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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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319 episodes
Updated Wednesday

Episodes319

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Wednesday · 1 hr 2 min
312: Outta the Blue
I'm blue, da ba dee da ba di! Kick your feet up and sip on a Blue Hawaii while Colin shares the story behind the strangely blue Curaçao liqueur. Learn weird facts behind everyday blue things in Karen's "True Blue Quiz." What flavor do you think of when you see blue ice cream? And move over Sinatra, we have a new ol' blue eyes 'round these parts.
July 7 · 59 min
311: Giving you the Green Light
Get green with envy because we got so much trivia - from Elphaba to Greenland, from the Gros Michel banana to Shrek. Take Colin's green quiz, and learn about the world's most painful plant (yes, it's from Australia). Being green really isn't easy in Chris' trolly music round. And 🤢🤢🤢 motion-sickness-havers unite! Find out what's going on in your body when you're feeling "green around the gills."
June 16 · 1 hr 2 min
310: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #62
Step right up folks for a quizzy good time. We got yer moon missions, we got yer hockey shows, we got yer random trivia! Get road trip ready with a US city namesake quiz, and don't fall into the pit with your pits out while pitting against each other on The Pitt in Chris's new word game. We're sorry to inform you that your friend has successfully dragged you out to amateur DJ night and it is your mission to survive the evening while identifying these absolutely bonkers mashups. ALSO: 12 year-o
June 3 · 1 hr 9 min
309: Yellow? Is It Me You're Looking For?
We're feeling mellow with all this yellow trivia! What is the color of a tennis ball and why is it tearing friendships apart? Find out what exactly is Minnesota Funeral Bread in "Take a Quick Whiz" - a qhiz dedicated the most beautifully yellow processed food item in human existence. Lock in your yellow predictions in Karen's reverse music quiz. Take a wild ride linking an old Nintendo game to the newspaper wars of the 1890's. And meet Mr. Yuk.
May 20 · 1 hr 1 min
308: Orange You Glad?
A-peel-ing trivia about orangey things! Do you love Panda Express' Orange Chicken too? Then take Karen's American Chinese food quiz. Chris gets puzzle-y in "A Clockwise Orange." Get the full heaping scoop on Gatorade and why it literally changed the game. How well do you know your famous tigers?
May 7 · 1 hr 4 min
307: We're Back in the Red Again
Pinkies up for some vexillology tea in "Girl... He's a Red Flag" quiz. Jam out to some red & wild facts at Karen's strawberry trivia festival.* Chris has a red title quiz, and Colin's got us unearthing red roots in an etymology challenge. Special mystery guest and GJB listener Sarah Burch joins us this week and shares an incredible tale of how she might have cost a company millions of dollars. ALSO: child actor quiz
April 28 · 1 hr 5 min
306: Geology Rocks
Hello Spring 2026! We got some solid rock trivia about clean slates and gneiss buttes! Try your hand at Karen's stone quiz, and meet some of Colin's favorite weird history rocks. Get your internal IMDB rolodex ready for a rockin' movies challenge. And Chris celebrates a weird anniversary about a weird occurrence with a tale about a weird souvenir. ALSO: Eggcorn Watch, Trivial Pursuit
Dec 20, 2025 · 1 hr 19 min
305: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #61
Sorry not sorry, Wise Men, because we're bringing the hefty gift of trivia! So let's close this year out with some epic quizzes. Get ready for a full course meal of hilarious fast food fails and flops. Play Karen's double-syllable lightning round word game, and what's the actual difference between "sparkling water" and "soda water"? Come split hairs in a vocabulary quiz that celebrates being picky. Colin's got another fun license plate quiz but this time, it's all about the funky world of odd sp
Dec 8, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min
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
Nov 27, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min
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.
Nov 21, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
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.
Nov 14, 2025 · 1 hr 25 min
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
Oct 29, 2025 · 1 hr 32 min
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
Oct 24, 2025 · 1 hr 14 min
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!
Oct 14, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min
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?
Oct 8, 2025 · 1 hr 17 min
297: To Market, To Market
Attention Brain Mart shoppers, the aisles are now stocked with fresh market trivia! Come spend your fake coins in Karen's worldly quiz about famous marketplaces. Learn about the real origin of the ubiquitous plastic shopping bags. Companies with one-letter stock market symbols, and Chris finally finds out why this little piggy went to the market, but that little piggy stayed home. ALSO: "Spot the Impostor!"
Sep 30, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min
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!
Jul 11, 2025 · 1 hr 13 min
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 pl
Jul 2, 2025 · 1 hr 5 min
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?
Jun 26, 2025 · 1 hr
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.

Good Job, Brain!

312: Outta the Blue

311: Giving you the Green Light

310: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #62

309: Yellow? Is It Me You're Looking For?

308: Orange You Glad?

307: We're Back in the Red Again

306: Geology Rocks

305: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #61

304: Spa Day

303: Pest Control

302: Bad Guy

301: Come On Down!

300: Our 300th Episode!

299: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #60

298: The Clothes Off Our Backs

297: To Market, To Market

296: It's All In Your Head

295: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #58

294: Cooking In The Kitchen

293: Down On The Farm