Good Job, Brain!

Triv it up with a hodgepodge of quizzes delivered straight into your hippocampus! Let's play "Literally Speaking" where you wildly guess the even wilder origins of very plain everyday phrases. Karen invites you to name that TV show theme song but beware, we're kicking up a notch in difficulty. No Gimmies! Tony award-winning Broadway musicals quiz, Jason Statham and his bees, and the debut of a new sports league. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

🔥 We're heating things up with some fiery facts! Colin shares an unbelievably real account about an epic fire... in an epic hole. Nerd out in Karen's pyromancy and pyrokinesis showdown challenge, and can you hold a candle to the fire logo quiz? And it's time for sad cheese sandwiches in our FEMA tents at the first annual FIRE (FILM) FESTIVAL. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fact hounds and trivia retrievers rejoice! We're pawing for dog tidbits this week. Chow down on Karen's regional hot dog quiz, and Colin's got some "dog and dog-adjacent" questions. Go fetch your brain cells in time to play Chris' super impressive (and hard) game, DOG WORDS & CAT WORDS. And how well do you know your canine mascots? For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big facts about big things! Biggest Hollywood premiere! Guinness Records! How the Dutch keep smashing massive toppling domino records year after year, even in the face of national bird drama! And get out your pencils because it's time to play "30 Seconds to Glory" with a BIG theme, and Colin quizzes us about the biggest trends... in 1900. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New season, new anniversary, and we're tweedledees tweezing facts about twelve! Karen's got a 12-question pub trivia challenge, and it's showtime at the Apollo and Colin has a movie twist quiz on the 12 Olympian Greek gods. Sure, every hardcore trivia fan can list out the bird-forward presents in the holiday carol, Twelve Days of Christmas but Chris finally finds out the true purpose of that dang confusing song. Why are the names of the months so... irregular? And we get flogged by some fascinating fascia-free facts about February. ALSO: Eggcorn Watch For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bid 2023 goodbye in quizzy style! We've seared the sides and kept this episode extra juicy with off-the-wall trivia games and challenges, featuring special guests Dani Siller and Bill Sunderland from Escape This Podcast! It's an epic battle between the hemispheres in Karen's middling challenge. How does a round of Pop Quiz, Hot Shot sound? Or a round of Mop Liz, Goth Shop? Dani quizzes us on the real dangers of the animal kingdom villains, and things go upside down down under. And a mysterious bag of random letters determines our trivia fate. Check out: Escape This Podcast @ https://www.escapethispodcast.com/ Drunkard's Walk @ https://drunkardswalk.buzzsprout.com/ For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Start getting into the jolly spirit with this anthology! We're shoving our favorite holiday-themed segments from the past decade into your ears. We got toys under the tree! We got scrumptious seasonal fare! We got family members who are up in your business! We got inescapable holiday tunes! So c'mon all, follow Trivia Santa this episode as he circumnavigates our catalogue through time and space on his Christmas donkey. (Even though we still cringe and hearing our younger selves.) For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Put on your hard hats and gulp down hardboiled eggs because it's all trivia about things that are hard. How about a super duper hard quiz for the most discerning trivia experts? (It's okay to feel discouraged, it's supposed to be hard.) Discover how the exoskeleton of a beetle tempted the British rule to make some bad decisions. What is the hardest puzzle on earth? What makes it "hard"? And take a knee as you get iced by some cold, hard facts about hard seltzers. ALSO: Largest snowman dispute For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If we were to knit trivia into a chunky scarf, this episode would be it. Befriend a giant snowman and take a spin on ice in Colin's "Winter by the Numbers" quiz. Prepare for your jaw to drop in Chris' minty science segment, "Why Japanese People Don't Like Root Beer." Warm yourself with Karen's comforting soup trivia (just don't pair the chowder with tequila), and did you know people can actually be allergic to the cold? For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frolicking facts about the pictures and images in our lives. Get your first brushstrokes in with Chris' picture idiom quiz, and then get uploaded to the pixel family tree. Find out about the fascinating tradition of courtroom sketch artists. And make your career a masterpiece with probably THE strangest quiz in GJB history, "If Famous Paintings Were on LinkedIn." ALSO: frog butt beetles For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time to open your arms and embrace the triumphant return, nay, reincarnation of "Brad Pitt or Lasers" but now with more chicken nuggets! Before Chris' trademark quiz, I need to take some aspirin and rip off this bandaid so could you hand me that kleenex box next to the xerox machine? And we made this episode extra tasty by sprinkling bits from our live panel recording from Sporclecon! Take Karen's quiz about weird lactation in the animal kingdom, and our condolences to the losing teams having a ruff time in the Air Bud Universe. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get your Scrooge McDuck on and let's dive into pool of coin and money trivia! Go big or go home in Chris' largest denominations quiz all about the high value coins and notes. And speaking of big, Colin looks into and through giant rai stones, the unusually heavy currency from Micronesia that looks like rock donuts. What makes our money dirty, or worse, contaminated? How do you clean or get rid of it? And play a round of Chump Change! where a world currency is hidden in the couch cushions of every answer. Also: Pepper X For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holey moley! We're all about trivia about holes this week, starting with Colin's [blank] hole word quiz! Happy learned how to putt, uh oh! Karen dodges windmill blades and laughing clowns to find the origin of mini-golf. Chris pushed a bunch of musicians down a hole, and their cries for help melded into a supercut music round. In trivia, we often get asked what are the highest points and structures in the world, but what about the lowest? Colin finds some strange stuff about the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest hole in the world. Heigh-ho, there's a hole in our boat! So we gotta dominate the H2O word challenge to get all this water out. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rivalry! Spitefulness! Meat products! Let's agree that disagreeing can lead to bizarre facts and bonkers quizzes. Snikt and pow your way through Karen's comic book villain lightning challenge. Find out how the humble lobster almost started a war. Colin shares the most outrageous and strangest country border disputes. And of course, surf's up and mayo's down in Chris' regional beef sandwich quiz, "Beefin' USA." For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're flattering you with facts, trivia, and quizzes about flat foods, flat states, and flat tires! Try your flatulent vocabulary knowledge with a game of "FARTS OR SPORTS?" And Chris investigates the peculiar practice of covering food with flat sheets of gold leaf. Do you poop it out? How much does it cost? For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our brains have successfully recovered from having a grand ol' time at Sporclecon— yes, a TRIVIA convention! So many quizzes in this episode were inspired by jokes and moments from the convention. Our 2023 fall season opener kicks off with ferociously chasing Inky, Blinky, and Pinky in Chris' best-selling video game quiz. We got sports, we got Broadway, we got historical events, and we got Wayne's World while Karen tries to recreate that internal screaming energy by pitting the guys against each other in "Angle of Attack." We navigate the deep meta waters of Wikipedia in Colin's "Disambiguate This!" challenge, and see if you can figure out the secret in the hidden theme quiz. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Directions? Check. Sunscreen for one arm? Check. Snack cracker tubes filled with semi slimy pizza-flavored cheese? Check! And now we're ready to hit the road and drive off to Trivia Land! Chris has our eyes peeled looking for license plate facts, and Karen treks through some rocky road in a pop culture lightning round. Get out your cameras as we pass by Australia's eccentric and huge roadside attractions in the Big Things quiz. Play a round of "One is Easy, Three is Hard" with us, and what's a road trip vacation without an ode to the humble, wood-paneled station wagon? We'll be doing a live show at Sporclecon 2023! September 8-10 in Washington D.C. More info on sporclecon.com! Use code GJB for $15 off weekend pass. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vexillologists rejoice! Colin's got a green flag quiz, and find out which country's flag is the most nightmarish to reproduce. Can you smell all that spring greenery? Karen has found plants that smell like everything from groin sweat to chocolate chip cookies. We got a green-making-green situation here with the powerful profiting prowess of Shrek. And boy, really test your musician ID skills because themed music round is back, now with 100% more green felt! For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sure we are stepping into our Old Fart era but just like Whitney, we believe the children are our future. Enjoy facts and trivia about being young! From vampires to cryo-freeze, take Karen's quiz about anti-aging in famous fictional works, and find out just how mid you might be in the dreaded teen slang challenge. What's your internal age? Hear our jaws crash on to the floor as we play Chris' "How Young Were They?!" game about remarkable over-achievers in history. And was Ponce de León really looking for the fountain of youth? ALSO: hyperforeignism foodie quiz For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just a few months shy from the scent of sunblock and chlorine, the taste of pink lemonade, the sound of radio jams, and the spectacle of the blockbuster. Yes all, it's time to sit back and unwind because it's summertime! We start with a tricky summer blockbuster quiz, and end with an epic AI-movie-trailer-voice-powered summer jams music challenge. Along the way, we bask in facts about lemonade (why does pink lemonade exist?!) and how would you go on to calculate just how many swimming pools there are in Los Angeles? For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices