Episodes
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Published 10/20/23
Published 10/20/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Movies, TV, Geography, Inventions, Science, Astrology, Art and more! Round One GEMSTONES - Which gemstone is associated with a 45th wedding anniversary? ASTROLOGY - Which astrological sign, the sixth of the zodiac, is associated with Astraea (a figure of Greek myth)? HEALTH - The clap is the nickname of what STD? MOVIES - During a heroic rescue in Shrek 2, which character is revealed by Gingy to be wearing a...
Published 09/25/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Animals, Movies, 80’s Music, Cooking, Video Games, Television, Astrology, U.S. History and more! Round One ANIMALS - Generally, what kind of animal lives in a warren? FILM ADAPTATIONS - Nothing Lasts Forever is the title of a Roderick Thorp novel that inspired which 1988 action film (that became a franchise)? FRUITS & VEGETABLES - What name is given to the hybrid plant that can grow poth potatoes and tomatoes on a...
Published 09/11/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet with Captain Nick for a trivia quiz on topics including 90’s Movies, Inventions, Aviation History, Medical Terms, Botany and more! Round One VEGETABLES - Daikon and mooli are types of which vegetable? 90’s MOVIES - After the Blue Brothers, what 1992 comedy became the second movie to be based on a series of sketches from Saturday Night Live? INVENTIONS - What cross-country vehicle invented by Alexander Graham Bell is still used today for rescue, military...
Published 08/22/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Dog Breeds, Pop Duets, 80’s & 90’s Movies, Video Games, Sports, Science, Cooking, and more! Round One DOG BREEDS - What breed of dog (whose origins can be traced to the area that is now modern Croatia) was once used as a carriage dog to protect from banditry and later were utilized by early fire-fighting groups around their wagons as well (to calm the horses)? POP DUETS - "Ebony and Ivory" was a single released in...
Published 08/15/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Cooking, Anatomy, Science, Classic TV, History, Music and more! Round One COOKING - What is the main ingredient of the Italian dish frittata? ANATOMY - What is a common term for the intergluteal cleft? MEASUREMENTS - Rounding up or down to the nearest number, if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many gallons did Peter Piper pick? CLASSIC TV - A big band jazz arrangement of which English nursery rhyme...
Published 08/08/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Formula 1, 80’s Music, Food Science, Greek Mythology, Toys, U.S. Presidents and more! Round One FOOD SCIENCE - What type of sugar is naturally present in milk, adding body and sweeting flavor? GREEK MYTHOLOGY - In Greek mythology, what did Prometheus steal from Zeus and give to mankind? VIDEO FORMATS - The movie Jaws was the first commercial release for what optical video disc format that was the first of its kind when...
Published 07/30/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Movies, Music, Sports, Technology, Pop Culture, Fashion, Medical and more! Round One 90’s NEWS - Under the 1966 Vandalism Act, 18-year old Michael Fay was caned due to car vandalization in what country? 20th CENTURY MUSIC - Which instrument was American bandleader Glenn Miller famous for playing? MOVIES - “Man eaten by alligators” is the action given by a director to an actor as well as the description on the canister...
Published 07/13/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including History, Geography, Literature, Famous Cocktails, Roman Mythology, Basketball, Soccer, Casino Games and more! Round One FAMOUS COCKTAILS - What vodka cocktail was designed in 1941 to make use of a surplus of copper mugs from Russia? ROMAN MYTHOLOGY - Who is the equivalent to the Greek god Eros in Roman mythology? SOCCER - David Beckham began the U.S. portion of his professional soccer career playing for which Major...
Published 07/02/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet with Kyle Anne for a trivia quiz on topics including Biology, History, Greek Mythology, Television, Video Games, Sports, Movie Cameos and more! Round One BIOLOGY - Chardota, arthropoda and mollusca are all examples of which biological, taxonomic rank? CRUSTACEANS - Including claws, how many pairs of legs do crawfish typically have? GAME OF THRONES - "We do not sow" are the words of which major house of Westeros? GREEK MYTHOLOGY - In Greek mythology, who was...
Published 06/23/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Television, Movies, Science, Video Games, Tiki Drinks, Formula 1, Soccer and more! Round One TIKI DRINKS - What tiki drink, said to be the official cocktail of the Nixon presidency, consists of rum, orgeat, lime juice, simple syrup, and orange curaçao? NATIONAL FLAGS - How many stars in total are on the national flags of Australia, China and Pakistan? ANIMAL ANATOMY - The circulatory system of an octopus includes how...
Published 06/11/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet with Skyler for a trivia quiz with topics including Auto History, Food Network, Cult Movies, Restaurants, Baking, Whiskey, Gaming History, U.S. Geography, Psychology, Pop Music and more! Round One AUTO HISTORY - What European country was the first to introduce license plates? FOOD NETWORK - Which Food Network personality hosts a game show where chef contestants face obstacles in collecting their ingredients for a judged competition? CULT MOVIES - What...
Published 05/23/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet with Tim & Joee for a trivia quiz with topics including NHL, 80s Movies, Dinosaurs, 2000’s R&B, Movies, Beer, Birds, Hats and more! Round One NHL - First established in 1970, which NHL team out of New York is named after a type of weapon and is the oldest active team in the NHL to have never won a Stanley Cup? BALLOONING - The International Balloon Fiesta is the world's largest air balloon festival and is located in what Southwestern U.S. city? 80s...
Published 05/15/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Medical Terms, Art, Anatomy, Geography, History, Martial Arts, Music and more! Round One MEDICAL TERMS - Rubeola and morbilli are technical terms for which childhood illness? ART - In 1964, Andy Warhol produced a detail-perfect replica of a box containing what brand of scouring soap pad? U.S. SUPREME COURT - Who is the longest serving Justice currently on the Supreme Court? ANATOMY - What long bone is located next to...
Published 05/07/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet with Seth for a trivia quiz with topics including Anatomy, Marketing, Disney, Food, Cryptids, Sports and more! Round One ANATOMY - The sclera is a part of which organ in the human body? COMMERCIALS - What product's commercial from 1972 featured someone proclaiming "I can't believe I ate the whole thing"? CURRENT EVENTS - Fox News repeatedly aired allegations that what company’s voting machines were rigged against Trump in the 2020 while knowing the...
Published 04/28/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet with Kyle Anne for a trivia quiz with topics including History, Food, Geography, Inventions, Music, Literature and more! Round One U.S. HISTORY - What president officially declared February "Black History Month"? JAMES BOND - Beginning with 1973's Live and Let Die and ending with 1985's A View to a Kill, which actor has portrayed James Bond in a major film more often than any other? FOOD - Also known as creme parmentier (and vichyssoise) is a popular French...
Published 04/18/23
Quizmasters Elliot, Amelia, Wilson and Locklyn meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Baked Goods, Literature, Animals, French Language, Ancient Egypt, Hummingbirds, Astronomy, Geometry, Hip Hop, Botany, Video Games, Art History and more! Round One BAKED GOODS - Ruth Graves Wakefield invented what delicious baked dessert in 1938? LITERATURE - What is the first children's book that Dr. Seuss wrote? ANIMAL TERMS - What do you call a baby antelope? FRENCH LANGUAGE - What does "salut"...
Published 04/01/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Pop Culture, Food, World History, Geometry, Baking Terms, F1 Racing, Aviation, Literature and more! Round One PIZZA - According to mobile pizza ordering app Slice, what ingredient saw the largest increase in orders by users in 2022 (up 8.9% from 2021)? GEOMETRY - How many degrees is each angle in an equilateral triangle? POP CULTURE - Which pop culture icons 1969 funeral saw over 20,000 mourners in attendance? MOVIES -...
Published 03/24/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Sports, Video Games, Hollywood, Geography, History, Anatomy, Literature, Music and more! Round One SOCCER - In soccer, how many yellow cards result in a red card? VIDEO GAMES - Originally released by Nintendo, what was the top-selling non-Atari game released for the Atari 2600? HOLLYWOOD - What actor (also the father to four sons named Peter, Eric, Michael and Joel, who also work in the TV and film industry as actors...
Published 03/17/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet with Fletcher for a trivia quiz with topics including History, Movies, Animals, Computers, Greek Mythology, Anatomy, Food & Beverage, Olympics and more! Round One MCU - Besides 2020, which year was the only to have no movie installments in the MCU (since its inception with the release of Iron Man in 2008)? NEW YORK CITY - Though the third largest in terms of land area, which is the least populous of the five New York City boroughs? MOVIES - With an...
Published 03/12/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Celebrities, Football, Animals, Nuclear Power, Video Games, Television, French Language and more! Round One CELEBRITIES - Michelle Robinson is the maiden name of which famous Michelle (born in 1964)? FOOTBALL - Until the early 80's, former NFL running back Ed Smith was unaware that he was the model for the figure atop which prestigious football award? FOOTBALL - Tom Brady's retirement marks the last professional...
Published 03/05/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet with Erik for a trivia quiz with topics including Black History, Television, Video Games, Pop Music, Literature, Fast Food, Animals, Geography and more! Round One PHARMACOLOGY - Nepetalactone is the active ingredient in what pet product? TELEVISION - In Arrested Development, Tobias flips down a custom license plate bearing the name and title of which fellow Fox TV title character after not securing the role (for which Tobias's actor David Cross was once in...
Published 02/21/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet for a trivia quiz with topics including Movies, Television, Science, Religion, History and more! Round One SUPREME COURT CASES - Loving v. Virginia, settled by the Supreme Court in 1976, found that laws prohibiting what were unconstitutional? MOVIES - "Scarlet", "Blue & Yellow" and "Military" are three types of which subspecies of parrot (that is popular as a companion bird)? THE BIBLE - In the Bible, who is said to have named all of the Earth's animals...
Published 02/10/23
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet with Skyler for a food-themed quiz with other topics including TV, Sports, Cars, Languages, Astronomy and more! Introduction COOKING - A mirepoix is a flavor base for cooked dishes which most commonly includes which three vegetables? Round One VEGETABLES - Lollo rosso, oilseed and summercrisp are varieties of which vegetable (which shares its name with a jam band)? SEINFELD - Which arcade game debuted in 1981, features the song "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as...
Published 02/06/23