Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast

Episode 95: Quizmaster Quarantine

April 27th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  2 hrs 46 mins

90’s music, animals, cereal mascots, dogs, dogs & minerals, fictional drugs, hollywood, landmarks, marvel, music, name origins, nfl draft, pop culture, sports, video games, vocabulary

Quizmasters Lee and Marc are joined by Quizmasters Dallas and Elyse of Shell Games Entertainment to have an hour-long talk about their experiences hosting virtual trivia online, followed by an 18-question trivia quiz.

Topics during the Quizmaster roundtable discussion include format, platform, promotion, engagement and monetization of virtual trivia. Categories for the quiz include Video Games, Vocabulary, Dogs, Fictional Drugs, Landmarks, NFL Draft, Animals, Dogs & Minerals, 90’s Music, Sports, Hollywood, Marvel, Music, Pop Culture, Name Origins, Cereal Mascots and more!

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.

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!

Episode 70: A Mind Palace In Ruins

November 4th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  2 hrs 14 mins

andy warhol, back to the future, celebrity birthplaces, clones, cloning, cult films, dogs, graphic novels, literature, playboy magazine, pop culture, spooky lesbian porn, terms of venery, tv catchphrases, video games, world history, world population, world records

Quizmasters Lee & Marc are joined by Lee’s wife, the indie folk singer-songwriter Kyle Anne, who is wrapping up the Kickstarter campaign for her album Eulogy to talk about that and share some favorite trivia questions.

Episode 66: Trivia Bachelor Party

October 7th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  2 hrs 12 mins

animals, birds, box office records, candy, classic television, comic books, fashion trends, geography, global politics, literature, mlb, oscar winners, pop culture, professional wrestling, snacks, theme parks, u.s. presidents, video games

Quizmasters Lee & Marc are joined by two of Lee’s oldest and dearest friends (and Lee’s groomsmen in his upcoming wedding), the independent cartoonists Justin Peterson (MAD Magazine, Very Neat Mint) and Jon Lewis (Detail: Nowhere) for a special jam-packed totally not Saturday morning “bachelor party” episode of the #KnowNo, asking each other trivia questions and occasionally waxing philosophical (“is a cloud a bird?”) and other typical nonsense!

Episode 62: Let Me Hear Your Dolphin

September 10th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 40 mins

80's movies, 90's r&b, africa, african history, anatomy, food & cooking, guiness world records, hair metal, marine biology, mtv, plants, saturday night live, scientology, silkworms, television, the muppets, traffic statistics, u.s. presidents, video games

Quizmasters Lee & Marc are joined by Kyle Anne to listen to her new single “Two Damn Years” and go through three rounds of trivia questions, with topics including TRAFFIC STATISTICS, SCIENTOLOGY, MOVIES AND MUSIC OF THE 1980’S, HUMAN AND DOLPHIN ANATOMY, AFRICAN HISTORY, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, THE MUPPETS and more! The trio also reveal their individual methodologies for adjusting the difficulty of a trivia question.

Episode 55: Earthworm John

July 22nd, 2019  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 6 mins

cats, cooking & food, geography, insects, logos, marvel comics, professional wrestling, quentin tarantino, shapes, soccer, star wars, u.s. politics, video games, women's world cup

Quizmasters Lee & Marc talk about a series of complaints the former encountered at Gather, as well as the important role of good live sound and music choices at trivia. The two quizmasters ask and attempt to answer each other’s favorite questions from their week’s trivia.

Episode 53: Adam's World Trivia

July 12th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 15 mins

african slave trade, animal geography, animal trafficking, china, chinese inventions, chinese language, current events, geography, greek mythology, harmonica, literature, live episode, math puzzle, overthink underthink, pop music, scamto, slang, tech acronyms, time, video games

Quizmasters Lee & Marc wake up early to compete in Adam’s World Trivia at Fashioning Beer in Changchun, China all the way from Florida via video call! They are offered the opportunity to craft a tiebreaker question for the teams live at the venue.

Episode 47: Every Pig in Wyoming

May 27th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 15 mins

asl, birds, cannes, catholicism, composers, cooking, cool runnings, etymology, florida, geography, hitler, insects, monster trucks, plants, pro-wrestling, psychology, science, spanish literature, star wars, u.s. history, video games

Quizmaster Marc hosts a triple-threat trivia match with fellow Wet Boiz and KnowNo Team Captains Kristin & Fletcher. Question topics include COOKING SCIENCE, SPANISH LITERATURE, OFFICIAL BIRDS AND INSECTS, and more!

Episode 13: Powerful Carnival Sperm

September 24th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 47 mins

beatles, circus, food & drink, history, presidents, television, video games

What superhero did Elvis model his persona after? In 1985, what mythical creature did Ringling Bros. Circus claim to have? What do Pee-Wee Herman and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, have in common? What US state boasts counties including Hardeman, Glasscock, and Loving? What is Scooby-Doo's first full name? Quizmasters Lee & Marc attempt to answer these questions and more, joined by Marc's teammate Fletcher and Kristin in this episode of the Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast!