3 extinct volcanoes. * Kilimanjaro. * 3: This 14,110-foot Colorado mountain peak discovered in 1806 inspired the song "America The Beautiful". * Pikes Peak. * 4: You don't need no stinkin' badges to treasure this main mountain system of Mexico. * the Sierra Madre. * 5: The 20,320-foot mountain then known as Densmore's Mt. was renamed for this presidential candidate in 1896. * McKinley.

Round 5. Category: Think Fast * 1: A person moving quickly is going by leaps and these. * Bounds. * 2: Floor it, or "put the pedal to" this. * The metal. * 3: People go like a blue one of these, or like one of lightning. * Streak. * 4: A dictionary defines it as "The instant's duration of a wink"; little stars and eyes do it. * Twinkle. * 5: The material that people are "hellbent for" when moving quickly. * Leather.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 256, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Your Basic Monster * 1: Count yourself lucky to know that one of these monsters drinks your blood and can turn into a bat. * vampire. * 2: A full moon gets this type of monster in a hairy situation. * werewolf. * 3: In a Mary Shelley work, he's the doctor who used electricity to charge his constructed monster to life. * Dr. Frankenstein. * 4: St. George fought and killed one of these mythical, fire-breathing monsters. * dragon. * 5: This monster is a giant, one-eyed creature from Greek mythology. * cyclops.

Round 2. Category: Poets * 1: Georgia poet Sidney Lanier spent several months in a Maryland prison during this war. * the Civil War. * 2: His poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, was first published July 31, 1786, in Kilmarnock. * Robert Burns. * 3: In one of his cute couplets he quipped, "A bit of talcum is always walcum". * Ogden Nash. * 4: Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece, "Les Fleurs du mal", translates as these "of Evil". * Flowers. * 5: This Maine poetess sometimes wrote under the shorter pen name Nancy Boyd. * Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Round 3. Category: Stupid Answers * 1: It's the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution that mentions religion. * First Amendment. * 2: It's the name given the nearly 1-week-long military conflict between Israel and several Arab neighbors in 1967. * Six-Day War. * 3: Carvings of a bell and a star are found on her gravestone in Porum, Oklahoma. * Belle Starr. * 4: (Hi, I'm Jason Williams of the New Jersey Nets) In 1999 this flashy Sacramento Kings guard was second in voting for NBA Rookie of the Year. * Jason Williams. * 5: Kodiak Island is the habitat of this type of bear, Ursus arctos middendorffi. * Kodiak bear.

Round 4. Category: Denmark * 1: This most important naval battle of World War I took place off Denmark's coast. * the Battle of Jutland. * 2: Between 1513 and 1972, all Danish kings were alternately name Frederik and this pious name. * Christian. * 3: Now a ruin, the Trelleborg Fortress of these warriors was built using half the timber on the island of Zealand. * the Vikings. * 4: This 11th century "Great" Dane united Denmark, England and Norway. * Canute the Great. * 5: This 11th century "Great" Dane united Denmark, England and Norway. * Canute the Great.

Round 5. Category: Financial Matters * 1: This alphanumeric clause of the 1978 Tax Reform Act now enrolls over 40 million Americans. * 401(k). * 2: A killer bee is an investment banker helping thwart a hostile one of these. * takeover. * 3: Appropriately, investing in housing can be one of these, letting you pay less to the IRS. * tax shelter. * 4: Term for the interest rate on a bond, as well as a piece of paper that lowers your grocery bill. * coupon. * 5: This 6-letter word can mean frugality, or a savings and loan association. * thrift.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 255, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Java, The Hut * 1: In the early 1700s there were 550 coffeehouses in this city, including Edward Lloyd's. * London. * 2: Daddy-o, leave the squares at home on Wednesday--it's open mic night at Sacred Grounds in this city's Haight. * San Francisco. * 3: Try a Kaffe Kreme at this shop where their coffee is as good as their doughnuts. * Krispy Kreme. * 4: Have some joe at cafes named for this fictional Colombian who represents more than 500,000 coffee growers. * Juan Valdez. * 5: After World War II, Paris's Cafe de Flore became awash with tourists hoping to find this man pondering the purpose of being. * (Jean-Paul) Sartre.

Round 2. Category: Tv Shows In Other Words * 1: "Chaplin's Cherubim". * Charlie's Angels. * 2: "Identify This Melody". * Name That Tune. * 3: "7 Plus 1 Completes the Need". * Eight Is Enough. * 4: "Hurrahs". * Cheers. * 5: "Which One's in Charge?". * Who's the Boss?.

Round 3. Category: Railroading * 1: Railroad term that's also slang for the following:(roll of 2 6's in dice). * Boxcars. * 2: Casey Jones and Choo-Choo Charlie were famous ones. * Engineers. * 3: "Shunting" is when a train switches these. * Tracks. * 4: The boarding area for passengers at a station; women have "shoes" for it. * Platform. * 5: A bed on a Pullman for a Roman emperor might be a "Caesarean" one. * Berth.

Round 4. Category: Polly's Category * 1: Polli is called a tadpole. Called a tadpole. * polliwog. * 2: This Polly is blindly optimistic. Optimistic. * Pollyanna. * 3: Poli holds your dentures in. Your dentures in. * PoliGrip. * 4: Pauly starred in "Jury Duty". Starred in "Jury Duty". * Pauly Shore. * 5: Poly believes in many gods. Many gods. * polytheistic.

Round 5. Category: Date Night * 1: Estee Lauder's Uncircle is a treatment for dark circles under these. * Eyes. * 2: Marilyn Monroe said she slept in nothing but this famed Chanel perfume; splash some on. * Chanel No. 5. * 3: When asked where this female floral accessory looks best, Miss Manners replied, "In the refrigerator". * Corsage. * 4: Prepare pesto sauce for your date the classic way, with fresh leaves of this herb, a main ingredient. * Basil. * 5: These foil-wrapped after-dinner chocolate mints have the name of a South American mountain range. * Andes.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 254, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: All Bark * 1: The bald variety of this tree is common in swampy areas. * a cypress. * 2: Due to excessive logging, Lebanon established the Al-Shouf Reserve for these trees in 1997. * cedars. * 3: The terebinth is also known as this tree, as it yielded probably the earliest form of a paint solvent and thinner. * a turpentine tree. * 4: This "sandy" tree family includes oaks and chestnuts. * beeches. * 5: Named for British botanist David, this large Christmas-y tree is called a fir or a spruce but it really is a pine. * a Douglas.

Round 2. Category: Tall Talk * 1: Cosmopolitan's "Sexiest Man In The World" for 1993 was this 6' 3" hunk seen on romance novels. * Fabio. * 2: It's hard not to look up to this New Jersey Democrat and presidential hopeful; he's 6' 5". * Bill Bradley. * 3: At 7' 4" this wrestler whose last name was Roussimoff brought many an opponent to his knees. * Andre the Giant. * 4: "(Hi, I'm Sandy Duncan) I was first partnered with this 6' 6" dancer when I was 12 and he was a teen back in our native Texas". * Tommy Tune. * 5: This 6' tall forward for the Houston Comets is the first woman to have a Nike basketball shoe named for her. * Sheryl Swoopes.

Round 3. Category: Chateau "Dif" * 1: In anthropology, it's the spread of cultural features like tools or rituals from one group to another. * diffusion. * 2: Ranging from 1.3 to 3.6, degrees of this increase your potential score in Olympic diving. * difficulty. * 3: It's defined as the bending of light waves as they pass around the edge of an obstacle. * diffraction. * 4: Automotive gear allowing wheels to turn at separate speeds. * the differential. * 5: A reserved or restrained manner often resulting in fatal hesitation. * diffidence.

Round 4. Category: Household Hints * 1: To remove grass stains from clothes, try rubbing with the Karo brand of this type of syrup. * corn syrup. * 2: To keep a picnic table pest-free, spray with water mixed with the oil from this plant; take note of its color. * lavender. * 3: To keep these little plantlike protists out of a bird bath, plunk in a pre-1982 penny; copper stops their growth. * algae. * 4: If you accidentally super glued your fingers together, dab nail polish remover containing this solvent--it breaks the bond. * acetone. * 5: To get lipstick out of washable clothing, dab the stain with the isopropyl type of this. * alcohol.

Round 5. Category: The New York Times Journalists * 1: As Michelle Higgins is the "Practical" this, she'll tell you how to cut the high cost of flying to Africa. * Traveler. * 2: Frank Bruni, whose yearly entertainment budget is $350,000, is on this beat. * restaurants (food critic). * 3: In 1990 Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn won a Pulitzer covering China's democracy movement in this place. * Tiananmen Square. * 4: We bet the first Monday in Oct. is always circled on Linda Greenhouse's calendar; she started on this Times beat in 1978. * the Supreme Court. * 5: Pulitzer-winning Op-Ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote "A Brief History of the 21st Century" in "The World is" this. * Flat.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 253, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Pop Music Pairings * 1: blank and the Papas. * The Mamas. * 2: ... and the Gang. * Kool. * 3: blank and Wings. * Paul McCartney. * 4: ... and the Funky Bunch. * Marky Mark. * 5: blank and the Dominos. * Derek.

Round 2. Category: Body Facts And Figures * 1: These 2 of your 5 senses are connected; lose one and you lose most of the other. * taste and smell. * 2: The average person has some 18 square feet of this, making it the body's largest organ. * skin. * 3: If you want to count all the hairs on your head, hope you have this natural color; it has the fewest. * red. * 4: You have about 1 quart of this for every 30 pounds you weigh. * blood. * 5: You'll need 3 Trent Reznors to collect enough of this metal, Fe, from their bodies to make a nine-inch nail. * iron.

Round 3. Category: 4-Syllable Words * 1: Mission: this 10-letter word meaning hopelessly difficult; the clue will self-destruct in one second. * impossible. * 2: Bridgeport is the largest city in this northeastern state. * Connecticut. * 3: For Colorado Springs, it's 6,000 feet. * elevation. * 4: Also a physiological term, it's the distribution of copies of a periodical among readers. * circulation. * 5: Type of book, like Martin Gardner's edition of "Alice", that includes explanatory information as well as the text. * annotated.

Round 4. Category: Tennis, Anyone? * 1: The 2 Martinas to have been ranked as the year's No. 1 women's tennis player. * Martina Hingis and Martina Navratilova. * 2: Held in Melbourne in January, it's the first of the 4 tennis Grand Slam events every year. * the Australian Open. * 3: In 1993 he was ranked the world's No. 1 tennis player; he "re-peted" as No. 1 5 more years. * Pete Sampras. * 4: These 2 sisters have faced each other in the Wimbledon singles finals 4 times. * Venus and Serena Williams. * 5: In 2004 this Russian-born woman won the Wimbledon singles title. * (Maria) Sharapova.

Round 5. Category: The Olympics * 1: One difference between this hyphenated sport and freestyle is that opponents can't grasp or use the legs in a fall. * Greco-Roman wrestling. * 2: In 2000 marathon winner Naoko Takahashi became the first woman from this country to win a gold in track and field. * Japan. * 3: It's the only California site to host a Winter Olympics. * Squaw Valley. * 4: A special event at the 1928 and 1948 Winter Games, this bare-bones sled slid back to the Games in 2002. * the skeleton. * 5: At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Shaun White took gold in this snowboarding competition. * half-pipe.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 252, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Dances * 1: The monkey and the frug were examples of this kind of dancing, sometimes done by girls in cages. * go-go dancing. * 2: Back-bending dance that's neither heaven nor hell. * the limbo. * 3: A Carioca is a resident of Rio and also a ballroom version of this dance. * the samba. * 4: Dance you'd do to "Ah-one, ah-two, ah-doodle-dee-doodle-dee-do". * the old soft shoe. * 5: Composers like Haydn and Mozart established this French court dance as the third movement of the symphony. * minuet.

Round 2. Category: Pitches From The Crypt * 1: 10 years after his death, he can be seen on TV dancing with Dirt Devil vacuum cleaners. * Fred Astaire. * 2: The National Cattlemen's Beef Assn. continued to use this actor's voice in ads after his July 1997 death. * Robert Mitchum. * 3: Known for introducing acts on his '50s variety show, he introduced the new Mercedes S.U.V. in 1997. * Ed Sullivan. * 4: The footage of Humphrey Bogart in this soda's commercial was shot decades before the soda's 1982 debut. * Diet Coke. * 5: This brewery runs commercials featuring John Wayne and the cast of "Bonanza". * Coors.

Round 3. Category: Prime Time Tv * 1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Victoria Rowell) During the daytime, I play D.B. Winters on "Y and R". At night, A.B. Livingston on this Dick Van Dyke series". * Diagnosis Murder. * 2: This former TV Conehead plays a human romancing an alien in "3rd Rock From The Sun". * Jane Curtin. * 3: Ray Wise played Reese and Peyton's dad on "Savannah" and Laura Palmer's father on this series. * Twin Peaks. * 4: Cicely Tyson guest-starred on the first episode of this Chad Everett hospital series in 1969. * Medical Center. * 5: This Melanie Griffith film about a spunky secretary spawned a 1990 sitcom starring Sandra Bullock. * Working Girl.

Round 4. Category: A Woman Of The World * 1: She was in Kenya when she learned she had become queen on February 6, 1952. * Elizabeth II. * 2: An Asian prime minister for 15 years, she was called "Indu" for short. * Indira Gandhi. * 3: In 1767 this "Great" empress called a commission on legal reform. * Catherine the Great. * 4: In 1993 True Path Party leader Tansu Ciller became the first female PM of this large Muslim country. * Turkey. * 5: An entirely female unit, the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon, helped win this country's 1956-58 socialist revolution. * Cuba.

Round 5. Category: Pilots * 1: Pilot somewhere over the Atlantic, May 20, 1927. * Lindbergh. * 2: Pilot up above his brother and others, December 17, 1903 at 10:35 AM. * Orville Wright. * 3: "Operation Overflight" is his account of his famous Cold War flight over the USSR. * Francis Gary Powers. * 4: Pilot who made an "unplanned" trip to Ireland and got a parade for his trouble on August 5, 1938. * "Wrong Way" Corrigan. * 5: American pilot on the ground and "Behind Enemy Lines" in Bosnia for 6 days in 1995. * Scott O'Grady.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 251, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: We're "Through" * 1: Transparent, as a blouse. * See-through. * 2: It completes a tennis or a golf stroke. * Follow-through. * 3: A significant advance in science, like the polio vaccine. * Breakthrough. * 4: A triple alliterative expression for when someone sticks with you in difficult times. * "Through thick and thin". * 5: Having undergone a difficult experience, like a wet sock in an old washing machine. * "Going through the wringer".

Round 2. Category: A John Denver Songbook * 1: "Almost heaven,West Virginia,Blue Ridge Mountains,Shenandoah River". * "Take Me Home, Country Roads". * 2: "Well, I got me a fine wife,I got me old fiddle". * "Thank God I'm A Country Boy". * 3: "If I had a day that I could give you, I'd give to you a day just like today". * "Sunshine On My Shoulders". * 4: "To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean, to ride on the crest of a wild raging storm". * "Calypso". * 5: "You fill up my senses like a night in a forest...". * "Annie's Song".

Round 3. Category: Pizza Toppings * 1: This type of hard sausage is America's favorite pizza topping. * pepperoni. * 2: How about a nice traditional Hawaiian pizza topped with ham or Canadian bacon and this fruit. * pineapple. * 3: These on your pizza may be fire-roasted, sun-dried, or just fresh sliced Romas. * tomatoes. * 4: On November 12 celebrate National Pizza with the Works Except these fish Day. * Anchovies. * 5: Wild ones of these found on pizza include shiitakes, morels and chanterelles. * mushrooms.

Round 4. Category: "C.c." Senor * 1: At this Florida site, the scientists are all out to launch. * Cape Canaveral. * 2: His name, pre-Muhammad Ali. * Cassius Clay. * 3: Research facilitator that includes the following:. * a card catalogue. * 4: Ernie Banks played all his Major League games with this team. * the Chicago Cubs. * 5: In 1968 this labor leader had a grape, er... gripe. * Caesar Chavez.

Round 5. Category: A Perfect Letter * 1: World Book recommends that when you open with "Dear Sir", you close this way, whether you mean it or not. * Sincerely. * 2: In a business lettet, this punctuation mark often replaces a comma after the salutation. * Colon. * 3: 4-letter term for the part of a letter highlighted here:(in the middle). * Body. * 4: A "letter to" this person, like Ben Bradlee, should rattle on about the world going to hell because of ignorant kids. * The editor. * 5: Letters of recommendation get you into college; ones from ex-employers are often called "letters of" this. * Reference.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 250, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Austria * 1: In order to gain independence in 1955, Austria agreed to observe this type of foreign policy. * Neutrality. * 2: The president is head of state while the person holding this official title is head of the government. * Chancellor. * 3: Austria's basic unit of currency, it sounds just like an obsolete coin in Britain. * Schilling. * 4: In his childhood, Franz Schubert sang with the Imperial Court Chapel Choir, which is now known as this. * The Vienna Boys' Choir. * 5: The Bundesrat and the Nationalrat aren't Austria's mascots but these. * Houses of Parliament.

Round 2. Category: Historic Homes * 1: Woodlawn in Virginia was the home of this president's step-granddaughter Nellie Custis. * George Washington. * 2: The home of Mary Pickersgill, who made the star-spangled banner that waved over Fort McHenry, is in this MD. city. * Baltimore. * 3: Moss-draped oak trees surround Shadows-On-The-Teche, one of this state's most famous plantations. * Louisiana. * 4: This Scottish castle, a private residence of the Queen of England, stands on the right bank of the River Dee. * Balmoral. * 5: A window of The Old Manse in Concord, Mass. still bears the diamond-engraved signatures of this author and his wife. * Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Round 3. Category: Feel The "Burn" * 1: To be Elvis impersonator, you need to cultivate these whiskers. * sideburns. * 2: Discomfort produced by stomach acid touching the lining of the esophagus. * heartburn. * 3: This university began as East Alabama Male College in 1856. * Auburn. * 4: JFK's 1962 State of the Union Address eulogized this Congressional legend known as "Mr. Sam". * Rayburn. * 5: 1958 Tchaikovsky Piano Competition winner. * Van Cliburn.

Round 4. Category: Oj (Orange Juice) Thesaurus * 1: Tropicana's Grovestand OJ doesn't have lots of mash, but "lots of" this. * pulp. * 2: This synonym for "unadulterated" or "chaste" is a big part of orange juice marketing. * pure. * 3: Instead of "frozen focused orange juice", the USDA uses this synonym for "focus". * concentrated. * 4: OJ has these vitamins and minerals needed in the diet; Roget's Thesaurus lists the word with "indispensable". * essential. * 5: This orange juice- and rum-based cocktail could be called a "southern farmer's left jab". * planter's punch.

Round 5. Category: Rock On! * 1: Test the mineral olivenite and it will leave a streak of this color. * Green. * 2: It's the term for small rocks or stones used for paths or for making concrete. * Gravel. * 3: Of sedimentary, metamorphic or igneous, it's the type of rock formed when it cools and solidifies. * Igneous. * 4: This very hard quartz is struck against steel to make sparks when starting a fire. * Flint. * 5: It's a large rock fragment greater than 8 inches in diameter or a Colorado resort city NW of Denver. * Boulder.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 249, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Marco Polo * 1: Passing through Indonesia, Marco freaked out when he went south of the Equator and couldn't see this star. * the North Star. * 2: Marco Polo was born in 1254 in this Italian city where his father Niccolo worked as a merchant. * Venice. * 3: Some argued that Polo never went to China; he did omit mentioning this landmark some measure at 4,000 miles long. * the Great Wall of China. * 4: Back in Italy people laughed at Marco's stories, like the one about Asians using this "black stone" as fuel. * coal. * 5: Title held by Kublai, whom Marco Polo served, and Kublai's grandfather Genghis. * Khan.

Round 2. Category: 3 Little Letters * 1: Like banks, many grocery stores now have these for dispensing cash and taking deposits. * ATMs. * 2: The initials of this organization disbanded in 1991 were from Russian words meaning "Committee for State Security". * the KGB. * 3: First on radio, then on TV, 3 chimed notes were a longtime trademark of this network. * NBC. * 4: A high school equivalency diploma is referred to by these 3 letters. * G.E.D.. * 5: This global express shipping co. began as a service to deliver documents between the West Coast and Hawaii. * DHL.

Round 3. Category: Wheel Of Jeopardy! * 1: Unknown evolutionary connector------------------------------------SS--- L--K. * missing link. * 2: It's Apple's killer music combination. * iPod and iTunes. * 3: Backup players to relieve the startersS--ON-S---N-. * second string. * 4: Before dueling in this game, you must greet your opponent with a friendly handshake. * Yu-Gi-Oh. * 5: Proverbial place without privacy-----------------------------------OLD---- -O-L. * goldfish bowl.

Round 4. Category: You Say Potato * 1: In Gaelic it's known as "An Gorta Mor" (The Great Hunger). * The Irish Potato Famine. * 2: The Russet Burbank potato is also known by this "state"ly name. * Idaho potato. * 3: At a New Jersey spelling bee in 1992, he insisted that "potato" was spelled with an "E" at the end. * Dan Quayle. * 4: Don Rickles voiced Mr. Potato Head in this 1995 film. * Toy Story. * 5: This snack company uses over 5 billion pounds of potatoes annually to make Ruffles and other chips. * Frito-Lay.

Round 5. Category: Holidays * 1: Though we "love" his "day", he's been taken off calendar of saints. * St. Valentine. * 2: In 1987, this holiday will be observed for the 212th time. * July 4th (Independence Day). * 3: This June day had been celebrated for 62 years, but it wasn't official until signed into law by Nixon in 1972. * Father's Day. * 4: Memorial Day was first observed in 1866 to honor the dead of this war. * the Civil War. * 5: Flag Day is a legal holiday only in this state, where Betsy Ross worked as a seamstress. * Pennsylvania.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 248, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Sports 2000 * 1: By winning the British Open, this 24-year-old became the youngest to win golf's career Grand Slam. * Tiger Woods. * 2: With pride Satan says they're the 2000 Stanley Cup champs. * New Jersey Devils. * 3: On July 23, he became only the second American to win the Tour de France in consecutive years. * Lance Armstrong. * 4: She dispatched sister Serena at Wimbledon and went on to defeat Lindsay Davenport for the title. * Venus Williams. * 5: This manager who won World Series in both leagues entered baseball's Hall of Fame. * George "Sparky" Anderson.

Round 2. Category: Sitcom Central * 1: Roz Doyle was his producer and call screener at Seattle's KACL Radio. * Frasier. * 2: Viewers finally got to see Wilson's face when the cast took their bows on this sitcom's last episode. * Home Improvement. * 3: In 1997 Carol Burnett won an Emmy for playing Teresa Stemple, Jamie Buchman's mother on this series. * Mad About You. * 4: Julia Louis-Dreyfus competes with her ex's new girlfriend on this sitcom. * The New Adventures of Old Christine. * 5: She plays the amnesiac title character of "Samantha Who?". * Christina Applegate.

Round 3. Category: Good Conductors * 1: This form of carbon used in fishing rods is a good conductor--so cast with care around power lines. * graphite. * 2: Copper's conductivity and cost make it the most common metal for the rod that guides this to the ground. * lightning. * 3: Not as good a conductor as copper but a lot cheaper, it's the default metal for U.S. high-voltage power lines. * aluminum. * 4: This metal is the gold standard of electrical conductivity among metals. * silver. * 5: Water's conductivity comes from these particles, like positive sodium ones and negative chlorine ones. * ions.

Round 4. Category: Mything Persons * 1: As a child, she was abducted by Theseus and his friend; later she was carried off by Paris. * Helen of Troy. * 2: Good heavens! This mighty hunter was slain by Artemis in a fit of jealousy. * Orion. * 3: His uncle Pelias promised him the throne of Thessaly if he could retrieve the Golden Fleece. * Jason. * 4: Triton, a gigantic sea god, was the son of this supreme sea god of Greek myth. * Poseidon. * 5: After murdering his father Odysseus, Telegonus married this woman, his stepmother. * Penelope (wife of Odysseus).

Round 5. Category: Fads * 1: Today Jennifer Aniston's is popular; in 1977 it was Farrah Fawcett's. * Hairstyle. * 2: It calls itself "the blanket with sleeves". * a Snuggie. * 3: In the mid-'30s there were hats, shoes, glasses, books and dolls of this 6-year-old movie star. * Shirley Temple. * 4: This fruit-scented doll and her friends Lemon Meringue and Huckleberry Pie were big in the early '80s. * Strawberry Shortcake. * 5: This Bandai "digital pet" was hot in the '90s. * Tamagotchi.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 247, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 247, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Famous Kangaroos * 1: He named his character Captain Kangaroo from the large pockets on his jacket. * Bob Keeshan. * 2: The 1978 Elliott Gould film "Matilda" was about a kangaroo who participated in this sport. * Boxing. * 3: In 1963 Aussie Rolf Harris had his only U.S. top 40 hit with this song. * "Tie Me Kangaroo Down". * 4: He created the characters of Kanga and Roo. * A.A. Milne. * 5: In 1969 this bush kangaroo got his own syndicated TV series. * "Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo".

Round 2. Category: In The Fire * 1: Many 17th century New York City households had one of these to form a brigade in case of fire. * Bucket. * 2: Since 1932 this brand has provided reliable flames for soldiers, campers and others. * Zippo. * 3: Oliver Wendell Holmes said not to falsely yell "Fire" in one of these, where 850 Viennese died Dec. 8, 1881. * Theater. * 4: Peshtigo, Wisc. was destroyed by a fire that began Oct. 8, 1871, the same day as this city's Great Fire. * Chicago. * 5: 2-word phrase for what sometimes happens to oily rags and often happens to the drummers of Spinal Tap. * Spontaneous combustion.

Round 3. Category: Nursery Rhymes On The 11 O'clock News * 1: Confrontation downtown today near the fair, as a pieman denied this penniless man food. * Simple Simon. * 2: Animal Control today swarmed over "the house that" he "built", finding a tossed dog, a worried cat and a dead rat. * Jack. * 3: She terrorized 3 non-sighted rodents and dismembered them; I've never seen such a sight in my life. * the farmer's wife. * 4: This guy, "the piper's son", was arrested on pig-theft charges today, shortly after being beaten until he wept. * Tom, Tom. * 5: In a daring holdup this animal's "three bags full" of wool, intended for 3 locals, were taken at gunpoint today. * baa, baa, black sheep.

Round 4. Category: S, U Or V * 1: Compass direction. * S (for south). * 2: Roman numeral. * V. * 3: '80s sci-fi blockbuster miniseries concerning man-eating reptilian aliens. * V. * 4: Feel enriched if you know this symbol for the 92nd element of the periodic table. * U (for uranium). * 5: Also known as a transverse wave, this type of wave is found in an earthquake. * S (for shear wave).

Round 5. Category: Nuts * 1: One reason for dyeing the shells of these nuts red is to make them stand out in the nut bowl. * Pistachios. * 2: Some soaps and candles use oil pressed from copra, the dried white meat of this nut. * Coconut. * 3: Most of these "spreading" American trees have been killed by a disease that started near New York City in 1904. * Chestnut. * 4: The plant that produces this kidney-shaped nut is related to poison ivy. * Cashew. * 5: Botanically, true nuts are classed as one-seeded forms of these. * fruits.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 246, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Teens At Work * 1: At 14, this fairy tale author worked for a director of the Royal Theater in Copenhagen. * Hans Christian Andersen. * 2: At 16, Tracy Austin beat Chris Evert to win this tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows. * U.S. Open. * 3: In the 1720s at age 16, this statesman and inventor wrote popular articles for the New England Courant newspaper. * Benjamin Franklin. * 4: At 13, this march composer became an apprentice with the U.S. Marine Band. * John Philip Sousa. * 5: At 16, Cornelius Vanderbilt started a ferry service between Staten Island and this famous 31-square-mile-island. * Manhattan.

Round 2. Category: "Cool", Dude! * 1: Paul Newman refuses to conform to rural prison life in this movie. * Cool Hand Luke. * 2: In the late 19-teens, he was the governor of Massachusetts. * Calvin Coolidge. * 3: In the 1980s Ernest and Julio Gallo introduced these beverages under the Bartles and Jaymes label. * wine coolers. * 4: Rapper born Artis Ivey Jr.. * Coolio. * 5: Nickname of ballplayer James Bell, said to be so fast that a ball he hit struck him as he slid into second. * "Cool Papa".

Round 3. Category: Abbreviated U.s. States * 1: The 2 states whose abbreviations are informal words for father and mother. * Pennsylvania, PA and Massachusetts, MA. * 2: Also a preposition, the abbreviation for this Midwestern state can mean "popular" or "fashionable". * Indiana, IN. * 3: Put "17" with the abbreviation for this state and you get an MPAA movie rating. * North Carolina, NC. * 4: The abbreviation for this state is one of the 3 basic parts of the human psyche, according to Freud. * Idaho, ID. * 5: Put the abbreviation for this state with "scan" and you get a computerized diagnostic medical technique. * Connecticut, CT.

Round 4. Category: Old Testament Women * 1: When David first saw her, she was "washing herself, and" she "was very beautiful to look upon". * Bathsheba. * 2: Hadassah was the Hebrew name of this queen for whom an Old Testament book is named. * Esther. * 3: When told she was going to have a child by Abraham, she "laughed within herself". * Sarah. * 4: After his patience was tested, he was rewarded with a new family including 3 girls, Jemima, Kezia and Kerenhappuch. * Job. * 5: Ms. Winfrey was supposed to be called this, after a Moabite woman in the book of Ruth. * Orpah.

Round 5. Category: Collect The Whole Series * 1: 98 CDs, running over 100 hours, contain Arkangel Productions' versions of all 38 of these. * the complete plays of Shakespeare. * 2: In 2008 I'll get Hawaii and complete my series of these. * state quarters. * 3: Collectors of these ads added the bikini- and mustache- sporting Angelina Jolie in 2003. * "Milk" ads. * 4: A Horsemen of the Apocalypse trading card set would only have 4 cards: Pestilence, War, Famine and this. * Death. * 5: In a series of books, it precedes "Run", "Redux", "is Rich" and "at Rest". * Rabbit.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 245, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Baseball History * 1: In a 1917 game Fred Toney and Hippo Vaughn both pitched these for 9 innings; Vaughn cracked in the 10th. * a no-hitter. * 2: In 2004 this team led by manager Bobby Cox won its remarkable 13th straight division title. * Atlanta Braves. * 3: In 1996 he became the Yankees' starting shortstop and the team hasn't missed the playoffs since. * Derek Jeter. * 4: Tom Connolly and Bill Klem, "The Old Arbitrator", were the first men to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame as these. * umpires. * 5: Agricultural term for the system, created by Branch Rickey, of minor league teams controlled by a big league team. * farm system.

Round 2. Category: Midwestern Cities * 1: One of the Twin Cities, its name literally means "water city". * Minneapolis. * 2: Its pro sports teams include the Chiefs, Royals and Wizards. * Kansas City. * 3: The Roger Maris Museum at the West Acres Shopping Center is a big hit in this North Dakota city. * Fargo. * 4: 2 of the 3 state capitals in the Midwest that are named for U.S. presidents. * (2 of) Lincoln, Jefferson City, and Madison. * 5: The famous question "Will it play in" this Illinois city goes back to its Vaudeville days. * Peoria.

Round 3. Category: Animal Offspring * 1: A general term for the young of most fish, or how you cook them after you catch them. * fry. * 2: A young kangaroo, or a musical pal. * a joey. * 3: The male young of these are called cockerels; the female young, pullets. * chickens. * 4: A young rat, seal, or, so we're told, dragon. * a pup. * 5: A hinny is the offspring of these 2 animals. * a horse and a donkey.

Round 4. Category: In A Musical Mood * 1: 1970 unearthed this No. 1 hit song for Kentucky native Loretta Lynn. * "Coal Miner's Daughter". * 2: Written for the movie "Chasing Rainbows", this hit became a campaign song in 1932. * "Happy Days Are Here Again". * 3: La. gov. Jimmie Davis bought the copyright to this song, then claimed authorship--it made him happy when skies were gray. * "You Are My Sunshine". * 4: It's this Russian composer's Piano Concerto No. 1 you're listening to here. * Tchaikovsky. * 5: In a Rodgers and Hart classic, "We'll have Manhattan", these 2 boroughs, too. * the Bronx and Staten Island.

Round 5. Category: Wars * 1: The war for southern independence was fought in this country from 1861-65. * the United States of America. * 2: The result of a 624-630 war allowed Muhammad to establish this as the holy city of Islam. * Mecca. * 3: Though neutral today, it fought a war of independence from 1386-88. * Switzerland. * 4: During the Anglo-Spanish War of 1587-1604, Spain's Philip II and this English ruler died. * Queen Elizabeth I. * 5: After a 2-year war for independence from Russia, its city of Vilnius was captured by Poland in 1920. * Lithuania.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 244, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Music To My Ears * 1: The Beastie Boys opened for her during the 1985 Virgin Tour. * Madonna. * 2: "Forget About Dre" is by Dr. Dre (natch) and featuring this rapper also known as Slim Shady. * Eminem. * 3: This group was "Headin' down the Atlanta Highway...headin' on down to the Love Shack". * The B-52's. * 4: (Hello, we're the Dixie Chicks) Our song "Ready to Run" was on the soundtrack of this movie with Richard Gere and Julia Roberts. * Runaway Bride. * 5: Salman Rushdie wrote the lyrics to "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", performed by this group. * U2.

Round 2. Category: Moroccan 'Round The Clock * 1: It's Morocco's largest city and chief seaport, sweetheart. * Casablanca. * 2: Shortly after independence in 1956, Mohammed V changed his title from sultan to this. * king. * 3: A proposed 10-mile tunnel to be built between Morocco and this country would directly link Africa and Europe. * Spain. * 4: FDR met with this leader in Morocco for 10 days in 1943. * Winston Churchill (in Casablanca). * 5: At about 14,000 feet, the highest peak in this mountain chain is Morocco's Mount Toubkal. * Atlas Mountains.

Round 3. Category: Tv Dualists * 1: Barnaby Jones,Uncle Jed Clampett. * Buddy Ebsen. * 2: Tom Corbett,Dr. David Banner. * Bill Bixby. * 3: Sophie Berger,Mrs. Cunningham. * Marion Ross. * 4: Officer Bill Gannon,Col. Sherman Potter. * Harry Morgan. * 5: Judge Bone,Uncle Martin. * Ray Walston.

Round 4. Category: Classic Rock Opening Lines * 1: CCR:"Left a good job in the city...". * "Proud Mary". * 2: Pink Floyd (Part 2):"We don't need no education..."(5 words). * "Another Brick In The Wall". * 3: Nancy Sinatra:"You keep sayin' you've got something for me...". * "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'". * 4: The Beatles:"Jojo was a man who thought he was a loner...". * "Get Back". * 5: Elvis:"We're caught in a trap...". * "Suspicious Minds".

Round 5. Category: Famous "M"En * 1: The lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner" were penned during this U.S. president's second term of office. * (James) Madison. * 2: This "Olympia" painter did illustrations for a French translation of Poe's poetry. * Manet. * 3: He studied law at the University of Belgrade and became his country's Communist Party head in 1987. * Milosevic. * 4: In 2006 a Salzburg Museum that bears the name of this composer marked the 250th anniversary of his birth. * Mozart. * 5: In 1965 this man began 2 decades as the head of state of the Philippines. * (Ferdinand) Marcos.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 243, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fashion Forward * 1: As if his Oscar for "American Beauty" wasn't enough, he made People Magazine's Best Dressed List in 2000, too. * Kevin Spacey. * 2: This lead singer of Hole likes to turn her old T-shirts into sexy halter tops. * Courtney Love. * 3: Once style editor for the New York Times Magazine, Carrie Donovan appeared in ads for this chain, spun off from The Gap. * Old Navy. * 4: Lift a cup of "Coco" to this designer, whose little black dress of decades past is still fashion forward today. * Coco Chanel. * 5: At the Emmys in 2000, this "Ally McBeal" co-star bared almost all in a sexy Donatella Versace gown. * Lucy Liu.

Round 2. Category: London Landmarks * 1: The last monarch crowned in this church was Elizabeth II. * Westminster Abbey. * 2: The postal code of this imposing royal residence is SW1A 1AA. * Buckingham Palace. * 3: The statue of Eros, in this circle, was a tribute to Lord Shaftesbury; the bow and arrow, a play on his name. * Piccadilly Circus. * 4: Opened in 1897, this gallery of modern British art was named for a sugar merchant. * Tate Gallery. * 5: A new "Blackadder" comedy was filmed for the 758-million-pound dome built to celebrate this. * the Millennium.

Round 3. Category: 100 Years Ago * 1: In a major address on March 4, he stated that the U.S. "must remain close friends" with Cuba. * William McKinley. * 2: In 1901 Switzerland's Jean-Henri Dunant, who founded this organization, shared the Nobel Peace Prize. * International Red Cross. * 3: In the fall, the USA's Columbia defeated Britain's Shamrock II to win this trophy. * America's Cup. * 4: On February 25 J.P. Morgan and others organized this company, the world's first billion-dollar corporation. * U.S. Steel. * 5: On Sept. 7, 1901 China's Manchu government signed an agreement with 11 nations ending this uprising. * Boxer Rebellion.

Round 4. Category: Real Estate * 1: From the Latin for "fair", it's a property's fair market value minus outstanding debt. * Equity. * 2: In 1947 the U.S. was given a 99-year one on Philippine military bases -- it was later shortened. * Lease. * 3: Term for buying the right to use vacation property for a certain period each year. * Timeshare. * 4: In 1996 California created a state agency to provide this type of homeowners' insurance. * Earthquake insurance. * 5: A claim on a debtor's property; the "mechanic's" type is held by a worker who wasn't paid. * Lien.

Round 5. Category: The War Of 1812 * 1: On Sept. 13-14, 1814, a British bombardment failed to capture this fort; "our flag was still there". * Fort McHenry. * 2: At the time of the war, Britain was involved in a long-standing struggle with this country. * France. * 3: On June 1, 1812 this president asked Congress to declare war on Great Britain. * Madison. * 4: In asking for a declaration of war, this president charged that Britain had stirred up Indian warfare in the Northwest. * James Madison. * 5: In August 1812 the U.S. lost Fort Dearborn, where, oddly, this city now stands. * Chicago.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 242, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Movie Costumes * 1: He got all dolled up in Chanel and Dior in "To Wong Foo...", a far cry from his "Dirty Dancing" duds. * Patrick Swayze. * 2: She slunk across a piano in a slinky red dress in "The Fabulous Baker Boys". * Michelle Pfeiffer. * 3: She wore dozens of trendy costumes in "Clueless" but says she looks goofy offscreen -- as if!. * Alicia Silverstone. * 4: Theodor Pistek won a Costume Design Oscar for this Tom Hulce film; Mozart was so well-dressed. * Amadeus. * 5: Theadora Van Runkle designed the gun moll getups Faye Dunaway wore in this 1967 film. * Bonnie and Clyde.

Round 2. Category: 1954 * 1: On April 1, the Senate voted to grant simultaneous statehood to these two territories. * Alaska and Hawaii. * 2: On February 23, this man began inoculating children against polio in Pittsburgh. * Dr. Jonas Salk. * 3: This heavyweight boxing champ defended his title twice in 1954, both times against Ezzard Charles. * Rocky Marciano. * 4: 5 congressman were shot and wounded in the House by nationalists from this U.S. commonwealth. * Puerto Rico. * 5: On May 7, 1954 the French were defeated in this Vietnamese battle and soon withdrew their troops from the country. * Dien Bien Phu.

Round 3. Category: Classic Ads And Slogans * 1: "Look Ma, No Cavities". * Crest. * 2: "I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing". * Alka-Seltzer. * 3: It's "Two--Two--Two Mints in One". * Certs. * 4: "They Plump When You Cook 'Em". * Ball Park Franks. * 5: "We'll Leave the Light on for You". * Motel 6.

Round 4. Category: Sportsmen * 1: Known as "Mac the Strife", this tennis champ once told an umpire, "You are the pits of the world". * John McEnroe. * 2: He spent 5 seasons with the Shanghai Sharks before becoming the Houston Rockets' center in 2002. * Yao Ming. * 3: In 2006 "The Bus" went into the garage as this running back played his last game in the Super Bowl. * Jerome Bettis. * 4: This 26-year-old Spanish professional golfer is nicknamed "El Nino". * Sergio Garcia. * 5: This 18-year-old phenom from Nova Scotia was chosen No. 1 by Pittsburgh in the 2005 NHL draft. * Sidney Crosby.

Round 5. Category: Skin Deep * 1: Wrinkles at the corner of the eye, perhaps caused by squinting while bird watching. * Crow's feet. * 2: Contact dermatitis can be the result of contact with this plant, Rhus radicans. * Poison Ivy. * 3: The little sections of dead epidermis around your fingernails. * Cuticles. * 4: This term for a balm for the skin or the conscience goes back to the Sanskrit sarpis, "melted butter". * Salve. * 5: The skin's 2 exocrine types of glands are sweat and these, which produce oils. * Sebaceous glands.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 241, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: In Other Words... * 1: The 24th letter indicates precise location. * x marks the spot. * 2: Flip over every rock. * Leave no stone unturned. * 3: Participating with one cent, participating with 100 p.. * In for a penny, in for a pound. * 4: Uncurbed kissers scuttle scows. * Loose lips sink ships. * 5: Relate stories while not within a learning establishment. * Tell tales out of school.

Round 2. Category: "Hit"Ting * 1: 2-word term for a hired underworld assassin. * a hit man. * 2: As a verb, "thumb" is a synonym for this. * hitchhiking. * 3: To carve wood into shapes with a knife. * to whittle. * 4: A recipe for these: take some young pig intestines, clean' 'em, stew 'em, batter 'em and fry 'em. * chitlins. * 5: Renzo Piano and William Keck are famous as these. * architects.

Round 3. Category: Secretary's Day * 1: Dean Acheson. * Secretary of State. * 2: Dean Acheson. * Secretary of State. * 3: Tom Ridge. * the Department of Homeland Security. * 4: This female 1932 Olympic hurdles and javelin winner also ran secretarial errands like a champ. * Didrikson-Zaharias. * 5: Hazel O'Leary. * the Department of Energy.

Round 4. Category: Footnotes In History * 1: In 1866 Henry Bergh founded the American Society for the Prevention of this (1)(1) He also founded a similar society to protect children. * Cruelty to Animals. * 2: Judah Benjamin, an adviser to this man, was "The Brains of the Confederacy" (2)(2) He fled to England and became a successful lawyer. * Jefferson Davis. * 3: Mathematician Hermann Minkowski combined space and time, laying groundwork for this theory (3)(3) His brother Oskar found that diabetes originates in the pancreas. * Theory of Relativity. * 4: Etienne Brule was the first European to see this second-largest Great Lake (4)(4) And was killed by the tribe of the same name. * Huron. * 5: A WWII battleship sunk in Uruguay was named for this German graf (5)(5) Who lost the WWI Battle of the Falklands and drowned. * Spee.

Round 5. Category: Also A Body Part * 1: It's the bud of a potato, bud. * the eye. * 2: It's a border along a highway where vehicles can pull over in an emergency. * the shoulder. * 3: It's the hole in a needle. * eye. * 4: It's a border along a highway where vehicles can pull over in an emergency. * the shoulder. * 5: When you pick up a tab, you do this to "the bill". * foot.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 240, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Plurals * 1: Alumnus. * alumni. * 2: Man-child. * men-children. * 3: Man-child. * men-children. * 4: Collectively, Janet Reno and Edwin Meese were known by this title after being appointed by the President. * Attorneys General. * 5: Easton's Bible Dictionary says to add these 2 letters to the end of "cherub" to get its plural. * "im".

Round 2. Category: Animal Phrases * 1: Proverbially speaking, they "flock together". * Birds of a feather. * 2: To prevent trouble, it's best if you "let" these "dogs lie". * Sleeping dogs. * 3: To ward off hunger is to keep this animal "from the door". * Wolf. * 4: This feline expression means to look guilty but smug. * "Looking like the cat who ate the canary". * 5: This 2-word rhyming phrase is used to describe a highly skilled or clever lawyer. * Legal eagle.

Round 3. Category: Rock Music * 1: From 1961 to 1971, Smokey Robinson had 14 to 20 hits with this group. * The Miracles. * 2: This group's "Wooly Bully" was named Billboard's No. 1 single of 1965 though it never hit No. 1. * Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. * 3: This group's 1972 hit "Take It Easy" was written by group member Glenn Frey and Jackson Browne. * The Eagles. * 4: This Seattle grunge band backed Neil Young on his "Mirror Ball" CD. * Pearl Jam. * 5: 5 years after the release of his first album, he had his first top 10 hit with "Just The Way You Are". * Billy Joel.

Round 4. Category: Top 100 Newspapers * 1: It's no news this city's home to the Rocky Mountain News. * Denver. * 2: Only 4 U.S. papers have circulations of over 1 million and this 5-letter word is in 2 of their names. * Times. * 3: By their names, it's the frequency of The News in Dayton and The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City. * daily. * 4: Look into it and you'll see this Philly paper's name is spelled with an "I"; the one in Cincinnati, with an "E". * the Inquirer. * 5: This Connecticut city's Courant covers current affairs. * Hartford.

Round 5. Category: Seashore Life * 1: An edible type of this seaweed seen at low tide grows up to 10 feet long on the Atlantic coast. * Kelp. * 2: Blubber and the tufts at the base of their densely packed feathers keep them warm while diving. * Penguins. * 3: The American species of this crustacean has a 6-segmented tail. * Lobster. * 4: They hang around in bars, feed on plankton and produce those famous little spheres of nacre. * Oysters. * 5: Scallops swim for their lives when they sense these 5-armed creatures approaching. * Starfish.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 239, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Friday The 13Th * 1: Friday October 13, 1944: Greek patriots retake Athens from this group after 3 1/2 years of occupation. * Germany (or the Nazis). * 2: Friday January 13, 1995: The first all-female crew wins a qualifying race for this contest. * the America's Cup. * 3: Friday October 13, 1967: This president signs an executive order banning sex discrimination in the U.S. govt.. * (Lyndon) Johnson. * 4: Friday, February 13, 1914:This 5-letter organization is set up to collect royalties when music is performed. * ASCAP. * 5: 1994: The first handover of a West Bank city from Israel to the Palestinians--this one where a battle was fit. * Jericho.

Round 2. Category: Starts With "Ke" * 1: A cooking pot for Ma and Pa. * Kettle. * 2: Thd standard version of this gambling game is a lot like Lotto. * Keno. * 3: Its national anthem is "Wimbo Wa Taifa", Swahili for "anthem of the nation". * Kenya. * 4: The name of this Wisconsin city is Potawatomi for "pike" or "pickerel". * Kenosha. * 5: This county is known as the "Garden of England". * Kent.

Round 3. Category: English Class * 1: This part of speech doesn't always end in "ly"; once, there and often are other examples. * adverb. * 2: Capt. Kirk's mission was "to boldly go" where no man had gone before, but he split one of these along the way. * an infinitive. * 3: Lay is the past tense of lie; this is the past tense of lay. * laid. * 4: It's the indirect object of the sentence "Carmen gave Jose a cookie". * Jose. * 5: "City" is a common noun; Virginia City is this kind of noun. * proper noun.

Round 4. Category: The Dreaded Oprah Category * 1: Saleswoman Oprah has tote bags specially for the items you saw on this popular segment of her show. * Oprah's Book Club. * 2: Healthy Oprah lost 33 lbs. in one of these military-sounding programs with Sgt.--er, trainer Bob Greene. * a boot camp. * 3: Career woman Oprah has said marriage wouldn't work with this beau she calls "a traditional black man". * Stedman Graham. * 4: Educator Oprah taught a graduate course on leadership at this university based in Evanston. * Northwestern University. * 5: Mogul Oprah co-founded this media company, a breath of fresh air with its women's cable network. * Oxygen.

Round 5. Category: Deck The Halls * 1: The Ecology Hall of Fame cites him as "the first American president to take seriously the...protection of nature". * Teddy Roosevelt. * 2: The Robot Hall of Fame honored this "Star Wars" character for his endearing "human foibles". * C-3PO. * 3: This founder of the city of Quebec is in an Explorers' Hall of Fame online. * Champlain. * 4: Now home to the National Women's Hall of Fame, this N.Y. city was the site of the USA's first Women's Rights Convention. * Seneca Falls. * 5: He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his process of condensing milk. * (Gail) Borden.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 238, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: White House Women * 1: In March 2000 this former Clinton press secretary gave birth to 5-pound, 11-ounce Katherine. * Dee Dee Myers. * 2: A U.S. Coast Guard cutter was named for Harriet Lane, this bachelor president's hostess. * James Buchanan. * 3: After his wife Rachel died, his niece took over her duties; after she died, a daughter-in-law was summoned. * Andrew Jackson. * 4: In July 2000 Hearst hired this reporter who had covered the White House for UPI for 37 years; Thank You, Mr. President. * Helen Thomas. * 5: Last name of Evelyn, JFK's personal secretary. * Lincoln.

Round 2. Category: Podcast Incorporated * 1: This company's first podcast talked about its new Cadillacs at the Chicago Auto Show. * General Motors. * 2: A morning stock report is podcast by this Dow Jones-owned national newspaper. * The Wall Street Journal. * 3: We aren't sure if the podcasts for this Sci Fi Channel show are created by humans or Cylons. * Battlestar Galactica. * 4: The podcast by this company discussed the promise of "on demand" with its new mainframes. * IBM. * 5: No joke, this satellite radio company signed former MTV-VJ Adam Curry as its exclusive PJ. * Sirius.

Round 3. Category: All The Presidents' Children * 1: In 2002 she edited a new book of essays: "Profiles in Courage for Our Time". * Caroline Kennedy. * 2: His daughter Patti has written several books including "Bondage" and "The Way I See It". * Ronald Reagan. * 3: (Hi, I'm Marvin Hamlisch, here at the Hollywood Bowl.) No mystery here, while her father was president, this soprano sang in concert at the Bowl. * Margaret Truman. * 4: Sadly, his youngest son, Quentin, was killed in WWI and his oldest son, Ted Jr., died during WWII. * Theodore Roosevelt. * 5: In 1835 Zachary Taylor's daughter Sarah married this future president of the Confederacy. * Jefferson Davis.

Round 4. Category: File Under "Z" * 1: In Greek myth, Hera is both the wife and the sister of this supreme god. * Zeus. * 2: Gold Rush is a variety of this Italian squash but with yellowish skin. * zucchini. * 3: It's the branch of biology that studies various animals. * zoology. * 4: Alphabetically, it's last among the nations of the world. * Zimbabwe. * 5: At the time of his death, Irish author James Joyce was living in this Swiss city. * Zurich.

Round 5. Category: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists * 1: Who was No. 50? This Who guitarist, that's who. * Pete Townshend. * 2: Not surprisingly this legendary guitarist who colored the '60s with songs like "Purple Haze" came in at No. 1. * Jimi Hendrix. * 3: It's said of No. 3, "His string-bending and vibrato made his famous guitar, Lucille, weep like a real-life woman". * B.B. King. * 4: His "Smooth" guitar strains earned him a place at No. 15. * Carlos Santana. * 5: Surprisingly, only 2 women made the list: Joni Mitchell and this leader of the Blackhearts. * Joan Jett.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 237, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The 21St Century * 1: In 2005 Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once this country's richest man, got 9 years in jail for fraud and tax evasion. * Russia. * 2: In May 2001 Gerald Ford stopped into this president's library to pick up its Profiles in Courage Award. * John F. Kennedy. * 3: This 125-year-old women's magazine was briefly recast as "Rosie". * McCall's. * 4: A 2003 judgment said keeping 2 women from marrying each other violated this state's constitution. * Massachusetts. * 5: In July 2001 a cargo plane brought the salvaged parts of a U.S. spy plane back to the U.S. from this country. * China.

Round 2. Category: A Walk In The Park * 1: This London park was named for the position held by the future King George IV. * Regent's Park. * 2: In 1989 George Bush had the DEA buy drugs in a park across from this building to show on TV. * The White House. * 3: The Bridge of Perfect Wisdom is a landmark of Beihai Park in this world capital. * Beijing. * 4: You can follow streets named for King George V and King David to Independence Park in this city. * Jerusalem. * 5: A giant ferris wheel graces this city's Prater, opened to the public by Joseph II in 1766. * Vienna.

Round 3. Category: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow * 1: Flat snow crystals generally have this many sides or arms. * six. * 2: The National Weather Service defines this as snowy winds of 35 mph with 1/4 mile visibility lasting for 3 hours. * a blizzard. * 3: Buffalo, New York is familiar with the snowstorm-causing effect named for this type of body of water. * a lake effect. * 4: When air becomes "super" this adjective, relative humidity is above 100% and snow can form. * supersaturated. * 5: Poli'ahu, the goddess of snow, lives on this highest Hawaiian mountain. * Mauna Kea.

Round 4. Category: European Languages * 1: Dialects in the High form of this European language include Thuringian, Silesian and Franconian. * German. * 2: Modern dialects of this language include Gronings, West-Vlaams and Brabants. * Dutch. * 3: Although Spanish is widely spoken in Gibraltar, this language is used for schools and for official purposes. * English. * 4: Nynorsk, an official language of this country, was created by Ivar Aasen in the mid-19th century. * Norway. * 5: It's also called Ruthenian, and you'll hear it spoken in Odessa and Sevastopol. * Ukrainian.

Round 5. Category: Ice Cream * 1: When setting up an ice cream maker, use table salt or this type which dissolves more slowly. * rock salt. * 2: French for "in the fashion", it's the way to get ice cream with your dessert. * à la mode. * 3: In January of 2011, pecans fruit and chocolaty bits in vanilla soft serve was this brand's "Blizzard of the Month". * Dairy Queen. * 4: Harry Burt started this co. whose 1st white truck used a set of bells from the family bobsled. * Good Humor. * 5: Reuben Mattus created this ice cream brand, whose name was meant to invoke an Old World aura. * Häagen-Dazs.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 236, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Science * 1: The mother of a mule. * Horse (Mare). * 2: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the organisms this process kills in milk. * Pasteurization. * 3: Of the 3 basic states of matter, only this one, when unconfined, tends to expand indefinitely. * gas. * 4: Elements are arranged in order of their atomic numbers on this table. * Periodic Table of Elements. * 5: The most important source of uranium and radium is this mineral ore. * Pitchblende.

Round 2. Category: Name The Sport * 1: 11 teammates, a center circle, a penalty area, a goal. * soccer. * 2: Scissors kick, corner kick, header. * soccer. * 3: As Landon Donovan knows, using hands is a no-no for the majority of the players. * soccer. * 4: Bump, set, spike. * volleyball. * 5: Depending on the distance, field goals can be worth 2 or 3 points. * basketball.

Round 3. Category: Things I Wish I'd Said * 1: In 1983 he said, "We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back". * Lee Iacocca. * 2: Attributed to Samuel Goldwyn: "Any man who goes to" one of these people "ought to have his head examined". * a psychiatrist. * 3: "Touch a scientist and you touch a child", said this "Martian Chronicles" author. * Ray Bradbury. * 4: John Buchan defined this kind of skeptic as "a man who has no invisible means of support". * an atheist. * 5: P.G. Wodehouse defined it as the "only one real cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman". * the guillotine.

Round 4. Category: At The Ok. Chorale * 1: A Tulsa chorale adapted this holiday song, with valkyries for milkmaids and 9 ladies waltzing to Strauss. * "The 12 Days Of Christmas". * 2: Nearly 200 Oklahoma singers united in song in 2005 to raise money for the victims of these 2 hurricanes. * Katrina and Rita. * 3: In 2005 the Oklahoma Master Chorale's "Hymns to Theotokos" featured songs dedicated to this biblical woman. * Mary. * 4: The Council Oaks Men's Chorale of Tulsa wowed 'em in 2002 with their rendition of "I Feel Pretty" from this musical. * West Side Story. * 5: In 2005 the Chorale at St. Joseph Old Cathedral in Oklahoma City sang this kind of "Mass for the Dead" by Mozart. * a requiem.

Round 5. Category: "On" And "Off" Songs * 1: Travel song from 1939 film to which the following 1970s song is equivalent:. * "We're Off To See The Wizard". * 2: It's both the title of Donna Summer's hit of January 1980 and where you could hear it. * "On The Radio". * 3: In 1984, comfortably or not, Lionel Richie was "stuck" here. * "On You". * 4: This 1962 #1 hit by Mr. Acker Bilk could be about an alien at the beach. * "Stranger On The Shore". * 5: "I'll keep on tryin' and I'll smile when I feel like cryin'" are part of this Stephen Bishop philosophy. * "On And On".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 235, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Moroccan 'Round The Clock * 1: It's Morocco's largest city and chief seaport, sweetheart. * Casablanca. * 2: Shortly after independence in 1956, Mohammed V changed his title from sultan to this. * king. * 3: A proposed 10-mile tunnel to be built between Morocco and this country would directly link Africa and Europe. * Spain. * 4: FDR met with this leader in Morocco for 10 days in 1943. * Winston Churchill (in Casablanca). * 5: At about 14,000 feet, the highest peak in this mountain chain is Morocco's Mount Toubkal. * Atlas Mountains.

Round 2. Category: We're No. 1 * 1: The first act to appear on "Soul Train" was this woman and her Pips. * Gladys Knight. * 2: The U.S., the top maker of french fries, sends 48.5% of exports to this country; you want fries with that sushi?. * Japan. * 3: Nicaragua was the first country to ratify this charter in 1945; the U.S. took another 3 weeks. * U.N. Charter. * 4: This U.S. state is no. 1 in the number of marriages and Girl Scouts. * California. * 5: Donovan Bailey is considered the fastest man on Earth for running this distance in 9.84 seconds. * the 100 meters.

Round 3. Category: City Foods * 1: A marinated flank steak: blank broil. * London. * 2: An apple: blank beauty. * Rome. * 3: Veggie that's really a sunflower variety: blank artichoke. * Jerusalem. * 4: A moist 3-layer cake:Lord or Lady blank . * Baltimore. * 5: A member of the Butterhead family: blank lettuce. * Boston.

Round 4. Category: All About Animals * 1: This large predator's name is from the Spanish "el lagarto", or the lizard. * alligator. * 2: You might find this horned mammal of the genus Capra on a farm. * a goat. * 3: To keep things quiet around the house, get a Goliath frog (it doesn't croak) and a Basenji, one of these. * (barkless) dog. * 4: Humans and this "armored" mammal are among the only known animals that carry the bacterium that causes leprosy. * armadillos. * 5: These on the water buffalo may be 5 feet long and are the longest on any cattle breed. * horns.

Round 5. Category: Military Astrology * 1: Cancerians might feel like marching sideways because Cancer is the sign of this animal. * crab. * 2: General Patton had a "stinging" slap, so you can figure out that this was his sign. * Scorpio. * 3: Harsh criticism is characteristic of this "chaste" sign (Hmm...maybe your drill sergeant was born under it). * Virgo. * 4: Admiral George Dewey was born under this sign, but we bet no one dared call him an "old goat". * Capricorn. * 5: Purple is a harmonious color for this "centaur" sign, so a purple uniform would look great on you. * Sagittarius.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 234, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Urban Scene * 1: Often, a route along a waterway isn't called a street or ave., but this, like Boston's Memorial and Storrow. * a drive. * 2: Sodium vapor is a common type of these, which help prevent crime and traffic accidents. * streetlights. * 3: A defining characteristic of a high rise is having this item perfected in the 19th century by Otis. * the elevator. * 4: It opened in 1900, its first line running from Paris' Porte de Vincennes to Porte Maillot. * the Métro. * 5: She became a symbol of urban indifference when she was killed in 1964 in earshot of her Queens neighbors. * (Kitty) Genovese.

Round 2. Category: Andrew Jackson * 1: It's what Jackson had in common with Lewis Robards from Aug. 1791 to Sept. 1793. * Same Wife (they both thought they were married to the same woman). * 2: In the presidential election of 1824, Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes but lost to this man in the House. * John Quincy Adams. * 3: This Jackson pick for minister to Great Britain was rejected by the Senate but later became Jackson's second veep. * Van Buren. * 4: On June 6, 1833 Jackson became the first president to ride a train, the B and O, which stands for this. * the Baltimore and Ohio. * 5: On June 6, 1833 Jackson became the first president to ride a train, the B and O, which stands for this. * the Baltimore and Ohio.

Round 3. Category: Deserts * 1: These 2 countries share the Gobi Desert. * China and Mongolia. * 2: We'll gamble on your knowing that almost all of this state is in the Great Basin Desert. * Nevada. * 3: Roald Dahl's Augustus Gloop gets his just des(s)erts when he falls into a river of this trying to drink it. * chocolate. * 4: The name of this desert in the south of Israel is from the Hebrew for "south". * Negev. * 5: The Thar is the largest desert on this sub-continent. * India.

Round 4. Category: Crossword Clues "H" * 1: He who does it is lost(9). * Hesitates. * 2: A Japanese-style grill(7). * hibachi. * 3: Sleep like a bear(9). * Hibernate. * 4: Tall baby sitter(9). * highchair. * 5: A plant eater(9). * herbivore.

Round 5. Category: Lost "Cos" * 1: Clothing worn in a play. * costume. * 2: It's another name for a beautician. * a cosmetologist. * 3: It's what a Russian calls a space traveler. * a cosmonaut. * 4: San Jose is its capital city. * Costa Rica. * 5: This actor directed a 1990 movie that won 7 Oscars. * Kevin Costner.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 233, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The "Real" World * 1: A simulated 3-D environment that a user can experience and manipulate as if it were physical. * Virtual reality. * 2: Land, including all the natural resources and permanent buildings on it. * Real estate. * 3: It finishes the 1942 advertising slogan: "The Only Thing Like Coca-Cola is Coca-Cola Itself. It's...". * the Real Thing. * 4: A process viewed while it actually happens is viewed in this mode. * Real time. * 5: In mathematics, a quantity that can be expressed as a finite or infinite decimal expression. * Real number.

Round 2. Category: Music Facts * 1: Most authorities say a chord has at least this many notes. * three. * 2: Traditionally an orchestra's concertmaster sits on this side of a conductor. * the left side. * 3: On a musical staff pitch is indicated by this symbol. * note. * 4: Of lento, adagio, or andante, the slowest tempo. * lento. * 5: Using "the circle of fifths", this key signature follows C major. * G major.

Round 3. Category: Really Long Rivers * 1: While cruising down this river in 1542, Francisco de Orellana was attacked by female warriors; thus, its name. * Amazon. * 2: Ptolemy guessed the area of the source of this river almost 2,000 years before it was found. * Nile. * 3: This Chinese river is really "long" since its alternate name, Chang Jiang, means "long river". * Yangtze. * 4: During high water, this river was once navigable from Fort Benton, Montana to St. Louis. * Missouri. * 5: At Khone Falls on the Cambodia-Laos border, this river is 6 1/2 miles wide. * Mekong.

Round 4. Category: Ike Speaks * 1: Of this man's contributions to major White House decisions, Ike said, "If you give me a week, I might think of one". * Nixon. * 2: Eisenhower said, "No treaty or international agreement can contravene" this document. * the Constitution. * 3: Ike telegrammed that the mission of "Allied force was fulfilled at 0241 hours local time" in this month, 1945. * May. * 4: In 1957 Ike used "the full power of the United States" to enforce integration at Central High in this city. * Little Rock. * 5: Eisenhower said appointing him to the Supreme Court was "the biggest damn-fool mistake I ever made". * Earl Warren.

Round 5. Category: "Horse" Sense * 1: He pursues Ichabod Crane through Sleepy Hollow. * the Headless Horseman. * 2: Pungent ground up armoracia rusticana roots used as a condiment. * Horseradish. * 3: He's the Native American leader emerging here. * Crazy Horse. * 4: A little-known, unexpectedly successful political candidate. * Dark horse. * 5: Unit equal to 33,000 foot-pounds per minute. * Horsepower.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 232, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: '50s Tv * 1: Before debuting in this series, Jerry Mathers had appeared in 2 Bob Hope movies. * Leave it to Beaver. * 2: Word that completes the line sung by Jimmy Nelson "N-e-s-t-l-e-s, Nestle's makes the very best...". * Chocolate. * 3: In the 1950s this western was the top-rated series of the season 3 times. * Gunsmoke. * 4: She won a 1955 Emmy for playing the title role in the "Producers' Showcase" presentation of Peter Pan. * Mary Martin. * 5: In "Have Gun, Will Travel", Richard Boone played this dapper gun-for-hire based in San Francisco's Hotel Carlton. * (Wire) Paladin.

Round 2. Category: "H" Cities * 1: This city's Atomic Bomb Dome, a structure left unrebuilt after WWII, has become a symbol of the peace movement. * Hiroshima. * 2: The racing schooner Bluenose, depicted on Canada's 10-cent coin, has a replica in this Nova Scotian port. * Halifax. * 3: Crossed by numerous canals, it's said that this German port has more bridges than Amsterdam and Venice combined. * Hamburg. * 4: This capital was founded by Sweden's King Gustav I Vasa in 1550. * Helsinki, Finland. * 5: It served as a dynastic capital in the 1800s and continued as the royal capital of Vietnam until 1945. * Hue.

Round 3. Category: Hitchcock's Blondes * 1: She played the wife who knew too much in the remake of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" --que sera, sera. * Doris Day. * 2: This "regal" blonde stabs Anthony Dawson to death with a pair of scissors in "Dial M For Murder". * Grace Kelly. * 3: She was Mrs. Clark Gable when she starred in Hitchcock's comedy "Mr. And Mrs. Smith". * Carole Lombard. * 4: Glamour girl whose femme fatale role in "Vertigo" was no picnic. * Kim Novak. * 5: She stole her way into Sean Connery's heart as the title kleptomaniac in "Marnie". * Tippi Hedren.

Round 4. Category: Springs On The Map * 1: This California resort's aerial tramway up Mt. San Jacinto has the world's largest rotating tramcars. * Palm Springs. * 2: This Australian town was named for a waterhole that was named for telegraph advocate Charles Todd's wife. * Alice Springs. * 3: This Georgia town is home to the Roosevelt Institute, a comprehensive rehabilitation facility. * Warm Springs. * 4: The U.S. Olympic Training Center is located in this city in the foothills of the Rockies. * Colorado Springs. * 5: This fashionable resort in the Adirondacks is the summer home of the New York City Ballet. * Saratoga Springs.

Round 5. Category: Self- Blank * 1: It's a painting of an artist by the artist. * Self-portrait. * 2: It's used as a plea in court to justify the defendant's use of physical force against an attacker. * Self-defense. * 3: A positive sense of this represents how valuable you think you are. * Self-esteem/worth. * 4: In 1980 Spain granted the Basques this, though it was limited. * Self-rule. * 5: This prophecy comes about through a tendency to make events confirm to a predicted outcome. * Self-fulfilling.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 231, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let There Be Life * 1: Fungi create these to reproduce and your average mushroom makes 16 billion of them. * spores. * 2: From the Greek for "leaf", they're the individual parts of a flower's corolla. * petals. * 3: As they have chlorophyll, algae produce food using this process. * photosynthesis. * 4: From an eyeglass-shaped pattern on its face, a South American bear is called this. * a spectacled bear. * 5: Each of these on the dragonfly is made up of 28,000 hexagonal-shaped ommatidia. * eyes.

Round 2. Category: Really Bad Dates * 1: In December 1952 a toxic fog gripped this capital city, causing hundreds of deaths. * London. * 2: On Sept. 30, 1993 a 6.4 earthquake rocked villages in the Maharashtra state in this country, killing thousands. * India. * 3: This hurricane devastated Central America October 26-31, 1998. * Hurricane Mitch. * 4: This exploded about 70 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral Jan. 28, 1986. * Space Shuttle Challenger. * 5: This captain was killed in a skirmish with natives at Kealakekua Bay on Feb. 14, 1779. * Captain James Cook.

Round 3. Category: A Fashionable Category * 1: Romance is a perfume from this designer whom you might call a major "polo" player. * Ralph Lauren. * 2: Seen here on Dame Edna's dress, these sparkly decorations take their name from an old Italian coin:. * sequins. * 3: Wallace might know this term for a metal eyelet mainly used on belts but also seen on hems and cuffs. * a grommet. * 4: Feline name for the full-body stocking made popular by Diana Rigg on "The Avengers". * a catsuit. * 5: In the 1800s, it was fashionable to wear a cap named for this woman who stabbed Jean-Paul Marat. * Charlotte Corday.

Round 4. Category: Nba Rules * 1: (Hi, I'm Malik Rose) Rule 4, Section 14 says that while an opponent's doing this, I can't run past him, wave my arms or talk trash to him. * shooting a free throw. * 2: It's the type of foul that can be called on a player who's not even in the game at the time. * technical foul. * 3: (Hi, I'm Michael Finley) A substitute has to report to this person who gets to sit at a table while we run around. * scorekeeper. * 4: If a defensive player kicks the ball, this is reset and starts over. * the shot clock/24-second clock. * 5: (I'm Derek Fisher) In 2001 the time allowed to bring the ball across midcourt was lowered from this to 8 seconds. * 10 seconds.

Round 5. Category: Teams Of Super Bowl Mvps * 1: VI: Roger Staubach. * the Dallas Cowboys. * 2: IX: Franco Harris. * the Pittsburgh Steelers. * 3: XXXV: Ray Lewis. * the Baltimore Ravens. * 4: XI: Fred Biletnikoff. * the Raiders. * 5: XXII: Doug Williams. * the Washington Redskins.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 230, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Oxford, Cambridge Or Harvard * 1: It's the oldest. * Oxford. * 2: One of its clubs gives out the Hasty Pudding Award. * Harvard. * 3: The current Prince of Wales earned his bachelor's degree there. * Cambridge. * 4: Its main library is the Bodleian. * Oxford. * 5: Its department of physics is the Cavendish Laboratory. * Cambridge.

Round 2. Category: Classic Disney Films * 1: The title fawn in Disney's 1942 film is this deer. * Bambi. * 2: Mowgli finds out it's a jungle out there in this film based on Kipling's classic. * The Jungle Book. * 3: The Mickey Mouse version of this Dickens classic features Goofy as the ghost of Jacob Marley. * A Christmas Carol. * 4: Much of the music for this 1959 film, including the song "Once Upon A Dream" was adapted from an 1890 ballet. * Sleeping Beauty. * 5: Among the babes in "Babes in Toyland" are Ann Jillian as Bo Peep and this Mouseketeer as Mary Contrary. * Annette Funicello.

Round 3. Category: Auto Racing * 1: Designating you as the winner, it's the flag each driver wants to see first at the end of an auto race. * checkered flag. * 2: It's the "aquatic" term for the rapid side to side movement a car's rear end can make while racing. * fishing. * 3: As the lead qualifier for an auto racing event, you'll occupy this "position" in the front row at the start of the race. * pole position. * 4: This type of auto racing start bears the name of a French town famous for a 24-hour race. * Le Mans. * 5: Also a term for architectural drawing, it's the fuel-saving practice of one car closely following another. * drafting.

Round 4. Category: Numbers In Song * 1: Biggest hit for The Crests was about a birthday cake with this many candles. * 16. * 2: Neil Sedaka said, "You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen" when she'd reached this age. * sweet 16. * 3: Title of the song that begins, "Some people say a man is made out of mud". * "Sixteen Tons". * 4: Lacy J. Dalton sang "God bless the boys who make the noise on" this Nashville street. * 16th Avenue. * 5: It's the specific distance mentioned in folk song "The Erie Canal". * 15 miles.

Round 5. Category: Geographer's Dictionary * 1: From an old Norse word, it's a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea. * Fjord. * 2: The main administrative municipality in a U.S. county. * a county seat. * 3: It's an old name for a Chinese seaport, or what the Swiss call their states. * Canton. * 4: "Oceanic" term for the coastal states between New England and the South, like Delaware and Maryland. * Mid-Atlantic. * 5: "Oceanic" term for the coastal states between New England and the South, like Delaware and Maryland. * Mid-Atlantic.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 229, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Nfl Nicknames * 1: "Broadway Joe". * Joe Namath. * 2: "Mean Joe". * Joe Greene. * 3: "The Refrigerator". * William Perry. * 4: "Too Tall". * (Ed) Jones. * 5: "Sweetness". * Walter Payton.

Round 2. Category: The Jep-Tones World Tour 2006 * 1: More popular than Regis, the Jeps play their last stadium gig in San Francisco, like this band did on Aug. 29, 1966. * The Beatles. * 2: After a stint with the Maharishi, the group tries Kaballah with this singer whose hits include "Beautiful Stranger". * Madonna. * 3: The Jeps cover this group's 1988 Top 10 hit "Welcome To The Jungle", until the inevitable cease- and -desist order. * Guns N' Roses. * 4: No way! The Jeps' "Potpourri" video isn't the 2005 VMA Viewer's Choice; this band's "American Idiot" is. * Green Day. * 5: Oops... the 'Tones hire Mensa's Angels as security at this speedway in California, site of a 1969 free concert by the Stones. * Altamont.

Round 3. Category: 1961 * 1: Ratified on March 29, the 23rd Amendment granted this U.S. district the right to vote in pres. elections. * Washington, D.C.. * 2: She releases the hit songs "Crazy" and "I Fall to Pieces". * Patsy Cline. * 3: A bunch of Cuban exiles showed up unannounced here on April 17. * the Bay of Pigs. * 4: In his January 17 farewell address, he warned about the dangers of the "military-industrial complex". * Eisenhower. * 5: On May 5 he rocketed into space from Cape Canaveral. * Alan Shepard.

Round 4. Category: The Marrier * 1: Tom Hayden, Roger Vadim, Ted Turner. * Jane Fonda. * 2: Sean Penn, Guy Ritchie. * Madonna. * 3: Andre Previn, Frank Sinatra. * Mia Farrow. * 4: Jeremy Thomas, Tom Green. * Drew Barrymore. * 5: Robert Evans, Steve McQueen. * Ali McGraw.

Round 5. Category: Yes, I've Eton * 1: He hopefully had a ball at Eton before going on to write "Thunderball". * (Ian) Fleming. * 2: We know he revisited his "Brave New World" in 1958, but we don't know if he attended any Eton reunions. * (Aldous) Huxley. * 3: Marshall Field III, who had fun times at Eton, merged his Sun and Times papers in this city in 1948. * Chicago. * 4: James Oglethorpe went to Eton, did other stuff, then founded this colony in America. * Georgia. * 5: In power in the 1720s and 1730s, this Etonian is considered England's first prime minister. * Robert Walpole.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 228, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Prince" * 1: Until 1999 the first snowfall signaled the start of the "Nude Olympics" at this university. * Princeton. * 2: Satan, Dracula and Ozzy Osbourne go by this nickname. * the Prince of Darkness. * 3: This was the name given to the ship cast in the starring role on "The Love Boat". * the Pacific Princess. * 4: This Caribbean capital was occupied by the U.S. from 1915 to 1934 and from 1994 to 1995. * Port-au-Prince. * 5: A French explorer called this North American island Ile-St.-Jean. * Prince Edward Island.

Round 2. Category: Flies * 1: The largest land animal native to this continent is a small wingless fly. * Antarctica. * 2: A pest of wheat, the Hessian fly is so named because it's believed Hessian soldiers brought it here during this war. * the Revolutionary War. * 3: Wake up and tell us the name of this deadly disease, aka trypanosomiasis, spread by the Tsetse fly. * sleeping sickness. * 4: It's the common name for the fly known scientifically as musca domestica. * the housefly. * 5: Examples of these flies popular with geneticists include the apple maggot and the cherry. * fruit flies.

Round 3. Category: The President Who Said... * 1: "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate". * John F. Kennedy. * 2: "The ballot is stronger than the bullet". * Lincoln. * 3: In his first address to Congress: "All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today". * Lyndon Johnson. * 4: "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe". * Gerald Ford. * 5: "It must be a peace without victory... Only a peace between equals can last". * Wilson.

Round 4. Category: Porgy-Pourri * 1: Sadly, "Porgy and Bess" was the only full-length opera this composer wrote; he passed away in 1937, at age 38. * George Gershwin. * 2: Now a famous poet, she played Ruby in the acclaimed European tour of "Porgy and Bess" in the mid-'50s. * Maya Angelou. * 3: In 1936 this city's National Theatre was briefly desegregated so African-Americans could see "Porgy and Bess" there. * Washington, D.C.. * 4: Bobby McFerrin's father dubbed the singing voice of Porgy when this leading man played him on film in 1959. * Sidney Poitier. * 5: The opera is based on a novel inspired by a real crime of passion committed in this Southern city. * Charleston, South Carolina.

Round 5. Category: Tv Or Not Tv * 1: Duuuuude, Ray Walston totally reprised his role as Mr. Hand, Spicoli's teacher, in the series based on this film. * Fast Times at Ridgemont High. * 2: "My Mother The Car","His Gal Shirley","Your Show Of Shows". * His Gal Shirley. * 3: Starring Erin Moran, it was the last primetime sitcom spun off from "Happy Days". * Joanie Loves Chachi. * 4: On TV, this title trio was played by Kate, Jaclyn and Farrah; on film, it was Cameron, Lucy and Drew. * Charlie's Angels. * 5: On 60s TV, Cesar Romero cackled as this criminal; in 2008, Heath Ledger gave a startling film performance. * the Joker.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 227, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: States' Former Governors * 1: Lurleen Wallace, 1967-1968. * Alabama. * 2: George W. P. Hunt and Bruce Babbit. * Arizona. * 3: Tom Ridge, 1995-2001. * Pennsylvania. * 4: Thomas Dewey, 1943-1954. * New York. * 5: Henry Lee and Fitzhugh Lee. * Virginia.

Round 2. Category: All "Set" * 1: In summer, when this happens just after 8 p.m. in Los Angeles, it happens after 11:30 p.m. in Anchorage. * sunset. * 2: Species of this small monkey include the common, buffy tufted-ear and pygmy. * a marmoset. * 3: It can be a useful quality, or any item of value that is owned. * an asset. * 4: Hebrew for "assembly", it's the parliament of Israel. * the Knesset. * 5: An element that balances another, or a type of printing that takes ink from plate to blanket to paper. * offset.

Round 3. Category: Team Sports * 1: In football's shotgun formation, this player stands several yards behind the center to take the snap. * Quarterback. * 2: In this sport it may be a foul to hold either the ball or an opponent's head underwater. * Water polo. * 3: It's said this game using little padding originated when a schoolboy grabbed a soccer ball and ran. * Rugby. * 4: Hockey's Colorado Avalanche once played for this city, birthplace of their star Patrick Roy. * Quebec City. * 5: Using a frisbee and combining football and other games, it's the "last" word in team sports. * Ultimate frisbee.

Round 4. Category: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes * 1: That's right, guv, the first Holmes story was this "scarlet" one. * A Study in Scarlet. * 2: Holmes goes to see a man about a dog in this 1902 novel about a deadly legend. * The Hound of the Baskervilles. * 3: If you ever needed his services, all the mates knew this was Sherlock's London address. * 221B Baker Street. * 4: Conan Doyle did this to Holmes in "The Final Problem", but the public outcry caused him to change his mind. * Killed him off. * 5: If events would come a cropper, this Scotland Yard inspector would seek out Holmes for help. * Inspector Lestrade.

Round 5. Category: Here's Waldo * 1: Waldo was the nephew of this nearsighted cartoon character and helped keep him out of trouble. * Mr. Magoo. * 2: Named after the screenwriter of "Midnight Cowboy", the Waldo Salt award is given by this Park City, Utah film fest. * Sundance. * 3: On the quirky TV series "Twin Peaks", a pet bird named Waldo of this talkative species ends up mysteriously dead. * a myna bird. * 4: In a 1975 film this actor was just great as "The Great Waldo Pepper". * Robert Redford. * 5: This tough-guy actor's last film role was as Police Commissioner Waldo in 1981's "Ragtime". * (James) Cagney.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 226, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Keep On Truckin' * 1: Term for a truck whose body tilts to discharge loads, like gravel, to the rear. * Dump truck. * 2: In 2010 the D.O.T. issued rules banning this new form of communication by truckers while driving. * texting. * 3: "Massive" rhyming term for your standard tractor-trailer truck. * big rig. * 4: 5 brothers, one with the rhyming name Jack, started this company in the early 1900s. * Mack. * 5: In 2008 Atlanta truckers protested the rising price of this type of fuel, their lifeline. * Diesel.

Round 2. Category: Let's Play Chicken * 1: This canned tuna company has been using a mermaid on its logo since 1952. * Chicken of the Sea. * 2: This fast food chain told us to "Save the Chickens...Eat a Whopper". * Burger King. * 3: The unofficial theme song of this Warner Brothers blabberbeak is "Camptown Races"...doo dah. * Foghorn Leghorn. * 4: It's often performed at wedding receptions. * Funky chicken. * 5: Created by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, his secret identity was Henry Cabot Henhaus III. * Super Chicken.

Round 3. Category: The Age Of Aquariums * 1: The Great Lake Aquarium featured fish that live in this kind of water, as opposed to saltwater. * freshwater. * 2: It's fun to ride the riverboat from the Audobon Zoo to the Aquarium of the Americas in this Louisiana city. * New Orleans. * 3: These "tuxedoed" birds are a highlight of the Splash Zone at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. * penguins. * 4: Seen here, the beluga type of this mammal is one of the main attractions at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium. * a whale. * 5: On April 13, 2001 a bottlenose one of these mammals was born at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. * a dolphin.

Round 4. Category: Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame * 1: Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam filled in for Jim Morrison when this group performed at its 1993 induction. * The Doors. * 2: "What a Wonderful World" when this jazz trumpeter was inducted for his influence on rock. * Louis Armstrong. * 3: Jann Wenner, editor and publisher of this magazine, is 1 of 26 on the Hall's board of trustees. * Rolling Stone. * 4: Known for playing Ziggy Stardust, he donated a plaster cast of his face for the mannequins representing him. * David Bowie. * 5: In 1986 the first group of inductees included Elvis Presley and this founder of Sun Records. * Sam Phillips.

Round 5. Category: "New" York * 1: Someone recently married. * a newlywed. * 2: 1980s bands like The B-52's are classified as this style of music. * New Wave. * 3: It starts with the Book of Matthew and ends with the Book of Revelation. * the New Testament. * 4: The largest city in New Jersey. * Newark. * 5: St. John's is the capital city of this Canadian province. * Newfoundland.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 225, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Geograph"Y" * 1: There's an active volcano on Sicily, an island that's part of this country. * Italy. * 2: It's the largest city in Utah. * Salt Lake City. * 3: This Scandinavian country has 2 forms of its official language -- Bokmal and Nynorsk. * Norway. * 4: While many countries in Europe have been splitting up, this one got back together in 1990. * Germany. * 5: The last British ship of convicts pulled into this Australian city's port in 1849. * Sydney.

Round 2. Category: Valleys * 1: A fungal infection common in this state's San Joaquin valley is now called Valley fever. * California. * 2: This poet called a valley outside Balaklava "The Valley of Death". * Alfred, Lord Tennyson. * 3: Come and sit by my side if you know this valley straddles the border of Texas and Oklahoma. * the Red River Valley. * 4: This "Great" valley runs from the Valley of the Jordan to Southern Africa. * the Great Rift Valley. * 5: In 1997 thousands left this river valley in Germany and Poland to avoid extensive floods. * the Oder.

Round 3. Category: Australian History * 1: As a result of the 1851 discovery of this in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia's population almost tripled by 1860. * gold. * 2: From 1793 to 1810, this liquor made from molasses or sugar cane was used as currency in Australia. * rum. * 3: Due to Australia's vast distances, in 1928 K. St. Vincent Welch became the 1st doctor to reach patients in this way. * by plane. * 4: In 1999 voters rejected a proposal for Australia to withdraw from this collective. * the British Commonwealth. * 5: In Jan. 1788 a fleet of 11 ships carrying convicts and soldiers sailed into this bay and founded what became Sydney. * Botany Bay.

Round 4. Category: My Fantasy Football Team * 1: You should have heard my "boo-yah!" in 2004 when Shaun Alexander scored his NFL-leading 20th of these. * a touchdown. * 2: Straight-up swap at this position, Roethlisberger for Culpepper... what do you say?. * quarterback. * 3: I'm glad I traded for this flamboyant receiver who went from Frisco to Philly in 2004. * Terrell Owens. * 4: I'm expecting a few long ones from the well-named Ryan Longwell, a regular at this position. * kicker. * 5: Letting go of this Rams back with almost 12,000 career rushing yards could come back to haunt me. * Marshall Faulk.

Round 5. Category: Adam And Eve * 1: They could eat of the Tree of Life, but the Tree of the Knowledge of this was off limits. * Good and evil. * 2: When called on the carpet, Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed him. * The Serpent. * 3: God reminded Adam that this "Thou art, unto" it "shalt thou return". * Dust. * 4: According to Genesis, Adam gave these to the animals and later gave one to his wife. * Names. * 5: Adam was a young 130 when he begat him, his third son. * Seth.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 224, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Getting Married * 1: The extended cathedral length of one of these is over 9 feet long and doesnÂ't include a dining car. * train. * 2: In a double ring ceremony, she gives the ring to the bride to place on the groomÂ's finger. * maid of honor. * 3: When writing, offer the bride "best wishes" and the groom this. * congratulations. * 4: Exactly 9 sips of this are the essence of a Shinto wedding ceremony in Japan. * sake. * 5: According to tradition, the man who catches the brideÂ's garter gets to place it on this personÂ's leg. * the woman who catches the bouquet.

Round 2. Category: By The Seashore * 1: The northern fur seal breeds each summer in the Pribilof Islands in this sea. * Bering Sea. * 2: Yielding 20 pounds of edible flesh, the giant type of this is the largest bivalve mollusk. * Clam. * 3: These animals of the class Asteroidea can regenerate body parts and produce new bodies from a fragment. * Starfish. * 4: The dried skeleton of this invertebrate resembles a large white coin. * Sand Dollar. * 5: In California this fish spawns on the beach the first few nights after the highest tides of the month. * Grunion.

Round 3. Category: Snakes * 1: 3-letter term for naja haje, an Egyptian snake which was sometimes used to commit suicide. * an asp. * 2: The Eastern species of this is encircled with broad red and black bands, separated by narrow yellow ones. * a coral snake. * 3: In 2014 a deadly albino type of this snake native to India and neighbors was captured roaming a S. Calif. neighborhood. * a cobra. * 4: A rattlesnake's rattle is made of interlocking rings of this protein, just like our fingernails. * keratin. * 5: With a top speed of about 12 mph, this deadly African snake is said to be the world's fastest serpent. * the black mamba.

Round 4. Category: It's A Mystery! * 1: The title of this 1939 mystery by Raymond Chandler is a slang term for death. * The Big Sleep. * 2: This detecting couple whom Dashiell Hammett introduced in "The Thin Man" had a dog named Asta. * Nick and Nora Charles. * 3: The V.I. in this hard-boiled detective's name stands for Victoria Iphigenia. * V.I. Warshawski. * 4: Some editions of this Dickens novel begin, "An ancient English cathedral town..."; others say "tower"--it's a "Mystery"!. * The Mystery of Edwin Drood. * 5: "The Mystery of" her is Poe's sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". * Marie Roget.

Round 5. Category: You Say Potato * 1: In Gaelic it's known as "An Gorta Mor" (The Great Hunger). * The Irish Potato Famine. * 2: The Russet Burbank potato is also known by this "state"ly name. * Idaho potato. * 3: At a New Jersey spelling bee in 1992, he insisted that "potato" was spelled with an "E" at the end. * Dan Quayle. * 4: Don Rickles voiced Mr. Potato Head in this 1995 film. * Toy Story. * 5: This snack company uses over 5 billion pounds of potatoes annually to make Ruffles and other chips. * Frito-Lay.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 223, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Crossword Clues "S" * 1: P.T. Barnum's victims (7). * Suckers. * 2: Biblical wise guy(7). * Solomon. * 3: Specters, or their liquor(7). * spirits. * 4: 1964 movie song(34). * "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". * 5: Hebridean isle, or its terrier(4). * Skye.

Round 2. Category: What's That Sound? * 1: This noise might keep you awake at night. * snoring. * 2: Ports lying on the banks of this sound include Bremerton, Everett and Tacoma. * Puget Sound. * 3: Block Island Sound separates Block Island from this tiny state's mainland. * Rhode Island. * 4: This state's outer banks create Pamlico Sound, the largest lagoon on the East Coast of the United States. * North Carolina. * 5: The islands in Australia's Yampi Sound are rich in hematite, an ore of this metal. * iron.

Round 3. Category: The Beat Of The Tom * 1: In the 1957 group known as Tom and Jerry, Tom was Art Garfunkel and he was Jerry. * Paul Simon. * 2: Throw your panties at me if you know the name of this Welsh singer born Thomas Woodward. * Tom Jones. * 3: In 1993 he sang about "Mary Jane's Last Dance". * Tom Petty. * 4: "I Love" this country star who had the hit "I Like Beer"; it fits him to a "T.". * Tom T. Hall. * 5: This singer-actor had 2 songs on the "Dead Man Walking" soundtrack CD. * Tom Waits.

Round 4. Category: Historic Nebraska * 1: From 1855 to 1867, this city was the territorial capital. * Omaha. * 2: Thousands receive care every year at this institution for homeless, neglected and abused children founded in 1917. * Father Flanagan's Boys Town/Home. * 3: With the purchase of this region in 1803, the area now known as Nebraska became part of the United States. * Lousiana Purchase/Territory. * 4: In 1982 Nebraskans passed "Initiative 300", banning out-of-state corporations from buying these. * Farms/ranches. * 5: On May 6, 1877 this great Sioux Indian chief surrendered to the U.S. Army at Fort Robinson. * Crazy Horse.

Round 5. Category: Extracurricular Activities * 1: Students put together this, also called an annual, with photos of class members and school activities. * Yearbook. * 2: Psi Chi is an honor society in psychology; Chi Psi is one of these Greek letter societies. * Fraternity. * 3: Teams engage in the Lincoln-Douglas and Parliamentary types of these. * Debates. * 4: Free room and board are perks of being a dorm's R.A., which stands for this. * Resident assistant/advisor. * 5: Write letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience when you join a chapter of AI, this organization. * Amnesty International.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 222, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Six" Pack * 1: Slang name for a revolver. * "Six-Shooter". * 2: TV's Fisher family knows this slang phrase for dead and buried refers to the traditional depth of a grave. * six feet under. * 3: A straight six and a V-6 both refer to this type of car engine. * six-cylinder. * 4: A 2-inch-long nail. * six-penny. * 5: A 2-inch-long nail. * six-penny.

Round 2. Category: Style * 1: For women's health, Cosmopolitan Magazine recommends wearing 4" ones for only an hour. * Heels. * 2: This rhyming term refers to a short shirt that may show off a toned tummy. * Crop top. * 3: These baggy knickers worn by golfers were popularized by the Prince of Wales in the 1920s. * Plus fours. * 4: A horizontal blade on the back of a car, or a back-of-the-pack competitor who affects the outcome. * Spoiler. * 5: Bags and shoes from Gucci feature a GG symbol; those from this designer are marked with a V. * Valentino.

Round 3. Category: Kids In Books * 1: "The Sword in the Stone" is a book about a kid who grows up to be this king. * King Arthur. * 2: Based on a real child, a kid named Christopher Robin hangs out with this literary bear. * Winnie the Pooh. * 3: This collie was the faithful friend of a kid named Joe in a book by British novelist Eric Knight. * Lassie. * 4: Mowgli is the human kid hanging out in the woods with wolves and tigers in this Rudyard Kipling "Book". * "The Jungle Book". * 5: She's Beezus Quimby's pesky young sister. * Ramona.

Round 4. Category: Rearranging Words * 1: Rearrange the letters in "skate" to come up with this surname of a Romantic poet. * Keats. * 2: Rearrange the letters in "listen" to get this not-so-audible word. * silent. * 3: An earthquake on "Crete" might find its buildings no longer this. * erect. * 4: Rearrange the letters in "late" to get this color. * teal. * 5: Rearrange the letters in "supersonic" to get this orchestra section. * percussion.

Round 5. Category: Couples Therapy * 1: One partner may have "fear of" this type of closeness, from Latin for "a close friend". * Intimacy. * 2: Couples shouldn't play this, the rhyming name of an MTV show about "When Love Goes Wrong". * The Blame Game. * 3: (Dr. Joyce Brothers speaking) This is what you're really fighting about -- it's "the root of" most quarrels throughout marriage. * Money. * 4: Gordon Clanton calls it a reaction to a perceived threat to a relationship; it's also a green-eyed monster. * Jealousy. * 5: You may test the marital waters as what the Census Bureau calls POSSLQ, persons of the opposite sex sharing these. * Living quarters.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 221, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Jaws * 1: (Sarah) His "Jaws" score includes "Out to Sea", "Promenade Tourists on the Menu", and, of course, the main title theme. * John Williams. * 2: This product was originally developed for race car drivers:. * Jaws of Life. * 3: (Cheryl) He played police chief Martin Brody in both "Jaws" and the first sequel. * Roy Scheider. * 4: (Sarah) This author partly based "Jaws" on life in Nantucket, but had never set foot here on Martha's Vineyard until filming. * (Peter) Benchley. * 5: (Sarah) It completes one of the most famous lines spoken in "Jaws": "You're gonna need...". * a bigger boat.

Round 2. Category: Pets * 1: The green-winged teal, a small one of these birds, is well suited for living in garden ponds. * a duck. * 2: They can be house-trained and kept indoors; outdoors, a hutch will keep them from hopping away. * rabbits. * 3: Provide shallow water that your snake can soak in to aid this process. * Molting. * 4: The Birman and the Balinese are long-haired breeds of these. * cats. * 5: The box variety of this reptile can live in your backward and can learn to come to you for its food. * a tortoise.

Round 3. Category: Forbes Magazine's Richest * 1: This man is Number 1 with $53 billion; just turn on any computer if you need a clue. * Bill Gates. * 2: Son Robson inherited the bulk of his $20 billion from his dad Sam, who started this retail chain. * Wal-Mart. * 3: Silvio Berlusconi not only has $7.2 billion, he was elected prime minister of this country in 2001. * Italy. * 4: This Berkshire Hathaway exec. is in the Top 5 with $35 billion. * Warren Buffett. * 5: Smart as a fox, this Australian-born mogul now has $5.7 billion. * Rupert Murdoch.

Round 4. Category: Ethnic Groups * 1: New Zealand's ethnicity is about 70% European and 8% this native group. * Maori. * 2: People originally from this Iberian country make up Luxembourg's second-largest ethnic group. * Portugal. * 3: Monegasques are in the minority in Monaco; this is its top ethnic group. * the French. * 4: At about 15%, this native people constitute New Zealand's largest minority. * the Maori. * 5: The Azeris in Iran had the rug pulled out from under them because this is the No. 1 ethnic group. * Persian.

Round 5. Category: Disney Dogs * 1: Introduced in the 1930s, he's been known as Dippy Dawg, Dippy the Goof and , most famously, this. * Goofy. * 2: We don't know why a mouse would have a dog, but he's Mickey's faithful pet. * Pluto. * 3: The Internet Movie Database says someone actually counted all the black spots in this 1961 film and found 6,469,952. * 101 Dalmatians. * 4: Nana is the Darling children's nursemaid as well as their dog in this 1953 feature. * Peter Pan. * 5: A genteel cocker spaniel finds romance with a mutt from the wrong side of the tracks in this 1955 classic. * Lady and the Tramp.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 220, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Harlem Shuffle * 1: In 1954 he took over as minister of the Nation of Islam's Temple Number 7 in Harlem. * Malcolm X. * 2: "There is a rose in East Harlem"--nah. "There is a rose in" this other name for this area. * Spanish Harlem. * 3: Maintaining the Dutch theme, one of Harlem's major newspapers is the "News" bearing the name of this city. * Amsterdam. * 4: Duke Ellington could have told you that this MTA transport passes through Harlem before terminating at 207th St.. * the A Train. * 5: The regalia of this great dancer known as "Bojangles" includes a badge as honorary Mayor of Harlem. * Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.

Round 2. Category: American Government * 1: When a minor breaks the law, his or her case usually goes to this court. * juvenile court. * 2: Kansas' 10-member Board of this has made news for its doubts about Darwin. * Education. * 3: While he rarely appears in the Senate, it's his job to cast the deciding vote when there's a tie. * vice president. * 4: This daily account of the goings-on in the House and Senate has been published by the government since 1873. * The Congressional Record. * 5: It's no secret that William Colby, William Casey and William Webster have all headed this agency. * the CIA.

Round 3. Category: Bill Shakespeare, P.i. * 1: Impressive trail of corpses in this title guy's wake: the Dukes of Clarence and York and the Prince of Wales. * Richard III. * 2: Tailed this title kid to a balcony, heard his chippie say, "Deny thy father and refuse thy name". * Romeo. * 3: This title guy thinks his wife's cheatin'; says "She with Cassio hath the act of shame a thousand times committed". * Othello. * 4: Investigating a possible regicide by this fella; got his address, Dunsinane, but his wacked-out wife worries me. * Macbeth. * 5: Something's rottin' in Denmark and it's the 2 corpses of these courtiers; an ambassador tells of their deaths in 5.2. * Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Round 4. Category: Retired Jerseys * 1: Los Angeles LakersNo. 33. * Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. * 2: Miami Dolphins No. 13. * Dan Marino. * 3: He was so good-- and indecisive--that his team retired his jersey twice, in 1994 and 1999. * (Michael) Jordan. * 4: Detroit Red Wings No. 9. * Gordie Howe. * 5: This legend hit the rafters in 1993. * Larry Bird.

Round 5. Category: Barely Alive * 1: The name of this condition comes from the Greek for "deep sleep". * a coma. * 2: If a patient is non-responsive and these openings in the iris are fixed and dilated, it's bad news. * the pupils. * 3: Defined as asystole, no cardiac electrical activity on the EKG is also known by this "level" term. * a flatline. * 4: Cleveland Clinic protocol says when this 3-letter order is given by a patient, there will be no chest compressions. * DNR (do not resuscitate). * 5: Patient has tachycardia! Oh, man, he's in V-fib! Charge to 360! Clear! while I use an external this device. * a defibrillator.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 219, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hammurabi's Code * 1: Rule 200 says if a man knocketh these out of an equal, his shall be knocked out, too. * Teeth. * 2: This number is missing from the code's 282 rules; Babylonians thought it was evil and unlucky. * 13. * 3: Rules 104-106 warn you to be sure to get one of these when dealing with a merchant. * Receipt. * 4: If a man hires a substitute to serve for him as one of these and doesn't pay, he's killed and the sub gets his house. * Soldier. * 5: If you hired one of these and broke a horn off or cut off its tail, you owe 1/4 of its value in money. * Cow, bull, ox.....

Round 2. Category: Are You Addressing Me? * 1: The personal pronoun of the second person in the nominative case; people often act holier than it. * thou. * 2: A surgeon in England is simply addressed as this, not Dr.. * Mr.. * 3: Miss came from the first syllable of this word and mrs. is a shortened form of it. * mistress. * 4: From the Arabic for "old man", it's the head of a family, tribe or village. * sheik. * 5: As tovarishch means this, we guess you could be a tovarishch-in-arms. * comrade.

Round 3. Category: "Andy" * 1: The black and white bear of Walter Lantz cartoons. * Andy Panda. * 2: "A Family Affair" was the 1st of 15 films in this Mickey Rooney series. * the Andy Hardy series. * 3: Reg Smythe's pub-crawling comic strip husband of Flo. * Andy Capp. * 4: Donny Osmond made his debut at the age of 4 on his show. * The Andy Williams Show. * 5: An 8-hour static film of the Empire State Building was done by this pop artist. * Andy Warhol.

Round 4. Category: The Sweet Spot * 1: 2-word term for benzosulfamide or aspartame, for example. * artificial sweetener. * 2: You'd be wrong, but not alone in calling these yams. * sweet potatoes. * 3: In "Peanuts" it's Sally's term of endearment for Linus. * "My Sweet Baboo". * 4: It's the title of the 1970 album on which you can hear the song "Fire and Rain". * "Sweet Baby James". * 5: In 1959 Elia Kazan directed this Tennessee Williams play. * Sweet Bird of Youth.

Round 5. Category: Air * 1: Nitrogen makes up about 78% of the air to this gas' 21%, so no one has ever needed a nitrogen tent. * Oxygen. * 2: About 14.5 pounds per square inch at sea level, it decreases with altitude and has to be increased in airplanes. * Air pressure. * 3: It's what is done to air so it can power a jackhammer. * Compressed. * 4: This process that originally formed the oceans also forms dew. * Condensation. * 5: A sudden change of windspeed or direction, it also means "cut". * Shear.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 218, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: When * 1: On Aug. 28, 1963 he told a crowd gathered in Washington, D.C. "I have a dream". * Martin Luther King, Jr.. * 2: On Jan. 20, 1981 Iran released its hostages and this president was inaugurated. * Ronald Reagan. * 3: On Sept. 15, 1862 Stonewall Jackson captured this town made famous by John Brown 3 years earlier. * Harpers Ferry. * 4: These Americans got the right to vote on August 26, 1920. * Women. * 5: On Dec. 17, 1819 this "George Washington of South America" became Gran Colombia's first president. * Bolívar.

Round 2. Category: Politically Incorrect * 1: From its start in 1993, this Steven Bochco show has been attacked by the Christian Family Network. * NYPD Blue. * 2: In July 1997 the National Federation for the Blind urged a halt to a live-action version of this cartoon. * Mr. Magoo. * 3: "Read my lips, no new taxes!". * George H. W. Bush. * 4: "We did not --repeat--did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages--nor will we". * Reagan. * 5: "There is no Soviet domination of eastern Europe". * (Gerald) Ford.

Round 3. Category: Foreign Legislature * 1: Bundestag and Bundesrat. * Germany. * 2: The Knesset. * Israel. * 3: The Cortes. * Spain. * 4: Dail Eireann and Seanad Eireann. * Ireland. * 5: The Storting. * Norway.

Round 4. Category: Frisky Presidents * 1: Some scholars believe he initially called off his marriage, as he'd fallen in love with a friend of the Todds. * Lincoln. * 2: Ooh la la! He fooled around with the very married Maria Cosway while he was Minister to France. * Jefferson. * 3: Kay Summersby drove him to work in the 1940s and may have driven him to infidelity as well. * Eisenhower. * 4: In an effort to keep his affair with Mrs. Carrie Phillips a secret, the RNC sent her on a paid trip to Asia in 1920. * Harding. * 5: In the 1870s, while he was the sheriff of Buffalo, he fathered a child with a Mrs. Maria Halpin. * (Grover) Cleveland.

Round 5. Category: Silent Movies * 1: This film could have been called "Little Lady Fauntleroy" since it starred her, "America's sweetheart". * Mary Pickford. * 2: This cowboy star's middle initial stood for Surrey. * William S. Hart. * 3: This 1903 Edwin S. Porter classic wasn't filmed in the Wild West but in the wilds of New Jersey. * The Great Train Robbery. * 4: He was White Arm Joe in "The Birth of a Nation", but is better known as the screen's first "Tarzan". * Elmo Lincoln. * 5: In 1914 this actress silently suffered "The Perils of Pauline". * Pearl White.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 217, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Potable Words * 1: A cotton-cleaning device, or a cry in a card game saying you've completed your hand. * gin. * 2: It's the opposite of starboard. * port. * 3: The band Looking Glass found her "a fine girl". * "Brandy". * 4: To strike with a fist or make a hole in a ticket. * punch. * 5: It's the residue coal leaves after destructive distillation. * coke.

Round 2. Category: Kids In Books * 1: "The Sword in the Stone" is a book about a kid who grows up to be this king. * King Arthur. * 2: Based on a real child, a kid named Christopher Robin hangs out with this literary bear. * Winnie the Pooh. * 3: This collie was the faithful friend of a kid named Joe in a book by British novelist Eric Knight. * Lassie. * 4: Mowgli is the human kid hanging out in the woods with wolves and tigers in this Rudyard Kipling "Book". * "The Jungle Book". * 5: She's Beezus Quimby's pesky young sister. * Ramona.

Round 3. Category: Tasmanian Tidbits * 1: Tasmania is this country's smallest state. * Australia. * 2: Discovering the island in 1642, he named it Van Diemen's Land. * Abel Tasman. * 3: Also called wolfram, this metal used in lamp filaments is a big source of income. * Tungsten. * 4: The island is home to the Tasmanian devil and this animal. * Wombat. * 5: The Derwent River in Tasmania has a concrete one of these floating bridges. * Pontoon bridge.

Round 4. Category: Albert Camus * 1: On Dec. 10, 1957 Albert Camus received this prize in Stockholm, Sweden. * Nobel Prize for Literature. * 2: Camus' father Lucien died at the First Battle of the Marne, a major turning point in this conflict. * World War I. * 3: Camus was born in this then French colony, the setting for some of his works. * Algeria. * 4: Camus' attack on Stalinism in 1951's "L'Homme Revolte" strained his relationship with this other existentialist. * Jean-Paul Sartre. * 5: In an influential essay, Camus compared the human condition to the Greek myth of this rock pusher. * Sisyphus.

Round 5. Category: Car And Driver * 1: In a 1978 movie musical:Greased Lightning. * Danny Zuko (John Travolta). * 2: On '80s TV:The General Lee, a souped-up Dodge Charger. * The Dukes of Hazzard/Bo and Luke Duke (John Schneider and Tom Wopat). * 3: On '60s TV:Black Beauty, the Green Hornet's car. * Kato (Bruce Lee). * 4: On '80s TV:KITT, a talking black Pontiac. * Knight Rider/Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff). * 5: Marty McFly went "Back to the Future" in this make of car. * a DeLorean.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 216, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Oscar-Winning Roles * 1: Rooster Cogburn. * John Wayne. * 2: Hannibal Lecter. * Anthony Hopkins. * 3: Loretta Lynn. * Sissy Spacek. * 4: Miss Daisy Werthan. * Jessica Tandy. * 5: 1999:Her multi-dimensional performance as Brandon Teena / Teena Brandon won an Oscar. * Hilary Swank.

Round 2. Category: Vwllss * 1: The cruelest month:"PRL". * April. * 2: It means held in common, like some interests: mtl. * mutual. * 3: Hawkeye and Buckeye states:"W" and "H". * Iowa and Ohio. * 4: To renew skin by removing a layer: xflt. * exfoliate. * 5: A heavenly body:"RNS". * Uranus.

Round 3. Category: Dwelling On The Past * 1: The 1690s were a miss/ Eng. kings were far from bliss/ Jacobites warring/ Never was boring/ Ended by Treaty of this. * Limerick. * 2: In 1794 this naval hero gave his right eye for Britain; 3 years later, his ability to wave goodbye decreased by 50%. * Admiral Horatio Nelson. * 3: You have the impudence to know Caesar waged war against this 4-letter region from 58 to 50 B.C.?. * Gaul. * 4: On June 2, 1899 near Wilcox, Wyo., the first major train robbery of the Wild Bunch, led by him, netted $30,000. * Butch Cassidy. * 5: In Shakespeare and in history, he succeeded Macbeth. * Malcolm.

Round 4. Category: Body Parts * 1: They can take 6 months to grow from base to tip, or from cuticle to what you chew. * Fingernails. * 2: Nearly half your body weight comes from these, which include the omohyoid, the brachialis and the deltoid. * muscles. * 3: The smallest human cell is this cell originating only in the male. * Sperm cell. * 4: Brannock is the name of the device that measures these from widths of 3A to 3E. * feet. * 5: When used normally, a garrote fits snugly around this part of the victim's body. * neck.

Round 5. Category: Ranch Dressing * 1: These "jingle jangle jingle as I go riding merrily along". * spurs. * 2: A slang term for a cemetery in a Western town came from a gunfighter's wish to die with these on. * boots. * 3: A bandito could wear this handkerchief as a scarf, a neckerchief or a mask. * a bandana. * 4: The name of these protective leggings comes from a word for a dense growth of shrubs. * chaps. * 5: Also called a shoelace tie, it's a thin cord fastened in front with an ornamental clasp. * a bolo tie.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 215, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: In Memoriam 2006 * 1: A host of "Hee Haw" for 17 years, he pioneered the Bakersfield sound of country music. * Buck Owens. * 2: Grandpa on "The Munsters", he once ran for governor of New York as a Green Party candidate. * Al Lewis. * 3: "The Midnight Hour" came calling for this R and B legend in January 2006. * Wilson Pickett. * 4: Long before "The X-Files", he stalked the night as Carl Kolchak, a savvy reporter of the weird and the horrific. * Darren McGavin. * 5: The winner of 13 Emmy Awards, this low-key TV sportscaster was a true "American Sportsman". * Curt Gowdy.

Round 2. Category: Boston "T" Party * 1: The state dog of Massachusetts is the "Boston" this. * terrier. * 2: In a Boston-set sitcom, they were paired with "a Girl and a Pizza Place". * Two Guys. * 3: Boston's Freedom one begins near the frog pond in Boston Common. * Freedom Trail. * 4: In the Boston area, U.S. Interstate 90 is also known as this type of road. * turnpike. * 5: In a kids' book, this young Boston Johnny-on-the-spot becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty. * Johnny Tremain.

Round 3. Category: The World Series * 1: In 1955 the series between the Yankees and dese Bums became the first televised in color. * Brooklyn Dodgers. * 2: In 1992 this Canadian team won 3 of its 4 World Series games in its last-at-bat. * Toronto Blue Jays. * 3: "Say Hey"! This Giants outfielder's catch of a Vic Wertz drive was a highlight of the 1954 World Series. * Willie Mays. * 4: In game 1 in 1954 this Giants outfielder made a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' fly ball. * Willie Mays. * 5: In 1916 and 1918 Babe Ruth, then with this team, pitched 29 2/3 straight scoreless innings, a record that lasted 43 years. * the Boston Red Sox.

Round 4. Category: Si's Signs Of The Apocalypse * 1: This tire co. paid Rip Hamilton "to braid his hair in the tread pattern of one of its tires", not blimps. * Goodyear. * 2: A Little League team in Kentucky is sponsored by this "delightfully tacky yet unrefined" restaurant. * Hooters. * 3: This Miami Heat superstar center's "wife, Shaunie, said their family has outgrown its 18-bedroom home". * Shaquille O'Neal. * 4: "A ski jumping competition in" this country, Land of the Midnight Sun, "rewarded competitors for landing in trees". * Norway. * 5: "Golfer John Daly has... endorsement deals with" Dunkin' Donuts and this Anna Nicole Smith-endorsed diet aid. * TrimSpa.

Round 5. Category: Sports Bios * 1: Originally drafted by Atlanta, he quarterbacked Green Bay to a Super Bowl victory in 1997. * Brett Favre. * 2: This American's career grand slam began with his victory at Wimbledon in 1992. * Agassi. * 3: A Detroit Red Wing from 1946 to 1971, it was his records that Gretzky broke. * Gordie Howe. * 4: In 1984 this gymnast won 2 bronzes, 2 silvers and the Olympic gold medal for women's all-around. * Mary Lou Retton. * 5: Later a Knick, this basketball center led Georgetown to 3 NCAA finals and the 1984 title. * Patrick Ewing.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 214, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: It's All About "U" * 1: The playground bully will stop twisting vour arm as soon as you "say" this--or so he says. * uncle. * 2: Dairy farmers say thanks for this mammary gland of bovines. * udders. * 3: Arthur Godfrey was known for playing this instrument of the South Seas. * a ukulele. * 4: "Red, Red Wine" and "Here I Am" are hit songs by this reggae-pop group. * UB40. * 5: This Greek god was the father of the Titans. * Uranus.

Round 2. Category: World Museums * 1: I visited the national museum founded by King Rama V in this city and all I got was this lousy Thai-shirt. * Bangkok. * 2: The Musee d'Orsay in Paris was built in the Gare d'Orsay, an old one of these. * a railway station. * 3: This museum founded back in 1835 contains the gold coffin of Tutankhamen. * the Egyptian Museum. * 4: Works by Venetian masters Titian and Tintoretto are in this other "V" city's Kunsthistorisches Museum. * Vienna. * 5: During its remodeling it moved "The Night Watch" from the Main Hall to the new Philips Wing. * the Rijksmuseum.

Round 3. Category: The 1820s * 1: On October 27, 1822 a 280-mile section of the Erie Canal opened between Rochester and this capital. * Albany. * 2: In 1822 Friedrich Buschmann obtained a patent for this instrument also known as a squeezebox. * an accordion. * 3: In 1825 this Scottish botanist discovered the coniferous evergreen now named for him in the Pacific NW. * David Douglas. * 4: Although it was founded in 1821, this Montreal university didn't open until 1829. * McGill. * 5: He was about 70 when he published his "American Dictionary of the English Language" in 2 volumes in 1828. * (Noah) Webster.

Round 4. Category: Shrew-Ed * 1: Continent where you'd find the shrews Crocidura nigeriae and Crocidura tansaniana. * Africa. * 2: Canadian province where you'll most likely spot Trowbridge's shrew, which enjoys Douglas fir seeds. * British Columbia. * 3: The Southeastern shrew inhabits the marshy U.S. region that got this uninviting name from Col. William Byrd. * the Great Dismal Swamp. * 4: The Mt. Malindang shrew and the Palawan tree shrew are native to this country. * the Philippines. * 5: It would be "serendip"itous to see a Kelaart's long-clawed shrew, as it lives only on this island. * Sri Lanka.

Round 5. Category: Presidential Library Addresses * 1: 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, New York. * Franklin D. Roosevelt. * 2: 1000 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan. * Gerald Ford. * 3: Columbia Point, Boston, Massachusetts. * John F. Kennedy. * 4: 2313 Red River Street, Austin, Texas. * Lyndon B. Johnson. * 5: 210 Parkside Drive, West Branch, Iowa. * Herbert Hoover.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 212, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Starting Here * 1: For Cathy Guisewite to do her "Cathy" comic strip, every day it's "back to" this. * The drawing board. * 2: To come up with Lanacane, the chemists "started from" this. * Scratch. * 3: To get a project in gear, or what you do after stepping up to the line in bowling. * Start the ball rolling. * 4: The way to start a play; it sounds like what the parents of "3rd Rock"'s Jane did during her formative years. * Raise the curtain (Curtin). * 5: In New York City on October 1, 1999 I rang the opening bell to start this. * New York Stock Exchange.

Round 2. Category: "Fe", "Fi", "Fo" Or "Fum" * 1: Iron. * Fe. * 2: It's a homophone for an antagonist. * fo. * 3: Possibly echoing the strum of an instrument, it's sing 3 times as part of a traditional Christmas carol. * fum. * 4: "Always Faithful", the U.S.Marine Corps motto is sometimes shortened to "Semper" this. * Fi. * 5: Part of a Southwestern capital city name, it means "faith" in Spanish. * Fe.

Round 3. Category: Classic Sitcoms * 1: Early episodes of this Barbara Eden-Larry Hagman series were filmed in black and white, the rest were in color. * I Dream of Jeannie. * 2: Its premise: a broomstick rider tackles suburbia with her adman husband. * Bewitched. * 3: On "Leave it to Beaver", it was Beaver's real first name. * Theodore. * 4: It was the occupation of Jerry Robinson on "The Bob Newhart Show". * dentist. * 5: (I'm Rob Reiner.) Thanks to "All in the Family" and Archie Bunker, I think I'll be forever associated with this beefy nickname. * "Meathead".

Round 4. Category: Decode The Postal Codes * 1: Scar. * South Carolina and Arkansas. * 2: Vain. * Virginia and Indiana. * 3: Lame. * Louisiana and Maine. * 4: Hide. * Hawaii and Delaware. * 5: Wine. * Wisconsin and Nebraska.

Round 5. Category: Who's Had More No. 1 Hits? * 1: Janet Jackson,Joe Jackson,Michael Jackson. * Michael Jackson. * 2: George Michael,Phil Collins,Elton John. * Elton John. * 3: Rick Springfield,Bruce Springsteen,Buffalo Springfield. * Rick Springfield. * 4: Whitney Houston,Mariah Carey,Barbra Streisand. * Mariah Carey. * 5: Heart,Little Feat,Murray Head. * Heart.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 211, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Reunited * 1: Don Henley said this group would reunite when Hell froze over, which turned out to be in 1994. * The Eagles. * 2: On Sept. 19, 1981 this duo built a "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and reunited for a free concert in Central Park. * Simon and Garfunkel. * 3: The reunion of this group performing their hit "Roxanne" kicked off the 2007 Grammys. * The Police. * 4: This band reunited to play "Don't Stop" at Clinton's 1993 inaugural gala. * Fleetwood Mac. * 5: The answer was blowin' in the wind when this folk trio reunited for a 1972 George McGovern fundraiser. * Peter, Paul and Mary.

Round 2. Category: Bride Of The Yankees * 1: Married in 1954, this "Yankee Clipper" has roses delivered to his ex-wife's grave for 20 years after her death. * Joe DiMaggio. * 2: In the HBO movie "61*", Claire, this man's widow, is none too happy when his home-run record of 60 is tied. * Babe Ruth. * 3: In a 2001 "SNL" skit this Yankees shortstop appeared in drag as his double-play partner's wife Candy Soriano. * Derek Jeter. * 4: In 1994 Don's wife Kim Mattingly finished the 25th annual one of these in 5 hours, 40 minutes, 46 seconds. * the New York Marathon. * 5: In 1999 Diana, the widow of this 1970s catcher and team captain, threw out the first pitch at a Yankee game. * Thurman Munson.

Round 3. Category: Mr. President * 1: His grandfather had been VP, but Adlai Stevenson lost 2 presidential elections to this man. * Dwight D. Eisenhower. * 2: This former U.S. president led a scientific expedition into the Amazon jungle in 1914. * Theodore Roosevelt. * 3: In the presidential election of 1800, Alexander Hamilton supported Charles Pinckney over this incumbent. * John Adams. * 4: The economic panic of 1893 hit shortly after he returned as the nation's 24th president. * Grover Cleveland. * 5: In 1824 Sarah Childress married this future president. * James K. Polk.

Round 4. Category: Unusual Books * 1: "Bred any Good Rooks Lately?" is a humorous collection of these groaners. * puns. * 2: Jewel Shepard's "Invasion of the B-Girls" is a collection of interviews with girls who appear in these. * B-movies. * 3: "PL8 SPK" is a collection of stories written using only these. * (vanity) license plates. * 4: This most common letter in English isn't used in Ernest Vincent Wright's 50,000-word novel "Gadsby". * E. * 5: N.E. Thing Enterprises has produced 3 "Magic Eye" books where you stare at patterns that do this. * form 3D pictures (come out in 3D accepted).

Round 5. Category: Colleges And Universities * 1: The George Washington Carver Museum is on this Alabama school's campus. * the Tuskegee Institute. * 2: Opened around 1257, it's now a part of the universities of Paris. * The Sorbonne. * 3: According to a U.S. News and World Report survey, university presidents rate this western school best. * Stanford. * 4: James K. Polk went to this "tarheel university". * University of North Carolina. * 5: Several of its football songs were written by alumnus Cole Porter. * Yale.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 210, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Women In Sports * 1: Like fathers, like daughters: in June 2001 it was Joe Frazier's daughter Jacqui against this boxer's daughter Laila. * Muhammad Ali. * 2: This runner, who married Richard Slaney in 1985, holds 6 U.S. records, from 800 meters to 10,000 meters. * Mary Decker. * 3: In 1988 Golf Magazine named this Mexican-American "Woman Golfer of the Decade". * Nancy Lopez. * 4: On ESPN's list of the 50 top athletes of the 20th century, this woman is the highest-ranked female. * (Babe Didrikson) Zaharias. * 5: In 1996, on an injured ankle, she did a final vault that helped the U.S. gymnastics team win the Olympic gold. * Kerri Strug.

Round 2. Category: Clues Past Their Freshness Date * 1: Time's 1980 Man of the Year cover showed him in a western shirt, jeans and a tooled belt with silver buckle. * Ronald Reagan. * 2: To get into this event at the White House March 31, 1997 you had to have a 3-to-6-year-old kid with you. * the Easter Egg Hunt. * 3: In 1992 United began flying the Latin American routes purchased from this airline that folded in 1991. * Pan American. * 4: This brand's jingle called it "That Heavenly Coffee". * Chock full o'Nuts. * 5: In 1996 Chevy reintroduced this model first seen in 1964, also the name of a version of Barbie. * Malibu.

Round 3. Category: Internal Rhymes * 1: It can be a meeting among business colleagues, or a Native American ceremonial feast. * a powwow. * 2: It's a sturdy carryall worn by hikers as well as students. * a backpack. * 3: A homeless traveler riding on freight trains. * a hobo. * 4: A natl. assoc. of wanderers says you can still be this 4-letter term even if you never rode a freight train. * a hobo. * 5: This adjective meaning unkempt and varied is often applied to disorganized armies or militias. * ragtag.

Round 4. Category: Our Avian Friends * 1: Only the extinct 10-foot-tall moas of New Zealand were taller than this 8-foot African bird. * Ostrich. * 2: The deepest diver among birds is the emperor species of this bird which may reach depths of 900 feet. * Penguin. * 3: This tiny bird drinks nectar at the rate of about 13 licks per second. * Hummingbird. * 4: The sapsucker, a group of birds in this family, drills holes in trees to stimulate the flow of sap. * Woodpeckers. * 5: The name of this black bird of Asia, a superb mimic of human speech, is from the Sanskrit for "passion". * Mynah bird.

Round 5. Category: Tv Friends * 1: (Hi, I'm Joseph Gordon-Levitt.) I used to play D.J. Connor's boring friend George on this sitcom. * Roseanne. * 2: Grant Show appeared as Dylan's friend Jake on this series before he was spun off to "Melrose Place". * Beverly Hills, 90210. * 3: In 1995 it was finally revealed that this kooky character does have a first name: it's Cosmo. * Kramer. * 4: He's the friend Matt LeBlanc plays on "Friends". * Joey Tribbiani. * 5: Claire Danes and A.J. Langer played teenage friends Angela and Rayanne on this acclaimed series. * My So-Called Life.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 209, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: History 101 * 1: This future president graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1940. * John F. Kennedy. * 2: The rulers of this country weren't known as pharaohs until the 1500s B.C.. * Egypt. * 3: When asked how she'd survived the Titanic, she replied, "I'm unsinkable" -- hence, her famous nickname. * Molly Brown. * 4: John Smith said he would have had his brains beaten out with clubs if this Indian girl hadn't saved him. * Pocahontas. * 5: In 1862 Jefferson Davis named this Confederate general his chief military advisor. * Robert E. Lee.

Round 2. Category: Women's Liberation * 1: In 1910 Alice Wells got special badge No. 1 as the first female one of these in Los Angeles. * Police officer. * 2: The term suffragette came from suffrage, the right to do this. * Vote. * 3: In her 1963 book she used the term "Feminine Mystique" to describe the image of women. * Betty Friedan. * 4: Introduced in 1959, she got in trouble in 1992 for saying "Math class is tough". * Barbie. * 5: In 1972 this magazine appeared on American newsstands for the first time. * Ms..

Round 3. Category: Gene Wilder * 1: In 1984 Gene married this woman with whom he later had a "Haunted Honeymoon". * Gilda Radner. * 2: In his first movie, Gene played a mortician kidnapped by Warren Beatty in this 1967 film. * Bonnie and Clyde. * 3: This man directed Gene in "The Producers" and "Blazing Saddles". * Mel Brooks. * 4: Gene was nominated for a Screenwriting Oscar for this film that also starred Marty Feldman as Igor. * Young Frankenstein. * 5: Gene's first movie pairing with Richard Pryor came in this 1976 comedy thriller about a murder plot on a train. * Silver Streak.

Round 4. Category: 2001: A Sports Odyssey * 1: Number of home runs Barry Bonds hit in 2001, setting a Major League record. * 73. * 2: As GM of this team, Michael Jordan made history by picking high schooler Kwame Brown No. 1 in the NBA draft. * the Washington Wizards. * 3: Point Given won this Triple Crown race and got daisies because Maryland's state flower hadn't bloomed yet. * the Preakness. * 4: This "Iron Man" played his last game for the Orioles in 2001 after 21 seasons. * Cal Ripken. * 5: With the help of defensemen Ray Bourque and Rob Blake, this hockey team cascaded to the Stanley Cup. * the Colorado Avalanche.

Round 5. Category: Kitty Literature * 1: The feline in footwear popularized in Charles Perrault's tale. * Puss in Boots. * 2: "It vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin". * the Cheshire Cat. * 3: Brick Pollitt's wife, who is the "cat" in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". * Maggie. * 4: In this play, when the 1st witch cries, "I come, Graymalkin!", she's calling to her cat. * Macbeth. * 5: He wrote "The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat". * Ogden Nash.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 208, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Harrys And Garys * 1: Getting the role of Colonel Potter on "MASH" was a bit of a demotion; he'd previosuly played a general on the show. * Harry Morgan. * 2: Gary "Big Hands" Johnson played defense for 10 seasons with this NFL team, the southernmost in California. * the San Diego Chargers. * 3: Bigfoot went domestic in this 1987 comedy with John Lithgow. * Harry and the Hendersons. * 4: Here's a Harry and a Gary: in 1995 this "Forrest Gump" actor played Harry Truman. * Gary Sinise. * 5: Harry Shearer has voiced at least 36 different characters, including Jebediah Springfield, on this show. * The Simpsons*.

Round 2. Category: The "Cat" * 1: The wormlike larva of a moth. * a caterpillar. * 2: Henny Youngman began his career as a violinist playing the "Borscht Belt" in these N.Y. mountains. * the Catskills. * 3: An audition open to everyone; it may bring a stampede of actors. * cattle call. * 4: The southern part of what's now China was called Mangi; the northern part was called this. * Cathay. * 5: For Kant, to act according to principles that you'd like to see become universal is this type of "imperative". * a categorical imperative.

Round 3. Category: Forests * 1: The Mbuti of Congo's Ituri Forest are the shortest of these peoples at an average height of about 4'8". * Pygmies. * 2: Britain's 4,500-acre Savernake Forest is privately owned by the Earl of this (think sweater). * Cardigan. * 3: This European country's Sonian Forest is flanked by the towns of Tervuren and Waterloo. * Belgium. * 4: New Hampshire has its White Mountain National Forest and Vermont has one named for this mountain range. * the Green Mountains. * 5: The USA's first Natl. Forest, Shoshone, was set aside in 1891 as part of the Yellowstone Timberland Reserve in this state. * Wyoming.

Round 4. Category: The Write Stuff * 1: Dumas Malone won a Pulitzer Prize for his multi-volume biography of this Monticello resident. * Thomas Jefferson. * 2: Sir John Buchan wrote the adventure thriller "The 39 Steps" before becoming governor-general of this country. * Canada. * 3: This son of J.R.R. Tolkien entered the family business, teaching at Oxford and editing "The Silmarillion". * Christopher Tolkien. * 4: This "divine" saint wrote the Book of Revelation on the Greek island of Patmos. * St. John. * 5: After penning the musical "Kiss of the Spider Woman", this man wrote "Love! Valour! Compassion!". * Terrence McNally.

Round 5. Category: Who's On First? * 1: In 1927 Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs but this first baseman and Yankee teammate was league MVP. * Lou Gehrig. * 2: In both 1995 and 1996, this Dodger first baseman hit over 30 home runs and had over 100 runs batted in. * Eric Karros. * 3: Yankees,1923-1939. * (Lou) Gehrig. * 4: A's,1987-1997;Cardinals,1998-2001. * Mark McGwire. * 5: Mets,1983-1989;"Seinfeld ",beginning in 1992. * (Keith) Hernandez.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 207, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Leaves * 1: "Life is so beautiful", says this fictional Italian-American before dying in his garden. * Don Vito Corleone ("The Godfather"). * 2: The leaves of this large family of tropical trees are folded in a distinct fanlike shape called plicate. * palm trees. * 3: Koalas eat mistletoe too, but mainly these leaves. * eucalyptus. * 4: Wrigley's could tell you that the strong-smelling oil of this plant, mentha spicata, comes from hairs on its leaves. * spearmint. * 5: "Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you", she says and then smiles and dies. * Eponine.

Round 2. Category: Minnesotans * 1: in 1977 he was voted deputy president pro tem of the U.S. Senate, a position created for him. * (Hubert H.) Humphrey. * 2: This creator of "Peanuts" was once a free-lance cartoonist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. * Charles Schulz. * 3: This "Great Gatsby" author was related to a woman hanged in connection with Lincoln's assassination. * (F. Scott) Fitzgerald. * 4: This man, Chief Justice of the U.S. 1969-1986, graduated magna cum laude from St. Paul College of Law in 1931. * (Warren) Burger. * 5: This oilman who founded a Malibu, California museum was born in Minneapolis in 1892. * (John Paul) Getty.

Round 3. Category: Engineering * 1: Used as early as 230 B.C., the 1st successful electric one was developed by the Otis Bros. in 1889. * an elevator. * 2: Tajikistan has the highest one of these in the world; the U.S. doesn't even make the Top 10 with Hoover. * Dam. * 3: Type of well named for the French region of Artois where 1 was 1st drilled in 1126. * an artesian well. * 4: Able to carry over 2 million barrels of crude a day, it runs from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez. * the Alaska Pipeline. * 5: The motto of this 1904-1914 engineering project was "The land divided, the world united". * the Panama Canal.

Round 4. Category: Oh, "Ic" * 1: There once was a clue from Nantucket, this kind of humorous 5-line Irish verse (sorry, that's it). * limerick. * 2: Kill a plant with a deadly substance and you could be accused of this, also describing the substance itself. * herbicide. * 3: Hey, baby, what's your zodiac sign? It's this, isn't it, the only that fits the category... Hey, where are you going?. * Capricorn. * 4: To renounce a throne, as Norodom Sihanouk did in 2004. * abdicate. * 5: From 1940 to 1942, this was the capital of unoccupied France. * Vichy.

Round 5. Category: British Vs. American Auto Terminology * 1: What the British call an estate car, we call this type of "wagon". * a station wagon. * 2: It's a windscreen to the limeys, but it's one of these to us Yanks. * a windshield. * 3: What we call gasoline, the Brits call this. * petrol. * 4: This car part is the bonnet to the Brits, but to us it's one of these. * the hood. * 5: It's a transmission in America and one of these "box"es across the Atlantic. * a gearbox.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 206, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: True Story * 1: John Hersey wrote about 6 survivors of an August 6, 1945 explosion in this title city. * Hiroshima. * 2: In "Duty First", alum Ed Ruggero calls this military academy "America's premier leadership school". * West Point. * 3: Dr. Jerri Nielsen gives her account of discovering that she had breast cancer while "ice bound" here. * the South Pole. * 4: This gonzo journalist tells the "Strange and Terrible Saga" of flying with angels--Hell's Angels. * Hunter Thompson. * 5: "Into Thin Air" is his account of scaling Everest and the tragedy that befell others around him. * Jon Krakauer.

Round 2. Category: Oscar-Winning Songs * 1: 2013:"Let It Go" from this animated flick. * Frozen. * 2: Melanie Griffith had "A Bod in Sin" in this film, but it was Carly Simon's "Let the River Run" that won an Oscar. * Working Girl. * 3: ("Colors of the Wind"). * Pocahontas. * 4: "Georgy Girl" and "Alfie" lost to this 1966 song that lionized a lioness named Elsa. * "Born Free". * 5: 1942:This holiday classic from "Holiday Inn". * White Christmas.

Round 3. Category: Mountains * 1: In modern Greek this peak is called Olimbos. * Olympus. * 2: The Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains surround this Utah capital. * Salt Lake City. * 3: Seen here is one of Hokusai's famous wood-block prints of this mountain. * Mount Fuji. * 4: This peak is the only mountain in North America that exceeds 20,000 feet. * Mount McKinley. * 5: Not quite 14,500 feet, this California peak is named for geologist Josiah. * Mount Whitney.

Round 4. Category: Famous Understudies * 1: Four years before "Laugh-In", Jo Anne Worley understudied Carol Channing in this smash hit musical. * Hello, Dolly!. * 2: Lainie Kazan not only played a showgirl in this show, she understudied Barbra Streisand. * Funny Girl. * 3: John Cullum of "Northern Exposure" understudied Richard Burton in this 1960 musical. * Camelot. * 4: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward understudied in the original 1953 production of this William Inge play. * Picnic. * 5: Richard Gere was an understudy in this musical set at Rydell High before he starred in it in London. * Grease.

Round 5. Category: World Coins * 1: In 2001 the Isle of Man issued 6 coins devoted to this 11-year-old wizard; the first depicted him casting a spell. * Harry Potter. * 2: In 2004 Somalia issued 6 coins in the shape of this instrument, including a fender Stratocaster. * guitar. * 3: This principality now uses the Euro and has issued Euro coins with Prince Rainier on the obverse. * Monaco. * 4: In 2007 this late pope was honored with a coin in nauru; his image pops up perpendicular to the coin. * Pope John Paul II. * 5: A hologram of this sacred temple lies in the center of Cambodia's 2001 10,000-riel coin. * Angkor Wat.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 205, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Fortune 500 * 1: 1 of the 2 manufacturing companies classified under "Toys" in the 500. * 1 of (Mattel and Hasbro). * 2: No. 242 on the list, this insurance co.'s $99.3 billion loss made it Fortune's biggest loser ever. * AIG. * 3: Since the Fortune 500 list began in 1955, only Exxon, Wal-Mart and this now-troubled auto co. have held the top spot. * GM (General Motors). * 4: With 14,000 videos, the most watched Fortune 500 CEO on YouTube was this bespectacled chairman of the No. 35 company. * Bill Gates. * 5: AMR and UAL are the top 2 companies in this industry. * airline.

Round 2. Category: It Happened On Valentine's Day * 1: In 1929 Al Capone's men massacred rival gangsters on St. Valentine's Day in this city. * Chicago. * 2: TV's Mrs. Brady, she was born on Feb. 14, 1934. * Florence Henderson. * 3: In 1995 Arthur Chaskalson, who defended Nelson Mandela in 1964, was sworn in as this country's chief justice. * South Africa. * 4: Americans fell in love with her when she gave a TV tour of the White House on Feb. 14, 1962. * Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. * 5: On Feb. 14, 1989 the Ayatollah Khomeini called for the death of this Indian-born British author. * Salman Rushdie.

Round 3. Category: 1990s Television * 1: (Hi, I'm Arianna Huffington) Al Franken and I did a "Point-Counterpoint" segment called "Strange Bedfellows" for this Bill Maher show. * Politically Incorrect. * 2: This FOX drama follows the plight of the Salinger children, who were orphaned by a car wreck. * Party of Five. * 3: Roslyn, Washington represented Cicely, Alaska, the setting of this Rob Morrow series. * Northern Exposure. * 4: The quirky drama "Picket Fences" was set in this town in Wisconsin, not in Italy. * Rome. * 5: "Twin Peaks" was the first TV venture for this avant-garde filmmaker. * David Lynch.

Round 4. Category: Buddy The Beekeeper * 1: Buddy mixes equal parts of this and hot water to feed a new colony with no honey to eat. * Sugar. * 2: Buddy doesn't like being asked "Who's the lucky fella?" when he wears this between his hat and collar. * Beekeeper's veil. * 3: Buddy makes people mad when he blows this in elevators, but he blows it at bees to calm them down. * Smoke. * 4: Buddy might say "None of your business" if asked about harvesting this product used in candles and polishes. * Beeswax. * 5: In spring Buddy gets ready for these masses of bees to fly from their hives and form new colonies. * Swarms.

Round 5. Category: Beer * 1: In '60s ads, they called to this girl for Carling Black Label. * Mabel. * 2: While Bud calls itself the "King of Beers", this one calls itself the "Beer of Danish Kings". * Tuborg. * 3: In 1963, Schlitz became the 1st beer to be marketed nationally in these. * tab top or pull top cans. * 4: This popular Irish beer bears the name of a classic Irish stringed musical instrument. * Harp. * 5: Bob Marley's ghost could tell you that Red Stripe is a beer from this Caribbean country. * Jamaica.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 204, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Chick Flicks * 1: Mel Gibson was in a fowl mood when he voiced Rocky Rhodes, a "flying rooster" in this animated film. * Chicken Run. * 2: Singer Roger Miller played Alan-a-Dale, rooster minstrel, in this Disney classic. * Robin Hood. * 3: The tagline to this 2005 animated feature was "This time the sky really is falling". * Chicken Little. * 4: Kate Hepburn teamed up with this title marshal to track down her father's killer in a 1975 Western. * Rooster Cogburn. * 5: In "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken", this actor played a wannabe reporter who had to stay in a haunted house. * Don Knotts.

Round 2. Category: Talk Nonsense * 1: This partner of "goo goo" in baby talk also means "foolishly enthusiastic". * ga ga. * 2: Completes the immortal words of Little Richard, "A wop bop a loo bop a lop...". * bam boom. * 3: In the dictionary this triple-talk phrase meaning "and so on" comes after bladder and before blanch. * blah blah blah. * 4: Children's taunt once used by fugitive Deborah Ulrich in a letter to police. * nyah nyah nyah. * 5: On '70s TV this was Charo's version of making whoopee. * cuchi cuchi.

Round 3. Category: Just Write * 1: "Valley of the Horses" is Jean Auel's sequel to the novel "The Clan of" this. * the Cave Bear. * 2: Like the title of a 1962 hit by Dion, they call an Old English poem about a homeless and kinless warrior this. * The Wanderer. * 3: "My First Days in the White House", by this Louisiana political legend, was published in 1935, affer his death. * Huey P. Long. * 4: He wrote "Torch Song Trilogy" and got torched by aliens in "Independence Day". * Harvey Fierstein. * 5: This comic play, written by British dramatist Tom Taylor in 1858, sadly gained lasting fame in April 1865. * Our American Cousin.

Round 4. Category: Inside Alex Trebek * 1: To loosen, as a grip, or just to take it easy. * relax. * 2: An 1852 Dickensian title "house". * bleak. * 3: This can be a large drinking vessel or a small lipped one used for science experiments. * beaker. * 4: Thai kings considered this a "royal tree" under strict protection. * teak. * 5: In the 1820s this British university's campus was a farm that served Devonshire cream to strollers. * Exeter.

Round 5. Category: Park Place * 1: Longhorn Cavern State Park. * Texas. * 2: San Simeon State Park. * California. * 3: Manatee Springs State Park. * Florida. * 4: Cumberland Falls State Resort Park. * Kentucky. * 5: Crater of Diamonds State Park. * Arkansas.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 203, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: State Songs * 1: "All Hail To" this state (no beans about it). * Massachusetts. * 2: "She has her Black Hills, and mines with gold so rare, and with her scenery, no other state can compare". * South Dakota. * 3: In 2000 it got a new state song: "These Green Mountains". * Vermont. * 4: "Here We Have" this Northwest state (we know, we've seen its ID). * Idaho. * 5: "Oh the moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash". * Indiana.

Round 2. Category: The World Almanac 2007 * 1: Of the 4 of these that will happen in 2007, Americans will see only the lunar ones. * an eclipse. * 2: "Offbeat News Stories" included a prize given to scientists who explained why these birds don't get headaches. * woodpeckers. * 3: Born in 1984, this Brit is the youngest man on the list "Widely Known World Personalities of the Present". * Prince Harry. * 4: Alphabetically, a select list of endangered species runs from albatross to this. * zebra. * 5: The editors' picks for a 2006 time capsule include a yellow ribbon magnet with this 3-word slogan. * "Support our troops.".

Round 3. Category: Time Is On My Side * 1: The longest reigning monarch in history may be this country's Neferkare, said to have ruled for over 90 years. * Egypt. * 2: Sometime during his remarkable 72-year reign, he supposedly said, "L'etat c'est moi", or "I am the state". * Louis XIV. * 3: The reign of 5 rulers of Monaco exceeded 50 years; 3 were named Honore and 2 were named this. * Rainier. * 4: In 1840 this king, the third in the dynasty, had enough time in his 29-year reign to give Hawaii its first constitution. * King Kamehameha. * 5: This country's King Rama IX, who belongs to the Chakri Dynasty that includes King Mongkut, has reigned 59 years. * Thailand.

Round 4. Category: A Cowboy's Dictionary * 1: Adapted from the Spanish word juzgado (court), it was an Old West jail where many a cowboy did time. * Hoosegow. * 2: Every open-range cowboy feared these uncontrolled runaway herds of cattle. * Stampede. * 3: Due to the commonplace amputation of limbs, a doctor or surgeon was often called this tool nickname. * Sawbones. * 4: It's someone who claimed rights to land by occupying it. * Squatter. * 5: In cowboy talk,to drink whiskey was to "paint" these internal throat parts. * Tonsils.

Round 5. Category: People With Peanuts Names * 1: In a Coasters hit song this title man asks, "Why's everybody always pickin' on me?". * "Charlie Brown". * 2: The doctor was in when this important hominid fossil was discovered in 1974. * Lucy. * 3: In 1973 this woman from Colorado began her 24-year tenure in the House. * Pat Schroeder. * 4: His blankets were very holy as Pope in 67 A.D.. * Linus. * 5: She took a 6-day shuttle ride in 1983. * Sally Ride.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 202, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ranches * 1: Kendall County, Texas is named for the man who brought merinos to the area as this type of rancher. * sheep rancher. * 2: At about 12,000 sq. mi., Strangeray Springs, a cattle ranch (or station) in this country, is bigger than Vermont. * Australia. * 3: Prairie Chapel is the name of George W. Bush's ranch near this Texas town, population 705. * Crawford. * 4: Around 1905 these animals, not native to Arizona, were brought to a ranch in the state, where they now roam. * buffalo. * 5: It's the name of Steve and Gayle Henson's California ranch for which a creamy dressing was named. * Hidden Valley.

Round 2. Category: A Girl's Best Friend * 1: Modern synthetic diamonds were first produced in 1954 by compressing this element under extreme pressure. * Carbon. * 2: 1971 James Bond film in which Jill St. John played Tiffany Case. * Diamonds Are Forever. * 3: It's equal to 200 milligrams. * One carat. * 4: Mae West's reply to the comment "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!". * "Goodness has nothing to do with it". * 5: Where you might find a diamond pendant on a woman, or the tendency of diamonds to split among lines. * Cleavage.

Round 3. Category: Milking Cows * 1: I think I could do a better job of milking a cow than Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton did on this reality series in 2003. * The Simple Life. * 2: A 1903 Broadway musical version of "The Wizard of Oz" featured this farm girl singing about milking cows. * Dorothy. * 3: Eleanor the cow swallowed Eb's radio on "Music to Milk By", a 1967 episode of this classic down-on-the-farm sitcom. * Green Acres. * 4: Possum Sweetheart was one contented cow, producing 37,381 lbs. of milk for this company in 1920 alone. * Carnation. * 5: A movie heartthrob turns out to be a natural at milking cows in the 2003 film called "Win a Date with" him. * Tad Hamilton.

Round 4. Category: Former Postal Workers * 1: This postmaster of New Salem, Illinois later became President. * Abraham Lincoln. * 2: With the money Knute Rockne earned hoisting mail bags, he was able to attend this university. * Notre Dame. * 3: In 1919 rain, white Christmas, sleet or hail couldn't keep this crooner from his clerk job in Spokane. * Bing Crosby. * 4: The son of a civil servant, this member of the Blues Brothers was once a postal worker in Canada. * Dan Aykroyd. * 5: In 1946 he worked days as a mailman in Winnetka, Illinois; later he starred with Doris Day. * Rock Hudson.

Round 5. Category: The European Past * 1: July 14, 1789 was the Marquis de Launay's last day as governor of this edifice. * the Bastille. * 2: While N. European sailors navigated by stars, Mediterraneans like Columbus relied mainly on this instrument. * the compass. * 3: This 5th emperor built baths with running sea- and sulphur water; he should have used them to put out the fire. * Nero. * 4: After World War II signs marking the entrance to East Berlin were usually in German and these 3 other languages. * English, French and Russian. * 5: In 1323 this current part of the Netherlands gained control of Zeeland. * Holland.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 201, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Measuring Up * 1: There are 3 teaspoons in this unit of measure. * tablespoon. * 2: 37 degrees Celsius equals 98.6 degrees on this scale. * Fahrenheit. * 3: Equal to 1,000 grams, this metric standard is abbreviated KG. * kilogram. * 4: Of 6 miles, 16 miles or 60 miles, the one closest to the length in miles of a 10-kilometer run. * 6 miles. * 5: This unit can be 1/60 of a degree or 1/60 of an hour. * minute.

Round 2. Category: Turn Me Lewis * 1: He died on Oct. 11, 1809 of a gunshot wound in Tennessee; murder or suicide has never been proven either way. * Meriwether Lewis. * 2: The father of John L. Lewis, first president of the CIO, had this job back in Wales. * a coalminer. * 3: The No. 2 man for the No. 2 man, he was Dick Cheney's chief of staff until he was indicted. * Scooter Libby. * 4: He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. * Sinclair Lewis. * 5: It's not nonsense (or is it?) to say this author was ordained a deacon in 1861. * Lewis Carroll.

Round 3. Category: Lesser-Known Ancient Romans * 1: This little-known Roman was exactly half as wide as his Greek friend Diameter. * Radius. * 2: This ancient Roman had trouble understanding others because of the ringing in his ears. * Tinnitus. * 3: Everything this Roman did was counterfeit or fake. * Bogus. * 4: He was difficult to understand because his jaw muscles were always locking up. * Tetanus. * 5: This Roman was always interrupting his projects for an extended break, especially over the summer. * Hiatus.

Round 4. Category: Facial Hair * 1: This symbol of America has a type of beard named for him. * Uncle Sam. * 2: Women have a special pencil for them. * Eyebrows. * 3: Wearing this kind of beard would turn a nanny into a billy. * Goatee. * 4: A soupstrainer moustache is also known by this aquatic mammal's name. * Walrus. * 5: This long moustache with ends that droop past the chin is named for a Sax Rohmer villain. * Fu Manchu.

Round 5. Category: When Was That, Pierre? * 1: Une annee horrible was this year of Napoleon's death, 6 years after Waterloo. * 1821. * 2: Tres tragique was this year when France was first occupied in World War II. * 1940. * 3: C'est tout! The armistice ending "La Grande Guerre" was signed in the Compiegne Forest in this year. * 1918 (World War I). * 4: Alors! In this year France lost the battle of Dien Bien Phu and saw revolution begin in Algeria. * 1954. * 5: Vive la Revolution Francaise! which began in this year. * 1789.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 200, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The New York Times Journalists * 1: As Michelle Higgins is the "Practical" this, she'll tell you how to cut the high cost of flying to Africa. * Traveler. * 2: Frank Bruni, whose yearly entertainment budget is $350,000, is on this beat. * restaurants (food critic). * 3: In 1990 Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn won a Pulitzer covering China's democracy movement in this place. * Tiananmen Square. * 4: We bet the first Monday in Oct. is always circled on Linda Greenhouse's calendar; she started on this Times beat in 1978. * the Supreme Court. * 5: Pulitzer-winning Op-Ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote "A Brief History of the 21st Century" in "The World is" this. * Flat.

Round 2. Category: Inventors And Inventions * 1: In 1930 this automaker co-wrote a book on Thomas Edison titled "Edison As I Know Him". * Henry Ford. * 2: Business partner Jacob Davis added the rivets to the pocket corners of this man's pants. * Levi Strauss. * 3: In 1798 this cotton gin inventor began using a system of interchangeable parts to make muskets for the U.S. government. * Eli Whitney. * 4: Ann Moore invented this "cozy" baby carrier after seeing women in Togo carry their babies in fabric slings. * a Snugli. * 5: In 1954 Hildaur Nielsen invented this filing system using slotted cards on a cylinder. * Rolodex.

Round 3. Category: Let's Visit Cuba * 1: Diving and snorkeling are popular (between U.S. invasions) at Playa Giron on this bay. * Bay of Pigs. * 2: Disco Ayala in the city of Trinidad is located inside one of these, so you're always in the batroom. * Cave. * 3: Take note, hotels in Cuba rent by the night, most inns and posadas by this, hmmmmmm. * By the hour. * 4: Visit this site that Teddy did in 1898 and see small monuments marking the battle and a rusted ferris wheel. * San Juan Hill. * 5: The Cuban home of this "Snows of Kilimanjaro" author is preserved almost as he left it. * Ernest Hemingway.

Round 4. Category: Literally * 1: There is no record of his activities between Stratford in 1585 and London in 1592. * William Shakespeare. * 2: According to itself, it's the biggest-selling copyrighted book, at over 80 million copies. * "Guinness Book of World Records". * 3: Barbara Cartland's over 700 novels include "Running Away to" this, "Never Lose" this and "Luck Logan Finds" this. * Love. * 4: Seen here in 1997, this author of military thrillers signed a 2-book deal reported at over $50 million dollars. * Tom Clancy. * 5: He's the only man to win Pulitzer Prizes for fiction ("The Bridge of San Luis Rey") and drama ("Our Town"). * Thornton Wilder.

Round 5. Category: Words Of The '60s * 1: Astranette, meaning a female one of these, has not stood the test of time, or space. * Astronaut. * 2: Doing it to your mind could do it to your cool. * blow. * 3: Logically enough, it's the single word for a topless bikini. * Monokini. * 4: Term for those who rode buses to test integration in interstate travel. * "Freedom Riders". * 5: Precedes "wasted", "down" and "your act together". * get.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 199, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Famous Amys * 1: (Hi, I'm Kirsten Dunst) In "Little Women" Amy is the youngest of 4 sisters with this last name. * March. * 2: She guided fans through gracious living with etiquette books, columns and radio and TV shows. * Amy Vanderbilt. * 3: She married Barbra Streisand in "Yentl" and Steven Spielberg in real life. * Amy Irving. * 4: Her No. 1 hit "Baby Baby" was written for a real babe, her daughter Millie. * Amy Grant. * 5: Film director who captured teen America in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Clueless". * Amy Heckerling.

Round 2. Category: Cultured Celebrities * 1: This "X-Files" star has expressed his admiration for the complex modern poetry of John Ashbery. * David Duchovny. * 2: TV's Felix Unger, he founded the National Actors Theatre to educate Americans in the classic plays. * Tony Randall. * 3: Yo, Adrian! This actor says that what "separates us from being totally bestial is...a sense of the aesthetic". * Sylvester Stallone. * 4: This crooner whose career was renewed on MTV in the '90s is also a painter influenced by the Impressionists. * Tony Bennett. * 5: This actress and sister of actress Jennifer made her debut as a novelist with 1994's "Singing Songs". * Meg Tilly.

Round 3. Category: 1890s Science * 1: While trying to create these precious stones in a lab, Edward Acheson came up with carborundum. * diamonds. * 2: In 1890 William Halsted became the first surgeon to wear these during an operation. * gloves. * 3: He was just trying to make things glow in the dark when he discovered X-rays in 1895. * Wilhelm Roentgen. * 4: In 1895 Aleksandr Popov and this Italian separately came up with the antenna to improve radio reception. * Guglielmo Marconi. * 5: In 1892 Jupiter's moon Amalthea became the last satellite discovered without using this process. * photography.

Round 4. Category: "Will" Of The People * 1: Renaissance man who wrote several narrative poems, 154 sonnets and oh, yes, over 30 plays. * William Shakespeare. * 2: Swiss archer who broke a few child welfare laws around 1307. * William Tell. * 3: You like apples? Well, Matt Damon got Minnie Driver's number in this film....how'd you like them apples?. * Good Will Hunting. * 4: Last name of heavyweight champ Jess, or first name of the weatherman who'd wish him a happy 120th birthday. * Willard. * 5: A memorial statue to him bears his famous line, "I never met a man I didn't like". * Will Rogers.

Round 5. Category: My Heavens! * 1: Because of the greenhouse effect, the surface temperature on this planet is over 800 degrees F.. * Venus. * 2: The hottest stars, such as Rigel, are this color and have surface temperatures over 30,000 degrees. * blue. * 3: In the northern hemisphere, latitude is equal to the angle above the horizon of this star, Alpha Ursae Minoris. * the North Star (or Polaris). * 4: In 1801 Ceres became the first one of these to be discovered. * an asteroid. * 5: This Frenchman prepared the first systematic catalog of nebulous objects; each object has an "M" number. * (Charles) Messier.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 198, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What's New? * 1: A malihini is a newcomer to this state. * Hawaii. * 2: In 2003 Edith Grossman served up a new translation of this Cervantes work. * Don Quixote. * 3: Experts say the smell in a new one of these is from the phthalate plasticizers used in PVC, not leather. * car. * 4: Developed in Australia, the Sugarbaby and the Crimson Glow are new breeds of this shortcake fruit. * strawberry. * 5: This Smithsonian museum has new digs at Dulles International Airport. * the Air and Space Museum.

Round 2. Category: Royal Houses * 1: George IÂ's father was elector of this, hence its turnover into a house name. * Hanover. * 2: This dynastyÂ's last 3 monarchs, including Mary I, died childless. * Tudor. * 3: As a member of this house, it sounds like James I could have starred in "Harvey". * Stuart. * 4: It could be called the house of Citrus sinensis. * Orange. * 5: This Shakespeare play sounds like itÂ's about the better halves of George V and George VI. * The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Round 3. Category: Old Commercials * 1: It hunts bugs like radar and kills them dead. * Raid. * 2: Gemini astronauts drank this orange drink, just like you. * Tang. * 3: A woman in a '60s Clairol ad intoned, "If I had but one life to live, let me live it as" one of these. * Blonde. * 4: Bucky, one of these animals, pushed Ipana toothpaste. * Beaver. * 5: "I Want My Maypo", this type of cereal flavored with maple. * Oatmeal.

Round 4. Category: Can We Talk? * 1: When having a casual conversation, you do this to "the rag" or "the fat". * chew. * 2: Speak slowly with -- pauses; -- "He who" -- does it "is -- lost". * hesitates. * 3: Change one letter in yabber, Australian for "to talk foolishly", and you get this, "to talk rapidly". * jabber. * 4: Add this letter to "utter" to get a word meaning "to utter in low, unclear tones". * m (for "mutter"). * 5: It means "to speak pompously and dogmatically" or, a little better, "to speak like a pope". * pontificate.

Round 5. Category: Going "Soft" On Us, Eh? * 1: A 3-minute egg. * a soft-boiled egg. * 2: Its 2 main types are slow pitch and fast pitch. * softball. * 3: Applications and programs for computers. * software. * 4: It was pioneered around 1910 by dancer George Primrose when he kicked off his clogs. * soft shoe. * 5: Your uvula hangs down from this upper back part of the mouth. * the soft palate.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 197, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Double Meanings * 1: I stared down into my blank of latte so I wouldn't have to look at his ugly jowly blank . * mug. * 2: Swift, or the largest organized unit of naval ships. * fleet. * 3: You always fall for my blank sacrifice; too bad I'm so broke my chess set is in blank . * pawn. * 4: Just because you blank my cafe doesn't give you the right to blank me with your haughty tone. * patronize. * 5: Everyone knows the word "ballerina," but may not know her male counterpart is sometimes called this, meaning a rider, or someone who gallantly escorts a lady. * a cavalier.

Round 2. Category: California * 1: The oldest art museum in the western U.S., the Crocker Art Museum, opened in this state capital in 1885. * Sacramento. * 2: The original name of California's biggest metropolis translates as "the village of the queen of" these beings. * angels. * 3: On the Avenue of the Giants in Humboldt County, the giants are these amazing organisms. * trees. * 4: The original name of California's biggest metropolis translates as "the village of the queen of" these beings. * angels. * 5: One of the state's landmarks is Half Dome, located at the head of this valley in the same-named national park. * Yosemite.

Round 3. Category: Ordinal Number, Please * 1: (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):Street in the title of the following: (audio clue - instrumental). * "42nd Street". * 2: It's where Washington was in war, in peace and in the hearts of his countrymen. * First. * 3: "Nervous Breakdown" the Rolling Stones suffered in the '60s. * Nineteenth. * 4: Shakespeare's "night" to remember. * Twelfth. * 5: In "The Music Man", the penultimate trombonist in "The Big Parade". * 75th.

Round 4. Category: Black History * 1: Harry Truman ended it in the Army in 1948; the Supreme Court ended it in public schools in 1954. * Segregation. * 2: The black population of these U.S. areas, the destination of "white flight", doubled in the '70s and '80s. * Suburbs. * 3: In 1829 journalist John Russwurm gave up on abolitionism and left the U.S. for this independent African nation. * Liberia. * 4: This "conductor" usually carried a gun, not a whistle. * Harriet Tubman. * 5: An Alabama city gave its name to this group of 9 youths falsely accused of rape in 1931. * "The Scottsboro Boys".

Round 5. Category: A Session With Dr. Joyce Brothers * 1: So he wants a divorce. Suggest a "trial" one of these -- maybe you'll find life better without the bum. * Separation. * 2: You make your boyfriend feel inadequate because no man ever loses his awe of this woman. * His mother. * 3: Hmm. You get to your job early, stay late, won't delegate and have no friends -- you may be this type of "holic". * Workaholic. * 4: My feeling is your boyfriend has this fetish called retifism - so see if you're missing any Ferragamos or Guccis. * Shoe fetish. * 5: One little change affects the rest of your life like a stone dropped in a pond - I call that this "effect". * Ripple effect.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 196, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: '70s Nonfiction * 1: Billy Graham called them "God's secret agents". * angels. * 2: A bestseller by Dr. David Reuben gave us this 13-word-long self-help title. * Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex but Were Afraid to Ask. * 3: His 1971 autobiography "Wunnerful, Wunnerful!" was a, well, wunnerful seller. * Lawrence Welk. * 4: In 1977 the Fixx was in with "The Complete Book of" this by James Fixx. * running. * 5: Theodore H. White's "Breach of Faith" detailed "The Fall of" this man. * Nixon.

Round 2. Category: Architects * 1: Minoru Yamasaki reached new heights with this New York City complex. * World Trade Center. * 2: Richard Hunt, the first American to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, designed this statue's stone- and -concrete pedestal. * Statue of Liberty. * 3: Charles Bulfinch, who contributed to the Capitol in Washington, D.C., designed this city's state house on Beacon Hill. * Boston. * 4: Louis Skidmore designed the secret atomic site that became this Tennessee town. * Oak Ridge. * 5: Danish architect Jorn Utzon's plan for this New South Wales landmark was chosen in 1957 from 233 entries. * the Sydney Opera House.

Round 3. Category: Duncan * 1: "Funny Face" star who can certainly separate the wheat from the chaff. * Sandy Duncan. * 2: Cawder Castle, which claims to be the site of this man's killing of Duncan I, was built 400 years after the event. * Macbeth. * 3: Procter and Gamble really took the cake when it acquired this brand in 1956. * Duncan Hines. * 4: This No. 1 NBA draft pick signed with the San Antonio Spurs July 24, 1997. * Tim Duncan. * 5: Duncan Regehr played Zorro and Duncan Renaldo was famous for playing this Old West hero. * The Cisco Kid.

Round 4. Category: Bowling For Vocabulary * 1: A work stoppage worth 10 points. * Strike. * 2: It can be a rainwater channel, or a bad place for your ball. * Gutter. * 3: An incrimination of an innocent person; 10 are in a standard game. * Frame. * 4: A type of cat, or a building where a "cat" might bowl. * Alley. * 5: The head of a crime ring, found right in front. * Kingpin.

Round 5. Category: The New York Times House And Home * 1: The Dec. 28, 2006 edition suggested recycling this object into garden mulch. * Christmas tree. * 2: Bemz sells covers in bright decorator colors for the furniture of this other Swedish company. * IKEA. * 3: A company called California these benefits from the notion that organized these "are the key to... a freer life". * closets. * 4: Rupert Murdoch and wife Wendy Deng's apartment re-do included hiring a master of this Asian practice. * feng shui. * 5: This type of "house", built to hold coaches, is a frequent candidate for renovation. * carriagehouse.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 195, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: You Should "C" * 1: To overturn a boat is to do this to it. * Capsize. * 2: Name shared by the mother of 3 kings of France and a "Great" Russian empress. * Catherine. * 3: At times, only the grin of this Lewis Carroll feline could be seen. * Cheshire Cat. * 4: Clint Black knows it's the organization abbreviated CMA. * Country Music Association. * 5: This official name of the Ivory Coast is the country's name in French. * Cote d' Ivoire.

Round 2. Category: Oh, The Amenities! * 1: Perhaps a game of squash before your afternoon tea at Cliveden, once the home of Lady Astor in this country. * England. * 2: Enjoy a hot drink in the morning in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, after a chilly night in a hotel made entirely of this. * ice. * 3: Ah! A lavishly stocked mini bar! It could distract me from the dancing fountains and the "O" show at this Vegas hotel. * The Bellagio. * 4: Frolic in a 7' tall champagne glass hot tub at Caesars Cove Haven Resort in the Poconos in this U.S. state. * Pennsylvania. * 5: This California inn whose name reminds us of "The Material Girl" has a caveman room with a waterfall shower. * The Madonna Inn.

Round 3. Category: Grammar * 1: This part of speech can be transitive or intransitive. * verb. * 2: Tradition has it that this type of noun is capitalized. * proper noun. * 3: It's the preposition in the following: Alex walked under the ladder. * under. * 4: As in this clue, ending a sentence with one of these is a practice some don't agree with. * preposition. * 5: A verb's voice may be active or passive and this feature may be indicative, subjunctive or imperative. * mood.

Round 4. Category: "Itch"Y * 1: A perfect trailer goes off without one. * Hitch. * 2: It can mean to cut class or to cut a trench. * Ditch. * 3: Out-of-stock sales items are the hallmark of this deceptive sales tactic. * Bait-and-switch. * 4: Look into my eyes--it means to captivate someone as if by magic. * bewitch. * 5: This comical sci-fi book was inspired by a 1970s handbook for travelling Europe on a budget. * Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Round 5. Category: It's In The "Bag" * 1: Bilbo's surname in the "Lord of the Rings" saga. * Baggins. * 2: The musical "Kismet" opens at dawn in this ancient city. * Baghdad. * 3: A person who collects money for a political party or a criminal organization. * a bagman. * 4: This musical instrument was often played in battle. * bagpipes. * 5: "Ramp agent" is Southwest Airlines' term for the heavy lifting job more usually called this. * baggage handler.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 194, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Groovy Times * 1: To accessorize granny dresses chicks wore these necklaces of little balls for peace and goodwill. * Love beads. * 2: In a famous '60s slogan it came between "turn on" and "drop out". * "Tune In". * 3: Bought a black light for my posters, man, and one of these ooze lights for my mantle. * Lava lamp. * 4: In '67 we did a psychedelic paint job on our "bus" from this German company and headed off to Frisco. * Volkswagen. * 5: The fact that Leslie Hornby modeled under this name "sticks" in our minds. * Twiggy.

Round 2. Category: "Tower"S * 1: [Audio Daily Double] 1974 film that gave us the following Oscar-winning song: We may never love like this again Don't stop the flow We can't let go. * The Towering Inferno. * 2: Guinness says it took 2 years, 2 months and 2 days to build at a cost of 7,799,401 francs and 31 centimes. * Eiffel Tower. * 3: It's described in Genesis 11:1-9. * Tower of Babel. * 4: Former Texas senator who chaired the review board investigating the Iran-Contra Affair. * John Tower. * 5: The enclosed observation post of a submarine. * conning tower.

Round 3. Category: Chop-A-Holics * 1: Around 1800 Parson Weems wrote of this man's unauthorized juvenile lumberjacking. * George Washington. * 2: The name of this light axe is from the Algonquian for "cutting utensil". * tomahawk. * 3: This legendary timber toppler was said to have dug Puget Sound to float huge logs to the mill. * Paul Bunyan. * 4: In 1893 this Massachusetts woman was acquitted of giving her parents the axe. * Lizzie Borden. * 5: The short-bladed type of this 7-letter South American item is used to cut sugar cane. * machete.

Round 4. Category: April May... * 1: Â…take the Orange Line to get from Midway to the downtown loop "L" station in this city. * Chicago. * 2: Â…like to try one of these Italian potato dumplings. * gnocchi. * 3: Â…want to compete in dressage, so she'll have to take these lessons. * riding lessons. * 4: Â…like to take a spin in this automaker's 8 cilindri 360 Spider. * a Ferrari. * 5: Â…buy some sea shells in the Seychelles, an archipelago in this ocean. * the Indian Ocean.

Round 5. Category: Descartes * 1: It's the English translation on Descartes' most famous axiom, "Cogito, ergo sum". * I think, therefore I am. * 2: In 1618 Descartes was in the army of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the ruler of what's now this Low Country. * the Netherlands. * 3: After the arrest and trial of this "sun-loving" Italian, Descartes suppressed his own work on similar ideas. * Galileo. * 4: Descartes invented the analytic or coordinate type of this, from the Greek for "earth measure". * geometry. * 5: Though born in France, Descartes died in this country where he had gone to teach Queen Christina. * Sweden.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 193, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: A Fly Category * 1: To WWI British aviators, the Red Baron's group with its colorful planes was one of these, like Monty Python's. * a Flying Circus. * 2: These BF Goodrich sneakers were said to make you "run faster and jump higher". * PF Flyers. * 3: During World War II, a famous American volunteeer air corps in Asia was nicknamed this. * the Flying Tigers. * 4: This rotating device attached to a shaft keeps an engine's speed steady. * a flywheel. * 5: Airborne nickname of 1920s Olympic gold medalist Paavo Nurmi. * the Flying Finn.

Round 2. Category: Engagements * 1: The battle of this city was the last military engagement of the War of 1812. * New Orleans. * 2: In 1898 the first land engagement of this war took place at Las Guasimas, Cuba. * Spanish-American War. * 3: In a military engagement at the Pyramids in 1798, his forces defeated an Egyptian Mameluke force. * Napoleon. * 4: The Battle of Belleau Wood was one of the first major engagements for U.S. troops during this war. * World War I. * 5: This bloody battle was fought in June 1775, over a year before we declared independence. * Bunker (Breed's) Hill.

Round 3. Category: Seaquest * 1: WWI's important naval Battle of Jutland took place in this sea. * North Sea. * 2: This sea stretches from Beirut to Gibraltar. * Mediterranean Sea. * 3: One of the traditional 7 seas, it shares its name with a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. * South Pacific. * 4: Moses "Stretched his hand over" it and it was sundered. * Red Sea. * 5: Despite this name, it's really the world's largest lake. * Caspian Sea.

Round 4. Category: Going To The Doctor * 1: If eggs give you hives, doc will do a skin test to see if you have one of these, an abnormal reaction to something. * an allergy. * 2: You'll wear a lead apron when the doctor uses this imaging technique developed in the 1890s to check for a broken foot. * an X-ray. * 3: Your optometrist may use drops to dilate this circular opening in the center of the iris. * the pupil. * 4: It might feel like your arm is going to explode when that rubber cuff is inflated, but the doc is just measuring this. * blood pressure. * 5: Otitis media and otitis externa are common infections of this body part; doc may prescribe drops or antibiotics for it. * your ears.

Round 5. Category: Now Cut That Out! * 1: In the 1700s Jacques Daviel performed the first modern surgery on this clouding of the eye's lens. * cataract. * 2: This "imperial" surgical procedure can be used to deliver babies in distress at the time of birth. * Caesarean section. * 3: In a controversial procedure in 1984, Baby Fae received a heart from one of these monkeys. * baboon. * 4: In the 1950s it became the first internal organ successfully transplanted in humans. * kidney. * 5: From the Latin for "to look at a joint", this type of surgery removes and repairs torn knee cartilage. * arthroscopic surgery.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 192, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: On The Lone Prairie * 1: The prairie has been called a "Sea of" this, like the over 6-foot-tall Big Bluestem. * Grass. * 2: A lot fewer of this Kansas state animal "roam" the prairies today than in the 19th century. * Buffalo/bison. * 3: This city's nicknames include "City of the Lakes and Prairies" and "Hog Butcher for the World". * Chicago. * 4: They're the family who resided in TV's "Little House on the Prairie". * Ingalls. * 5: Legendary Pecos Bill was raised by one of these animals that's also known as a prairie wolf. * Coyote.

Round 2. Category: Royaltease * 1: After 27 years as heir, in 1888 Frederick III spent 99 days as this nation's monarch, unable to talk due to illness. * Germany. * 2: This teenage girl who had a brief 1553 reign knew Latin, Greek and Hebrew. * Lady Jane Grey. * 3: The twit who was czar for 6 months in 1762 was the grandson and husband of these 2 "Great" leaders. * Catherine and Peter. * 4: In Steinbeck's satire "The Short Reign Of Pippin IV" a descendant of Charlemagne takes this country's throne. * France. * 5: The biblical Ahaziah followed the evil ways of this mother, but luckily only ruled Israel briefly. * Jezebel.

Round 3. Category: Sports Logos * 1: [sports logo]. * the Kansas City Royals. * 2: [sports logo]. * the Cleveland Indians. * 3: [sports logo]. * the Indianapolis Colts. * 4: [sports logo]. * the Detroit Red Wings. * 5: [sports logo]. * the Phoenix Suns.

Round 4. Category: Biblical Food And Drink * 1: In Proverbs Agur says, "Surely the churning of" this "bringeth forth butter". * Milk. * 2: According to Luke 15, the meat of choice for a special occasion came from a "fatted" one of these. * Calf. * 3: These nuts are mentioned only once in the Bible: Genesis 43, Verse 11:. * Pistachios. * 4: The only day it didn't fall from the sky was on the Sabbath. * Manna. * 5: The name Gethsemane comes from gath-shemen, Hebrew for oil press, probably one for this fruit. * Olive.

Round 5. Category: 14-Letter Words * 1: The American colonists complained to England about "taxation without" this. * representation. * 2: It's how the letters in the sequence "E,F,G,H,I,J" are arranged. * alphabetically. * 3: Math process symbolized by an "x". * multiplication. * 4: Passports and drivers' licenses are forms of this. * identification. * 5: It was a time of rebuilding after the Civil War, and before all the Confederate states were readmitted. * Reconstruction.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 191, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Well, You "No" * 1: To propose someone for election to an office. * nominate. * 2: 9-letter adjective pertaining to the night. * nocturnal. * 3: It's a wistful desire to return in thought to a former time in one's life. * nostalgia. * 4: Neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon and helium, collectively. * noble gases. * 5: Warren Harding campaigned on the slogan "Return to" this. * normalcy.

Round 2. Category: Movie Comedies * 1: In "Caddyshack" this comedian said, "I'll tell ya, this steak still has marks from where the jockey was hitting it". * Rodney Dangerfield. * 2: 30-somethings Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell are members of the Lambda Epsilon Omega fraternity in this comedy. * Old School. * 3: This pic flew with dialogue like "We have clearance, Clarence"; "Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?". * Airplane!. * 4: (Here's Morgan Freeman.) My character's directive leads to Steve Carrell reading "Ark Building for Dummies" in this film. * Evan Almighty. * 5: Michael Caine and Steve Martin teamed up as Lawrence and Freddy, a couple of these, the title of a 1988 film. * Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Round 3. Category: Desserts * 1: Aka silver cake or snow-drift cake, this light cake uses lots of egg whites and no shortening. * angel food cake. * 2: This whipped egg white topping for lemon pies will "weep" or turn rubbery if you're not careful. * Meringue. * 3: These whole wheat crackers are often crushed to make a pie crust. * Graham crackers. * 4: Fannie Farmer's recipe for old-fashioned gingersnaps calls for 1/2 cup of this liquid sweetener. * Molasses. * 5: The earl never had this dessert of which a 1900 newspaper article said, "thin wafers...modify the coolness". * ice cream sandwich.

Round 4. Category: Hollywood Blvd. * 1: In June 1999 the Metro Rail opened a station named for this world-famous intersection. * Hollywood and Vine. * 2: In 1994 Schwarzenegger's size 12 boot prints were planted in its "Forecourt of the Stars". * Mann's Chinese Theatre (or Grauman's Chinese Theatre). * 3: These awards are slated to return to the boulevard at a new theatre in 2001. * Academy Awards (Oscars). * 4: June 16, 1999 was "Another Day In Paradise" when this composer got a star on the Walk of Fame. * Phil Collins. * 5: Cybill Shepherd has sung in this hotel's Cinegrill. * Roosevelt Hotel.

Round 5. Category: Music Facts * 1: Most authorities say a chord has at least this many notes. * three. * 2: Traditionally an orchestra's concertmaster sits on this side of a conductor. * the left side. * 3: On a musical staff pitch is indicated by this symbol. * note. * 4: Of lento, adagio, or andante, the slowest tempo. * lento. * 5: Using "the circle of fifths", this key signature follows C major. * G major.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 190, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Silver" * 1: Nostalgic name for the movies or the motion picture industry. * the silver screen. * 2: When the going gets rough, remember that "Every cloud has" one of these. * a silver lining. * 3: To produce rain, clouds are sometimes seeded with this chemical compound. * silver iodide. * 4: This band has backed up Bob Seger on hits like "Night Moves" and "Still The Same". * The Silver Bullet Band. * 5: The U.S. government first issued this paper currency in 1878. * silver certificates.

Round 2. Category: The Paparazzi Love... * 1: This "Mean Girls" star who appeared in a controversial 2008 photo spread in New York Magazine. * Lindsay Lohan. * 2: This Dallas Cowboys fan whose ex, Nick Lachey, gave her a maltepoo dog that now spends time with Tony Romo. * Jessica Simpson. * 3: This object of Borat's affection who, in 2008, had a romantic Valentine's Day performing at a Paris strip club. * Pamela Anderson. * 4: This star on the pregnancy watch list who's very fond of her partner who produced her film "A Mighty Heart". * Angelina Jolie. * 5: This actress whose father Billy Ray "got caught up in...filming" and forgot to buckle up for one of his scenes. * Miley Cyrus.

Round 3. Category: They Used To Be Truck Drivers * 1: This current monarch drove a 3-ton truck and serviced motor engines during WWII1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. Whereas, one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned out to be an Annus horribilis. * Queen Elizabeth II. * 2: He was a Marine, a truck driver and a soda jerk before he starred in "The French Connection". * Gene Hackman. * 3: This handsome leading man was a truck driver before he shared "Pillow Talk" with Doris Day. * Rock Hudson. * 4: He drove a truck for an oil company long before he starred in "To Kill A Mockingbird". * Gregory Peck. * 5: This British star of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" was formerly a truck driver, a steeplejack and a fire eater. * Bob Hoskins.

Round 4. Category: Choose Your Weapon * 1: Bowie. * a knife. * 2: When George Washington was sworn in on April 30, 1789, he was wearing one of these weapons. * a sword. * 3: Thompson. * a machine gun. * 4: Also known as an arbalest, this weapon can use a cranking mechanism and a trigger to fire arrows farther. * crossbow. * 5: "Putting Descartes before the horse" is an example of one of these groan up witticisms. * pun.

Round 5. Category: All My Children * 1: In 1973 "All My Children"'s Mary Fickett became the first daytime soap actor to win one of these awards. * Emmy. * 2: As a member of Pine Valley's Daughters of Fine Lineage, Phoebe traces her roots back to this boat. * Mayflower. * 3: Tabitha was Samantha and Darrin's daughter on this 1960s TV show. * Bewitched. * 4: On January 5, 1995 "All My Children" celebrated this anniversary. * 25th. * 5: She was "All My Children"'s Jenny Gardner before becoming "NYPD Blue"'s Det. Diane Russell. * Kim Delaney.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 189, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I'm On Cloud "Nine" * 1: This Hugh Grant movie was based on the French film "Neuf mois". * Nine Months. * 2: This hit song begins "Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition". * "9 To 5". * 3: In this comedy, dentist Matthew Perry meets up with hitman Bruce Willis. * The Whole Nine Yards. * 4: Jeri Ryan joined the crew on "Star Trek: Voyager" as the Borg with this 3-word name. * Seven of Nine. * 5: Taken from the title of a J.D. Salinger work, it was the name of Lisa Loeb's backing band. * Nine Stories.

Round 2. Category: Texas Tech * 1: One of Texas' first railroads, the BBB and C, became the GH and SA, for Galveston, Harrisburg and this. * San Antonio. * 2: A museum of the history of looking for this stuff is a tourist attraction in Kilgore, Texas. * oil. * 3: Founded by Ross Perot in 1962, Electronic Data Systems got its first computer in 1965, this company's 1401. * IBM. * 4: Staley McBrayer of Fort Worth moved newspaper printing from the "hot" to the "cold" variety of this. * typesetting. * 5: Texas is a leading state in mining this element, atomic number 16 and in manufacturing its acid. * sulphur.

Round 3. Category: Meat And Potatoes * 1: The original version of this toy included facial pieces to attach to a real spud. * Mr. Potato Head. * 2: The fungus phytophthora infestans caused this historic Irish tragedy. * Irish potato famine. * 3: In 1853 chef George Crum invented this snack as a joke when a customer said his fries were too thick. * potato chips. * 4: In Genesis, God told this man "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you". * Noah. * 5: This premium cut of steak includes a t-bone and part of the tenderloin. * porterhouse.

Round 4. Category: The Hollywood Walk Of Fame * 1: Stars in front of this famous theater include Basil Rathbone's, William Shatner's and Billy Graham's. * Grauman's/Mann's Chinese Theater. * 2: Marilyn Monroe's "McStar" shines in front of this Hollywood Boulevard eatery. * McDonald's. * 3: The stars run east and west on Hollywood Boulevard, and north and south on this street. * Vine Street. * 4: He's the only U.S. president you can step on. * Ronald Reagan. * 5: You don't have to "Imagine" that this musician's star is in front of Capitol Records...that's where it is. * John Lennon.

Round 5. Category: Middle Name Please * 1: PresidentMaria Aquino. * Corazon. * 2: SingerMarie Warwick. * Dionne. * 3: President Ronald Reagan. * Wilson. * 4: DirectorErnst Bergman. * Ingmar. * 5: NovelistJanet Caldwell. * Taylor.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 188, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bye Bye Birdie * 1: Pigs were among the creatures that killed off this bird on Mauritius in the 1600s. * the dodo. * 2: The Puerto Rican plain one is endangered; the passenger one has already passed on. * a pigeon. * 3: This city's Bishop Museum has a princess' pa'u (skirt) made from feathers of the extinct mamo and 'o'o. * Honolulu. * 4: The last known Mariana mallard died in 1981 at this San Diego adventure park. * Sea World. * 5: Like the ostrich, which it resembled, the 10-foot moa of this country defended itself by kicking. * New Zealand.

Round 2. Category: Business Abbrev. * 1: No money, no goods:C.O.D.. * cash on delivery. * 2: A first sale of stock on the open market:IPO. * an initial public offering. * 3: Pertaining to a fictitious name:DBA. * doing business as. * 4: Furnisher of financial data on Wall St.:S and P. * Standard and Poor's. * 5: A salary increase in response to inflation:COLA. * a cost of living adjustment.

Round 3. Category: Pets * 1: They can be house-trained and kept indoors; outdoors, a hutch will keep them from hopping away. * rabbits. * 2: Like humans, guinea pigs need a dietary source of this vitamin, so try feeding them a piece of orange each day. * Vitamin C. * 3: The green-winged teal, a small one of these birds, is well suited for living in garden ponds. * a duck. * 4: Sold in most pet stores, comets and veiltails are varieties of this type of carp. * goldfish. * 5: The box variety of this reptile can live in your backward and can learn to come to you for its food. * a tortoise.

Round 4. Category: Child Care * 1: Dr. Spock says though it's fun to apply this to baby after a bath, it's not usually needed. * powder. * 2: Produced by bacterial action, the chief cause of diaper rash is this, NH3. * ammonia. * 3: It's rare for this manual dominance to appear before the age of two. * being right-handed (or left-handed). * 4: It's the process that starts when the cup begins to replace the bottle or breast. * weaning. * 5: Common in babies, this ocular condition, "strabismus", can improve spontaneously, tho rarely so. * lazy eye (or cross-eyes, wandering eyes).

Round 5. Category: Oscar, Grammy Or Both * 1: Cher. * Both. * 2: Frank Sinatra. * both. * 3: Meryl Streep. * Oscar. * 4: Rita Moreno. * Both. * 5: Julie Andrews. * both.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 187, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Also A Chinese Dynasty * 1: The astronauts drank this orange-flavored breakfast drink. * Tang. * 2: Mr. Solo of the movies. * Han. * 3: The past participle of the verb that means to make music vocally. * sung. * 4: A protruding part of the face below the lips. * chin. * 5: The last name of designer Anna, it sounds like a popular hog call. * Sui.

Round 2. Category: This Category Is Gonna Tank * 1: When air forces out the seawater in a sub's ballast tank, the sub will do this. * rise. * 2: The Firefly was one of these "General" tanks equipped with a 76.2-millimeter long-barreled gun. * Sherman tank. * 3: The University of Arizona warns never use matches when inspecting this home waste-water treater. * septic tank. * 4: Gouramis are kept in these. * fish tanks. * 5: He and Emile Gagnan perfected the tank of air with a pressure-regulating valve worn by divers. * Jacques Cousteau.

Round 3. Category: Capital * 1: Rainfall is rare in this capital of Peru. * Lima. * 2: Yokusuka and Yokohama lie on the same harbor as this capital. * Tokyo. * 3: When Bobby Fischer beat Boris Spassky in 1972 for the world chess title, they were in this world capital. * Reykjavik. * 4: This city's highest hill at almost 400 feet was built out of rubble collected after WWII. * Berlin. * 5: Now capital, Gaborone was the administrative seat of Bechuanaland, which became this country in 1966. * Botswana.

Round 4. Category: I'll Have The "Ham" * 1: A Cricetus cricetus with large cheek pouches. * hamster. * 2: This tendon is at the back of the thigh. * hamstring. * 3: This man co-wrote several popular musicals including "The King and I". * Oscar Hammerstein. * 4: He wrote hard-boiled detective novels like "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man". * Dashiell Hammett. * 5: This county in southern England borders the English Channel. * Hampshire.

Round 5. Category: 20Th Century Novels * 1: Chief Bromden, a mental patient, narrates this 1962 novel. * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. * 2: The slogan "Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad" appears in this 1945 novel. * Animal Farm. * 3: In the Stephen King book, Annie Wilkes loves company, but only author Paul Sheldon's. * Misery. * 4: In 1955 he got an offer he couldn't refuse: the publication of his first novel, "The Dark Arena". * (Mario) Puzo. * 5: The 8,000-copy first printing of this Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel sold out in a week. * A Hundred Years of Solitude.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 186, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Boo"! * 1: This song was written in 1947 in the U.S., not Ireland:. * Clancy Lowered the Boom. * 2: Word that can precede hatch, prize or trap. * booby. * 3: A hiding game played with very small children, or a see-through blouse worn by grown-up women. * peek-a-boo. * 4: From the Tagalog word for mountain, it's our word for the backwoods or "the sticks". * boondocks. * 5: R. Duvall played this character who saves Scout Finch from an attacker in "To Kill a Mockingbird". * Boo Radley.

Round 2. Category: Cosmetics And Perfume * 1: Attention, Earl Scheib: Paint Job is a brand of this kind of cosmetic, with colors resembling automobile paint. * Nail polish. * 2: Diamonds and Emeralds is a gem of a fragrance from this beauty known for her "Passion". * Elizabeth Taylor. * 3: Brooke Shields suggests using a cream type of this cheek cosmetic if your skin is extremely dry. * Blush/Blusher. * 4: A skin care product by La Prairie is named for and made to resemble this fish roe delicacy. * Caviar. * 5: Elle described the scent of this spice as "The new lavender" -- it's a "snap" you'll know it. * Ginger.

Round 3. Category: I Think I Love You * 1: In mythology, she pined away for Narcissus until nothing was left but her voice. * Echo. * 2: This title character of a Voltaire work falls in love with Cunegonde, a baron's daughter. * Candide. * 3: In "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, she's the young woman the poet will see "nevermore". * Lenore. * 4: This Tolstoy character is one Aleksei's lover and another Aleksei's wife. * Anna Karenina. * 5: Gamekeeper Oliver Mellors is the title lover in this man's "Lady Chatterley's Lover". * D.H. Lawrence.

Round 4. Category: Computing 101 * 1: In computerese, it's the "app" in "killer app". * application. * 2: A flatbed one of these optical devices is used to get images into your computer to use on your website. * a scanner. * 3: In order to get online, you'll need one of these, an ISP. * an Internet service provider. * 4: Sometimes your computer is fine, but this, your LAN, is down. * local area network. * 5: "Broadcast yourself" is the slogan of this website that was recently bought for $1.6 billion. * YouTube.

Round 5. Category: The Unexplained * 1: In 1964 Vincent Gaddis coined this term for the area in which Flight 19 disappeared in 1945. * "The Bermuda Triangle". * 2: A 1961 book by Ivan T. Sanderson linked these 2 creatures of the Pacific Northwest and the Himalayas. * Sasquatch/Bigfoot and The Abominable Snowman/Yeti. * 3: An explanation for these areas of flattened grain is that they're saucer-shaped UFO landing sites. * Crop Circles. * 4: It's alleged a 1943 experiment transported a destroyer from this PA. city to Virginia and back within minutes. * Philadelphia. * 5: If you came home and found your maid had suffered from this, SHC, she'd be a real char woman. * Spontaneous Human Combustion.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 185, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Union Labels * 1: The DGA, this guild, gives awards for achievement in commercials as well as feature films. * Directors Guild of America. * 2: Arturo Rodriguez heads the UFW, this union once led by Cesar Chavez. * United Farm Workers. * 3: The NALC, National Association of these, says its members each deliver 41.5 tons of mail a year. * Letter Carriers. * 4: 1.3 million strong, the AFSCME is the American Federation of State, County and these employees. * Municipal. * 5: The ILA, the union of these "men", is headquartered near the Hudson on NYC's Battery Place. * Longshoremen.

Round 2. Category: Illegalities * 1: On Jan. 12, 1998 NYC mayor Giuliani announced he'd crack down on these pedestrian miscreants. * Jaywalkers. * 2: Anti-gang laws target this, defined as hanging around or moving too slowly. * Loitering. * 3: This adjective often found before "exposure" means the exposer knows others can see. * Indecent. * 4: From the same root as consecration, this opposite term is sometimes done to flags. * Desecration. * 5: In 1931 Al Capone got 11 years not for murder or bootlegging but for this. * Tax evasion.

Round 3. Category: Name The Olympic Sport * 1: Shorts,10 or 12-ounce gloves,protective headgear. * boxing. * 2: Landing area,crossbar,long flexible staff. * pole vault. * 3: A sled weighing no more than 50 pounds,a steep hill,nerves of steel. * luge. * 4: 2 teams of 6,an over 7-foot-high net. * volleyball. * 5: Floor area,bodysuit,a ball, a hoop or a ribbon. * rhythmic gymnastics.

Round 4. Category: Shopping U.s.a. * 1: Elvis Presley Enterprises owns several gift shops in this city; they're all close to Graceland. * Memphis. * 2: Rumors on Royal Street in this city specializes in hand-crafted Mardi Gras masks. * New Orleans. * 3: This Las Vegas hotel-casino is known for its Appian Way plaza shops as well as its Forum shops. * Caesars Palace. * 4: J. Crew picked this city's South Street Seaport as the site for its first retail store, opened in 1989. * New York City. * 5: Now a trendy shopping area, this marketplace near Boston's Faneuil Hall dates from 1826. * Quincy Market.

Round 5. Category: The President Who Said... * 1: "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate". * John F. Kennedy. * 2: "The ballot is stronger than the bullet". * Lincoln. * 3: In his first address to Congress: "All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today". * Lyndon Johnson. * 4: "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe". * Gerald Ford. * 5: "It must be a peace without victory... Only a peace between equals can last". * Wilson.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 184, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Twelfth Night * 1: Dealing with a beastly triple-header was this man's famous twelfth labor. * Hercules. * 2: The traditional present for your twelfth wedding anniversary is this fabric created by a type of moth larva. * silk. * 3: Seen here, she represented New York's 12th District in the House of Representatives from 1969-1983. * Shirley Chisholm. * 4: The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution concerns a revamping of this "college". * the Electoral College. * 5: This twelfth U.S. president died in office, and his daughter married Jefferson Davis. * Zachary Taylor.

Round 2. Category: Trends * 1: It's toymaker Bandai's "loveable egg", a virtual pet. * Tamagotchi. * 2: Billy Blanks is the man behind this fitness system that includes elements of tae kwon do. * Tae Bo. * 3: Chip the Cat, born January 26, 1996, is one of these Ty stuffed animals. * Beanie Babies. * 4: Who can resist watching this MTV show whose combatants have included The 3 Tenors vs. The 3 Stooges?. * Celebrity Deathmatch. * 5: Despite his brief screen time in "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi", this bounty hunter has a cult following. * Boba Fett.

Round 3. Category: The Old College Try * 1: Merton College was one of the first entities that become this famous British university. * Oxford. * 2: This Jesuit Washington, D.C. university is home to the Woodstock Theological Center. * Georgetown. * 3: Seen here is the sports team logo of this university, whose stars have included Sidney Moncrief and Lance Alworth. * Arkansas (Razorbacks). * 4: John Wayne attended this L.A. university in the 1920s and also played on its football team. * USC. * 5: Glass artist Dale Chihuly is a graduate of this design college abbreviated RISD. * Rhode Island School of Design.

Round 4. Category: "West" Side Story * 1: In 1965 he was TIME Magazine's "Man of the Year". * William Westmoreland. * 2: I presume you know David Livingstone is buried there. * Westminster Abbey. * 3: The first Studebakers ran on batteries developed by this company. * Westinghouse. * 4: Celebrity known as "Grandma Freud". * Dr. Ruth Westheimer. * 5: Shelley called this "thou breath of Autumn's being". * the West Wind.

Round 5. Category: Oceania * 1: When this nation gained independence in 1962, it had "Western" in its name. * Samoa. * 2: The high islands like Viti Levu in the Fiji group and Kao in the Tonga group were formed by these. * Volcanoes. * 3: When Gauguin arrived on this island in 1891, he was shocked at how modern it was. * Tahiti. * 4: In the Solomons, you can tour Olasana Island, where this future U.S. president was rescued in August 1943. * JFK. * 5: The largest city in Oceania outside Hawaii and New Zealand is Port Moresby in this nation. * Papua New Guinea.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 183, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lunch Counter Lingo * 1: "Whistle berries" refers to these Boston legumes. * baked beans. * 2: Bow wow and Coney Island both refer to this food. * a hot dog. * 3: Number that Mel might have called out to say "We're all out of it". * 86. * 4: The name of this state is slang for maple syrup. * Vermont. * 5: This beverage is Adam's ale. * water.

Round 2. Category: Born On The Fourth Of July * 1: This newsman was born on July 4, 1943, and not named Jerry Rivers. * Geraldo Rivera. * 2: P.T. Barnum's circus partner, he took his first bow on July 4, 1847. * (James) Bailey. * 3: An associate said of this "boss", "There's nothing more limited than a limited partner in the Yankees". * Steinbrenner. * 4: Take our advice and name the columnists born in 1918 as Esther Pauline Friedman and Pauline Esther Friedman. * Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers. * 5: Pennsylvania-born in 1826, he penned "Swanee River" only 25 years later. * (Stephen) Foster.

Round 3. Category: Poetry Potpourri * 1: He married Minnehaha, the "Loveliest of Dacotah Women". * Hiawatha. * 2: Milton work that begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree...". * "Paradise Lost". * 3: An 8-line stanza, it's usually the first 8 lines in an Italian sonnet. * Octave. * 4: Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, he idealized his boss as a knight in "The Faerie Queene". * Edmund Spenser. * 5: She described her nervous breakdown in her 1960 poetry collection "To Bedlam and Part Way Back". * Anne Sexton.

Round 4. Category: The Ocean * 1: Ho, ho, ho! The North Pole sits near the center of this ocean. * Arctic Ocean. * 2: In the open sea where the Labrador Current meets the Gulf Stream, fog makes these even more of a shipping hazard. * icebergs. * 3: The 2 bodies whose gravitational pull on the Earth has the greatest effect on ocean tides. * Sun and Moon. * 4: 80% of U.S. lifeguard ocean rescues are prompted by this type of "current" (inaccurately called a "tide"). * rips. * 5: You cross it going from Mogadishu to the Maldives. * Indian Ocean.

Round 5. Category: Jazz * 1: Known as the "First Lady of Song", she won 13 Grammy Awards, the most by any jazz artist. * Ella Fitzgerald. * 2: In the title of the album "Diz 'N' Bird In Concert", Diz is Dizzy Gillespie and Bird is this saxophonist. * Charlie Parker. * 3: In 1964 this jazz great reached the top of the pop charts with his vocal recording of "Hello, Dolly!". * Louis Armstrong. * 4: Induction into the Jazz Hall of Fame in Orlando is determined by a poll conducted by this leading jazz publication. * Down Beat. * 5: On April 7, 1986 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- nearly 27 years after her death. * Billie Holiday.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 182, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Ss" The Situation * 1: The ADA says to do this gently, once a day; it "helps keep your gums healthy". * floss. * 2: Did you know I could bench-press 250 lbs.? But I do this, a 7-letter term meaning to deviate from the main topic. * digress. * 3: From the Greek for "bottomless", it's a vast chasm. * abyss. * 4: Yuck! It can often be found before national product, ton or anatomy. * gross. * 5: Hemingway wrote anything was "better than Ezra learning to play" this low-range woodwind instrument. * bassoon.

Round 2. Category: Ohio Bio * 1: Born in Cambridge in 1921, he went on to be a senator and an astronaut. * (John) Glenn. * 2: Born in Darke County in 1860, she developed her amazing proficiency with firearms at an early age. * Annie Oakley. * 3: Appropriately enough, this writer of Westerns was born in Zanesville in 1872. * Zane Grey. * 4: Born in Columbus in 1890, he was a car-racing champion and a WWI flying ace. * Eddie Rickenbacker. * 5: This late jazz pianist, famous for his trio, was born blind in Toledo, Ohio in 1910. * Art Tatum.

Round 3. Category: Authors' Rhyme Time * 1: George Bernard's rules. * Shaw's laws. * 2: Vidal's battles. * Gore's wars. * 3: Umberto's lizards. * Eco's geckos. * 4: Ms. Ephron's soft felt hats. * Nora's fedoras. * 5: Koontz's mungs and favas. * Dean's beans.

Round 4. Category: I'm Not Wearing Any Pants * 1: On Sept. 8, 1504 this Michelangelo statue was completed, in all his glory. * David. * 2: Annie Leibovitz' Dec. 8, 1980 photo of this naked man lying next to his clothed wife was taken on the last day of his life. * John Lennon. * 3: Among the hundreds of paintings by this Dutch master is the nude "Bathsheba at the Bath". * Rembrandt. * 4: In 1876 "The Vanquished", a male nude, later called "The Age of Bronze", was this sculptor's first masterwork. * Rodin. * 5: Of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, it's the one starring an over 100-foot guy in his birthday suit. * the Colossus of Rhodes.

Round 5. Category: Friday The 13Th * 1: Friday October 13, 1944: Greek patriots retake Athens from this group after 3 1/2 years of occupation. * Germany (or the Nazis). * 2: Friday January 13, 1995: The first all-female crew wins a qualifying race for this contest. * the America's Cup. * 3: Friday October 13, 1967: This president signs an executive order banning sex discrimination in the U.S. govt.. * (Lyndon) Johnson. * 4: Friday, February 13, 1914:This 5-letter organization is set up to collect royalties when music is performed. * ASCAP. * 5: 1994: The first handover of a West Bank city from Israel to the Palestinians--this one where a battle was fit. * Jericho.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 181, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Car Talk * 1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Jay Leno) Car buffs like me know in starting some classic cars you pull out the choke to constrict airflow to this part". * Carburetor. * 2: It's the "A" in ABS, which is designed to keep you from hitting the skids. * Anti(-lock Brake System). * 3: When fixing cars, "R and R" means remove and do this to an auto part. * restore (or replace or repair). * 4: When a car has been "chopped", this part of it has been lowered. * the top. * 5: Since 1927 Prestone has been making this for temperature-challenged engine parts. * anti-freeze.

Round 2. Category: The Veep * 1: This vice president studied law at the University of Baltimore; in 1974, he was disbarred. * Spiro Agnew. * 2: He was Vice President under Dwight Eisenhower. * Nixon. * 3: Thomas Jefferson's first vice president, he was the grandson of famed theologian Jonathan Edwards. * Aaron Burr. * 4: In 1864 he was dropped from the Republican ticket and then served briefly as collector of the port of Boston. * Hannibal Hamlin. * 5: He was the eighth U.S. vice president and the eighth U.S. president. * Van Buren.

Round 3. Category: Science And Tech Digest: 1885 * 1: Developed by British inventor John Starley, the safety bicycle features these of equal size. * wheels. * 2: Anthropologist Francis Galton notes the uniqueness of these for every individual, a help to police. * fingerprints. * 3: Designed by William L. Jenney, the first of these buildings, the 10-story Home Insurance Co., goes up in Chicago. * skyscrapers. * 4: German engineer Carl Friedrich Benz develops the first working one of these powered by a gasoline engine. * automobile. * 5: American electrical engineer William Stanley invents this device for changing energy from AC to DC. * transformer.

Round 4. Category: Films Of The '90s * 1: Meryl Streep as an Iowa farm wife finds a once-in-a-lifetime love with Clint Eastwood in this 1995 film. * The Bridges of Madison County. * 2: He starred as Quigley in "Quigley Down Under". * Tom Selleck. * 3: In this 1991 satire, Sally Field played the star of a daytime serial, "The Sun Also Sets". * Soapdish. * 4: Title Kansas City couple played by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in a 1990 film. * "Mr. And Mrs. Bridge". * 5: In 1992 she starred in "Singles" and "Single White Female". * Bridget Fonda.

Round 5. Category: Diamonds Are Forever * 1: Under intense heat and in the presence of oxygen, a diamond will burn and form this gas. * carbon dioxide. * 2: If you were born in this month, the diamond is your traditional birthstone -- no foolin'. * April. * 3: Stolen in 1792 but later recovered, the Regent Diamond is on display in this French museum. * The Louvre. * 4: Bo Derek probably knows diamonds rate this on the Mohs scale, which measures hardness. * 10. * 5: Carol Channing introduced the song "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" in this Broadway musical in 1949. * "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 180, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Past Tense * 1: Before the fall, Humpty Dumpty did it "on a wall". * sat. * 2: Meaning "manufactured", it was in a famous telegraph message after "What hath God...". * wrought. * 3: If you missed the big day, go online; Blue Mountain has a whole section of this kind of birthday e-card. * belated. * 4: On pepper boxes, it means "milled". * cracked. * 5: This synonym for "haggard" is also past tense for having pulled out your weapon. * drawn.

Round 2. Category: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow * 1: Flat snow crystals generally have this many sides or arms. * six. * 2: The National Weather Service defines this as snowy winds of 35 mph with 1/4 mile visibility lasting for 3 hours. * a blizzard. * 3: Buffalo, New York is familiar with the snowstorm-causing effect named for this type of body of water. * a lake effect. * 4: When air becomes "super" this adjective, relative humidity is above 100% and snow can form. * supersaturated. * 5: Poli'ahu, the goddess of snow, lives on this highest Hawaiian mountain. * Mauna Kea.

Round 3. Category: The 7 Wonders * 1: We sort of know what the Statue of Zeus looked like because it was reproduced on these of the realm. * coins. * 2: They were located on terraces that possibly rose some 300 feet. * The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. * 3: Made of bronze, it was destroyed by an earthquake in 224 B.C.. * Colossus of Rhodes. * 4: An earthquake in the 13th century signaled the loss of this -- signal. * Lighthouse at Alexandria. * 5: As always, invading Goths got the blame for destroying her temple at Ephesus. * Artemis/Diana.

Round 4. Category: U.s. Place Names * 1: Warm Springs, Georgia's airport is named for him. * Franklin Delano Roosevelt. * 2: Mark Twain's brother Orion owned this Missouri city's Journal, for which Twain set type and wrote. * Hannibal. * 3: The U.S. has 110 hospitals named for this helpful New Testament fella from Luke 10. * the Good Samaritan. * 4: See this town, see it run along the only road in Hickman County, Tennessee. * Spot. * 5: Grant County, Kansas is named for President Grant, as is this county seat. * Ulysses.

Round 5. Category: Antarctic Explorers * 1: The last entry in this Briton's diary, dated March 29, 1912, ended, "For God's sake look after our people". * Robert Scott. * 2: His 1930 book "Little America" is an account of his flight to the South Pole. * Richard Byrd. * 3: On Dec. 17, 1911 he left the South Pole, leaving behind a tent and the Norwegian flag. * Roald Amundsen. * 4: An Antarctic sea and ice shelf are named for this man who discovered the North Magnetic Pole. * James Ross. * 5: In the 1950s this New Zealand mountaineer blazed a trail for Sir Vivian Fuchs, the first to cross Antarctica. * Sir Edmund Hillary.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 179, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: While John Paul I Was Pope * 1: Sadat sat down to begin talks with Begin and Carter at this U.S. site September 6, 1978. * Camp David. * 2: He regained the heavyweight title from the man he had lost it to in February -- Leon Spinks. * Muhammad Ali. * 3: In an Aug. 30, 1978 press conference he said the Chevy Vega's gas tanks were just as dangerous as the Ford Pinto's. * Ralph Nader. * 4: For 1978 tennis' U.S. Open moved from Forest Hills to a new home at this "meadow". * Flushing Meadow. * 5: Olafur Johannesson became this island's P.M. and promptly devalued its currency. * Iceland.

Round 2. Category: World Travel * 1: Pharaonic Village, which recreates life in ancient times, is on an island in this river. * Nile. * 2: Some tourists save money by staying at the Bangkok YMCA in this country. * Thailand. * 3: This Swedish capital has hotels named for Lord Nelson and his mistress, Lady Hamilton. * Stockholm. * 4: Among the hotels with casinos in this city are Shepheard's, the Ramses Hilton and the Nile Hilton. * Cairo. * 5: Want to ride an elephant in this country? Head for the Gokarna Safari Park east of Katmandu. * Nepal.

Round 3. Category: They Wrote For The New York Times * 1: Trying to protect his sources, in 1978 reporter Myron Farber spent 38 days here. * Jail. * 2: In 1962 the Times sent David Halberstam to this country, where he often challenged the official version of events. * Vietnam. * 3: Born in Clydebank, political writer James Reston had this nickname, like a "Star Trek" engineer. * "Scotty". * 4: Colorful nickname of Times sportswriter Walter Smith. * "Red". * 5: The Times' longtime movie critic, he shifted to theater criticism in 1993. * Vincent Canby.

Round 4. Category: Celebrity Headaches * 1: If you're a celebrity, these photographers named for a character in a movie can be anywhere. * paparazzi. * 2: Paying about 60 grand for the XJ8 model of this British car, you'd think a CD player would be standard. * Jaguar. * 3: Don't let your personal trainer work your biceps and forget these opposing muscles on the arms. * Triceps. * 4: You're probably sick of having your floors scuffed by photographers from this Conde Nast "Digest". * Architectural Digest. * 5: It can be tough remembering your password for your secret bank account in this most populous city in Switzerland. * Zurich.

Round 5. Category: Where's The "Fire"? * 1: They're also known as lightning bugs. * fireflies. * 2: Where you'll find a hearth. * a fireplace. * 3: Deadly double that rained down on Gomorrah. * fire and brimstone. * 4: Resort and national seashore east of NYC. * Fire Island. * 5: Stravinsky ballet from 1910. * The Firebird.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 178, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Body Parts By Prefix * 1: Entero-. * the intestine. * 2: Dermato-. * skin. * 3: Opto-. * the eye. * 4: Gastro-. * the stomach. * 5: Chiro-. * the hand.

Round 2. Category: Tree-Letter Words * 1: A sudden burst of light; some can be "in the pan". * a flash. * 2: On "Sesame Street" he's tickled to have his own "World". * Elmo. * 3: Dagger's partner in espionage. * cloak. * 4: Show us some backbone by giving us this synonym of the backbone. * spine. * 5: You gotta hand it to a fortune teller who uses this art to read your hands. * palmistry.

Round 3. Category: Rock "E" * 1: Earth joined Wind and Fire and he joined Lake and Palmer. * Keith Emerson. * 2: In titles it preceded Eddie Money's "Nights" and Richard Marx's "Summer Nights". * Endless. * 3: This botanical tune grew up to No. 1 in 1988. * "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" (by Poison). * 4: Though this Art Alexakis band was formed in Portland, its first hit was about Santa Monica. * Everclear. * 5: The Eurythmics were on the bill in 2000 at the grand opening celebration of this Seattle rock museum. * Experience Music Project.

Round 4. Category: Novel Vocabulary * 1: This Daniel Defoe hero is "thrown into a violent calenture"--a fever once said to affect sailors in the Tropics. * Robinson Crusoe. * 2: He may have coined the term daggeroso, meaning "inclined to use a dagger"; it's in his novel "Sons and Lovers". * D.H. Lawrence. * 3: In "The Age of Innocence", society women must be "properly coiffees"--meaning this must look just right. * hair. * 4: This author wasn't charitable to readers when he used "eleemosynary" in the first line of "Tom Jones". * (Henry) Fielding. * 5: "What a mommet of a maid!" (mommet meaning scarecrow) is said of this Thomas Hardy title character. * Tess.

Round 5. Category: Time To Get A "Head" * 1: It blows against the direction of travel. * a head wind. * 2: The leading performer in a show. * the headliner. * 3: For U.S. Central Command, it's at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. * headquarters. * 4: A man in charge of a school, usually a private one. * a headmaster. * 5: Porcine term for obstinancy. * pigheaded.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 177, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hot Spots Of The '80s * 1: On April 12, 1982 Great Britain imposed a blockade on this island group. * Falkland Islands (or Malvinas). * 2: Students who met in this square April 18, 1989 to mourn Hu Yaobang's death stayed to demonstrate. * Tiananmen Square. * 3: The Achille Lauro was in this sea when it was hijacked October 7, 1985. * Mediterranean Sea. * 4: Accusing this nation of backing terrorism, the U.S. ordered its embassy in D.C. closed May 6, 1981. * Libya. * 5: This newly independent country's first prime minister, Marxist Robert Mugabe, took office in 1980. * Zimbabwe.

Round 2. Category: Name The Singer * 1: "Song Sung Blue","Forever in Blue Jeans". * Neil Diamond. * 2: "Anticipation","You're So Vain". * Carly Simon. * 3: "Penny Lover","Say You, Say Me". * Lionel Richie. * 4: "If You Asked Me To","It's All Coming Back To Me Now". * Celine Dion. * 5: "I'm the Only One","Come to My Window". * Melissa Etheridge.

Round 3. Category: Olla Podrida * 1: People who daydream are said to be "Building" these "in Spain". * Castles. * 2: Don Quixote roamed across this plateau of central Spain. * La Mancha. * 3: Iced drink made of wine, soda water and fruit juice. * Sangria. * 4: Commanded by the Duke of Medina, this group of ships was thought to be invincible -- didn't work. * Spanish Armada. * 5: She hit the Top 10 in 1987 with "La Isla Bonita", her Spanish lullaby. * Madonna.

Round 4. Category: Missouri Loves Company * 1: At Westminster College, there's a memorial and library honoring this man who gave his "iron curtain" speech on campus in 1946. * (Winston) Churchill. * 2: Before moving to Missouri, this pro football team was known as the Dallas Texans. * Kansas City Chiefs. * 3: At Westminster College, there's a memorial and library honoring this man who gave his "iron curtain" speech on campus in 1946. * (Winston) Churchill. * 4: You're barking up the right tree if you know this is Missouri's state tree. * dogwood. * 5: A June 26, 2010 re-ride to celebrate the 150th anniv. of the Pony Express ended with a procession through this city. * St. Joseph.

Round 5. Category: Double Meanings * 1: The only pleas he knew about was "More Scotch, please"; you can't pass the blank exam sitting in the blank all day. * bar. * 2: Swift, or the largest organized unit of naval ships. * fleet. * 3: This word can mean "to play in as if in water" or "to work at in a superficial manner". * dabble. * 4: You always fall for my blank sacrifice; too bad I'm so broke my chess set is in blank . * pawn. * 5: Everyone knows the word "ballerina," but may not know her male counterpart is sometimes called this, meaning a rider, or someone who gallantly escorts a lady. * a cavalier.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 176, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Really Tough Wheel Of Fortune Puzzles * 1: ON THE MENU: I'll take a "G", Pat and solve the puzzle... it's an Italian dish of tiny dumplings made from potatoes or flour. * gnocchi. * 2: THING: It's the cavity or tube that connects the oral and nasal passages with the esophagus and larynx. * pharynx. * 3: ON THE MAP: This country whose capital is Astana became a republic of the USSR in 1936. * Kazakhstan. * 4: BEFORE and AFTER: French action movie and Peta Wilson TV show that became a world leader in 1958. * La Femme Nikita Khrushchev. * 5: PERSON: A total of 3 Zs are in the first and last names of this national security adviser under Carter. * Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Round 2. Category: A Walk In The Park * 1: This London park was named for the position held by the future King George IV. * Regent's Park. * 2: In 1989 George Bush had the DEA buy drugs in a park across from this building to show on TV. * The White House. * 3: The Bridge of Perfect Wisdom is a landmark of Beihai Park in this world capital. * Beijing. * 4: You can follow streets named for King George V and King David to Independence Park in this city. * Jerusalem. * 5: A giant ferris wheel graces this city's Prater, opened to the public by Joseph II in 1766. * Vienna.

Round 3. Category: Not Without My Daughter * 1: For many years, this "pretty baby" was inseparable from her manager mom Teri, an ex-model herself. * Brooke Shields. * 2: It's no rumor: her real daughter, Rumer, played her movie daughter in "Striptease". * Demi Moore. * 3: Mom Naomi kept performing as half of this duo for over a year after doctors advised her to quit. * the Judds. * 4: This current Dutch queen was a baby when she fled the Netherlands with her mother during WWII. * Beatrice (Beatrix). * 5: In 1986 she and her mother Nusrat were formally elected co-Chairwomen of the Pakistani People's Party. * (Benazir) Bhutto.

Round 4. Category: Countries By City * 1: Jagersfontein,Krugersdorp,Ladysmith. * South Africa. * 2: Bremen,Kiel,Worms. * Germany. * 3: Chandigarh,Jaipur,Amritsar. * India. * 4: Recife,Sao Goncalo,Itapipoca. * Brazil. * 5: Toowoomba,Wagga Wagga,Adelaide. * Australia.

Round 5. Category: Capital Punishment * 1: Joan of Arc. * Burned at the stake. * 2: Mata Hari. * Firing Squad. * 3: Socrates. * Drank Hemlock. * 4: Louis XVI. * Beheaded. * 5: Haman. * Hung from the gallows.

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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 in as this substitute on the basepaths! I'll steal second before you know it. * a pinch runner. * 4: Bob Kersee coached this woman, his wife, to 4 world championships, 2 in the heptathlon and 2 in the long jump. * Jackie Joyner-Kersee. * 5: Coach, we need rebounds. I can lead us to the promised land like this Hall of Fame Rockets and Sixers center. * Moses Malone.

Round 2. Category: Bands Of The '80s * 1: Icicle Works formed in this city more than 20 years after the Beatles. * Liverpool. * 2: This group got its name by combining the names of 2 bands: Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns. * Guns N' Roses. * 3: This Wham! singer's original name was Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou. * George Michael. * 4: The Proclaimers hit the U.S. charts when "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" was featured in this Johnny Depp film. * Benny and Joon. * 5: Bobby Brown left this group in 1986 and was replaced by Johnny Gill. * New Edition.

Round 3. Category: Yasir * 1: Arafat and this Likud leader signed a 1997 accord on Israeli troop withdrawal from most of the city of Hebron. * Benjamin Netanyahu. * 2: Some say Arafat was born in Jerusalem in 1929; others, in Gaza; still others, in this capital of Egypt. * Cairo. * 3: It's "The Loneliest Number" of nights Arafat will reportedly sleep in a house before moving on. * 1. * 4: In 1969 Arafat was named chairman of the PLO, which stands for this. * Palestine Liberation Organization. * 5: In the '50s Arafat worked in an engineering firm in this country, the invasion of which triggered the Gulf War. * Kuwait.

Round 4. Category: 4 * 1: =. * =. * 2: "Seasonal" quartet in the lyrics of "You've Got A Friend". * winter, spring, summer and fall. * 3: =. * =. * 4: =. * =. * 5: To complete a foursome, mathematician Herman Minkowski added this to length, width and height. * time.

Round 5. Category: Gamers Unite! * 1: In this 2007 sequel Master Chief has new vehicles like the Mongoose to help him stop the Flood and the Covenant. * Halo 3. * 2: "The Burning Crusade", an expansion to this popular Blizzard game, offers 2 new races: Draenei and Blood Elves. * World of Warcraft. * 3: This musical instrument simulation game has a working whammy bar. * Guitar Hero. * 4: In "Shadows of Angmar", a video game based on these books, Sauron sends the Nazgul in search of some jewelry. * The Lord of the Rings. * 5: This Japanese video game involves a sticky little ball that players roll to grow it larger by picking up things. * Katamari.

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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. * barnstorming. * 5: Private 4-year women's college located at 3009 Broadway in Manhattan. * Barnard.

Round 2. Category: 1932 * 1: 2 of the starring guests registered at MGM's "Grand Hotel". * (2 of) Wallace Beery, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt. * 2: Completed in 1932, this NYC movie house still has more seats than any other in the world. * Radio City Music Hall. * 3: On July 8th, it dropped to 41.22, its lowest point of the Great Depression. * Dow Jones. * 4: French medics found fewer germs were exchanged during a kiss than this less intimate greeting. * handshake. * 5: Physicists Millikan and Compton debated over origin of these particles from space. * cosmic rays.

Round 3. Category: A Pain In The "R"S * 1: The separation of the membrane from the choroids at the back of the eye is known as a detached one of these. * the retina. * 2: A lack of phosphate, vitamin D or calcium can cause this bone disease in children. * rickets. * 3: It's what the R in the MMR vaccine stands for. * rubella. * 4: Parents are advised not to give children aspirin because of its link to this potentially fatal syndrome. * Reye's syndrome. * 5: These viruses responsible for many respiratory infections share part of their name with a pachyderm. * a rhinovirus.

Round 4. Category: Sports 2000 * 1: By winning the British Open, this 24-year-old became the youngest to win golf's career Grand Slam. * Tiger Woods. * 2: With pride Satan says they're the 2000 Stanley Cup champs. * New Jersey Devils. * 3: On July 23, he became only the second American to win the Tour de France in consecutive years. * Lance Armstrong. * 4: She dispatched sister Serena at Wimbledon and went on to defeat Lindsay Davenport for the title. * Venus Williams. * 5: This manager who won World Series in both leagues entered baseball's Hall of Fame. * George "Sparky" Anderson.

Round 5. Category: "N" Joy * 1: He's the saint associated with children, sailors and Christmas. * Saint Nicholas. * 2: It's "The Country Music Capital of the World". * Nashville. * 3: To some, the music of this group, led by Kurt Cobain, was anything but blissful. * Nirvana. * 4: A songbird, or the last name of nursing pioneer Florence. * Nightingale. * 5: With over 15 million acres, this American Indian tribe has the largest reservation in the U.S.. * Navajo.

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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 crew gives the clue from New York) Though ridiculed at first The Salvation Army's work was finally recognized in 1886 when this president invited them to the White House and endorsed their work. * Grover Cleveland. * 5: This writer was born on Feb. 7, 1885 in Sauk Center, Minn.--perhaps on the town's "Main Street". * Sinclair Lewis.

Round 2. Category: Great Ol' Songs * 1: This U.S. state "Here I come, right back where I started from". * California. * 2: "Ev'ry morning, ev'ry evening, ain't we got" this. * fun. * 3: "When" this man "comes marching home again, hurrah, hurrah". * Johnny. * 4: This title completes the line "Now I ask you very confidentially...". * "Ain't She Sweet". * 5: "I'm looking over" one of these "that I overlooked before". * a four-leaf clover.

Round 3. Category: The Body Woman * 1: These organs that produce eggs stop functioning as glands between ages 45 and 55. * ovaries. * 2: Colorblindness is rare in women as they have 2 of these dominant gene-carrying chromosomes. * X. * 3: This grows the fastest in women ages 16-24 and its length also affects its growth. * hair. * 4: Shallower and wider than a man's to allow for childbirth, its bones are fused in a ring to give support. * pelvis. * 5: Estrace is a synthetic version of this hormone sometimes prescribed after menopause. * Estrogen.

Round 4. Category: Tv Actors * 1: (Hey, I'm Alicia Witt) In 1995 she won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her work on the sitcom we both work on, "Cybill". * Christine Baranski. * 2: Actors who have played cops on this series include S. Epatha Merkerson, Chris Noth and Paul Sorvino. * Law and Order. * 3: On this series, William B. Davis plays a character called the Cigarette-Smoking Man. * The X-Files. * 4: Now a regular on "NewsRadio", on "Saturday Night Live" he played the Anal-Retentive Chef. * Phil Hartman. * 5: Wallace Langham plays Josh on "Veronica's Closet" and Phil on this HBO talk show spoof. * The Larry Sanders Show.

Round 5. Category: The Ends In "X" Files * 1: Dude! It's a Keanu movie!. * The Matrix. * 2: A 2-tenant dwelling with separate entrances. * Duplex. * 3: Oh my gosh! It's the most exciting point in a dramatic narrative!. * Climax. * 4: This bacterial cattle disease whose name is from the Greek for "coal" can be transmitted to humans. * Anthrax. * 5: It can be the highest point in someone's career or the highest point of a building. * Apex.

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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 gauge railway that climbs to 7,400' in this country. * India. * 4: Gamblers will love to know that the Hotel Yak and Yeti in this Nepalese capital houses the 2-story Casino Royale. * Kathmandu. * 5: While many of Mexico's resorts are on the Pacific Ocean, Cancun lies on this sea. * the Caribbean.

Round 2. Category: In Your Chevrolet * 1: Introduced in 1953, it's considered America's first sports car. * the Corvette. * 2: Chevy's Camaro was GM's first car aerodynamically designed in one of these chambers. * a wind tunnel (a wind chamber accepted). * 3: Even the Fresh Prince would want this 1957 tail-finned Chevy model; it's a collector's dream. * a Bel Air. * 4: The Metro is from this line Chevrolet introduced in 1989. * the Geo. * 5: Name given Chevy's Carryall station wagon introduced in 1935; it's now the name of a GMC SUV. * a Suburban.

Round 3. Category: All The King's Songs * 1: "I don't want no other love, baby it's still you I'm thinking of". * "Don't Be Cruel". * 2: "The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang". * "Jailhouse Rock". * 3: "No such number, no such zone". * "Return to Sender". * 4: "Bright light city gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire". * "Viva Las Vegas". * 5: "We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out, because I love you too much baby". * "Suspicious Minds".

Round 4. Category: Starts With "G" * 1: This adhesive can be made from animal hides, bones, vegetables or fish. * Glue. * 2: Member of the iris family with as many as 25 flowers on a single spike. * gladiolus. * 3: Some of these muscles are minimus and some of them are maximus. * Gluteus. * 4: Refers to the moon when it's more than half but not completely full. * gibbous. * 5: Part eagle and part lion, these mythical beasts were famous for guarding gold. * Griffins.

Round 5. Category: Space Exploration * 1: In 1984 Bruce McCandless became the first human to perform an untethered EVA, which stands for this. * Extra-vehicular activity. * 2: Launched in 1989, the Magellan spacecraft later radar-mapped most of the surface of this planet, Earth's twin. * Venus. * 3: On February 14, 1990, it took its final photo from 3.7 billion miles: of the sun and 6 planets, including the Earth. * Voyager. * 4: In 1958 Explorer I discovered these radiation bands surrounding the Earth. * Van Allen Belts. * 5: On July 20, 1969 this lunar module separated from the Apollo 11 spacecraft and landed on the Moon. * the Eagle.

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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 hits that fit the category. * "Like A Virgin" and "Like A Prayer". * 5: This entertainment industry anthem was written for the Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun". * "There's No Business Like Show Business".

Round 2. Category: Ports * 1: It's the only one of South Africa's 3 capitals that is also a seaport. * Cape Town. * 2: Much of Australia's foreign trade is handled by this city's Port Jackson or neighboring Botany Bay. * Sydney. * 3: This state has 5 of the top 15 U.S. ports, including Plaquemines and Lake Charles. * Louisiana. * 4: Until Haiti became independent, this "Port" served as the capital of the colony of Saint-Domingue from 1770 to 1804. * Port-au-Prince. * 5: This Egyptian port on the Mediterranean was founded in 1859 when the building of the Suez Canal began. * Port Said.

Round 3. Category: A "Little" Lit * 1: Chapter 9 of this novel is entitled "Meg Goes to Vanity Fair". * Little Women. * 2: The Charles Ingalls family moves to the Great Plains area in this 1935 novel. * Little House on the Prairie. * 3: This pal of Robin Hood stood out in a crowd: he was at least 7 feet tall. * Little John. * 4: The mousy hero of this E.B. White book leaves home to search for the bird who's his dearest friend. * Stuart Little. * 5: Regina Giddens is the vixenish lead character of this 1939 Lillian Hellman play. * The Little Foxes.

Round 4. Category: And Go To "Bed" * 1: In math, it means raised to the third power. * cubed. * 2: Native Americans called this fence material the "Devil's rope". * barbed wire. * 3: Kidded and teased (like Adam did to Eve, perhaps?). * ribbed. * 4: If you've been clubbed, you've been made unconscious; if you've been this, you've been made a knight. * dubbed. * 5: In the Bible she was mom to Moses and Aaron. * Jochebed.

Round 5. Category: Gates * 1: The Nucerian Gate was one of several surrounding this city before it was buried by Vesuvius. * Pompeii. * 2: For centuries the Saviour's Gate has been the official entrance to this Moscow citadel. * the Kremlin. * 3: This 3-mile-long strait separates San Francisco from Marin county; perhaps you're familiar with the bridge?. * the Golden Gate. * 4: Traitors' Gate was a River Thames entrance to this through which criminals passed to be imprisoned. * the Tower of London. * 5: This capital's Puerta de Alcala was commissioned by King Carlos III to replace an earlier gate he thought inferior. * Madrid.

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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 nonfiction works as "Submarine" and "Fighter Wing". * Tom Clancy. * 4: In 2003 this Pennsylvanian became a presidential cabinet member. * Tom Ridge. * 5: "Ambushing the audience is what theater is all about", asserted this author of "The Real Thing". * Tom Stoppard.

Round 2. Category: Movie Roles * 1: [Hi, I'm Earl Brown] Because we look so much alike, I was cast as Warren, this actress' brother in "There's Something About Mary". * Cameron Diaz. * 2: 2009: Zed, who lives in "Year One". * Jack Black. * 3: This actress spent "Six Days, Seven Nights" on an island with Harrison Ford. * Anne Heche. * 4: In a 2003 movie he played the bitter, foul-mouthed "Bad Santa". * Billy Bob Thornton. * 5: Robin Williams danced with a vacuum cleaner to the song "Dude Looks Like A Lady" in this 1993 comedy. * Mrs. Doubtfire.

Round 3. Category: Desert Life * 1: These can carry 1,000-pound loads and go for 10 days without water. * Camels. * 2: The people of Victorville, California and Boulder City, Nevada are part of the life of this desert. * Mojave Desert. * 3: The people of Victorville, California and Boulder City, Nevada are part of the life of this desert. * Mojave Desert. * 4: The California fuchsia, a trumpet-shaped flower found in the desert, is often pollinated by this tiny bird. * hummingbird. * 5: The California fuchsia, a trumpet-shaped flower found in the desert, is often pollinated by this tiny bird. * hummingbird.

Round 4. Category: A "Little" Lit * 1: Chapter 9 of this novel is entitled "Meg Goes to Vanity Fair". * Little Women. * 2: The Charles Ingalls family moves to the Great Plains area in this 1935 novel. * Little House on the Prairie. * 3: This pal of Robin Hood stood out in a crowd: he was at least 7 feet tall. * Little John. * 4: The mousy hero of this E.B. White book leaves home to search for the bird who's his dearest friend. * Stuart Little. * 5: Regina Giddens is the vixenish lead character of this 1939 Lillian Hellman play. * The Little Foxes.

Round 5. Category: Art School * 1: The most common one used by artists is probably the X-acto. * a knife. * 2: Turning tools are used to shape the clay on one of these. * a potter's wheel. * 3: A halftone screen breaks up a sold image into a pattern of these. * dots. * 4: Traditionally in drypoint, you use a steel needle to scratch your drawing into a plate of this metal. * copper. * 5: When a sculptor is doing this he isn't fishing, but using the lost wax method to make a mold. * casting.

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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're "Golden", Baby * 1: The USA's tallest bridge towers are the 746-foot steel peaks of this structure. * the Golden Gate Bridge. * 2: This NBA team took the 1975 championship. * the Golden State Warriors. * 3: It's the second-most registered dog breed at the American Kennel Club. * a golden retriever. * 4: Jason stole it for his Uncle Pelias. * the Golden Fleece. * 5: Sir James Frazer compared mythologies and religions in this work. * The Golden Bough.

Round 3. Category: C'est Cheese! * 1: Americans refer to Emmentaler as this. * Swiss cheese. * 2: King Christian IX is a cheese from this country. * Denmark. * 3: This best-known Greek cheese is pickled in a brine solution. * Feta. * 4: At the Congress of Vienna, in a contest instigated by Talleyrand, this French cheese won the title "Le Roi du Fromage". * Brie. * 5: This blue-veined cheese made from ewes' milk was a favorite of Charlemagne's. * Roquefort.

Round 4. Category: Bald Is Beautiful * 1: Shaven-headed fighter who legally changed his name to include "Marvelous". * Marvin Hagler. * 2: Kenny Chesney started losing his hair in his teens--this ever-present accessory hides it. * a cowboy hat. * 3: Charles Middleton wore a bald pate to portray this Flash Gordon villain. * Ming from Mongo (Ming the Merciless). * 4: One of her newsworthy exploits was shaving her head in 2007, the year of her album "Blackout". * Britney Spears. * 5: Famous for playing a Siamese king, he also played a royal on film in "Solomon and Sheba"--he had hair in that one. * Yul Brynner.

Round 5. Category: Colorful Literature * 1: Many are ready to demonstrate their bravery at the start of this 1895 Stephen Crane novel. * "The Red Badge of Courage". * 2: "The Autobiography of a Horse" is the subtitle to this first major animal novel in literature. * "Black Beauty". * 3: This 1906 tale tells the story of a wolf-dog gradually domesticated by his kindly new owner. * "White Fang". * 4: This dystopian Anthony Burgess novel was brought to the big screen by Kubrick in 1971. * A Clockwork Orange. * 5: This exotic "green" novel by W.H. Hudson is set in the jungles of South America. * "Green Mansions".

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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 as "The first and direst of all disasters"; his occured on June 24, 1842. * Birth. * 4: Bierce saw this, "An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment" in Mexico while following Villa's army. * Revolution. * 5: Some Greek philosophers, or men like Bierce "Whose faulty vision sees things as they are". * Cynics.

Round 2. Category: 13 * 1: The 13 people at his final dinner included James, Andrew, John and Judas. * Jesus. * 2: The TV cops of New York's 13th precinct included this Greek-American title lieutenant. * Kojak. * 3: It's the term for a spellbound assembly of 13 witches. * Coven. * 4: Prepared by Maimonides, the "13 Articles of Faith" is a summary of the basic tenets of this religion. * Judaism. * 5: The unluckiness of Friday the 13th may date from the suppression of this order of knights on Fri., Oct. 13, 1307. * Knights Templar.

Round 3. Category: Strait-En Up * 1: Between Alaska and Russia. * Bering Strait. * 2: Between Europe and Morocco. * Strait of Gibraltar. * 3: Between the English Channel and the North Sea. * Strait of Dover. * 4: Between New Zealand's North Island and South Island. * Cook Strait. * 5: Bearing Taiwan's Portuguese name, it's between Taiwan and mainland China. * Strait of Formosa.

Round 4. Category: Reporting The News * 1: In the 1980s this Texan sometimes ended his broadcast with a cryptic "Courage". * Dan Rather. * 2: This Torontonian was just 26 when he first anchored ABC's nightly news in 1965, and some thought he looked too young. * Peter Jennings. * 3: Until 1981, this CBS anchorman signed off with "And that's the way it is". * Walter Cronkite. * 4: (Hi. I'm Tim Russert of NBC's Meet the Press.) An interview I did in 2000 with this senator and former P.O.W. won an excellence in TV journalism award. * John McCain. * 5: This gossip and radio man greeted audiences, "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea". * Walter Winchell.

Round 5. Category: Peninsulas * 1: This triangular peninsula juts into the northern end of the Red Sea. * the Sinai Peninsula. * 2: The Cleveland Peninsula is about 40 miles northwest of Ketchikan in this state. * Alaska. * 3: This country's Chukchi Peninsula is the easternmost mainland part of Asia. * Russia. * 4: It's the body part of the Italian "boot" made up by the Salentine peninsula in the Puglia region. * the heel. * 5: Yalta and Balaklava are located on this peninsula. * the Crimean.

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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 museum designer Edwin Schlossberg in 1986. * Caroline Kennedy. * 4: The press dubbed her "Watusi Luci" because she loved to dance the watusi (also the frug and the monkey). * Luci Johnson. * 5: Known as "Princess Alice", she married a congressman who became Speaker of the House in the 1920s. * Alice Roosevelt.

Round 2. Category: It's A Tough World * 1: 2 cities, both named Tripoli, are Libya's largest and this country's second-largest. * Lebanon. * 2: The famous American Indian Geronimo spent his childhood in this "dogged" Mexican region. * Chihuahua. * 3: In English, this nation's national anthem begins, "Arise children of the fatherland, the day of glory has arrived". * France. * 4: Between 1961 and 1983, this nation sent numerous Venera probes to Venus to study its atmosphere and chemical makeup. * the Soviet Union. * 5: Nawaz Sharif was the prime minister of this nation until deposed by its current military leader. * Pakistan.

Round 3. Category: '50s Film Facts * 1: This Disney film based on a book by Englishman Lewis Carroll had its world premiere in England in 1951. * "Alice In Wonderland". * 2: When Sandra Dee played this tiny beach bunny, James Darren was Moondoggie and Cliff Robertson played Kahoona. * Gidget. * 3: This James Dean film featured Sal Mineo as Plato, Nick Adams as Moose and Dennis Hopper as Goon. * "Rebel Without A Cause". * 4: Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden and Rod Steiger were all Oscar contenders for this 1954 Marlon Brando film. * "On The Waterfront". * 5: Jimmy Stewart spies on his neighbor Raymond Burr in this Hitchcock classic. * "Rear Window".

Round 4. Category: Along Came Mary * 1: The Banks family nanny, this fictional woman could fly through the air by opening her umbrella. * Mary Poppins. * 2: In 1920 she married Douglas Fairbanks and in the mid-'30s she retired from acting. * Mary Pickford. * 3: At the 1984 Summer Olympics, this West Virginia native won 5 medals in gymnastics. * Mary Lou Retton. * 4: This author's works include "Valperga", "The Last Man" and "Frankenstein". * Mary Shelley. * 5: Works by this female impressionist include "The Loge" and "The Bath". * Mary Cassatt.

Round 5. Category: Last Year's News * 1: This government department recommended duct tape and plastic sheets to seal a room against a chemical attack. * the Department of Homeland Security. * 2: Donald Rumsfeld called these 2 countries "Old Europe" after they opposed military action against Iraq. * Germany and France. * 3: Democratic house members fled this state in order to block republicans from redrawing congressional districts. * Texas. * 4: The FDA said it would ban dietary supplements containing this after a baseball player's death was linked to it. * ephedra. * 5: The AmericaÂ's Cup was won for the first time by a European country: ironically this landlocked nation. * Switzerland.

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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; of electrical power, for example. * outage. * 5: From the Old Norse for "manager", it's a non-governmental investigator who resolves complaints. * ombudsman.

Round 2. Category: Snickers * 1: Film in which Paul Newman tells Tom Cruise, "You couldn't find big time if you had a road map". * The Color of Money. * 2: Film in which an exasperated Sally Kellerman yells, "This isn't a hospital, it's an insane asylum". * MASH. * 3: 1974 film with the exchange:Inga: Werewolf!Freddy: Werewolf?Igor: There!Freddy: What?Igor: There wolf.. * Young Frankenstein. * 4: In "Take the Money and Run", asked, "Do you think sex is dirty?", Woody said, "It is if you do it" this way. * right. * 5: 1950 film in which Judy Holliday tells Broderick Crawford, "You're just not couth!". * Born Yesterday*.

Round 3. Category: Postal Matters * 1: In a short-lived in Belgium in 1879, these house pets were used to carry bundles of mail. * cats. * 2: One of the first non-heads of state to appear on a stamp was this American on the U.S. 5-cent stamp in 1847. * Benjamin Franklin. * 3: The first known air mail service took place in Paris in 1870 by this conveyance. * hot-air balloon. * 4: Postal markings dating back to this civilization in 3000 B.C. translate as, "In the name of the living king, speed!". * Egyptians (Egypt). * 5: This country doesn't have its name on its stamps; usually it has the king or queen's head. * the United Kingdom.

Round 4. Category: Time For A "Pi" * 1: This animal's name comes from the Middle French for "thorny pig". * porcupine. * 2: We love this winged, unclothed infant archer of mythology, the son of Venus. * Cupid. * 3: Uh oh! This outer nonvascular layer of your skin is showing. * epidermis. * 4: Wealth, or a city that the official seat of government in a state. * capital. * 5: A plant belonging to the genus Angallis, especially having scarlet flowers. * pimpernel.

Round 5. Category: "Fort"S * 1: This N.C. fort has reason to boast since airborne U.S. Army combat units are stationed there. * Fort Bragg. * 2: On May 10, 1775 Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold captured this fort on Lake Champlain from the British. * Fort Ticonderoga. * 3: This celebrated Maryland fort overlooking the Patapsco River is named for a signer of the Constitution. * Fort McHanry. * 4: Troops are processes for overseas duty at this New Jersey army base. * Fort Dix. * 5: This Kentucky army post is known as the "Home of Armor". * Fort Knox.

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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 country, but he was far from neutral on the subject. * Switzerland. * 5: When Lenin returned to Russia in 1917, he did it in a "sealed" one of these. * railway car.

Round 2. Category: County Seats * 1: Hilo, I love you, you're the seat of this county that's also a "Big Island". * Hawaii. * 2: Paris (population 8,730) is the seat of Bourbon County in this state. * Kentucky. * 3: This Iowa city, the seat of Black Hawk County, has a name Wellington would remember. * Waterloo. * 4: Quincy, Illinois is the seat of a county with this presidential name. * Adams. * 5: As I walked out in the streets of this city, I was in the seat of Webb County, Texas. * Laredo.

Round 3. Category: Idioms * 1: In Spain it comes down in "jugs"; in Italy, "basins"; in France, "ropes"; and in the U.S., "cats and dogs". * rain. * 2: You can "keep a straight one" or "fall flat on" it. * your face. * 3: An Italian may "lead the life of Michelaccio", rather than this Irishman. * Riley. * 4: To reverse positions and seize the advantage is "to turn" these on someone. * the tables. * 5: As Francois Truffaut could have told you, in France "to sow one's wild oats" is "to strike" this many "blows". * 400.

Round 4. Category: Phrases That Sell * 1: "Obey your thirst" and drink this. * Sprite. * 2: "Be all that you can be" in this military branch. * the Army. * 3: This network says it's "The most trusted name in news". * CNN. * 4: This shipping company asks, "What can Brown do for you?". * UPS. * 5: It's the popular query in Verizon's TV ads. * Can you hear me now?.

Round 5. Category: Eating In America * 1: It's said this SW. feast comes from French "from snout to tail," the way meat is put on a spit. * barbecue. * 2: Though known for pickles and "slow" ketchup, this company's 1st product was horseradish. * Heinz. * 3: Since overeating was a status symbol, early rulers of what's now this state often weighed over 400 lbs.. * Hawaii. * 4: In 1879, Chase and Sanborn became 1st U.S. company to pack this in sealed cans. * coffee. * 5: Due to contamination of crops from N.W. states, growers of this small fruit had a bad Nov. in 1959. * cranberries.

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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: Ralph, nicknamed "Bottles", was the brother of this gangster, nicknamed "Scarface". * Al Capone. * 2: Sheriff Pat Garrett said this crook's "face always wore a smile". * Billy the Kid. * 3: In 1868 the Reno Brothers robbed one of these in Indiana, years before the James Gang did it out west. * train. * 4: The Queen Anne's Revenge was a ship of this pirate, whose whole known career lasted from 1716 to 1718. * Blackbeard. * 5: 2 months after Bonnie and Clyde were shot down in Louisiana, he got it outside the Biograph in Chicago. * John Dillinger.

Round 3. Category: Totally 1680s! * 1: Around 1683 Jules Hardouin-Mansart completed this narcissistic Versailles feature, Galerie des Glaces in France. * Hall of Mirrors. * 2: The 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk between Russia and this country on its east remained in force for 170 years. * China. * 3: In 1682 La Salle said, "Laissez les bon temps rouler" as he claimed this North American territory for France. * Louisiana. * 4: Last name of father and son Cotton and Increase, co-ministers at Boston's North Chruch starting in 1685. * Mather. * 5: On his deathbed, speaking of his mistress Nell Gwyn, King Charles II said, "Let not poor Nelly" do this. * Starve.

Round 4. Category: The Marrier * 1: Tom Hayden, Roger Vadim, Ted Turner. * Jane Fonda. * 2: Sean Penn, Guy Ritchie. * Madonna. * 3: Andre Previn, Frank Sinatra. * Mia Farrow. * 4: Jeremy Thomas, Tom Green. * Drew Barrymore. * 5: Robert Evans, Steve McQueen. * Ali McGraw.

Round 5. Category: Canadian Cities * 1: English is also widely spoken in this largest French-speaking city outside of Paris. * Montreal. * 2: The North Saskatchewan River divides this Albertan capital in half. * Edmonton. * 3: The CFL's B.C. Lions play their home games in this city. * Vancouver. * 4: Whitehorse replaced Dawson as capital of this territory in 1953. * Yukon Territory. * 5: This Ontario city's underground walkway system can get you from Eaton Centre to Union Station. * Toronto.

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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: The Oscar-winning actress and actor who fit the category. * Kevin Spacey and Sissy Spacek.

Round 2. Category: Say "Jack" * 1: This man's Chicago-based Rainbow/PUSH action network is a merger of 2 earlier political groups. * Jesse Jackson. * 2: On TV he played Steve McGarrett, head of Five-O, a special Hawaiian police unit. * Jack Lord. * 3: He played for the Kansas City Monarchs before he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. * Jackie Robinson. * 4: This actress who now plays Lisa Landry on "Sister, Sister" won an Emmy for "227". * Jackee Harry. * 5: Formerly a special advisor to LBJ, he's presided over the MPAA since 1966. * Jack Valenti.

Round 3. Category: A Capital Idea * 1: Abuja, this country's first planned city, was built in the Chukuku Hills to replace Lagos as the capital. * Nigeria. * 2: Empress Taitu chose the name of this Ethiopian capital; it means "new flower". * Addis Ababa. * 3: Someone had the bright idea to name this city for a duke even before it became New Zealand's capital. * Wellington. * 4: Someone had the bright idea to build a Disneysea theme park in this Asian city; it opened in 2001. * Tokyo. * 5: Hey, mon, Bob Marley's home in this Caribbean capital was turned into a Bob Marley museum. * Kingston, Jamaica.

Round 4. Category: Toys And Games * 1: Parker Bros, has made balls, boomerangs and ping pong paddles out of this soft material. * Nerf (or foam rubber). * 2: Another name for a firefly, or Hasbro's toy that lights up when you hug it. * glow worm. * 3: Introduced as a doll for boys, this action figure was named after a 1945 WWII movie. * G.I. Joe. * 4: The Toys R Us 2011 holiday hot toys list included the LeapPad Explorer from this company. * LeapFrog. * 5: If you roll 5 of a kind you've gotten this, the name of a dice game by Milton Bradley. * Yahtzee.

Round 5. Category: Throw It Here * 1: Completes the proverb "People who live in glass houses shouldn't...". * throw stones. * 2: To issue a challenge is to "throw down" this, like a medieval knight. * the gauntlet. * 3: Too bad when Hart Crane jumped ship his father couldn't throw him this, like the same-named candy he invented. * a lifesaver. * 4: From the Latin for "to speak from the belly", it's the art of throwing one's voice. * ventriloquism (to ventriloquize accepted). * 5: In 1915 he became the first president to attend the World Series and to throw out the first pitch during a Series game. * (Woodrow) Wilson.

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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 their employers' wrongdoing. * Whistleblowers. * 5: Common name for deadly nighshade, a plant that's poisonous in all its parts. * Belladonna.

Round 2. Category: Parents Are People Too * 1: Also a home for hummingbirds, it becomes "empty" when the last child leaves home. * Nest. * 2: It's what a lonely dad may want to be to you, or the name of the one on the left(President Clinton's dog). * Buddy. * 3: At least this restriction dad put on you isn't a dusk-to-dawn one, as in Warri, Nigeria. * Curfew. * 4: If you get one of these in your nose or navel, parents may let out the same kind of "shriek". * Piercing. * 5: This term for a right that divorcing parents may fight over comes from Latin for "guardian". * Custody.

Round 3. Category: Music Trivia * 1: After the death of Keith Moon in 1978, Kenney Jones became this British group's drummer. * The Who. * 2: "The Camptown Racetrack" was this many "miles long". * five. * 3: It follows "Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above". * "don't fence me in". * 4: This onetime drummer with Benny Goodman was portrayed by Sal Mineo in a 1959 film biography. * Gene Krupa. * 5: In 1929 this crooner began using "My Time Is Your Time" as his theme song. * Rudy Vallee.

Round 4. Category: Tiny Things * 1: These minute grains link the flowers and the bees. * pollen. * 2: Mayonnaise is an example of an emulsion that is a suspension of tiny globules of this in water. * oil. * 3: Access time on hard drives isn't measured in minutes, but in these units abbreviated ms. * milliseconds. * 4: Present in minute amounts in soil and water, these "elements", such as copper and zinc, are essential for your good health. * trace elements. * 5: Those minute red blood cells are erythrocytes, white ones are leukocytes and these are thrombocytes. * platelets.

Round 5. Category: Urban Myths * 1: It's not a croc, I heard it from a friend: these croc relatives are living in the New York City sewers. * Alligators. * 2: Because he's barefoot on the cover of "Abbey Road", I'm convinced this member of the Beatles is dead. * Paul McCartney. * 3: My cousin just told me that a man in a hotel room had this renal organ removed while he slept. * Kidney. * 4: Wow! A couple found this pirate prosthesis on their car door handle when they got home from a date. * Hook. * 5: Did you hear? This man had a congressional page fired for making a "Love Boat" joke. * Fred Grandy.

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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 give Henry VIII a male heir is the basis for this Philippa Gregory historical novel. * The Other Boleyn Girl. * 4: A giant's hen lays golden eggs in many versions of this story. * "Jack and the Beanstalk". * 5: This HBO series originated with Candace Bushnell's newspaper column. * Sex and the City.

Round 2. Category: Prime Ministers Of Israel * 1: The 2 Yitzhaks. * Rabin and Shamir. * 2: The only one commemorated with a one-woman Broadway play. * Golda Meir. * 3: The founding father after whom Tel Aviv's airport is named. * Ben-Gurion. * 4: This Nobel Prize winner was Prime Minister of Israel of twice: once in the '80s and once in the '90s. * Shimon Peres. * 5: Then serving as prime minister, he was a mourner at Anwar Sadat's funeral in 1981. * Begin.

Round 3. Category: Realm Of The Senses * 1: Sounds can cause discomfort above about 100 of these units. * decibels. * 2: The lingual papillae are the main locale for this sense. * taste. * 3: In the brain, the smell of perfume goes to this "bulb". * the olfactory bulb. * 4: If yours is "absolute", you know your ABCs ( and DEFGs) by ear. * pitch. * 5: Planning prudently, or hyperopic. * farsighted.

Round 4. Category: Notable Weddings * 1: This star of "Honeymoon in Vegas" and "Leaving Las Vegas" married Patricia Arquette in 1995. * Nicolas Cage. * 2: People magazine said she dyed her veil in coffee to match her beige dress when she married Arthur Miller in 1956. * Marilyn Monroe. * 3: Chynna Phillips, whose mama and papa are John and Michelle, married this Baldwin with his brothers in attendance. * William (Billy) Baldwin. * 4: Bart Conner must think she's a perfect 10; he married her in Romania in 1996. * Nadia Comaneci. * 5: This "Mayflower Madam" wore pale pink at her wedding, saying, "White would have been ludicrous". * Sydney Biddle Barrows.

Round 5. Category: It Comes With The Territory * 1: Tokelau, a territory of this country, is over 1,000 miles north of its Noeth Island. * New Zealand. * 2: In 1896 George Carmack, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charlie found gold in this territory. * Yukon Territory. * 3: In 1858 the British established this type of colony on India's Andaman Islands. * Penal colony. * 4: The price paid for these Caribbean islands in 1917 was $25 million, over 3 times what Alaska cost. * Virgin Islands. * 5: Australia has an uninhabited territory named for this sea off its northeast coast. * Coral Sea.

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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 the line "Who will change old lamps for new?". * "(The History of) Aladdin". * 5: Originally an explosion of gunpowder in a flintlock rifle that failed to set off the charge. * a flash in the pan.

Round 2. Category: 1983 * 1: In 1983 he won the Nobel Peace Prize; in 2000 he received 1% of the vote in Poland's presidential election. * Lech Walesa. * 2: For the first time since it was formed in 1960, this group cut its benchmark barrel price for crude, from $34 to $29. * OPEC. * 3: NASA verified that the meteorite found under the ice in Antarctica came from this celestial body. * Moon. * 4: The Philippine government identified Rolando Galman as the assassin of this opposition leader. * Benigno Aquino. * 5: When Barney Clark died March 23, 1983 this device, implanted 112 days earlier, was still working normally. * an artificial heart.

Round 3. Category: Made Up * 1: The name of this brand of cosmetics is a French word for a type of hospital. * Clinique. * 2: This makeup line that includes Great Lash mascara takes its name from its founder's sister Mabel. * Maybelline. * 3: In ads for Revlon's Colorstay liquid lip, this country diva sings "Man! I feel like a woman". * Shania Twain. * 4: This company introduced Vamp, a black-red nail polish and a matching lipstick also called Vamp. * Chanel. * 5: This brand known for its clear glycerin soap introduced Lip Plush lipsticks. * Neutrogena.

Round 4. Category: It's A Jungle Out There * 1: A large knife whose name comes from an earlier Spanish word for "mallet"; it's handy for cutting jungle paths. * Machete. * 2: The length of this South American water boa may exceed 30 feet. * Anaconda. * 3: About 2/3 of this river's 2.3 million square mile tropical rain forest lies in Brazil. * Amazon. * 4: 6-letter term for the thick covering formed by the tops of trees and vines where many animals live. * Canopy. * 5: In 1863 French archaeologists began uncovering this temple of Vishnu in the jungles of Cambodia. * Angkor Wat.

Round 5. Category: A Trashery Of Ogden Nashery * 1: "The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo the other" this. * Milk. * 2: Nash coined the word "Cleopatricide" in his quatrain about this snake. * Asp. * 3: In "Reflections on Ice-Breaking", he wrote that "Candy is dandy but" this "is quicker". * Liquor. * 4: "God in his wisdom made" this insect "and then forgot to tell us why". * Fly. * 5: In his poem "The Baby", Nash remarked, "A bit of" this "is always walcum". * Talcum.

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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 before "plasm" and "zoa". * proto-. * 5: When this prefix precedes "active", it means "backwards"; by itself it refers to the style of an earlier time. * retro-.

Round 2. Category: Near Disasters * 1: On Sept. 8, 2001 Erin became the Atlantic season's first of these, but stayed mostly out at sea. * hurricane. * 2: In 1919 the lonely keeper of one of these helped save all 21 crewmen from fire on the steamer Frank O'Connor. * a lighthouse. * 3: A possible nuclear war was averted (for the moment) in June 2002 talks between India and this country. * Pakistan. * 4: In July 2002 9 men were dramatically rescued from a flooded mine in this state. * Pennsylvania. * 5: In 1907 this financier kept the stock market afloat by locking bankers in his library until they raised $25 million. * J.P. Morgan.

Round 3. Category: "Moo" * 1: The song "That's Amore" is on the soundtrack to this 1987 Cher film. * Moonstruck. * 2: This adjective means "purely academic" or "irrelevant". * Moot. * 3: This stir-fried Chinese dish that contains shredded pork, scallions and egg is rolled in a thin pancake. * Moo shu pork. * 4: It's another name for a person born under the sign of Cancer. * Moonchild/moonchildren. * 5: This Cab Calloway song includes the lines "Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi-De-Hi!" and "Ho-De-Ho-De-Ho-De-Ho!". * "Minnie The Moocher".

Round 4. Category: Español * 1: The Spanish "calabozo" and the cowboy variation calaboose both mean thse. * jail. * 2: Any Spanish pier or wharf, or a certain waterfront area in San Francisco. * embarcadero. * 3: This day of the week is domingo. * Sunday. * 4: This pet is un perro. * a dog. * 5: You'll find these, los escritorios, in the classroom. * a desk.

Round 5. Category: Historic Occasions * 1: Name shared by an American film made in 1903 and a British crime committed in 1963. * The Great Train Robbery. * 2: James Marshall found this Jan. 24, 1848, days before California was handed over to the U.S.. * Gold. * 3: The 1851 Lopez Expedition, a disasterous attempt to free this island, was an early version of the Bay of Pigs. * Cuba. * 4: In 1798, in this African country, Napoleon said, "Soldiers...forty centuries look down upon you". * Egypt. * 5: This man died April 5, 1975, after a quarter of a century leading Nationalist China on Taiwan. * Chiang Kai-shek.

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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 higher". * "Electric Avenue". * 4: "Jenny, I've got your number, I need to make you mine, Jenny don't change your number" ...this one. * 867-5309. * 5: "But you'll never see the end of the road while you're traveling with me, hey now, hey now, don't" do this. * dream it's over.

Round 2. Category: Know Your Earth * 1: It's the length in hours of a mean solar day. * 24. * 2: Follow this line and you'll travel almost exactly 24,900 miles to get back to your starting point. * the equator. * 3: Filling this reservoir behind Hoover Dam caused earthquakes in the area until the land settled. * Lake Mead. * 4: The book "The Earth" calls this the most potent geomorphological agent there is, causing the most damage. * man. * 5: Just above the troposphere is this ozone-containing layer of the atmosphere. * the stratosphere.

Round 3. Category: Puttin' Out The Welcome Matt * 1: This "Friends" star lost the tip of his right middle finger in a childhood accident (It's not LeBlanc). * Matthew Perry. * 2: On June 24, 2005, this Matt, Matt, Matt interviewed Tom Cruise on NBC. * Matt Lauer. * 3: 12 years after taking a "Day Off", he played Dr. Niko Tatopoulos in 1998's "Godzilla". * Matthew Broderick. * 4: He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as a cop in "Crash". * Matt Dillon. * 5: He played the "Private Ryan" Tom Hanks was trying to save. * Matt Damon.

Round 4. Category: Ordinal People * 1: If you're the official attendant to someone in a duel or a boxing match, you're known by this ordinal term. * a second. * 2: Adding to a list that includes the pyramids, Andre the Giant and King Kong have each been called this. * the Eighth Wonder of the World. * 3: Harry Truman once "globally" broadened eleanor Roosevelt's title by calling her this. * First Lady of the World. * 4: After Guy Burgess and Donald McClean defected to Russia, Kim Philby was called this, after a Graham Greene title. * the Third Man. * 5: J. Lucas-Dubreton's biography of Alexandre Dumas is titled this, like what d'Artagnan wants to be. * The Fourth Musketeer.

Round 5. Category: Potent Potables * 1: It's added to a gin fizz to make it fizz. * carbonated soda (or soda water or carbonated water). * 2: It's the French region synonymous with sparkling wine. * Champagne. * 3: This Mexican spirit is obtained by distilling pulque. * Tequila. * 4: This 19th century Philadelphia distiller's name became slang for liquor. * Booze. * 5: Trader Vic claims credit for inventing this rum drink and says it was named by a Tahitian friend. * Mai tai.

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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 can drive by, but not across. * Red Square. * 3: High degree Freemasons know it can be hard to drive by this L.A. auditorium on Jefferson Blvd. on Oscar night. * the Shrine Auditorium. * 4: You'll reach the president's office in this country driving to the union buildings on Government Ave. in Pretoria. * South Africa. * 5: Drive down Obala Vojvode Stepe in this city and relive the street's most famous moment of June 28, 1914. * Sarajevo.

Round 2. Category: Necco Sweethearts * 1: 2-letter word that precedes "mine", "good" and "true" on the hearts. * be. * 2: In 2001 a colon and right parenthesis were put together to create this design on a heart. * happy/smiley face. * 3: The pink hearts are cherry flavored, the green, lemon, and the yellow, this. * banana. * 4: In the 2001 mix there was the name of this goddess or planet. * Venus. * 5: Originally called Motto Hearts, the fact they're now called this will give you something to talk about. * Conversation Hearts.

Round 3. Category: Taken Literally * 1: German combo of "car" and "road". * Autobahn. * 2: French: black beast; English: nemesis. * a bête noir. * 3: It's Spanish for "hand to hand". * mano a mano. * 4: Evidently, it's Latin for "from the first face". * prima facie. * 5: "Inquistion" contestants know its Portugese for "act of the faith". * auto-da-fé.

Round 4. Category: Journalists * 1: Jason Robards played this Washington Post editor in "All the President's Men". * Ben Bradlee. * 2: This son of a "60 Minutes" correspondent was at ABC News for 15 years before joining Fox News in 2003. * Chris Wallace. * 3: "A Mighty Heart" is a 2003 biography of this slain Wall Street Journal reporter by his widow, Mariane. * (Daniel) Pearl. * 4: This Pulitzer winner gained fame reporting on My Lai and has written on Iraq for The New Yorker. * (Seymour) Hersh. * 5: Michael Kinsley is the founding editor of this "rocking" online publication. * Slate.

Round 5. Category: Geographic Cinema * 1: 1979:"The blank Horror". * Amityville. * 2: 1957:"The Spirit of blank ". * St. Louis. * 3: 1987:"Born in blank ". * East L.A.. * 4: 1931:"Sidewalks of blank ". * New York. * 5: 1960:"Sunrise at blank ". * Campobello.

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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 riddle; it concerned a honey-filled lion. * Samson. * 5: This disguised man was the first person to kiss someone in the Bible; he kissed his father. * Jacob.

Round 2. Category: Gimme An "H" * 1: He was the last major party pres. candidate to win his party's nod without winning the most votes in the primaries. * Hubert Humphrey. * 2: The western hemisphere country with French as an official language that fits the category. * Haiti. * 3: This Onondaga chief who helped unite the Iroquois was celebrated by Longfellow. * Hiawatha. * 4: In the New Testament, he tells the Magi, "Go and search diligently for the young child...". * Herod (the Great). * 5: This scientific endeavor abbreviated HGP had the goal of mapping every gene of Homo sapiens. * the Human Genome Project.

Round 3. Category: Follow The Leader * 1: It's the military rank of the head of state of Libya. * Colonel. * 2: Following the lead of Germany, this man declared war on Britain and France in June 1940. * Mussolini. * 3: Taking over from his assassinated father in 2001, Joseph Kabila is the president of this country once known as Zaire. * Democratic Republic of the Congo. * 4: In 2002 Helen Clark won election to a second term as this Down Under country's prime minister. * New Zealand. * 5: In northern Europe, Goran Persson leads as the prime minister of this nation. * Sweden.

Round 4. Category: You're The Mayor * 1: Now in his fifth term, Richard M. Daley has the daily duty of running this metropolis. * Chicago. * 2: In 2005 he was re-elected mayor of New York City by an almost 20 percent margin. * (Michael) Bloomberg. * 3: The most populous U.S. city with an elected female mayor is this 2nd-largest Texas city, with Laura Miller. * Dallas. * 4: Former state governor Jerry Brown reigns as the mayor of this California city. * Oakland. * 5: Sworn in as this city's 97th mayor in 2000, John F. Street is a graduate of its Temple University. * Philadelphia.

Round 5. Category: Gay Blades * 1: The mark left by George Hamilton's "gay blade". * a Z. * 2: Its use was abolished in France in 1981, 188 years too late for Marie Antoinette. * the guillotine. * 3: The sword in the stone from the Lady of the Lake. * Excalibur. * 4: You'd need an undertaker, not a styptic pencil after this was used by Sweeney Todd. * a straight razor. * 5: Ridley Scott's dim futuristic film view of Los Angeles. * Blade Runner.

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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 friend of this all-American boy. * Jack Armstrong. * 3: Henry Armstrong is the only pro to hold 3 world championships simultaneously in this sport. * boxing. * 4: He's Wapakoneta, Ohio's most famous Armstrong. * Neil Armstrong. * 5: In 1933 American engineer Edwin Armstrong came up with this new radio system. * FM, or frequency modulation.

Round 2. Category: "Glad" Tidings * 1: Colosseum combatants of ancient Rome. * the gladiators. * 2: 1st line of Carol Burnett's theme. * "I'm so glad we had this time together". * 3: Your best "fun" clothing. * your glad rags. * 4: Named for a 19th century British statesman, it's a suitcase hinged to open flat. * Gladstone. * 5: On "Bewitched", she was the nosy neighbor of Darren and Samantha Stevens. * Gladys Kravitz.

Round 3. Category: Out Of The Microwave * 1: To cook this ballpark treat, put it in a bun, wrap it in a paper towel and microwave it for 30 seconds. * Hot dog. * 2: Betty Crocker sells this snack food under the name Pop Secret. * Microwave popcorn. * 3: Baking these russets in a regular oven can take 45-60 minutes, but the microwave can cook them in 5. * Potatoes. * 4: Dishes made of this type of material can damage a microwave and shouldn't be used. * Metal. * 5: This brand of microwaveable dinners makes Lean Cuisine. * Stouffer's.

Round 4. Category: Kidnapped * 1: This heiress was abducted from her Berkeley apt. on Feb. 4, 1974; the FBI captured her on Sept. 18, 1975. * Patty Hearst. * 2: On Dec. 2, 1969 Cindy Birdsong of this Motown group was kidnapped at knifepoint but escaped by jumping out of a car. * the Supremes. * 3: This billionaire's grandson was kidnapped in 1973; ransom wasn't paid until the boy's ear was sent to a newspaper. * (John Paul) Getty. * 4: This 14-year-old was taken from her Salt Lake City home in June 2002 and found walking down a street 9 months later. * Elizabeth Smart. * 5: In December 1991 this bureau chief for the A.P. in Beirut was released by Hezbollah after 6 years, 7 months. * Terry Anderson.

Round 5. Category: Start "In" On It * 1: John Hinckley was acquitted of shooting Ronald Reagan by reason of this. * Insanity. * 2: From the Latin for "no boundary", it refers to a quantity or distance so large it cannot be measured. * Infinite. * 3: It's the emission of visible light by a hot object. * Incandescence. * 4: According to Locke, these kinds of rights cannot be violated by any governing authority. * Inalienable rights. * 5: It's a ritual recitation of verbal charms or spells to produce a magic effect. * Incantation.

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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 to move large herds of longhorn cattle, the Chisholm Trail ran from this state to Kansas. * Texas. * 2: Hikers enjoy the 13-mile Barr Trail to the summit of this Colorado peak. * Pikes Peak. * 3: From beginning to end, the Old Spanish Trail ran between Santa Fe and this West Coast city. * Los Angeles. * 4: The forced march this Eastern tribe made West during the winter of 1838-39 is known as the Trail of Tears. * the Cherokee. * 5: The Bozeman Trail took travelers from this Wyoming fort to the gold fields in Montana. * Fort Laramie.

Round 3. Category: The Fabulous '50S * 1: Nickname given to Eisenhower's theory that if one Asian country falls to Communism, others will follow. * Domino Theory/Principle. * 2: He's credited with coining the term "beat" to describe a generation. * Jack Kerouac. * 3: Yum! The peanut version of these letter-perfect candies debuted in 1954. * M and M's. * 4: He spent the entire decade as chancellor of West Germany. * Konrad Adenauer. * 5: This actor who'd wanted to be an aviator since he was a lad was lucky enough to play Lindbergh in a 1957 film. * Jimmy Stewart.

Round 4. Category: Presidents Since 1970 * 1: Born the farthest south. * Jimmy Carter. * 2: Once a union president. * Ronald Reagan. * 3: Attended Oxford. * Bill Clinton. * 4: Served in the House of Representatives the longest. * Gerald Ford. * 5: A recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross. * George H.W. Bush.

Round 5. Category: Let's Celebrate! * 1: Celebrated on November 11, it honors those who served in our Armed Forces. * Veterans Day. * 2: French for "good journey", it's the kind of party thrown to celebrate setting off on a cruise. * Bon Voyage. * 3: This festival officially opens when the mayor of Munich taps the first barrel and shouts, "O'zapft Is!". * Oktoberfest. * 4: Also known as Shrove Tuesday, this lively celebration is held on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. * Fat Tuesday (or Mardi Gras). * 5: (Hi, I'm Jodie Foster.) When my friend Mel Gibson won 2 Oscars for this film, I hired a bagpiper to follow him around at the parties. * Braveheart.

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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 call it the "hair" of these heavenly beings. * Angels. * 4: From 1949 to 1990 Germany was split into 2 countries, which were called this. * East and West Germany. * 5: A rathaus isn't as bad as it sounds: it's this "hall" where the mayor might work. * City hall.

Round 2. Category: Expensive Hollywood Divorces * 1: He split amicably with wife Amy Irving in 1989, but it cost him $100 million. * Steven Spielberg. * 2: This ex-husband of comedienne Roseanne Barr had the last laugh after walking away with $50 million. * Tom Arnold. * 3: Ex-wife Casey might have said "Cheers" to this TV star after he paid a divorce tab of $30 million. * Ted Danson. * 4: The cost for turning off this singer's "Heartlight" when he divorced his wife in 1996 was $150 million. * Neil Diamond. * 5: In 1994 it was "Dances with Alimony Payments" for this actor when he coughed up $80 million to Cindy. * Kevin Costner.

Round 3. Category: U.s. Universities * 1: High school buddies might want to apply to Friends University, based in Wichita in this state. * Kansas. * 2: Western Michigan is in Kalamazoo; Nothern Michigan is in Marquette; this university is in Ypsilanti. * Eastern Michigan University. * 3: Famous alumni of this Baltimore school include Rachels Carsons and Michaels Bloombergs. * Johns Hopkins. * 4: (Hi. I'm Mark Cuban, entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks.) I dreamed up broadcast.com when I wanted to watch this Bloomington school's basketball team. * the University of Indiana. * 5: Methodists founded this Connecticut University and named it for Methodism's founder. * Wesleyan.

Round 4. Category: Worms * 1: This mythological bird was reborn from a worm which emerged from its funeral ashes. * phoenix. * 2: He told the Diet of Worms, "I do not accept the authority of popes and councils". * Martin Luther. * 3: In "Henry VI, Part 3", Clifford tells the king that "The smallest worm will" do this "being trodden on". * turn. * 4: The name of this red shade is from the Latin for "worm"; the dye was first made from cochineal insects. * vermillion. * 5: In this 1965 sci-fi novel, giant sandworms on the planet Arrakis create a much-desired spice called melange. * "Dune".

Round 5. Category: 1979 * 1: 1,000 Chinese protested the privileges of high officials in this square, more famous 10 years later. * Tiananmen Square. * 2: Noted falls in 1979 included the Shah of Iran's after 37 years and this space station's after 34,980 orbits. * Skylab. * 3: Amity Island was the setting for this 1975 film that topped 1979's TV ratings. * Jaws. * 4: No longer a Sex Pistol, he was facing murder charges when he died in February. * Sid Vicious. * 5: This general resigned as Supreme Commander of NATO and also retired from the U.S. Army. * Alexander Haig.

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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 Virginia Slims, on the "Tonight Show" Jan. 1, 1971. * the last ad for cigarettes. * 4: The Garde Republicaine is France's last of these horse-mounted regiments. * cavalry. * 5: Alaska is home to the USA's last flagstop one of these, which passengers flag down as it approaches. * the train.

Round 2. Category: On My Head * 1: If a German woman is plucking her augenbrauen, she's tweezing these. * eyebrows. * 2: In the 1920s, the "bee-stung" look was popular for these on a woman. * lips. * 3: Auricles are the outer portion of these on your head. * ears. * 4: A cluster headache may center in these "religious" regions at either side of the head. * the temples. * 5: Strabismus is the technical term for the inability to coordinate the movement of these. * the eyes.

Round 3. Category: Silent K * 1: To interlock yarn loops to make a garment. * knit. * 2: Super soul sister backed up by The Pips. * Gladys Knight. * 3: Literally German for "crack sausage", it's like a shorter, thicker frankfurter. * knackwurst. * 4: President Polk's middle name. * Knox. * 5: Ancient capital of the Minoan civilization on Crete. * Knossos.

Round 4. Category: Everyday Items * 1: A backless beach sandal, or changing your mind on an issue. * flip-flop. * 2: File clerks would be lost without Pendaflex hanging file these. * folders. * 3: Made of copper-plated zinc, they cost the government 80 percent of their worth to produce. * pennies. * 4: Businessmen in London's "The City" carry rolled-up black ones of these, also called bumbershoots. * umbrellas. * 5: In ice fishing, this type of "seat" refers to an overturned 5-gallon one. * a bucket.

Round 5. Category: Worms * 1: This mythological bird was reborn from a worm which emerged from its funeral ashes. * phoenix. * 2: He told the Diet of Worms, "I do not accept the authority of popes and councils". * Martin Luther. * 3: In "Henry VI, Part 3", Clifford tells the king that "The smallest worm will" do this "being trodden on". * turn. * 4: The name of this red shade is from the Latin for "worm"; the dye was first made from cochineal insects. * vermillion. * 5: In this 1965 sci-fi novel, giant sandworms on the planet Arrakis create a much-desired spice called melange. * "Dune".

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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: Inventions And Discoveries * 1: Discovered in 1797 by Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, this element was named for the Greek for "color". * chromium. * 2: Prince Boris Golitzen invented an electromagnetic one of these, and was probably paid "Richter" scale. * Seismograph. * 3: In 1711, trumpeter John Shore invented this two-pronged pitch setter. * Tuning fork. * 4: In July of 1995, leptin was in the news; it's a protein that caused some mice to do this. * lose weight. * 5: In 1910 this Swiss company produced its first wrist chronometer. * Rolex.

Round 3. Category: Official Languages * 1: Brazil. * Portuguese. * 2: In the Republic of Cyprus:These 2 languages. * Greek and Turkish. * 3: Canada(both, please). * French and English. * 4: Malagasy. * Madagascar. * 5: Kurdish. * Iraq.

Round 4. Category: By George, It's George * 1: According to Parson Weems, this man was incapable of being mendacious. * George Washington. * 2: This U.S. general who loved horses and studied at a cavalry school helped protect the Lipizzaners in WWII. * George Patton. * 3: His command of the 7th Cavalry ended on June 25, 1876. * General George Custer. * 4: In 1760 he became the last British monarch to be buried in Westminster Abbey. * George II. * 5: This South American capital was once known as Stabroek. * Georgetown.

Round 5. Category: Lacrosse * 1: To make up a men's lacrosse team, you need this many people, one more than a baseball team. * 10. * 2: Lacrosse was played for medals just twice in these games: in 1904 and 1908. * Olympics. * 3: Each half, each team is allowed two 2-minute ones. * Time Outs. * 4: As in hockey, each period begins with one of these. * Face-Off. * 5: The sport was named and developed in what's now this country, where it's a national game. * Canada.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 150, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Non-Potent Potables * 1: A daiquiri made without liquor is this type, like a chaste young woman. * a virgin. * 2: A daiquiri made without liquor is this type, like a chaste young woman. * a virgin. * 3: Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Hires invented this beverage in the mid-1800s. * root beer. * 4: As a byproduct of his investigations into oxygen, Joseph Priestly invented this modern beverage. * carbonated water (or club soda). * 5: O'Douls is a brand of this with only 0.4% alcohol. * beer.

Round 2. Category: Crossword Clues "S" * 1: 1 of 7 womb mates(9). * septuplet. * 2: Puny shellfish(6). * Shrimp. * 3: Irish water or English springer(7). * spaniel. * 4: "Snakelike" Hyde Park lake (10). * Serpentine. * 5: To consecrate or make holy (8). * sanctify.

Round 3. Category: Let's Split! * 1: In 2000 Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that this computer company should be split in two. * Microsoft. * 2: Grammar alert: there's a split one of these in the phrase "He chose to wisely decline the invitation". * an infinitive. * 3: Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman got together long enough to split this in 1938. * the atom. * 4: Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda share ownership of this body of water. * Lake Victoria. * 5: Name given to the period between 1378 and 1417 when the Catholic Church had 2 or 3 popes serving simultaneously. * the Great Schism.

Round 4. Category: "Roll" Call * 1: This kitchen item with a short handle at each end could easily be the seventh clue murder weapon. * a rolling pin. * 2: You'll flip for this heavy steel transverse item in the form of an inverted U on a vehicle. * a roll bar. * 3: Random House defines it as "a small gravity railroad". * a roller coaster. * 4: A return to a lower level in prices. * a rollback. * 5: Appropriate 7-letter term for the first public showing of an aircraft. * rollout.

Round 5. Category: Horsing Around * 1: It's the proper term for getting on a horse; most riders do it from the horse's left. * Mounting. * 2: Eerie type of horseman who pursues Ichabod Crane. * a headless horseman. * 3: It makes a blacksmith's job much easier that this part of the horse has no nerves. * hoof. * 4: Some cowboys wear these seatless leather trousers to protect their legs when they ride horses. * chaps. * 5: This term for riding without a saddle sounds like you have to be partially nude to do it. * Bareback.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 149, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Well, Duh! * 1: Samuel Goldwyn supposedly said anyone who goes to one of these doctors should have his head examined. * Psychiatrist. * 2: The English word for this animal comes from the Greek "kamelos". * camel. * 3: Joan Embery reports that all birds have these, "A characteristic shared by no other type of animal". * Feathers. * 4: Ballplayer Alex Johnson said this when asked, "2 homers last year. 7 this year -- what's the difference?". * 5. * 5: This brand of oats uses a man in Quaker garb in its logo. * Quaker Oats.

Round 2. Category: Saturday Night Lives * 1: His classic characters on "SNL" included the Killer Bee, Joe Cocker and the Samurai Warrior. * John Belushi. * 2: In the fall of 1976, this star of "Fletch" became one of the first cast members to leave the show. * Chevy Chase. * 3: The show's original cast members were billed as these "players". * "The Not Ready For Prime Time Players". * 4: For 2 seasons Don Novello appeared regularly on the show as this "Father". * Father Guido Sarducci. * 5: Cast member Nora Dunn boycotted the final show of the '89-90 season when this controversial comedian hosted. * Andrew Dice Clay.

Round 3. Category: Classic Sitcoms By Character * 1: Cliff,Carla,Coach Pantusso. * Cheers. * 2: Bud,Kelly,Peg,Al. * Married... with Children. * 3: Floyd,Opie,Emmett. * The Andy Griffith Show. * 4: Rosie,Dr. Sidney Friedman,Father Mulcahy. * MASH. * 5: Wrangler Jane,Corporal Agarn,Chief Wild Eagle. * F Troop*.

Round 4. Category: Party Food And Drink * 1: This drink is always served at a kegger, until it runs out. * Beer. * 2: A mixture of beverages, this party drink remains nonpotent until spiked. * Punch. * 3: Spanish words for peppers and cheese give this Tex-Mex dip its name. * Chile con queso. * 4: Porcine term for little hot dogs wrapped in puff pastry. * Pigs in a blanket. * 5: The rare golden sterlet type of this fish roe delicacy was once reserved for czars and shahs. * Caviar.

Round 5. Category: The Movies: But Weight, There's More * 1: He took time off from filming "Raging Bull" in order to gain the weight he needed for the ending. * Robert De Niro. * 2: He gained as well as lost weight for his role in "Cast Away". * Tom Hanks. * 3: An Italian pasta job could have bulked her up for the 2003 film "Monster". * Charlize Theron. * 4: For his role as the hobbit Samwise, he packed on 30 pounds. * Sean Astin. * 5: The pounds he put on for "Cop Land" may have been from a lot of rocky road ice cream. * Sylvester Stallone.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 148, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 148, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: To Build A Flower * 1: A fib plus French for "lake". * a lilac. * 2: Any automobile plus any country. * a carnation. * 3: Word preceding "and proper" plus "Charmed" actress McGowan. * a primrose. * 4: An English fop plus the king of beasts. * a dandelion. * 5: A numeric pair plus a part of the mouth. * a tulip.

Round 2. Category: Book Sequels? * 1: Arthur Dimmesdale returns (difficult, as he died in the first book) in this 19th c. author's "The Chartreuse Number". * Hawthorne. * 2: Guy Montag is back, and those books are gonna pay in this author's "Celsius 232.78". * Ray Bradbury. * 3: Natty Bumppo discovers there's "The Penultimate Iroquois" in this man's 1820s sequel. * James Fenimore Cooper. * 4: Edmond Dantes gets a promotion in this author's 19th c. sequel "The Fresh Prince of Monte Cristo". * Alexandre Dumas. * 5: Jose Arcadio Buendia is back a-buildin' in this author's 1960s book "25 More Years of Me-Time". * Gabriel García Márquez.

Round 3. Category: Driving * 1: This type of transmission has been making stop-and-go driving easier since 1904. * Automatic transmission. * 2: If you can read this clue, you can name this station wagon part that means to follow too closely. * Tailgate. * 3: In September 2000, Congress held hearings on this company's product found on Fords. * Firestone. * 4: Experts disagree on whether 10 and 2 o'clock or 9 and 3 is better for this; no one thinks much of the old wrist drape. * steering wheel position. * 5: Term for the type of skidding in which a car rides on a film of water, losing traction. * Hydroplaning.

Round 4. Category: Shoot The Moon * 1: This lunar "sea" was the landing site of Apollo 11's Eagle module. * Sea of Tranquility. * 2: This term used for an Apollo mission's return to Earth tells you it landed in water. * Splashdown. * 3: On the Apollo 14 mission, Alan Shepard introduced this sport to the moon. * Golf. * 4: A NASA doctor declined this president's dinner invitation to the Apollo 11 crew because of risk of infections. * Richard M. Nixon. * 5: Apollo 15, 16 and 17 used these 4-wheeled vehicles to fetch rock samples. * Lunar rovers.

Round 5. Category: Oh, The Humanities! * 1: Last name of Lucian, a certain psychoanalyst's grandson; his '50s paintings keyed on realistic nudes, for some reason. * Freud. * 2: He's hosted the Tony Awards and in 2014 won one for "Hedwig and the Angry Inch". * Neil Patrick Harris. * 3: His "Book of Marvels" was about his 13th C. trip to the East with his father and uncle (who'd been there before). * Marco Polo. * 4: Keep incredibly calm and carry on; Britannica says "tranquillity of mind" is key to this ancient Greek philosophy. * stoicism. * 5: Keep incredibly calm and carry on; Britannica says "tranquillity of mind" is key to this ancient Greek philosophy. * stoicism.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 147, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Taking A "Bath" * 1: It attracts feathered friends. * Birdbath. * 2: It's what the baby shouldn't be thrown out with. * the Bathwater. * 3: This vehicle can take you under the sea. * Bathyscape. * 4: Extreme sentimentality. * Bathos. * 5: It's the chemical rinse that keeps photographic film from overdeveloping. * Stop bath.

Round 2. Category: Odd Words * 1: A person described as loquacious does this a lot. * Talks. * 2: Something that displays eutexia does this easily, like ice cream. * Melt. * 3: An opera extra, when not carrying one of these, can set it in a fewter. * Spear. * 4: Stipple means to draw or paint with these instead of lines; Seurat was a master. * Points (Pointilism). * 5: In this sport, a "firstbrun" is a jump turn at right angles. * Skiing.

Round 3. Category: Berkeley In The '60S * 1: In October 1965 Oakland police turned back over 10,000 marchers protesting this war. * Vietnam War. * 2: This actor won the California governorship in 1966 using the unrest at Berkeley as a campaign issue. * Ronald Reagan. * 3: Mario Savio was an informal leader of the FSM, a group named for this constitutional right. * Free Speech Movement. * 4: It completes the protest slogan "I am a UC student: do not fold, bend or" this. * Mutilate. * 5: In May 1960, the San Francisco meeting of this House committee was disrupted by protesters from Berkeley. * the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Round 4. Category: Where The "H" Are We? * 1: Parker Ranch,Kilauea Volcano,Monument to Captain Cook. * Hawaii. * 2: Victoria Peak,Kai Tak Airport,Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel. * Hong Kong. * 3: Lake Balaton,Bela Bartok Memorial House,Buda Concert Hall. * Hungary. * 4: Senate Square,Mannerheim Museum,Sibelius Park. * Helsinki. * 5: The Malecon,Morro Castle,Revolution Square. * Havana.

Round 5. Category: Poetry Potpourri * 1: He married Minnehaha, the "Loveliest of Dacotah Women". * Hiawatha. * 2: Milton work that begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree...". * "Paradise Lost". * 3: An 8-line stanza, it's usually the first 8 lines in an Italian sonnet. * Octave. * 4: Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, he idealized his boss as a knight in "The Faerie Queene". * Edmund Spenser. * 5: She described her nervous breakdown in her 1960 poetry collection "To Bedlam and Part Way Back". * Anne Sexton.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 146, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Finish The Proverb * 1: Too many cooks.... * spoil the broth. * 2: You can't judge a book.... * by its cover. * 3: He who laughs last.... * laughs best. * 4: Nothing ventured.... * nothing gained. * 5: Man cannot live.... * on bread alone.

Round 2. Category: Drinks * 1: This lemon-lime soft drink encourages you to "obey your thirst". * Sprite. * 2: In 1963 this cooperative released its first juice blend, Cran-apple. * Ocean Spray. * 3: In 1963 this cooperative released its first juice blend, Cran-Apple. * Ocean Spray. * 4: "Here's to your health!" is the motto of this iced tea brand that celebrated its 20th year in 2012. * Arizona. * 5: "Here's to your health!" is the motto of this iced tea brand that celebrated its 20th year in 2012. * Arizona.

Round 3. Category: Blank Of The Blank * 1: This expression meaning "the best part" mixes dairy and plant farming. * cream of the crop. * 2: In response to this Irish greeting, you can say, "And the rest of the day to yourself". * top of the morning. * 3: This comparison of 2 boxers before a fight includes numbers for height, reach and chest size. * tale of the tape. * 4: In 1961 British critic Martin Esslin used this phrase to describe the plays of Beckett and Ionesco. * theatre of the absurd. * 5: This expression meaning "just the average part" sounds like it could refer to grain. * run of the mill.

Round 4. Category: Minnesotans * 1: in 1977 he was voted deputy president pro tem of the U.S. Senate, a position created for him. * (Hubert H.) Humphrey. * 2: This creator of "Peanuts" was once a free-lance cartoonist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. * Charles Schulz. * 3: This "Great Gatsby" author was related to a woman hanged in connection with Lincoln's assassination. * (F. Scott) Fitzgerald. * 4: This man, Chief Justice of the U.S. 1969-1986, graduated magna cum laude from St. Paul College of Law in 1931. * (Warren) Burger. * 5: This oilman who founded a Malibu, California museum was born in Minneapolis in 1892. * (John Paul) Getty.

Round 5. Category: Cartoon Critters * 1: Uncle Scrooge. * duck. * 2: Chip and Dale. * chipmunks. * 3: Magilla. * gorilla. * 4: Simba. * lion. * 5: Heckle and Jeckle. * magpies.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 145, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tales * 1: "Needful Things" is a recent tale of terror by this author of "It" and "Cujo". * Stephen King. * 2: In 1931 Jean de Brunhoff wrote the first of several children's tales about this elephant. * Babar. * 3: This author was one of the first to use the term "Jazz Age" in his "Tales of the Jazz Age" in 1922. * Fitzgerald. * 4: The general prologue to this monumental work describes the meeting of 30 pilgrims at the Tabard Inn. * The Canterbury Tales. * 5: "The Last of the Mohicans" is among the novels that make up this series of tales. * The Leatherstocking Tales.

Round 2. Category: "R" Town * 1: "Believe It or Not", Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia all have a town named this. * Ripley. * 2: "Take A Ride" through this town, named for the ancestral home of William Penn's family. * Reading. * 3: Vikings founded the first permanent settlement in this national capital around 874. * Reykjavik. * 4: This Georgia city was founded in 1834 on a site that had 7 hills. * Rome. * 5: Founded in the 13th century, this major Dutch port was heavily damaged by German bombing in World War II. * Rotterdam.

Round 3. Category: Oscar-Winning Roles * 1: Forrest Gump. * Tom Hanks. * 2: Rooster Cogburn. * John Wayne. * 3: Miss Daisy Werthan. * Jessica Tandy. * 4: 2009:He was really good as Bad Blake. * Jeff Bridges. * 5: 1999:Her multi-dimensional performance as Brandon Teena / Teena Brandon won an Oscar. * Hilary Swank.

Round 4. Category: The Deans List * 1: Much of this Rat Pack crooner's hard-drinking persona may have been just for the cameras. * Dean Martin. * 2: In the 1930s this "lightheaded" pitcher led the National League in strikeouts 4 times. * Dizzy Dean. * 3: The then-new fad of skateboarding was celebrated in this duo's 1964 hit song "Sidewalk Surfin'". * Jan and Dean. * 4: It doesn't take a sausage to know that this country singer took "Big Bad John" to No. 1 in 1961. * Jimmy Dean. * 5: This author's thrillers turned into films include "Phantoms" and "Demon Seed". * Dean Koontz.

Round 5. Category: Whaaazuuup?! * 1: On Dec. 14, 1972 Gene Cernan became the last man to drive a vehicle up here. * the moon. * 2: Launched Oct. 4, 1957, it circled the Earth once every 96 minutes, going 18,000 MPH. * Sputnik. * 3: Leonardo da Vinci sketched one of these in 1483; Sikorsky produced the first practical one in 1939. * helicopter. * 4: In May 1927 this plane was tested by flying from San Diego to NYC; it took 20 hours, 21 minutes. * the Spirit of St. Louis. * 5: With room for 700, this traveled 1 mile at a height of 70 feet on its only flight in 1947. * the Spruce Goose.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 144, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Middle Earth * 1: They're the 3 South American countries through which the equator passes. * Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil. * 2: The equator passes through this nation's islands of Sulawesi, Kalimantan and Sumatra. * Indonesia. * 3: The largest lake on the equator is this African one. * Lake Victoria. * 4: Though this highest African mountain lies near the equator, it usually remains snowcapped year-round. * Mount Kilimanjaro. * 5: This "Equatorial" nation consists of a mainland territory and 5 offshore islands including Bioko. * Equatorial Guinea.

Round 2. Category: Bands Of The '80S * 1: Icicle Works formed in this city more than 20 years after the Beatles. * Liverpool. * 2: This group got its name by combining the names of 2 bands: Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns. * Guns N' Roses. * 3: This Wham! singer's original name was Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou. * George Michael. * 4: The Proclaimers hit the U.S. charts when "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" was featured in this Johnny Depp film. * Benny and Joon. * 5: Bobby Brown left this group in 1986 and was replaced by Johnny Gill. * New Edition.

Round 3. Category: "V"Ariety * 1: In Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls", the fowls gather to choose their mates on this day. * Valentine's Day. * 2: The first laws against alcohol in the Americas were passed in 1623 with the help of Gov. Francis Wyatt of this colony. * Virginia. * 3: This great writer of the Enlightenment was known as "The Plato of the 18th Centuty". * Voltaire. * 4: In the 1860's this industrial "commodore" lost the fight for control of the Erie Railroad. * Cornelius Vanderbilt. * 5: From the Latin for "wide vessel", this type of drug does just that; it widens blood vessels. * vasodilator.

Round 4. Category: You, Me And Due Process * 1: The idea of due process of law dates from this 1215 document. * the Magna Carta. * 2: The 2000 Supreme Court decision in this case, him v. him, involved vote-counting guidelines and due process of law. * Bush v. Gore. * 3: In 1970 the Supreme Court held for the first time that due process required proof of guilt "beyond" this. * reasonable doubt. * 4: "Due Process of Law" appears first in this amendment; go ahead, "take" it, you won't get in trouble. * the Fifth Amendment. * 5: This man vs. Arizona said confessions obtained without telling suspects of their right to counsel couldn't be used in court. * Miranda.

Round 5. 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 stoned or brickworked, and maybe even teach you a secret handshake. * a mason. * 5: A teacher could handle this, the moving of earth to form a smooth surface for a roadway. * a grader.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 142, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 142, 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.. * 37.9%. * 5: At $500,000, most expensive custom car was this make and model, made in 1968 for Secret Service. * Lincoln Continental.

Round 2. Category: A Candy-Gory * 1: Pep-O-Mint was the first flavor of these. * Life Savers. * 2: Hugs are a version of this bite-sized Hershey candy, with milk chocolate hugged by sweet white cream. * Kisses. * 3: This Nestle candy bar, crisped rice in chocolate, was introduced in 1938. * Crunch. * 4: These chewy candies were launched in the U.K. under the name "opal fruits". * Starburst. * 5: These chocolate-covered caramels were named for the disappointment at not being able to make them perfectly round. * Milk Duds.

Round 3. Category: Washington, Lincoln Or George W. Bush * 1: Was born a British subject. * Washington. * 2: The tallest. * Lincoln. * 3: Lost the popular vote in a presidential election. * Bush. * 4: Went to Yale and Harvard. * Bush. * 5: Received a patent. * Lincoln.

Round 4. Category: The Beatles * 1: Their 1st movie. * A Hard Day's Night. * 2: This drummer joined the Beatles in 1962, replacing Pete Best. * Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey). * 3: "It was 20 years ago today" that this person "taught the band to play". * Sgt. Pepper. * 4: "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah", this song was the Beatles' 2nd No. 1 hit in the U.S. after "I Want to Hold Your Hand". * "She Loves You". * 5: Popular name for their double album titled "The Beatles". * The White Album.

Round 5. Category: Tv Teens * 1: You could say Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the world's most "alien"ated teen on this series. * 3rd Rock From The Sun. * 2: Kristin Kreuk plays Lana Lang, the untouchable girl next door, on this WB series. * Smallville. * 3: The 2 title teens that Melissa Joan Hart has played on '90s TV series. * Clarissa and Sabrina. * 4: Stacey Farber and Aubrey Graham play Ellie Nash and Jimmy Brooks, 2 of the teens on this Canadian series. * Degrassi. * 5: 15-year-old Meg yearns to be a dancer on "American Bandstand" on this '60s-set series. * American Dreams.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 141, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Rock! * 1: Keith, Brian, Mick, Bill and Charlie on drums. * the Rolling Stones. * 2: From 760 feet up on this crater, you get a great view of Honolulu. * Diamond Head. * 3: In 1990 the Red Hot Chili Peppers were part of the first campaign by this org. to interest youth in politics. * Rock the Vote. * 4: This 2001 movie was inspired by a singer in a Judas Priest cover band who ended up joining that band. * Rock Star. * 5: Cannons fire during AC/DC's song "For" these people "We Salute You". * "Those About To Rock".

Round 2. Category: Denmark * 1: An 1805 Danish forestry law required that every time a tree is cut down, this must be done. * a tree must be planted. * 2: It's what English speakers call the northeastern city of Helsingor. * Elsinore. * 3: Main farming activity of Danish-owned Greenland is not growing plants but raising these animals. * sheep. * 4: This most important naval battle of World War I took place off Denmark's coast. * the Battle of Jutland. * 5: While Great Dane dogs originated in Germany, this pianist called "The Great Dane" is from Copenhagen. * Victor Borge.

Round 3. Category: Kisses * 1: He kissed Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. * Judas Iscariot. * 2: In a speech on how to do this, Davy Crockett said that to appeal to the mothers, kiss and slabber their children. * how to get elected. * 3: During a service in a synagogue, a man touches this with the fringe of his prayer shawl, then kisses the fringe. * the Torah. * 4: He took the famous photo of a sailor kissing a girl in Times Square on VJ Day. * Alfred Eisenstaedt. * 5: This song's second line is "Como si fuera esta la noche la ultima vez", "As if tonight was the last time". * "Besame Mucho".

Round 4. Category: We Help With Your College Application * 1: I revel in the history of this Ivy League school, founded 16 years after the arrival of the Pilgrims. * Harvard. * 2: Every year since 1965, at least one grad of this private L.A. school has been up for an Oscar; I aim to join that list. * University of Southern Cal (USC). * 3: I love New Haven. I will name my firstborn Elihu. I wish to be 1 of the roughly 11,250 students at this school, please. * Yale. * 4: My visit to Lincoln convinced me: I was meant to be a Cornhusker at this school. * the University of Nebraska. * 5: Later, I plan to give a huge endowment to my alma mater, this university founded by Ben Franklin. * the University of Pennsylvania.

Round 5. Category: Coins * 1: The value of this Greek coin was originally equivalent to that of a handful of arrows. * Drachma. * 2: This 1969 event was featured on the reverse of the Eisenhower dollar coin. * Moon Landing. * 3: In 1959 the Vatican's 20-lire coin featured this pontiff. * Pope John XXIII. * 4: The West Indies island of Guadeloupe uses this as its basic unit of currency. * French Franc. * 5: In 1961, this bronze coin, the lowest value in British currency at 1/4 of a penny, was withdrawn from circulation. * Farthing.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 140, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Sing! * 1: Wham!. * George Michael. * 2: Dire Straits. * Mark Knopfler. * 3: The Talking Heads. * David Byrne. * 4: Smashing Pumpkins. * Billy Corgan. * 5: The Clash. * Joe Strummer.

Round 2. Category: Movie Thrillers * 1: In 1988 this 1962 Frank Sinatra film based on Richard Condon's novel was re-released to the theatres. * The Manchurian Candidate. * 2: Joe Eszterhas received a record $3 million for his script of this 1992 Michael Douglas-Sharon Stone film. * Basic Instinct. * 3: Joseph Wiseman played the lanky title villain in this 1962 James Bond movie, the first in the series. * Dr. No. * 4: The finale of Alfred Hitchcock's "Saboteur" takes place on this national landmark. * Statue of Liberty. * 5: Barbara Stanwyck got an Oscar nomination for her role in this 1948 thriller based on a 1943 radio play. * Sorry, Wrong Number.

Round 3. Category: Mssng Vwls * 1: One of the planets:"RNS". * Uranus. * 2: A U.S. state:"TH". * Utah. * 3: It's a gas!( and an element): "NN". * neon. * 4: A Native American people:"PCH". * Apache. * 5: A country in Africa:"THP". * Ethiopia.

Round 4. Category: "No" Way * 1: In recipes, it often comes between "tuna" and "casserole". * Noodle. * 2: This head movement can indicate approval or sleepiness. * Nodding. * 3: 167 died in a 1988 oil rig explosion off Britain in this sea. * North Sea. * 4: Adjacent border towns in Arizona and Mexico share this name. * Nogales. * 5: Last name of noted sculptor Isamu or celebrity coroner Thomas. * Noguchi.

Round 5. Category: Cowboys * 1: Because they often prodded cattle with sticks, cowboys were also known by this term. * cowpokes. * 2: This synonym for a cowboy's lasso is from the Spanish word "reata", meaning rope. * lariat. * 3: By 1870 this hatmaker was the leading producer of cowboy hats. * Stetson. * 4: In 1871 cowboys drove a record number of cattle, 600,000, from Texas to Kansas along this trail. * the Chisholm Trail. * 5: In the days of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, this Kansas town was the "Cowboy Capital of the World". * Dodge City.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 139, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Animals In Paradise * 1: The largest animal in paradise is this biblical one that swallowed a person whole. * (Jonah's) whale. * 2: A bird called the Hoopoe of Bilquis is on the list, Bilqis being a name for the biblical queen of this place. * Sheba. * 3: Solomon talked to this industrious insect that was later allowed into paradise. * ant. * 4: The ram he sacrificed instead of his son is in the fold. * Abraham. * 5: His mount Al-Buraq was allowed into heaven. * Muhammad.

Round 2. Category: World History * 1: This Irish castle famous for its "stone" was built by Cormac MacCarthy about 1446. * the Blarney. * 2: Born in 12 A.D., this cruel and unbalanced Roman emperor was a great-grandson of Mark Antony. * Caligula. * 3: On Feb. 10, 1840 Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married her. * Victoria. * 4: This battleship on which the WWII Japanese surrender terms were signed saw combat during the Gulf War. * U.S.S. Missouri. * 5: In 1513 this Spaniard made the first recorded European exploration of what is now the U.S. mainland. * Ponce de Leon.

Round 3. Category: Cemeteries * 1: Although Emile Zola's gravestone still rests at this city's Cimetiere de Montmartre, his body was moved to the Pantheon. * Paris. * 2: With more than 1 million burials, Rookwood Necropolis in this largest Aussie city is one of the world's largest. * Sydney. * 3: About 250 people were buried in this Tombstone, Arizona Cemetery from 1878 to 1884, including Billy Clanton. * Boot Hill. * 4: The world's largest historical mosaic, "The Birth Of Liberty", can be found at this Southern Calif. cemetery. * Forest Lawn. * 5: 368 American servicemen from WWI are buried in this "field", a U.S. Military cemetery near Waregem, Belgium. * Flanders Field.

Round 4. Category: Canadian Songbirds * 1: In December 2007 this chanteuse gave her last performance of the Vegas spectacular "A New Day". * Celine Dion. * 2: This singer from Halifax, Nova Scotia had hits with "Adia" and "Sweet Surrender". * Sarah McLachlan. * 3: She must be a Keith Jackson fan, as she titled one of her albums "Whoa, Nelly!". * Nelly Furtado. * 4: She put her initials on duets of "Crying" with Roy Orbison and "What A Wonderful World" with Tony Bennett. * k.d. lang. * 5: Leslie is the first name of this "1234" singer who was a dancer at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. * Feist.

Round 5. Category: Celebrity Dog Breeds * 1: Snoopy. * a Beagle. * 2: Beethoven. * a Saint Bernard. * 3: Perdita and Pongo. * Dalmatian. * 4: Eddie on "Frasier". * a Jack Russell Terrier. * 5: Buddy of "Air Bud" fame. * a Golden Retriever.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 138, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 4-Letter Magazines * 1: Henry Luce helped create these 2 magazines, one in 1923, the other in 1936. * Time and Life. * 2: It's how you say "She" in France and Korea and Romania and 29 other international editions. * Elle. * 3: People sure are saying things about this new magazine from Tina Brown. * Talk. * 4: Mary J. Blige got personal in the Sept. 1999 issue of this hip-hop music magazine founded by Quincy Jones. * Vibe. * 5: Carey Lowell wrote about Deepak Chopra for this Conde Nast magazine of personal well-being. * Self.

Round 2. Category: State Your Name * 1: Maine's name came from this longer English word used to distinguish it from the nearby isles. * the mainland. * 2: The names Colorado and Tennessee were applied to these physical features before they were applied to states. * rivers. * 3: The sylvania in Pennsylvania refers to these. * woods. * 4: Its name may be from a Dutch name or a Greek colossus site. * Rhode Island. * 5: Montana was named for its mountains and this state was named for some "snow-covered" mountains. * Nevada.

Round 3. Category: The Cold War * 1: In the 1970s Linus Pauling advocated huge doses of this to battle the common cold. * vitamin C. * 2: Over 100 kinds of viruses cause colds, infections of the upper part of this tract. * respiratory tract. * 3: Quigley and this Chicago company have come up with a bubble gum cold treatment for kids. * Wrigley. * 4: At the 20th party congress in February 1956, Nikita Khrushchev savagely denounced this late leader. * Josef Stalin. * 5: The Red Scare of the 1950s destroyed many careers, including that of this father of the atomic bomb. * Robert Oppenheimer.

Round 4. Category: Guns N' Roses * 1: On Jan. 1, 2005, a 207-foot train spouting fireworks and a 50-foot robot were highlights of this event. * the Rose Parade. * 2: He was the first MLB player to have 200 hits in 10 different years. * Pete Rose. * 3: He invented an electrically controlled naval mine as well as the 6-shooter. * (Samuel) Colt. * 4: Though patented in 1862, this crank-operated machine gun didn't become official U.S. Army weaponry until 1866. * the Gatling Gun. * 5: Her Oct. 7, 1914 wedding day would prove to be a focal point of American politics. * Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.

Round 5. Category: No. 1 Country Hits * 1: In the title of a 1990 single of the year, Garth Brooks had "friends" here. * In low places. * 2: In 1996 this Canadian-born woman sang, "If you're not in it for love, I'm out of here". * Shania Twain. * 3: This 1992 George Strait film spawned 2 No. 1 hits: "I Cross My Heart" and "Heartland". * Pure Country. * 4: Brooks and Dunn song about about a honky-tonk "Where all the cowboy folk go to" do this dance. * "Boot Scootin' Boogie". * 5: Her 1991 release "She's in Love with the Boy" was the first debut single by a country female to reach No. 1. * Trisha Yearwood.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 137, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 5 Letter Words * 1: An assumed identity, or the type of letter that accompanies a resume. * Cover letter. * 2: Emily Post says in this kind of letter, don't call death "a blessing in disguise". * Condolence letter. * 3: Also a fruit, it should always be found in the heading of a letter. * Date. * 4: "Very truly yours" is a "complimentary" this, also something done to a door. * Closing. * 5: The garment worn here, it follows "zip" in something the Postal Service wants you to use. * Plus fours.

Round 2. Category: "O" No! * 1: These bivalves breed in beds. * oysters. * 2: The Greek word for "bird" gave us this word for the study of birds. * ornithology. * 3: Founded in 1878, Lady Margaret Hall is this European university's oldest women's college. * Oxford. * 4: This London theatre was once known as the Royal Victoria. * the Old Vic. * 5: Last name of Ambrosio and Bernardo, father and son politicians of Chile. * O'Higgins.

Round 3. Category: Ukraine On The Brain * 1: The worst nuclear accident in history happened at this Ukrainian site in 1986. * Chernobyl. * 2: After conquering the region, this empress introduced serfdom to Ukraine in 1795. * Catherine the Great. * 3: Ukraine's capital lends its name to this poultry dish in which breasts are rolled up with butter, breaded and fried. * Chicken Kiev. * 4: Ukrainians call this body of water "Chorne More". * the Black Sea. * 5: This strategic peninsula became part of Ukraine in 1954. * the Crimea.

Round 4. Category: Whaaazuuup?! * 1: On Dec. 14, 1972 Gene Cernan became the last man to drive a vehicle up here. * the moon. * 2: Launched Oct. 4, 1957, it circled the Earth once every 96 minutes, going 18,000 MPH. * Sputnik. * 3: Leonardo da Vinci sketched one of these in 1483; Sikorsky produced the first practical one in 1939. * helicopter. * 4: In May 1927 this plane was tested by flying from San Diego to NYC; it took 20 hours, 21 minutes. * the Spirit of St. Louis. * 5: With room for 700, this traveled 1 mile at a height of 70 feet on its only flight in 1947. * the Spruce Goose.

Round 5. Category: "Fre"-Dom * 1: Wrigley's "extra" brand of cinnamon chewing gum bills itself as this on its wrapper. * sugar free. * 2: Lord Tennyson, or Batman's Butler. * Alfred. * 3: Elevun letr wurd fur the job thet wud b rezponzibl fir fiksin this clu's speling problims. * proofreader. * 4: Prestone makes one that provides protection down to -84 degrees. * antifreeze. * 5: It's the art of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water. * fresco.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 136, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Edgar Allan Poe-Pourri * 1: In the world's first detective story, C. Auguste Dupin solves the title crimes in "The Murders" here. * the Rue Morgue. * 2: A man's harrowing escape from torture during the Spanish Inquisition is recounted in this Poe favorite. * "The Pit and the Pendulum". * 3: This lung disease claimed the life of Poe's 24-year-old wife. * tuberculosis. * 4: Spoiler alert! "The Cask of" this potent potable tells of a man sealing his enemy up behind a wall... alive!. * Amontillado. * 5: This French "Flowers of Evil" author translated Poe's tales into French. * Charles Baudelaire.

Round 2. Category: Men Of Letters * 1: Herbert George.... * H.G. Wells. * 2: Jerome David. * Salinger. * 3: Edward Estlin. * Cummings. * 4: David Herbert. * Lawrence. * 5: Howard Phillips.... * HP Lovecraft.

Round 3. Category: Official Languages * 1: Brazil. * Portuguese. * 2: In Chad:French and this. * Arabic. * 3: In the Netherlands:this. * Dutch. * 4: In New Zealand:English, New Zealand Sign Language and this native tongue. * Maori. * 5: Malagasy. * Madagascar.

Round 4. Category: 1945 * 1: Truman's state or battleship site of Japan's surrender. * Missouri. * 2: He was preparing for the U.N. conference in San Francisco when he died in Warm Springs, Ga. on April 12. * Franklin D. Roosevelt. * 3: Number of stars in U.S. flag raised over Iwo Jima. * 48. * 4: Tragically 14 people were killed when a B-25 crashed into this building, between the 78th and 79th floors. * the Empire State Building. * 5: Still on NBC-TV today, it began as a radio show hosted by Lawrence Spivak in 1945. * Meet the Press.

Round 5. Category: College Courses * 1: Study this language at Bennington and you may take the class on "Svevo and Tozzi"--2 20th century authors. * Italian. * 2: This University of Nebraska at Omaha offers an English course devoted to this "Canterbury Tales" author. * Chaucer. * 3: At N.Y.'s Vassar global feminism and postmodern feminism are 2 of the courses offered in this program. * women's studies. * 4: For some fun at Willamette University, you can take a course on this; foils, masks and protective jackets are provided. * fencing. * 5: In the Oregon State course ENT 300, "Plagues, Pests and Politics", ENT stands for this field of study. * entomology.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 135, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ghosts * 1: The 999 ghosts at the mansion in this Anaheim landmark tell visitors "There's always room for 1 more". * Disneyland. * 2: Creators of "Casper" say this film's logo plagiarized 1 of their characters. * Ghostbusters. * 3: Silver City, Idaho and Bodie, California for example. * ghost towns. * 4: In the Superman TV series, editor Perry White frequently invoked this spirit. * great Caesar's ghost. * 5: In Shakespeare's play, ghost who sat in Macbeth's place at the banquet table. * Banquo.

Round 2. Category: Cruisin' The Caribbean * 1: When you pull into Guadeloupe, you may have to change your dollars into this official currency. * euros. * 2: Princess Cruises shipped in tons of this to keep its private Caribbean island beach looking pristine. * sand. * 3: As you'd expect, it was the first company to launch a fleet exclusively in the Caribbean. * Royal Caribbean. * 4: Destiny and Liberty are 2 of this line's "Fun Ships". * Carnival. * 5: If you're cruising on the Royal Clipper, it will most likely be under this power. * wind.

Round 3. Category: Superman * 1: He played Jesse James in 1943's "The Kansan" before donning the cape of Superman on TV in the 1950s. * George Reeves. * 2: (Hi, I'm Michael McKean.)My guest appearance as Perry White made this show successful; my wife, Annette O'Toole, may also have helped. * Smallville. * 3: In "Superman III" this comedian uses the "Salami Technique" to steal tiny sums of money from many bank accounts. * Richard Pryor. * 4: Kate Bosworth was Lois Lane in this 2006 man of steel movie. * Superman Returns. * 5: 1978's "Superman" was scripted by this New York author famous for mafia tomes. * Mario Puzo.

Round 4. Category: Pop Goes The Ballet * 1: The rock and roll ballet "Blue Suede Shoes" celebrates the music and the spirit of this legendary star. * Elvis Presley. * 2: "Deuce Coupe" is danced to "Little Deuce Coupe", "Catch A Wave" and other songs made famous by this group. * The Beach Boys. * 3: The 1988 ballet "A Fool For You" is performed to this star's hits, including "I Got A Woman" and "Hit The Road Jack". * Ray Charles. * 4: "Sex" and "Horror" are compositions this member of the Marsalis family wrote for the ballet "Them Twos". * Wynton Marsalis. * 5: "Laura's Women" was inspired by the music of this singer-songwriter who wrote for Streisand and Three Dog Night. * Laura Nyro.

Round 5. Category: Cookies * 1: "Sesame Street" character whose catchphrase is "Me want cookies". * Cookie Monster. * 2: Debbi is the first name of this woman whose name is on over 700 cookie franchises. * Mrs. Fields. * 3: In 1934 this pair from the funny pages had a baby son named Alexander; daughter Cookie was born in 1941. * Blondie and Dagwood. * 4: A machine that is a funnel within a funnel fills this cake-like cookie with fig jam. * a Fig Newton. * 5: Founder Margaret Rudkin named this brand for a property her family owned in Connecticut. * Pepperidge Farm.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 134, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cash * 1: In a 1956 song Johnny had the "Blues" for this title place; he recorded a live album there in 1968. * Folsom Prison. * 2: This Johnny Cash song begins, "Love is a burning thing". * "Ring Of Fire". * 3: She helped Johnny kick his drug habit and converted him to fundamentalist Christianity; they married in 1968. * June Carter Cash. * 4: No flamboyant, rhinestone-studded outfits for Johnny Cash, whose usual stage wear earned him this nickname. * "The Man in Black". * 5: Johnny wowed the MTV crowd with his stark cover of "Hurt", originally by this Trent Reznor band. * Nine Inch Nails.

Round 2. Category: Black And White Tv * 1: Sunset Strip address of detectives Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer. * 77. * 2: This CBS game show that first hit the air in 1955 gave away $1,000,000 in its first 17 months. * The $64,000 Question. * 3: For years "Gunsmoke" and this Western about folks headin' west were the No. 1 and 2 shows on TV. * Wagon Train. * 4: In 1951 this Danish pianist with a sense of the absurd had his own show on NBC. * Victor Borge. * 5: It's not an Italian white wine, it's a cute Italian mouse often featured on "The Ed Sullivan Show". * Topo Gigio.

Round 3. Category: Potent Potables * 1: The Harvard is made with sweet vermouth; dry vermouth is in this cocktail with the name of a Harvard rival. * Yale. * 2: Flavor shared by tia maria and gallweys. * coffee. * 3: The French term for a wine waiter. * sommelier. * 4: Brooklynite Jennie Churchill, Winston's mother, created this whiskey and vermouth cocktail. * Manhattan. * 5: In 1915 the French outlawed this wormwood-flavored liqueur 1st made commercially by Pernod in 1797. * absinthe.

Round 4. Category: Who Was The President When... * 1: ...the last U.S. citizens were airlifted out of Saigon as it fell. * (Gerald) Ford. * 2: ...Hawaii became a state. * Eisenhower. * 3: ...the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" were written. * Madison. * 4: ...the U.S. last won Winter Olympic men's ice hockey gold. * Jimmy Carter. * 5: ...the Alamo was besieged by Mexican forces. * Andrew Jackson.

Round 5. Category: Jackie Robinson * 1: Jackie's historic major league debut came April 15, 1947 at this Brooklyn Dodgers home park. * Ebbets Field. * 2: Jackie played most of his career at this position, next to shortstop Pee Wee Reese. * Second Base. * 3: Jackie lettered in 4 sports at this Southern California university, the only athlete ever to do so. * UCLA. * 4: At age 28, Robinson won the very first of these awards for first-year players. * Rookie of the Year. * 5: Jackie won the major leagues' first of these awards for first-year players. * Rookie of the Year.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 133, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Singer-Songwriters * 1: "Beat It". * Michael Jackson. * 2: "Put Your Head On My Shoulder". * Paul Anka. * 3: "That Don't Impress Me Much". * Shania Twain. * 4: "I Walk the Line". * Johnny Cash. * 5: "Short People". * Randy Newman.

Round 2. Category: Take A Hike * 1: There's good hiking at several stops on this country's mountainous Chihuahua al Pacifico train. * Mexico. * 2: The Otter Trail on the coast of this country's Western Cape Province may be booked up a year ahead. * South Africa. * 3: In 1923 the first path designated part of this trail opened in New York's Bear Mountain State Park. * the Appalachian Trail. * 4: If this European country's mountains are forbidding, try hiking in its famed valley the Engadine. * Switzerland. * 5: Germany's 104-mile Rennsteig meanders through the Thuringer Wald, or Thuringian this. * Forest.

Round 3. Category: High Places * 1: Mount Hikurangi, sacred to the Maoris, is the first place in this country to see the light of day. * New Zealand. * 2: In 1707 and 1708 this volcano showered Tokyo with ash and oh-oh, it's rumbling again. * Mount Fuji. * 3: Zermatt, Switzerland's Alpine Museum has several exhibits devoted to this adjacent peak. * Matterhorn. * 4: In 1947 renewed activity of this Sicilian volcano formed 2 new craters. * Mount Etna. * 5: Nanga Parbat in Jammu and Kashmir is considered the most dangerous peak for climbers in this range. * Himalayas.

Round 4. Category: The Bible Tells Me So * 1: Joshua 6:1: "now" this city "was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel". * Jericho. * 2: The rods of both these brothers were turned into snakes by God. * Moses and Aaron. * 3: Deuteronomy 5: "neither shalt thou bear" this 2-word phrase "against thy neighbour". * false witness. * 4: Judges 15: he "said, with the jaw-bone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men". * Samson. * 5: 1 kings 2: "then sat" this man "upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established". * Solomon.

Round 5. Category: Other Power Rangers * 1: The introduction to a 1950s TV show called him the "daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains". * The Lone Ranger. * 2: The oldest state law enforcement agency in the U.S., it began in 1823 with 10 men. * the Texas Rangers. * 3: [There's a theme here]A Ranger spacecraft shot 300 close-up photos per minute to help select moon landing sites for this NASA program. * Apollo. * 4: In WWII Rudder's Rangers attacked the Germans on this cliffs on Pointe Du Hoc in this part of France. * Normandy. * 5: Rogers' Rangers was a Colonial unit commanded by Robert Rogers during this 1754 to 1763 war. * the French-Indian War.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 132, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "The Onion" * 1: "The Onion" reported that 450,000 unsold copies of "TIME"'s special issue on this April "day" went to a landfill. * Earth Day. * 2: In a headline from history, "War Rationing Boards Restricts Nylon Use to Armed Forces" and this FBI director. * J. Edgar Hoover. * 3: In entertainment news, Anatoly Ivaskevich hosts this country's hit game show "Who Wants to Eat a Meal?". * Russia. * 4: Most coverage of this territory's return to China left out its desperate plea to Jackie Chan for help. * Hong Kong. * 5: It was a sad day when an employee of this computer company was fired for "thinking a little too different". * Apple.

Round 2. Category: It Don't Mean A "Thing" * 1: Zip, nada, el zilcho. * nothing. * 2: A ring for a baby's incisors. * teething. * 3: Giving a portion of one's income, typically 10%, to one's church. * tithing. * 4: Raiment or apparel. * clothing. * 5: "In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking", now heaven knows, this. * "Anything Goes".

Round 3. Category: Crossword Clues "R" * 1: Sidewinder or diamondback(11). * rattlesnake. * 2: Movie boxer Balboa(5). * Rocky. * 3: A Mackintosh(8). * raincoat. * 4: Enrollment record keeper at a university(9). * Registrar. * 5: Approve an amendment(6). * ratify.

Round 4. Category: Elevator Ride * 1: First floor.Cordless phones, answering machines and this hit. * "I Just Called to Say I Love You". * 2: Second floor.Whips, chains and this oft-recorded song. * "Hurts So Bad". * 3: Third floor.Pharmacy and this golden oldie. * "Love Potion No. 9". * 4: Fourth floor.Women's attire and this Chris de Burgh number. * "Lady In Red". * 5: Top level.Observation deck and of course, this song. * "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever".

Round 5. Category: The Cabinet * 1: On September 15, 1789 the Department of Foreign Affairs changed its name to this. * Department of State. * 2: The Comptroller of the Currency operates under the auspices of this cabinet department. * Treasury. * 3: When founded on May 15, 1862, it had only a commissioner, 4 clerks, 1 gardener and his aides. * Department of Agriculture. * 4: It's been described as "The custodian of the nation's natural resources". * Department of the Interior. * 5: In 1979 Health, Education and Welfare was split into the Dept. of Education and this department. * Health and Human Services.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 131, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "R"Rrrrrrrrr * 1: Sometimes it's necessary to do this, meaning to reload your computer's operating system. * reboot. * 2: 3 points on one throw in horseshoes. * ringer. * 3: The stems of these Asian palms are used to make wicker furniture. * rattan. * 4: In a memorable 1982 TV movie, Jean Stapleton played this first lady. * Eleanor Roosevelt. * 5: Ionesco play that ends, "I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end. I'm not capitulating!". * Rhinoceros.

Round 2. Category: The Penn. * 1: It was this cold historic site that Von Steuben reorganized our army in February 1778. * Valley Forge. * 2: One of its more unimaginative nicknames is "the capital of the Keystone State". * Harrisburg. * 3: Pittsburgh's Civic Arena was the first public auditorium to have a retractable one of these. * a dome (or roof). * 4: Philadelphia's major league teams included the Phillies, Eagles, 76ers and this hockey team. * the Flyers. * 5: This port city displays a reconstruction of Oliver Hazard Perry's ship, the Niagara. * Erie.

Round 3. Category: It's Not Catching * 1: Some 40 million Americans suffer from these that may be triggered by shellfish or pollen. * allergies. * 2: If you have amnesia, you may forget that you have this blood disorder that's a lack of hemoglobin. * anemia. * 3: From the Latin for "to beat", it's a 9-letter medical synonym for a bruise. * contusion. * 4: With flu-like symptoms that sometimes last for months, CFS is this "syndrome". * chronic-fatigue syndrome. * 5: It's the inflammation of a fluid-filled sac that cushions the bones and tendons in a joint. * bursitis.

Round 4. Category: Happy New Year! * 1: In 1998 November 1 is a Sunday; therefore, this date will be election day for Congress. * November 3 (the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday). * 2: Some believe 1998 signals the end of the world because 1998 is 3 times this number. * 666. * 3: May 14, 1998 marks the 50th anniversary of this nation's independence; Mazel Tov!. * Israel. * 4: This ex-president turns 74 on October 1, 1998. * Jimmy Carter. * 5: 1998 marks the centennial of this U.S. war. * Spanish-American War.

Round 5. Category: Who Played Whom * 1: Capt. Tony Nelson and J.R. Ewing. * Larry Hagman. * 2: Dorothy Zbornak and Maude Findlay. * Bea Arthur. * 3: Jim West and "Pappy" Boyington. * Robert Conrad. * 4: Chris Cagney and Rosie O' Neill. * Sharon Gless. * 5: "Bub" O' Casey and Fred Mertz. * William Frawley.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 130, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: String * 1: A gutbucket is a bass fiddle consisting of a stick on an inverted tub with this many strings. * 1. * 2: A joke goes, modern kids play cell phones by using 2 of these with no string between them. * Tin cans. * 3: From the French for "Little Mary", it's another name for a string puppet. * Marionette. * 4: This toy is a rudimentary airfoil whose height is controlled by playing out the string. * Kite. * 5: 1726 character who awoke after a shipwreck to find himself tied down with string. * Gulliver.

Round 2. Category: Dickens Novels By Characters * 1: Noah Claypole,Mr. Bumble,The Artful Dodger. * "Oliver Twist". * 2: Jarvis Lorry,Lucie Manette,Sydney Carton. * "A Tale of Two Cities". * 3: Clara Peggotty,Mr. Murdstone,Uriah Heep. * "David Copperfield". * 4: Uncle Pumblechook,Mr. Wopsle,Miss Havisham. * "Great Expectations". * 5: Newman Noggs,Miss La Creevy,Wackford Squeers. * "Nicholas Nickleby".

Round 3. Category: All Over The World * 1: Once a Byzantine Christian cathedral, then a mosque and today a museum, the Hagia Sophia is in this Turkish city. * Istanbul. * 2: Mainland Australia's northernmost point, Cape York, is in this "royal" state. * Queensland. * 3: One of the world's leading exporters of coffee is the port city of Santos in this South American country. * Brazil. * 4: With about 500,000 souls, this city is the most populous in Slovakia. * Bratislava. * 5: This country named for its latitude is the 43rd largest in Africa but in the continent's top 10 in oil production. * Equatorial Guinea.

Round 4. Category: Battles * 1: In the 490 B.C. battle of this plain, the Greeks ran up their first important victory over the Persians. * Marathon. * 2: The defeat of this city's invasion force at Syracuse in 413 B.C. was the beginning of its end and the start of Sparta's rise. * Athens. * 3: This foolhardy "charge" took place at 1854's Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War. * the Charge of the Light Brigade. * 4: England's King Harold II lost the all-important Battle of Hastings in this year. * 1066. * 5: "2 ships, 2 brigs, 1 schooner and 1 sloop" were the fleet defeated in this battle in the War of 1812. * the Battle of Lake Erie.

Round 5. Category: Kelsey Grammer * 1: Last name of the TV character Grammer's been playing since 1984. * Crane. * 2: Though raised in New Jersey and Florida, Kelsey was born in this U.S. island group in the Caribbean. * U.S. Virgin Islands. * 3: In 1995 Grammer hosted a TV tribute to one of his heroes, this violin-playing comedian. * Jack Benny. * 4: On Broadway in 1982, Grammer as Cassio supported James Earl Jones in this Shakespeare play. * Othello. * 5: The male lead in "Yentl", he gave without taking when he recommended Kelsey for a part on "Cheers". * Mandy Patinkin.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 129, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Metals * 1: This metal used to make semiconductors was discovered by Clemens Winkler and named for his homeland. * germanium. * 2: South Africa is the world's leading supplier of this precious metal. * Gold. * 3: The name of this metal comes from molebdos, the Greek word for lead. * molybdenum. * 4: Scientists believe that the Earth's core is primarily made up of this metal, Fe. * iron. * 5: Amalgams, which may be liquid or solid, are alloys of this metal. * mercury.

Round 2. Category: Sports-Pourri * 1: In '04 when Yankee Stadium dropped this item, a joker said the only food left with a surprise inside was the hot dogs. * Cracker Jacks. * 2: In 2011 this NFL team became the first to win its division with a losing record. * the Seattle Seahawks. * 3: Late in a close Super Bowl, this 49er QB casually noted John Candy was in the crowd, then won the game. * Joe Montana. * 4: This NHL "Golden Brett" said coach Mike Keenan was "the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face". * Brett Hull. * 5: This now-Patriots head coach said in 1992, "I don't think there's anybody... not focused on the 49ers... I mean, Chargers". * Bill Belichick.

Round 3. Category: Tv Title References * 1: Matthew Fox and 47 others survive a plane crash but are stranded on a mysterious Pacific island. * Lost. * 2: On a primetime ABC soap, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman and their neighbors on Wisteria Lane. * Desperate Housewives. * 3: The Kansas hamlet that's home to the Kents. * Smallville. * 4: Patricia Arquette, who sees dead people. * The Medium. * 5: The McCallister brothers, one of whom becomes president in 2040. * Jack and Bobby.

Round 4. Category: Newer Words And Phrases * 1: One dictionary defines it as "a fit of violent anger by the driver of an automobile". * road rage. * 2: To be politically correct, don't call someone short, say he's vertically this. * challenged. * 3: It's the 3-character acronym computer users and non-users alike used for the year 2000. * Y2K. * 4: Hey, man! Grab the tweezers! You've got one of these growing straight across your forehead. * unibrow. * 5: This hyphenated term describes an athletic shoe designed for various activities like aerobics and muscle building. * cross-trainer.

Round 5. Category: Rockin' T-Shirts * 1: Wow, mon, you must have been jammin' at this man's concert to walk away with a T-shirt like that. * Bob Marley. * 2: No way, dude, you saw this genius in concert and bought a shirt? I remember when he gigged with Beefheart. * Frank Zappa. * 3: I can't believe it's been 12 years since we last saw this guy live in concert. * Kurt Cobain. * 4: Excuse me while I kiss this guy we saw at Woodstock. * Jimi Hendrix. * 5: It was like watching royalty perform whenever we saw this lead singer performing with his band. * Freddie Mercury.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 128, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Wok Of Fame * 1: To eat Chinese food like a native, use 2 of these 10 1/2-inch wooden implements. * Chopsticks. * 2: The 4 main Chinese types of these strips of dried dough are soup, sauce, stir-fried and shallow-fried. * Noodles. * 3: Some people may have adverse reactions to this Chinese food flavor enhancer that's also called "Mei-Jing". * MSG (Monosodium glutamate). * 4: Predigested seaweed formed into these avian homes is a treasured Chinese soup ingredient. * bird nests. * 5: Meaning "heart's delight", it's a variety of snacks like fried dumplings and steamed buns. * Dim sum.

Round 2. Category: March Of Time * 1: Once home to Al Capone and a birdman, it closed its cell doors March 21, 1963. * Alcatraz. * 2: On March 25, 1957 6 countries signed the Treaty of Rome to form this, the EEC. * European Economic Community. * 3: This city's Bakerloo subway line opened March 10, 1906. * London. * 4: The U.S. voted against joining this organization March 19, 1920; today we're here and it isn't. * League of Nations. * 5: On March 1, 1954 the U.S. conducted the first of a series of hydrogen bomb tests on this Pacific atoll. * Bikini Atoll.

Round 3. Category: "In" Places * 1: In February 1994 an earthquake struck the island of Sumatra in this nation, killing 215 people. * Indonesia. * 2: Civilization in the valley of this Pakistani river dates back about 4500 years. * the Indus River. * 3: Technically, it comprises the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. * the West Indies. * 4: This capital of Tyrol has hosted 2 Winter Olympic games. * Innsbruck. * 5: This Missouri city is headquarters to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. * Independence.

Round 4. Category: Mel Blank * 1: His voice brought Daffy Duck to life. * Mel Blanc. * 2: In 1990 he was Hamlet and in 1994 he was Maverick. * Mel Gibson. * 3: He wrote and directed but did not produce "The Producers". * Mel Brooks. * 4: He took "Coca Cola Cowboy" to No. 1 on the country charts in 1979. * Mel Tillis. * 5: This attractive brunette played thirtysomething Hope Steadman on "thirtysomething". * Mel Harris.

Round 5. Category: Tv Shows On Tv Shows * 1: (Hi. I'm Debbe Dunning.) It's the name of the home improvement show that's featured on "Home Improvement". * Tool Time. * 2: Like "Meet the Press", Murphy Brown's fictional news show "F.Y.I." tapes in this city. * Washington, D.C.. * 3: This "Simpsons" TV clown has worked with Sideshow Bob, Sideshow Mel and Sideshow Luke Perry. * Krusty the Klown. * 4: He plays talk show host Larry Sanders on HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show". * Garry Shandling. * 5: The TV producer he plays on "The Tom Show" was dumped by Shannon Tweed, not Roseanne. * Tom Arnold.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 127, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ben Franklin * 1: Ben appropriately described his youthful mistakes as "errata", a term from this profession. * printing. * 2: On Ben's 1st walk though this city, he carried "three great puffy rolls" making a "most ridiculous appearance". * Philadelphia. * 3: At 16 Ben read a book by Thomas Tryon and accordingly adopted this type of diet. * vegetarian. * 4: "A house without a woman and firelight is like a body without soul or sprite" is from this Ben Franklin annual. * Poor Richard's Almanack. * 5: This job Ben got in 1753 helped his business, as described here. * Postmaster.

Round 2. Category: A Billion Reasons * 1: Since 1909 his head has appeared on billions and billions of pennies. * Lincoln. * 2: According to its website, this chain serves more than a billion "finger lickin' good" chicken dinners annually. * Kentucky Fried Chicken. * 3: Forbes magazine has estimated that this comic book boy is "worth" $24.7 billion. * Richie Rich. * 4: The only event the Time Almanac has listed under 4.5 billion B.C. is this "formed". * Earth. * 5: This eccentric billionaire formed an aircraft company in 1934 to design racers. * Howard Hughes.

Round 3. Category: Get Your Sith Together * 1: He's 7 feet tall and the Millennium Falcon's first mate, but he's not much of a conversationalist. * Chewbacca. * 2: This syntactically challenged Jedi called Dagobah home. * Yoda. * 3: Slate said this Gungan's "weirdly offensive personality make(s) him the focus of fan disillusionment". * Jar Jar Binks. * 4: He played Senator Bail Organa, Princess Leia's adoptive father. * Jimmy Smits. * 5: 3 of the 4 "Star Wars" movie characters with Darth in their names. * (3 of) Darth Maul, Darth Vader, Darth Sidious, and Darth Tyranus.

Round 4. Category: Quotable Recent Movies * 1: 2002:"Nice Greek girls who don't find a husband work in the family restaurant". * My Big Fat Greek Wedding. * 2: 2003:"I shall take you to the Black Pearl and your bonny lass". * Pirates of the Caribbean. * 3: 2001:"Keep an eye on the staircases. They like to change". * Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. * 4: 2003:"God doesn't take vacations... does He?... Do Ye?". * Bruce Almighty. * 5: 2002:"There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?". * Signs.

Round 5. Category: The 5Th Beatle * 1: This Beatles producer started out making comedy records with Peter Sellers. * George Martin. * 2: After being replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962, this man got a job in a bakery and then became a civil servant. * Pete Best. * 3: In "Backbeat" Stephen Dorff played this alliterative bassist who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1962. * (Stuart) Sutcliffe. * 4: This manager who died in 1967 was referred to as the "Fifth Beatle". * Brian Epstein. * 5: This keyboardist, who died in 2006, sat in with the Beatles often and also wrote Joe Cocker's hit "You Are So Beautiful". * Billy Preston.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 126, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The "Sit"Uation Room * 1: This Sioux chief led warriors in the Battle of the Rosebud. * Sitting Bull. * 2: It was famously torpedoed and sunk in May 1915 with a loss of nearly 1,200 lives. * the Lusitania. * 3: Ravi Shankar is a virtuoso on it. * the sitar. * 4: 12-letter term for a college course needed to be taken and passed before you can take another one. * prerequisite. * 5: This Alaskan city shares it name with a type of spruce. * Sitka.

Round 2. Category: Playing To Type * 1: Let's go and fly one of these; maybe a flat, box or delta type. * kite. * 2: Strike slip and oblique slip are types of these cracks along which earthquakes occur. * fault lines. * 3: Heart attacks are often associated with this letter type of personality. * type A. * 4: ER techs need to know if this is type B or O. * blood. * 5: The Golden Gate Bridge is classified as this type of bridge. * suspension bridge.

Round 3. Category: Plumbing * 1: Of 20, 200 or 2000 gallons, the amount of water used by the average American household each day. * 200. * 2: Mueller Streamline is a brand of pipe made from this durable metal that many prefer to iron and steel. * copper. * 3: In the ion-exchange type of this device, hard water is filtered through a material called zeolite. * water softener. * 4: Found beneath a sink, this U- or P-shaped pipe maintains a water seal to keep sewer gas out of your house. * trap. * 5: 1.6 is today's standard maximum gpf, gallons per this event. * a flush.

Round 4. Category: To A "Tee" * 1: Type of ballot to file when you're not there to vote on election day. * an absentee. * 2: Ring in, miss the clue -- tough. We don't offer a "money back" one. * guarantee. * 3: It's been said that "A camel is a horse designed by" this. * committee. * 4: Conversation marked by quick, witty banter. * repartee. * 5: The order Sirena includes the dugong, the extinct Steller's sea cow and this. * the manatee.

Round 5. Category: Spingarn Medal Winners * 1: 2000:A TV host and media personality. * Oprah Winfrey. * 2: 1956:A baseball player. * Jackie Robinson. * 3: 1991:A U.S. Army general and government official. * Colin Powell. * 4: 1989:A minister, politician and civil rights leader. * Jesse Jackson. * 5: 1945:An actor, singer, activist and football All-American. * Paul Robeson.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 125, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Fill In The Title * 1: Alice Walker:"The Color blank ". * Purple. * 2: John Steinbeck:"The blank Pony". * Red. * 3: James Ellroy:"The blank Dahlia". * Black. * 4: Scott O'Dell:"Island of the blank Dolphins". * Blue. * 5: Charlotte Perkins Gilman:"The blank Wall-Paper". * Yellow.

Round 2. Category: I Eat A... * 1: ...corned beef, Swiss cheese and sauerkraut sandwich on rye that is fried and named this. * Reuben. * 2: ...Denver omelet, which is usually made with ham, onion and the bell type of these. * peppers. * 3: ...bowl of this Creole specialty, whose name comes from an African word for okra. * gumbo. * 4: ...pita dipped in this thick Middle Eastern sauce made from chickpeas. * hummus. * 5: ...creamy potato and leek soup served cold that's called this. * vichyssoise.

Round 3. Category: Do You Smell Something? * 1: This distinctive aroma of a wine can also mean a group of cut flowers. * Bouquet. * 2: Often a "Jeopardy!" category, it's a fragrant mixture of dried flower petals and spices. * Potpourri. * 3: A strong, earthy smell, or the type of music George Clinton plays. * Funk. * 4: 3-word French term for perfumed bath water. * Eau de toilette. * 5: From the old French for "small bag", it's a small bag of powder used for scenting clothes or linens. * Sachet.

Round 4. Category: The Jacksons * 1: In 1996 he shocked fans by marrying pregnant pal Debbie Rowe. * Michael Jackson. * 2: She made her TV debut in "Dark Shadows" before becoming one of "Charlie's Angels". * Kate Jackson. * 3: In 1987 this Oakland A's outfielder retired from baseball with 563 career home runs. * Reggie Jackson. * 4: His films include "Amos and Andrew" and "A Time To Kill". * Samuel L. Jackson. * 5: "Chattahoochee" and "Little Bitty" are 2 of the big hits by this country superstar. * Alan Jackson.

Round 5. Category: Saintly Cities * 1: Minneapolis' "twin", it's capital of Minnesota. * St. Paul. * 2: California mission town which is annual destination for famed swallows. * San Juan Capistrano. * 3: 8th most populous city in the world, it was once capital of Brazil. * São Paulo. * 4: Reputed site of Columbus' tomb, it's capital of Dominican Republic. * Santo Domingo. * 5: Poshest of all Swiss ski resorts. * St. Moritz.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 124, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Days Of The Week * 1: Day of the week in the title of the following:[audio clue: "Something calls to me..."]. * Tuesday (Tuesday Afternoon). * 2: For Jews, the sabbath starts on the evening of this day. * Friday. * 3: It's the day of the week for presidents and labor. * Monday. * 4: Dutch:Donderdag. * Thursday. * 5: Hebrew:Shabbat. * Saturday.

Round 2. Category: One Of The 12 Tribes Of Israel * 1: Haggerty or Fogelberg. * Dan. * 2: A corned beef and sauerkraut sandwich on rye. * Reuben. * 3: Goldie's "Private". * Benjamin. * 4: It joins with "zooks!" as a mild or ironic oath. * Gad. * 5: Sans the San, Hearst's California castle. * Simeon.

Round 3. Category: First Novels * 1: Xavier Herbert's debut novel, "Capricornia", explores the lives of Aborigines in this country's northern Outback. * Australia. * 2: This southern playwright's first novel, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone", became a film starring Vivian Leigh. * Tennessee Williams. * 3: His first novel, "The Town And The City", might be good to read while you're "On The Road". * Jack Kerouac. * 4: Not surprisingly, Ireland is the setting for this "Circle of Friends" author's first novel, "Light A Penny Candle". * Maeve Binchy. * 5: Amory Blaine, a handsome, spoiled Princeton student, was the hero of this man's first novel, "This Side of Paradise". * F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Round 4. Category: A Game Of Chess * 1: If you pawn your chess set, the shop will check to make sure there are this many pawns in it. * 16. * 2: In castling, you move the king and this piece (aka a castle) simultaneously. * the rook. * 3: It's the only chess piece that can jump over others. * the knight. * 4: The 17th letter of the English alphabet, in chess notation it stands for the most powerful piece on the board. * Q. * 5: The final stage, with most of the pieces off the board, it's also a Samuel Beckett play title. * the endgame.

Round 5. Category: Summer Camp * 1: A building or tent where the kids sleep, or the bed within it. * Bunk. * 2: Many camps insist that you (or, more likely, mom) do this to all your clothing, maybe with a laundry marker. * label it. * 3: This word for the area down by the lake and activities there is also found in a Brando film title. * Waterfront. * 4: Dating from the 1880s, the oldest camp run by this "Christian" organization is Camp Dudley on Lake Champlain. * YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association). * 5: A New Hampshire camp is named for this man in tribute to his poem "I Hear America Singing". * Walt Whitman.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 123, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Puttin' Out The Welcome Matt * 1: This "Friends" star lost the tip of his right middle finger in a childhood accident (It's not LeBlanc). * Matthew Perry. * 2: On June 24, 2005, this Matt, Matt, Matt interviewed Tom Cruise on NBC. * Matt Lauer. * 3: 12 years after taking a "Day Off", he played Dr. Niko Tatopoulos in 1998's "Godzilla". * Matthew Broderick. * 4: He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as a cop in "Crash". * Matt Dillon. * 5: He played the "Private Ryan" Tom Hanks was trying to save. * Matt Damon.

Round 2. Category: New Reality Shows? * 1: Catherine, Anne, Jane, Anne No. 2, Catherine H. and Catherine P. try to avoid elimination in "Who Wants to Marry" this king. * Henry VIII. * 2: Not feeling so tolerant lately? Become Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's successor as this country's "Next Top Despot". * Iran. * 3: On "Dancing with Ex-George W. Bush Cabinet Members", this ex-Defense Sec. goes on the offensive--with a sizzling samba!. * Donald Rumsfeld. * 4: The fork's now in your hand in "So You Think You Can Eat an Entire" this make of auto, whether Cayenne or Boxster. * Porsche. * 5: Oops! Rex finds out the hard way this body part's neocortex is nowhere near the groin in "I Wanna Be a Surgeon!". * the brain.

Round 3. Category: Music Class * 1: It's the 2-word term for a country's official patriotic song. * national anthem. * 2: When you reach this mark on a score you start the piece again; it's abbreviated D.C.. * Da Capo. * 3: Italian for "broad", it's an indication to play slowly. * Largo. * 4: An octave higher than the flute, this instrument has the highest pitch of the woodwinds. * a piccolo. * 5: Duets for 2 players at one piano, like Faure's "Dolly" suite, go by this numerical term. * four hands.

Round 4. Category: It Happened In The '70S * 1: His brief 34-day reign as pope in 1978 was a week longer than a predecessor's in 1605. * John Paul I. * 2: L'eggs debuted as a brand of panythose and Homestyle Eggos as a brand of these. * waffles. * 3: On August 18, 1977, this sad event took place in the living room at Graceland. * Elvis Presley's funeral service. * 4: When the fast food "meal" now called this debuted nationally in '79, it came in a circus wagon box. * a Happy Meal. * 5: (Hi. I'm LeVar Burton.) I starred in this 1977 landmark miniseries that inspired millions of people to research their own family trees. * Roots.

Round 5. Category: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 * 1: This former Secy. of State under Wilson died soon after winning a famous 1925 court case. * William Jennings Bryan. * 2: In 1881 this "bonney" lad was killed daid in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. * Billy the Kid. * 3: This former "Ziegfeld follies" humorist died in 1935 in an Alaskan plane crash. * Will Rogers. * 4: Anarchy reigned when this President was shot while in a receiving line at the 1901 Buffalo Pan-American Expo. * William McKinley. * 5: This Dickens heavy gets his after dodging a bloodthirsty crowd bent on revenge after Nancy's murder. * Bill Sikes.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 122, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: You're An Animal! * 1: A river, a city and a hound all bear the name of this member of the deer family. * Elk. * 2: A crab-eating variety of this mammal lives in northern South America. * raccoon. * 3: These predatory birds are named for a place they might dwell. * Barn owls. * 4: Known scientifically as felis pardalis, there are only about 100 of these cats left in Texas. * ocelot. * 5: It's the genus and species of this animal("caveman"). * Homo sapiens.

Round 2. Category: Biblical Clothes Rack * 1: In 1 Samuel 18, Jonathan gives his own robe to this man who earlier defeated a large Philistine warrior. * David. * 2: Reuben tore his clothes when he learned this man, his brother who traveled to Egypt, was missing from the pit. * Joseph. * 3: After the exodus, priestly clothes were given to this man, Moses' brother, and his sons. * Aaron. * 4: In Genesis 3, God himself makes tunics out of animal skin for this man to wear. * Adam. * 5: Rebecca dresses Jacob in Esau's clothes in order to trick this man, her husband. * Isaac.

Round 3. Category: What A Comedian * 1: Among his top 10 "worst names for a seafood restaurant" were "The Gagging Deck Hand" and "It Might Be Flounder". * David Letterman. * 2: Chris Rock doesn't think gun control is necessary, as "long as" these "cost $5,000". * bullets. * 3: One real headline featured on his talk show read, "Holidays make child's dream of shiny, new ax a reality". * Jay Leno. * 4: You wouldn't be wrong if you knew this comic said, "Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect". * Steven Wright. * 5: This "Brain Droppings" author said, "If you love someone, set them free; if they come home, set them on fire". * George Carlin.

Round 4. Category: On Route 66 * 1: In Anglo-Saxon times, this land measurement referred to a parcel 66 feet wide and 660 feet long. * an acre. * 2: The 66 counties of this northern U.S. state include Custer and Minnehaha. * South Dakota. * 3: There are 66 books in this version of the Bible first published in 1611. * the King James Version. * 4: When Armenian king Tigran II was defeated in 66 B.C., his land became part of this empire. * the Roman Empire. * 5: As it has an atomic number of 66, the chemical element dysprosium has 66 of these in each atom. * protons.

Round 5. Category: Cowboy Talk * 1: This enclosure for horses or cattle was usually made of posts or poles; temporary ones were of rope. * corral. * 2: A rawhide artist was a ranch hand who was good with this implement. * Branding iron. * 3: When riding a wild horse, it was a disgrace to have to "grab the apple" to stay on, the apple being this. * saddle horn. * 4: It's the money used to finance a miner's activities. * a grubstake. * 5: It's the money used to finance a miner's activities. * a grubstake.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 121, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Historic Quotations * 1: On June 18, 1940 Churchill said, "The battle for France is over" and this "is about to begin". * the Battle of Britain. * 2: In the early 16th century, this painter and genius wrote, "The Medici created and destroyed me". * (Leonardo) da Vinci. * 3: In 1938 he said, "There has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor". * (Neville) Chamberlain. * 4: (Hello, I'm Peggy Noonan. I'm a former presidential speech writer.) I worked on the speech in which Ronald Reagan said the Challenger crew had "slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch" this. * the face of God. * 5: At Manila Bay, Commodore Dewey said to this captain of his flagship, "You may fire when you are ready...". * (Charles) Gridley.

Round 2. Category: Celebrity Marriages * 1: This Oscar winner married 2 actresses, Dixie Lee and Kathryn Grant. * Bing Crosby. * 2: Miranda Lambert is married to this fellow country star. * Blake Shelton. * 3: On Valentine's Day, 1991, this "Sleepless in Seattle" star married her sweetheart, Dennis Quaid. * Meg Ryan. * 4: This co-star of "The Big Bang Theory" married tennis player Ryan Sweeting on December 31, 2013. * Kaley Cuoco. * 5: This co-star of "The Big Bang Theory" married tennis player Ryan Sweeting on December 31, 2013. * Kaley Cuoco.

Round 3. Category: For Sax And Violins * 1: Charlie Daniels reported a fiddle of gold was bet against a soul when "The Devil Went Down To" this state. * Georgia. * 2: Naturally, Sidney Sax played violin on this Beatles hit with "all the lonely people". * "Eleanor Rigby". * 3: In 1977 Phil Woods was smooth as silk playing a sax solo on this man's "Just The Way You Are". * Billy Joel. * 4: A young David Bowie took sax lessons from Ronnie Ross, who played on this man's hit "Walk On The Wild Side". * Lou Reed. * 5: Boyd Tinsley rocks the violin ( and yes, he makes that possible) in this "Ants Marching" jam band. * the Dave Matthews Band.

Round 4. Category: Nfl Home Stadiums * 1: Mile High Stadium. * Denver Broncos. * 2: The Superdome. * New Orleans Saints. * 3: Invesco Field at Mile High. * the Denver Broncos. * 4: Sun Devil Stadium. * Arizona Cardinals. * 5: Paul Brown Stadium. * the Bengals.

Round 5. Category: Tv D.o.a. * 1: Assistant D.A. Sylvia Costas and Detectives Danny Sorenson and Bobby Simone all met tragic ends on this show. * NYPD Blue. * 2: When Rory Cochrane left this CBS show, his character was killed off; did David Caruso give him career advice?. * CSI: Miami. * 3: On "MASH", this Lt. Col.'s "Plane was shot down over the sea of Japan. It spun in. There weren't no survivors". * (Henry) Blake. * 4: Though previously killed and buried in a big funeral, this show's Bobby returned in 1986, clean as a whistle. * Dallas. * 5: Unfortunately, Nate wasn't just a co-owner of the Fisher and Diaz Funeral Home, he also was a client on this show. * Six Feet Under*.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 120, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Beauty Queens * 1: The Miss America Pageant stopped giving this award for friendliness in 1974. * Miss Congeniality Award. * 2: Ex-Miss New Orleans who went down the "Road" with Bing and Bob. * Dorothy Lamourr. * 3: She was 1st runner-up in the 1940 Miss Venice Beach Contest -- she didn't look like Lily Munster yet. * Yvonne De Carlo. * 4: She won Miss World-USA in '73 --but the headband, bracelets and red, white and blue costume came later. * Lynda Carter. * 5: This Miss Sweden of 1951 was Fellini's femme fatale in 1959's "La dolce vita". * Anita Ekberg.

Round 2. Category: Driving Don'ts * 1: "Piggish" term for an aggressive driver who invades the lanes of other drivers. * "Road Hog". * 2: This phrase describes an accident in which the driver flees the scene. * Hit-and-run. * 3: Don't gun the engine and pop this pedal. * Clutch. * 4: To make your tires squeak and leave blackmarks is called "burning" this. * Rubber. * 5: It's the term for what you're doing if you can read an "If you can read this you're too close" bumper sticker. * Tailgating.

Round 3. Category: British Authors * 1: Princess Di's step-grandmother, this "Queen of Romance" passed away in 2000 at the age of 98. * Barbara Cartland. * 2: Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny are just a few of this British author's hare-brained protagonists. * Beatrix Potter. * 3: His professor, Dr. Joseph Bell, a master of diagnostic deduction, was his model for Sherlock Holmes. * Conan Doyle. * 4: In a Robert Browning title, "The Book" is paired with this object -- but not the one Robert gave Elizabeth. * Ring (but not the ring he gave her). * 5: From the early 1900s, his "The First Men in the Moon" and "The War in the Air" proved eerily prophetic. * H.G. Wells.

Round 4. Category: The Category Of Daniel * 1: In 1775 this pioneering American blazed the Wilderness Road. * Daniel Boone. * 2: One of his literary works gave us the term "Man Friday". * Daniel Defoe. * 3: On the big screen he's been Gerry Conlon, Hawkeye and Christy Brown. * Daniel Day-Lewis. * 4: One of his best-known orations is the Bunker Hill speech of 1825. * Daniel Webster. * 5: The Pentagon Papers he gave to the N.Y. Times in 1971 revealed deceptions about Vietnam dating back to the 1940s. * Daniel Ellsberg.

Round 5. Category: "C"Omedians * 1: He teamed with Cheech on numerous comedy albums. * Tommy Chong. * 2: Some of his "Seven Words You Can't Say on TV" are now said on TV, especially cable. * George Carlin. * 3: "The Best Second Banana in the Business", he gained undying fame as sewer worker Ed Norton. * Art Carney. * 4: She was the first original member of "Saturday Night Live" to score a success with a second TV series. * Jane Curtin. * 5: This understated comedian played Mr. Peepers and was the voice of Underdog. * Wally Cox.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 119, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: True Crime * 1: The threat to use physical harm, it becomes "aggravated" when combined with the use of a deadly weapon. * assault. * 2: On April 13, 2005 he pleaded guilty to 2 clinic bombings and the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Park attack. * (Eric) Rudolph. * 3: In July 1894 Butch Cassidy was convicted of this crime, which branded him a crook. * cattle rustling. * 4: As leader of this urban terrorist "army", Donald de Freeze called himself Cinque. * the SLA (the Symbionese Liberation Army). * 5: These Chinese secret societies that met in tongs in North America started as groups of kung fu fighters. * triads.

Round 2. Category: The Dating Game * 1: Bachelor No. 2, say hello to Madonna:"Hello, Madonna". * Tom Selleck. * 2: U.S. runners give black power salute at Olympics; Kubrick's "2001" released. * 1968. * 3: Bachelor No. 1, say hi to Donna:"Hey Donna, how ya' doing--oh, wait, I got all this money in the way!". * Cuba Gooding, Jr.. * 4: Federal building bombed in Oklahoma City; Kobe, Japan struck by 7.2 earthquake. * 1995. * 5: John Paul II shot; Iran releases U.S. embassy hostages. * 1981.

Round 3. Category: Watch This Space * 1: There are 5 of these scheduled for 2001: 2 solar and 3 lunar. * Eclipses. * 2: On Sept. 29, 2004 Toutatis, one of these, will be close enough to the Earth to be seen with binoculars. * Asteroid. * 3: The large Zenith telescope being built near Vancouver will use a pan of this liquid metal as a reflector. * Mercury. * 4: Using data from the Chandra X-ray telescope, 3 teens in North Carolina discovered one of these spinning neutron stars. * Pulsar. * 5: (Hi, I'm Kevin Sorbo of Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda".) Using an earthbound telescope, he determined the Andromeda galaxy is 900,000 light years from Earth. * Edwin Hubble.

Round 4. Category: Israel * 1: To promote saving water during 1986 drought, Israel advised citizens to do this "with a friend". * take a shower. * 2: If you're getting engaged, consider a visit to Netanya, a world center for cutting and polishing these. * diamonds. * 3: Sde Boker, one of these cooperative communities, was the retirement home of first prime minister David Ben-Gurion. * kibbutz. * 4: City in which March 26,1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed. * Washington, D.C.. * 5: This port city on and around Mount Carmel has been compared to San Francisco, its sister city. * Haifa.

Round 5. Category: Debt * 1: A time during which late payments aren't penalized, or the years 1956-1982 in Monaco. * Grace period. * 2: Repo, as in "They can't repo my car because I owe ten lousy payments!", is short for this. * Repossess/repossession. * 3: Insert 1 letter in "debt" to get this, a bookkeeping entry for money you owe. * Debit. * 4: These popular student loans are named for a Vermont senator. * Stafford loans. * 5: This partner of "forget" is what Bono wants Western nations to do with Third World debt. * Forgive.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 118, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Let's Get Married! * 1: There wasn't a traditional song for this pair to dance to at the reception until the following was written:"You filled my life /With so much joy /As I watched you grow /From that little boy". * the groom and his mom. * 2: It was once believed evil spirits hovered at this part of the house, so the bride is carried over it. * the threshold. * 3: A cap named for this Capulet adorns many a blushing bride. * Juliet. * 4: This queen wore English lace on her 1840 bridal gown to give the British lace-making industry a boost. * Victoria. * 5: Instead of throwing rice, some guests release these insects--painted ladies, for example. * butterflies.

Round 2. Category: Bush * 1: ...who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. * George Herbert Walker Bush. * 2: ...born in Midland, Texas and earned a masters degree at the University of Texas. * Laura Bush. * 3: ...who was the first Republican reelected governor in his state's history. * Jeb Bush. * 4: ...who wrote a bestselling nonfiction book in 1990. * Barbara Bush. * 5: ...who served as an artillery captain in World War I. * Prescott Bush.

Round 3. Category: Work Time * 1: Specific term for an investigator of insurance claims. * Claims adjuster. * 2: In L.A. County jails, "inmate worker" has replaced this term that's a synonym for "reliable". * trusty. * 3: A carnival worker whom customers try to dunk, or a Larry Harmon clown. * Bozo. * 4: Type of 'banker" who buys issues of stock and resells them to the public. * Investment banker. * 5: Business of the Loizeaux family, known for their work on the Pruitt-Igoe housing project and the Sands Hotel. * Demolition.

Round 4. Category: It Borders China * 1: In area, it's the largest country that borders China. * Russia. * 2: 2 of the 5 "stan"s that border China. * (2 of) Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. * 3: Of the nations that border China, it has the largest population. * India. * 4: The one country that borders both China and the Yellow Sea. * North Korea. * 5: One of the 2 monarchies that border China. * Nepal (or Bhutan).

Round 5. Category: The Liquor Cabinet * 1: This corn whiskey was named for a county in Kentucky. * bourbon. * 2: Gin and grenadine are the main ingredients in this color lady; the same color squirrel is a different mix. * a pink lady. * 3: When called this, quinine water pairs up with gin in a famous drink. * tonic. * 4: This top brandy from the Charente region of France is a blend that's distilled twice. * cognac. * 5: Sercial is a madeira used as an aperitif and bual is one used as this type. * digestif (after-dinner accepted).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 117, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: My Life Of "E"S * 1: Diamonds are so colorless, I prefer these gems for my rings. * Emeralds. * 2: Instead of mere cream puffs, give me these oblong pastries with icing and a French name. * Eclairs. * 3: Viscounts and barons needn't bother inviting me over -- I only hobnob with at least this grade of nobleman. * Earl. * 4: I never travel without this group around me, including a bodyguard, publicist and manicurist. * Entourage. * 5: It's less than an hour's drive from my Geneva apartment to this French spa known for its "water". * Evian.

Round 2. Category: Transportation Slang * 1: An eggbeater is one of these. * Helicopter. * 2: You auto know a ragtop is one of these. * Convertible. * 3: Slang for a ship, it's what you'll find a nursery rhyme trio sailing in. * Tub. * 4: Rhyme time term for a huge 18-wheeler. * Big rig. * 5: It's not madness, a reefer is this type of railroad car. * Refrigerator car.

Round 3. Category: You're The Mayor * 1: Now in his fifth term, Richard M. Daley has the daily duty of running this metropolis. * Chicago. * 2: In 2005 he was re-elected mayor of New York City by an almost 20 percent margin. * (Michael) Bloomberg. * 3: The most populous U.S. city with an elected female mayor is this 2nd-largest Texas city, with Laura Miller. * Dallas. * 4: Former state governor Jerry Brown reigns as the mayor of this California city. * Oakland. * 5: Sworn in as this city's 97th mayor in 2000, John F. Street is a graduate of its Temple University. * Philadelphia.

Round 4. Category: Folks On Sports * 1: After this man's 81-point game, a writer: "The only bad news? The other four Lakers were arrested for loitering". * Kobe Bryant. * 2: Jerry West, on this Chicago Bull: "He was the only athlete I ever knew who could play volleyball all by himself". * Michael Jordan. * 3: A sports radio host, on this HBO drama sponsoring a NASCAR entry: "Here's hoping nobody opens the trunk". * The Sopranos. * 4: This N.Y. Yankee known as A-Rod said, "Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic". * Alex Rodriguez. * 5: Jay Leno said, "On his way home from Torino, he didn't catch his plane. Apparently" this skier "missed the gate". * Bode Miller.

Round 5. Category: Don We Now Our Guy Apparel * 1: The 2 numbers on a man's dress shirt, 16/34 for example, are usually measurments of these 2 things. * neck size and sleeve length. * 2: Bunny Austin shocked the tennis world when he wore these competing at Forest Hills in 1932. * shorts. * 3: The name of this wide sash popular in men's formal wear comes from the Urdu for "waistband". * cummerbund. * 4: Popular as a fabric for men's pants, this ribbed fabric's name may derive from the French for "cloth of the king". * corduroy. * 5: (Hi, I'm Tucker Carlsen of CNN's Crossfire.) Among the many influential men to wear bow ties is this great Spanish poet and author of "The House of Bernarda Alba" . * (Frederic Garcia) Lorca.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 116, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The English Channel * 1: Francois Pilatre de Rozier tried to cross the Channel in one of these in 1785, but was killed in the attempt. * a (hydrogen) balloon. * 2: The Channel meets the North Sea at this strait. * the Strait of Dover. * 3: A song and a dance were named for this lady who swam the channel in 1926 and passed away at age 98 in 2003. * Gertrude Ederle. * 4: La Manche, the French name for the channel, means this part of a shirt. * the sleeve. * 5: The "Isle of" this has been inhabited since prehistoric times; it was once called Vectis. * Wight.

Round 2. Category: You Got Style, Homes * 1: Imitating British architecture in the 1600s, this style became popular in the 1920s. * Tudor. * 2: Hey, cowboy! Corral this one-story home with a low-pitched roof that's also known as a rambler. * a ranch. * 3: This style designed to keep heavy snow from weighing down the roof could fit in a Letter Perfect category. * A-frame. * 4: This style home seen by anyone who plays Monopoly was named by a Yale president travelling through the area. * a Cape Cod house. * 5: Seen here is an example of this early American style, typically 3 storeys with a symmetrical facade. * Federal.

Round 3. Category: Scrambled Veeps * 1: OGRE. * (Al) Gore. * 2: WE NAG. * (Spiro) Agnew. * 3: LEMON AD. * (Walter) Mondale. * 4: FLOCK REELER. * (Nelson) Rockefeller. * 5: CLAW ALE. * (Henry A.) Wallace.

Round 4. Category: You Could Hurt Someone * 1: Roy Blunt of Missouri is the majority one in the House of Representatives. * a whip. * 2: Playing Lieutenant Howard Hunter, James B. Sikking led this team on "Hill Street Blues". * a SWAT team. * 3: A cord used on laundry day in sunny weather. * a clothesline. * 4: On a standard computer keyboard it shares a key with the question mark. * a slash. * 5: It precedes "Monaco" in this name of a brand owned by Ralph Lauren. * club.

Round 5. Category: Bride Of The Yankees * 1: Married in 1954, this "Yankee Clipper" has roses delivered to his ex-wife's grave for 20 years after her death. * Joe DiMaggio. * 2: In the HBO movie "61*", Claire, this man's widow, is none too happy when his home-run record of 60 is tied. * Babe Ruth. * 3: In a 2001 "SNL" skit this Yankees shortstop appeared in drag as his double-play partner's wife Candy Soriano. * Derek Jeter. * 4: In 1994 Don's wife Kim Mattingly finished the 25th annual one of these in 5 hours, 40 minutes, 46 seconds. * the New York Marathon. * 5: In 1999 Diana, the widow of this 1970s catcher and team captain, threw out the first pitch at a Yankee game. * Thurman Munson.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 115, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Heavenly Bodies * 1: This fox from "Melrose Place" has joined Michael J. on "Spin City". * Heather Locklear. * 2: Now in her second year as "Jesse", she was Kelly Bundy for 11 seasons. * Christina Applegate. * 3: Albert Brooks cast her as "The Muse". * Sharon Stone. * 4: She was the first VJ to appear on both MTV and MTV Latino. * Daisy Fuentes. * 5: A TV Guide "You Sexy Thing!" poll pitted Jeri Ryan of "Star Trek: Voyager" against this show's Peta Wilson. * La Femme Nikita.

Round 2. Category: Fruit * 1: The name of this Pacific island fruit of the genus Artocarpus implies that it's starchy. * breadfruit. * 2: This fruit that's named for a bird looks like a brown egg that's covered with fuzz. * a kiwi. * 3: In Colonial times this tropical fruit became a symbol of hospitality. * pineapple. * 4: It's a cross between the mandarin orange and the bitter orange. * tangerine. * 5: Elephant heart is a red-fleshed variety of this fruit. * the plum.

Round 3. Category: 1917 * 1: Impeached as governor of this big state in 1917, James Ferguson later got his wife to run and she won. * Texas. * 2: On Dec. 7 1 U.S. representative voted against declaring war on this dual monarchy. * Austria-Hungary. * 3: On Dec. 17 128 U.S. representatives voted against this number amendment prohibiting liquor. * the 18th. * 4: "Jerry of the Islands" by this "White Fang" author was published a year after his death. * Jack London. * 5: This revolutionary leader returned to Guangzhou to launch a new movement against the premier of China. * Sun Yat-sen.

Round 4. Category: Nutty Tv * 1: From 1979 to 1983, Rev. Grady Nutt was a regular on this variety series, country music's answer to "Laugh-In". * Hee Haw. * 2: For 5 seasons Shirley Booth ran the Baxter household playing this maid whose name is the same as a nut. * Hazel. * 3: The first of the "Peanuts" specials, it originally aired on December 9, 1965. * A Charlie Brown Christmas. * 4: Walnut Grove, Minnesota was the setting for this drama of the American West. * Little House on the Prairie. * 5: He co-created "Get Smart", "When Things Were Rotten" and "The Nutt House", a short-lived series from 1989. * Mel Brooks.

Round 5. Category: Mouse Pads * 1: To no surprise, Basil, "The Great Mouse Detective", resides on this London street. * Baker Street. * 2: In "Alice in Wonderland" this rodent is seen dozing at the tea party and is rudely awakened. * the Dormouse. * 3: In this "royal" 1987 movie, the "Rodents Of Unusual Size" are living it up big-time in the Fire Swamp. * The Princess Bride. * 4: A cat named Oil Can Harry was the nemesis of this rodent who was introduced in the 1940s and lived in Terrytown. * Mighty Mouse. * 5: "Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear" is from the tale of these 2 title Aesop rodents. * The City Mouse and the Country Mouse.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 114, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 'Tis Time To Testify * 1: In 1947 playwright Bertolt Brecht returned to Europe after testifying before this House committee. * the House Un-American Activities Committee. * 2: In 1966 this consumer advocate gained national attention testifying before Congress on auto safety. * Ralph Nader. * 3: In 1991 the Senate testimony of law professor Anita Hill nearly derailed this man's Supreme Court nomination. * Clarence Thomas. * 4: In 1987 Fawn Hall testified that she had altered and shredded documents for this man, her boss. * Oliver North. * 5: On June 25, 1973 he testified before the Senate and revealed the existence of a White House "enemies list". * (John) Dean.

Round 2. Category: The World Series * 1: In 2005, making only their fifth World Series appearance ever, this Windy City team swept the Houston Astros. * the Chicago White Sox. * 2: In game 1 in 1954 this Giants outfielder made a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' fly ball. * Willie Mays. * 3: In game 1 in 1954 this Giants outfielder made a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' fly ball. * Willie Mays. * 4: In 1916 and 1918 Babe Ruth, then with this team, pitched 29 2/3 straight scoreless innings, a record that lasted 43 years. * the Boston Red Sox. * 5: This Yankee catcher hit the 1st pinch-hit home run in Series history in '47; he hit 11 more homers in his Series career. * Yogi Berra.

Round 3. Category: On The "Out"S * 1: It may be emotional consequences or radioactive ash. * fallout. * 2: Lose consciousness or turn out all the lights as an air raid precaution. * blackout. * 3: The American Cancer Society organized the first "Great American" one of these in 1977. * Smokeout. * 4: One of these occurs when prisoners illegally leave the prison or when some people eat strawberries. * a breakout. * 5: It carries the rainwater from the gutter on the roof to the ground. * a downspout.

Round 4. Category: Colors Of The Rainbow * 1: The ink businesses try to avoid. * red. * 2: IBM is known informally as Big this. * Blue. * 3: Naive or inexperienced. * green. * 4: Citrus sinensis. * an orange. * 5: Liz Taylor's eyes, in a "Doonesbury" book title. * violet.

Round 5. Category: Puerto Rico * 1: His 1493 stop at Puerto Rico is the foundation for the claim he "discovered America", meaning the U.S.. * Christopher Columbus. * 2: Puerto Rico is the smallest and easternmost of the islands of this "greater" group. * Antilles. * 3: In 1917 the Second Organic Act, also called the Jones Act, gave this to Puerto Ricans. * citizenship. * 4: In 1509 he became Puerto Rico's first governor; 4 years later he sailed for Florida. * Ponce de Leon. * 5: In June musicians take part in a festival honoring this cellist who lived there the last 17 years of his life. * (Pablo) Casals.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 113, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 24 * 1: Its atomic number is 79 and the purest types are said to be 24-karat. * gold. * 2: On October 30, 1954 this sport introduced the use of the 24-second clock. * basketball. * 3: In an old nursery rhyme four and twenty of these birds are baked into a pie served to a king. * blackbirds. * 4: This political party split during Buchanan's presidency and wasn't elected to the presidency for 24 years. * Democrats. * 5: You're within this "circle" if you experience 24 continuous hours of sunlight on June 21. * Arctic Circle.

Round 2. Category: I Was A Teenage... * 1: In 1979 at the age of 18, this "Great One" began playing in the NHL. * Wayne Gretzky. * 2: As a teenager and president-yet-to-be this man met JFK in 1963. * Bill Clinton. * 3: In his late teens, this "Top Gun" star played a loony military cadet in "Taps". * Tom Cruise. * 4: This unfortunate "Lady" was only 15 years old when she began her 9-day reign over England in 1553. * Lady Jane Grey. * 5: As a teenager, this current British PM shone as an actor and an athlete at Fettes College in Scotland. * Tony Blair.

Round 3. Category: History Of Passion * 1: Paris just had to have this beautiful daughter of Zeus, and the rest is history. * Helen of Troy. * 2: In 1946, this Indian leader revealed he'd taken many women to bed with him over the years to test his celibacy. * Mahatma Gandhi. * 3: This 12th century French theologian lost more than his head over the niece of a vengeful cleric. * Peter Abelard. * 4: This British Secretary of War resigned in 1963 due to a sex scandal. * John Profumo. * 5: Depicted here, they're the victims being abducted by the Romans. * Sabine women.

Round 4. Category: Name The Olympic Sport * 1: Shorts,10 or 12-ounce gloves,protective headgear. * boxing. * 2: Landing area,crossbar,long flexible staff. * pole vault. * 3: A sled weighing no more than 50 pounds,a steep hill,nerves of steel. * luge. * 4: 2 teams of 6,an over 7-foot-high net. * volleyball. * 5: Floor area,bodysuit,a ball, a hoop or a ribbon. * rhythmic gymnastics.

Round 5. Category: Buy A Vowel * 1: This "A" word means to relinquish power or give up the throne. * abdicate. * 2: We're looking for an "I"; it's an animal without any backbone. * invertebrate. * 3: This "O" is the medical branch that deals with the anatomy and treatment of the eye. * opthamology (optometry accepted). * 4: It's what the Greeks call the letter "E". * epsilon. * 5: "U" may not be aware that this Florentine palace was originally built for Cosimo I de Medici. * the Uffizi Palace.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 112, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Canine Film Festival * 1: Lasse Hallstrom received an Oscar nomination for directing this 1985 film about a Swedish boy in the 1950s. * My Life as a Dog. * 2: This 1975 Al Pacino film was based in part on an actual bank robbery. * Dog Day Afternoon. * 3: A cocker spaniel and a mutt are the title characters of this 1955 animated classic. * Lady and the Tramp. * 4: This 2000 film with Eugene Levy and Christopher Guest spoofed the stupid human tricks at a major dog show. * Best in Show. * 5: Steve Buscemi complains that he doesn't want to be called Mr. Pink in this 1992 Tarantino flick. * Reservoir Dogs.

Round 2. Category: It Ain't Me, Babe * 1: I left Minnesota around the time I changed my name from Robert Allen Zimmerman to this. * (Bob) Dylan. * 2: It gives me the seven-year itch when you call me Norma Jean Baker. * Marilyn Monroe. * 3: I played the simply named Jo March, but I was born with the last name Horowitz. * Winona Ryder. * 4: Here's a "hard" one; I'm the '50s hunk who at one point went by Roy Fitzgerald. * Rock Hudson. * 5: It makes me neurotic to tell you my real name is Allen Stewart Konigsberg. * Woody Allen.

Round 3. Category: The Company Line * 1: This company's Accutron watch, introduced in 1960, had a guarantee of accuracy to within one minute a month. * Bulova. * 2: Edward Teller and this man partnered in 1898 to sell high fashions to women. * (Paul) Bonwit. * 3: The Kirschner brothers, Don and Bill, named this ski company for themselves and the second-highest mountain. * K2. * 4: This housewares store was named for the packaging its merchandise came in and was first displayed on. * Crate and Barrel. * 5: In 1963, live on "The Art Linkletter Show", this company served its billionth burger. * McDonald's.

Round 4. Category: Pop's Music * 1: Dad refuses to see a Guy Ritchie film because he's always had a secret crush on this "Like A Virgin" singer. * Madonna. * 2: Dad wears that dorky clock on a chain because he was into this Public Enemy before he became a VH1 reality star. * Flavor Flav. * 3: Dad needs help downloading "In Rainbows", but he always said this Thom Yorke band was ahead of its time. * Radiohead. * 4: Dad slow dances by himself to this band's "Stairway to Heaven" becuase he's having school dance flashbacks. * Led Zeppelin. * 5: Dad thinks he's an O.G. because he was into these white rappers long before their album "Ill Communication". * the Beastie Boys.

Round 5. Category: The 1930S * 1: On September 18, 1934 the Soviet Union joined this international organization. * League of Nations. * 2: In March 1939, after Hitler made Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate, this country ceased to exist. * Czechoslovakia. * 3: He said, "I'm a small fish here in Washington, but I'm a kingfish to the folks down in Louisiana". * Huey Long. * 4: Charles Floyd, known by this nickname, was killed in a shootout with FBI agents in 1934. * "Pretty Boy" Floyd. * 5: On April 3, 1933 Lord Clydesdale became the first to pilot a plane over this mountain, just clearing it. * Mount Everest.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 111, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I Don't Speak... * 1: Je ne parle pas Francais. * French. * 2: Nie mowie po Polsku. * Polish. * 3: Ik spreek geen Nederlands. * Dutch. * 4: Nihongo ga Wakarimasen. * Japanese. * 5: Ich spreche kein Deutsch. * German.

Round 2. Category: Animated Films * 1: 2009:Carl, 78, ties thousands of balloons to his house; Russell, 8, stows away on the flight to South America. * Up. * 2: 2009:In Jazz Age New Orleans, Princess Tiana has a fateful kiss. * The Princess and the Frog. * 3: This 1988 film told of an orphaned baby brontosaurus named Littlefoot. * The Land Before Time. * 4: One of the highlights of this film was Sebastian the Caribbean crab singing "Under The Sea". * The Little Mermaid. * 5: Cruella de Vil was the villainess who kidnapped this title brood. * 101 Dalmatians.

Round 3. Category: 21St Century Music * 1: The nickname of this woman from the Black Eyed Peas is just a shortening of her last name. * Fergie. * 2: In July 2002 this group's "By the Way" CD debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Top 200 album chart. * Red Hot Chili Peppers. * 3: In 2001 Alicia Keys won an MTV Award for Best New Artist in a Video with this song. * "Fallin'". * 4: Brothers Chad and Mike Kroeger make up half of this rock band. * Nickelback. * 5: The stage name of this R and B singer born Shaffer Smith is a play on the name of a character in "The Matrix". * Ne-Yo.

Round 4. Category: Oo, Sorry! * 1: In the U.S. Army or Marine Corps, a platoon is normally commanded by this officer. * a lieutenant. * 2: In Spanish, it's dos. * two. * 3: In 1673 Marquette and Joliet explored in birchbark ones of these. * canoes. * 4: In U.S. harbors, these floating objects with red and white markings indicate the boundaries of safe water. * buoys. * 5: Throwing techniques in this martial art are called nagewaza. * judo (jujitsu accepted).

Round 5. Category: Please, Sir, I Want Samoa * 1: The 5 stars of this constellation are featured on Samoa's national flag. * the Southern Cross. * 2: This "line", roughly equal to the 180th meridian zigzags, so the Wallis Islands are west of it and Samoa is east. * the International Date Line. * 3: It's the title of Margaret Mead's classic 1928 anthropological study of Samoan youth. * Coming of Age in Samoa. * 4: Eastern Samoa is "American Samoa"; Western Samoa won its independence from this island country in 1962. * New Zealand. * 5: The international airport code for this city of American Samoa is PPG. * Pago Pago.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 110, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: I'm Just An Object * 1: It's what you "bide" when awaiting your opportunity. * Time. * 2: To "trip" this, meaning to dance, comes from a John Milton poem. * The light fantastic. * 3: You "cudgel" them in an effort to remember. * Brains. * 4: To lose emotional control is to "flip your" this, also a saucepan cover. * Lid. * 5: You curry food when you add spices; you curry this when you flatter someone. * Favors.

Round 2. Category: The Southernmost Capital City * 1: Sydney,Wellington,Jakarta. * Wellington. * 2: London,Paris,Lisbon. * Lisbon. * 3: Kingston,Havana,Nassau. * KIngston. * 4: Taipei,Hanoi,Manila. * Manila. * 5: Khartoum,Tripoli,Cairo. * Khartoum.

Round 3. Category: Cat People * 1: Amanda Blake played this saloon owner on "Gunsmoke" for 19 seasons. * Miss Kitty. * 2: Role shared by Eartha Kitt on TV and Michelle Pfeiffer on the big screen. * Catwoman. * 3: It's the name of King John's crusading older brother. * Richard the Lionhearted. * 4: This character describes herself as the title animal in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". * Maggie the Cat. * 5: He later went back to Mellencamp, but under this name his album "American Fool" was No. 1 in 1982. * John Cougar.

Round 4. Category: Birds * 1: Birds evolved from dinosaurs during this geologic era, "The Age of Reptiles". * Mesozoic Era. * 2: The moas of New Zealand probably became extinct because these people hunted them for food. * The Maoris. * 3: The young of this 'wandering" seabird have brown plumage which becomes white as they grow. * Albatross. * 4: A male one of these is a drake. * Duck. * 5: There are 2 subspecies of the northern species of this bird; the Bullock's and the Baltimore. * an oriole.

Round 5. Category: Literature, Jerry Springer-Style * 1: Adam and Eve confront the big man himself and discuss this 1667 Milton poem on "I Can't Believe You Evicted Me!". * Paradise Lost. * 2: George and Martha, characters in this Albee play, really let loose on "My Spouse Is Driving Me Crazy!". * Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. * 3: On "You Made Me A Bloodsucking Monster!", vampires Lestat and Louis confront their creator, this author. * Anne Rice. * 4: Don't "count" on missing "You Stole My Life, I'm Paying You Back!" featuring this 1844-45 Dumas classic. * The Count of Monte Cristo. * 5: This title character from John Irving's 4th novel appears on "You Think The World Revolves Around You!". * Garp.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 109, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Crossword Clues "G" * 1: P.E. place(3). * gym. * 2: Thank You, in Tampico(7). * Gracias. * 3: German sneezer alleviator(10). * gesundheit. * 4: You throw it down, or run it(8). * Gauntlet. * 5: The Good Witch of the North (6). * Glinda.

Round 2. Category: Joe The Farmer * 1: After Joe's Uncle Lou went a bit loopy, Joe put him "out to" here, with the grazing sheep. * a pasture. * 2: After Joe found Joe Jr. joyriding in the tractor, he locked him in this round tower that usually holds grain. * a silo. * 3: Joe's wife worries he'll fall out of this fodder storage area in the top of the barn. * the (hay) loft. * 4: Joe's dream vacation is a tour of this company's Technology Center in Moline, Illinois. * John Deere. * 5: Joe likes to ask other farmers, "got" this cereal grain? When they say yes, he says, "You better see a periodontist!". * sorghum.

Round 3. Category: Missing Vowels * 1: A fest-ive month:"CTBR". * October. * 2: One of the elements:"DN". * iodine. * 3: U. S. island territory: MRCN SM. * American Samoa. * 4: 1 of the 50:"DH". * Idaho. * 5: Bookmarked website: MZN. * Amazon.

Round 4. Category: Around The Pacific * 1: In 1697 Jesuits founded Loreto, the 1st permanent European settlement on this "lower" peninsula. * Baja California. * 2: 2 of Chile's Juan Fernandez Islands are named for Alexander Selkirk and this fictional castaway he inspired. * Robinson Crusoe. * 3: The island of Mindanao is a Muslim center in this mainly Roman Catholic country. * Philippines. * 4: This river in Washington and Oregon was explored by Robert Gray in a ship of the same name. * Columbia. * 5: To call the Rotorua Man, you'll have to ring up this antipodean island nation. * New Zealand.

Round 5. Category: Tv "O"S * 1: In the mid-'70s he could be found singing between Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson. * Tony Orlando. * 2: He played florist, er...Father Murphy. * (Merlin) Olsen. * 3: This Lord won Emmys in 1960, 1973, 1975, 1982 and 1984. * Lord Olivier. * 4: Lt. Castillo on "Miami Vice", he helped clean up L.A. after the 1992 riots. * (Edward James) Olmos. * 5: This "thirtysomething" star directed the 1992 TV movie "Doing Time on Maple Drive". * Ken Olin.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 108, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Celebrity Books * 1: This pop artist published his philosophy "From A to B and Back Again" in 1975 and his "Diaries" in 1989. * Andy Warhol. * 2: His "Roasting in Hell's Kitchen" has been called "the essential autobiography for foodies". * Gordon Ramsay. * 3: He's written a slew of "redneck" books, including "You Might Be A Redneck If This is the Biggest Book You've Ever Read". * Jeff Foxworthy. * 4: This comedian's "shopgirl" was turned into a 2005 film staring himself and Claire Danes. * Steve Martin. * 5: In 1996 this comedian celebrated his 100th birthday with "100 Years: 100 Stories". * George Burns.

Round 2. Category: Spencers For Hire * 1: Spencer was the middle name of this "Little Tramp". * Charlie Chaplin. * 2: Born in Lansing, Spencer Abraham represents this state in the U.S. Senate. * Michigan. * 3: As sec'y of this D.C. institution, Spencer Baird began the collection housed in its museums. * Smithsonian. * 4: This group's Stevie Winwood sang the following. * The Spencer Davis Group. * 5: This actor who played a famous priest at one time aspired to the priesthood. * Spencer Tracy.

Round 3. Category: Dance * 1: Act II of this 1948 fairy tale ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton is set at a palace ball. * Cinderella. * 2: Born in Italy in 1918 and raised from age 10 in New York, he was the top Spanish dancer of his time. * Jose Greco. * 3: First popular in Paris music halls around 1840 and considered vulgar, its name is French for "gossip". * Can-Can. * 4: For a contra dance, couples form 2 of these and face each other. * Lines. * 5: Goddess Pele made the earth shake, but some say her sister made Hawaiians shake by giving them this dance. * the hula.

Round 4. Category: Book Report * 1: Boy, I never knew the Civil War's outcome was so close until I read "Unconditional Surrender", a bio of this general. * Ulysses S. Grant. * 2: I wish more poems were as funny as the ones in Shel Silverstein's "Where" this happens. * the Sidewalk Ends. * 3: I was touched by the story of Opal and the dog she names after this Southern supermarket chain. * Winn-Dixie. * 4: I liked "The Adventures of" this detective, except his friend Dr. Watson is really boring. * Sherlock Holmes. * 5: If I were Rebecca, I'd have stayed on this farm and not let them send me off to the town of Riverboro. * Sunnybrook Farm.

Round 5. Category: Historic Dates * 1: He had a historic date with Nora Barnacle June 16, 1904, the day on which "Ulysses" is set. * James Joyce. * 2: The Egyptian government opened his mummy case on March 6, 1924. * Tutankhamun. * 3: In 1945 May 7 was called V-E Day and September 2 was called this. * V-J Day. * 4: This Spanish conqueror of Peru and the Incas was killed by his former followers June 26, 1541. * Francisco Pizarro. * 5: The Russian Revolution began Nov. 7, 1917, or Oct. 25 on this calendar named for Caesar. * Julian calendar.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 107, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 1930S Aviation * 1: In 1932 and '33 one of these airships made a total of 18 trips between Germany and Brazil. * Zeppelin. * 2: In 1931 Boeing, National, Pacific and Varney Airlines joined forces under this new name. * United Airlines. * 3: In the 1930s he moved the Wright Bros.' home and bicycle workshop to Dearborn, Michigan. * Henry Ford. * 4: On January 8, 1930 Walter Mittelholzer took off from the Serengeti plain to fly in a plane over this mount. * Mount Kilimanjaro. * 5: The Mitsubishi flown from Japan for George VI's coronation was named this, Japanese for "divine wind". * Kamikaze.

Round 2. Category: Historic America * 1: This large entertainment complex opened near Kissimmee October 1, 1971. * Walt Disney World. * 2: A fine collection of Haida and Tlingit totem poles was toted to Sitka National Historic Park in this state. * Alaska. * 3: Make a "pilgrim"age to this New England town to visit the 1627 English village re-created there. * Plymouth. * 4: The last execution for this offense in Salem, Massachusetts took place September 22, 1692. * Witchcraft. * 5: In 1848 a shipping canal completed through an old Indian portage linked Chicago with this mighty river system. * Mississippi River.

Round 3. Category: Phobias * 1: He's probably the Bible's most famous tonsurphobic. * Samson (he was afraid of having his hair cut). * 2: A gephyrophobic won't burn these behind him; he's afraid to cross them in the first place. * bridges. * 3: The time has come to talk of polyphobia, fear of these. * Many things. * 4: Some people may have uranophobia, fear of this place, because they fear being judged there. * Heaven. * 5: A frigophobic is afraid of this, so a Frigidaire would be off limits. * the cold.

Round 4. Category: Revolutionary War * 1: Though defeated in the Revolution, he went on to become Governor-Gen. of India. * (Charles) Cornwallis. * 2: Samuel Prescott made it to Concord to warn the patriots while this rider was captured en route. * Paul Revere. * 3: He said, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country". * Nathan Hale. * 4: At Boston's "Whites of the Eyes" Pavilion, you can see this battle depicted on film. * the Battle of Bunker Hill. * 5: 1 of 4 men who represented the United States in the Paris peace negotiations with Britain. * Benjamin Franklin (or John Adams, John Jay, or Henry Laurens).

Round 5. Category: "Wa" This Way * 1: Dismissive insectoid name for an American ethnic group of British non-Catholic ancestry. * WASPs. * 2: Longfellow's middle name. * Wadsworth. * 3: Aquarius, translated from Latin. * water bearer. * 4: After NATO admitted West Germany in 1955, the USSR and its satellites met and formed this. * the Warsaw Pact. * 5: If you're "on" this, you're angry and in the mood for confrontation. * the warpath.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 106, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: The Electoral College * 1: With 54 this state has more electoral votes than any other. * California. * 2: In 1976 an elector from the state of Washington cast a lone vote for this man; 4 years later he received 489 votes. * Ronald Reagan. * 3: The presidential electors cast their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in this month. * December. * 4: Including 3 from the District of Columbia, the Electoral College consists of this many electors. * 538. * 5: The only electoral tie occured in 1800 when these 2 men each had 73 votes. * Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson.

Round 2. Category: "Monkey" Shines * 1: John T. Scopes was the subject of it. * "Scopes Monkey Trial". * 2: It follows "Ab-a, dab-a, dab-a, dab-a, dab-a, dab-a, dab". * Said the monkey to the chimp. * 3: Film in which Groucho Marx declares, "Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo". * Monkey Business. * 4: This term for a jungle gym dates back to the 1950s. * Monkey bars. * 5: Usually "thrown", it's an obstacle that gets in the way of one's plans. * Monkey wrench.

Round 3. Category: A Philippines Timeline * 1: 2004:She narrowly defeats film star Fernando Poe to win reelection to the presidency. * Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. * 2: March 1942:This commander of U.S. forces in the Far East leaves the Philippines vowing to return. * General Douglas MacArthur. * 3: 1521:This Portuguese circumnavigator explores the Philippine islands and dies there. * Magellan. * 4: 1565:The Philippines become a part of this empire and are named after one of its monarchs. * the Spanish Empire. * 5: 1898:The Treaty of Paris cedes control of the Philippines to this nation. * the U.S..

Round 4. Category: Proverbs By Initials * 1: "Look B.Y.L.". * before you leap. * 2: "T.I.S.T. fiction". * truth is stranger than. * 3: "Blood is T.T.W.". * thicker than water. * 4: "T.H.A. better than one". * two heads are (two hands are accepted). * 5: "A watched P.N.B.". * pot never boils.

Round 5. Category: New York * 1: Val-Kill in Hyde Park was this first lady's retreat. * Eleanor Roosevelt. * 2: A N. Tarrytown bridge named for this Washington Irving rider once stood where US9 crosses the Pocantico River. * The Headless Horseman. * 3: This building in Albany is bounded by Washington Avenue and Swan, State and Eagle Streets. * Capital building. * 4: Troy, New York was home to the meatpacker who inspired this national symbol. * "Uncle Sam". * 5: The top of the Skylon Tower soars 775' above this natural landmark. * Niagara Falls.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 105, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Lawn Care * 1: Fungicide may be needed when the "powdery" type of this appears in late summer. * Mildew. * 2: Measuring alkalinity or acidity, test this 2-letter quality of your soil. * pH. * 3: When planting a new lawn, it's a good idea to add compost and this 4-letter combination of sand, silt and clay. * loam. * 4: If your lawn has these protrusions, don't make mountains out of them:. * Molehills. * 5: This tillage tool has leaf and garden types, both suitable for stepping on and bashing yourself in the nose. * Rake.

Round 2. Category: Sweet Songs * 1: It's the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters. * "Sweet Georgia Brown". * 2: In a Tony Orlando and Dawn song, "She's got rings on her fingers and bells on her toes". * "Sweet Gypsy Rose". * 3: This crooner's "Sweet Leilani" from the 1937 film "Waikiki Wedding" won an Oscar for best song. * Bing Crosby. * 4: "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" was the first No. 1 hit for this Annie Lennox duo. * The Eurythmics. * 5: Marvin Gaye and James Taylor each had a hit with this song. * "How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You".

Round 3. Category: The Weather Channel * 1: In terms of rainfall, it's the driest continent after Antarctica. * Australia. * 2: A "little" one of these "ages" ran between the 14th and 19th Centuries. * ice age. * 3: When it's muggy, "it's not the heat, it's" this, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. * humidity. * 4: Each second about 100 of these natural electrical discharges occur somewhere on Earth. * lightning strikes. * 5: When the folks at the National Weather Service are feeling a bit "DZ," "DZ" stands for this weather condition. * drizzle.

Round 4. Category: Music Of The '60S * 1: In 1969 B.J. Thomas had the biggest hit of his career with this song from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". * "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head". * 2: In the 1960s she reached the Top 20 3 times with duets: twice with Lee Hazelwood and once with her father. * Nancy Sinatra. * 3: In 1969 "Something" became the only No. 1 hit he composed for the Beatles. * George Harrison. * 4: In this 1965 hit, Roger Miller tells us that "Two hours of pushing broom buys a eight by twelve four-bit room". * "King of the Road". * 5: In 1968 his "Hurdy Gurdy Man" came singing songs of love. * Donovan.

Round 5. Category: The New York Times Travel * 1: nytimes.com says the Belle Epoque architecture and late-night cafes of this capital lure expat artists and tango lovers. * Buenos Aires. * 2: Anyone born on this southern U.S. island is called a conch, also a delicacy there, like stone crab claws. * Key West. * 3: The Times' "36 Hours" tour of this capital begins at a plaza where people look like extras in an Almodovar film. * Madrid. * 4: "What to do" at this Greek site is to visit the Museum of the History of the... games in antiquity. * Olympia. * 5: The "Practical Traveler" reports on budget types of these small, trendy hotels with the name of a kind of shop. * boutiques.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 104, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: What'cha Got Cookin'? * 1: This clear meat soup will be finished in a jiffy; actually, "finished" is what its name means. * a consommé. * 2: I'm sauteeing this organ meat in butter and lemon juice, as you'd know, if you had any. * brains. * 3: I'm making passover breakfast fun by using this unleavened bread in a version of French toast. * matzah. * 4: I'm boiling these to mix with red cabbage; it's too darn hot to roast them on an open fire. * chestnuts. * 5: Don't be intimidated by the skewers; I'll use them on the marinated lamb to make this. * shish kabob.

Round 2. Category: Oh "Mi" * 1: This city's Herald was founded in 1910. * Miami. * 2: 2 Samuel 1:25 proclaims "How" have they "fallen in the midst of the battle!". * The mighty. * 3: Muscovite is a white type of this rock that splits into thin leaves. * mica. * 4: Math sign that looks like a hyphen. * Minus sign. * 5: The process of a cell with 46 chromosomes spilitting into 2 cells, each also with 46 chromosomes. * Mitosis.

Round 3. Category: Dough * 1: Chile uses this basic unit of currency. * a peso. * 2: Italy has issued Euro coins with part of this painter's "Birth of Venus" on the reverse. * Botticelli. * 3: The name of this unit of currency used in Libya is from the Latin for "ten". * Dinar. * 4: Cherry blossoms are featured on the back of the coin worth 100 of these. * Yen. * 5: No peeking! This building is portrayed on the back of the $20 bill. * the White House.

Round 4. Category: By, The Book * 1: The first book by this "Chocolate Factory" guy was "The Gremlins" in 1943, written for Walt Disney. * Roald Dahl. * 2: False advertising alert! In 1933 she penned "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas". * Gertrude Stein. * 3: He wrote "Redburn", "Omoo" and a seafaring novel of some repute. * (Herman) Melville. * 4: In addition to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", he penned "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". * Douglas Adams. * 5: The second part of his "The Sound and the Fury" is told by a neurotic on the day of his suicide. * Faulkner.

Round 5. Category: Plays And Playwrights * 1: David Henry Hwang wrote his first play, "F.O.B.", while studying at this school near Palo Alto, California. * Stanford. * 2: Edward Albee's adaptation of this Nabokov novel starred Donald Sutherland as Humbert Humbert. * "Lolita". * 3: In 1941 her "Watch on the Rhine" was named best American play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. * Lillian Hellman. * 4: He worked as a stagehand in Prague before writing plays such as "Temptation" and before becoming a president. * Vaclav Havel. * 5: In 1991 Nigel Hawthorne won a Tony for his role as this author in William Nicholson's play "Shadowlands". * C.S. Lewis.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 103, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Filthy Rich * 1: Worth over $15 billion, Robson, son of Sam, runs this company, the USA's largest private employer. * Wal-Mart. * 2: In April 1999 his net worth hit $100 billion. * Bill Gates. * 3: With $50,000 of his $30 or so billion, Paul Allen bought a guitar this "Purple Haze" star had shattered. * Jimi Hendrix. * 4: The Sultan of Brunei has air-conditioned stables housing his 200 animals for this sport. * Polo. * 5: "Direct From" the Times of London is a quote calling him "The Avon Lady of the Microchip". * Michael Dell.

Round 2. Category: Firestarter * 1: It's not known whether Mrs. O'Leary's cow started Chicago's great fire, but it did start in one of these structures. * a barn. * 2: After London's great fire of 1666 started, this diarist said he buried a "Parmazan cheese as well as my wine". * Samuel Pepys. * 3: After 2/3 of Rome burned in 64 A.D., Nero blamed this obscure new religious sect. * Christianity. * 4: It's not known whether Mrs. O'Leary's cow started Chicago's great fire, but it did start in one of these structures. * a barn. * 5: He made a "monkey" out of all of us in his 1859 book. * Charles Darwin.

Round 3. Category: The French Revolution * 1: In October 1789 a large crowd of women marched to Versailles demanding this food staple. * bread. * 2: This national anthem was first sung by patriots from Marseille who aided in the storming of the Tuileries in 1792. * "La Marseillaise". * 3: In 1795 there was a debate over what to make the national anthem, "Reveil du Peuple" or this. * "La Marseillaise". * 4: With the coup d'etat of 18 Brumaire in 1799, he overthrew the directory. * Napoleon. * 5: In March 1790 Robespierre was elected president of this powerful political "club". * the Jacobins.

Round 4. Category: Myths And Misses * 1: Plato split her into 2 goddesses: one of pure love and one of common love. * Aphrodite. * 2: This group of warriors called Hippolyta their queen. * Amazons. * 3: Odysseus spent a month (or maybe longer) with this sorceress on the island of Aeaea. * Circe. * 4: All that blooms or the Roman goddess of all that blooms. * Flora. * 5: By jove, she was right by Jupiter, as his wife. * Juno.

Round 5. Category: Weather Words * 1: (Jeff Probst reports from Palau.) Luckily, Palau is outside the zone of these storms, whose name comes from a Chinese word that means "great wind". * typhoon. * 2: This 6-letter word for a tornado's shape is also a kitchen utensil. * funnel. * 3: The name of this job comes from the Greek for "discussion of celestial phenomena" (stay tuned). * meteorologist. * 4: In the loose sense, it's any weather vane, but specifically it's one with a rooster on it. * a weathercock. * 5: Traditionally, a dense one of these is compared to "pea soup". * fog.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 102, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Money, Money, Money * 1: In 2004 a new version of this coin depicted the peace medal Lewis and Clark gave to Indians during their exploration. * a nickel. * 2: Iraq's 25-dinar note features Saddam Hussein on the front and this ancient city's Ishtar Gate on the back. * Babylon. * 3: This tiny country, whose capital is Vaduz, uses the Swiss franc as capital. * Liechtenstein. * 4: Seen here is one of these currency units from a country that's in the zone. * the euro. * 5: Indonesia's 500-rupiah note depicts this endangered rust-colored ape sitting in a tree. * orangutan.

Round 2. Category: See You In Court * 1: Deaths in its Pinto made it the first U.S. corporation to face criminal charges over product design. * Ford. * 2: The government sued Frank Snepp over his 1977 book based on his years with this agency. * CIA. * 3: In 1977 the Supreme Court ruled that John Bates, in this profession, had the right to advertise low fees. * lawyer/law. * 4: Carol Burnett's suit against the National Enquirer for this hinged on whether the Enquirer was really a newspaper. * libel. * 5: Perhaps because no one could figure out what he'd been trying to do, Aaron Burr was acquitted of this in 1807. * treason.

Round 3. Category: A Few Good Men * 1: In May 1883 this showman put on his first "Wild West Show". * Buffalo Bill Cody. * 2: In 2004 this Fijian set a record for pro golf winnings in one year, $10,905,166. * (Vijay) Singh. * 3: This man who partnered with Charlie McCarthy was the first president of the TV Academy. * (Edgar) Bergen. * 4: This pop artist created 1958's "Three Flags", a triple portrait of the American Flag. * Jasper Johns. * 5: Many of Geoffrey Chaucer's works were first printed around 1477 by this man, England's first printer. * William Caxton.

Round 4. Category: Noted Scribes * 1: From 1903 to 1905, American author Winston Churchill served in the legislature of this "Granite State". * New Hampshire. * 2: Shortly after arriving in France in 1924, he completed "The Great Gatsby". * F. Scott Fitzgerald. * 3: This essayist wrote 3 children's stories, the last being "The Trumpet of the Swan" in 1970. * E.B. White. * 4: He's written plays based on his works, including "Dandelion Wine" and "Fahrenheit 451". * Ray Bradbury. * 5: While serving as an ambulance driver, he was injured at Fossalta di Piave, Italy on July 8, 1918. * Ernest Hemingway.

Round 5. Category: All The "Right" Moves * 1: It's the correct 2-word prefix to the titles of earls and barons. * Right Honourable. * 2: Bring up a pop-up menu by doing it with your mouse. * right-click. * 3: 60-footer of the North Atlantic. * a right whale. * 4: Hillary Clinton once said a "vast" this had existed "against my husband since the day he announced for president". * a right-wing conspiracy. * 5: The text of the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment deals with this. * the right to bear arms.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 101, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Crayola Crayon Colors * 1: This shade of brown shares its name with a bear who had no hair. * Fuzzy Wuzzy. * 2: Ingmar Bergman should be pleased with this fruity color, added in 1990. * Wild Strawberry. * 3: Shocking -- but shades of this color include Tickle Me, Pig and Flamingo. * Pink. * 4: 2 of the first 3 metallic colors introduced. * Gold, silver and /or copper. * 5: In response to teachers' requests, Prussian Blue became this "timely" color in 1958. * Midnight Blue.

Round 2. Category: What A Dish! * 1: The big difference between chop suey and this Chinese-American dish is that the latter is served with crispy noodles. * chow mein. * 2: Mash and bake these vegetables, add eggs and butter and they're duchesse. * potatoes. * 3: Spanish name for a breakfast dish of fried corn tortillas topped with fried eggs and a layer of salsa. * huevos rancheros. * 4: The Indonesian gado-gado is vegetables in this legume sauce. * peanut sauce. * 5: Gravlax is this red-fleshed fish with mustard sauce. * salmon.

Round 3. Category: Roles * 1: Tom Horn,Thomas Crown,Junior Bonner. * Steve McQueen. * 2: Donnie Brasco,Ed Wood,Ichabod Crane. * Johnny Depp. * 3: Angie Scacciapensieri,Dottie Hinson,Thelma Dickinson. * Geena Davis. * 4: Fletcher Christian,Colonel Kurtz,Vito Corleone. * Marlon Brando. * 5: Claudia Draper,Dolly Levi,Fanny Brice. * Barbra Streisand.

Round 4. Category: Swimming * 1: It's the only major racing stroke where the swimmers start in the pool. * Backstroke. * 2: Marty Hull invented Zoomers, a shorter, speedier type of this foot gear. * Flippers/fins. * 3: Krisztina Egerszegi of this eastern European country has won gold at the last 3 Olympics. * Hungary. * 4: It's the individual race in which 4 different strokes are used. * Individual medley. * 5: In this stroke, not seen in competition, the head rests on the arm while the legs scissors-kick. * Sidestroke.

Round 5. Category: Jimmy * 1: He was dyn-o-mite as mayor of New York from 1926 to 1932. * Jimmy Walker. * 2: He's won the U.S Open on 3 surfaces: grass (1974), clay (1976) and hard courts (1978, 1982, 1983). * JImmy Connors. * 3: He helped bring down Jim and Tammy Bakker, then got knocked off his own pulpit. * Jimmy Swaggart. * 4: The Kentucky Derby-winning jockey in 1878, or the president of the U.S. in 1978. * Jimmy Carter. * 5: Bobby Kennedy was chief council of the Senate committee investigating David Beck and this man. * Jimmy Hoffa.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 100, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: College Sports Team Logos * 1: A football powerhouse, it's also famous for its archaeology museum. * Nebraska. * 2: Catholic and co-ed, this university has a noted law school. * Notre Dame. * 3: This university originally opened in Ocala in 1853. * University of Florida. * 4: It was originally a state agricultural college. * Michigan State. * 5: Come out of your shell and name this university where Jim Henson went to school. * University of Maryland.

Round 2. Category: Mob Hits * 1: In the video game based on this film, players use violence and negotiation to become the next don. * The Godfather. * 2: Rotund name of "The Simpsons" head mobster who hangs out at "The Legitimate Businessman's Social Club". * Fat Tony. * 3: "But I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh?" says Tommy de Vito in this 1990 film. * Goodfellas. * 4: Adriana La Cerva, Jimmy Altieri and Ralph Cifaretto all got whacked on this TV drama. * The Sopranos. * 5: "When I got into family therapy, this was not the 'family' I had in mind", says Billy Crystal in this '99 comedy. * Analyze This.

Round 3. Category: 5' 10" Femmes * 1: For this 5' 10" daughter of Blythe Danner, life is no longer the Pitts. * Gwyneth Paltrow. * 2: The 1993 remake of "Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman" featured this 5' 10" femme. * Daryl Hannah. * 3: Well, I'll be Dharma, she's 5' 10". * Jenna Elfman. * 4: At 5' 10" she "Mrs." looking straight into the eyes of her husband Tom Cruise. * Nicole Kidman. * 5: At 5' 10" she's straight as an Aerosmith and the daughter of one, too. * Liv Tyler.

Round 4. Category: Denmark * 1: An 1805 Danish forestry law required that every time a tree is cut down, this must be done. * a tree must be planted. * 2: This most important naval battle of World War I took place off Denmark's coast. * the Battle of Jutland. * 3: In 1944, this island country officially declared itself independent of Denmark. * Iceland. * 4: Now a ruin, the Trelleborg Fortress of these warriors was built using half the timber on the island of Zealand. * the Vikings. * 5: Between 1513 and 1972, all Danish kings were alternately name Frederik and this pious name. * Christian.

Round 5. Category: 20Th Century Politicians * 1: This Texan served a record 17 years as Speaker of the House between 1940 and 1961. * Sam Rayburn. * 2: In 1945 he became the oldest veep to succeed to the presidency upon the death of a president. * Harry Truman. * 3: Known as "Battling Bob", he represented Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate from 1906 to 1925. * Bob LaFollette. * 4: In November 1910 he was elected governor of New Jersey; 2 years later he was elected president. * Woodrow Wilson. * 5: After a 19% showing in 1992, this presidential candidate could only muster 8 1/2% of the vote in 1996. * Ross Perot.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 99, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 3Rd Graders Know This Stuff * 1: The 15th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 24th and 26th ones of these are specifically concerned with voting. * constitutional amendments. * 2: The predicate of a sentence tells what this part is or does. * the subject. * 3: Zero divided by 6 yields this quotient. * zero. * 4: The size of this body part changes, depending on the light. * the pupil. * 5: Of I'm, they've, you're or won't, the contraction that lost the most letters. * won't.

Round 2. Category: You've Got Our Number * 1: Use a pedometer to try to reach the goal of this many steps a day, the usual number given to maintain long-term health. * 10,000. * 2: The Schwinn Continental, introduced in 1960, had this many gears. * ten. * 3: The EPA doesn't want kids breathing air with more carbon monoxide than 9 parts per this. * million. * 4: An editor of Forbes' 2006 list of the World's Richest People said this "just isn't what it used to be". * a billion dollars. * 5: We're sure you scored well above this in standard IQ tests; it generally indicates average for one's age. * 100.

Round 3. Category: European Geography * 1: Ports on this bay include Bilbao, Spain and Bayonne, France. * the Bay of Biscay. * 2: Alphabetically, the countries in Europe run from Albania to this tiny landlocked nation. * Vatican City. * 3: Malta lies about 60 miles south of this largest Mediterranean island. * Sicily. * 4: Yding Skovhoj, Denmark's highest point, is located on this peninsula. * Jutland. * 5: Germany's tallest peak, Zugspitze, lies in these Alps. * Bavarian Alps.

Round 4. Category: A Literary Tour * 1: Perhaps you'll draft your Nobel Prize acceptance speech at NYC's Algonquin Hotel, as this Mississippi man did in 1950. * Faulkner. * 2: Have a homey lunch at this author's Salinas, California birthplace; it's now a restaurant. * John Steinbeck. * 3: Chat about Lady Chatterley at this author's birthplace museum in Nottinghamshire. * D.H. Lawrence. * 4: To see the Great Bed of Ware mentioned in "Twelfth Night", go to this museum named for a royal couple. * the Victoria and Albert Museum (Victoria and Albert accepted). * 5: Head to Odense, Denmark to see his childhood home and sculptures inspired by his fairy tales. * (Hans Christian) Andersen.

Round 5. Category: Hints From Heloise * 1: After you thread them through a toddler's shoes, knot the ends of these so they can't be pulled out. * shoelaces. * 2: A marshmallow placed inside the bottom of the cone will help keep this treat from dripping through. * ice cream cone. * 3: In an emergency you can replace the pull tab on one of these fastening devices with a paper clip. * zipper. * 4: If you push each of these birthday items into a marshmallow, wax won't drip onto the cake. * candles. * 5: Wear these when handling hot peppers; the peppers can irritate your skin. * rubber gloves.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 98, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Will Smith * 1: In 2002 Will got an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of this sports icon. * Muhammad Ali. * 2: Will helped protect the Earth from the scum of the universe as Agent J in this 1997 film. * Men in Black. * 3: A tagline for this 2007 Will Smith film was "The last man on Earth is not alone". * I Am Legend. * 4: Starring with son Jaden in this 2006 film must have been fun; getting a second Oscar nomination, icing on the cake. * The Pursuit of Happyness. * 5: Will helped protect the Earth from the scum of the universe as Captain Steven Hiller in this 1996 film. * Independence Day.

Round 2. Category: "Dis"Integration * 1: A strict rule enforcer. * Disciplinarian. * 2: To be formally released from military service, we hope honorably. * Discharged. * 3: To expel an attorney from the legal profession. * Disbar. * 4: To hop down from your camel or horse. * Dismount. * 5: The controller of a fleet of taxis. * Dispatcher.

Round 3. Category: "My" Oh, My! * 1: These members of the starling family are known for their ability to mimic human speech. * mynah birds. * 2: It's the medical term for nearsightedness. * myopia. * 3: Gore Vidal's Ms. Breckinridge. * Myra. * 4: Used in packaging, insulation and photography, it's a trademarked thin polyester film. * mylar. * 5: This nation's capital city is Yangon. * Myanmar.

Round 4. Category: Opening Numbers Of Musicals * 1: "Another Op'nin', Another Show". * Kiss Me, Kate. * 2: "Why Can't The English?". * My Fair Lady. * 3: "I Hope I Get It". * A Chorus Line. * 4: "Aquarius". * Hair. * 5: "All That Jazz". * Chicago.

Round 5. Category: Approbation * 1: In 1982 Lenny Skutnick rescued a passenger on a crashed 737 from this D.C. river. * Potomac. * 2: Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara, who saved hundreds of Jews in WWII, bears the title "Righteous" this. * Gentile. * 3: Jody Williams won a 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to ban these weapons. * land mines. * 4: In 1997, 5 decades late, 7 black soldiers received this highest award for bravery during WWII. * the Congressional Medal of Honor. * 5: Fittingly, CNN broke the news in 1997 when this man decided to give $1 billion to the U.N.. * Ted Turner.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 97, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Haydn * 1: Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony was written this period in his work that translates into "storm and stress". * Sturm und Drang. * 2: In 1781 Haydn befriended this composer from Salzburg, 10 years before his all-too-premature death. * Mozart. * 3: Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 in Rohrau, 25 miles east of this world capital to which he moved in 1740. * Vienna. * 4: Symphony No. 94 is called this for its unexpected loud chord shortly after the soft beginning of the 2nd movement. * the "Surprise Symphony". * 5: Let me pump... you up (with info)--Joseph Haydn's middle name; this was his first name. * Franz.

Round 2. Category: First Name's The Same * 1: Wallace,Tyson,Doonesbury. * Mike. * 2: Carver,Chandler,Kroc. * Ray. * 3: Astor, Quant, Baker Eddy. * Mary. * 4: Harry,Kerr,Norville. * Deborah. * 5: Magdalene,Cassatt,Worth. * Mary.

Round 3. Category: Tell Me "Y" * 1: It's the primary source of nourishment for an embryo in an egg. * a yolk. * 2: Aden is the second-largest city in this Middle Eastern hot spot. * Yemen. * 3: It can be a standard for comparison, or a measuring rod 3 feet in length. * Yardstick. * 4: This black and white comedy film starred Peter Boyle as the manmade man. * Young Frankenstein. * 5: First name shared by monsieurs Saint Laurent and Montand. * Yves.

Round 4. Category: Dogs * 1: The Keeshond, or barge dog, is considered the national dog of this country. * the Netherlands. * 2: Miniature poodles are 10 to 15" tall, while these poodles are 10" or less. * Toy Poodles. * 3: Of the three breeds of this dog, the Gordon is the darkest and heaviest. * a setter. * 4: Despite its name, the Great Dane originated in this country, as did the Rottweiler. * Germany. * 5: In Scotland it was once forbidden for anyone below the rank of earl to own this stag-hunting hound. * a deerhound.

Round 5. Category: Arthurian Legend * 1: Some accounts say Arthur still lives on this mythic island. * Avalon. * 2: This witch's name means she's a "fairy". * Morgan Le Fay. * 3: We learned more about this nephew of Arthur in the 14th century tale titled him "and the Green Knight". * Sir Gawain. * 4: Leodegrance, King of Cameliard, had Arthur as a son-in-law after this daughter's marriage. * Guinevere. * 5: Merlin didn't design this or buy it at Ikea--he copied it from Joseph of Arimathea. * the Round Table.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 96, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Sweet Songs * 1: In a Tony Orlando and Dawn song, "She's got rings on her fingers and bells on her toes". * "Sweet Gypsy Rose". * 2: "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" was the first No. 1 hit for this Annie Lennox duo. * The Eurythmics. * 3: It's the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters. * "Sweet Georgia Brown". * 4: Marvin Gaye and James Taylor each had a hit with this song. * "How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You". * 5: This crooner's "Sweet Leilani" from the 1937 film "Waikiki Wedding" won an Oscar for best song. * Bing Crosby.

Round 2. Category: Oscar-Winning Roles * 1: U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard. * Tommy Lee Jones. * 2: 1982:She was the choice as Sophie. * Meryl Streep. * 3: Forrest Gump. * Tom Hanks. * 4: Sophie Zawistowska. * Meryl Streep. * 5: 1991:Clarice Starling. * Jodie Foster.

Round 3. Category: Universal Studios Islands Of Adventure * 1: Sam-I-Am knows Universal has a cafe named for this "colorful" title breakfast. * "Green Eggs and Ham". * 2: Seuss Landing is home to a rollicking ride named for this famous feline. * The Cat in the Hat. * 3: On Marvel's Superhero Island you may turn green when you ride the roller coaster named for him. * The Incredible Hulk. * 4: A T-rex attacks just before you take an 85-foot plunge on the ride named for this 1993 film. * Jurassic Park. * 5: If you like 3-D action, you'll love the amazing adventures of this webslinger. * Spider-Man.

Round 4. Category: Small Countries * 1: The major ethnic group in this Pyrenees principality is Spanish at 61%. * Andorra. * 2: It's the only Central American nation that does not border the Caribbean. * El Salvador. * 3: This sultanate is surrounded on its landward side by the Malaysian state of Sarawak. * Brunei. * 4: In 1962 Tobago and this larger neighbor won their independence from Great Britain. * Trinidad. * 5: This Persian Gulf nation gets its name from kut, an Arabic word for "fort". * Kuwait.

Round 5. Category: Dickens Books By Characters * 1: Jacob Marley and Tiny Tim. * A Christmas Carol. * 2: Quilp,Kit Nubbles and Little Nell. * The Old Curiosity Shop. * 3: Estella and Miss Havisham. * Great Expectations. * 4: Betsey Trotwood and Mr. Murdstone. * David Copperfield. * 5: Dr. Manette and Madame Defarge. * A Tale of Two Cities.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 95, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: On The Stage * 1: In the hit play "Madame Melville", he played a teen who was "Home Alone" with older woman Joely Richardson. * Macaulay Culkin. * 2: In 1900 this great French actress triumphed in a male role, playing Napoleon's son in "L'Aiglon". * Sarah Bernhardt. * 3: Unlike its Stratford festival, this Canadian province's Blyth Festival focuses on more recent plays. * Ontario. * 4: On Skid Row, love blooms for Seymour while Audrey II has a feeding frenzy in this play. * Little Shop of Horrors. * 5: All the original B'way cast, except Diane Keaton, bared all in a group nude scene in this musical about hippies. * Hair.

Round 2. Category: 5-Letter Capitals * 1: Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a and El Giza. * Cairo. * 2: Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port. * Hanoi. * 3: The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia. * Amman. * 4: In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital. * Quito. * 5: 12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city. * Paris.

Round 3. Category: 1997 * 1: Hosting the Oscars, he was pursued by pilot David Letterman in an "English Patient" parody. * Billy Crystal. * 2: Pioneer 10, which was launched in 1972 to study this planet, was retired in 1997. * Jupiter. * 3: 39 members of this doomsday cult in California committed suicide in March. * Heaven's Gate. * 4: When this Chinese leader died February 19, 1997 it was noted he hadn't been seen in public since early 1994. * Deng Hsiao-Ping. * 5: The FDA approved a laser that could be used by dentists as long as the dentist and adult patient wear these. * Protective glasses.

Round 4. Category: The Saturday Evening Post * 1: Born in NYC in 1894, he painted 317 covers for the Post over 47 years. * Norman Rockwell. * 2: Pre-"Peanuts", he sold some of his cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post. * Charles Schulz. * 3: In the March 17, 1956 issue, Gary Cooper said, "In Westerns you were permitted to kiss" this "but never your girl". * your horse. * 4: The 6 Earl Derr Biggers novels about this Chinese-American detective were first serialized in the Post. * Charlie Chan. * 5: The Post's history goes back to The Pennsylvania Gazette founded by this man. * Benjamin Franklin.

Round 5. Category: U.s. Highs And Lows * 1: The lowest point in the great state of Nebraska is a spot along this river that forms its eastern border. * Missouri River. * 2: This state has the highest low point of any state, 3,350 feet. * Colorado. * 3: This state has the highest point in the U.S., 20,320 feet. * Alaska (Mount McKinley). * 4: This Southern state has the lowest high point of any state, 345 feet. * Florida. * 5: This U.S. state climbs from a low of 282 feet below sea level to a high of 14,494 feet. * California.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 94, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Diamondbacks * 1: The method of telling a diamondback snake's age by counting segments of this is not always reliable. * rattles. * 2: Like most boas, diamondback snakes are viviparous, which means this. * they give birth to live young. * 3: Of 8, 16 or 28, the length in feet of the longest diamondback ever recorded (not counting Randy Johnson). * 8 feet. * 4: Slither on over to Sweetwater in this large state for its annual roundup of diamondbacks. * Texas. * 5: The diamondback belongs to this subfamily marked by sensitive receptors between each eye and nostril. * pit vipers.

Round 2. Category: He's My Vice President! * 1: Schuyler Colfax. * Ulysses S. Grant. * 2: Nelson A. Rockefeller. * Gerald Ford. * 3: Hubert H. Humphrey. * Lyndon Johnson. * 4: Calvin Coolidge. * Warren G. Harding. * 5: Hannibal Hamlin. * Abraham Lincoln.

Round 3. Category: College Football Coaches * 1: Tom Osborne won 255 games at this univ. and 3 elections to congress from the state (you win 255 games and you'll get elected, too). * Nebraska. * 2: The eyes of this university are upon Mack Brown and have seen him win more than 150 games. * Texas. * 3: Knute Rockne lost just 12, but won one for the Gipper and 104 more at this schooi. * Notre Dame. * 4: Knute Rockne lost just 12, but won one for the Gipper and 104 more at this schooi. * Notre Dame. * 5: On August 28, 1999 he began his 34th season as Penn State head coach by defeating Arizona, 41-7. * Joe Paterno.

Round 4. Category: European Vacation * 1: While in Rome, it's possible to stand with one foot in each of these countries. * Italy and Vatican City. * 2: Landmark from which you can see the following views: [1] [2] [3] [4]. * the Eiffel Tower. * 3: In this Czech capital, you can visit a home where Mozart composed part of "Don Giovanni". * Prague. * 4: To see his "Night Watch", head to the top floor of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. * Rembrandt. * 5: While Mom's at Christiansborg Palace in this city, Dad may head down the street to the Erotic Museum. * Copenhagen.

Round 5. Category: Like A Rolling Stone * 1: After this archaeologist dodged a boulder in a 1981 flick, Belloq took from him everything he could steal. * Indiana Jones. * 2: "Once upon a time" this king of Corinth was sent to Tartarus and had problems with a mobile rock. * Sisyphus. * 3: The Skipper on "Gilligan's Island" probably knows that another name for this small fish is the stone roller; didn't you?. * a minnow. * 4: The "tears" of this Hawaiian volcano goddess are actually bits of flung molten rock with no direction home. * Pele. * 5: You got nothin' to lose in this game with 15 white and black "stones" that mercifully end up on the bar after being "hit". * backgammon.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 93, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Jazz * 1: In the title of the album "Diz 'N' Bird In Concert", Diz is Dizzy Gillespie and Bird is this saxophonist. * Charlie Parker. * 2: On April 7, 1986 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- nearly 27 years after her death. * Billie Holiday. * 3: Known as the "First Lady of Song", she won 13 Grammy Awards, the most by any jazz artist. * Ella Fitzgerald. * 4: Induction into the Jazz Hall of Fame in Orlando is determined by a poll conducted by this leading jazz publication. * Down Beat. * 5: In 1964 this jazz great reached the top of the pop charts with his vocal recording of "Hello, Dolly!". * Louis Armstrong.

Round 2. Category: Foreign National Parks * 1: Great Gobi Desert. * Mongolia. * 2: Granma Landing. * Cuba. * 3: Gran Paradiso. * Italy. * 4: Cooloola and Goongarrie. * Australia. * 5: Cali Headlands. * Colombia.

Round 3. Category: Classic Ad Campaigns * 1: "We try harder". * Avis. * 2: "Look, mom -- no cavities!". * Crest. * 3: "It's the real thing". * Coca-Cola. * 4: "Does she... or doesn't she?". * Clairol. * 5: "Ring around the collar". * Wisk.

Round 4. Category: Waiter! * 1: For dessert, bring me some of this apple-filled rolled pastry whose name is from the German for "whirlpool". * strudel. * 2: Waiter, we'd like 2 services of this chilled cream-potato-leek soup. * vichyssoise. * 3: To get us started, a serving of this dish named for an oilman: oysters topped with spinach and then baked. * Oysters Rockefeller. * 4: To heat up my chilly bones, bring out a large bottle of this warmed and fermented rice drink from Japan. * sake. * 5: I'm in the mood for a little Italian: how 'bout an order of anitra all'aranci, this fowl cooked in orange sauce. * duck.

Round 5. Category: Born And Died * 1: Seismologist born April 26, 1900; shook the world with his Sept. 30, 1985 death. * (Charles) Richter. * 2: He was born August 17, 1786 in Tennessee and died March 6, 1836 in San Antonio, Texas. * Davy Crockett. * 3: He was born October 2, 1869 to a merchant caste family in Porbandar, India and died January 30, 1948 in New Delhi. * Mohandas Gandhi. * 4: This seamstress born Feb. 4, 1913 took a long bus ride home out of Detroit in 2005. * Rosa Parks. * 5: Be-bopped into the world Aug. 29, 1920; found the joy of sax and flew away March 12, 1955. * Charlie Parker.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 92, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: * 1: Title of a 1985 Bruce Springsteen hit, or a book about him by Dave Marsh. * "Glory Days". * 2: They had 2 No. 1 hits in 1980: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites The Dust". * Queen. * 3: This leader of Brasil '66 resurfaced in 1983 with "Never Gonna Let You Go". * Sergio Mendes. * 4: After going "Roundabout" this group returned to the charts in 1983 with "Owner Of A Lonely Heart". * Yes. * 5: In 1984 this group of all-stars tried to make things better with "Do They Know It's Christmas?". * Band Aid.

Round 2. Category: Hey, "Good" Looking! * 1: The liturgy of this day includes a reading of the Passion according to St. John. * Good Friday. * 2: He's the hero of the parable in Luke 10. * the Good Samaritan. * 3: False Bay lies between Cape Hangklip and this promontory. * the Cape of Good Hope. * 4: 1994 Savannah-set John Berendt bestseller. * Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. * 5: Spoiler alert: The title schoolmaster of this 1934 novel dies at the end. * Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

Round 3. Category: Beavers * 1: The 2 countries which have the most beavers in the world. * USA and Canada. * 2: In the '50s, he told us to "Brusha, Brusha, Brusha" with Ipana toothpaste, and he should know. * Bucky Beaver. * 3: These must be used continuously as they keep growing throughout a beaver's life. * teeth. * 4: Term usually applied derisively to someone who seems overly ambitious. * eager beaver. * 5: TV's last "Beulah", the show left the air because she left the part. * Louise Beavers.

Round 4. Category: If It's Tuesday * 1: His bestseller "Tuesdays With Morrie" chronicled his weekly visits to his dying professor. * Mitch Albom. * 2: In England these breakfast items are traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday. * pancakes. * 3: Tuesday is named for the warrior god Tiu, whose father was this other god. * Odin. * 4: In the comics, this character's famous line is "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today". * Wimpy. * 5: An act of Congress fixed this as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. * Election Day.

Round 5. Category: The Wga's Top 101 Screenplays * 1: James Agee and John Huston wrote the script for this 1951 film with a continent in its title. * The African Queen. * 2: The highest-ranked comedy was this 1977 film co-written by Marshall Brickman. * Annie Hall. * 3: In the No. 1 spot is this 1942 movie's script. * Casablanca. * 4: 1 of the 2 scripts that got Billy Wilder into the Top 10. * Some Like It Hot (or Sunset Boulevard). * 5: Graham Greene made the list at No. 33 with this ordinal Cold War thriller. * The Third Man.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 91, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Have Fun * 1: You've let loose when this animal precedes "around" or "play". * horse. * 2: Fancy, as in what's tickled when you are amused, is a shortened form of this word. * fantasy. * 3: Ecclesiastes says, "A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to drink and to be" this. * merry. * 4: It's what you're doing when you're "cutting a rug". * dancing. * 5: Spelled one way, it's to have casino fun; spelled another, it's delightful skipping. * gamble/gambol.

Round 2. Category: Soft "Cel" * 1: Credit card ad:Cost of books to help study for tournament, $412... beating Ken Jennings, this 9-letter word. * priceless. * 2: The University of this seaport city on the Mediterranean was founded in 1450. * Barcelona. * 3: A plant, Apium graveolens, of the parsley family. * celery. * 4: This New World cat can be 4 feet long, including the tail. * ocelot. * 5: Full title of the Minister of Finance in the British government. * the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Round 3. Category: Colonial Colleges * 1: You can get your sheepskin at this Cambridge university whose "yahd" once held grazing sheep. * Harvard. * 2: The College of New Jersey was 150 years old in 1896 when it got this new name for the city it was in. * Princeton. * 3: This Providence university that dates back to 1764 is home to a NASA research center. * Brown. * 4: For a while, Fred Rogers' neighborhood was this New Hampshire college, his alma mater. * Dartmouth. * 5: Founded in 1693, its name used to end with "in Virginia". * the College of William and Mary.

Round 4. Category: Familial Song Titles * 1: They "Are Doin' It For Themselves". * Sisters. * 2: He "Was A Rollin' Stone". * Papa. * 3: The Judds asked him to "Tell Me 'Bout The Good Old Days". * Grandpa. * 4: He was asked, "Can you spare a dime?". * Brother. * 5: Unfortunately, she "Got Run Over By A Reindeer". * Grandma.

Round 5. Category: Out Of The "Blue" * 1: It's generally a high-priced stock with a long history of growth, like G.E. or AT and T. * Blue chip. * 2: In a famous jingle, "Everything's Better With" this kind of margarine "on it". * Blue Bonnet. * 3: Before holding court on "Judging Amy", Amy Brenneman played a cop on this drama. * NYPD Blue. * 4: They're the bad guys whom the Beatles battled in the movie "Yellow Submarine". * Blue Meanies. * 5: It begins, "Well it's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready now go cat go". * "Blue Suede Shoes".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 90, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Geograph"Y" * 1: There's an active volcano on Sicily, an island that's part of this country. * Italy. * 2: While many countries in Europe have been splitting up, this one got back together in 1990. * Germany. * 3: This Scandinavian country has 2 forms of its official language -- Bokmal and Nynorsk. * Norway. * 4: It's the largest city in Utah. * Salt Lake City. * 5: The last British ship of convicts pulled into this Australian city's port in 1849. * Sydney.

Round 2. Category: Ad Campaigns * 1: A long-running campaign shows fabulous places that "Don't Take" this credit card. * American Express. * 2: Ridley Scott directed the "Share the Fantasy" ads for this tony perfume. * Chanel No. 5. * 3: This company took us for a ride with "It's Such a Comfort to Take the Bus and Leave the Driving to Us". * Greyhound. * 4: The following clip dramatizes a famous cartoon ad for this man's products. * Charles Atlas. * 5: A Sports Illustrated subscription drive popularized the phrase "The Gift That" does this. * Keeps on Giving.

Round 3. Category: Manhattan's Museum Mile * 1: The exterior of this museum at 5th and 89th was designed to break the rectangular grid of Manhattan. * the Guggenheim. * 2: 5 of the fewer than 40 known Vermeers reside in this 5th Avenue museum. * the Metropolitan Museum of Art. * 3: A Latino art museum goes by the name El Museo del this, a Spanish word for the inner city. * Barrio. * 4: New to Museum Mile, the Neue Galerie features works from Austria and this country, home of Ernst Kirchner. * Germany. * 5: The Museum of the City of N.Y. has the derby of this governor, the first Catholic to be a major party pres. candidate. * Al Smith.

Round 4. Category: Ice Cream * 1: This Italian word for rich ice cream comes from the Italian for "to freeze". * gelato. * 2: The ice cream cone was popularized at the 1904 World's Fair in this U.S. city. * St. Louis. * 3: In 1923 Harry Burt patented these ice cream bars on a stick; bringing a pail of them for patent officials to sample was smart. * a Good Humor Bar. * 4: Top off a Japanese meal with these golf-ball-sized ice cream treats wrapped in soft dough. * mochi. * 5: Harry Burt started this co. whose 1st white truck used a set of bells from the family bobsled. * Good Humor.

Round 5. Category: You're Scaring Me * 1: A literary character named Brom Bones may have been the one who scared this schoolmaster out of town. * Ichabod Crane. * 2: Jonathan Edwards literally scared the hell out of New England with this "angry" 1741 sermon. * "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". * 3: Matthew 14 tells that this disciple also walked on water until he got scared and started to sink like a stone. * Simon Peter. * 4: Little Miss Muffet couldn't tough it out and one of these scared her away. * spider. * 5: This captain scared the locals in Jamaica in 1504 when he predicted an eclipse and it happened. * Christopher Columbus.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 89, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Home Ballparks * 1: Pacific Bell Park. * San Francisco Giants. * 2: Comiskey Park. * Chicago White Sox. * 3: Veterans Stadium. * Philadelphia Phillies. * 4: Three Rivers Stadium. * Pittsburgh Pirates. * 5: Coors Field. * Colorado Rockies.

Round 2. Category: Fads * 1: Jade, Yasmin, Cloe and Sasha are these dollz. * Bratz. * 2: In the mid-'30s there were hats, shoes, glasses, books and dolls of this 6-year-old movie star. * Shirley Temple. * 3: It calls itself "the blanket with sleeves". * a Snuggie. * 4: This Bandai "digital pet" was hot in the '90s. * Tamagotchi. * 5: Long before the View-Master, these handheld 3-D stereoscopes were popular from 1850 to 1910. * Stereopticons.

Round 3. Category: 4-Letter Words * 1: [CLUE MISSING BECAUSE OF GAP IN TAPE]. * seek[?]. * 2: A repast, or the ground-up seeds of a grain. * Meal. * 3: A B.B., a Billie Jean or a Boleslaw I. * King. * 4: It describes a string stretched out fully and is a homophone for instructed. * taut. * 5: Ad lib and you speak "off" this part of your shirt. * Cuff.

Round 4. Category: Computers * 1: The "app" in "killer app" stands for this. * Application. * 2: Hewlett-Packard, Epson and Canon all make the ink-jet variety of these peripherals. * Printers. * 3: Mattel Media has created a program that lets the user design fashions for this doll. * Barbie. * 4: This company describes its pentium chip as "The Computer Inside". * Intel. * 5: This North Sioux City, S.D. mail order computer maker issues a MasterCard with a cowhide print on it. * Gateway 2000.

Round 5. Category: Pottery * 1: To a potter, throw means to form, say, a vase on one of these. * a wheel. * 2: In 1710 the first European hard-paste porcelain factory was set up in this city near Dresden. * Meissen. * 3: The word ceramics comes from "keramos", the Greek word for this substance. * clay. * 4: The company he founded in Lambeth in 1815 was appointed a supplier to the British court in 1901. * John Doulton. * 5: These ovens used to fire pots operate at temperatures up to 2200°F. * a kiln.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 88, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Clown Songs * 1: Judy Collins recorded a version of this song from "A Little Night Music". * "Send in the Clowns". * 2: His hit "I'm Still Standing" says, "If our love was just a circus, you'd be a clown by now". * Elton John. * 3: This title of a Stealers Wheel song completes the line "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...". * "Stuck in the Middle With You". * 4: In 1960 the Everly Brothers reached the top of the charts with this tune. * "Cathy's Clown". * 5: "Fe Fe Fi Fi Fo Fo Fum" this title character of a Coasters song is "a clown". * "Charlie Brown".

Round 2. Category: A Question About Television * 1: Watching "Twin Peaks", the lynch mob wondered, "Who killed" this teenager. * Laura Palmer. * 2: After this hero left the scene, someone inevitably asked, "Who was that masked man?". * The Lone Ranger. * 3: This popular game show featured the question "Will our mystery guest enter and sign in, please?". * What's My Line?. * 4: This question is the first line of the theme song from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". * Who can turn the world on with her smile?. * 5: This 5-word question became a catchphrase for Gary Coleman on "Different Strokes". * What ya talkin about Willis?.

Round 3. Category: Title Film Folk * 1: "Emma"(1996). * Gwyneth Paltrow. * 2: 1956: Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr, etc., etc., etc.. * The King and I. * 3: 2001: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson and Gwyneth Paltrow--The "fun" in dysfunctional. * The Royal Tenenbaums. * 4: 2001: Will Smith pulled no punches. * Ali. * 5: Robin Williams cures with comedy. * Patch Adams.

Round 4. Category: That's Just "Sad" * 1: His rule of Syria included the 1982 killing of perhaps 20,000 in the city of Hamah. * Hafez al-Assad. * 2: 10-letter term for feeling stiff from horseback riding. * saddlesore. * 3: It's a folded and grilled flour tortilla filled with cheese and often chicken; es muy buena!. * a quesadilla. * 4: We see this Southern California ctiy, originally named Indiana Colony, through rose-colored glasses. * Pasadena. * 5: Any war carried out under papal sanction. * a crusade.

Round 5. Category: Old Radio * 1: While in the Orient, this character learned "the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds". * The Shadow. * 2: His show began, "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea". * Walter Winchell. * 3: This CBS newsman began his World War II broadcasts with "This is London". * (Edward R.) Murrow. * 4: This cowboy star's "Melody Ranch" program features Pat Buttram and the Cass County Boys. * Gene Autry. * 5: This TV game show producer hosted "This is Your Life" and "Truth or Consequences". * Ralph Edwards.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 87, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Notable Weddings * 1: Chynna Phillips, whose mama and papa are John and Michelle, married this Baldwin with his brothers in attendance. * William (Billy) Baldwin. * 2: This "Mayflower Madam" wore pale pink at her wedding, saying, "White would have been ludicrous". * Sydney Biddle Barrows. * 3: This star of "Honeymoon in Vegas" and "Leaving Las Vegas" married Patricia Arquette in 1995. * Nicolas Cage. * 4: Bart Conner must think she's a perfect 10; he married her in Romania in 1996. * Nadia Comaneci. * 5: People magazine said she dyed her veil in coffee to match her beige dress when she married Arthur Miller in 1956. * Marilyn Monroe.

Round 2. Category: The Bible Tells Me So * 1: Deuteronomy 5: "neither shalt thou bear" this 2-word phrase "against thy neighbour". * false witness. * 2: Joshua 6:1: "now" this city "was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel". * Jericho. * 3: Judges 15: he "said, with the jaw-bone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men". * Samson. * 4: Deuteronomy 5: "neither shalt thou bear" this 2-word phrase "against thy neighbour". * false witness. * 5: Job says the price of this quality "is above rubies", and our winning contestants have their share of it. * wisdom (knowledge accepted).

Round 3. Category: Oprah's Book Club * 1: In 2004 Oprah picked "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", the first novel by this Southern woman. * Carson McCullers. * 2: Things got a little dicey after Oprah selected this maybe not-so-autobiographical James Frey memoir. * A Million Little Pieces. * 3: This beloved country is the setting of Alan Paton's "Cry, the Beloved Country". * South Africa. * 4: The club's 70 books in 15 years included this biblically titled book by Jane Hamilton. * The Book of Ruth. * 5: Things got a little dicey after Oprah selected this maybe not-so-autobiographical James Frey memoir. * A Million Little Pieces.

Round 4. Category: Sitcom Neighbors * 1: In 1996 Olivia d' Abo moved into the same building as Jonathan Silverman on this series. * "The Single Guy". * 2: "Hello, Newman". * Seinfeld. * 3: Barney Rubble. * The Flintstones. * 4: Nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz. * Bewitched. * 5: Mr. and Mrs. Roper. * Three's Company.

Round 5. Category: Music And Literature * 1: Bernard Naylor adapted her "Sonnets from the Portuguese" for voice and string quartet. * Elizabeth Barrett Browning. * 2: "Rip-Rip" is a comic opera about this sleepy head who killed time in the Catskills. * Rip Van Winkle. * 3: Franz Liszt's symphony based on this work includes the movements "Inferno" and "Purgatorio". * "The Divine Comedy". * 4: This John Bunyan work inspired the one-act opera "The Shepherds Of The Delectable Mountains". * "Pilgrim's Progress". * 5: This "Messiah" composer set Dryden's poem "Ode For St. Cecilia's Day" to music. * George F. Handel.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 86, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Animal Groups * 1: A group of these reptiles is a lounge, and you might also find the "lounge" type in a nightclub. * a lizard. * 2: When someone wishes you "good" these at Christmas, they may be referring to a group of magpies. * Tidings. * 3: Every Capricorn should know a group of these ruminants is called a tribe. * Goats. * 4: A prickle is a group of these large rodents--which makes sense, as "prickle" means sharp point or spine. * porcupines. * 5: A stand of these pink wading birds can also be called a flamboyance. * flamingoes.

Round 2. Category: Classic Cinema * 1: 1931:"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.". * Dracula. * 2: 1939:"I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!". * Gone With the Wind. * 3: 1927:"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet!". * The Jazz Singer. * 4: The windbreaker and t-shirt look he popularized in "Rebel Without A Cause" is still fashionable 43 years later. * James Dean. * 5: He starred as Professor Boyd in "Bedtime for Bonzo" but didn't do the sequel, "Bonzo Goes to College". * Ronald Reagan.

Round 3. Category: Easter * 1: Since Easter can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25, it is called this type of feast. * Moveable. * 2: Animals associated with Easter are the egg-hiding rabbit and this one representing Jesus. * Lamb. * 3: The 40-day period before Easter is Lent; the 40th day after Easter is the feast of this. * Ascension. * 4: Some early Christians considered Easter as a new part of this Jewish festival. * Passover. * 5: It's where you'll find Chile's Isla de Pascua National Park. * Easter Island.

Round 4. Category: Declaration Of Independence Signers * 1: We all know John Hancock signed it, but how many of you know he did it representing this state. * Massachusetts. * 2: Elder statesman John Witherspoon was the only clergyman to sign; he was part of this church of "Elders". * Presbyterian. * 3: Francis Lewis was the only signer born in this U.K. country--he was from Llandaff. * Wales. * 4: Before Benjamin Harrison landed the job of signer, he was getting his hands dirty in this occupation. * farmer. * 5: He's the only signer the World Almanac lists with the occupation "printer, publisher". * Benjamin Franklin.

Round 5. Category: You're An Animal * 1: "Get along little" this, the word for a motherless calf. * dogie. * 2: The plains variety of this animal has gray markings that are known as shadow stripes. * a zebra. * 3: A condor is a type of this bird; it's related to the turkey type and also enjoys eating carrion. * a vulture. * 4: Named for features on its skull, it's the swiftest mammal in the New World. * the pronghorn antelope. * 5: Scientists are scrambling to find out the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder, which is occurring with this insect. * bees.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 86, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Animal Groups * 1: A group of these reptiles is a lounge, and you might also find the "lounge" type in a nightclub. * a lizard. * 2: When someone wishes you "good" these at Christmas, they may be referring to a group of magpies. * Tidings. * 3: Every Capricorn should know a group of these ruminants is called a tribe. * Goats. * 4: A prickle is a group of these large rodents--which makes sense, as "prickle" means sharp point or spine. * porcupines. * 5: A stand of these pink wading birds can also be called a flamboyance. * flamingoes.

Round 2. Category: Classic Cinema * 1: 1931:"Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.". * Dracula. * 2: 1939:"I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!". * Gone With the Wind. * 3: 1927:"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet!". * The Jazz Singer. * 4: The windbreaker and t-shirt look he popularized in "Rebel Without A Cause" is still fashionable 43 years later. * James Dean. * 5: He starred as Professor Boyd in "Bedtime for Bonzo" but didn't do the sequel, "Bonzo Goes to College". * Ronald Reagan.

Round 3. Category: Easter * 1: Since Easter can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25, it is called this type of feast. * Moveable. * 2: Animals associated with Easter are the egg-hiding rabbit and this one representing Jesus. * Lamb. * 3: The 40-day period before Easter is Lent; the 40th day after Easter is the feast of this. * Ascension. * 4: Some early Christians considered Easter as a new part of this Jewish festival. * Passover. * 5: It's where you'll find Chile's Isla de Pascua National Park. * Easter Island.

Round 4. Category: Declaration Of Independence Signers * 1: We all know John Hancock signed it, but how many of you know he did it representing this state. * Massachusetts. * 2: Elder statesman John Witherspoon was the only clergyman to sign; he was part of this church of "Elders". * Presbyterian. * 3: Francis Lewis was the only signer born in this U.K. country--he was from Llandaff. * Wales. * 4: Before Benjamin Harrison landed the job of signer, he was getting his hands dirty in this occupation. * farmer. * 5: He's the only signer the World Almanac lists with the occupation "printer, publisher". * Benjamin Franklin.

Round 5. Category: You're An Animal * 1: "Get along little" this, the word for a motherless calf. * dogie. * 2: The plains variety of this animal has gray markings that are known as shadow stripes. * a zebra. * 3: A condor is a type of this bird; it's related to the turkey type and also enjoys eating carrion. * a vulture. * 4: Named for features on its skull, it's the swiftest mammal in the New World. * the pronghorn antelope. * 5: Scientists are scrambling to find out the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder, which is occurring with this insect. * bees.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 84, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hello, Sports Fans * 1: (Pro golfer Peter Jacobsen.) To land the ball on the green with this, also called juice, hit the ball below its equator with a lofted club. * backspin. * 2: (I'm Ed McCaffrey.) It was the name of my team at Stanford, and also one of the team colors. * Cardinal. * 3: (Yankees manager Joe Torre reads the clue.) In 1971 I led the league in average and RBIs, so I was just the home run title short of winning this. * Triple Crown. * 4: A sculpture of this heavyweight's fist was donated to the city of Detroit by Sports Illustrated. * Joe Louis. * 5: (I'm NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia.) In 2000 I became the fourth 49er to throw for 30 TDs in a season, after John Brodie and these 2 other fairly decent passers. * Joe Montana and Steve Young.

Round 2. Category: * 1: This actor keeps parting and getting back together with Andie MacDowell in "Four Weddings And A Funeral". * Hugh Grant. * 2: Lucy Westenra is the first English woman to fall victim to him in Bram Stoker's novel. * Count Dracula. * 3: In "The Seven Year Itch", Tom Ewell says goodbye to his wife and starts flirting with this actress. * Marilyn Monroe. * 4: In a 1965 epic this Omar Sharif character keeps getting separated from his beloved Lara. * Dr. Zhivago. * 5: In "Casablanca" this Bogart character reminds Ilsa as they part, "We'll always have Paris". * Rick Blaine.

Round 3. Category: "V"Ariety * 1: The first laws against alcohol in the Americas were passed in 1623 with the help of Gov. Francis Wyatt of this colony. * Virginia. * 2: In Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls", the fowls gather to choose their mates on this day. * Valentine's Day. * 3: This great writer of the Enlightenment was known as "The Plato of the 18th Centuty". * Voltaire. * 4: In the 1860's this industrial "commodore" lost the fight for control of the Erie Railroad. * Cornelius Vanderbilt. * 5: From the Latin for "wide vessel", this type of drug does just that; it widens blood vessels. * vasodilator.

Round 4. Category: Before He Was President * 1: He was "Old Rough and Ready", a hero of the Mexican War. * (Zachary) Taylor. * 2: He played sax in a jazz trio called The Three Blind Mice. * Clinton. * 3: He was captain of the debating team at Whittier College in California. * Richard Nixon. * 4: He practiced law in Kinderhook, New York. * (Martin) Van Buren. * 5: He was a judge of the Jackson County Court in Missouri. * Truman.

Round 5. Category: Leading Men * 1: Hugo Chavez of this South American country is an admirer of Simon Bolivar. * Venezuela. * 2: In the early 1980s this star of "Scarface" and "Serpico" was an artistic director of the Actors Studio. * Al Pacino. * 3: In 1938 this prime minister returned to Britain from a meeting with Hitler saying, "I believe it is peace in our time". * Chamberlain. * 4: Like his father whom he succeeded, Bashar al-Assad heads the Ba'ath Party in this Middle East country. * Syria. * 5: He's played "Dirty Harry" Callahan in 5 films; the most recent was "The Dead Pool" in 1988. * Clint Eastwood.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 83, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Resort Cities * 1: This resort known for its spa was capital of occupied France from November 1942 to August 1944. * Vichy. * 2: This resort's famous boardwalk was built in 1870 to keep sand out of hotel lobbies and railroad cars. * Atlantic City. * 3: This Crimean health and vacation resort was the site of an important World War II conference. * Yalta. * 4: This fashionable Colorado ski getaway was named by prospectors for the trees in the area. * Aspen. * 5: In 1986 voters of this California resort made Clint Eastwood's day by electing him mayor. * Carmel.

Round 2. Category: Intelligent Films * 1: Chemistry whiz Julius Kelp devises a formula that transforms him into the suave Buddy Love in this 1963 comedy. * The Nutty Professor. * 2: Even the janitor at M.I.T. is a math genius in this 1997 Oscar-winning film. * Good Will Hunting. * 3: A 7-year-old chess prodigy is at the center of this 1993 film that mentions an American chess prodigy in its title. * Searching for Bobby Fischer. * 4: A blinding light suddenly turns this actor into a genius in 1996's "Phenomenon". * John Travolta. * 5: Woody Allen finds media guru Marshall McLuhan in a theater lobby in this 1977 film. * Annie Hall.

Round 3. Category: Irs Stuff * 1: Filing jointly, families with 2 or more kids and making under $34,178 a year may receive the EITC, this credit. * Earned Income Tax Credit. * 2: If you've been selected for one of these, the IRS cheerfully informs you that many of them result in refunds. * Audit. * 3: The IRS now allows some deductions for treatments, not including the over-the-counter patch, to quit this. * Smoking. * 4: About 9% of the individual returns for 2000 checked the box to donate this much to the Presidential Election Fund. * $3. * 5: To deduct these, your new job must be over 50 miles farther from your former home than your old job was. * Moving expenses.

Round 4. Category: Four! * 1: Published in 1943, "Four Quartets" is considered by many to be this American-born poet's finest work. * T.S. Eliot. * 2: Isaiah said that the Lord shall gather the dispersed "from" these "of the Earth". * the four corners. * 3: In the English alphabet, it's the fourth consonant. * F. * 4: The only athlete to win 4 straight Olympic gold medals in the long jump. * (Carl) Lewis. * 5: In four-color process printing, the 4 colors used are cyan, magenta, yellow and this "basic" one. * black.

Round 5. Category: Dropouts * 1: He abandoned his studies at Harvard after his junior year to co-found Microsoft and got filthy rich. * Bill Gates. * 2: Ben Affleck left college for Hollywood; this co-screenwriter left Harvard just shy of graduation. * Matt Damon. * 3: Left Temple University in the '60s to be a comic, was in one of the biggest '80s sitcoms and sold Jell-O. * Bill Cosby. * 4: In 1996, after winning his third U.S. Amateur title, he left Stanford to turn pro. * Tiger Woods. * 5: He went to UCLA to study film but dropped out; he ended up directing and co-starring in "Reality Bites" and "The Cable Guy". * Ben Stiller.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 82, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Party Time! * 1: A noisy mock serenade given for newlyweds, its name is an alteration of the French word charivari. * Shivaree. * 2: On a party invitation, the letters RSVP stand for the French phrase "Repondez" this. * S'il vous plait. * 3: Sir John Soane had a 3-day party after buying Seti I's sarcophagus for his home in this British capital. * London. * 4: A synonym for slumber party, it's also the title of a 1964 Annette Funicello film. * Pajama Party. * 5: Heloise suggests putting fortunes inside these inflatable items instead of in cookies; then let guests pop them. * Balloons.

Round 2. Category: You Get A "D" * 1: In Greek mythology, the mother of Persephone. * Demeter. * 2: 6-letter word meaning to expose as being false or ridiculous, like certain wacky theories. * debunk. * 3: A succession of monarchs from the same family. * dynasty. * 4: If you think someone's wrong, you may "beg to" do this. * differ. * 5: In the comics, she's Dagwood and Blondie's dog. * Daisy.

Round 3. Category: Themes Like Old Times * 1: "Please, won't you be my neighbor?". * Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. * 2: "And then one day he was shootin' at some food and up through the round come a bubblin' crude". * The Beverly Hillbillies. * 3: "And you knew who you were then, girls were girls and men were men". * All in the Family. * 4: "Thank you for being a friend". * The Golden Girls. * 5: "Here we come, walking down the street". * The Monkees.

Round 4. Category: Criminal's Dictionary * 1: It's the 2-word slang term for the photograph taken of a suspect in custody. * Mug shot. * 2: From Latin for "elsewhere", it's the claim to have been somewhere else when a crime was committed. * Alibi. * 3: This term for a gangster's girlfriend sounds like where she might spend all his money. * Moll. * 4: A person confessing info to police is known as one of these yellow songbirds. * Canary. * 5: It's not a novel builder, it's a person accepting bets. * Bookmaker/bookie.

Round 5. Category: Mariners * 1: 8 years after his circumnavigation of the globe, 1577 to 1580, he helped England defeat the Spanish Armada. * Sir Francis Drake. * 2: The largest island on North America's Pacific coast was named for this British naval officer. * George Vancouver (Vancouver Island). * 3: Knowledge of this colonizer of Greenland comes from 2 accounts: "Eric's Saga" and "The Greenlanders' Saga". * Eric the Red. * 4: William Bligh was the master of the Resolution during this captain's third Pacific expedition. * Captain James Cook. * 5: In July 1741 this Dane sighted the North American continent near Mount St. Elias, Alaska. * Vitus Bering.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 81, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Well, Exhume Me! * 1: Teddy Roosevelt gave the eulogy when this man was interred at the Naval Academy in 1906, 114 years after his death. * John Paul Jones. * 2: In 1997, after a 19-month search, this man's remains were found in Bolivia, dug up and sent to Cuba. * Ernesto "Che" Guevara. * 3: Her body was stolen and sent to Italy after her husband was deposed; it was returned to Argentina in 1974. * Eva Perón. * 4: This star of "Z" and "Jean de Florette" was exhumed in 1998 to get his DNA for a paternity test. * Yves Montand. * 5: In 1995 a forensic scientist said that remains exhumed from a grave in Missouri were probably those of this slain outlaw. * Jesse James.

Round 2. Category: The Great Depression * 1: This "holiday" declared March 6, 1933 came with a $10,000 fine or 10 years in jail for violators. * bank holiday. * 2: Things named for him during the Depression include a big dam and a type of miserable shantytown. * Herbert Hoover. * 3: Some say the 1930 tariff named for these 2 politicians made the Depression worse and helped spread it overseas. * Smoot and Hawley. * 4: Half a loaf was better than none for the people seen in one of these. * bread line. * 5: In the hardest times, this figure stood at over 25%, representing almost 15 million Americans. * unemployment rate.

Round 3. 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: The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is a narrow gauge railway that climbs to 7,400' in this country. * India. * 3: This Rome landmark is 620 feet long by 513 wide--plenty of room to run away from a wild beast. * the Colosseum. * 4: You can buy samples of this fossilized resin at a museum devoted to it in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. * amber. * 5: You can buy samples of this fossilized resin at a museum devoted to it in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. * amber.

Round 4. Category: Recognizing Reptiles * 1: The tuatara, which waits until it's about 20 to mate, has one of these that grows back after it breaks off. * a tail. * 2: Most reptiles with toes have these on them, but the leatherback sea turtle doesn't. * claws. * 3: Unlike the feline leopard, the longnose leopard lizard can do this, so no proverbs for him. * change its spots. * 4: We're not lying, the beaded lizard has a forked one. * a tongue. * 5: This reptile's long, tapered snout distinguishes it from the alligator, which has a broad, round one. * the crocodile.

Round 5. Category: Pop Music Rhyme Time * 1: A Rolling Stones lead singer's selections. * Mick's picks. * 2: Marley's high-arcing tennis shots. * Bob's lobs. * 3: Ex-Black Sabbath singer's Muppet bears. * Ozzy's Fozzies. * 4: Mr. Vicious' offspring. * Sid's kids. * 5: Freddie Mercury band's limas and kidneys. * Queen's beans.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 80, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Countries By Newspapers * 1: Dimokratiki and Peloponnisos. * Greece. * 2: Diario de los Andes,The Buenos Aires Herald. * Argentina. * 3: The Newham Recorder,The Luton News. * England. * 4: El Cronista and El Patagonico. * Argentina. * 5: Przewodnik Katolicki and Glos Koszalinski. * Poland.

Round 2. Category: "Pie" Flinging * 1: A small sword with a narrow blade used for thrusting. * a rapier. * 2: A decorative floral arrangement in the middle of a dining table. * a centerpiece. * 3: Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were founding members of this group. * the Yippies. * 4: 5-letter term for saintly goodliness or reverence. * piety. * 5: General term for a Xerox machine or a medieval transcriber. * a copier.

Round 3. Category: A Capital Idea * 1: Hmm -- the National Pawn Shop in this city was built on the site of the palace where Montezuma was killed. * Mexico City. * 2: Empress Taitu chose the name of this Ethiopian capital; it means "new flower". * Addis Ababa. * 3: In 1898, 10 years after inheriting the throne, 18-year-old Queen Wilhelmina was finally crowned in this city. * Amsterdam. * 4: In the 1920s Norway's parliament voted to change the name of Christiania back to this. * Oslo. * 5: Rawalpindi was selected as this country's interim capital while Islamabad was under construction. * Pakistan.

Round 4. Category: Foreign States * 1: Jalisco and Tabasco. * Mexico. * 2: Kogi, Oyo and Lagos. * Nigeria. * 3: Amazonas and Bahia. * Brazil. * 4: Victoria and New South Wales. * Australia. * 5: Bahia, Parana and Sao Paulo. * Brazil.

Round 5. Category: New Words * 1: "Greeny" is slang, not for a little martian, but for anyone concerned about this. * the environment. * 2: Canine name for a person who makes a business of smuggling aliens into U.S.. * a coyote. * 3: If you're into "heavy breathers", you might have read one of these by Rosemary Rogers or Danielle Steel. * a romance novel. * 4: A U.S. Treasury bond called "a James Bond" matures in this year of the next century. * 2007. * 5: "Celebrity rot" refers to an aging entertainer's increasing inability to do this. * entertain.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 79, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ends In "X" * 1: From words meaning "beyond belief", it's a seemingly contradictory statement. * paradox. * 2: It's Corning's trademark for heat-resistant glassware. * Pyrex. * 3: A 3-letter word for "to veto", or a German water sprite. * nix. * 4: It's the outer layer of the cerebrum largely responsible for higher nervous function. * the cortex. * 5: This salty smoked salmon tastes great on a bagel. * lox.

Round 2. Category: Penny For Your Thoughts * 1: Named for the 2 British coins it resembled, this early bicycle had a large front wheel and a small rear wheel. * penny-farthing. * 2: James Ussher thought this was created in the evening of October 22, 4004 B.C.. * The world. * 3: Pennyroyal is an aromatic plantof this sweet herb family; its leaves can be driedto make tea. * mint. * 4: Speaking in exile in 1959, he reportedly said, "I give Castro a year. No more". * Fulgencio Batista. * 5: In 1977 he told David Frost, "When the president does it, that means it is not illegal". * Richard Nixon.

Round 3. Category: Legal Lingo * 1: This district of a bailiff might be your area of expertise. * bailiwick. * 2: This word also found in the First Amendment means a formal written request to the court for judicial action. * Petition. * 3: "L.S." on a document indicates the spot where this object is to be affixed. * Legal Seal. * 4: (Hi, I'm Steve Harris of "The Practice") If the supply of these has been exhausted, a talesman, a bystander in the court, may be picked to be one. * Juror. * 5: In California, this type of theft applies to goods worth over $400, or artichokes worth over $100. * grand (theft).

Round 4. Category: Foreign Food * 1: Don't wonder, naan, roti and puri are types of this in India. * bread. * 2: This style of topping may sound good, but its name is from the French for "with the burnt scrapings". * au gratin. * 3: If you make it right, your salsa verde should be this color. * green. * 4: A meat-filled tortilla in a chili sauce, its name is from the Spanish for "to season with chili". * enchilada. * 5: Meal at which you'd normally serve muesli. * breakfast.

Round 5. Category: Wild Goose Chases * 1: Ponce de Leon should have tried a facelift, as he never found this liquid rejuvenizer. * the Fountain of Youth. * 2: Some think the Bimini Road is evidence of this Lost Continent. * Atlantis. * 3: A lot of sleepless "knights" were spent questing for this chalice given to Joseph of Arimathea. * the Holy Grail. * 4: He walked on the moon and walked up Ararat, searching in vain for Noah's Ark. * James Irwin. * 5: Henry Hudson "passed" on while seeking this elusive route to Asia. * the Northwest Passage.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 78, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Good For A Day Off * 1: On the Friday before this holiday, soldiers in the 3rd U.S. Infantry place flags on graves at Arlington. * Memorial Day. * 2: It's happy 27th of February as the Dominican Republic marks its independence from this neighbor. * Haiti. * 3: You don't need to have an epiphany to know the Feast of the Epiphany falls in this month. * January. * 4: It began in America in 1621 as an adaptation of the British Lammas, or "Loaf Mass" Day. * Thanksgiving. * 5: Pilgrimage participants plan to arrive in this city before the sixth day of Dhul-Hijjah. * Mecca.

Round 2. Category: Colonial Colleges * 1: You can get your sheepskin at this Cambridge university whose "yahd" once held grazing sheep. * Harvard. * 2: The College of New Jersey was 150 years old in 1896 when it got this new name for the city it was in. * Princeton. * 3: Founded in 1693, its name used to end with "in Virginia". * the College of William and Mary. * 4: For a while, Fred Rogers' neighborhood was this New Hampshire college, his alma mater. * Dartmouth. * 5: This Providence university that dates back to 1764 is home to a NASA research center. * Brown.

Round 3. Category: Sheer Genius! * 1: The difference engine, a computing device he designed in the 1820s, was built in 1991 from his plans and it worked!. * (Charles) Babbage. * 2: Named for its American inventor, this electrostatic generator is used to accelerate particles. * a Van de Graaff generator. * 3: Among his 355 patents is an 1887 one for ballistite, or smokeless powder. * (Alfred) Nobel. * 4: In 1884 Ottmar Mergenthaler invented this machine that eliminated setting type by hand. * the linotype machine. * 5: In 1837 Brits Cooke and Wheatstone designed an electric one; later that year, an American painter perfected it. * the telegraph.

Round 4. Category: Wheat * 1: Pasta is made from this coarsely-ground grain of durum wheat. * Semolina. * 2: Glutamic acid from wheat is used to produce this flavor enhancer. * MSG (Monosodium Glutamate). * 3: Nabisco makes these crispy crackers; red oval farms makes them "stoned". * Wheat Thins. * 4: Dunkelweizen and Kristall Weizen are refreshing wheat types of these. * beer. * 5: This embryo of the wheat seed is a rich source of vitamin E. * Germ.

Round 5. Category: Mr. Smith Goes To Washington * 1: Fort Dix is in this state's 4th District, repped by Chris Smith, who was elected to Congress at age 27. * New Jersey. * 2: In 1996 Gordon Smith lost to Ron Wyden to replace Bob Packwood as a Sen. from this state; now they serve together. * Oregon. * 3: Parts of Comal, Hays and Travis Counties make up the 21st District of this state's Rep. Lamar Smith. * Texas. * 4: Washington's 9th District is represented by this man, who has the same name as a certain economist. * Adam Smith. * 5: William French Smith, who held this post, 1981-1985, had a key role in putting the 1st woman on the Supreme Court. * Attorney General.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 77, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Leader Of The "Pack" * 1: In information technology, breaking up a message to transmit it more efficiently is this type of switching. * packet switching. * 2: Don Hutson, Paul Hornung and Lou Brock (no, not that Lou Brock) are in this team's Hall of Fame. * the Green Bay Packers. * 3: In information technology, breaking up a message to transmit it more efficiently is this type of switching. * packet switching. * 4: Lupine term for a group of subs operating together in hunting down enemy convoys. * a wolfpack. * 5: It sounds painful, but it's a clear plastic bubble in which a consumer product is sealed against a cardboard backing. * a blister pack.

Round 2. Category: Pugilistic Sobriquets * 1: Lightweight champ Ray Mancini received this nickname that his father also used as a top contender. * "Boom Boom". * 2: This nickname of Oscar De La Hoya is the title of a 1939 film with William Holden as a boxer. * Golden Boy. * 3: "Killer" nickname of Thomas Hearns, who held world titles in 4 different weight classes. * "Hit Man". * 4: When asked about his future plans, this boxer known as "Iron Mike" said, "I don't know...I might just fade into Bolivian". * Mike Tyson. * 5: Once known as "The Louisville Lip", he later became "The Greatest". * Muhammad Ali.

Round 3. Category: Termite Trivia * 1: One form of termite communication is the production of trails of these chemicals. * Pheromones. * 2: The closest relative to the termite is this household pest. * Cockroach. * 3: Termites are found in every state except this one. * Alaska. * 4: The primary food of termites is this carbohydrate found in plants. * Cellulose. * 5: Of 15 days, 15 months or 15 years, it's the approximate lifespan of a termite queen. * 15 years.

Round 4. Category: The Bod Squad * 1: Your dukes,your mitts,your paws. * Hands. * 2: Your gams,your pins,your shanks. * Legs. * 3: Choppers,grinders,ivories. * Teeth. * 4: Beezer,sneezer,schnoz. * Nose. * 5: The Achilles tendon is in this part of the foot, the only spot where the hero Achilles was vulnerable. * the heel.

Round 5. Category: Famous "Baby"S * 1: Nickname of Jean-Claude Duvalier, who succeeded his father, a physician, as Haitian leader. * "Baby Doc". * 2: It's how the media referred to little Miss McClure, who, in 1987, fell down a well and was rescued 2 days later. * Baby Jessica. * 3: Seen w/Casper the Friendly Ghost, this Harvey cartoon and comic character was an overgrown duckling. * Baby Huey. * 4: Childhood stage name of the actress who played Sally Rogers on "The Dick Van Dyke Show". * Baby Rose Marie. * 5: 1 of 2 popular U.S. films released in late 1987 that had the word "Baby" in their titles. * Baby Boom or Three Men and a Baby.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 76, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: It's Unreal * 1: Lee makes them in active length in such colors as Joyful and Fascinating. * artificial nails. * 2: This company is putting the kibosh on sellers of those Jelly Kelly knock-offs of its Kelly bags. * Hermes. * 3: In 1966 Clark and Gollan performed experiments that led to artificial this, probably exciting news to artificial vampires. * artificial blood. * 4: On April 8, 1966 the L.A. Dodgers played on this surface for the first time (it was during an away game). * astroturf. * 5: Pam Anderson is a supporter of pleather, which is short for this. * plastic leather.

Round 2. Category: May Day * 1: On May 1, 1996 this national railway passenger service celebrated its 25th anniversary. * Amtrak. * 2: This Palestinian leader's status was confirmed in 1996 when President Clinton met with him. * Yasser Arafat. * 3: He was ready and he fired May 1, 1898. * Captain Charles Gridley. * 4: The Croats opened fire again May 1, 1995 after the ceasefire negotiated by this ex-U.S. president expired. * Jimmy Carter. * 5: On May 1, 1937, 5 days after the town was bombed, he began sketching "Guernica". * Pablo Picasso.

Round 3. Category: British Fashion * 1: Sharp suits and skinny ties typified the '60s look of the "squad" of these young Britishers. * the mod squad. * 2: David and Elizabeth Emanuel got the assignment to design this for Princess Diana to wear on July 29, 1981. * her wedding dress. * 3: This "Superwaif" model made news in 1993 when she went topless at a Vivienne Westwood show. * Kate Moss. * 4: 19th century Englishmen Thomas and William Bowler got their names in the dictionary by making these. * hats. * 5: With grenade loops added, the coat designed by Thomas Burberry got this new name during World War I. * trenchcoat.

Round 4. Category: Libros En Espanol * 1: Wells:"La Maquina del Tiempo". * "The Time Machine". * 2: Hemingway: "El Viejo y el Mar". * "The Old Man and the Sea". * 3: Alcott:"Hombrecitos". * "Little Men". * 4: Dickens:"Historia de Dos Ciudades". * "A Tale of Two Cities". * 5: Vonnegut:"Matadero Cinco". * "Slaughterhouse Five".

Round 5. Category: World Leaders * 1: This general took power in Pakistan in a 1999 coup. * Musharraf. * 2: On May 25, 1946 this grandfather of Hussein was crowned the first king of Jordan. * King Abdullah. * 3: She gave birth to her 1st child, a son, during her successful 1988 campaign to become P.M. of Pakistan. * Benazir Bhutto. * 4: The U.S. wishes this trained ophthalmologist could see his way to support our Mideast policy. * Bashar al-Assad. * 5: On November 22, 2001 he personally sent his first e-mail, a message to Roman Catholics in Oceania. * Pope John Paul II.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 75, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: 4-Letter Birds * 1: Ancient Egyptians believed this bird to be a representative of the god Thoth. * ibis. * 2: Species of this bird include the Caspian, South and Arctic. * tern. * 3: An elated person is sometimes said to be "as happy as" this songbird. * lark. * 4: The rook is the most common member of this bird family found in Europe. * crow. * 5: This bird isn't biologically distinct from the pigeon, it's just smaller. * dove.

Round 2. Category: Sounds Like Ig-Pay Atin-Lay * 1: Maryland's Severn River is an inlet of it. * Chesapeake Bay. * 2: The 2000 Robert Mondavi one has nuances of hazelnut and goes well with salmon. * Chardonnay. * 3: Unverified gossip or rumor; it's often excluded from court. * hearsay. * 4: December 26, when British servants traditionally get gifts. * Boxing Day. * 5: A stream of electrons from a negatively charged electrode. * cathode ray.

Round 3. Category: "B" Movies * 1: 1948:In a classic of Italian Neorealism, a father and son search for a stolen vehicle. * The Bicycle Thief. * 2: Bogie stars as Phillip Marlowe in this 1946 film noir classic based on Raymond Chandler's first novel. * The Big Sleep. * 3: As Josef Mengele, Gregory Peck sets out to breed a new race of Hitlers in this thriller. * The Boys from Brazil. * 4: This title describes Carroll Baker's thumb-sucking character and nightie she wore. * Baby Doll. * 5: 1991:Ice Cube co-starred in this saga about a group of friends chillin' out in an L.A. ghetto. * Boyz n the Hood.

Round 4. Category: He's The Coach * 1: Green Bay Packers, 1959-1967. * Vince Lombardi. * 2: Chicago Bears, 1920-1967 (with a few breaks). * George Halas. * 3: University of Nebraska Football, 1973-1997. * Tom Osborne. * 4: Indiana Pacers, 1997-2000. * Larry Bird. * 5: UCLA Men's Basketball, 1949-1975. * John Wooden.

Round 5. Category: Manhattan's Museum Mile * 1: The exterior of this museum at 5th and 89th was designed to break the rectangular grid of Manhattan. * the Guggenheim. * 2: New to Museum Mile, the Neue Galerie features works from Austria and this country, home of Ernst Kirchner. * Germany. * 3: A Latino art museum goes by the name El Museo del this, a Spanish word for the inner city. * Barrio. * 4: The Museum of the City of N.Y. has the derby of this governor, the first Catholic to be a major party pres. candidate. * Al Smith. * 5: 5 of the fewer than 40 known Vermeers reside in this 5th Avenue museum. * the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 74, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Saint Paul * 1: Saint Paul was a supportive witness to the stoning of this first Christian martyr. * Saint Stephen. * 2: From the Greek for "message", it's the name given Saint Paul's letters to Christian churches and groups. * Epistles. * 3: Born to Jewish parents in Tarsus, Saint Paul is called "The Apostle To" these non-Jews. * Gentiles. * 4: Following his conversion, Saint Paul spent a period of reflection on this peninsula. * Arabian Peninsula. * 5: As Saul, Saint Paul heard the voice of Jesus while on the road to this city. * Damascus.

Round 2. Category: On The Fly * 1: From the Spanish for "little fly", this fly variety has hypodermic mouth parts to pierce skin. * Mosquito. * 2: Like most insects, all flies are divided into 3 parts: thorax, abdomen and this. * Head. * 3: Of major insect groups, flies are the only one with just one real pair of these. * Wings. * 4: On the housefly, these are large, compound and composed of up to 4,000 individual lenses. * Eyes. * 5: These large, speedy biting flies with an animal name are also known as gadflies and greenheads. * Horseflies.

Round 3. Category: 'Rithmetic * 1: It's 2128 divided by 7. * 304. * 2: .5 X .15. * .075. * 3: It's the square root of 196. * 14. * 4: It's 1/4 of 100. * 25. * 5: Number of inches in 3 yards. * 108.

Round 4. Category: Bon Appe-"T" * 1: It's a cross between a pomelo and a tangerine. * Tangelo. * 2: A yellow cheddar from Oregon. * Tillamook. * 3: A folded tortilla filled with various ingredients. * Taco. * 4: This "steak" is a hot dog. * Tube steak. * 5: This root vegetable often has white skin and a purple-tinged top. * Turnip.

Round 5. Category: Huey, Dewey Or Louis * 1: This man sang lead on the 1986 Top 40 hit "Hip To Be Square". * Huey Lewis. * 2: A co-founder of the Black Panthers. * Huey P. Newton. * 3: For successes in the Spanish-American War, he was promoted to the special rank of Admiral of the Navy. * Admiral George Dewey. * 4: "Musicians don't retire, they stop when there's no more music in them", quipped this trumpeter. * Louis Armstrong. * 5: A populist Louisiana governor of the early 1930s. * Huey Long.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 73, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Money Slang * 1: The shell of this mollusk is composed chiefly of calcium carbonate. * a clam. * 2: Proverbially, you can "break" this food, or "take (it) out of someone's mouth"; earn some dough. * bread. * 3: Bank notes that sing before fa-so-la. * Do-re-mi. * 4: When speaking of Messrs. Netanyahu or Britten, it's all about the first name, pluralized. * the Benjamins. * 5: 2-word phrase for Henny Penny's lunch. * Chicken feed.

Round 2. Category: Flag 'Em Down * 1: The flag of this U.S. possession is almost the same as the flag of Cuba. * Puerto Rico. * 2: This descriptive nickname of the U.S. flag was coined by Francis Scott Key. * the Star-Spangled Banner. * 3: The 2 colors found on all 3 national flags of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. * red and white. * 4: The Alamo is located in this city and is depicted on its flag. * San Antonio. * 5: The first 50-star U.S. flag was officially raised on July 4 of this year. * 1960.

Round 3. Category: The Exodus Files * 1: It's the mount where Moses talks with God in Exodus 19. * Sinai. * 2: Thou knowest this list of nay-nays shows up in Exodus 20. * the Ten Commandments. * 3: Using gold jewelry from the Israelites, he fashions the Golden Calf. * Aaron. * 4: 33:2 promises to drive the Amorite, Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, Jebusite, and this -ite from the promised land. * the Canaanite. * 5: This unusual food falls from heaven for 40 years starting in Exodus 16. * manna.

Round 4. Category: Shakespeare Pitches To Hollywood * 1: "Battle of the Sexes" story, Katharina vs. Petruchio; she's tough but love wins out...it's a blockbuster!. * "Taming of the Shrew". * 2: This one's about a wannabe Scottish king and his wife, right, and he kills King Duncan...is Connery available?. * "Macbeth". * 3: Okay, this military guy marries a younger woman named Desdemona -- now the ending's sad, but that means Oscar!. * "Othello". * 4: 2 young lovers, families keep 'em apart -- it'd be a teen flick but we won't shoot in Verona; too expensive. * "Romeo and Juliet". * 5: So this king is crying about his kingdom for a horse and ...oh, you already made it in '55 with Olivier? Nuts!. * "Richard III".

Round 5. Category: It's A Jungle Out There * 1: About 2/3 of this river's 2.3 million square mile tropical rain forest lies in Brazil. * Amazon. * 2: A large knife whose name comes from an earlier Spanish word for "mallet"; it's handy for cutting jungle paths. * Machete. * 3: The length of this South American water boa may exceed 30 feet. * Anaconda. * 4: 6-letter term for the thick covering formed by the tops of trees and vines where many animals live. * Canopy. * 5: In 1863 French archaeologists began uncovering this temple of Vishnu in the jungles of Cambodia. * Angkor Wat.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 72, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: All In The Celebrity Family * 1: Elizabeth, Jake, Trent, Ashley, Taylor, Mary-Kate. * Olsen. * 2: Serena and Venus-- and don't forget Papa Richard. * Williams. * 3: Ben and Casey. * Affleck. * 4: Christian and Kirsten. * the Dunsts. * 5: Christian, Rory, Kieran, Quinn, Shane, Dakota and Macaulay. * the Culkins.

Round 2. Category: U.s. History: The Early 1800S * 1: In the Missouri Compromise, Massachusetts gave up its northern territory to form this state. * Maine. * 2: Controversial "bank" led by Nicholas Biddle from 1823 to 1836. * the Bank of the United States. * 3: At Madison's request, Congress declared war on the U.K. on June 18 of this year. * 1812. * 4: Denmark Vesey, brought to Charleston in 1783, planned one of the USA's first of these types of revolt in 1822. * a slave revolt. * 5: Completed in 1825, this New York waterway cost more than $7 million to build. * the Erie Canal.

Round 3. Category: Drawing A Crowd * 1: This Columbus school normally has crowds of about 35,000 at its spring commencement. * The Ohio State University. * 2: In Madrid you can join 22,000 other people at Plaza de Toros Monumental for this beastly sporting event. * bullfighting. * 3: On March 5, 1770 British troops fired into a crowd in this city, killing 5. * Boston. * 4: This 3-letter term refers to a crowd bent on violence, or organized crime. * mob. * 5: A figure is set on fire as part of this annual event that now draws 25,000 people to the Nevada desert. * Burning Man Festival.

Round 4. Category: Asian History * 1: The tomb of Hongwu, the first emperor of this famous dynasty, is in Nanjing, China. * the Ming. * 2: In the 17th c. this country's East India Company took over the Moluccas and controlled the world clove trade. * the Netherlands. * 3: This empire got its name from Osman I, who founded it around 1300. * the Ottoman Empire. * 4: This country's Saud dynasty dates back to the mid-1400s. * Saudi Arabia. * 5: In 1975, after a long siege, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge entered this capital and overthrew prime minister Lon Nol. * Phnom Penh.

Round 5. Category: Tv's Supporting Actors * 1: (Hi, I'm Gordon Clapp of "NYPD Blue") I won the 1998 Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for playing this character. * Greg Medavoy. * 2: The first 3 Supporting Actor Emmys went to this man, Jackie Gleason's comic foil. * Art Carney. * 3: Her long-running variety show featured supporting actors Tim Conway and Harvey Korman. * Carol Burnett. * 4: In 1986 John Malkovich played Biff Loman in a CBS production of this play. * "Death of a Salesman". * 5: On "The Waltons", Will Geer played Zeb, whom all the kids called this. * Grandpa.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 71, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tv Roles * 1: On "Two and a Half Men" he plays bachelor and ladies' man Charlie Harper. * Charlie Sheen. * 2: This veteran actress played the opinionated Maxine Gray on "Judging Amy". * Tyne Daly. * 3: Ruth Martin,Beverly Ann Stickle,Phyllis Lindstrom. * Cloris Leachman. * 4: Toni "Feather" Danton,April Dancer,Jennifer Hart. * Stefanie Powers. * 5: Zachary Powers,Khan,Mr. Roarke. * Ricardo Montalban.

Round 2. Category: Military Units * 1: From the medieval Latin for "army", it's a large fleet like the one Admiral Howard faced in 1588. * an armada. * 2: 3 brigades under 1 headquarters, or a math function. * a division. * 3: Mod or not, it's usually 10 infantrymen headed by a staff sergeant. * a squad. * 4: Oliver Stone won an Oscar for his story about one of these title units in which he served in Vietnam. * a platoon. * 5: A group of cavalry, whether A, B, or "F". * a troop.

Round 3. Category: School Plays * 1: A gentleman caller breaks Laura's unicorn figurine in this Tennessee Williams play. * The Glass Menagerie. * 2: Southern inhospitality drives her 1939 play "The Little Foxes". * Lillian Hellman. * 3: Some time passes before Jerry tells what happened at the zoo in this playwright's "The Zoo Story". * Edward Albee. * 4: A woman wants to bury her brother against the king's wishes in this tragedy by Sophocles. * Antigone. * 5: Discovering water pollution makes Dr. Stockmann "An Enemy of the People" in this Norwegian's play. * Henrik Ibsen.

Round 4. Category: Some More Simian Cinema * 1: Robert Guillaume provided the voice of Rafiki, the wise old baboon, in this 1994 film. * The Lion King. * 2: 1968 classic with the ad line "Somewhere in the universe, there must be something better than man!". * Planet of the Apes. * 3: When this Mouseketeer starred in "The Monkey's Uncle", she sang the title tune with The Beach Boys. * Annette Funicello. * 4: It's the island where Fay Wray first encountered King Kong; to think of its name, use your "head". * Skull Island. * 5: This Rene Russo film about an eccentric and her pets is based on a true story; it features the following:. * Buddy.

Round 5. Category: At The Movies * 1: Rick gives Ilsa up to Victor in this 1942 film masterpiece. * Casablanca. * 2: 1967:That's the sound of Newman working on the chain gang. * Cool Hand Luke. * 3: 1977:After an experience with a UFO, an electric-line worker is drawn to a remote mountain. * Close Encounters of the Third Kind. * 4: 2002:A young Maori girl defies tradition and mounts a cetacean. * Whale Rider. * 5: First name of the former first lady guarded by Nicolas Cage as Doug Chesnic. * Tess.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 70, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Claudias * 1: Lacey Chabert plays Claudia Salinger on this FOX series. * "Party of Five". * 2: The People Almanac reports this supermodel from Dusseldorf tripped during her runway debut in 1990. * Claudia Schiffer. * 3: In 1993's "Son of the Pink Panther", she played the mother of Clouseau's son. * Claudia Cardinale. * 4: It's reporter Claudia Cohen's specialty. * Gossip columnist. * 5: This man's wife, the former Claudia Alta Taylor, was the mother of Lynda Bird and Luci Baines. * Lyndon B. Johnson.

Round 2. Category: Quotes * 1: A famous quote about suckers says they're born this often. * every minute. * 2: Georges Clemenceau called this "much too important a matter to be left to the generals". * War. * 3: England's James I called it "Hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs". * Tobacco. * 4: This Biblical shepherd asked, "Shall I go and smite these Philistines?". * David. * 5: Those who knew this actress agreed with her statement "I've been on a calendar, but never on time". * Marilyn Monroe.

Round 3. Category: Savants * 1: "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject", said this wartime British P.M.. * Churchill. * 2: This Austrian learned to play harpsichord at age 4, was composing at 5 and played for his Empress at 6. * Mozart. * 3: In January 1904 these 2 inventors issued a statement about their success at Kitty Hawk, but it got little attention. * the Wright Brothers. * 4: One of you will look like a savant when you I.D. this ancient Greek who used Socrates as a spokesman in his "Republic". * Plato. * 5: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere", he wrote in his 1963 "Letter from Birmingham Jail". * Martin Luther King (Jr.).

Round 4. Category: More Celebrity Rhyme Time * 1: Blythe's flags. * Danner's banners. * 2: Kerri's embraces. * Strug's hugs. * 3: Carney's roles. * Art's parts. * 4: Jagger's pranks. * Mick's tricks. * 5: Maher's medications. * Bill's pills.

Round 5. Category: Jell-O, Everyone * 1: During her 140-day-long mission on this workplace Shannon Lucid made Jell-O every Sunday. * Mir. * 2: Due to a shortage of this during WWII, it was tough to find Jell-O on grocery shelves. * Sugar. * 3: The Smithsonian's 1991 conference on Jell-O history included a talk on this "sport". * Jell-O wrestling. * 4: The 1990s saw a new way to make Jell-O puddings using this type of oven. * Microwave oven. * 5: In the 1930s Jell-O sponsored a series of "Oz" booklets by this author who died in 1919. * L. Frank Baum.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 69, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Cities Of New York * 1: "The Honeymoon City". * Niagara Falls. * 2: It's "The Bison City". * Buffalo. * 3: It's "The Kodak City" and "The Photo Capital of the World". * Rochester. * 4: It's "The Capital of the Empire State" and "The Edinburgh of America". * Albany. * 5: "The Birthplace of Baseball". * Cooperstown.

Round 2. Category: In Memoriam 2006 * 1: "The Midnight Hour" came calling for this R and B legend in January 2006. * Wilson Pickett. * 2: A host of "Hee Haw" for 17 years, he pioneered the Bakersfield sound of country music. * Buck Owens. * 3: Grandpa on "The Munsters", he once ran for governor of New York as a Green Party candidate. * Al Lewis. * 4: Long before "The X-Files", he stalked the night as Carl Kolchak, a savvy reporter of the weird and the horrific. * Darren McGavin. * 5: The winner of 13 Emmy Awards, this low-key TV sportscaster was a true "American Sportsman". * Curt Gowdy.

Round 3. Category: Sculpture * 1: Both Rodin and Brancusi (who once worked for Rodin) did sculptures of an embracing couple titled this. * "The Kiss". * 2: His suspended abstract sculptures were given the name "mobiles" by Marcel Duchamp. * Alexander Calder. * 3: The 2 slaves Michelangelo sculpted for the unfinished tomb of Pope Julius II are in this Parisian museum. * the Louvre. * 4: In 1953 sculptor William Zorach created the relief "Man and Work" for this Rochester, Minnesota clinic. * the Mayo Clinic. * 5: His work "Balzac" was refused by the society that commissioned it; they didn't think it looked like Balzac. * Auguste Rodin.

Round 4. Category: Load The Magazine * 1: In Oct. 2004 this "Institution"al mag pondered what the U.S. would be like had Breckenridge won the 1860 election. * Smithsonian. * 2: With 11 appearances, this former "Baywatch" beauty has been on the cover of Playboy more than any other person. * Pamela Anderson. * 3: In 1953 the baby son of Lucille Ball and this man was on the first national cover of TV Guide. * Desi Arnaz. * 4: Begun in 1884, this magazine's name is synonymous with the New York City theater scene. * Playbill. * 5: Elle Macpherson, Kathy Ireland and Rachel Hunter all adorned this magazine's Feb. 14, 1994 cover. * Sports Illustrated.

Round 5. Category: "Winter" Wonderland * 1: Varieties of this cereal crop include Kawvale and Blackhull. * winter wheat. * 2: This 1935 Maxwell Anderson play was based in part on the Sacco and Vanzetti trial. * Winterset. * 3: Russian revolutionaries stormed it in November 1917. * the Winter Palace. * 4: It happens on or about December 21. * the winter solstice. * 5: This plant, Gaultheria procumbens, produces an oil used in medicine and as a flavoring. * wintergreen.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 68, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Geek Tragedy * 1: Your hacker friends sneer at you, calling you by this rhyming word that sounds like something to eat. * cracker. * 2: Nodding off at 9 P.M., you missed the 10:00 CNN interview with this Microsoft chairman. * Bill Gates. * 3: The rain leaked in and damaged your complete video collection of this sci-fi show that aired from Sept. 1966 to Sept. 1969. * Star Trek. * 4: You're called the office "Beta Geek" instead of this higher position indicating the most tech-smart person there. * "Alpha Geek". * 5: You wanted to eat while in the Xena chat room but your packet of these "Top" noodles from Nissin is gone!. * Top Ramen.

Round 2. Category: Teachers * 1: Mary McLeod Bethune was a friend of this WWII first lady and advised her husband on minority affairs. * Eleanor Roosevelt. * 2: Micki and David Colfax sent 3 sons to Harvard after teaching them exclusively in this place. * At Home. * 3: Like Plato, Corla Hawkins started a small, innovative school called this; hers is in Chicago's inner city. * The Academy. * 4: In Sikhism Nanak was the first teacher called this, now a term for any spiritual guide. * Guru. * 5: In the 1820s Josiah Holbrook pioneered this, also called continuing education. * Adult Education.

Round 3. Category: The World In 1901 * 1: These "wild" South Africans carried on their war with guerrilla actions against the British. * Boers. * 2: The world's most productive oil field was in the area of this city, now the capital of Azerbaijan. * Baku. * 3: On Jan. 22, 1901 the Prince of Wales succeeded to the English throne as this king. * Edward VII. * 4: Emil von Behring won the first Nobel Prize for Medicine with a serum against this "d"isease, a common killer. * Diphtheria. * 5: In 2000 the state of Alabama voted to end a 1901 ban on this type of marriage. * Interracial marriage.

Round 4. Category: That's So Random! * 1: From the AP: a man from Natchez in this state stole $100 from a teller but left his parole I.D. on the counter. * Mississippi. * 2: His 1978 run for congress was a bust; his first public service would have to wait until 1994, as Texas' governor. * George W. Bush. * 3: "Han then, Freddy: look wh' y' gowin', deah" is the flower girl's first line in this Shaw play. * Pygmalion. * 4: (I'm Ashleigh Banfield.) "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses", said this Algonquin Round Table member. * Dorothy Parker. * 5: It's prohibited by the 5th Amendment, but you'll be facing it in the next round. * double jeopardy.

Round 5. Category: Getting Biblical * 1: In Matthew 26:72 he denies his friendship with Jesus and claims, "I do not know the man". * Peter. * 2: The prophet Jeremiah rhetorically queries, can this animal change his spots?. * leopard. * 3: In Genesis he has an all-night wrestling match and ends up getting blessed. * Jacob. * 4: Ebenezer is a stone Samuel put between Mizpeh and Shen after the Israelites smote these people. * Philistines. * 5: In the 1953 film version of this Biblical dancer's life, Rita Hayworth tries to save John the Baptist's life, not take it. * Salome.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 67, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "Court" Briefs * 1: A stenographer employed to transcribe an official verbatim record of legal proceedings. * a court reporter. * 2: Marsupial term for a self-appointed tribunal that parodies existing principles of law. * a kangaroo court. * 3: It's a special judicial assembly with power over the administration of estates and wills of deceased people. * probate court. * 4: Law students try mock hypothetical legal cases in this kind of court. * moot court. * 5: AKA amicus curiae, it's someone not party to the litigation but who offers information pertinent to the case. * a friend of the court.

Round 2. Category: Food Chain * 1: Offering "Home Style Meals" and a line of frozen entrees, this chain is headquartered in Colorado, not Massachusetts. * Boston Market. * 2: In 1979 this chain introduced its Happy Meal. * McDonald's. * 3: P.F. Chang's is an upscale bistro specializing in the cuisine of this country. * China. * 4: "Dip Into Something Different" at the Melting Pot, found across the nation, and specializing in this Swiss dish. * fondue. * 5: Featuring the Famous Bloomin' Onion, this restaurant also offers a Joey Menu for kids. * Outback.

Round 3. Category: Words In Harry Potter Titles * 1: A person deprived of liberty (you didn't think we'd actually go for Azkaban, did you?). * prisoner. * 2: Last name of U.S. Chief Justice Harlan or biographer Irving. * stone. * 3: A private room in a house, or a John Grisham novel about a death row prisoner. * a chamber. * 4: A non-reigning male member of a royal family who may prefer to drive a "little red corvette". * a prince. * 5: A southwest city founded in 1870, and remember, "Harry Potter and the Wonders of Yuma" was never written. * Phoenix.

Round 4. Category: Pro Sports Teams In Other Words * 1: Major League Soccer in the sun:The Milky Way orAndromeda. * the Los Angeles Galaxy. * 2: Football by the Erie Canal:President Clinton,software guy Gates. * the Buffalo Bills. * 3: Women's basketball, Texas style:Shoemaker-Levy,Halley's. * the Comets. * 4: The NBA in a state that meets at Four Corners:Dixieland, bebopor swing. * the Jazz. * 5: Baseball in Missouri:Henry VIII,Richard III. * the Kansas City Royals.

Round 5. Category: Ice Cream * 1: Amaretto Almond Crunch and Blueberry Crumble are limited edition flavors of this ice cream with an umlaut in its name. * Häagen-Dazs. * 2: Originally without a stick, this ice cream bar was named in 1921 by future candy magnate Russell Stover. * Eskimo Pie. * 3: 2005 was the 20th birthday of this restaurant's Blizzard, a soft-serve treat. * Dairy Queen. * 4: The ice cream cone was popularized at the 1904 World's Fair in this U.S. city. * St. Louis. * 5: Harry Burt started this co. whose 1st white truck used a set of bells from the family bobsled. * Good Humor.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 66, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Ancient Rome * 1: The last emperor of Rome, who was overthrown in 476, shared his name with this legendary founder of the city. * Romulus. * 2: His second wife, Pompeia, was a granddaughter of Sulla who, like him, ruled Rome as a dictator. * Julius Caesar. * 3: Roman roads were built with concrete made from pozzolana, ash from these; the roads by Pompeii must've been good. * volcanoes. * 4: Less valuable than the aureus, the denarius was a coin made of this. * silver. * 5: Carved on stone or metal, the acta diurna was an early newspaper posted this often in a public area. * daily.

Round 2. Category: Nixon's The One * 1: In this year, Nixon faced off against JFK in the first presidential debates ever. * 1960. * 2: It was Richard Nixon's mother's maiden name. * Milhous. * 3: These 2 men served under Nixon as vice president. * Gerald Ford and Spiro Agnew. * 4: Herbert Hoover and Nixon were the only 2 presidents of this religious group. * Quakers. * 5: This daughter of Nixon married Edward Cox at the White House in 1971. * Tricia.

Round 3. Category: 2007 Bestsellers * 1: This Robert Ludlum character returned to the list in 2007 with a "Betrayal". * Jason Bourne. * 2: "The Lost Files Of" this Carolyn Keene sleuth provide an interactive guide to her cases. * Nancy Drew. * 3: Walter Isaacson's biography of this scientist was based on the subject's personal letters. * Albert Einstein. * 4: She is the subject of Carl Bernstein's "A Woman In Charge". * Hillary Clinton. * 5: This Tibetan, a noted big hitter, hit the list with "The Universe In A Single Atom". * the Dalai Lama.

Round 4. Category: Write * 1: Aida Marcuse translated this children's classic into Spanish as "Huevos Verdes Con Jamon". * Green Eggs and Ham. * 2: "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas" is a 2001 change of pace for this suspense writer known for his Alex Cross books. * (James) Patterson. * 3: 2001's "Black House" is this pair's sequel to "The Talisman". * King and Straub. * 4: As Sue Grafton had the alphabet locked up, Janet Evanovich is using these for her Stephanie Plum titles. * numbers. * 5: Parnell Hall and Nero Blanc write mysteries you may have come across and can't put down as they include these puzzles. * crossword puzzles.

Round 5. Category: Final Resting Places * 1: Father Damien was buried on this Hawaiian island but in 1936 his remains were moved to Belgium. * Molokai. * 2: This Diaghilev dancer is buried near the great French dancer Auguste Vestris in Montmartre. * Nijinsky. * 3: Joseph Conrad is buried in the cemetery at this Gothic cathedral, as the archbishop could tell you. * Canterbury. * 4: You'll find the 13 imperial tombs of the Ming dynasty in a valley on the outskirts of this capital. * Beijing. * 5: He was buried on St. Helena in his favorite uniform in 1821 but was moved to Paris in 1840. * Napoleon.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 65, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Numerical Phrases * 1: Numerical term for a burglar who specializes in breaking into buildings through upstairs windows. * second-story men. * 2: Though "heck" and "darn" are examples of these, the phrase usually refers to saltier language. * 4-letter words. * 3: Collective name for the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole tribes. * the Five Civilized Nations (or Tribes). * 4: Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park includes part of the Painted Desert and a stretch of this historic road. * Route 66. * 5: Originated by Alcoholics Anonymous, it includes a "fearless moral inventory". * 12-step program.

Round 2. Category: Historic People * 1: "Pig-Sticking or Hog-Hunting" and "Scouting For Boys" are among the books by this former British soldier. * Sir Robert Baden-Powell. * 2: He didn't fiddle around after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 A.D.; he built himself a palace called The Golden House. * Nero. * 3: Mourners at Monet's 1926 funeral included fellow artists and this WWI French premier known as "The Tiger". * Georges Clemenceau. * 4: In 1902 she and her husband isolated pure radium chloride. * Marie Curie. * 5: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I was also known by this name that means "red beard". * Barbarossa.

Round 3. Category: Kids In Books * 1: She's Beezus Quimby's pesky young sister. * Ramona. * 2: This collie was the faithful friend of a kid named Joe in a book by British novelist Eric Knight. * Lassie. * 3: "The Sword in the Stone" is a book about a kid who grows up to be this king. * King Arthur. * 4: Mowgli is the human kid hanging out in the woods with wolves and tigers in this Rudyard Kipling "Book". * "The Jungle Book". * 5: Based on a real child, a kid named Christopher Robin hangs out with this literary bear. * Winnie the Pooh.

Round 4. Category: Philosophers * 1: Kukai and Saicho were major philosophers of this country's Heian period. * Japan. * 2: "Wherever law ends, tyranny begins", wrote this English philosopher who influenced the founding fathers. * John Locke. * 3: Transcendentalist philosopher and teacher Bronson Alcott was this author's father. * Louisa May Alcott. * 4: This saint's written output was more than 8 million words, and he died around age 50. * (Thomas) Aquinas. * 5: "Wherever law ends, tyranny begins", wrote this English philosopher who influenced the founding fathers. * John Locke.

Round 5. Category: Capital Punishment * 1: Mata Hari. * Firing Squad. * 2: Louis XVI. * Beheaded. * 3: Joan of Arc. * Burned at the stake. * 4: Haman. * Hung from the gallows. * 5: Socrates. * Drank Hemlock.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 64, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: "O" And "Os" * 1: The two Greek letters that fit this category. * Omega and Omicron. * 2: In 451 these Teutonic tribesmen joined with Attila in his expedition against Gaul. * Ostrogoths. * 3: This Egyptian god's many burial places were considered sacred ground. * Osiris. * 4: Synonym for antonym. * Opposite. * 5: Dog school. * obedience.

Round 2. Category: "Ex"Odus * 1: The unfortunate condition of some animal species, or the fortunate condition of some volcanoes. * extinct. * 2: As you'd expect, King Arthur wields this magical weapon in "Spamalot". * Excalibur. * 3: Jungian type characterized by an outgoing personality. * an extrovert. * 4: To magnify facts beyond the limits of truth. * to exaggerate. * 5: Adjective for school activities held after clases are finished. * extracurricular.

Round 3. Category: What's Cooking? * 1: In the Persian dish Dolmeh Sib, this fruit is stuffed with a mix of peas, onions and meat -- a little too much to give to a teacher. * apple. * 2: An Austrian fingerling is a light-skinned, yellow-fleshed one of these. * potato. * 3: Chicken and this spicy Mexican sauce made with several kinds of chiles &, of course, Mexican chocolate. * mole. * 4: Chicken and this spicy Mexican sauce made with several kinds of chiles &, of course, Mexican chocolate. * mole. * 5: This comfort food--ground beef, seasonings, bread crumbs and a ketchup glaze baked in a rectangular pan. * meat loaf.

Round 4. Category: I Want My "M" Tv * 1: This widely popular variety show was hosted by a frog. * The Muppets. * 2: Ken Berry played a widower raising a young son on this "Andy Griffith Show" spinoff. * Mayberry R.F.D.. * 3: Rock Hudson was paired with Susan St. James on this San Francisco-set police series. * McMillan and Wife. * 4: An alien was sent to Earth to study humans in Boulder, Colorado on this sitcom. * Mork and Mindy. * 5: Before he was Rockford, James Garner was this wisecracking Western card shark. * Maverick.

Round 5. Category: I'm Not A Doctor, But I Play One On Tv * 1: Dr. Joe Gannon. * Chad Everett. * 2: Dr. Doogie Howser. * Neil Patrick Harris. * 3: Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy. * DeForest Kelley. * 4: Dr. Benjamin Franklin Pierce. * Alan Alda. * 5: Dr. Michaela Quinn. * Jane Seymour.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 63, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: New Olympic Sports * 1: In 2000, women will compete for the first time in this sport that uses a pool, 2 nets and an inflatable ball. * Water polo. * 2: This new Olympic martial arts sport was founded in the 1950s by General Choi Hong Hi. * Taekwondo. * 3: The IOC recently granted provisional recognition to this ancient sport, one of Japan's most popular. * Sumo wrestling. * 4: The devices used in this new Olympic sport can propel somersaulting gymnasts up to 30 feet in the air. * Trampoline. * 5: At the 1998 Winter Olympics, the USA's Ross Powers won the bronze in the halfpipe event in this new Olympic sport. * Snowboarding.

Round 2. Category: Old Hat * 1: A cowboy hat and a sombrero are worn by this Hanna-Barbera pair who turned 40 in 1999. * Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey. * 2: In the mid-'50s you were a cool kid if you had one of these hats like the "King of the Wild Frontier". * Coonskin cap. * 3: It's the Andalusian gypsy dance style performed by wearers of these hats. * Flamenco. * 4: Hat of choice for Groucho's Captain Spaulding. * Pith helmet. * 5: Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard in booth 54 of this old Hollywood landmark. * The Brown Derby.

Round 3. Category: Classic Cinema Quotes * 1: 1974:"She's my sister. She's my daughter. My sister. My daughter...she's my sister and my daughter!". * Chinatown. * 2: 1961:"Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool". * The Hustler. * 3: 1941:"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper". * Citizen Kane. * 4: 1950:"I am big. It's the pictures that got small". * Sunset Boulevard. * 5: 1981:"Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?". * Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Round 4. Category: The 1860S * 1: On October 4, 1861 the U.S. Navy authorized the construction of this ironclad ship; it was launched 118 days later. * Monitor. * 2: In 1868 this lodge, the B.P.O.E., was founded in New York City by 15 entertainers. * Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. * 3: In 1986 this 23-year-old from Cleveland invested $4000 in an oil refining business; he became very, very rich. * John D.) Rockefeller. * 4: In April 1866 this company absorbed U.S. Telegraph, giving it a complete monopoly in the United States. * Western Union. * 5: The oldest of horse racing's Triple Crown races, it was first run on June 19, 1867 at Jerome Park, New York. * the Belmont (Stakes).

Round 5. Category: Highways And Byways * 1: Begun in 312 B.C., it was known in Antiquity as the "Queen of Roads". * The Appian Way. * 2: This city's Unter den Linden was laid out to connect the Royal Palace with the Tiergarten. * Berlin. * 3: This San Francisco waterfront road runs from the Giants' Stadium to Pier 39. * the Embarcadero. * 4: The PCH, which stands for this, runs from near San Juan Capistranoto near El Rio. * Pacific Coast Highway. * 5: Washington, D.C. has no streets named for "Y", "Z" or this letter of the alphabet because of its similarity to "I". * J.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 62, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 62, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 62, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Tony Montana * 1: A Butte mansion has some of William Clark's art collection, but the good stuff went to this city's Corcoran gallery. * Washington, D.C.. * 2: It's the name of Montana's most populous county, a nearby national park and a Billings art museum in a former jail. * Yellowstone. * 3: This city, home to the University of Montana, is the "Gateway to the Cultural Corridors of Western Montana". * Missoula. * 4: The Cathedral of this saint, aptly located in Montana's state capital, is modeled on a church in Vienna. * (St.) Helen. * 5: The civic center of this "Cataract City" opened in 1940 with "Aida". * Great Falls.

Round 2. Category: Canadian Cities * 1: Whitehorse replaced Dawson as capital of this territory in 1953. * Yukon Territory. * 2: English is also widely spoken in this largest French-speaking city outside of Paris. * Montreal. * 3: This Ontario city's underground walkway system can get you from Eaton Centre to Union Station. * Toronto. * 4: The CFL's B.C. Lions play their home games in this city. * Vancouver. * 5: The North Saskatchewan River divides this Albertan capital in half. * Edmonton.

Round 3. Category: The Body Canine * 1: These pendulous body parts of Doberman pinschers are often cropped to make them stand up. * Ears. * 2: A dog cools its body mainly by panting because these glands are only found on its feet. * Sweat Glands. * 3: Like other running animals, many dogs lack this bone also called the clavicle. * Collarbone. * 4: The canine digestive system closely resembles the human while lacking this "vermiform" projection. * Appendix. * 5: Varying in number, the caudal vertebrae of a dog are found in this body part. * Tail.

Round 4. Category: Hello, Bb * 1: Friction reducers noted on technical drawings. * ball bearings. * 2: Riding without a saddle. * bareback. * 3: A menorah is the symbol of this international organization founded in 1843. * B'nai B'rith. * 4: The legal instrument to spring you after an arrest. * a bail bond. * 5: In Internet domain names, this country of the West Indies. * Barbados.

Round 5. Category: New Ideas In Business * 1: At one of this man's auto plants, scrap wood was turned into charcoal and sold as briquettes. * Henry Ford. * 2: (Alex reports from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) Surprisingly, the first Sony product wasn't anything hi-tech, and it wasn't a big success either; it was a kitchen item, a cooker for this kind of food. * rice. * 3: The automatic one Josephine Cochran invented was too expensive for home use, but restaurants loved it. * dishwasher. * 4: This keyboard layout was developed to slow typing down, keeping the keys from jamming. * QWERTY. * 5: The man behind Learjet was also the inventor of this early tape format that carried 4 pairs of stereo tracks. * 8-track.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 61, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Hallmark Holidays * 1: Nurses Week begins on May 6th and ends May 12th--appropriately, this woman's birthday. * Florence Nightingale. * 2: Kiss-up alert: National Boss Day falls in this same month that clocks are set back an hour. * October. * 3: On Friendship Day, buy your bud a stuffed animal of this honey lover, the U.N.'s Friendship Ambassador. * Winnie the Pooh. * 4: This month was chosen for Grandparents Day to signify the autumn of life. * September. * 5: In 1939 this publisher, editor and politician gave Citizenship Day prominence through his newspapers. * Hearst.

Round 2. Category: Actor-Playwrights * 1: Jeff Daniels wrote "Escanaba in da Moonlight", a "super Yooper comedy" set on this state's Upper Peninsula. * Michigan. * 2: Now best remembered as a playwright, in his day he was famous for playing the ghost of Hamlet's father. * (himself) William Shakespeare. * 3: This Englishwoman called her "Shakespeare for My Father" a play about her father (Sir Michael) and her search for him. * Lynn Redgrave. * 4: 20 years before "Murphy Brown", her play "The Freezer" was named one of "the Best Short Plays of 1968". * Candice Bergen. * 5: In 2004 he won an Oscar for "Mystic River" and appeared off-Broadway in his own play "Embedded". * Tim Robbins.

Round 3. Category: Salad Bar * 1: National name of the tomato-&-feta salad also called horiatiki. * Greek salad. * 2: Kitchen personage whose "salad" includes hard-boiled eggs and strips of meat and cheese. * Chef salad. * 3: This salad topped with crumbled cheese is named for a restaurateur, not a Detroit Tiger legend. * Cobb salad. * 4: It gets its name because it contains the wax, green and kidney types. * Three bean salad. * 5: The French serve it with vinaigrette; the Germans serve it hot; we make it with great gobs of mayonnaise for picnics. * Potato salad.

Round 4. Category: Charles Dickens * 1: Charles met this "Moonstone" author and writing partner through a man named Augustus Egg. * Wilkie Collins. * 2: Last name of Ralph, who hates his nephew Nicholas and maybe is bitter that the book isn't named for him. * Nickleby. * 3: A 2012 Bicentennial exhibition featured the manuscript of this unfinished mystery. * The Mystery of Edwin Drood. * 4: It's considered Dickens' best book; it even has "Great" in the title. * Great Expectations. * 5: In 1836 Dickens published his stories and essays from magazines and newspapers in the book "Sketches by" him. * Boz.

Round 5. Category: All "Set" * 1: An element that balances another, or a type of printing that takes ink from plate to blanket to paper. * offset. * 2: In summer, when this happens just after 8 p.m. in Los Angeles, it happens after 11:30 p.m. in Anchorage. * sunset. * 3: It can be a useful quality, or any item of value that is owned. * an asset. * 4: Species of this small monkey include the common, buffy tufted-ear and pygmy. * a marmoset. * 5: Hebrew for "assembly", it's the parliament of Israel. * the Knesset.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 60, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Movie Title Translations * 1: Translating this title, the Czech Republic thought Eddie Murphy was in charge of a "Crazy Kindergarten". * Daddy Day Care. * 2: In France, this unforgettable Adam Sandler film became "Love and Amnesia". * 50 First Dates. * 3: The censorship board in Malaysia damned this Ron Perlman film with the title "Super Sapiens". * Hellboy. * 4: In France, Billy Crystal learned all about "life, love and cows" in this film. * City Slickers. * 5: In Mexico Michael Douglas was one of the "Two Loafers After the Lost Emerald" in this film. * Romancing the Stone.

Round 2. Category: "L"Ementary * 1: Members on the extreme periphery of a political or social group are part of this "fringe". * the lunatic fringe. * 2: Fishy slang term for a person who lends money at excessively high interest rates. * loan shark. * 3: This word refers to the track of one's descent from an ancestor. * lineage. * 4: Types of these include ovate, obovate and oblong. * leaves. * 5: It's the raising of a body into the air by supernatural means. * levitation.

Round 3. Category: What A Week * 1: This is a rough week for pledges, but if they can make it through, they can be fraternity members. * hell week. * 2: In 1999 this country began 3 "golden weeks" of vacation for its vast populace, including one around May Day. * China. * 3: In 1958 the theme of the first national week for these places was "Wake up and read!". * libraries. * 4: Carrie on "Sex and the City" really enjoyed this event that brings ships and thousands of sailors to NYC. * Fleet Week. * 5: Each year, World Space Week is at the start of October, commemorating this 1957 event. * the Sputnik launch.

Round 4. Category: 1998 Discoveries * 1: Divers found the lost island of Antirhodos, where Cleopatra once lived, sunken off this city. * Alexandria. * 2: Ken Karsmizki discovered a campsite near Great Falls, Mt., dating back to 1805, that may have been this pair's. * Lewis and Clark. * 3: In 1998 biologists in Hawaii said they had cloned over 50 of these lab animals. * Mice. * 4: APHS, a chemical compound that won't irritate the stomach, was created as an alternative to this. * Aspirin. * 5: Microbes found 2,800' below the sea floor off New Guinea extended this region of the Earth that can support life. * Biosphere.

Round 5. Category: Shapes * 1: You'll need at least 54 feet of moulding for a 12 foot x 15 foot room, one in this shape. * rectangle. * 2: Danish composer Rued Langgaard is known for his "Sfaerernes Musik", "Music of" these. * spheres. * 3: It's the common graphic the USDA used as a visual guide for healthy eating. * pyramid. * 4: Oooh, a "love" one of these involves 2 people who each love the same third person. * triangle. * 5: Apple introduced this style for the Powermac in 2000 and discontinued it in 2001 due to poor sales. * cube.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 59, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Female Firsts * 1: In May 1970 Diane Crump became the first female jockey to ride in this race; she finished 15th aboard Fathom. * the Kentucky Derby. * 2: In 1976 she became the first Romanian to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. * Nadia Comaneci. * 3: In 1932 Hattie Caraway planted the seed for Dianne Feinstein as the first woman elected to this body. * U.S. Senate. * 4: On July 30, 1923 Italian actress Eleonora Duse became 1st woman to appear on the cover of this newsmagazine. * Time magazine. * 5: This UPI correspondent was the first woman to head the White House bureau of a major news service. * Helen Thomas.

Round 2. Category: I Love You Guys * 1: Jag alskar dig. * Swedish. * 2: Wo ie ni. * Chinese. * 3: Ya vas lyublyu. * Russian. * 4: Ich liebe dich. * German. * 5: Yr wyf i'n dy garu di. * Welsh.

Round 3. Category: The British Invasion * 1: Hits like "Tuesday Afternoon" from "Days of Future Passed" hooked this band musically into the Summer of Love. * The Moody Blues. * 2: These bad boys began calling themselves the "World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band" in the late '60s. * Rolling Stones. * 3: Born in Belfast, he sang lead for the group Them before scoring hits on his own like "Brown Eyed Girl". * Van Morrison. * 4: These "Hermits" got their name because their lead singer resembled a character on TV's "Rocky and His Friends". * Herman's Hermits. * 5: "God Save the Queen" is a classic by this punk rock band, the leaders of the second British Invasion. * Sex Pistols.

Round 4. Category: The Ocean Blue * 1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Michael Newman of "Baywatch") It's the Japanese term for seismic sea waves, sometimes 100 feet high, that can bring lots of tsuris". * Tsunami. * 2: It may go plankton-crustacean-herring-haddock and be only as strong as its weakest link. * Food chain. * 3: As you'd expect, they're the 2 most abundant chemical elements in the dissolved solids found in seawater. * Sodium and chlorine. * 4: The extension of a land mass to about 500' underwater; it gives way to the Continental Slope. * Continental Shelf. * 5: The photic zone is the upper ocean layer, with enough sunlight to allow this plant process. * Photosynthesis.

Round 5. Category: Santa Claus * 1: Part of Lapland north of the Arctic Circle has been proclaimed "Santa Claus Land" in this country. * Finland. * 2: In this song, Santa Claus is "making a list and checking it twice; gonna find out who's naughty and nice". * "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town". * 3: The mythology of Santa Claus came to the Americas with this ethnic group as "Sinter Klaas" in the 17th century. * the Dutch. * 4: 2-word name that British children use for Santa; J.R.R. Tolkien wrote his kids a series of "Letters" from him. * Father Christmas. * 5: For Belgian children, Santa Claus comes from Spain by boat on the night of Dec. 5 and leaves gifts in these. * their shoes.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 58, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: O'hollywood * 1: In "Singin' in the Rain", he knew how to "Make 'Em Laugh". * Donald O'Connor. * 2: In "My Favorite Year", his character admitted "I'm not an actor; I'm a movie star". * Peter O'Toole. * 3: At age 6, she asked the director, "Do you want the tears to run all the way, or shall I stop halfway down?". * Margaret O'Brien. * 4: Not "Rosemary's Baby", but "Rosemary's" real-life mother. * Maureen O'Sullivan. * 5: He played Archie Bunker. * Carrol O'Connor.

Round 2. Category: Barbra Streisand * 1: 1976 love theme title that completes the lyric "Love, ageless and...". * evergreen. * 2: On July 1, 1998 Barbra married this actor. * James Brolin. * 3: In 1962 Streisand played Miss Marmelstein in this garment industry Broadway musical. * I Can Get It for You Wholesale. * 4: In "Funny Girl" and "Funny Lady", Barbra Streisand portrayed this funny lady. * Fanny Brice. * 5: A Pat Conroy novel was the basis for this film, Barbra's second as a director. * The Prince of Tides.

Round 3. Category: Barnyard Animals * 1: Around the world this animal sounds different: "K' ok' iyo" in Korean and "Goh-geh-goh-goh" in Chinese. * rooster. * 2: Considered among the first animals used in husbandry, they're divided into types by wool texture. * sheep. * 3: The height of these barnyard animals is measured in hands. * horses. * 4: When bringing home the bacon, remember that this animal's meat is taboo to observant Muslims and Jews. * Pig/swine. * 5: A "maid" may have a special stool to sit on while attending to this bovine animal. * a cow.

Round 4. Category: Loco For Logos * 1: Fast-forward into the 21st century with this electronic device that "gets you way more than a DVR". * TiVo. * 2: This company's logocelebrates 60 years in 2013. * Playboy. * 3: Can you pick me up a littlepick-me-up from this chain?. * Starbucks. * 4: It went liveMarch 21, 2006. * Twitter. * 5: This company is named after the aircraft carrier the owner served on during World War II. * Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Round 5. Category: Fun On The Map * 1: This world capital has the same name as a character in "Romeo and Juliet". * Paris. * 2: Say ahhhhhhhh! The Dalton Iceberg Tongue on this continent actually looks like a tongue. * Antarctica. * 3: Just one look at this island southeast of Sumatra makes me want a cup of coffee. * Java. * 4: A digitally enhanced map of these bodies of water in New York State shows you how they got this name. * the Finger Lakes. * 5: The Greater Antilles are big islands, like Cuba; the smaller ones may get a complex with this "diminuitive" name. * the Lesser Antilles.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 57, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: European Rivers * 1: In 1937 this Russian river's first hydroelectric project was completed at Ivankovo. * Volga. * 2: The famed boatmen of this Russian river once pulled their barges from the river's banks. * Volga. * 3: In 1992 Slovaks altered this river's course on the border of Slovakia and Hungary to improve navigation. * Danube. * 4: The ancient Romans believed it was a shield protecting Gaul from the wild German tribes. * Rhine. * 5: This country's longest river, the Gudena, winds 98 miles through the Jutland Peninsula. * Denmark.

Round 2. Category: "Adventure" Movies * 1: Elementary, my dear Watson! It's a 1939 movie starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. * The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. * 2: In the 1960 version, Jim the runaway slave was played by boxer Archie Moore. * The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. * 3: 1948 film about a legendary lover played by legendary lover Errol Flynn. * The Adventures of Don Juan. * 4: Yup, in this film Gary Cooper played the explorer whose name gets shouted out in pools worldwide. * The Adventures of Marco Polo. * 5: The title character of this 1984 movie was a rock star, brain surgeon, and nuclear physicist. * The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.

Round 3. Category: S-S-Snakes-S-S * 1: The Naja Haje or Egyptian cobra is commonly known by this 3-letter name. * Asp. * 2: Each time a rattlesnake does this, its rattle gets a little bigger. * Sheds its skin. * 3: This snake, subject of a 1997 film, is the largest in the Western Hemisphere. * Anaconda. * 4: These fluids are classified into 2 major groups: neurotoxic and hemotoxic. * Venom. * 5: This snake's French name is from its head's resemblance to the tip of a knight's weapon. * Fer-de-lance.

Round 4. Category: Around The Office * 1: Start worrying if someone hired for a week as one of these acts like Lara Flynn Boyle in the 1993 movie of that name. * The Temp. * 2: The Atlantic reports companies use 40% more paper upon introducing this communication system. * E-mail. * 3: Workers may gather around the monitor and boogie along with this internet infant from Kinetix. * "The Dancing Baby". * 4: Workers get frustrated trying to hold closed-door meetings in these partitioned workspaces. * Cubicles. * 5: If your colleagues fall asleep in a meeting, it may mean this drink was in the brown instead of the orange pot. * Decaf coffee.

Round 5. Category: Religious Festivals * 1: Assumption,Ascension. * Roman Catholicism. * 2: Wesak,Navam. * Buddhism. * 3: Eid al-Fitr,Laylat al-Qadr. * Islam. * 4: Diwali,Holi. * Hinduism. * 5: Purim,Sukkot. * Judaism.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 56, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Jail * 1: This country's Kharkov Prison is said to be world's largest, accommodating 40,000 prisoners. * Soviet Union. * 2: In "Monopoly", if you pay to get out of jail, it costs this much. * $50. * 3: Calling it "Most Secure Prison", Guinness says tho 23 attempted to escape from Alcatraz, this many succeeded. * none. * 4: Unlucky Col. Klink was in charge of this prison camp housing "Hogan's Heroes". * Stalag 13. * 5: (audio Daily Double)Title of the following prison song, the 2nd-biggest hit of its singer's career:. * "Chain Gang" (by Sam Cooke).

Round 2. Category: "W" * 1: 56 miles from Hopewell, Virginia is this city that has been restored to the way it was in Colonial times. * Williamsburg. * 2: The saxophone is a member of this instrument family, not the brass family. * woodwinds. * 3: He was the British prime minister from 1964 to 1970 and again from '74 to '76. * Harold Wilson. * 4: Considered the greatest poet of Medieval Germany, this man from Eschenbach wrote an early epic poem about the Grail. * Wolfram von Eschenbach. * 5: When measuring a horse using hands, you measure from the ground up to these, not the ears. * the withers.

Round 3. Category: 20Th Century Science Tidbits * 1: Meredith Gourdine's work on gas dispersion led to a way of clearing this from airport runways. * fog. * 2: After Sir James Chadwick's 1932 discovery of this fundamental particle of matter, the world went fission. * a neutron. * 3: Entomologist Thomas Eisner helped decipher the flash code used by the femmes fatales of these insects. * fireflies. * 4: In the '70s Hans Dehmelt took a color photo of Astrid, a single charged ion of this element, Ba. * barium. * 5: The UNIVAC computer used this format for permanent data storage. * magnetic tape.

Round 4. Category: Stephen King * 1: "The Wizard and Glass" is one entry in this series. * The Dark Tower. * 2: This nickname for death row at Cold Mountain penitentiary is also the title of a serial novel by King. * The Green Mile. * 3: "The Wizard and Glass" is one entry in this series. * The Dark Tower. * 4: The inspiration for this novel came when king's daughter's cat was killed by a passing truck. * Pet Semetary. * 5: Judging by its title, this 1994 novel kept readers up all night. * "Insomnia".

Round 5. Category: Shortwave * 1: Mainly funded by the CIA, this broadcasting operation began transmitting behind the Iron Curtain in 1949. * Radio Free Europe. * 2: One book calls this 12-letter word the "arch-enemy of shortwave listeners"; I just call it annoying. * interference. * 3: This service that broadcasts from Abuja and Lagos has a name reflecting that of the USA's official radio service. * Voice of Nigeria. * 4: The shortwave band begins at about 1700 these units abbreviated kHz; below that you're in AM territory. * kilohertz. * 5: To catch the BBC at 1700 UTC, or Universal Time Coordinated, tune in at this morning hour Pacific Standard time. * 9:00 AM.

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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 Fabio Armiliato was accidentally cut by one of these long-bladed weapons. * a sword. * 2: Nickname for having your long distance service changed without asking; Cicero, Illinois' city hall experienced it. * slamming. * 3: Montblanc recalled 1000s of these after engraving Dumas Fils' signature on them instead of Dumas Pere's. * pens. * 4: In 1970 the Oregon Highway Division blew up a beached one of these mammals and damaged a car 1/4 mile away. * Whale. * 5: This recent ad slogan didn't translate into Spanish; it literally meant "are you lactating?". * got milk?.

Round 3. Category: Working On My Classic Car * 1: To verify the fuel ignites at the proper moment and gets the engine over 300 HP, this type of gun or light is necessary. * a timing gun. * 2: Also a device on the wall of your home, this valve either stops or allows coolant through the engine. * a thermostat. * 3: Use dipsticks to check 2 levels: of the oil and of the fluid for this system that transfers power to the wheels. * the transmission. * 4: Manifold bolts should not be over- or under-tightened, so use this type of wrench with a foot/pound scale. * a torque wrench. * 5: It routes high voltage in the correct order for firing the spark plugs, so check its cap for burns. * the distributor.

Round 4. Category: Health And Medicine * 1: The AMA now advises women to have this breast cancer screening annually beginning at age 40. * a mammogram. * 2: Doctors use a central line to puts lots of fluid into a large vein, such as the one in the head and neck. * the jugular. * 3: In some instances, the treatment of leukemia may call for a transplant of this bone tissue. * marrow. * 4: This type of dr. specializes in the kidneys, bladder and ureters, as well as the male reproductive organs. * a urologist. * 5: Apnea is the temporary cessation of this. * breathing.

Round 5. Category: Blockbuster Bluster * 1: As governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger's salary is $175,000 per year; for this '03 sequel, he got about $30 million. * Terminator 3. * 2: If you lined up for "Star Wars: Episode II" in 2002, you had to be prepared for an "Attack" by these title duplicates. * clones. * 3: Appropriate name of the highest-grossing film of all time. * Titanic. * 4: As Leo Getz, he annoyed Riggs and Murtaugh in 1998's "Lethal Weapon 4", his latest film as of early 2006. * Joe Pesci. * 5: The hills were alive with the hum of megabucks for this 1965 musical starring Julie Andrews. * The Sound of Music.

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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: This "house in New Orleans" has "been the ruin of many a poor boy". * The House of the Rising Sun. * 5: It's where Fats Domino found his thrill in 1956. * "Blueberry Hill".

Round 2. Category: Ripley's Believe It Or Not! * 1: B.I.O.N., Texan David Pay has written over 300 alphabetic characters on a single grain of this!. * rice. * 2: B.I.O.N., a 3-year old Ugandan boy was adopted and raised for 4 years by a colony of these human-like apes!. * chimps. * 3: B.I.O.N., herpetologist Bill Haast has been bitten over 150 times by these deadly creatures!. * snakes. * 4: B.I.O.N., every year a Filipino village recreates this event of around 30 A.D. using nails. * the crucifixion. * 5: B.I.O.N., because he believes it's possessed by his dead fiancee, a man married one of these dolls!. * a Barbie doll.

Round 3. Category: Great Rulers * 1: This king of Judea from 37-4 B.C. was a friend of Mark Anthony. * Herod (the Great). * 2: Justinian the Great's wife was a former one of these, like the wife of the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan. * an actress. * 3: Constantine the Great was the first Roman ruler to convert to this religion. * Christianity. * 4: He was born June 9, 1672, the son of Czar Alexis I Mikhailovich. * Peter the Great. * 5: By 896 A.D. this West Saxon king had captured the city of London. * Alfred the Great.

Round 4. Category: Funny Pages * 1: "Rock This". * Chris Rock. * 2: "Leading with my Chin". * Jay Leno. * 3: "I Rant, Therefore I Am". * Dennis Miller. * 4: "Enter Whining". * Fran Drescher. * 5: "Sein Language". * Jerry Seinfeld.

Round 5. Category: Smooching In Shakespeare * 1: In this comedy Petruchio says, "Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday". * Taming of the Shrew. * 2: "We have kiss'd away kingdoms and provinces" says Scarus in the play about this title couple. * Antony and Cleopatra. * 3: "Love's Labour's Lost" and "Henry VI, Part III" both mention the kiss of this Biblical traitor. * Judas Iscariot. * 4: He claims that the sleeping Michael Cassio kissed him hard while dreaming of Desdemona. * Iago. * 5: He says, "Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft" while holding Yorick's skull. * Hamlet.

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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 precious stones in a lab, Edward Acheson came up with carborundum. * diamonds. * 4: In 1890 William Halsted became the first surgeon to wear these during an operation. * gloves. * 5: In 1892 Jupiter's moon Amalthea became the last satellite discovered without using this process. * photography.

Round 2. Category: "Street"S * 1: In this song you should "Grab your coat and get your hat, leave your worry on the doorstep". * "On the Sunny Side of the Street". * 2: One is said to be on this street if he's financially independent. * "Easy Street". * 3: America's second-largest daily newspaper, it's published in New York City and 4 regional editions. * The Wall Street Journal. * 4: Elvis could have told you it's the location of "Heartbreak Hotel". * down at the end of lonely street. * 5: Irene Dunne, Margaret Sullavan and Susan Hayward have all been in film versions of this Hurst novel. * "Backstreet".

Round 3. Category: Globetrotting * 1: His 129-country international travels ended in August 2004 with a trip to Lourdes. * Pope John Paul II. * 2: (Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN's 360.) I took a 16-hour flight from New York to this 25,000-square-mile nation off India to report on tsunami damage. * Sri Lanka. * 3: Books by Redmond O'Hanlon include the tale of "A Journey Between the Orinoco and" this river. * the Amazon. * 4: Abercrombie and Kent offers these African journeys; founder Geoffrey Kent was born on one in Zambia. * safari. * 5: The hero of the novel "Up in the Air" is a business traveler obsessed with obtaining 1 million of these. * frequent flyer miles.

Round 4. Category: D.c. Sites * 1: At its 500-foot level, it has 8 small windows, 2 on each side. * the Washington Monument. * 2: This library on the Hill has a theatre that evokes the courtyard of an English Renaissance inn. * the Folger Library. * 3: This motto is on the base of the Statue of Freedom that sits atop the Capitol. * E pluribus unum. * 4: The building on Pennsylvania Ave. named for him houses the FBI. * (J. Edgar) Hoover. * 5: This center includes restaurants, theaters, a concert hall and an opera house. * the Kennedy Center (for the Performing Arts).

Round 5. Category: Florida Cities * 1: Established as a military post in 1838, it's now the home of the International Swimming Hall of Fame. * Fort Lauderdale. * 2: This city, central Florida's largest, is one of the world's top tourist destinations. * Orlando. * 3: Among this city's daily newspapers are the English-language Herald and the Spanish-language Diario Las Americas. * Miami. * 4: Miami is the seat of this county, which is entirely within Miami's metropolitan area. * Dade County. * 5: Tableware from the battleship Florida is a highlight of the governor's mansion in this city. * Tallahassee.

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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 Soldier lies beneath this landmark. * the Arc de Triomphe. * 4: W.C. Handy wrote a song about this Memphis street sometimes referred to as the "Main Street of Black America". * Beale Street. * 5: A glass elevator leads to the observation deck at the top of this 600' symbol of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. * Space Needle.

Round 2. Category: Basic Spanish * 1: It can get you from here to there: avion. * a plane. * 2: A wild animal: lobo. * wolf. * 3: A family member: hermana. * sister. * 4: A part of the body: corazon. * heart. * 5: An occupation: medico. * doctor.

Round 3. Category: You Bot It * 1: Started in 1997 to develop robotics and A.I., the Robocup features robots playing this competitive sport. * soccer. * 2: This toy company created Mindstorms for robots, with programmable bricks and sensors. * Lego. * 3: In 1961 the world's first production-line robot was used by this U.S. automaker. * General Motors. * 4: The humanoid robot Asimo performs some John Travolta dance moves in this Disneyland "land". * Tomorrowland. * 5: For this robot vacuum, the company iRobot uses technology developed to clear minefields. * Roomba.

Round 4. Category: & A Bible Person To Be Named Later * 1: Unnamed in the Bible, this queen is called Balkis or Bilqis in other places; Solomon didn't ask. * Queen of Sheba. * 2: "The Prince of Egypt" says Seti gave the order to kill the newborn Hebrews and adopted this Hebrew boy. * Moses. * 3: Dismas, the penitent one of these, and Gestas, the impenitent one, died by crucifixion and acquired their names much later. * Thieves. * 4: Oscar Wilde made a veiled reference to this woman, unnamed in the Bible when she danced before Herod. * Salome. * 5: Latin for "wise men", they were later named Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar. * Magi.

Round 5. Category: 4-Letter Capitals * 1: Akershus Castle, a tourist site in this capital, sits on a rocky peninsula overlooking a fjord. * Oslo. * 2: It's been said that "All roads lead to" this "Eternal City". * Rome. * 3: In 1990 it became the capital of a unified Yemen. * Sana. * 4: Just 12 degrees south of the Equator, this Peruvian capital's temperatures are moderated by the Humboldt Current. * Lima. * 5: This Latvian capital was founded in 1201 by German crusaders. * Riga.

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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 removes these organs. * Ovaries. * 4: (Hi, I'm Mike Farrell; I play a veterinarian on "Providence") An epizootic is the animal world's equivalent of this type of disease outbreak among humans. * Epidemic. * 5: The Center for Veterinary Medicine, which regulates drugs given to animals, is a part of this federal agency. * FDA (Food and Drug Administration).

Round 2. Category: What A Gem! * 1: Emeralds owe their beautiful green color to tiny amounts of this element, Cr, in their crystals. * chromium. * 2: The name of this ornamental stone is a combination of Latin and Persian for "azure stone". * lapis lazuli. * 3: This organic gem is a soft, dark brown to black piece of fossilized wood. * jet. * 4: This purple gem is associated with St. Matthias, who replaced Judas Iscariot as one of Jesus' apostles. * amethyst. * 5: Chrysoberyl is also known by this name because it resembles the pupil of a feline. * cat's eye.

Round 3. Category: Tool Time * 1: This instrument with a pointed metal spiral is used to open wine bottles. * a corkscrew. * 2: It can wear down metal, shape plastic or be baked in a cake for a prison inmate. * File. * 3: A sharp twist of your muscle that might make a monkey out of you. * a wrench. * 4: Used by astronauts, a plench is a combination of these 2 tools. * pliers and wrench. * 5: "(Hi, I'm Debbie Dunning) The head of this type of hammer has one side to drive nails and another to pull them out". * Claw hammer.

Round 4. Category: Play * 1: A strong leg and an empty container are elements in this kids' game. * kick the can. * 2: Shaw:A professor turns a guttersnipe into a cultured pearl. * Pygmalion. * 3: Like many real 18th century gents, fictional Horatio Hornblower enjoys this card game related to bridge. * whist. * 4: Shakespeare:An Egyptian and a Roman fall in love. * Antony and Cleopatra. * 5: Foxwoods Casino, on an Indian reservation in Connecticut, claims the world's largest hall for this game. * bingo.

Round 5. Category: An Umbrella Category * 1: This fictional castaway "spent a great deal of time and pains to make an umbrella" covered with skins. * Robinson Crusoe. * 2: This half-giant and "Keeper of the Keys" at Hogwarts has a pink umbrella that disguises his broken wand. * Hagrid. * 3: In 1899 she began her temperance work in Kansas wielding an umbrella; hatchets came later. * Carrie Nation. * 4: This fictional character arrives via an umbrella flight to become the Banks children's nanny. * Mary Poppins. * 5: The name of this small, light umbrella is from the Latin for "prepare for the sun". * a parasol.

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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 the reception until the following was written:"You filled my life /With so much joy /As I watched you grow /From that little boy". * the groom and his mom. * 3: It was once believed evil spirits hovered at this part of the house, so the bride is carried over it. * the threshold. * 4: This queen wore English lace on her 1840 bridal gown to give the British lace-making industry a boost. * Victoria. * 5: A cap named for this Capulet adorns many a blushing bride. * Juliet.

Round 2. Category: Zoology * 1: The turkey type of this bird has an exceptional sense of smell for detecting carrion on the ground. * the vulture. * 2: During courtship and fast maneuvers, this bird can beat its wings more than 200 times per second. * a hummingbird. * 3: When the European mole wants lunch, it goes after this annelid that comes out after the rain. * Earthworm. * 4: The affenpinscher is grouped as one of these small "plaything" dogs. * a toy. * 5: The green sea type of this swims over 1,000 miles from South America to Ascension Island, in order to breed. * turtle.

Round 3. Category: Historical Blogs. * 1: 2005: After the wedding, wife will be Duchess of Cornwall. Retiring pickup line "you could be the next Duchess of Cornwall". * Prince Charles. * 2: 1945: I'm just a colonel.1946: Stand back, Buenos Aires! Call me Mr. President!. * Juan Peron. * 3: 1865: Everyone talks about my "march to the sea", but my trip through the Carolinas ain't no picnic, either. * William Sherman. * 4: Circa 8th c. B.C.: Writing the 2 epic poems that'll make me famous! Scholars would never doubt my existence... d'oh!. * Homer. * 5: July 1, 1937: Fred and I are leaving New Guinea for Howland Island. 2,600 miles... wish us luck!. * Amelia Earhart.

Round 4. Category: On Their Tombstones * 1: "Hajj Malik El-Shabazz". * Malcolm X. * 2: "Law West of the Pecos". * Judge Roy Bean. * 3: "The celebrated navigator who first transplanted the breadfruit tree from Otahete to the West Indies". * Captain William Bligh. * 4: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country". * Nathan Hale. * 5: "1880 - 1946", not "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia" as rumored. * W.C. Fields.

Round 5. Category: Johnny Gilbert Rocks! * 1: The title track of a 1976 album, this song topped the charts in 1977:"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave". * "Hotel California". * 2: This song was written for a 1967 film:"Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio /A nation turns its lonely eyes to you (Woo, woo, woo)". * "Mrs. Robinson". * 3: People were crazy about this 1999 song:"Her lips are devil-red and her skin's the color of mocha...". * "Livin' La Vida Loca". * 4: More than 2,000 versions of this 1965 song have been recorded:"Suddenly /I'm not half the man I used to be /There's a shadow hanging over me". * "Yesterday". * 5: This song topped the pop, and and country charts in 1957:"The warden said, 'Hey, buddy, don't you be no square /If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair'". * "Jailhouse Rock".

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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 this sea Chorne More. * Black Sea. * 5: This ocean has the greatest length of coastline because of its irregular shape. * Atlantic.

Round 2. Category: Famous Lasts * 1: Charles I, the last ruler of this dual monarchy, laid down his crown in November 1918. * Austria-Hungary. * 2: In 1936 Kentuckian Rainey Bethea was the condemned man in the USA's last public one of these. * Hanging/execution. * 3: On May 26, 1927 the last Ford of this model rolled off the Highland Park, Michigan assembly line. * Model T. * 4: This author's last puvblished novel using her first major character was "Curtain: Hercule Poirot's Last Case". * Agatha Christie. * 5: Known scientifically as Raphus cucullatus, the last of these flightless birds died around 1680. * Dodo.

Round 3. Category: Money Slang * 1: We'll give you $200, not $1,000, for this five letter word meaning stately or majestic. * grand. * 2: 2-word phrase for Henny Penny's lunch. * Chicken feed. * 3: No "Wonder" you're on a "roll" -- you're not a "loaf"er and you're earning a lot of this. * Bread/dough. * 4: If you have the itch to start a business "from" it, you'll certainly need some of it. * Scratch. * 5: Proverbially, you can "break" this food, or "take (it) out of someone's mouth"; earn some dough. * bread.

Round 4. Category: Shakespeare Lite * 1: It's a play-within-a-play, and so is "Kiss Me, Kate", the musical based on it. * The Taming Of The Shrew. * 2: If you think the Antipholus twins aren't the heroes of this comedy, you're "mistaken". * The Comedy Of Errors. * 3: This comedy concerns Valentine and Proteus, 2 guys from Italy who vie for the hand of Sylvia. * Two Gentlemen Of Verona. * 4: This play may have premiered a dozen days after Christmas, which would explain its title. * Twelfth Night. * 5: Anthony Hopkins played the female role of Audrey in an all-male production of this "likable" comedy. * As You Like It.

Round 5. Category: Official State Critters * 1: The mask doesn't fool me; I recognize this as Tennessee's state wild animal. * the raccoon. * 2: I howled when I heard that this canine critter was the state animal of South Dakota. * the coyote. * 3: A group of 3rd graders got a bill passed to make the Pacific chorus type of this Washington's state amphibian. * a frog. * 4: Grrr! This bear is Montana's state animal. * a grizzly. * 5: Kansas fancied the fancy shell of the ornate box type of this and made it the state reptile. * the turtle.

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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 Choice-loving neighbor in TV ads, Anthony Stewart Head is now Giles on this show * Buffy the Vampire Slayer. * 4: Now a mom on "That '70s Show", Tanya Roberts was sexy P.I. Julie Rogers on this '70s show * Charlie's Angels. * 5: Well known as Barney Miller's wife, Barbara Barrie now plays Brooke Shields' nana on this sitcom * Suddenly Susan.

Round 2. Category: Fruitless Searches * 1: In 1987 a sonar exploration of this body of water found something big, but it may have been a school of salmon * Loch Ness. * 2: This Brooklyn reporter's opening of Al Capone's vault in 1986 left him with a few scars of his own * Geraldo Rivera. * 3: Bologna Stone, found in 1603, was thought to be this alchemical "stone" to change cheaper metals into gold * the philosopher's stone. * 4: Many scholars believe this was actually the Aegean Sea island of Thira, largely destroyed around 1500 B.C. * Atlantis. * 5: Either of the 2 people the Coast Guard cutter Itasca was unable to locate after they left from New Guinea in 1937 * Amelia Earhart (or Fred Noonan).

Round 3. Category: That's My Royal Nickname * 1: Ottoman emperor styled "the Magnificent" * Suleiman. * 2: He was "the Confessor" king of England in the 11th century * Edward. * 3: Bloody Romanian prince known as "the Impaler" * Vlad. * 4: Holy Roman emperor Charles II was known by this nickname; today we might call him "the Follicularly Challenged" * "the Bald". * 5: Basil "the Bulgar-Slayer" was emperor of this, also called the Eastern Roman Empire * the Byzantine Empire.

Round 4. Category: Except After Sea * 1: This sea named for an explorer is the northern part of the Pacific between Siberia and Alaska * the Bering Sea. * 2: This sea has Georgia on its mind (well, its eastern side, anyway) and Bulgaria on its west * the Black Sea. * 3: Delos, a small island of the Cyclades, is in this sea east of Greece * the Aegean Sea. * 4: Moses knowses the summer water surface temperature of this 175,000-sq. mile sea averages about 85 degrees * the Red Sea. * 5: Seen here is this sea here. See? * the Baltic Sea.

Round 5. Category: Classic Musicals * 1: In 1994, at the age of 73, Carol Channing took off on a 30th anniversary tour of this musical * "Hello, Dolly!". * 2: Nell Carter played the orphan-hating Miss Hannigan in a 1997 revival of this musical * "Annie". * 3: In other words, this musical would be "The 46th State!" * "Oklahoma!". * 4: Joey Heatherton was 15 going on 16, not 16 going on 17, when she understudied the role of Liesl in this musical * "The Sound of Music". * 5: It's the modern musical classic that features the song heard here * "Phantom of the Opera" (with Michael Crawford).

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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 believe that dying in this most sacred of rivers ensures passage to paradise * Ganges. * 5: You can take a high road or a low road to this, the largest lake in Scotland * Loch Lomond.

Round 2. Category: Birth Of A President * 1: February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois * Ronald Reagan. * 2: December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia * Woodrow Wilson. * 3: February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky * Abraham Lincoln. * 4: May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri * Harry S. Truman. * 5: August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas * Bill Clinton.

Round 3. Category: Enchanted April * 1: This Rodgers and Hammerstein musical opened on Broadway on "Some Enchanted Evening" in April 1949 * South Pacific. * 2: Although his expedition reached the N. Pole in April 1909, he couldn't relay the news until September * (Robert) Peary. * 3: This spring event was first held on the White House lawn April 22, 1878 * the Easter egg roll. * 4: According to tradition, Romulus founded this city in April 753 B.C. * Rome. * 5: In a flight lasting 148 minutes, he became the first man to orbit the Earth April 12, 1961 * Yuri Gagarin.

Round 4. Category: College Movies * 1: In this 2001 film, a sorority queen proves she has what it takes to make it at Harvard Law School * Legally Blonde. * 2: The Delta fraternity gets in deep trouble on the campus of Faber College in this 1978 classic * Animal House. * 3: Windsor College students drop like flies in this 1997 scary sequel co-starring Courteney Cox * Scream 2. * 4: A street dancer is courted by 2 frats that need his skills to win the national step show competition in this 2007 film * Stomp the Yard. * 5: This Laker (then with Orlando) played a recruit in the 1994 college basketball film "Blue Chips" * Shaquille O'Neal.

Round 5. Category: Much Ado About Nutting * 1: Major producers of these nuts seen here include Turkey and California * Pistachios. * 2: The 2 main types of the nut seen here are the English variety and this other full variety: * Black walnut. * 3: Pie favorite seen here: * Pecans. * 4: It's where these nuts are in a classic holiday song: * "(Chestnuts) roasting on an open fire...". * 5: A main source of these nuts is the Amazon River region * Brazil nuts.

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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 official song of a southern state * "The Tennessee Waltz". * 5: It's where I came from with a banjo on my knee * Alabama.

Round 2. Category: Emeril's Tv Dinners * 1: You might like this bird a l'orange; Emeril puts it in his special burritos with--BAM!--chili corn sauce * duck. * 2: Who says "real men don't eat" this? Emeril makes one filled with shrimp and cheese and eats it while he's watching football * quiche. * 3: To kick it up a notch, Emeril adds jalapenos to these deep-fried cornmeal balls--that'll shush your doggies! * hush puppies. * 4: Emeril's momma taught him that this pungent bulb is a beautiful thing; he drizzles it with olive oil and roasts it * garlic. * 5: Give Emeril some pork bely and kosher salt and he wont just "bring home" this meat, he'll make it himself * bacon.

Round 3. Category: 4-Letter Clothes * 1: Ballet wear, perhaps for Desmond * Tutu. * 2: After it comes back pink from the wash, you might use something similar to fire your laundress * Slip. * 3: Piece of clothing in the title of the first feature film in Cinemascope * The Robe. * 4: Piece that turns a man's 2-piece suit into a 3-piece suit * Vest. * 5: One may be wedding, prom or dressing * Gown.

Round 4. Category: World Heritage Sites * 1: This entire country is a site, but then it's only 108.7 acres * the Vatican. * 2: Komodo National Park and the Sangiran early man site * Indonesia. * 3: The Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork and the Wieliczka Salt Mine * Poland. * 4: UNESCO lauded the art and architecture of Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas in this country * Venezuela. * 5: This concentration camp in Poland is on the list as evidence of the inhumane nature of the racist Nazi policy * Auschwitz.

Round 5. Category: 4-Syllable Words * 1: It takes a very steady hand... this term for a medical procedure also describes a math process like addition * operation. * 2: Also a physiological term, it's the distribution of copies of a periodical among readers * circulation. * 3: This type of "theory" explains how an event results from a plot by a covert group * conspiracy. * 4: A collection of monkeys and mambas on exhibit * a menagerie. * 5: "Wise fool" is an example of this 8-letter figure of speech * oxymoron.

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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 * Cingular. * 4: Nextel's merger with this company should give the competition a run for their money * Sprint. * 5: You can shoot videos and play music with a Walkman phone from Ericsson in partnership with this company * Sony.

Round 2. Category: Boy Scout Merit Badges * 1: A boy doesn't have to shoot a bullseye to earn the badge seen here for this sport * Archery. * 2: If you can describe a float, trap and drainpipe, you're on your way to a badge in this field * Plumbing. * 3: The name of this badge seen here comes from a group of Greek sister goddesses[badge with a harp] * Music badge. * 4: The name of the badge seen here, or an unfortunate investment for the Clintons * Whitewater. * 5: You must earn the hiking, swimming or cycling badge to become this type of scout * Eagle Scout.

Round 3. Category: Super Bowl Mvps * 1: In 1999, this Denver quarterback * Elway. * 2: The first 2-time MVP (for the first 2 Super Bowls) was this team's Bart Starr * the Packers. * 3: After a last-second Colts FG in Super Bowl V, this team's Chuck Howley became the first MVP from a losing team * the Dallas Cowboys. * 4: VIII:Larry Csonka * Miami Dolphins. * 5: This Steelers wide receiver didn't need 57 reasons to be named Super Bowl XL's MVP in 2006 * Hines Ward.

Round 4. Category: Groups * 1: This word can mean a group of graffiti taggers as well as of rappers, like the "2 Live" one * crew. * 2: William R. Howell (no relation to Thurston III) is on this body for Pfizer, Halliburton and Exxon Mobil * a board of directors. * 3: It can mean "one", or a group of soldiers, like the 326th Engineer Battalion * unit. * 4: As well as a group in the Old West aiding the sheriff, it can be your bunch of pals from the neighborhood * posse. * 5: A mother fowl's group of young, or what she does when she worries about them * brood.

Round 5. Category: Frozen In Stone * 1: You'll find the statue ("David") seen here in this Italian city * Florence. * 2: From Laos the statue seen here is a reclining version of this founder of a religion * Buddha. * 3: It's the building where you'll find the head (of the 16th president) seen here * Lincoln Memorial. * 4: The name of these grotesque figures like this one seen here comes from an old word for "throat" * Gargoyles. * 5: This country owns the island (Easter Island) where you'll find the guy seen here * Chile.

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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", and he's still "Politically Incorrect" * Bill Maher. * 4: This fictional lawyer, whose theme is heard here, won his first case on TV Sept. 21, 1957: * Perry Mason. * 5: Not all TV lawyers do nude scenes, but this Hemingway did on the "Grin and Bare It" episode of "Civil Wars" * Mariel Hemingway.

Round 2. Category: Ready For Your Nude Scene? * 1: Leonardo DiCaprio will sketch you in the nude to emulate this 1997 film * Titanic. * 2: The camera won't reveal too much when you play this Egyptian queen: you'll be up to your "asp" in a milk bath * Cleopatra. * 3: Some fans may watch your nude scene with their "Eyes" this (as in the title of a Stanley Kubrick film) * Eyes Wide Shut. * 4: We'll film your scene on this kind of "set" that has a minimal crew -- no gawkers allowed * closed set. * 5: Uh-oh! You might want to go on this diet program promoted by Fergie * Weight Watchers.

Round 3. Category: Native American Language * 1: This language spoken by the Peoria tribe shares its name with a state * Illinois. * 2: A people of the Pacific Northwest, their language, or a warm wind in the area * Chinook. * 3: Ajurnamat means "it can't be helped" among this people also called Eskimos * Inuits. * 4: Chiricahua and Mescalero are dialects of this * Apache. * 5: In English, this New Mexico tribe's name starts with "Z"; in their own language, with "A", Ashiwi * Zuni.

Round 4. Category: Starting Here * 1: To get a project in gear, or what you do after stepping up to the line in bowling * Start the ball rolling. * 2: The way to start a play; it sounds like what the parents of "3rd Rock"'s Jane did during her formative years * Raise the curtain (Curtin). * 3: In New York City on October 1, 1999 I rang the opening bell to start this * New York Stock Exchange. * 4: For Cathy Guisewite to do her "Cathy" comic strip, every day it's "back to" this * The drawing board. * 5: To come up with Lanacane, the chemists "started from" this * Scratch.

Round 5. Category: International Cuisine * 1: European chefs cook the young foliage of this stinging plant, urtica dioica, like spinach * Nettle. * 2: Goatwater stew, made with goat and vegetables, is a specialty of Montserrat, an island in this sea * Caribbean Sea. * 3: This English pudding is often baked under roasting meat to catch the drippings * Yorkshire pudding. * 4: To make a simple quesadilla, start by folding one of these around a cheese filling * a tortilla. * 5: This German dish whose name means "hare pepper" is often served with sour cream * Hassenpfeffer.

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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 domain * annex. * 5: The word vermiform, meaning wormlike, often precedes this body part * the appendix.

Round 2. Category: A Dress * 1: Don't apologize, it's the popular Hindu style of garment seen here: * Sari. * 2: This diminuitive dress style seen here was introduced by Mary Quant in the 1960s: * Mini dress/skirt. * 3: This term for the dress seen here could also apply to its Roaring '20s wearers: * Flapper. * 4: "Canine" favorite of the 1950s seen here: * Poodle skirt. * 5: Often used as a dressing robe, it's the Asian style of dress seen here: * Kimono.

Round 3. Category: A Vulgar Display Of "Power" * 1: Collective coalition name for Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire during WWI * the Central Powers. * 2: Any of several portable G4 computers made by Apple * Powerbooks. * 3: A period of time in a hockey game where one team has a numerical advantage * the power play. * 4: Zordon and Alpha recruited the teenagers who became this "Mighty Morphin'" group * the Power Rangers. * 5: This multi-state lottery has peaked over 200 million dollars more than once * Powerball.

Round 4. Category: German Rivers * 1: The 339-mile Moselle River forms part of the boundary between Germany and this duchy * Luxembourg. * 2: The Pegnitz and the Rednitz join to form the Regnitz River just NW of this German city famous for its trials and rallies * Nuremberg. * 3: A major waterway of western Germany, the Weser river flows 273 miles to this sea * the North Sea. * 4: The Neckar river of SW Germany begins its 228-mile course near Schwenningen in this region aka the Schwarzwald * the Black Forest. * 5: The Breg and the Brigach unite at Donaueschingen, Germany to form this second-longest river in Europe * the Danube.

Round 5. Category: Historic Couples * 1: Some say this Scottish queen only married the Earl of Bothwell because he abducted her * Mary, Queen of Scots. * 2: This "Great" czar forced his first wife, Eudoxia, to become a nun, but she gave up the veil and romanced Stepan Glebov * Peter the Great. * 3: This philandering U.S. pres. called his wife Florence "The Duchess"; we wonder if she had any choice nicknames for him * Warren G. Harding. * 4: In his will, this playwright left his second-best bed to his wife; maybe the best one went to Gwyneth Paltrow * William Shakespeare. * 5: Against all odds, Catherine Parr's marriage to this man who'd been wed 5 times before was surprisingly happy * Henry VIII.

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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 man in 1898 to publish books, left him in 1899, but came back in 1900 * Alexander Grosset. * 4: The IRT operated the first ones of these in NYC back in 1904 * subway. * 5: First name of Mr. Handwerker, who opened a hot dog stand in Coney Island in 1916 * Nathan.

Round 2. Category: The Cool '70S * 1: We've uncovered the fact that Burt Reynolds was a nude centerfold in this magazine * Cosmopolitan. * 2: She trounced Bobby Riggs in a 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match * Billie Jean King. * 3: In 1978 this TV series based on a James Michener book ran for only 26 hours, not 100 years * Centennial. * 4: In 1970 these beds began to flood the market, sometimes literally * Waterbeds. * 5: This doctor's "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask" was really talked about * David Reuben.

Round 3. Category: "Eye" Guess * 1: In her first pop hit, Crystal Gayle asked this colorful title question * Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue. * 2: In superstitution, looks can kill but some say you can outstare the person who possesses this * evil eye. * 3: Take a look at the monitors players: It was used to take the photo seen here: * fish-eye lens. * 4: After selling the rights to his frozen food process he became a consultant to General Foods * (Clarence) Birdseye. * 5: Alan Alda on TV, or Donald Sutherland on the big screen * Hawkeye (Pierce).

Round 4. Category: Jazz Nicknames * 1: The First Lady of Jazz * Ella Fitzgerald. * 2: The Aristocrat of Swing, or The Duke * Duke Ellington. * 3: When his trumpet got bepop bopping, John Birks Gillespie got this nickname * Dizzy. * 4: Yardbird * Charlie Parker. * 5: Trumpet player Navarro and "Ain't Misbehavin'"s Waller share this nickname * Fats.

Round 5. Category: Sauce * 1: Whether it's a fruit or vegetable, it's the basis of pomodoro and marinara sauces for pasta * Tomato. * 2: This small pitcher with a nautical name is used to pour sauces over your food * Gravy boat. * 3: The name of this wine sauce served on meats betrays its point of origin, Bordeaux * Bordelaise sauce. * 4: In "Don Quixote", Cervantes asserted that this sensation "is the best sauce in the world" * Hunger. * 5: Avery Island, Louisiana has shipped little bottles of this hot sauce to the world since 1868 * Tabasco sauce.

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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 you're mounting your horse * a stirrup. * 5: Garden favorite seen here * a buttercup.

Round 2. Category: Psyched * 1: Bipolar disorder is also called this * manic depressive disorder. * 2: From the Greek for "split mind", this mental disorder is not, as many believe, the same as a split personality * schizophrenia. * 3: In Freudian theory, it's the part of the personality that's responsible for primitive instinctual drives * the id. * 4: Elizabeth Wurtzel's psycho-memoir is titled this "Nation" * Prozac Nation. * 5: This disorder is characterized by persistent ideas that result in ritualized acts, such as repetitive handwashing * obsessive compulsive disorder.

Round 3. Category: Zeppelin * 1: These 2 lighter-than air gases that lift the Zeppelin are carried in balloons called cells * hydrogen and helium. * 2: In 1924 this U.S. company acquired all the Zeppelin patents * Goodyear. * 3: Zeppelins were named for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin of this country * Germany. * 4: The first military use of Zeppelins came during this war * World War I. * 5: This high-flying dirigible made the first airship flight around the world in 1929 * the Graf Zeppelin.

Round 4. Category: Literary Mommas * 1: After Beowulf kills this monster, the monster's mother ravages Heorot before she is also killed by Beowulf * Grendel. * 2: After arriving in California from Dust Bowl Oklahoma, she tells her son Tom, "They ain't gonna wipe us out" * Mother Joad. * 3: This Dickens character returns home to find that his mother Clara has married the heartless Mr. Murdstone * David Copperfield. * 4: In this 1868 novel Marmee takes care of her 4 girls while her husband is away serving as an army chaplain in the Civil War * Little Women. * 5: Jing-mei Woo takes the place of her deceased mother Suyuan at the weekly mah-jongg games in this 1989 novel * The Joy Luck Club.

Round 5. Category: Secrets Of The Cia * 1: The one-day "Teenagers in the Kitchen" course focuses on this food and the dough for it * pizza. * 2: CIA grads include Rocco DiSpirito, star of this NBC reality show * The Restaurant. * 3: The course called Cookies, these small pies and Mignardises sounds more fun than Algebra 101 * tarts. * 4: In the library, even the mysteries are culinary, like one that's not called "The Main Course" but "The Main" this * Corpse. * 5: No soup for you at the CIA unless you learn how to make this, the liquid upon which soup is built * broth.

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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 ace flew with his Great Dane puppy until it became too big * the Red Baron. * 4: Animals first went aloft in 1783, when the Montgolfier Bros. sent a sheep, a duck and a rooster up in one of these * a balloon. * 5: Before airborne wireless equipment, these animals were hurled from planes with messages attached * pigeons.

Round 2. Category: Holiday Food And Drink * 1: Mexican street vendors sell candy skulls on this day, November 2 * Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). * 2: Poi and roast pig are traditional treats served on the June holiday named for this king * Kamehameha. * 3: This color beer is a popular beverage on Saint Patrick's Day * green. * 4: These Thanksgiving berries are also called bounceberries because ripe ones bounce * cranberries. * 5: Served in England at Christmastime, Lamb's Wool is a drink made of ale and the pulp of this fruit * apple.

Round 3. Category: "Great" Geography * 1: Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico * the Greater Antilles. * 2: Lewis and Clark National Forest is headquartered in this west central Montana city * Great Falls. * 3: 1 of 2 Australian deserts that fit the category * the Great Sandy Desert (or the Great Victoria Desert). * 4: This depression in Africa and the middle east is the largest fault system on earth * the Great Rift (Valley). * 5: At over 84,000 square miles, it's Europe's largest island * Great Britain.

Round 4. Category: The Fabulous Life Of... * 1: It was the sweet smell of success for François Coty, whose wealth in manufacturing this let him buy up newspapers * perfume. * 2: If you're "as rich as" this 6th century B.C. King of Lydia, the son of Alyattes, you got it goin' on * Croesus. * 3: She had the bling bling from her Nov. 2, 1755 birth in Austria; she'd later wed the Dauphin of France * Marie Antoinette. * 4: This first lady from VA. called "Patsy" had serious coin, but she dressed so simply people took her for the maid * Martha Washington. * 5: This New Yorker was all about the boats and trains and was worth $100 mil, easy; even had a university named for him in 1873 * (Cornelius) Vanderbilt.

Round 5. Category: Plagues On Egypt * 1: Plague No. 4, they were everywhere, including in my soup! Waiter! * flies. * 2: In plague No. 2 these went a-pharaoh courtin', uh-huh * frogs. * 3: Pharaoh could have used a pediculicidal shampoo to get rid of these in plague No. 3 * lice. * 4: This plague, No. 8, occurs every 17 years in some places * locusts. * 5: In 1991 Gloria Estefan was "Coming Out of" this, also plague No. 9 * the darkness.

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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 * "Sweet Georgia Brown". * 4: Sade sang, "You give me, keep giving me" this, the title of a 1985 hit * "The Sweetest Taboo". * 5: Well, I hope Neil Young will remember that Lynyrd Skynyrd replied to "Southern Man" with this song * "Sweet Home Alabama".

Round 2. Category: Paint It "Black" * 1: It means to exclude socially, or a vote against a candidate * blackball. * 2: In casinos it's another name for the card game twenty-one * blackjack. * 3: It's a place or method for selling goods illegally * the black market. * 4: It's military slang for coffee, or a thick, dark molasses * blackstrap. * 5: During the War of 1812, this Sauk Indian chief and about 500 of his warriors fought for the British * Black Hawk.

Round 3. Category: On A Princess Cruise * 1: [Cheryl] It's my turn to take over steering the boat or take the, this * wheel or helm. * 2: [Sofia] The roots of these saltwater trees serve as a nursery for sharks and barracuda * mangrove trees. * 3: [Sarah] Nurse sharks don't need to keep moving to breathe. They get oxygen by pumping water over these organs * gills. * 4: [Jimmy] From up here this 18th century pirate, born Edward Teach is said to have spied on treasure ships * Blackbeard. * 5: [Jimmy] The word snorkel comes from a Germanic word for this body part * nose.

Round 4. Category: The Church Lady * 1: Judges 4 and 5 tell us that this woman was the chief preacher, evangelist and leader of Israel for 40 years * Deborah. * 2: Major General Lorraine Potter was the Air Force's first female one of these religious counselors * chaplains. * 3: Known as Sister Aimee, this female evangelist founded L.A.'s Angelus Temple in 1923 * Aimee Semple McPherson. * 4: Seen here, this minister and entertainer helped build the three largest Christian TV networks in the world * Tammy Faye Baker. * 5: The Gnostic Gospels depict this woman as a companion of Jesus and a leader of his disciples * Mary Magdalene.

Round 5. Category: Desperate Measures * 1: It's the beverage container seen here that measures up:[video clue] * Yard (a yard of ale). * 2: It holds 31 to 42 gallons of a liquid -- oil for example * Barrel. * 3: There are 43,560 square feet in a standard one of these * Acre. * 4: There are 192 of these in 12 pounds * Ounces. * 5: From a Germanic word meaning "ball", it's a large bundle of collected cotton * Bale.

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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 rhyme with orange if you reversed the final "GN" and added an E * Foreign. * 4: A tube fitted with a plunger and needle, used to inject fluids * Syringe. * 5: To adapt existing music for a performer, as Nelson Riddle did for Frank Sinatra * Arrange.

Round 2. Category: I Wrote A Book! * 1: Familiar TV voice and now author heard here"When Pearl Harbor made it irrefutably clear that America was not a fortress, this generation was summoned to the parade ground and told to train for war." * Tom Brokaw. * 2: This low-budget legend wrote "How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime" * Roger Corman. * 3: Perhaps referring to her marriage to Arnold Schwarzenegger, she wrote the kids' book "What's Heaven?" * Maria Shriver. * 4: On "Feel this Book", Ben Stiller collaborated with this actress and frequent co-star * Janeane Garofalo. * 5: This former "Candid Camera" personality reads her literary work here"Baby girl, I wrote to tell you that I do not have good news about your mother, but it is not terrible news, either." * Fannie Flagg.

Round 3. Category: Sports 2000 * 1: By winning the British Open, this 24-year-old became the youngest to win golf's career Grand Slam * Tiger Woods. * 2: With pride Satan says they're the 2000 Stanley Cup champs * New Jersey Devils. * 3: She dispatched sister Serena at Wimbledon and went on to defeat Lindsay Davenport for the title * Venus Williams. * 4: This manager who won World Series in both leagues entered baseball's Hall of Fame * George "Sparky" Anderson. * 5: On July 23, he became only the second American to win the Tour de France in consecutive years * Lance Armstrong.

Round 4. Category: The Talk Of The "Town" * 1: Named for the PM who sponsored them, these 1767 "Acts" levied unpopular taxes on the American colonies * Townshend. * 2: Equal to 36 square miles, it's a subdivision of a county * a township. * 3: This Christmas carol's 2nd line begins, "Above thy deep and dreamless sleep, the silent stars go by" * "O Little Town Of Bethlehem". * 4: The building housing local administration offices that are also used for public meetings * town halls. * 5: This term for one who frequents fashionable spots was the title of Walter Winchell's column * "Man About Town".

Round 5. Category: Emeril's Tv Dinners * 1: Emeril's momma taught him that this pungent bulb is a beautiful thing; he drizzles it with olive oil and roasts it * garlic. * 2: To kick it up a notch, Emeril adds jalapenos to these deep-fried cornmeal balls--that'll shush your doggies! * hush puppies. * 3: Who says "real men don't eat" this? Emeril makes one filled with shrimp and cheese and eats it while he's watching football * quiche. * 4: Give Emeril some pork bely and kosher salt and he wont just "bring home" this meat, he'll make it himself * bacon. * 5: You might like this bird a l'orange; Emeril puts it in his special burritos with--BAM!--chili corn sauce * duck.

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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 Amendment, the accused must know the charge and "be confronted with" these * witnesses against him. * 2: This sixth planet from the Sun was first visited by Pioneer 11 in 1979 * Saturn. * 3: A language of the Middle East, it was added as the sixth language of the U.N. General Assembly in 1973 * Arabic. * 4: From the Latin for "sixth hour", it's an early afternoon rest or nap * a siesta. * 5: Number corresponding to 10 to the sixth power * a million.

Round 3. Category: Vocabulary * 1: Once used as a formal title, it means "my lady" in Italian * Madonna. * 2: Gullah, which has African roots, is a language spoken by some black inhabitants of this country * the United States. * 3: From the Spanish estampar, "to stamp", it's a lot of hoof stamping by a lot of cows * stampede. * 4: From the Greek for "universe" or "order", it's any of various beauty preparations * cosmetics. * 5: This adjective meaning "of the earliest ages" appears in the first line of Longfellow's "Evangeline" * Primeval ("This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks").

Round 4. Category: 2005 Fiction Bestsellers * 1: Appropriately, "A Salty Piece of Land" was penned by this "Margaritaville" singer * (Jimmy) Buffett. * 2: This Tom Wolfe novel got the Presidential seal of approval when W. recommended it to friends * I Am Charlotte Simmons. * 3: As of July 17, 2005 this Dan Brown novel had spent 120 weeks on the N.Y. Times' list * The Da Vinci Code. * 4: The doctor was in, or rather on, the list with his environmentally themed "State of Fear" * Michael Crichton. * 5: The CIA arranges a presidential pardon for mover and shaker Joel Backman in this John Grisham tale * The Broker.

Round 5. Category: Clothing Words * 1: Hits hard * socks/belts. * 2: To lose footing on icy ground * slip. * 3: A score of 22-22, for instance * tie. * 4: A layer of paint * coat. * 5: Breathes heavily, like a dog or a tired jogger * pants.

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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" * tarantulas. * 4: Spiders are among the earliest island colonists after these create a new environment, as at Krakatoa * volcanoes. * 5: Of 30,000 known species, only Argyroneta aquatica truly lives in this type of environment * water.

Round 2. Category: On The Lone Prairie * 1: The prairie has been called a "Sea of" this, like the over 6-foot-tall Big Bluestem * Grass. * 2: They're the family who resided in TV's "Little House on the Prairie" * Ingalls. * 3: Legendary Pecos Bill was raised by one of these animals that's also known as a prairie wolf * Coyote. * 4: A lot fewer of this Kansas state animal "roam" the prairies today than in the 19th century * Buffalo/bison. * 5: This city's nicknames include "City of the Lakes and Prairies" and "Hog Butcher for the World" * Chicago.

Round 3. Category: Aztec Gods * 1: As the goddess of this, Acuecucyoticihuati probably would be all wet * the ocean (the sea). * 2: Sounds like a bright guy; Tonatiuh was the Aztec god of this heavenly body * the sun. * 3: Mictlantecuhtli was the Aztec god of this and therefore lived in the underworld * the dead (or death). * 4: You'd have to get up pretty early to catch Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, the Aztec god of this * the dawn (the morning). * 5: Don't make Huitzilopochtli mad; he was the Aztec god of this and is often shown waging it * war.

Round 4. Category: Sunny Songs * 1: This song by the Animals is actually about a house of ill repute * "House of the Rising Sun". * 2: According to the title of this Stevie Wonder hit, "That's why I'll always be around" * "You are the Sunshine of my Life". * 3: So don't delay, act now, you might as well name this song by Smash Mouth heard here * "Walking on the Sun". * 4: The 5th Dimension hit No. 1 with a medley of "Aquarius" and this song from the musical "Hair" * "Let the Sunshine in". * 5: George Harrison wrote this Beatles song in one day in Eric Clapton's garden * "Here Comes the Sun".

Round 5. Category: Put Me In, Coach! * 1: On Jan. 16, 2008 this former Indiana coach won his record 900th basketball game, guiding Texas Tech over Texas and * (Bobby) Knight. * 2: With 4 for the Pittsburgh Steelers, he won more Super Bowls than any other NFL coach * Chuck Noll. * 3: Put me in at quarterback! Wilson and I have been working on this old-time trick play named for a monument * Statue of Liberty play. * 4: Bob Kersee coached this woman, his wife, to 4 world championships, 2 in the heptathlon and 2 in the long jump * Jackie Joyner-Kersee. * 5: Put me in as this substitute on the basepaths! I'll steal second before you know it * a pinch runner.

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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 these guns that fire a rapid, continuous stream of bullets * machine gun. * 4: Sidewinder (not the snake) * missile. * 5: Thompson * a machine gun.

Round 2. Category: Disneylands * 1: Though it was inspired by Mad King Ludwig's pad, it's her "Castle" you'll see in the Anaheim park * Sleeping Beauty. * 2: They're the 2 countries where you'll find Disney theme parks outside the U.S. * France and Japan. * 3: The original Disneyland opened to the public in this decade * 1950s. * 4: This classic ride is based on the 1949 Disney film "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" * Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. * 5: Aye, matey, this popular ride has received a politically correct makeover * Pirates of the Caribbean.

Round 3. Category: Makeup * 1: As a finishing touch, you can "set" your makeup by dusting your face with this * powder. * 2: To highlight your eyes, apply a light shadow directly under the arch of these * eyebrows. * 3: Some women dye their lashes instead of using this traditional eyelash makeup * mascara. * 4: Foundation is usually described as oil-based or based with this common liquid * water. * 5: Red and pink are common colors of the liners used to outline and define these * lips.

Round 4. Category: Wit * 1: This comedian ends his TV "rants" by saying, "Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong" * Dennis Miller. * 2: On this sitcom, Niles understates, "We're an odd little family, aren't we?" * Frasier. * 3: Oscar Wilde wrote that there are only 2 tragedies: not getting what you want and this * Getting what you want. * 4: On the first episode of this sitcom, Jerry did a routine about socks escaping from the dryer * Seinfeld. * 5: This director and star of "Deconstructing Harry" once said, "Eighty percent of success is showing up" * Woody Allen.

Round 5. Category: Let's Run It Up The Flagpole * 1: Color of the left hand stripe on the flag of Italy; it's not a color in Neapolitan ice cream * green. * 2: The stars on over 50 national flags, including ours, have this many points * 5. * 3: After Rama IV of Siam saw his flag with this animal flown upside-down, he switched to a striped flag * elephants. * 4: International organization whose flag is seen here * NATO. * 5: Richard III had a white boar on his flag; Louis XII, a porcupine; and Louis XIV, a radiating one of these * a sun.

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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 oldest coach to win the Super Bowl * (Dick) Vermeil. * 4: On January 2, 1959, exactly 120 years after Daguerre took the first photo of it, Russia launched a probe to it * the Moon. * 5: On January 17, 1977 he faced a Utah firing squad for his crimes * Gary Gilmore.

Round 2. Category: Catholicism * 1: Ideas in his "Summa Theologica" formed the basis of many Roman Catholic doctrines * Saint Thomas Aquinas. * 2: The name given to a child at this sacrament is traditionally that of a saint * baptism. * 3: Canon Law 333 says there is neither appeal nor recourse against his decree (& it's not God) * the pope. * 4: In 1983 the church reaffirmed its ban on members joining these lodges, York or Scottish * Masonic lodges. * 5: A litany may address the Lamb of God, saying "you take away" these * the sins of the world.

Round 3. Category: Sports Figures * 1: After retiring from tennis, he wrote "A Hard Road to Glory", a study of African-American athletes * Arthur Ashe. * 2: Named for singer Ray Charles, this boxer retired in 1991 for the fourth time * Sugar Ray Leonard. * 3: In 1982, 1985 and 1990, this 49ers quarterback won the Super Bowl's MVP award * Joe Montana. * 4: A 7-mile strip of highway near Wilmington, N.C. was recently dedicated to this Chicago Bulls star * Michael Jordan. * 5: In Oct. 1991 sports fans bade farewell to this baseball great nicknamed "The Lip", who died at 86 * Leo Durocher.

Round 4. Category: At The Hospital * 1: A neonatal ICU may contain several isolettes, a type of this chamber, from the Latin for "to lie down" * an incubation chamber. * 2: It's this person's job to knock you out in the O.R.(without using a hammer) * an anesthesiologist. * 3: You might be needled by this 4,000-year-old technique in widespread use in Chinese hospitals * acupuncture. * 4: Smile! A photograph was taken of you with one of these photon streams that's also known as a Roentgen ray * an x-ray. * 5: Intensive care is also called this "care", like the condition patients may be in * critical.

Round 5. Category: A Star-Spangled Banner Quiz * 1: This word means a fortification on an embankment with a parapet on top * Rampart. * 2: The first Olympics at which the song could be played as our official national anthem were held in 1932 in this country * USA (Lake Placid). * 3: 3 of the 4 full sentences in the first verse end in this punctuation mark * Question mark. * 4: The words of the anthem were written late in this war * War of 1812. * 5: In 1912 Eben Appleton of New York donated the banner in the song to this, on the condition it always stay there * Smithsonian.

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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 for the shot seen here: [photo of dart in middle of board] * bullseye. * 5: In pool this type of shot involves the cushions on the table * bank.

Round 2. Category: Rodent, Marsupial Or Reptile * 1: The gecko * reptile. * 2: The wallaby * marsupial. * 3: The hamster * rodent. * 4: The beaver * rodent. * 5: The caiman * reptile.

Round 3. Category: Unitas Against All Enemies * 1: Though originally drafted by the Steelers, Johnny Unitas was a real "horse" for 17 years on this team * the (Baltimore) Colts. * 2: Johnny's 47 straight games with one of these has been compared to DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak * a touchdown pass. * 3: Johnny U won the 1958 NFL Championship game against Frank Gifford and this "mammoth" team * the (New York) Giants. * 4: Johnny ended his Hall-of-Fame career with this Calif. team in '73, the rookie year of future Hall of Famer Dan Fouts * the San Diego Chargers. * 5: Johnny was considered "the Man with" this valuable type of appendage, like Frank Sinatra in a 1955 movie * "the Golden Arm".

Round 4. Category: Radcliffe Grads * 1: This poet and author of "The Handmaid's Tale" received a Master's from Radcliffe * (Margaret) Atwood. * 2: Before moving to Paris and meeting Alice, she studied psychology at Radcliffe under William James * Gertrude Stein. * 3: A 1973 degree in political science was just the beginning for this first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan * Benazir Bhutto. * 4: Anne Sullivan spelled out lectures in this woman's hand, helping her to graduate with honors in 1904 * Helen Keller. * 5: Graduating cum laude with a degree in American history, she'd later become First Lady--on "The West Wing" * Stockard Channing.

Round 5. Category: Eyes On The Prize * 1: (Lech Walesa delivers the clue, speaking in Polish: I'm Lech Walesa,) In 1983 I was picking mushrooms near Gdansk when it was announced I had won this prize * the Nobel Peace Prize. * 2: Winners of the Templeton Prize for Understanding of this include Baba Amte, Rabbi Jakobovits and the Rev. Peacocke * Religion. * 3: This famous British gallery that has lots of J.M.W. Turner works gives the Turner Prize for Contemporary Art * the Tate Gallery. * 4: In April 2002 at the age of 88, Henry Brant won this prize, also given to journalists, for music * the Pulitzer Prize. * 5: The $100,000 Potamkin Prize is for research in this aging disease that afflicted Mrs. Potamkin * Alzheimer's disease.

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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 Bros. animated duo helps Granny solve mysteries * Sylvester and Tweety. * 4: Mechanikat is one of the evil adversaries of this new breed of superhero seen here * Krypto the Superdog. * 5: Monks in training battle villains for sacred, ancient objects on this action-packed program * Xiaolin Showdown.

Round 2. Category: Ink * 1: If your business is losing money, you're awash in this color ink * Red. * 2: His test, developed in 1921, includes 5 multicolored inkblots * Herman Rohrshach. * 3: 1988 film that featured a will written in Acme disappearing and re-appearing ink * "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". * 4: From Latin roots meaning "cannot be obliterated", it describes ink that's permanent * Indelible. * 5: Company that makes the Eraser Mate, a pen that has erasable ink * Paper Mate.

Round 3. Category: The Political Life * 1: From the Latin for "to be away", this type of ballot is a vote cast by mail, not at a polling place * Absentee. * 2: An officeholder during the interval before a successor takes over is known as one of these limping birds * Lame duck. * 3: From the Latin for "grow together", it's an alliance of different groups for a specific cause * Coalition. * 4: Proverbially, to indicate one's candidacy is to throw one's hat here * In the ring. * 5: Term for the speech at a convention that sets the tone and outlines the main issues * Keynote speech.

Round 4. Category: Don't Listen To Them! * 1: "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" asked one of these Hollywood "Brothers" in 1927 * Warner Brothers. * 2: In 1929 a Yale economics professor said these "have reached...a permanently high plateau" * Stocks. * 3: Rejecting this band in 1962, Decca Records said, "We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out" * The Beatles. * 4: An 1876 Western Union internal memo said this device has "many shortcomings" and "is inherently of no value to us" * Telephone. * 5: In 1899 Charles Duell, the head of this U.S. "Office" said, "Everything that can be invented has been invented" * U.S. Patent Office.

Round 5. Category: Fabrics * 1: The name of this fabric often used for shirts worn by lumberjacks may be from the Welsh for "wool" * flannel. * 2: This fabric is called plush when the pile is more than 1/8" in height * velvet. * 3: From the Persian for "rag", this bed sheet fabric is finer than muslin * percale. * 4: From the Persian for "rag", this bed sheet fabric is finer than muslin * percale. * 5: It sounds like hammerheads provide the material for this, but it's really a worsted fabric for men's suits * sharkskin.

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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-write "Black Profiles in" this * Courage. * 4: Before legally adopting the name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he was known by this name * Lew Alcindor. * 5: In 1969 this Midwest team chose Kareem as the NBA's No. 1 draft choice * Milwaukee Bucks.

Round 2. Category: Famous Pairs * 1: Coffe merchants:Chase and blank * Sanborn. * 2: Seen here Bringing Home the Logs, Winter Landscape is a 19th century lithograph from this pair * Currier and Ives. * 3: This couple who studied "human sexual response" tied the knot in 1971 and untied it 22 years later * Masters and Johnson. * 4: Irene Curie paired up with Frederic Joliot; this man was the famous partner of Louis Jolliet * Marquette. * 5: Songwriting team who gave us "The Sound of Music" * Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Round 3. Category: "C" In Geography * 1: Picturesque Ionian island that was the birthplace of Britain's Prince Philip * Corfu. * 2: The Chinese city of Guangzhou, better known to westerners as this, is also called Yangcheng, "City of Goats" * Canton. * 3: The name of 2 cities; one in England and one in the U.S., both famous for their universities * Cambridge. * 4: It's the seat of Laramie County * Cheyenne, Wyoming. * 5: On a 1923 trip, Warren G. Harding made the 1st presidential visit to the Alaska Territory and to this nation * Canada.

Round 4. Category: "Ee" * 1: There are 360 in a circle * degrees. * 2: Type of birth where the baby's feet come out first * breech. * 3: Your professional life, hopefully a distinguished one * career. * 4: During this growth process a baby may be given a wet washcloth to gnaw on * teething. * 5: A superfluous person is a "fifth" one * wheel.

Round 5. Category: Hey, "Good" Looking! * 1: The liturgy of this day includes a reading of the Passion according to St. John * Good Friday. * 2: Spoiler alert: The title schoolmaster of this 1934 novel dies at the end * Goodbye, Mr. Chips. * 3: He's the hero of the parable in Luke 10 * the Good Samaritan. * 4: 1994 Savannah-set John Berendt bestseller * Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. * 5: False Bay lies between Cape Hangklip and this promontory * the Cape of Good Hope.

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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 chartered a "peace ship" and sailed off to stop WWI * Henry Ford. * 4: An April 1971 visit by a team of players of this game was part of a thaw in U.S.-China relations * Ping-pong (table tennis). * 5: This British naval hero lost an eye during the capture of Corsica in 1794 * Lord Nelson.

Round 2. Category: Doesn't Rhyme With Squat * 1: In "Camelot", he has a romance with Guenevere * King Arthur. * 2: It makes up half of the Morse Code letter "N" * Dash. * 3: In Genesis, he split with his kinsman because Canaan wasn't big enough for both of them * Abram. * 4: It's one of the words that form the contraction "won't" * Will. * 5: One of your choices when your sink has 2 knobs to turn on the water * Cold.

Round 3. Category: Musical Venues * 1: Chicago's area for this genre moved from the south side to north side clubs like Kingston Mines * Blues. * 2: In 1925 this famed piano company opened a concert hall on 57th Street in New York City * Steinway. * 3: Saint-Saens and Faure were organists at Paris' La Madeleine, the church of this Biblical woman * Mary Magdalene. * 4: This crowd-pleasing group has performed on the Charles River Esplanade since July 4, 1929 * The Boston Pops. * 5: When Bruce Springsteen opened this L.A. arena, he said he thought he was playing an office supplies store * Staples Center.

Round 4. Category: "Field" Of Dreams * 1: England's Wars of the Roses ended there * Bosworth Field. * 2: It's gray or brown and 2-5 inches long not counting the tail * fieldmouse. * 3: The highest rank in the British army * field marshal. * 4: Binoculars * field glasses. * 5: Sport in which 2 teams use curved sticks to hit a ball into their opponents' goal * field hockey.

Round 5. Category: Rated Pg * 1: In 2002 Freddie Prinze Jr. went to the dogs in this film * Scooby-Doo. * 2: The 4 main food groups where Will Ferrell comes from in this film are candy, candy canes, candy corn and syrup * Elf. * 3: "Save the world. Get the girl. Pass math" was a tagline for this 2003 Frankie Muniz pic * Agent Cody Banks. * 4: Lindsay Curtis and Jamie Lee Lohan--wait, switch those last names--starred in this 2003 remake * Freaky Friday. * 5: Kingdom of Far Far AwayÂ… Hello! Larry King voices an ugly stepsister in this sequel * Shrek 2.

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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 wintergreen; a brand of chewing gum is named for it * teaberry. * 4: Officially, the Disneyland ride often called "The Teacups" is named for this loony fictional festivity * the Mad Hatter's tea party. * 5: It's a small chest made to hold tea leaves, not golf clubs * a tea caddy.

Round 2. Category: The History Of The World: Part 1 * 1: This event on October 8-9, 1871 forced thousands of Illinois residents to flee their homes * Chicago Fire. * 2: In his last battle, this man defeated Pompey's sons and supporters in 45 B.C. at Munda in Spain * Julius Caesar. * 3: In 325 A.D. this "Great" leader presided over the Religious Council of Nicaea * Constantine. * 4: Code-named "Operation Valkyrie", the "July Plot" of 1944 was an attempt to kill this leader * Adolf Hitler. * 5: The public farewell seen here took place in this year:(Nixon leaving Washington) * 1974.

Round 3. Category: Panthers And Bobcats * 1: Y acts as the only vowel in the name of this wildcat, a bobcat relative * lynx. * 2: E.T. Seton referred to the "lithe and splended beasthood" of the New World panther with this 2-word name * a mountain lion. * 3: For the first 9 to 10 days of its life, a bobcat suffers from this ocular disability * blindness. * 4: When it's black instead of spotted, this cat is often called a panther; there are albino ones, too * a leopard. * 5: Taxonomists group cats into ones that roar and ones, including bobcats, that do this instead * purr.

Round 4. Category: Animals In Paradise * 1: Solomon talked to this industrious insect that was later allowed into paradise * ant. * 2: The largest animal in paradise is this biblical one that swallowed a person whole * (Jonah's) whale. * 3: A bird called the Hoopoe of Bilquis is on the list, Bilqis being a name for the biblical queen of this place * Sheba. * 4: The ram he sacrificed instead of his son is in the fold * Abraham. * 5: His mount Al-Buraq was allowed into heaven * Muhammad.

Round 5. Category: Special Days * 1: International Boss' Day Off was proclaimed for this day on which Julius Caesar was offed * March 15 (Ides of March). * 2: Officially approved by Congress in 2009, National Pi Day is celebrated on this date * March 14. * 3: I can smell it in the oven--be it white, wheat or sourdough, November 17 is homemade this * bread. * 4: The Copts celebrate this holiday on January 7, 13 days after we've roasted all our chestnuts * Christmas. * 5: In Tennessee, Confederate Memorial Day is observed on June 3, the birthday of this confederate president * Jefferson Davis.

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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 fish, a valuable food source * cod. * 4: The largemouth species of this fish is the state fish of Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Georgia * bass. * 5: Called a muskie for short, it's Wisconsin's state fish * a muskellunge.

Round 2. Category: Then We Can Dig It * 1: Finds at Whitehall Villa in Britain reveal that this ancient people ate dormice and really loved oysters * the Romans. * 2: The neolithic folk of Catal Huyuk, Turkey exposed their dead to the vultures, then put these remains under their beds * their bones. * 3: Homeric Troy was found to date from this age, the metal of the Trojans' weapons in the "Iliad" * the Bronze Age. * 4: Ironically, an "aquatic civilization" has been unearthed in this area that covers much of North Africa * the Sahara Desert. * 5: Some skulls from colonial America show wear on a tooth from sucking on the stem of this artifact * a pipe.

Round 3. Category: World Cup '98 * 1: There were an average of 2.67 of these a game, not enough for some bored U.S. viewers * Goals. * 2: This country's win over the "Great Satan" knocked the U.S. out of contention for the second round * Iran. * 3: It was a good July for this country: they reached the World Cup semis and Goran Ivanisevic made the Wimbledon final * Croatia. * 4: Argentina didn't "kick" about this controversial tie-breaking method after using it to beat England * Penalty kicks/shootout. * 5: Only in France: the pre-game show at the final was a tribute to this "saint"ly fashion designer * Yves Saint Laurent.

Round 4. Category: Tycoons * 1: This eccentric billionaire aircraft-maker turned to communications satellites in the 1960s * Howard Hughes. * 2: Steve Ballmer became the president and CEO of Microsoft after this man stepped aside * Bill Gates. * 3: World Book reports this Omaha investor's company owns the ublisher of...well, World Book * Buffett. * 4: One letter was changed in this tycoon's last name to get the company name Revlon * Charles Revson. * 5: In 1990 this entrepreneur lent his name and casino to a TV game show * Donald Trump.

Round 5. Category: Tallest, Longest, Widest, Deepest * 1: One of the 3 states with 13 letters in their names * (1 of 3) Massachusetts, North Carolina or South Carolina. * 2: It's the tallest living creature with wings * ostrich. * 3: This river reaches its widest point, about 4 miles, near Clinton, Iowa * Mississippi River. * 4: At about 25,000 feet down, the Cayman Trench is the deepest part of this sea * Caribbean Sea. * 5: The widest possible split in bowling is between these 2 pins in the back row * 7 and 10.

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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 "The Pleasure Principle" * Janet Jackson. * 4: In 1998 she showed her "Spirit" singing "My hands are small, I know, but they're not yours they are my own" * Jewel. * 5: Whitney Houston and this pop diva joined voices on "When You Believe", a duet from "The Prince of Egypt" * Mariah Carey.

Round 2. Category: 20Th Century Presidents * 1: In 1962 he published a book on his career highlights to date -- "Six Crises" * Richard Nixon. * 2: To give the nominating speech for Al Smith in 1924, he rose from his wheelchair and made his way to the mike * Franklin D. Roosevelt. * 3: He wrote an article "About Man-Eating Lions" for the November 1913 issue of Boy's Life * Theodore Roosevelt. * 4: His 1976 campaign plane was called Peanut One * Jimmy Carter. * 5: His given names were the same as the full name of a 16th century leader of the Protestant Reformation * Calvin Coolidge.

Round 3. Category: Scientists * 1: This chemist was born Marie Sklodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland * Marie Curie. * 2: [Photo] Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born was the grandfather of this singer seen here * Olivia Newton-John. * 3: In 1609 and 1619 this German astronomer published his 3 laws of planetary motion * (Johannes) Kepler. * 4: Astronomer Sosigenes advised this Roman on the development of the calendar named for him * Julius Caesar. * 5: In 1661 Isaac Newton entered this university's Trinity College as a subsizar, a student with domestic duties * Cambridge.

Round 4. Category: They're All Winners! * 1: The epic in Stephen Vincent Benet's body of work that won him a 1929 Pulitzer * John Brown's Body. * 2: (Hi, I'm Gretchen Carlson of the CBS Saturday Early Show.) You could say it was my "crowning" moment when I became the 1st classical violinist to win this national title * Miss America. * 3: (Hi. I'm LeVar Burton, and) In 1999 I won a Grammy for narrating "The Autobiography of" this winner of the Nobel Peace Prize * Martin Luther King, Jr.. * 4: Things were grave indeed when Patricia Clarkson picked up an Emmy in 2002 for guest-starring on this HBO show * Six Feet Under. * 5: Talk about a super Mario! He won more than 50 Indy car races before he retired in 1994 * Mario Andretti.

Round 5. Category: "Andy" * 1: An 8-hour static film of the Empire State Building was done by this pop artist * Andy Warhol. * 2: Reg Smythe's pub-crawling comic strip husband of Flo * Andy Capp. * 3: Donny Osmond made his debut at the age of 4 on his show * The Andy Williams Show. * 4: "A Family Affair" was the 1st of 15 films in this Mickey Rooney series * the Andy Hardy series. * 5: The black and white bear of Walter Lantz cartoons * Andy Panda.

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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 scratched yet" * Bon Ami. * 4: McDonald's are "golden" * the Arches. * 5: In the '20s the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Assn. added an Indian maiden to this butter brand logo * Land o' Lakes.

Round 2. Category: You Get An "F" * 1: This verb can mean to fatten pillows or to mess up an actor's line * fluff. * 2: Ithaca, New York is on Cayuga, one of this group of narrow bodies of water * the Finger Lakes. * 3: Hopefully you'll remember that this plant of the genus Myosotis is Alaska's state flower * a forget-me-not. * 4: Opponents of Sabine Bau, a world champion in this sport, might say, "Curses! Foiled again!" * fencing. * 5: The main city on the Main River, it's located 19 miles upstream from where the Main flows into the Rhine * Frankfurt.

Round 3. Category: You Have Too Much... * 1: ...if you're bicycling with higher-than-recommended PSI * pressure in your tires. * 2: ...if you suffer from hypernatremia (put down the potato chips) * sodium. * 3: ...of this if afflicted with hirsutism * hair. * 4: ...of this on your bow that's overstrung * tension. * 5: You have too much of this in your blood if you have diabetes mellitus * sugar.

Round 4. Category: "M.d."S * 1: The first national observance of this holiday took place May 30, 1868 * Memorial Day. * 2: He monkeed around with Davy Jones, Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith * Micky Dolenz. * 3: The common wild pigeon of North America is often called this because of its sad cooing * the mourning dove. * 4: In 1978 Christina Crawford hit No. 1 on the bestseller list with this book * Mommie Dearest. * 5: 1992 marks his 10th year as head coach of the Chicago Bears * Mike Ditka.

Round 5. Category: Bill To Law * 1: This fraction of the House needs to vote yes to overturn a presidential veto * 2/3. * 2: On the third reading, the bill is put either to a voice vote or this alphabetical vote * Roll call. * 3: If Congress adjourns, a president can veto a bill by not signing it within this many days (Sundays excluded) * 10. * 4: After the first reading, the bill is sent to one of these that may table it * Committee. * 5: For the first reading, the representative or senator gives the bill to the person in this post * Clerk.

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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 Louis Stevenson. * 4: This private college in Northern California has 20 libraries with some 8.5 million physical volumes * Stanford. * 5: After 27 years, he's the current NFL coach who has served the longest with 1 team * Landry.

Round 2. Category: Shut Your Mouth! * 1: "I will remain silent. Neither I, nor my wife, will leave Krypton", says Marlon Brando in this 1978 film * Superman. * 2: This comic was silenced by obscenity charges in the '60s; in 2003 Gov. Pataki gave him a posthumous pardon * Lenny Bruce. * 3: If you're arrested, you have the right to remain silent thanks to this arrestee's 1966 case * Miranda. * 4: "'Are you lost, Daddy?' I arsked... 'Shut up,' he explained" is from this "circular" sportswriter's "Young Immigrunts" * Ring Lardner. * 5: "Factor" in the idea that this Fox commentator has been known to tell guests in his "No Spin Zone" to "Shut up!" * Bill O'Reilly.

Round 3. Category: "Epi"Sodes * 1: From the Greek for "seizure", it's a medical condition involving abnormal electrical brain activity * epilepsy. * 2: The best example of something * the epitome. * 3: A fast-spreading outbreak of a disease * an epidemic. * 4: A short section at the end of a book * an epilogue. * 5: A witty saying or expression * an epigram.

Round 4. Category: Green Beers * 1: Dennis Hopper has a particular aversion to this Dutch beer in the movie "Blue Velvet" * Heineken. * 2: Tonight let it be this beer of Munich that's properly spelled with 2 umlauts * Löwenbräu. * 3: Brewed since 1615, this Dutch beer with a green bottle has a swingtop cap * Grolsch. * 4: Brittany Evans is the new icon for this beer that's named in honor of an old German monastery * St. Pauli's. * 5: This Bremen beer's motto appropriately reads "Life beckons" * Beck's.

Round 5. Category: Broadway Musicals By Characters * 1: Tevye,Golde,Yente * Fiddler on the Roof. * 2: Velma Von Tussle,Tracy Turnblad,Corny Collins * Hairspray. * 3: Bustopher Jones,Old Deuteronomy,Mistoffelees * Cats. * 4: Fantine,Javert,Jean Valjean * Les Miserables. * 5: Mrs. Potts,Belle,Gaston * Beauty and the Beast.

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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 buckle; the longer British ones hang lower * Ties. * 4: As a rule, the length of this item should be 3 times the thickness of the board being fastened with it * Nail. * 5: A 1.5-liter champagne bottle, or sometimes a .357 round of ammunition * Magnum.

Round 2. Category: Kids In History * 1: A gifted student and a fine athlete, this member of the Tudor family became the heir to Engl.'s throne at age 10, in 1502 * Henry VIII. * 2: Born in Scotland in 1747, he sailed off as a cabin boy at age 12 and later became a naval hero in the Amer. Revolution * John Paul Jones. * 3: When this Italian explorer was a kid, his dad went to China without him; when he was a teen, his dad took him along * Marco Polo. * 4: Even as a young girl in Philadelphia, this future flagmaker showed a talent for fine needlework * Betsy Ross. * 5: This Polish-French composer who was born in 1810 composed a polonaise when he was only 7 * (Fredric) Chopin.

Round 3. Category: Herbs And Spice Girls * 1: She rocked the spice world when she left the Spice Girls in May 1998 * Ginger Spice. * 2: Spice Girl Mel B. gets this nickname from her pierced tongue, wild hair and wilder lifestyle * "Scary Spice". * 3: This photographer directed music videos for Madonna and Michael Jackson * Herb Ritts. * 4: It's the appropriate Spice name of Emma Bunton, youngest of the Spice Girls * "Baby Spice". * 5: "Spanish Flea", the theme song of "The Dating Game", was a hit for this bandleader * Herb Alpert.

Round 4. Category: It's All Your Fault! * 1: Speculators were blamed for the 1929 stock market crash that marked the beginning of this decade-long calamity * the Great Depression. * 2: Napoleon's cannons usually get blamed, but the head of this huge statue near Giza was damaged long before him * the Sphinx. * 3: In 1990 a flaw in this $1.5 billion piece of hardware was blamed on a spherical aberration in one of its mirrors * the Hubble Telescope. * 4: This song from the movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" garnered a 2000 Oscar nomination * "Blame Canada". * 5: A January 1942 report faulted Gen. Walter Short and Admiral Husband Kimmel for the disastrousness of this event * Pearl Harbor.

Round 5. Category: Gadgets * 1: This company's I-Zone comes in a color called phat blue * Polaroid. * 2: The solar bikini uses strips of this "light current" film to charge up your iPod while you tan; looks good on me, too * a photovoltaic strip. * 3: Despite its name, you don't throw this "box", you use it to watch TV anywhere on your laptop, phone or tablet * Slingbox. * 4: Sony president Kaz Hirai said this handheld Playstation console was named for the Latin word for "life" * the PS Vita. * 5: The Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox can store over 100 hours of music in this popular format * mp3.

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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 * Winnipeg. * 5: To use air to remove chaff from wheat * to winnow.

Round 2. Category: For Old Crimes' Sake * 1: The man who shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel was vice president under this man * Thomas Jefferson. * 2: Assassin James Earl Ray was arrested in this capital city June 8, 1968 by Scotland Yard detectives * London. * 3: This publishing heiress was kidnapped on February 4, 1974 * Patty Hearst. * 4: Returning from the Third Crusade, this English "lion" king was kidnapped and held until a huge ransom was paid in 1194 * Richard the Lion-Hearted. * 5: Bank robber Clyde Barrow died along with this woman in a 1930s police ambush * Bonnie Parker.

Round 3. Category: The Getty * 1: Type of chest seen here in the Getty collection; those of the Getty trust are quite full * coffer. * 2: One of the largest paintings at the Getty is Ensor's 1888 "Entry of Christ Into" this Belgian capital * Brussels. * 3: At the new Getty Center, admission is free, but you need $5 and a reservation to do this * Park. * 4: The previous Getty Museum, just south of this coastal community, will reopen to show antiquities * Malibu. * 5: The Getty calls its 110 acres of galleries and institutions this, like the grounds of a college * Campus.

Round 4. Category: Numbers In Song * 1: Title of the song that begins, "Some people say a man is made out of mud" * "Sixteen Tons". * 2: Lacy J. Dalton sang "God bless the boys who make the noise on" this Nashville street * 16th Avenue. * 3: Biggest hit for The Crests was about a birthday cake with this many candles * 16. * 4: It's the specific distance mentioned in folk song "The Erie Canal" * 15 miles. * 5: Neil Sedaka said, "You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen" when she'd reached this age * sweet 16.

Round 5. Category: What Did I Do With My Keys? * 1: You left them in this (from the Latin for "fire"), you fool (from the Latin for "fool") * the ignition. * 2: They were in the pocket of those Red Tabs jeans from this company -- you know, the ones we just took to Goodwill * Levi's. * 3: One of these crow relatives famous for their love of shiny objects flew off with them * magpie. * 4: They turned up in the bottom of the neighbors' jetted bath -- as Emile Zola might say, this brand * Jacuzzi. * 5: They fell into this pot that's also a term for one who makes his money growing cotton * planter.

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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 television's first Hispanic superstar was this bandleader * Desi Arnaz. * 4: When Samantha joined Darrin, it became the first live-action show to regularly put a man and wife in the same bed * Bewitched. * 5: The first color TV transmission was produced by John Baird in this European capital in 1928 * London.

Round 2. Category: Think Small * 1: You certainly come up short if you're "knee-high to" this insect or creme de menthe cocktail * a grasshopper. * 2: Size of Don Ho's "Bubbles" * Tiny. * 3: Among its meanings are a small quantity; to waste time; and a custard and cake soaked in wine dessert * trifle. * 4: In the dictionary this word for extremely small follows something extremely big -- infinite * infinitesimal. * 5: According to the AKC, Yorkshire Terriers, Pomeranians and Pugs belong to this dog group * toys.

Round 3. Category: Royal Women * 1: Marie Antoinette was among the 16 children of this Holy Roman empress and archduchess * Maria Theresa. * 2: An avid art collector, she founded the Hermitage Museum as a private gallery for her art collection * Catherine the Great. * 3: Unlike her sister Stephanie, she's a princess of Great Britain as well as of Monaco * Princess Caroline. * 4: In 1995 she told the BBC, "I'd like to be a queen...in people's hearts, but I don't see myself being queen of this country" * Princess Diana. * 5: In 1492, she and her husband signed a decree ordering all Jews to convert to Christianity or leave the country * Queen Isabella.

Round 4. Category: Bruce Springsteen * 1: "I didn't know my own face, oh brother are you gonna leave me wastin' away on the streets of" this city * Philadelphia. * 2: The title track on this Springsteen album named for a state tells of a mass-murder spree by Charlie Starkweather * Nebraska. * 3: The 2006 album "We Shall Overcome" is a tribute to this Weavers co-founder and folk legend * Pete Seeger. * 4: In an unprecedented move in 1975, these 2 rival news magazines both featured cover stories on Bruce * Newsweek and Time. * 5: "Everybody's got" this body part, a song Bruce first intended to give to The Ramones * a hungry heart.

Round 5. Category: Rock N' Roll Heaven * 1: He recorded "Mack The Knife" under this name he picked out of a phone book * Bobby Darin. * 2: Singer of this song, he spent 9 years in a coma before dying * Jackie Wilson. * 3: A drummer, she and brother Richard were best known as vocalists * Karen Carpenter. * 4: He had 4 Top 40 hits before and 4 after his death at 30 on Sept. 20, 1973 * Jim Croce. * 5: Needing time to do laundry on tour, this early rock giant chartered a fatal flight * Buddy Holly.

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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 Apollo missions and 2 of these missions that had 2-man crews * Gemini. * 4: After going to the moon, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean's next trips were to this U.S. space station * Skylab. * 5: The June 1983 Challenger flight had the first 5-person crew, including this first U.S. woman in space * Sally Ride.

Round 2. Category: "Sub" Standard * 1: You don't have to be a detective to know that this math process involves deduction * subtraction. * 2: In 2000 the Yankees and the Mets played in a World Series dubbed this * the "Subway Series". * 3: Adjective for something that lives under your skin, like a parasite * subcutaneous. * 4: It's a government payment to a farmer not to grow something * subsidy. * 5: Cards for these are air-blown into magazines * subscriptions.

Round 3. Category: Marvin Gardens * 1: Oscar winner "Marvelous" Marvin Hamlisch began attending this prestigious NYC music school when he was 7! * Juilliard. * 2: "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler was the world boxing champ in this weight class from 1980 to 1987 * middleweight. * 3: I heard Marvin Gaye took this song to No. 1 in 1968 * "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". * 4: Unless Bugs Bunny can stop him, this character wants to use his PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator to blow up Earth * Marvin the Martian. * 5: Michelle Triola's lawsuit against this actor introduced "palimony" to the English language * Lee Marvin.

Round 4. Category: Pop Singers * 1: Nightmarish singer who recorded "Welcome to My Nightmare" * Alice Cooper. * 2: Oscar winner who led the singing of "God Bless America" at the end of 1988's Republican Convention * Shirley Jones. * 3: Even though Meryl Streep rejected him in the movie "Plenty", he didn't call the police * Sting. * 4: This "feline" South Carolinian starred on Broadway in "Timbuktu", a black version of "Kismet" * Eartha Kitt. * 5: Gilles Thibault wrote the original French lyrics to "My Way", and this man wrote the ones in English * Paul Anka.

Round 5. Category: The 15Th Century * 1: On July 17, 1453 the French defeated the British at Castillon, the last battle in this conflict that began in 1337 * the Hundred Years' War. * 2: England lost all of France except Calais as this conflict ended in 1453 * the Hundred Years War. * 3: The Byzantine Empire came to an end in 1453 with the fall of this capital city to the Ottomans * Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul. * 4: In 1451 Nicholas of Cusa prescribed concave lenses to remedy this * nearsightedness (myopia). * 5: This 1450s tome changed the course of culture and history * the Gutenberg Bible.

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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 few days later * Chancellorsville. * 4: This New Orleans-born gospel singer seen here debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1950 * Mahalia Jackson. * 5: This American artist moved to NYC in 1930 to study with Thomas Hart Benton * Jackson Pollock.

Round 2. Category: The L With U * 1: As an adjective, it means opulent; as slang, it means a drunkard * lush. * 2: A telecom company, or a word meaning shining or clear * Lucent. * 3: Monty Python famously sang, "I'm" one of these "and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day" * a lumberjack. * 4: 5-letter synonym for "to sway"; you rang? * lurch. * 5: A substance, such as oil or grease, for lessening friction in the working parts of a mechanism * a lubricant.

Round 3. Category: A World Of Currency * 1: An 1873 law states that this creature must appear on the reverse of all U.S. coins greater than 10 cents * the bald eagle. * 2: With no birrs to spend, it'll be adios Ababa for you in this country * Ethiopia. * 3: To buy 16 ounces of cookies in Cairo, you'll need the Egyptian this * pound. * 4: In Montevideo you may go Uruguay and I'll go mine, but we'll both spend these * pesos. * 5: Befitting his importance, this 13th century conqueror appears on Mongolia's currency * Genghis Khan.

Round 4. Category: Game Show Catchphrases * 1: "I'd like to phone a friend" * Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. * 2: "I'd like to buy a vowel" * Wheel of Fortune. * 3: "Survey said!" * Family Feud. * 4: "I'll take Paul Lynde to block" * Hollywood Squares. * 5: "Come on down!" * The Price is Right.

Round 5. Category: Stars Behind Bars * 1: He's gone from jobs like tennis instructor and bartender to films like "Fletch" and "Foul Play" * Chevy Chase. * 2: He tended bar and performed in coffeehouses before getting his break in "I Spy" * Bill Cosby. * 3: His high school nickname "Bruno" stayed with him while he was a "Die Hard" bartender * Bruce Willis. * 4: Heard here, he tended bar to earn money while he wrote songs: * Kris Kristofferson. * 5: He was working as a bartender when he started performing with Dan Rowan * Dick Martin.

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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 Wooden. * 4: A freed slave's son, Publius Helvius Pertinax was this empire's ruler for nearly 3 months in 193 A.D. * the Roman Empire. * 5: Also called Gakusei Ryori, or "student cuisine", this noodle dish was invented in 1958 by Momofuku Ando * Top Ramen.

Round 2. Category: Animated Movies * 1: A shark named Bruce is a member of Fish-Eaters Anonymous in this favorite from 2003 * Finding Nemo. * 2: This co-star of “Nash Bridges” returned in “The Lion King 1½” as the voice of Bonzai the hyena * Cheech Marin. * 3: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary voiced the “sub-zero heroes” in this 2002 flick * Ice Age. * 4: Former “SCTV” siblings Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas voiced moose siblings in this animal adventure * Brother Bear. * 5: (Hi, I’m Clay Aiken.) For my movie song on “American Idol” I sang “Somewhere Out There” from this animated film * An American Tail.

Round 3. Category: Birthplaces * 1: This animated film producer was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, not in Anaheim * Walt Disney. * 2: This legendary lawman’s birthplace wasn’t Dodge City or Tombstone, but Monmouth, Illinois * Wyatt Earp. * 3: The only U.S. President born in Milton, Massachusetts * George Bush. * 4: This flamboyant female evangelist wasn’t American but Canadian; she was born in Ontario in 1890 * Aimee Semple McPherson. * 5: She was born in Tokyo on July 1, 1916; her sister Joan Fontaine was born there the following year * Olivia de Havilland.

Round 4. Category: Tv Cops * 1: In 1983 letters from viewers helped save this Sharon Gless-Tyne Daly series from cancellation * "Cagney And Lacey". * 2: This LAPD officer-turned-author came up with the concept for "Police Story" * Joseph Wambaugh. * 3: In 1998 Lauren Velez joined the cast of this hip big-city FOX police drama as detective Nina Morena * "New York Undercover". * 4: On this sitcom Laurie Metcalf played Jackie, who left police work to become a trucker * "Roseanne". * 5: Hutch's other half * Starsky.

Round 5. Category: Hotel * 1: This 2-named New York City hotel at Park and 50th claims to have been the first with room service--I think I'll order the salad * the Waldorf-Astoria. * 2: The 460-room King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel in this state stands on the grounds where the man once resided * Hawaii. * 3: Stay at Hotel del Coronado, then cross the bridge and have a whale of a time with Shamu in this city * San Diego. * 4: Opened in 1920, the 535-room Drake Hotel offers gorgeous views of this city's Lake Shore Drive * Chicago. * 5: Located on Sunset Boulevard, this pink palace opened in 1912 and is on the cover of the Eagles' "Hotel California" * the Beverly Hills Hotel.

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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 talented actor and director as well * Ben Affleck. * 4: In "a psalm of life", Longfellow wrote of leaving "behind us" these "on the sands of time" * footprints. * 5: On New Year's Day, 2009, this celebrated "Catcher in the Rye" author celebrated his 90th birthday * (J.D.) Salinger.

Round 2. Category: In The "Gn"Ow * 1: Carb-filled favorites served here * gnocchi. * 2: The bands seen here are typical of this * gneiss. * 3: Those choosing to play one of these creatures in Everquest 2 get a nice intelligence bonus * a gnome. * 4: Start spreading these critters around * gnus. * 5: The 2 related words that mean to grind your teeth or to chew with them * gnash and gnaw.

Round 3. Category: Name Brands * 1: This Kansas City-based greeting card company also produces Springbok jigsaw puzzles * Hallmark. * 2: Eagle, Tiempo and Arriva are three tire brands from this rubber company * Goodyear. * 3: Western Forge makes this brand of hand tools for Sears * Craftsman. * 4: This chemical company makes Saran Wrap and Handi-Wrap * Dow. * 5: This company introduced Bartles and Jaymes wine coolers in 1985 * Gallo.

Round 4. Category: Let's Take A Little Trip * 1: In 1995 one of these craft that began passenger service in 1976 flew around the world in less than 32 hours * Concorde. * 2: In 1938 this rich aviator took 4 assistants on a little round-the-world flight * Howard Hughes. * 3: In May 1932 she made a little flight from Newfoundland across the north Atlantic * Amelia Earhart. * 4: On May 9, 1926 Byrd and Bennett left Norway with a plan to fly over this and they claimed they did * North Pole. * 5: In 1889 she left New York and went around the world in less than 80 days * Nellie Bly.

Round 5. Category: "Boo"! * 1: This song was written in 1947 in the U.S., not Ireland: * Clancy Lowered the Boom. * 2: R. Duvall played this character who saves Scout Finch from an attacker in "To Kill a Mockingbird" * Boo Radley. * 3: A hiding game played with very small children, or a see-through blouse worn by grown-up women * peek-a-boo. * 4: Word that can precede hatch, prize or trap * booby. * 5: From the Tagalog word for mountain, it's our word for the backwoods or "the sticks" * boondocks.

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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 other than 7 * 11. * 4: The tuliptree, or "yellow" this, was planted by Washington at Mt. Vernon, & Daniel Boone used its wood in his canoe * poplar. * 5: Pick up a GT from this car co. for a tidy $169,000, or maybe start out with a Focus for a more reasonable $13,715 * Ford.

Round 2. Category: Whips And Chains * 1: Used for flogging, it's a whip with 9 knotted cords fastened to a handle * Cat o\' Nine Tails. * 2: Flexible armor composed of small, overlapping metal rings * chain mail. * 3: The group who sang the 1980 hit heard here:["Whip It"] * Devo. * 4: House leadership position held by Republican congressman Tom DeLay at the start of 1997 * majority whip. * 5: It's a group of convicts linked together for outdoor labor * a chain gang.

Round 3. Category: Networking * 1: "Barney & Friends","Antiques Roadshow","Mystery!" * PBS. * 2: "Inside NASCAR","Grand Ole Opry Live","Bill Dance Outdoors" * TNN (The Nashville Network). * 3: "The Spin Room","Moneyline","Capital Gang" * CNN. * 4: "Teen Titans","Samurai Jack","Cow and Chicken" * Cartoon Network. * 5: "The Closer" * TNT.

Round 4. Category: Ports * 1: Much of Australia's foreign trade is handled by this city's Port Jackson or neighboring Botany Bay * Sydney. * 2: This Egyptian port on the Mediterranean was founded in 1859 when the building of the Suez Canal began * Port Said. * 3: This state has 5 of the top 15 U.S. ports, including Plaquemines & Lake Charles * Louisiana. * 4: Until Haiti became independent, this "Port" served as the capital of the colony of Saint-Domingue from 1770 to 1804 * Port-au-Prince. * 5: It's the only one of South Africa's 3 capitals that is also a seaport * Cape Town.

Round 5. Category: A World Of Critters * 1: Due to a decrease in prairie dog populations, the black-footed variety of this swift weasel is now endangered * Ferret. * 2: This troop member seen here is one of the most colorful of primates * Mandrill. * 3: This large pack animal of South America was domesticated from the guanaco * Llama. * 4: Found in warm & temperate zones, there are about 30 distinct species of this critter seen here * Starfish. * 5: The "giant" variety of this animal can have a hundred teeth, more than most mammals * Armadillo.

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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 it means something that makes no rational sense
  • illogical.

Round 2. Category: Ask The Audience

  • 1: Practice, practice, practice and you too can get to this 2,804-seat NYC venue at 57th and 7th
  • Carnegie Hall.
  • 2: Audiences were transfixed by an episode of her TV show in which she revealed she had lost 67 lbs. on a liquid diet
  • Oprah Winfrey.
  • 3: On Easter Sunday 1939, she sang before an audience of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial
  • Marian Anderson.
  • 4: When this Stravinsky work premiered in Paris in 1913, the audience went nuts and began a riot
  • .
  • The Rite of Spring
  • 5: The Audience Research Institute was founded by this famous pollster in 1939 in Princeton, N.J.
  • (George) Gallup.

Round 3. Category: Fast Food Nation

  • 1: Among the items you can have your way at this chain are its chicken fries and its chicken tenders
  • Burger King.
  • 2: This fast food giant has resumed its Monopoly game
  • McDonald's.
  • 3: Crispy Strips and Original Recipe chicken
  • KFC.
  • 4: For his "Super Size Me" documentary, Morgan Spurlock gorged himself on 3 meals a day at this chain for 30 days straight
  • McDonald's.
  • 5: "Oven toasted tastes better", according to this sandwich chain with more than 3,000 restaurants worldwide
  • Quiznos.

Round 4. Category: Panda-Monium

  • 1: The red panda's funny walk is usually described as this 6-letter gait, due to its front legs being angled inward
  • waddle.
  • 2: After he visited China in 1972, he received a gift of 2 pandas named Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing
  • Nixon.
  • 3: In 2011 martial artist Po transitioned from the big screen to big-screen TVs in this title: "Legends of Awesomeness"
  • .
  • Kung Fu Panda
  • 4: To aid in feeding, pandas have evolved an elongated wrist bone that functions like this digit in humans
  • a thumb.
  • 5: In 2011 martial artist Po transitioned from the big screen to big-screen TVs in this title: "Legends of Awesomeness"
  • .
  • Kung Fu Panda

Round 5. Category: Things That Go Bump

  • 1: These ridges that are made to force cars to slow down can give them quite a jolt
  • speed bumps.
  • 2: In the sport named for it, it's bumped, set, and spiked
  • volleyball.
  • 3: They're small electric vehicles found in amusement parks
  • bumper cars.
  • 4: It's what the poker player "sees" and bumps
  • a bet.
  • 5: It's bump's partner in a striptease
  • a grind.

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Welcome to the Just Trivia podcast episode 15, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

  • Round 1. Category: Eight.
  • 1: On "MAS*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
  • Buddhism.
  • 4: Fortunes from this classic toy include "Outlook not so good" and "Reply hazy, try again"
  • Magic 8-Ball.
  • 5: This Byrds song says, "And when you touch down you'll find that it's stranger than known"

  • Eight Miles High.

  • Round 2. Category: The 2005 Greensboro Mayoral Race.

  • 1: Vote did he get, this 900-year-old "Star Wars" character
  • Yoda.
  • 2: AKA Forsythe Pendleton Jones in the "Archie" comics series, he got a vote
  • Jughead.
  • 3: 1 vote for this Missouri-born talk show host whom Al Franken called "a Big Fat Idiot" in a 1996 book
  • Rush Limbaugh.
  • 4: 3 votes went to this Disney character who debuted in "The Wise Little Hen" in 1934
  • Donald Duck.
  • 5: This "everyman" name, also the bassist/vocalist of the punk band X, got 4 votes

  • John Doe.

  • Round 3. Category: "A" Men.

  • 1: He was one of Time's Men of the Year for 1993 along with F.W. De Klerk, Nelson Mandela and Yitzhak Rabin
  • Yasser Arafat.
  • 2: Though best known for his bird drawings, his last project was a multivolume work on mammals
  • John J. Audubon.
  • 3: Until his death in 1998, this singing cowboy was vice president of baseball's American League
  • Gene Autry.
  • 4: In 1836 Sam Houston appointed him secretary of state of the Republic of Texas
  • Stephen F. Austin.
  • 5: This ancient dramatist is known for his innovative use of a second actor in his plays

  • Aeschylus.

  • Round 4. Category: Cable Tv.

  • 1: This MTV show launched in 1991 has turned strangers into enemies in NYC, London and Hawaii
  • The Real World.
  • 2: A shout of approval to an actor, or the cable network of "Inside the Actors Studio"
  • Bravo.
  • 3: (Sofia, Cheryl and Sarah in the middle of New York's Central Park) A carriage ride in the park was part of the "I (heart) New York" episode of this HBO show
  • Sex and the City.
  • 4: This acronym for American Christian Television System is a book of the Bible, too
  • ACTS.
  • 5: Maury Chaykin, seen here, plays this bulky detective on and

  • Nero Wolfe.

  • Round 5. Category: Cheers.

  • 1: This actor went on to a spin-off and in 2003 said he was mulling a run for a California U.S. Senate seat
  • Kelsey Grammer.
  • 2: Mayday! This "Cheers" star's films include "Dad", "Getting Even with Dad" and "Three Men and a Baby"
  • Ted Danson.
  • 3: Swing by southeast Asia for this cocktail; cherry-flavored brandy, gin, lemon, powdered sugar and carbonated water
  • Singapore sling.
  • 4: Tequila and lime juice go into this cocktail that's served in a salt-rimmed glass
  • Margarita.
  • 5: He played a bartender from Indiana on "Cheers" and is an ex-son-in-law of Neil Simon
  • Woody Harrelson.

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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: Madeline.
  • Question 3: This 1994 miniseries based on a Stephen King book depicts the aftermath of a devastating plague
  • The answer is: .
  • The Stand
  • Question 4: Pamela Sue Martin, who played this sleuth, left her show when it was merged with the Hardy Boys'
  • The answer is: Nancy Drew.
  • Question 5: He played fictional hero Perry Mason off and on from 1957 until his death in 1993
  • The answer is: Raymond Burr.
  • Round 2. The category is: Nearly Useless Information.
  • Question 1: It has the shortest name of the 7 continents
  • The answer is: Asia.
  • Question 2: Currently, the only 2 countries in the world that begin with the letter Z
  • The answer is: Zambia and Zimbabwe.
  • Question 3: By last name, he's alphabetically last on a list of U.S. presidents
  • The answer is: Woodrow Wilson.
  • Question 4: They're the 2 of Snow White's 7 dwarves whose names don't end in "Y"
  • The answer is: Bashful and Doc.
  • Question 5: The number of eyes visible on the back of the U.S. $1 bill
  • The answer is: 2.
  • Round 3. The category is: The Kennedy Center.
  • Question 1: The Kennedy Center presented a series of one-act plays as "Five by Tenn", a reference to this playwright
  • The answer is: Tennessee Williams.
  • Question 2: In 2005 the Kennedy Center awarded this "wild and crazy guy" the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
  • The answer is: Steve Martin.
  • Question 3: On Dec. 23, 2003 the inaugural event of the newly renovated Opera House was the Kirov dancing this ballet
  • The answer is: .
  • The Nutcracker
  • Question 4: A 2005 concert at the Kennedy Center paid tribute to the 90th anniversary of the birth of this jazz "Lady"
  • The answer is: Billie Holiday.
  • Question 5: This American pianist who took Moscow (& the world) by storm in 1958 received a Kennedy Center honor in 2001
  • The answer is: Van Cliburn.
  • Round 4. The category is: Off Course, Off Course.
  • Question 1: Verrazano discovered this Rhode Island bay but made a bad turn and disappeared in Central America
  • The answer is: Narragansett Bay.
  • Question 2: On Oct. 12, 1492 he thought he'd reached Asia; in fact, the closest he ever got was an Aegean island as a young man
  • The answer is: Christopher Columbus.
  • Question 3: This doctor found Victoria Falls but never discovered the source of the Nile
  • The answer is: Dr. Livingstone.
  • Question 4: He named the ocean "Pacific" after many turbulent detours in South America while searching for Asia
  • The answer is: (Ferdinand) Magellan.
  • Question 5: In 1999 software and navigation issues kept the Polar Lander and the Climate Orbiter from exploring this planet
  • The answer is: Mars.
  • Round 5. The category is: Mythological Women.
  • Question 1: In Egyptian mythology, she was the mother of Horus, the sky god
  • The answer is: Isis.
  • Question 2: Just like their sisters the Pleiades, the Hyades were changed into a cluster of these
  • The answer is: stars.
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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: Led the first bombing raid on Tokyo in World War II
  • The answer is: James Doolittle.
  • Question 5: "The Godfather of Soul"

  • The answer is: James Brown.

  • Round 2. The category is: "bush"-isms.

  • Question 1: The galago, a small primate of southern Africa, is also called this because of its human-like cry
  • The answer is: a bush baby.
  • Question 2: The young kids go wild for this song that takes place "so early in the morning"
  • The answer is: "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush".
  • Question 3: Curt Schilling called A-Rod's ball-punching move in the 2004 A.L. playoffs this type of play
  • The answer is: bush league.
  • Question 4: You might find this adventurous type of person at the controls of a Beech Staggerwing
  • The answer is: a bush pilot.
  • Question 5: A 2004 anti-Dubya book by Jim Hightower was titled "Let's Stop" this evasive behavior

  • The answer is: Beating Around the Bush.

  • Round 3. The category is: rough alternate literary endings.

  • Question 1: Farmer Arable dabbed the napkin at his mouth. Mmm! That Wilbur... "Some pig", indeed!
  • The answer is: Charlotte's Web.
  • Question 2: "Hey, it's Dantes! He must've escaped in Abbe Faria's burial shroud!" shouted Villefort. So they hanged him. Fin.
  • The answer is: The Count of Monte Cristo.
  • Question 3: Enraged, Lemuel tore the ropes from his body. His captors were "not six inches high"! His boot rose ominously.
  • The answer is: Gulliver's Travels.
  • Question 4: Jenny told me "Love means never having to say you're sorry". But now she was gone, and that nurse was giving me the eye.
  • The answer is: Love Story.
  • Question 5: Kitty and Levin's marriage is great, she thought. My guy stinks. With that, she pushed Hubby under the train. Whoomp!

  • The answer is: Anna Karenina.

  • Round 4. The category is: "fu".

  • Question 1: A mustache style gets its name from this sinister Chinese villain
  • The answer is: Fu Manchu.
  • Question 2: Someone on the run from the cops
  • The answer is: Fugitive.
  • Question 3: A brilliant deep pink color tinged with purple
  • The answer is: Fuschia.
  • Question 4: In an engine it allows internal combustion without a carburetor
  • The answer is: Fuel injection.
  • Question 5: First name of clergyman and old-time radio broadcaster Sheen

  • The answer is: Fulton.

  • Round 5. The category is: partying.

  • Question 1: Ralph Nader was this political party's candidate for President in 1996 and 2000
  • The answer is: the Green Party.
  • Question 2: For the 1864 Presidental election, the Republican Party changed its name to this
  • The answer is: the Union Party.
  • Question 3: Pres. John Adams was a member of this former political party that advocated a strong centralized govt.
  • The answer is: the Federalist.
  • Question 4: As presidents, Truman and Wi

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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 god of death in Vedic traditions of this religion
  • The answer is: Hinduism.
  • Question 4: Tsai Shen, a god of wealth of this country may appear with Fu Shen, a god of happiness
  • The answer is: China.
  • Question 5: Depicted as a snake, Wadd is a moon god from pre-Islamic times on this peninsula

  • The answer is: Arabic Peninsula.

  • Round 2. The category is: celebrity books.

  • Question 1: In a book for kids, he tells "How to Train with a T. Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals"
  • The answer is: Michael Phelps.
  • Question 2: This co-host of "The View" shares some of her views in a 2010 book called "Is It Just Me? Or Is It Nuts Out There?"
  • The answer is: Whoopi Goldberg.
  • Question 3: In 2000 this host of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" shared some funny moments in his "Who Wants to Be Me?"
  • The answer is: Regis Philbin.
  • Question 4: "Today" this "Inside Edition" and MSNBC host moonlights as a children's author with books like "I Can Fly!"
  • The answer is: Deborah Norville.
  • Question 5: In 2004 she published "Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in Chic Peek behind the Pose"

  • The answer is: Paris Hilton.

  • Round 3. The category is: pillow talk.

  • Question 1: He wrote his son Kermit from the White House in 1903 about his being ambushed in a pillow fight
  • The answer is: Theodore Roosevelt.
  • Question 2: Named for the variety of designs and stitches on it, this type of pillow can bear a homily or a homemade design
  • The answer is: sampler.
  • Question 3: Legend has it that each night Alexander the Great put his sword and a book by this epic poet under his pillow
  • The answer is: Homer.
  • Question 4: Tradition says after a wedding a single girl puts this under her pillow so she'll dream of a future spouse
  • The answer is: a slice of wedding cake.
  • Question 5: In classic radio comedy, Dick Orkin turned this under-kids'-pillows cash provider into the Molar Marauder

  • The answer is: the Tooth Fairy.

  • Round 4. The category is: where there's a william.

  • Question 1: After this man's speech at the National Convention in 1896, the Democrats came out pro-silver
  • The answer is: William Jennings Bryan.
  • Question 2: In 1928 William S. Paley bought a chain of 16 radio stations and created this broadcasting network
  • The answer is: CBS.
  • Question 3: Legend says Austrian autocrat Gessler got the point from this Swiss archer around 1300
  • The answer is: William Tell.
  • Question 4: William Cohen held this post in Bill Clinton's cabinet
  • The answer is: Secretary of Defense.
  • Question 5: 3-word location where the Exxon Valdez spilled more than 10 million gallons of north slope crude in 1989

  • The answer is: Prince William Sound.

  • Round 5. The category is: something "old", something "new".

  • Question 1: This fish story of 1952 was one of the last works Hemingway published during his lifetime
  • The answer is: "The Old Man and the Sea".
  • Question 2: His 1687 "Principia" is considered one of the greatest scientific works ever published
  • The answer is: Sir Isaac Newton.
  • Question 3: It

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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 most famous etchings is "Christ Healing the Sick", aka "The 100-Guilder Print", completed in the 1640s.
  • Rembrandt.
  • 4: This British artist known for his "Marriage a la Mode" engravings had a 1735 copyright act named for him.
  • Hogarth.
  • 5: His "Ancient of Days" was the frontispiece to his 1794 poem "Europe, A Prophecy".
  • Blake.

Round 2. Category: Crossword Clues "I"

  • 1: Titanic sinker(7).
  • Iceberg.
  • 2: Mesopotamia today(4).
  • Iraq.
  • 3: Pianists tickle them(7).
  • Ivories.
  • 4: A store's stock(9).
  • Inventory.
  • 5: Give the third degree(11).
  • interrogate.

Round 3. Category: Castles

  • 1: This English castle, badly damaged by fire in November 1992, reopened to the public in December 1997.
  • Windsor Castle.
  • 2: Neuschwanstein Castle, often described as a magical setting, is found in this country.
  • Germany.
  • 3: You can see the royal crown of Scotland in a castle in this Scottish city, but you can't try it on.
  • Edinburgh.
  • 4: Once home to the Knights of the Sword, Riga Castle is today the official residence of the president of this Baltic country.
  • Latvia.
  • 5: Balmoral Castle is this present monarch's summer home.
  • Queen Elizabeth II (of Great Britain).

Round 4. Category: Polar Animals

  • 1: This ursine likes to eat seals as well as fish.
  • a polar bear.
  • 2: The emperor is the largest variety of this bird.
  • a penguin.
  • 3: The bellow of this tusked sea animal can be heard from half a mile away.
  • a walrus.
  • 4: This ox, one of the northernmost hoofed animals, is named for the odor it emits.
  • a musk ox.
  • 5: When these rodents drown during their migrations, itÂ's an accident, not suicide.
  • lemmings.

Round 5. Category: The Misspeled Word

  • 1: An absence of leisure may leave you feeling like you live in the Artic.
  • Artic/Arctic.
  • 2: Wearing weird jewelry is no gaurantee of ecstasy.
  • gaurantee/guarantee.
  • 3: On occasion, it may be neccessary to be grateful.
  • neccessary/necessary.
  • 4: Quite frankly, his knowledge of the cemetary was mediocre.
  • cemetary/cemetery.
  • 5: The turn of the millenium was a humorous odyssey.
  • millenium/millennium.

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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 York Sun on this CBS sitcom.
  • Ink.
  • 4: It's the literary cafe where Joe Farrell, Audrey Penney and Ellen Morgan worked.
  • Buy the Book.
  • 5: Captain John Sheridan and ambassadors from all over the galaxy work at this space station.
  • Babylon 5.

Round 2. Category: I Need A Snack

  • 1: I crave a Krispy Kreme chicken sandwich: a fried chicken breast served between these.
  • donuts.
  • 2: I think I'll dunk my Double Stuf version of this Nabisco cookie in milk.
  • Oreo.
  • 3: I'll refresh myself with tzatziki, a Greek dish made from yogurt and this green gourd.
  • cucumbers.
  • 4: I'm going to make Rice Krispies Treats; I've got butter, Rice Krispies and 4 cups of miniature these.
  • marshmallows.
  • 5: I'll have 2 of Chicken of the Sea's new Peel and Eat Cups: cajun tuna and skinless boneless pink this.
  • salmon.

Round 3. Category: Ends In "Ola"

  • 1: It's what you ride along the canals of Venice.
  • Gondola.
  • 2: It often includes rolled oats, wheat germ, honey, fruit and nuts.
  • Granola.
  • 3: This early phonograph began cranking out music in 1906.
  • Victrola.
  • 4: Italy's Lombardy region is famous for producing this soft ( and smelly) blue cheese.
  • Gorgonzola.
  • 5: Haiti occupies a third of this island; the Dominican Republic covers the rest.
  • Hispaniola.

Round 4. Category: Big Mouth

  • 1: Proceed down to the mouth of the Congo and you wind up on this ocean.
  • the Atlantic (Ocean).
  • 2: The Rio Grande, aka the Rio Bravo, lands in this body of water.
  • Gulf of Mexico.
  • 3: The Yangtze flows into the "East" this "Sea"; the Mekong into the "South" this "Sea".
  • China.
  • 4: Yukon see this sea at the mouth of the Yukon.
  • Bering Sea.
  • 5: The port city of Kismaayo sits on the mouth of the Juba River on this ocean.
  • Indian (Ocean).

Round 5. Category: Fore!

  • 1: In 1994 at age 18, he became the youngest golfer to win the U.S. Amateur Golf Tournament.
  • Tiger Woods.
  • 2: Except during WWII, this golf tournament has been played at the Augusta National Golf Club every year since 1934.
  • The Masters.
  • 3: This stretch of closely mowed grass from the tee to the green may be straight or at an angle called a dogleg.
  • Fairway.
  • 4: This hazard is simply a depression in the ground; if it contains sand it's called a sand trap.
  • Bunker.
  • 5: This "Royal and Ancient Golf Club" of Scotland set the standard for a round of golf at 18 holes.
  • St. Andrews.

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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 president was assassinated while reviewing a military parade October 6, 1981.
  • Anwar Sadat.
  • 5: On October 21, 1520 this sailor entered the Chilean strait that today bears his name.
  • Ferdinand Magellan.

Round 2. Category: State And Territory Flags

  • 1: The great falls of the Missouri River are pictured on its flag -- we stress great falls.
  • Montana.
  • 2: The motto on its flag is "Battle Born", not "Wanna Bet?".
  • Nevada.
  • 3: From left to right, this flag has a big "V", a big eagle and a big "I".
  • U.S. Virgin Islands.
  • 4: A palm tree divides the "U" and "A" on this territory's flag.
  • Guam.
  • 5: Rhode Island's flag has 13 of these; Indiana's has 19; Missouri, 24.
  • stars.

Round 3. Category: Females, Women And Ladies

  • 1: Though not a continuation of the series, 2001's "Quidditch Through the Ages" was a short book by this woman.
  • J.K. Rowling.
  • 2: She was the mother of Princesses Stephanie and Caroline.
  • Princess Grace.
  • 3: Check out this empress' 190-carat Orlov Diamond at Russia's Armory Museum.
  • Catherine the Great.
  • 4: This primatologist and author was murdered in 1985, probably by a vengeful poacher.
  • Dian Fossey.
  • 5: By the time this 1877 title woman realizes she's been looking at life and love wrong, she catches a train, literally.
  • Anna Karenina.

Round 4. Category: U.s. Regions

  • 1: It's what PN stands for in PNNL, a national laboratory in Richland, Washington.
  • Pacific Northwest.
  • 2: "Profound" adjective for the part of the "South" stretching from South Carolina to Louisiana.
  • deep.
  • 3: A classic 1936 book about the literary peak of Boston and Concord was called "The Flowering of" this area.
  • New England.
  • 4: Geographic collective name for Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky from when they refused to secede.
  • border states.
  • 5: Thought to be barren, the Great Plains were marked on pre-Civil War maps as "The Great American" this.
  • Desert.

Round 5. Category: A Proverbial Mess

  • 1: Good one deserves another turn.
  • one good turn deserves another.
  • 2: A is words picture a poem without.
  • A picture is a poem without words.
  • 3: In worth the bird hand in is a bush the two.
  • A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
  • 4: Once twice shy bitten.
  • once bitten twice shy.
  • 5: A color different of a horse.
  • a horse of a different color.

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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 voice when her father was U.S. president, she went on to be a bestselling author.
  • (Margaret) Truman.
  • 5: Quite a writer herself, she was the mother of Mary Shelley.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft.

Round 2. Category: Barry Manilow

  • 1: Barry co-produced her Grammy-nominated album "The Divine Miss M".
  • Bette Midler.
  • 2: Johnson and Johnson is stuck on Barry for writing the jingle for this product.
  • Band-Aids.
  • 3: Give "without taking" the name of this, Barry's first No. 1 hit single.
  • "Mandy".
  • 4: 2 of the 3 characters named in Barry's tragic story song "Copacabana".
  • Lola, Rico and Tony.
  • 5: Geographic title of Barry's song that says, "When can I touch you....when will I hold you again".
  • "Weekend In New England".

Round 3. Category: Tv Pilots

  • 1: Type of craft piloted by Roger E. Mosely on "Magnum, P.I." and James Farrentino on "Blue Thunder".
  • helicopter.
  • 2: Before "Coach" he played Air Force colonel Raynor Sarnac on "Call To Glory".
  • Craig T. Nelson.
  • 3: This TV superhero flies in an invisible plane, but how does she find it?.
  • Wonder Woman.
  • 4: Timothy Daly and Steven Weber played brothers and airline pilots on this sitcom.
  • Wings.
  • 5: Janine Turner played feisty air taxi pilot Maggie on this quirky series.
  • Northern Exposure.

Round 4. Category: Celebrity Jeopardy!

  • 1: I was the female 2nd banana on "The Garry Moore Show".
  • Carol Burnett.
  • 2: I once wanted to be a jockey, but ended up "Riding" Harvey Korman.
  • Tim Conway.
  • 3: I played football at Florida State and used my # 22 in all my movies, like "Semi-Tough".
  • Burt Reynolds.
  • 4: I'm not really Chef Paul Prudhomme's twin brother, but I was "Barber" to Dean Martin for 8 years.
  • Dom DeLuise.
  • 5: I played Capt. Parmenter, Sam Jones, and Vinton Harper.
  • Ken Berry.

Round 5. Category: Conversions

  • 1: A 4th c. statue of him and a cross read, "By this saving sign I have... restored liberty to the Senate and people of Rome".
  • Constantine.
  • 2: His biographers Tirechan and Muirchu credit him with converting the Irish to Christianity.
  • Saint Patrick.
  • 3: Around 1890 this licentious Russian underwent change at a monastery at Verkhoture.
  • (Grigori) Rasputin.
  • 4: In this novel subtitled "A Tale of the Christ", the title man's mom and sis are converted and cured of leprosy.
  • Ben-Hur.
  • 5: Stephen I, king and st. of this Central European country, converted its people to Christianity in the 11th century.
  • Hungary.

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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 Beethoven and tell" this Russian composer "the news".
  • Tchaikovsky.
  • 4: Hoyt Axton wrote 2 of this group's Top 5 hits: "Joy To The World" and "Never Been To Spain".
  • Three Dog Night.
  • 5: This Stevie Wonder hit is subtitled "Everything's Alright".
  • "Uptight".

Round 2. Category: A Question About Television

  • 1: This question is the first line of the theme song from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show".
  • Who can turn the world on with her smile?.
  • 2: After this hero left the scene, someone inevitably asked, "Who was that masked man?".
  • The Lone Ranger.
  • 3: This 5-word question became a catchphrase for Gary Coleman on "Different Strokes".
  • What ya talkin about Willis?.
  • 4: Watching "Twin Peaks", the lynch mob wondered, "Who killed" this teenager.
  • Laura Palmer.
  • 5: This popular game show featured the question "Will our mystery guest enter and sign in, please?".
  • What's My Line?.

Round 3. Category: Pop's Music

  • 1: Dad refuses to see a Guy Ritchie film because he's always had a secret crush on this "Like A Virgin" singer.
  • Madonna.
  • 2: Dad slow dances by himself to this band's "Stairway to Heaven" becuase he's having school dance flashbacks.
  • Led Zeppelin.
  • 3: Dad wears that dorky clock on a chain because he was into this Public Enemy before he became a VH1 reality star.
  • Flavor Flav.
  • 4: Dad thinks he's an O.G. because he was into these white rappers long before their album "Ill Communication".
  • the Beastie Boys.
  • 5: Dad needs help downloading "In Rainbows", but he always said this Thom Yorke band was ahead of its time.
  • Radiohead.

Round 4. Category: Swedish Actresses

  • 1: Born September 18, 1905, this glamorous Swede's real last name was Gustafsson.
  • Greta Garbo.
  • 2: She's the only Swedish actress to win 3 Oscars.
  • Ingrid Bergman.
  • 3: This multi-talented lovely from Valsjobyn received an Oscar nomination for her role in "Tommy".
  • Ann-Margret.
  • 4: Birgitta Andersson used this first name when acting in classics like "Wild Strawberries".
  • Bibi.
  • 5: This daughter of Swedish actor Stig Olin starred in "Havana" and "Enemies, A Love Story".
  • Lena Olin.

Round 5. Category: Around The Commonwealth

  • 1: The first people to settle this country migrated there 40,000 years ago; Europeans settled Botany Bay in 1788.
  • Australia.
  • 2: The world's seventh-largest country in size, this Commonwealth country is second by population.
  • India.
  • 3: This westrn hemisphere Commonwealth nation has more lakes and inland rivers than any other country.
  • Canada.
  • 4: English is the official language of this oil-rich country that borders Chad, NIger and Cameroon.
  • Nigeria.
  • 5: Constitutional changes in 2000 for this Asian country may help end its civil war between Tamils and Sinhalese.
  • Sri Lanka.

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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.
  • 3: Might be best not to bring up this fishy movie's sequels "3-D" and "The Revenge" when taking the floor.
  • Jaws.
  • 4: If you tango with this "mild" '60s TV title bear, at 650 lbs., let him lead.
  • Gentle Ben.
  • 5: Better take a deep breath before you do an underwater merengue with this '60s TV title dolphin.
  • Flipper.

Round 2. Category: '60s Trivia

  • 1: By 1966 the Air Force had logged 10,147 sightings of these, but didn't believe any.
  • UFOs.
  • 2: It's what LBJ showed off to reporters in October 1965.
  • a scar.
  • 3: Jean Nidetch in 1963 lost 72 lbs. and started this company.
  • Weight Watchers.
  • 4: In 1967 he was kicked out of the House of Representatives for reprehensible behavior.
  • Adam Clayton Powell.
  • 5: In '61 this oil billionaire installed a pay phone in his mansion for guests to use.
  • J. Paul Getty.

Round 3. Category: The New York Times Book Review

  • 1: In 2008 the Times called this author's "The Widows of Eastwick" a "predictably ingenious sequel".
  • John Updike.
  • 2: Julie Powell's "Julie and Julia", a blog-turned-book about mastering this chef's recipes, "has too much blog in its DNA".
  • Julia Child.
  • 3: This Bernhard Schlink novel about Hanna Schmitz was "ultimately hopeful"; it became a 2008 film.
  • The Reader.
  • 4: In 2009 the Times liked "The Women", which dealt with this man's loves, like Mamah, who was murdered at Taliesin.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • 5: His "A Man in Full" "contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written... by any American novelist".
  • Tom Wolfe.

Round 4. Category: Homonyms

  • 1: Where newlyweds might walk on their wedding day and on the day after.
  • Aisle/isle.
  • 2: To switch, or the dimes and quarters in your pocket.
  • change.
  • 3: To throw a fishing net into the water, or the actors in a play.
  • cast.
  • 4: Part of the covering on a lizard, or the minimum wage fixed by a performer's contract.
  • scale.
  • 5: The triangular blade on an anchor's arm, or an accidental stroke of good luck.
  • a fluke.

Round 5. Category: Second Place

  • 1: South America's second largest country in area, it borders the largest.
  • Argentina.
  • 2: It's the second place award in an Olympic event.
  • Silver medal.
  • 3: It was the second nation to put a man in space.
  • USA.
  • 4: He had the second highest vote total in the 1944 U.S. presidential balloting.
  • Thomas E. Dewey.
  • 5: This man wasn't knighted after being the second man to stand on top of Mt. Everest.
  • Tenzing Norgay (the man who was with Hillary).

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 5, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Me And My Galaxy

  • 1: Galaxy comes from the word galaktos, which means milk in this language.
  • Greek.
  • 2: Our sun is located in an arm of the Milky Way named for this hunter.
  • Orion.
  • 3: With several arms coiling around a central bulge, the Milky Way galaxy is classified by Hubble as this type of galaxy.
  • spiral.
  • 4: The center of the Milky Way galaxy lies in this constellation between Scorpio and Capricorn.
  • Sagittarius.
  • 5: Named for a mythological Ethiopian princess, this galaxy is the most distant object that can be seen by the naked eye.
  • Andromeda.

Round 2. Category: "Ex" Words

  • 1: Departure of a large number of people; the Israelites, for example.
  • Exodus.
  • 2: King Arthur's sword.
  • Excalibur.
  • 3: In this bet, the first and second place finishers in a horse race must be picked in order correctly.
  • exacta.
  • 4: From the Latin for "out of the ground", it means to disinter.
  • exhume.
  • 5: In math this number denotes the power to which another number is raised.
  • the exponent.

Round 3. Category: African Creatures

  • 1: This bloodsucking fly found only in Africa spreads sleeping sickness.
  • Tsetse fly.
  • 2: Species of these in Africa include the puff adder and the gaboon viper.
  • Snakes.
  • 3: The African colobus species of this animal dines on leaves.
  • Monkey.
  • 4: The African bush shrike is a species of this.
  • Bird.
  • 5: The 2-horned black species of this mammal is famous for its prehensile upper lip.
  • Rhinoceros.

Round 4. Category: Rock N' Roll Heaven

  • 1: Singer of this song, he spent 9 years in a coma before dying.
  • Jackie Wilson.
  • 2: He recorded "Mack The Knife" under this name he picked out of a phone book.
  • Bobby Darin.
  • 3: A drummer, she and brother Richard were best known as vocalists.
  • Karen Carpenter.
  • 4: Needing time to do laundry on tour, this early rock giant chartered a fatal flight.
  • Buddy Holly.
  • 5: He had 4 Top 40 hits before and 4 after his death at 30 on Sept. 20, 1973.
  • Jim Croce.

Round 5. Category: Card Games

  • 1: When wild cards are used in straight poker, this replaces the royal flush as the highest type of hand.
  • five of a kind.
  • 2: This card game is known for its pegboard that's used to keep score.
  • Cribbage.
  • 3: In 2-player War each person begins with this many cards.
  • 26.
  • 4: In this card game named after a suit, if you get stuck with the queen of spades, it's 13 penalty points.
  • hearts.
  • 5: Also a nickname for our ex-Secretary of Defense, this card game comes in tonk and gin varieties.
  • rummy.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 4, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: People Eat That?

  • 1: This snake-like fish can often be found in sushi.
  • Eel.
  • 2: The book "Fashionable Food" tells how to make a "truly awful" salad with a banana and this cinema snack.
  • popcorn.
  • 3: Witchetty grubs are large insect larvae savored ( and named) by this country's Aborigines.
  • Australia.
  • 4: Secreted by sperm whales and found in perfume, this waxy substance is used as a spice in the East.
  • ambergris.
  • 5: Tripe is the lining of this digestive organ of cattle.
  • Stomach.

Round 2. Category: Current Sitcoms

  • 1: A Vermont innkeeper in his last series, this veteran comedian now plays cartoonist Bob McKay.
  • Bob Newhart.
  • 2: Now in its 7th season, this sitcom about the Bundys is Fox's longest-running series.
  • Married... with Children.
  • 3: On "Love and War", Jay Thomas wants this former "L.A. Law" star to warm up his nights.
  • Susan Dey.
  • 4: She's back, she's blonde and she has designs on becoming a country star on her new sitcom.
  • Delta Burke.
  • 5: It's the name of the newsmagazine show for which Murphy Brown works.
  • FYI.

Round 3. Category: Hey "Ya"

  • 1: More than 345 million individuals each month hit this website.
  • Yahoo!.
  • 2: A skullcap worn during prayer by Jewish men.
  • yarmulke.
  • 3: 3-word nonsense term meaning " and so on" once featured in a popular sitcom.
  • yada yada yada.
  • 4: "Barbaric" often precedes this word derived from Middle English meaning "harsh cry".
  • yawp.
  • 5: Slang word for a convict, or a Charlie Parker nickname.
  • yardbird.

Round 4. Category: Native American Place Names

  • 1: Moving right along--this large Alabama city, as well as a river and bay, was named for an Indian tribe in the region.
  • Mobile.
  • 2: This New York island is named for the Indians who sold it to Peter Minuit in 1626.
  • Manhattan.
  • 3: "Buffalo Fish and Tyler Too" doesn't sound quite as poetic as this Indian name for the river.
  • Tippecanoe.
  • 4: Although its name means "place of sandflies", we associate this Pennsylvania borough with groundhogs.
  • Punxsutawney.
  • 5: You'd have a whale of a good time visiting this Massachusetts island whose name may mean "the faraway land".
  • Nantucket.

Round 5. Category: Tv Drama

  • 1: (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):(Hi, I'm Ollie North, and)I've played a mysterious intelligence operative named Ollie on 2 episodes of this CBS series about naval lawyers.
  • "JAG".
  • 2: Della Reese has won 3 NAACP Image Awards as outstanding lead actress for playing Tess on this series.
  • "Touched By An Angel".
  • 3: In 1994-95 this medical series finished second in the ratings, the highest ever for a first-year drama series.
  • "ER".
  • 4: This NBC crime drama is the 1st TV drama series executive produced by film director Barry Levinson.
  • "Homicide: Life On The Street".
  • 5: Tom Hanks was the executive producer of this 1998 HBO miniseries about the Apollo space program.
  • "From The Earth To The Moon".

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 3, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: G Whiz

  • 1: It can be a maxim or a dwarflike creature that lives underground.
  • gnome.
  • 2: This spasm of the diaphragm is pronounced the same whether it ends in "cough" or "cup".
  • hiccough.
  • 3: It pairs up with ready or tumble.
  • rough.
  • 4: A portent of things to come, or the big placard that says "Jeopardy!" outside our studio.
  • sign.
  • 5: Oui, monsieur, it's a small, round, choice cut of beef from the loin.
  • filet mignon.

Round 2. Category: Oscar-Winning Songs

  • 1: "Chim Chim Cher-ee".
  • Mary Poppins.
  • 2: "Talk To The Animals".
  • Dr. Dolittle.
  • 3: "Take My Breath Away".
  • Top Gun.
  • 4: "You Must Love Me".
  • Evita.
  • 5: "Colors Of The Wind".
  • Pocahontas.

Round 3. Category: The 1820s

  • 1: In 1825 this Scottish botanist discovered the coniferous evergreen now named for him in the Pacific NW.
  • David Douglas.
  • 2: Although it was founded in 1821, this Montreal university didn't open until 1829.
  • McGill.
  • 3: He was about 70 when he published his "American Dictionary of the English Language" in 2 volumes in 1828.
  • (Noah) Webster.
  • 4: He was about 70 when he published his "American Dictionary of the English Language" in 2 volumes in 1828.
  • (Noah) Webster.
  • 5: In 1822 French Egyptologist Jean Champollion published a paper on the translation of this artifact.
  • the Rosetta Stone.

Round 4. Category: Trebek, Sajak Or Ozzy Osbourne

  • 1: Graduated from college with a degree in philosophy.
  • Trebek.
  • 2: He's the youngest.
  • Ozzy Osbourne.
  • 3: Worked as a DJ for the Armed Forces Radio Network while serving in Vietnam.
  • Sajak.
  • 4: Played himself in the Adam Sandler movie "Little Nicky".
  • Ozzy Osbourne.
  • 5: Played Kevin Hathaway on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives".
  • Sajak.

Round 5. Category: The Art World

  • 1: Rembrandt sold paintings from his anteroom, usually meeting clients with a chilled glass of this potent potable.
  • wine.
  • 2: In 1966 this Russian painted a pair of large murals for the opening of NYC's Metropolitan Opera House.
  • Marc Chagall.
  • 3: In this Brit's etching "Myself and My Heroes", he pictured himself with Walt Whitman and Mahatma Gandhi.
  • David Hockney.
  • 4: In the late 1700s this painter of the "The Family of Charles IV" created designs for tapestries in Madrid.
  • Goya.
  • 5: In 1874 this American moved permanently to France where she developed a friendship with Edgar Degas.
  • Mary Cassatt.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 2, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Snow White's Forgotten Dwarfs * 1: This stout dwarf bulked up on the Campbell's line of the same name. * Chunky. * 2: His reddish hair makes his head look like it's covered with ferric oxide. * Rusty. * 3: Though that canine skin disease caused by mites has cleared up, he still has this nickname. * Mangy. * 4: Inferences made by this peachy-skinned dwarf are known as the same type of "logic". * Fuzzy. * 5: This name can mean "sticky to the touch", or refer to his flashy, unfashionable clothes. * Tacky.

Round 2. Category: It Followed Me Home * 1: You can use it to serve pieces of cheese at a party, stick them on its quills and let it walk around -- can I keep it?. * Porcupine. * 2: Yum! An Australian name for this pet bird is from an Aborigine word meaning "good eating". * Budgerigar. * 3: The long-tongued tamandua, one of these insectivores. * an anteater. * 4: I fit between its humps and can ride it to school; I don't have to give it water for months -- can I keep it?. * Camel. * 5: Not al-kaline, but this high altitude domesticated grazer. * an alpaca.

Round 3. Category: Around The Office * 1: Start worrying if someone hired for a week as one of these acts like Lara Flynn Boyle in the 1993 movie of that name. * The Temp. * 2: If your colleagues fall asleep in a meeting, it may mean this drink was in the brown instead of the orange pot. * Decaf coffee. * 3: Workers get frustrated trying to hold closed-door meetings in these partitioned workspaces. * Cubicles. * 4: Workers may gather around the monitor and boogie along with this internet infant from Kinetix. * "The Dancing Baby". * 5: The Atlantic reports companies use 40% more paper upon introducing this communication system. * E-mail.

Round 4. Category: Famous Kangaroos * 1: He named his character Captain Kangaroo from the large pockets on his jacket. * Bob Keeshan. * 2: The 1978 Elliott Gould film "Matilda" was about a kangaroo who participated in this sport. * Boxing. * 3: In 1963 Aussie Rolf Harris had his only U.S. top 40 hit with this song. * "Tie Me Kangaroo Down". * 4: He created the characters of Kanga and Roo. * A.A. Milne. * 5: In 1969 this bush kangaroo got his own syndicated TV series. * "Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo".

Round 5. Category: Rocket Man * 1: In 2002 shuttle mission specialist Jerry Ross became the first man to be launched into space this lucky number of times. * 7. * 2: Alexei Leonov said he was given a pill to help him do this in case he couldn't get back in Voskhod after the spacewalk. * commit suicide. * 3: His job as a test subject for space sickness on a 1985 shuttle flight got him dubbed "Barfin' Jake" in "Doonesbury". * Senator Jake Garn. * 4: The first non-Russian and non-American in space, Vladimir Remek, was from this country that broke up in 1993. * Czechoslovakia. * 5: After his splashdown 250 miles from the pick-up ship May 24, 1962, he never flew in space again. * Scott Carpenter.

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.

Round 1. Category: Bridges * 1: In the 1930s this West Coast city hosted a World's Fair and got big new bridges crossing its bay. * San Francisco. * 2: The Francis Scott Key Bridge crosses the Patapsco River in this city. * Baltimore. * 3: The Oresund Bridge links Sweden to this country to which it had been unconnected by land for 7,000 yrs.. * Denmark. * 4: The name of this bridge in Venice is said to have come from the lamentations of prisoners. * the Bridge of Sighs. * 5: The Suramadu Bridge linking Surabaya with Madura Island is this country's longest bridge. * Indonesia.

Round 2. Category: A Century Of Food * 1: Reuben Mattus created this ice cream ( and its Danish-sounding name) in the Bronx in 1961. * Haagen-Dazs. * 2: A San Pedro, California packer first put this fish into cans in 1903; its casserole wasn't introduced until the '30s. * Tuna. * 3: George Bush vetoed this veggie 62 years after it was brought to the U.S. from Italy. * Broccoli. * 4: In 1949 Charles Lubin introduced a cheesecake with this name, his daughter's. * Sara Lee. * 5: Mr. Cardini's 1924 invention, it was called "The greatest recipe to originate from the Americas in 50 years". * Caesar salad.

Round 3. Category: The Vikings * 1: In the late 900s his wife Thjodhild built the first church in Greenland at Brattahlid. * Erik the Red. * 2: Almost a yard long, this 5-letter weapon had a decorated hilt and was often given a personal name by its Viking owner. * a sword. * 3: Viking ships had sails made of this dense woven fabric; natural lanolin made the fabric water repellent. * wool. * 4: In 930 the Vikings set up the Althing, considered the world's oldest parliament, in this country. * Iceland. * 5: A "thrall", from which we get the word "enthrall", was a person of this lowest social class. * a serf (or a slave).

Round 4. Category: G-Men * 1: In 1985 Richard Miller became the first FBI agent to go on trial for this. * espionage (or spying). * 2: Janet Reno was made U.S. Attorney General during the 1993 FBI-Branch Davidian standoff near this city. * Waco. * 3: In the 1960s the FBI sent infiltrators into this militant black organization founded by Newton and Seale. * the Black Panthers. * 4: The famous 1980 FBI sting dubbed this was just too sheikh for the room. * Abscam. * 5: Agents-to-be undergo 15 weeks of training at the FBI Academy in this Virginia city. * Quantico.

Round 5. Category: Country Twosomes * 1: This mother and daughter duo plan to reunite for a special New Year's Eve 1999 concert in Phoenix. * The Judds. * 2: Before sailing off for "Islands in the Stream" with Kenny Rogers, she was "Making Plans" with Porter Wagoner. * Dolly Parton. * 3: In 1987 this legendary singer did a remake of his hit "Crying" as a duet with k.d. lang. * Roy Orbison. * 4: For his version of "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying", Toby Keith enlisted the aid of this former "Policeman". * Sting. * 5: Their love led them to record "It's Your Love" and "Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me". * Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.

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