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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....

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...

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...

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 choice...

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 doll...

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 advertisi...

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...

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..." round...

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 co...

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@ai...

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 t...

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? Ti...

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...

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@airwavem...

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...

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 o...

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 T...

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...

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....

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...

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 advert...

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." For advertising inquiries, please contact advertising@airw...

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. For ad...

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 h...

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...