Good Job, Brain! - 160: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #32

Episode Date: September 1, 2015

A real grab bag in this week's ALL QUIZ - from fake James Brown to key lime pie; from New Jersey to consoles. Take the heteronym challenge and find the pair of identical words with totally different meaning and sounds. If there's a New Jersey...then where's the original Jersey? Is there an original Zealand? Karen's got regional American food on her mind and it's Chris' turn for a Music Quiz....of Mr. White-And-Nerdy himself, Weird Al Yankovic and a parody challenge. ALSO: weird story behind the invention of safety pins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, session of swigalicious swooner's seven slushy slits on a sultry summer Sunday. So sinfully sweet. This is good job, brain. your weekly question out and off-bue trivia podcast. This is episode 160. And I'm your homo host, Karen. And we are your brainy, breathing, bronosaurus with no bronchitis. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. And I'm Chris. All true. All true. Yeah. So like many other recording days or Sundays, I usually have a race in the morning. So I would run the race and then come to

to record during the races all of the runners get like a race bib that has your number and so they can take photos of you and they can sort the numbers and also has a timing chip yeah tell if you're cheating yeah tell if you're cheating it's really the anti-cheating mechanism you pick up your bib it has four holes and they give you four safety pins and you pin it onto your shirt and that has not changed they haven't like they haven't like done a crazy adhesive all right you know or anything there's and there but there's like chips in there now computerized well not as pins but on It's not on the big, yeah, but you still pin it to yourself. At home, I started kind of like gathering all my bibs together.

Yeah, four safety pins per bib. It's a lot of safety pins. I run maybe 52 races a year times four. Like, I'd have like a pile of safety pins. I was like, man, the racing industry is really keeping the safety pin industry like, hmm, alive. That end the laundromat. Yeah, they're like, we lost the diaper industry. We got to find, yeah.

I think like old comic books with like, you know, cartoons where they have like the baby and they always put the cloth diaper. They put a safety pin. Right. It seems like a really unsafe thing. Well, it was to be safer. To be safer than say. Just a pin without a class.

Safety pin. Really interesting. It was invented mostly to pay off a debt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

He was like hard up for money. Got to invent something. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly what it was. That's exactly what it was. Walter Hunt He owed his friend $15

And one day he's like Okay well I just got it I got to invent something to just make the money You know to pay and this is like You know turn of the century Brilliant And so he took brass wire He coiled it

And then he made like a clasp So that the coil Gives it a bounciness Yeah He sold the patent He got the patent And he sold the patent To the WR Grace and Compt

company for $400. Oh. Roughly about $10,000. Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. Good, yeah. But cutting himself out of any future royalty. So using that, so using that $400 ruse, he paid $15 to his friend.

And then he kept the $385 to himself. Which you should. W.R. Grace and Company is now millions of dollars in the safety pin industry. Wow. Helping runners like me keep. their anti-cheating bids on their bodies. The end.

I like how he's like, oh, I got to make some money. I'm just making him. It's just that easy. It's so turn of the century. Yeah. So I can make it something. Yeah.

Slash, I'm a dentist. Slash I'm a this. Like, they're everything. Right, right, right. Well, you didn't need a lot of schooling for a lot of things back in those days. I just need a good idea. All right.

I thought that was pretty fun. You need a pair of pliers and a dream in your heart. Yeah. Right. You too may be a dentist. And a debt. to really fuel you. Right, to really light the flame under your butt,

which was how a lot of dentistry was done. Yeah, yeah, it was. Do you got to keep it sanitized? Yeah. All right, let's jump into our first general trivia segment. Pop Quiz, hot shot. And I have a random Trivial Pursuit card here from Genus 4. All right.

Yeah. Back to real Trivial Pursuit cards. Oh, man, last week's episode, that was some painful stuff. A little forte. The less fun. said about that the matter. Yeah. Do you guys want to play some unfun

trivia? No, here we're back to we're back to nerd fun. All right. Uh, here we go. Buzzers ready, please. Come. Blue Edge for people and places. What country has the most seats in the European Parliament? Keep in mind, this card is old.

Right. And I think before EU. Oh, okay. I'm not sure. What country has the most seats in the European? Okay. Chris. I don't know. Russia? Incorrect. Germany.

It is Germany. Good job. I assume it's based on population. Don't know. Don't know. Don't know. You can look it up. You have Wikipedia, too.

Pink Wedge for Arts and Entertainment. What Steven Spielberg movie premiere in Vienna was passed up by Kurt Waldheim? Oh. Chris. Schindler's List? Correct. Yellow for history. What office must you hold to,

grace the bottom right side of the dollar bill with your signature. Call it. Is that the secretary of the treasury? Correct. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah. Let's do brown wedge for science and nature. What bean comes in Ethiopian, Kenyan, Puerto Rican, and Sumatran varieties?

Everybody. Coffee bean. Coffee bean. This is before, like, Sumatra was, like, the buzzword of every coffee in Starbucks, too. Greenwich for Sports and Leisure, how many of every 10 viewers watch the Super Bowl from outside the U.S.? Oh, how many of every 10? Outside the U.S. Can you get that many.

Colin. Four. This is dated. Four out of every 10. 40%. No, not in one out of every 10. No. Two.

Nine. What? What? I knew it was high. I didn't know it was that high. Oh, the whole world. Wow. For the halftime show?

I don't know. It's just, it's a spectacle. I guess so, how? Now, wait, say that again. What was it? How many of every 10 viewers watch the Super Bowl from outside the U.S.? Yeah, I guess the halftime show would be so big that like... Of all the people in the world watching it?

Yeah. What percentage are outside? I just didn't figure that many people watched it outside of America, but I think they were like, oh, billions of people watch or something like that. I guess based on the fact of the halftime show, I guess a lot of people would watch it. Yeah. All right. Last question, Wildcard.

what Georgia novelist correctly predicted quote I am going to die in a car crash I feel certain of this Oh yeah It's a lady It's a lady

Yeah Georgia Oh my God It has alliteration In her name Yeah Whoa Oh

Fanny Flag? No. Is that a real person? Yeah. Oh, okay. But it's older than that. Margaret Mitchell. Margaret Mitchell.

I was thinking that I was like alliteration. Is that a person? That sounds like a person. Gone with the wind, right? Oh. Okay. That lady. Yes, that lady.

I wonder when she died because there was very high fatality rate with car crashes? Just because of like the lack of safety? Yeah. And people didn't know how to do it. I mean, like, there were like all sorts of reasons why that was bad. The cars were crappy, all sorts. All right. Good job, Brains.

Today, episode 106, you know what that means. Every fifth episode of Good Job Brain, we don't have a theme or topic. We prepare our own random quizzes for each other and for you guys, listeners, to play along, to quiz along. So today, get ready for All Quiz Bananza, number 32. I will start us off. I have a quiz for you guys called Literally Speaking. And the inspiration for this, Karen, came from a few episodes ago. We were talking about the flagship.

Do you remember this? Yeah, because I was like, that's what the flagship store is named after a ship that has flags. So I have a quiz for you guys. That's all about words that today we almost exclusively used by their metaphorical meaning, some later meaning. And I want you to tell me what is the. literal or by which I mean the original meaning of this word before we started using this word metaphorically. I just saw somebody, I think it was on Twitter.

It might have been a friend of mine or might have just been somebody on Twitter saying like, yeah, my daughter just asked me, why do we say hang up the phone? Yeah. I was like, oh, no. Not press and call. Yeah. Yeah. So this will be a buzzer quiz.

Get your guys buzzers ready. So we'll do a sample question here. So I might say the largest or most important store in a retail chain is often referred to as the flagship store, literally speaking, what is a flagship? Gotcha. And you would say... It's a ship of flags on it. Yeah.

And you know, the lead ship. More specifically, they say it's like the admiral's flag. You know, it would be like whatever ship is in charge of the, right, the fleet. Right. So here we go. Get your buzzers ready. Okay. When you are working on a large or lengthy project, you'll often talk about major steps in the process as milestones.

Literally speaking, what is a. milestone. Karen. It is a stone indicating an actual mile of distance. That's right. On a trip. That's right. That's right. It would be almost always stone off on the side of the road, 30 miles to London or, you know, whatever distance you're traveling to. This is a pretty easy quiz. Well, you know, like a lot of these quizzes, they ramp up in difficulty. Well, listen to Karen. After one question, after one question, she's all in. All right. This is a dumb quiz. This is a pretty easy quiz. All right, Karen. Here we go. Get back to me in four questions, Karen.

All right. You'll often hear the leader of a criminal organization called a kingpin. If you're a Marvel Comics fan, you also know the kingpin. Literally speaking, what is a kingpin? Karen. It is the pin most in front of bowling. Incorrect. That's what you thought, too?

That's what I thought, too. Yeah. You're in the right ballpark, but that is not the correct answer. What the wrong bowling alley Oh, is it Is it the pin that's In the position that's right in the middle So that

Should we get out of the bowling metaphor entirely? I'll just tell you the answer. How about that? Kingpin comes from the game of Kales, K-A-Y-L-E-S, which was a kind of a really early proto-bolling You know, nine-pin, ten-pin kind of game. And in Kales, you would have a row of nine pins

set in a row. The one in the middle would be taller than the rest, and that is the king pin. And the goal of the game is to there are various rules about knocking the pins. So Karen was basically correct. She was about as right as anybody was going to get. You're pretty close.

If we don't have any Kales players here. You're pretty close. Well, I mean, the thing to note, though, the thing to note, though, the thing to note is that in bowling, they're all the same size. It's not just the one in front. It's bigger than the rest. Right. Well, if there was one, that was bigger than the rest. Yes. That would be the king. That would be the kingpin.

Yeah. Queen Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth the second, if you prefer, is nominally the head of state of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. But in reality, she's what we call a figurehead ruler. She has no actual governing power, like the Emperor of Japan as well. Literally speaking, what is a figurehead? Yeah.

Chris. I believe it's the thing on the front of a ship. That might be metaphorical also, but a figurehead on the front of the ship, like the mermaid. that is absolutely correct that's right the bust or a full figure often of a woman or a female mermaid of some type

yeah carved onto the front of a shale left up to the designer yes yes frequently seen in many pirate movies right right yeah whether whether she's topless or not tells you who the audience of that particular entertainment is you're going to talk about the queen

whether she's top of her right she's the figurehead that's between the queen and her people that that's Wow, so progressive. Writers and historians will often talk of watershed moments, watershed moments, meaning a crucial turning point or a major event. Like, this was a watershed moment for the civil rights movement.

Literally speaking, what is a watershed? I've never heard of this word. Chris. Is it a part of a dam that you can, like, lower to let water through the dam? Or like, you know, interesting, interesting. No, that's not, not quite right. No, no. Water shelter?

What is it? Watershed. Watershed. It is, it's related to geography and topology. Something to do with landslides or... A watershed is essentially the line on which all of the water on one side flows in one direction to an ocean basin, and all the water on the other side flows in another direction to another basin.

So if you have a river on one side of the water, watershed and river on the other side of a watershed, they will go in opposite directions. Yes. So the metaphorical meaning of a watershed moment is like, all right, here we are. Everything before us is one way of the world, and everything coming after us is a different way of the world. Yeah. Still pretty easy, Karen. Yeah.

Is it? I still know a river. But it's okay. I'll look it up. Like, I can't picture the... So imagine, so for example, like the continental divide in the United States, right? The continental divide, all the rivers on one side flow into the Pacific. All the rivers on the other side flow into the Atlantic.

If a person or an organization is the last to stand for something, you may hear them described as the bastion. You might say North Korea is the last bastion of communism, or the BBC is the last bastion of proper English. I'm not passing judgment on either of those statements, by the way. Literally speaking, what is a bastion? Chris. It's a feature of a castle or it's a stronghold. I will accept that. Absolutely.

Yeah. A bastion is on a castle or a fortress. It's an outcropping specifically on the outer perimeter. And they're almost always five-sided, you know, one side being against the castle. And the idea is with the angles, you can set up, you know, your archers or whomever to defend any angle of attack. You can attack people scaling the walls, coming at you from over the hill. And so if you're down to your last bastion, you know, it's sort of a hold out there. Yeah. It's a shed for water. It's where you keep your water. Last one. Last one. If we say someone is a stickler for etiquette or a real stickler for the details, we mean that person, we mean that not only do they know a lot about it, but they want to make sure that you know that you're doing it the right way. Literally speaking, what is a stickler? Literally speaking.

I didn't know that was not. The original meaning of the word, what is a stickler? I think of a stick and a tickler Or like that Like someone who poke some words Those weeds This is a very old word There was a verb

To stickle Two stickle The stickler was the one who stickled To bring that back A stickler was In the original sense A referee or an umpire And so you might have

Like a fencing competition Or a boxing match You would want somebody to be You know The impartial judge or the ref be, you know, the moderator. So the stickler would be the person who would decide upon the rules, would decide, like, yeah, you're not abiding by the rules. This is the winner.

And, yeah, the idea of sort of enforcing other people's behavior, like, hyper-correctly enforcing other people's behavior is the one that sort of carried through. Yeah. No one uses. Stickle. Not anymore, right. Like, we call them a referee, like, officially for games instead. It's a very old word, right. But you could.

But they were official. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep, yep. All right. Good job, guys. Cool.

I came across a list of CNN's top 50 American dishes. Okay. Like iconic American dishes, not just America's whole, but regional. Okay. There's like sourdough bread and there's jambalaya and stuff. Okay. And so I have some cool questions about some of these American-y food. All right.

Okay. So it is a write-down quiz. So everybody get your pads and pens ready. And I want to start with something we've talked about a little bit before, but I love the fact that there are so many regional varieties. Clam chowder. Uh-huh. Chowder.

I'm going to list. So clam chowder, we probably know the New England clam chowder the best, which is the white, creamy ones. Yeah. There are many, many regional versions. I'm going to read them out. And please write down what you think, What are the ingredients that

What is the thing that gotcha That makes a different ingredient or style or whatever Of those different ones Okay So we know New England clam chowder Manhattan clam chowder Rhode Island Chowder

New Jersey Clam Chowder Whoa Delaware clam chowder. And one last one, Minorkan Clam Chowder. Like Minorka?

Minorkan. Okay. Minorkan style. Okay. But it's U.S. These are all U.S. foods. M-I-N-O-R-C-A-N. Huh.

I don't know if that is. Okay. Delaware. I'm still all stuck on Delaware. So we know New England. What is Manhattan clam chowder? Rhode Island clam chowder. New Jersey clam chlam chowder.

Delaware clam chowder and Minorkan clam chowder All right All right I think we're all going to get like at least one So Manhattan clam chowder Everybody is correct

It is red It's made of tomato It's not a creamy base And Rhode Island clam chowder Chris is correct Rhode Island is clear I said mushrooms Oh it's in mushrooms

and you said... Clear. Dana has not spent time in the East Coast. No. Yeah. So, clear your clam chowder. New Jersey uses bacon.

Oh. Oh. Snookie. I put Snookie for New Jersey. I couldn't think of it. You put spray tan. I put it with sausage. Oh.

Half point? Half point, maybe. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Like, same book. Different pages. Yeah.

Yeah. Spray tan. Ew. Uh, Delaware, what makes Delaware clam chowder is, uh, salted pork cubes and quah hogs, quahog, quahog, clams. Yeah. And you, yeah, bacon. I put bacon. Yeah.

Tax benefits. This has become like, uh, a statement. I put cheese, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I had already used that. All right. So, Menorgan is a weird one.

Menorgan is. Dana put rocks. Island style Spicy or chili style And then you put Chris said onion So Minorkin is yes Based on Minorka

Spain Span It's said that only two places Eat Minorkan clam chowder And that is Spain And Florida Huh Because of the Spanish

Yeah Spanish influence Specifically St. Augustine The city of St. Augustine And what makes Minorkan special is Spanish datil pepper. So it is spicy. Spicey, spicy. Wow. Connolly is pretty good.

Yeah. Lots of clam chatters. You never had New Jersey clam chatter, apparently. Sprint chattel. Spray down. I've had clam chatter with bacon a lot, but it was never ID for me as being. So it seems like that area. So like New Jersey has bacon, Delaware has, you know, their own, Delaware has salted pork,

but also a specific type of clam. So it seems like that region just like putting. products in their soup. All right. Well, let's take a trip to the West Coast California roll. Okay. We California roll at times, named after California.

Was it invented by the Japanese or the American? Not sushi, the California roll. The California roll. Which is... So just for clarification, rice. A Japanese person living in America, would you count that as... That would be Japanese or American.

and present living in Japan would be premiered. For those who are not familiar, California roll is a sushi roll that is rice on the outside and that has imitation, crab meat, avocado. This is hard because I feel like I knew the answer and then I was like, but maybe that was wrong. Okay. Inception of myself. Chris puts Japanese, Dana says American, Colin says Japanese. This is a true question.

It is invented in America by a Japanese chef in L.A. That's what I thought. That was your rules. So Japanese. Right, okay. Japanese chef in Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s. Oh, that early. Very early post-war.

And the thing is, why the substitution or these ingredients. One thing is because Americans might have an aversion with nori, which is the seaweed. Kind of weird that it's like... Also, the imitation crab meat is cooked. It's cooked already. it's not raw fish. Also, prevalence of avocados. It's a very California.

And also, it's also to give it that rich, like the fatty tuna taste without the raw fish. And also the rice on the outside because we're more. I never thought about that. Yeah, put the scary, the scary seaweed on the inside. Yeah, exactly. California role actually invented in California, but by a Japanese person, not entirely a Japanese person who lives in America. Four Americans. That's true.

Potato chips. Potato chips. Potato chips were invented in what state? Oh, this comes up all the time. It is an American invention. It might have been inspired by other things that exist, the fried things, but this dish in particular, what state? I don't like we've talks about this. All right.

Dana says New York. Chris says New York. Colin says New York. 99% I like how you put your comment. 99%. Yeah. Potato chips invented at the Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs, New York.

In 1853 by chef George Crumb. And the legend is... Yeah. Out of spite. Yes, it was made out of spite. So in the olden days, French fries were actually not like a fast food. It was kind of like a fancy food. You know, it's fried and duck fat or whatever.

You eat it off a plate with knife and fork. And this one customer said You know what? My fries are a little bit cut too thick So send it back to the kitchen And so they remade it with thinner fries And then he sent it back again and was like This is still too thick

And so George Crom the chef was like Okay, well you want a thin chips Took potato slices so thin That you can't even like use a fork to pick it up Because it's so thin and it's fried crispy And it turns out was a hit And this was a hit And this was

Some of the greatest inventions come from Like twice between who can be the bigger A-hole Like I'm going to send back my potatoes twice And the chef's like We're caught on And Mr. Herman Lay, a traveling salesman, started selling these Out of a plastic bag

Eventually, of course. Lay's Corporation Then joined with Frito becoming Frito Lay. All right. Key lime pie Yep. Yummy. Me lime pie.

What color is traditional key lime pie? Famous from the Key West, the Floridian area. Key lime pie. What color should key lime pie be? Everybody's correct. Everyone put yellow. Yes, it is not green. It is not lime green or mint green or super green.

You're not supposed to put food coloring in it. And the juice of the key lime. and the rind will have like a creamy, like, yellowish green tinge, but should not look fake. Keeline pie, so the invention of keeline pie is, it's not like, oh, condensed milk is a substitution for fresh cream. No, like key lime pie was made with condensed milk. And this is the reason why in that area, in Florida Keys,

there are a lot of sailors. The heat and the sun and the weather, dairy, fresh dairy is very hard to keep. And so when condensed milk was, invented it was almost almost a couple years after invented it was super popular in areas where where food might be scarce or extreme weather or sailors on a ship and the the science of key lime pie is you don't cook key lime pie you don't bake it just it sets so how weird is you have like goopy condensed milk and you have key lime juice and all of a sudden you have like this kind of like creamy custard it's because of a chemical reaction of the acid in the key lime it's the same

reaction is like this way like lemon lemon cream will curdle in your tea yeah yeah it's there is the acid will cook the enzyme quote cook and that's how it thickens naturally but current key lime is mostly made from tahitian lime or persian lime not real key limes key limes are actually pretty hard to find um thanks so i'm so hungry now yeah and there you go some a little tour of American American eats and trivia behind it. Delaware-style key lime pie

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All aboard! Well, I'm ready to go. I can give you guys a quiz right now. Oh, okay. I thought you were ready to go have some pie. I have a fun twist on the music quiz for you, and that is that we often ask, we play a clip of music, and we ask for the name of the artist. In this case, I'm going to tell you who the artist is performing every one of these songs. He is, I'm sure, a favorite of all of us here. Good job, Brain. Maybe a lot of you guys, one of the greatest musicians the world has ever known, Mr. Weird Al-Yankevick.

Weird Al-Yankovic, known as the absolute master of the parody song of taking someone else's song and rewriting the lyrics and performing it himself quite a musician. Quite well. His live shows are, they're like three hours long, and he changes his costume for every song. So when he performs fact, his parody of Michael Jackson's bad, he gets dressed up in the full-on fat suit with makeup for that performance. It is coming out of a Weird Al show, it is like, I cannot believe how hard this guy works. That's awesome.

Yes, it is a two-part music quiz, and you're actually going to be writing down your answers. Because this is what I want from you guys. I'm going to ask you, who was the original artist that performed the song that Weird Al Yankovic is parodying. And then also the title of the Weird Al version of the song, which should be determinable from the title of the original and the subject matter of Weird Al's version. So it's two points. So I will give you the Weird Al song.

We will listen to it and you will try to determine A, the artist that performed the original. and be the title of Weird Al's Parity Version. Each one of them will be some kind of playful spin on the title of the original song. They are guessable. So here is clip number one. I recall the time they found those fossilized mosquitoes, and before long they were cloning DNA. Now I'm being chased by some irate

Philosoeraptors Original artist Yes, certain enough, it's a little bit of a tricky one, it's a little bit of a tricky one He is best known to our nation's children The original artist of the original version of this song Best known to our nation's children as an actor As an actor Who may have appeared in one or two of their favorite movies

of the 21st century That is your only hint If that jogs your memory Then you knew it somewhere It was somewhere in your punch bowl If it doesn't Then it wasn't in your punch bowl And you get no points

I am going to have to call this at some point Okay yeah I mean I know the song I don't know that I can of the artist Yeah So Karen says Jurassic Park Collins says Jurassic Park Dana says Ringo Star

So the song is Jurassic Park It's a parody of the song MacArthur Park The first person to record MacArthur Park was Richard Harris who later in life would play Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies. He was the first person to record it

well-known Donna Summers' disco version but she was not the original artist. It was Richard Harris? Yeah, first recorded Jurassic Park. He's a singer? Yeah. Wow. A renaissance man.

Yes. Clip number two. One that won't try to bite. One that won't you a hole in my socks. One that won't quack all night Again, should be guessable from the context of the lyrics One that won't you a hole in my socks One that won't quack all night

Again, should be guessable from the original version And the context of the lyrics Colin has his answer up Dana has her answers up Karen says Huey Lewis and what the power of dove Dove Colin similarly says

Huey Lewis in the news and I want a new duck And Dana says Huey Lewis in the news And duck I was like I don't know I would have to So the person who is the rightest Is Colin

That is in the so you're all corrected Is Huey Lewis in the news And the song title is I want a new duck That's it? Yeah Well the song was I want a new news

drug by Huey Lewis in the news and I want a duck and he sings about how he wants a different one that won't quack all night indeed again these are the good ones folks clip number three potato skins potato cakes hash browns and instant flakes baked or baked or boiled or french for ride there's no kind You haven't tried You've been Colin, I'm pretty sure Has it

Karen says Question mark, question mark Dana says Blank and Slave to Potato Really circling it Colin is correct It is Robert Palmer Who originally did the song

Addicted to Love We're now Yankeviksberg And it's called Addicted to Spuds Okay It's hard to tell for me What the original song was I'm sure if you play it

longer than I was like, oh, it's also 80s. Clip number... Very 80s. I was last two, yeah. Clip number four. This is very 90s. This next song is very 90s.

Go to the store. Carry somebody that helps you find more. The tab is there to open the fan. The can is there. The old is... I'll do it one more time.

You can listen to the lyrics. Karen has it. Colin thinks he has it. One more time, we're going to listen. Go to the store Carry somebody That helps you find more The tab is there

To open the can The can is there To hold it Oh Dana says REM and Colin says REM and Spam Karen says REM and KANN

Yes it is the REM song Stand And then the parody version is spam. The tab is there to open the can. Yeah. Here is another one. We had this back in the day and listened to this probably more than the original. But do you recall the original?

And importantly, do you recall the artist who did this? This is one hit wonder. You see, I just got to have a toastata, carneasada. That's right I want the whole enchilada. My only addiction has to do with a flower, port. Portia. I need a cage, a deal. I love to stop my face. Wow. Man. Firing neurons in my brain that have not been tickled in many years there. Oh, man. So, yes, Dana says Gerardo Taco Suave. Collin says Gerardo Taco Grande.

Karen says Rico Suave Taco Grande. Giving people as many points as possible. Yes, the title of the Weird Al version is Taco Grande. based on the song Rico Suave by Gerardo. So I think everybody got at least a point there. Just two more in this quiz. Just two more. All right. Run, wrong. Hurt's me to walk anywhere.

Went to see my position. Dr. Jones. He took my trousers off, told me to cough. Dr. says there ain't nothing to discuss. He'd tell me anything I might have to wear a truss Woo! Oh, man.

Oh, I don't even know this song. A lot of specific language in there relating to a medical ailment. Karen says, question mark, question mark. Colin says cool in the gang, nothing. Dana says James Brown, nothing. The song is James Brown's living in America. Weird out Yankevick's version.

The doctor took my trousers off and told me to cough, and I might have to wear a truss because he's living. with a hernia. Living with a hernia. I remember that now, yeah. I'm thinking like prostate. And then I was like, what is that to do with disc?

Like the disc of a back? Right, right, right. I'm realizing now that the only part of the James Brown song that I can really say is the Living in America is like, you obviously can't play that. Yeah. All right. I was like, sounds like somebody imitating James Brown. That's what that was like.

All right. Final audio clip. This is your moment for a comeback, yes. Okay. Here we go. This is the hardest one. Sorry. This song is a duet. Two artists originally performed the original song. It is simply Weird Al Yankovic on the recording, however. So you're going to write down two artist names. One point each. All right. One point each. Real moment for some comebacks here. I don't know who's in the lead or whatever, but yeah, okay.

Think Colin. Here we go. Okay, we'll say it's Colin. All right. Two artists and one Weird Al parody song name. Here we go. My car was gone, well, I didn't know it was a lodging song. What a bummer I was so brought down.

Who's he imitating? I'm trying to think, like, ah, man. He's not imitating artists. I'll just guess. Well, it's hard. Okay, well, not looking so good. Dana says, Cindy Lopper and Rick Springfield.

You know, I'm glad that you're guessing, you know, because maybe you got one of them, but you didn't. Colin Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson. Yeah, not so much. And Karen says, question mark. Question mark, the song itself was Stop Dragging My Heart Around, which was originally performed by Tom Petty and Stevie Nix. It was a big duet hit for the two of them.

Weirdo Yankebix's parody version, of course, is Stop Dragon, my car around. He's yelling it to a tow truck. And he's got to go all over to that. These are 80-centric, weirdo. No, no chameleonair, no. All right. That was good. That was good.

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subscribe to Inc. Productivity Tip of the Day, wherever you get your podcasts. That's Inc. Productivity Tip of the Day, wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah. All right. This is going to be easier for everybody. I'll take it down on a notch. So the other day, I was polishing my nails, and I noticed that the word polish and Polish, like, I've thought this before. But they're spelled the same way. But they are pronounced totally differently.

True. Yeah. Nail Polish, not nail polish, not nail polish. Or polished sausages. Yeah, polished sausages. Totally. That's called a heteronym. Yeah.

And so it's words that are written identically but have a different pronunciation and meeting. So this is a quiz about heteronym. Oh. Hittronym. Bring me the police remover of Nail. Yeah. Nile. I'll give you two definitions.

definitions, two definitions, and then you give me the word, the word, the word, right, the spelling. The spelling. It's a word game. So you guys buzz in when you have the answer. So this will be a bit of a speed round, because I think you're going to get it pretty quickly. All right. All right. First question. A knot tied with two loops and two loose ends or to bend the head or the upper part of the body. Bow and bow. Yeah. Well, should we at least wait for the answer in the question? Oh, okay. All right. To plant a seed or a female pig, Karen. So and sow. Yes. That was, she hadn't said pig yet. Yeah, I know. To be in charge or command of or the chemical element of the atomic number 82.

Colin. Lead and lead. Oh. To abandon or a dry barren area of land. To abandon or a dry barren area. Oh. Oh, Desert and dessert.

Oh. Nice. Yep. Not legally recognized or a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury. Colin. Invalid and invalid. Oh, nice. Oh, I was thinking void.

I was like, vote eat. To move emotionally or to pretend to have or feel something. To move emotionally or to pretend to have or feel something. Mm-hmm. Karen. Effect? Yes. Effect and affect.

Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Not effect. Yes. Affect and effect. Yeah. Oh, nice. Low in pitch or a fish.

Karen. Bass and base. Yes. A farm machine that harvest and threshes or to bring two or more things together. Combine and Combine. Yes. Oh. To strike or a sideboard meal.

Say that again? To strike or a sideboard meal. A sideboard meal? Yeah. A meal on a sideboard. Meal on a sideboard. Mm-hmm. If you had meal laid out on the sideboard, something like that.

Buffet and buffet. Oh, wow. Yes. Wow. To provide comfort from grief or. Or a control unit. Console and console. Yes.

A bird or to have plunged deeply downward. Clunched deeply downward. Karen. No, I'm wrong. Colin. Dove and dove. Yes. Last one.

A small motorcycle or to have been dejected and apathetic. Colin. Moped and moped. Oh, no. Mooped. Good job. I learned something today. How's a good quiz.

That's fun. That's good. That's good. Moped. I never, I guess when you're reading it, maybe, but when you're saying it, you're like, in Firefox, you just. It's sort of related to, like, to this day, I always read it as mizzled, when I see misled, M-I-S-L-E-D. I'm like, he mizzled him. He missled him.

Oh, misled. That's right. I know this word. Yeah. Yeah, somebody, it was Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the head, the Democrat Party, you know, like, yeah, the chairperson, said that on TV at some point. She was like, we don't want to be misled by these people. No. That's what happens when you read a word your whole life.

Oh, that's true. Yeah, misled. And we got one last quizy quiz. I will close us out with a quiz called, where's the original? This is a, where'd you put it? This is going to be a quiz about place names. We have a lot of cities, countries, states, places in the world with new in front of them. This is a question for you about where's the original?

Where's the old? So if I were to say, I know you know the city of New York, but where is original York? And I would accept, yeah, I'll accept that. Oh, really? Yeah. Because it's right. Well, you know, I mean, be more specific if you can. Mainly I'll accept it because it's right.

You don't want us to say planet Earth for every one. The solar system. The northern hemisphere. I narrowed it down for you. All right, here we go. Buzz in when you're ready. No trick questions, right? Okay.

There wasn't a... I know you know the city of New Orleans, but where is original Orleans? That was it all together? France. It is France. Yes, that's right. Orleans, right. And it's sort of indirect.

It's named after the Duke of Orleans. who takes his name from, yeah, from the region in France. I know you know the country, New Zealand. But where is original Zealand? It's in Belgium. It is not Belgium. So, wait, that is. Think about who were some of the early, yeah, Karen.

Netherlands? No. Yes. Yeah, yes. I'm a genius. Yeah, that's totally right. Yeah. Yeah.

So Abel Tasman, you know, after whom Tasmania was named. He was Dutch. He was sort of the first European to cite New Zealand. He gave it a name originally that was later changed to New Zealand after the Dutch province of Zealand. So this is our New Zealand. I know you know the Canadian province of New Brunswick. but where is original Brunswick

New Jersey I know there's a New Brunswick and New Brunswick This one is This one's not a trick But it's a little tricky Chris It is Germany

It is Germany Yeah Brunswick Brunswick I'll give you You're right for the wrong reason Okay great I'll take it

It's named after Braunschweig Which you may have heard of The city of Brunswick Brownschweig, which was anglicized into Brunswick. Yeah. I always thought it was, it sounds so English. Yeah, I was in guessing one.

Yeah, so it was originally in Lower Saxony. It's modern-day German. It's rightness for the right. I like your, I know you know. No, it sounds German. It sounds vaguely German. Yeah. Yeah.

And Hilda. You got it. You got it. In Hilda. Thank you. Thank you. All right, quick quiz. Last question.

Here we go. Whoa. Oh, no. Well, you know, so I started. These are England. I know you know New Mexico, but where's original Mexico? That could have been your sample. Is it Mexico?

Well, what about Jersey? Oh, sorry. Sorry, sorry. Two more. Two more. I know you know the state of New Hampshire. Yes. Where is original Hampshire?

Chris? England. It is England. Yeah. Hampshire County. Shire. I don't want us to. Hampshire.

Hampshire. Yes. All right. And last one. Quick quiz. Here we go. Last one. I know you know the state of New Jersey. Oh. Here we go. But where is original Jersey? Wow. It's like, it must have changed its name. England. Poland? Not Poland.

This is a, again, not a trick, but tricky. Amsterdam. Jersey. Netherlands. France. Like Jay is a weird Wait, has no one said it yet? No one said it yet.

No one said it yet. No, I know, I'm just... Jersey. France. I think when I say you'll remember. Chris, I can guess. Egypt. No.

It is the colony, the New Jersey colony was named after the Isle of Jersey, which is in the Channel Islands and is an independent region. It is a bailiwick of Jersey It's one of my favorite terms The Baileywick It's it's connected historically with the UK Like they're sort of on the hook to defend Jersey You know militarily But they are they are autonomous

They rule themselves Yes The Isle of Jersey In the Channel Islands Off the coast of Normandy, France Yeah Oh, it's the English Channel I had always assumed it was

Just, again, like everything else in New England, somewhere in England proper. But no. In New England, no. Jersey's, they call it a crown dependency. So, like, Isle of Man is a Isle of Man. Guernsey, also a crown dependency. So it's sort of in this weird quasi. Those are different.

Those are more closely tied to the UK. Are they in the, do they count as being in the UK? No. They've worded this so specifically. Yes. It is a possession of the crown. in Wright of Jersey. What?

Wow. It is a crown dependency, but they have their own identity on the world stage. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, about New Finland. Foundland. So a lot of the...

Isn't that like literally like, we just found this? Yes. Oh. Yeah. Newfoundland. Oh, my God. Newfoundland. No found land.

That was newly found. That's so cool. I mean, I made that up with, I'm guessing that's true. House town. Right, you're right, right. Yeah, and that's just, I mean, maybe related to that, looking at a lot of the eastern cities, like New Haven, there's no old haven. It was just like New Haven, where they were founding, right, right, right.

Newark, New Jersey, there was no old Ark. It was just, this is our New Ark, like Ark of the Covenant. Wow. Wow. I like how it's one word. Yeah. Newark. Yeah.

I guess New Ark is a lot harder to say than Newark. Yeah. Wow. That's so cool. All right. Well done. Well done. Oh, my God.

Newfoundland. Newfoundland. Newfoundland. But you're supposed to pronounce it, Newfoundland, right? Yeah. Not Newfoundland. Right. Yeah.

Wow. And new. Okay. All right. And that's our all quiz number 32. Thank you guys for joining me. Thank you guys listeners for listening in. Hope you had a lot of fun.

Hope you're going to be like me and I'm going to look up a bunch of new, new cities and new places now. I'm sure there's a whole list. Oh, well. I'm just going to go in and all of them. There are maybe fewer hard ones than you think. A lot of them are just, they're obvious. England. Yeah, but still, it's to see, like, how many of, you know, how many there are. Yeah, yeah.

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