Episode Archive
121 episodes of Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast since the first episode, which aired on July 1st, 2018.
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Episode 89: Big Stick Energy
March 16th, 2020 | Season 1 | 2 hrs 16 mins
80’s music, corporate logos, horror movies, lord of the rings, medical terminology, political terminology, predators of the animal kingdom, taglines, u.s. history, woodstock, world war ii
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by Seth to ask and answer each other’s favorite trivia questions. Quiz categories include Woodstock, Political Terminology, U.S. History, Corporate Logos, Lord Of The Rings, 80’s Music, Predators of the Animal Kingdom, World War II, Taglines, Medical Terminology, and Horror Movies.
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Episode 88: Monkey Buskers
March 9th, 2020 | Season 1 | 2 hrs 10 mins
90’s tv, art history, baseball, business, famous addresses, game of thrones, henry viii wives, latin riddles, medical history, movie plot details, musical instruments, parasites, plains indians, pop culture, the war on drugs, toy history, u.s. history, vocabulary, weezer
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by a husband-and-wife duo, artist Justin Peterson and Quizmaster Erin Sullivan, to ask and answer each other’s trivia questions, and talk about topics such as quiz scoring and phone usage. Quiz categories include Parasites, Baseball, Art History, Weezer, Famous Addresses, The War On Drugs, Musical Instruments, Medical History, Toy History, Movie Plot Details, Plains Indians, 90’s TV, Latin Riddles, Game of Thrones, U.S. History, Vocabulary, Pop Culture, Henry VIII Wives, Business and more!
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Episode 87: The Human Cricket
March 2nd, 2020 | Season 1 | 1 hr 38 mins
band lineups, comedy songs, football, great lakes geography, hats, horror movies, kids tv, medical terms, movie behind the scenes, phobias, sitcoms, super mario bros., the 1990’s, u.s. geography, units of measurement, vocabulary, websites
Quizmasters Lee and Marc join each other to ask and answer each other’s trivia questions, and talk about their trivia hint and clue preferences. Lee reviews Marc’s new mid-quiz wager mechanic. Categories for this episode’s quiz include Units of Measurement, Comedy Songs, Sitcoms, Super Mario Bros., Band Lineups, Football, Websites, Horror Movies, Great Lakes Geography, Movie Behind The Scenes, Kids TV, Medical Terms, Hats, U.S. Geography, Phobias, Vocabulary, The 1990’s.
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Episode 86: The Half-Right-a-Thon
February 24th, 2020 | Season 1 | 1 hr 52 mins
animals, causes of death, chemistry, etymology, florida, food, historic sailing vessels, literature, music, occupations, pop culture, state nicknames, u.s. history
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by Mike C. and Erik Brandt to ask and answer each other’s trivia questions. They four also discuss their “pub trivia dream teams” and negotiating prize values with your trivia venues. Categories include U.S. History, Etymology, Pop Culture, Food, Historic Sailing Vessels, Chemistry, Music, State Nicknames, Occupations, Causes of Death, Literature, Florida, Food, Animals, and more!
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Episode 85: Ding Dong Time
February 17th, 2020 | Season 1 | 2 hrs 9 mins
animals, art, authors, boats, eyeglasses, futurama, geography, harry houdini, inventions, makeup, medical terms, movie firsts, olympics, plants, pulitzer prize, sharks, superhero movies, television firsts, the ballad of buster scruggs
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by Tim Clark and Joee Patterson, two longtime friends and listeners of the show to ask each other their favorite trivia questions of the week. The two discuss the idea of “studying” for trivia competitions. Marc reviews his mid-quiz wager mechanic. Categories include Futurama, Harry Houdini, Makeup, Olympics, Pulitzer Prize, Movie Firsts, Television Firsts, Animals, Boats, Plants, Authors, Superhero Movies, Art, Inventions, Sharks, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Eyeglasses, Medical Terms, Geography and more!
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Episode 84: Three Song Questions II
February 10th, 2020 | Season 1 | 2 hrs 12 mins
academy awards, astronomy, baking, baseball rules, dog breed, elvira, etymology, geography, groundhog’s day, harry potter, music, pencils, social media platforms, sports, the oscars, weezer, world records
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by Tara Calligan and Richard Chin Quee (of the Three Song Stories podcast) to answer each others’ favorite trivia questions, with topics including Geography, Etymology, Movies, Music, Harry Potter, Elvira, Baking, Baseball, World Records and more.
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Episode 83: Zerbert Logic
February 3rd, 2020 | Season 1 | 1 hr 17 mins
animals, art terms, cartoons, design, etymology, frasier, geography, grammy awards, history, parks and recreation, sports, super bowl, taglines, viral videos
Quizmasters Lee and Marc get together to ask each other their favorite trivia questions of the week in another “late night” KnowNo. Marc spitballs a new wager mechanic for his weekly quizzes. Lee recaps his experience putting together a Star Wars theme trivia. Topics for the quiz include Geography, Super Bowl, Parks and Recreation, Art Terms, Grammy Awards, Frasier, Etymology, Animals, Sports, History, Design, Taglines, Viral Videos, Cartoons and more!
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Episode 82: Nice Guys Trivia
January 27th, 2020 | Season 1 | 2 hrs 3 mins
amsterdam, batman, billy joel songs, fashion history, grammar, hockey, inventions, musical instruments, pizza, popular foods, the super bowl, tiki culture, u.s. presidents
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by Greg Gebhard of Nice Guys Pizza, Marc’s Wednesday night trivia venue. The three ask, suss and answer a full quiz of trivia questions, with topics including popular foods, Billy Joel songs, grammar, fashion history, inventions, the Super Bowl, Amsterdam, Batman, U.S. Presidents, musical instruments, hockey, tiki culture, and, of course, PIZZA.
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Episode 81: Fermented Seed
January 20th, 2020 | Season 1 | 1 hr 57 mins
advertising, arabic, food, geography, qwerty, rock legends, seinfeld, sports curses, the 90’s, video games
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by longtime friend Skyler Denison, a SWFL bartender and chef, to ask, suss, and answer their favorite trivia questions of the week. The trio tackle two Rate My Questions, and talk trivia scoring semantics.
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Episode 80: Note Soda
January 13th, 2020 | Season 1 | 1 hr 44 mins
agriculture, and also known as., chocolate, frasier, geography, history, latin phrases, medical terms, misheard lyrics, muppets, music accolades, nba, singers & technology, what is it?
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by Luc and Andrew to ask, suss and answer each other’s favorite trivia questions of the week. Categories for this episode’s quiz include Misheard Lyrics, Frasier, Muppets, Latin Phrases, Agriculture, History, NBA, What Is It?, Music Accolades, Geography, Chocolate, Singers & Technology, Medical Terms, and Also Known As.
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Episode 79: Jean Claude Grand Dam
January 6th, 2020 | Season 1 | 1 hr 49 mins
90’s r&b, animals, debut albums, disney, famous porno flicks, french, literature, movie directors, movie quotes, olympics, shipwrecks, television, vocabulary
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by Dallas and Elyse to share their favorite trivia questions of the week and to debate the merits of scoring answers on a curve.
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Episode 78: Where Fingers Rest
December 30th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 32 mins
acronyms, also known as, fonts, landmarks, luxury goods, movies, music, nut origins, phobias, physics, social games, sports, taxonomies, technology
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by Adam and Jamie to close out the decade with trivia and merriment. Lee recounts the decade in trivia and asks a “dangerous” trivia question while Marc digs deep into his trivia repository and Jamie finds question-writing inspiration in his juvenile sense of humor. Adam visits from China with some travel-oriented trivia.
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Episode 77: Woodstock's Revenge
December 23rd, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 31 mins
art, beverages, birds, christmas stories, circus performers, city nicknames, country music, floridan aviators, geology. movie cameos, grocery stores, patron saints, sitcom spinoffs, u.s. history
Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet to exchange their favorite trivia questions of the week, and have a Rate-My-Question inspired conversation about running your trivia questions against friends and confidants.
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Episode 76: Hokey Poke
December 16th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 44 mins
advertising, band names, candian football league, cartoons, chemistry, college football, comic books, game shows, geography, ghost authors, hit songs, jazz musicians, magazine covers, military football, mythology, nfl, steely dan, u.s. national records, video games, vocabulary
Quizmasters Lee and Marc discuss some of the listener community developing around the #KnowNo and ask each other their favorite trivia questions of the week. Marc details the linguistic “buffalo sentence,” and reveals one of his favorite game shows of all time, while Lee gives an overview of the various trophies award in North American Football. The duo also offer their congratulations to the world’s newest country on their independence!
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Episode 75: A Lil Badoopa Do
December 9th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 32 mins
academy awards, advertisements, art terms, business, canadian football, cryptozoology, geography, maryland, medical terminology, nfl, shakespeare, star wars, u.s. history, world war ii
Quizmasters Lee & Marc get together to share their favorite trivia questions of the week, read a review of an Anti-Trivia event, and rate a couple of listener submitted questions.
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Episode 74: Minimum Dogs
December 2nd, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 47 mins
actor-governors, also known as (authors), anatomy, best-selling products, card games, chemistry, demonyms, disney, fast food, geography, lost movies, nfl music journalism, psychology, state nicknames, vegetables
Quizmasters Lee & Marc sit down to share their favorite trivia questions of the week and have a conversation about procedures regarding partial points for partially-correct answers. The pair also take on three Rate My Questions, one of which inspires a detailed discussion about question writing.