Instant Trivia

By Mark Donovan

The best daily trivia show on the Internet!

Rapid fire trivia questions, updated daily!

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February 14, 2021Episode 4 - People Eat That? - Current Sitcoms - Hey "Ya" - Native American Place Names - Tv Drama
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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February 13, 2021Episode 3 - G Whiz - Oscar-Winning Songs - The 1820s - Trebek, Sajak Or Ozzy Osbourne - The Art World
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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7min
February 12, 2021Episode 2 - Snow White's Forgotten Dwarfs - It Followed Me Home - Around The Office - Famous Kangaroos - Rocket Man
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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8min
February 12, 2021Episode 1 - Bridges - A Century Of Food - The Vikings - G-Men - Country Twosomes
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.
Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!
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8min

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