Instant Trivia

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July 26, 2024 Episode 1262
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1262, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
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July 25, 2024 Episode 1261
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1261, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
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July 24, 2024 Episode 1260
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1260, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
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July 23, 2024 Episode 1259
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1259, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
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July 22, 2024 Episode 1258
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1258, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
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July 21, 2024Episode 1257 - Silent letter words - Bright "light"s - Cosmetic procedure - Wil(l), willem or william - "o" and "os"
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1257, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Silent Letter Words
1: If you're "in the red", you're in this, not where you want to be financially.
debt.
2: It's just a pterm for a ptremendous pterosaur.
pterodactyl.
3: Lambeth or Staten Island, for example.
a borough.
4: Ships usually "drop" this when they want to stay in place.
an anchor.
5: Beating "Shoplifters" and "Cold War", "Roma" won the 2018 award in this Oscar category.
Foreign Film.
Round 2. Category: Bright LightS. With Light in quotation marks
1: An Alexandrian might know the word minaret comes from an Arabic word meaning this structure.
Lighthouse.
2: It burned up the Billboard charts as the Doors' first Top 40 hit.
"Light My Fire".
3: The technical term for this phenomenon is the Aurora Borealis.
Northern Lights.
4: It's another name for Hanukkah.
Festival/Feast of Lights.
5: It's approximately 300,000 kilometers per second.
Speed of light.
Round 3. Category: Cosmetic Procedure
1: This euphemism for a lift inspired the name of a TV series on which plastic surgery fan Joan Rivers played herself.
Nip/Tuck.
2: What, no Rogaine? Cleopatra made a concoction of honey, burnt mice and bear grease as a cure for this.
baldness.
3: At Shizuka NY Day Spa, nightingdale droppings go into a trendy facial named for these lovely Japanese entertainers.
geishas.
4: We don't mean to be "arch", but Damone Roberts is the king of these facial features, which he's famous for shaping.
eyebrows.
5: USA Today once dubbed it the "little neurotoxin that could"; if its name makes you frown, we bet you don't use it.
botox.
Round 4. Category: Wil(L), Willem Or William
1: Playing Alex Trebek hosting "Celebrity Jeopardy!", he noted, "Mr. Reynolds has apparently changed his name to Turd Ferguson".
Will Ferrell.
2: After landing in a cloaked Klingon ship in Golden Gate Park in "Star Trek IV", this actor says, "Everybody remember where we parked".
William Shatner.
3: In 2018 Willem Dafoe was all wet as Vulko, the trident-wielding trainer of this title superhero.
Aquaman.
4: In 2020 Wil Lutz scored the first points in an NFL regular season game in this city for the visiting Saints against the Raiders.
Las Vegas.
5: We got a kick out of watching William Zabka return to the dojo in the role of Johnny Lawrence on this Netflix show.
Cobra Kai.
Round 5. Category: O And Os. With O" And "Os in quotes
1: Synonym for antonym.
Opposite.
2: Dog school.
obedience.
3: This Egyptian god's many burial places were considered sacred ground.
Osiris.
4: In 451 these Teutonic tribesmen joined with Attila in his expedition against Gaul.
Ostrogoths.
5: The two Greek letters that fit this category.
Omega and Omicron.
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July 19, 2024Episode 1256 - My tv dads - That book was a horror! - The brightest stars - Nom nom nominations - Uniquely american literature
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1256, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. 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 2. Category: That Book Was A Horror!
1: Anne Rice, 1976: "Interview with" him.
the Vampire.
2: Ira Levin, 1967: her "Baby".
Rosemary.
3: Stephen King, 2009: "Under" this.
the Dome.
4: Shirley Jackson, 1959: "The Haunting of" this "House".
Hill.
5: John Wyndham, 1951: "The Day of" these invading plants.
the Triffids.
Round 3. Category: The Brightest Stars
1: Regulus, from the Latin Rex, for "king", is in this king of beasts.
Leo.
2: It's brighter than its twin, Castor.
Pollux.
3: This brightest star in our night sky shares its name with a Keanu Reeves grunge band.
Dogstar.
4: This red supergiant in Orion is over 300 light years away from you, but it's much closer to Michael Keaton's heart.
Betelgeuse.
5: Proxima, a component of this constellation's brightest star system, is a super close 4.3 light years away.
the Centaur (Centaurus).
Round 4. Category: Nom Nom Nominations
1: Alaska's Copper River Fish Market got a 2023 Good Food Award nom for its locally sourced Copper River sockeye this.
salmon.
2: From 2001 to 2006, Emmy voters didn't quite get the "essence of" this chef, but in 2017... bam! he got a trophy for "Eat the World".
Emeril Lagasse.
3: A 2022 Beard nominee for Outstanding Restaurant, Brennan's in New Orleans is famed for this flambéed fruit and rum dessert.
bananas Foster.
4: "Beat" this chef? as a 1991 and '92 nominee for Beard's rising chef of the year, yes, but in '93? Winner winner barbecue dinner!.
Bobby Flay.
5: She got a BAFTA TV must-see moment nomination for her pronunciation of "microwave" on "Cook, Eat, Repeat".
Nigella Lawson.
Round 5. Category: Uniquely American Literature
1: A brutal 1959 mass murder was the basis of this Truman Capote nonfiction novel.
In Cold Blood.
2: A battle to keep a girl from the clutches of Satan takes place in this William Peter Blatty novel that turned heads in '71.
The Exorcist.
3: In this Tom Robbins novel, Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs and hitchhikes across America.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues .
4: One of the 2 Erskine Caldwell novels of the 1930s that were censored for their portrayals of poor whites.
Tobacco Road (or God's Little Acre).
5: This American's stories like "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" are in a style some have called K-Mart Realism.
Raymond Carver.
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July 18, 2024Episode 1255 - Oh "ph" - Wallaces - Chicago - 20th century thinkers - Written in cyrillic
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1255, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Oh Ph. With Ph in quotes
1: For the record, Thomas Edison invented the first practical one of these in 1877.
the phonograph.
2: The mortar and pestle is a symbol of this profession.
a pharmacist.
3: In days gone by this game bird was popularly served "under glass".
a pheasant.
4: A finger bone, or a group of heavily armed infantry with overlapping weapons.
a phalanx.
5: In mythology, after Hippolytus rejects her, this wife of Theseus hangs herself.
Phaedra.
Round 2. Category: Wallaces
1: Lurleen Burns married this man when she was 16 and later succeeded him as governor of Alabama.
George Wallace.
2: Before "Braveheart" his story was told in the 15th century by Henry the Minstrel.
William Wallace.
3: (Hi, I'm Wallace Langham) Mike's son, this broadcaster became NBC News White House Correspondent in 1982.
Chris Wallace.
4: He and his wife Lila launched Reader's Digest in 1922 with a press run of 5,000.
DeWitt Wallace.
5: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" is a famous work by this poet whose day job was VP of an insurance company.
Wallace Stevens.
Round 3. Category: Chicago
1: Remove 1 letter from the name of a plaza in Dallas and you get this plaza in Chicago's Loop.
Daley Plaza.
2: Nearly 250,000 gathered to see Obama's 2008 victory speech in Chicago's front yard, this park named for another president.
Grant Park.
3: Scandalous highlight of the 1893 Columbian Exposition and title of the following:"She had a ruby on her tummy and / A diamond big as Texas on her toe, whoa whoa / She let her hair down and / She did the hoochie coochie real slow, whoa whoa".
"Little Egypt".
4: Untouchable Tours visits such sanguineous spots as the site of this February 1929 event.
the Valentine's Day Massacre.
5: Some attribute this nickname of the city to its proud, boasting citizens, not its breeziness.
"The Windy City".
Round 4. Category: 20Th Century Thinkers
1: Called the Russian Revolution's most brilliant thinker, he lost a power struggle with Stalin and was killed in Mexico.
Trotsky.
2: This New Yorker wondered, "Can we actually 'know' the universe?... It's hard enough finding your way around Chinatown".
Woody Allen.
3: The works of this woman on the left include 1965's "Normality and Pathology in Childhood".
Anna Freud.
4: This 3-named economist was an architect of the International Monetary Fund and part of the Bloomsbury Group.
Keynes.
5: This "in the machine" was Gilbert Ryle's term for the idea that the mind is apart from the body yet controls it.
ghost in the machine.
Round 5. Category: Written In Cyrillic
1: Some Tajik speakers call their language Zaboni Forsi, meaning this national tongue.
Persian.
2: This carnivore associated with Russia is medved in Russian.
a bear.
3: One way to say hello in Serbian is this, borrowed from Italian.
ciao.
4: In Ukrainian, this winter month when Russia invaded in 2022 is Lyutyy, "cruel".
February.
5: Belarussian took words like "pan", meaning "sir" or "mister" from this language spoken due west of Belarus.
Polish.
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July 17, 2024Episode 1254 - R.i.p. in alabama - Just hit "play" - Lawyer billboards - The caldecott medal - Words before words
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1254, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: R.I.P. In Alabama
1: This man who ground up a lot of peanuts is buried on the grounds of the Tuskegee Institute.
George Washington Carver.
2: Eddie Kendricks, famed as an original member of this legendary singing group, is in Elmwood Cemetery.
The Temptations.
3: Hooterville's Mr. Haney, he's in a Haleyville, Alabama cemetery.
Pat Buttram.
4: This country singing legend's tombstone reads, "Praise the Lord I Saw the Light".
Hank Williams, Sr..
5: Her marker reads, "Governor, State of Alabama 1967-1968".
Lurleen B. Wallace.
Round 2. Category: Just Hit Play. With Play in quotation marks
1: You don't need to tickle the ivories on this device that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys.
a player piano.
2: This soft modeling clay for kids was introduced in 1955.
Play-Doh.
3: This 2-word TV innovation premiered in the 1963 Army-Navy game.
instant replay.
4: How often a particular song is broadcast on the radio.
airplay.
5: To pretend to be asleep or dead, like a New World marsupial.
play possum.
Round 3. Category: Lawyer Billboards
1: Prisoner Release Negotiations and Patriotic Poetry A SpecialtyServing The Greater Washington/Baltimore Area.
Francis Scott Key.
2: Ask Sextus RosciusThe Innocent Have Nothing To Fear When I Spin My Oratory.
Cicero.
3: Bostonians, You Love My Dad's Poetry.Try My Pleading On For Size..
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr..
4: Socialists...Science Teachers...Accused Murderers...No CauseToo Unpopular!.
Clarence Darrow.
5: I Wrote The BookOn English Law(My Famous "Commentaries")and I Can Help You!.
William Blackstone.
Round 4. Category: The Caldecott Medal
1: In the 1980s Chris Van Allsburg won 2 Caldecotts: for "Jumanji" and this story of a northbound train.
The Polar Express.
2: 1955's medal went to Marcia Brown for the illustrations of this tale subtitled "Or, the Little Glass Slipper".
Cinderella.
3: Ed Young's Caldecott winner "Lon Po Po", which means "granny wolf", is a Chinese version of this fairy tale.
Little Red Riding Hood.
4: This 1963 Maurice Sendak book won the Caldecott as well as the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
Where the Wild Things Are.
5: "Chanticleer and the Fox", the 1959 winner, was adapted by Barbara Cooney from this 14th century work.
The Canterbury Tales.
Round 5. Category: Words Before Words
1: Bean, market, widow.
black.
2: Carpet, saucer, colors.
flying.
3: Climbing, salt, star.
rock.
4: Clip, towel, money.
paper.
5: Winter, family, option.
nuclear.
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July 16, 2024Episode 1253 - Coastal terminology - News of the 21st century - Historic literature - "i"s in your stars - Walter cronkite
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1253, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet.
Round 1. Category: Coastal Terminology
1: Graybeards are frothy or gray-crested these.
waves.
2: This pair of words is used for debris from an imperiled or wrecked ship.
flotsam and jetsam.
3: From the French for "throw", it's a structure extending from the shore, where boats can dock.
a jetty.
4: These small pockets of seawater that remain as the ocean ebbs can abound in aquatic lifeforms.
tidepools.
5: A tombolo is one of these that connects an island to the mainland or 2 islands together.
a sandbar (or isthmus).
Round 2. Category: News Of The 21St Century
1: On June 5, 2012 Wisconsin made him the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall vote.
Scott Walker.
2: The largest ever marine oil spill happened when a rig leased to this company sank in 2010.
BP.
3: Firsts for this new German chancellor in 2005 included first East German in the post.
(Angela) Merkel.
4: Ending a 100-year dispute, in 2011 this univ. returned thousands of artifacts to Peru that were taken from Machu Picchu.
Yale.
5: (ABC News anchor David Muir gives the clue.) As the Arab Spring made its way into Egypt in January of 2011, I reported from this pivotal public gathering place where protests eventually brought down 2 Egyptian leaders.
Tahrir Square.
Round 3. Category: Historic Literature
1: The Kentucky plantation she visited in 1833 gave her a model for the Shelby home in "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
2: "Das Kapital" was written in this capital city.
London.
3: Machiavelli wrote this book in 1513, but it wasn't published until 1532, 5 years after his death.
The Prince.
4: Language in which Newton wrote his "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy".
Latin.
5: This Thoreau work was 1st published in a magazine in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government".
Civil Disobedience.
Round 4. Category: IS In Your Stars. With I in quotes
1: In 2016, this "Luther" star was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Idris Elba.
2: Famous among the smaller set for singing "Let It Go", she earned her first Tony nomination in "Rent".
Idina Menzel.
3: Say "Sir" to this actor, nominated for a 2001 Oscar for his portrayal of Gandalf.
Ian McKellen.
4: James Osterberg has been known as this since his days fronting proto-punk-rockers The Stooges.
Iggy Pop.
5: "We'll always have Paris" and her as Ilsa in "Casablanca".
Ingrid Bergman.
Round 5. Category: Walter Cronkite
1: Cronkite anchored this network's Evening News from April 16, 1962 to March 6, 1981.
CBS.
2: Cronkite broke in on a live broadcast of "As the World Turns" to report this 1963 event.
JFK's death (assassination).
3: After Walter called the Vietnam War unwinnable, this man said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost America".
Johnson.
4: In 1950 this legendary newsman persuaded Walter to leave radio journalism for television.
(Edward R.) Murrow.
5: The New York Times praised "Cronkite diplomacy" after Walter helped broker the 1977 summit between these 2 men.
Begin and Sadat.
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