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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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Dec 8, 2025 • 1h 2min
304: Spa Day
Slap some cucumber slices on your eyes because it's time for some triviatherapy! ...Do you smell that? What is that signature "spa smell" and what does it have to do with koalas and gold? Take Chris' relaxing quiz about popular and unusual spa treatments. And Colin dispels myths about swimming pools and answers your (eye)burning questions about chlorine. ALSO: this season's "Um, Actually..." roundup
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Nov 27, 2025 • 1h 7min
303: Pest Control
Got porcupines eating your tires? Colin has a non-annoying quiz about annoying animal behavior. Karen takes inspiration from the Gros Michel banana and discovers other long-lost plants wiped out by blight. Take Chris' creepy crawly J! movie challenge, and we're giving these "Bugs on Film" two snaps around cocoon and back. And an UPDATE on a certain animal butt.
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Nov 21, 2025 • 1h 4min
302: Bad Guy
Duh. This one's for all the villains, rapscallions, and hellions! Meet the amazing bone-eating villainous birds who built history-surviving nests. Blockbuster bad guy quiz, and Chris has a green-skinned trivia ode to an enduring witch. Karen's got a villain etymology word challenge, and grab your spoons as we head into a round of TARK SHANK.
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Nov 14, 2025 • 1h 25min
301: Come On Down!
Greetings Taskmasters, Traitors, Survivors, and Game Changers! Will you Press Your Luck when the Price is Right on this Amazing Race? Or will The Mole from The Floor give you The Chase, and put your Trivial Pursuit in Jeopardy!? Game show vets Sara DelVillano and Warren Grace join us for quizzes and segments about game shows AND in the style of game shows: The Crystal Maze, Let's Make a Deal and the Monty Hall problem, the Impossible Quiz, the most successful reality talent show contestants, and finally, a game show for pescatarians.
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Oct 29, 2025 • 1h 33min
300: Our 300th Episode!
Our little pub quiz podcast has reached episode 300! We're celebrating this incredible milestone with a loving spoonful of our signature GJB quizzes along with an amorous forkload of listener messages. Naturally, we got a 300-themed quiz and Karen precariously prepped a puzzle-y round of sports. It's giving Brad Pitt, it's giving lasers - just how well do you remember the year when GJB started? Time to play a fun round of "Medicine, Wartime, or Taxes!?" and rock out with an epic music quiz about fake bands in real movies.
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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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