Settle the Score

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Movie music trivia with real scoreboard pressure.

The gist

Settle the Score is a movie-music trivia game built around clues, song snippets, bonus questions, and shifting point values. Matt Nose runs the match while Andy Merriweather handles the music, with guests and patrons trying to identify films from themes, scores, and soundtrack details.

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About Settle the Score

Settle the Score turns soundtrack recognition into a recurring game-night ritual. The show is built on head-to-head movie and TV music trivia, with contestants trying to identify films, themes, composers, actors, or soundtrack connections from clues and short musical cues. Matt Nose runs the board. Andy Merriweather supplies the musical direction, playing snippets and helping shape the rhythm of each round. The result feels structured but not overproduced. Rules matter, scores matter, and so do the little detours that happen when a guess opens a side conversation about sequels, directors, Oscar trivia, or a half-remembered movie fact. A typical episode moves through multiple rounds with shifting point values. Some questions reward fast recognition. Others ask contestants to estimate rankings, connect clues, or survive a second five seconds of music after the first cue fails to land. That gives the show a satisfying pressure curve. A player can lead early, miss a detail, and suddenly watch another contestant catch up on a bonus. The episodes show a steady mix of mainstream film memory and niche soundtrack knowledge. Goodfellas, Caddyshack, The Jungle Book, Black Panther, Into the Spider-Verse, Superman, Lethal Weapon, Beverly Hills Cop, The Help, and TV themes all become playable material. Patron Score-nament episodes add a tournament feel, with returning competitors, teasing rivalries, and matchups discussed like small-scale championships. Live and special-format episodes show the hosts tinkering with categories, clue groups, and audience participation. That behind-the-scenes talk gives the show a workshop quality without flattening the game. It is often funny in the way trivia rooms are funny: someone is certain, someone is wrong, and everyone has a theory anyway. The banter can be blunt and casual, but the core pleasure stays cleanly focused on recognition, recall, and the thrill of hearing a familiar cue just before the answer clicks. Settle the Score works best for listeners who want to play along with people who take movie music seriously while still treating the room like a hangout.

Made for: For movie fans, soundtrack obsessives, trivia-night regulars, and listeners who enjoy guessing along from tiny musical cues. It also suits people who like relaxed competitive banter around films, TV themes, and pop-culture memory.

What sets it apart: The show combines live musical cues with structured scoring, so recognition happens in the moment rather than through plain question-and-answer trivia. Its patron tournaments, themed rounds, and five-second challenges give familiar movie music a sharper competitive shape.

In their own words

Settle the Score is a weekly game show, hosted by Matt Knost and accompanied on the piano by maestro Andy Merryweather, that has contestants square off against one another to determine who has the best movie score and soundtrack knowledge.

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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Live piano clues turn cinematic music knowledge into a quick, competitive test of recognition and recall.

Settle the Score turns movie music recognition into a lively contest of memory, timing, and nerve. Matt Knost runs the game while Andy Merriweather supplies piano excerpts, with contestants identifying films from clues or just a few seconds of music.

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Why you'd press play

Five seconds of a song, one movie to name, and suddenly your couch has a scoreboard.

Press play if you want

to race Matt Knost's contestants to a movie title before Andy Merryweather plays five more seconds
to keep your own score when a bonus question could change everything

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Episodes

#221 with Peggy Gubbins and David Jindoian

Patron Score-nament #11

249 with Drew Grant and Eric Rodriguez - TV Time!

248 with Papp Johnson and Cyrus McRae

Sorry, we had to reschedule this week's show

#247 with Kevin Smets and Adam Witt

LIVE show!

LIVE Show Announcement!

246 with Bethany Deacon and Justin Oliver

#245 with Tim Franco and Robert Montano

#244 with Joe Farrelly and Amaru Moses

#243 with Craig Gaynier and Jeffrey Kan

#242 with Benny Hamblin and David Jindoian

241 with Adam Collins and Nerdchronic

Patron 2 vs 1 Championship!

#239 with Chandru Dhandapani and Mark Haas - Geek Off!

#238 with Jacoby Bancroft and Paul Oyama

#237 with David Campbell and Sonny Olsen

#236 with Drew Grant and Marisol McKee

#235 with Chance Ellison and Andres Gallego

#234 with Christina V and Peggy Gubbins - Romance is in the air!

#233 with Cody Hall and Christian Ruvalcaba - A Horror of our own creation

Our apologies, but there's no show this week

#232 with Three is a Crowd, Ten is a List

#231 with Jeff Sneider and Vishnu Akella

#230 with Mark Ellis and Josh Macuga

#229 with Nerdchronic and Matt Thomas

No Show this week

Patron Score-nament #10

Patron Score-nament #9

#227 with Benny Hamblin and Mike Deacon

#226 with Paul DiNuzzo and Dan Nye

#225 with Robert Butler III and Winston Marshall

#224 with Nick Harley and David Campbell

#223 with Andres Cabrera and Amaru Moses

#222 with JTE and Russell Howell Grand Slam!

Patron Score-nament #12

#220 with Mark Haas and Robert Parker - Geekdom Throwdown

#219 with Kate Mulligan and Dorina

#218 with Kevin Smets and Craig Gaynier - Wrasslin' Time!

217 with Christian Ruvalcaba and Cody Hall

Score-nament Team Championship

#216 with Chris Burns and Papp Johnson

#215 with Marisol McKee and Matt Thomas

214 with Jacoby Bancroft and Adam Collins

213 with Late to the Party and The Reactorverse

#212 with Chance Ellison and Jeffrey Kan

#211 with Chandru Dhandapani and Mara Knopic - A Geek Extravaganza!

#210 with Freddy Lockhart and Mike Black

Sorry, no show today

#209 with Paul Oyama and Jack Draper

#208 with Josh Macuga and Eliot Dewberry

Patron Teams Score-nament 2

Patron Teams Score-nament 1

#204 with Jeff Sneider and JTE

No Show this Week

203 with Andres Gallego and Eric Rodriguez

#202 with Paige Frabetti and Russell Howell

#201 with Mark Haas and Jeffrey Kan

#207 with Kelli Mehan and Jess Kan

#200! with Matt Knost and Andy Merryweather

#199 with Jeannine Brice and Morgan Robinson

Holiday Score-nament 2

Clefty's Patron Holiday Score-nament 1

#198 with Jacoby Bancroft and Amaru Moses

197 with Freddy Lockhart and Chris Burns

#196 with Champs on Film and Jen & Andres Gallego

#195 with Peggy Gubbins and Christina V

#194 with Samm Levine and Dan Murrell

Big Announcement!

#193 with Brendan Meyer and Paul Oyama

Clefty's Patron Score-nament of Champions 4