Good Job, Brain!

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What's Good Job, Brain! about?

Part pub quiz show, part offbeat news, and all awesome. All the time! We here are nuts about trivia. And we are darn sure there are people out there who share our unusual obsession. Do you relish beating your friends at Trivial Pursuit? Do you blab out the answers at the gym when Jeopardy! is on? Then this podcast, fellow trivia nut, is the ultimate mental nutrition for your very big brain. So eat up!

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214: There's No Place Like ...

07.01.2021

It's our last episode of this season, and it has been such a wonderful homecoming, so let's celebrate with trivia all about house and home! Famous fictional addresses, animal nest vocab test, and it's all water under the house in ...

Good Job, Brain! episodes:

07.01.2021 214: There's No Place Like Home It's our last episode of this season, and it has been such a wonderful homecoming, so let's celebrate with trivia all about house and home! Famous fictional addresses, animal nest vocab test, and it's all water under the house in ...
06.23.2021 213: Watch Party Let’s melt our brains with a trivia-filled celebration all about TV! Can you figure out what films these funny newspaper TV summaries by Rick Polito are describing? Dana tests us on the most watched moments in world history, and Karen ...
06.23.2021 Bonus Episode: Being on a Game Show 101 It's our bonus episode all about game shows with our first ever panel of experts! Join Karen and former game show contestants Elliot, Amy, and Tyler in a roundtable about what’s it like being on a game show. Elliot schools ...
06.16.2021 212: Remember Me? How well do you remember the last few years or is it one giant year blob? We discover some current events trivia that... might not be so current after all. Need a special memory manipulation service? Take Chris' memory-altering movie ...
06.07.2021 211: In Full Bloom The sun's shining, the bees are buzzing, and the flowers are blooming just so they can pass on genetic material and then die. But cheer up because we got trivia about the green stuff around us! Colin ponders about hummingbirds ...
06.01.2021 210: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #42 Grab something to drink because this trivia snack mix is making me thirsty! A bit of math & science from Karen with her time unit quiz (but just remember to play Fortnite with her in a fortnight)! A bit of ...
05.24.2021 209: Have You Tried Rebooting It? Reboots, reinventions, resets, and rebirths! Travel around the world in Karen's former place names quiz. Jenny from the Block? No, it's Lucy from the Sewer! Chris introduces us to the actress who was once was Lucille LeSueur until she got ...
05.17.2021 208: Lock It Down! It sure has been an eventful year, so here is our episode filled with quizzes surrounding lockdown life. Love a good inventions quiz? Then we invite you to play a round of "War, Plague, or Depression!" Chris misses karaoke and ...
05.10.2021 207: A Hobby a Day Keeps the Doldrums Away We're decoupaging our way through trivia and facts about hobbies! Since there are very few official terms for specific collection hobbies, Karen's got a quiz about made-up hobby names with the help of our Twitter fans. Chris gives us a ...
05.03.2021 206: Internationally Known We're making stops around the world in this episode dedicated to foreign countries! Perk your ears up for Karen's special foreign language pop music round, and learn the mnemonic for the seven STANs. Listen to the incredible tale of an ...
04.26.2021 205: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #41 Shake your pensive pompoms and march with the brainy band because it's a trivia GJB homecoming rally! Feast on "Before & After" club sandwiches with Karen, take the famous scams challenge with Dana, and get our butts kicked in Chris' ...
04.26.2021 Fun-Size Mini Show: Welcome Back, Trotter Let's light up our lobes, lovely listeners because WE'VE MISSED YOU! It's 2021, and we're back together (virtually) for a new season of GJB. In this mini episode, we catch up on the hiatus and of course, dip our toes ...
07.11.2018 204: Go West Gather up your wagon and get ready to move out west into the world of kooky and spectacular trivia and quizzes. Don't die of dysentery because as it turns out, there are a whole lot more ways to die along ...
06.29.2018 203: The Great Escape We're busting out! Escape movie quiz, but really, how well do you know your Stephen King movies! Chris spills secrets of escaping handcuffs and straightjackets from the Houdini Handbook. Planning on a lavish escape to Orlando? Well, then buckle up ...
06.16.2018 202: This is Only A Test Get your scrap paper ready and those number two pencils sharpened because this week, we are filling up the Scantron sheets with bizarre facts and wacky trivia about tests and exams! Speaking of pencils, why are they yellow, and why ...
06.05.2018 201: You Know, For Kids! Get your best burp cloth ready for a real spewing of facts and trivia all about kids. Of course, Karen's got her baby edition of Nightmare Animals, and Dana has prepared her first ever themed Music Round! Colin found out ...
05.25.2018 200: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #40 The long and undulating road to 200 is HERE. We've made it -- and it's an ALL QUIZ! We're starting the celebration off with Colin's mystery themed music round, and jump into another mentally sweaty round of "Lifetime Movie? Or ...
05.17.2018 199: Bring on the FANfare! Woah woah woah, finally a new episode from our hiatus?! YES - and what better way to come back than with a brand new episode turgid with brain-filling trivia that's all about you, the FANS! Facts about fandom and tidbits ...
06.22.2017 198: High and Dry Time to wring out them brain cells and learn trivia and facts about things that are dry! Get out your map and compass in order to navigate Colin's desert quiz. Ever wonder what goes on in the back of a ...
06.02.2017 197: Let's Make a Deal Time for some wheeling and dealing, and let us haggle and dazzle you with trivia and facts about making those deals! Why don't you ~come on down~ and take Karen's quizzes about our favorite game shows? Let our yard sale ...
04.11.2017 196: We Could Be Heroes Come one, come all! We're celebrating heroes that comes in all shapes and sizes: from the underdogs of the fast food world to life-changing inventors. We got a grab bag hero quiz, and Chris has an epic music round of ...
03.24.2017 195: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #39 Soak and soothe your brain in our hot tub of quizzes and trivia! (And on a related note, find out why we may never go into a hut tub or public pool ever.) Revel in nostalgia as we try to ...
03.09.2017 194: Gimme A Break! We're taking a joyride on the road to 200 episodes, and here to share facts and quizzes about taking breaks and getting away for some fun! Treat yourself to Colin's advertising slogan quiz about getting away from it all. Chris ...
02.20.2017 193: Under the Sea Set sail on the H.M.S. Trivia! We're back with the sea's rich bounty of quizzes and facts: we got ghost sharks, sea movies, Dead Sea, and sea riddles. And move aside pumpkin spice, make way for sea salt caramel craze! ...
11.30.2016 192: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work We're getting the band back together with trivia about cooperation and teams! We find out the scary secret (and science) behind tug of war, and it's not just rope burns you need to worry about. When it's half time and ...
11.18.2016 191: I'm FALLing and I Can't Get Up Come all nymphs and sprites, let us sing the autumnal hymns to honor the great harvest. Trivia and quizzes about the fall season: the many names of the season and find out the real murderous secret behind falling leaves. Take ...
10.19.2016 190: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #38 We're baaccckkkkk! And on the road to 200! "Labrador" and "mikado"? Find out other truly bizarre but 100% real and official color names in Karen's quiz, and oil up those adorable gears for Chris' Cute Robot Challenge. Most trivia nuts ...
08.15.2016 189: The Golden Touch It's the GJB gold rush and we're running to find odd facts and stories about gold. From golden raisins to Golden Girls, Dana's got a gilded grab-bag quiz. Ever had a pet goldfish? Well, they are much more complex, and ...
08.07.2016 188: BFFs Celebrate your pals and buds with this trivia-centric episode about BFFs. You might recognize TV BFFs, but can you identify the show just by their character names? Harder than it sounds in Dana's TV BFFs quiz. And let's tour the ...
07.17.2016 187: BANNED Quizzes and trivia about banned and prohibited things in the US and around the world! Want to name your newborn baby "@"? We share a smattering of banned baby names we found from around the world. Learn about how video ...
07.09.2016 186: Eggsellent We crack open the trivia-filled world of EGGS! Which end of the egg comes out of a chicken first? Chris fluffs it up with the science and how-to behind perfect scrambled eggs. (And we have a micro interview with a ...
06.28.2016 185: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #37 Time to combine that black matter and white matter and turn it into grey matter with our all quiz episode! How do we get people more into classic literature? Well, with a teen movie starring Hilary & Haley Duff, of ...
06.18.2016 184: Spice Up Your Life! Secrete saliva with some succulent segments and stories about seasonings and spices! Find out what the most popular Japanese dish is (and it's not what you think it is)! Sail around the world with us as we dive into the ...
06.07.2016 183: Eyes on the Prize Winning is nice, but getting a prize for it is even better. So get ready to head to the podium to receive some award-winning trivia! Celebrate the entertainment highs in our almost-EGOT quiz, and on the other end of the ...
05.22.2016 182: Dress You Up Strap on those jodhpur pants, dust off those epaulets, and it's time to suit up for this week's episode on uniforms and costumes! Find out exactly why Mario sports his classic overalls getup and has his signature mustache. Take Dana's ...
05.10.2016 181: Good Job, BRAIN! We want your brains......to be smarter and stronger! This week we found weird trivia stories about our weirdest and most mysterious thinkin' organ. Ever been impressed by someone with a photographic memory? Dana finds out what exactly is photographic memory ...
04.13.2016 180: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #36 Oh ho ho! A real grab bag of quizzes this week: from the germiest places in your house to foreign currency. Find the interloper word in Chris' misused vocabulary quiz, and find out if you're like an animal. And let's ...
03.31.2016 178: Spy vs. Spy Let's dart past sharks with frikkin' laser beams attached to their heads and break into the underground trivia lair that's all about espionage and spycraft! Listen to us flunk the pub trivia James Bond primer, AND the James Bond music ...
03.21.2016 177: FIGHT!!! Fists up, brains up! This week, we're heading into the ring filled with facts and trivia about fighting: learn about the (nice) Japanese tradition of spider fighting, and find out why MMA fighters should not blow their noses. Colin finds ...
03.08.2016 176: Lost in Translation Ex squeeze me? Baking powder? We take a trip around the world and get lost in translation this week! Pardon Colin's French because he borrowed a bunch of words in his quiz, and darling Dana dives into the astonishing history ...
02.21.2016 175: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #35 Get out your tickets out because we're all aboard on the brain train to Quiz Town! Celebrate the leap year with Dana's quizzy ode to February 29th. And Chris noticed a very common trend with the Grammy's and he even ...
02.13.2016 174: Whoops! Goofs and gaffs, d'ohs and duhs, we tried getting all the banana peels cleared away for this trivia episode about mistakes. Ah, the joys of live TV and all that could go wrong... Take Colin's quiz about major TV slip-ups, ...
02.04.2016 173: A Sticky Situation STICK AROUND for facts and trivia about things that are gooey, sticky, and syrupy. Chris found a bunch of sticky words but they're so sticky that some other letters got rolled in-- see if you can solve his adhesive anagrams. ...
01.24.2016 172: Catch Up! Listener Challenge, Puffy Snakes, Xenografts It's our catch-up episode, and we got lots weird facts to share and special listeners to thank. Karen's back from her 5 million races over the fast few weeks and has so many stories to tell (involving dolphin poop and ...
01.05.2016 171: BEST OF 2015 (Cheesy Awards Show Edition) We present to you our best segments, quizzes, food facts, and more in our 2015 round-up episodes highlighting the brainiest and weirdest trivia from last year. And it ain't a cheesy awards show without a parody opening song, awkward presentation ...
12.24.2015 170: ALL QUIZ BO-HO-HO-NANZA! Two episodes in one week? It's a Christmas miracle, folks! Yes, a special quiz-filled show about the holidays for the holidays for you and your friends & family to play together. Sometimes all you need is a turkey, handsome mister ...
12.23.2015 169: Too Cute! Cohorts, come coo at and cuddle with crumbs of cuteness. Facts and trivia about things that are cute: baby animal names quiz, the power of Sanrio, and Japan's most valuable kawaii characters and mascots. Learn about Hello Kitty phobia and ...
12.16.2015 168: It Takes Two Prepare for trouble! Make it double! We're all about facts and quizzes about pairs and duos this week. Twins playing tennis, oooo minty fresh! Learn some pretty weird facts about Doublemint gum and what exactly is Wrigley doubling up on? ...
12.01.2015 167: What's Your Guilty Pleasure? Time to let our hair down, uncover and admit to some of our guilty pleasures and the facts and trivia behind them: the lurid crime-filled world of Law & Order: SVU, reality shows, and how real is courtroom TV? Chris ...
11.10.2015 166: Nuzzle in Puzzles What has 10 arms, 4 mics, and insanely nerdy about things like crosswords, riddles, anagrams, and quizzes? Why, it's this episode of GJB that's all about puzzles- featuring our good friend and crossword king Tyler Hinman! Tyler blows our minds ...

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Good Job, Brain!

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Good Job, Brain! episodes:

214: There's No Place Like Home

213: Watch Party

Bonus Episode: Being on a Game Show 101

212: Remember Me?

211: In Full Bloom

210: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #42

209: Have You Tried Rebooting It?

208: Lock It Down!

207: A Hobby a Day Keeps the Doldrums Away

206: Internationally Known

205: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #41

Fun-Size Mini Show: Welcome Back, Trotter

204: Go West

203: The Great Escape

202: This is Only A Test

201: You Know, For Kids!

200: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #40

199: Bring on the FANfare!

198: High and Dry

197: Let's Make a Deal

196: We Could Be Heroes

195: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #39

194: Gimme A Break!

193: Under the Sea

192: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

191: I'm FALLing and I Can't Get Up

190: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #38

189: The Golden Touch

188: BFFs

187: BANNED

186: Eggsellent

185: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #37

184: Spice Up Your Life!

183: Eyes on the Prize

182: Dress You Up

181: Good Job, BRAIN!

180: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #36

178: Spy vs. Spy

177: FIGHT!!!

176: Lost in Translation

175: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #35

174: Whoops!

173: A Sticky Situation

172: Catch Up! Listener Challenge, Puffy Snakes, Xenografts

171: BEST OF 2015 (Cheesy Awards Show Edition)

170: ALL QUIZ BO-HO-HO-NANZA!

169: Too Cute!

168: It Takes Two

167: What's Your Guilty Pleasure?

166: Nuzzle in Puzzles

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