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 doe

33: Stacey Melquist

5 days ago 28m 47s

32: Shaun Bernstein

12 days ago 24m 6s

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’

31: Keith Moser

19 days ago 30m 31s

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

30: Tim Dippel

26 days ago 24m 32s

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 gre

29: Brandon Fellows

Jun 10th, 2024 18m 19s

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

28: Christian Hernandez

Jun 3rd, 2024 14m 42s

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 th

27: Ian Schulze

May 26th, 2024 19m 51s

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

26: Danielle Fields

May 20th, 2024 15m 14s

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 sear

25: Jill Staunton

May 13th, 2024 24m 2s

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 look

24: David Kantorski

May 6th, 2024 14m 4s

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:Uno Pizza

23: Caleb Greyman

Apr 29th, 2024 22m 50s

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

22: Luc Leavenworth

Apr 22nd, 2024 32m 31s

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

21: Sam Mounce

Apr 15th, 2024 19m 34s

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 savin

20: Paul Paquet

Apr 8th, 2024 22m 59s

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 cam

19: Kevin Kuschel

Apr 1st, 2024 22m 19s

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

18: Harry McGrory

Mar 25th, 2024 21m 29s

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

17: Madeleine Garvey

Mar 18th, 2024 11m 24s

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 wo

16: Ali Baig

Mar 11th, 2024 24m 31s

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 epis

15: Tim Gomez

Mar 4th, 2024 16m 28s

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 abou

14: Brittany Shaw

Feb 26th, 2024 32m 48s

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, th

13: Brian Waldron

Feb 19th, 2024 26m 36s

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

12: Tim Dippel

Feb 13th, 2024 27m 36s

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 Podcas

11: John Liu

Feb 6th, 2024 21m 24s

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 ye

10: Mike Brownstein

Jan 29th, 2024 17m 22s

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 i