Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast

Episode 91: Can You Smell It?

March 30th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 36 mins

80’s music, alt-rock history, alternative movie titles, drinks, etymology, food, history, movie musicals, physics, pop culture, retro video games, u.s. geography, vocabulary

Quizmasters Lee and Marc get together for their favorite trivia questions of the week and discuss the transition of moving their pub trivia quizzes online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Marc defines the elements he takes into consideration when considering information to include in particular questions.

Categories for the quiz include History, Etymology, U.S. Geography, Alt-Rock History, Pop Culture, Movie Musicals, Retro Video Games, U.S. Geography, Vocabulary, Alternative Movie Titles, Physics, 80’s Music, Food, Drinks and more!

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!

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.

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.

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 73: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Sussed

November 25th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 16 mins

1950’s music, bears in pop culture, board games, classic television, current events, geography, hockey, landmarks, musical instruments, nazi soda, vocabulary

Quizmasters Lee & Marc connect to share their favorite trivia questions of the week and discuss the proper procedure of dealing with a loud suss. The two quizmasters are joined by songwriter (and quizwriter) Kyle Anne for the second and final rounds.

Episode 72: Not All Chips

November 18th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 20 mins

acronyms, art, business, disney, earth science, lgbtq+, middle east geography, sports stranger things, the nobel prize, u.s. geography, u.s. history, vocabulary, world war i, youtube

Quizmasters Lee & Marc are joined by Seth to suss through some of their favorite pub trivia questions of the week.