Good Job, Brain!


Good Job, Brain! was a quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Good Job, Brain! began as a Kickstarter project on December 20, 2011. It is distributed on Stitcher, SoundCloud, iTunes, and the show's website.
The show's cast play pub trivia together as a team called "Baby Dog Time", named for hostess Karen Chu's dog.
The cast wrote a book, Good Job, Brain!: Trivia, Quizzes and More Fun From the Popular Pub Quiz Podcast, published in September 2016.

Format

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

Good Job, Brain! was the winner of Stitcher's 2013 "Best Games + Hobbies" podcast. It was named one of The Guardian's "Top 10 US podcasts for road trip listening" in 2013.
The show was nominated in May 2017 by the Academy of Podcasters for the Best Games and Hobbies Podcast award.

Episodes