Good Job, Brain! - 110: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #22

Episode Date: May 14, 2014

Replenish your smarts with some brainor-ade in this all-quiz show! Colin tests us to see if we know our acronyms, and takes us hopping around the nation with a city name quiz. Dana's been snooping around Amazon and made a game about hilariously punny celebrity autobiography book titles. Take the "The Pen is Not Mightier Than the Sword" challenge and see how well you know your famous fictional swords. And Karen's back to embarrass the others by forcing them to answer in the form of an impression in her celebrity quiz.  ALSO: Boardgames, AND. THE. RETURN. OF. BELGIUM? OR NOT BELGIUM?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, Anagram, adoring, audio-absorbing, awesome audience. Welcome to Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia podcast. This is episode 110. And, of course, I'm your humble host, Karen. Along with me are our marvelous minutia mining minds and mouths. I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And I'm Chris. And of course, today is episode 110. And every fifth episode, we do an Alquiz Bananza episode. So today is our all-quiz bonanza number 22. Yay. Good mental math. Yeah. So sometimes we just have a lot of quizzes that we made.

And on our all-quiz episodes, we don't really have a theme. We just all prepared our own puzzles and quizzes. Got to clear out our backlog of quizzes. They've just been building up. And stump you guys, listeners. So play along. And let's start out with our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz, hot shot.

The quiz to start the quizzes. The pre-quiz. All right. I have a random trivial pursuit card. and you guys have your barnyard buzzers. Here we go. First question, Blue Wedge for geography. In what city can you find the mouth of truth?

Oh. Is this in Rome? Yes. It is in Rome. According to legend, the sculpture bites your hand if you tell a lie. I think it's the thing on the wall that has like a big scary mouth, right? Yeah, and you put your hand in it. They built like an arcade machine.

out of this thing that you'd stick your hand in it and it would spit out a fortune it was like a fortune teller machine except for buzz you yeah but the real thing is it was Italian so I figured it must be Rome and it was one point

for Gryffindore just one point I don't think you're a Gryffindore I don't think Oh Ravenclaw sorry One point for Ravenclaw Yeah Next question

Pink Wedge for pop culture Duran Duran Got its name from a character In what Jane Fonda movie Colin. That was from Barbarrella. Yes. Now name another Jane Fonda movie.

On Golden Pond. Oh, right. Oh, okay. Jane Fonda works out. Barbarrella, the cult classic featured a character named Dr. Durand, Durand, Durand. Durand, Durand. All right, yellow wedge. What versatile material was developed to keep GI ammunition cases dry during World War II?

Two. Chris. Nylon. Incorrect. Collin. Polyester? Incorrect. Kevlar?

Incorrect. What is it? It's duct tape. Oh. That totally makes sense. Okay. That's cool. Also known as Duck, the animal tape.

Yes. Duct tape. Wait, it was used for keeping what dry? Ammunition cases. Oh, that's so much. Seal up the edges, I'm guessing. I thought it was for, like, ducks, like air ducts. You know, do you see?

So I always. I always heard, or I always thought that, like, duck tape was the, was an egg corn. You know, it was the misheard version of it, that it was duct tape. Right, right. No, as it turns out, it's actually duck tape. D.C.K. Water, everything slides off of it the way that things slide off the back of a duck. And that was a brand.

It was a brand. And that, you can use it on air ducts. That was that, in fact, is the misheard. Okay. So the military one was called duck tape, like D-U-C-K. Here, during World War II, Revelite, then a division of Johnson & Johnson, developed an adhesive tape made from rubber-based adhesive applied to durable duck cloth, D-U-C-K cloth backing. This tape resisted water and was used as a sealing tape on ammunition. So it was probably derived from duck cloth or cotton duck, which is a canvas, which is a slang for canvas.

So is the card wrong? Should it really be duct tape? It also did say, also known as D-U-C-K-T tape. Yeah, it's called both. It's referring to the same thing. Okay. Yeah. They're pedantic.

Wait, so it's supposed to be D-U-C-K tape, and then we kind of commonly call it duct. Yeah. All right. Next question, Purple Wedge. What is the first message, Charlotte Weaves in Charlotte's Web? Wow, Chris. Some pigs. Yes.

Yeah. Nice. What are the other? other ones. Humble. It's like marvelous. Oh, yeah. I don't know.

That's some pig. Yeah, starts out, you know, pretty simple. Right. Not the best pig. Not even no. Pretty good pig. Some pig. Yep.

Some pig. Some guy. Technically there's an exclamation mark. So it's more than. Some pig. Some pig. You should eat. You betrayed me.

How dare you show you. It's a bookbook. All right. Green Wedge, Rescience, what is the more familiar name for the intoxicating plant, Napita Cateria? That must be catnip. Yes. Oh, wow.

I was thinking of, like, marijuana. Right. Marijuana. Yeah. It's like, wow, for real pursuit. Napita cataria. Oh, catnip. All right.

Last question, Orange Wedge. Which is not a major league soccer team. Chicago Fire Columbus Crew or San Jose Saber Cats Whoa, Colin That is the San Jose Sabre Cats Is not a soccer team

You are correct I believe it's the earthquake Right or earthquakes That's what I thought They may have changed their name So I think when this card was written It was called the Clash All right, good job Brains

So I'll quiz Bonanza Number 22 Who Wants to Go First Not it Who's close to stage 22? Oh, I am. Definitely not me. Yeah, probably you.

All right, you go first. I go first. All right. Well, if you guys are making me first, I'm going to choose an embarrassing one. All right. So, here I have a quiz about famous actors and actresses. The twist is, we've done this before. Instead of answering the name of the actor I'm looking for, you have to do an impersonation of this person.

Okay. This is what you guys get for making me go first. All right. So you can say a famous quo or impersonation. This person, and I chose very iconic celebrities. Okay, all right, okay. Nobody wants to buzz it. Really?

Oh, no. All right, I know your scheme. Before playing the leader of Shield in the Avengers universe, he was the voice of the superhero Frozone in the Incredibles. Colin. Say what again. Yeah, I was like, I can't think of any queen quotes. Yeah, what could we possibly say?

I think in some of his movies he may have uttered an A or a the I could also do That's one tasty burger Nice Can we just say their name In their accent Like if we're like

Samuel L. Jackson Yeah I didn't really think about that I was like oh he's really iconic I never really thought about Oh his lines are not PG Yeah every major Yeah, every memorable line.

He's saying something sassy with like propensity. I want these Monday to Friday snakes off this monkey fighting plane. Right, right. The edited for TV version. Monday to Friday. I think it might have been the other way right.

I think it was. Monkey fighting snakes off this Monday to Friday plane. I want that job. I want that job. I'm sure it's controlled by some sort of a secretive guild of the people who get to Edit no edit movies for TV I'm sure they're protecting their job

Because that is a sweet job I'd be out of here in a second if they offered me that job All right In AFI American Film Institutes 100 greatest movie quotes of all time The quotes in the number two spot And the number three spot are spoken by this late actor Oh

So he spoke both the number two and number three The number two and number three Best movie quotes of all time Okay. Chris. I could have been somebody. I could have been a contender. Yes.

And also, I'll make him an offer where he can't refuse. Yes, wow. Is that the two of them? That's got to be. So I'll make him offer. Can't refuse. Number two. Contender.

The Godfather. Contender is on the waterfront. Number is number three. And they're both Marlon Brando. Yes. Marlon Brando. Very good job. You didn't need to tell me the quotes, but props.

Oh, okay. This guy served. Two terms as the 30th governor of California. Oh, Chris. Get to the chopper. Come with me if you want to live. There's so many. Sylvester Stallone.

It's not a tumor. I think we've just, I think those are like the three lines he would least like to be remembered for. I still see you. That's probably the least favorite one. quote list, I'll be back. Must be on there, right? I'm sure. Arnold Tritsenegger, of course. The full name of this rap group Hype Man is William Jonathan Drayton, Jr.

Oh. Yeah, boy. Oh, my. I hope that's right. I hope that's right. Because he put it all out there. That's got to be flavor of flavor. It is flavor. Okay.

Flavis. All right. Next question. This amateur singer behind a viral 2007 hit song likes to, quote, move away from the mic to breathe in. Dana, you want to hit this one? Dana. Chocolate bruce. That went really well. I don't actually remember any of the other lyrics, but I do remember the... Something about... Black boar. Something like... Yeah, it was really... People laughed at this song, but it was really deep. Racial.

Yeah, yeah. He's about, like, racial issues. Right. But it was just, though, ooh. He did the Dr. Pepper commercial, too, the cherry chocolate Dr. Pepper commercial, where he's saying, cherry chocolate rain. And then one of the lines actually was, I move away from the mic to breathe. That's really good.

Oh. That was actually a really good. Of course, the man here is Taze on Day, the brain behind the hit chocolate rain, famous on YouTube. Though she's more known for her hit in 90s TV show, this actress appeared in movies like Saturday Night Fever, this is Spinal Tap, and Weird Al's UHF, and of course, The Beautician and the Beast. Chris. Oh, right. Jeez. Oh, that's the only line I can take.

All right, Air 5. Okay, across the table. Good job. And that was, of course... This is, of course, a broken machine gun. Fran Dresser. Fran Drescher, star of the nanny. He was initially created from a discarded spring coat

and two ping pong balls halves for eyes. Dana. The lovers, the dreamers. Oh, that's good. Carmet D. Frog here. Hi, ho. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, yeah.

Kermit the Frog Kermit the Frog Kermit be frog All right last one Oh my favorite one The notable people Who like to do

impersonations of this actor include actors Kevin Pollock Kevin Spacey And of course comedian Jay Moore Uh

Oh okay Colin I've got a fever Yeah Of course Christopher Walken. Do more. Do more.

Scooch closer, children. Don't make me tell you again about the scooching. The pox's a weird part of my brain. Which is Jane Moore. One of my favorite skits on Saturday Night Live of recent years was the Christopher Walken family reunion. Yeah. And so Amy Poehler, like, talking about her doll, she's like, she's a good doll.

She doesn't respond well to spooky. behavior it just cracks me up baby poor has the hair the creases so most impersonations of Christopher Walken at this point are actually impersonations of other people

doing impersonation of Christopher Walken like William Shatner I think as well right? Yeah it's like a second one of my favorite is Kevin Spacey as Christopher Walken as Hans Solo the Millennium Falcon More people today culturally are exposed to people doing impersonations of Christopher Walker

than the source material itself with the exception of more cowbell which was actually him all right well good job you guys that's a good way to start the show yeah I like that quiz I'll stick with you Karen I like that one yeah all right you're not fired so if you're listening to this episode the day that it goes live or the week that it goes live then you will know that it was just Mother's Day here in the United States of America. I hope that you weren't caught off guard by this. I hope you spent time. Right now, someone is frantically calling their mom.

You might be saying, Chris, why didn't you tell us this last week when there were still time? That is not my job. Yeah, 51 weeks to prepare for next year. Get it right. So, let me ask you guys, this is a quiz, because this is an all-quiz show. When is Mother's Day? Oh. Colin.

Is it the second son? Sunday in May? It is the second Sunday in May that is in the United States of America and other places around the world. Second Sunday in May is Mother's Day. Without looking at anything, where is the apostrophe in Mother's Day? I'll have you write this down on your notepads because obviously, I mean, okay. I don't want to assume too many things about you guys, but I assume you would figure out. that there's only really two potential answers here,

unless you think the apostrophe is between the O and the T, in which case. Motors. Right, right, right. So I'm going to give this to you. There is an apostrophe. Okay. Okay. Where is that apostrophe?

Sure. Everyone can debate this amongst themselves. I feel like it's a trick, too. Trick question. I don't think it's a trick. Colin says it's between the R and the S, so the singular possessive. Karen agrees between the R and the S, singular possessive. Dana says it is the plural possessive.

And thus it is after the S, but before the space, before the D. It doesn't look right. It is the singular possessive. It is. So there is actually a little story behind this. Yeah. The creator of the holiday, Anna Jarvis, specifically said that the holiday is meant to, like, tell a particular family, honor your mother. This is your mother's day.

Not the reference to the collective mothers of the earth. It is a day about your, it is about yo mama. Got it. Your mom is a day. Exactly, right. Unless you have two moms. Unless you have two moms. That could happen.

In which case, yeah. Sophie's choice. Mother, mother's one. Officially, officially our apostrophe, yes. On May 9, 1914, the president of the United States of America

issued a proclamation proclaiming that that day to be the first official Mother's Day in the United States, May 9th, 1914. Which president was it? Oh, jeez. Colin

Woodrow Wilson Yeah you nailed it Woodrow Wilson What a flower is typically given And worn on Mother's Day And this represents Mother's Day I don't know Karen knows

Carnation Carnation Oh okay Yep In which of the following countries Is Mother's Day Not celebrated on the second Sunday in May You can write this down too

So your three options here are the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan. In which of those countries is Mother's Day not celebrated on the second Sunday in May? Of course, we do have listeners from all of these countries, and probably one of them is going to get this immediately. Sure. But we are Americans. Colin says Japan, Karen and Dana both say Australia. It is the United Kingdom.

In the United Kingdom, they celebrate mothering Sunday, which is exactly the same thing as Mother's Day, on the fourth Sunday in Lent. And that was this year, that was March 30th. It is, apparently, it is increasingly beginning, people are increasingly starting to call it Mother's Day in the UK, but Mothering Sunday is, it's not the same day. In Australia and Japan, they celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. And finally, on that note, Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. Belgium or not Belgium? Oh. Okay, let's go.

You can work this out yourself. Probably not. I say French. Wait, what does thumbs up mean, Belgium? Yeah. Okay. Thumbs up means not Belgium. Like, I was like true.

It means true. Colin seems to be weighing in here with Belgium. As in, yes, they do indeed celebrate it on second Sunday in Belgium. Karen is doing the thumbs down. Karen says not Belgium. But they're separated by the water. Do you think it's a lint thing? So my theory is they might have an older holiday equivalent, but not on the same day.

I say not just because it's in Europe, too, I guess. So Colin says yes, Karen and Dana both say no. It's weird that Australia is different than the U.K. is because they were a common. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy, right? Yeah. Hard to tell.

Belgium. In Dutch, Mother's Day, sounds quite a bit like they're saying murder. dog. Mooder. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Tog.

Murder dog. Yeah. Murder dog. She's a new comic book series I'm right there. Murder dog. I hope you guys had a fun Mother's Day. Hey. Or as we now call it.

Murder dog. Murder dog. Happy murder dog. All right. I have a quiz for you guys about celebrity autobiographies. Yes. Yes. I was just cruising around on Amazon and I realized there's this whole like trend of

celebrities making really really punny names for the autobiography and I was trying to come up with one for myself they're not good they're terrible but I'm gonna keep working on it the Dana Nelson's story no okay that's just such a small part of her life though yeah it is let's go through it and then at the end we can think about what our own okay yeah our own autobiography yeah all right so for instance to start out the stone cold truth is the autobiography of stone cold Steve Austin right okay we're not buzzing it anymore. Well, no, no, we are. That was an example.

Okay, all right. This is why we have to practice questions. I'll let it go. All right. Melissa explains it all. Tales from my abnormally normal life. Wow. Well, I mean, it's Melissa Joan Hart. Yeah.

Yes. Because her show was Clarissa explains at all. Unsweetened. Is this Jody Sweeten? Yes. Oh, my. Wow. They are all like that. Okay.

They are all this bad. Like a full house? Yeah. So I'll basically be telling you their names in the title, but you have to like parse it and understand. All right. All right. Wow. The pool of what constitutes celebrity is a little bigger than I thought. Wait, which one is she?

Yeah. She was Stephanie. The middle one. The middle one. Spelling it like it is. Tori spelling? Yes. Wow.

Oh, okay. Choreography, a memoir. Chris. Corey Feldman? Yes. Wow. It's 50-50. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He passed away. Yeah, okay. He could have. He might have. He might have.

Uncharted Territory. Oh. Is this Terry Hatcher? No. Is this Tara Reed? No. I have no idea. It's a trick.

It's Tori spelling again. It's Tori spelling again. Oh, Territory. Tori. Tori. Yeah. She, how many books did she written? There are a lot with her name.

What? She is the queen of puns with her name. Anyway, Untold story. What is? She's really good at coming up with those. I need to. Okay.

Impressed. Okay. New life goal. Before I die, write more books than Tori Spell. You're not going to win. Oh, no. I mean, she has a lot of them. And they all are puns on her name.

Anyway. You've written two books. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you're not even... No, I'm not even in the... I'm not even in the... I'm not even in the territory.

You're not in the territory. Yeah, I think that might be uncharted territory. Okay. So, um, yeah. Stories from Candyland. Confections from one of Hollywood's most famous wives and mothers. Uh, candy, candy, candy. Is it Candice Cameron?

Oh, uh, Confection. Is it, is it like one of the, is it the Kardashian mom? No, no, no. No, that's Chris. It is. It's not Candace Bergen. Don't say Torrey spelling. It's candy spelling her mom.

Oh, my. So angry right now. I'm so mad right now. I really thought there was like a chef or a food angle because there were like double puns on Candyland and then confection. So I was like, oh, must be a Hollywood like pastry chef. Wow. Who knew the spelling family dominated the celebrity memoir, yeah.

All right, we're moving out of the spelling area now. Tommy Land. Is that Tommy Lee? Yes. Sly moves. Is that Sylvester still? Oh, you're running this. A twist of lemon.

Everybody. Tina Faye? No. D. Snyder? No. Jack Lemon? Yes. We've associated the word lemon with Tina Farr so closely now.

All right. Now, these don't have their names in it, but they're closely associated with whatever they were up to. Leading with my chin. Oh. Chris. Jay Leno. Yes. Kiss and makeup.

Gene Simmons. Yes. Out of sync. Justin Timberlake? No. J.C. Chazay. No. Good guess.

But no. Joey Fatone? No. Chris Carpatrick. It's Lance Bass. Lance Bass. Right, because it was after, yeah, it was after he came out. Was Justin Timberlake in Insink?

Yes. Okay. So you were, so you know what? Half a point from here. You know what? Yeah. Good job, you guys. Personal best.

I mean, there were, yeah, I could have done more Tori spelling. Oh, man. Yeah, because apparently she's. Now I'm curious. Apparently she's written more books than Michael Crichton, I guess. Yeah. So I couldn't. I could have come up with a really good punny name for myself.

Oh, with our names. With our name. I can't stop Karen. I don't know. What's you thinking? Oh, what's you thinking? Yeah, what's you thinking? Yeah, what's you thinking?

And you see you like leaning to the side with your arms. With a backwards cat. You're like, what you think? Oh, okay. Oh, I got it. Man. I can't even believe it. It was just there the whole time.

Polaroscopy. And it's you with like an x-ray. Right. And then there's a picture of my face in the X-ray. And you look all noughties. So on into infinity. Yeah.

Colonized, maybe. Oh, right. Colonyal cops. Cullen. Yeah. Actually, colonoscopy. And then we will just release them at the same time. And it's like there's a tube that's connecting both of your books, like across the covers.

Yep, yeah, they're collector. Under Amazon be like, other people also bought. It has to be. This is, this was the falling out of Chris and Colin from Good Jobbrain as both claimed the rights to use the colonoscopy pun in the title of their book. No, choleroscopy, because it rhymes, you know, col, colon, colon, because it's closer than it is. They never reconciled this difference. Behind the music.

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At pub quiz, we will frequently get questions about acronyms and abbreviations and initialisms and what do these letters stand for. Well, you're the best at that. It's your quiz. I love these. I love these. So you need an enthusiasm to put the quiz together, right? It's true.

If you say a more common example is AWOL. He went AWOL. What does AWAL stand for? Away without leave. Absent without leave. Absent without leave. right so I'm for this quiz I'm particularly interested in what a lot of people kind of think of the more pure acronyms which are words that you read as a word oh okay a lot of people will say like oh fbi isn't an acronym because you don't say fibby you say you spell it out so it's like swat interesting okay so let's start with swat karen or hags have a great summer so a lot of a lot of major cities police departments will have a SWAT team that they send in so what does SWAT stand for

Special weapons and tactics. Correct. Special weapons and tactics. A little bonus here. The first SWAT team was in Philadelphia. Whoa. In what year? 1964.

Wow. Yeah. Yeah. So a SWAT team, in case you don't know, is the branch of the police that's a little more militarized with a little higher special weapons. Special weapons. And they also special tactics. Oh, so they're in the police.

They're part of the police department. That's right. They're part of the city police force. Yeah. Yeah. We've had quizzes on the show about Brad Pitt. And lasers. And we know Brad Pitt stands for sexiness.

But what does laser stand for? Oh, geez. And even though it was an acronym. Yeah. A lot of these have just passed into, you know, quote, normal words that the acronym meaning has lost. Can we guess? Sure.

You can try to work together. Light. Yep. And? It is amplification. Light amplification. So. So exciting.

Very light. Laser stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. No, the bee's not in there. As terrible acronyms go, that's not the worst offender. Sometimes you're allowed to include the connector words. Say it again. Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Okay.

Okay, labs are. Right. Laveser. An earlier example going back a little bit. Scuba. Scuba gear. Diving. What does scuba stand for? Chris? Self-contained

underwater breathing apparatus. Wow. Absolutely correct, yes. And, you know, a lot of these terms will come out of military use, not surprisingly. So, radar was first used widely by the military. What does radar stand for?

What's the primary you? What drives? Reconnaissance? Yeah, radio. Amplification. It's a good guess. And this is one of the primary you. of those where it's not necessarily a

one-to-one correspondence of letter-to-word. It might be like radio airwaves or something like radar. You're at the right ballpark. Radar is a, it comes from radio detection and ranging. Okay. So, Rha.

Rha. Radar. Right, right. That one goes back to the, I think, 1940. Detection and ranging. Ranging. Right, right. Is sonar almost the same? Similar. Let's go to sonar. Oh, so. Quit asking questions. Yep. Sound. A little bit different. The last part is the same. Sound, something, and ranging.

And I'll give you... Well, I'll give you a little bit of a clue here. The real push to develop sonar on a widespread scale was largely due to the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. So its earliest uses was on ships. Nautical? Navigation. Navigation. Oh, sound navigation and range. All sense need to navigate. Navigation versus detection. Right. Yeah. Right. Sound navigation and ranging. When you send mail here in the United States, you need the address, as well as the zip code. Not a lot of people are aware that the zip in zip code is an acronym. Anyone want to take a stab on what zip stands for? Zone.

Yes. Identification. Protocol. That's more technical sounding than it really is. But yeah, you're thinking government. It's zip stands for zone improvement plan. First went into effect in 1963, so zip codes are fairly recent. And it zips your mail.

Right to you. Right to you in two to four weeks. And I will close out here with a couple that are so off the wall that I came across in the course of my research. I don't expect you guys to get these, but if you do, I will be amazingly impressed. Did you guys know, Taser is an acronym. Taser, the electronic, the electric device used to disable people on the online. lethal manner. Taser is an acronym. Chris, you seem like you might have a guess

here. Oh, I don't know. I have no. Take a shocking electric ride. This is a very tongue-in-cheek one. Take a shocking electric ride. That's good. That's good. Take a shocking electric ride. Or slightly more tongue-in-cheek than what it really stood for.

The inventor of the taser named the device after his boyhood hero, Tom Swift. There was a series of stories about Tom Swift, and they were kind of adventure and science. Minded, and one of the stories was called Tom Swift and his electric rifle. So, he named his device Thomas A. Swift's electric rifle. Wow. That is where Taser gets its name.

Last one here. This one was a little off the wall. So we get olive oil from olives. We get sesame oil from sesame seeds. Do you guys know where canola oil comes from? And I promise I will come back around. to acronyms here. No, it's, it's a portmanteau, I think.

It is a portmanteau. It is more in the realm of portmanteau. Oh, is it turning? So, okay, so there used to be a cooking oil people use that was made out of this plant, this seed called rape seed. Oh, is that what it is? Yes, okay. And people didn't like using the word rape seed because obviously a bad word is in it.

Yeah, yeah, I had no idea. You're 100% right. Yeah. Canola oil is oil from the rapeseed, and it was a rebranding effort, essentially. They're like, we need to come up with a better name for this. Canola is a compound portmanteau of Canada and Ola for oil. Oh, okay. So Canada oil. At the time that they came up with the name, Canada was the largest producer of such oil. Of rape seed oil. Yes, of rapeseed oil. And it was a way of rebranding.

And I buy canola oil. I use canola oil. I never had any idea. If it was like grape oil. You'd be like, what? Yeah. Right. Yeah. So there's no canola plant.

There's no canola seed. That's why they have those pictures of the little flowers. Yeah. Okay. That's what that's big of them. I remember seeing. I remember seeing this somewhere. Yeah.

Good job. Rain. Karen pulled that one out. Is it from the brave seed? So I have a quiz and it's titled. The pen is not mightier than the sword. So here I have a. quiz about famous fictional slash legendary swords in literature, in movies, in TV shows. And so I'm

going to name the sword, maybe a little bit, maybe a little clue. And you tell me what universe is it is in. Okay. If you can be specific about the book, you can be, but just universe is enough. Okay. Here we go. And buzz in with your answer. Number one, stop. This is in The Hobbit. This is Bilbo Baggins's sword. Little sword. Little sword. Another little sword.

Needle. Game of Thrones. Correct. It's Aria Stark's sword. The Vorpal Blade. Call it. Well, I guess you're looking for the Jabberwock. I mean, or from Alice in Wonderland?

What's... Oh, yes. Okay. Right. All of those things. It's from Jabberwock. It's from Jabberwocky. It's in the Palm Jabberwocky, which is in the book through the looking glass,

which is in the Alice in Wonderland universe. Okay. So, all correct. All basis is covered. All right. The six finger sword. Colin. I'm going to guess the Princess Bride.

Correct. Who played him? Christopher. That's right. Oh, that's right. Because his fingers went up to 11. The power sword. Chris, of course.

Oh, this is He-Man, the Masters of the English. Okay. Masters of the universe, universe. All right. The Master Sword. Chris again. The Legend of Zelda. Correct.

Very good. Subtle knife. Oh. Wow. His Dark Materials series, Philip Pullman, the Golden Compass. Yes, correct, correct. Fronting. Oh.

Fronting? Fronting. Fronting. I've heard this before, for sure. Oh. Colin. Gilgamesh? Incorrect.

Is this also Lord of the Rings? Incorrect. What's your hint? It's an epic poem. Beowulf. Correct. Bayowulf, very good. Hattori Hanzo.

Colin. Kill Bill. Correct. Kill Bill Universe. And this one is the Sword of Omen's. Jeez. Thunder cats. I wrote a hint for this.

It's the sort contains the mystic eye of Thundera. Oh, well. Which is the sword. The source of Thundercats power. And as that show went on, like, that sort could do anything they needed it to do. It just became the biggest Deiasex Machina ever. Yeah.

I don't remember it being illogical, but I was such a little kid when that was out. You're like, wow. I was like, sure. That could happen. Right? Yeah. The proper name of the sword is called Narsil. Ooh.

Again, I've totally heard this. Lord of the Rings. Very token. It is Lord of the Rings. Also known as the... The sword that was broken. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Erdogan received the sword was an action recognizing him as the heir of Isledore and the rifle king of Gondor. Of course. Of course. Of course. All right. Last one. This is a name in another language for this word.

I'm going to try to pronounce this foreign name. All right. Kalev-Vuld-Duch. Oh. Sounds Calle de Vogue Dana Game of Thrones

It sounded like Sure Is this the sword and the stone Like the Arthurian Excalibur? Yes It was Welsh She were going for I was going for Welsh

One day you know what I'm going to learn Welsh Do they have Rosetta Stone for that I totally want to learn Welsh It looks like such a hard language Yeah a lot of Gs and L's and Ys They're not afraid They're not afraid of consonants.

Yeah. Like I didn't, you know, we watch a lot of like Dr. Who. Yeah. They always have at the end, because they're all made in the, the Welsh BBC. Ah. And it's called BBC. And then what I thought was Simru, which is C-Y-M-R-U. Yeah.

Pronounce Kamehry. Mm-hmm. And you're like, what? What? Why'd they pick those letters to match those sounds? Simru. Yeah. Camry. Cambria. Yeah.

Anyways, well, good job, everybody. You guys know your swords. Chris knows his swords. Yeah. I'm my cartoon swords. All right. For the next quiz, I'm going to dust off an old, an old standby, one that kind of comes up right now and then for us. Belgium or not Belgium.

Yay. It came up earlier in the show. It did. We only did this once. We only did Belgium, not Belgium once. Just so everybody knows. This is the second time. Wow.

Wow. I remember where I was when. I remember where I was. Yeah, when we were recording a podcast, right now. Yeah, we're at Chris's apartment. For Belgium, not Belgium, basically the answer to every question or every fact is yes, this is in Belgium, or this is a fact about Belgium, or no, this is not a fact about Belgium. And that's it. It's just to see, like...

What do you know? What do we know? And you think that after the last one, we'd have, like, you know, studied or really done anything at all to learn more about Belgium. I'm not sure where it is. I'm not sure if it's a country. It is a country. Okay. All right.

Okay. So I got that. I'm not even knowing less about Belgium than I did before. Right. Right. Yeah. So last time we figured out that Brussels sprouts are from Belgium. Yes, because Brussels.

And also Belgian waffles really are from Belgium. Again, I really, I think I assumed that both of those were correct questions. All right. Right. Thumbs up for Belgium? Thumbs up for Belgium. Thumbs down for not Belgium. All right.

Audrey Hepburn was born here. I know she was not born in America. I think she was born. sure so Colin and Karen say not Belgium Chris says Belgium it was Belgium I was thinking of Netherlands I didn't think you were going to try to trick us so early yeah this is not even about Belgium this is about like oh it's mine yeah yeah this is about Dana exerting psychic control over us yeah it's so hard when things are just like true or false you're like I don't know I'm quit tuple guessing myself the largest diamonds in

and the world is in this country. Diamond center? Diamond center. As in like trade? Where rough diamonds, rough cut diamonds go through. They get processed. Yep. Or traded or, yeah.

So Karen and Chris say not Belgium. Colin says Belgium. It's Belgium. Antwerp. Belgium is the diamond center of the world. I knew it was Antwerp by no idea what country. We really have done no research. The next time this comes up... Because I even played a video game all about diamond mining.

Really? Yeah. And... And they talk about Antwerp all the time, so I was like, oh, I know it's an Antwerp, but I just don't know where... Antwerp is in Belgium. Right, right. It's in Belgium. It's in Belgium.

It's all right. We're a bunch of Antwerps. How about this? Okay. It's the least populated country in the European Union. It's a true question. Are they even in the EU? They're in the EU.

Okay. I'll tell you. They're in the EU. least populated. Everybody says it's not Belgium. It's not Belgium. Do you guys know what it is? Monica.

Lichenberg? Lichtenberg. Luxembourg. Luxembourg. Lichtenberg? Lichtenberg. There's only like 465,000 people in Luxembourg. Skype is headquartered here.

I will say yes. I will say thumbs up. I will also ride the yes on Skype and Belgium train. Yes. Everybody says yes. No. Thanks, Chris. It's also Luxembourg.

Oh! So close. Neighbors. Yeah. The world's biggest producer of comics per capita. Comics? Comics? World's biggest producer of comics per capita. Huh.

What a strange fact. It means like a lot of print production factories in there. Are they like making comics part of their culture? Tintin, Belgium? Yes. Tintin is building. But are they still running Tintin? I'm going to go with yes.

This seems so weird that maybe it's true. Look at you guys. Yes. Yeah. Okay. And Colin says no. It is yes. Yes.

Tintin's okay. And Tintin, yes. Yes. Congratulations. You retrieves something totally useful. Yeah. Yeah. Right for the right reasons.

It's snowy. This was the first country to legalize same-sex marriages in 2001. Oh. First country. everybody says not Belgium no it wasn't Belgium do you guys know where it was Netherlands yes yeah yeah I remember vaguely hearing yeah yeah how about it has three official languages so many ways this could be wrong yeah but I'll say yes I'll say yes because I you know I feel like maybe I know what they are okay yeah yes it is Belgium what

are they Dutch French English no no no close Flemish which is like Dutch yeah which is like Dutch French and German. French and German. Okay, so not really close, but... Well, you got Dutch and French. Yeah, okay. Dutchish and French. Dutchess and French.

Yeah, Dutch, it's very Dutchy language. Good job, you guys. Wow, thanks. Hey, I think we did... You guys did it okay. You did a little bit okay. We did a little bit okay. I mean, there were no, like, Brussels sprouts, Belgian waffles.

Yeah, I think that, yeah, right. All right, let's all just pat ourselves on the back here. Yeah. Everybody, good job. You can relax now and clinch. Your job. No frills, delivers. Get groceries delivered to your door from No Frills with PC Express.

Shop online and get $15 in PC optimum points on your first five orders. Shop now at nofrills.ca. All right, well, I will close out all quiz number 22 with a quiz for you guys about city names, American city names. We went around the world, now we're back in America. Back home. City name origin. So I would give you some clues and hints about where various cities got their names,

maybe what their original names were. I'll give you an example here that I think you guys probably get this one. Are we guessing the city name? For most of them you were guessing the city name. Sometimes it's something else. It will be clear as we proceed. Okay. Let me start with what I hope will be a warm-up question.

We'll see. This is an example, but feel free to buzz in. Oh, it's a buzzing example. Well, that's our day. bitter bitter the name of this state capital city was inspired by a reddish pole adorned with dead animals as spotted by french explorers in 1699 what reddish pole french adorn with dead karen baton rouge correct yes baton rouge which translates to red stick red stick red stick yeah i had always known that that it meant, you know, red stick. Yeah, or red baton. I went digging.

I went, like, well, what is this so-called red stick? So there was an expedition party on the Mississippi when they were first scouting the area, and they saw a cypress pole, like a red-hued cypress wood pole on the side of the river, and it marked the boundaries between two hunting grounds of some of the local indigenous tribes. And they had, you know, dead animals on there, you know, just to make sure you knew this was not just your average pole. Yeah. So they're like, okay, well, we'll call it. This is what you can hunt here.

Red stick. Red Poles. Translated literally, what does Philadelphia mean in Greek? Wow. Brotherly love? Absolutely correct. Wow. That was two questions.

Yeah. Yep. Yep. The city's famous nickname, the city of brotherly love. Yes. Really? Philos plus Adelphos, which means loving and brother. Oh.

The city of brotherly love. This well-known Midwestern city is named after a fact. Founder of what is now one of America's largest banks. Oh. Just think about, think about big banks. Big banks. Karen. Fargo.

Absolutely correct. Oh, yeah. Fargo, North Dakota is named after William Fargo. This vibrant southern city is named after the ancient capital of Egypt. Oh, Karen again. Atlanta? I was right. She froze there.

Alexandria. No, no. Dana. Athens. No. You're thinking of Athens, Georgia, right? Vibrant Southern City is named after the ancient capital of Egypt. Oh, Egypt. Sorry, yes.

Not Alexandria. Memphis. Correct. Oh, that's right. Yes, yes. Memphis. And they sort of named it as an allusion to that Memphis was sort of located right near the Nile and Memphis, Tennessee, sort of near the Mississippi. Right. And kind of they had visions of a grand.

city. The ancient city of Memphis is ruins today, but it's not far from Cairo. You can drive there from Cairo. The original name proposed for this southern city would have commemorated the linking of the two oceans on America's coasts. They eventually adopted a shorter name out of this version. Is it Atlanta? It is Atlanta. Yeah. Well, what was it before? Well, so Atlanta grew, really grew out of the railroad industry, and it's a fairly recent city. It was like a planned city almost around transportation. So the idea was it was like linking the coasts by rail. So one of the names originally proposed was Atlantica Pacifica. When they finally went to go and vote and enact the name, they're like, you know what? I think Atlanta might be a little

snappier than Atlantica Pacifica. All right, last one. In the top 50 largest American cities, so most people, top 50 by population, there are three cities with names ending in V-I-L-L-L-E. What are they? Nashville. Nashville is one. Nashville, Tennessee. Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky, yes.

Gainesville, Florida. You're in the right state. Not Gainesville. It's actually the largest of these three cities is Jacksonville. Jacksonville. Yes, Jacksonville, the 12th largest city. All right. Well, you guys know your cities pretty well.

Hey. And that is. Wait, okay. Surprise, surprise quiz. What? We already said that was the last quiz. Well, this is really short. Okay.

Geez, messing up with the system. Yeah. Can't stop. We'll stop. Uh-uh, uh-uh. So I'm going to tell you, this is a quiz about board games. So I will tell you the name of a space on a game board, and you have to tell me what the game is. Okay.

Sometimes, especially towards the end of the quiz, I'm going to have to describe the design of the space. Okay, all right. So if I were to say triple word score, you would say Scrabble. Okay. We're going to buzz in, barnyard buzzers. Here we go. Peanut Acres Karen

Candyland Candy land Okay Income tax Colin Monopoly Yes monopoly Billiard room

Karen Clue or Cludeau Cludeau Cludeau The British version Yeah Family checkup Pay $8,000

per member Dana Life Life or the game of life The game of life Writer's Cramp Dana Operation

Operation Yes A hexagon with the number 11 Karen Catan Settlers of Catan Yes yes Two cherubs holding a segment of a circle

Colin Trivial Pursuit Yes Eastern Australia Karen Risk Risk All right now here's a description

of an entire board In this board game Pieces begin on start, then try to get into the safety zone on their way home. Oh. And in fact, each of four players with their own colors has their own start, their own safety zone, and their own home. Oh, man, yeah. What is this? What is this game?

Is it sorry? It is sorry. Oh, yes. Sorry. That's right. Oh, man. Finally, on this board game, every space has a drawing of one or more pencils. Colin?

Pictionary? Pictionary. No trick questions in this entire quiz. Hey, good job. All right. All right, and that is our show. Thank you guys for joining me. And thank you guys, listeners for listening in.

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