Good Job, Brain! - 180: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #36

Episode Date: April 13, 2016

Oh ho ho! A real grab bag of quizzes this week: from the germiest places in your house to foreign currency. Find the interloper word in Chris' misused vocabulary quiz, and find out if you're like an animal. And let's play "30 Seconds to Glory!" Also, we went to the zoo and so of course, we're reporting back some real weird animal facts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So, yeah, you ran a couple of races today, Karen. And then you were off to the zoo. To the zoo. For a birthday celebration. We got a personal walking tour of the San Francisco Zoo. That we're old nerds. We're paying someone to tell us trivia. Right, right.

We've exhausted the little cards they set out in front of the animals. Now we should pick your brain about this kind of stuff. So we got to have a personal encounter with a blue-tonged skink from Australia. And what type of animal is that? It looks, it's a lizard. So basically it looks like a snake with little feet on it. Okay. Yeah.

In case I haven't seen a lizard. Is it like a lizard or does it look like a snake or the feet? Snake the feet Because I feel like It's plausible. I don't know. It's like a It's like a like a fat salamid.

Yeah, big fat salamander. With a blue tongue and we found out it has a blue tongue because things that have bright colors like bright blue colors are usually poisonous. Right. So it sticks the blue tongue out all the time and that tells predators like, hey, I'm put, even though it's not poisonous. Right. He's like, hey, I'm made of poison.

And they're like, whoa, back off. we ended the day getting to feed giraffes. Like up close and personal. And basically, like, they're behind a fence, but they just dip their heads over and you just hold up the romaine lettuce and they just eat it. Yeah, I'm sure they're like, yeah, we know how this goes.

Just hold it to lettuce, buddy. Little light vinaigrette. Yeah, they also have blue black tongues. And they have prehensile tongues. And so they rep, they prehensile, they wrap their tongue around the lettuce thing. Pull it right up from the little tongue. Oddly sensual.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's a mess. Like they have one finger. And they drool on you, too, like, because they're eating. And it's like, they just saliva's like on my face. And it's just like, oh, man. Like, I did not expect this from this zoo tour that like I was literally just going to get a giraffe like all up in my face.

It was awesome. It was so cool. But we also, we did bring back some trivia for you because they started telling us we saw some koalas, which are great. Coalas are marsupials, which means they have their little, the baby, right? Like the kangaroo has the Joey. Yep. Just very same thing with the koala is that they're born after a couple of weeks, like, you know, days, they're born.

And then they crawl up mom's belly. When they're a little teeny tiny about the size of a penny, they crawl up into the pouch. So inside the pouch of the mom koala, like there's a nipple in there. And that's where they get their sustenance and they drink off of mom. It's like a hidden nipple. While they're in the pouch, and they spend most of their time, you know, they spend like months like inside that pouch. They're born when they come out of the pouch, they want to get more food, they stick their head back in the hole and drink from the same, the spout in there. And then she was like, oh, yeah, if the mom has a Joey that's in there, a little tiny, or was Joey, it was Joey, yeah, a little tiny guy in there.

And also then another older baby, mom is like producing two different kinds. of milk, depending on which baby it is. Yeah, one out of the pouch baby, milk formulation for that, and the milk is unrelated for the pouch baby. So the koala is the Coca-Cola freestyle. It's like the little wonder bar thing they have at the restaurants where it can shoot out Sprite or Coke. Yeah, yeah, from Coca-Cola freestyle.

Yeah. Right. And so then in addition, we found out something really great. Then it got good. And she was like, this gets a little bit gross. Are you okay? We're like, yes, please bring it on. Karen, do you want to do the honors here?

This is your birthday. So she asked us the question like, oh, you know, like kind of like tour questions. Like, do you guys know what koala is you? We're like, oh, eucalyptus. They love eucalyptus. And it's like, it turns out koalas love eucalyptus. And eucalyptus is toxic to most animals. But like they have special enzymes.

Okay. So that they can eat eucalyptus. And they love it. But the babies are not born. with said enzymes in their GI system. And so if the baby coales want to eat eucalyptus... Which they have to. Which they have to.

They can't process it. So in order to process it, the babies will eat the poop from mom to get the enzymes living in their GI system. And then they can process the eucalyptus. And we're like, oh, my... Why has no one told us about this? So again, just the beginning of a koala's life. I mean, first, you know, it's like born in the size of a penny, you know, have to crawl yourself. Right, to get to the safe zone.

Right. To get to the goal area. And then afterwards, once you come out of there, you have to eat your mom's poop. If you want any chance of surviving in the wild to get the enzymes you need to break down the toxic eucalyptus. The mom's poop does actually change after. after she's had a baby a little bit. So, I mean, the stuff that they eat is slightly... She has two different kinds of poop.

Depend depending on. Two different kinds of poop. Yeah, I mean, let's be really clear. They're still eating poop. But they call it pap. Pap is the scientific term. Not poop, but pap. But poop.

Because poop was a little too on the nose for them to be talking about in their research labs, I guess. I don't know. PAP. That's what it's called. The Ethermom's PAP. So that is the Eucalyptus enzyme-nutrative form of poop is PAP. Right.

But it's always in there. Right. Right, right, right, from a koala. Not if I do it. Not if I, just to be clear. If I do it, it's still poop. Yep. Yep, so that is the beginnings of the life of the koala.

Day's not over yet. Yeah, all right. Because we got an episode of Good Job Brain to record. And let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. Here, I have a couple random Trivial Pursuit cards. You guys have your barnyard buzzers. I have three options. Okay, okay.

You guys want to choose? All right. I got entertainment singles. Okay. I got Pop Culture 2. And I have Trivial Pursue, 1995. I want to know what Entertainment Singles is. What is entertainment singles?

They're just like entertainment. Oh, okay. Pop culture, 1995. Yeah, I agree. 95, sure. Okay, 1995? Yeah, we were all alive. Make it so.

All right. Here we go. For Pink Wedge, what U.S. government outfit lost $84 million in three years trying to hawk retail items like T-shirts, mugs, and stickers. Oh, Colin. I'm going to guess the United States Postal Service? Correct.

Oh, right. That's sad. I don't know what... Why did they do that? They're trying to raise money probably. Try to create another revenue stream. All right, next question. What was the first Windows edition named for a year?

instead of a version number. Everybody. Windows 95. Correct. Wow. That was just so relevant to them making Trivial Pursuit in 1995. Yeah.

They're like, we got it, guys. It does seem a little more obvious in retrospect. Yeah. It's the 1995 year Trivial Pursuit. Those old commercials were great. That was with Start Me Up, right, where the Rolling Stones, I believe they used

for that big campaign. All right. Next question. Trivial Pursuit 19. 95. What did Seinfeld's Frank Costanza want to call the bra for men that is co-inventor Kramer dubbed the bro? All right. Colin and Chris. The Manzir.

Correct. Next question. What pop rock pianist sold 200,000 copies of his live at Red Rock CD on? On QVC. Uh-oh. Dana. Uh, John Tesh? It is John Tesh.

He was on Entertainment Tonight. Yeah, that's what I know him for. Yeah. All right, next question. What radio personality was sued by the family of former show regular Deborah Tay, or Deborah Tay, after he sifted through her ashes on the air? What? I mean.

I mean, is it Howard Stern? It's got to be. Howard's That's gross Yeah Last question Who appeared semi-nude

With Michael Jackson In the video You are not alone Oh Lisa Marie Presley Correct His wife

At the time At the time Indeed That was a weird video That was an awkward That was a weird time I need to see it

You know what I actually like this card I'm gonna do another card Okay This is from This is from entertainment single. Oh, entertainment singles.

I actually like these questions. Here we go. All right. All right. Let's do a second round. It's an all-quiz episode. Let's load it up. Well, Colin, don't...

Oh, sorry. We have... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ready for round two. Blue Wedge for TV. What TV show shares the adventures of a young Superman? Oh. That was Chris.

That is Smallville. Correct. Not Young Superman. Which would have a much better title. Adventures of Young Superman. Yeah, right. Yes. All right.

Wedge for music, who was the first country singer to win American Idol? Oh, uh, Colin. Oh, wasn't that, uh, Kelly Clarkson? No. Incorrect. She was the first winner of American Idol. Yeah. But she's not really a country singer.

Oh, no, I'm thinking of, sorry. No, Chris has a, of course. Yeah, American Idol expert. Carrie Underwood. That's who I was picturing. She's the, yeah. Uh, yellow wedge for Mo, movies. Mo.

Which actress played the seductress Mrs. Robinson in the movie The Graduate? Dana. Ann Bancroft. Correct. A wife of Millbrooks. Yes. Oh, yeah.

Purple Wedge for GA. Games game. Okay. That's part of the puzzle. How long is a regulation soccer half? A regulation. Chris? 50 feet.

No. No. Time. Sports, I don't know. Regulation 45 minutes. Correct, 45 minutes. It's 90 minutes long. Yes, regulation, yes, plus injury time and, yeah.

Green Wedge for books. What former forensic scientist is known for her gritty mysteries? Oh. I didn't know this person was a forensic scientist. Gritty mysteries. And a woman. Collin. Oh.

Is that Sue Grafton? Incorrect. Not Sue Grafton. Gritty Mysteries. Oh, I mean, well, is it Agatha Christie? No. She didn't know with a woman. So it must be an initial person, right?

No, no, no. It's a woman. Yeah, because it says her. Okay. Who else writes mysteries? Patricia, yes, am I? What's the last name? Wow, good job.

Cornwell, Cromwell, Cromwell. Cornwell. Trisha Cornwell. Good job. Wow. Hey, all right. I have to give a shout-out and thanks to my mother, one of the world's biggest mystery and crime novel.

All right. Last question. Wildcard. Where is Bugfest a national day devoted to celebrating insects held? What city in the United States? Spider Town,

Wisconsin. Spider Town. It is also a capital, state capital. Okay. Not the state capitals. It narrows it down.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Can I ask a follow question? What state is it the capital up? Yeah.

That's my follow. North Carolina. Oh. Oh. Is that Charlotte, North Carolina? No.

North Carolina. What is the capital? North Carolina is. So many North Carolina. Raleigh? Is it Raleigh? Is it Raleigh? It's Raleigh.

Oh, Raleigh, Raleigh. I apologize. When you said Raleigh, I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot how to spell it. I'm sorry, good residents of Raleigh. Yeah. And Charlotte, maybe, maybe, yeah, maybe I accidentally know. That question was a two and one. Now you also know the geography.

Apparently, that's where Bugfest is. I want to go to Bugfast. That's awesome. Are they the Hornets? Who's the Hornets? Yes, the Hornets are the Charlotte professional basket ball team. Indeed. That plays in Charlotte North Carolina.

Okay. Yes. Also owned by Michael Jordan, a basket ball player of some node. All right. Good job, Brains. Today is episode number 180. We're on the road to 200. Depending.

I hope it's, I lost my laptop, and we have one lost episode. Yeah, right, right, right. Yeah. We're going to skip that one. It's episode 180, but you may not have heard all of the episodes leading up to one. Karen lost her laptop and lost a couple. of files so we'll see if this actually is thing works out yeah this is gonna be 180 right okay if there are episodes before that we don't know that's right the famous lost episode yeah the famous long

lost episodes so every fifth episode uh we don't have a topic we prepared our own random quizzes and puzzles to to stump each other and stump you guys listeners so today is our all quiz bonanza number 36. So all quiz Bonanza number 36. Who wants to go first? I don't so much want to go first as have a pile of our very favorite good job brain candy in front of me, which is to say the Laffy Taffy in an assortment of flavors, but that's not important right now.

No, no, that's not why we like Laffy Taffy. You may or may not know, I think our American listeners may know, and some of our listeners from the foreign lands may not know about the joy of Laffy Taffies is that the joy slash pain of Laffy Taffies is that they print on the back of these things jokes that are sometimes simply sent in by children, sometimes they are made up by children, but they're riddles. They're supposed to be riddles. They're not jokes so much as they're supposed to be riddles. Yeah, of the, why did the chicken cross the road to get to the other side kind? But sometimes they're like puns. Yeah, I mean, sometimes they're totally getable, and sometimes they're just like, you're never going to figure this out

because there is no, the logic is impossible to discern. So I have a random selection of Laffy Taffy. So there's two jokes on each, so the joke selection will not be random. We have developed our own game around Laffy Taffy, which is not, oh, let's share the jokes, is we try to guess. Indeed, indeed. We're the kill joy adults. So here we are like this, like a little kid's like, I have a joke for you.

And it's like, I know the answer. I've heard it. You laughed out of your hands. Okay. Like when people say, oh, guess what? And you're like, oh, and then you guess what? Right. You just deflate them.

People hate when you do that, by the way. Yeah. So here's a segment. So here's a segment of us. Really being annoying. Here's Laffy Taffy. All right. Okay, here's one.

I think you guys might be able to guess. So here is a pun. Taylor B. of Charleston, South Carolina, writes, What do ghosts like on their roast beef? Their roast, oh. What do ghosts like on their roast beef? All right. So I'm going to guess it's not like, oh, ju. It's not, yeah. Boo. Boo something, right? Uh-huh, sure. Yeah, maybe. Boolean it. Oh, and also, if you can come up with a better answer than what is on this Laffy Taffee, you do get bonus points. Scary something.

Oh, boo? No, boo. O boo? I think that O'Boo is probably better than what's on here. That's true. There's no way a kid would come up with that. It's not O'Boo, but I would love O'Boo. Is it a boo?

It is a thing you usually put on roast beef. That's it. Grave E. Like Grave E. Oh, Grave E. No, no. Grave. Oh, sorry.

Grave. Oh, I get it. Grave E. Okay. Okay. Yeah, right. Yes, Grave E. Grave E.

We beat you, kids. Oh, boo. Oh, boo. All right. Here's one that I think you may not get. Tracy M. from West Palm Beach, Florida, writes, why couldn't the skeleton add one plus one? Why couldn't the skeleton add one plus one?

He was dead. So, well, something bone. Yeah, or no, no skin or... Because he has no brain. Because he doesn't have a brain. because skeletons don't have brains and therefore can't do math. That is correct, Tracy. That's less of a joke than it is a statement of fact.

Here is another pun that maybe you guys can get. Lindsay S. from DeSoto, Missouri says, what does a pig put on his cut? Oinkment. Oinkment. Yep, because he at the same time gets oinkment. We finished up the banana laffy taffies and moving right into the strawberry. As if the jokes are teared by flavor.

Kristen Kay from Eureka Nevada asks, why was the broom late? It overswept. It overswept. Good night, everybody. Sticks it. That was good. Oh, from right here in Alameda, Cat. Oh, that is right here.

Amber T. Amber T. from Alameda, California, asks, what is Labor Day? When you're born? When your mom has labor? Labor Day. Indeed, yes. The question is, what is Labor Day? And the answer is, that's when mommies have their babies. Yeah.

Again, I told you some of these. Like, it's a pun, but it doesn't make sense. I would love to be the editor in. charge of this, which I think is just one of those little birds that tips over. It says yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And finally,

this one is a classical, classical riddle of the riddle style, and it's a good riddle. Emily B. of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Look how we're calling out these well, again, their last names are truncated for their privacy.

For their privacy. Call you E. Brown. Oh, sorry, Emily B. That's not true. Here we go. What has two banks but no money? A river. A river.

A river. Wow, Colin, really nailing these. I've heard it before. Yeah, yeah. Oh, actually, this one is actually kind of clever, too, off the same package of grape, Laffy Taffy. Again, another good logic puzzle for you. Jessica N of Paducah, Kentucky. I just really love reading the...

Yeah. Yep. Jessica N of Paducah, Kentucky says, how many months have 28 days? All of them have 28 days. That's right, everybody. Well, I can certainly say that we've won this round of ruin the Laffy Taffy experience.

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I don't know how to finish that one. I have a quiz here for you guys called You're Like an Animal. And this is all about animal-related adjectives. Yes. We use these a lot. in our speech, and some of them are so common that they've actually replaced the noun form. So, for example, I could say two canines instead of two dogs. But the word canine really just in its most strict sense means, like a dog, related to a dog.

It's an adjective. It is an adjective. I have a whole bunch of these for you. Another very common one. When people say, like, oh, two males, two females, two canines, right, right. So basically cops. Yeah. Right, it is very cops speak.

Pops like to noun adjectives. You're totally right. You're totally right. So, of course, we know K-9 means like a dog, related to a dog. Feline, like a cat, related to a cat. Karen, one that's probably near and dear to your heart these days. Porcine, like a pig, related to a pig. So I've got...

Because I have a pig. Because Karen owns a pig, yes, to make it, to spell it out for everybody. Because she's like a pig. Yes, I realize. Not because I'm part a. How that sounded. So I will give you guys the adjective. These all end in I-N-E.

So they're all ein-something-I-N-Words. You tell me what animal this adjective relates to. These are going to start off fairly easy, probably almost like a lightning round. And they're going to get trickier as we go. So get your buzzers ready. I will give you the word. You tell me, what is the animal? Bovine.

Dana A cow Yes, like a cow Or more broadly A bull or an ox Yes, just anywhere in that family And I should point out by the way That if you guys

Get stuck in any of these Just think Latin Because all of these Are based on their Latin roots Yes One Yeah, that's how these words tend to go generally, yeah

All right Equine Ooh Dana again, I believe A horse That is a horse horse yes equis equis for instance yes the equine

all right ursine Karen bear that is a bear yes Ursa major Ursa minor yep there you go

there you go Lupine Dana first on the buzzer I think everyone had it Wolf that is wolf like Professor Lupin Harry Potter

All right Pisine Piss sign Karen Fish Yes Like Pisces Right

Right Pissine also is an acceptable pronunciation But I want to keep them all predictable here Does the word like to pee Like piss Does that come from a stem from a

Piscese? No no No I'd probably not Nope sure it doesn't Wishful thinking Yeah Because it's like water related Oh sure

Wouldn't that be great Right right Oh and in fact like if you know In French as you guys may know Like Piscine is the name for like a swimming pool Swimming pool, yeah, right. All right, getting a little trickier here, ramping up here.

Ovine. Okay, Dana, owning these, yes. Is it an egg? No, no, yeah, ovine. That is a sheep. That is a sheep, yes. Sheep, ovine. I knew that.

All right. Volpine. Oh, this sounds like. Volpine. Yeah. It's another one. This is related to the, yes, the genus of the animal. Volpine

Yeah It's not I'm gonna get I'm gonna take a stab Okay Bat Not bat Fox

It is Fox Dana yes Volpine The genus The volpiece Yes Caprine Chris

It is a goat It is a goat Like capricorn Like capricorn Yes Capriine Caprine Caprine

Caprine Murine Spell it up M-U-R-E, M-U-R-I-N-E, M-R-E-R-E-R-I-R-I-N-R-I-N-E. The animals, this type, are from the Moose M-U-R-R-N-A family. Is it a moose? It's not a moose. It's a very small animal, quite that's it.

Oh. A mouse. It is a mouse. Wow, Murine. That's a great one, isn't it? Yeah, there's a lot to be used. Mouse-like. Ray-9.

Ray nine Speller R-A-N-I-N-E Deer Not deer Rat Not rat Not rabbit

Not rabbit You guys are getting thrown by the rite Oh yeah Ray-9 This is a common root for this word Raccoon No again You're getting thrown by the R

It does not start with R-A This is frog Frog Frogs is R-R-E-A Yes Yes I think In Spanish, there's a similar word. Yes, yes.

A lot of the romance languages that are more closely descended to Latin, the words for frogs kind of revolve around that. Not French. Yeah. Last one. Last one. Here we go. This is a word you know, but you may not know it in this context. Asinine.

Asinine. Interesting. So it's not donkey. Is it donkey? Is that your answer? Is it donkey? It is donkey. Or the ass, of course, yes.

Asinine, yes. And it's quite directly came from the adjective of the animal. And if you say someone's acting asinine, you are literally saying you're acting like a donkey. I feel like that's the only word that has transcended. Transcended from away from the animal meaning. Because all the other ones like, oh, maybe it's like farming terms or zoology. But, you know, asinine. Yeah, I wouldn't.

Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, that's a great one. Woo! All right, good job. You guys are dominating the animal kingdom here. Didn't do Leonine, huh? Didn't do Leonine. I mean, you know, I, just as an aside, I love these.

Like, even going back to when I was a kid, there are so many, so many great ones. Leonine, yes, like a lion. Aquiline is a good one. Like an eagle-like aquiline. There are many. Aquiline nose. Yes, yes, exactly. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. That's cool. Yep, yep. I don't know if that's a compliment. Is that a compliment? It just means, like, strong, I think. Right, right, right. They don't usually mean it as an insult, but maybe it is.

Could be. All right. E. My turn. Oh, man. I'm getting my phone ready because it's time to play 30 seconds to glory. Oh. Okay.

All right. Get your hand ready. All right. I got to wake myself up. Okay. So, the shortest 30 seconds. Yeah, we're going to play a game. Listeners, if you have a piece of paper or even if you can, if you have access to a computer,

you can type these out and play along. What I'm going to do is I'm going to give you a category. What you have to do is list as many blank that fits in that category in 30 seconds. So, for example, in the past I have done name. Pokemon. All the Pokemon characters. So it's going to be. In that vein, you're going to name as many X in 30 seconds.

However, if any of you guys... And importantly, if you guys write down in the same, so for like Pokemon, everybody puts on Pikachu, no one gets the point. We only get points for unique answers. Yes, which is, it might be a strategy. Everybody, piece of paper. Are there any special rules for this? No special. I will say if there is a special rule. Okay, all right, okay.

Can we abbreviate? No Okay No And I mean The general rule is like If I can read it Then you're okay

So I mean you can't really Yeah Write any special symbols or whatever Chicken scratch them all and say Oh that's not what it says We will play honestly All right Yeah

Here we go List as many Carebear characters as you can Go Care bear Can be villains Later in the series There are some hybrids with other animals

I can name those Oh my god A lot of the head shaking Five Three Three Two One answers up.

This is just like I kept up. Wow, I thought this was going to be, because, you know, 80s kids. I don't know. I thought very much about it in a long time. I think Dana might have killed it. I would be surprised if I got one.

Okay, all right. So I put a grumpy bear. Grumpy bear, yes. I put a true heart, the lion. I feel like that was one of the, the care bear's characters that were other animals. I don't know. I do not know.

Brave heart. Brave heart. So we can't, so we can't go with that. Then I ran out of everything. I put rainbow bear, Rainbow the bear. There is cheer bear who has a rainbow. Yeah, but again, that doesn't count.

I would not expect that. And then I just put sad bear. You know, Grumpy is mad, but then maybe there's a bear who's just sad. There is no. All right. So, so far, I'm rocking one point and if nobody else put Grumpy Bear.

I have Carollot. I'm pretty sure that's a bear, right? Carrelot is the name of us. Oh, they live in Carollet. I live in a carmelot. Got it, got it, got it. So is there, okay, so I kind of was, like, just dipping into the punch pole. I don't know if these are care bears or where they came from.

I have Lionheart. I don't know what that is. Which is Braveheart, yeah, Braveheart and a lion bear. Good luck. There's one with the. Good luck is a bear. Wow. All right.

Yep. I put Hufflepuss. You know, I, uh, and I was like, I don't think that is one. Yeah. It might be there's like hybrid. This is your fan fiction. Huffle Puss, you say.

Huffle Puss. Yeah. I don't think that's in there. Yeah. I can't. I'm crying. Yeah. Well, I wrote that down too.

I share a lot. I think is there a share a lot. These are variations on a theme here. There is share bear, but not share a lot. Because I have give a lot and loves a lot. I was like. So good luck. Good luck.

I got good luck, bear. All right. All right. Part of the fun is seeing what names you guys come up with. I just, yeah, I couldn't remember if they were named after emotions or concepts or bear. So I did a little bit of a shotgun approach here. So I've got sunshine. Yeah.

Funshine. Dang it. Oh, you're so cool. Dang it. That's too bad. Greedy I think I'm mixing up With the dwarves at this point

I put lovely Joy Bear Maybe Who knows I don't know Maybe I'm thinking of Joy Behar I don't know Yeah

And then I just ran out of steam And I put Bear Bear Which I don't think it's really one Okay So a big fat zero for Colin Here are the more famous ones Oh yeah Yeah

Just Bedtime Bear birthday birthday Bear, Cheer Bear, Grumpy Bear, Tender Heart, which is the brown one. I had Tender Heart as a child, and the toys, they all have, like, a little sprig of hair. Yeah. I thought as a child that they grow back, so I cut it off. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's fair.

Did she get, I see that a lot. Yeah, it'll cut her hair over the hair. It's like, it's going to grow back. It'll be fine. But it doesn't have. No, it's gone. Three holes on his head. Poor Tender Heart.

Cut it down to the holes. What I love about that is, like, it's the slow motion burn because you're like, well, the next day. You're like, well, okay, one day growth. I'm not going to see that. But after a week, you're like, I don't think it's going back. Yeah. To Dana's defense, there were a lot of blank a lot there. Oh, there was not those ones you put down.

Thanks a lot. Okay. Laugh a lot. Oh, yeah. Sorry. There was an evil baker, I want to say That's strawberry shortcake That's the purple pie made

Oh okay Who I do get it confused with Professor Coldheart Oh okay Gotcha okay Of course Makes so much more sense that the evil baker is from strawberry Shortcake Now that you say

Oh next one Let's we'll do better I need you guys to name me as many Celebrities who are known only by one word names Go I'm just going to throw this one in here

as an example like share that's what I mean by one word names movies TV music 5 4

Three, two, one. Times up. Do you want to start and see if any other else gets a risk? Well, I had written down Cher. Yeah, me too. Well, everybody, that's what you're doing. Yeah, I got Madonna. Then I said, Enya.

No, didn't get any. Hey, all right, okay, there's one. And then I said Beyonce. Got Beyonce. Okay, that's it. Prince in common. I have Prince. Okay.

Common is a good one. Comin's a good one. in addition to the three that I've already crossed out I had Beck I have Fabio I've got Iman oh wow yeah geez and I've got Falco

yeah wow nice good job that's a good round for you yeah I'm surprised for you Colin Sting Bono you know the music I would have gotten there eventually I got on the model track I was like I was like Fabio and then to Iman

yeah I thought someone would put sting Yeah. Next one. When you write this down, I need the full title. Okay. So no shorthand. Okay. All right.

Please name me books written by Rule Dahl. Furiously writing lots of books there. There's some sequels. in there as well. Five, four, three, two, one. Geez. Answers, oh, all right. Okay.

Danny, you want to go first? Sure. The witches. Got it. Danny, champion of the world. Got it. Wow. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Yes. Got it. BFG? Got it. Matilda. Got it. Okay. After all I crossed out, all I have left is James and the Giant Peach.

Ah, which I did not write down. I would have gotten that if I had one more second. The next thing I was running right now. However, I did get Charlie in the Great Glass elevator and boy. Yeah. Boy was his autobiography. Kind of. And very short to write too.

Yeah. Very short to write. No, I literally, I wrote down to the BFG and then I was like, Char, and I was like, no, Chris. Don't write down Charlie and the Greek Life Elevator. Start writing down the short ones first and then go back, which I did. Good job. All right. Last one.

Last one. What are the standings here? I have four points. I have two points. I've got five. Oh, yeah. All right. Well, this one might make it or break it.

I need you guys in 30 seconds. Name me current country names in Africa. African country names. current. There's some old names. Some countries have changed their names. I need the current country names. Five, four, three, two, two, one, Time's up. All right. Colleen, you want to go first?

All right. I've got Cameroon. Yes. Ethiopia. No. Ooh. Ghana. No.

Togo. No. Benin. No. Kenya. No. Central African Republic. Like a dummy.

I'm wasting my time writing down Central African Republic. No. Okay. Morocco? No. Egypt. Yes. Yes.

Somalia? No. And South Africa. Yes. Yes. Ouch. Well, big round for Colin. What do you have?

Okay. Some of these may not technically be in Africa. Others may not technically be countries. Okay. And some are both. Which is to say neither. Okay. Lizotho?

Is that in Africa? Yes, we always talk about that. Lesotho. Okay. Congo? Yeah. So I wrote down Congo and then I wrote down Republic of Congo. And I don't know if either of those are valid because I know there's...

I wrote down Congo. Okay. Well, they wrote down Congo, so let's cross that out. There's too. There's Democratic and People's Republic. There's, yeah. Okay. Well, I worked down Republic of Congo.

So I think it's up to a vote. Does that count for People's Republic of Congo? I'm getting the no here. I'm not going to fight for this There's no There's, yeah Molly Yes

Yeah Yeah Tripoli is not a No city Yeah But in Africa Libya is that in Yes

Africa And then I worked down Syria Which I don't think is in Africa I think it's over the old Somewhere else Yeah Well three points

I have Nigeria Niger is that a country Good good yeah yeah yeah Mozambique yep Sudan Yeah that's true because that got separated There's South Sudan and Sudan

Yeah there we go Well Colin's a big winner I think Colin's a big winner yeah Still I was still staying from that Pokemon loss Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I can see Colin singing because His countries are all a bunched together They were clustered yeah

In Togo Camero Yeah yeah I was I was thinking clusters You said Cameroon first. That was the first one I wrote down, too. It's the elf hat. It looks like an elf hat. See, I think it looks like a macaroon. Kind of like a harshy kiss.

Yeah. Oh, okay. That's a good way to remember it. Not a macarone. Yeah. A macaroon. Yeah. Good.

Karen's entire adult life has been like preparing for the invention of the time machine so that she can go back and win Carmen San Diego on PBS, I think. Yeah. Yeah, I guess it's my turn. I have a quiz for you guys called germier than you thought slash surprising that we're all still alive. Dana has a weird fascination with illnesses. I do. Isn't it strange?

I feel like a lot of people do. Maybe do. So I found a study done by the NSF International, NSF, the National Sanitation Foundation. That's what they used to be called, not the National Science Foundation. Right, right, right. But they did a study of the germiest places in the household. Oh, yeah. They swapped.

They went around to 22 different households, and they determined how many germs by germs for science people. I'm talking about staff, coliform, yeast, and mold were on each item in their houses and their cars. I'm going to give you two areas in the household, and you tell me which one had the most germs on it per square centimeter. Yeah, okay. All right. All right. All right.

I'll name two items, and then you guys put up your fingers one or two, or you say one or two. All right. So a dish sponge or a toilet seat. Which one had the most germs on it? No question. I mean, I'm so confident. Yeah. Everybody says one.

Everybody says dishrag. Yes, that is the germiest thing in the house. It has like 321.6 million germs on it. Because it's always wet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, versus 266 on the toilet seat. Yeah.

I read somewhere like periodically they suggest you microwave your dish sponge. Yeah. Or throw it away and get a different. Yeah, you know, whatever. A dish sponge is a major investment these days. The pet bowl, dog or cat dish, or the toothbrush holder. Everybody says toothbrush holder, yes. Toothbrush holder is the second germiest thing in the house.

I believe it. And it goes, you know, touches a thing that goes right in your mouth. The pet bowl has 474,000 germs on it, which is a lot of, a lot of germs in this. But the toothbrush holder has 3.3 million germs on it, which is so much more. Also, like, when you, when you flush the toilet, a spray of poop comes up out of the toilet and goes on to your toothbrush. I was reading something, and I said three to six feet away. Not you can't, it's not a big gushing fountain. Yeah, but like an invisible mist of germs and bacteria and fecal matter into the air

because the agitation of the water and the toilet. And then it settles onto everything, including your toothbrush. So just rinse that sucker off real fast. You shut the lid before you flush. Shutting the lid before you flush. That said the splash zone was three to six feet. Right. So if your toothbrush isn't far away.

But also note that we're all alive and nobody gets sent to the hospital for brushing their teeth with poop mist. Oh to poop. So far. So far, so far, yeah. The bathroom doorknob. Okay. Mm-hmm. Or the toilet seat.

See, now we're getting into the, yeah. Yeah. The bathroom. Hmm. I see, I don't think the toilet seat is as germy as people think of this. Yeah, I think so. Everybody says bathroom doorknob. Yes, the doorknob is slightly grosser.

Slightly gross. It's like 315 versus 266. Your hands are super germy because your hands are touching everything all the time, and then everybody's hand is touching the doorknob. Uh, remote control or cell phone. Oh. Oh, dang. Okay, I, I sort of have a guess.

Remote control or cell phone? These days? Yeah. Which was 2011. All right, so calling Karen say cell phone. Chris says remote control. It is the remote control. Interesting.

I think there's a lot more. I'm eating food and drinking things and getting my hands kind of wet and dirty with food and moisture. So I don't eat and, like, like thumb my cell phone with the same hand, but I eat and it's just like, oh, I got to turn the volume up and I'm like, ah, screw it's a remote control. It costs like nothing. That was my reasoning to. It's like the cell phone

you touch it and it's near your mouth. Yeah. Yeah, but who talks on their cell phone anymore? That's true. It's true. How about this? A pet toy tennis ball that a pet chews on or the coffee

reservoir, like on a coffee pot, the little reservoir where the coffee comes out. With, like, the spout? I don't know what a coffee reservoir is. Like an electric coffee machine. Like the reservoir where you fill up the water so that it's, right? I'm assuming that's what you're talking about.

Okay, so like, like where you put the water. Like in an office, like you flip up the thing, you pour in the water and then it percolates up and, you know, or boils up into the. What's one, what's two? So one is the pet toy. Pet toy. Tennis ball. The other is the coffee reservoir. Yeah, the second one is the coffee.

Everybody says the second one. Yeah, it has a lot of germs in that thing. Nobody cleans it. Nobody cleanses it. They never know. Also, it's always sitting with water. I think anything that's always in contact with water. Always in contact with water.

The pet toys get thrown. You soon as you see the pet toy and it's disgusting, you throw it out and you repet another one. But like the coffee reservoir, no one cleans it. Because you're like, oh, it cooks the water. I'm just putting water in and water comes out. My first. Yeah. Like my first job out of school, like my first office job, they had like the electric coffee maker.

I was using it like every day for like three months. And then like one day I'm like, oh, I'll be a good. good citizen, I'll wipe it down. And, like, I took it off and I flipped it up and, like, I swear to God, like, I looked in the bottom and it was, like, green and a little slimy to the touch. And I, from that point on, I never, ever, ever drank out of that thing again. There was, yeah, I mean, like, you know, my first coffee maker, my first department, like, after a while, I kind of poured water in and, like, there was, like, particulate matter

that was, like, in there. And I was just like, oh, yeah, you've got to clean this. Yeah. Don't get me wrong. The pet toy also has a lot of... Oh, sure, sure. Not saying it's good for surgical procedures, but like, yes. It's just funny that is actually not as much.

Start making coffee with a pet toy. Don't just suck. I put my coffee in my pet's tennis ball and... Good job. Rand told me to do this. Although it would be less German. Yeah. Yeah, I just wanted to avoid some confusion.

Right, right, right. How about this? Your wallet or money? Oh, well, one goes in the other. My wallet or money? I like saying, I'm going to see, I'm saying wallet. I'm going to go with the usual thought. I'm going with money because it's passed around more.

See, I'm going with wallet because the leather, I feel like maybe holds moisture in more. You know what, I'm going to change to that. You can't because I just explained it. I thought you were locked in. I'm trying to throw you off the scent. wallet had more germs. Money is one of the lowest things on this list that I've told you about. Really?

Yeah, it only had eight germs on. You hear all the time that money's so gross. Oh, it's probably dirty, but it didn't have the germs. It gets a chance to air out, I suppose, if nothing else. But your wallet grows all sorts of fun. And I guess it's in a dark place. You hang on to wallets for a long time. You never clean it.

Yeah, you never clean. clean it. It's true. It's true. The gear shift in your car or the car steering wheel. This seems like a toss-up. Yeah. Gear shift or steering wheel. Two of us don't know how to drive. Yeah, true. Like the thing you, the gear shift

the thing where you change. Karen, just for the record. Karen is pantomime. Doing both of them at the same time. But in a way, I thought she was driving a, like a monster trap. Yeah. Her hands are so. No, you are doing well at the same time. All right. What was the order?

So one is the gear shift. Two is the steering wheel. Oh, man. Everybody says gear. No, no, no. Chris, yeah. Karen and I say gear. Switching time.

Yeah. Chris says steering wheel. It is the gear shift by kind of a lot. Gear shift had 227 and the steering wheel only had full work. My way of thinking is most people are right-handed. Okay. And so they would What are you talking about

True However Even if you're left-handed The gear shift is still at the same Spot No no no no Sorry Being a right hand

You touch more things with your right hand Including the gear shifts Okay okay My theory is just The steering wheel is further up So it gets more sunshine maybe I don't know I'm straining to do some of

Gearship is closer to the cup holders. I don't know. Maybe. I have no idea. It didn't have like an explanation, but I was just like, oh, that's interesting. However, that one doesn't count because it's not in a house, so we have to. They said house or a car. A car in the garage.

Oh, good saying. All right. Let's just do two more, two more. A lunchbox or a toilet handle. Again, just go with food versus P. Yeah. I guess I don't agree, yeah. Yeah, everybody says lunchbox.

It is lunchbox. I will tell you there are people, I do not know them personally, but there are people who have died from reusable shopping bags. Wait, what? Because they carry, they're like, oh, I'm going to use reusable shopping bags. So they take their reusable shopping bag, you know, made a canvas or, you know, the sort of 99-cent shopping bags that you buy. You take them to the store.

They take all their raw beef, and they put them into the reusable shopping bags. And then they take it home and they put the beef in the fridge, and they throw the shopping bag into a pile and then the next day they take it to the store and they put their bananas into their reusable shopping bags. Wait, is the beef wrapped in foil or wrapped in saran wrap? No, well, yeah, it's wrapped in saran wrap in it, but it leaks.

Yeah. So they get raw beef all over the inside of their reusable shopping bags and they put it in a hot car. Then they put their muffins in there and then they eat the muffin and they die of like E. coli poisoning because it was in the reusable shopping bags. So you have to wash those suckers.

It gets disposable. Wash them out. So use plastic bath. Last one. Last one. The bathroom light switch or stove knobs. Oh. The knobs on your stove.

You know, it's been going so well for me. Yeah. I mean, yeah, and I have some reasoning here, yeah. Every, yeah. Everybody says stove. Yes, yes, your stove knobs. That you touch while you're making food in your clean hands. There's grease in the air.

It makes them sticky. Totally. Everything. Yeah. You're right. Your logic of if it deals with food. Yeah. People are very much like, oh, you know, I wipe my butt and I wash my hands and I clean the toilet and everything like that.

But then they're like, I just touched raw chicken and turned the stove on. When people get salmonella, a lot of times, it is not because they didn't cook the chicken enough. It's cross-contamination. It's because they handled the raw chicken and put the raw chicken on the counter. Then they cooked it until it was black. But they're- They made their salad with their gross chicken hands, and then they die, you know, so, yeah. But when you hear, like, oh, the local restaurant, they got a C for the cleanliness of their kitchen.

They didn't get an A. It's like, your personal home kitchen would get an F minus, minus, minus, minus. Yeah. No question. But if they got a C, you probably, I mean, they're not saying, eat there. I mean, you get freaked out. Like, it's just, yeah. Yeah.

It's cleaner than what you ate food off of last night, almost definitely. There are really many reasons to listen to our podcast, Big Picture Science. It's kind of a challenge to summarize them all, Molly. Okay, here's a reason to listen to our show, Big Picture Science, because you love to be surprised by science news. We love to be surprised by science news. So, for instance, I learned on our own show that I had been driving around with precious metals in my truck before it was stolen.

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So I have one of my patented word quizzes for you guys. Here's the game this time. There is an interloper in these sets of words. I'm going to read you four words, and you are going to tell me the word that doesn't belong for some reason. for some reason. Three of these words are basically roughly synonyms with each other. If you go to phisaurus.com, you will find these words listed as synonyms of each other. Their meanings may be slightly different, but in general they are synonyms.

And there is one word that is not a synonym of the other words. So you guys are going to write this down, what word you think it is. And here we go. So I'll give you four words. You write down the one that is not a synonym of the other words. synonym of the other three. One of these things is not like the other. Most of these words

appear on those lists of words you're probably using incorrectly. If that's a little bit of a hint for you. All right, here we go. First four words. Unwilling, reluctant, reticent,

disinclined. Unwilling, reluctant, reticent disinclined Again, three of these words would show up as being pretty close synonyms of each other

and one of them is not Unwilling, reluctant, reticent, disinclined For an extra bonus point You can tell me, if you pick out the word Then you can tell me approximately What its actual definition is That is your extra bonus point

Work on unwilling, reluctant, reticent, disinclined. All right, answers up. Let's see some answers. Colin says reticent, and he thinks it means guilty. Karen says unwilling, but hasn't made any guesses. And Dana says reluctant. Reluctant. The answer is reticent.

Unwilling, reluctant, and disinclined all mean. I don't want to do it. But reticent actually means silent. People use it to mean reluctant. Oh, I'm reticent to go on that roller coaster? No, it's a reticent means a person who doesn't say much. He's very reticent. He doesn't say a lot.

That was the worst possible example of use a word in a sentence. Can you use it in a sentence? Yes. The man was very reticent. Yes. Means doesn't say a whole lot. Try harder. Here we go.

Second set of words. Lucky. Fortuitous. Charmed Fortunate Lucky fortuitous Charmed and fortunate One of these words

is not a synonym of the other three They are in this case similar-ish But there is one that is There is one that is definitely Definitely different than the other ones All right let's see some answers Collins says fortuitous

And he means that fortuitous is a good omen Dana says fortuitous Karen says fortuitous and thinks maybe it means strong So yes the word is fortuitous It is different lucky, charmed, fortunate mean That like something good happened to you Maybe it happened to you by chance Oh you're so fortunate that this happened to you

That you won the lottery You must be charmed, you're so lucky Fortuitous simply means it occurred by coincidence so like happenstance yeah exactly like I named uh you know my baby this and you named your baby the same thing that is just by chance it could be a bad chance a good chance a neutral chance but it's just chance happenstance indeed energize enervate vitalize invigorate Enervate, vitalize, invigorate.

Yes, one of these words is not like the others. Karen says vitalize, bring back to life. Colin says enervate, deflate. Weaken. And Dana says, Enervate. Enervate. Did you put on a definition? No.

Okay. Yes, Colin is correct. The word enervate means to weaken something or deflate it or sap energy from it. It, in fact, is the op. It is an antonym of energize, vitalize, or invigorate. Why it sounds so familiar or something? Well, because it sounds like energy, so people say enervate to mean energize. Invigorate and energy, yeah.

But it's the opposite. It's almost like a poor mantone. Routy, boisterous. Noisome, rambunctious, rowdy, boisterous, noisome, rambunctious. I've never even heard of noisome. Then maybe that's it. Yeah, maybe it is. Karen says, sorry, Karen says noisome for annoying,

Colin says noisome and what did you put oh aggravating and Dana says noisome yes it is in fact noisome noisome means smelly noisome means it smells so bad that it like puts you off your game like it bothers you because something smells so terrible I'm guessing N-O-I-S-O-M-E yeah N-O-I-S-O-M-E really really bad stuff smelly or yeah i mean sometimes people use it to mean like aggravating or something i've heard it more like off-putting i didn't know i had a very specific smell yes yeah yeah technically that's kind of where it comes from uh annoyed it comes from the word annoy it doesn't it doesn't mean noise as in people use it to mean loud it's not right right right it means it's annoying yeah

this one may be considered kind of a matter of degree this is not like these are not antonyms but yeah there is there is one that is distinctly different for a certain reason. All right. Okay. Excess plethora, abundance, surplus. Excess plethora, abundance, and surplus. Excess plethora abundance and surplus.

There is one word here that is distinctly different from the others in its definition. All of these words refer to there being a lot of something. Colin says plethora, and a plethora is a variety. Dana says abundance. And Karen says surplus. Oh, you're talking about storage? Yeah. Okay.

The answer is abundance. Abundance means you have a lot of something And that might be great But plethora is a synonym of excess and surplus Meaning you have too much of it An excess, a surplus, and indeed a plethora Means there's too much And abundance is just great

Yeah, an overabundance Indeed would be too much of something But abundance is what they do when bread gets married Yes That's the funny It's just like a little bride and groomed by dancing. Right, right, right.

I'm going to always think of that. You'll always spell it correctly, yeah. Final round. I haven't kept track of the scores. All right. Disaster. Travesty. Calamity.

and catastrophe disaster, a travesty, a calamity, a calamity, and a catastrophe. This is not a matter of degree. This is the full-on Inigo Montoya. This is, I don't think that word, that is the, that word you keep using, I don't think it means what you think it means. Okay. Disaster, Travesty, Calamity, and Catastrophe.

Karen says travesty and don't know. Fine. Dana says travesty and... Injustice. You're on the right track, interestingly. And Colin says travesty and... Misrepresentation. Misrepresentation.

Yeah, you're both dancing around it. Yes. The word is travesty. A travesty is not a tragedy, like some people say. Oh, it was a total travesty. No, it is a mockery. This is a farce. And that's when people are like, this court is a travesty.

They mean it's not a real court. It's a fake court. It's a kangaroo court. Yes. That's quiz. All right. One of these things is not like the other. All right.

And we got one last segment. Colin? Let us travel the world. Yeah. We're a pretty good jet-setting bunch. I mean, just in the last couple years, we've been to Japan and Sweden and Taiwan, collectively, France. Yeah, collectively.

Yeah, collectively. Not together. Yeah. One of the things we do when we travel is we have to change currency. So I have a quiz for you about global currencies. This one stands out to me as a source spot. I remember once we got a matching quiz at Pub Quiz. and it kicked our butt.

We're like, oh, we know the world currencies. These are like Euro applies to some of the countries. Right. I know the yen. Right. But then it was like the old currencies. So I've sort of split the difference here. These are not going to be super obscure like that one night of pub quiz, nor are they going to be super easy.

So I will give you the name of a currency and you tell me what country uses this currency. These are current. And now for some of these, you know, there are currency names that more than one country uses. So if it's a currency that's used in more than one country, I will gladly accept any of those countries. What country uses the shekel? Oh. Israel.

It is Israel, yes. Properly the new shekel, the Israeli new shekel, yes. What country uses the rupee, rupee? Dana. India? Yes, India. There are actually other countries that use rupees. Yeah, like Hyrule.

I was just to say, Lincoln Zelda used them. Also, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, several other countries use the ruby. But I think India, by far, most people are. Yeah, the blue ones are worth five. Yeah, yeah. Where would you go if you were spending the RAND? Dana. Malaysia?

No, not Malaysia. That sounds familiar. The RAND. Oh, geez. Is that an acronym? No. Oh, okay. Rand.

I know, I know. of this. I'm sure I should get this. It is, uh, it's a country that was named earlier, uh, in one of the quizzes. That doesn't help you. No. Uh, the rand is the currency of South Africa.

Oh, okay. South African RAND. Huh. What is the Malaysian money? What country uses the bot? B-A-H-T, the bot. Karen. Thailand. That is Thailand.

It is, so, uh, fun fact, growing up, uh, in geometry, class we had the American Geometry textbooks and then one of their questions was a math question and it talked about Taiwan and the bot

which is a giant actually because Taiwan is a different country. Turns out. Thailand and Taiwan they get confused a lot. And so our school wrote a letter to a large U.S.

based textbook company and said you guys got this wrong and we use your book in Taiwan. Right, right, right, yeah. Yeah, I mean, they do get confused a lot, but they shouldn't be getting confused in a book in an actual... Yeah, right, right. Yeah, way.

Where would you go if you were spending Juan? W-O-N-W-O-N-W-W-N. Is... And Chris, you can a good guess here? South Korea. Yes, I was going to give you what. The hint is it's one of two very closely aligned countries. Yes, it is South Korea, the Wan.

fully it is the Korean Republic one North Korea also uses the one theirs is the Korean people's one Yes Do not think they are interchangeable So be careful which one you are using The ring it Ringit

R-I-N-G-I-T That's awesome The ring it It's fun to say Ring it I guess Dana Singapore? Not Singapore Yeah, you're going to kick yourself.

It begins with an R. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. The Malaysian ringet. Yes. Brunei. That sounds like a monkey. Like a monkey.

The ringet. Yeah, it does. Like a lemur. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I just imagine it has like an orange butt. Whatever helps you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, Brunei, ring it as well.

The Dinar. The, where would you be if you were spending Dinar? And this may be more than one country. Is that like Saudi Arabia? Not Saudi Arabia. UAE? Not UAE. Oh, you're dancing around at that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Iraq. Yes, you eventually hit on it. Yes, there are several countries that all use the DNR. They tend to be Muslim countries. Iraq, Kuwait, also Libya, also Algeria, Bahrain, the DNR. Yeah. All right, we've got a couple, maybe slightly trick.

ones here um where is the lira and now think carefully here why let me say it's tricky the lira uh i'm guessing vatican city wow is that good guess it was that's it's i was not thinking you were going to go that way i was trying to be tricky but it is not the vatican city okay um well because i would guess italy yes italy and the vatican both used to use the lira that's They are now the euro for the last, you know, 15 years or so. I was looking for Turkey, Turkish, Turkish lira, yeah. Last one. And I'll give you a hint as you've made out of heard of this currency.

The currency is related somehow to the name of the country. So what country would I be in if I were spending VATU, V-A-T-U? Chris? Vanuatu. Yes, Vanuatu. The Vanuatu, the Vanuatu Vatu Vatu. It's fun to say. The Vanu Wattu Vatu Vatu.

All right. That sounds like a new dance that all the kids are doing these days. Everyone's doing the Vanu Wadu Vatu. All right. Well, good job, guys. For countries that you probably have not been to, all of them, did pretty well. Yep. We all speak the universal language of money.

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