Breaking Balls Trivia with The Five Minute Professor

The Five Minute Professor hosts the Return of Erik (Seattle Strikes back) vs David (Innyerendo) in a blood trivia battle. The lecture is on Bangkok, Thailand, The categories include Dennis Rodman, Harvey Keitel, Ritchie Valens, The Mexican American War, the Pap Smear, Bobby Valentine, Matt Skiba, Hit Songs of 1997, and Game of Thrones. (5620)

In a very special Breaking Balls Trivia, the Five Minute Professor is joined by two Heavy Hitters from the Orlando Trivia scene. Rick Peterson (Midshipmen ep 1.4) rejoins us, and the Lead Singer of Gargamel, and local Legend Mandaddy (King of Kingswood). The Lecture is on Beer, the contestants chose the Marvel Comics Movie Franchise & Scotch Whisky. Other topics: Jackie Robinson, McDonalds, the Notre Dame Cathedral Fire, Seth Rogan, Samantha Fox, Roy Clark, and Designing Women. You will definitely want to stick around to the end of this one!

Jacki and Joseph square off in a 20 question battle of wits hosted by the Five Minute Professor. The Bruins and Strikers tackle questions on GMail, Hans Christian Andersen, the Pony Express, Cigarettes, the even more noxious Logan Paul, Apple Computers and Karate. The contestants chose the categories of Anatomy and Dragon Ball Z. Today's Lecture is on English Muffins.

The Five Minute Professor hosts his compatriots from his other Podcast, "The Hijack" pitting Zouain vs Nate, his unpaid intern, in a battle for the ages. The Lecture is on the majestic Hippopotamus. The players chose categories of 90s Music and American Football. The other topics include: Jesse James, Adam Scott, Jane Goodall, Martin Luther King Jr, Alec Baldwin, Jane Goodall, and Washington Irving.

The Five Minute Professor hosts the Sluggers (Remy) vs the Empire (Mark) in a trivia battle for the ages. The Categories include: Disney Parks, the Alaska Purchase, the First Wrestlemania, Vincent Van Gogh, MC Hammer, Ewan McGregor, Eric Clapton, and Paul Reiser. It's also Tracy's Birthday, so there's a category inspired by her very existence. Today's Lecture in on the Eiffel Tower.

Essex and the Manatees join the Five Minute Professor in one of the highest scoring games in show history. The Categories include Chess Records, Landmarks of London, the Video Game Plague Inc, Typhoid Mary, Disney Artist Carl Banks, Tony Banks of Genesis, the Bahamas, and Author Dick Kingsmith. Today's lecture is on the Miracle that is Soap.

Here's some trivia in this Time of Cholera. The Professor hosts Brian (Woosox) and Kris, whose alter-ego is a cat (Daisy's Angels) in our 20 question trivia game. The Lecture is on pancakes. And the categories are the Monte Cristo Sandwich, The Doomsday book. Mount Etna, The Golden Raspberry awards, Sarah Jessica Parker, The Bachelor, as well as Howard Cosell, Elton John, & Paul Michael Glaser. Stay to the end to hear a breath-taking version of "Take me out to the Ball Game"

The Professor and Doug go over the rules as to how Breaking Balls Trivia is played in some depth, so that it won't take up as much time in each episode. They also spend 10 minutes giving a full description of the basic strategies of the game. Everything you need to know to understand how this trivia game, based on baseball, but not about baseball is played

In one of the best pitched matches of the season, the Five Minute Professor welcomes back Dennis (Chicago Weathermen) from the Beta Test and matches him against yet another Dennis (Prognosticators). The Lecture is on Pelicans, the categories the teams chose are the New York Mets and Fundamental Geometry, as well as 7 other catgegories. Special Guest to help the loser with the "signing" punishment.

The Five Minute Professor is joined by Dorothy D. (Black Cat) & Robert G from Pittsburgh (Mag 7) for an inning of baseball trivia. The lecture is on the Holiday of Kwanzaa, and the two chosen categories are Biology and World War II. Also, TIger Woods, Hannukah, LeBron James, Val Kilmer, Marie Curie, Andrew Johnson, & the State of Texas. If you'd like to be a contestant contact [email protected]