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310: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #62 16.06.2026 1h 2min

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-old listener mail For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

309: Yellow? Is It Me You're Looking For? 03.06.2026 1h 9min

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. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

308: Orange You Glad? 20.05.2026 1h 1min

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? For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

307: We're Back in the Red Again 07.05.2026 1h 4min

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 certain company millions of dollars. ALSO: child actor quiz *If you get this niche 90's reference upon first reading, I love you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

306: Geology Rocks 28.04.2026 1h 5min

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 For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

305: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #61 20.12.2025 1h 19min

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 specialty plates. We wish all of you a brighter 2026! ALSO: longest flights, weird fruits For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

304: Spa Day 08.12.2025 1h 2min

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 For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

303: Pest Control 27.11.2025 1h 7min

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. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

302: Bad Guy 21.11.2025 1h 3min

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. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

301: Come On Down! 14.11.2025 1h 25min

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 finally, a game show for pescatarians. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

300: Our 300th Episode! 29.10.2025 1h 32min

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 fake bands in real movies. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

299: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #60 24.10.2025 1h 14min

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! For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

298: The Clothes Off Our Backs 14.10.2025 1h 11min

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? For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

297: To Market, To Market 08.10.2025 1h 17min

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!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

296: It's All In Your Head 30.09.2025 1h 11min

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! --- Thank you to our special guest, Tyler Hinman! --- For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

295: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #58 11.07.2025 1h 13min

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 plots to Colin.) And of course, "Celebrities with Animals in Their Names." See you later this year on OUR ROAD TO 300! THIS. IS. TRIVIA. For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

294: Cooking In The Kitchen 02.07.2025 1h 5min

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

293: Down On The Farm 26.06.2025 1h

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

292: Vacation Mode 20.06.2025 1h 10min

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

291: The Electric Slide 12.06.2025 57min

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