One of the best feelings as a trivia player is when you encounter a topic that you are confident in your ability to answer...but what if you could have an entire quiz built around some of your favorite things? On The Catered Quiz, the guests provide the topics and host Rick Katschke then creates a Catered Quiz just for them. It sounds so simple...if you pick the topics, how hard can the quiz be? The Catered Quiz is designed to challenge guests by taking a deep dive into the topics they selected. If you love trivia, minutiae, conversation and fun, The Catered Quiz provides all that and more!
Episodes
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Monday Feb 24, 2025
Ahead of this Sunday’s Academy Awards, actor and film writer Mack Bates is this week’s guest on The Catered Quiz! On Mack’s episode, he answers questions about Siskel & Ebert and two of his favorite actresses Susan Sarandon & Angela Bassett.
Mack has also been a contributor RogerEbert.com and appropriately enough, wrote this tribute to Angela Bassett’s performance in What’s Love Got To Do With It?
https://www.rogerebert.com/black-writers-week/when-angela-bassett-found-her-inner-tina-turner
Follow Mack on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/mack.bates/
Enjoy the Academy Awards this Sunday on ABC & Hulu!
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
On this edition of The Catered Quiz, filmmaker Greg DeLiso joins the program to answer questions about the Detroit Red Wings and Jerry Seinfeld. Greg also talks about the comedic influences that went into the Pyscho Ape movies he made with Addison Binek.
Both Psycho Ape movies are available to stream at rewindo.tv
Greg’s art is available for purchase here.
Look for Greg’s next film Sharksquatch which just started filming earlier this month.
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
On this week’s episode, author Caitlin McGurk joins the show to talk about her new book Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life And Art of Barbara Shermund and to answer questions about the movie Ghost World and the comic strip Nancy.
The gallery exhibition of Barbara Shermund’s art that Caitlin curated opens this week at the Brandywine Museum of Art in Chads Ford, Pennsylvania. For more information visit
https://www.brandywine.org/museum/exhibitions/barbara-shermund
Caitlin is the Curator of Comics and Comic Art at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at The Ohio State University. Learn more about the library and museum at https://cartoons.osu.edu
Caitlin can also be seen on the Found Footage Festival’s Shaturday Morning Cartoons.Watch their latest episode here.
Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
Tuesday Feb 04, 2025
On this episode of The Catered Quiz, sports radio host Bart Winkler joins the show to answer questions about WWE Wrestling and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Bart also provides his prediction for this Sunday’s football game…but does Rick share Bart’s opinion? The only to find out is to listen the third episode of the 2025 edition of The Catered Quiz.
The Bart Winkler Show can be heard Monday-Friday from 9pm-1am Central Time on the Infinity Sports Network as well as Audacy and Sirius XM. The latest episodes of The Bart Winkler Show are available to listen to here.
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
On this week’s episode of The Catered Quiz, comedian and storyteller Gabe Mollica joins the show to answer questions about Stephen Sondheim and the tv show Seinfeld. We also chat about comedy, internet friendship and the 2001 film Rat Race.
Check out Gabe’s Sondheim story referenced in this episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfww25A-rWQ
Listen to Gabe’s episode of This American Life:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/810/say-it-to-my-face
Purchase tickets for Gabe’s show on February 20th at Soho Playhouse:
https://ci.ovationtix.com/35583/production/1192056?performanceId=11579011
Follow Gabe on your preferred social media platform @gabemollica
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Welcome to Season Two of The Catered Quiz!
On the first episode of 2025, comedian Josh Gondelman kicks off the season answering questions about the Boston Celtics and East Coast Hip Hop! Plus, a new rule for the 2025 season of The Catered Quiz is introduced!
Josh will be performing multiple shows this weekend at San Francisco Sketchfest, including a performance with friend of the show Alison Leiby. For tickets and information, visit https://sfsketchfest.com
Josh’s special People Pleaser is available now for rent or purchase at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-TZ4HnZ6_8
For more information, tour dates and to sign up for Josh’s newsletter That’s Marvelous, visit https://www.joshgondelman.com
As mentioned at the end of the episode, if you are able to support the GoFundMe for Melissa Hunter’s parents, please donate at https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-hunter-family-after-total-loss-in-palisades-fire?fbclid=IwY2xjawHyr-pleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSvpeNE2G50uhVpySYPbiuLVsTvKQXZmITMzG2rL_c1-tPD7ZxmTf-F2Aw_aem_S0sZZ4laGJExxKEweHJifQ
Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
Tuesday Dec 03, 2024
It’s the 2024 Tournament of High Scores!
Ann Vitti, Kevin Tully and Conor Sullivan had the top three scores in the 2024 regular season of The Catered Quiz and one of them will be named The Catered Quiz Champion of 2024. Listen as The Catered Quiz Tournament of High Scores goes round-by-round with our three finalists.
Some rules for the Tournament of High Scores:
-The regular season scores have been thrown out.
-The Required Risk has been removed.
-Ann, Kevin and Conor have retained one topic from their regular season episode and also have a brand new topic for The Tournament of High Scores.
-The competitors are each unaware of everyone else’s performance so they are only focusing on their individual games.
It’s the thrilling conclusion to the inaugural season of The Catered Quiz!
Thank you for listening to the 2024 edition of The Catered Quiz, leave a review for the show and tell your friends about the program.
For more information about the I Have a Dream Foundation visit https://www.ihadla.org
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Monday Nov 25, 2024
Monday Nov 25, 2024
It’s the 2024 Regular Season Recap episode of The Catered Quiz! Enjoy a sample of all 45 episodes of The Catered Quiz ahead of next week’s Tournament of High Scores where of our three finalists will be named The Catered Quiz Champion of 2024!
Whether you’ve never heard The Catered Quiz or you’ve listened to all 21 hours and 41 minutes of this season or you’re somewhere in-between those extremes, I hope that this episode introduces you to or reminds you of the fun that was had this year on the show. If you watch Survivor, remember when they used to do a big two-hour recap episode right before Thanksgiving? This is The Catered Quiz equivalent of that. In fact, I even added another twenty minutes to that two-hour runtime.
And since it is Thanksgiving, I also share what I’m thankful for about each guest this year. And who were those guests?
Here’s the roster for the 2024 inaugural season of The Catered Quiz (in order of appearance):
Joe Pickett
Deanna Ortiz
Elise Bartel
Joe McAdam
Tom Clark
Mitch DeSantis
Brad Gage
Matt Mueller
Nick Prueher
Robert Persinger
George Pasles
Matt Wild
Tyler Maas
Joe Kwaczala
Sam Nulton
Roy Miles
Jamison Webb
Kent Watson
Nora Woida
Mike C. Nelson
C.J. Toledano
Jon Howland
Steve Lawrence
Rachel Bernhard
Josh Hoppert
Kevin Tully
Alex Pickett
Lucia Juliao
Mike Scollins
Megan Gailey
Melissa Hunter
Eric Bresler
Chris Calogero
Sarah Tiana
Curt Neill
Tom Fuchs
Burt Gross
Alison Leiby
Drew Spears
Conor Sullivan
Ann Vitti
Megan Rosati
Shea Frevele
John Thompson
Evan Pilak
Whether you are traveling, cooking or trying to pass time at work this week, I hope you enjoy The Catered Quiz 2024 Regular Season Recap!