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62: Jessica Babbitt06 Jan 202500:44:56

Jeopardy! champion, Jessica Babbitt joins us this week from Austin, TX for her first attempt at the game, searching for questions about Disney World, 90s boy bands, and current British royals. This was a really fun game to read, so hopefully you enjoy it! After you listen to this, be sure to check out Jessica and her team “Only Winners in the Building” on Pop Culture Jeopardy on Amazon Prime Video!

Episode Links:

Thanks everybody! Be sure you check the links at the linktree (https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop) - especially that link to sign up as a player on Tangents!

And don’t forget to get your tickets to Trivia Nationals coming up in May!

61: DJ Carlile01 Jan 202500:11:55

DJ Carlile from Virginia Beach joins us this week for his first attempt at the game. He was looking for questions on 90s Hip Hop or 90s alternative music. Have a listen and see how he did!

Episode Links:

Thanks DJ!
Coming up next, we’ll have three-time Jeopardy! champ, and current Pop Culture Jeopardy! contestant Jessica Babbitt trying to find questions about Disney parks and British royals.

52: Chris Parkinson04 Nov 202400:17:32

Chris Parkinson, AKA “Siege” joins us from Wisconsin this week in search of questions on Cop Shows and The West Wing. I’m sure you’ve heard him on other podcasts, but this was his first attempt at a Tangents game. I’m definitely looking forward to having him back!

Episode Links:


See you next week for a Tandem Mode game between Chris Brewer and Jeff Clear!

51: Alan Kreisel28 Oct 202400:32:15

Alan Kreisel joins us this week from Jacksonville, Florida in search of questions about college football team names and 80s movies. If you listen to other trivia podcasts, you’ve probably heard Alan many times before, but this is his first attempt at Tangents. Have a listen and see how it went!

Episode Links:

  • What to eat in Jacksonville: Poppy’s Italiano

  • Favorite Non-Trivia Podcast: Who Arted?

  • Something Learned Recently: Wally Amos was a big-time talent agent before Famous Amos cookies.

  • Favorite Movie Soundtrack: Forrest Gump

As always, be sure to check all the links at https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop - including a link to sign up for Tangents.

Now let’s find out who actually reads the show notes!

The first person to email russ@triviaworkshop.com with your name, address, and t-shirt size will get a free Trivia Workshop t-shirt!

50: Tandem - Paul Paquet & Matt Lamia21 Oct 202400:17:56

We made it to FIFTY!

Why not make episode 50 a Tandem Mode game? Paul Paquet is back for his third search for It’s Always Sunny and history content- but his first since episode 20, so he was due. He faces off against first-timer, Matt Lamia who was in search of MLB, Friends, and 80s Music. It was a fun game, so I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did hosting.


And since we're celebrating #50, I'll be adding some extra benefits to the Patreon memberships on Halloween night. There's still time to join us and help support the show!


Quick note: Paul will be presenting another great World Trivia Night event on November 1. You should definitely check it out at this link: https://cafott.ca/annual-events-cafo/world-trivia-night/

Coming up next time on Episode 51, we’ll have Alan Kreisel taking his first turn at the game. See you then!

https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

49: Tony Schmit14 Oct 202400:26:13

It took 48 episodes for the “Peterson Shuffle” to be employed for the first time, but only one more episode for it to get a second run. Tony Schmit joins us from Minnesota for his first attempt at the game, and he did his homework to craft quite a strategy. You’ll have to listen to see if it paid off.

Episode Links:

Coming up next week - IT’S EPISODE 50! We’ll have Paul Paquet and Matt Lamia facing off in a special Tandem Mode game. We’ll also be doing something special for the Patreon crew, so stay tuned for that.

48: Greg Peterson07 Oct 202400:24:47

Greg has won big money prizes on the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and The Chase, but he’s finally made it to the big time…Tangents. You have to listen to Greg play the game in a way no other contestant has to this point.

Episode Links:

Thanks, Greg!

Be sure to check out the links at https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop and https://www.tangentstrivia.com/

47: Jeff Clear30 Sep 202400:27:22

Jeff Clear is BACK - and hunting for questions on comic books and The Muppets. In his first appearance (Episode 37), he finished with 12 points, so the mission this time was to pass that mark. Have a listen and see how he did!

Episode Links:

Please check out the LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

THANKS!

46: Tandem - Luc Leavenworth & Tim Gomez23 Sep 202400:14:14

Luc is right back for another game - this time a test run for the Tandem Mode version with fellow Patreon supporter, Tim Gomez. This actually isn’t the first time they’ve met though. As it turns out, they were both in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire green room at the same time! They’re obviously outstanding trivia players with Meredith Vieira asking the questions, but what about when there’s much less at stake?

Episode Links:

Next up, we’ll have Jeff Clear back in the hotseat for Episode 47.

45: Luc Leavenworth16 Sep 202400:13:33

Luc Leavenworth (Ep. 22) is back to take another swing at the game this week, in search of questions on 90s nostalgia. I always enjoy hearing Luc play, and you will too.

Episode Links:

44: Tandem - Chris Hernandez & Cheyenne Fletcher09 Sep 202400:21:56

This is a special “Tandem Mode” episode of Tangents. At this stage, the game was very much in the alpha testing phase and the first two test subjects to step up were Patreon supporters Chris Hernandez and Cheyenne Fletcher. For this game, we’re just trying to workout gameplay and timing, so this one will be relatively quick - but by the time this gets fleshed out and all the stuff that isn’t good gets yanked out, we should have a fun game in place.

Big thanks to Chris and Cheyenne for their help on this test. None of us knew what was going to happen as we went along, and they rolled with it perfectly. Your feedback is going to be NEEDED on this, so head over to the Discord or Facebook group and let me know what you think.

https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

43: Mike Baney02 Sep 202400:43:50

Mike Baney joins us from Charleston, South Carolina in search of questions on professional wrestling and fantasy/sci-fi. I won’t spoil it for you, but he may have found some other subjects that he knows a thing or two about. Enjoy!

Episode Links:

And as always, here’s the Linktree for all the other stuff: https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

60: Prateek Chellani29 Dec 202401:01:59

Prateek was back in the hotseat trying to improve his score of 11 from Episode 34. This time he was trying to find questions about 2010s Bollywood Movies, 21st Century Formula 1 Racing, and the 23-24 Men’s Roster for something that he forgot to specify. :)

If you’ve peeked at the episode length, it’s no spoiler to say he did a little better this time. Enjoy!

Episode Links:

Thanks Prateek!

If you’d like to play the game, there’s a sign-up link on the LinkTree here: https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

42: Monya De02 Sep 202400:08:56

It had to happen eventually. Technical gremlins have affected much better podcasts than this one, so it was only a matter of time. Unfortunately, we ran into some tough luck with this one and lost some of the audio from the game. Normally, it would be easy to just scrap it and start from scratch - but the glitch wasn't noticed until after the next game was recorded...so, it turns out there's a small problem with this linear format.

Nonetheless, we press on. Monya was a great sport in spite of some wifi challenges, and hopefully she will return for a more technically sound episode soon.

Episode Links:

Again, apologies for the tech snafus. It won’t happen again might happen again, but hopefully not.

41: Brian Irving26 Aug 202400:41:40

Brian Irving had a pretty good run his first time through in Episode 6, racking up an impressive 29 points. This time around, Brian got off to a bit of a rough start, but was able to right the ship thanks to one particular category. Have a listen and see how far that got him.

Episode Links:

As always, check the Linktree at https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop - especially if you’d like to try your hand at the game!


40: Kevin Kuschel19 Aug 202400:23:03

We’ve hit the 40 episode mark!

Kevin is back this week to try to improve on his previous run (Episode 19). This time around, he was in search of questions about music, and more specifically, one-hit wonders. He was a great guest, as always.

Episode Links:

Thanks for playing, Kevin!

If you want to try your hand at the game, sign up here: https://forms.gle/bFXQ3anzAyznthpu8

39: Shanondoah Nicholson16 Aug 202400:24:44

THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL SPORCLECON WEEKEND EPISODE!

This week we have our first ever contestant who is connected to a previous contestant by marriage! Shanondoah comes to us from up in the greater Toronto area just seven weeks after hubs Shaun tried his hand at the game. Beyond trying to best his score, she was looking for questions on sitcoms, Disney, and Canadian Geography. This was a very fun episode to record…hope you enjoy!

Episode Links:

And as always, please check out the LinkTree links here: https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

38: Harry McGrory12 Aug 202400:17:52

Harry McGrory (busstop) joins us again from Glasgow this week to see if he can improve on his previous score (11). He was in search of questions about Doctor Who and the Royal Family. Have a listen and see how that went.

Episode Links:

  • Favorite Trivia: “Rob Thomas” anagrams to “Bathrooms” and “Marisa Tomei” anagrams to “It’s-a-me, Mario”.

  • Last Wikipedia Search: The Secretarybird

  • Favorite Non-Trivia Podcast: The Lonely Island Podcast

  • Last Movie in a Theater: Furiosa

  • Best TV Theme Song: Arthur

  • Plug: Listen to Tangents and tell a friend! :)

And as always, be sure to check out https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop for all the Trivia Workshop related stuff.

37: Jeff Clear05 Aug 202400:20:35

Jeff Clear is here this week from the Gopher State, in search of questions on comic books. You've heard Jeff on other trivia podcasts recently, but now he faces the challenge of being alone in the spotlight.

Episode Links:


Want to be on the show? Check out our LinkTree to find out how: https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop


36: David Kantorski29 Jul 202400:11:28

    • This week we have David Kantorski returning for his second outing in search of questions on Major League Baseball and 90s music - specifically Grunge. See if he was able to track anything down this time around…

    Links from the episode:

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    35: Mike Brownstein22 Jul 202400:12:36

    Our old pal, Mike from Ukrainian Trivia Resistance is back this week for another go at a quiz. This is the second of five recordings where the gameplay may have suffered a bit because of some experimentation with the format, but Mike was a great guest, as expected. I hope you enjoy it.

    Episode Links:


    And you could always check out our LinkTree too: https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    34 - Prateek Chellani15 Jul 202400:17:12

    We’ve got yet another member of ProgChamps building a quiz this week, with Prateek joining us from Pittsburgh in search of questions about 21st Century Bollywood Movies, 2010s Formula One, and the FC Barcelona roster (kind of). He did find something that worked out pretty well!

    Here are some links from this episode:

    Thanks for listening! If it’s not a hassle, please share the show with some friends, subscribe, or leave a rating.

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    33: Stacey Melquist08 Jul 202400:28:47

    One of our favorite ProgChamps, Stacey Melquist is back for another shot at building the perfect quiz. She was in search of questions on subjects like reality competition shows like RuPaul's Drag Race, and 80s Music. Mini-spoiler here...she does manage to track down at least one of those topics.

    She racked up 15 points in her first attempt (Episode 8), so let's see if she was able to beat that this time around.

    Links from the episode:

    As always, be sure to check our LinkTree for everything you need to know - especially if you'd like to try the game yourself!


    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    59: Amy Ningen23 Dec 202400:25:00

    Amy joins us from the Bay Area in search of questions about the 1980s or celebrity marriages. Since this episode will come out on Festivus, let me wish you happy holidays with a quick bit of trivia…this will be the fifth time since 1990 that Hanukkah begins on Christmas day. So there’s your bonus fact for the episode. Enjoy!

    Episode Links:

    Thanks for listening!
    Be sure to check the Linktree at https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop - we’re looking for more players for 2025!

    32: Shaun Bernstein01 Jul 202400:24:06

    Time for more Can-Con. We’re back in the land of Tim Hortons this week to catch up with Shaun Bernstein from the online team “Turn Down for Watt”. He was in search of questions about movies and Borscht Belt comedians, which is something that’s never been requested before…but that’s Shaun! :)

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    31: Keith Moser24 Jun 202400:30:31

    Sometimes it can be tough to get players to loosen up and talk. This was not one of those episodes.

    Keith Moser is here this week from Allentown, Pennsylvania looking for questions about Broadway musicals, Oscar-wining films, and math. Spoilers ahead…
    He found one of those.

    Links from the episode:

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    30: Tim Dippel17 Jun 202400:24:32

    Episode 30! Tim Dippel returns this week for another run, in search of questions about Star Wars or 90s Nickelodeon. You know Tim from the Frenemy Trivia Podcast, other shows from the PTE Network, and the tank top section at Target. He’s a great guest and you should definitely check out his stuff in the links below.


    https://www.tangentstrivia.com/

    29: Brandon Fellows10 Jun 202400:18:19

    Brandon (not Brian) Fellows drops by this week to take a run at the game. He hosts a Wednesday night quiz at Brewski’s in Springfield, IL for Twin City Trivia when he’s not doing his regular radio stuff. He was looking for questions on Country Music, Saturday Night Live, and Sports Stadiums. SPOILER ALERT: He found one of those.

    Links from the episode:

    If you’d like to support the show and get access to bonus content, ⁠check out our Patreon⁠!

    And for everything else in the Trivia Workshop scene, here’s the LinkTree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    28: Christian Hernandez03 Jun 202400:14:42

    The Return of El Guapo…

    Chris Hernandez returns to the guest chair this week, in search of questions about Quentin Tarantino movies. I won’t spoil anything, except to say that there were a couple of streaks in other subjects that helped with this path. Enjoy!


    If you’d like to support the show and get access to bonus content, check out our Patreon!

    And for everything else in the Trivia Workshop scene, here’s the LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    27: Ian Schulze26 May 202400:19:51

    Our first Vermonter! Ian Schulze is no stranger to the trivia podcast scene, so he came in without the usual nervousness. I had a great time with Ian on his search for questions about the band Pink Floyd. Have a listen and see if he managed to track any down, or if he hit a WALL. Get it?

    Links from this episode:


    If you’d like to support the show and get access to bonus content, check out our Patreon!

    And for everything else in the Trivia Workshop scene, here’s the LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    26: Danielle Fields20 May 202400:15:14

    If you play the Twitch stream quiz every week, you'll know Danielle from her team "Fields of Dreams", which actually goes back to the pre-Twitch days and live quizzing in Springfield with her family. She's playing from Decatur, Illinois in search of questions about Food & Disney.

    Have a listen and see how she did!


    As always be sure to check our LinkTree!

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop


    25: Jill Staunton13 May 202400:24:02

    Another local regular tries the game this week. Jill Staunton has been winning my trivia events around Central Illinois for many years now, but never in a format that let her choose the subjects for every question, so this was new.

    She was looking for questions about The Beatles...but did she find them?


    LINKS:


    And as always, be sure to check our LinkTree!

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    24: David Kantorski06 May 202400:14:04

    Another Chicagoland player takes a swing at the game this week. David Kantorski was looking for questions about 90s Music (especially Pearl Jam), Major League Baseball, and How I Met Your Mother.

    Here are the links from the show:


    And be sure to check out our LinkTree:

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    23: Caleb Greyman29 Apr 202400:22:50

    Episode 23 takes us down under for the first time for a visit with Caleb Greyman, the writer and host for BrisQuiz Trivia in Brisbane, Australia. Caleb was looking for questions about the periodic table and 1990s Simpsons. Because the majority of my quizzes are set for an American audience, Caleb was at a bit of a disadvantage coming in, but still got to show off some impressive quizzing skills during our time together. Enjoy!


    • The BrisQuiz - https://brisquiz.com/
    • The Prince of Egypt Soundtrack - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince_of_Egypt_(soundtrack)
    • Olympic Medal Design - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_medal
    • Argylle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argylle
    • Wojciech Pietranik - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Pietranik


    Want to give the game a shot? The signup link is on our Link Tree below!

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop


    58: Jeremy Cahnmann16 Dec 202401:27:54

    Jeremy is a prolific quiz writer and host for his company, Brain Bash Trivia in Chicago. For his first run at Tangents, he was looking for questions on Cardinals baseball, 80s hairbands and pop culture. If you know Jeremy, or if you’ve heard him on other trivia podcasts, you pretty much know what you’re about to get into. If this is your first encounter, grab a snack, hydrate, and enjoy.

    Episode Links:

    As always, thanks for listening! Be sure to check the linktree: https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop - especially for the link to sign up for Tangents! It’s free.

    And get your tickets to Trivia Nationals 2025 in New Orleans!

    22: Luc Leavenworth22 Apr 202400:32:31

    Luc Leavenworth should be a familiar voice to you if you subscribe to a lot of trivia podcasts, and for good reason. He's a great guest, with a broad range of knowledge. We had fun with this one.

    Check out the links below - and please subscribe if you haven't already. And tell a friend!



    And here's the LinkTree to get signed up as a player:

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    21: Sam Mounce15 Apr 202400:19:34

    I've known this week's guest since he was a youngster, and he started hosting games for Trivia Workshop when he was straight out of undergrad. Now he's heading into an emergency medicine internship, so before he got to busy with the whole saving lives thing, I got him to answer some trivia questions.


    If you want to try your hand at the game, visit our LinkTree where you'll find a link to the sign up form.


    Stuff from the episode:


    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    20: Paul Paquet08 Apr 202400:22:59

    It's a milestone week for Tangents - TWENTY episodes AND the return of Paul Paquet from the Ottawa Trivia League and the Trivia Hall of Fame. Paul's last quiz ended with some bad luck back-to-back questions about the OJ Simpson trial, so he came prepared this time around.

    If you'd like to join Paul and the rest of our guests for your own quiz, there's a link on the LinkTree page that will get you on the schedule.


    As always, be sure to check out all the links on the Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/triviaworkshop



    19: Kevin Kuschel01 Apr 202400:22:19

    This week I get to hang out with one of my favorite trivia players, Kevin Kuschel. I first met Kevin several years ago in St. Louis thanks to a pub quiz at a place called Syberg's and found out there that he's an encyclopedia of music knowledge. For this quiz, he listed "One Hit Wonders" as his specialty subject, but I don't think there's a music question in the database that would stump him. But...did he find his way into those questions?


    18: Harry McGrory25 Mar 202400:21:29

    This is the episode where we finally learn the origin of the "busstoptv" username. Harry McGrory from Glasgow (and ProgChamps) was in the hot seat this week, answering questions on a wide variety of (sometimes misleading) topics. He listed The Beatles as his specialty subject.



    17: Madeleine Garvey18 Mar 202400:11:24

    Madeleine Garvey is next up in the hot seat this week, in search of questions about Video Games and Taylor Swift. She's one of our regular players on the Tuesday night Twitch stream with the Bad Mustache team, so if you'd like to see how you would fair in a real head-to-head matchup, join us in real time every Tuesday night at 8pm Central!


    If you'd like to be a guest on Tangents, fill out this short form: https://forms.gle/K8dWCwnVbNbbQfG16


    16: Ali Baig11 Mar 202400:24:31

    Ali Baig is a ton of fun to talk to, so we ended up chatting about the quiz business for more than 30 minutes before we even got to the "First Five". For the sake of time, I trimmed that out of this episode, but it may show up in a special episode soon, so stay tuned.


    Ali is the founder of Baig of Tricks Entertainment in the burbs of Chicago and a real raconteur. It was an utter blast hanging out with him, so you can expect future visits.


    Check out the links below for more from Ali (and me).

    15: Tim Gomez04 Mar 202400:16:28

    First there was Edwards, then came Dippel, now episode 15 brings us our third Tim - Tim Gomez! It was good to finally put a face and voice to the name behind Where's My Elephant/incoherant9 on our Twitch games - and I learned quite a thing about some Peanuts characters as a bonus!

    As always, please check out the links below:

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    14: Brittany Shaw26 Feb 202400:32:48
    The MCU Infinity Saga and the Tudor Monarchy may not have much in common other than the fact that this week's guest was trying to find questions about either of them. When she's not in the guest seat on other podcasts, she's hosting her own, the Frenemy Trivia Podcast along with past guest Tim Dippel. Be sure to check out the link below for more info. https://frenemytrivia.podbean.com/ https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop
    13: Brian Waldron 19 Feb 202400:26:36

    Brian Waldron has been a regular on our streaming quizzes since the early days of lockdowns with his team, Bok Bok Bitch. Now he tries his hand at building a Tangents quiz and I had a great time watching it happen.

    Enjoy!


    As always, be sure to check the links here:

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    57: Dalton McGhiey09 Dec 202400:25:15

    Former local, now Nashville-based teacher Dalton McGhiey drops in for his first attempt at building a quiz this week. He was in search of questions about the Galapagos Islands and anatomy.

    Episode Links:

    Be sure to get signed up for Trivia Nationals 2025 in New Orleans! Want to be on the show? It's free! ;)

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    12: Tim Dippel13 Feb 202400:27:36

    Tim Dippel is a familiar voice in the trivia podcasting community, as half of the hosting duo behind the Frenemy Trivia Podcast, and as part of the PTE Network. And because that doesn't keep him busy enough, he also hosts The Perfect Ten Podcast on the ThunderQuack network. Check out links to all of those things here:

    And, as always - click the link below to get more info on what we're doing at Trivia Workshop.

    https://linktr.ee/TriviaWorkshop

    11: John Liu06 Feb 202400:21:24

    Santa Monica isn't just the home of America's most famous pub quiz. It's also the home of this week's guest, John Liu. John is part of several online quiz leagues, and took advantage of the abundance of internet quizzing during the last four years to become much more proficient at pop culture trivia.


    His expert subject though is video games. Plenty of content on that subject in the database - but was John able to track it down?


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    Make sure you check all the links in our LinkTree:

    10: Mike Brownstein29 Jan 202400:17:22

    Another online regular tries their hand at Tangents this week. Mike Brownstein, one of the Ukrainian Trivia Resistance members heard that there was no spelling required for the podcast version of the game, and used that to his advantage. Mike is a great guy, and a great quizzer...and apparently deep into non-trivial things like disc golf. Be sure to check his LinkTree below for more info on that!


    And as always, check out the Trivia Workshop LinkTree for more upcoming streams, live events, and other miscellaneous stuff.

    9: Paul Paquet 22 Jan 202400:17:49

    Paul Paquet is one of the best - and most prolific trivia writers on the planet. Having Paul play the game made me realize what it must be like for the chefs on Kitchen Nightmares when Gordon Ramsay is trying their Beef Wellington.

    He is the man behind The Ottawa Trivia League, and The Trivia Hall of Fame, and for many years has provided the questions for the annual World Trivia Night in Ontario. He's also a budding thespian, so be on the lookout for Paul at the Oscars soon.

    Check out his link here:


    And for more info on Trivia Workshop content and events:



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