Episode 1: Chocolate Battles

07/01/18 • 53 min

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Pub Quizmasters Lee and Marc try to stump each other with their favorite questions of the week, as well as talk about being a quizmaster, scoring techniques and what makes for a good trivia question.

Round One

Which red squirrel had a "Bad Fur Day" on the Nintendo 64 in 2001? [YouTube]
Which member of Wu-Tang Clan raps the hook in their hit "C.R.E.A.M."? [YouTube]
A fanscript for what TV show launched the career of The Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon? [YouTube]
What was the first country to legalize cannibis?

Round Two

The potato, tomato, eggplant, and tobacco are all products of what kind of flowering plant, sharing a name with characters from DC and Marvel Comics?[YouTube]
What independent artist stepped away from the mic to breathe in and went viral with his hit “Chocolate Rain”? [YouTube]
Which species of bird is devolving into a dinosaur? [YouTube]

Final Questions

Which is the only apple variety native to North America? [YouTube]
Who was the oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence? [YouTube]
Before her execution, who did Marie Antoinette apologize to? [YouTube]

Music by @Breshnyda
End Mashup – "The Yabba" by Battles and "Chocolate Rain" by Taye Zonday

Pub Quizmasters Lee and Marc try to stump each other with their favorite questions of the week, as well as talk about being a quizmaster, scoring techniques and what makes for a good trivia question.

Round One

Which red squirrel had a "Bad Fur Day" on the Nintendo 64 in 2001? [YouTube]
Which member of Wu-Tang Clan raps the hook in their hit "C.R.E.A.M."? [YouTube]
A fanscript for what TV show launched the career of The Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon? [YouTube]
What was the first country to legalize cannibis?

Round Two

The potato, tomato, eggplant, and tobacco are all products of what kind of flowering plant, sharing a name with characters from DC and Marvel Comics?[YouTube]
What independent artist stepped away from the mic to breathe in and went viral with his hit “Chocolate Rain”? [YouTube]
Which species of bird is devolving into a dinosaur? [YouTube]

Final Questions

Which is the only apple variety native to North America? [YouTube]
Who was the oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence? [YouTube]
Before her execution, who did Marie Antoinette apologize to? [YouTube]

Music by @Breshnyda
End Mashup – "The Yabba" by Battles and "Chocolate Rain" by Taye Zonday

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Episode 2: Fart Proudly

What kind of insect thrives more in the city than in the country?
One of the few surviving documents of the great king Cyrus (who ruled over the first Persian empire circe 500 BC) is enscribed in clay formed to be what geometric shape?
Who are the four directors widely considered to be the foundation of modern american independent cinema?
In Florida, what city nickname "The Magic City"?
What was the first animated television show to be nominated for an Emmy?
Which U.S. President received as a gift two grizzly bears which he kept in cages on the White House lawn?
Which U.S. President once famously described coffee at the Maxwell house Hotel as "good til the last drop"?
Which founding father once wrote a tract called "Fart Proudly" encouraging scientists to give flatulence a more pleasent odor?
Which founding father had a notorious temper and loved to sweat and curse "until the leaves shook on the trees?"

Pub Quizmasters Lee and Marc make attempts to answer theses trivia questions and more on this episode of the Know Nonsense Trivia podcast! They also discuss trivia team size and team dynamics (identifying the people you want on your trivia team).

Music by @Breshnyda
End Mashup – "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen and "Washington" by Brad Neely