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321 episodes
Language
EnglishPublisher
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Date created
2012/03/05
Latest episode
2026/09/02
Average duration
69 min.
Release period
22 days
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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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314: Violet! You're Turning Violet, Violet!
2026/09/02
Here we are, at the end of our rainbow, rolling in the pot of trivia about our final color. So what is violet and how is it different from purple? Attention ravers, haunted house goers, and hotel bed worriers, Karen's got an ultra quiz about ultra violet light! Get sweet with violet mints and facts about PEZ dispensers. Play Chris' word game "Purple Prose" and get our your pistils for a flowery name quiz.
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313: Into Indigo
2026/08/13
You might have questioned us, and frankly, we even questioned ourselves - was it possible to actually do a full trivia quiz show about the very specific yet enigmatic indigo? C'mon what's indigo's deal and why is it crammed up in there between blue and violet? Chris is on the case! BAMF!💨 Colin's X-tatic to X-tol the (only?) canonically indigo-colored creature in his Nightcrawler quiz. And let's hear it for the Indigo Girls and other ladies of Lilith Fair in a round of movie music. And don't get your Canadian Tuxedo frayed in Karen's riveting "Jean Jargon" quiz dedicated to the world's favorite indigo-dyed garment.
ALSO: Fish butt diving
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312: Outta the Blue
2026/07/29
I'm blue, da ba dee da ba di! Kick your feet up and sip on a Blue Hawaii while Colin shares the story behind the strangely blue Curaçao liqueur. Learn weird facts behind everyday blue things in Karen's "True Blue Quiz." What flavor do you think of when you see blue ice cream? And move over Sinatra, we have a new ol' blue eyes 'round these parts.
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311: Giving you the Green Light
2026/07/07
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."
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310: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #62
2026/06/16
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
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309: Yellow? Is It Me You're Looking For?
2026/06/03
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.
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308: Orange You Glad?
2026/05/20
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?
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307: We're Back in the Red Again
2026/05/07
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.
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306: Geology Rocks
2026/04/28
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
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305: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #61
2025/12/20
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
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304: Spa Day
2025/12/08
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
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303: Pest Control
2025/11/27
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.
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302: Bad Guy
2025/11/21
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.
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301: Come On Down!
2025/11/14
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.
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300: Our 300th Episode!
2025/10/29
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.
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smartg4719 2026/07/24
Egg corn alert!
Love this podcast so much! Should have rated it years ago, but rating it now because I’m not on social media, and I’m not sure how else to let them kn...
GJBobsessed 2026/05/27
Best pub trivia prep out there!
I am on my 2nd time through all 300+ episodes and I couldn’t recommend it more! If you like to learn, listen, and be right of quizzes, this show is to...
ricKauffman 2026/04/29
All the Alliterations are Awful!
The alliterations were fun for a while, now the show opening makes me cringe every time and I have to convince myself not to turn it off. We’re all im...
dnd dragon kitty 2026/01/03
Great show!
Love this show so much! By the way, Karen, there is a modern day crystal maze, with the same concept, I am to young, at 13, to have watched the origin...
Sherman123456789 2025/11/20
Wait for it!
It’s in the Hamilton Polka!!! Karen still won, but that wasn’t an impossible answer!!
Ooooooooga 2025/11/14
Positive vibes
Kind people with good attitudes excited about trivia
Lizney55 2025/10/07
Too long without a rating
Y’all were the first podcast I ever listened to and happy to have kept on for the past 7 years. Miss you during your breaks but if this schedule keeps...
TomBritt 2025/07/07
Love this Podcast!
I started listening to this podcast very early on, they fueled many solo work trips over the years. I miss Dana, but I’m glad the other three have sta...
Not So Trivia Buff 2025/06/21
Best (although only) Podcast I’ve Listened To!
I started listening to this podcast a year ago with my mom, and I can’t stop! We’ve only gotten to 125th episode, but there’s still so much to listen ...
TJHoward12 2025/05/14
Ugh….
Sound quality is obnoxious and the content they talk about is a mental waste 😕
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