Good Job, Brain! - 113: How to Prep for Pub Quiz Part I

Episode Date: June 5, 2014

OUR TRIVIA SECRETS REVEALED! This week, we are celebrating pub trivia by sharing our stories, our strategies, and our tips in hopes to help YOU score big at your local. Find out what topics to study, and how to settle answer disputes. Take Karen's geography quiz, and if you're not a sports person, then let Colin help you with some handy sportsball facts to arm your trivia arsenal. We also dive into the origin of pub trivia and general nuggest about pub culture.  Also: Our Lando Squarespace ode   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hello, perfectly pumped pub problem punchers. Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 113. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, along with. With me are our club of classy and clever clue clinging cluckers. I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And I'm Chris. Exciting announcement for everybody. We are having our second ever. Good job, Rick Mee-up. We had our first meetup earlier this year in Las Vegas when we went to go to Vegas to record our Vegas specials. And that was super fun. It was awesome.

We met a lot of cool people. And the biggest complaint we had, was why don't we have one where we actually live in San Francisco. And so we're going to do that. It's going to be on July 6th on a Sunday. And we're actually going to have our meetup where we play trivia these days. At the Soma Street Food Park, it's like a little parking lot area. And they have a bunch of food trucks park there, lots of cool patio seating.

And we're reserved a special space for the meetup that is a modified school bus. Yes. The meetup will be on an actual school bus. Yes. We'll take you to Trivia Town. Check out the site for more info. Please, RSVP. It's totally free.

All ages welcome. And hope to see you guys there. All right, without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment. Pop Quiz, Hot Shot. Don't forget, we have our new buzzers, our morning zoo radio buzzers. Let's do a refresher. Chris is going. Dina.

Ding-dong. And that's the first time we get to hear the ding-dong. The ding-dong debut. Colin, you have. Ooh, Pais fighting. Yeah, yeah, you go. And then, well, I'm not going to be in this pop quiz, but here's my. Get your buzzers ready.

And here I have a random trivial pursuit card. Here we go. Let's answer some questions. Blue Wedge for Geography. What country is home to Antwerp, Bruges, and Ghent? Oh, please. Told them. Yay!

Antwerp, we talked about, was the Diamond Center. Yes. Bruges, which is in a movie. Also a city. Yes. And Ghent, G-H-E-N-T. As in the Treaty of Ghent. Oh, okay.

It's all Belgium. Yeah. All right. Pink Wedge for pop culture. What jazz saxophonist? Saxophonist? Saxophon. Like, pronunciation.

That was good. Sexophonist. Yeah. Sexophonist. Sure. What jazz saxophone player is considered a saint by a church that uses his work, including a love supreme in worship. Colin. That's John Coltrane.

Yes. The St. John Will I Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church was founded in 1971. Wait, Will I am or William? Will dash I am. Whoa. Interesting. That's the Black Eye Peas. Yeah.

Black I Peas is one. will dot i dot yeah right yeah not no dash yeah church of coltrain yeah wow all right yellow wedge what country split into two in the quote velvet divorce oh chaslovakia yes yes yeah yeah yeah nice oh oh oh purple wedge what two punctuation marks are superimposed to create an In tarot bang. Chris. A question mark and an exclamation point. Yes.

It is really just question mark over an exclamation point. Yeah. Note here is useful when you want to ask a question emphatically. Yeah. What? Right, exactly. It's the sound. What?

All right, Greenwich for Science. What birth defect does Operation Smile work to eliminate providing reconstructive surgery to children around the world? Dana. Clef's palette. Yes, cleft lip and palate. All right. Last question.

It's probably not a good one for everybody to yell out all at once. Clef, palette. Everybody. Right. Orange Wedge, last question. What meal does Denny's describe as a, quote, ham and scrambled egg sandwich with Swiss and American cheese on grilled sourdote? Everybody.

Moons over my hammy. Yes. Serve with your choice of hash. Browns or grits. I like how we said it. It was a weird tone, too. It's one of those things when you order it. You have to, I'll have the moons over my hammy.

I think there was a dish, I think it was at the Rainforest Cafe or some other place, which is Jambalaya. But it's called Jamaican Me Crazy. And so when we went to order, it's like, can we have the Jamaican Me Crazy? And what did the server say? Oh, Jambalaya, okay. I'm sorry, what is that? Is it the Jambalaya? All right, good job, Brains.

So today's show, we've been asked a lot by a lot of listeners to share our, kind of our strategies, stories, and information when we play pub quiz. And we actually still do play pub quiz every single week for the last half a day. decade. Oh my gosh. I know. When you say it like that. Half a decade. And so today's show is a little bit different.

Our topic is about pub quiz. History of pup quiz, some facttoids, but also some of the stuff that we think will help you prep for a pub quiz or a quiz bowl. We're going to make this a two-parter. This is part one. And next week we're going to have part two because we just have a lot of stuff to share with you guys. So today is part one, prep for pub trivia.

We're going to the pub. So I think the first time I played pub quiz was in college here. We used to go to a place in San Francisco called Mad Dog and the Fog. They're still there. That's a great pub game. I played for the first time there, too. Oh, really? Yeah.

So I was interested, where, when did pub quiz become a thing? Yeah. You know, like, because I never really remember hearing about it too much before the 90s. And, you know, sure enough, as you might guess, it is a quintessentially British phenomenon. Oh, good. Yeah. It just, it seems right. It seems appropriate.

Yeah. They kind of traced the rise of Pub Quiz to, really just to the, to the 1970s. And the story is that the origin of organized PubLeaks was a way to bring in patrons on otherwise slow nights, you know, midweek nights, you know, maybe a Tuesday or Wednesday when there weren't, there wasn't a lot going on in the pub. And here was something organized you could show up for. You could win, usually win beer or, you know, prizes redeemable at the local pub. And there was one company in particular, they claimed to be sort of the creators of the pub quiz phenomenon, which might be overstating in a little bit. But there was a company called

Burns and Porter, which in the mid-70s really kind of organized sort of the first cross-pub organized competitions where multiple pubs are playing from sort of the same style and set of questions. They standardize. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and they were phenomenally successful at it. But certainly, like, quizzing and sort of

quizzing people at pubs is an old, old, old tradition. It really seems like the rise of trivial pursuit in the 1980s really kind of drove it even more. It just trivial as it had become a thing. It wasn't just a way to bring in patrons into a slow pub anymore. It was an attraction in its own right. And then really kind of came.

came into the U.S. in the 1990s. So it really was sort of... Not that long ago. It really was not that long ago. Yeah, when it really kind of just took off in the States was, yeah, and, you know, the rest is history, I guess. It makes us go to the bar, like, every week. Think of all the things we could have accomplished. I know.

I think about that sometimes. See, I prefer to think of it. If I worked on my novel every Tuesday. Yeah. For three hours. Right, yeah. Three hours. Yeah, it's true.

Yeah. A lot of time. You don't get to hang out with your friends. while you're working on you're not right okay let's see let's say we went to pub quiz for the last let's just say five full years every week oh god let's not think about it for real 52 weeks times five and then times three because it takes three hours during oh yeah it's a lot of hours well you know i prefer to think of it also as a way of legitimizing all of the time i've spent absorbing otherwise useless right right right yeah it's definitely affirming yeah yeah

my family was always like oh chris it's like you know chris who played the youngest daughter on family ties. This is the stuff that Chris knows. Tina y'other. Yeah, exactly. I'd be like, Tina y'allers. And it's like, see, he knows all this stuff. I'm like, I didn't, I didn't, I never made any special effort.

No, I just know. It just goes in and it doesn't come out. All right, Chris, go back to your room now. That's all we need from you. You disgust us. So I made a quiz for you guys about pubs. Just to make sure we're on the same page about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Where does the word pub come from? Oh, but I had my buzzer first. Yeah, all right. That's why he's ready. It's a public house. That's right. A house, but the members of the public can come in and drink things. Yeah, versus the private house.

Right. It's true. Yeah. No, it's true. That's really good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So what's a, what's a Tide house? Oh.

How do you spell that? T-I-E-D. Oh, T-I-E-D. There's one here, isn't there? Is there? I think there is. So a Tide House is a pub that is required to get some of its beer from a particular brewery.

Oh, interesting. It's tied to a brewery. Tied to a brewery. In other countries, that's more common. Like, Gordon Beers. That might be a brew pub. A brew pub and a pub are not the same thing, by the way. A pub is not a brewery.

Like, doesn't have the brewery. Brew pub has the brewery part. So 21st Amendment is a brew pub. Magnolia is a brew pub. It is. Pyramid. Pyramid, okay. In historical Roman times, this word was used to describe a public contractor or tax

farmer. It's come into use now to describe a pub landlord. What's the word? Is it a publican? Yes, a publican. Oh, I was going to say bartender. It's a good word, yeah. So this has come up for us before in pub trivia.

I just want to see if you guys remember. Oh, no. What's the most common pub name in the UK? Oh, God, yeah. Karen? Red lion. Yes, the red lion. Yeah, good job.

We went back and forth between the plowing stars and the star. sorry plow, settled on one of them and didn't work out. What five-letter word is used to describe your nearby pub? Chris?

Your local. Yes. Oh. How many ounces are in a British pint? Oh, man. Is it different than an American? It is different.

So is a British pint? Is that an imperial pint? Is that the same thing? I'm not sure. It's different than a U.S. pint. Is it 20? Yes. Oh, then what's American?

16. 16. Oh. So it's a party or a pound, to a pint, and a pint's a pound in the world around, as they say. And then... Wait, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, a pint of water weighs about a pound.

And then this one is tangentially related to pubs, but I thought it was a good trivia one. And that is, what is the most popular international beer brand? Oh, I feel like we've heard this before. Colin? I'm going to guess Hyneken. No. Budweiser. No, it's, I'll give you a hint.

It's not American. Most popular international beer brand is... It is in China. Snow. Oh, that's right. It is... Snow beer. It is hugely popular, but maybe only in China.

It seems like a very good trivia question. That is it. I think we've... Yeah. Snow beer. Yeah. All right. Good job, you guys.

All right. Well, you can't have pub quiz without pubs and you can't have pubs without beer. I guess you could have a pub without beer, but it would be pretty... Yeah. I wouldn't go. Yeah, I wouldn't go at all. And so one of the things that you can order when you go to a traditional Irish or British pub is often a black and tan. The black and tan, which is a logger beer, probably bass, ale or harp, maybe something else, but those are very common.

And then they are able to fill the pint glass up halfway with that and then fill the rest of it with Guinness because the density of the two beers is so different that the Guinness will. sit on top of the logger beer and you will have a very clear demarcation in the glass you cannot you cannot do it the other way around the logger if you were to put it on top would just sink into the Guinness

then you have a muddy pint yep and that's why you have to technical turn oh yeah I just came up with that well I do I do have a list of terms here that are not actually straight out of Colin's head that referred to

beer cocktails of that nature, sometimes layered. So the Oxford Companion to Beer says, that's a book. I always find these books. Sounds super legit. Let's go. It says the first known usage of the phrase black and tan to describe Guinness sitting

on top of a logger was in 1889, but it also notes that patrons had been ordering drinks of this nature for at least 100 years prior. So this goes back to before even the founding of America, which is not that. long ago. Now as I started researching this, looking up, you know, black and tans and other various drinks of that nature, I kept seeing articles that kept saying one thing about the drink called black and tan. Do not under any circumstances go to Ireland and order a black and tan. Why? Not that they have any issue with the drink in and of itself, nothing about, you know, the purity of Guinness or anything like that. It's, it is because in Ireland, the phrase

Black and Tan was the name for the British force that fought against the Irish Republican Army. So they don't have a very good reputation in Ireland. And when you say black and tans, that's what people think of. Right.

So, in Ireland and also elsewhere, that particular drink is known as a half and half. So that is what you order and that is what you will get. There are... This is a pint of cream. I would have to have a half a half. now there's a lot of other beer and something else combinations and so this is this will be maybe a quiz maybe I'll just tell you what it is because some of this stuff is a little bit like these terms are kind of interchanged and use for different things at different bars and we'll kind of get into that so what is if you were to go today before anybody edits it and go to Wikipedia and look at the entry for a black

velvet. Does anybody know what that would be? Karen, you honked? I think, I assume anything with black is probably Guinness, right? Because of the color. I think black velvet is Guinness and champagne. It is. Yeah. Black velvet technically is. It sounds so gross, though.

Guinness and sparkling white wine. Okay. So not necessarily. Champagne, right. Okay. So it's like a brunch, Guinness, you know. Like a mimosa. Yeah. Like a Guinness Mamosa. Pretty much, yeah. Now, also, So what would a snake bite be?

Karen, again. Snake bite is similar by I think it's Guinness and my favorite cider. Yes. Yeah. A snake bite is Guinness and cider. Apple, snake, Garden of Eden. Yeah, yeah. Yes, right, right, right.

Now, some people will say that a black velvet is Guinness and cider, right? And some people will say that a snake bite is Guinness and a certain type of cider. Or maybe a snake bite is bass and a certain type of cider. I don't know, but the two strongest definitions that I found were black velvet was beer and champagne, and the snake bite is Guinness layered on cider. I just do Guinness on Guinness myself. I've tried somebody. What's that it called? The black and black.

Yeah, the black and black. I find that once I get to the end of the Guinness, I don't want it to change beers. I just want to keep going. Guinness all the way down. Now, here is something that I found. I don't quite expect you guys to know this, because I didn't know this, but a diesel. And this seems to be, this seems to be connected very much with, like, British university students seem to get this a lot. The diesel.

So the diesel is a snake bite with blackberry currant stuff in it. And it's purple. Cassis, right? It's called Cassus. Yeah, okay. They have it out of the Albatross. Oh, yeah? But it's super, like, the color of grimace.

Huh. The color of grimace. But now you all know what I'm talking about A shandy Oh Colin That's a beer and lemonade Beer and lemonade

May also refer to beer and like Sparkling Lemonade or beer and Ginger ale also might be considered to be a shamed It's such a good summer drink Oh so tasty Good for kids And I have actually Had this next one once

And it was an ill-advised purchase It sounded, it sounded good at the time. A red eye. Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Is it like a shot of espresso in beer?

No, that sounds weird. A red, I don't know, it could, that could be a thing. A red eye, it is, it is the color that is mentioned in the... Oh, Tabasco? Nope. Red wine. Nobody can even... Let's talk about it.

Play this. Blood? It is human blood. It is beer and tomato juice. Oh. It is advertised as a hangled. Is it like a Camado? Yeah.

Well, it's kind of like a Michelada. Like a... Sort of like a nichealada. Yes, yeah. But beer and tomato juice is known as a red eye. Okay. A blacksmith. Hmm.

Blacksmith. Smith. Guinness and Smith. And... And... Wesson? No. you're so close to it smithics smithics

ah what's smithics it is it is an uh ale would you say oh okay that's a cute name yeah blacksmith yeah that does make sense and and the final thing that i had on my list was the michelada um which could be a a beer with lime juice in it could be a michelada but you also see red ones and typically that's my understanding is that it's not so much tomato juice as it is Tabasco sauce It might be both It certainly could be I have had both

But Michelotta refers to I think a rain Yeah there's salt Salt rimmed on the glass Right First was sort of a range of things Yeah kind of just like a family Of beer cocktails basically

Yep Yeah And of course I asked Our listeners on Twitter and Facebook About their winning tactics When they play pub trivia I'm going to share some with you guys Andy said

Check Current Affairs If the quiz happens to fall on the same week as a sports tournament or land on the anniversary of a big event or holiday, you probably should expect some questions about that topic. Definitely. Oh, they've changed the title of our round one at Pub trivia to like the first round is now general knowledge and this week in the news, basically. And we have a tweet of the week. Tweet of the week, yeah, yeah. Always read through kind of the first page of main news sites, CNN, BBC, especially if something is kind of. kind of wacky, that usually will make it in.

Like, you know, 87% of women do this wacky-law thing. Why did this guy get kicked off an airplane? Yeah. There was the emergency landing the other day. Because of the dog poop, that's going to show up. Oh, man, that totally is. You hear about this? So somebody had a big dog on an airplane.

Maybe it was like a seeing-eye dog or a helper dog or something like that. Because this is the only one ever seen, like, I've seen a dog on an airplane with its own seat. But anyway, somebody had a big dog. got an airplane and it pooped on the plane a lot. It was making people vomit. Oh, it was. Oh, it was taking the big poops and it was making people very upset. Right in the aisle. And they didn't

have the materials to clean it up and the plane had to make an emergency landing. Because of the dog. Yeah. So that's probably going to come up and true. Yeah. You're totally right. Craig says look carefully at the handouts and the question sheets. You might get some

clues. And we definitely have done this before. One of our pub quiz rounds, we always have, like, a little sheet that's like pictures of people or things, and you have to identify them visually. And sometimes we don't really read what they're asking. We get too excited. We get too excited. And we're like, oh,

that's Megan Malali. We'll write it down. But then it asks what character or something. Yeah. Or what movie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What show is she from? I mean, that really isn't a tip. That's just don't be a moron. Sometimes they have the photo credits on there, and that's really helpful. That can be very helpful, absolutely, especially when it's like the year that the photo was taken, you know, the year of copyright, yeah.

Yeah, like sometimes Library of Congress, and you're like, okay, maybe that's not like a super... This is not Andy Garcia. This is probably a president. And it might, and honestly, like, I've seen some teams with little flashlights. Yeah. You know, you might even, you might find it helpful to bring a magnifying glass. There is one team at our... At our last pub that we played at, they would always have a magnifying glass with them, yeah.

Oh, we had a picture of a young Petraeus, I think. Couldn't really recognize him because there was a young picture of David Petraeus. But then you looked at the name tag on the uniform. It was so tiny. And you're like, oh, I think it's Petraeus. Yeah, that was a good one. Yeah, so always keep your eyes open for that. Yeah, we had Buzz Aldrin wearing a Buzz Aldrin name tag.

They sometimes forget those things. But, yeah, take it, you know, use every piece of information that you possibly can. This is very interesting. Cody Weber on Twitter wrote in and said that we have, quote, pulling rank, which means if you change your team's answer, if it's right, then the whole team buys you a drink. If you're wrong, you buy everyone else. We have a similar system. We don't drink that much. So it wouldn't work for us, but we do have a similar system.

Yeah, Dana invented it. If we don't put your answer and your answer turns out to be the right answer. How mad will you be? And so then what we do is we write down on a scale of 1 to 10, how mad would you be? And then the person with the higher number gets it. And it's worked pretty well. It was really to separate the two things of how confident are you that you're right, separated from how mad would you be if we didn't put that answer? Because those are not always the same.

To be honest, it is not a scale of how confident are you in the answer. Because a lot of people come in thinking, I'm super confident. but, you know, for getting a year or something, and they don't know what they don't know. Yeah. So it's how mad are you scale? And it works well because sometimes we get wrong and you're like, oh, okay. You know what? I was only a three.

Yeah. Like I'm not that bad. Right, right, right. And then you're committing yourself to not being mad. It's true. But if you're like really high and the other person's slightly higher, you're like, all right, you better be. Yeah. But I got to tell you, learning exactly what you said, finding out by doing this over.

And over and over and over again, like learning what you don't know is really important. For us, it's always there's 99% and there's 100%. If we say, I am 100%, that's a clue for everybody else to be like, back off because this is definitely 100%. 99% is, I'm pretty sure I'm going to fight for it. I definitely think this is the right answer, except I know enough to say that I don't know it. And that's why it's like, well, how angry would you be if we didn't go your way? If you have quiz files coming up or a quiz bowl, not necessarily just tied to a pub quiz. Here are some things that you definitely should look into.

Periodic table of elements. Absolutely. You don't have to memorize all of it, obviously. The first 10 elements are handy to know. Also know the common elements that have weird names. Right. So like lead is PB. Tin is S-N.

A-U. Silver, A-G. so that kind of stuff. We're getting pretty close to just know the whole thing. I was going to say also the elements that make up our world, like in the ozone light, all that stuff, just knowing the percentages of stuff. Have we not done our, we haven't done our mnemonic on that yet. Oh, yeah, you made one.

Yeah, I did make one. Yeah, because we had a question about the major components of Earth's atmosphere or the air that we breathe. The mnemonic that we came up with was nice outdoor air composition, nerd. which is nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, neon. Yeah. Which is, you wouldn't think argon and neon would be in the mix, but they are. I personally, I always like to study the Academy Awards, you know, just knowing the years for the major movies. 007, like all the James Bond.

Oh, yeah. Those seem to come up a disproportionate amount. Yeah, because it's British. I guess that's true. And there's so many of them and it just generates trivia. and, you know, who played Q? Who played who? Right, right.

Which one was Roger Moore, Sean Connery. Right. Oh, do you guys know what Q stands for? Yeah, quartermaster. Quartermaster. We had that on a... Yeah. Dana nailed it.

Yeah. Sports championships, you know, just who won World Series, Super Bowls, those kind of things. Presidents always come in, at least here in America. And you can... These are Evergreen. You know what I mean? Like, the seventh president is going to be the seventh president for ever.

Right. They're not going to come out with a new seventh president. Yeah. Olympic sites. Oh, that's a good one, too. Summer and winter where the Olympics were held, World Cup, probably every four years. Flags, Karen. I mean, you are, without a doubt, are flag maven on the team, but just world flags.

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Go to Explorespodcast.com, or just look us up on your podcast app. That's the Explorers Podcast. All right, speaking of which, speaking of flag, so my domain in pub trivia usually is dogs in geography. Dogs don't come up that much, but geography definitely does. So here I have a common asked questions or things that will probably come up in trivia or have come up in trivia before. And so get your buzzers ready. All right. Hodgepodge of stuff.

All right. Which African country is entirely enclosed by another. African country. Yeah. Oh. Dana. Hello? Is it Lesotha?

It is Lasotho. It is surrounded by South Africa. Or Lesotho, if you prefer. Oh, it's Lesotho? Someone complained, I think, the last time we talked about. Oh, like, chairbody and care boss. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.

How many stars, excluding Union Jack? Union Jack is not counted as a star. How many stars are there in the Australian flag? Oh, God. We have had this so many times. Is it four or five? There's the Southern Cross. There's the Southern Cross.

There's the Southern Cross in there. Is that the one with the bonus star on it? I think there is. I think there is. So, final answer. Dana and I will go in together on six, seven? Five? Five to seven.

Something like that. Horrible. Five. We're going to come down heart of five. Six. Ah, you're right. It's five in the bonus star. It's Southern Cross plus the Commonwealth.

star which I guess is the bonus star Southern Cross has five stars not four. Okay. So five plus one. And how many points are in each star? Oh. Is it not a five-pointed star?

Maybe it is. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. Oh, I only ever see them as like kind of dots. I never notice what their shape is. Is it four point? I don't know. Four point star? Is it like a little diamond kind of star? Let's just go with five. Maybe. Seven. Is that weird?

Is that weird? That's weird. You don't see a seven-pointed thing. Yeah. So six stars, seven points. Yeah. Six stars, each star is seven points. Okay.

So it's like a burst, like a banner. It's more like a burst. Yeah, yeah, you're right. All right. Which U.S. state was first to join the union? Collin. That's Delaware. Correct.

Okay. All right. Which is, oh, okay. Thanks. Oh, that's a good way of remembering it. Which was the last continental state to join the U. We know Alaska and Hawaii are the last two, but Continental, Colin. That is Arizona.

Whoa. Wow. I study my states. I study my states. They don't change. I don't know. Z last one, Arizona. Oh, okay.

Oh, okay. So throughout history, there are a lot of regions and places that have old names, either through colonial times or just different languages. And so here I have a, let's do a speed round. I'm going to list you the old name. Tell me what the current country name is. All right. Number one.

Formosa. Chris. Thailand. Incorrect. That's Taiwan. Taiwan. Yes, Taiwan. Formosa.

Portuguese for beautiful. Oh. Kethe. Oh. Colin. Is that Singapore? Incorrect. Oh, sorry.

India? Thailand? China. Oh, right. Start it. I was like, oh, they have an airline. It'd be so easy. Okay.

All right. Still in Asia. We're still in Asia. All right. Siam. Oh. That's Myanmar, Burma. Incorrect.

It's Thailand. Syam. Oh, of course. It's Thailand. Yeah. Of course. King and I. I said that earlier.

Yeah. It didn't count. Bohemia. There are two current countries, so I accept either. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. No, it's.

Um, it's not Czechoslovakia. It's, uh, I'm going to kick myself. It's Czechoslovak. It's a Czech Republic. Czech Republic. Or Slovakia. Okay. Okay.

Okay. So old Czechoslovakia together was going to be. Wow. All right. That's embarrassing. Gaul. Oh. Everybody.

France. Correct. Burma. Myanmar. Myanmar. Yep. All right. Uh, you can name any of these two countries, but this region,

was called Rhodesia. There's North Rhodesia and South Rhodesia, but you can give me either countries. I'm pretty sure one is Zimbabwe. Correct. What's the other one? What is the other one? Is it next to it? Is it, uh, it's not Tanzania, is it?

Is it Rwanda? Zimbabwe and Zambia and top of each other. Zimbabwe is southern Rhodesia. Zambia is northern Rhodesia. I think I've had that question for you guys on a quiz before. Yeah, you did. It's embarrassing.

I just know the Rhodesian Ridgeback is a, kind of dog. Okay. Oh, okay. Persia. Iran. Correct. Mesopotamia.

Iraq. Yes. Very good. Ah, okay. All right, so we know there is the international date line in the Pacific. The first country or region that experiences New Day we've talked about is Kirabas, or Kirabati. What is the last place that experiences a day? Whoa.

Chris Hawaii? Incorrect Alaska It is Alaska Specifically is the Atu Island in Alaska All right This is interesting

The point Farthest from the Earth Center is located where Farthest from the Earth's center So it's top of a mountain Yes it's on top of a mountain Okay Is it Mount Everest or no

Not Mount Everest Interesting. Because the earth bulges around the equator. The earth is not a perfect sphere. It's not a perfect. Right. So, of course, your widest point is around the equator. Uh-huh.

And so there is the Chimborazo summit in Ecuador. Oh. Very, very close to the equator, and it's a tall summit. So that place is the furthest point from the earth center. Isn't that cool? That's a good one. That's a good one. That's a good one.

Yeah. Because I think a lot of people would say Everest. Chimborazo? Chimborazo. Like paparazzo for chimps. Right. Bonzo. Bonzo, over here, Bonzo.

Over here, Bonzo. Bonzo. Bonzo. Did I see you with Katie Holmes yesterday, Bonzo? Get out of my face. He's throwing a move. Chips!

It's all over chimp weekly at the supermarket. Puckie's buying it. Chimps. They're just like us. One last thing I found That was cool. Have you guys ever heard of the continental pole of inaccessibility? What?

What? No. Basically, it's defined as... Is this like the friend zone? Kind of. It's the place in every continent. It's the place furthest from any ocean. So it's the most in-lens place.

Yeah. From oceans. That's cool. Okay. Not including lakes or other bodies of water. Continental pole of inaccessibility. Huh. Do you have the list?

list of them? I do. Is Australia I think I heard, is Australia Alice Springs? Okay. That's the only one I know. You just know that Alice Springs is right smack in the middle. Yeah. Africa, it's close to the tri-point of the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

So it's kind of like in between all three. In North America, it is in South Dakota. Oh, okay. In South America, it is obviously in Brazil because it occupies a lot of the landmass. All right, and that's my geo quiz. Yep. All right, we're going to take a quick ad break, a word from our sponsor. Why just survive back to school when you can thrive by creating a space that does it all for you, no matter the size.

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Wherever you get your podcast Welcome back You're listening to Good Job Brain this week We're helping you prep for Pub Quiz So going back half a decade from now Karen when you first recruited me to join the Pub Quiz team I remember one of your selling points to me was

Oh we need a sports guy Right And like to me I was just me and Chris I was a little nervous I'll be honest Oh it was me Chris and our friend Rob Rob, that's right. But none of you guys are sports guys. We're not sports guys, and we needed a sports guy.

Well, Rob knew, like, New York sports, kind of. I don't know. We didn't know sports. And there was so much low-hanging fruit, you know? I mean, there were so many questions, yeah. Didn't even know what. You're exactly right. It really, I was a little worried at first, but as I played, it turns out that it is a lot of low-hanging food.

They always love. It's a lot of pressure. It's a lot of pressure to be like, oh, you're the sports guy. We got a guy. He's the sports guy. It's not like, well, it's not. Like I, you know, know everything about sports. And then it's like, oh, these are very easy questions.

Right. If you watch sports at all. Then it's like you have to watch sports. Some. Yes, it's like if you are aware of sports, you'll get a lot of these. But you're right. It's like video games where they don't go very deep, but there's almost always some sports questions that show up in pub quiz.

So whether or not you're a sports fan or not, there are certain things you have to know to compete in pub quiz. So I put together, we can kind of do this half question, half list. style. These are the things that as a pub quiz player in America, you really need to know. So don't overthink a lot of these. Again, they don't go very deep. I'm going to, at the end, I'll wrap up with a little when in doubt section. All right. Sounds good. So, well, we'll start off here with what I hope is going to be a simple one. Any thinking about sports for me is overthinking.

Any amount of thinking. This one shows up. What baseball team has won the most world series? Chris. The New York Yankees. It is the New York Yankees. That's right. And number two is Cardinals. Very good, Karen. And there's no way that they can catch up anytime soon. Well, it's, New York Yankees have 27. The Cardinals have 11. So it would take a while. It would take 11 years. No, even more. 16. Oh, sorry. 27. 11. It takes 16 years. But you're right. That's a good one. That one shows up a lot. I think because they figure everyone's going to guess Yankees for the first time. You're right. St. Louis Cardinals, the second most World Series. We just had this question just last week, so this is a little bit of a very refresher. What player, what single player has the most World Series championships?

Karen may not surprise you, he was a Yankee. Yes, ten championships. I'm just picturing one on each of Yogi Bears' fingers. All with the Yankees. All of the rings, yep. A couple, just again, very, very surface in baseball. You've got strikeouts and home runs. You guys probably know what player has the most home runs in.

Major League Baseball history? Barry Bonds. Barry Bonds, most home runs. Even with an asterix? You know what? I don't want to get into that divisive debate, but yes, he is in the record books as the most home runs. The asterix is because of drugs. The drug asterisk.

Pitcher with the most strikeouts. Pitcher with the most strikeouts in Major League history. I know you know this name. Is it Sai Young? It is not Cy Young, but it's Nolan Ryan. Nolan Ryan. We've crammed this before. Oh, yeah.

Well, yeah. But I was crammed. Most strikeouts. Just as quick as it came in. So hopefully some of these will stick. Also the most no-hitter. We'll shift over to football here. What football team has won the most Super Bowls?

What football team with six? Karen. Patriots? It is the Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh, okay. Steelers. You're like a lot of wins. Sure, there you go.

They've stolen a lot of wins. Right. Whatever. Whatever works. Whatever works. Right. What football team won the first Super Bowl? This one comes up a lot. We get this one a lot. They actually won the first two Super Bowls. Oh, man. It is the Green Bay Packers. Oh, okay. Green Bay Packers.

And the Super Bowl trophy is actually named the Vince Lombardi Trophy. He was their coach. I don't know if that helps you remember it at all. We'll stick with the individual stats in football touchdowns. So there's who scored the most touchdowns and who's thrown the most touchdowns. So we'll start with this. Who's thrown the most touchdowns? So we'll start with this. Who's thrown? What quarterback has thrown the most touchdown passes in NFL history? Tom Brady. Not a bad guess. It is a modern era quarterback.

It is Brett Favre. Oh, Brett Favra. Brett Favra. There's something about Mary. He may be passed by Peyton Manning if Peyton Manning keeps playing. Brett Favra. Favorite, favorite thrower. Okay, sure.

And the player who has scored the most touchdowns, he's a wide receiver. He was Jerry Rice. Oh. Jerry Rice. Yeah, again, you guys. know these names. I know the names, but they're just kind of in a punch bowl in my mind. Like, I would just pick one out at random. And that's, you know what, that's, you're halfway there. Like, if you have the, like, well,

when in doubt, Jerry Rice, Brett Farv. I went on a Nike run with Jerry Rice. Oh, did you? Yeah, in the city. Okay. And we went running with him, so he runs. Oh, he runs. You went on a run with him. He runs to catch the ball. Yeah. Yeah. Brett, Farv throws it far. down the field and get it to Jerry who runs with camera catches the ball sure yeah okay

whatever gets you to sleep at night yeah whatever works whatever works we'll switch to basketball here what basketball team has won the most NBA championships Chicago Bulls it is the Boston Celtics

the Boston Celtics Larry Bird contributed to many of those yeah 17 championships for the Boston Celtics. This one will come up as well. He's a Hall of Fame player. What single player has won the most NBA championships? Jordan. Not Jordan. It was Bill Russell, who was on those Celtics teams. He has 11 championships. That name has not trickled out of basketball trivia into my punch ball. It's not even in the punch ball. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was more active in the 50s, 60s, so he was a little bit of an older player, right?

Right. All right. Well, we'll stick with the basketball player. He doesn't have his own Sega Genesis game. I have never heard of the man. That's right. I've got some Michael Jordan trivia. I hope you have heard of Michael Jordan. Yeah. If you haven't heard of Michael Jordan, I just don't know what to tell you. He was in Space Jam. He was in Space Jam. Yep, yeah. He played baseball. So Michael Jordan, I've noticed they'll come at this question a lot kind of from the other direction. Well, they'll ask some, you know, tidbit about him. So remember the rule of three. Michael Jordan and the rule of three.

Okay? So, we'll often get the question. How many times did Michael Jordan retire? Three. Three times. Yes, he retired twice from the Bulls, once from the Washington Wizards. Sometimes we'll get, this player was drafted third overall in the 1984 draft, Michael Jordan. Is that a big deal?

It was a big deal in retrospect now because he went on to establish himself as probably the greatest player in history. Maybe he should have been first. This may be a little too inside basketball. Number one was Hakeem Olajuwon that year, a name you may have heard. And, you know, he was a solid, solid pick. The controversy was more that Sam Bowie was chosen number two. And I'm guessing you guys had never heard of San Bois. Exactly.

Right. Which is they nose him over. They could have chosen Michael Jordan. Right. And then the last rule of three is that he had two sets of three Pete championships. So he won three in a row from 91 to 93, retired, came back, won another three from 96 to 90. I wish she had three pieces. Three sets of three peets.

That would be nicer. We get this one a lot, and I think it's easy. But for some reason, the quizmasters love to ask her. Thanks. We get a whole lot of hockey and NHL questions. They really kind of stick to the big three American sports. But this one has come up several times, which is they'll say, you name three or four of the original six

NHL teams, which were sort of the oldest six teams for years and years and years before they expanded. Let me see. Okay. See it, so we'll say three. Just name three. Detroit Red Wings. Detroit Red Wings are one. Rangers. The New York Rangers are another one. One more, let's say, Philadelphia Flyers. No, unfortunately not the Philadelphia Flyers. Pittsburgh Penguins.

Nope. The Montreal Somebody's. Yeah, the Montreal. The HABs? The HABs, the Canadians, if you prefer, yes. So the original six NHL teams, again, hopefully some of this sticks. Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leaves, and the Montreal Canadiom. You guys know, of course, the name of the trophy given out in the NHL.

It is the Stanley Cup. The team that has won the most. The team has won the most Stanley Cups is the Montreal Canadiens. This is another when in doubt moment. We get, you know, our quiz league, for whatever reason, asks us a lot of English Premier League soccer questions. I feel we get a lot of ways.

So our rule is when in doubt, Manchester United. If it's not Manchester Union, but Manchester City. Right, right. If he definitely not one of those, Arsenal or Liverpool. As it turns out. There are no other teams. The team that has won The most English Premier League titles

is Manchester United. Yes, yes. We've been called Manchester United of Pub trivia. We were called back. But not because they were the evil empire. Right, right, right. You know, we had to spend a lot of time

getting our butts beat at trivia. Yeah. We didn't start out great, just so everybody knows. The first couple of years were pretty, like, they were rocky. We were happy to get like, The small team prize. Yeah, small team prize, which is a teams under four people.

That was our goal. Yeah. Just to, we didn't even make it on the board most of the time. Right. Just so everybody knows. Yeah. So just to wrap up very quickly, when in doubt, if it's a baseball question, go New York Yankees. If it's a player, go Babe Ruth.

If it's a football question, you want to go the Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers. The Cowboys and the 49ers were not the answers. to either of your... This is why this is a when-and-doubt. This is a last resort if you don't know. If it's basketball, Michael Jordan shows up a lot. Wilk Chamberlain, if it's a player. And if it's a team, Boston Celtics or L.A. Lakers, always a good guess.

If it's hockey, just go Montreal-Canadians. If it's soccer, just yes, Manchester United. So again, these are very broad stroke of this here. At the minimum, I'd suggest knowing, like, who's won the most titles in the major sports. That one comes up a lot. So hopefully. This would have been helpful in our early days. I mean, just having the one end out just go with this.

To even name a team. To even be able to think of the name of a team. That would be an achievement. Like, it was a stress. Chris and I, the old days. We always say the only time we ever got a zero on a round of trivia was, trivia was me and Karen alone in a round of sport, a big fat zero. Didn't you guys say you just put Alex Rodriguez as the answer to every question?

Not even. No, we tried. Just Rodriguez. I wasn't even sure of the first name. So you should probably find a sports person. If you're not the sports person and there's nobody, a sports person on your team, you should get a sports person for your team. It's really hard to cram sports. of those questions sounded easy to you. You need a sports person on your team. I was getting, I was starting to sweat. And then I was like, wait a minute. Collins here.

I was like Colin do it. And that's our show. That is the end of part one. How to prep for Pub Trivia. Part the first. Part the first. Lots of stuff to take it. Near and dear to our hearts.

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