Good Job, Brain! - 155: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #31

Episode Date: July 5, 2015

What kind of quirky quaint quizzical quandaries do we have in store for you this week? Colin just got back for Sweden and we finally get to tell our Scandinavian and Nordic countries apart, and of course, return of torture candy. Chris masterfully hid birds in his word game quiz, and how many gallons are in a peck? How many hot dogs are in the new Pizza Hut hot dog pizza crust? These important life questions are answered in Dana's HOW MANY challenge that will stump most. Rich Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner, or sliced bread...which came first? We're back with another eye-opening round of BRAD PITT? OR LASERS? filled with even more random pairings.  ALSO: Monsters, death ray, listener puzzle answer ALSO ALSO: There's a hidden bird in this episode description :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Salutations, my sensual scorpions of scientific searching group of super friends. This is Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and offbeat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 155.5. I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your clan of classy comrades conquering a cornucopia of conundrums. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris.

I wanted to be a sensual scorpion. No, they are the sensual scorpion. We can only aspire to be sensual. Thank you to Marlon and Austin for your alliterations. Sensual is a great word for making people uncomfortable. Yeah, I agree. I think if you go up to anyone and just say of yourself, in any tone of voice.

Like, I would consider myself very sensual. Yeah. Yeah. Because they're sexy. Right. And there's like emotional. Yeah. And then the, yeah.

Central. Sensual. Right, right. It kind of, it conjures up images of like eating strawberries in a bathtub. It just, it makes it sound like you want to give

someone a massage. It's pretty much what this is the next thing you're going to say. Yeah. It's a hot oil. You look, you look tense. All right, we're done. We're done.

We're done. We're done. Colin, you have a special news. Oh, I did. I don't know if you guys saw this. I came across this in the Atlantic, the upcoming issue. They published an excerpt from a book that was just released called Lists of Note and Eclectic Collection deserving of a wider audience.

Whoa. Compiled by Sean Usher. What this list is is a list from Notebook that Charles Dickens kept for about 10 years, from the mid-1850 to the mid-18. 60s. Just a personal notebook? This was a personal notebook. And like a lot of writers, you know, he just had a notebook of ideas. And specifically, this was a list of names for boys and girls. So these are names that Dickens did not use or did not get around to using. I would just give you a sample of some of my favorites from this list. These could not be more Dickensian. Yes. These are some boys names. Jonathan Notwell. brown dress brown dress Henry ghost

George Muzzle that's such a Dickensian name Little old George Muzzle This is my favorite though His father is a baker Yeah right right yes Wow These are some of the girls names

Which are again Equally dire Sarah Gold Sacks Matilda Rainbird Sophia Doomsday It's like Like, the last name is, like, two nouns. Yes.

You know, like, Dune's Day, brown dress, like, or not two nouns, but, you know. Verity Mockyard. Verity Mockyard. So, apparently, more to be found in the book. Lists of Note. Those are good goth names, like, you know what? A lot of ladies keep lists of names for future children. I'm not saying I do, but I'm saying people do.

I'm not saying people do. Little Verity. Check out Pinterest. There's a little folded piece of paper in Dana's pocket right now that's like Charity Rust Bottom. That's really good. That is good. Are you Charles Dickens? I want to have a street urchin.

A scrappy orphan. So I'm guessing that some good job brain fans may go to Comic Con International San Diego, which is coming up. SDCC. Yes. And so I actually have a fun announcement. Viz Media, the publisher of Japanese manga and animation, is actually having me out there to host their panel about the legend of Zelda A Link to the Past. That's the classic Super Nintendo Zelda game. And actually they just republished after many years a wonderful manga, you know, a version of Link to the Past.

And so we're going to do a panel about the history of Zelda games. And the production of the comic, the editor of the comic is going to be there. Are you going to have trivia? Maybe we'll have some trivia. You know me so well. Yes, yeah. So it'll be a fun time. So if you're at San Diego, Comic-Con, Saturday, July 11th at 1.30.

And you can catch Chris there. Catch them. Catch them all. Please, please let me go. Catch him release. You can tag his ear, but, you know, release him, please, back out of the wild. All right. had a mini episode last week. In that mini episode, I made a music challenge, which is like our

normal music quiz, but there is like a theme. But the theme is like not just our usual thing. There's something more to it. And I wanted an answer that is the location. So that was our puzzle. I had five songs. And Chris, you solved it. I got it in one. Yeah, you did. I got it in one. He emailed me. obviously you can't know that you got it in one but the way that I knew that I had it in one is I listened to the first one and I knew the artists and I was like

oh wouldn't it be funny if I did a quiz that was all Batman villains and then the next song because the first song was Enigma Return to Innocence and of course we know that the Riddler is Enigma right and then the next song is Earth Angel

and I'm like okay well What's Earth Angel? So, of course, I should figure out the artist, and it's the Penguins. And I'm like, oh, yes, the five songs. And, you know, everybody was, you know, free to use Shazam or Soundhound or, you know, Google stuff. First one was Return to Innocence by Enigma, and then Earth Angel by The Penguins. The third song was from the motion film Wizard of Oz. Yes, the toky.

The talkie. The talkies. Now in color. And it was, if I only had a brain by, well, it's sung by the character. The character, the scarecrow. Yeah. And then we had, the song title was Harley, sung by Johnny Cash. And then we have The Joker sung by Steve Miller Band.

So there we have Enigma, a.k. Edward. Edward, I think. Edward, Edma, aka the Riddler. and then Penguin whose full name is Cobbill Cod Cobbott Coplepot. Like cobblestone

Cobblestone. Cobblepot. Okay. Dickensian kind of name. It is. It is. It is. And then a scarecrow Jonathan Crane. That sounds plausible. Sure, right. No, it is. Harley Quinn

and then the Joker. And those are all whose name is we don't know. There's different versions. Yeah, there's no pen. No canon origin story Or a real person Sometimes you will see

Jack Napier Yeah Yeah But that was from the 1980s Tim Burton Batman film Right like and that's And only from there

Yeah So you need Yeah That's the kind of creepy thing About Joker Is you don't know How he came to be Or like a can't

That is one of the creepy things About him indeed Yeah Right Also the thing where he Murders people In elaborate ways Yeah

Yeah And Carr smiles on them A little age A little age So the location is where? So the location is I was looking

a little bit more specifically. Yeah, oh really? We were looking for Arkham Asylum? I was looking for Arkham Asylum. Of course, Gotham City is fine. Oh, okay. Because where's a place where you can find all of them? And I was like, well, yeah, Gotham City.

But sometimes they're an Arkham Asylum, but sometimes they're not. Yeah, some person can argue, well, when so-and-so were in Arkham Asylum, this other person wasn't. Yeah, I was going to say, based on the comics on On any given day, the odds are actually pretty low that they're all going to be there. At least one of them is going to be escaped. Yeah, or something.

And special shout-out to Jacob Birch, who was the first person to write in. He actually said, I sure hope you're looking for Gotham City or Arkham. I suppose if you wanted to be very specific. I feel like... Karen always wants to be very specific. I feel like Gotham City is the best answer.

Really? Yeah. That's because it was your answer. I don't think there's anything specific leading us specifically to Arkham Asylum. Because they're all villains. So, sometimes they're there and sometimes they're not. Gotham is the thing that binds them together all the time

because they have no ambition to, like, do anything in the outside world. So it sets Batman Town. What? Batmanville. And also another shout-up for our second place, Jen Mugford, who also said, Gotham City. And she says, please, please say I've won a Canadian fan living at Qatar. Oh.

Wow. It's really hot. Don't melt. It's hot there. So thanks, guys, and thanks to the 70 to 80 emails. I got an awesome job, you guys. So I just flew back this morning from Las Vegas. I was my friend's bachelorette party.

I mean, other than I have to be at this bachelor's rep party, I had one mission in Vegas. I was staying at the Cosmopolitan, which is in the Las Vegas City Center with Aria and Vodara. You went to find the death. That's right. I did. I tried so. So, I mean, after our, it was Let There Be Light, when you talked about the design of the Vodara and how, because of the mirrored curved surfaces, there's one point by the

swimming pool where all the sunlight reflects and focuses and would melt things, people's hair. Yeah. So, I bought an egg and I was going to, I was going to, what? I was going to see if you could. Yeah. I was going to see if I can cry. I actually did it.

So I bought like a curtain, like a six. I can't just buy one. Right, right, yeah. You know, Vegas grocery store. Yeah. I kind of was asking the cost to, I was like, oh, where's, you know, where's the pool? Wanted to make sure that was the right place. Yeah.

So I was like, so the sun issue fixed just so I can, you know. Yeah, yeah. And he goes, yes, it is fixed. And I was like, oh. Oh, good. How did they fix it? Aluminum panels. Oh, okay.

and things to diffuse. So it's a little more diffuse, it's not just. So that's how they fix the building in London, too. The fins? Yeah. So did you just go throw the eggs of people then? No, I just left. I was like, but the thing is, it was still very hot.

Like, it's hot normally. I cannot, like, I think about it. Did you go into the pool area to see it? No, no, no, I did it. Also, because I was not a guest of that hotel. Also true. So I had to, like, kind of wait for someone to, With your eggs

What'd you do with the eggs? What did you do with the eggs? I threw it away. Oh, okay. What I'm going to do with raw eggs in Vegas? Make some breakfast. Yeah, it seemed like a liability issue if it was setting people's hair on fire. I know. It didn't seem like a thing.

Well, again, I thought the last thing that I had read about it was umbrellas. Umbrellas and foliage. But I guess they took a little further than that. Yeah, because that's like a band-aid. That's a temporary solution. Right on. So, sad to report, cosmic death ray, not there anymore. I appreciate your efforts in the name of science.

Oh, no, I was, since Chris talked about it on the show, I was like, I'm going to go see this. But, okay, without further ado, let's do some trivia. Let's jump into our first general trivia segment. Pop quiz, hot shot. Here I have a new batch of categories or different trivia pursuit. They're going into the randomizer? Yep. You can't look at them.

No, no, no, no, let me just tell you what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, which version of the games. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, of course, usually for the segment, I pick a random Trivial Pursuit card from our 13 pounds of random Trivial Pursuit card. And decreasing, decreasing. So we have Trivia Pursuit Entertainment Singles. What does that mean? I don't know. Okay.

Can we just do that instead? Trivial Pursuit Genus 4, 90s Trivial. Pursuit Which we always get Trivia Pursuit Pop 2 culture No, pop culture too Okay

This is a badly design logo Sure Television trivia game That is not Trivia Pursuit It's its own brand It depends on what year And Forte

Which looks like a trivia Pursuit card But it's not I think it's just extra Trivial Pursuit Cards No I don't want to reward them Yeah they have the same colors Oh my God you're right

Well look guys I mean it's you know It's random See what we get It's hard It's hard for you, it's hard for me, it's hard for everybody. All right. All right.

And here I have trivia pursuit, pop culture too. Let's do it. Pop to culture. We're going to pop to it. Pop some culture. All right, you guys have your barnyard buzzers. Yes. Here we go.

Blue Wedge for TV. What MTV series has a theme song that asks, So you want to be a player, but your wheels ain't fly. Everybody. Pimp my. Correct. Pink Wedge for fad. What 1978 high-protein diet asked adherence to subsist on 700 calories a day? Whoa.

High-prime, I mean, 19708 high-protein diet. Was that the original Atkins? Incorrect. I've actually never heard this one. What is it? It is the Scarsdale diet. Oh, okay. I've heard of that. I don't know.

I thought it would be able to. Apparently high protein. But 700 calories a day, that's like something very specific. You'd lose weight. You'd lose a lot of weight. And wasn't there like the Scarsdale diet murders? Wasn't that a thing? Yeah, I think that was the diet related to the Scarsdale diet murders.

Well, I mean. Yes. Oh, like the Twinkie defense. No, no, no. It was like some behind the scenes intrigue. Killer of Scarsdale diet doctor. Yeah. Each.

Wow. Yeah. Weird. Yeah, look that out. Look that up. Didn't mean to veer that into murder. It's a murder town. Sorry.

Yellow Wedge for Buzz. What inveterate smoocher gave himself a squirt of bonaca on stage at the 2004 Oscars just before announcing the best actress winner? Oh. Vetterate smoocher. Dana. Is this Adrian Brody? Correct, Andrew and Brody Because the year

Yeah, the year previous When he won, he kissed Halliberry. Wow. Yeah. The year that he won. All right. All right, purple for music. What classic ACDC album

opens with the tolling of Hell's Bells? We had this at trivia before. We actually had this at Pub trivia before. Yeah. I'm going to guess back in black. Correct. Oh, okay.

Yeah, win and dough. Go with the pop. Yeah, the popular one you know. Pretty sure. Yeah. Pretty sure. Green Wedge for a movie. What film gave John Candy the line?

I'm a mog, half man, a hat dog. I'm my own best friend. Everybody. Space balls. Yeah, space balls. Barfollam you. Oh, his full name is Barfollum. You're fully.

Barfallam you. Last question. S and G. Sports and gambling? Maybe. Who knows? Sports and gaming. Games, gaming.

Maybe, maybe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I just figured sports and gambling kind of. Right, right, right, right. One Nation's rhythmic gymnastics team was accused of hiring 15 psychics to put a hex on the Ukrainian squad in 2004. Wow. What nation? Dana.

Is this Romania? No. Colin. Russia? Russia. Russian Federation. How would, first of all, how would they? that leak out. Secondly, who

cares? Thirdly, why do you need so many psychics? Well, because it's really important. You don't know which one works. Right, right, right. Rhythmic gymnastics. Have you ever tried to put a hex on someone? You can't cheap out. Fair enough. You've got to get all the psychics. Fair enough. These are some good scandals.

Yeah, these are all like, I'm going to look this up later. That's some good beef right there. Yeah. All right in today's episode, of course, is episode number 155, and every fifth episode, usually we have a topic or a theme, and we do segments and quizzes about surrounding that theme. But for every fifth episode, we have a free-for-all, a quiz free-forl, to stump each other and stump you guys' listeners. So today, get ready for our All Quiz Bonanza number 31. Wow. All right.

Anza. Who wants to go first? I'll go first. All right. Here's a quiz about birds. Birds are great. So serious. I'll do it. Putting this quiz together, I will tell you I learned nothing about birds.

Absolutely nothing. Mostly because it's more of a puzzle. It's actually more of a word game. It's more about hidden birds. I have hidden birds on your person, and you have to find them before the birds explode. Oh, no. It's going to be rough. No, what I've actually done is I've written a,

variety of sentences, and then in those sentences, probably between words, maybe at the end of one word leading into the beginning of another word, we will find the names of birds. And so you will be looking for the names of birds in these sentences.

What actually is the name of study of birds? Ornithology. Yeah. I have not hidden the word ornithology. Oh, wait. That's a challenge. You should do very well at this quiz. Okay. Uh-oh. Pressure.

Oh. Oh, those are not words of encouragement. That's your first thing. Oh. Oh. Oh. Say it again? You should do very well at this quiz.

Colin. Uh, dove. Dove. Oh, okay. Colin got on it before everybody else. He's like, oh, I think this is it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's nothing wrong with rushing through this quiz. Oh, that's your second sentence. Uh, is that a thrush? It is a thrush. There's nothing wrong with rushing through this quiz. Okay. Um, just remember, just remember, as Al Pacino said in any given Sunday, life is a game of inches. Uh, it was kind of everybody-ish, but Dana.

Finches. Finch. Finch. Or finches. Finch, yes. Man, all the stuff in the beginning is such red herring. Yeah. Totally. All right.

Okay. I promise all the rest of these are straightforward. Okay. Then I promise that that was not a sentence. Okay. Okay. Okay, here we go. Um, the mountain climber thought, if I can repel, I can get down.

Karen Pelican Pelican If I can repel I can get down Wow you're getting good at these It used to be really obvious Which words you were

Because it's really out of place Nice Outside the window Lay a cat Outside the window Lay a cat Colin Owl

Window lay It's a shorter word Yes Did you see Terry Bradshaw kick the football Oh Collins rocking it A hawk And the answer is no because he's a quarterback

Karen For this one I need you to do some post-production On the sentence for me Is that okay? I need you to add an echo sound effect. Just do it afterwards. Yeah, okay.

But I'm trusting you here. Okay, ready? Oh, that's not a... No, just... No, no, no. I need to do some post-roll. I can't trust me. I'm not going.

I'm like, who's that in? Was that it? Was that it? It's coming. It's coming. I just need you to help me out here. I trust you. Okay.

The adventures of time pig. Eons in the future. Karen. That's really good. Pigeon. Pigeon. Pigeon. Wow.

Time. Typhig. Eons is in the future. Nice. Oh, my God. I want that poster. The former Hollywood star lingered by the red carpet. Colin. Starling? Starling, yes. That was a really sad sentence, too. Yeah.

Just two more. Dracula's son is named Alucard in a line of video games. Well, yes, Castlevania is the answer to that question. but Dracula's son is named Alucard in a line of video games Named Nol Oh, Karen

Cardinal Cardinal I thought it was going to be Dracula, I was like, oh, Draculous, lasso, yeah Cardinola Oh, that's good, that's good. And finally, the Celtic music show had fiddlers and pipers

galore. The Celtic music show had fiddlers and pipers galore. Dana. A sandpiper. A sandpiper. Yes. Well done.

I don't even know what kind of bird that is. They've got like a little flutie kind of beef. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, great job. That's it. That's it. That's it. Yeah, we're all like horrible primed. Oh, good job. Oddly.

Oh. So as you guys know, our listeners do not. I just got back from a fun trip. Our listeners do know. I talked about it. Oh, okay. Yeah, the mini episode. A land far away.

I was in two lands far away. I was in Denmark and I was also in Sweden. So I, of course, have some treats for you guys, which we will enjoy. We'll enjoy at some point later. I have some treats following the footsteps of Dana's awesome Swedish candy experiment. but we'll get to that later we'll get to that later so first i'd like to start with a self-reported um actually uh yeah many many episodes ago i was asking about names of countries in their local languages and uh it had been communicated to me uh through some back channels that i i did the

great people of sweden a disservice so the name of sweden in swedish as we would spell an S-V-E-R-I-G-E is closest. The best I can do is Svare-Y. It's a soft. There's no G-S-R-E-S-V-E-S-V-E-S-V-E-S-V-E-S-A-S-R-Y-Y. So, with that out of the way, you know, I traveled all the way to Sweden to make sure this was correct. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I'm doing, doing it. Spared no expense. Doing the due to diligence here. No, Sweden was lovely and beautiful. Denmark was lovely and beautiful. You were there for a while, so you were there during the summer. solstice. I was there, actually, we left Sweden on midsummer day, which I learned is basically the biggest, you know, holiday in the middle of, yeah, yeah, everything was closing down the day

we were leaving. I mean, when we booked this trip, we didn't quite realize. It turned out it was a good day to be leaving Sweden. Oh, because I also learned there that on that day, a lot of Swedish people, especially in where we were in southern Sweden, they go over to Denmark for the day. For the party. Yeah. Yeah. Because summer solstice party, which is party on the beach for, and it would be like 3 a.m. And it's super bright outside. Yeah. Because of where Scandinavia is located, you get a lot of daylight during the summer.

I've never been that far north before. And it was, like, we went to Tivoli, you know, the famous, the Tivoli Gardens. Yeah, Tivoli Gardens, the historic, you know, amusement park right in the middle of Copenhagen. And we were there at 10.30, 11 o'clock at night. And it's still, you know, barely even dusk levels of darkness. It was cool. Inspiration for Disneyland. Yeah, and they said prominently it said like Walt Disney himself visited many times there, they said,

and you can sort of see where he sort of got inspiration for a lot of things. From a trivia perspective, one of the things that I made sure to get clear of my head while I was traveling around Scandinavia is the difference between the Scandinavian countries and the Nordic countries. Does anyone want to take a crack here? Anyone feel confident enough? It's not that complicated. Well, geographically.

Okay, yeah. I mean, the fact that there's the Scandinavian Peninsula is a big clue there. I'll tell you, there are five Nordic countries. There are five Nordic countries. And how many Scandinavia? There are three Scandinavian countries in the traditional background. Yes. So, Scandinavia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway.

Norway. Yeah, right. Norway is not a Nordic country? Well, they overlap. They overlap. They overlap. Yes. The Vindana.

You are like outrage. Yes. Yeah. So that's basically Sweden and Norway, which are the primary occupants of the Scandinavian peninsula, the big chunk of land. And then, you know, Denmark, which sits a little bit below. Also peninsula and itself. It is, yes.

The Jutland or Yutland peninsula. It's like a little mitt. Yeah, it is like a little mitt. Right. And then the full Nordic countries are including Iceland and Finland as well. Oh, okay. No Greenland? And then, you know, things like the Faroe Islands and Greenland and are also

administrative regions. But these are the five main countries. These are the Nordic countries. So plus Finland plus Iceland. And of course, I do have some snack treats for you. From Denmark, I had one mission in particular. I wanted to find the weirdest, most non-American style of gummy in particular. I wanted to see what Haribo flavors are popular in Scandinavia. No, Haribo is German, though. I know, I know, but the fact that they market to different places around the world. I certainly, now I should say, I didn't get any of the super salty Turkish pepper,

nothing like that. This one is weird enough on its own. Okay. Yes, and for new listeners, Dana went to Sweden before, and she surprised us, I guess. Yeah. With, you know.

Ambush. Yeah. A special treat. Where we tried a different local Swedish candy. and we had to guess what flavor it was and kind of talk it through and it was pretty painful. It was eye-opening.

It explodes salt. Yeah. It was like licorice. Salt grenade. And now, Colin, you're bringing back the revenge of Swedish candy. Yes, the revenge of Scandinavian candy. Yes, the revenge of Scandinavian candy.

Yes, these are some Haribo that I found. I'm pretty sure we don't have these in America. Okay. I have a guess as to what the flavor is, but I'm not sure. So you don't know. Oh, my goodness. Black bananas. Is it licorice banana?

Now, if you look at them, they look like they're banana shaped. They're black on one side. On the other side, it almost looks like an overright banana. Yeah. Oh, so it could be. So maybe overripe bananas? I'm thinking it's banana and licorish. That would sounds, frankly, gross.

Let's try it. So let's try it. So let's eat it. Now, to be fair, though, it does have a. picture of a monkey with a bow tie and a top hat on the front, which makes it seem classy, yeah, so here we go. He's an older, a sophisticated taste.

Yes, yes. A different class. I think this is, this seems to be aimed at an adult audience rather than kids. This is like Haribo for grown-ups. Yeah, I think so. The overwrite banana part is just the licorish bleeding through. These are medieval leeches. Wow.

It looks, it does. It looks like a leech. It looks like a leech. It looks like a leech. Oh, my God. And it has like a little head It does All right here we go It is hugees Cheers

Oh Cheers oh okay Cheers Cheers cheers It's liquorish banana Yeah Yeah Yeah

Yeah Not bad actually Thankfully It's sweet Thankfully more banana than licorish Oh just keep going No It changes

It changes It does You just left with some Licorice Oh you're right They dissolve at two different speeds Yeah

Yeah, because the licorice is licorish And the banana is the soft Ew They love Liquorish in Scandinavia, ma'am Different flavor profile It is a different flavor profile If I were a kid

And honestly I'm tempted to do this right now as well I would just chew it until the banana wore away And then spit out the rest Or you'd peel it Or you just only Teat out the banana part That is too much work That is really weird

Oh, so, yep, because now I just have that. Liquorice. It's just liquor. Like, I just get a Jaeger shot against all good advice and all of my best knowledge. It's good at first because it's really sweet. Yeah, I thought I was in for something different. It was very banana-y-y-y-old. I was like, oh, this is the first licorice I like, and then I was like, nope.

Okay, well, thank you, Harry Bo. When the banana is gone, black bananas. The old proverb. Yep. I picked up a salty treat. Now, now I admit, I will. admit that the 12-year-old in me bought these just based on

the name because it was going to be too fun to pass up a bag of salt screwer candy Is it candy or chips? Sorry, you're right, they're chips. It looks like a fusilli pasta. Yeah, with sunglasses on it because he's cool. Yeah, cool.

They're like, yeah, exactly. They're like a little Salt screwer. 1980s marketing finally catching up with folks in... These are Kin's salt screwer, possibly scroier, which basically just means salt screws. Yeah, a little salt screws, yeah. Screw us, Colin. And these are largely potato-based.

They are formed potato. It tastes like these chips that look like french fries. Very light pringle taste to me. Really? I think I actually dense. The texture is pretty dense. Also, not a lot of salt happening in there. cultural thing. West salt marsgrer.

Yeah, you know, I did notice that in general, yeah, like, even like the potato chips and things I had in both Denmark and Sweden were not quite as salty as American-style chips. Americans, we love salt. We love our salt. They also get their salt from their candy. Yeah, right, right. They get three grams of ammonium chloride. You also noted, I think, on Twitter while you were there, that Cool Ranch is called,

and this is the same thing in Japan, I believe. It's called Cool American. Yes. Dorino's cool American Because they don't know what Karen is now eating the banana leech Like corn on the cob

It's just eating the banana part Now it really does look like a leech Yeah And that is gross Wow That's a good prank guys It looks like it It does

It really does Yeah black banana is definitely the winner Yeah I would say the winner For pure weirdness Yeah So lesson learned A tasty treat And if you need some leeches

For a costume I like how we didn't know for sure that it was going to be licorice. We knew. We knew. It's always liquor. If it's black, you know. We were just, we were hoping and praying for like something. Overright banana.

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All right. So I have a quiz for you guys. It's called How Many? And so you each have a pin and a pad of paper. We'll do closest to rules. Oh. And you can go over, you can go it under. But because it's a numbers kind of guessing game, I think it's more fun if nobody is

like completely wrong. Like somebody wins. You're not strategizing. I hate that. So I'm going to ask you how many X's and Y's or how many things and something else? And you tell me the answer. Again, you can go over, you can be under, you can be right on the nose. If somebody's right on the nose, they get the point.

How many times did Tom Hanks win an Oscar? Oh, that's good one. Colin says two, Karen says three, Chris says three, it was two. Two times. Oh, I count Apollo 13. Oh, I was adding an extra for, I forget, but it's Philadelphia and Forestcom. Yes. Yes.

Back to back. Back to back. Back to back. He was on a roll. How many ounces in a cup? My mom let me use her Vitamix, and I had to look this up the other day. And I was like, this is a good thing. This is a life lesson.

I should know the answer to this. Yeah. Everybody got it. It's eight. Oh, wow. I had to Google it. Oh. A pints a pound, the world around.

Pints a pound, 16 ounces in a pound, one pound in a pint, eight ounces in a cup. Nice. I guess that does require a whole lot of things. Naturally, naturally. It kind of rhymes, but not. Oh, it's demonic for something. I don't know. I need the flower stat.

How many people were on the first U.S. moonwalking expedition? How many people? On the expedition? or on the moon on the whole Let's say on the moon Let's do on the moon Wait How many people went on the moon

In the first moonwalking expedition In the first New War For successful Mm-hmm Apollo 11 Apollo 11 Yep

Colin says two Karen says three Chris says three It was two Oh again! Yeah You Tom Hanks does Yeah

The third person was in the In orbit written and go on the marriage. He was highlighting this show. He never came out of the lander. Because I know there was a third person, but Yeah. So who was Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?

Yeah. Were the two? See, I'm adding the third person of the Fudge Factor. But it really is just the two you know. Yeah. How many Pips and Gladys Knight in the Pips? And specifically when they recorded heard it through the grapevine. Are we counting Gladys Knight?

No, she's not a Pipp. It's like a thumb is a finger kind of thing. How many Pips? Yeah. She was the Gladys Knight and Gladys Knight and the Pips. There were Pips, though. Where the Pips, dudes are girls. We don't know. I believe we're all guys, right? There was a moment where there was a girl. So that's why I say specifically at that moment when they were on Motown and they recorded that song. How many of them were there?

Colin says three. Karen says five. Chris says two. It was three. Wow. I did the reverse Tom Hanks. Yeah. Yeah. How many muses in Greek mythology? Oh. Collins says nine. Oh, no. I meant that.

Karen means nine. All right. Chris says nine. I meant circle line, that circle, circle, circle. I'll give you the point. I know, no, don't give it to it. I knew. I knew that, like, I'd be the easy.

I was reverse Tom Hanks and myself. I was like, I don't think they're a daddy. You're inside your own head. All right. was that yeah did you show your work you can get half points if you can get half points if you showed your work okay how many Soviet socialist republics in the final decades of the USSR's existence how many republics were there and they all became independent ones at the end so how many of them were there of the current day so the reason why because they like they did all sorts of things but the last

like 30 decades it was very stable so how many was how many republics in the USSR Like, Czechoslovakia counts as one, even though today it's Czech Republic in Slovakia. At the Republic that time. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay. Man, wow. Closest to, that's what.

Colin says 12, Karen says 10, Chris says 18. So we have a funny situation because it's 15. So Colin is three away, Chris is three away. You don't get the point. All right, hurry. Boom. Yay. All right.

How many stripes on the most. Commonly displayed LGBT rainbow flag. Commonly displayed. There are three versions of it, but there's one that shows up in most things. Yeah. Colin says six, Karen says six. It's six. Yes.

Good job. Because Roy G. Bibb. But then minus Indigo. Yeah. Indigo and violet are too close. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. How many many hot dogs form the crust of? of a pizza hut, hot dog pizza.

Wait, the American, the new, the new one? The new American Pizza Hut. Oh, man, all right. Let's see here. The answer may surprise you. Degrees in a circle, the radius of a hot dog. This is a small, medium, or large pizza.

I think it's a large, yeah. I think they only come in. I don't think they come to one. Colin says 32. Karen says 16 and Chris says 60. So the answer is 28. Oh, Collins is the closest with 32. I think Karen, you and I were thinking the same thing.

We're like, start with a number of slices and like how many? Yes, eight. You're like eight slices. Wow, 28. Last question. So Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers. How many gallons is a peck? What is that?

Oh, what is a peck of peppers? Yeah. How many gallons? I'm assuming they're wet peppers because they're pickled. Like there's a dry unit and a wet unit, so I'm going to go with the wet one. How many gallons? Gallons of pickles. How much can a human...

Huh. That's a good way to approach it. All right. Collin says eight. Karen says seven. Chris says 24. Karen's the closest, it's two. Oh!

A peck is two gallons? Yeah. Why not just say two gallon? It's not a tongue twister. Peter Piper picked two gallons. A ten gallon hat would be a five peck. A five peck hat. Good job, you guys.

That's weird. Nice. All right. Okay. Half a peck of milk. Can you pick up a half a peck of milk? Okay. All right.

This should be super easy because every answer in this quiz contains the word monster. Okay. The word monster. The word monster. All right. Every answer in this quiz contains the word monster. Okay. I see.

I see. Okay. So if I were to ask you for what was Bobby Pickett's greatest hit? Monster match. Monster match. Right, right. Exactly. That's, so that's where we're going with this.

Okay, great. An offbeat fashion doll franchise created by Mattel. Oh, what is it called? Yes. Is it Monster High? Monster High. Yes. Where Frankenstein and Dracula are teenage girls.

Now we'll go to high school together. Teenage girls? Yeah, they look a little bit like Bratstals. Like a big head of little bodies. Oh, that's kind of cool, actually. Yeah, it's cute. All right. Yeah.

This Capcom video game series is sold over 28 million copies. Karen. Monster hunter. Monster hunter. That's great. Great work. A little under 300 people can sit on top of this at the same time. A little bit.

Around 300 people, around 270-ish people can sit on the top of this at the same time. Is this the green monster at Fenway Park? This is the green monster at Fenway Park, which has about 280-ish. What is it? It's the giant wall slash seating section out in left field. Yeah, so named because it is incredibly tall and painted green, and it's difficult to hit home run balls over it. And also, there's no, like, audience in the front of it, so the ball can't go into the

stand. It's just a giant wall. It just bounces off a big old wall. That's real. That's a good one. This is the all-time best-selling Sesame Street book. Oh The kids The kids sit in the car right now, know this

Okay Karen There's a monster at the end of this book Yes, it's called The Monster at the end of this book Yes, starring Lovable Furry Old Grover I love this

Love Grover Yeah Grave Digger and El Toro loco EG EG Oh Grave Digger and El Toro Loco, E.G.

Those wrestlers? Or those? Oh. Those must be monster trucks. They are monster trucks. I'm like, what type of entertainment outlandishly? Is that a tag team?

I was like, is the monster couple? The 2010 Best Pop Vocal Album winner in the Grammys. Won the 2010 Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album. Wait, the artist name or the album name? The album name.

This album won the 2010 Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album. Is that Lady Gaga? Oh. Monster ball. Dana. Oh. Yeah, this is Lady Gaga. Sorry.

Monster. Was it called? Little monsters? No. Oh. What's it called? It's called. You're going to kick yourself.

It's called the Fame Monster. The Fame Monster. Yes. 1889 kids movie starring Fred Savage and Howie Mandel Dana Is that Little Monsters? That is Little Monsters Yes

That was a good movie I watched that so many times It is a good movie 2001 film starring Billy Bob Thornton and Hallie Barry Karen Monster's Ball That's Monster's Ball Yes

She's naked in that one Right And Adrian Bertie kissed her because of that movie Like she won the Oscar It all comes back I like that. The title of the ninth Godzilla movie, also the name of a Detroit rock band

that was active in the 70s and 80s in particular. Kiss. Title of the ninth Godzilla movie. Monster and a Detroit rock band. You probably heard this phrase before at some point, but yeah. The Detroit rock band. Detroit.

The title of the, importantly, the American title of the ninth godzilla movie. Oh, I don't know. It is destroy all monsters. Oh, yeah. Destroy all monsters. Okay, okay. And finally, the last name of the author of the odd couple,

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Neil Simon and Daniel Stern. Simon Stern, yes. You and those word smushes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's just bringing it back and bring it back to words smushes. And that's the, that is the monster quiz. Not so named because it is a large quiz, but because it deals with monsters. Awesome.

And we're nearing the end of our all quiz bonanza. And I want to, before I throw it to Colin, who has our finale quiz, I want to read this email from our listener Aaron and Aaron says Hey guys At our weekly Pup Trivia in Seattle Our Quizmaster had a category

of quote Which is older A or B During the entire category We were thinking This is just like Brad Pitt or Lasers Which is a segment

A recurring segment On Good Job Brain And Aaron says Sure enough The last question was Which came first Brad Pitt or Layser What?

What? What? Where is the... We're suing. That is outright thievery. That's so cool. That's pretty good. Yeah.

No, that's honor. That's an honor. Like, Colin, you made this up. That's right. Out of my own little brain. And so, Aaron says, obviously we freaked out. Definitely the highlight of my week. Love and Castorium, Aaron.

That's fantastic. That's fantastic. I always forget the answer, which is it? Brad Pitt or lasers? Brad Pitt is older than lasers. No, lasers are... Yeah, lasers, but not by much. But lasers, but not by much.

Well, you know, imitation is the sincerest form of flatteries, so that's great. Well, you could not have set me up any better, Karen, because dear listeners, it is time for the return of Brad Pitt or lasers. So please get your pads and pens ready. And that was a good intro to how this actually works. I will give you a pair of two people, places, buildings, objects, events. You tell me which happened first. If it's a person, I mean, when they were born. If it's a landmark, I mean, when it opened, you know how this works.

Here we go. Which came first? The Volkswagen Beetle or Bubblegum. Which? Bubble gum, not chewing gum. Yes, not chewing gum. I'm specifically, yes, thank you. bubble gum chewing gum very very old bubble gum not quite as old which is first the

Volkswagen Beetle or bubble gum oh man and answers up Dana says the beetle Chris says bubble gum Karen says the VW Beetle the Volkswagen Beetle or originally called the VW Type 1 first produced in 1938 Bubblegum invented 1928 So it is bubble gum Is in fact older An employee appropriately enough at the Fleer Chewing Gum Company

Developed the first formula for commercial bubble gum named They still make it today Bubblebulous Double bubble double bubble Double bubble Yeah exactly Our president of these United States, Barack Obama, has many times talked about how he is a sci-fi fan.

He's a sci-fi nerd. So I have a sci-fi-related question here, which came first. Barack Obama or Doctor Who was Barack Obama. And of course I mean the original Doctor Who run. Oh, that is the original. The original Barack Obama. So, like, we're, Obama's birthday. Yes, Obama's birthday, or the original air date of the original Doctor Who.

And, of course, for all of these comparisons, some of them are going to be fairly close. This is pretty close. When was the Doctor Who 50th anniversary? It was recent. I would keep that information to yourself. Maybe you could win. Yeah, maybe you can. Yeah, how old is Obama?

Good question, Dana. I know how old Obama is. Oh. I just don't know how old. All right. Wait, no, I do know how old. There's only two possibilities here. I see, oh, I love it.

I love it when answers change. I love it when answers change. I love it when answer change. Andrew says Barack Obama. Chris says Barack Obama. Dana says Barack Obama. You are all correct. Yeah.

Barack Obama. Barack Obama born August 4th, 1961. Oh. Doctor Who premiered November 23rd, 1963. Yeah. It was recently the 50th anniversary, I think. And then, and then, well, we know Barack Obama was, what, 47 when he got, was elected.

Yeah. So it was just two years ago. And it was like, he's older than that, a little older. And in somewhat of a, I mean, a sad presidential side note here, so that date, that Doctor Who premiered was the day after JFK was assassinated. And in fact, partly because so much attention was elsewhere, they aired the premiere episode a few days later again, just because some people probably missed it. There were other things on their mind. Yeah.

Yeah. Just a very unfortunate little coincidence. Yeah. Which is older. Hugh Heffner or sliced bread. Yeah. He's old. He's old.

How old is he? Hugh Hefner, Playboy magazine, founder, Magnet, or the one were of, Magnate, are sliced bread. Or that technology of... Yes, commercially produced. Like, you go to the store and you buy a thing of sliced bread. It is already sliced and wrapped when you buy it. Hugh Heffner, sliced bread, which came first. I think I sent you guys that egg corn.

Did we talk about that egg corn on the show? Oh, I think I, yes, I think I, we love, we love eggorns, which are misheard phrases or misheard words that, uh, that, that, that, that, that, to the person who's saying them kind of feel like they're right, they make a sort of sense. So I mean, the, the, the expression, the best thing since sliced bread. Um, I've heard people say, the best thing since life's bread, which, uh, it makes sense. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah, life's space. It's very poetic. Right. Right. Right. Like bread is the bread of life. The bread. Yes, exactly, yes. Because the idea that sliced bread didn't exist before a certain time is weird. It's a pretty new thing, actually. Right. Well, how new? Yeah, good stalling tactics, everybody.

Good stalling tactics all the way around. Answers up. Karen says sliced bread. Chris says sliced bread. Dana says Hugh Hefner. Sliced bread, commercial sliced bread hit the market in 1928. Oh, no. Hugh Hefner was.

born April 9th, 1926. Oh, wow. Hugh Hefner is older than sliced bread. Yeah. Oh, man. Now, I had always wondered, so we all said, the greatest thing since sliced bread. Yeah. Do you know how they advertised sliced sliced bread when it came out?

No. They advertised it as... The greatest thing since the wheel. The greatest forward step in the best. baking industry since bread was wrapped that was the hurdle that had to clear

since they add raisins right right right well what's today's tech since butter bread technology gluten free I think so

yeah Hallie Berry or Doritos great actress Academy Award winning actress Hallie Berry or triangular

taste treat Doritos chips Oh man I know how old Halliberry is roughly Really? Yes But I don't

No Within the Doritos margin of error I don't know Karen you may have some knowledge here I do I love that you guys are all keeping it to yourself Derados was invented, well, yeah, invented Disneyland. It was. It came out of Disneyland, that's right.

Right. So they're a little older maybe than you think they are. Yeah. But maybe Halle Berry is older than you think she is. All right, answers up. Hold on. Dana says Doritos. Chris says Doritos. Karen says Doritos.

Oh, sorry. Dazis. Doritos were introduced 1964. Oh, no. to the public. Hallie Berry was born August 14th, 1966. So Doritos are older.

Doritos is older than Hallie Berry. Yeah. Hefner, older than sliced bread. Hefner, older than sliced bread. Yeah, you can't take that back either. He can't make up that time. Which came first?

The moon landing, the Apollo 11 mission, humans walking on the moon, or Sesame Street. Hmm. You know, I'm so bad at U.S. History. I don't even know when the moon landing happened. Like what year?

You will find out in a matter of seconds. Answers eventually coming up. Karen says the moon landing. Chris says Sesame Street. Dana says Sesame Street. This is very close. is very close. The Apollo Landing,

touchdown July 20th, 1969. Sesame Street debuted November 10th, 1969. Later that same year, so moon landing. Yeah,

you got it. You got it right. You win. Wow, same year as moon landing. Yeah. What's the thing's going on on 16th? Woodstein.

A very modern, yeah. A very modern break. Yeah, yeah. We'll come several decades later for this one. Which came first? The first video on YouTube, or World of Warcraft, the video game.

Oh, God. You guys may individually have these pieces of information. We do. I know YouTube. We're in competition. All right. That's the problem is we're competing with you. Oh, okay.

So, first video. No, I actually, I know this. Okay. Answers up. For different reasons, yeah. Chris says World of Warcraft 100%. Dana says World of Warcraft. Karen says World of Warcraft.

And then parentheses, 2004. You are correct. It is World of Warcraft first. It is World of Warcraft November 23rd, 2004. YouTube, I believe, was April of 2005. You have it right. April, April 23rd, 2005. It was the Jenna Jackson wardrobe malfunction, right?

They were trying to get up there. It was inspired by that. The first video, yeah, was a trip of one of the co-founders to the zoo. Me at the zoo. Yeah, me at the zoo. It was 2005 when that happened. 2005. Well, there is also a story that circulates the origin of YouTube as like, oh, someone

had a cat video. One of the founders had like a cat video and didn't know how to share it with other people. And it's like, oh, we should have a video sharing thing. Turns out that's like a fluff story. Oh, yeah. Well, that's, you know, the Pez thing with eBay, you know, oh, his wife collected Pez and she needed to sell her story. It's a good story.

Yeah. It's always, they always, I mean, really, it's like they, they, they conceptualize. So here's how you remember what's older, YouTube or World Warcraft. Leroy Jenkins, one of the most famous video memes that came out, YouTube wasn't even available. That video was like, it wasn't even on YouTube. It was like sharing a forum and you was like, you know, break.com or like some, you know, like ebombs world or something. So it was like pre- YouTube, that's what I remember. Yeah, when they started, YouTube is late.

Like, people think it, it's, it's, it's interesting to think, like, it's, it's not even, it's only been around for 10 years. I know, I just wrote a story about, or a couple of years ago, like, how when they first started talking about the Xbox 360, it was like the, the video of this event did not go up on YouTube because YouTube did not exist yet. All right, last one, here we go. We may need a tiebreaker But last one, we'll see if this settles it Which came first Alice in Wonderland Or Levi's Blue Jeans

The Wonderful Book Properly Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Or Levi Strauss Blue Jeans What are you doing? Come here, it's okay What's going on? What's going to?

Okay Answers up All right Dana says Levi's Chris says Alice in Wonderland Karen says blue jeans Levi's Alice in Wonderland was published November 1865

Levi Strauss and his partner Jacob Davis debuted their blue jeans 1873 So it is Alice in Wonderland is older. So I think Chris gets the point. Oh, and Chris needed it. Yeah, pulling it there on the very last

on the last question. Wow. Well, well, done. All right. Okay. Well, good job. Well, thank you for following along. You know, you may find some of these questions

turn up at your local pub quiz. Yeah, apparently. Yeah. They're listening. All right, and that is our show. Thank you guys for joining me. And thank you guys, listeners, for listening in. I hope you learn a lot.

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