Super Food Science Excellence Trivia Blow Out! with Science Friday
Part-Time Genius
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
What a treat! It’s a fact-packed food science trivia game, created in collaboration with our good pals at Science Friday. Mango and SciFri’s Flora Lichtman put one lucky listener to the test with questions about peppers, panda diets, and more, with special prizes on the line.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:18.5 | You're listening to Part-Time Genius, |
| 0:23.4 | the production of Collidoscope and IHeart Radio. |
| 0:32.4 | Hey there, podcast listeners, it's Mango here, and today we're doing something a little bit different. |
| 0:34.2 | It is a trivia game. |
| 0:39.6 | It is a collaboration with my good pal, Flora Lickman, host of the wonderful show Science Friday. And it's called the Super Food Science Excellent Trivia Blowout, aka as our super |
| 0:47.3 | producer show Shana calls it the S-F-S-E-T-B-O. So remember that. Make sure that's how you reference it from here on. |
| 0:57.0 | But Flora, thank you so much for doing this. I know we've been talking about a collaboration forever. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm just so psych to have you on the show. I am so thrilled to be here. This is the highlight of |
| 1:07.9 | 2025 for me. And it's been a long year. And we're almost at the end. So a lot |
| 1:14.8 | already happened. So are you good at trivia? I'm terrible at trivia. My mind is like a sieve. |
| 1:22.3 | Like even though I get to learn things, new things every single week on the show, every single day on the show. |
| 1:29.4 | I don't know. |
| 1:30.0 | I can't. |
| 1:30.5 | I have difficulty retaining my guess. |
| 1:33.4 | Or maybe I just freeze up. |
| 1:35.1 | I don't know. |
| 1:36.1 | I am so-so at trivia. |
| 1:38.6 | And as a kid, I was so-so at sports. |
| 1:42.4 | But those things then diagram really nicely when you go to the Science Olympics pentathlon. |
| 1:48.7 | Did you do that? |
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