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Part quiz show, part offbeat trivia, and all awesome. We here are nuts about trivia and pub quiz! And we are darn sure there are people out there who share our unusual obsession. Play along and laugh along as Karen, Colin, Dana, and Chris school each other on some of the weirdest and most interesting facts about our funny little world.Do you relish beating your friends at Trivial Pursuit? Do you blab out the answers at the gym when Jeopardy! is on? And don't you just loathe badly worded questions? Gggrraahhh!Then this podcast, fellow trivia nut, is the ultimate mental nutrition for your very big brain. So eat up!
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Oct 24, 2025 • 1h 15min
299: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #60
It's our (early) All Quiz serving you games, berries...and murder? Play a round of "Berry, Bird, or Fish!" Are you a 90s kid who stayed up watching CD compilation ads? Then it's your time to shine in Karen's music round! Biopic quiz, first-person video game challenge, and solve Chris' fake murder with his famous suspects quiz.
Featuring Dani Siller and Bill Sunderland from Escape This Podcast!
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Oct 14, 2025 • 1h 11min
298: The Clothes Off Our Backs
Trivia... but make it fashion. Chris struts down the red carpet with his quiz about memorable Met Gala outfits. Colin looks back at some of the weird and holy-crap clothing professions of yesteryear. Help! Karen's wearing too many hats! A lightning round about fashionable animal logos, and can you find the connection in a mystery quiz?
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Oct 8, 2025 • 1h 18min
297: To Market, To Market
Join Jennifer Chu, a quiz participant and Karen's sister, for a fun dive into market trivia! They explore the fascinating history of plastic shopping bags and the environmental trade-offs of reusable sacks. Discover the origins of the nursery rhyme 'This Little Piggy' and find out why some pigs went to the market while others stayed home. Plus, Jennifer leads a lively Connections-style quiz where players identify the impostor. Get ready for a mix of nostalgia, trivia, and sibling banter!

Sep 30, 2025 • 1h 11min
296: It's All In Your Head
Heads up! It's the new fall 2025 season, and we're on the road to 300. Remember learning about the dinosaur's "tail brain" in elementary school? Chris investigates the elusive dinosaur butt brain and the mesozoic mind. Karen gets in your face with a mystery music round. Whose heads were on our coins before presidents? And don't lose your head while playing our cryptic word game!
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Thank you to our special guest, Tyler Hinman!
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Jul 11, 2025 • 1h 13min
295: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #58
We begin with a sweet story to end this spring/summer 2025 season, then you better hold on to your butts for a wild quizzy ride. Time to play Colin's dictionary game where you try to pinpoint what year trendy words got added to the dictionary. Labubus or Lafufus? Karen's popping all the marts in order to make a quiz about knock-offs, clones, fakes, off-brands, and dupes. I Can't Believe It's Not Trivia! Chris has us doing jazz hands in a Broadway quiz (but the real fun is summarizing musical plots to Colin.) And of course, "Celebrities with Animals in Their Names."
See you later this year on OUR ROAD TO 300! THIS. IS. TRIVIA.
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Jul 2, 2025 • 1h 6min
294: Cooking In The Kitchen
Do you smell what the trivia is cooking? Get your brain juices brewing in Karen's quiz about coffee drinks around the world. Play a truly epic game of Family Feud with us as Chris surveys the national ER injury records to find out what exactly are the most dangerous things living in your kitchen. And what's the kitchen without a challenging bowl of trivia cereal?
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Jun 26, 2025 • 1h
293: Down On The Farm
We're Old MacDonalding up in here in our trivia-filled farm! Sure Westeros had The Wall, but in the Americas, we have The Screwworm Shield. And squeal for joy in Chris' kid lit segment. Unusual trademarks and the John Deere company, and take Karen's quiz about ~unusual~ farms.
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Jun 20, 2025 • 1h 10min
292: Vacation Mode
Set your status to OOO because we're going on vacation! Destination: the scenic and plaque-filled paradise, Trivialand. We got planes, trains, and automobiles covered in Colin's travel quiz. And for all you movie buffs, we're heading over to Walley World for Chris' epic National Lampoon's Vacation franchise challenge. Take Karen's celebrity audiobook narrator quiz, and find out why do we even have summer vacation?
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Jun 12, 2025 • 58min
291: The Electric Slide
Zip, zap, zop! Prepare your brain for some shocking trivia about electricity. Are electric eels actually electric? What did people call them before we had a word for electricity? Get charged up with Chris' "Complete The Circuit" word game. Colin gets juiced up by college rock, and learn about landmark moments in electronica with Karen's synthy quiz.
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Jun 4, 2025 • 1h 6min
290: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #58
Get yer fresh-squeezed quizzes! If you got vacation on the mind, then check into Karen's quiz about hotels Can you guess the theme in Chris' epic music round? Volcano vs. Dante's Peak, Antz vs. A Bug's Life, how are there so many twin movies? And we all try to tap into the hive mind in the crowd-favorite game, "One is Easy, Three is Hard."
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