Marc Davis is a musician and quizmaster living in Southwest Florida. He currently hosts trivia at Nice Guys Pizza every Wednesday night @ 9pm.
Marc Davis has hosted 203 Episodes.
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Episode 46: KnowNo Gone Wild
May 20th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 8 mins
african geography, animal byproducts, basketball, botany, disco, henry viii, horticulture, laws, marsupials, metal, missed corrections, movies, nba, rate my question, television, the 1980's, the beatles, unusual deaths, video formats
Quizmaster Marc returns from his vacation to join Quizmaster Lee for an episode chock full of trivia, "cerebro a cerebro" style! Lee comes clean about a trivia debacle that occurred while he was covering one of Marc's games.
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Episode 43: The Kermina Beef
April 29th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 35 secs
biology, black history, cats, game of thrones, musical instruments, noteworthy blowjobs, oregon trail, shakespeare, testicles, tiki culture, us politics, world war ii
In this episode of the Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast, Marc takes Lee to task over a difficult Muppets question. Lee gives an overview on his recent programming strategy based on player-suggested categories. Together the Quizmasters enjoy a full slate of trivia covering a variety of topics including Black History, Game of Thrones, Ancient Instruments, US Geography, Tiki Culture, Biology and more!
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Episode 42: Three Song Questions
April 22nd, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 21 mins
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by Mike Kiniry, host and co-creator of WGCU's Thee Song Stories Podcast for an all music trivia episode.
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Episode 41: iPhonio
April 15th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 34 mins
Quizmasters Lee & Marc discuss a particular question that brought the former's quiz to a standstill. The quizmasters welcome friend of the show and first time guest Erik for a full slate of trivia questions.
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Episode 40: Zac Efron's Cock Ring
April 8th, 2019 | Season 1 | 53 mins 13 secs
Quizmasters Lee & Marc ask each other their favorite trivia questions of the week and mull over an alphabetical Rate My Question submission from Team Captain Kristin!
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Episode 39: Gettin' Trivvy With It
April 1st, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 27 mins
Quizmasters Lee and Marc discuss an art supply's ancient connection to weed, the sensuality of geology, a founding father's fondness for the metric system, and more while stumping each other with a full slate of trivia questions. Also, two listener submitted questions are analyzed in a new Rate My Question segment.
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Episode 38: T-3PO
March 25th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 10 mins
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by returning guest Moist Max, a member of the SWFL trivia team The Moist Men who recently logged the top score at a Know Nonsense Trivia Challenge venue, completing their goal of having the top score ever at all three venues. Together they discuss the team's dynamics and answer a full set of questions.
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Episode 37: Question Marc
March 18th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 7 mins
What "M" country was previously known as Burma? What cast member on Saturday Night Live was the first to serve two multi-season tenures on the show? What Disney character’s name roughly translates to ‘child’ for Italian? Quizmasters Lee and Marc answer these questions and more in this episode of #theKnowNo. The two also discuss what to do when a player presents a technically correct answer, whether or not to award any bonus points to the winning team of a tiebreaker question, risque team names and modeling your quiz after your regular players's interests.
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Episode 36: Changing The Rules
March 11th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 1 min
In the late 1860s, Charles and Max Fleischmann created America’s first commercially produced what? What is the highest mountain that exists within the borders of a single country's boundaries? What 1982 coming of age comedy featured Nicolas Cage's first ever film role, which stars two other Best Actor oscar winners? Quizmasters Lee and Marc answer the questions and more, including discussions about team size/player count limits, methods to enforce the rules at trivia night, the pros and cons of asking multiple choice questions.
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Episode 35: Chickens, Of Course: A Big Toe Joint
March 4th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 5 mins
What is the name of the deepest part of the Earth’s seabed called? Bombay Duck, or Bumalo, is what kind of animal? The Nahuatl word for testicle, spoken by the Aztecs, inspired the modern name of what fruit? Quizmasters Lee & Marc answer these questions and more, while also doing a deep dive on the history of literary figure Mother Goose and answering an important question for quizmasters: what's a word worth to your players?
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Episode 34: Bart Simpson's Dick
February 25th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 37 mins
Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by fellow quizmaster and trivia host Dallas, who runs a popular trivia night on Tuesdays at 10 twentyfive in Cape Coral, FL, for three full rounds of trivia as well as conversation about his trivia origins, where he gets his questions, his scoring techniques, his experiences running themed trivia nights and managing large player counts at his events. The trio also discuss their approaches of how to write the perfect trivia question and player topic choice.
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Episode 33: A Perfect Stranger
February 18th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 4 mins
broadway, cameos, food fight festival, geography, in other words, legends of the hidden temple, literature, pop music, pornhub, valentine's day, who sampled
In dating parlance, what is the unofficial fifth season, falling somewhere between Fall and Winter? What female artist has had 25 songs reach #1 on the country music charts, a record for a female artist, tied with Reba McIntyre? Which star of movies such as The World According to Garp, The Big Chill, and Fatal Attraction, played the unlucky pirate that was stuck in the boo box in Stephen Spielberg's Hook? Quizmasters Lee & Marc return after a week off, bemoaning production hiccups while celebrating 25,000 downloads.
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Episode 32: Porous Morris
February 3rd, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 34 mins
In what country did the French horn originate? What cartoonist once received an unsolicited piece of fan mail from Stephen King, which is rumored to have never been opened? What is Chuck Norris's real first name? Quizmaster Lee and Marc are joined by Jamie in this episode of the Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast. Also, looking back on Jamie's longtime obsession with funny, edgy and creative team names, the three have a discussion on how to come up with a good team name for trivia night (and some cliches to avoid).
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Episode 31: Gib Teesurbs
January 28th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 26 mins
The Pleasure Garden is the first film by what director, released in 1927? What was the code name given to a CIA program of experiments on human subjects in the 1950s? Which rapper's Dad hosts Compton Hood Life Tours? Quizmasters Marc and Lee ask and answer these questions and more on this episode of the Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast! They also have a chat about stressful situations at trivia night from both the player's and quizmaster's perspectives. Plus, find out what Marc likes!
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Episode 30: Frazzled, Dazzled and Vajazzled
January 21st, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 10 mins
What is Somniloquy? As a boy, who was publicly embarrassed by Theodore Roosevelt during an awards ceremony that grew up to become a famous author? What opera was written by Mozart in one sitting and played the following day without a rehearsal? Quizmasters Lee and Marc invite friend of the show Sheri on for a bit of trivia from categories such as History, Geography, Language, Movies, Comic Books and Fast food as well as a quick discussion about the thoughts behind a good music selection at live trivia events. Kyle Anne returns with a 90s-riffic Rate My Question.
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Episode 29: Massage Therapists on Retainer
January 14th, 2019 | Season 1 | 1 hr 4 mins
What two rock and roll legends died at the same age in the same London apartment four years apart? What mountain lake is considered to be the highest navigable lake in the world and is largest lake in South America when measure both by volume and surface area? Quizmasters Lee and Marc ask and answer these questions and more in a new episode of The Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast!