Wed, 30 June 2021
It's our last episode of this season, and it has been such a wonderful homecoming, so let's celebrate with trivia all about houses, abodes, domiciles, nests, pads, and dens! Famous fictional addresses, animal nest vocab test, and it's all water under the house in this homey English expressions quiz. Take a twisty cruise with Karen, traveling all the way from Bermuda and right into your home. And meet the master squisher of the household, Victor Mills. Also: James Taylor, Decathlon challenge, we announce our inaugural Good Job, Brain! Charity Fund grant recipients. |
Wed, 23 June 2021
Let’s melt our brains and dazzle our eyeholes with a trivia-filled celebration all about TV! Can you figure out what movies these hilarious newspaper TV summaries by Rick Polito are describing? Dana tests us on the most watched moments in world history, and Karen tries to find the weakest link in her rapid fire game show quiz. Colin takes us on a wild, wild ride about NBA television rights that starts with Will Ferrell, makes a pitstop at KFC, and then ends with the greatest deal in sports history. Find yourself trapped in a TV show? Take this quiz to escape! (Just kidding, usually it takes learning a heavy life lesson to escape.) Also: Escape This Podcast, Music Listener Challenge! |
Wed, 23 June 2021
It’s a very special bonus episode all about game shows with our first ever panel of experts! Join Karen and former game show contestants Elliot, Amy, and GJB pal Tyler in a roundtable about what’s it like being on a game show, how to prepare for one, and some behind the scenes secrets. Elliot schools us on how to best prepare, work, and earn your win. What’s it like filming during COVID? What was Amy’s winning strategy on Supermarket Sweep? Find out how much Karen has to pay in taxes for her The Chase winnings, while Tyler shares his hot book-stacking tips for Skype audition call backs. |
Wed, 16 June 2021
How well do you remember the last few years or is it one giant year blob? We discover some current events trivia that... might not be so current after all. Need a special memory manipulation service? Take Chris' memory-altering movie test! And why do smells conjure up memories? Bust out your childhood sticker collection because we find out the origin of scratch and sniff stickers. Finally, let's soar all over the world in Karen's memorial monument quiz. ALSO: ultimate sports memorabilia, GJB 2012 Debut Challenge |
Mon, 7 June 2021
The sun's shining, the bees are buzzing, and the flowers are blooming just so they can pass on genetic material and then die. But cheer up because we got factoids and quizzes about the green stuff around us! Colin ponders about hummingbirds and what animal can actually poop out an avocado pit, and Dana gets our green juice flowing with a garden quiz. It's okay if you hate eating vegetables because you can still play TOSS THAT SALAD with Karen. And Chris quizzes us on some famous fictional plants. And we find out if it true that figs have dead wasps in them? Also: last meal, world's largest painting |
Mon, 31 May 2021
Grab something to drink because this trivia snack mix is making me thirsty! A bit of math & science from Karen with her time unit quiz (but just remember to play Fortnite with her in a fortnight)! A bit of Disney from Chris who tests our live action Disney film knowledge spanning over 50 years. A bit of etymology from "The Long and Short of It" aka Colin's clipped word quiz. And a bit of gawker pop culture from Dana who finds out which one of us is a reality show expert. Also: a baked good, Do you know your Triple Firsties? |
Mon, 24 May 2021
Reboots, reinventions, resets, and rebirths! Travel around the world in Karen's former place names quiz. Jenny from the Block? No, it's Lucy from the Sewer! Chris introduces us to the actress who was once was Lucille LeSueur until she got rebranded. Colin's getting the band together for his album reunion quiz, and Dana tries our tech knowledge with a reboot vocab test. ALSO: Mr. Splashy Pants, and Chris' Cameo quiz prize reveal! |
Mon, 17 May 2021
It sure has been an eventful year, so here is our episode filled with facts and quizzes surrounding lockdown life. Love a good inventions quiz? Then we invite you to play a round of "War, Plague, or Depression!" Chris misses karaoke and shares its surprising simultaneous origin story. Karen dives into shopping trends of the past year and has a quiz about top selling items. Colin takes us on a virtual trip to Florence to visit the quarantine-friendly but mysterious "wine windows." And subject yourself to a very tough Cameo audio challenge! |
Mon, 10 May 2021
Feed your starters, and check your ebay notifications because we're decoupaging our way through trivia and facts about hobbies! Since there are very few official terms for specific collection hobbies, Karen's got a quiz about made-up hobby names with the help of our Twitter fans. Chris gives us a glimpse of some *wild* stuff that has shaken and changed the world of video game collecting, so it's time to go back up the attic again and and check to see if your old Nintendo game can fetch massive money! Boot up that Cricut to slice through Dana's arts & crafts quiz. And Colin introduces us to the most amazingly irrational hobby as we record on Pi Day. |
Mon, 3 May 2021
We're making stops around the world in this episode dedicated to geography and foreign countries! Perk your ears up for Karen's special foreign language pop music round, and learn the mnemonic for remembering the seven STANs. Listen to the incredible (and incredibly real) tale of an international vacation gone awry when a German tourist mistook Bangor, Maine for San Francisco, California. Dana's bringing back Belgium or Not Belgium, and didn't you hear? Tiny is all the rage now: tiny food, tiny houses, tiny dogs, and of course, a quiz about the tiniest countries in the world! |
Mon, 26 April 2021
Shake your pensive pompoms and march with the brainy band because it's a trivia GJB homecoming rally! Feast on "Before & After" club sandwiches with Karen, take the famous scams challenge with Dana, and get our butts kicked in Chris' "Things My 6 Year Old Knows" Quiz. Teamwork makes the dream work as we work together to figure out when certain words entered in Colin's dictionary game. |
Mon, 26 April 2021
Let's light up our lobes, lovely listeners because WE'VE MISSED YOU! It's 2021, and we're back together (virtually) for a new season of GJB. In this mini episode, we catch up on the hiatus and of course, dip our toes back into the big trivia pool with a music quiz. So bask in the chlorinated smell of a brand spanking new season of Good Job, Brain! |