Tangents: A Trivia Workshop Podcast

This week we have David Kantorski returning for his second outing in search of questions on Major League Baseball and 90s music - specifically Grunge. See if he was able to track anything down this time around… Links from the episode: Famous People from Your School (Brother Rice): John C. Reilly , David Diehl , Michael Flatley Favorite TV Theme Song : The Muppet Show Last Concert : Depeche Mode at...

Our old pal, Mike from Ukrainian Trivia Resistance is back this week for another go at a quiz. This is the second of five recordings where the gameplay may have suffered a bit because of some experimentation with the format, but Mike was a great guest, as expected. I hope you enjoy it. Episode Links: Last Wikipedia Search : FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. (2009) Favorite Bit of Trivia : Ray C...

We’ve got yet another member of ProgChamps building a quiz this week, with Prateek joining us from Pittsburgh in search of questions about 21st Century Bollywood Movies, 2010s Formula One, and the FC Barcelona roster (kind of). He did find something that worked out pretty well! Here are some links from this episode: Best TV Theme Song : Friends and I Dream of Jeannie Last Wikipedia Search : Elepha...

One of our favorite ProgChamps, Stacey Melquist is back for another shot at building the perfect quiz. She was in search of questions on subjects like reality competition shows like RuPaul's Drag Race , and 80s Music. Mini-spoiler here...she does manage to track down at least one of those topics. She racked up 15 points in her first attempt (Episode 8), so let's see if she was able to beat...

Time for more Can-Con. We’re back in the land of Tim Hortons this week to catch up with Shaun Bernstein from the online team “Turn Down for Watt”. He was in search of questions about movies and Borscht Belt comedians, which is something that’s never been requested before…but that’s Shaun! :) Oshawa, Ontario The Fart Cafe in Whitby Favorite Movie Soundtrack: Eurotrip or American Wedding Pop Culture...

Sometimes it can be tough to get players to loosen up and talk. This was not one of those episodes. Keith Moser is here this week from Allentown, Pennsylvania looking for questions about Broadway musicals, Oscar-wining films, and math. Spoilers ahead… He found one of those. Links from the episode: Local Cuisine in Allentown: Yocco’s Hotdogs Best Movie Soundtrack: Sing Street or Baby Driver Last Mo...

Episode 30! Tim Dippel returns this week for another run, in search of questions about Star Wars or 90s Nickelodeon. You know Tim from the Frenemy Trivia Podcast, other shows from the PTE Network, and the tank top section at Target. He’s a great guest and you should definitely check out his stuff in the links below. Last Movie You Saw In a Theatre: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Favorite...

Brandon (not Brian) Fellows drops by this week to take a run at the game. He hosts a Wednesday night quiz at Brewski’s in Springfield, IL for Twin City Trivia when he’s not doing his regular radio stuff. He was looking for questions on Country Music, Saturday Night Live, and Sports Stadiums. SPOILER ALERT: He found one of those. Links from the episode: Taylorville, Illinois Best Thing to Eat in Ta...

The Return of El Guapo… Chris Hernandez returns to the guest chair this week, in search of questions about Quentin Tarantino movies. I won’t spoil anything, except to say that there were a couple of streaks in other subjects that helped with this path. Enjoy! Garfield, New Jersey Non-Trivia Podcast: Behind the Bastards Last Wikipedia Search: Dan Snyder SYLITLW: That Dan Snyder owns Six Flags Best...

Our first Vermonter! Ian Schulze is no stranger to the trivia podcast scene, so he came in without the usual nervousness. I had a great time with Ian on his search for questions about the band Pink Floyd. Have a listen and see if he managed to track any down, or if he hit a WALL . Get it? Links from this episode: Monkton, VT Where to Eat: Queen Bee’s Snack Bar and Cubbers in Bristol, VT Soundtrack...

If you play the Twitch stream quiz every week, you'll know Danielle from her team "Fields of Dreams", which actually goes back to the pre-Twitch days and live quizzing in Springfield with her family. She's playing from Decatur, Illinois in search of questions about Food & Disney. Have a listen and see how she did! Krekel's in Decatur Doherty’s Pub & Pins That Thing Yo...

Another local regular tries the game this week. Jill Staunton has been winning my trivia events around Central Illinois for many years now, but never in a format that let her choose the subjects for every question, so this was new. She was looking for questions about The Beatles...but did she find them? LINKS: Jill's J-Archive Profile Cafe Moxo Amelie Soundtrack Masters of the Air on Apple TV...

Another Chicagoland player takes a swing at the game this week. David Kantorski was looking for questions about 90s Music (especially Pearl Jam), Major League Baseball, and How I Met Your Mother . Here are the links from the show: Uno Pizza Singles Soundtrack Palm Royale Chicago River Green Dye History Draft Picks in Naperville State of Love and Trust Podcast Soul Asylum And be sure to check out o...

Episode 23 takes us down under for the first time for a visit with Caleb Greyman, the writer and host for BrisQuiz Trivia in Brisbane, Australia. Caleb was looking for questions about the periodic table and 1990s Simpsons. Because the majority of my quizzes are set for an American audience, Caleb was at a bit of a disadvantage coming in, but still got to show off some impressive quizzing skills du...

Luc Leavenworth should be a familiar voice to you if you subscribe to a lot of trivia podcasts, and for good reason. He's a great guest, with a broad range of knowledge. We had fun with this one. Check out the links below - and please subscribe if you haven't already. And tell a friend! Big Ed's BBQ About a Boy Soundtrack Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Millions vs Billions The Ringer Podcas...

I've known this week's guest since he was a youngster, and he started hosting games for Trivia Workshop when he was straight out of undergrad. Now he's heading into an emergency medicine internship, so before he got to busy with the whole saving lives thing, I got him to answer some trivia questions. If you want to try your hand at the game, visit our LinkTree where you'll find a l...

It's a milestone week for Tangents - TWENTY episodes AND the return of Paul Paquet from the Ottawa Trivia League and the Trivia Hall of Fame. Paul's last quiz ended with some bad luck back-to-back questions about the OJ Simpson trial, so he came prepared this time around. If you'd like to join Paul and the rest of our guests for your own quiz, there's a link on the LinkTree page th...

This week I get to hang out with one of my favorite trivia players, Kevin Kuschel. I first met Kevin several years ago in St. Louis thanks to a pub quiz at a place called Syberg's and found out there that he's an encyclopedia of music knowledge. For this quiz, he listed "One Hit Wonders" as his specialty subject, but I don't think there's a music question in the database...

This is the episode where we finally learn the origin of the "busstoptv" username. Harry McGrory from Glasgow (and ProgChamps) was in the hot seat this week, answering questions on a wide variety of (sometimes misleading) topics. He listed The Beatles as his specialty subject. He'll also be on an upcoming episode of the Frenemy Trivia Podcast , so stay tuned for that. As always, chec...

Madeleine Garvey is next up in the hot seat this week, in search of questions about Video Games and Taylor Swift. She's one of our regular players on the Tuesday night Twitch stream with the Bad Mustache team, so if you'd like to see how you would fair in a real head-to-head matchup, join us in real time every Tuesday night at 8pm Central! If you'd like to be a guest on Tangents, fill...

Ali Baig is a ton of fun to talk to, so we ended up chatting about the quiz business for more than 30 minutes before we even got to the "First Five". For the sake of time, I trimmed that out of this episode, but it may show up in a special episode soon, so stay tuned. Ali is the founder of Baig of Tricks Entertainment in the burbs of Chicago and a real raconteur. It was an utter blast ha...

First there was Edwards, then came Dippel, now episode 15 brings us our third Tim - Tim Gomez! It was good to finally put a face and voice to the name behind Where's My Elephant/incoherant9 on our Twitch games - and I learned quite a thing about some Peanuts characters as a bonus! As always, please check out the links below: https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

The MCU Infinity Saga and the Tudor Monarchy may not have much in common other than the fact that this week's guest was trying to find questions about either of them. When she's not in the guest seat on other podcasts, she's hosting her own, the Frenemy Trivia Podcast along with past guest Tim Dippel. Be sure to check out the link below for more info. https://frenemytrivia.podbean.com/ https://lin...

Brian Waldron has been a regular on our streaming quizzes since the early days of lockdowns with his team, Bok Bok Bitch. Now he tries his hand at building a Tangents quiz and I had a great time watching it happen. Enjoy! As always, be sure to check the links here: https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

Tim Dippel is a familiar voice in the trivia podcasting community, as half of the hosting duo behind the Frenemy Trivia Podcast, and as part of the PTE Network. And because that doesn't keep him busy enough, he also hosts The Perfect Ten Podcast on the ThunderQuack network. Check out links to all of those things here: Frenemy Trivia Podcast PTE Network Perfect Ten Podcast ThunderQuack Network...