Good Job, Brain! - 185: ALL QUIZ BONANZA! #37

Episode Date: June 28, 2016

Time to combine that black matter and white matter and turn it into grey matter with our all quiz episode! How do we get people more into classic literature? Well, with a teen movie starring Hilary &��Haley Duff, of course! Chris did some mad research and found an alarming amount of modern films that based on classic books and made it into a quiz. Pub quizzes love asking about abbreviations and acronyms so boot up that screaming modem because Colin prepared the M.O.T.A.A.Q: Mostly Outdated Technology Abbreviations and Acronyms Quiz. Inspired by previous quizzes, Karen presented the RAZZCARS challenge! Featuring actors who have won both Oscars (best film achievement) and Razzies (worst film achievement.) And time to play "Brad Pitt? Or Lasers?" with a fan-submitted quiz.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, fabulous, fantastic, fearless, flightless, fact fanatics. This is Good Job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 185, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and it's time for your weekly non-bleak peak at the oblique squeaks of unique, chic geeks. I'm Colin. And I'm Chris. No, Dana again.

Still sick. I think she's ditching us. I think she's recording with another pub quiz podcast. Yeah. Well done, mind. That's her new show. Our rivals. Well, yeah.

Well done, mine. We have a book. wrote a book. It's currently being edited or whatever it is they do to books and book publishers. Someone is putting like individual letters book elves. That's my understanding of the process. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sliding the movable type into the Gutenberg press to start stamping out the pages. I'm assuming that's how it works. Well, they have to copy it one book at a time. Yep, yeah, yep, yep. So maybe once yours rolls off the printer, you too can own it. Yeah, no, we wrote, we

took all the the fun stuff that we've done on the show and we've written it down into words and we've done new stuff i have i told you tyler tyler hinman past guest an infrequent uh guests we don't really have a lot of guests but when we do we make sure that they're the five time crossword puzzle champion of america he and i collaborated on a cryptic crossword which will be featured in the book that's all new piece of content we had good job brain listening to and crossword maker Neville Fowardy test solve it so you know that it's a that it's solvable and Neville contributed a crossword and Neville contributed a regular crossword when can you get the book Chris uh Karen you can

purchase you can go well first of all if you want a pre-order you can go right now on Amazon dot com search for good job brain and and when will it be available September 13 2016 oh my actually wow that's coming up really fast Karen Customers who viewed this page also viewed power up how Japanese video games gave the world an extra life. Who wrote that? By one Chris Kohler, which too will be, it's an old book I wrote that will be back in print later on this year. And they also viewed the page for Alton Brown, Everyday Cook. Okay, that makes sense.

That's probably you, Karen, looking at it. Now we see a lot. Oh, and they also viewed the page for the Hamilton book. Oh, I bought that. And, and the Trojan condom dash button. All right. All right. Got some readers out there.

Wow. Yep. Who are never going to have more babies. Someone explained to me what the dash button is. It just submits an order for more of, yeah, for whatever the thing that you have it tied to is. So it's one button to one product. Correct. Yeah.

Have you guys used it? I signed up for the early, baby. and I didn't get accepted, so I haven't done it yet. Me too, so I'm really bitter. How big is it? It's like one giant button? No, it's not the size of, look it. It's like a USB stick. It has the logo of the product. Oh, man, what if you accidentally press a bunch of times?

No, it's smart enough. No, it's smart enough to know. It'll only do one order at a time. Of course. All right. Well, that's said. They back up the Trojan truck to your house and dump them all on your front porch. Hey, Max, somebody's got a sign for this load of XXXS condoms. why did I press the button so many times

so back to the book on dead trees you should totally get it it's coming out so soon also on the electronic trees yeah that's true on the electronic trees there will be an e-book version

all joking aside yeah that's right yeah we're super excited we hope you are too it's my first time writing a book your first time writing a book calling not Chris's so forget him But for three of us, for three of us, it's our... Look, it's still, it's not like I'm so jaded that it's not exciting.

You actually published a couple of times, right? Yeah. You have power up and then you have... Power up, as mentioned. And then you had another... Retro gaming hacks for O'Reilly. Yeah. Now just completely out of date because none of the things...

Work anymore. Really? Yeah, right, yeah. It's like how to get a Calico game running on Windows 95. Forget. And without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, pop quiz, hot shot. And we got a surprise. You guys are sick of my dumb cards, my dumb, random trivia cards.

What is our surprise? Our surprises Chris has pulled out the Jeopardy book. Yes, and it's not the 1960s Jeopardy that we are known to sometimes use. It is, in fact, 2003 Jeopardy. More getable. So a little bit closer. Yeah, more getable. a little bit closer to our age

and only some of you were not born in the form of the question yeah I have picked out a couple of categories for a single jeopardy and double jeopardy

and keep track of how much money you make and then we'll do final jeopardy at the end and you can bet your actual jeopardy because usually we'd just buzz it oh okay but like actually with money

on the line yeah yeah yeah so you'll just you'll still buzz in yet you'll start at zero exactly And it's on the honor system. I'll just, you know, make sure that you, you know, keep accurate track of how much money you win. All right, here we go. The category is Criminals Dictionary.

Oh, man. For $200. Oh. It's not a novel builder. It's a person accepting bets. Oh. Karen. What is a bookie?

Yes. What is a bookie? $200. They weren't looking for bookmaker. I just want to. Oh. Oh, it's acceptable. Oh, it tells you what...

It says here, what is a bookie, and then acceptable is bookmaker. Oh, bookmaker is the full name? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, they also are not a novel builder. Right. No, no, no. A bookmaker.

But then oddly... That's weird. That the also acceptable is the one that they were hinting at. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is true, though. $400. A person confessing info to police is known as one of these yellow songbirds. Colin

A stool pigeon No Oh yellow Oh okay Karen Well money's on the line Do I lose money by those little LEDs are ticking down Karen

Fine I'll What is canary Yes What is a canary Sing like a canary Yep So Karen has $600 Colin is negative 400

600 It's a two word slang term For the photograph taken of a suspect in custody. Karen. What is mugshot? What is mugshot, indeed.

Well, when there's real fake money on the line, I'm really good at this. It gets really tense. You guys, your faces are just twisted. $800. This term for a gangster's girlfriend sounds like where she might go shopping. Collin. What is a mall? What is a mall?

Yes. M-O-L. Finally, for $1,000 from Latin for elsewhere, it's the claim to have been somewhere else when a crime was committed. So hard to say. So hard to say. Yeah, this is why we need those ones that cancels. Right.

You're pretty much going in simultaneously. We better just give it to me. Yeah, it just only makes sense. You got mugshot we both both at the same time. Yeah, it's true. But that was That cost less I forgot it was

What is alibi Yes What is alibi yes 1,000 to column That's right We still have another round to go Double Jeopardy Where the point values

Are doubled Yes thank you Category is Just desserts For $400 This treat takes its name From the Dutch word Cook je

And often includes Chocolate chips Colin What is a cookie? What is a cookie? 400 bucks, 400 fake monies to you, sir. Can you say that again? Koke-J-K-E.

How's that spell? K-O-E-K-J-E. Oh, okay. K-O-E-K-J-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-E. It's probably a Y sound. Yeah, well, we'll assume. For $800 sharing its name with a French novel, this candy bar was originally three separate candy bars.

Karen. What is three musketeers? What is three musketeer? That came up on Good Job Rent Live. Yeah, yeah. That's 800 bucks. 800 fake bucks to you. That's a three, it was three different flavors.

It was Neapolitan. It was like a strawberry chocolate and vanilla. That's right. Yeah, and then they decided to save some money and just make the chocolate. Just go with the one everybody wanted. Yeah. But it makes more sense with the name of the. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now the name makes sense. Yes, indeed. $1,200 question. Ooh. A glowing red hot donut. Now sign announces the fresh donuts from this chain. Colin. What is Krispy Kreme?

What is Krispy Kreme? Absolutely. I did not know that one. Big $1,200 bucks. Yep. When you see that Hot Donuts Now sign, time to go get yourself some hot donuts. $1,600. These reptiles aren't an ingredient in the chocolate and caramel candies named for them.

college what are turtles what are turtles not used in the making of turtles you know what at first I was like oh fig Newton and then you said chocolate and I was like

what? No oh fig newt oh yeah I like it but for the $2,000 question of double jeopardy just desserts

after baking syrup is poured over this multi-layered paper thin Turkish and Greek pastry. Whoa, Karen. What is baklava? What is baklava?

Indeed. Also acceptable, phylo dough or filo paste. Philo. Philo do. Yes. Final Jeopardy. Are we wagering?

You are wagering. The category is the human body. Please write down your wagers. The category is the human body. And you have how much, Taron? 4,000. Doing some math.

All right. Our wagers are locked in? Yes. Yes. Okay. Here we go. The final Jeopardy question. There are four incisors, four premolars, six molars, and two of these teeth in each jaw.

There are four incisors, four premolars, six molars, and two of these teeth. in each jaw. Do do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, can you say it again. Did you write something now? Yeah, yeah, I'll read, yeah, I'll read, yeah, I'll read, yeah, all right, there are four incisors, four premolars, six molars, and two of these teeth in each jaw. Um, Karen, you were trailing going into Final Jeopardy. Your answer is, what are bicuspids? What are by cuspids?

Did she get it right? No, she did not. I hate this game. What was your wager? All of my money. All of her money bring you down to zero. Let's see how Colin did. Colin, your answer.

Let's reveal his answer. What are Bicuspids with some other junk? I realize what I think is the correct answer, but too late. Oh, yeah? By Cuspids. And, Colin, how much did you wager? I wagered 3401. The 3401, meaning that you finish the round with some money.

The first answer is canines. I was thinking, yeah, there's only two, like fangs. Yeah, yep, like fangs. And then I was bummed because I thought for sure Canine Karen's going to get. Well, Karen, you came in with zero fake dollars. You're leaving with zero fake dollars. It's all pretty much wash.

All right. Good job, Brains. That was actually, when we play like for real, it's a lot more. Yeah. We don't get Dana back in here. We're going to be like Dana. We forgot a new way to play Jeopardy. The real way.

The real way. And today's episode is number 100. which means if you're a long time good job brain listeners you know that every fifth episode we have our all quiz bonanza which means we don't have a theme we don't have a topic we brought our own quizzes and games and puzzles to stump each other and stump you guys listeners so this week it is all quiz bonanza number 37 all right all Quiz Bananza 37. Who wants to go first?

I'll go first. Yeah, you just won. So you go. Yes, that's my prize. My prize. I have a quiz for you guys called the Motak. That's M-O-T-A-A-Q. And that stands for the mostly obsolete technology acronym and abbreviation quiz.

Oh, nice. Yes. I have a quiz for you. I will give you guys an abbreviation or acronym. Most of these are mostly obsolete. older technologies, by which I mean, you know, 80s and 90s and such. You know, I was thinking about this recently on my walk to work. I work at a place called Twitch.TV, and I was like, oh, well, you know, we know dot TV, like, as a domain, internet domain is Tuvalu.

Tuvalu, right? That's their country name. But I was like, television. What vision I know, but what's tell? It just. Distance. Like telegraph. So I was like, I wonder if naming like a website, you know, dot TV or anything.

in these, in this day and age is obsolete, but it's not. If tell it means distance, envision is something you look at. Yeah, I suppose. You kind of stretch. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it is kind of funny. I mean, to think of so many people who don't even have a proper TV but still watch,

you know, Netflix or whatever show, Hulu shows. Right, right, right. Is that still a TV show? Yeah, it's still, yeah. No, there was somebody, somebody was saying, oh, you know, the other day my, my daughter asked me, Daddy, why do we say, hey. hang up the phone. Yeah.

No, would you? The actual literal, like, movement of hanging up. Yeah, of, like, hanging something on the wall, which is what we used to do. Oh, I was even thinking about, I thought it just mean, put the receiver down. No, you'd hang it. You'd hang it on the wall. You'd hang it up on the wall. Yeah, right?

How about that? That was already one step. Not even Karen knows, yeah. Roll up the window. What, I mean, what child today has ever seen a manually operated roll up the window? It's just a button you press. Yeah. It's like some kind of savage.

is the phenomenon here. Right. That's where the meaning drops away. Ah, yes. All right. What is it? Say it again? Metonomy.

Metonomy. Mm-hmm. So, for this quiz, I will give you guys a acronym or abbreviation. You tell me what it stands for. So, for example. Oh, that's why it's an abbreviation. That's why it's an acronym or abbreviation, right? Acronymes just to be, you know, we've talked about this before, but, you know, acronyms are,

you read them like a name, like NASA is an acronym, whereas FBI is not. Yeah, she's like, Fibba. Right, Fibai, right. But Motoc. Motoc would be an acronym, yes Thank you for remembering that by the way So we'll do this lightning round style Because I think some of these you guys will know

And some of them you may have to think for three seconds on So get your buzzers ready And so for example If I were to say CD Yeah Chris would answer Compact disc You've got it All right

Here we go Oh like the thing itself is obsolete Or the meaning is obsolete Well, the meaning is... Technology is sort of going obsolete, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It could be both.

It could be. And we still use many of these things. We talk about an old-style TV, not a nice flat screen. An old-style TV would be a CRT. A CRT. I believe that was Chris. What is CRT? Cathode ray tube.

Cathode ray tube, correct. I'm going to tune to my right here, which is like... You need your faster hand? Yeah, yeah. It just got real. Things just got real. On your CRT, you might watch a VHS tape. What's VHS?

Oh, you can't, but go ahead. Chris. Video head system. He doesn't. He wants to say it and then he thinks about it. No, you know, I thought you were going to say VCR, but then VHS. VHS. VHS.

A video high definition scenario. No, no. Karen, you want to take a stab? And then what is VHS? Ouch. Video home. Uh-huh. Oh.

Don't, don't know. Don't overthink it. You're two-thirds of the way there. Video-home, I don't know. System. It's video home system. VHS, video home system. Growing up in school, I, you guys probably like me, would have to go to the school library

and study things on a CD-ROM, CD-ROM, the very 90s way of learning interactive things. What does CD-ROM stand for? Chris. Compact disc read-only media. Oh. Is it read-only memory? It is, I'll give you the second bite at that. It is read-only memory.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It means you can't change it. You can only... Right, you can't write to it. That makes sense. Rom, read-only memory. On your old-school CRT-TV, you might have a couple knobs there. The one is to change the channel.

And another is the UHF, VHF knob. What do the UHF and VHF stand for? Karen. UHF is ultra-high frequency. Yep. And then VH, was it VHF? Mm-hmm. video high frequency.

No. Very high? It is very, very high frequency. And then they're like, oh, wait, what's even more than very? Yeah, right. Ultra high frequency. Right, right. They're lucky they didn't need a third one.

Right, right, right. Before the days of super high-speed internet, we had a moderately high-speed internet with a DSL connection. DSL. It's a digital signal line. So close. Really? Digital.

Service? No. You got the, it's digital something line. Digital serial line. Nope, it is subscriber. Oh. Digital subscriber line. Right.

And the idea being that you at home are the digital subscriber. Yeah, yeah. Right. But you wouldn't need your DSL line if you were having an old-fashioned land party firing up some head-to-head computer action. Land. What is the land and land party? Karen.

Local area network. Local area network. Yes. Contrasted with a WAN or a wide area network. Right. Related to UHF and VHF, again, sort of old school naming on your radio, you've got AM and FM. What is AM and FM? What does AMNFM stand for?

Karen. Oh, I'm mixing up with D.C. and ACA. It's not. Oh, oh. I'll give you guys. The M is the same. It's modulation. Yep. Yeah.

Frequency modulation. Yep. And amplitude? You got it. You got it. That's right. Those are the two ways, basically, of modulating the signal over the air. You can change the amplitude, AM, or you can change the frequency.

And you can get a lot more information in the frequency modulation. Right, which is why AM radio sounds so bad. Right. And isn't stereo, you know, among other. things right right that's why it's reserved for uh people yelling at each other and not all right last one a little bit of a tricky one little bit of a tricky one um although the average person on the street if you grabbed him and shook him and said hey what does dvd stand for they would tell you that the v stands for video but it doesn't it does not actually

technically strictly speaking according to the original DVD consortium what does DVD stand for Chris Digital versatileness Yeah Because you can put music You can put video You can put an image and files

That's right And when you frame it that way That makes more sense It does make more sense Yeah it's not just video Even though probably 99% of us The only time that we ever interacted with them Was for just watching a movie

Yeah because both your dads Burn all the good job brain local files Into it like a DVD disc or something Right. Right. And then listen to that. I help my dad do it. But yeah, yeah. All right. And then as a bonus here, I'll give you guys some non-obsolete technology ones. When you're typing in your little, your little web address bar there on your web browser, it'll start off. Whether you type it or not, it'll auto-complete with the HTTP. Yes. What does HTTP stand for?

I think you both had it, but Chris, please. Oh, you want to do it at the same time? Hypertext transfer protocol. There you go. HCTP. Yeah, there you go. So I brought us at least into the 90s with that. And we'll leave it there.

That's a good stopping point. Oh, yeah. S stands for security. It's secure. Yeah. Sexy. The H-TPS are sexy. Yeah.

Sexy version. Yeah. Sensual. Dang it. I like sensual. I love sensual. Sensual. All right, I have a quick quiz here.

Two episodes ago, we had very interesting two quizzes that kind of merged together. It was our prize episode. And Chris, you had a whole quiz about Razzie Award. I did. Raspberry Award awarded to the worst actors and actresses that year, worst film, worst screenplay. It's not like they directly mirror the Oscars. They also have like worse on-screen couple. You know, like Mitch categories. And then Dana had a quiz about EGOT winners. And these are, you know, on the other end of the spectrum, the esteemed bunch who has won or almost are on their way winning Emmy for TV, Tony for theater, Oscar for films, and then Grammy for music. Not a lot of people. I think there's only, Dana said, like, 12 people who have done it.

Small club. And then we joked about, well, when is someone getting a regi or a guy? or a toger, which is raspberry and egon. Only one person, and I tweeted this out to me. Yeah, yeah. Has actually done it? Has won a rega. Oh, can you guess who it is?

Oh, geez. She is a regat winner. I'm going to guess. There's only been one. I'm going to guess, uh, Whoopi Goldberg. Yeah, is Whoopi Goldberg?

It is the one and only, Liza Minnelli. Oh. Wow. Yes. Which makes sense. She sings, acts, dances. So theater makes sense. Grammy makes sense.

Oscars for cabaret. Cabaret, right. She probably could have been a double, yeah, for that. And then a Razzie for, I believe it was Arthur II or rent a cop. Jeez. Yeah. Jeez. You're right.

She's totally well-suited to that. Yeah. So she is the only one R-GOT winner. That is a fantastic bit of trivia. But I have a quiz. And we talked about, you know, Chris and your quiz of Razzie winners. Like, a couple of these actually have won Oscars. Oh, sure.

So here are some, here's a quiz about Raskars. Raskars winner. Razzie and Oscar. For the same performance? No, no. Just lifetime. Lifetime. They're only a bunch.

Well, we named a couple of them on the last, yeah. But here's the trick. Even though we named a couple on the, I'm going to give you the actor or actress. And you tell me, what is the movie they won their Academy Award in? And what is the movie they won their Razzie in? And so, for example, on the quiz, we talked about Sandra Bullock. And Sandra Bullock, Chrissy mentioned she won a Razzie for All About Steve. Yes.

And gave out DVDs of All About Steve to the judges at the Razies. And then the next night, she won an Oscar for the blind side. So this happened in a day. We also mentioned Hallie Berry, too. She won the Razzie for Catwoman. And Academy Award for Monsters Ball, I believe. Yep, yep. All right.

Here we go. Please get your pads of paper out. Let's write down the answer. All right. And, you know, I can kind of piece together which one do you mean Academy Award and which one? I should hope so. Oh, okay. All right.

I mean, you don't, you know... Okay, okay. So here we go. Let's start out with easy. Ben Affleck. Oh. Is it the same category? No, no, it's not the same category.

Okay, it's not the same category. Yeah. Okay, okay. Like, got it. But it's only best actor, best supporting actor. No. The main awards. The main award.

The main award. Oh. I see. I see you're going to get. Like, so Martin Sorsesee could, you know, like. I got you. He's not an actor. Uh.

Okay, well, then speaking of, okay, so... Okay, why not? All right, answers up. Colin, you said Ben Affleck won a camey award for Argo, and then also one for Gile. Chris, you said... I said, Daredevil and Goodwill Hunting, and I'm leaving it to you to figure out which one is which. So, Ben Affleck has won the Oscar for Best Motion Picture of the Year for Argo. and best screenplay, original screenplay, for Goodwill Hunting.

He actually got nominated a lot for Razies. But what did he win for? But he won for Gile. Oh, okay. He got nominated for Daredevil, nominated. Oh, man. This is Mr. Affleck's fourth Razzie nomination. He also got nominated so many times for worse actor of the decade.

Daredevil, Jeeley, Jersey Girl, Paycheck, Pearl Harbor, Surviving Christmas, Armageddon. Yeah. Man. Wow. A lot. And he's not emoting all the way to the bank. Yeah. He got nominated for a couple of acting Oscars, but the Oscars he won is for screenplay

and best film. Well, I knew the screenplay, but I didn't know if you counted that as one of the main ones. So I'll go safe with the Argo, yeah. And let's, and I mean, let's not short Matt Damon, too, right? Wasn't that a joint award? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, so was Argo was also shared with.

Oh, was it? Yeah. Okay. It wasn't for Best Director? No, it's for Produce. Oh, for Best Film. That's right. That's right.

That's right. get director today. Ah, right, right. Next name, Al Pacino. Huah. Al Pacino. For what movie did he win an Oscar? He's nominated a lot of times, a lot of a lot of times.

He's also nominated for a couple of Razies, too, but one, one. Answers up, Colin, you say. Sent of a woman for the Oscar winner, and the devil's advocate, that, that Terrible one with Keanu Reeves, maybe. Oh, where he plays the devil? Yes, yeah. And he's a lawyer? Yeah.

All right. Chris, what did you say? I said, I said, uh, scent of a woman for Oscar. Maybe I should have gone, sent him a woman for Razzie, too, because maybe they would have, you know, poked fun at him. But then I said Godfather part two. He was so good in Sen of a Woman. Yeah.

No one could watch that movie and be like, this guy gets a Razzie. No way. So he did win, uh, Sen of a Woman. Yeah. It's his only Oscar. Yeah. And the movie he won. Razzie's for was

Worst Supporting actor for Jack and Jill The Adam Sandler Wow Wow that was just recent right That was like in the last five years Yeah it was like 2011 starring Adam Sandler playing a dude and a woman The sister Jill

And he played himself in the movie right Yeah and was in love with Jill Wow It was really weird It's pretty weird Next name Kevin Costner Okay Kevin Costner

What movie did he win a cameo award for? And what movie did he win a Razzie for? All right, answers up. Dances with Wolves and The Postman. I said the same thing. You guys are correct. Oh, yeah? He won, these are both producer credits

because he won Best Picture, Best Film for Dances with Wolves. And Best Director. Kevin Costner won Worst Picture at the Razzie's for the Postman Worst actor and worst director Oh! So, uh, took home three. The Razzie sweep.

Yeah, the Razzie three-bagger. The Trezzy. The Trazzy. I don't know. The Raspberry Turkey. Yeah. All right. We're down to the harder ones.

Mr. Marlon Brando. Mr. Marlon Brando. Okay. Marlin Brando Answers up please Colin what'd you say I've got the Godfather

and then there was a movie he was like with Matthew Broderick as like the undergrad or something like But you're thinking of the freshman with the Komodo dragon Where he plays like a mob That's what I was thinking of Chris you say I said that he got the

the Academy Award for The Godfather and then received a posthumous Razzie for the Godfather part three, which was so bad that they gave Marlon Brando a Razzie as punishment. He did win for The Godfather. Also won Best Actor for On the Waterfront. Yep, those are his two wins.

And for the Razzie, it was supporting actor for the Secret Island of Dr. Moro. Oh, which was terrible. I saw that and it was terrible. It had, like, animal people hybrids. Yeah. It was a cat lady. Yeah.

It's funny, man. Like, these Razies are bringing back just memories of terrible movies. Right. Which I never saw once. He forgot about you. And I'm going to close this quiz with one last bit. It's not a question. It's just an interesting bit.

Mr. Lawrence Olivier way before my time. But I know he's a big deal because they named the theater awards in England. Their version of the Tony's is the Lawrence Olivia. Award. He was nominated for 10 Oscars between 1939 and 1978, and he got the Lifetime Achievement Award Oscar in 1979. Just two years later, he got his Razzie for playing General MacArthur in a panned film called Inchon, Inchon. Inchon. Inchon. Inchon. Beating out Arnold Schretzenegger in Conan the Barbarian. When asked why, he agreed. to be in a bad movie in the first place,

Olivier gave this now legendary response. Money, my dear boy. I'm like a vintage wine. You have to drink me quickly before I turn sour. That's a spirit. That's a spirit. Good job, guys. Did archaeologists discover Noah's Ark?

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podcasts. Let's stick with movies. Great minds think alike. I've got a movie quiz. Now, I believe on a previous episode of Good Job Brain, long time. You might remember that we talked about some updated Shakespeare stories, some films that you may or may not have known or based on the works of Shakespeare. For example, I can't think of any right now. For example, Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet. West Side Story. That's not the best example. West Side Story is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

But there is a wide world of literature out there besides Shakespeare. that can be turned into 90s teen movies. And so here is, this is a quiz, old book, new movie. I will give you the title of a film. And you will tell me the work of classic literature on which that film was based. There might be some Shakespeare in there. But maybe not ones that we've talked about before. Maybe ones that we have talked about before.

I'm just keeping you on your toes. There might be some Jane Austen in there, very popular to turn Jane Austen books into... Oh, yeah, for a while. In the 2000s, it was... And there might be some stuff that's way older than Shakespeare and Jane Austen. And I'm going to have you guys write these down. I think Karen's going to have an advantage at the outset, because you're going to have seen more of these movies. Let's see how this goes.

Let's see. Is it all 90s or it's kind of that era? It was, you know, for some reason, 90s teen movies, They got this bug of, like, basing 90s teen movies off of Shakespeare and classic literature. But it's more than that. It is more than that. All right. But the theme of sort of, like, revamping the classic literature.

Yeah. It's more recent. I mean, like, Romeo and Julia, there have been so many. Here we go. All right. A popular film. Bridget Jones' diary. What?

What? Jones's diary is based-ish loosely on what popular novel? I will tell you this. There is a hint built into this question for you. There is at least one character in Bridget Jones's diary that shares a name with his analog in the work of classic literature upon which it is based. Karen seems confident-ish. Colin has a thing written down. Both of them have written down Pride and Prejudice.

Colin has written down Pride and Prejudice. And both of you are correct. Yes, Pride and Prejudice. Yes, Colin Firth played Mark Darcy. And he played. He also played Mr. Darcy in a film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Oh, brother, where art thou? Cohen Brothers film

Oh brother Where art thou? The story name, right? Yes. There is one very obvious answer to this whole thing. Yes, both of you say The Odyssey. Both of you are correct. The Odyssey.

I love that. I really love that. Quite an interesting interpretation. Clueless, the quintessential 90s based on classic literature film. Film Clueless was based on what novel? What classic novel? What was this based on?

That's my generation, so I know. I know you know it, and I should know it. There is a character named, again, it's a character named Elton. Based on Mr. Elton from the book. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Lots of things that mirror the structure. the original book. Karen has got something written down.

Colin is in La La Land right now. Gonna have to have you write down something, whether an embarrassed row of question marks or a doodle, some geometric shape. I just, I'll write Pride and Prejudice again. Yeah, you never know. You never know. I think it's Austin. I think it.

It is. And Karen writes down Emma. Karen writes down Emma. Karen is correct. is Jane Austen's novel Emma formed the basis of I don't think I would have retrieved the name of the novel. I'm happy that I just

got Austin. How about this one? Apocalypse now. Whoa. Apocalypse now. Also based on a classic novel. Wait, the war movie? Now it is Colin. That's the one. Now it is Colin who is definitively written down his answer and it is Karen who is

making hesitant chicken scratches. I like your confidence. So nervous. Beads of sweat. I don't know. Karen says Dante's Inferno. Colin says, Heart of Darkness.

Indeed, it is Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Formed, which, of course, was a novel about war. Yes, right. But it was simply updated.

And I believe there was a Kurt's character as well. Oh, yeah. Oh, what is the setting of that? Is it not? Vietnam War. No, it's, it's, a long time ago. I forget what it is a while ago. Century or two ago, yeah.

Ten things I hate about you. Ten things I hate about you. Starring, what's her name, Alex Mack, and Larissa Olanick. And Julia Stiles, the late Heath Ledger, and Joseph Gordon Levin. And Gabriel Union. And Gabriel Union. All-star cast. All-star cast.

Never saw it. Oh, it's actually a really good one. Teen film. It's actually a really good one. It is based on a Shakespeare play. Oh. Colin has written, as you like it. Karen has written, Taming of the Shrew.

Oh, I feel like she's right. It's Taming of the Shrew. It is indeed. And, you know, that is really analogous. The names are very similar. Yes. All very tongue-in-cheek, very on the nose. I should watch it.

just one of the guys just one of the guys oh my god this is this i know that i know this movie her name was terry her name was terry and i remember she it's newspaper she was like a journalism student yes yes yes and they wouldn't take her seriously just one of the guys based on a classic classic work of literature but which classic work of literature college says Yentel. What? I see. Yeah.

You see them getting that. You see them getting that. Karen says 12th night. It is 12th night. The Shakespearean play. Also the basis of the film

with Amanda Binds. She's the man. Their book very on the nose. But indeed. Haven't seen that one either. 12th night. What a Channing Tatum's debut. Wow.

One of his early. Wait, one of his debuts? Sorry. He's so good. He's so good. He had two debuts. So we know where She's the Man came from. What about She's All That?

What about She's All That? I think it's Rachel Lee Cook and Freddie Prince Jr. Also, Usher. He's all that. Usher. Lil Kim is also in that movie. Paul Walker. The late Paul Walker.

Yeah. And Matthew Lillard. Karen says, Pigmalion. Colin, out of his butt, says Pygmalion. It is Pigmalion. It is Pigmalion, which of course the George Bernard Shaw play

that was later adapted into My Fair Lady. My Fair Lady. Wow. Your good old makeover. She's all that. Karen 6, Colin 4. It's anybody's game. A few more questions left to go. How about Roxanne?

The motion picture Roxanne is based on a work of literature. But what? is the name of the work of literature upon which Roxanne that is indeed starring Steve Martin with a large prosthetic nose is based. Karen has written down something and is regarding it. Oh, I didn't, I can't, I don't know how to spell it, that's why.

Karen says, well, I'll go to Colin. Colin says Cyrano de Bergerac. Karen has written down something that looks enough like Sierra de Bergerac. I think actually, if I may. If I may. Karen has written down Syriac de Bergeno, which I want to give her. I want to give her. As a spoonerism, I'm totally okay with that.

Serino de Bergerac. Serenot de Bergerac. Serenot de Bergerac, not Syriac de Bergerac. But I like that. That's fun to say. Yes. Serenot de Borgerac. De Bergerac.

Yes. Well, Syra, yes. De Bergerac. That's it. Yes. And you'll both get the point for that. Indeed, yes. A story of a man with a conspicuously wide nose, a large nose,

but not a crazy Pinocchio nose, as Steve Martin had in the film. G. What? G, as in the letter G. I'll tell you the, there's a movie O, it's called O, that was based on Othello. This is the movie G, and it is a 2010. Two film. Based on a work of classic literature, the title of the film is G.

Starring who? Some people. It's tough. Maybe you'll get it. Maybe you'll pull it out. Man. Karen, racking the brain. I just went with the first classic literature that started with the G.

I could think of. Rubbing those neurons together as fast as again. In the hopes of igniting some sort of brain spark that will turn into a brain bonfire. Karen says Hamlet. Colin says gargantua. And both of you are wrong. It is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gatsby.

Great Gatsby. Who is it like? Who is it like gazed? I don't remember. Oh, okay. Easy A. Easy A. Starring Emma Stone as a high school student.

Easy A. Oh, whoops. Yes. Be sure to write down the correct. answer. Colin is... I just got it. Whoops.

Karen says the Scarlet Letter. Colin says the Scarlet Letter is indeed an update of the Scarlet Letter. Yes. Man, there are a lot of teen movies based on, you know, very serious and grave and... Real serious. Serious. Serious business.

We've got a few more. Cruel intentions. Cruel intentions. Which one was that? Was that the one with I think Lacey Chabair? Oh, wait, we have. No, Lacey Chabre was not in it.

No, but Sarah Michelle Geller? Yes. Okay. They look very similar. To me. To me. Because, you see, I don't know what they look like. We're in the rabbit hole now.

Cru intentions is based on. Karen says dangerous liaisons, and Collins is Le Le Le Leoson Dangerer. And I will give it to you both. It is indeed either one of those two things. Yes. Tough match. Karen has nine big points, Colin has seven.

Wow. Three left. We have three left, but you know what? God, I can't believe you found so many. Anyone's game. Hollow man. Hollow man. It's a horror film by Paul Verhoeven.

Karen's looking it up online. Like that's acceptable. Yes, Paul Verhoeven, director of such films as Robocop and Showgirls. Yeah, this sounds familiar. Hollow Man. Hollow man Classic literature I know the story

Let me write down something Oh man Karen is writing it down Fast and Furious Rewriting it crossing it off Hope we didn't cross with the right answer Karen Has written down Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Colin is written down Man of LaMuncha Well my original answer was Frankenstein Yours is at least horror No, I like, yeah. Well, it's not horror because Hollow Man is, um, is Kevin. Tell me what Hollow Man is about. Kevin Bacon.

Uh-huh, yes, Kevin Bacon. And he turns, he turns invisible. Uh-huh. And what classic literature do you think that that's based on? That he turns invisible? Yeah. The invisible man. Could it be the invisible man by H.C. Wells?

Which is the correct answer. Yeah. Sorry. I didn't know that was classic. So we've got, uh, Karen at nine, Colin at seven. Oh, I had a chance. I had a chance. I don't know.

Yes. It's not going to happen for Colin, I don't think. I don't know. You could tie it up and then we'll just never know. Here we go. A kid in King Arthur's Court. A kid in King Arthur's Court is based on what work of literature? A kid in King Arthur's Court.

Okay, okay, okay. All right, hang on. There's a lot. I know there's a lot going on in Colin. brain right now is this is very much the obviously I would have put the poison in front of you right you would never expect that so I would have put the poison in front of me that's exactly what it was yes uh Colin says I'm going to assume you wrote a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court yes by none other than Mark Twain Karen wrote the Excalibur I don't know it is a Connecticut

Yankee in King Arthur's court by Mark Twain yep yep yep I've never I've never heard of that, though. Was it, is it that? Same basic premise. Yes, same basic premise, except for it's not a Connecticut Yankee. It's a kid. Karen has nine, Colin has eight. One last question.

You could still tie this up, although it is incredibly unlikely. But you know what? Stranger things have happened, and crazier answers have come out of butts. It is a 2006 film. starring the dynamic on-screen duo of Hillary and Haley Duff. It is called Material Girls. Material Girls, 2006 film, Hillary and Haley Duff. Watch the movie.

Yeah, and it is based on what work of classic literature? Wait, do fairy tales count as classic literature? I'm not going to answer that question one way or the other. Oh, man. Wow. All right. Answers up. Colin says Cinderella and Karen says

Sense and Sensibility, another Jane Austen novel. It is Sense and Sensibility. And I assume one has sense and the other has sense. I don't know if that's right. It's called that, but you know, you got there somehow. Congratulations. All I remember about that movie is hearing about it 12 seconds ago. for the first time.

I remember Chris saying the name of it. And, yeah. All right. Well, well, well, done, Karen. Yeah. I'm impressed, too. Yep. I'm impressed too.

You're all over your Jane Austen novel titles. And most importantly, don't have to pay her royalties. Oh, really? It's a public domain? Yeah. Is that why? It's a big part of it. I mean, someone still has to write the screenplay.

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is called Big Picture Science, and you can hear it wherever you get your podcast. We are the host, Seth is a scientist, I'm a science journalist, and we talk to people smarter than us. We hope you'll take a listen. All right, and we're coming to an end to our all-quiz episode, and for the last quiz, I want to give you guys a gift from the Good Job Brain inbox. Oh. This gift is from Camille, and she, her title of her email is, a message from a 13-year-old listener and a free quiz.

Yay! Yeah, she already knows how to write bait. headlines. Yes. Free quiz. It's like, oh, I better actually open this evening. Camille says,

Hey, JJB host. My name is Camille. I am 13 and I'm from Jackson, Mississippi. I've been listening to Good Job Brain for two years and have gone through all the episodes and now know an extensive amount of trivia. I listen to you guys before I go to sleep when I wake up and all around in between. One of my favorite quizzes, Colin, you'd like to know, is Brad Pitt or Lasers. She says, I made my own version of the quiz.

PDF and was wondering if you guys could play it in an upcoming episode. She saved it as a PDF? Yeah. Whoa. Actually, no, it's still a dot dot attachment. That's okay. She says, thanks so much for the last in learning, Camille. P.S., it may interest you to know that I was second place Scrabble champion in my school

district last year. All right. And of course, Bradpill Lasers is a recurring quiz segment that we do where we have two very random things, but very close in invention year or debut or birth. So you have to find, you have to guess which one came first. And they're very, very random. And Camille

made her own random list. Awesome. With very, very close creation debut dates. Here, let's do a lightning round, buzz in with the creator of Brad Pitt Lasers, Colin on the buzzer and Chris on the buzzer.

Brad Pitt or Lasers. Number one, debut of Batman, or plastic wrap Colin? I'm gonna You can talk it out Yeah I mean it's gonna be very close I mean like a cellophane rap early on

But I'm gonna say Batman I'm gonna say Batman too Yeah 30s Yes Batman you are correct Debuted in 1939 Plastic Wrap first sold in 1949 Commercially Oh wow

The Broadway debut of Wicked Or the first Spider-Man movie That's Wicked Oh yeah Yeah, yeah. No. The first, no, I think it is Wicked. Sorry.

The Toby McGuire. The Toby McGuire Spider-Man film. In case of their other versions of Spirder. Yeah. I mean, Wicked was 2004-ish, and then Spider-Man movies were later in that decade. Oh, I thought Wicked was earlier than that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought Wicked was maybe even late 90s on Broadway.

I don't think it's late 90s on Broadway. It's early 2000s on Broadway. I'm still going to say Wicked. I think it's Wicked. Yeah. The answer is Spider-Man. Wicked debuted October 31st, 2003.

Spider-Man premiered May 3rd, 2002. Oh, yeah. For some reason, not that Wicked was, yeah, really. Which came first? Keanu Reeves or the song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds? I've actually put

Keanu Reeves in one of these quizzes before. Lucy in the Sky of Diamonds. Well, that was on Sergeant Hepers of 1967, Keanu Reeves. I'll go with Keanu Reeves. I think he's deceptively old. I agree, because I think that he's like 50, probably. You are correct.

It is Keanu Reeves, born in 1964, losing the sky with diamonds, released in 1967. Which came first, The Little Mermaid or Taylor Swift? No, is The Little Mermaid the Disney film? The Disney film. Okay. A Little Mermaid is 1989. And she's 26. Oh, man.

Right? What was the name of her album? What was it? What was it? Red? Yeah. That's a Dell. That's a Dell.

You know what? I'm going to, I'll go with Taylor Swift, was she born in the freaking 90s? Yeah, I think she might have been. I think that Taylor Swift might have actually been born in the 19th. I think so too. I'm going to say Little Mermaid. Yeah. Okay.

You guys are correct. It is the Little Mermaid. And this is so close. Little Mermaid premiered November 17th, 1989. Taylor Swift born the same year, December 13. Oh, so she was in the 80s. A month. Wow.

Like, yeah, tail end. All right. Squeaked into the 80s. Camille, meanwhile, was born. She never even, she didn't have to even go through the Y2K bug. You know what I mean? That was just the, that's not even a concern. What a stress-free life.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. The premiere of Friends, the TV show, or Sonic the Hedgehog. Premier of Friends. Or Premiere of Friends. It's premiered in 94, I believe. Oh, then Sonic the Hedgehog. Okay.

Well, that was a team effort. Wow. Well, yes, you're right. Friends did premiere in 1994. What is, okay, hold on. Let me try to nail Sonic the Hedgehog here. Sonic, Super Mario World was end of 90 in Japan. I think Sonic was 90 in the U.S. and Japan.

So I'm going to say Sonic was 90. No, the Genesis came out in 1989, but Sonic the Hedgehog was a package in it. I'm going to go with Sonic and Hedgehog in 1990. 91. 91. 91. Good job. But that was an insight to your brain that were all very intimidated.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, Justin Timberlake, or the first compact disc known as a CD. CD is 1984. I think it's earlier. Really? I mean, I think developed by like Phillips. I think they had the technology like 81, 82. I mean, commercial released.

Okay, let's say commercial released 84. All right, let's say, okay, okay. Yeah, not the technology. Justin Timberlake, I think Justin Timberlake is like, My age. He's got to be at least... Maybe a little younger? He's got to be at least mid-30s, right?

Yeah. I'm going to say Justin Timberlake is a child of the earlier 1980s than the initial release of the CD. You are correct. Justin Timberlake, born in 1981, first commercial CD released in Japan, 1982. Wow, okay. Billy Joel's 52nd Street. Yes, I do remember... I remember hearing that, yeah, or having that in a quiz.

It has popped up on. this show Yeah. 502nd Street. Mm-hmm. Not a plug, but Camille put it in here. BuzzFeed.

Gotta say it. Or Squarespace. BuzzFeed or Squarespace. Which came first? Hmm. BuzzFeed or Squarespace. Man. When did I first become aware of either of them?

I feel like BuzzFeed was, man. I mean, it couldn't have been any later than... I remember early BuzzFeed. It couldn't have been... Like the latest it could have been was like 2008. So maybe BuzzFeed, let's say. 2006, 2007.

I don't know. But I think Squarespace is just more recent. Yeah, we'll say BuzzFeed. Squarespace came first, 2004. Yeah, I remember. Yeah, BuzzFeed created in 2006. Okay. Squarespace created 2004, and she, at the end of her document, says,

I apologize sincerely if I have any mistakes. Oh, we'll send any um-acturlies directly to you, Camille. Yeah. Any um-actualies can be forwarded directly. We'll send them right to our... C-O-D. Thanks, Camille. Thank you.

And that is our... It makes it so much easier for us. What? We don't have to do any work. Preping for the show. The quizzes are just there. If we could get someone to come in and answer the questions for us, we could just, yeah, man, we could take the day off. That'd be awesome.

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