Good Job, Brain!

Can't think of a better way to spend our season finale than time travel back to 2018 when we recorded an All Quiz episode that we forgot about and never aired. So put get those fidget spinners out and get magically whisked away to a time where people tuned into HQ Trivia everyday, including Dana, who crafted a tricky multiple choice inspired by it. A time when NBA teams first debuted the jersey sponsor logo that inspired Colin to craft his hometown sponsor quiz. Karen goes international with a foreign language music round and a hard quiz about global pies. And Chris serves us a very refreshing music quiz. Be prepared for some amazing outdated references. Four years have never felt so long ago. But whether if it's 2022 or 2018, we're just happy you're here with us. Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The crew gets captivated by curious competitions and crazy contests. Scratch deep into the history of the state lottery. Take a juicy bite out of that red bell pepper, Chairman Kaga because we're going to crown the next Iron Chef expert in Dana's food competition...competition. PC vs. Mac, Campbell's vs. Progresso, Ford vs. Ferrari, test your rivalry knowledge in Karen's quiz. We lose our minds (and our balloons) over Chris' segment about the biggest Guinness World Record goofs. ALSO: eggcorn watch, blue lobster updates, final Wordle logic puzzle. Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We get our hands dirty this week! How can the most expensive dirt in the world be worth 9 BILLION dollars? And importantly, *where* can you find it? From Windex to Tide, Colin's cleaning brands challenge will be sure to leave you spotless. Dana's got a quiz all about dirty-titled movies, and Karen shares the aromatic mystery behind moon dust. And watch out for the goose poop when learning about dirty jobs like egg addling and cherry blowing. Also: Wordle logic puzzle, and recording from Las Vegas. Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our first episode dedicated to a shape! Facts and quizzes about things that are circular, spherical, and round. Take the International House of Food Balls quiz and learn about the worldly origins of Taiwanese boba milk tea. Colin shares a harrowing tale about the manhole cover that might have flown into outer space. Round shapes you'd want to nerd out about, turn tables, and a Wordle-inspired listener challenge! Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Karen has another round of "Drop a Deuce" and Dana has us filling in the missing lyrics. Do you know your TV finales? Then come on down for a round of "Last in Line!" Do you do the Freddo or eat the Freddo? We celebrate the magical world of Aussie foods with "Dance fad or Australian Snack"? And Colin's quiz got us traveling from point A to point B so we'll C U letter. Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Decibels! Voices that shatter glass! Loudest concert records! We're pumping the trivia jam this week with intriguing facts about volume and sound. The 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano holds the record of being the loudest event in human history, but is it possible to fully comprehend a volume of that magnitude? Blast that car radio and tune in for a twisty tale about an epic Singaporean radio call-in contest. And Chris turns it up to eleven with a quiz dedicated to the *loudest* number. We are airing bumpers created by GJB listeners this year! This week: Hudson, who is not Levar Burton Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

C'mon, let's head down to the trivia vault filled with facts about security, protection, and secrets! Fort Knox has been called the most secure vault on planet Earth but what actually goes on at Fort Knox? Nowadays, we don't leave the house without our "wallet, keys, phone" but did you know people in the 1800s wouldn't leave the house without their chatelaines? Take Karen's famous secret recipe quiz and learn about how food companies protect and lock up their delicious secret formulas. Why is a vault called a vault? And are skeleton keys made of bone? Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a red-letter day as Dana gets caught red-handed with the red herring in her general red quiz, and Colin dispels common myths about red traffic lights. Musicians are seeing red in Chris' truly epic trivia round about the biggest Grammy's upsets, inspired by Taylor Swift's album, Red. And Karen puts the literal cherry on top with facts about the artificial red flavor, and the most iconic red food, the maraschino cherry. We are airing bumpers created by GJB listeners this year! This week: Georges Lefevre, our fearless FB fan group leader and his 6yo daughter, Avaline. Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TEN YEARS since our first episode! Let's all celebrate the number 10. Butter up your cheddar bay biscuits because Karen looks into the strange repeating occurrence of rare-colored decapods that keep showing up at Red Lobster. "That was ten years ago!?" Dana tests our (foggy) recall with a 2012 vs 2019 dictionary quiz. Colin steps his foot in the yard as he tries to pound facts into our brains to get us fathom the hilarious history of Americans trying to adopt the base ten metric system. Chris quizzes us on famous events that have happened on October 10th throughout history. We are airing bumpers created by GJB listeners! This week it's an original piece by Abigail Clarke who arranges women's barbershop music! Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy new 2022 season! We hit the ground running with our best Wordle strategies, and Colin's tricky cooperation multiple choice quiz, "Can You Beat a Monkey with a Dart Board?" We welcome spring with Chris' quiz about March-related sayings, and Dana's got us thinking hard about wood with "Tree People," inspired by her new carpentry hobby. And can you identify the Shakespeare play by its most famous line? What about when they're spoken by your favorite cartoon characters, thanks to AI technology? Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're wrapping this season up with an episode all about gifts and presents! Remember Tickle Me Elmo, Razor scooters, and the Talk Boy? Then take a walk down memory lane with Colin's hottest toy challenge. Learn about a present you should never give yourself from the hardware store, and Dana's got a list of Christmas song presents and she's checking it twice. And Karen's writing gift tags in "From Country with Love," a quiz about country-to-country gifting traditions. Also: horror bird statue, and the thrilling conclusion to our puzzle adventure with Carmin San Mateo. Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's elementary, my dear Watson! Find the hidden element name in Colin's quiz. Karen discovers her beloved childhood TV elementals have a strange and strong tie to Bruce Springsteen. There are 11 periodic elements whose symbols are not represented by their names. Chris finds out how and why that is, while sharing some bonkers facts about how some elements got their names. Relax the mind and play "Oh you mean...?" - the debut of Dana's very experimental homophone phrase game where we completely lost it! And it's our last Carmin San Mateo puzzle as we inch closer and closer. Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're all seeing double this week now that we've made it to our 222nd episode. We don our raccoonnookkeeper uniforms for Chris' double letter Scrabble word challenge but this time, it's all about words that strangely begin with twinning letters. Celebrate human-animal pals in this Dana's duo quiz, and learn weird facts about reduplicated cities that are so nice, they named them twice: Walla Walla, Pago Pago, and what exactly is so funny about Canada's Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!? Buy low and sell high in Colin's corporate partnership quiz with some mind-melting trivia behind famous companies. And of course, we're traveling to our third destination in space trying to catch Carmin San Mateo and her greaser henchwoman, Didi Connvict. Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ah hah! We trapped Laura E. Hall (author of Planning Your Escape, puzzle maker, and escape room designer) into a bonus interview with Chris! Can she escape before Chris starts overloading her with Fleetwood Mac facts? We are delighted to debut our first ever one-on-one interview special with Laura, a bona fide expert and pioneer in the field of escape room and immersive experience design. Laura shares some history, behind-the-scenes accounts, and stories about seeing way too many butts. And remember, the real prize is the friendships we made along the way, so Laura discusses ways for people to best come together and work together without ruining relationships! Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get hype for type and go gooey for Dewey because this week, it's all about books, writing, and reading! Dana's quiz about famous librarians gets us jumping from page to page, and Karen's graphic novel quiz gets us hopping from panel to panel. Colin dives deep into the Microsoft archives to discover the dramatic origin of Comic Sans, and the man behind this typeface phenomenon. Discover what common words and phrases we use everyday actually stem from the tradition of the printing press. And do you ever wonder why books have a certain smell? Our own chronic book sniffer Chris is on the chemical case! Also: Where in outer space is Carmin San Mateo? Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hope you have a lot of toast handy because it's a jam-packed episode! Karen puts on "LollaPUPlooza" - THE festival for dog breed trivia! We dive into the crayon box and explore some of the more quizzical Crayola color names. And it's the return of "First in Line" where we try to identify movies solely by their first few words. 4x4? 45 record? Colin gets us to play "What's That Number" that's all about meaningful numbers in everyday names. Artist Nigel Sussman drops by for Pop Quiz, and tells us all about the mouth-watering piece he has created for us that's now available in our new merch store. And we're still trying to catch Carmin San Mateo who has our trivia prize! Help us find the next location! Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hold on to your butts and get ready for a trivia-filled escape adventure this week! We asked Dani & Bill from Escape This Podcast to create and run a surprise audio trivia escape room just for us. Come fuse into our skin-meld quadrabody for some intrigue, puzzles, quiz questions, and laughs in this loving ode to pub quiz. Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These trivia pretzels are making us thirsty because we are upping our sodium intake this week to celebrate the crystalline savory goodness that is salt. Learn how people absolutely and hilariously dunked on Thomas Jefferson and his quest for the mysterious and legendary "salt mountain." Take Dana's salty quiz, and take a trivia joyride with Colin across the Bonneville Salt Flats, and find out why car commercials are always being filmed there. And get ready for a truly wild, wild, wild origin story behind the humble barnacle. ALSO: World Porridge Making Championship, NACL word quiz Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just call us Selina Kyle as we leap from cat quiz to cat quiz in this week's special feline feature. After waiting for eight long years, Chris finally gets to share part two of "Fictional Cats!" Karen's got questions all about foods deceptively named after feline body parts, and Dana's got a quite the catalogue of cattery categories. And let's celebrate astounding cat super powers - why their eyes glow, and what is up with that butt wiggle? Also: bee poo Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We can have a whole debate about the most disliked Halloween candy, but Chris goes the extra mile of hate-researching his sugar nemesis: Necco Wafers. Get trapped in a mansion with Karen and the golden rules of detective murder mystery writing, and the origin behind "the butler did it." The story behind the first (and maybe only) photograph of a zombie and author Zora Neale Hurston's fascination with Haitian voodoo culture. And let's build a haunted house with science - amazing facts behind the most common spooky decor that's probably around you right now! Good Job, Brain is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. For advertising inquiries, please contact sales@advertisecast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices