Mon, 5 January 2009 A Glowing Review Thanks to Ralph from the Unmutual.Blogspot posthttp://the-unmutual.blogspot.com/2008/12/podcast-review-mostly-trivial.html Trivia should be fun -- and not many people make it as much fun as Johnee Bee, host of the "Mostly Trivial" podcast. The show is a nice balance of frantic silliness and straight-forward common sense. The calm, even-voiced Johnee Bee hosts the quiz. He asks the questions, provides the answers and gives additional information about the subject. Introducing the show is Mr. Category Guy, whose deep, gravelly electronically altered tones don't quite disguise the fact that he's also Johnee Bee. And the same is true of Johnee's able assistant, Robot Boy, who speaks in a higher and more artificial-sounding voice. The trivia's interesting enough; it's usually about things that a reasonably well-rounded person might know. But it's the production values that really make this podcast. I don't know who Johnee Bee is, but he has to have a background in major market radio. His characters are deftly drawn, and with a few simple sound effects, he can paint an audio picture of Mr. Category Guy having one too many in his sound booth, or Robot Boy extending his hydraulic arm to give Johnee Bee the list of questions. Although all three voices are done by the same person, the conversations flow naturally, and the comic timing is impeccable -- these are mad editing skills at work! And the podcast is peppered with all kinds of crazy and non-sequitur quotes and sound effects. Snippets from classic films, TV shows, and cartoons pepper the podcast, providing a counterpoint -- and sometimes humorous commentary -- to Johnee Bee's simple, straightforward delivery. The choice of music is also brilliant. Johnee Bee uses the strange musical stylings of Coconut Monkeyrocket, which provide a Carl Stalling-like soundtrack to the proceedings (if Stalling was more like Spike Jones, that is). I thoroughly enjoy this little six to eight-minute podcast, and only wish it came out more often. But I can hear the amount of production work Johnee Bee puts into each episode, and I know that probably won't happen without a bigger payday. My suggestion? Syndicate it. One of the reasons I'm moving away from radio is the dull, uninspired "morning trivia" segments on some of my local stations. If "Mostly Trivial" was available as a segment radio stations could just drop in, then I think the show would be a much bigger hit than it is, and Johnee Bee might become as famous as Dan Orkin's "Chickenman" -- and for much the same reason. - Ralph______________ Go Daddy.com picked us for a Go Daddy campaign. If you go their site and you buy a domain name use the Promo Codes below
10% off any order: TRIVIAL1 $5 off $30 or more: TRIVIAL2 $7.49 .com domains: TRIVIAL3 ______________ Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you to leave a Review in iTunes if thats how you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. It helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we have a lot more! If you have a Podcast as well, do an intro for me! Also go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes. Category: general -- posted at: 9:39 AM Comments[0] |
Fri, 2 January 2009  Swimming Pool Trivia Mostly Trivial makes a BIG splashOne of the most haunted sections of the ship the RMS Queen Mary is the former First Class Swimming Pool. The Second longest swimming pool is the Orthlieb Pool in Casablanca, Morocco. The pool is 480 meters or 1,574 feet long and 75 meters or 246 feet wide. The Orthlieb Pool is filled with sea water and covers 8.9 acres. Nemo 33 is a recreational diving center in Brussels, Belgium that is home to the world's deepest swimming pool. The pool has two large flat-bottomed areas at depth levels of 16 ft and 32 ft, and a large circular pit descending to a depth of 108 ft ______________ Go Daddy.com picked us for a Go Daddy campaign. If you go their site and you buy a domain name use the Promo Codes below
10% off any order: TRIVIAL1 $5 off $30 or more: TRIVIAL2 $7.49 .com domains: TRIVIAL3 ______________ What do you know, Joe? Whatwas the first ocean liner to have a swimming pool and a gym? A. Queen Mary B. Titanic C. Lusitania
Last Post Answers: B. Los Alamos Los Alamos continued to be the most secret town in the U.S. until well after the Cold War. Dugway is the U.S. Army chemical weapons test range in Utah. Alamogordo was the site of the first nuclear explosion and White Sands was a missile testing area close by.Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you to leave a Review in iTunes if thats how you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. It helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we have a lot more! If you have a Podcast as well, do an intro for me! Also go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes. Direct download: 151_Mostly_Trivial_151_Swimming_Pools_trivia.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 7:08 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 10 December 2008  Nuclear Bomb Trivia A chain reactionMy God, what have we done?" - Robert Lewis co-pilot of the Enola Gay On August 2, 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb! It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the serious undertaking known then only as "The Manhattan Project." Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable atomic bomb.KaBOOM! ______________ Go Daddy.com picked us for a Go Daddy campaign. If you go their site and you buy a domain name use the Promo Codes below
10% off any order: TRIVIAL1 $5 off $30 or more: TRIVIAL2 $7.49 .com domains: TRIVIAL3 ______________ What do you know, Joe? Most of the theoretical work on the atomic bomb, and all of the final assembly, was conducted at a secret site in New Mexico where a whole town was erected in secret around a former boys' school. What is the name of the place? A. Alamogordo B. Los Alamos C. White Sands
Last Post Answers: C. Patriot's Day Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you to leave a Review in iTunes if thats how you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. It helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we have a lot more! If you have a Podcast as well, do an intro for me! Also go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes. Direct download: 150_Mostly_Trivial_150_Nuclear_Bomb_trivia.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:44 AM Comments[0] |
Wed, 3 December 2008  Holidays Around the World Trivia Let's Celebrate!
Cinco de Mayo is frequently regarded as the Mexican equivalent of the United States 4th of July. This is simply not true. Actually, it is the equivalent of the 5th of May. LOL. Of greater importance is the battle of Cinco de Mayo that occurred in 1862. Juarez, who had been Zapotec Indian minister of Justice in Juan Alvarez' cabinet in the 1850's, entered Mexico City on January 11, 1861 and promptly expelled the Spanish minister, the papal legate, and members of the episcopate. Additionally, he took steps to enforce the decrees of 1859 disestablishing and disendowing the church. He could not have known at this time that almost a century later, "antidisestablishmentarianism" would become the longest word in the English dictionary. Although Juarez was recognized by the United States and had received both moral and military aid from the US, there were over $80,000,000 in debts at that time to Europe alone. The Mexican Congress in July 17, 1861 decreed the suspension for 2 years of interest payments on the external national debt, and 3 months later a convention occurred between Great Britain, France, and Spain calling for joint intervention in Mexico. ______________ Go Daddy.com picked us for a Go Daddy campaign. If you go their site and you buy a domain name use the Promo Codes below
10% off any order: TRIVIAL1 $5 off $30 or more: TRIVIAL2 $7.49 .com domains: TRIVIAL3 ______________ What do you know, Joe? Always on the third Monday in April. Popularly celebrated in Maine and Massachusetts to commemorate the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, Which holiday is this ? A. Revolution's Day B. Soldier's Day C. Patriot's Day
Last Post Answers: B. Good Friday On April 14, 1865, while Lincoln was watching the play "Our American Cousin", Booth sneaked into the unguarded section that the president was in. Booth raised his pistol and shot Lincoln in the head, and the bullet went through his skull and stopped behind his right eye. Booth escaped the theater (although he had a broken leg), but was later found in a tobacco barn in Virginia eight days later. A pistol went off, and no one knows if Booth was killed from a soldier's bullet, or if he committed suicide. Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you to leave a Review in iTunes if thats how you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. It helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we have a lot more! If you have a Podcast as well, do an intro for me! Also go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes. Direct download: 149_Mostly_Trivial_149_Holidays_around_the_World_trivia.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:25 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 27 November 2008  Pumpkin Trivia This is a new shorter of Mostly Trivial. We'll still do the standard version.
Also Shakespeare referred to the "pumpion" in his Merry Wives of Windsor. American colonists changed "pumpion" into "pumpkin." How did that 'K' get in there? The "pumpkin" is referred to in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater and Cinderella. ______________ Go Daddy.com picked us for a Go Daddy campaign. If you go their site and you buy a domain name use the Promo Codes below
10% off any order: TRIVIAL1 $5 off $30 or more: TRIVIAL2 $7.49 .com domains: TRIVIAL3 Last Post Answers: B. Good Friday On April 14, 1865, while Lincoln was watching the play "Our American Cousin", Booth sneaked into the unguarded section that the president was in. Booth raised his pistol and shot Lincoln in the head, and the bullet went through his skull and stopped behind his right eye. Booth escaped the theater (although he had a broken leg), but was later found in a tobacco barn in Virginia eight days later. A pistol went off, and no one knows if Booth was killed from a soldier's bullet, or if he committed suicide.______________ Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you to leave a Review in iTunes if thats how you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. It helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we have a lot more! If you have a Podcast as well, do an intro for me! Also go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes.Comments[0] |
Fri, 14 November 2008  Youngest U.S. Presidents Trivia So who were they? Listen to the show for goodness sakes!
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10% off any order: TRIVIAL1 $5 off $30 or more: TRIVIAL2 $7.49 .com domains: TRIVIAL3 ______________ What do you know, Joe? One of the most famous assassinations was that of Abraham Lincoln, who was killed by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre in 1865. What day was it? A. Holy Thursday B. Good Friday C. Easter Sunday
Last Post Answers: A. Germany The German federal election was held on 18th September 2005. Although Merkel's party had begun the campaign with a 21% lead over the main governing party in the opinion polls, the final result was so narrow that it was two months before coalition talks between the two largest parties could be finalised and Merkel confirmed as Germany's new chanceller. She is the first woman and the first citizen of the former East Germany to hold the post. Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you to leave a Review in iTunes if thats how you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. It helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we have a lot more! If you have a Podcast as well, do an intro for me! Also go to Go Daddy.com and use our promo codes.Direct download: 147_Mostly_Trivial_147_Youngest_Presidents_trivia.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:38 PM Comments[0] |
Wed, 5 November 2008  World Leaders Trivia History is fasinating!
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Last Post Answers: A. Sean ConnerySean Connery, who'd never read the J.R.R. Tolkien series and claimed he "didn't understand the script." (Can you say karma?) In return for playing the role, New Line Cinema offered the Scottish actor up to 15 percent of worldwide box office receipts, which would have earned Connery more than any actor had ever been paid for a single role -- as much as $400 million Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you to leave a Review in iTunes if thats how you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. It helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we have a lot more! If you have a Podcast as well, do an intro for me!Direct download: 146_Mostly_Trivial_146_World_Leaders_trivia.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:14 AM Comments[0] |
Mon, 27 October 2008  Movie Roles Turned Down Trivia Actors who turned down BIG roles.
______________ Win a Prize? First Prize is a AppleiPod "Touch"! Fill out the survey to the left. It's simple, and quick. It will help to get a sponsor to support our show and Robot and I will read the ads [They will be short]. Thanks for being patient if you have done this already.Things are looking good! ______________ What do you know, Joe? Lord of the Rings Gandalf was played by Sir Ian McKellen Who turned down this role? A. Sean Connery B. Jeremy Irons C. Anthony Hopkins
Last Post Answers: B. 1944 Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you to leave a Review in iTunes if thats how you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. It helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we have a lot more! If you have a Podcast as well, do an intro for me!Direct download: 145_Mostly_Trivial_145_Movie_Roles__Denied_trivia.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:29 PM Comments[0] |
Mon, 20 October 2008  Cool Places Iceland Trivia
Iceland was the last European country to be settled, mostly by Norsemen in the 9th and 10th centuries. They came mainly from Norway and in the Scandinavia area, and from the Norse settlements in the British Isles. All branches of the arts do very well in Iceland, especially painting, which started at the turn of the century. Literature has always been the mainstay of Icelandic culture. I could read and paint all day myself! In Reykjavík, the capital, there is a symphony orchestra, an opera house and ballet company. ______________ Win a Prize? First Prize is a AppleiPod "Touch"! Fill out the survey to the left. It's simple, and quick. It will help to get a sponsor to support our show and Robot and I will read the ads [They will be short]. Thanks for being patient if you have done this already.Things are looking good! ______________ What do you know, Joe? In what year did Iceland gain independence? A. 1940 B. 1944 C. 1967 D. 1922 Last Post Answers: D. 43 quintillion Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you to leave a Review in iTunes if thats how you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. It helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we have a lot more! If you have a Podcast as well, do an intro for me!Comments[0] |
Fri, 10 October 2008  Rubik's Cube Popular Puzzle Trivia
Biography
Ernő Rubik was born in Budapest, Hungary during World War II. His father was a flight engineer at the Esztergom airplane factory, his mother a poet. He graduated from the Technical University, Budapest (Műszaki Egyetem) in 1967 as an architectural engineer and began postgraduate studies in sculpting and interior architecture. From 1971 to 1975 he worked as an architect, then became a professor at the Budapest College of Applied Arts (Iparművészeti Főiskola). He has spent all his life in Hungary.
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A. 100 thousand B. 2 million C. 300 million D. 43 quintillion Last Post Answers: B. Accidental. Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial asks you to leave a Review in iTunes if thats how you get this show. Add yourself to my Frappr Map as well. Dont forget to vote for my show at Podcast Alley. It helps my exposure to new listeners. It seems we have a lot more! If you have a Podcast as well, do an intro for me!Comments[0] |
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