Good Job, Brain!

• 285: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #57 with Dani Siller & Bill Sunderland

  HAPPY NEW YEAR! Bill and Dani from Escape This Podcast join us for our longest and quizziest episode yet! Do you know your fuzz-pigs from your hummerhorns? Take Karen's archaic animal name quiz inspired by a Pokémon GO walk gone wrong. For super duper film buffs, Bill's got a very creative movie character connections quiz. Patent-head Dani tests our gaming smarts with legal descriptions of gaming inventions. And Chris made trivia quiz with questions. ALSO: topsy-turvy Australian music round For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 284: Your Guide to Guides

  Quizzes and weird facts about guidebooks and guides! Colin drives us through "The Knowledge" - the fascinating and grueling steps of becoming a London cab driver, known to be one of the most difficult exams in the world. How do you like them apples? How we escaped the Red Delicious' flavorless grasp, and the one apple ranking guide to rule them all. Come travel with us from page to page in Chris' quiz about those literary maps you'd find in the beginning of books. From POÄNG to MEATBALLS, can we all make it through Karen's IKEA maze quiz without a meltdown? Also, check out Colin's game, now about to enter its second printing! For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 283: Gettin' Personal with the Computer

  [TRIVIA HARD MODE] activated. Yes, for the first time in 12 years, we’re slapping on a difficulty disclaimer. Nothing sinister, just a coincidence that we all went a bit nerdier than usual. So why not listen to us flail at computer trivia? Take Karen's exhaustively comprehensive movie robot voice challenge and see if you can identify the actors behind those voices. Learn how the toy industry is to blame for the Worst Computer Ever Existed. And very aptly, Colin made his computer quiz while walking around in the heart of Silicon Valley. ALSO: the return of the off-topic Music Round, expertly crafted by Chris. There is no Fleetwood Mac. For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 282: Spiking It To Ya

  Spiky trivia that will poke your brain! Baby hedgehogs vs baby porcupines, and more prodding facts in Karen's spiny quiz. Colin lays down the tracks to make way for the (embarrassing) legend of the golden railroad spike. Get saucy with some spiked drinks in the alcohol ingredient quiz. And boy, there sure are a lot of people nicknamed Spike, aren't there? ALSO: zeugma, state quarters, and this episode's homemade cryptic For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 281: Skin in the Game

  Time to exfoliate with facts and trivia about skin! From peach fuzz to leather, from scales to polyurethane, we got you covered. Get cute and cutaneous with sharks, and how their skin might save our lives. If you can dodge a wrench, then you can dodge Colin's quiz questions about sport balls like why are soccer balls black and white? And are footballs really made of pigskin? Books bound in human skin: bogus or boy-get-this-outta-here? Chris reports live from the restricted section of the library. And on the opposite end, Karen explores the history and phenomenon of fake leather. For advertising inquiries, please contact [email protected]! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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