Good Job, Brain! - 114: How to Prep for Pub Quiz Part II

Episode Date: June 12, 2014

Continuing our 2-part celebration of pub trivia! Sharing our own stories and tips from our own pub quiz experience, and lamenting our topic weaknesses. And of course, what we think are common topics to know: videogame firsts, US States, and an extremely punny mnemonic that helps you memorize the 12 gods of Mount Olympus, their Greek + Roman names, and their domain.  ALSO: Pub food factoids (WHY ARE SAUSAGES CALLED BANGERS?!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hello, Sippy and spectacular sparky spotters. Welcome to Good Job, Brian, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. This is episode 114. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your stellar and stupendous statistics stalkers. I'm Colin. I'm Dana.

And I'm like Chris. Wait, we're statistics. Like, we like to stock statistics. Okay, we're not part of the stalker statistics. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, okay. Sure. All right, fine.

We're like peeking through the window on statistics. Right, right. Okay, let's not dwell on this. I know. It's not taking it too far. This metaphor is getting increasingly creepy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, we're so excited for our fan meetup.

It's coming up in just a couple weeks now. Yeah. Mark your calendars. We had our Las Vegas meet up, and now we are going to have our San Francisco Bay Area meet. We had people who live in the San Francisco Bay Area, who went to the Vegas meetup, which kind of made us feel like, oh, they're coming in this far. Oh, wonderful. That's great. I would feel really lame if they couldn't make it to the one in their hometown.

Yeah. So, um, yeah. Should have coordinated with them. Two for two. So we think we have a lot of people who are in the area who are going to want to come. And so we've got a great venue. It's actually where we do our pub trivia, the Soma Street Food Park. In addition to food trucks, they have a school bus on the property, and you can rent that

out, and we did. Converted into a party. They take out all the benches. So there's no. We're not going to be facing the same direction. Yeah. It's like being on a field trip. You've got to hang your shoulder over the side, and the cool kids sit way in the back, you know.

We have goodies and prizes for people as well. Check out our site for more info. Make sure you RSVP. And it is all ages friendly. Yes, certainly is. Yep. And, oh, you don't have to be in the school bus the whole time. There's a deck that they built.

It's really cool. And there's a lot of seating. And we have that whole area. But, of course, you're free to leave. You know, you're free to go out and get food back or mingle or whatever it is you want to do. Tyler is going to be there, too. Tyler Hinman. Yeah.

Our puzzle champ. Championship. A laundry list of celebrity attendee. Pretty much is Tyler. Celebrity He is He really is But I mean

That's all of our celebrity That's it Called all of our celebrity friend Yeah That one So that is July 6th On Sunday So make sure you

RSVP Get all your 4th of July Partying out of the way That's Saturday And then come Just come decompress with us Yeah Hang out

Very chill We'll answer some questions Have a good time All right And without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot.

This one has a picture. I do find in the question. All right. Okay. Here we go. You guys got your buzzers. I have my Trivial Pursuit cards. Here we go. Blue Edge for Geography. What is the only

U.S. state with a one syllable name? Everybody. Maine. Yeah. Mena. Mayina. Maina. It's Hawaiian.

It's Hawaiian. All right. Pink Wedge for pop culture. Dana. What TV series generated the ominous warning. Resistance is futile. Aw. Doctor who?

No. I always mess it up. Is this Star Trek the next generation? Yes, it is. TNG. Oh my God. It's the Borg. It's the Borg.

It's the Borg. All right. Yellow Edge, in 2009, California officials shut down an eight-year-old entrepreneur for operating what without a business license. Everybody. Lemonade stand. Yeah. There's a note here. She was hoping to earn enough to go to Disneyland.

Oh. So you need a business license to sell lemonade? Technically. Technically, yes. Technically, you cannot legally just start selling food products. on the side of your house. Okay. But it's, come on.

But it's the kind of thing that, yeah. Come on. Come on. Yeah. That should be a legal principle that you'd be able to argue in court. You're like, come on. Yeah. Your Honor, come on.

Good Disneyland. All right. Purple Wedge. What notable fashion designer is the daughter of a beetle? College. Stella McCartney. Wow, I did not think you boys will get this one. I was Collins' backup singer.

We had the model. There's a picture question that's like What triangle is this? And it's an equilateral Triangle. Oh, I was hoping it was a sauce Spoiler alert. Okay. Replacement, Green Wedge for Science. What does USB stand for?

USB? Universal Serial bus. Ugly school bus. There's lots of eye contact. And then they're chinsing it together. I like, I don't want to You forget it, you know, so we're

match arcadiously. It's like a little, it's a game within a game. Like, I said, I forget what I was going to say. And I was like, yeah. All right. Uh, orange wedge last question.

What did Muhammad Ali call his strategy of leaning against the ropes until his opponent exhausted himself? Everybody. Roba dope. You both looked at me. Well, you were going to say it too. I know. I felt the power that I...

Ropa dough. So it was like an equilateral triangle, Karen. It was. All right. Good job, Brains. So this week, we are continuing our series of how to prep for pub quiz. Last episode, we had some insights, some history and factories about pubs, pub quiz, things we study for topics that are our strong suit and whatnot. So today we're continuing with our how to prefer pub quiz.

Quiz, part two. All right, so I made you guys something. We want to see this, yeah. It's a take it with that spirit. I made you guys something. So I looked around the internet. I was trying to find a mnemonic for the 12 Olympians. gods from Greek and Roman.

There are no, I could not find any mnemonics for it. I saw lots of questions like, I can't remember it. And they're like, you just have to memorize it. And I was like, that's not a mnemonic, you could. So I wrote kind of a mnemonic. It's all puns. All right. It's all puns. So which, I don't know.

Yeah, what are we memorizing here? Maybe I can list all 12, but what trips me up is the Greek name versus the Roman name. I can never remember what's what. So here you. I wrote, wrote a story where I've cleverly sometimes integrated their names into the story. Sometimes not that cleverly. Whatever. It was made with love.

It was made with love. I think you'll remember it. The order, basically, in each sentence, whenever their name comes up, it's first, it's the Roman one and then the Greek one. Okay, okay. Okay. Even though chronologically Greek came before Roman, it just made the sentences work better when Roman.

Let's just go with it. So you're going to read us and we're going to point it out. Yeah. We're going to find the pun. I think, oh, it's like scavenger hunt. It's like scavenger hunt. They're a little bit tortured, but now I know them very well. Okay.

All right. Let's do this. All right. Well, first of all, do you better start with Zeus. He was the king of the Olympians. So, Jupiter. Jupiter. Jupiter.

Jupiter and Zeus. Yeah. Jupiter and Zeus. Do that movie Juana, man? Yeah, it is. You better start with Zeus. Yeah. Jupiter and Zeus.

And then that's Jupiter Roman Zeus, Greek. Yes. Okay. All right. He ruled there with his wife. Juno Hera. She's the goddess of marriage. So it's Juno and Hira.

Yes. Juno Herra. Juno. She's a goddess of marriage. Yeah. Juno. Their sister, the goddess of agriculture and seasons, grew a series of crops for people who like to eat.

You know, Demeters. Oh, that's good. So it's series. Series. Yeah, and then Demeter. Yeah. Series Demeter. And that's Roman Greek.

Yeah. A series of crops for people who like to eat, you know, Demetors. And she's the goddess of agriculture. Hey, that one's good. You know what? That's good. Thank you. That's one is bad.

This is less good. Sorry. It's hot in here. All right. Their brother sang in a nuttune because he was under the sea, probably Poseidon a seahorse. Say it again. Say it. Okay. Their brother is saying, and a Neptune

because he was under the sea, and probably Poseidon a sea horse. Poseidon on a sea horse? Poseidon. And a Neptune. An Neptune. Ineptune. Ineptune. Yeah. Neptune. Poseidon. Poseidon. Poseidon was also the god of horses.

Oh. Right, right, right. When the goddess of wisdom was born from Zeus's head, fully grown, and in armor, he exclaimed, in a terrible Italian accent. Ah, Minervas.

Athena, she's coming out of my head. I'll get to clarify the bad in a terrible. Manervas.

Athena. She's coming out of my head. Wow. Minerva. Yeah. Athena. All right.

Who sprang fully formed from the head of Zeus. Yeah. Yes. Yep. Wait, what's Minerva?

Like, My nerves? No, I'm a nervous. I'm my nerves. My nerves. A penis, girl. Wow. My face first.

Okay. Of course, there's Diana, quite the artie miss. The goddess of the moon hunting virginity and animals. So Diana and Artemis, quite an artie miss. Artie miss. Her twin brother doesn't apologize for his sunnier disposition as the god of light, healing, and poetry. Oh. And so this is a trick because Apollo is just Apollo and both, yeah.

Oh, I didn't know they were twins. And they are twins. Yeah, one is the goddess of the moon and one's the god of the sun. The sun. All right, so here, this gets a little tawdry, but here you go. We can't forget how the god of war mars the whole family. Arias caused quite an inconvenience when he had an affair with the goddess of love, Aphrodite. And it was pretty sad that even though her husband was fiery like a volcano,

when he faced us, the god of blacksmiths and craftsmen, just wasn't as glamorous as the god of violence and bloodshed. Okay. So there are three gods. Wow, okay. Mars, and Mars, and Mars, and Mars, and Mary, series, Greek. Venus, Roman, Iphrodite, Greek. Vulcan. Roman

And He faced us Oh Hephaestus Yeah Wow I'm not familiar With that one

Vulcan and Hephistas And that's like Lord of the underworld Is that with that No No that's Haiti He's just Flatship and Fire

Oh yeah Yeah Yeah And craftsman Yeah And she had an affair With the god of war Love and War

Yeah Okay so here's a non-sequit It's not a good one Mercury Hermes Cincter asked Wow somebody else helped me with that one more curry her messenger asked

more curry yeah you want more curry right mercury and kermis yeah he's the god of messenger he's the messenger of the gods so he's her messenger yeah yeah unfortunately i couldn't mean all right we're gonna let that one go we'll let that one go okay if somebody comes up with a better one yeah her mercury mercury i was like mercury mercury i couldn't get it Curious to find out what her message said I'm more curious than you to find out what her message said I'm more curious more curious

Yeah that's good I wish you're around this morning I was right now Okay and then the last spot is sometimes split by these two Some people investa in Hesja The Goddess of the Heart and Home And some people don't like to party but back us up Why dine on Isis when there's delicious wine? All right.

So that was Vesta and Hescia. Hescia. Vesta and Hescia. Vesia and Hesia. And then Bacchus and Dionysus. Yeah. What was the Bacchus? Bacchus up?

Bacus up. Why dine on iceis when there's delicious wine? Right. Dine on ices. When they're such delicious wine. Yeah. He's the god of one. And then Pluto or Hades.

So Pluto is not a planet. And neither is Pluto slash Hades, part of the 12 Olympian gods because Hades was the god of the underworld. And he didn't go to Olympus. Oh, like the planet. Yeah, he was related to the rest. But yeah, like the planet. He's not on Mount Olympus. It's good that Pluto's not a planet anymore.

That really drives that one. It worked it out. It's great. There you guys. Wow All right And we'll put that up on the website Of course

In case you For that small percentage of you Who didn't get it all the first time We're gonna put it up in 16 point text With a MIDI file in the background Lots of notes and prints Oh yeah like annotations I think it was more fun

Like to find Yeah Oh yeah right right That was the segment It was like oh if we can hear it Yeah, all right. All right. And, of course, I asked our listeners on Twitter and Facebook about their winning tactics when they play pup trivia.

I'm going to share some with you guys. James Pound wrote in, and he said, I'm a quiz master myself. And one of the biggest strategies I've seen winning teams use is writing down the questions. Sure. Some teams do that. We personally don't do that. We like clues. We take notes.

Yeah, kind of abridged notes. And so you become familiar with what words they're using or they don't use. Well, I remember at our old pub quiz, like, there was a difference if he would talk about a musical band versus a group. Like in his shorthand, we came to realize that band meant they played instruments, group meant they were singers. Right. Yeah, yeah. Extra layer of clues there. Yeah, of singers.

A lot of people wrote in and their advice is to trust your gut. I think personally for our team, that doesn't want. work. I mean, you have to know your style. You have to know your style. But like psychologists have shown like that whole, you know, the idea of, oh, your first instinct is usually right. Like, that's not actually true.

Yeah. But the flip side is, we do this a lot. You can overthink things as well. You got to know yourselves. You got to know your, know your team. Yep. And you have to, you never, ever, ever, ever, ever want to get to a point where it's like, oh, I thought that, but I didn't say.

Oh, that's, that's a lot of people. wrote in Neville Fogarty says always say what you're thinking even if you think it might sound dumb it may trigger

something else for someone He has a really good name by the way Neville Fogh I like that name It's like a Harry Potter Yeah that's good

Yeah yeah That is a great rule I think like If you had to pick one rule That might yeah This Neville Fogarty singing

Credence Crookshanks Revival Nice Wow So many layers Yeah But again But again

But again Yeah Importantly, Neville, it's absolutely right. There's been a lot of times where we've just been like, oh, is that? No, it's not space balls. And then somebody else would be like, no, it's not, but it's blazing saddles. You know, it's like it's, they would never have gotten the right answer had they not heard you say the wrong answer that was sort of close to it to get them the rest of the way. It's, it's a team.

Oh, did you just come up with that term? I like that. Trampolining. I think of trampolene accidents that you said at. I don't like you fall on. Wall jumping. As we said, you can't spell pub quiz without you and I. Yeah.

Oh. Or P-U. Yeah. Right. Depending on how you're feeling that day. Every now and again, we get video game questions. Yes. This usually happens when we're already up by five points.

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. We keep our fingers crossed for video game questions when we're going into the last round and we're like down by like three points. You know, it's like, all right. Kind of slumdog mills. Video game round. Video game round. And so, everybody always looks at me for the video game, even though we're all from the video game industry, everybody always looks at me for the video game questions.

You've written two books about it. Well, I have, yeah. Trivia, history, trivia nerd. So I wrote down a couple of things, just for everybody. Because they don't really ask a whole lot of really deep video game questions. It's typically all sort of centered around like the beginning of the video game industry and stuff like that. So here's a couple of just things to keep in mind. The first commercially released arcade game was not Pong.

Okay. And it was not even made by Atari. It was... Space Wars? It was based on Space War, which was a computer game. They played at universities. Okay, so Arcade Arcade. Yeah.

So, first arcade game, computer space. Really? Computer space. Hey, it was the Wild West. Sure. They could name it whatever. You know, it's like there were no names were taken. It was high concept.

No names were taken, but they picked that one. They picked that one. Sure. Computer space, 1971. Wow. First commercial arcade game. Released by Nutting Associates, N-U-T-I-N-G. Now, the guys who worked on it were Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, who were the founders of Atari,

but they were working with Nutting Associates to make computer space. Then it wasn't successful, they left. Okay. This predated the first home video game. system. And then, of course, the second arcade game, which was released in 1972, was Pong. Pong.

Right. Okay. First home video game system was not the Atari 2,600. It was not Home Pong. It was not anything by Atari. It was the... Oh, we've talked about this before. Yeah.

It's the Magnavox Odyssey. Magnavok's Odyssey was the first home video game machine. How much it costs? Like a hundred-something dollars? Yeah. But they didn't. want it to cost $100. They originally, they specped the machine out, the inventor Ralph Bear, so that they could

sell it for $20. But Magnavox added it, if you buy an Odyssey, it comes with, like, it's a black and white piece of hardware, but it comes with, like, color overlays, like, acetate that you, like, put on your TV to simulate a background that's in color. And it comes with, there's games you can play with playing cards, and you can play, there's poker chips, and it's a box full of junk. and they basically over-engineered it and they sold it for $100

and that was one of the reasons why it kind of failed but they really wanted it to be super cheap their marketing game was just off computer space like let's make this super expensive well there were also kind of rumors that like because at the time television

if you want to buy a Magnavox television you probably went to a store that was like a Magnavox store you know and then you had the salesman probably trying to sell somebody to the video game system and saying oh now like implying that it wouldn't work unless you owned a top-of-clined Magnafox Television also. It was a mess.

It was a mess. Yeah. And that was released in 1972, Magnavox Odyssey. Atari did not release Home Pong, the home version of Pong, until 1975. And it was a, at first it was through an exclusive partnership with Sears. It was released for Christmas, 1975. Oh, that's pretty spur. Atari didn't have the money.

They were a little startup. They didn't have any cash. The first programmable video game system, the first video game system that used cartridges that had ROM chips that had computer code, you know, a program written onto them, was not the Atari 200. It was also not by Atari. It was the Fairchild video entertainment system. Sometimes later on it was called the Channel F, but it was by the company Fairchild. And then cassettes or cartridges that you put it. Yep. And The Odyssey had like, you could take out a cartridge that was like cartridge number one and like putting cartridge number two to play different game. But all that was was just sort of a series of connections that like told the Odyssey like move the dot here versus moving it up there. Oh, that's all in the machine.

Right. There is no, there's no like, there's no program. Like the Odyssey is like it's all done with like hardware, you know. But the Fairchild Channel F actually, you know, you wrote computer. code you know go to line 10 stuff like that like that was what the what it was there's a really interesting this will never come up in trivia but i still find this fascinating in it at first for arcade games um there was a game that was made by taito in japan which made space invaders and actually it was made by the guy who made space invaders beforehand his name incidentally was

tomohiro nishikato that will never tell you to write that down at trivia but it was called in japan western gun and it was two cowboys shooting in each other Midway licensed the game for the U.S., as it did with, like, Midway licensed Pac-Man from Mamcoe and brought it to the U.S., they licensed this game. They brought it to the U.S. They called it Gun Fight. And so the game Gunfight, they totally redid it. And the first about the U.S. version of Gunfight, it is the first arcade game to use a microprocessor. There is an Intel 8080 microprocessor in there, and this is the first arcade game to use one. Again, probably won't come up.

I still find it really fascinating. A little bit about the Nintendo. The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in 1985. In Japan, it was known as the... Famicom. Famicom. Or family computer. It was released in 1983.

So two years prior. But Super Mario Brothers was released globally in 1985. So same year in Japan in the U.S. In Japan, that means they had the Nintendo for two years. Without Super Mario Brothers. Yeah. I know it must have been very sad Cool

That's like last round trivia Video games Atari very rarely did the first Of any thing Yeah You don't have to be that first You just need to be the best You'd be surprised at how sometimes

We've never had this But like if you're playing bad trivia Somebody might say Oh Question number seven What was the first arcade game You know And then they're like

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Go to Exploryspodcast.com or just look us up on your podcast app. That's the Explorers Podcast. Welcome back. You're listening to Good Job, Brain, this week. We're helping you prep for pub quiz. So we currently, we've said about the meetup, we currently play at the Soma Street Food. But before, years and years, we've been playing at this pub called Elephant and Castle. Elephant Castle is stylized to be like a British pub.

Yeah, I don't think they're... It's part of a franchise. It's in Seattle. It's in Vegas, I think. It's like a thematic kind of restaurant place. But they have, they serve beer. It's very pub-like. They have pub food.

A lot of Guinness signs on the walls. And, you know, after five years, we kind of memorized their menu. And so I want to quickly talk about pub food because that was so integral to our pub-quids-going experience. And some trivia about some notable. pub dishes. Pub food, you know, now we think about,

oh, it's like steak pies and fish and chips and all that stuff. Shepherds pie. Yeah, but before that, it wasn't.

It was just light snacks. Oh, okay. It was bar bites. The original kind of pub pub, public house pubs. Crackers.

Crackers, maybe like pickles, stuff like that. And obviously it wasn't until the invention of the microwave and freezing technology that they're able

to actually serve food food. and like a wide variety. And so now your home British comfort food that you eat at home now is now being able to be served up at pubs instead of just like your usual light bites and stuff. So you mentioned bangers and mash. My burning question I had all these years, why are bangers called bangers? Bangers and mash is pretty much sausage on mashed potatoes. Right, right.

And the second half is pretty clear. Yeah, mashed potatoes. Bangers, why are sausages called bangers? I always, I don't know. I just imagine the sausage just banging into each other. I don't know. Close. So there is a historical reason why bangers were probably called bangers.

Some say that it started in World War II, but people have been using this term since the late 1800s, early 1900s, and the term bangers is attributed to the fact that sausages during World War II, they had the ration, right? So some of the sausages were stuffed with extra. for water and fillers. Okay. And so what happened is when you cook the sausage under high heat, it would explode. It would explode and cause a bang.

Oh, really? This doesn't happen anymore because they're not doing, they're not pulling cheap tricks and sausages they make. But that used to be the case. Interesting. Yep. Bangers. Another classic British pub dish is called the Plowman's lunch.

Yeah. Plowman's lunch. And you think about it, you're like, oh, that's so rustic. That's exactly what farmers used to. eat. You know, it's a cold meal. It's bread, butter, cheese, a beer, maybe some jam or chutney. Cold pickled onions or other pickles. They're like, oh, wow, how rustic. That's how real farmer ate. Yeah. And it's very British. Someone pointed this out on Twitter. They're like, if it's any cool invention, I learned from Good Job Brain, it's either came from a war. It was debuted at a

World's Fair or it was part of a marketing plot. Plowman's lunch Marketing ploy. Marketing ploy. No real actual farmer actually ate this type of a dish. So there was a BBC program called Balderdash and Piffle, and they had evidence by some of the former staff of the Milk Marketing Board. They basically found documents uncovered at the National Archive of the Milk Marketing Board that the Plowman's lunch was invented as a ploy to sell British cheese in pubs.

So they kind of make up this dish around it. It's traditional. It's traditional. It's what our good old farmers ate. Of the people. Don Draper giving the presentation. Just trying to sell you cheese. When you think of a plowman.

Yeah, simple man sitting in a field. He opens his box. There's bread. There's cheese. He thinks of his wife. It's lunch. It's lunch. It's lunch.

It's a plowman's lunch. Yeah. That's very good. Sold. You're like, hmm, that sounds delicious. Single tier. Yeah. I think of his wife.

And last food item, very popular in pubs. Cornish pasty, not pasty. Not pasty. Cornish. That's a nipple cover. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cornish pasty, pretty basic.

Yeah, if somebody's giving out free pasties on the street, ask, make sure what they meet. Yeah, exactly. How to pronounce it. Right. A pasty is like a pastry basically. It's a handheld pie, a meat pie that's folded over and you can eat it with your hands. Sometimes people will say, oh, it's the Cornish pasty. Funny thing, Cornish pasty was awarded a protected geographical indication status by the EU Commission.

What does this mean? You can't call it a Cornish pasty unless it's made in Cornland. Cornwall. Cornwall. Sure. Just like champagne. You can't call something in champagne if it's not made. Gorgonzola.

Gorgonzola, Parmesan, Reggiano. You cannot call anything that as Cornish Passy if it's not made or fabricated in Cornwall. You can buy it there and then heat it up somewhere else. That's fine. That's fine. They have seals, a lot of legal kind of protection over that item. But, you know, it's a meat pie. But you just can't call it that.

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And frequently, we'll get it wrong two or three times in a row. That's the worst. It is the worst. Especially when you put down the wrong answer that you put down the time before. I can't remember. Yeah. It's like, well, this is either the right answer or the wrong answer. The same wrong answer.

So in the spirit of prepping for things that may come up, I want to talk about states. And we get a lot of questions about states and state trivia, like at the top of the show, Karen, the only state with a one syllable name. You know, that one's fairly simple. We can figure it out. Process of elimination. Eventually, you'll figure that one out. So Karen, you asked on part one of this episode, the first state to join the union, which was, Delaware, and the last state to join the union was Hawaii.

These kind of things come up a lot. We get questions about borders. You know, this is a good one. Do you guys know the only state that borders one other state, exactly one other state? The only state that borders exactly one other state. That's right. Maine? Maine?

Maine. Maine. Maine, borders New Hampshire. That's right. Dana, I think you asked on a. a previous show the only state that has no

straight lines in the border someone asked this one it is Hawaii yes a moment's reflection

yes yes we get the the state quarters come up a lot all the time all the time there's a picture of the back of

the state quarter that's right that's right fill in the state I've had some of those questions before we've been asked

what are the what are the four states that are technically commonwealths Kentucky Rhode Island.

No. Texas. No. Virginia. Yes. Kentucky, Virginia. Massachusetts. Massachusetts.

And Pennsylvania are the four commonwealths. Yes. In our great union that we have. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia. And Rhode Island is like Rhode Island and Providence Plantation. That's full. It's full and legal name. Right.

Ones that we get a lot, though, are about the order of the first 13 colonies that they became states and you know frequently it'll be it'll be embedded in a question and say you know this 10th state leads the nation in production of whatever and if you happen to know the 10th state then great then you got the answer right there sure so i got tired of us missing these all the time so i have created a mnemonic for us to remember not only the first 13 states the original 13 colonies but the order in which they were accepted to the union wow so just very quickly, here are the 13 in order. Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina,

and Rhode Island. You lost me at three. Yeah. All right. Well, lucky, lucky for you, Karen. I have assembled an absurd mnemonic that I hope will help us all remember this. It's going to help me remember. So here we go. And sort of the framing device for my little mnemonic here is about some nefarious couple named George and Mary. All right. You're really excited. Here we go.

Depend on jerky George to con the masses. So that's Depend, Delaware, Pennsylvania, on jerky George, New Jersey and Georgia to con the masses. to con the masses, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Okay, halfway through. Depend on jerky George to calm the masses. Yeah, it's kind of. It's kind of goes off. Yeah, you can think of, you know, maybe George Costanza, if it helps you.

Yeah, jerky George. All right, here we go. Second half. Mary's scams harm virgin Yorkies, not carnal rhinos. Mary scams harm virgin Yorkies, not carnal rhinos. Maryland. Maryland, South Carolina Scams

Harm, New Hampshire So I've dropped off the news Jerky, New Jersey, harm New Hampshire Harm, Virginia, New Yorkies Virginia, New York Not Carnal Rhinos North Carolina And Rhode Island

Yeah, so we get the RH, the Rhino RHI So from the top, from the top Depend on Jerky George George to con the masses. Mary's scams harm virgin yorkies, not carnal rhinos. Fantastic. Wow. Georgian married.

Running spams all up and down the eastern seaboard. There's some like bestiality. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like, not just normal yorkies. Virgin. And if you would like to use those as band names, the Virgin Yorkies and the Carnal rhinos, you know what, how that. Yeah, not the Carl Reiner's, but Carnal Rhinos.

Maybe you can just replace it with Carl Riner. Not Carl Riner. I feel confident that I will remember this, at least. Like, this one is now cemented in my mind. Yes. Hopefully, together, we can remember this one. And, of course, we will put this up on our mnemonic archive on good job, brain.com. Jerky George.

Jerky George. Depend on jerky George to con the masses. Mary scams harm Virgin Yorkies, not Colonel Rhinos. Boom. Well, I mean, I know it now. That was a dramatic, like, audible book reading. Yeah. That was pretty good.

We got to get into the spirit of it. Yeah. It's very like a pulp, detective pulse. Yep. Yeah. Novel. If we can help just one quiz team, answer one question about one state, about one Virgin Yorkie.

Our work here is done. So here are some other things that are handy. to study especially, you know, obviously this is an audio podcast, so it's hard to do visuals because we do in a lot of trivia leaks, they do have like a handout around with pictures of people and you have to identify them. We suck at old actresses. Classic Hollywood. Yeah, we always put down the wrong person. We always do. Joan Crawford, we've started to get good at. Yeah. Because she's very distinct. Mommy dearest. Yeah. Mary Monroe, yeah. It's like once it gets to like Jane Mansfield

and like Rita Hayworth Yeah you're right We've missed it yeah Yeah yeah because we always get mixed up with Sophia Loren I feel like Sophia Loren We get more often We get right more often than not

Just because she's got that distinctive look But they all kind of blend together there This is not really a hint for how to do well On publication so much It's a commiseration section for us Actresses It helps if you know someone who knows this stuff If you never watch those movies

You just probably don't know That's one of our biggest weak points. Another thing that we sometimes do okay on, but usually not so well, is classical music composers. I can usually name the famous ones, and that's sometimes enough. So if you have time, listen to more of the famous Vivaldi four-season spring, some of the Beethoven noted ones, Mozart noted ones, Hayden. They don't do a lot of deep cuts. No. No. But, like, they would play pomp in circumstance.

You're like, everybody knows popcorn. and circumstance, but who composed it, it was Elgar. Elgar. Yeah. So some of that stuff is a little tough. And there's also, speaking of music, old Motown bands. Not that we don't know them, we get them mixed up. Oh, yeah, yeah.

The platters versus the Temptations versus the Four Tops versus OJs. I think that's the big one. The Temptations versus Four Tops. Like that one, yeah. Build me a Buttercup. You came up with the Monite, Chris? Wait, build me a butter. Oh, yeah.

It's the foundations, right? Because you build starting from the foundations. Yeah. Good. Yep. That's the one. We only have one. No, the car wash is Rolls Royce.

Rose Royce. Rose Royce. Like the car. Like the car. I generally try and remember. I mean, we've memorized them outright. But between the Temptations and Four Tops, like the Four Tops tend to be more of like kind of the shout singing songs, whereas Temptations are a little more melodic. It's funny you say that because I actually did go to the Four Temptations.

Topps and Temptations concert And I was like With my mom And I was like This time I'm gonna know And then I was like Oh man they all blur together But at least

When you hear a song And you're like Oh that was at that concert We've got it narrowed down To one of two groups Yeah Exactly yeah And at the end of our part two

How to Prep for Pub Quiz Lots of stuff Lots of stuff to process But So much to take in It is a lot I mean this is like summarizing years and years

and years and years. We don't know anything else. Yeah. That's it. That's it. It's random. Just here and there. Yeah. Catch as catch can, really. Yep. And you can find our show on iTunes, on Stitcher, on SoundCloud, and on our website. Good job, Brain. Thanks for our sponsor, Audible. And we'll see you guys next week. Bye.

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