Good Job, Brain!

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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
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Jun 20, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min
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?
Jun 12, 2025 · 57 min
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.
Jun 4, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min
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."
May 27, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min
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.
May 21, 2025 · 1 hr
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
May 21, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
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
May 7, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
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
Dec 31, 2024 · 1 hr 24 min
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 round
Dec 25, 2024 · 1 hr 10 min
284: Your Guide to Guides
Quizzes and weird facts about guidebooks and guides! Colin drives us through "The Knowledge" - the fascinating and grueling steps of becoming a London cab driver, known to be one of the most difficult exams in the world. How do you like them apples? How we escaped the Red Delicious' flavorless grasp, and the one apple ranking guide to rule them all. Come travel with us from page to page in Chris' quiz about those literary maps you'd find in the beginning of books. From POÄNG to MEATBALLS, can we
Dec 18, 2024 · 1 hr 9 min
283: Gettin' Personal with the Computer
[TRIVIA HARD MODE] activated. Yes, first time in 12 years we had to put a difficulty disclaimer. Nothing sinister, just a coincidence that we all went a bit nerdier than usual. So why not listen to us flail at computer trivia? Take Karen's exhaustively comprehensive movie robot voice challenge and see if you can identify the actors behind those voices. Learn how the toy industry is to blame for the Worst Computer Ever Existed. And very aptly, Colin made his computer quiz while walking around in
Dec 11, 2024 · 1 hr 7 min
282: Spiking It To Ya
Spiky trivia that will poke your brain! Baby hedgehogs vs baby porcupines, and more prodding facts in Karen's spiny quiz. Colin lays down the tracks to make way for the (embarrassing) legend of the golden railroad spike. Get saucy with some spiked drinks in the alcohol ingredient quiz. And boy, there sure are a lot of people nicknamed Spike, aren't there? ALSO: zeugma, state quarters, and this episode's homemade cryptic
Dec 3, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min
281: Skin in the Game
Time to exfoliate with facts and trivia about skin! From peach fuzz to leather, from scales to polyurethane, we got you covered. Get cute and cutaneous with sharks, and how their skin might save our lives. If you can dodge a wrench, then you can dodge Colin's quiz questions about sport balls like why are soccer balls black and white? And are footballs really made of pigskin? Books bound in human skin: bogus or boy-get-this-outta-here? Chris reports live from the restricted section of the library
Nov 21, 2024 · 1 hr 10 min
279: Fins & Flippers
Special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast join us for a flippin' fun trivia time. Does your instinct betray you? Then come on down and test your lie-detection skills with Bill's brain-tingling 50/50 quiz, "Finn or Flipper?" Suit up because Dani's taking us diving into the wacky history of swimwear. And are you're dolphinately ready to take a reely fintastic famous aquatic animals quiz? And Karen recounts how America got flippin' mad over pinball machines.
Nov 12, 2024 · 59 min
278: Butts II: The Rebuttal Electric Buttaloo
Can you believe it has been 10 years since our butt episode? We're back with more butt facts and trivia: we got turkey butts, we got jelly butts, we got art history butts, we got Leprechain butts and more. What's up with all the naked angel babies in Renaissance art? Are they angels? Are they mythical? Are they cupids? And 👏where👏are👏their👏parents? Play a round of Pain in the Butt!, Karen's grab-bag butt quiz where each question hides a cheeky surprise. Hold on to your butts because Chris bl
Nov 5, 2024 · 1 hr 6 min
277: It's in the Details
Whip out your magnifying glass and let's rummage through trivia and facts about the details all around us: from "dinkuses" to Nick Fury's ocular ailment, from miniscule bat nipples to the flag of Portugal. Karen's got a quiz about unusual typographical symbols, and don't fall for tricky little marketing disclaimers in the mouseprint! Chris celebrates his own recent Guinness win with a world record quiz about the tiniest detailed things. And we got our first Music Round of the season so let's see
Oct 29, 2024 · 59 min
276: Title This
Dear Trivia Listeners of the Realm, Protectors of Pause and Playback, Champions of Cheek, the Keen-Eared Keepers of Weird Foods, the Ever-Enlightened Gatherers of Eggcorns... let us welcome you all to the first episode of our fall 2024 season, and it's all about titles and titling! Daenerys' got nothin' on Colin's forgotten long title quiz. With his fresh BAFTA member acceptance letter in hand, Chris schools us about the weird cases where films had to change their titles in the UK. Hi Hungry, wh
May 23, 2024 · 1 hr 11 min
275: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #55
Come join our table for some weird trivia games in our Spring 2024 season finale! Karen's got an experimental "reverse" music round to test your gauge on the success of famous songs. Inspired by an impressively squished NBA jersey, Colin's got a quiz about various records for the longest names and titles. And row aside, Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch, we have a bunch of familiar friends with not-so-familiar formal names in Chris' fictional character challenge. And give your brain a workout with
May 7, 2024 · 1 hr 2 min
273: You Can't See Me!
Notice the unnoticeable! Weird facts about things that are clear and invisible. Learn about the secretive clear cola that came decades before Crystal Pepsi. We've all probably tried the ol' lemon juice invisible ink before, but can it help you outsmart and rob banks? "Before & After" hidden word game, and can you see right through Karen's crystal clear quiz? And yes, there is a real John Cena cameo in this episode.
Apr 30, 2024 · 1 hr 3 min
272: By The Numbers
It's time to be odd because we can't even. Quizzes and facts about data and numbers! Chris runs us through a series of unfortunate events (and an unfortunate name) that led to the worst baseball team and the worst baseball records of all time. Numbered song quiz, and get ready for 2024's Cicadapocalypse because it's time for these noisy beans to bust out in trillions. And it's prime time with Colin as he introduces us to the hobby of catching prime number Pokémons, and we meet The Most Metal Num
Apr 23, 2024 · 1 hr 6 min
271: Sailing the Seven Seas
All aboard! We've got briney trivia and salty facts about being at sea. Chris reports back from his cruise vacation/research and lets us in on the most exclusive parts of the ship. Hey internet friends, .do you .kn ow your .is.la. nds? Hey turn around, bright eyes, Colin's learns about Ted Pedas and the weird world of seafaring heliophiles. And oh boy, the announcement of a potential oceanic Moana-land got Karen flicking through the US patent library for recent Disney patents.

Good Job, Brain!

292: Vacation Mode

291: The Electric Slide

290: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #58

289: Bubblicious

288: Too Close To Call

287: Lucky Number 13

286: The Secret's Out

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

284: Your Guide to Guides

283: Gettin' Personal with the Computer

282: Spiking It To Ya

281: Skin in the Game

279: Fins & Flippers

278: Butts II: The Rebuttal Electric Buttaloo

277: It's in the Details

276: Title This

275: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #55

273: You Can't See Me!

272: By The Numbers

271: Sailing the Seven Seas