Good Job, Brain!

Recline and kick your feed up, and let us soothe your mind with relaxing facts. From cucumber facials to nightcaps, wind down the night with Karen's personal rituals quiz. Maybe go on a stress-reducing camping expedition where you can sleep AND poop under the stars. Colin shares a truly wonderful recent breakthrough in P.I.T.W. (Pooping In The Woods) innovation. Does tinkering with a fidget spinner help ease the nerves? Then take our scientific desk toy challenge! And the (British) people have spoken! Chris has a chill music round featuring the most popular relaxing songs based on a survey among 2000 British people. Can you identify all these easy listening winners?For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To celebrate NASA successfully smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid, we're all about impactful trivia this week! Oh dear, two words have collided into each other in Karen's portmanteau brand name quiz. We find out about the first ever recorded "car" crashes. From molasses to jelly packets, trucks spill the darnedest things! Chris tells us how to prevent a computer crash, and American hustle of the humble bubble wrap.For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mwwahah, we dug through the cemetery of past episodes to patch together this Frankenstein clips show. The infamous Ghost Host has graciously materialized to take you on a ride through our frightfully fall-themed face-filled festive favorites. Flesh eating bugs! Squash coffee! Trick or treat! (Turns out it's both when it comes to Scandinavian candy.) Fonsillectomy! A memorable scream, and more!For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are living, laughing, and loving in this truly outrageous All Quiz this week with special guest: crossword designer & longtime listener, Neville Fogarty! It's us versus "the other guys" in Colin's top selling band quiz. And excuse you, it wasn't Karen who fartlek a deuce in the 5-hole, it was somebody in her sports jargon quiz! "Between You & Me" - Neville riddles us with what is sandwiched between two very specific things. (And we hope you didn't study because) Chris (finally) debuts the (long awaited) parenthetical song quiz filled with (rum) drinks, (Christmas) time, and (self) doubt. ALSO: little league, Merv Griffin, and "successories."For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're shining the big, bright, brainy spotlight this week on the... more secondary things in our lives: the add-ons, the trimmings, the enhancements. Colin has prepared an unreal quiz about Barbie accessories that have caused arm-flailing outrage, cringe controversy, and risky recalls. Karen ponders about accessories in the digital world: what are some things people use to spruce up their online space and make it their own? And what does this have to do with the most viewed photograph in the history of humankind? Put on your best scrunchies and slap bracelets because Chris takes us back to December 1989, when the world first witnessed the ultimate video game accessory: the Power Glove. “It’s so bad.”For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trivia and facts about things that have been wiped out and erased. Karen has removed one letter from famous book titles! Can you recognize these literary works by their bonkers updated plot summaries? Enjoy the debut of Colin's segment, "Hey, It's Not Written in Stone... Oh Wait, Actually It Is Written in Stone?" about how people remedied typo goofs on very, very, very famous monuments. Chris sparks our interest in mysterious movies that have been wiped out of existence all because old film had a nasty habit of burning down buildings. Find out how dry erase markers work, and the very tantalizing love triangle that takes place in erasable pens.For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for... mesmerizing trivia, and we're feeling good! Chris is out in the barn, finding out just how hardcore roosters are. Why do they crow at daybreak? Colin's in the kitchen brewing an aromatic coffee quiz just for you. And if you're not a caffeine person, Karen can pour you a glass of a-peeling facts about how the once ignored orange ended up on your breakfast table. Make trivia a part of your complete breakfast! (But what technically makes a breakfast "complete" anyways?)ALSO: Oldest dogsFor advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wombat poop, CD cases, and lunch boxes - join in on our revelatory revelry respectfully recognizing rectangles! Get your angles right with facts about squares and cubes. Take Chris' double question set challenge inspired by the Nintendo GameCube. Karen's got the scoop on historic ice cream square containers, and dishes out a food packaging quiz. Colin goes true crime on us, Ancient Greek style, and shares a tale about intrigue, secret societies, murder on the high seas....and the square root of two...?For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We had a raging "Orange Lobster Summer," and now we're back with more trivia! Dana takes us on an epic quizzy wiki dive, and Karen's showing off an alluring alliteration round where all the questions (and some answers) are completely alliterative. And the D's have it!...in Colin's Di, De, Da, Du famous name quiz. The candyman sure can in Chris' "It's Kinda Sweet" weird candy trivia tribute, dedicated to Dana!This will be Dana's last GJB episode - and yes, we are very sad! But let's rotate that frown 180 degrees, and let's have one last brainy blast.For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can't think of a better way to spend our season finale than time travel back to 2018 when we recorded an All Quiz episode that we forgot about and never aired. So put get those fidget spinners out and get magically whisked away to a time where people tuned into HQ Trivia everyday, including Dana, who crafted a tricky multiple choice inspired by it. A time when NBA teams first debuted the jersey sponsor logo that inspired Colin to craft his hometown sponsor quiz. Karen goes international with a foreign language music round and a hard quiz about global pies. And Chris serves us a very refreshing music quiz. Be prepared for some amazing outdated references. Four years have never felt so long ago. But whether if it's 2022 or 2018, we're just happy you're here with us.Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network.For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices