Welcome to Quizzing in America! This week, we are quizzing with Dave Madden, a 19-time Jeopardy Champion, was on the most recent season of the Floor, and runs a company called the International Academic Competitions or ICA Jeremy Cahnmann is the owner of Brain Bash Trivia. Follow Brain Bash and follow Jeremy on Facebook and Instagram Check out ICA'…

Welcome to Quizzing in America! This week, we are quizzing with Ryan Budds of Trivia with Budds of Burbank, CA Jeremy Cahnmann is the owner of Brain Bash Trivia. Follow Brain Bash and follow Jeremy on Facebook and Instagram Check out Trivia with Budds' website and follow them on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube Check out Quizzing in America website…

Welcome to Quizzing in America! This week, we are quizzing with Noah Tarnow of the Big Quiz Thing Jeremy Cahnmann is the owner of Brain Bash Trivia. Follow Brain Bash and follow Jeremy on Facebook and Instagram Check out the Big Quiz Thing's website and follow them on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Follow Noah on Instagram and Threads Check out …

Welcome to Quizzing in America! This week, we are quizzing with David Abolafia of Florida! Jeremy Cahnmann is the owner of Brain Bash Trivia. Follow Brain Bash and follow Jeremy on Facebook and Instagram Check out Quizzing in America website to find local pub trivia near you Quizzing in America is part of the SPDM Crew of podcasts. If you're intere…

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Welcome to Quizzing in America! This week, we are quizzing with FWD Trivia of Eugene, Oregon! Jeremy Cahnmann is the owner of Brain Bash Trivia. Follow Brain Bash and follow Jeremy on Facebook and Instagram Check out FWD Trivia's website and follow them on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and TikTok Check out Quizzing in America website to find local …

Welcome to Quizzing in America! This week, we are quizzing with Quizzo Detroit of Detroit! Jeremy Cahnmann is the owner of Brain Bash Trivia. Follow Brain Bash and follow Jeremy on Facebook and Instagram Check out Quizzo Detroit's website and follow them on Instagram, Facebook, and X Check out Quizzing in America website to find local pub trivia ne…

Welcome to Quizzing in America! This week, we are quizzing with Muffy Marracco of Southern California! Jeremy Cahnmann is the owner of Brain Bash Trivia. Follow Brain Bash and follow Jeremy on Facebook and Instagram Check out Muffy Marracco's Linktree for all her socials Check out Quizzing in America website to find local pub trivia near you Quizzi…

Welcome to Quizzing in America! This week, we are quizzing with Bobby Roast Beef of Western Massachusetts. Jeremy Cahnmann is the owner of Brain Bash Trivia. Follow Brain Bash and follow Jeremy on Facebook and Instagram Check out Bobby Roast Beef's Linktree for all his socials Check out Quizzing in America website to find local pub trivia near you …

Welcome to Quizzing in America! This week, we are quizzing with Paul Paquet of the Ottawa Trivia League Jeremy Cahnmann is the owner of Brain Bash Trivia. Follow Brain Bash and follow Jeremy on Facebook and Instagram Check out Ottawa Trivia's schedule/website and follow them on Facebook and X Check out Quizzing in America website to find local pub …

Welcome to Quizzing in America! This week, we are quizzing with Nick Evans Jr. and Taylor Mallory of Soul Brain Trivia out of Washington, D.C. Jeremy Cahnmann is the owner of Brain Bash Trivia. Follow Brain Bash and follow Jeremy on Facebook and Instagram Check out Soul Brain Trivia's schedule and follow them on Instagram Check out Quizzing in Amer…

Welcome to Quizzing in America! This week, we are quizzing with Bill Patschak of BPtrivia from Frederick, MD! Jeremy Cahnmann is the owner of Brain Bash Trivia. Follow Brain Bash and follow Jeremy on Facebook and Instagram Check out BPtrivia at their website, Instagram, and Facebook. Email Bill at [email protected] and thank you to Luke for jumping…

Contestants: Randall Eng, Andy Greeley, Ewan Munro, Ajay Parasuraman, Jeffrey Seguritan, Jayanthi Srinivasan ICE to see you tune in for this latest Directors Set, one so fiendishly challenging that not one but two contestants are seriously considering renouncing their citizenship by the end of it! From a string of émigrés that causes one contestant…

Welcome to Quizzing in America! This week, we are quizzing with Johnny Goodtimes Quizzos from Philadelphia! Jeremy Cahnmann is the owner of Brain Bash Trivia. Follow Brain Bash and follow Jeremy on Facebook and Instagram Check out Johnny Goodtimes at his website. Follow him on Instagram, Facebook, Threads, and X. Check out Quizzing in America websi…

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Contestants: Jonathan Mishory, Raghuveer Mukkamalla, Jack Rousseau, S. A. Shenoy Join me and four brave playtesters — including one Zooming along the New Jersey Turnpike (not behind the wheel!) — who said "yes" to NO. Learn about a dizzyingly wide variety of filmmakers, from a professional pickleball player to the mother of rapper-turned-politician…

Contestants: Randall Eng, Jing Feng, Andy Greeley, Ewan Munro, Jeffrey Seguritan, Jayanthi Srinivasan Who needs Gukesh vs. Ding when you have Randall Eng and Ewan Munro duking it out for cinematic-quiz supremacy? But even as we all compete to mispronounce French names that being with "M," it is Jayanthi who comes out on top with the worst pun--uh, …

Contestants: Dan Blim, Randall Eng, Jayanthi Srinivasan, Ariel Watsky NOTE: This friendly includes 13 images that, for obvious technical reasons, cannot be included; therefore, this audio replay should not be considered a "pure" example of my work. Keep in mind that the contestants are not big James Bond buffs. If *you* are, and would like to play …

Contestants: Kelsey Barcomb, Mike Cheyne, Greg Fanoe, Patrick Friel, Miranda Onnen, Tucker Warner NOTE: This is a free preview. Please subscribe to my Patreon to gain access to the rest of the alphabet. I've decided to release three bonus mini-sodes this Thanksgiving (of which this is the second). Enjoy! Six cinephiles gather in one Zoom room to sh…

Contestants: Kelsey Barcomb, Paige Feldman, Charlie Fritz, Cari Milowicki, Lindsay Sobczak, Tucker Warner NOTE: This is a free preview. Please subscribe to my Patreon to gain access to the rest of the alphabet. Happy Thanksgiving! This free preview is what you get, as our six cinephile contestants test their knowledge of Radiohead's "Karma Police,"…

Contestants: Dan Burgess, Randall Eng, Ewan Munro, Jayanthi Srinivasan, Anupama Srirangan NOTE: This is a free preview. Please subscribe to my Patreon to gain access to the rest of the alphabet. Five cinephiles gather in one Zoom room to show off their knowledge of directors with surnames beginning with "L." What happens next will shock and amuse y…

Contestants: Charlie Fritz, Andy Greeley, Lindsay Sobczak, Tucker Warner NOTE: This is a free preview. Please subscribe to my Patreon to gain access to the rest of the alphabet. Four cinephiles (including our current OQL commissioner!) compete to show off knowledge of directors with "K" names. A "From the Vault" cut of these questions, featuring ye…

(Note: That's a letter I, not a number 1) Contestants: Ben Kitchen, Ewan Munro, Devin Rossiter I recently recorded two new Recreational Thinking Lite episodes; the other (with Aaron Levine, Manas Sarma, and my Jeopardy! compatriot Andrew Whatley), will go up as a Patreon exclusive. But as I'm working through my editing backlog — a lot of new materi…

Contestants: Jing Feng, Andy Greeley, Randall Eng, Ewan Munro NOTE: This is a free preview. Please subscribe to my Patreon to gain access to the rest of the alphabet. Another little taste of my directors sets! This set, covering I's and some leftover H's, is one of my hardest, but Randall & Ewan and company are more than up to the task. Perhaps we'…

Contestants: Frederic Bush, Chris Miller, Greg Weinstein, Tucker Warner, Dan Blim (whole time); Cliff Galiher, Charlie Fritz (part of the time) NOTE: This is a free preview. Please subscribe to my Patreon to gain access to the rest of the alphabet. Welcome to my new series! Written by a serious cinephile (me) for an audience of cinephiles, these qu…

Contestants: Meredith MacVittie, Ben Rothenberg, Nikhil Soneja From the semi-logical to the semiological, this episode examines the JAMES BOND phenomenon at all angles, turning a spyglass on the world's most famous spy. As we celebrate the rich legacy of the Bond franchise while also reflecting on its many problematic aspects, we additionally draw …

Contestants: Randall Eng, Doug Behrend, Darren Munk Play ball! An episode recorded back in spring is ready just in time for the playoffs, and just like their favorite players, our baseball-loving contestants are all highly skilled contenders vying for a prestigious world championship! Well, okay, maybe it's not that prestigious, and it's definitely…

Contestants: Erin Portman, Vince Bacani, Jimmy Davoren I love all my contestants equally, but the moment in this episode when one reasons out the *meter* of the correct answer using her knowledge of prosody is an all-time highlight. Really, though, there are standout moments from everyone in an episode that covers the 4 C's — curling, Catholicism, …

Contestants: Michael Rankins, Dave Ross, Nikhil Soneja Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-BATMAN!!! And WONDER WOMAN!!! And GREEN LANTERN, plus FLASH!!! All your favorite DC superheroes and supervillains — okay, well, a decent selection of them — turn up in this topic-specific episode that spans the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and modern Ages of DC Comics. Plus, …

Contestants: Ben Bass, Matthew Marcus, Henry Stringer and "gate-crasher" Raghuveer Mukkamalla Want to see more of dashing J! champion Matthew Marcus? Join him and three other fans of Recreational Thinking in the first ever recorded episode of Recreational Thinking Lite! These were intended as Patreon exclusives, and most of them are, but the public…

For the first time, my Patreon followers have something to show for their support other than just a warm, fuzzy feeling! This past weekend, I quickly threw together seven episodes of what I'm calling Recreational Thinking lite, a fast-and-furious, unstructured, unedited format where everyone works together against my questions and we wrap things up…

Contestants: Henry Stringer, Akiva Fox, Nathan Crissey What could be scarier than a "deranged cheese monster"? Well, for quizzers, it would have to be forgetting the name of someone you've spent time with on multiple occasions, right when you're asked a question about them. Yes, this episode's clever contestants hit highs and lows, mixing painfully…

Contestants: Dan Blim, Jayanthi Martins, Nick Salyers We may not have pumpkins, but we do crown a Pun King (or Queen?) in this seasonally appropriate episode featuring vampires, Hitchcock, the Saw franchise, and strained wordplay galore! From Koopas to Kansas, from Mario to Mitski, from Princess Peach to the Dolphin Princess ... like the humble tom…

Contestants: Nathan Flynn, Bradly Martin, Danny Dogget Full circle! We recorded this Gilliganverse-heavy episode the day Better Call Saul premiered its final half-season, and I'm releasing it right as that series airs its finale. Kismet, huh? Welcome to one of our most atypical episodes, as the contestants are recruited not from quizzing circles bu…

Contestants: Mike Jeziorski, Tucker Warner, Jack Rousseau Enjoy Episode 10? Then you'll love this SUPER SIZED reunion of all three members of that classic lineup, now with 95% less baseball. Never fear, though, for I Am the Pretty Thing that Writes the Questions, and so we make up for it with more nods to growing up in Illinois than a Sufjan Steven…

Contestants: Mike Samuelson, Colin Smith, Ryan Palmer, Dan Schroeder Stay hungry, stay foolish, and stay listening to this SPECIAL CROSSOVER REUNION EVENT in which Recreational Thinking yet again meets The Soccer Thread! For the first time since Episode 5, the host and the majority of the contestants are occupying the same physical space, and for t…

Contestants: Matt Jackson, Jenna LaFleur, Ben Rothenberg Buon giorno! A Jeopardy! legend and two of his DC-area pub-quiz-mates join us in this exhilarating episode, albeit with one Zooming remotely from Rome, and as if by magic a surprisingly high number of questions sprout Italian connections. (These unconscious mini-themes — last time's was Game …

Contestants: James Lasker, David Plotkin, Manas Sarma "I can't believe that went longer than our technical difficulties episode!" -David As only our second episode to cross the 3-hour mark, this one had better justify its length ... and it does! Episode 6 was the first truly great episode of this podcast, and though I was only able to reunite 2/3rd…

Contestants: Aaron Lichtig, David Goldfarb, Greg Fanoe You know what you doing? For great justice (and knowledge), make your time for the next 2.5 hours and enjoy this experimental episode of RECREATIONAL THINKING featuring a categorical collision unlike anything we've ever seen before! If you're curious about superhero comics, Italo Calvino, Janet…

Contestants: Daryl Sng, Dargan Ware, Anthony Garino Brain work ahead? Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does! Learn about snarky YouTubers, resilient Czechs, murderous Mannerist madrigalists, Freudian chessmasters, poetry-writing Ouija boards, gentleman safecrackers, and technical fouls galore in this installment of RECREATIONAL THINKING so full of meaty tw…

Contestants: Alexander Darby, Peter Broda, Ben Zimmer Who made the man behind "Happy" cry? What are E-Girls, and why are they ruining my life? What innocuous nursery rhyme did Paul McCartney turn into a UK Top 10 hit? Which James Bond theme drew inspiration from the Hebrew Bible? How does one stuff a wild bikini? Let's Talk About Love, learn How to…

Contestants: Anu Kashyap, Dan Feitel, Chris Ottolino Welcome to 2022! It's our first episode recorded since May 2021. (If you're curious what's been going on in the interim, feel free to check out the streaming show I attempted to launch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYyq5QTgHTmLfy4kyrnM7j7fHz87ohqSy .) A former National Spelling Bee cham…

Contestants: Caitlin Joyce, Randall Eng, Chris Miller How did a college student urinating into a potted plant bring down a national government? In what way is Staten Island a magical realm? When does Before come after After? Can Belgian Waffles ever be wrong? What is a "mezzo with moves"? What is "vore"? (Don't look that up.) Who is a "pantspreneur…

Contestants: Ben Rothenberg, Jimmy Li, Chris Ottolino The Wednesday Academic Purists may be my bitter rivals in CONNECTIONS ONLINE QUIZ LEAGUE and LEARNEDLEAGUE's A Typhoon rundle, but off the quizzing field it's all fun and games ⁠— and besides, now I get to turn them against each other, in a sidesplitting episode that covers everything from RuPau…

Contestants: Mike Samuelson, Colin Smith, Ryan Palmer, Dan Schroeder They think it's all over! Well, is it? Only once you're done listening to my ridiculously entertaining crossover with the hilarious and charming men of THE SOCCER THREAD PODCAST. Yes, I mocked soccer in my description of E11, and for my sins I designed an entire episode around The…

Contestants: Daniel Cohen, Eugene Hung, Lindsay Goldstein There are two kinds of RECREATIONAL THINKING episodes: Ones where the contestants already know each other and ones where they find their chemistry over the course of the episode. This is an excellent example of the latter, along with being a competitive nail-biter in which the lead continual…

Contestants: Victoria Groce, Troy Meyer, Yogesh Raut Did you notice that this week UM, ACTUALLY released an episode in which their usual host takes a turn in the contestants' chair? That must be what Jung called synchronicity! Yes, as a birthday present for me in 2021, several friends arranged to satisfy my long-standing wish to understand and expe…

Contestants: Oishee Shemontee, Drew Scheeler, Charlie Fritz It's appropriate that in our very last episode recorded using Skype (*sob*) we discovered "Together Mode," as this episode's contestants are all very good friends with each other ... or *were*, until that bond was tested by an unprecedented streak of steals! So come cheer on larceny as we …

Contestants: Ronny Jackson, Joey Goldman, Andrew Fisher Cheerio from across the pond! We're joined in this episode by three brilliant UK quizzers, including Mimir's Well co-founder Joey Goldman. Joey is a past victor on UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE and ONLY CONNECT, but has he met his match in RECREATIONAL THINKING? Listen and find out! Along the way, you'…

Contestants: Lynn Yu, Christine Whelchel, Monya De Two of my favorite contestants from last season re-join us alongside a skilled third, and together they uncover a hidden theme to this episode's questions that I wasn't even consciously aware of. What is it? Listen and find out! Also, you'll get to enjoy questions about very recent popular music, v…