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On the Spot

Season 5 2015 - 2016
TV-G

  • 2015-09-14T00:00:00Z
  • 20m
  • 6h (18 episodes)
  • Documentary
Everything You Need to Know About Everything Can you answer questions ON THE SPOT? ​ Each episode of On The Spot is a lightning fast game of entertaining trivia. The answers will amaze you. ​ Test your knowledge with questions like these. ​ Can a cow have an accent? ​ Which came first, the color orange or the fruit? ​ As a kid, did Napoleon hate France? ​ Was the name Google an accident? ​ Who got the world's longest standing ovation? ​ For the surprising answers to these questions and hundreds more, catch On The Spot every week. ​ It's quite simply everything you need to know about everything. Check your local listings.

18 episodes

Season Premiere

2015-09-14T00:00:00Z

5x01 On the Brain, Health & Fitness, Dinosaurs

Season Premiere

5x01 On the Brain, Health & Fitness, Dinosaurs

  • 2015-09-14T00:00:00Z20m

How the brain works; the effects of caffeine; an up-close look at dinosaurs.

The history of the circus and cinema; the vitaphone; some pretty bad ideas.

Flying like a superhero; a simple invention that has saved thousands of lives; the vacuum of space.

Roswell, N.M.; the history of domestic life; surprising statistics

S.O.S.; traveling in a crazy contraption; spectacular cities.

Solving everyday problems; the chances of surviving just about anything; bees.

The 17th century accessory that is still worn today; pop culture; the fastest way to get from country to country.

Diseases; sewer gators; world wonders.

5x09 Mad Science, Oddities, Origins

  • 2016-01-25T00:00:00Z20m

Changing a knight into a tank; the world's fastest animal; science oddities.

The River Thames; origins of machines; an ancient bartering system.

What makes a clock tick and turn; some of the world's most visited landmarks; extreme sports that surf Earth's terrain.

A natural gas that can sink a ship; patents held in Thomas Edison's name; inventions.

The state that celebrates Popcorn Day; what a didgeridoo is; the largest orchestra ever to play.

America's first spy ring; intelligence-gathering machines; the real James Bond.

Notorious pirates; what a blunderbuss is; what a pirate's buried treasure would be worth today.

Mysteries of the mind; the history of the hamburger; death-defying acts.

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