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Improve your general knowledge trivia and boost your brain power in less than 10 minutes. James Cutler and the Quiz Coconut team bring you 10 of the best general knowledge trivia questions every week. A pub quiz in your pocket - a fun trivia fix! Quiz Coconut has hosted 2000+ quiz nights. Every week we bring you ten of our best trivia questions along with one of our worst jokes. Play on your way to work or with others - test your trivia wits and see how you do. If you can't get to the pub, o ...
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Featuring: Grand Canyon! | Movie Hubs! | Historical Regions! James is back — and November’s pub quiz spectacular has arrived. Ten brand-new questions. Ten chances to test your wits, prove your trivia prowess, and feel that sweet spark of discovery that makes a great pub quiz night unforgettable. These aren’t just questions, they’re brain-fuel. Each…
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" Your memories can't be trusted." Everyone remembers that 90s movie called Shazam starring Sinbad as a genie, right? Was it Berenstein Bears or Berenstain Bears? Did Mandela die in prison, or is that just a glitch in our collective brain? In today's episode, we explore the Mandela Effect, a phenomenon where a large group of people collectively mis…
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"I love it. It's so bad." At a glance, it's glove at first sight. But gamers in the 80s and 90s soon threw up their hands in disgust while trying to get The Power Glove to power anything besides their rage. Prolific podcaster Adal Rifai joins us to explore The Power Glove and play some games. Adal is certainly no stranger when it comes to puzzling …
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James Cutler asks 10 of the most interesting quiz questions you'll hear this month! Including: Rain Predictions! Heavy Animals! Estate Agency Terminology! 10 quick questions to start your day off with a mental boost. Learn something new, remember something you used to know, keep the brain firing on all cylinders! Find out if doing too much botox ma…
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Movie theaters were already going for full immersion in the 1970's with Sensurround. David breaks down this little known movie technology, which delivered an earth-shaking intensity to movies (literally). Tony Piluso from the Hack the Movies YouTube channel joins us for a dive into obsolete film tech. He also shares film lore about work prints and …
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The only thing better than an escape room is having infinite escape rooms! The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy podcast where a bunch of friends write escape rooms for each other to play while chatting over a cold one. Infinite Escape Room co-host Jamie Gibbs joins us as as we all collectively get our minds blown by the inconceivable concept of inf…
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Pringles! | TV shows from the future! | The Moon! Does it get any better than this? 10 stellar quiz questions jam-packed in to 8 minutes. Plus a terrible joke, which perhaps this month is worse than usual. We'll be back with more trivia goodness soon - with an exciting project on the horizon! --- Created and Presented by James at Quiz Coconut. Musi…
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The reality show Survivor loves to open with a splash—literally. The most famous opening episodes start by having contestants jumping off a ship while trying to grab anything useful they'll need to survive the next month stranded in a deserted locale. Survivor calls this a "marooning," but in today's episode of PG's Playhouse, David tells us about …
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You're starving, sweaty, exhausted, and your best friend on the island just stabbed you in the back. Ahead, a giant obstacle course awaits, with a complex puzzle afterwards. And you've got to juggle all this while outmaneuvering a bunch of other contestants all hungry for the win. With over 49 seasons, Survivor is one of reality television's longes…
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Liverpool FC! | Transport! | Air Conditioning! We're back with ten more cracking quiz questions. Remember these and instantly become more interesting and fascinating to be around! Here monthly for the time being. With audio challenges and a bad joke, we strive to make this pod the most memorable ten minutes of your day! --- Created and Presented by…
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Have you ever cooked with molasses? It's so gooey and sticky that it can literally pull the fillings out of your teeth if you're not careful. Now imagine a 15-foot wave of molasses coming towards you at a glacial but inevitable pace. Today, we're diving into one of the stickiest disasters in American history, The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Bos…
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Long before uranium became synonymous with weapons of mass destruction, it was mostly serving as a decorative function. Glassblowers and glass factories would add a tiny bit of uranium to their glass, which gave it that distinctive yellowish green color. It also created a fluorescent effect under blacklight. David explores the history and back grou…
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Gaffers! | Darts! | Extremely Difficult World Capitals Question! This one's tricky... but if it was too easy it wouldn't be fun would it. Do penguins have knees? People have asked this for decades. And we can finally reveal the answer! Join us for ten of the greatest pub quiz questions, in the comfort of your own home, or the discomfort of the gym.…
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" It might be an affront to the laws of physics." In this episode of PG's Playhouse, we're going vertical! Today's topic is Frank Lloyd Wright's Nuclear Powered Elevator. Why would you need nuclear power for an elevator? Well, because it was designed to service a skyscraper stretching a mile upwards. David breaks down this totally bonkers skyscrape…
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"Recycling or Wish Cycling?" The next time you go to toss that plastic container in the recycling bin, you might actually be doing more harm than good. In this episode, David gives us some cold hard facts about recycling correctly. As it turns out, the majority of objects we're chucking in the recycling bin require more consideration than you'd thi…
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Dwarfs! | Dolphins! | Marbles! Life-changing trivia - hear ten talking points and thrilling trivia to test your team at work or family around the dinner table! Protect your brain by using it - Memorise these epic facts! Learn about how we feel after a few drinks by comparing ourselves to dwarves; large cats and who wrote the Mr Men and Little Miss …
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"A very popular way to assassinate your rivals." What's a peasant to do when you're in the midst of an uprising and faced with armored knights and lords? Throw them out the windows! Apparently, this was such a popular way to assassinate your rivals that a term was coined to describe such an act: defenestration. David gives us a short lesson on the …
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In this sponsored episode, we're joined by puzzle writer John Bromels, who created the Hive: The Race to Save Time puzzle hunt, inspired by the new sci-fi novel Hive, book 1 of the Madders of Time series by best-selling author DL Orton. Check out the details below for dates and how to play. John shares all the details of how he crafted this puzzle …
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High Cities | CGI characters | Rubbish Recorders! Recorder song link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF7lv1gfP1Q Become the smartest person in the room - for ten minutes! Protect your brain by using it. Memorise these epic facts! You can learn about woolly mammoths and whether they lasted long enough to see Stonehenge being built. We talk about di…
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" Is there a whole lot of murdering going on?" This week, we're talking Assassination by Umbrella, a slightly morbid topic inspired by our guests, Marcus Richardson and Nathan Hicken, co-hosts of the Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum podcast. Researching the game takes a dark and surprising turn when Peih-Gee, acting upon David's suggestion, finds …
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" The missing ingredient here is love." This episode we're talking everything bagels! These chewy, crunchy, carbalicious treats are one of my favorite foods. Brent Pope, host of the popular Brentfast podcast, joins us again to dive into the culinary delight that is the bagel. David gives us a short history of the bagel, including its origins and wh…
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" It's important for us to all know and celebrate Sir James Arthur Fool, who created the holiday in 1872." Joke’s on you, April Fools’ Day... I can be fooled any day of the year. Actor, comedian, and podcaster Brent Pope joins us to explore the mysterious origins of April Fool's Day. We talk about some favorite pranks, and David almost pulls a fast…
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80 Years of Films! | April Fools Headlines! | Stars! Improve your brain power with these quiz questions! Become the most interesting person in the room - for ten minutes! We'll be back with more trivia goodness soon - with an exciting project on the horizon! --- Created and Presented by James at Quiz Coconut. Music and Editing by Jules at Abstract …
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Every year, thousands of people (including me) gather in the Mojave Desert to live out their wildest cyberpunk fantasies. Jared Butler, owner and creator of the immersive festivals Wasteland Weekend and Neotropolis joins us this week to chat about Neotropolis, including the ever-evolving larp and missions aspect. We also talk about the variety of e…
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"Technology will not save us." In the shadow of neon-lit streets, kids are jacked in and tuned out. This is the world of cyberpunk, a genre with a view on what the future can look like when technology goes awry. Jared Butler joins us to explore “cyberpunk” as a genre and what it means. Jared Butler is a voice actor who has also created two incredib…
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Art! Dry Ice! Football Stadia! Can you live without these ten incredible quiz facts? Yes! But your life will be more interesting if you know them.. Enjoy! --- Created and Presented by James at Quiz Coconut. Music and Editing by Jules at Abstract Source: abstractsource.co.uk Design by Ben at Ich Bin Ben: ichbinben.com Quiz Coconut UK: www.quizcoconu…
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" If we're only going to get one trip to the salad bar, we're really going to make that one trip count." Only one trip to the salad bar? Lettuce really make it count. David's wife Lisa Spira, co-founder of Room Escape Artist, joins us again for a trip to the salad bars of Pizza Hut China. Pizza Hut has developed many innovative market strategies, i…
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“High Risk, High Reward.” Fighting for fame, fortune, and glory? As it turns out, women also fought as gladiators. Just as with sports today, women in the ancient Roman empire had to battle stereotypes, societal norms, and adverse conditions to win a bit of freedom for themselves. Lisa Spira, David’s wife and co-founder of Roomescapeartist.com join…
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What's a day of family fun at Walt Disney World without churros, Cinderella's Magic Castle, and a show so terrifying they had to strap down the hapless guests to keep them from fleeing? In today's episode, we talk about the short-lived, bone-chilling attraction, The Extraterrorestrial Alien Encounter. This attraction only existed for eight short ye…
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I have a quick chat with Ryan and Jamie... Ryan came on the Quiz Pod back in the summer and proposed to Jamie live on air! A podcast first! Did she think she'd ever get proposed to on a podcast? Let's find out what she said... --- Created and Presented by James at Quiz Coconut. Music and Editing by Jules at Abstract Source: abstractsource.co.uk Des…
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Theresa doesn’t sleep on the weekends, she says sleep is for the week. What is sleep, and why do we need it? Our podcast producer Theresa Piazza joins us to explore this bizarre activity that we spend almost half our lives doing. We talk about what happens when you don't get enough sleep, and share some tips and tricks for how to fall asleep when t…
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We're Back! Denmark! Football! Wizard of Oz! --- Created and Presented by James at Quiz Coconut. Music and Editing by Jules at Abstract Source: abstractsource.co.uk Design by Ben at Ich Bin Ben: ichbinben.com Quiz Coconut UK: www.quizcoconut.co.uk Canada: www.quizcoconut.ca Worldwide: www.quizcoconut.com Visit quizcoconut.com/podcast to send in you…
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The story of the bat bomb begins as so many horrible things do: with a dental surgeon in Pennsylvania who had some connection to Eleanor Roosevelt. In this episode, David tells the story of a completely insane weapon that was built and tested during the World War 2 era, but was ultimately never used. Bill Sunderland and Dani Siller of Escape This P…
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[Repeat of 2022's episode 35] Rivers! Greetings Cards! Awful Music with the Portsmouth Sinfonia! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia] We're having a break after a busy festive season, so please enjoy this replay of one of our most popular episodes. The trivia podcast you can't live without. Just ten minutes each week: learn some usef…
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Blank? Blankety blank! No, we're not censored. Rather, we're filling in the blanks to solve the mystery sleuthing game The Rise of the Golden Idol. This game plays a little bit like a graphic novel, where you're given images of fictional crime scenes and you need to figure out the order of events. What sets this game apart is the unique mechanics a…
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[Repeat of 2022's episode 23] Effie's back! Egg-laying Mammals! Palindrome Popstars! We're having a break after a busy festive season, so please enjoy this replay of one of our most popular episodes. The trivia podcast you can't live without. Just ten minutes each week: learn some useful facts, useless information and play along wherever you are in…
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"Death Chalk... is it death chalk?" Escape This Podcast? But we're just getting started! Of course we couldn't have a game show style podcast without having our good friends from Escape This Podcast on to share the fun. Bill Sunderland and Dani Siller, hosts of the popular audio escape room style podcast, join us this week to run a mini-puzzle for …
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[Repeat of 2022's episode 19] Paw Patrol! Monopoly! 8-Bit Classical Music! We're having a break after a busy festive season, so please enjoy this replay of one of our most popular episodes. The trivia podcast you can't live without. Just ten minutes each week: learn some useful facts, useless information and play along wherever you are in the world…
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What a tee-rific idea! Today we're talking minigolf, the entertaining twist on a classic sport with an interesting history. Anne & Chris Lukeman, owners of CU Adventures in Time and Space join us again to tackle a subject very close to their heart. As they tell us in the episode, they're taking everything they know about creating amazing escape roo…
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Can you tell the actors from their voices? Which is the most common organ transplant? Who were the first three Disney princesses? The trivia podcast you can't live without. Just ten minutes each week: learn some useful facts, useless information and play along wherever you are in the world! --- Created and Presented by James at Quiz Coconut. Music …
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What's a roadtrip without a visit to that Giant Ball of Twine or a glimpse of a giant Muffler Man? If the sign says "World Famous" anything, I'm pulling over for it. Our guests today are Anne & Chris Lukeman, owners of CU Adventures in Time and Space, an escape room company in Illinois. They love roadside attractions, and in fact, their escape room…
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*** Be the hero! Please support the podcast and keep it going in 2025: > buymeacoffee.com/quizcoconut < *** Second part of our fourth annual quiz of the year! Bigger than ever before, 50 questions, 70 points... grab everyone around you and see how much you can remember! All sorts of things happened this year. A big year for sport with the Olympics,…
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Remember Y2K? The end-of-the-world that came and went without a hitch? Guest Tommy Honton joins us again to explore what really went down in this episode of PG's Playhouse. Our game today is called New Beginnings, where we take the names of old fads and transform them into something new by changing the first letter. David then walks us through a sh…
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*** Be the hero! Please support the podcast and keep it going in 2025: > buymeacoffee.com/quizcoconut < *** We're back with our fourth annual quiz of the year! Bigger than ever before, 50 questions, 70 points... grab everyone around you and see how much you can remember! All sorts of things happened this year. A big year for sport with the Olympics…
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In the inaugural episode of PG's Playhouse, Peih-Gee Law and David Spira are joined by immersive creator Tommy Honton to explore the controversial topic of whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. We kick off with a game called "Christmas-fied" where non-Christmas movies are transformed into Christmas-themed titles by adding festive song lyrics. We a…
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****************** Because it's Christmas... Please support the podcast and keep it going in 2025! > buymeacoffee.com/quizcoconut < ****************** Christmas Is Almost Here! Day 21-24! Taking you all the way to the big day... O Holy Night (actually Steve Maudlin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyCUsk1cLkY Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to …
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Jingle Cats and Panpipes! Day 17-20! It's beginning to look a lot like Quiz-mas... Back with the countdown and two episodes left. Jingle Cats: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ksOTbTmiFS9vEIpXN9tXb If this is new to you - you can enjoy our Christmas Quiz question and joke every day! If you did these last year, see how much you can remember... If yo…
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Days 13-16! Featuring the Piano! We're currently running events for crowds all across the land... but we don't want to leave you wanting. So here is a recap of the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th days of our 2023 Countdown to the Holidays. If this is new to you - you can enjoy our Christmas Quiz question and joke every day! If you did these last year, se…
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Day 9-12! We're almost halfway there! NOTE: The Hanukkah date we mention is in 2023; in 2024 it's later in December. We're busy at the moment hosting office Christmas Quiz parties but we didn't want to leave you without any festive quiz action. So we're bringing you another chance to play our daily 2023 Countdown To The Holidays that we published l…
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