Directions? Check. Sunscreen for one arm? Check. Snack cracker tubes filled with semi slimy pizza-flavored cheese? Check! And now we're ready to hit the road and drive off to Trivia Land! Chris has our eyes peeled looking for license plate facts, and Karen treks through some rocky road in a pop culture lightning round. Get out your cameras as we pass by Australia's eccentric and huge roadside attractions in the Big Things quiz. Play a round of "One is Easy, Three is Hard" with us, and what's a road trip vacation without an ode to the humble, wood-paneled station wagon?
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254: We're Going on a Road Trip

Vexillologists rejoice! Colin's got a green flag quiz, and find out which country's flag is the most nightmarish to reproduce. Can you smell all that spring greenery? Karen has found plants that smell like everything from groin sweat to chocolate chip cookies. We got a green-making-green situation here with the powerful profiting prowess of Shrek. And boy, really test your musician ID skills because themed music round is back, now with 100% more green felt!

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253: Going Green

Sure we are stepping into our Old Fart era but just like Whitney, we believe the children are our future. Enjoy facts and trivia about being young! From vampires to cryo-freeze, take Karen's quiz about anti-aging in famous fictional works, and find out just how mid you might be in the dreaded teen slang challenge. What's your internal age? Hear our jaws crash on to the floor as we play Chris' "How Young Were They?!" game about remarkable over-achievers in history. And was Ponce de León really looking for the fountain of youth? ALSO: hyperforeignism foodie quiz

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252: When We Were Young

Just a few months shy from the scent of sunblock and chlorine, the taste of pink lemonade, the sound of radio jams, and the spectacle of the blockbuster. Yes all, it's time to sit back and unwind because it's summertime! We start with a tricky summer blockbuster quiz, and end with an epic AI-movie-trailer-voice-powered summer jams music challenge. Along the way, we bask in facts about lemonade (why does pink lemonade exist?!) and how would you go on to calculate just how many swimming pools there are in Los Angeles?

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251: Summer, Summer, Summertime

Can you believe we’re hitting our 50th All Quiz episode?! To celebrate, puzzle master Tyler Hinman joins us for a thicc and extra quizzy episode filled with games, puzzles, trivia, and yes, McDonalds around the world! We try to meld our minds in a quick revival of Password. Tyler hosts a googly “Did You Mean…” quiz, and has crafted a CCL word game. We hop into Colin’s DeLorean to go back in time, five years at a time in his “Fifty Years of History” quiz. Then Chris takes us on a dreamy tour around the world sampling McDonald’s seasonal and international fare. Karen charts the rise of hot food trends, and see if you remember the heavy hitters in the past couple of years. Happy 50th All Quiz!!!

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250: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #50

Give your knuckles a good crack because it's time to bone up on bone trivia! What do Shakespeare, Chaplin, and Lincoln all have in common? Chris shares hilarious stories of major botched grave-robbing attempts in history. Test your bone superlatives knowledge, and learn some saucy facts about the most famous "pizza bone." And roll them bones! Colin looks into the tradition of using bones in games. So goth. Speaking of bone games, check out Colin's game, Bare Bones!

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249: Make No Bones About It

Colin tests us on big-time embarrassing goofs in the world of music, politics, and sports! Ever been surprised/haunted by a truly embarrassing memory from the past? Find out why we have these cringe attacks. Adele Nazeem's got nothing on Chris in his awkward award show moment challenge. Do you remember when dog poop used to be white and crumbly? What happened to them and where did they go? And TV is in its cringe comedy era, and Karen can barely stomach the awkwardness in her multi-network quiz.

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248: You're Embarrassing Me!

Let's give it up for the all the Davids who had to face the Goliaths of the world! We salute the little engines that could with facts and trivia about underdogs. When indie cool becomes popular: Colin surprises all of us with a quiz about the top grossing independent movies of all time, and we are still shocked. Karen celebrates the number twos and number twos of the toy world. Chris uncovers some way harsh professional reviews in his quiz, File Under "Dogs." And find out how a company took 40 years to finally become an overnight success, blessing all of us with fruity burps.

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247: Rooting for the Underdog

Our tongues are now strangely sticky and weirdly sweet from licking all these envelopes to deliver you amazing facts about shipping and mail! Find out how Hugh Jackman is (kind of) connected to the US postal rules regarding mailing live scorpions. Chris sorts through rumors about a strange loophole in our nation's postal history. Karen's got a music round and directions to a secret theme, and Colin discover the deadly dangers of shipping food. ALSO: lottery update, grab bag delivery quiz, Good Job, Cats!

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246: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Trivia is blooming, and the facts are emerging from the cold winter ground. Happy Spring 2023 season, and let's lush this place up with quizzes galore! Come meet our special quizmaster guest: ChatGPT! With some guidance from Colin, our new friend has written a quiz all about artificial intelligence domination. Take Chris' "Super Sugar Anything" challenge if you know your consumer product names. And it's time to blast some grunge and help Karen settle into her new home state with a quiz all about movies and shows set in the very moody and very rainy Pacific Northwest. ALSO: fabrics quiz, Atari 50, Baby Boomer Trivial Pursuit


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245: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #49

Scintillating swaps, scandalous switches, and sweet substitutions! Play Karen's letter-switching game focused around the best selling video games of all time. Learn about the most outrageous and bumbling horse racing scandal that involves copious amount of henna hair dye. We got a double dose of TV quizzes involving beloved shows that started out as midseason replacements, and shows that famously recasted actors. Find out how to make eggless egg whites, and the time has finally come to test your knowledge on human-animal transformation movies.

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244: It's a Switcheroo

Recline and kick your feed up, and let us soothe your mind with relaxing facts. From cucumber facials to nightcaps, wind down the night with Karen's personal rituals quiz. Maybe go on a stress-reducing camping expedition where you can sleep AND poop under the stars. Colin shares a truly wonderful recent breakthrough in P.I.T.W. (Pooping In The Woods) innovation. Does tinkering with a fidget spinner help ease the nerves? Then take our scientific desk toy challenge! And the (British) people have spoken! Chris has a chill music round featuring the most popular relaxing songs based on a survey among 2000 British people. Can you identify all these easy listening winners?

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243: Sit Back and Relax

To celebrate NASA successfully smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid, we're all about impactful trivia this week! Oh dear, two words have collided into each other in Karen's portmanteau brand name quiz. We find out about the first ever recorded "car" crashes. From molasses to jelly packets, trucks spill the darnedest things! Chris tells us how to prevent a computer crash, and American hustle of the humble bubble wrap.

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242: Crashing the Party

Mwwahah, we dug through the cemetery of past episodes to patch together this Frankenstein clips show. The infamous Ghost Host has graciously materialized to take you on a ride through our frightfully fall-themed face-filled festive favorites. Flesh eating bugs! Squash coffee! Trick or treat! (Turns out it's both when it comes to Scandinavian candy.) Fonsillectomy! A memorable scream, and more!

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241: Halloween Clips Spooktacular

We are living, laughing, and loving in this truly outrageous All Quiz this week with special guest: crossword designer & longtime listener, Neville Fogarty! It's us versus "the other guys" in Colin's top selling band quiz. And excuse you, it wasn't Karen who fartlek a deuce in the 5-hole, it was somebody in her sports jargon quiz! "Between You & Me" - Neville riddles us with what is sandwiched between two very specific things. (And we hope you didn't study because) Chris (finally) debuts the (long awaited) parenthetical song quiz filled with (rum) drinks, (Christmas) time, and (self) doubt. ALSO: little league, Merv Griffin, and "successories."

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240: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #48

We're shining the big, bright, brainy spotlight this week on the... more secondary things in our lives: the add-ons, the trimmings, the enhancements. Colin has prepared an unreal quiz about Barbie accessories that have caused arm-flailing outrage, cringe controversy, and risky recalls. Karen ponders about accessories in the digital world: what are some things people use to spruce up their online space and make it their own? And what does this have to do with the most viewed photograph in the history of humankind? Put on your best scrunchies and slap bracelets because Chris takes us back to December 1989, when the world first witnessed the ultimate video game accessory: the Power Glove. “It’s so bad.”

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239: Accessories Pull It All Together

Trivia and facts about things that have been wiped out and erased. Karen has removed one letter from famous book titles! Can you recognize these literary works by their bonkers updated plot summaries? Enjoy the debut of Colin's segment, "Hey, It's Not Written in Stone... Oh Wait, Actually It Is Written in Stone?" about how people remedied typo goofs on very, very, very famous monuments. Chris sparks our interest in mysterious movies that have been wiped out of existence all because old film had a nasty habit of burning down buildings. Find out how dry erase markers work, and the very tantalizing love triangle that takes place in erasable pens.

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238: [REDACTED]

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for... mesmerizing trivia, and we're feeling good! Chris is out in the barn, finding out just how hardcore roosters are. Why do they crow at daybreak? Colin's in the kitchen brewing an aromatic coffee quiz just for you. And if you're not a caffeine person, Karen can pour you a glass of a-peeling facts about how the once ignored orange ended up on your breakfast table. Make trivia a part of your complete breakfast! (But what technically makes a breakfast "complete" anyways?)
ALSO: Oldest dogs

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237: Good Morning, Brain!

Wombat poop, CD cases, and lunch boxes - join in on our revelatory revelry respectfully recognizing rectangles! Get your angles right with facts about squares and cubes. Take Chris' double question set challenge inspired by the Nintendo GameCube. Karen's got the scoop on historic ice cream square containers, and dishes out a food packaging quiz. Colin goes true crime on us, Ancient Greek style, and shares a tale about intrigue, secret societies, murder on the high seas....and the square root of two...?

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236: It's Hip to Be Square

We had a raging "Orange Lobster Summer," and now we're back with more trivia! Dana takes us on an epic quizzy wiki dive, and Karen's showing off an alluring alliteration round where all the questions (and some answers) are completely alliterative. And the D's have it!...in Colin's Di, De, Da, Du famous name quiz. The candyman sure can in Chris' "It's Kinda Sweet" weird candy trivia tribute, dedicated to Dana!
This will be Dana's last GJB episode - and yes, we are very sad! But let's rotate that frown 180 degrees, and let's have one last brainy blast.

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