Tangents: A Trivia Workshop Podcast

12/08/2024

08/07/2024

https://www.tangentstrivia.com/episodes/33-stacey-melquist

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 topic

01/07/2024

https://www.tangentstrivia.com/episodes/32-shaun-bernstein

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...

24/06/2024

https://www.tangentstrivia.com/episodes/31-keith-moser

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 episo

21/06/2024

Crowdsourcing new Q&A questions for Tangents players. Hoping to break out some new ones for the first Tandem Mode game Monday night.

The ones in the current rotation:

* What is the best thing to eat where you live?
* What is your favorite movie soundtrack?
* What pop culture thing are you into right now?
* What's your favorite piece of trivia that sticks with you?
* Where do you quiz (live/online)?
* Last thing you looked up on Wikipedia?
* The last movie you saw in a theater?
* Favorite Non-trivia podcast?
* Last thing you looked up on Wikipedia?
* Something you learned in the last week?
* Best TV theme song?

What are some other good icebreaker questions?

11/06/2024

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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. SPO...

20/05/2024

https://www.tangentstrivia.com/episodes/26-danielle-fields

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.

15/05/2024

https://www.tangentstrivia.com/

Tangents is a unique trivia podcast that lets the players pick the subjects as the game progresses .

13/05/2024

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/pa8g9HfbzJb

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 t...

29/04/2024

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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 wa...