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Good Job, Brain!

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Jul 2, 2025 • 1h 7min

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? For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 26, 2025 • 1h 1min

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. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 20, 2025 • 1h 11min

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? For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 12, 2025 • 59min

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. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Jun 4, 2025 • 1h 7min

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." For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 27, 2025 • 1h 2min

289: Bubblicious

Prost! Sláinte! Kanpai! Raise a glass to the bubbly brewskis all around the world in Colin's international beer quiz. Chris chews on the history of bubblegum. Something wicked this way comes... Karen's got a cauldron bubbling with witchy potion trivia. And descend into the watery world of the bathysphere bubble and how people were able to observe deep sea life for the first time in history. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 21, 2025 • 1h 2min

288: Too Close To Call

Whoosh! Trivia and facts about near misses and close calls. Is the ball in or out? Colin serves up some love for the high tech system used to judge tricky tennis calls and predict alternate futures. Chris quizzes us on games that were almost released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and what's up with those 555 phone numbers you see in movies and TV? Take Karen's close call movie quiz about how your favorite films were almost called something else. ALSO: close elections and tie breakers For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 21, 2025 • 1h 5min

287: Lucky Number 13

Triskaidecaphobes watch out! Celebrate 13 years of GJB with (what turned out to be) an All-Quiz all around this auspicious number. Dust off your JNCOs and Doc Martens for "Pop Culture Jeopardy: The 13 Year-Old Chris Edition." Test your classic trivia smarts - can you name the 13th thing? Colin gets patriotic with a quiz about the Thirteen Colonies. And let your sweat drip down as we count down the points in the 13Q challenge. Also: BEGOTs For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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May 7, 2025 • 1h 4min

286: The Secret's Out

It's time to spill the beans! Inspired by the hidden rooms at Disneyland, Karen's got a quiz all about secret rooms in famous landmarks. Encyclopedia Chris cracks the case of the mysterious money zeroes, and shares how Pikachu threw a wrench into the long-kept secrets of printing. Colin likes his trivia shaken, not stirred, and rocks out to the unbelievable top secret plans *inside* the Rock of Gibraltar. Find out how Quaker Oats hatched an absolutely absurd idea and cracked the breakfast game with a secret ingredient. ALSO: Eggcorn Watch For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 26min

285: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #57 with Dani Siller & Bill Sunderland

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Bill and Dani from Escape This Podcast join us for our longest and quizziest episode yet! Do you know your fuzz-pigs from your hummerhorns? Take Karen's archaic animal name quiz inspired by a Pokémon GO walk gone wrong. For super duper film buffs, Bill's got a very creative movie character connections quiz. Patent-head Dani tests our gaming smarts with legal descriptions of gaming inventions. And Chris made trivia quiz with questions. ALSO: topsy-turvy Australian music roundFor advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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