The Benchwarmers Trivia Podcast

Jake Manne returned to the Bench for this Dave Wortz-hosted game to team with Tako take on Mason and Luks. Dave uses his Wisconsin English, which no doubt confuses our players, except maybe Jake. He also pats himself on the back for his game, but apologies at the same time. Most importantly, Dave decides to make up flavor text, rather than make sure it's accurate. One team also tries to guess the...

New guest Scott Aebly joins the Bench to team up with his friend Dave Wortz to compete against Bohmbach and Grimes, and trash-talks from the start with their team name, "Let's Punish Luks". This turned into an attempt to throw curse words at David just to make the edit harder. Later, Josh gets in the act and curses as well. New insults that may be heard on this podcast: "Back off - you're just hos...

It's a two-man Naked Bootleg, where Ede and Dave air out their sports grievances.

David Sibony returns to the Bench to team with Dave Wortz in this David Luks-hosted game (#toomanydavids). Early on, we learn what it means to sniss oneself (if you have to ask...). We also have such hot takes as, "There should be more pretzels in more things...", "Sonny is a name David likes to call people", and exactly what it is that would make Walling go to the movie by himself. Nice guy Luks...

New guest Clint Fitch, who is apparently part bat, becomes the first BTP participant to play an entire episode upside down for this Snyder-hosted game. Ede proclaims 1) his rec league lied to him when they said no participants can have the physical ability to dunk, and 2) he is an avid runner...virtually. The card collectors among us salivate over a one-of-one, OG ligament card from the recently d...

An action packed episode of BTP sees Dave host a game full of shenanigans with returning guest and brother, Tom Wortz, teaming up with Luks against the Benchwarmer team of Scott and Snyder. Scott shares his basketball stat line, Snyder is full of non-sequiturs, Tom needs some rules, and Luks is just old. The boys have some MVP fun, get a little theatrical in halftime, and end on some of the most r...

Assistant Coach Scott Hyland retuned to the Bench to team with Dave and take on Bohmbach and Mason in this Markkus-hosted game. Early on, this was dubbed the "Fraud Episode" and it was declared that "You're going to jail!" We learned that Keegan Michael Key was 2026 Big Ten Freshman of the Year, that AJ Styles sounds like a wrestler, that Dave Wortz is not on this list, and that nobody wanted to d...

It's a hotshot Triple Threat match as Scott, Markkus, and Dave battle it out, where the champ does not have to be pinned to lose his title. It is clear from the first question of the game that Hulk Hogan would not approve; we posit that Bohmbach definitely drives a milk truck; we discuss our favorite Systems; we open up a can of clams; and a little Spanish boy declares, "I'm taller! Yay." #brandon...

OG Assistant Coach Trevor Hogg returned to the Bench to host this game, which pitted Bohmbach and Dave versus Mason and Snyder. During this episode, we mused about what a Post-modern Pentathlon would entail, we learned about legendary college football coach Herman Twoadays,  we got to experience a temporary team name change during halftime ("Two Masons, One Team"), we came to an agreement that the...

New guest and friend of the Podcast Kyle Molitor (no relation to Paul) joins the Bench to team with Walling to face Markkus and Scott.  Our guest fits in well by missing part of a question - and calling himself for a 2-minutes for skimming penalty.  We have other misreads - the clues says Lager, not Logger!  We also learn about the lead singer of Lipps, Inc.  And let's just watch our pronunciation...

Snyder hosts as Dave and Bohmbach take on Gabe Pulver and Jamie Hirsh from the Menschwarmers podcast in a game featuring Jewish Sports Quarterly All-Stars. Gabe names Bohmbach a “Mike Jacobs All-Star” (sounds Jewish but isn’t), along with hammer toss champ Ethan Katzberg. In the first quarter, Luks reveals Bob Geldof’s unknown child, Zach, and Gabe recalls Charles Barkley racing Dick Bavetta.  Dur...

Assistant Coach John Ross returns to the Bench in this Tako-hosted game. In this episode, Walling assures us that they have medicine for that, Dave tries to get us all in trouble with HR for Googling things that should not be Googled at work, Scott turns into Benchwarmers Icarus with his soccer and Mark Wahlberg hubris, both teams attempt to 3-2-1 Nik Stauskas for the first time in podcast history...

Assistant Coaches Adrian Bias and Jerry Filbin join Dave and Mason on the bench for a Snyder-hosted game that starts out a little like a certain Zach Galifianakis show. After Jerry informs us that Brendan Sorsby has been banned from NFL Europe, the Missing Link is, well, very missing. In the second, Adrian knows CBA players, and Dave gets irate with the NHL original 6, and with Jerry for knowing t...

Assistant Coach Marc Grenier returns to the Bench to team with Scott and compete against Bohmbach & Tako. In the first quarter, the teams managed to have an obvious answer with a "3-2-1 Response", and then soon after, a difficult question brings them to a "1-2-3 Silence." David is criticized for his questions (blasphemous!) as Tako implies David doesn't know what difficult is, and then later S...

Long-time guest, Benchie Award winner, and Equipment Manager for our Patreon team Chris Shen returns to the bench to host this great game! In this episode, we discuss women who take public transportation, reaffirm that Jon Heder is definitely not Tongan, and ask the eternal question, "What is the Powerslap of Curling?" #benchie #publictransportation #bobbyorr #jonheder #tongan #powerslap #curling...

Assistant Coach Sam Cook returns to the Bench for this Tako-hosted game. In this episode, Luks gets to hear the correct pronunciation of Chimere Dike, there is a game-changing Missing Link ruling, we briefly become a Benjamin Franklin podcast, there is a golf-hockey crossover that somehow doesn't involve Happy Gilmore, and Dave tries to recall an answer he learned while drunk. #chimeredike #missin...

Longtime Supporter and Equipment Manager David Fudor returns to the Bench to team with Dave as the Mortarboard (NOT Motorboat) Double D's to take on the team of Bohmbach and Mason in this Snyder-hosted game. Dave invents the game of Strugball, which is played in Alabama rather than Quebec. The Odd One Out becomes 19th-Century Rules Odd One In as Bohmbach uncaps his veto pen, and Dave proclaims, "T...

Ede hosts this all-Benchwarmer game pitting Josh and Scott versus Markkus and Dave. It was...a trivia game. #takoapproved #candy #presidents #organs #cities #dogbreeds #tribes #stonehenge #sharks #capitals #crappydarkchocolate https://dobosdelights.com/ Promo Code: CheckYourTaint https://www.patreon.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.facebook.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.twitter.com/benchwarmerstp h...

Markkus has a rare hosting appearance in this game, featuring Luks and Assistant Coach Jerry Philbin competing against Snyder and Equipment Manager Hugh Gitlin. In this game, Jerry points out that one answer may have four ex-wives, just like his dad. Markkus stumps the teams with an obscure (Whooo?!) series of David v Goliath questions, and one player asks for his teammate to throw out the whitest...

Assistant Coach and podcast favorite Trevor Hogg returns to the Bench for this David-hosted game to team with Snyder to take on the team of Scott and Markkus. At the beginning of the game, Scott is happier to see David than he is with his new marriage - but that changes over the course of the game. Scott & Markkus figure it out early when they try to get inside David's head to second-guess his...

Assistant Coach Tim Simplot returned to the Bench for this Bohmbach-hosted game to team up with Dave and face off against Walling and Snyder. Early on, Snyder claimed to be a "Glue Guy" who hopes not to be bound for the glue factory. One team opted to add an incorrect first name to a correct last name (in fact, it was the answer's brother), thus losing out on a critical 25 points. We learned that...

Assistant Coach Sam Cook takes the host seat on the Bench with a slightly distracted crew thanks to the NFL Draft. The gang loses their mind before Sam does the first question as the Rams pick ... Ty Simpson?!!? Some stuff happened and the game was the best part of a very bad day (or greatest day?) for Markkus as the NFL draft turned into a rotten pile of garbage. #nlf #nfldraft #rams #tysimpson #...

Head Coach Philip Sanford returned to the Bench for this Dave-hosted game to team up with Bohmbach and face off against Mason and Snyder. For the second episode in a row, we had quarters with multiple styles (Newsflash - Bohmbach doesn't mind these "shenanigans"). Dave struggled with the scoring spreadsheet (apparently, it's not foolproof), and only 25% of the players have seen the Mighty Ducks mo...

In this Tako-hosted all-Benchwarmer affair, Bohmbach and Ede team up with Walling and Dave. In this episode, we mix some trivia amid rampant slander of David Luks, who isn't here to defend himself. In other news, Walling doesn't attend the Masters, a tradition unlike any other; we refuse to dive into the debate of whether something is yacht rock or not, Bohmbach's favorite FTG makes an appearance,...

Returning guest and host Yael Wylie returns with a great game that pits Tako and Ede against Scott and Snyder. In this episode, the Benchwarmers fix NASCAR by making the drivers race barefoot and drive with actual moonshine liquor in the car, we remind everyone that Goon is a mindset and not a body type, we declare that "Linda is retired, and everyone's Jackson," and Snyder reminds everyone that o...