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Language
  
English

Length
  
Approximately 1 hour

No. of episodes
  
193

Updates
  
weekly

Audio format
  
MP3

Good Job, Brain! quiz show

Hosted by
  
Karen Chu, Colin Felton, Dana Nelson, Chris Kohler

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Good Job, Brain! is an award-winning free weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Good Job Brain began as a Kickstarter project on December 20, 2011. Good Job, Brain! is distributed on Stitcher, SoundCloud, iTunes, and the Good Job, Brain! website.

Contents

Good Job, Brain! Podcast

The cast of Good Job, Brain! play pub trivia together as a team called "Baby Dog Time," named for Karen's dog.

Good Job, Brain! live events, city meetups, video projects, and cat participation

The cast is wrote a book, "Good Job, Brain!: Trivia, Quizzes and More Fun From the Popular Pub Quiz Podcast," published in September 2016.

The Good Job, Brain! hosts Karen Chu, Colin Felton, Dana Nelson, Chris Kohler smiling with the kid

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Format

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Generally, the program begins with "Pop Quiz, Hotshot", in which Karen reads questions from one randomly chosen Trivial Pursuit card. Most episodes are themed where the hosts prepare trivia and quizzes related to the theme. Every fifth episode is an "All Quiz Bonanza" where each host prepares a non-themed trivia quiz. A podcast listener wrote an "Um, Actually" jingle for Good Job, Brain!.

Recurring Segments

Karen Chu, Colin Felton, Dana Nelson, Chris Kohler while giving a speech

  • Um, Actually - Listener-submitted corrections of facts from previous episodes.
  • Pop Quiz Hotshot - Episodic general trivia from Trivial Pursuit cards.
  • Brad Pitt or Lasers - Segment in which players guess the older of two objects, the starting (i.e. Brad Pitt or Lasers)
  • Belgium or Not-Belgium - Players guess if an object is from Belgium or not.
  • E.L.V.I.S. the robot - Segment in which players guess the song that the original Macintosh text-to-speech speaks the lyrics to.
  • William Fakespeare - A fake impersonator of William Shakespeare reads lyrics to pop songs in Elizabethan English, through which players have to translate and guess the song the impersonator is reciting.

    • Awards and Media

    Good Job, Brain! was the winner of Stitcher's 2013 "Best Games + Hobbies" podcast.

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    Good Job, Brain! was named one of The Guardian's Top 10 US podcasts for road trip listening in 2013.

    Good Job, Brain! appeared on Apple's 2011 website in an advertisement for the iPod Nano.

    References

    Good Job, Brain! Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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